House Vets Predict Beer By Christmas After Defeat
Leaders confident of House passage of beer and light wine legislation but fear Hoover veto. Ways and Means hearings begin, with hopes for bill ready within a week. Garner predicts passage before recess. 272 to 144 repeal vote shown. Senate confidence noted. party split over platform.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Garner
Senate
Hoover
Democratic House
Fepesi
Rainey
Congress
Little Girl Sues 50000 for Bus Accident Injuries
Imogene Franklin, age four, filed suit through her mother Eunice Franklin of Zanesville against Safeway Transit Company of Charleston West Virginia. She alleges brain injuries from a May 13 1929 crash when a bus went through a Teena Creek bridge on State Route 7. The petition says the child is an invalid and imbecile due to the injuries and faulted the bus speed and ignored warning signs.
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Gallipolis
Imogene Franklin
Eunice Franklin
Zanesville
Safeway Transit Company
Charleston
W. Va
Teena Creek
Zero Infinity Club Formed By Senior High Students
The Zero Infinity Club a math group at Senior High School sponsored by Hate Pickett held its first meeting in the school building Monday night. Founding members include Virginia McVay June Fultz Evelyn Hartman Richard Jones Maynard Aldridge Bob Bird and Alien Moore Maynard Aldridge was elected president. The club aims to teach advanced geometry and is open only to A and B students with meetings every two weeks.
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Hate Pickett
Virginia McVay
June Fultz
Evelyn Hartman
Richard Jones
Maynard Aldridge
Bob Bird
Alien Moore
Mail Robbers Hold Up Carrier Near Chicago Post Office
Five men raided a registered mail carrier and guard in Chicago’s business district across from the main post office. They escaped with 163 parcels destined for Loop banks. Value of the loot could not be assessed immediately but officials expect a high loss.
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Chicago
Think of Others Legion to Plan Christmas Aid
Members of the Think of Others Legion at K. T. Crossen Post meet Wednesday at the Legion Home. They will discuss ex service men’s role in city county Christmas activities and plan a courthouse corner Christmas tree and candy gifts for needy and orphaned children.
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Legion
K. T. Crossen
American Legion
Legion Home
R. H. White
Present Rate for Pumping Water Sought
Athens City Council discussed a ten year contract with Southern Ohio Electric for water pumping at the city plant. The current rate is one and a half cents per kilowatt hour, a figure the company claims is the lowest for cities of similar size. The council split on contract length with six voting for ten years and two against. the measure was not finalized and continued to later meetings.
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Southern Ohio Electric Company
Athens
Ohio
Hal H. Rowland
Anna K. Stauffer
J. F. Batley
Carl H. Beasley
C. W. Day
Bert Russell
C. KE. Cameron
Dr Baldwin Addresses Athens Doctors on State Medicine
Dr J F Baldwin of Columbus spoke on State Medicine at an Athens County Medical Society meeting in the dinner at Eienwood Place. Officers elected include President C E Welsh, Vice President C H Creed, Sec-Treasurer T A Copeland, and state delegate Charles S McDougall for two years.
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J. F. Baldwin
Columbus E
Athens County Medical Society
Eienwood Place
Baldwin
Grant Hospital
England
C. BE. Welsh
Nelsonville
C. H. Creed
Athens State Hospital
T. A. Copeland
Athens
Copeland
Charles 8. McDougall
Lower Tariffs Will Be Wedge For Roosevelt
Roosevelt plan aims to use tariff concessions to reshape U S trade policy. Reports say the new administration will pursue bargaining based negotiations with nations, reducing legalistic treaty rigidity as world conditions shift. Roosevelt heads to Albany to outline foreign policy steps amid debate on debt and tariffs.
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Roosevelt
Frederick A. Storm
Trited Press
Warm Springs
Dee
U.P
United States
Albany
Logan High begins basketball practice under coach Longley
Logan High School started basketball practice under coach John Longley on Monday afternoon. The squad will learn fundamentals initially and then move to more strenuous drills. Some games are expected before the holiday break, aiding conditioning ahead of the new gym's completion.
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Lecean High School
Logan
Dec
Logan High School
John Longley
Italy Fastens on Clean Slate in Reparations Plan
The Fascist Grand Council adopted a resolution urging a complete clean slate on reparations and war debts and a new agreement with the United States after Italy makes a December 15 payment of 1,265,437. Mussolini presided as premier, reinforcing the policy in several speeches.
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Rome
United States
Italy
Grand Council
Benito Mussolini
Strawberries Harvested From Gallia Garden This December
In Gallipolis Ohio on December 6 the Bowman couple of Garfield Avenue enjoyed their third winter strawberry harvest this season from their own garden. Fresh fruit in December is rare and is noted as picked on December 4. Robins have been spotted around Garfield Avenue recently.
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Gallipolis
Ohio
A. N. Bowman
Garfield Avenue
Ohio Democrats nominate Robert Crosser for speaker
Ohio members of the House with 18 votes back Robert Crosser of Cleveland for next speaker. Crosser, 66, longtime congressman since 1907, was sponsored by Rep. Mel Underwood of New Lexington, who called him a fundamentally Democratic leader and an opponent of the progressive school. Other names discussed include Rankin Mississippi Denny New York and Melluffie Alabama. Crosser has lived in Ohio since 1881 and studied at Kenyon, Columbia, and Cincinnati Law School.
