Major naval clash reported off Bergen coast in heavy gunfire
Heavy gunfire was heard off Bergen Norway with reports of a sea battle. Observers saw warships in mist and heavy smoke as trawlers steamed northward likely forced from their course by the engagement. Firing began around 730 am and continued through the morning with aircraft noise reported.
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Norway
Bergen
Heggeholmen
Hjeltefjord
Western Norway
Fjeld
Marsteinen
War correspondent Floyd Gibbons dies at 52 in Stroudsburg
Floyd Gibbons internationally known war correspondent and radio commentator died suddenly of a heart attack at his Cherry Valley home. He wore an eye patch from Spanish Civil War coverage and reported from major fronts including Mexico 1910s to World War II era. He planned to return to Europe when he died. In Panama City delegates discussed a broad safety zone around the Americas extending 300 miles offshore as a possible method to enforce neutrality. A joint naval patrol concept and a belt proposal were debated at the Inter American Neutrality Conference.
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Floyd Gibbons
Cherry Valley
Gibbons
Pancho Villa
Naco
Arizona
S.S. S. Laconia
Chicago Tribune
London
France
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the Tribune
Morocco
Europe
Panama City
U.P
Germany Sends Forces West As Peace Move Hints Surface
Berlin reports Germany shifting airplanes infantry and artillery toward the western front as 35 to 40 divisions totaling 525 000 to 600 000 men are massed near the West Wall. Observers note plans to strike British ports and shipping by air and submarine warfare while delaying a full land push on the Maginot line. Some expect a final peace bid before U S arms shipments shift the balance.
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Berlin
U.P
Germany
West Wall
Maginot Line
West
United States
Toledo Student Dies In Jump From Hotel
Harry A. Hennig, 25, a Toledo University student, died after leaping from the tenth floor of a Miami hotel Sunday. He was the son of H. A. Hennig, a Toledo businessman, and had been morose following his mother’s recent death.
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Toledo
WU P
Harry A. Hennig
Toledo University
Miami, Fla
H. A. Hennig
Frey Holds Lewis Responsible For AFL Labor Rift
Cincinnati U P President John P Frey head of the AFL metal trades department charges labor unity is impossible as John L Lewis vetoes any peace proposal lacking his approval He criticizes CIO activities and accuses the CIO and Communist Party of conspiring to destroy the federation.
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Cincinnati
U.P
John P. Frey
American Federation of Labor
Metal Trades Department
John L. Lewis
Frey
AFL
CIO
Communist Party
Springfield woman dies after assault. man charged with murder
Mrs. Novella Emery a 38 year old Springfield resident died from a skull fracture at a hospital today following an assault in her home last Wednesday. Detective Captain Walter L. Sweet said Benjamin Lewis 51 would be charged with murder. Lewis was on probation for a charge of cutting with intent to wound Mrs. Emery.
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Springfield
Novella Emery
Walter L. Sweet
Benjamin Lewis
Lewis
Emery
Aged Racine Resident Dies Sunday Evening
Niles Salser age 80 died at his Racine home Sunday evening. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 PM at Oak Grove Church with burial in the nearby cemetery. He is survived by five children Ethel Smith Clyde Dana Ben and Ray Salser all of Meigs County.
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Niles Salser
Racine
Oak Grove
Salser
Ethel Smith
Clyde
Dana
Ben
Ray Salser
Meigs County
Legion Stand On Neutrality To Be Cleared
The American Legion's 21st convention opens in Chicago amid a new European war. Resolutions are expected to spell out views on arms embargo and neutrality. National commander Stephen F. Chadwick asks the federation to withdraw from the Federation Inter-Allies Des Anciens Combattants to avoid foreign appeals. The committee approves denying use of the Legion name by a French ambulance volunteer group.
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Chicago
American Legion
Legion
Stephen F. Chadwick
Federation Inter-Allies Des Anciens Combattants
America
Chadwick
France
Conservation of U S Oil Supply Is Urged
Dr John Ise an economics advisor to the national monopoly investigating committee urges conservation of petroleum reserves calling it essential to national defense. He testifies that oil supplies are dwindling while production increases at a troubling pace.
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Washington
U.R
National Monopoly
John Ise
University of Kansas
Navy weighs moving units to Pearl Harbor for training
The Navy high command announced it is seriously considering transferring many West Coast units to Pearl Harbor Hawaii for training at its major Pacific base.
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Washington
Navy High Command
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Pacific
Prices of Food Are Declining Across the Nation
A nationwide survey shows a definite downward trend in retail meat prices from the wartime peak, especially for pork and lamb. Sugar and flour largely hold to about one cent per pound higher due to wartime hoarding, which eased after a few days. grocers note lower sugar sales as households burn surplus and expect price declines this week.
