Air tragedy probes rule out sabotage in Lombard crash
Los Angeles dispatch reports Rep. Nichols says sabotage or mechanical failure did not cause the Transcontinental and Western Air crash that killed Astress Carole Lombard, 15 ferry pilots and six others. He notes pilot Wayne Williams was fired for insubordination eight years earlier but later rehired by the labor board. A formal report with findings and recommendations will follow.
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Los Angeles
Astress Carole Lombard
Nichols
House
Rep. Nichols
Wayne Williams
TWA
National Labor Board
Rep
Social Security Office Moves to New Downtown Site
Canton social security unit will transfer from the Mellett building to room 304 in the Dime Savings Bank building on Monday February 2. Wayne W. Putnam manager says the office handles social security accounts and claims for old age and survivors insurance for Stark Tuscarawas Holmes Carroll and Harrison counties. The move avoids disrupting operations and follows growth from 3 to 10 employees. Part time offices operate in Alliance Massillon Carrollton Dennison Dover Millersburg Minerva Newcomerstown New Philadelphia Uhrichsville and Cadiz.
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Carroll
Harrison
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Alliance
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Carryllton
Dennison
Dover
Millersburg
Minerva
Newcomerstown
New Philadelphia
Uhrichsville
Cadiz
Snavely elected by Massillon C O C
Massillon Chamber of Commerce directors elected CO C Snavely as director replacing Herbert P Croxton. They opposed transferring unemployment compensation to federal control and urged delaying federal building projects until adequate facilities are ready. A. A. Ulrich named chairman of arrangements for the annual meeting.
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Snavely
Herbert P. Croxton
Massillon Rubber Co
A. A. Ulrich
Chamber
Radio Helps Doughboy's Romance Across Atlantic
United Press reports from Minneapolis on January 28 about Pvt Milburn Henke the first American doughboy ashore with the expeditionary force talking by short wave radio to Miss Iola Christensen of Hutchinson Minnesota. They discuss time zones and Irish girls, but he says he’ll take Minnesota girls.
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United Press
Minneapolis
True Love
Northern Ireland
Pvt
Milburn Henke
Expeditionary Force
Iola Christensen
Hutchinson, Minn
Henke
Ireland
Iola
Minnesota
Driver 18 Injured in Massillon Crash
Massillon January 28 Jack Stubbs aged 18 of 143 Water Street Coshocton was treated at City Hospital at 3 am for minor injuries after his car left Ernest Street near St Joseph Cemetery and struck a tree. He told police he fell asleep at the wheel.
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Massillon
Jack Stubbs
Water St
Coshocton
City Hospital
Ernest S
St. Joseph Cemetery
Columbus Breweries End Beer Deliveries To Save Fuel
Columbus breweries and distributors announced no more beer deliveries on Wednesdays or home calls to cut tire and gasoline use. The move targets reducing transportation costs amid supply adjustments.
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Columbus
Columbus Breweries
Honorable Mention Essay on Pan American Solidarity
Naomi Greenberger, 17, of 1536 Vassar argues that United States leadership under Roosevelt and Hull has improved Pan American relations but Argentina and Chile risk weakening Western Hemisphere unity. She warns Axis trade and influence threaten freedom, urging combined Allied effort led by Sumner Welles and coordinated action across all nations.
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Chile
Sumner Welles
Conference of
Rio de Janeiro
America
Atlantic
We Americans Can Take It We Always Do
By Bob Steinbaugh a 16 year old Mineral City High junior. The piece asserts universal wartime sacrifice from all Americans from cutting back on comforts to knitting for the Red Cross and buying bonds, claiming unity and resilience against the Axis while highlighting family roles and citizen duties.
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Bob Steinbaugh
Mineral City High
Pearl Harbor
Wake Island
Red Cross
Big Sister
John
Air Corps
Dad
Junior
Yellow Sons of Nippon
Clark Gable named sole heir to Carole Lombard estate
Clark Gable is named sole heir to Carole Lombard's approximately 1,000,000 estate in her filed will. Lombard died in an airplane crash during the height of her career, and the will, drafted after her 1939 marriage, omits her mother Elizabeth Peters and brothers Frederick Peters Jr and John Stuart Peters from any inheritance.
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International News Service
Hollywood
Clark Gable
Carole Lombard
Star
Mr. Gable
Elizabeth K. Peters
Frederick C. Peters Jr
John Stuart Peters
NYA to Enroll 1000 in Air Mechanics Training
Leo B. Jacobs, Ohio NYA director, announced 1000 youths will enroll in an NYA air mechanics training center at Patterson field within 30 days. The program is open to youths 18 to 24 and 17-year-old high school graduates.
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United Press
Columbus
Leo B. Jacobs
Ohio
National Youth Administration
NYA Air Mechanics
Patterson Field
Mechanics Trained for Civil Service Air Corps Roles
Four hundred forty workers have already been employed as mechanics to train for civil service jobs and the repair and maintenance of Air Corps planes.
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Air Corps
Rites Set for J. W. Smick in Kenton Ohio
Funeral services for John W. Smick 93 dean of Ohio attorneys and conciliation commissioner of farm mortgages will be held tomorrow in Kenton Ohio where he served since 1934 shaping farm loan reconciliations and legal service.
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Kenton
John W. Smick
Ohio
Men plan marriage seek financial protection via life insurance
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Vassar
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