Columbus Man Dead Near Hospital Suspect in Robbery
A man believed Felix Wider was thrown from a car near Marion Avenue on Route 31 and died at the hospital. police pursue a robber as pennies litter the wreckage and a shotgun is noted among the scene. Witnesses report a vehicle found abandoned near Chauncey and a mobile unit tied to the incident.
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Lumbus
Eath
Ed Man
Felix Wider
Steps Arms Hospital
Harold J
Lances
Murray City Union
Sleuth Deputy Sheriff Promises Coat Recovery Test
Meigs County deputy sheriff Hank Young says his sleuthing will start after his coat and muffler were stolen from the hallway outside the jail. He offers the thief a chance to return the items, else he will pursue the trail to catch the culprit.
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Pomeroy
Hank Young
Meigs County
Young
Organizations mobilize for Christmas aid across Athens County
Communities organize a broad shared Christmas effort with groups like the Athens County Red Cross, Salvation Army, Eagles Toy Shop, Elks Charity Ball, First M E Church White Gift Service, Logan Christmas Charity with Boy Scouts, Heath M E Guild, Meigs County Children's Home gifts, and Kiwanis Club in Giouster raising funds for Santa Claus eve distributions.
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Athens
Salvation Army
Eagles
Athens County
Athens Lodge of Elks
Elks
B. P. O. E. Hall
M. FE
Logan
Boy Scouts
Guild Society of the Heath
M. E. Church
Middleport
Meigs County
Firemen
Giouster
Kiwanis Club
Santa Claus
Hunchback of Notre Dame Shown at Athens High
The motion picture The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a Lon Chaney classic, was shown at Athens High School Wednesday night for Masquers Club members and friends. About one hundred attended to study makeup and character portrayal.
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Notre Dame
Lon Chaney
Athens High School
Masquers Club
Starr Township Girl Shows Improvement
Miss Maude Wyskiver of Starr Township, injured in a Sunday motor accident, has regained consciousness at Cherrington Hospital and recognized her parents during a Wednesday visit. A brace supports her fractured neck vertebrae. Fellow victim Miss Irene Helreiger of Columbus remains unconscious.
Trio Held for Wrecking Part Of Mine Plant
Three arrests were made in Nelsonville after the Coe Hollow Triple Coal Company power plant wrecking. Ezra and Earl Carpenter and Lillian McManaway faced grand jury charges for grand larceny and malicious destruction of property related to a Dec. 7 copper wire theft from the mine transformer. All three were jailed in Athens County awaiting bond.
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Nelsonville
Steff Special
George Bateman
Pearl Allman
Triple Coal Company
Coe Hollow
Guy Millholland
Ezra
Earl Carpenter
Coe Holland
Lillian McManaway
Ezra Carpenter
SG. Holland
Athens
Bateman
Ohio Grangers To Choose Site For Next Year
Delegates at the Ohio Grange convention in Lima weigh Akron Canton or Cincinnati as the site for their next annual meeting. National master L J Taber stresses that organization drives prosperity while agriculture suffers postwar maladjustments. Carlton Dargusch notes taxation shifting from revenue to social justice with no tax cuts while public service grows.
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Lima
Ohio Grange
Akron
Canton
Cincinnati
L. J. Taber
Carlton Dargusch
Ohio Tax Commission
Taber
Darcusch
Meigs County Delays Real Estate Tax Collection
Meigs County treasurer R G Webster says real estate taxes will not be collected before February due to guidance from the tax commission. The tax rate fixing is postponed because legislative actions remain uncertain, impacting the county’s timing.
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Meigs
Pomeroy
Meigs County
R. G. Webster
Tax Commission
Webster
Television Nearing Perfection Costs Limiting Reception
Washington reports that television shows strong lab results but high receiver costs and short-range transmission hinder expansion. Officials say several stations may begin broadcasts next spring, yet wide adoption awaits cheaper equipment and longer reach.
