Fleet ordered to depart Atlantic for Pacific coast in fuel plan
The U S fleet was ordered to leave the Atlantic and head to the Pacific coast when fueled. The move cancels plans to appear in New York for the world's fair and a grand review. Navy officials gave no reason, but tension in Europe is suspected to influence the decision.
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Washington
U. S
Pacific Coast
York
Navy
Claude A. Swanson
Congress
North
Pacific
Atlantic
Panama Canal
Caribbean
Norfolk
U. S. Sea
Atmtic Squadron
Increase in Estimated Cost for 21st Street Bridge
County commissioners reported a sharp rise in steel bridge costs. The 21st Street high level bridge estimate grew from 550000 to 589000 and then to 670000, with bids to be taken April 18. Designing engineer Wilbur Watson attributed the rise to higher steel prices. Fred C. Ruth, commissioner clerk, confirmed the update.
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21St Treet Bridge
Wilbur Watson
Enginer
21St Street High Evel Bridge
Fred C. Ruth
Subpoenas Issued for 17 Witnesses by Lorain Court
Clerk H E Agate issues subpoenas for 17 witnesses to appear at the land jury session opening April 19. Names include Victor Piccione Lorain theft of 125 dollars from Lorain Creamery Co. John Pay ich Lorain robbery of Chris fall in Lorain last October 21. Charles Corrao embezzlement of 483 from City Produce and Commission Co. Lorain. Chester Sigler Lorain auto theft from Yvonne Allen on March 18. Joseph Loughan Lorain car taken March 29. John Razzanno Lorain carrying concealed weapons.
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H. E. Agate Tony
Victor Piccione
Sorain
Lorain
Chester Sigler
Yvonne Allen
Joseph Loughand
New Rainbow Bridge Under Way At Niagara Falls
The Niagara Falls Bridge commission announced work would begin immediately on the new Rainbow Bridge replacing the collapsed honeymoon bridge over Niagara Gorge linking the United States and Canada.
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Niagara Falls
Weather forecast for Ohio and surrounding regions
Showers tonight and Sunday cooler in southeast tonight. Slightly warmer in northwest Sunday. 24 hour conditions show a central Western disturbance over the Texas Panhandle with a trough to the Ohio Valley and a New England coast center. Low pressure over Saskatchewan and high pressure over the South Atlantic states and Pacific Northwest. General showers and thunderstorms along the trough with heavy precipitation Kansas to Pennsylvania. Temperatures higher east of the Plains.
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Ohio
Texas Panhandle
Ohio Valley
New England
Saskatchewan
South Atlantic States
Northern
Lake Region
Pacific Northwest
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Plains States
Lindbergh Returns to U S After Exile Visit to Morrow Estate
Charles A. Lindbergh, guest at Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow’s estate in Englewood New Jersey, arrived on the liner Aquitania and left in a chauffeured car with an unidentified man. A special guard at the gate marked the only obvious presence. Lindbergh’s March 1937 exile period ends with this first U.S. visit since December 1937. He was escorted by 14 policemen as he departed from the ship.
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Englewood
N. J
Dwight W. Morrow
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Aquitania
Mrs. Morrow
Lindbergh
Three Salary Increases In Two Dept's
County records show three raises in two departments today. County Engineer Durham boosted L. M. Bobeau from 223 to 250 dollars monthly for Lo Rain bridge work, and Thomas Burns from 150 to 175 as a department deputy. Sheriff Finegan raised Deputy Goods from 150 to 165, while Eugene Finegan remains at 150. Commissioner Dunn protested the raises as lacking commissioner consent and without new appropriations.
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Harry L. Durham
L. M. Bobeau
Lorain
Thomas Burns
Carl R. Finegan
Peter Goods
Eugene Finegan
Oscar G. Dunn
Man Found Dead In Wrecked Auto In Beaver Falls
H Homer Smith aged 55 of East Palestine Ohio was found dead today in a wrecked car from which officers said the driver had fled. State Motor Police found the car owner Charles Scott 61 an apple dealer of Negley Ohio nearby. Scott was hospitalized at Providence with concussion and injuries to head hips face and hands.
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Beaver Falls
H. Homer Smith
East Palestine
Charles Scott
Apple
Negley
Scott
Providence Hospital
Referendum Petition on Elyrias Silent Night Ordinance Falters
City Auditor A C Schilleman reports the referendum petition filed April 5 lacks sufficient valid signatures 522 valid to meet a 616 requirement Many signers were not registered voters The ordinance would take effect as if no petition existed pending possible appeals or further action by petitioners
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Elyrias
A. C. Schilleman
Schilleman
Gay
Harvey C. Cheney
Samuel Deutsch
Harold Ewing
Test Papers Graded to Pick County Scholarship Team
Test papers of 275 Lorain county high school students were graded this afternoon to choose the county scholarship team for district and state contests. 32 students, two per subject, will advance after today’s 16 tests at Elyria High School. The district test is May 6 at Kent.
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Lorain County High School
Elyria High School
Kent
Boy dies from kerosene blast at Newark home
Newark April 15 Charles Keeran aged 14 died at City Hospital of burns from a kerosene explosion at his home on Friday. His mother Irene Keeran aged 52 died shortly after the accident.
