Flood Fear Rising as Ohio River Crest Near
Flood fears grow in the River Valley as the Ohio River climbs toward a crest near 60 feet amid heavy rains. Cincinnati area businesses suspend trade, rail cars move to safety, and residents evacuate riverfront homes as Muskingum and tributaries flood surrounding districts.
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INCINNATI
Ohio
B. Schlomer
U S
Cncinnat
ithwest
Amelia McClure
the Cross
Cineinnati
Oney Island
Cincinnati
kwater
Crosle
Cincinnati Reds
St Louis Cardinals
Marietta
duce
Newport
Marietta college
retta
Ohio river
Elyria Rotary selects new officers for coming term
J. D. Severs elected president to succeed Dr. Mark Ilis. Worth Fauver named vice president, W. O. Clellan re elected secretary treasurer. Incoming officers begin duties July 1 for the Elyria Rotary Club.
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Elyria Rotery
J. D. Severs
Mark Ilis
Worth Fauver
Severs
W. O.Clellan
asurer
Anenberg pleads guilty to income tax charges
Chicago report states Moses Anenberg pleaded guilty to tax evasion for 1,217,286 dollars from 1936 related to publishing horse race information services. He pleaded innocent to other income tax charges.
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CHICAGO
Moses Annenberg
horse race information services
Auto Collision in Cleveland Injures Eleven
A Cleveland railway company bus collided with an automobile today injuring eleven people. Ruth Plunkett, 34, and driver Mapie Uights were among the wounded. Ten bus passengers were taken to hospitals in non life threatening condition.
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CLEVELAND
Cleveland railwaympany
Ruth Plunkett
Mapie uights
spitals
Weather Update Ohio and Central U.S. Rainfall Report
The report notes moderate rain tonight and Wednesday in Ohio with slightly warmer nights. A Texas disturbance has moved to the Mississippi Valley and a low pressure area lies over the eastern states. Pressure rises across the Great Plains and temperatures rise in the central states while cooling over the plains. Moderate rains extend from South Dakota into Arkansas and western Tennessee.
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OHIO
Texas
Mississippi Valley
Great Plains
South Dakota
Arkansas
Tennessee
Roosevelt and King Hold War Era Talks at Warm Springs
President Roosevelt meets Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King at Warm Springs Georgia to discuss hemispheric defense and wartime relations. The White House blocks interviews, while the two leaders plan a continuing dialogue through the next day with no policy pledges announced publicly.
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Roosevelt
Canada
Warm Springs
W. L. Mackenzie King
William D. Hassett
United States
Hassett
Greenland
St. Lawrence Waterway
Denmark
W. Gu. MacKenzie King
England
Germany
Kingston
Ontario
Britain’s War Budget Sets Record Expenditures for 1940
Sir John Simon presents the largest budget in history to Parliament as wartime spending climbs to about 2.0 billion dollars for the year, with daily war costs around 23 million and total national debt rising by 3.07 billion dollars in Q1 1940. Allied actions in Europe push forward as RAF targets Germany and merchants loss mounts at Narvik Trondheim and Oslo areas.
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Simon
nce
Britain
Four New Teachers Hired by Columbia Board
At a recent board meeting Columbia schools hired four new teachers and renewed nine contracts. Leonard D. Moulder becomes high school teacher. Betty Jean Page will teach music. Russell A. Petersen to direct instrumental music. Aretha Parsons and Doris Palmer join elementary grades. J. W. Salisbury continues as local superintendent under a two year contract.
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Columbia
Leonard D. Moulder
LaGrange
Cleveland
Baldwin-Wallace college
Clyde Girlls
Frederick Wood
Ruth Stark
Glen Carpenter
William Snook
Betty Jean Page
Miami University
NY Central crossing at Root Road to be improved
County officials report a plan to upgrade the New York Central grade crossing on Root road in Ridgeville Township. The railroad will supply about 12,000 cubic yards of cinders valued over $6,000, with a county cost estimated at $6,500 and plans for level approaches to reduce accidents.