Polygamy Advocates Plan Supreme Court Appeal
Leaders of the Short Creek cult in Kingman Arizona plan to appeal I C Spencer's conviction for open and notorious cohabitation to the U S Supreme Court on religious freedom grounds. J W Musser says the case may test rights to multiple wives as cult members face up to three years in prison.
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Arizona
Sylvia Alfred Spencer
Short Creek
Ariz
J. C. Spencer
Price Johnson
John ¥. Marlow
United States Supreme Court
Kingman
Aona
J. W. Musser
United Order
I. C. Spencer
Spencer
Musser
Joan Y. Barlow
Utah
Mormon Church
Nature Is Defied By Mine Timber
Mu lberry Ave resident Fenton Penn reports an oddity at the Syracuse Mine where a syca timber placed for piling a mile from the entrance has stayed shaded from sunlight for a year. An electric light was added recently and four sprouts with several green leaves have grown near it.
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Fenton Penn
Mulberry Ave
Penn
Syracuse
Rock Springs Woman Dies After Prolonged Illness
Mrs Lovina Jenkinson aged 5 died Wednesday after months of illness. Survived by two sons William of Columbus and Grover of Pomeroy and daughter Mrs Amelia Conant of New Lexington Ind. She lived in Rock Springs all her life and witnessed the Civil War Morgan raid passage in July 1863.
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Rock Springs
Lovina Jenkinson
William
Columbus
Grover
Pomeroy
Amelia Conant
New Lexington
Ind
Jenkinson
Steamer Opens Gallipolis Locks In Historic Passage
The Monongahela became the first barge steamer to pass the new Gallipolis locks, Tuesday afternoon, carrying 16 barges of steel from New Orleans to Pittsburgh. One chamber in use due to strong current. the C. W. Talbott and the American also passed through Wednesday for Memphis with 17 barges of Pittsburgh steel products.
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Gallipolis
Gallipolis Locks
Monongahela
New Orleans
Pittsburgh
C. W. Talbott
Union Barge Line
American
Memphis
Relief rolls in Hocking County count 153 families
Emergency relief director Frank Brown reports 153 relief families in Hocking County. Seventy eight families are unemployable and will stay on relief, while seventy five families have employables who will be put to work on WPA projects soon.
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Hocking County
Frank Brown
Former Glouster Man Dies at Corning Home
Phillip Gray age ? died at his Corning home after months of illness. Funeral at Corning M E Church Sunday at 2 pm. Burial in Maplewood Cemetery near Glouster. Gray worked 28 years as bookkeeper for Sunday Creek Coal Co. in Rendville Glouster and Corning. Survived by wife Elizabeth Zimmer and three daughters Virginia Mary Elizabeth and Phyliia.
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Glouster
Phillip Gray
Corning
Plane lands after motor drops in air near Childress
Four aboard including Walter Cline of Wichita Falls escape death when Pilot Lee Bishop lands Braniff Airlines plane after a motor drops off in midflight near Childress Texas.
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Childress
Tex
Walter Cline
Wichita Falls
Lee Bishop
Braniff Air Lines
Courteous Motorist Helps Women Then Is Struck
Cesare Robbiano, a courteous resident of Bingham Utah, stepped onto the street to let two women pass when an automobile struck him and fractured his skull.
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Bingham, Utah
Cesare Robbiano
Friction over Franco-British Peace Efforts in East Africa
Ethiopia formally rejects peace proposals tied to Italian aggression, signaling sovereignty intact. Emperor Haile Selassie at Deseye denounces force as a reward for violence. Britain and Egypt move to stabilize regional tensions while the League of Nations weighs sanctions and potential restraint.
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Italy
Ethiopia
East Africa
League of Nations
Britain
Egypt
Mediterranean
League
Haile Selassie
Deseye
Havas Newa
Japs Demand for Naval Equality Rejected at Conference
At an International Naval Conference the four great powers and the British Dominions rejected Japan's demand for naval equality. Britain led the opposition with France opposing on procedural grounds. The meeting adjourned at noon as the Japanese left hastily, though sources said they only wished to submit questions to Tokyo.
