Hitler Demands Boycott Halt in Global Trade Plan
London dispatch reports Adolf Hitler demanded halting half of the world anti German boycott in exchange for aid to resettle about 700,000 German Jews abroad. The plan, presented by Hjalmar Schacht, was reviewed by George Rublee with British French and Dutch experts and then rejected by the governments.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Intergovernmental Committee On
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
George Rublee
Great Britain
France
Netherlands
United States
Britain
Berlin
Reich
Germany
Rublee
Washington
Intergovernmental Committee
de Schachts
Joan
Schacht
Woman Appointed To Social Security Board
President Roosevelt announced the appointment of Ellen S. Woodward to the Social Security Board. She replaces Mary Dewson who resigned. The president said he hopes the board always includes at least one woman. Washington date December 21.
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Social Security Board
Washington
Roosevelt
Ellen S. Woodward
Miss Woodward
Mary Dewson
Weather Ohio Snow Flurries Near Lake Erie Tonight
Partly cloudy and colder with snow flurries near Lake Erie tonight and Thursday. Warmer in the East and colder in the lower Mississippi valley and Southern Plains. Light snow reported from the Southern and Eastern Lake Region with light to moderate rain in the South and along the Pacific coast. High pressure over the Central States and a disturbance over New York affect conditions.
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Ohio
Lake Erie
New York
Tates
Towa
Lake
Pacific Coast
Mississippi Valley
Plains
Urge Construction Of New State School For The Deaf
Columbus, Dec 21 1939 40 budget request urges a new state School for the Deaf outside Columbus at an estimated 1.75 million dollars. Superintendent Abernathy says current buildings on Town Street Washington Ave are old, unsafe and unsuitable educationally and healthwise. Also seeks 290000 for Blind School to remove top floors modernize and fireproof, plus 40000 to buy five nearby properties to cut fire hazard. Both requests echoed in 1937 38 budget. Building ages date to 1864 68 for Deaf School and 1870 for the Blind School.
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Columbus, O
Columbus
Budge
State Finance Department
Edward R. Abernathy
Abernathy
Town Street
Washington Avenue
Hoe
W. R. Scarberry
State School For the Blind
Blind School
Scarberry
Our Boys
Bryden Road
Sherrill Survey Committee
School For the Blind
School For the Deaf
Davey Reopens Dispute With Security Board
Governor Martin L. Davey of Ohio charges the Federal Social Security Board with misappropriating 1 356 756 for October pension contributions. He demands repayment and accuses the board of politics. The board resumed payments for November and December after reforms, while Davey calls it mere pretext and political betrayal.
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Washington
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Gay
Frderal Social Security Board
Old Ave
Gav Casey
Arthur J Altmeyer
Social Security Board
Davey
Columbus
State
Unemployment Insurance Commission
State Commission
Union Mine Workers Face Assessment
United Mine Workers members will pay a $1 assessment in January to reimburse the union’s treasury officials said the funds will not go to the CIO. Both the UMWA and CIO are operating in the black, but the assessment aims to strengthen miners’ treasury.
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Washington
United Mine Workers Union
Congress of Industrial Organization
UMWA
The
CIO
Russia and Poland sign trade talks amid Ukraine tensions
Moscow reports substantial increases in trade with Poland as a Soviet Polish move seen as a check on Nazi aims at Ukraine. A forthcoming trade treaty and mutual most favored nation clause are noted, with Poland to supply textiles and iron ore in exchange for raw materials, locomotives, and steel products. Russia seeks France’s stance on Ukrainian autonomy and the Franco Russian mutual aid pact.
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Moscow
Russia
Poland
Adolf Hitler
Ukraine
Ukrainia
Hitler
France
Rumania
Czechoslovakia
Final appeal to fund Christmas dinners and toys
Captain Henry Hillier of the Salvation Army urged more donations for Toy Shop and Not-An-Empty-Stocking funds. The number of families helped rises from 250 to 350, with baskets of food and toys prepared. Each family will receive a chicken or two plus dinner trimmings, and another $100 in toys was purchased today.
