Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herman A. J. K. de Jonge Canton de Vaud, Switzerland--International School of Geneva...
William T. Ernist, Canton, Ohio--McKinley High School, Canton...
...Ohio (TIME, July 19). There early last month three men were fatally shot in a midnight massacre which will probably get as earnest attention from the La Follette committee as the Chicago affair. Massillon's Police Chief Stanley W. Switter testified that Republic's manager in the Canton-Massillon area, Carl Meyers, had asked him early in the strike "why the hell we didn't take action such as the Chicago police did and put 'em where they belong." Manager Meyers, it appeared, was in a temper, having been inadvertently shot...
...others the weather was perfect, visibility unlimited. By week's end the Colorado's planes had scanned more than 100,000 square miles. The Itasca, which inaugurated the search last fortnight, continued its futile patrol until fuel ran short. The minesweeper Swan put ashore a searching party at Canton Island, where last month a party of scientists viewed the | solar eclipse (TIME, June 21). Meanwhile the aircraft carrier Lexington, with 62 planes aboard (instead of 72 as first announced) and an escort of four destroyers, sped out of San Diego at forced draft, stopped in Hawaii to refuel, arrived...
...Ohio-Three confessed dynamiters were arrested at Warren. A C.I.Organizer called Gus Hall (real name: Arvo G. Halberg) who ran for councilman in Youngstown two years ago on the Communist ticket, was sought all week by police as the "brains" of a gang of wreckers. Blasts in Canton had ruptured a water main and wrecked a culvert. Into the Warren station to give himself up walked Gus Hall, accusing Republic Steel and its allies of an "unadulterated frame-up." Meantime Republic's plant at Canton where some 2,000 workers had been interned for a month was reopened...