Naval bill revives ships versus planes issue in wartime
The sinking of four dreadnoughts in the Pacific sparks congressional demand for a review of battleships versus bombers amid a new navy expansion plan. Sen Walsh introduces the measure at Roosevelt's request, aiming to add 900,000 tons to the surface fleet with initial 300,000 tons funded.
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Associated Press
Washington
Pacific
Walsh
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
Navy Department
Sen. Walsh
Pearl Harbor
Wiley
Sen. Wiley (R
Wisconsin
Naval Affairs
Senate
Chamber
House
Army Air Corps
Navy
North Canton High Wins Grand Prize in Defense Week Show
North Canton High School received 375 in defense savings stamps for its Football For Defense Week demonstration from Oct 31 to Nov 12. The band led by William Finefrock performed in full dress during a school assembly as defense officials praised the effort and announced prizes for area winners.
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North Canton High
Ohio
North Canton
William Finefrock
John McSweeney
Defense Savings
S. J. Harrison
Standard Oil Co
America
McSweeney
Viking Band
Finefrock
Harrison
Stark
Trachsel
Richard Claypool
William Cossaboom
Charles Howes
Leah Ann Grant
W. G. Nagel
North Canton High School
Defense
Ellen Holben
McKinley Choristers entertain Rotary at Courtland Hotel
McKinley High School Choral club presented its annual Christmas concert to the Canton Rotary luncheon at the Courtland hotel. Under director Leslie Hanson the group sang eight pieces mainly Christmas hymns while the national anthem opened and closed the program. Principal J L G Potters introduced the singers as Rotary president L E Nichols urged Rotary's support for the government during the war.
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McKinley High _ school
Canton Rotary Club
Courtland Hotel
Leslie Hanson
J. L. G. Potters
McKinley High School
L. E. Nichols
Rotary
Play Given For 200 At Christian Church
Players of the First Christian church staged the production His Father's Son Friday night before an audience of 200 at the church. Mrs J H Emsley directed the play under the sponsorship of the junior board. Special attractions included a clarinet solo by Martha Barber a piano solo by Doris Youtz comic reading by William Lewis and several selections by the Junior orchestra.
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First Christian Church
J. H. Emsley
Junior Board
Martha Barber
Doris Youtz
William Lewis
Juniors at Lehman High Host Class Party
More than 100 members of the Lehman High School junior class attended the annual party Friday night in the school gym and cafeteria. Lee Noble's orchestra provided dancing music and a student floor show with impersonations singing and instrumental pieces. Jack Bobbitt served as master of ceremonies. Refreshments were served in the cafeteria decorated with Christmas trees and greens.
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Lehman High School
Lee Noble
Jack Bobbitt
Mother awaits word of son on U S ship sunk near Hawaii
Mrs. Leslie B. Russell awaits news about her son Orville Shaffer who served aboard a U S ship Japan claims was sunk in a battle near Hawaii. The family, formerly of Elgin Ave NW then near Deltroy, had received a Christmas package mailed from Honolulu. Shaffer was nearing six years of Navy enlistment when Japan entered the war.
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Leslie B
Reb) Russell
Orville Shaffer
U. S
Hawaii
Russell
Elgin Ave NW
Deltroy
Honolulu
Castamall Grill
Shaffer
Japan
United States
Miley Murder Jury Convicts Club Man
A Fayette county jury convicted Robert Anderson a 36 year old Louisville nightclub owner of murder in the Lexington Country Club raid that killed golf star Marion Miley and her mother Elsa Miley. The panel recommended the death penalty with sentence to be set by Judge Chester D Adams next week. Co defendant Tom Penney testified Anderson supplied guns and aided the escape. Penney and Raymond Baxter face separate trials.
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United Press
Lexington
Robert Anderson
Louisville
Marion Miley
Lexington Country Club
Fayette County
Anderson
Chester D. Adams
Tom Penney
Forth Worth
Tex
Penney
Miley
Miss Miley
Elsa Miley
Raymond Baxter
Lexington Club
Man Injured In Port Washington Crossing Crash
Alfred Metcalf 34 of Uhrichsville sustained head injuries and leg abrasions when his dump truck struck a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at Port Washington crossing. He was taken to Twin City hospital.
