Threat to President and Roosevelt Household Under Probe
A man identified as Charles Zangara, linked to a Lindbergh Law charge, is jailed after sending a note threatening President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House. The missive claimed $168,000 and warned of harm to the President and his family. Secret Service and New York police conducted the investigation following the February assassination attempt on Mayor Ceretto.
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Benjamin Franklin
White House
Roosevelt
Secret Service
Varn
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Buzzie
Sistie’ Dall
Department of Justice
Benjamin Varn
Richard Jervis
Solons Refuse to Chief on Request Committee
Aug 31. Up reports to the Army Air Corps that Secretary of War refused to discharge Major Foulois as chief of the Army Air Forces. The House Military Affairs committee heard charges that Foulois acted improperly in approving a bid contract and that sacred citizen rights were cited in the dispute.
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Army Air Corps
D. Foulois Forthpost
Comte
Incomplete OCR summary of a judicial case or obituary
Fragmentary note mentions Louis age 49, an accordion, jazz tunes, Arizona, lethal gas, execution, and Ralph Hart in robbery. No clear event, date, or full names to establish a coherent news item.
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Louis
Arizona
Ralph Hart
York
Con- Hart
Ohio Braces as Bootleg Liquor Sells 300000 Gallons Monthly
Ohio state liquor director Col John A Hughes says bootleg liquor sales reach 300000 gallons monthly, equal to state store sales. Department runs about 4 million gallons yearly. retail sales exceed 5 million dollars. State stores cut prices three times since last April to outcompete bootleggers. A 70 member inspector team has raided bootleg caves and cent ers, collecting fines from numerous cases.
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Columbus
John A. Hughes
Ohio
Peace Move Seen in Chaco War Cease Proposal Accepted
Paraguay accepted a general proposition for a ceasefire during peace talks in Buenos Aires as Argentina Brazil and the United States push negotiations. Bolivia had not yet indicated its attitude, while the talks seek a permanent end to the protracted conflict that has cost thousands of lives.
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Buenos Aires
Paraguay
Chaco
Bolivia
Argentina
Brazil
United States
County Relief Budget Set for Five Weeks
The State Relief Commission approved an $8,255,650 budget for five weeks ending Oct 4 in Columbus. It anticipates 185,291 relief recipients and 9,067 more families than August, with Athens County allocations of 39000 for direct relief 14460 for work projects and 198 for transient relief involving 2267 families.
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Columbus
State Relief Commission
Athens County
Car belonging to nurse found in McArthur by sheriff
Gallia County police report a car owned by Miss Eva Swick nurse at Holzer Hospital was found in McArthur last night with a woman inside. George Davis is accused of stealing the auto about two weeks ago after writing bad checks.
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Gallipolis
Steff
Eva Swick
Holzer Hospital
McArthur
Harold Partee
Vinton County
George Davis
Willys-Overland to Seek Court OK for 100000 More Cars
Toledo August 31 Willys Overland Co reports progress in aligning interests and plans to petition the Federal Court for permission to manufacture at least 100000 additional passenger cars Davis R Wilson the president said the company aims to expand output in the near term
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Toledo
Willys-Overland Co
Davis R. Wilson
Key Ruling in Steel Dispute To Come Soon
The Wheeling Steel Corporation and the Amalgamated Association face a pivotal NRA Code dispute over collective bargaining at Wheeling's Portsmouth Ohio plant. The Steel Labor Relations Board calls the issue a keystone for future industry interpretation as the plant, employing about 550 workers, was closed on July 3.
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Washington
NRA
Wheeling Steel Corporation
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
H. A. Wiley
Steel Labor Relations Board
Wheeling Concern
Portsmouth, O
Portsmouth
American Seized by Manchurian Bandits
Tokyo dispatch reports United States citizen John Johansen kidnapped yesterday by bandits who wrecked a Chinese Eastern Railway train at Wuchis Manchukuo. Five Japanese passengers were killed and ten injured. Johansen was one of three MGM employees abducted, with Robert Lury and Kmatsumoto also taken.
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Tokyo
United States
John Johansen
Rengo
Wuchis
Manchukuo
Harbin
Johansen
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Company
Robert Lury
Kmatsumoto
Four Dozen in Race Across Nation Today
Four dozen airmen start the 1934 National Air Races at Cleveland Airport near the Wright Brothers memorial. The feature cross country trophy race offers a $10,000 prize with speeds around 300 mph as a potential new coast to coast record.
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Cleveland
Wright Brothers
Buffalo Officer Dies At Hands of Gunmen
Police Lieut. George L. “Jhi, 51, was slain in Buffalo after stopping an automobile for a traffic violation. Two gunmen fled after a theater employee robberies earlier, when they seized a metal box believed to contain receipts. Police hunt the trio.
