German Charges Against U.S. Quickly Denied
Berlin and Washington clashed over Nazi claims that the United States helped start the European war. Officials denied the charges, with Bullitt and Kennedy denying the attributed statements. Congressional leaders denounced the propaganda as falsehoods and urged cautious diplomacy amid strained relations.
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Berlin
William C. Bullitt
Joseph P. Kennedy
France
Great Britain
United States
Washington
Roosevelt
Germany
U. S
Hugh R. Wilson
Europe
Cordell Hull
State Department
Jerzy Potocki
Ambassador Bullitt
Scholarship Test Taken By 45 Lorain County Seniors
Forty five Lorain County high school seniors took the annual state scholars test at Elyria High School this morning for county district and state honors. Ten will receive county certificates, district winners to 25 boys and 25 girls per district, with papers advancing to state competition. An agricultural test followed this afternoon for senior boys. five scholarships of 240 dollars each will be awarded by Ohio State University College of Agriculture in four districts.
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Lorain County High School
Elytia High School
Colexca
Ohio State University College of Agriculture
Rain tonight with warmer Sunday in Ohio weather
The Weather Ohio forecast calls for rain tonight with little temperature change, lows 40 to 45 degrees, and Sunday turning fair and slightly warmer. Winds are moderate and variable. A distant system from Minnesota to the Great Lakes dominates the pattern with a secondary disturbance over Tennessee, while a low in the northwest and higher pressures along the Atlantic coast and southwest shape the overall conditions. Precipitation has been widespread from Texas to the Ohio Valley and on to the Atlantic with heavy rain in the lower Mississippi Valley.
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Ohio
Minnesota
Great Lakes
Tennessee
Atlantic
Lake Region
Central Plains
Texas
Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley
Secretary of State Griffith Dies in Columbus
Secretary of State Earl Griffith of Mt Gilead died at White Cross Hospital Columbus at 3 a m after a heart ailment linked to illness. A Republican elected in 1938 for 1939 term he planned renomination in the May 14 primary. Born July 13 1887 in Centerbury Ohio he had been Mt Gilead postmaster and a weekly newspaper publisher.
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Columbus
Earl Griffith
Mt. Gilead
S A.m
White Cross Hospital
Griffith
Centerbury
Ohio Wesleyan University
Mt Gilead
Close Vote in Senate On Trade Pacts
The Senate split along party lines on Pittman’s amendment requiring Senate ratification for future reciprocal trade agreements. Taft voted for it while Donahey opposed, with Wyoming’s Schwartz and Ohio’s Donahey ultimately backing administration positions. Debate centered on whether future pacts need House and Senate approval by majority or treaty-style two-thirds consent.
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Washington
Ohio
Pittman
Senate
State Department
Robert A Taft
Vic Donnehey
Donahey
Key Pittman
Congress
Edwin C. Johnson
D. Con
Pat Harrison
Miss
Joseph 'C. O'Mahoney
D. Wya
Vic Donahey
Harry S. Schwartz
Wyoming
Schwartz
O'Mahoney
David Walsh
Mass
Fpittman
Alben Wy Barkley
Alva B. Adams
Col
George W. Norris
Ind
Ohioan Beaten To Death With Axe
STEUBENVILLE C March 30 John Frank 45 was beaten to death with an axe during a party in Bradley Ohio. Mike Cormac 49 a miner and others at the party were brought to Steubenville for questioning by Sheriff Robert Bates and Prosecutor Hugo Alexander. Cormac confessed to striking Frank with the axe after a fight at Cormac’s home as Frank arrived.
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Steubenville
John Frank
Bradley
John Tucker
Smithfield
Mike Cormac
iSheriff Robert Bates
Hugo Alexander
Cormac
Frank
Cermac
Butler to Take Case to Ohio Supreme Court
Prosecutor Howard F. Butler said he would appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court in the Max Jacobs case from Lorain. Jacobs sued to recover $487 seized by Sheriff Carl R. Finegan after a raid on a Lorain horse race bookie room last summer. The court of appeals upheld Judge Guy B. Findley ruling ordering the sheriff to return the money.
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Howard FR. Butler
Ohio Supreme Court
Max Jacobs
Lorain
Carl R. Finegan
Court of Appeals
Jacobs
Common Pleas
Guy B. Findley
Jacob
Butler
Supreme Court
Findley
California Faces New Flood Threat Across Northern Counties
SAN FRANCISCO March 33 A new flood threatened rain soaked northern California today after a month of record damage. The Sacramento River and tributaries rose rapidly with warnings of dangerous high stages and immediate evacuation in Tehama county if conditions worsen. Napa River already over banks at Yountville as 250 families near Loz area were ordered to move to friends’ homes or hotels.
