PEAGE INITIATIVE MOVES THROUGH EARLY STAGES
Under secretary Sumner Welles completed talks in Rome while Myron C. Taylor conveyed the president’s promise of American cooperation to Pius XII. The effort seeks to unite a Europe split by conflict as Vatican diplomacy continues.
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Europe
George C. Jordan
Sumner Welles
Rome
Myron C. Taylor
Pius XII
Welles
Case
Proneteri
White House
Vatican
Roosevelt urges canal defenses plan and air power increase
President Roosevelt pressed for a broader defense of the Panama Canal, calling for doubling aircraft and gun strength to protect the vital waterway. He announced the plan after reviewing canal defenses and departing on a voyage back to the United States.
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Panama Canal
Nee
Atlatic
Pacific
Zuela
The
United
Flood Strikes Northern California City Areas
Floods in northern California drive many from homes as nine inches of rain in 24 hours floods towns near Napa and Marysville. Boats rescue about 500 from flooded residences while rivers swell and bridges and culverts are damaged.
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California
Weather Bureau
Napa
San Francisco
Woodland
Marysville
Gold Cache Found In Woman's Home
Cincinnati March 27. Pro dates show police found a hidden gold cache in a woman’s home. The case arose after she tried to cash a dividend check made out to her brother and a probate judge ordered an investigation. The siblings had lived in the house since their mother’s 1914 death, according to court officials.
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Frank Bonham
Two Brooklyn Men To Die In Chair
Brooklyn jurors return a death verdict for two men tied to a January 24 gun and hold up that left one man shot twice. Mrs Erdody recalls the fear as a third defendant fainted in court while awaiting sentencing.
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Brooklyn
Eyey
Chasole
Applicant For Auto License Proves His Age To Be 106
A 106 year old applicant in Sectomer, age verified by the Louisiana office, claims to be Patterson. A reporter finds the elderly man living alone while a neighbor says he is at work helping another man pull up tree stumps.
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Patterson
Draft Roosevelt Wing Holds Lead
Observers say the drive to nominate a Roosevelt aligned slate is shaping delegate selection at the Democratic convention. About 1,100 delegates vote, with 608 chosen by state conventions, signaling strong third term support among party leaders and early anti new dealers backing the draft.
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Hatton Eager
New Dealers Co
Bank Movement
Oareclan
Afis
Ghosts At Bluefield House Draw Crowds And Police
Police are chasing after alleged spirits in Charlie Dunsford’s Bluefield Virginia home as curious locals flock for days to hear a phonograph like a wheezy dead baby cry. The Dunsford family complains about the disturbance and the police action.
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Charles Dunsford
Onley Avenue
West
Graham
Charlie Dunsford
Bluefield
Virginian Railway Reports January Income Boost
The Virginian Railway reported net operating income of $1,048,224 for January 1939. For January 1940 the line earned $959,162 after accruals, reflecting a year over year improvement in earnings.
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Virginian Railway
Frances Bolton Wins Ohio Seat First Woman Congress From State
In Ohio's 22nd district Frances Bolton won a traditionally Republican seat, defeating J Harry McGregor. Bolton becomes the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio as the nation watches the special election seen as a barometer of New Deal era political trends.
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Ohio
Frances P. Bolton
Congress
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Wilaan
Ashbrook
Bolton
Chester C. Bolton
Ae Pleger
Deal
Phoe
New Deal Loses in Nebraska Race
Lincoln Nebraska February 27 petitions from Vandenberg and Dewey are filed in the Nebraska race.
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Vandenberg, Dewey
Nebraska
Virginia Bluefield Council Stalls Tax Bill Over Sewage Plant
A special Bluefield town council meeting failed due to no quorum leaving bill action on Delegate C. M. Hunter's proposal to tax sewer plant operations in limbo. Mayor Carl Creasy said a new session would aim to clarify tax treatment of the sewage disposal entity.
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Bluefield
Churchill cites German damage to Nelson and Barham
London reports Churchill telling parliament that Germany damaged the British battleships Nelson and Barham and warned of further sea power attacks. He announced five new 35 000 ton battleships would join the grand fleet soon and noted Royal Air Force reconnaissance over Berlin.
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London
Winston Churchill
Britain
Germany
Nelson
Barham
House of Commons
Pam
House action delays loan bill for Finland
British disclosure indicates late today a bill delay and a revised proposal to provide 20 000 more dollars to Finland. House leaders had planned to finish action but postponed until tomorrow as amendments allow funds for military purchases. The measure still prohibits direct use of money for a loan to Finland.
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Noomit
Finland
Artillery Active On West Front In Localized Skirmishes
Artillery blazed sporadically on the western front today during brisk localized actions between an advance guard. The French high command noted accelerated activity near the front with intensified shelling along the northern frontier and heavy German troop movements across the Moselle from Luxembourg as reports from Luxembourg continued.
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Paris
Luxembourg
Moselle
France orders farm control to curb war exodus
Paris on February 27 reports France requisitioning 7 000 000 farmers for military supervised labor to safeguard spring planting and food supplies. The decree shifts farm workers from private bosses to the state as German air raids over Paris occur with scouts and submarines amid a drizzle and low clouds.
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Paris
France
Agriculture and Labor Ministries
Simoun
Siroco
Taft Attacks Planned Economy At Printing Fete
Senator Robert A. Taft spoke at a Baltimore fete marking Italy’s 500th jubilee, denouncing ideas of planned economy collective production restricted output and price fixing as tools that historically kept Europe poor. He warned these proposals reflect a static economy and mislead voters.
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Baltimore
Robert A. Taft
Europe
Taft
Big Guns Rake No Man's Land In Finland War
Finland's North army retreated tonight after reaching Nauts near the border. All buildings in Nauts were ablaze from a day of fighting while heavy air and ground battles continued. The Finns moved to Nautsi about 75 miles south of the Arctic coast as the fight eased this afternoon.
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Kirkenes
Norway
Finland
Nauts
Jordenfoss
Nautsi
Arctic
Red Army presses on Viipuri as Finnish defense firms up
Helsinki reports the Soviet drive across frozen Viipuri bay continues with attacks toward the Karelian isthmus. An earlier Moscow communique tallies 13 more fortifications fell and Finnish air losses occur as civilians evacuate the city amid heavy artillery fire.
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Moscow
Karelian
Unsolved Bluefield Robbery Case Yet Again
Police say local men James Hayes and George Johnson confessed to crimes at a reform school and alleged a Bluefield man offered them 50 dollars each to take the rap. They deny any payment when confronted with the accuser, leaving the case unresolved.
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Newt Wilson
James Hayes
George Johnson
Lakin Colored Reformatory
Lakin
Lewis Cooke
Wilson
Reformatory
Snyder
Mitchell
H. Searsey
Hayes
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