Democratic Nomination Open Air Ceremony Considered in Philadelphia
Democratic leaders weigh holding an open air nominating ceremony at Franklin Field in Philadelphia to honor President Roosevelt. About 100000 supporters could hear the acceptance speech at the University of Pennsylvania stadium as New Deal chiefs head to a key meeting before the June convention. Kansas publisher Henry Allen lauds Alf Landon as the outstanding figure in American politics, calling him steady and reliable against the Roosevelt administration.
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Kansas Society Ofew York
Henry Stin Allen
Tape- State Journal
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Landon
Ken
Senate Officials Dismiss Tax Bill for Revenue Plans
Senators skeptical of the House tax bill urge alternative revenue methods. Representative Reed criticizes Secretary Wallace over a Supreme Court remark and calls the proposal a futuristic experiment. A Senate idea would tax corporations on undistributed profits, modifying the existing corporate framework.
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Washington
Senate
House
Reed
Cretary Wallace
Supreme Court
AAA
Allace
Nate Committee
Houdini Widow Plans Seance On Mountain Top
Hollywood widow announces a final effort to contact Harry Houdini. She plans a public seance on a mountain top possibly with a nationwide radio hookup to reach the famed magician who died ten years ago.
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Hollywood
Calif
Harry Houdini
Murray City Woman Clara Seidenfeld Dies at 76
Murray City widow Clara Seidenfeld, age 76, longtime merchant, died at home after a long illness. Funeral arrangements are private. interment will be in Zanesville. Born in Germany, she came to the United States as a girl and lived in Murray City 46 years. Survived by four sons Charles Louis Henry and one daughter Sadie Reidenfeld. two children preceded her in death.
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Murray City
Clara Seidenfeld
Samuel Seidenfeld
Zanesville
Seidenfeld
Germany
United States
American Legion Auxiliary
Pythian Sisters
Rebekahs
The
Eastern Star
WBA
Charles
Louis
Henry
Sadie R.feidenfeld
Minnie F
William
Fire Destroys County School in Athens Plains Area
A 60 year old Factory District School House on the Athens Plains Road near Grosvenor burned early today. insured for 800 dollars, not to be rebuilt, 26 pupils will transfer to Mechanicsburg School with five weeks left in the term. Fire department arrived after five o'clock but could not stop the blaze. Cause undetermined, initial stove theory abandoned.
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Athens-Plains
Grosvenor
County Schools
Mecanicsburg
Athens City
Free Press Essential To Democracy Knox
Col Frank Knox urged in New York that democracy can be saved only by an enlightened public. The Chicago publisher and Republican hopeful warned that poisoning public information harms the community and the nation, speaking in an Advertising Club of New York address.
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Knox
New York
Frank Knox
Chicago
Advertising Club of
Engineer Suffers Skull Fracture at Dundas
Stanley Thompson a railroad engineer at Dundas received a skull fracture Wednesday when his head extended outside the cab and struck a passing car while switching in the yards.
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Stanley Thompson
Dundas
Thompson
Two Miners Rescued From Moose River Mine Die After Rescue
Dr D K Robertson and Charles Scadding endured ten days trapped in the Moose River gold mine. They survived by conserving heat and water while awaiting rescue. Herman Magill died soon after rescue as the others, Robertson and Scadding, faced serious illness and exposure.
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Moose River
D. KE. Robertson
Charles Alfred Scadding
Robertson
Scadding
Herman Magi
Halifax
Magill
Dr. Robertson
Alfred Scadding
D. FE. Robertson
Ethel Scadding
Waukesha
Wis
Ethel
Wall Along River Becomes Court Issue in Nelsonville
Baird Brothers Company of Nelsonville sues the Nelsonville Board of Education in Athens County Common Pleas Court for a temporary injunction to halt and seek permanent protection against a concrete retaining wall along the Hocking River at the WPA school playground project. WPA officials paused work pending a U S Army engineers report on river course and level effects. About 250 feet of the 1500 foot wall has been built. the topo survey should be ready in two to three days.
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Hocking River
Nelsonville
WPA
Baird Brothers Company
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Board of Education
City of
Army
Montana Eyes California as Border Tension Grows
Montana Governor Elmer Holt vows to keep relief burdens from shifting from Colorado while troops guard the Southern Colorado border. Reports say sugar beet growers in Montana invite Mexican laborers from California. A. P. Bruce to investigate in Billings amid Spanish notices alleged to lure workers to Montana and Wyoming.
