Canton Red Cross Booth Reels In Christmas Gifts and Training
Canton chapter drives a $70,000 Red Cross fund with a downtown booth gathering about $200 daily from Christmas shoppers. Volunteers from D A R Sorosis YWCA and others staff the booth while special groups seek donors. First aid classes expand citywide with 175 volunteers. five new classes start Monday at McKinley High School. The chapter plans no house to house canvassing, overhead costs paid from general funds, and a safety film be shown in schools after Christmas.
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National Council of Catholic Women
Junior League
Woman's Club
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Carl F. Duerr
National War Fund
Red Cross
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G. C. Goudy
Dass
Delinquency in Stark draft board cases recounted
The article describes how most delinquencies arose from registrants moving without notifying boards, causing notices for examinations, induction, or questionnaires to return unanswered. Only one Stark case led to prosecution, with a transient jailed in Chicago and given a two year federal prison term, while nine other cases were resolved after registrants were located.
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Stark County
Selective Service
Chicago
Cleveland
Parley to Speed Industry Opens
Washington December 17 Associated Press reports a conference of 12 labor 12 industry and 2 public representatives seeks agreement to halt all work stoppages in war industries. Roosevelt demands unanimous support and a no production interruption during the war. AFL offers peace while urging unity among labor groups in the emergency.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Conference of Industrial Organizations
CIO
America
Veteran Reporter Price Dominant Washington News Figure
Price, veteran journalist who covered the Versailles treaty debates and the League of Nations, followed Harding from 1920, led staff during Washington naval conference coverage in 1921, and filed from London in 1930. He helped shape White House and bureau coverage across postwar years.
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Mr. Harding
Price
Washington
London
United States
Holdup at Western Union Office in Columbus
An armed man entered the Western Union telegraph office in Columbus, wrote two messages he discarded, then handed a third to clerk Clarence Gloeckner demanding cash. The robber fled after receiving an unspecified amount. Discarded notes warned the clerk to stay calm.
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Columbus
Western Union Telegraph Office
Clarence Gloeckner
Germans thwarted in metal sabotage plot
The Associated Press reports from Buenos Aires that a German plan to halt Bolivian metal exports to the United States by sabotaging railways to Chilean ports Arica and Antofagasta was thwarted. The Bolivian government has imposed strict censorship, unclear if linked to the plot. Bolivia exports tin and lead to the United States under a purchase agreement.
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Associated Press
Buenos Aires
United States
Arica
Antofagasta
Bolivia
Stranger in Brown Suit Roams Elkhart Filling Station
An unidentified middle aged man wearing a brown suit entered an all night filling station in Elkhart Indiana. He spoke briefly on both visits and then left, returning five minutes later to converse again. Police note the repeated visits as part of an ongoing investigation.
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Elkhart
Ind
Robber Returns for Cash in Quick Attacked Encounter
A robber confronted Peter Conrad, an attendant, brandished a pistol and declared that he was reclaiming what he intended to steal earlier. He produced $12 before fledgling and escaping. It notes the suspect's confrontation and the monetary amount obtained.
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Peter Conrad
Soldiers' Families Warned of Fakers
By The Associated Press Columbus December 17 Soldiers' parents are being separated from money by impostors posing as army officers Maj Gen Daniel Van Voorhis Fifth Corps Area warned that every officer carries an identification card with photo fingerprints and signature He urged the public to demand proper identification from anyone claiming to be an army officer to stop the confidence game
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Associated Press
Columbus
Daniel van Voorhis
Fifth Corps
Gen. van Voorhis
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