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Washington
Ohio
House of Representatives
Robert Crosser
Cleveland
Crosser
House
Mel Underwood
New Lexington
Underwood
Byrnes
Tennessee
Rainey
Silinete
Rankin
Mississipp
Denney
New York
MelLuffie
Alabama
Book Drive Planned by A H Senior High Sophomore Classes
The English and History departments of A H Senior High School announce a week long book drive to build a reference library. Supervisors are Carl Roberta and Miss Irene Hand. Thirty five teams will canvass the city divisions asking residents to donate or loan books, especially travel, adventure, histories, biographies, and novels. Collection runs Monday December 12 through Friday December 16.
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Carl Roberta
Irene Hand
Europe
Asia
Africa
Parking Lot Plans Discussed Again in Pomeroy Council
Pomeroy council members reviewed river bank parking lot plans by Councilman Wright Mroba who finished drawings after surveying the site. The discussion focused on starting work with existing funds and routing rock fill from the high school area to finish the athletic field and riverbank road.
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Pomeroy
River Bank
McCroba
Phil Williamson
Main Street
Butternut Avenue
Williamson
Qomne
Four Die in Licking County Home Fire and Explosion
Four members of the Shoultz family died in a Monday blaze at their Falisburg home near Newark. Two children, Gail and Wayne, ages 5 and 7, were burned and hospitalized as investigators traced a kerosene blast that devastated the residence.
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Licking County
Newark
Dee
Falisburg
Here
Earl Shoultz
Mary Shoultz
Vivian Shoultz
Matilda Lee
Shoultz
Gail
Wayne
City Hospital
Columbus Teachers To Get Three Fourth Christmas Pay
Columbus public school teachers will receive only three quarters of their Christmas pay due to a 0.287 deficit in tangible tax returns. The shortage stems from delinquent tax returns.
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Columbus
Columbus Public
Drive Chinese Out lops Force Way Through Manchurian Plains
Moscow dispatches report Japanese forces cleared western Manchuria of Chinese opposed to Manchukuo and forced General Su Ping-Wen and his staff into Soviet territory where they were interned. Japanese advance began from Anganchi in sub zero conditions toward Manchoul.
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Moscow
Manchuria
Su Ping-Wen
China
Anganchi
Manchurian
Manchoul
Students Plan Christmas Drive for Needy Families
Senior High School Student Council met Monday night with Helen Hayes presiding. Plans call for donations to be distributed to needy families through the Salvation Army, including sugar canned tomatoes canned milk canned peas soup and jellies canned corn potatoes macaroni rolled oats beans apples and old clothing. Donations will be collected in home rooms with council representatives in charge and presented to Salvation Army officers at a special Christmas exercise.
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Salvation Army
Helen Hayes
Cincinnati Paint Strike Settled at University Terminal
In Cincinnati on December 6 a strike involving 39 painters at the University Terminal was settled after negotiations, ending the labor dispute that had affected work.
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Cincinnati
Univ
Fire destroys 14 cars at Gillis-Ferguson in Cambridge
A blaze at Gillis-Ferguson in Cambridge destroyed 14 cars and burned 26 automobiles, causing an estimated loss of 60000 dollars. No injuries reported. Fire officials investigated the cause as ruins and local residents aided at the scene.
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Cambridge
Gillis-Ferguson
March Moves On Capitol in Quiet Manner
A contingent known as Munger marchers moved on the Capitol under a flag of truce. Police relaxed siege pressures as leaders agreed to disband that night and return home. Vice President Curtis exchanged sharp words with the delegation led by William Reynolds demanding unemployment insurance and relief.
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March
Capitol
Washington
Munger
Borthesat
Ernest Brown
Congress
Curtis
Wiliam Reynolds
Cownetts
Polite
Reynolds
West farm marchers billeted in Washington for relief conference
Sixty farm marchers from the West were housed at the Washington Tourist camp as the lead group in a 300 strong caravan for the Farmers National Relief Conference. A spokesman said they will demand aid rather than plead for Congress.
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Washington
Farmers National Relief Conference
Congress
Foreign Coal Tariff Dispute Draws Senate Support
Brice Diague of the Anthracite Institute said U S government officials will seek an attorney general opinion on tariffs on coal from Great Britain and Germany The Treasury ruling that the tariff violates the most favored nation clause provoked protests from coal experts and lawmakers Senator Reed warned lifting the tariff could ship 10,000,000 tons annually and ruin 10,000 Pennsylvania and West Virginia miners careers, placing thousands at risk.
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Washington
Brice Diague
The
Anthracite Institute
Great Britain
Germany
Attorney
Bureau of Customs
Treasury Department
Reed
Pennsylvania
Treasury
West Virginia
Lakewood refuses to repeal East Chillicothe franchise
In Cleveland last night the Lakewood City Council voted five to two to reject repealing the East Chillicothe Company franchise granted October 17. The move followed suspension of the rules and a public hearing on a referendum petition with 5 78 signatures.