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Denver
Colorado
Montana
Elmer Holt
California
New Mexico
Holt
A. P. Bruce
Billings
Wyoming
Merriam Reprieves California Prisoners
Governor Merriam reprieved two prisoners at San Quentin just before their scheduled execution after a British government request and urging from Secretary Hull. Alexander Mackay and Joseph Kristy faced death for kidnapping prison officials during an escape bid.
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Sacramento
Calif
Merriam
Alexander Mackay
Joseph Kristy
San Quentin Prison
Hull
Mackay
Kristy
Flood Control Delegation Delays Washington Trip
The Ohio Valley Flood Control Congress suspends plans to fly to Washington as Copeland Bill delays hearings. Dr. C F B Holzer leads the tour. Ohio River reps will still press for 39 control reservoirs before a Senate committee. The delegation arrived in Pittsburgh after a Cincinnati start, meeting with the Tri State Authority.
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Pittsburgh
Ohio Valley
Washington
C. F B. Holzer
Ohio Valley Conservation and Flood Control Congress
Senate
Ohio
Parkershoro
W. Va
Cincinnati
Tri- State
William 8. Rodgers
Republican Rally Set for Nelsonville High School Auditorium
Final plans call for an old fashioned Republican rally Monday night April 27 at 7 30 o clock in the Nelsonville high school auditorium. The high school band will play and fireworks are planned. The event is sponsored by the Young Republican Club with the London for President Club Bricker for Governor Club and the Woman s County Republican Club expecting record attendance.
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Nelsonville
Young Republican Club
London For President
Bricker For Governor
Woman's County Republican Club
Publishers condemn Black Senate Lobby Committee actions
The American Newspaper Publishers Association urged victims to seek criminal prosecutions for all involved in the alleged odious affair after a New York convention vote. The group praised court appeals that curb the Senate committee and the Federal Communications Commission and urged civil damages.
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New York
Black Senate Lobby Committee
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Committee On Freedom of the Press
Senate Committee
Federal Communications Commission
Appeals court hears bid to bar outdoor alcohol signs
The District Court of Appeals received a request from the state board of liquor control on Thursday to reverse a lower court ruling that allowed retail permit holders to advertise with outdoor signs the brands of beer and liquor sold inside.
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Columbus
District Court of Appeals
State Board of Liquor Control
Five Indicted in Wendel Case Tie Court to Kidnapping
Brooklyn District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan announced five men were indicted on charges of kidnapping and second degree assault in the Paul H. Wendel case. The defendants include Ellis H. Parker Jr and Martin Schlossman, with Harry Bleefeld and Murray Bleefeld in custody or at large, and Harry Weiss also charged.
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Brooklyn, N. Y
Paul H. Wendel
Lindbergh
Bruno Richard Hauptman
William F. X. Geoghan
Kings County
Brooklyn
Ellis H. Parker, Jr
New Jersey
Martin Schlossman
Harry Bleefeld
Harry Weiss
Murray Bleefeld
Wendel
Father Fined and Jailed for Whipping Son in Xenia
Ammiel Bent, 39, was fined $200 and sentenced to one month in county jail after admitting to flogging his 15 year old son Ammiel Bent Jr. A hospitalized high school freshman has been under care since Tuesday. He said he rubbed salt into lacerations to intensify the pain.
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Xenia
Ammiel C Bent
Ammiel Bent
Ohio Board Grants 102 Paroles to Prisoners
The State Parole Board in Columbus granted 102 paroles after hearing 14 cases at Mansfield. Paroled inmates include Meiga Clarence Freeman convicted of cutting to wound released Sept 1 in Athens. Charien Harvey for failure to provide for a child released June 1 in Vinton. Brn Martin for breaking and entering released July 3 in Mah.
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Columbus
State Parole Board
State Reformatory
Mansfield
Meiga
Clarence Freeman
Athens
Charien Harvey
Vinton
Brn
Martin
Spring Frolic at Athens Junior High Shines With Music and Dance
The tenth annual Spring Frolic entertained Athens Junior-Senior High School Thursday night in the high school auditorium. Emerson Hour hosted as master of ceremonies while seventh grade dancers wore black and white checkered outfits and performed a chorus to The St Louis Blues. The eighth grade presented pantomime The Talk of the Town and a lively hockey ice skating number featured Jane Gross and Margaret Matters with talented backers and a large cast of students.