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San Francisco
California
U. S
E. H Fletcher
Sacramento
Fletcher
Tehama County
Napa
Yountville
Reading
Meridian
Gerber
Lever
Redding
Loz
Nose Laceration From Bicycle Fall
Merle Eddington aged 35 of 133 North Logan Street was treated at Elyria Memorial Hospital last night for a nose laceration after he fell from a bicycle on North Logan Street at 6 a m yesterday.
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John Wojtowicz
Cascade Street
Depot Street
Elyria Memorial Hospital
John Dunch
Tuscarawas Street
Merle Eddington
North Logan Street
Naval Battle May Be In Progress
From Svea reports on the Danish German North Sea border steady cannonading began around 1 am toward Sylt and Helgoland. Residents described continuous gunfire increasing by noon and toward 1 pm heavy artillery rather than anti aircraft fire.
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Ender
Denmark
Tfi
Svea
North Sea
Sylt
Helgoland
Sach
Colorado Ave to Be Improved In Sections
County officials discussed a sectional plan to upgrade Colorado Avenue from Lorain to Route 254, with a proposed 38 foot pavement to the Lorain midbridge and 22 foot beyond. Total cost around 188,000 dollars with local, county, state, and WPA share. project aids Lorain’s access to a new 1.364 million dollar bridge at 21st Street.
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Colorado Avenue
Lorain
Murray Shaffer
Hghway
Columbus
Cty Jamits
Loram
County
State
WPA
Shaffer
21St Street
Indict 22 Persons In Vice Probe At Canton
Canton Ohio March 30 Stark County grand jury indicted twenty two persons after a three day probe into vice. Six indicted defendants were jailed with bookings including Marie Schmidt Mamie Mitchell Pete Julius Shirley Mason Gladys Moore and Ethel Kaufman. The panel charged that three years saw about 300 women in prostitution with police knowledge. Mayor Folk declined comment until review. Police Chief Manderbaugh denied licensed houses of prostitution.
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Canton
Stark County Grand Jury
Ther County
Marie Schmidt
Mamie Mitchell
Pete Julius
Shirley Mason
Gladys Moore
Ethel Kaufman
Ed S Folk
Ira A. Manderbaugh
Salvation Army Sunday observed in Elyria churches
Salvation Army officers from several northern Ohio cities will speak at Elyria churches tomorrow as most houses of worship observe Salvation Army Sunday. The Lorain Citadel Band will lead a 4 pm concert at 574 Broad Street.
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Salvation Army
Ohio
Elyria
Cmatch
Lorain
Gomer Thomas
Douglass Bethune
Coshocton
Robert Barton
Toledo
Church of Christ
Bethune
Barton
Greensburg
East Liverpool
Water Clarence Ditmer
Barberton Corps
Second Congregational Church
Mansfield
Barberton
Boston
Philadelphia
Fred Jackson
Cleveland
First Baptist Church
Yonkers
Hudson River
James I. Coates
St. Paul’s Evangelical Church
Cincinnati
Albany
B. MccIntyre
Colored Corps
Second Baptist Church
H. H Hillier
Elyria Corps
Second Methodist Church
United Presbyterian Church
Lorain Citadel Band
Broad Street
Albert Avery
Youngstown
Elvrra
Army
Indictments in Plumbing Industry Probe Erupt nationwide
One hundred two companies unions and individuals in the U S plumbing sector face charges of criminal conspiracy to fix prices above normal levels under the Sherman act Indictments naming 16 states and the District of Columbia were returned by a federal grand jury in Cleveland Ohio The action targets a alleged price conspiracy affecting about 80 percent of the national plumbing business with costs raised 17 to 25 percent Key defendants include Kohler Company Crane Company and American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp The government says co conspirators 120 in number were warned rather than charged while Ohio defendants include several local unions master plumbers associations and suppliers
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Cleveland
Edward F Hodges
Thurman Arnold
Kohler Company
Kohler
John Roddy
Lora 55
American Federation of Labor Plumbers’ Union
Ohio
Edgle-Pichér Sales
Cincinnati, Hardware, and Supply Co
Akron
Canton Master Plumbers Association
Canton
Journeyman's Plumbers Union
Henry S. Blank
National Association of Master Plumbers
Dayton
A. S. Bott
Canton Master Plumbers’ Association
Howard Enold
Plumbers
J. J. Harutan
Hagle- Fiber Sales Co
Cincinnati
Fred H. Steffens
Hardware & Supply Co
Duriton Co
Eagle-Picker Lead Co
Ohio Brass Co
Mansfield
Pittsburgh Valve and Fittings Corp
Barberton, M. J. Gibbons Supply Co
Mahoning Valley
Dudley White Attacks New Deal as Contradiction
Akron March 30 Congressmen Dudley A White denounces the New Deal as a hodge podge of contradiction. He cites government premiums to foreign producers, irrigation spending while curtailing farm output, and efforts to promote monopoly. He argues defense talk contrasts with treasury strain and unemployment claims with stifled business.