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Dennison
Alfred Metcalf
Uhrichsville
Pennsylvania Railroad
Port Washington Crossing
Twin City Hospital
Canton Man Charged in Citizenship Case
Erich Von Haber, a hotel clerk, pleaded innocent at arraignment before Commissioner Ben D. Nicola in Cleveland. He is charged with unlawfully representing himself as an American citizen in Pittsburgh. FBI affidavit supports the charge. arrest reportedly occurred in Cleveland. Von Haber held to the grand jury in $1,000 bail.
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Erich von Haber
Ben D. Nicola
Cleveland
Pitts
U. S
Charles M. Ball
FBI
von Haber
Teacher and watchman hired in Massillon
Harry E. Shaw of 1220 Tremont and Asa C. Allison of 521 7th St SW were hired by the board of education at its regular meeting Friday night. Allison was hired as manual training instructor for vocational carpentry apprentice training at Washington High. Shaw was hired as night watchman at Washington High.
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Repository
Massillon
Harry E. Shaw
Tremont Ane SE
Asa C. Allison
7Th St
Board of Education
Allison
Washington High Nigt School
Shaw
Washinton High
32 Become Citizens at Lisbon Hearings
Special To The Repository. Lisbon December 13. Thirty foreign born residents of Columbiana county and two women who lost citizenship through marriage to aliens were granted citizenship papers Friday afternoon. Petitions of 58 other aliens were deferred chiefly due to the wartime nationality ban. Recipients included residents from East Liverpool Salem Lisbon Leetonia Salineville Wellsville Unity Washington towns with names listed.
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Lisbon
Columbiana County
United States
Rhode E. Proctor
Mabel E. Seevers
East Liverpool
Henry Eric Bowyer
Mary Bowyer
Sidney Arrowsmith
Elizabeth Meigh
Jane Murray
Isabella Woolrich
Lillian Louisa Wollrich
Angelika Cazana
Mary Phillips
William Dallis
Trevor Williams
Jennie Rudolph
Pauline Lehman
Salem
Ellen Snodgrass
Andrew Finnie
Michael Milinkovic
Alfred Daniels
Mary Campbell
Anna Birchak
Lydia Pankava
Philip Jakubek
Edna Vidle Rumsey
Maude Libby
William Howard White
Ida Rufener
Leetonia
Michael Sidlosky
Salineville
George Herbert Jewell
Wellsville
Roustron Sarkes
Unity Two
Mary Fink
Washington
Herman H. Whiteside
Bulgaria Enters War Against United States and Britain
United Prensa reports Bulgaria declared war on the United States and Great Britain. Sofia held an extraordinary parliamentary session as mobilization continued. Axis sources cite British attacks on Vichy ships, while Vichy and Italy claim measures to stop such acts. The exchange of messages between Japan and Italy’s king signals high-level confidence in a new regional order.
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United Prensa
Bulgaria
United States
Great Britain
Sofia
Turkey
Germany
Vichy
Italy
Africa
St. Denis
France
Spanish Balearic Islands
Spain
Formigny
Gibraltar
Santander
Rome
Bay of Biscay
Passengers Mistook Attack For War Games In Honolulu
Dispatch from Honolulu describes ship passengers mistaking the Japanese air raid as war games. They observed the opening strike on Oahu with no panic, while shelter rules and evacuations began. The raid killed a 10 year old Portuguese girl as details emerged and authorities urged calm.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
United States Navy
Tientsin
Oahu
United States
McCoy
Enlistments Continue At Army Navy Recruiting Posts
Recruiters report ongoing enlistments at army navy and marine corps offices. Navy substation will stay open Sunday as stations in the post office building interview applicants. Navy reported seven men accepted Friday for naval reserve: Carl Elbert Johnson Massillon Marion Krause Meeks Roland Morris Dennis Weaver Albert Henninger Edwin Lyons.
