Dictators Face Growing Wrath Amid War Fears
London reports a turning point in democracy versus totalitarianism as fear of further concessions to Nazi Germany grows. Officials and the public reject appeasement after Austria's annexation, Czechoslovakia’s collapse, Balkan advances, and German moves toward Ukraine, signaling readiness for potential war.
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DE Witt
MacKenzie London
Europe
Britain
France
Fuehrer
Hitler
Germany
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Balkans
Ukraine
Hitlet
Berlin
England
Elections Cost County $26 463 Muskingum totals
Muskingum county spent 26463 for primary general and special elections. Primary costs 37318.48 covered ballots, polls and salaries for judges and clerks. General expenditures 7290.25, special issues 288.90, total 31002.63 with 34550.37 for clerks deputies salaries advertising rent and misc items.
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Muskingum County
Charles Snider
County Board of Elections
Snider
Zone Gele Noted Novelist Dies at 65 in Chicago
Chicano writer Zone Gele Breese of Portage Wisconsin died of pneumonia in Passayant hospital Chicago at age 65. She came for treatment three weeks prior and passed away in an oxygen tent. Married since 1924 to W L Breese, she wrote under her maiden name Gele and won a 1921 Pulitzer for dramatization of her novel Ass Lalu Beth.
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Zone Gele
Zonk Gale Breese
Wisconsin
Passayant Hospital
Chicago
Hera
W. L. Breese
Portage
Wis
Kiss Gale
Uwe Pulitzer
Ass Lalu Beth
Fire destroys buildings in subzero International Falls blaze
In subzero weather a fire in International Falls routed about a dozen people early today. The flames began at the Valhalla tavern from a faulty furnace and spread through the Vielaris and Svea hotel buildings in the old city section. Fire Chief J. T. Franzen estimated losses at 60002 dollars.
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International Falls
Minn
YO Denrees
Valhalla
Vielaris
Svea
Hunt for More Blackmailers Connected to Coster-Musica Case
Police continue a roundup targeting two men and a woman accused of extorting thousands from McKesson and Robbins president by exploiting fear of exposure. The probe follows the postwar fraud figure F Donald Coster known as Philip Musica. Detained are Joseph Brandino and sister Mary, partners in the 1920 Adelphi Drug venture in Brooklyn, with other suspects named in federal charges of mail fraud and conspiracy.
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F. Donald Coster
Philip Musica
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
McKesson and Robbins
Fairfield
Commansion
Coster-Musica
Coster
Joseph Brandino
Brandino
U.S
Gregory F. Noonan
Mary
Adelphi Drug Company
Brooklyn
Brandinos
Walter H. Cragg
Xronvic
Japanese Girl 16 cremated in Vancouver furnace
Police investigate the death of Emiko Yamada a 16 year old Japanese girl found in her former family home cremated after a fire. An autopsy cites burns with a forehead bruise of unclear origin and authorities have not ruled out suicide or murder. Her brother Rich and father G Yamada located the body as flames smoldered in the furnace.
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Vancouver
B. C
Emiko Yamada
Yamada
Rich ‘Yamada
G. Yamada
Ohio bans film over propaganda concerns
Columbus officials banned the film Professor Mamlock in Ohio. E N Dietrich said the showing would be harmful at this time because the propaganda it contains. The movie deals with the persecution of Jews in Germany.
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Ohio
Columbus
E. N. Dietrich
Stain
Education
Mamlock
Germany
Family Plagued By Bad Luck
The Barnett family of Baltimore views a string of misfortune as possible bad luck or a lurking enemy. A 13th fire in 13 months damaged their home farm, destroying a carriage house an automobile and farm equipment.
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Baltimore
Dudley Barnett
Shem
Roosevelt weighs county nonpartisan relief boards in WPA review
Roosevelt considers creation of county relief boards to hear complaints of political influence in relief administration. The plan would not shift relief funds administration to counties and aims to curb partisanship in WPA and PWA programs. Congress debates measures to curb political activity by federal workers and to prevent endorsements by lawmakers. A relief funding bill projected between 650 million and 750 million dollars is anticipated to cover through July 1.