Charges against Communists Bund for Espionage
The Dies committee voted to forward to the Justice and State Departments evidence alleging that the U S Communist Party and the German American Bund violate federal law on espionage and registration of foreign agents Rep J Parnell Thomas urged the finding asserting substantial proof of violations.
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Washington
U.P
Dies
Justice and ‘State Departments
U. S. Communist Party
Bund
Sandusky Man Fred A. Martin Dies at 57
Fred A. Martin age 57 a Sandusky candy manufacturer and restaurant owner died today. He was a longtime local businessman with ties to the Sandusky commerce community. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Sandusky
Fred A. Maritin
U S Senate Neutrally minded delay on arms embargo
The White House rejected a counter-offensive to repeal the arms embargo as Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington studied a new neutrality bill. The plan would bar U S vessels from carrying goods to warring nations and require title transfer before shipment with 90 day credits possible under presidential exception.
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U. S
Roosevelt
Congress
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Key Pittman
Nevada
Walter F. George
Georgia
Tom Connally
Tex
Washington
White House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Stephen T. Early
State Department
Germany
Athenia
United States
Foreign Relations Committee
Hollywood
Nev
National Munitions Control Board
Pope plans European conference to curb atheism spread
Vatican sources say Pope Pius XII aims to unite European churches to counter atheism amid Soviet intervention in Poland. Monsignors Godfrey and Valeri are to report on holding a general conference to form a united church front across Europe.
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U.P
Pius XII
Europe
Russia
Poland
Vatican
William Godfrey
Valerio Valeri
London
Paris
Commission Plan on State Hospital Coal Is Defended
State Purchasing Agent C. J. Stark defended a 10 cent per ton coal clearing arrangement for Athens State Hospital as above board. He said the commission basis was abandoned by order of Governor Bricker and that George FE Johnson moved to a regular salary. Stark noted the Athens Hospital coal district is unique and that Johnson had quit Head Coal Co before the state setup.
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C. J. Stark
George FE. Johnson
Nelsonville
Athens State Hospital
Stark
Joseph T. Ferguson
John Ferguson
State Auditor
al Seidensticker
Bricker
Johnson
Head Coal Co
Athens
Pleasure Craft Endangered by Pacific Gales
Navy destroyers and coast guard cutters aided scores of battered pleasure and fishing boats as furious gales lashed the Southern California coast. At least seven lives were lost with many missing. the Spray crew of 26 had only five saved, 24 believed to be recovered from a jetty near Point Magu as rescuers waited out the night.
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Los Angeles
Navy
Coast Guard
California
Fiwe
Point Magu
Here
Carl Laemmle Dies Pioneer Movie Producer at 72
Hollywood mourns Carl Laemmle Sr aged 72 the grand old man of early cinema who battled monopoly and helped build the movie industry He died yesterday of a heart attack at his 25 room Spanish hacienda after arriving in America from Laupheim Germany in 1893 with $50 and aim to become a merchant prince
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Hollywood
U.P
Hollywood Today
Carl Laemmle, Sr
America
Laupheim
Germany
Convict Walks Away From London Prison Farm
Horace Thornton of Montgomery County fled London Prison Farm after serving almost ten years of a robbery conviction. Superintendent W F Amrine reported the fugitive escaped Saturday night and would have been eligible for parole next January.
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London
U.P
Horace Thornton
Montgomery County
Thornton
W. F. Amrine
Guns Demolish Polish Capital
Radio broadcasts said German artillery was demolishing Warsaw, the fifth largest European capital, amid a 17 day siege. A besieged city report at 9 p.m. described half of Warsaw burning, constant shelling, and wounded in the streets aided by Red Cross nurses. Churches, palaces, hospitals, stations, hotels, banks and shops were reported in ruins with centuries of art treasures at risk.
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Budapest
Hungary
U.P
Warsaw
Red Cross
Ohio Farmers Report Soybeans Shriveling in Heat
Ohio farmers who expanded soybean plantings by about 50 percent report crops shriveling and drying in the hot weather making beans for hay useless and harvests seriously affected. W Dale Hilbish chief of the Ohio Bureau of Markets notes other crops tomato apple and potato yields will be curtailed but no shortage is expected.
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Columbus
U.P
W. Dale Hilbish
Ohio Bureau of Markets
Neutral ships sunk by submarines in Berlin announced strikes
Nazi high command reported success in a submarine counter offensive against Britain as U boats sank a British destroyer one Swedish vessel and two Finnish merchant ships. Soviet river Neva closed to Finnish shipping and German forces pressed Warsaw as Turkish diplomacy shifts the eastern chessboard.
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Adolf Hitler
Germany
Great Britain
Warsaw
Poland
England
High Command
Berlin
Hitler
Britain
Royal Air Force
Famous Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud Dies in London
Private funeral services planned in London for Dr. Sigmund Freud age 83 founder of psychoanalysis. Freud died Saturday night at his Hampstead home leaving a profound impact on psychology.
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London
U.P
Sigmund Freud
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