First Woman to Die in Ohio Electric Chair
Anna Marie Hahn, the first woman executed in Ohio’s electric chair, appears in a final photo with her crucifix amid trial and imprisonment. Her son Oscar speaks with Father John A Sullivan before the execution as Father Sullivan attends in the death chamber. The row and chamber lie within the Ohio Penitentiary complex.
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Anna Marie Hahn
Ohio
Oscar
John A. Sullivan
Father Sullivan
Mrs. Hahn
Ohio Penitentiary
Man plots murder to inherit estate in Indiana
Ralph Myers 45 a World War veteran and former bank employee confessed plotting to kill his 73 year old father George M Myers to gain a 75000 dollar estate. State police staged a trap with undercover officers and arrested Myers after he offered payment through an intermediary. He said his father had four marriages and had given money to charity and church while providing for others.
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Reinselaer
Ind
Ralph Myers
George M. Myers
Edward Rose
Fremont Lemler
Myers
Indiana University
Peoria
Ill
Dud Explosion Kills Youth 14 At Mojave Range
In San Bernardino California a 14 year old boy Luther Sears died when he picked up an unexploded aerial target bomb at an Army air force range in the Mojave Desert. Witness Eugene Hamilton 13 said Sears shouted Look fellow and vanished as the bomb exploded. Hamilton suffered severe leg injuries.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Army Air Force Range
Mojave Desert
Luther Sears
Eugene Hamilton
Young Sears
Hamilton
Temperance Leader Backs Saloon Restoration Proposal
In Cass City Michigan Rev R N Holsapel, longtime Anti Saloon League official, will present a resolution at Columbus convention urging restoring the old time saloon. He claims the current situation is worse and the return would be an advancement. In Columbus Democrats plan caucus December 21 to choose leaders. Tokyo reports copper pennies to be melted for munitions. Moscow cites a fisheries rights dispute between Russia and Japan gaining attention.
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Cass City
Mich
U.P
R. N. Holsapel
Columbus
Holsaple
Graf Zeppelin First Plane Carrier Launched By Germany
Berlin reports Germany launched its first aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin at Kiel. Goering spoke as Nazis blamed international Jewry for Britain’s policy in Parliament opposing colony surrender. MacDonald’s colonial speech drew strong foreign office reaction.
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Berlin
U.P
Germany
Kiel
Graf Zeppelin
Hitler
Hermann Goering
House of Commons
Malcolm MacDonald
Foreign Office
Women Favor Change In Bond Issue Ruling
The Ohio League of Women Voters urged the incoming Legislature to lower the 65 percent vote threshold for bond and real estate tax measures. It also planned active support for bills to reorganize the Civil Service Commission and the State Welfare Department.
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Columbus
UPX
Ohio League of Women Voters
League
Civil Service Commission
State Welfare Department
Thugs Hold Proprietor and Son During Home Looting
Columbus report: restaurant proprietor Baldasaro and his 14 year old son Frank were held at gunpoint for three hours as two men forced the boy to search the house for money. The robbers stole over $1,000 while Baldasaro’s daughter Rose Nell age 16 was locked in a closet.
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Columbus
U.p—Orlean
Baldasaro
Frank
Rose Nell
Propagandist registration urged by veterans leader
Nationwide registration of all propaganda disseminators is urged by Eugene Van Antwerp, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, before the House committee. He calls for strict state and federal registries, 90 percent cut in immigration quotas, and removal from relief rolls of aliens not declaring citizenship intent.
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Washington
Stephen F. Chadwick
The
American Legion
Antwerp
Skeleton may end mystery in Columbus disappearance cases
Columbus police probe a partial skeleton found by a creek as a potential link to two missing persons. Ruth Baumgardner, an Ohio Wesleyan student from Delaware, vanished in March 1937, and Verle E. Billingsley, an Ohio State University employee, disappeared two years earlier. Bones indicate an 18 to 25 year old, about five feet six, sex not yet determined.
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Columbus
U.P
Ruth Baumgardner
Ohio Wesleyan University
Verle E. Billingsley
Ohio State University
Candy Tax Exemption Upheld by Ohio Court of Appeals
Summit County Court of Appeals preserves ruling that candy is food and exempt from sales tax. The decision confirms injunction preventing revocation of A. E. Andrews's vendor license in Cuyahoga Falls for noncollection of candy tax.
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Akron
Ohio
Summit County Court of Appeals
Common Pleas
Frank Harvey
State Tax Commission
A. E. Andrews
Cuyahoga Falls
Senators Skeptical Of Europe Peace Treaties
U S senators Pittman Borah King question value of new anti war pacts between Germany France and Britain. Borah calls agreement an expression of a day while King decries Germanys scraps of paper saying Hitler cannot be trusted and unity with Mussolini and Japan aims to destroy democracies.
