Bank Robbery in South Charleston Net $19000
Three masked armed men robbed the First National Bank of South Charleston mid day looting $19000 and forcing four employees and eight customers to lie on the floor. Investigators traced the getaway to a black 1929 model car with red wheels and noted a “wrong way” street exit observed by local teens.
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First National Bank of South Charleston
O. H. Sheets
Sheets
Margaret West
G. E. Thomas
W. C. McCollum
Studebaker
Packard
Lieut. C. W. Ray
State Police Criminal Identification Bureau
Kermit
Highlawn
Clarence McGee
Forest Circle
South Charleston
D Street
McGee
James Fillinger
Mertie Skeen
Doris Lang
Gazette
Phrase from Willie Willis about choosing words in love
Quoted line notes a speaker named Willie Willis remarking that with a dictionary of eight hundred thousand words a girl cannot always pick terms that end a romance, implying language limits in relationships.
Pension Leader Bigelow Likely Wins Cincinnati City Council
In Cincinnati on November 13, Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, whose two constitutional amendments failed last Tuesday, appeared set to win a city council seat and wield potential bargaining power. As vote tabulation continued, GOP hopes for a 5 to 4 majority faded, with four Democrats, four Republicans, and one independent expected. Bigelow ranked ninth with David Turpeau just below him as the final council lineup remained undecided into the next day.
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Cincinnati
Herbert S. Bigelow
Bigelow
David Turpeau
Council
NLRB Rules Against UMW in WV Mine Case
The Progressive Mine Workers of America won a key victory as the NLRB conditionally ordered Kelleys Creek Colliery Co to offer reemployment to Eugene Shifflett, PWMA local president, after unfair labor practices during his Aug 23 1938 layoff. The board also awarded back wages and rejected the UMW contract grievance route.
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Cincinnati
Progressive Mine Workers of America
United Mine Workers
National Labor Relations Board
Kelley’s Creek Colliery Co
Ward
W. Va
PWMA
Eugene Shifflett
Shifflett
McAdoo Backing Roosevelt for Third Term in 1940
San Francisco dated dispatch reports William Gibbs McAdoo who helped Roosevelt clinch the 1932 nomination says there is a general consensus Roosevelt will be the 1940 nominee and that he will support the president for a third term. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury and head of the California delegation, notes Garner as a potential future nominee.
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San Francisco
William Gibbs McAdoo
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Washington
McAdoo
Chicago
John Nance Garner
Garner
Germany weighs mediation offer as Britain and France push war aims
Berlin reports say Germany will reply within days to the Netherlands and Belgium mediation proposal. Britain and France insist Poland Czechoslovakia and Austria be restored in any peace, while Germany calls the talks sabotaged and maintains caution. A clothing rationing rule limits men to one suit and five socks per year, retroactive to Nov 1, with women limited similarly. The German high command says 25 French captured in action near Pirmasens on the western front.
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Berlin
Germany
Netherlands
Britain
France
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Austria
DNB
Pirmasens
Seattle Earthquake Delivers Wide Damage and Fright
A strong Pacific Northwest earthquake caused cracked plaster toppled chimneys and damaged buildings from Tacoma to Olympia and Seattle. No injuries were reported though Gov. Clarence D. Martin said he was frightened as state capitol glass and plaster fell. Auburn junior high closed due to chimney damage and a fire at Tacoma’s lumber plant caused $1,000 in damage.
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Seattle
Pacific Northwest
Mt. Ranier
Auburn
St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company
Tacoma
National Bank of Washington
Olympia
Clarence D. Martin
Love and kisses charged to bond funds in Kuhn trial
Evidence shows Fritz Kuhn used the German American Bund band’s funds to send romantic telegrams to Mrs Florence Camp. Wires dated 1938 were charged to the Bund’s coupon account. Prosecutors say Kuhn drew 716 dollars for moving Camp’s furniture from Los Angeles to New York and Cleveland.
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New York
Fritz Kuhn
Bundsfuehrer
Mournful Note Gives Her Laugh
Mrs. Leslie V. Abbott found humor in this one while a patient in a Louisville hospital. She had three visitors in one day a minister a funeral director who is her cousin and a friend whose husband works with a burial clothes organization.
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Louisville
Leslie V. Abbott
Ex LSU President Sentenced to Prison for Frauds
Former LSU president Dr James Monroe Smith received 8 to 24 years in state prison plus a federal mail fraud term, totaling nine and a half years minimum. Judge Holcombe condemned the ex leader for forgery of Gov Allen signature on bonds, forged meeting minutes, fraud from a bank, and fake bonds tied to wheat speculation.
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Baton Rouge
INS
James Monroe Smith
Louisiana State University
State Penitentiary
Louisiana
Beached Sailors To Get Priority
The coast guard announced that future enrollments in maritime training schools will be limited to sailors beached by the neutrality act. The plan, part of Roosevelt's program, aims to place about 4,000 men and 400 officers and to protect their families from want amid looming job losses estimated by maritime union officials at up to 10,000 men.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Roosevelt
Ex Mayor's Estate Would Get $10 000
Philadelphia report states Mayor-elect Robert E. Lamberton proposed that the city council reimburse the late Mayor S. Davis Wilson’s estate about 10000 from his 18000 salary. Wilson’s estate was only 50, his will left the sum to his widow. The suggestion followed Wilson’s voluntary $3000 salary reduction during budget cuts.