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Buffalo
N. Y
E Gorge L
Jhi
Youth Hangs Self Over School Costs at Dodge City
In Dodge City Iowa 13 year old Charles Kinkade, a junior high student, hanged himself in his basement over what his family could pay for school books. He was to enroll in school that day.
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Dodge City
Iowa
Charles Kinkade
Yes Men of Congress Under Roosevelts Control Warning
Senator Simeon Fess of Ohio warned at a Hancock County picnic that the Roosevelt administration seeks permanent powers. He cited control over agriculture industry currency and banks and warned a rubber Congress would declare war if asked. He labeled Congress filled with New Deal yes men.
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Congress
Fess
Ohio Girl Has Won Freedom
A Clarion County jury found Leona Menser a Coshocton Ohio woman was justified in shooting farmer John B Kelly 61 last June after he allegedly attacked her. The verdict came two hours and forty minutes after deliberations began and spectators cheered as the calm defendant testified she fired in self defense when he became drunk and tried to strike her.
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Clarion
UPI
Clarion County
Leona Menser
Coshocton, O
Mill Creek Township
John B Kelly
Hearn Department Store Cancels Debts Worth 176,436
New York August 31 The Hearn Department Store announced in newspaper ads it had cancelled customers debts aggregating 176 436 dollars. Earlier the firm said it would suspend all dividends for one year to lower prices and spur buying.
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New York
Hearn Department Store
Government May Intervene To Avert Huge Walkout in Textile Industry
Francis J. Gorman, chairman of the United Textile Workers Strike Committee, said talks with silk and woolen employers were sought as cotton textile workers prepare to strike. He rejected Communist influence and pledged government principles guiding the action as executives rush to field headquarters nationwide.
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Washington
Francis J. Gorman
United Textile Workers Strike Committee
Gorman
Peter van Horn
Silk Code Authority
United Textile Workers
National Textile Workers’ Union
United States
Executive Council
Ohio man may have been attacked before fatal fire
Police and authorities pursued a theory that 26 year old John A Graham died when his Dillons Falls home near Zanesville was destroyed by a mysterious blaze. A post mortem found a blood clot on his brain suggesting he was struck before the fire and his residence may have been set by intruders who leaped from a train nearby. Graham had been living alone at the time.
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Zanesville
John A Graham
Dillons Falls
Graham
Famous Broadway producer Charles B. Dillingham dies
New York reports the death of Charles B. Dillingham at 66 after a period of serious illness. A leading Broadway figure, he produced more than 200 shows and was famed for spectacular musical productions at the Hippodrome during its peak era.
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New York
Broadway
Charles B. Dillingham
Dillingham
Hippodrome
Unsettled Weekend Weather Forecast for Ohio
Columbus report predicts a 36 hour period from Thursday evening with eastward drift of clouds. Tonight will bring increasing cloudiness, followed by unsettled showery weather on Saturday and a warming trend.
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Wagner
California Mystery Murder Cleared by Doomed Woman
Mrs. Nellie Madison, wife of Eric D. Madison, reportedly told investigator Blayney Matthews that her husband killed Dr. Leonard Siever, Pasadena dentist, over another woman. She said Eric confessed before his suicide and implicated a Los Angeles woman. a costly watch linked to the case was mailed to Francia Coen-Cooke, a Pasadena divorcee, as a ransom demand. Madison awaits execution for her husband’s murder.
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Pasadena
Los Angeles
California
Blayney Matthews
District Attorney
Nellie Madison
Leonard Siever
Madison
Montana
Matthews
Siever
Eric D. Madison
Tehachapi
Burbank
Calif
Funeral Rites Set for Mrs. Margaret J. Fee in McArthur
Funeral services are planned for 2 p.m. Sunday at the Presbyterian Church in McArthur for Mrs. Margaret J. Fee 78 who died at her son A J Fee's Marion Township home Thursday. Friends may call at Leonard Funeral Chapel Saturday and Sunday morning.
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Logan
Presbyterian Church
McArthur
Margaret J. Fee
A. J. Fee
Marion Township
Leonard Funeral
NRA Charged To Find Jobs By A F of L Leader
William Green of the American Federation of Labor said NRA must address rising unemployment, estimating July jobless at 10,772,000 up 672,000 since September and likely higher in August. He questioned if NRA would pass the burden to relief agencies as recovery efforts consider shortening work hours.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
NRA
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Green
Recovery Administration
NRA I8
Blue Eagle
Plan to reduce rural delegations sparks rural rally
Congressman Robert Secrest denounces a Wednesday plan to trim rural Ohio representation to 27 seats, calling it a dictatorship and urging rural unity. He spoke at Caldwell during a Noble County homecoming, warning metropolitan centers would dominate the legislature. Rural groups and Chambers of Commerce in the Fifteenth District are expected to oppose the proposal.
