Protest Over West Pike Relocation Prompts Safety Claims
More than 100 Gratiot Mt Sterling and Hopewell property owners protested a proposed relocation of 6.276 miles of the National Highway. They argued the plan would bypass Gratiot, create a curve, raise costs, and alter safety and speed limits, while highway officials defended the move as a safety measure.
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West Pike
Common Pleas
Gratiot
Mt Sterling
Hopewell
State Highway Department
Headley Inn
Highway Department
Eneseer
Ed Mill
Newark
Harry Irvin
Howard Vargin
L S. Searles
Gratiat
Ho Oa
Martin Jerry Hupp Charles
George Irvin
Jed Gallogly
Mt &Sterling-Hopewell
Michiel Hing
Ourator
Hobart Mogin
Viernes
MIMD
Hunt for Ruth Judd Intensifies After Door Knock
Murky police pursuit widens as a prowler knocked on doors seeking Ruth Judd while Annie Ruth confesses fear. Authorities describe a tense scene with a mad trunk killer and a potential escape linked to a freight train ride amid regional troop moves.
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Spurs ‘Hunt
Ruth Judd
Phopninaria
Wannie Ruth Todd
Annie Ruth
Someje
Winnie Ruth
Finland appeals for aid as Russian attack presses in Karelia
Finland awaits the League of Nations ruling and broadcasts an appeal to the world for help in the defense of democracy, homes and religion. Russian forces push along the Ladoga lake system, with Finland reporting over 100 Russian wounded north of Lake Ladoga and martial law extended to eastern and northern provinces. Estonia reports Baltic port mining and a sinking near the Gulf, while Parliament pleads for aid from civilized nations to join in halting aggression.
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Helsinet
Finland
League of Nations
Russia
World
Karelian
Cna
Ladoga
Man- Herheim
Niore
Lake Ladoga
Carl Gusta
Mannerheim
Tallin
Estonia
Rusgan Navy
Baltishi
Baltic
Finnish Gulf
Kasa
Helsinki
Vince Hakkila
Iniussia
Fire Rates Two Oberlin Buildings
Oberlin suffered its worst blaze since 1927 as downtown fire consumed two buildings, including the T O Murphy Co plumbing and heating firm and Staubus pool room run by Kenneth Staubus. Insurance put damage at about 35,000 dollars. A separate Lorain auto accident report notes Joseph Lechowles, 15, a stem[worker], struck by a car after stepping into its path.
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Oberlin
T O Murphy Co
Kenneth Staubus
Roosevelt approves Cleveland WPA projects for relief
President Roosevelt authorized 1 248991 dollars for three WPA undertakings in Cleveland to provide six months of work to more than 11000 people. Stephen T Early said the plan includes 871 percent of funds for needy workers and 18027 man months of employment, with projects on publicly owned properties and paid by sponsors for the rest.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Whatel House
Stephen T. Early
Early
Federal Works
John Carmody
Ohio Home
Community Survey and Weekly Advertisements Summary
Local ads promote awards and prizes including RCA radio $2995, club aluminum coffee maker $495, and Jergens lotion six pack, with large bottle lot prices at 100 each. Listings from David M Weber Inc and Zanesville firms invite answer forms through the weekend for a newspaper office deadline December 4. Winners announced the following Saturday.
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RCA Radio
Club
Aluminum Coffee Maker
Congress
David M Weber Inc
Zanesville
First Trust & Savings Bank
Henneberg Furniture Co
Eckerds Baileys
Weller
Waders
Mac Benut
Gorsuch Pharmacy
Jackson Medicine Co
Quality Furniture Co
Rose Furniture Co Food Ad
National Brands
New System Bakery Kroger Grocery & Baking Co
Baker Bread Co
Royal Sweeper Club
Aluinum Congress
Zanesville Publishing Company
Nesday
Anne
Bank Robbery Charges Filed Against Three
Three suspects face Cambridge bank robbery charges for the Dec 2 Senecaville National Bank holdup, with four men tied to the case. Named defendants Mike Merkich of Weirton WV, William Morison of near Summerfield, and J E Fife of Halliday's Cove WV are accused in affidavits by Guernsey County Prosecutor Melton Boyd. A fourth suspect, Lawrence Curfuss of Halliday's Cove, pleaded innocent to a recharge and was bound over to the grand jury. Authorities recovered part of the $3300 loot and tied Morison to the hideout and ledgers. Curfuss, once Summerfield's leader, is jailed with the others in Cambridge.