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Henry Hillier
Salvation Army
Daughter Of Jay Gould Passes At 71 In New York
Mrs Finley J Shepard former Helen Gould daughter of the late Jay Gould philanthropist and railroad builder died at her Summer home in Roxbury New York after a two month illness She was 71 and had been ill two months
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Roxbury, N. Y
Finley J. Shepard
Helen Gould
Jay Gould
Pioneer
Proposal Rejected in Polish Parliament
WARSAW Dec 21 The government notified Ukrainian deputies in Parliament that their request for consideration of a proposal for Ukrainian autonomy had been rejected.
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Warsaw
Poland
Await Santa Appears At Many Elyria Schools
Santa Claus is expected at multiple Elyria schools tomorrow as thousands of pupils participate in Christmas programs and parties marking the end of 1938. Schools from Jefferson Junior High to Ely and beyond plan varied concerts, plays, carols, and meals, with room by room celebrations and town PTA involvement before the January 3 start of 1939 vacation.
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Santa Claus
Elyria
Varius
Elyria High School
Jefferson Junior High School
Guppy
George Sandru
Sidney Sprague
Frank Adams
Robert Cromling
Leo Andy
Martin Mueller
Ely
Alice McCracken
Catherine Hartman
Zella F. Beavis
Parent- Teacher Association
Parent-Teacher Association
Garford School
Allen
Franklin
Edison
Hamilton
Gates School
Roosevelt School
McKinley School
Sccre of Officers of Drug Firm Summoned in McKesson Case
Federal investigators summoned 20 more officers of McKesson and Robbins Inc. as probes tie the Musaica scheme to 86.5 million dollars over a decade. Philip Musica, posing as an industrialist, killed himself after arrest. Benjamin Simon, tied to a 1914 chicken racket, faced conspiracy charges. Directors testified that Coster Musica dominated the drugs department. Two federal investigations and a grand jury are active. brothers remain jailed after bond failure.
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New York
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
Philip Musica
Musica Brothers
McKesson and
Robbins
Wall Street
Philp Musica
Wall
F. Donald Custer
Custer
s.Ice
Coster-Musca
Benjamin Simon
McKesson-Rubbing
Grand Concourse
Mussen
McKesson and Robbins
State Fraud Bureau
Coster-Musica
Securities and Exchange Commission
Byrd's Polar Ship To Be Sold At Auction
Admiral Richard E. Byrd's polar ship must be sold at auction by court order to satisfy shipkeepers' unpaid wages and the city dockage charges. Federal Judge Paul Jones issued the order at the request of shipkeeper Ralph Von Suboff, who says the owners owe $1,175 in wages and the city has a $350 claim. The vessel has been in dock in Cleveland for some time.
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Cleveland
Richard E. Byrd
Paul Jones
Ralph von Suboff
Confession Leaves Ohio Murder Case Open
Youngstown Ohio December 21 a leather bound New Testament found in a cave along Yellow creek carried Chauncey Millers name and a confession that he killed Henry Fitch a Struthers merchant Fitch was shot October 18 as his car halted before the Struthers police station Miller 22 was arrested in Connellsville Pennsylvania for breaking freight car seals He says Fitch shot himself at first and only confessed when confronted with inconsistencies The motive remains unclear and the murder weapon is not recovered Miller described his flight from Lowellville to Struthers and his later hiding in a cave
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Youngstown
Yellow Creek
Chauncey Miller
Henry Fitch
Young Struthers
Ralph Elser
Miller
Fitch
Struthers
Connellsville
Toledo Man Killed in Telegraph Road Collision
W J Bennett a 42 year old Pere Marquette Railroad employee of Toledo was killed yesterday in a crash on Telegraph Road just north of the Ohio line in Michigan. His car collided with a beer truck driven by Jake Lauder, 27, of Petoskey Michigan.
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Toledo
Toledo, O
W. J. Bennett
Pere Marquette Railroad
Telegraph Road
Ohio Line
Michigan
Jake Lauder
Patoskey
Mich
Winter Weather Across Nation Shows Varied Conditions
Weather across the nation ranges from hail and snow in the northwest to rain and hail in Southern California. Temperatures stay moderate but conditions differ from milder December, with heavy mountain snow and valley storms reported in the north.
