Civic leaders discuss potential government arsenal in Hocking area
Logan Chamber of Commerce manager James D. Wells and civic leaders from Logan Lancaster Circleville and Chillicothe met with Congressman Harold K. Claypool and Army engineers in Chillicothe to weigh a Laurelville Kingston site for a federal armament plant. The plant would employ about 5 000 to 6 000 workers and would load shell casings and produce other needed materials for the government program.
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Logan
Lancaster
Circleville
Chillicothe
Harold K. Claypool
Army Engineers
James D. Wells
Logan Chamber of Commerce
Hocking County
Jackson
Pike Counties
Thomas Jenkins
Hillier
Ohio
Claypool
Pickaway Plains
Pickaway County
Laurelville
Kingston
Wells
Air Attacks on Increase as England Faces Ultimatum
The Associated Press reports intensified German bombing strikes on Britain with fires at airfields ports factories and oil depots. Dive bombers attacked a convoy in the English Channel, sinking a tanker and four merchant ships totaling about 40 000 tons while Britain awaits a blunt reply from Lord Halifax to Hitler s ultimatum.
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Associated Press
English Channel
High Command
Hollywood Rumor Links Olivia de Haviland to Lord Michelham
Reports in Hollywood whisper that Olivia de Haviland may wed Lord Michelham of London. The chatter grows after a newspaper notice claims the lord is “no longer responsible” for his wife’s debts.
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Hollywood
Olivia de Havilland
Lord Michelham
London
Navy fits four destroyers for Marine Corps rapid force
The Navy disclosed four World War II destroyers are being recommissioned and fitted as high speed transports for the Marine Corps to shore advance units quickly. The Marine Corps strength is about 28 000 officers and men with a 34 000 goal, and two new heavily armed defense battalions will expand the fleet marine force by one third for overseas service.
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Washington
Navy
Marine Corps
Fleet Marine Force
Miami University to Erect McGuffey Memorial Statue
A statue memorial to William Holmes McGuffey, author of 19th century school readers, will be built on Miami University campus. The plan was announced by the National Federation of McGuffey Societies after their annual meeting. Dr. I E Smith praised McGuffey as a great educator and said his readers taught youths to believe in God and America's future.
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Oxford
William Holmes McGuffey
Miami University
National Federation of McGuffey Socities
L. E. Smith
University
McGuffey
America
Hero's Daughter Dies in Columbus Obituary
Mrs. William Warren Landrum aged 79, daughter of Civil War Brig. Gen. W. S. H. Baylor who fell at Bull Run, died yesterday in Columbus Ohio.
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Columbus, O
William Warren Landrum
W. S. H. Baylor
Bull Run
U S and Neighbors Begin Hemisphere Economic Talks
An emergency Pan American meeting in Havana seeks concrete U S led steps to bolster Western Hemisphere economy and defense. Delegates from 21 republics expect Hull to outline US aid while Cuba's Lauredo Bru urges joint action to defend common rights amid European turmoil.
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Havana
United States
Cordell Hull
Hull
Federico Lauredo Bru
Cuba
Europe
Americas
Firemen Organize Akron Kent to Host 1941 Meeting
R M Clark of Kent was elected president of the State Volunteer Firemen's Association at the annual convention in Akron. Kent was chosen as the 1941 meeting site and delegates endorsed a bill to ban sale of fireworks in Ohio.
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Akron. O
R. M. Clark
Kent
State Volunteer Firemen’s Association
Ohio
Ohio Heat Boils Through Weekend Toll Claims Many Lives
Heat of nearly 100 degrees in Ohio over the weekend caused two prostration deaths and raised drownings and accidents to 25. Cincinnati and Brilliant reported fatalities, with numerous drownings in creeks near Columbus, Newark, Zanesville, and Athens. A fire department truck crash killed two firefighters in North Lima. Chief Earl Brubaker and Homer McCormick were among the dead.
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Ohio
Mercury
Springfield
Mary Dietz
Cincinnati
Joel Y. Williams
Brilliant
Elizabeth Teaford
William Lyons
Ethel Myers
Columbus
Elmer Baker
Licking River
Newark
Benjamin Devoirie
Defiance
Darby Creek
State Institution For Feeble Minded
Orient
Robert W. Wonner
Salem
Ottie Katherine Schaeffer
Athens
Hocking River
Pete Bachus
Cambridge
Other McKeen
Maxine Spade
Zanesville
Carl Ruby
North Lima
Merc Hits 95 Sunday for New 1940 Record
A new heat record for 1940 was set in Logan on Sunday as the mercury reached 95 degrees at the state highway barn. The reading surpassed Friday and Saturday’s 94 degrees. Early Monday morning at 7 the temperature was 78, eight degrees above Saturday’s mark. By noon Monday it rose to 90 with clouds hinting at a possible thunder shower and a breeze improving the heat. Rural Hocking County reports crop damage from the sun, with potential losses to potatoes and other crops if rain does not come soon.