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Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Ing
Navy Office
Cleveland
Naval Reserve
Carl Elbert Johnson
State Hospital
Massillon
Marion Daniel Krause
Troy Pl
Russell Glenn Meeks
High Ave
Roland Edgar Morris
3Rd St
Dennis Otto Weaver
13Th St NW
Albert Henninger
Malvern
Edwin Russell Lyons
2Nd St
Indictment Returned In Threatening Letters To President
Clyde R. Parks twenty three of 2350 4th st NE Canton was indicted by a federal grand jury in Cleveland on a charge of writing threatening letters to the President. Parks, a Republic Steel employee and Mt Union College graduate, was arrested by postal inspectors after a probe of cards sent to the President from Canton. Also indicted on similar charges was John J. Hession of Richland Vinton county.
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Clyde R. Parks
4Th St
Cleveland
Parks
Republic Steel
Mt. Union College
U. S
Canton
Roosevelt
John J. Hession
Richland
Vinton County
Holmes Rea to name 3 directors January 20
Millersburg date December 13 three Holmes Rural Electric Cooperative members will elect directors January 20. REA members will nominate candidates in Districts 1 5 and 6 covering Mechanic Berlin Clark Saltcreek Prairie Clinton Plain Wooster in Wayne County.
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Millersburg
Holmes Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc
REA
Mechanic
Berlin, and Clark
Saltcreek and Prairie
Clinton, Plain and Wooster
Wayne County
Wooster Man Elected President of Ohio Dairymen's Assn
Floyd Barlow of Wooster, field secretary of the Ohio Guernsey Breeders' association, was elected president of the Ohio Dairymen's association, a group he helped organize about ten years ago and has served as an official since its formation.
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Wooster
Floyd Barlow
Ohio Guernsey Breeders’ Association
Ohio Dairymen’s Association
Widow of bomber captain recalls hero dies in wave of fire
Mrs Colin P. Kelly Jr., widow of the 26 year old captain, recounts how he died delivering direct hits to the Japanese battleship Haruna off the Philippines. She says she is proud and will not weep, noting their life together at army bases and the dangers faced by service families. The widow plans to join Capt. Kelly’s parents in Florida before visiting relatives in Brooklyn.
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International News Service
New York
Philippines
Colin P. Kelly Jr
Far East
America
Capt. Kelly
Red Cross in Holmes names drive leader
H H Allison of Monroe two was named chairman for the emergency war relief drive in Holmes county at a Red Cross meeting. The county has been asked to raise 5000 dollars. Committees were appointed and plans laid for a mass meeting at Millersburg school auditorium Friday night December 19.
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Millersburg
H. H. Allison
Monroe
Holmes County
Red Cross
Frisco hosts fifth blackout of week in Pacific war
San Francisco endured a two and a half hour air raid blackout with the Bay Area darkened from San Jose to Santa Rosa and Sacramento. Traffic stopped and radio stations went silent as wardens supervised. Weather forecasts for the Pacific coast were suspended for the emergency.
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United Press
San Francisco
Civil Defense Council
Navy
San Francisco Bay Area
Oakland
San Jose
Santa Rosa
Sacramento
United States Weather Bureau
Five Ohioans Indicted Over Unlicensed Short Wave Radios
Coastguard evidence led to indictments of five men for violating the federal communications act by operating short wave radios without licenses. Indicted are Henry Wolf and Lester Railing of Cleveland, Robert Bitteridge and David Wolf of Warrensville Heights, and Joseph H. Allen of Berea.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Coastguard
Henry Wolf
Lester Railing
Robert Bitteridge
David Wolf
Warrensville Heights
Joseph H. Allen
Berea
Massillon Court Fines Three For Traffic and Peace Violations
Clarence Schmidt aged 22 of 46 James street NW was fined 10 dollars and costs in municipal court after pleading guilty to disturbing the peace by fighting. James N. Slaven 40 of Norfolk Virginia was fined 10 dollars and costs for speeding. Sam John 59 of 1110 14th street SE was fined 5 dollars and costs for disregarding a red traffic light.
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Massillon
Clarence Schmidt
James St NW
James N. Slaven
Norfolk
Sam John
14Th St SE
Dog tag sale slated in Columbia County offices
Approximately 8,200 dog licenses will be placed on sale Monday in the office of County Auditor Ross Tisher and the various sub agencies in Columbia County.
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Lisbon
Ross Tisher
Suc
Columbia County
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