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New York Central
Root road
Ridgeville Township
Harry L. Dunham
Shawville
Oscar G. Dunn
John E. Davidson
Dunham
Durham
Sandusky Man Charged With Slaying Wife
Phillip Mischier aged 63 was booked on first degree murder after his wife Mary 63 was shot dead at her daughter’s Sandusky home as she prepared her grandchildren for school. Three shots were fired with one hitting Mrs Mischier in the head. He pedalled a bicycle to the county jail and asked for an attorney. Police counted it as Sandusky’s first homicide in three years.
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SANDUSKY
Phillip Mischier
Mary
Mischier
John H. Lublow
Mischiers
Mischter
W. S. Souter
British List 17 German Ships As Sunk
London reports an Admiralty communique listing 17 German merchant ships sunk captured or believed sunk since the first British naval strike on Narvik on April 9. It notes sizable tonnage sunk by British submarines Sea Lion Snapper and Sunfish including transports and fuel ships.
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LONDON
Admiralty
Marvik
Norway
Narvik
Sealion
Snapper
Sunfish
Germany
England
Dr W F Bohn Injured In train wreck hospitalized
Announcement reports Dr W F Bohn hurt in the Little Falls train wreck. He is in Oberlin hospital with a chip fracture of a vertebra and multiple contusions. Visitors are not allowed at present. Healing will take several weeks.
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GBERLIN
W. F. Bohn
Little Falls
Oberlin hospital
Bohn
Allies Launch Land Sea and Air Attack on Narvik
Allied and German forces clash from the Arctic circle to southern Norway as 3,500 Germans isolated at Narvik are attacked. British troops join Norwegians along a line between Lillehammer and Hamar while Britain moves troops by sea. The fight targets Narvik and Trondheim with heavy bombing and a push toward the Lillehammer front.
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STOCKHOLM
Sweden
Arctic circle
Norway
Narvik
Norwegian Arctic circle
Hamar
Lillehammer
Britain
Germany
Lalehammer Line
Namsos
Andalsnes
Steinkjer-Levanger
Trondheim
Molde-Andalsnes-Dombaas
Lillehammar front
mid-Norway
Sivikjer
United Press
Kiruna
Falgerness
Rombak Heights
Freedom word urged as substitute for democracy in talks
Dr Charles Copeland Smith of the National Association of Manufacturers urged replacing democracy with freedom in a talk to Elyria executives. He argued freedom is uniquely American and cited growth in production and living standards while blaming taxation for stalling industrial progress.
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Charles Copeland Smith
National Association of Manufacturers
Elyria
Smith
Hitler
Germany
America
Clean-up Week Begins as Rubbish Collected in Elyma
Seventeen truckloads of rubbish were picked up yesterday in front of Elyma homes as the annual Clean-up Week campaign started. Three city trucks continue today and tomorrow on the east side with collections on Cleveland street and nearby areas.
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Elyma homes
Cleveland street
Allies Bomb Oslo Airport In Counter Blow In Norway
Allied aircraft bombed Oslo airport for two and a half hours as German forces push north toward central Norway. British troops counter attacked north of Trondheim with sharp engagements while Norway strengthens defenses and Paris reports increased German activity near Sweden. The Allied Supreme War Council met in Paris with Poland and Norway confirming cooperation amid new decisions.
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MELLERCAD
Oslo
LONDON
Trondheim
Norway
war office
admiralty
air ministry
Paris
Sweden
Allied supreme war council
Poland
British war office
Levanger
central Norway
Hamar
Elversum
Japanese react to Taussig warning of U S clash
Tokyo reports Japanese officials call Rear Admiral Taussig’s Senate remarks predicting an inevitable war with the United States as groundless and a bid to push a major naval program. Domei cites Japanese quarters saying Washington is “obsessed with Japanophobia.”
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TOKYO
Domei
U. S
Taussig
United States
Senate
Japan
Nazi Press Attacks Sweden Over Dispatches
Berlin reports say the German press warned Stockholm it would be bitterly serious to allow Swedish papers to publish dispatches about German forces. Nacht Ausgabe criticized Svenska Dagbladet for a Trondheim report about German fliers firing on fleeing women and children, alleging Jewish Norwegian Parliament president J. Hambro originated it.
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BERLIN
Sweden
Stockholm
Nacht Ausgabe
Svenska Dagbladet
Trondheim
Norwegan
J. ©. Hambro
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