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Washington
Congress
Pittman
Nev
Borah
Ida
Dean
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Europe
Sen. King
Utah
France
Germany
Great Britain
Munich
Paris
King
Hitler
Mussolini
Japan
Italian French peace pact sparks Tunisian unrest and troop buildup
Paris reports Ribbentrop to Berlin after talks with Bonnet on Franco German relations. In Tunis, France deploys 200 French soldiers 200 native cavalry and braces Italian consulates as clashes erupt. Balbo moves Libyan troops while students in Toulouse demand Sicily Sardinia and Tripoli. Italian consul warns of defense if demonstrations persist.
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Paris
U.2
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Georges Bonnet
Tunis
U.P
France
Algeria
Tunisia
Italy
Hitler
Ribbentrop
Munich
Germany
Mediterranean
Bonnet
Mussolini
Toulouse
Sicily
Sardinia
Tripoli
Italo Balbo
Libya
Fort Saint
Gadames
Foreign Legion
Maginot
Gabes
Michel Silimbani
Athens County Medical Society elects officers 1639
At a Tuesday meeting in the Christian Church the Athens County Medical Society elected officers for 1639. President J L Webb Nelsonville, vice president C N Sanders Millfield, secretary treasurer C R Hoskins Athens, delegates B R Goldsberry J R Sprague Athens. New members Reed Chappell L N Hamilton Athens joined. Sanders presented a paper on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, a new disease with two recent Millfield area cases.
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Athens County Medical Society
Christian Church
J L. Webb
Nelsonville
C. N. Sanders
Millfield
C. R. Hoskins
Athens
B. R. Goldsberry
J. R. Sprague
Reed Chappell
L. N. Hamilton
Sanders
Pittsburgh Man Marries Son's Widow Despite Barriers
In Cumberland Maryland a Pittsburgh pattern maker John H. Roll age 56 married his son's widow Helen E. Roll age 31 after legal blocks prevented licensing in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The couple sought a license locally in Cumberland after their earlier attempts failed.
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Pittsburgh
Cumberland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
John H. Roll
Helen E. Roll
Reasons for Coal Production Decline Given by Nelsonville Rotary Speaker
Frank G. Smith of Sunday Creek Coal Co addressed the Nelsonville Rotary Club, detailing coal’s past dominance, falling share of energy use from 90 percent in 1899 to 54 percent in 1934, and the continued decline since 1918. He warned of wage losses, job cuts affecting 600,000 workers including 400,000 miners and 200,000 railroad employees, and urged a National Coal Association campaign to reverse the trend.
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Nelsonville
National Coal Association
Frank G. Smith
Sistant
Sunday Creek Coal Co
Rotary Club
United States
Ohio
Isolationist Policy New Plan of FD
President Roosevelt shifts toward Western Hemisphere aloofness backed by armed power. He discusses strategy with Sumner Welles and envoys Hugh Wilson William Bullitt and William Phillips as Kennedy heads home for Christmas. Major European posts remain vacant or reassigned with no return dates set.
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Washington
U.P
Europe
State Department
Roosevelt
Sumner Welles
Germany
Hugh Wilson
France
William C. Bullitt
Italy
William Phillips
Joseph P. Kennedy
Great Britain
United States
Phillips
Kennedy
London
Wilson
Bullitt
Moscow
Fire kills four at Kern Rest Home in Columbus
Four aged residents died in a Columbus Kern Rest Home fire that raged about 7 p.m. on a 16 room stone house. Franklin Clark 84 Mrs Adelia Miles 84 Mrs George Miller 63 and William Sisk 79 perished. Three others were in critical condition as firefighters, unable to use a smoke filled stairway, pulled victims from the building.
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Columbus
Kern Rest Home
Franklin Clark
Adelia Miles
George Miller
William Sisk
Bertha Kern
Three Ohio Cities Get 7 000 000 From NHA
The United States Housing Authority earmarks 7 million for Ohio low cost housing. Cincinnati receives 3 million while Columbus and Canton get 200 thousand each. A loan of 1 349 000 is executed to Zanesville.
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Washington
U.P
United States Housing Authority
Ohio
Nathan Straus
Cincinnati
Columbus
Canton
Straus
Zanesville
Foster mother charged with murder in boy’s death
In San Diego Dorothy Boelhauff, 29, the foster mother of 6 year old Leonard Skillhorn, was charged with murder after he died from a skull fracture following a whipping for not tying his shoes. She said she whipped him with a ruler and locked him in a closet, and he struck his head on a bathtub when released. Also reported is a Cleveland holdup killing of Joseph Curve, 27, an ex convict at a small hotel.