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Newark. O
Charles Keeran
City Hospital
Irene Keeran
Italians To Leave Spain Next Month
Italian foreign minister Count Galeazzo Ciano announced in Rome that Italian troops will withdraw from Spain after Franco’s May entry into Madrid. He framed Albania’s occupation as part of the Rome Berlin axis and praised Italy’s allies while stressing Albania’s stability under fascist protection. He said the axis ensures peace in Europe and noted cordial ties with Greece and Belgrade.
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Rome
Spain
Francisco Franco
Madrid
Galeazzo Ciano
Chamber of Fasces and Corporations
Italy
Albania
Benito Mussolini
Hungary
Japan
Jugoslavia
Berlin
Ciano
Victor Emmanuel
Zog
Alexander Cincar-Markovitch
Venice
Belgrade
Europe
Greece
Annual Dinner Of Elyria Y M C A Members
Elyria Y M C A members will hold their annual membership dinner Monday at 6 30 p m followed by an athletic carnival at 8 15 p m featuring table tennis archery gymnastic acts and three boxing matches directed by Steve Stefek Curtis Travers leads the carnival election of eight trustees Dr C V Thomas Cleveland Y M C A will speak music by the Y s Guys harmonica band and singing led by Henry Cook and Alan Van Wormer with the Note Jugglers accompanying
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Elyria Y. M. C. A
Steve Stefek
Curtis Travers
C. V. Thomas
Cleveland Y. M. C. A
Y's Guys Harmonica Band
Henry Cook
Alan van Wormer
Seven Die as Oklahoma Tornado Strikes Northwestern Region
A tornado ripped through Capron and nearby areas near Alva Oklahoma killing seven people and injuring at least 20. The dead include farm couples Oscar Harzman and Adam Vollmer and their daughter Louise Hartman, motorist Mrs. Joe Wenzel, and J N Vorhees of Vici. The storm started near Vici and moved toward the Kansas border.
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Alva
Okla
Oklahoma
Capron
Kansas
Vici
Oscar Harzman
Louise Hartman
Adam Vollmer
Joe Wenzel
Waynoka
J. N. Vorhees
Woodward Hospital
Mrs Dengate Dismissed From Local Aid Office
Mrs Jona Dengate of Elyria receives notice of dismissal from the Division of Aid for the Aged in the local office. Administrator William France says Dengate’s duties terminate at end of today’s work. she is the last investigator in the office. The remaining staff are France, Alma Tyson, and Jovine Finoche. France notes the office needs six investigators and two new daily cases, with civil service rules applying to Tyson and France.
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Jona“Dengate
Elyria
Dengate
William France
France
Alma Tyson
Jovine Finoche
Tyson
Finoche
Denison University President Plans Retirement
Avery A. Shaw, president of Denison University in Granville, will retire next year after 13 years in office. The resignation was announced at the Spring meeting of the Denison Board of Trustees. Shaw, a noted author, led the Northern Baptist Convention in 1934-1935.
Roosevelt Sees Broad Action in Looming Foreign Policy Fight
President Roosevelt signals a major clash over how the United States should marshal moral and economic power to counter European threats and dictatorial moves. He and Cordell Hull outline three pillars including force to repel threats in the hemisphere, U.S. economic aid to Latin nations, and leadership in uniting Western Hemisphere sympathies against war.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
America
Europe
Cordell Hull
Pan American Union
Western Hemisphere
U. S
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pan-American Union
Central
South America
Tv One
Acme Tele
Britain Starts Negotiations At Moscow
Britain began negotiations with the Soviet Union in Moscow to form a three power military and air alliance aimed at halting Nazi-Fascist expansion. The plan envisions pooled air strength, deliveries of planes, and a broader framework with Poland Romania Turkey and Balkan states joining a united front.
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London
Great Britain
Moscow
Soviet Union
William Leeds
Maxim Litvinov
Britain
France
Russia
Poland
Rumania
Turkey
Balkan
Bulgaria
Jugoslavia
Greece
Roosevelt seeks 10 to 25 year peace pledges from Hitler and Mussolini
President Roosevelt asked Hitler and Mussolini to promise not to attack the 31 named European and near eastern nations for at least ten years, preferably 25. He offered to help convoke world disarmament and economic conferences with the United States participating, while not joining concurrent political talks. The plan required pledges from all 31 nations and a reciprocal non aggression pledge, with U.S. involvement limited to economic and disarmament discussions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hitler
Mussolini
United States
Europe
Near East
Cordell Hull
White House
United Press
Paris
Mussolinii
Germany
Italy
German Press Blasts F. D. R.
German government backed papers harshly denounced President Roosevelt and his Pan American speech calling him war monger and hypocrite while British and French outlets praised the speech as evidence of U S backing for anti aggression nations in a European war.
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London
Roosevelt
Great Britain
France
Paris
United States
Germany Cold To Roosevelt's Peace Plan
In Berlin on April 15 officials and informed quarters described President Roosevelt's peace proposal as reluctant acceptance from a leader long denounced by German propaganda as a war money and the father of the anti axis encirclement policy.
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Berlin
Roosevelt
France Favors Peace Plan As Daladier Reaches U S
Paris reports Prime Minister Edouard Daladier informs the United States of a peace plan being favorably considered by France. Details remain unsettled but the move signals a potential shift toward diplomatic settlement amid ongoing tensions.
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Paris
Edouard Daladier
United States of Pine
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New York
Col. Lindbergh
S. S. Aquitania
Acme
Morrow
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U. S. Senate
James M. Slattery
Chicago
Illinois Commerce Commission
Horner
James Hamilton Lewis
D.R
Americas
Josef Beck
Hull
Key Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sumner
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