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Cleveland
Lakewood City Counci
East Chil ‘Saa
Economy and Sales Tax High Points in President's Message
President Hoover outlines three policy directions to boost recovery. He urges continued furloughs for federal workers and a temporary 11 percent salary reduction on earnings above 1,000 dollars. He proposes extending excise taxes to most manufactured goods and consolidating executive agencies.
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Veterans’ Services
Major Parties Are Scored Ivy Wilson Leader
NEW HAVEN CONN DEC 64m Newton D Baker secretary of war told a Yale Woolsey Hall audience that neither party bears full responsibility for policy. He warned against ongoing clashes between President and Congress and said party members expect office in elections. He argued debt revision opponents show democracy’s weakness.
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Ivy Wilson
New Haven
Newton D. Baker
Wilson
United States
Baker
Ape
Woolsey Hall
Yale University
Congress
P Mt Im
Motuwa of Representatives
Ciiset
Raker
Clock with wrong time on street ordered removed
In Cleveland residents complained that a clock with hands always at 11:07 on a public street unsettled schedules. Police cited an old ordinance making display of the wrong time illegal, ordering removal of the ornamental clock.
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Cleveland
Robbery at Henry Klein Home Sparks Grand Jury Call
Special grand jury may be called next Monday in Meiga County after the Henry Klein home at Nease Settlement was robbed. Five arrestees pled guilty to breaking and entering an uninhabited dwelling, including Mr and Mrs George Justus Dan Michael Marie Weaver and Magdalene Weaver. Monroe Weaver waived examination and was bound over to the grand jury.
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Newae
Pomeroy
Meiga County
Grand Jury
Henry Kiein
Nease Bettlement
George Justus
Dan Michael
Marie Weaver
Magdalene Weaver
Monroe Weaver
Court of Justice of Peace
J. W. McCullough
Wee
Grand
Einstein visa expected as protest against ban againt scholar
The American Consulate in Berlin planned to grant a visa today to Professor Albert Einstein despite protests from a American women's group that the German mathematician should be barred as a radical. The consulate said it questioned Einstein and found him admissible, after the State Department had been alerted to the protest by the Woman Patriot Corporation.
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Washington
Berlin
Albert Einstein
State Department
Einstein
United States
Department
Woman Patriot Corporation
Woman Leaps From Window After Escape Attempt
Chicago report states Mrs Jeanette Forbes, fleeing to a women’s reformatory at Dwight, was found hanging from a second story window ledge as police searched a home for clues. Her dog barked below amid the scene.
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Chicago
Jeanette Forbes
Forbes
Womens Reformatory
Dwight, I
Globe Trotter Murdered on His Own Ship
Captain Walter Wanderwell, a globe trotter aboard his own ship, was shot in his cabin by a mysterious stranger. Four crew or companions were nearby as the murder occurred, with the killer vanishing after the crime. Federal agents Identify the slain man as Valerian Johannes Piccayrett, a former German agent with prior arrests for wearing a German uniform.
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Globe Trotter
Long Reach
Cal
Dee
Walter Wanderwell
Federal Secret Service
Vanderwell
Valerian Johannes Piccayrett
Atlanta
Jimmy Lands Plane in Mud in Franklin Louisiana
Major Jimmy Poeolttie piloted a roll through a Louisiana swamp to extricate his crashed plane. He was only slightly bruised with two passengers uninjured. He was en route from Houston to New Orleans advertising the Chicago Fair. He was six hours overdue when found.
Niece Elizabeth Oakley gains share of Cleveland fortune
Elizabeth Davey Oakley of Cleveland, niece of William Davey Jr., receives over 10000 from the $456000 estate of recluse William Davey Jr. Judge George Addams and Thomas Climo of Prattville Michigan assisted by a genealogical chart partition the fortune among heirs.
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Cleveland
Elizabeth Davey Oakley
William Davey Jr
George 8
Addams
Thomas Climo
Prattville
Mich
Heads Plucked from Hen Coop Sparkat Police Report
Clara Reynolds of 23 Fatory Street found six hens beheaded in her henhouse. The eggs were left untouched while only heads remained. She notified local police to investigate the mysterious poultry crime.
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Clara Reynolds
Fatory Street
Mine Reynolds
Chiczens
Hoover calls for broad banking reform and federal pay cuts
President Hoover's annual message to Congress urges sweeping banking law revision and vigorous cooperation with foreign governments. He proposes a uniform manufacturers tax and extended government salary reductions, plus a wide reorganization of federal agencies to cut costs and restore economic stability amid European financial collapse.
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Washington
Hoover
Congress
United States
Salary tabulation for Athens County teachers reported
Kenneth C. Ray, head of Trey Township CNA, prepared the salary tabulation for state aid school districts in Athens County. The report, to be presented with 21 other counties at a Southeastern County Superintendents meeting next Monday, will be compared with reports from Nelsonville and Ima District schools operating independently of the county.
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Athens County
Kenneth C. Ray
Trey Township
Cna
Nelsonville
Ima
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