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San Diego
Cal
Leonard Skillhorn
Dorothy Boelhauff
Leonard
Cleveland
Joseph Curve
Sheriff Farneann Elected to Buckeye State Sheriffs Board
Sheriff Joe Farneann of Hocking County was elected a board of trustees member of the Buckeye State Sheriffs Association at the meeting in Columbus.
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Hocking
Columbus
Joe Farneann
Hocking County
The
Buckeye StatesSheriffs’ Association
Secretary To Donahey Held for Striking Cop
Mrs. Lela Leeth secretary to Ohio Senator Vic Donahey was held briefly in a DC police court cell after striking a policeman who tried to take her to court as a prosecuting witness against Robert S. Cummings charged with stealing $15 from her purse. Leeth said she did not want to prosecute because he was destitute.
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Washington
Lela Leeth
Vic Donahey
Ohio
District of Columbia
Robert S. Cummings
Newark
Plan To Organize Tax Defense Leagues
NEWCOMERSTOWN delegates from the Tax Defense League and the Tri-Valley Defense League plan to organize leagues in Zanesville Marietta and other cities to join Newcomerstown s tax strike against Muskingum watershed conservancy assessments this Monday.
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Newcomerstown
Zanesville
Marietta
Local
Tax Defense League
Tri-Valley Defense League
Coshocton
State Calls for Bids on School Improvements
Ohio state bids invited by Public Works on school projects totaling about 1.75 million dollars. Major item is a 1 million dollar science recitation hall at Kent State University. Other work includes dormitory and Lindley Hall expansions at Ohio University and equipment for Miami University chemistry building. Bids to be opened December 19 and December 28.
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Columbus
U.P
Public Works Department
Kent State University
Lindley Hall
Ohio University
Athens
Miami University
Oxford
Hull Talk May Mention Nazis
Lima Peru report notes Secretary of State Cordell Hull may reference Germany in a keynote at the Pan American Conference. He is expected to praise the freedom of American republics and outline Roosevelt's aim for continental solidarity without detailing defense plans.
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Lima
Peru
U.P
Cordell Hull
Germany
Europe
Hull
Roosevelt
Gallup Questions Roosevelt Bid For Third Term
Dr. George W. Gallup of the American Institute of Public Opinion told delegates at the Congress of American Industry that there is real doubt Roosevelt can be elected to a third term.
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New York
ULP
George W. Gallup
American Institute of Public Opinion
Congress of American Industry Today
Roosevelt
Italian government approves large military appropriation
A royal decree announced in Rome authorizes追加 military funding totaling 1 224 72 000 lire, about 64 451 047 dollars, under the 1938 1939 budget. The action expands the state’s defense spending and is recorded as part of the current fiscal measures.
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Rome
U.P
Father Faces 10 to One Gamble for Child's Life
New York report details William Lewis father of eight year old Dorothy facing a grim choice before Christmas. Dorothy has a malignant tumor threatening her right thigh bone with amputation offering a 10 to 1 chance of survival at best. Lewis must decide whether to consent to surgery that may still fail while siblings contemplate Christmas gifts.
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New York
U.P
William Lewis
Dorothy
Lewis
Anna
Willie
Louise
Queens
Mrs Anna Hahn Executed In Ohio Electric Chair
Mrs Anna Hahn, known as a poisoner of four elderly men, was executed in the Ohio State Penitentiary electric chair at 8 07 p m. Her final pleas for mercy were directed to wardens and prison staff, while Father Sullivan offered prayers as she faced the lethal current. Oscar Hahn, her son, witnessed her last visit earlier in the day and received her fur coat afterward.
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Columbus
U.P
Anna Hahn
Joseph Hoodin
James C., Woodard
Heaveen
Witte
George W. Keil
Oscar Hahn
Legislator Seeks End to Capital Punishment in Ohio
Cleveland report states Chester Gillespie, newly elected legislator, plans to seek abolition of capital punishment in Ohio following the execution of Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn. He also proposes restricting the governor's pardon power in first degree cases unless new evidence disproves guilt.
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Cleveland
UPD
Ohio
Anna Marie Hahn
Chester Gillespie
Gillespie
Norwalk youth dies in dance party crash near Monroeville
Robert Kenna, 19, of Willard, died early today when the car carrying five youths returning from a Monroeville dance collided with a truck near Norwalk. Others were injured as authorities investigated the fatal accident.
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Norwalk
U.P
Robert Kenna
Willard
Moncroeville
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