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United Press
Pacific Northwest
Gulf of Mexico
California
Paroled convict tied to Burlington double slaying
Wade Hanford a 28 year old parolee was arrested at a Welch West Virginia hospital on a murder related flight to prevent prosecution charge. FBI and state police secured the hospital and with local officers guarded the patient. He is believed to be part of a gang that killed Sheriff Robertson and Officer Vaughn during a Burlington North Carolina robbery last December 7. Bail set at 25000 and he awaits removal to jail when health permits.
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Welch
W. Va
Wade Hanford
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Burling
N. C
FBI
Walter McLoughlin
Huntington
Hanford
McLaughlin
West Virginia
Federal Penitentiary
Atlanta
Airplane Factory To Be Built Near Sandusky
Knight K. Culver Jr of Dart Manufacturing announces a $200000 airplane factory to be built five miles east of Sandusky on a 250 acre tract between Sandusky and Huron near Lake Erie. The plan includes five buildings and a 100 by 306 foot glass brick air conditioned factory with offices dope shop storage and sales room. Dart may also build speed boats if warranted, with completion hoped for April.
Farmer In Jail As His Wife Fights Death
Xenia Ohio December reports farmer David Hilderbran, 46, captured after a domestic shooting left Emma Hilderbran, 49, hospitalized in critical condition. He fled, later surrendered. witnesses say motive linked to conflict with son in law Robert Alexander. Investigators consider mental examination.
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Xenia
David Hilderbran
Green County
Emma
Hilderbran
Green
Clark
Madison
Fayette
Highland
R. L. Haines
Builds Electric Chair Ends Life in Chicago Workshop
John Hersh a 39 year old radio technician killed himself with a self made electric chair after eight years of courting his former sweetheart Nell Lane 35 a widow. In his workshop Hersh connected a radio transformer to a wall plug boosting 110 volts to about 5000 volts placing one wire on his left arm and leg and holding the other in his right hand. Mrs Lane and friend Charles Smith found his body pinned to a canvas chair with a calendar page bearing Danger Turn electricity off before you touch me.
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Chicago
John Hersh
Nell Lane
Charles Smith
Hersh
Edward Kelly
Police Aid In Search For Barberton Man Missing Since Saturday
Police here were asked to help find Dale King, 24, of Barberton a father of two, who vanished Saturday. His wife, visiting at 219 Bath Street, reported he was to visit Sunday, but his bakery employer has not heard from him. His abandoned delivery truck was found in Cleveland near the delivery site. Cleveland police were also contacted.
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Dale King
Barberton
A. E .Wilhems
Bath Street
E. J. Stankard
Williams
Barberton Bakery
Cleveland
King Thead
More Than A Score Of Cases To Be Heard
Subpoenas issued for 43 witnesses to appear before Lorain grand jury opening January 3. Assistant Prosecutor Wickens says witnesses tied to vice and gambling rackets and possible official corruption will not be named until they testify. Robert Bridges, federal treasury agent, may reveal his Lorain findings to the jury and has been subpoenaed for January 3.
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H. E. Agate
William Wickens
Wickens
Robert Bridges
Federal Treasury
Lorain
Bridges
Anti Franco Plot Halts Franco Offensive on Frontier
Dispatches from Hendaye report General Franco’s Loyalist offensive postponed after discovery of an anti Franco plot among officers. Burgos rebels arrested 768 people. implicated officers were executed, including two colonels and a major.
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Hendaye
Spain
Francisco Franco
11Th Field Artillery Regiment
Burgos
Artillery
San Martial Infantry Regiment
Rotarians Bring Santa Spirit to Gates Hospital
Elyria Rotary Club members held their annual Christmas meeting at Elyria Memorial Hospital and then delivered gifts to Gates Hospital for Crippled Children. Gifts, doggerel rhymes, and a crate of oranges and grapefruit were shared, with staff honored and two club musicians remembered.
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Gates Hospital
Elyria
Club
Charles Lozier
Elyria Club
Florida
J. Martin Beck
R. R Bevard
Circulate Compromise Declaration at Pan American Conference
In Lima on December 21 delegates from Brazil Argentina and Peru at the eighth Pan American Conference circulated a new compromise declaration of American solidarity opposing foreign influences in a late bid to reconcile divergent views of the United States and Argentina.
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Lima
Peru
United States
Argentina
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