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Philadelphia
Robert E. Lamberton
S. Davis Wilson
Wilson
Lamberton
Welles Denies Use of Force in Panama Zone Patrol
Sumner Welles, undersecretary of state, stated in a radio address that the neutrality zone around the Americas will be patrolled without the United States using force. He rejected claims the Panama declaration is bellicose and said patrols aim to observe activities near shores to protect rights of American republics.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
Americas
NBC
Welles
Panama
U. S. Navy
U. S
Supreme Court backs state control of liquor traffic
The court ruled states may broadly restrict liquor traffic, asserting 21st Amendment rights supersede federal commerce limits. Kentucky statute upheld banning liquor运输 by unlicensed trucks, protecting interstate transport from Kentucky distilleries to Chicago.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Atlanta
Hughes
Kentucky
Justice McReynolds
Ziffrin, Inc
Indiana
Chicago
Justice Reed
Valvoline Oil Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
German Flying Boat Reported Shot Down
Four German planes were driven off in an unsuccessful raid on the Shetland islands. One German craft reportedly took a hit as part of its wing detached before it vanished into a cloud bank. The Parana and Mecklenburg were sunk after crews abandoned ship. Ponzano sank off the southeast coast with no lives lost.
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London
Shetland Islands
Admiralty
Mecklenburg
Parana
Reuters
Reykjavik
Iceland
S.O.S
Shetlands
Scapa Flow
Scotland
Germany
Three Parisians Wounded by Shells
Paris reports three wounded by shell fragments from German raids as French anti-aircraft guns drove off a second scouting raid of the day near Paris. One victim is a three year old. Civilians sought cover as sirens wailed and guns fired for over an hour in the afternoon raid.
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Paris
E.S.T
Daladier
Scores Offer Blood To Save Girl's Life
In Philadelphia a radio appeal and newspaper stories drew more than 60 volunteers to donate blood for seven year old Kathryn Felt who has acute lymphatic leukemia. Doctors say a transfusion of type two blood from a recovered patient might help, though none of the volunteers was proven a match.
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Philadelphia
Kathryn
Dutch Premier Calms Nation Amid War Tensions
The Hague broadcast remarks by Prime Minister Dirk Jan de Geer reassured Holland that neutrality would not be violated by neighboring states. He urged neutral nations to help Europe return to peace and explained mobilization precautions as necessary rather than a frontiers threat.
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The
Hague
Netherlands
Dirk Jan de Geer
Holland
Europe
West Indies
de Geer
Reich Orders Warships Not to Molest Flint
The German government ordered its warships to refrain from interfering with the City of Flint as it returns to the United States. Alexander C. Kirk, American chargé d’affaires in Berlin, was informed that the order came from the Reich naval command after the cargo had been landed at Bergen, Norway. The State Department said the order was voluntary and not prompted by U S requests. Washington had asked Germany and Britain to avoid injuring the American crew while the City of Flint was under a German prize crew.
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Washington
Flint
U. S
Alexander C. Kirk
Berlin
Reich Foreign Office
Bergen
Norway
State Department
Germany
Great Britain
U S Factories in Germany Aid Hitler War Effort
American branch plants in Germany belonging to General Motors Ford and National Cash Register, built before Nazi rule, total hundreds of millions in value. Overseen by German authorities, they operate within the German war economy and may spur U S policy against overseas factories. The issue grows as wartime production continues.
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General Motors
Ford
National Cash Register
Ly Ss
Finland Walks Out Of Moscow Talks For Now
Finland walked out of stalled Moscow negotiations over Soviet territorial demands. Foreign Minister Elias Erkko said resumed talks depend on Finnish reports and much goodwill on both sides. He noted no definite suspension, as Moscow must show progress. cabinet authorized return if no progress is found.
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Helsinki
Finland
Moscow
Elias Erkko
Erkko
Russia
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Kremlin
Molotoff
Gulf of Finland
Leningrad
Soviet Karelia
Nazi Subs Warned Of Armed Enemies
Berlin reports that British and French passenger ships and freighters were listed as armed against submarines. The move implies armed merchantmen face submarine attack without warning. Vessels named include Queen Mary Aquitania Mauretania Georgia Empress of Russia De Grasse among 29 British and five French ships.
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Berlin
Aquitania
Mauretania
Georgia
Germany
War news and public attitude in wartime Gazette
Readers are reminded war reports are censored and should distinguish fact from propaganda. The text notes that absence of front news can imply progress and that fewer battles with bloodshed is preferable to indecisive attacks seen in past conflicts.
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Gazette
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Weiler
Kuhn
Herman McCarthy
Cleveland
Irene von Meyendorf
LSU
High Court
U.S
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Leopold
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