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Melton Boyd
Guernsey County
Mike Merkich
Weirton W Va
William Morison
Summerfield
J E Fife
Halliday’s Cove
W Va
Lawrence Curfuss
Halliday's Cove
Grand Jury
Morrison
Noble County
Fridas
Morrisons Farm
Merrien
Boyd
Mer‘hich
Fife
Sherif
Harry Totten
New Cumberland
Methich
Cambridge
Curtiss
Week End Traffic Accidents Claim 13 in Ohio
A series of weekend auto collisions across Ohio caused at least 13 deaths including Mrs Elias McBee of Springfield and Mrs Margaret Shaw of Cincinnati. Fatalities occurred in Cleveland Youngstown Lorain Sebring Ottawa and Columbus area locations with multiple victims and several survivors reported.
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Associated
West
Ohio
Elias McBee
Springfield
Nance
Lawrence County
Frankfort
Chillicothe
Carl Holmes
Cleveland
Albert Meaher
West Union
Dave Simms
Sebring
Margaret Shaw
Lulu Schneier
Cincina
Joseph Donze
Philip Wood
Youngstown
Pacis
Lorain
John Hudson
Ottawa
Greyhound
East Palestine
Harley
Reed
Collumbiana
Airuch
Russell P Stern
Salem
Orpha Estelle Pegan
Cheropadist
Paul Turner
Middletown
William Updike
That City
First Choral Program Opens Downtown Christmas Series
The Downtown district hosts the first of a series of choral concerts as St John’s Lutheran and Merchants’ Association present Ohio Yuletide choral programs. The power company building on Main Street will be decorated with a giant illuminated Christmas display and a replica organ. Tonight’s program features St John’s choir directed by Mrs Helen W Emery with organist Mrs Graham Bailey, plus carols including Angels from the Realms of Glory and Do Come All Ye Faithful. Muskingum College a cappella choir performs Tuesday evening.
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St John’s Lutheran Church Choir
Merchants' Association
Mainisi Mill
Tertal Association
Ohio Yuletide
8/Power company oclock
Ohio
Power Companys
Power Company
Siath
Zanes-icluding
Christ
Zanesville
First Trust and Savings Bank
National Bank
Helen W Emery
St Johns Lutheran Church
Graham Bailey
Three Kings
Bethlehem
Hack
Don Neel
Merchants’ Association
Muskingum College A Cappella
Mil
Jan F Rehg
British lose six vessels as war reports detail new reverses
London discloses further sea war reverses including the loss of a mine sweeper Bay of Hope and five merchant ships Willowpool ashore after striking a mine. Four merchant ships Ashlea Newton Beech Trevanion Tunisman listed as lost or overdue. British troops clash with Germans on the French front as King George VI inspects Maginot line defenses.
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London
Great Britain
Washington
Bay of Hopes
Lommres
George VI
May Exhume Body In Probe of Death
Walter Snyder 24 sugar beet worker may be exhumed as prosecutors reexamine his death in Fremont. The body was found last week in Sandusky as authorities pursue new leads from a 25-year-old man and a married woman with four children who knew Snyder. Police say the case remains unclear and could hinge on newly pursued evidence.
Trolley Takes Wrong Track in City Detour
Motorman Thomas Widman with 26 years service said he got lost after a detour caused a street car to wander from the east end toward the west end. He halted—delivered passengers safely—then sought familiar rails, eventually guiding the car back to the barns as officials investigated the mix up.