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Logan
State Highway Barn
Hocking
Lancaster Man Denies Intent To Kill Woman
Darrell Mace 35 of Lancaster pleaded not guilty to shooting with intent to kill and was bound over to the grand jury after a Monday morning arraignment before Magistrate S B Whitehart. Bond set at 1500. Mace remanded to Hocking County jail when failing to post. The victim, Mrs Lenore Brown 29, was hospitalized in critical condition after a Haydenville area shooting that stemmed from a troubled year and a half relationship.
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Darrell Mace
Lancaster
S. B. Whitehart
Mace
Hubert Lappen
Joe Farbearn
Haydenville
Lenore Brown
Cherrington Hospital
Brown
Hocking County
Turner Injured in West Side Car Crash
Indianapolis July 22 Col Roscoe Turner famed speed aviator and his secretary were badly hurt in a late night automobile collision on the west side Turner driving one car suffered a fractured pelvis and others sustained severe injuries.
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Indianapolis
Roscoe Turner
Turner
Ohio Liquor Business Reports Big Gains
Ohio's liquor department operations show growth in 1940 with six month sales totaling 27,840,445 dollars, 16.78 percent above the same period in 1939, signaling full year sales near 56,000,000,000 dollars. Director Jacob B. Taylor released the report noting the rising total.
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Columbus
Ohio
Liquor Department
Jacob B. Taylor
Sinking of Frossoula Hits Panama Ship in WWII Action
London dispatch reports the 1,282 ton Frossoula sailing under Panama registry was sunk by German bombers last week. An authoritative source fears heavy loss of life aboard the vessel as rescue and casualty counts are pending.
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London
Panama
British Air War Bores Strikes Across Germany and Britain
In raids over northern and western Germany British RAF planes caused damage. Halifax to speak at 3 15 P M EST before Hitler Reichstag address. Britain reports downed German bombers and fighters in pre dawn battles and weekend clashes with German losses agreed by both sides.
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High Command
Royal Air Force
Germany
Halifax
Lord Halifax
Hitler
English Channel
Britain
Wilhelmshaven
BIS Boys Would Make Good Soldiers at Lancaster School
Harold L. Hays, superintendent of the Boy's Industrial School at Lancaster, says enlistment of inmates ready for parole in the army was not irregular. He notes Army officers will consider parolees on individual merit and cites two auto theft arrests as coincidences while other youths passed examinations.
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Columbus, O
Harold L. Hays
Boy's Industrial School
Lancaster
Army of B. I. S
Fort Hayes
Charles L. Sherwood
Hays
Army
Fifth Corps
William Sedorak
Warren
Willis Clay
Kenton
Columbus
Courage Triumphs Despite Height, Donald Bosted Recoiled
Donald Bosted, ruled ineligible by the New York police for being half an inch short, nonetheless showed bravery by firing five shots at a dangerous ex convict after a fallen officer, aiding in the suspect's capture.
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New York
Donald
Annenberg Surrenders for Prison Term at Lewisburg
M. L. Annenberg, once a leading turf news publisher, surrendered to U S marshals to begin a three year prison sentence for income tax evasion. He will be transported to the Lewisburg Pennsylvania penitentiary with Chief Deputy Marshal and lawyer Weymouth Kirkland coordinating the move. Annenberg has paid 800 000 as first installment on an 8 000 000 civil settlement.
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Chicago
M. L. Annenberg
United States
U. S
Lewisburg
Joseph Tobin
Annenberg
Loop
Weymouth Kirkland
William H. McDonnell
Turf News
Philadelphia
Uncle Sam
Clarence C Collins Succumbs at Lancaster
Funeral services planned in Lancaster for Clarence C. Collins 62 a former Logan resident who died Monday after a long heart illness. He leaves his widow Capitola and five daughters including Mrs Steinmetz Carroll Mrs Sheets Sugar Grove and Mae Tol.
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Mnth
Lancaster
Clarence C. Collins
Logan
Capitola
Steinmetz
Carroll
Sheets
Sugar Grove
Mae Tol
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