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Zanesville
Robert Secrest
Noble County
Caldwell
Ohio
Secrest
Chamber of Commerce
Fifteenth
Woman enters lead with 97 in Vandalia trap event
East Lyne Missouri housewife Mrs Lela Hal aged 27 broke 97 targets from the 19 yard line to tie for early leadership in the Grand American Handicap trap shooting championship at Vandalia, the world series of trapshooting.
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Vandalia
Lela Hal
East Lyne
Poker Players Robbed By 6 Armed Bandits
Steubenville report says six men with guns robbed a group of poker players early today, getting $600 and two watches. The bandits forced the players to remove part of their clothing before fleeing.
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Steubenville
Recall petitions target Akron mayor in November vote
Recall petitions against Mayor I. B. Myers allege malfeasance and exceed the 12040 signatures required. Former mayor G. Lied Weil says he will run to succeed Myers when recall is voted on in November.
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Akron
I. 8. Myers
G. Liegd Weil
Myers
Wage talks between potters may end in impasse
Atlantic City reports wage conferences between the United States Potters' Association and the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters, ongoing for nearly two weeks, may terminate in a deadlock.
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Atlantic City
N. J
United States Potters’ Association
National Brotherhood of Operative Potters
Mass Production Reaches Soviet Race Meet
Will Rogers reports from Moscow on a state run racing program featuring 36 races at the Soviet Derby. Horses are government owned and raised by various army units and collective farms, with half of races being trotters. Rogers also mentions planned aviation trips through Ukraine to the Black Sea.
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Moscow
David Harum
Russia
Ukraine
Caucasus
Black Sea
Will Rogers
Hickman to Run as Republican for Clerk of Courts in Athens County
J W Hickman former Nelsonville mayor will be on the November ballot as the Republican candidate for clerk of courts in Athens County. A recount across nine Nelsonville precincts and one Glouster precinct failed to change any totals among the four candidates: Hickman Tompkins Wise and McVay.
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J. W. Hickman
Nelsonville
Athens County
Glouster
Board of Elections
Robert P. Tompkins
Hickman
Tompkins
Ida J. Wise
O. ©. McVay
Charles Jordan
Emmett Keenan
Secretary of State's Office
McVay
OSU Faculty Member Missing in Glacier Park
Glacier National Park officials investigated the disappearance of Dr. F. H. Lumley of Ohio State University. Belongings found include two postcards suggesting a Banff trip with his mother. he was last seen after plans to extend a 17 mile hike.
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Glacier Park
Mont
Glacier National Park
F. H. Lumley
Ohio State University
Banff
Alberta
Canada
Dr Lumley
Loss of 136 Feared Off Manchuria Coast
The sixty ton steamer Talan Maru foundered near Antung Manchuria today with fears that 136 passengers and crew were drowned.
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Manchuria
Tokyo
Antung
Ohio Fair Attendance Tops 100000 As Gates Prep to Close
In Columbus on Aug 31 the Eighty Fourth State Fair neared closing after another strong day. Attendance Thursday topped 100000, surpassing Wednesday. Manager Charles M Beer said he knew of no NRA wage hour infractions by concession staff.
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Columbus
Ohio
Rail freight loadings rise to over six hundred thousand cars
The American Railway Association reported revenue freight loadings for the week ending August 25 reached 605,516 cars, a gain of 4,952 from the prior week. Major rail lines and transportation firms rely on steady throughput to gauge demand and capacity.
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Washington
American Railway Association
Strike Faces Labor Day Test in Southern Mills Conflict
The nation’s broad cotton textile strike heads toward its first test on Labor Day as Southern mills reopen despite calls to walk out. Union leaders claim 100 percent participation in some areas, while others report minimal turnout, with discussions ongoing on a neutral inquiry by the National Industrial Relations Board.
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Southern Mills
Associated Press
NRA
South
Aniformly
Carolina Mills
Washington
Lloyd Garrison
National Industrial Relations Board
Supreme Court
Garrison
George A. Sloan
Cotton Textile Institute
Hope United States Set to Enter League
London August 31 officials expect the United States to join the League of Nations next, with Russia already entering. Swift action to grant the Soviet a permanent seat at Geneva on par with Britain France and Italy is anticipated as league sessions begin next Friday.
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London
United States
Russia
League of Nations
Geneva
Great Britain
France
Italy
Nearly Million Given To Ohio's Industries
Loans totaling $435 000 have been authorized as of August 25 to industries commercial enterprises and business in Ohio. The state also has been allotted $395 000 to assist in the national recovery administration program.
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Washington
Ohio
National Recovery Administration
Roosevelt To Meet Sinclair Next Week
President Roosevelt arranged an appointment for next Tuesday with Upton Sinclair the California Democrat gubernatorial nominee and author of the Epic plan to end poverty in California. William O. G. Campbell of Lorain was to be installed as president of the Ohio Eks Association after his election as the group closed its session.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Upton Sinclair
California
Sandusky
William OG. Campbell
Lorain
Ohio E'ks’ Association
Seuniog
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