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Newspaper
Logan Daily News
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1940
Page
1
King Carol abdicates prompting a successor question as draft postponement stalls. House conscription leaders regroup after a failed bid to block the postponement and push for a 60 day delay in the draft draft plan.
Ohio Democrats open their state platform convention with Martin L. Davey pushing repeal of the sales tax and a guaranteed $40 monthly income for the aged. He backs creating a commission to study the tax system and a revised plan to replace revenue. Davey warns against demagogues and seeks broad support among the 1,000 delegates.
Hagan Roberts of Honey Fork reports a large doe feeding in Robert Brimner’s buckwheat field. Deer have also been seen at Rocksbridge and Dorr Run.
Funeral plans are being arranged for Mrs. Cora Starr wife of Harry Starr who died Thursday night at 10 30 at the residence 109 South Mulberry Street after more than five years illness bedfast 20 months She is survived by her husband two daughters Dr Lethia Starr Boocks Logan and Mrs Josephine Parkin Charleston W Va two brothers Charles Webb Columbus and Vern Webb New Straitsville four sisters Mrs Lucy Switzer New Straitville Mrs Mary Sherman Maxville Mrs Margaret Logue Newark and Miss Jane Webb Columbus Rites likely Monday with arrangements pending Woodard Funeral Service in charge
Sheriff William S. Souter opened a Castalia town hall meeting after 75 workers in 17 cars halted Route 269 traffic between Castalia and Bellevue. American Federation of Labor organizers urged unionization of Burns Construction Co. crews and Borchardt truck drivers.
Two Detroit men described as hoodlums were jailed in Toledo on a plot to aid the release of Thomas Yvonne Licavoli and four gang members from Ohio Penitentiary. They allegedly tried to pressure witnesses to falsify testimony from a trial and were nabbed at a witness’s home after a patrol overheard the plan.
President Roosevelt said Costa Rica and Ecuador fully cooperate with the United States on defense of the Americas. He noted no negotiations are under way for new naval or air bases with any country. He declined to confirm any offer involving Cocos Island.
In Columbus Ohio the infantile paralysis toll climbed to 17 with the deaths of Thomas Justice aged 9 who died after being placed in an iron lung and Dwight Miller aged 2 who died in Marion.
William E. Burkhart, 16, regained consciousness in Middletown Ohio hospital to find his cousin Roscoe Sloan with a fractured leg and his uncle Elmer Miller with a crushed hand nearby after a fall from an automobile.
Akron Ohio September six AP The engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad doodlebug learned that forty three people died in the July crash. The disaster ranks as one of the worst in Ohio railroad history and the engineer had not been told due to family censorship during his five week convalescence. A missing news item reached him recently and prompted the revelation.
Socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomes opened a 15000 mile campaign in Akron Ohio arguing Roosevelt may blunder into war before the election. He warned such a move would spread Fascism more than defeat it and called the policy inconsistent and dangerous.
Raymond Terry McGovern 55 died Friday at his Columbus residence after a stroke two years earlier. A native of McConnelsville, he long led the McGovern Shoe Co in Logan before moving to Columbus four years ago to work in insurance. He is survived by his widow seven children a grandchild and several siblings. Funeral arrangements were not announced.
The article argues King Carol II fell due to circumstantial factors and his relationship with Madame Lupescu. It credits Nazism gains in Romania to her influence and notes anti Semitic sentiment as a rallying point for pro Nazi elements. It claims Carol lacked support after elevating Lupescu and that a German friendly regime followed.
King Carol II abdicates in favor of his 18 year old son Mihai as Iron Guard mobs attack Jewish shops in Bucharest. Premier Antonescu vows loyalty to the new king amid riots, while exile plans for Carol unfold and Allied air battles ripple through London and Europe.
Hollywood reports the death of Helene Chadwick a 41 year old silent screen actress. Her notable films include The Cup of Fury Dangerous Curve Ahead Brothers under the Skin and Men Are Like That.
Three more of the 36 escapees from Cummins Prison Farm were seized, leaving eight convicts at large as authorities pursued the Labor Day break that cost six lives.
Wendell L. Willkie urged a government operated selective service program for emergencies. After a harmony filled meeting with party leaders he warned against seizure by a single arbitrator under the Overton Russell amendment and favored a bill to select industries for government operation under formal rules.
Ohio records seven deadly incidents in 24 hours, including a drowning of 1 year old Larry Keith Dewitt in a pickle brine near Spargursville. Traffic deaths include Sam Provant 75 and Alec Fuller 82 in Defiance, Gene Paul Haas 9 in Columbia Tuscarawas County, Richard Robinson 11 in Wadsworth, Hugh Hague 71 in Dayton, and James M Lawson 23 killed by a train.
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