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U.S
Washington
Roosevelt
WPA
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
White House
United States
Congress
Hatch
D-N.m
Barnes
D-M.c
Lkve
Hayden
D-Ariz
Adams
Dcoro
Subcommittee On
Cold Wave Grips Nation With Subzero Cold and Losses
The Associated Press reports a severe cold wave driving temperatures down across the nation. In Minnesota readings dropped as low as 34 below, with 11 at Zanesville and 22 later in the day. dozens of deaths and widespread damage were linked to the cold and related storms.
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Associated Press
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic
Minnesota
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Great Plains
Zanesville
Upstate
New York
Adirondacks
Albany
Great Lakes
Michigan
Dickinson County
Lower Peninsula
Key West
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Woodsmitn
Steller
Bowery Missions and Welfare Department
New England
Enid
Oklahoma
California
Warroad
Minn
Devils Lake
N-D
France Sends More Troops To Djibouti
France strengthens its Djibouti garrison with Senegalese contingents to maintain order in the Red Sea port as Italian forces threaten East Africa. The Dilberville dispatch boat reaches Suez en route to Djibouti, while Italian pressure and Spain’s insurgent offensive shape the regional conflict alongside developments in North China and the Lima conference conclusions.
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Paris
UPI
France
Djibouti
East Africa
Pyrenees
Spain
Red Sea
Dilberville
Suez
Ethiopia
Tunisia
Corsica
Mussolini
Italy
Barcelona
Artesa
Ebro
Shansi
China
Shensi
Cordell Hull
United States
Lima
Hull
Americas
Youth in Delta Jailed Over Extortion Plot for Wedding
A one-year-old Delta youth named Paul Simmons was jailed after he attempted to extort $25,000 from Fred Longnecker to fund his upcoming wedding on his 21st birthday. Sheriff Loveland said Simmons admitted the plan after a penciled death threat note was found on Longnecker's doorstep. Deputies tracked the scheme along U S Route 20 using a coded vehicle signal and arrested Simmons near Maumee. The case will go before the next grand jury.
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Waauskon
PKA
Delta
Harley Loveland
Paul Simmons
Fred Longnecker
Loveland
Longnecker
Longnercker
Maumee
John Wierick
Alfred Short
Lester Irwin
Simmons
Armchair Arrests For These Officers
In Bethany Missouri a truck driver crashed into a deputy sheriff’s car and was arrested on the spot. A fugitive was recognized and arrested after parking across from the sheriff’s office. Two runaway girls from Des Moines were picked up and decided to thank the patrolmen for the ride.
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Bethany
Dex Moines
Workers Wages Held Higher Here
The National Association of Manufacturers reports under its study that American workers earn much more than in totalitarian countries. A U S factory worker can buy four times as much food and clothing per hour as a German worker and nine times as much as an Italian worker, nearly 12 times as much as a French worker.
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New York
National Association of Manufacturers
Ins
Pices
United States
Hitler Imaginary Dialect Teases Mussolini Over France
Paris reports an imaginary telephone talk published by Henri de Kerillis in UEpeque. Hitler instructs Mussolini on handling Britain and France including claims over colonial gains and strategic goals in Africa and the Suez region.
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Paris
Henri de Kerillis
Uepeque
Hitler
Mussolini
France
11 Duce
Chamberlain
Rome
Unism
Corsica
Savoy
Munich
Italy
Tunisia
Djibouti
Suez Canal
Milan
Biller
Lake Chad
Bethlehem Steel Plan Could Be Ordered Abandoned
National Labor Relations Board trial examiner Frank Bloom ruled Bethlehem Steel's 20 star old employee representation plan violated the Wagner Act. The plan covered mine plants in Pennsylvania New York and Maryland and barred workers from freely choosing bargaining representatives. NLRB may order abandonment within 10 days after a 10 month inquiry prompted by a Steel Workers Organizing Committee complaint.
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Bethlehem Steel Company
National Labor Relations’ Board
Frank Bloom
Labor Board
Bethlehem
Pennsylvania
New York
Maryland
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Clo
Supreme Court
Labor Leader Named Industrial Relations Director
Columbus veteran labor leader George A. Strain aged 48 was named by Gov Elect John W Bricker to the industrial relations director post in the incoming cabinet. Strain a sheet metal worker and former Army man, grew up in the Soldiers and Sailors orphans home at Kent a and has served as secretary treasurer of the Columbus Building Trades Council.