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London
Japan
America
France
Tokyo
Hocking County Girls To Be Escorted Home
Two Hocking County girls, Helen Van Fossan 15 and Anna Craig 17, ran away claiming their parents would not let them date. Muskogee police took them into custody and planned to escort them home with officers awaiting arrival.
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Hocking County
Muskogee
Ohio
Helen van Fossan
Anna Craig
Nelsonville Man Pleads Guilty On Fictitious Plates
Irvin France of Nelsonville pleaded guilty in mayor's court to operating a vehicle with fictitious license plates. He was fined $10 and costs. Affidavit filed by F. E. Bollin of the State Highway Patrol.
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F. E. Bollin
State Highway Patrol
Alleged Polygamists Aren’t Playing Fair
Irving S. Cobb weighs in on polygamy cases in Kingman Arizona and Hollywood reactions. He criticizes the men for multiple marriages while calling for fair treatment of the women defendants, noting public sympathy and the impracticality of the laws.
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Cobb
Four Nations Agree to Aid Atlantic Flight Plans
Washington reports a virtual agreement among the United States Britain Ireland and Canada to exchange landing and operating privileges for an Atlantic air service. The move aims to enable passenger and mail flights with Imperial Airways and Pan American planning a joint service using flying boats. Roosevelt hoped for regular postal service across the Atlantic during a Wednesday conference with Sir Donald Banks.
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Pacific
United States
Britain
Ireland
Canada
British Imperial Airways, Ltd
Pan-American Air Lines
Roosevelt
Atlantic Skyways
Donald Banks
British Post Office
Dog Licensing In Hocking County Stirs Public Interest
At the Logan auditor office dog license certificates have been on sale since December 2 but registrations lag. In 1935 the county recorded 2512 dogs, with the last entry just before the new year licensing period.
May Seek Office as L. S. Representative
Dean Hixon of Lancaster met Republican leaders in Logan to test sentiment for a possible candidacy for Congress in the Eleventh District. He formerly served as principal of Lancaster High School and has been active in teachers' organizations.
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Logan
Dean Hixon
Lancaster
Hixon
Baby dies after father tortures in Kentucky
Nine month old Thomas Mahan died in hospital. Officials say Robert Mahan, 25, a coal mine loader, held the child to a fire to discipline him. The mother brought the infant to hospital Sunday after the alleged abuse.
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Jenkins
Thomas Mahan
Robert Mahan
Recluse Bequeaths Estate to Wife After 24 Years
In Pittsburgh a builder and loan association president left a $75,000 estate to his wife Mary Frances and their four children Susan Edith Gertrude Mabel and Francis after discovering his family vanished 24 years earlier. Christman, 74, died after being struck by a car. his body lay unclaimed three days before the adviser found the vault note.
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Recluse
Pittsburgh
Frank L. Christman
Christman
Building and Loan Association
Mary Frances
Susan
Edith Gertrude
Mabel
Francis
Ohio House Approves Food Tax Measure Amid Relief Debates
Ohio lawmakers push a sales tax bill adding a food levy through 1996 while trimming whiskey by the glass exemption and farmers payments. A Senate vote followed with amendments, estimating $52 million in next year's revenue and proposing new unemployment insurance bills in the Senate for funding relief in 1936.
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Columbus
Ohio
General Assembly
House
Senate
Carlton &. Darguech
The
Tax Commission
Hunter
D. Lucas
McIntyre
D. Cuyahoga
Davey outlines 8 million relief plan in special message
Governor Davey proposes an $8,000,000 relief appropriation for poor relief. He says the expenditure will be met without new taxes and warns against further increases beyond funds remaining after June vetoes. He criticizes Senate approval of a $1,000,000 budget rise as a treasury raid and deems the extra four million unnecessary.
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Columbus
Davey
Senate
Braden
Treasury
Open Meeting Discusses Reason for Vote in WPA Strike
A note from Findlay reports that tonight an open meeting of the Workers Alliance of WPA employees will discuss the reasons behind a pending vote related to a four strike.
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Findlay
Workers Alliance of
WPA
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