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Akron
Dudley
Norwalk
British Claim Two German Planes Shot Down Over Front
A British communique reported that the Royal Air Force shot down two Messerschmitts in flames over German lines on the western front yesterday. It also suggested a Dornier might have been downed, with a Dornier 17 seen diving into a cloud after an attack by RAF patrols.
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France
Royal Air Force
Minister of Shipping Sir John Gilmore Dies at 64
London dispatch reports Sir John Gilmore aged 64, minister of shipping, died at home this morning. He had led the ministry since its creation on October 14 last year to coordinate merchant fleet activity in the economic war against Germany. His tenure drew criticism over age and energy.
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London
Sir John ‘Gilmour
John
Ministry of Shipping
Germany
Board of Trade
Sir John
Census Taking Will Begin On Tuesday
Census experts predicted that the 1940 enumeration will show slow population growth the smallest since the Civil War era. They estimate about 132 million people in the United States, up about 7.3 percent from 1930, with density rising to roughly 44 per square mile and shifts toward Pacific coast and southern regions.
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Washington
United States
Pacific Coast
Dust Bowl
South Atlantic
East South Central
Achievement Day Program in Lorain County
About 300 Lorain County farm women are to attend the Achievement Day program at First Methodist Church Tuesday, closing the 1939-40 extension season. Morning and afternoon sessions feature Dr. Charles Copeland Smith on Freedom Our American Dynamic, with Mrs. H L Leimbach presiding. Activities include music, talks by local leaders, 4-H demonstrations, and readings from Lorain County home makers.
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Lorain County
First Methodist
Charles Copeland Smith
Chicago
H. L. Leimbach
Brownhelm
County Women
E. E. Durkee
L. W. Johnson
Gulf Road
Home Makers
Marjorie Walter
Della Briggs
Columbia Station
Lucille Churchward
Dr. Smith
Farmer Found Dead Five Men Held
Caldwell Oklahoma March five men were held for questioning in the death of Cecil Hutchins a 45 year old farmer found dead in front of a beer parlor at Belte Valley last night authorities say he died from a heavy blow on the left side of the head a fight is suspected Hutchins who lived with his parents was not married and the suspects identities were not released by Noble County officials
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Caldwell
Cecil Hutchins
Belte Valley
Noble County
Hutchins
Polee
Relief Workers Search For More Victims In Louisiana
Relief workers entered ravaged areas of Southern and Southeastern Louisiana seeking possible additional storm victims after six were killed. Pierre Part bore the greatest damage with four dead. two more deaths reported in the strawberry parishes. Injured estimated 50 to 60. at least 120 homeless in Pierre Part. Strong winds hit Baton Rouge and nearby areas while New Orleans endured heavy rain and high winds.
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United Press
Louisiana
Pierre Part
Lake Verret
Clarence J. Savoie
Pierre Port
Leest
Baton Rouge
State Capitol
New Orleans
Beton Rouge
Two From County Earn Superior Ratings in State Solo Contest
Two Lorain County high school students earned superior ratings at the North Central Ohio Solo and Ensemble Contest in Belleville this afternoon. Oliver Schubert of Elyria High School and Alvin Portman of Brownhelm High School each achieved superior marks in Class A and Class C respectively, making them eligible for the state contest at Oberlin on April 27. Judge was Prof. Charles Church of Bowling Green State University. The clarinet solo division had six superiors. the contest was ongoing.
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Lorain County
Bellevue
Oliver Schubert
Elyria
Alvin Portman
Brownhelmn
Oberlin Lon
Charles Church
Bowling Green State University
Lorain County Enumerators Train For 1940 Census Work
About 100 Lorain County men and women attended a two day training at the Elyria Y M C A to prepare as enumerators for the 1940 census. The program covered form filling and data entry while noting income questions remain optional. If a resident refuses, a separate sealed form will be used.
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Lorain County
Elyria
M. C.A
Matuszak
Warning To Food Handlers Now Due For Licenses
Food handlers in Neenah must renew licenses as of today per Food Inspector Georges Savage and Sanitary Officer Gerald Stang. A total of 1,407 handlers are licensed. renewal requires proof of age, health examination, and fit for duty to continue licensure.
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Wots
Georges Savage
Gerald Stang
Hwee
Guy de
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