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Cencinnati
Thomas Widman
Widman
West End
Eileen Decides To Look for Job
In New York the 20 year old heiress Eileen Herrick defies her disapproving family. She announced she will seek employment now that the court lifted parental restraint and said any marriage to George Lowther II would come months later.
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New
York —Jp
Peace Teignet
Walter RB Herrick
Eileen
George Lowther II
Miss Herrick
Friends
Lowther
She Believed In Santa Claus She Believed In Santa Claus Beginning Wednesday
A feature highlights a woman who embraced the spirit of Christmas and the belief in Santa Claus, with plans and events starting midweek to celebrate the season and inspire joy.
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Santa Claus
Dies committee accuses 13 consumer groups of Communist transmission belts
Washington UPI reports the Dies committee charged that 13 consumer organizations were used by the Communist party to spread its aims among the middle class and to discredit free enterprise. It named groups including League of Women Shoppers and Consumers Union as alleged “transmission bells” in New York, Detroit, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
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Washington
UPI
Dies Committee
Communist Party
J B Matthews
Jand
Agriculture Department
Consumers’ Counsel
Matthews
Department of Agriculture
Good Housekeeping
Federal Trade Commission
Consumers’ Organization
Transmission Bells
League of Women Shoppers
Consumers Union
Consumers National Federation Committee
New York
Detroit
Chicago
Los Angeles
Gains Final Divorce From Bette Davis
Los Angeles reports the divorce of screen actress Bette Davis and Harmon O Nelson Jr an advertising man in New York. An interlocutory decree was obtained in December 1938 with testimony that she valued her career over the marriage. The couple previously eloped to Yuma Arizona in 1932.
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Bette Davis
Los Ángeles
Harmon O Nelson Jr
New York
Yuma
Anz
Aue
Weather Disturbances Focus Over Northern Plains and Coast
Rain and warmer disturbances linger over northern plains and off the New England coast while high barometers sit over the Great Lakes and central valleys. Rain extends from Ohio to the Atlantic with colder conditions in the northern Lake region. Unseasonably high temperatures are reported in the Rocky Mountain plateau.
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Plains
New England
Great Lakes
Ohio
Atlantic
Pacific Coast
Lake
Rocky Mountain
Mediation urged as League moves on Finland conflict
Geneva League of Nations assembly pressed Soviet Russia to accept mediation in the Russian Finnish war and set a 24 hour deadline for Moscow's reply. Finland appealed for support while Norway's Hambro warned delegates to push for a halt to the fighting, though he doubted Russia would heed.
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Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Russia
Moscow
Finland
Rudolf Holst
Sweden
Butler
Holstt
Hambro
Karl J Hambro
Norway
Russa
Joseph A C. Avenol
Helsinki
U S Extends New Credit to Finland
The United States, with President Roosevelt's approval, extends 10 million dollars in credit through the Export-Import Bank and RFC for Finland to buy surplus American foods and civilian supplies for its war with the Soviet Union. Finland will also pay its 234000 dollar war debt installment on December 15.
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Washington
Finland
United States
Russia
Jesse Jones
Roosevelt
American Trading Corporation
Hijalmar J Pope
Jones
RFC
Export Inport Bank
Norway
Pope fills two church vacancies in secret consistory
Vatican City reports Pope Pius XII naming Lorenzo Lauri as camerlingo of the Holy Roman Church and Rafael Rosa as camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals during the next interregnum before a pontifical election. In New York, composer and pianist Dr. Wilhelm Grosz, 45, dies, known for Harbor Lights.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius XII
Holy Roman Church
Sacred College of Cardinals
Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri Camerlengo
Ponhff
Raffael
Rosa
Camerlengo
New York
Wilhelm ‘Grosz
Vienna Opera
Harbor Lights
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North Sea
FDR
Community Survey
Senecaville National Bank
Ohio River
Acme Selephoto
Huntington
US Maine Bureau
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