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Columbus
George A. Strain
John W. Bricker
Strain
Soldiers' and Sailors’ Orphans
Kenta
Cohum Lgus Building Trades Council
Insurgent Officers Clash at Aetna Rubber Plant
In Cleveland two rival sets of officers clashed over control of Aetna Rubber Co with police aid. Incumbent Charles Mashek AT Teasdale and Charles Heil defended offices while Campbell and Christian claimed board rights to access records, prompting court orders to seize books.
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Cleveland
Aetna Rubber Company
Cleveland and Ashtabula Company
Charles Mashek
At. S. Teasdale
Charles Heil
Stanley T. Campbell
Robert R. Christian
George B. Harris
Campbell
Samuel F. Kornhauser
Campbell Group
Mashek, Teasdale and
Hei
Kornhulsler
Soviet Journal Denounces Ukraine Worries as German Ruse
A Moscow journal described European concerns about Ukraine as a German ploy, calling Soviet Ukraine a major socialist fortress. Meanwhile in Norristown Pennsylvania police searched for 17 year old Marjorie Glisson missing since Christmas Day after she told family she was going to a store for candy.
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Ukraine
Moscow
Tunisia
Tourna! de
Soviet Ukraine
Soviet Union
Norristown
Marjorie Glisson
Alfred
FDR Aims to Train 20,000 Civilian Pilots Annually
President Roosevelt outlined a plan to train 20,000 civilian aviators each year with experimental programs in about 300 students across a dozen colleges this spring. If funded, the program would expand to hundreds of colleges in the fall at an estimated yearly cost of 9.8 million.
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Washington
Usy
Roocevelt
United States
White House
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Congress
Roosevelt
Fiers
Navy
Germany
Ttaly
Postoffice Faces Large Deficit in 1938 Fiscal Year
Postmaster General Farley said free services caused a $43,811,556 deficit for the 1938 fiscal year. If not for those, the department would have shown a profit of $4,412,821. Free services included mail for Congress and government departments, aid to blind persons, air mail subsidies, and other nonpostal functions. Receipts were $728,634,051 and expenditures $772,445,607. Farley also noted 252,074 parcels reached the dead letter office in 1988 due to improper wrapping or addressing.
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Washington
Farley
Otere
Five Convicted in Indiana Credit Scheme
A federal jury convicted five officers of Continental Credit Corp of Winchester Indiana and related firms of using the mails to defraud about 1.2 million dollars. John W. Moore Sr and his son were found guilty on all 12 counts, with maximum sentences listed. other executives Kimball Phillips Wise and others faced varying maximum terms. Sentencing set for January 5.
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Indianapolis
Continental Credit Corporation
Winchester
Ind
Associated
John W. Moore
Continental
Kenneth P. Kimball
Xim-Murph Company
Lansing
Mich
R. S. Phillips
Mineral Felt Company of
Toledo
Russell
BE. Wise
Union City
Wise
Robert C. Baltzell
Hiram Browne
Lie Mineral Felt Company
Harry Hikenberry
Lang Industries, Inc
Muncie
Anna Louise Trent
Moore
Rebels Advance on 75 Mile Front in Catalonia Campaign
Insurgent forces push along a 75 mile front from Trem On Tarragona and Barcelona sector. They claim to have captured over 385 square miles, 16 towns, and 7,000 prisoners while advancing southeast of Lerida. Government says north Tremp attacks showed no gains.
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Hendaye
France
Catalonia
Tremo
Ribarroja
Ebro
Tarragona
Barcelona
Mediterranean
Lerida
Cranadellas
Lerlia
Tarra
Gona
Tremp
Blast Traps Two in Gold Mine at Kirkland Lake
Rescue crews underground at the Lake Shore gold mine in Kirkland Lake Ontario worked to free two miners trapped by a strong air blast last night. The collapse left debris blocking access between the 2400 and 2700 levels. cause and names of the trapped men were not immediately learned.
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Kirkland Lake
Ontario
North Bay
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