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Athens
Betty Mapes
Violet Franz
Joan Woolley
Doris Mathews
Jéan Mathews
Frances Helvner
Helen Long
Jean Kilpatrick
Dorothy McAllister
Mildred Larch
Frances Malone
Ann
Jane Gross
Retty Jean Kelley
Virginia Bardin
Margaret Matters
Norma Jean Kempton
Ellen Davis
Betty Pinkerton
Martha Manafield
Mary Barnes
Clayia Pierce
Patty Daugherty
Kathleen McDaniel
Jo Ann Tompkins
Betty Lou Walker
Roberta Reynolds
Dorothy Cray
Kathleen Orr
Wanda Oxley
Kathryn Zarley
Hester Hartman
Betty Jean Cox
Geraldine Christman
Jessie Rowles
Janice Aldridge
Ruth Blackstone
Betty Race
Helen Minameyer
Jane Wamealey
Dorothy Roads
Evelyn Fadmunds
Mary Fleanor Figgins
Bertha Albert
Mary Harwick
Directa
Athens to Observe Annual City Cleanup Week
The city will launch Cleanup Week Monday, announced by C. W. Gross service director. The aim is the thoroughest cleanup in the city’s history with district schedules and service times to be published in The Sunday Messenger. Cleanup runs through Friday.
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Athens
C. W. Gross
Goodyear Plans Giant Dirigible Bigger Than Hindenburg
Goodyear Zeppelin president Paul Litchfield announced engineers have drawn plans for a dirigible 150 feet long and 145 feet in diameter, larger than the Hindenburg. He did not confirm sales talks but named Philadelphia Alexandria Virginia and Richmond Virginia as possible eastern terminals for a trans Atlantic airship service.
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Akron
Paul W. Litchfield
Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation
Germany
Litchfield
Europe
Philadelphia
Alexandria
Richmond
Steel Casting Crushes Girl in Fallston Hill Accident
A 50 pound steel casting rolled from a large truck and crushed Miss Marguerite McCowin, a school teacher from Enon Valley, to death on Fallston Hill. The truck, from Youngstown to Pittsburgh, sent the casting into the car she drove, and workmen freed her body after two hours of cutting.
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New Brighton
Fallston Hill
Marguerite McCowin
Enon Valley
United Engineering and Foundry Company
Youngstown
Westinghouse Manufacturing and Electric Company
Pittsburgh
Reconstruction Finance Disbursements to Athens County and Ohio totals
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation distributed 281 400 to Athens County financial institutions and businesses. Nationwide total disbursements reach 536 516 806 with 408 246 225 in 86 Ohio counties. Cuyahoga County received 225 642 474. No disbursements to Vinton or Morgan. Hocking 143 700. Perry 197 051 22.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Athens County
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
Vinton
Morgan
Gallia County
Melis
Perry County
Student Union Denounced by DAR as Communist Youth Front
The Daughters of the American Revolution labeled the American Student Union as part of a Communist controlled youth movement. It praised two other student groups and heard Senator Reynolds accuse millions of aliens of usurping American jobs. The Continental Congress called the Student Union the most insidious and well directed attack on the American form of government.
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Washington
American Student Union
Reynolds
PD. N.C
Continental Congress
Ohio PUC orders mapping of telephone service areas
The Public Utilities Commission in Columbus directed all Ohio telephone companies to file with the commission and provide maps defining the boundaries of their service areas or zones of operation.
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Columbus
The
Public Utilities Commission
Ohio
Commission & Map
Italians Close In From North and South Sectors
Italian forces press toward Addis Ababa from Dessye with 30 000 troops and Eritrean Askari report taking Worra Iu 38 miles south of Dessye. Addis Ababa defense denied surrender rumors while Ethiopian leaders vow continued guerrilla resistance.
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Eretrean
Askari
Yorra Hu
Dessye
Pietro Badoglio
East Africa
Marshal Badoglio
Uorra Iu
Addis Ababa
Harar
Eiven
Germany
Africa
Glove Workers Skirmish at Coshocton Plant Entry
Non union workers breached picket lines at the Indianapolis Glove Company plant in Coshocton entering the building amid a wage dispute. About 70 independent glove workers joined the entry as union members and sympathizers responded by locking doors and threatening to keep them inside. The confrontation follows a strike that began March 24 over recognition demands.
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Coshocton
Indianapolis Glove Company
Independent Glove Workers’ Association
Idie
Otrike
Finally Settle Seattle's Representative in Jail
Washington police quiet after a day of clashes as Seattle representative Marion Slonecheck faces fines for speeding at 70 mph and a spell in a police bullpen. The incident followed an uproar with a judge and a busy day in the Capitala.
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Seattle
Washington
Marion Slonecheck
Far
Northwest
Capitala
Farmer Denies Killing Two Officers in Feud
Walter Johnson a 45 year old farmer denied killing two officers in a feud after a gun battle left him wounded and captured. The case centers on a long running dispute that drew in local authorities in Baton Rouge Louisiana.
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Farmer
Baton Rouge
Walter Johnson
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