Democratic Congressmen Oppose Continued Spending Plan
Two Democratic senators Adams of Colorado and Harrison of Mississippi urged curbing recurring deficits with tax hikes or spending cuts. Adams warned the gap between revenues and outlays must be closed as relief costs reach $18 billion over five years. Harrison called for reducing deficits through prudent fiscal plans rather than ongoing relief programs.
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Washington
Adams
Colo
Harrison
Miss
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Detroit
Mines at Murray City and Redtown Abandoned by Sunday Creek Co
Murray City and Redtown mines will be permanently shut by Sunday Creek Coal Co. No. 5 at Murray City and No. 28 at Redtown are to be stripped of equipment and closed starting immediately, affecting about 450 workers. About 300 workers from Murray City and 150 from Redtown will find available positions elsewhere. management cites sustained low markets and price competition from southern fields as reasons for the closures.
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Murray City
Redtown
Sunday Creek Co
C. H. Bartlett
Nelsonville
Hocking District
Sunday Creek Coal Co
Monsarrat
Pittsburgh Coal Co
Oral Daugherty
Hocking
Forced To Cash Bad Checks Alleged Abduction Case
Margaret Taylor, 20, claims she was held prisoner since November 12 by Robert McDaniel who forced her at gunpoint to cash worthless checks in Charleston Wheeling Bridgeport O Mt Pleasant Mich. She was brought to face a check charge after a state wide search was started for the captor.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Argaret Taylor
Robert McDaniel
Charleston
Taylor
Bridgeport
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Davey Denies Clemency To Cleveland Robber
Governor Martin L. Davey refused executive clemency for Stephen Figuli a 21 year old Cleveland bank robber slated to die in the electric chair at Ohio Penitentiary for the murder of Detective Robert Cline in Columbus after a gun battle. Warden James Woodard said Figuli replied We all have to go some time. It doesn't make any difference.
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Columbus
Martin L. Davey
Stephen Pfiguli
Cleveland
Ohio Penitentiary
Robert R. Cline
James C. Woodard
Figuli
Mayor LaGuardia Attacked Near City Hall
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia was struck from behind by a stocky gray haired man as he walked up to City Hall. The mayor held the assailant's feet until police and bystanders intervened. The attacker was rendered unconscious and carried away. LaGuardia was not seriously hurt.
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New York
F. H. LaGuardia
City Hall
Europe’s bitter cold claims hundreds in a continent across Europe
The cold wave grips Europe with temperatures plunging to 40 below zero. Britain reports twenty five deaths while Poland Poland Lodz region reports seventy dead. Romania Hungary and Poland record additional fatalities among refugees and locals as ships freeze and fires threaten towns.
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London
Europe
Continent
British Isles
Carpathian Mountains
Great Britain
Lodz
Poland
Romania
Hungary
Arctic
Iceland
Railroad Plans $2 Million Bond Issue Refunding Plan
The Toledo and Ohio Central Railway seeks ICC approval to issue 2 067 000 in refunding and improvement bonds at 3.75 percent to refinance Kanawha and West Virginia bonds. The New York Central would assume obligations for the new bonds in the same filing.
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Washington
Toledo and Ohio Central Railway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad Company
New York Central
WPA Pay Days Accelerated For Christmas Delivery
Columbus Ohio December policy move by state WPA administrator Dr Carl Watson speeds up payment of wages so workers receive checks by December 24 instead of December 26. Similar arrangements will be made for New Year’s Day.
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Columbus
Carl Watson
American Seaman Arrested Aboard Washington for Propaganda
L George Roth, a young American seaman, was arrested aboard the United States Liner Washington on November 29 and held for trial charged with distributing communist propaganda among German seamen.
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Hamburg
Germany
George Roth
United States
Washington
Lindbergh Arrives in Berlin En Route to Paris
Charles A. Lindbergh landed in Berlin on Sunday and plans to fly to Paris on Wednesday, officials said. The notable aviator's stop in Germany comes ahead of his planned transatlantic flight.
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Berlin
Charles A. Lindbergh
Paris
Compromise Draft Sought at Lima Pan American Conference
A compromise proposal on continental solidarity circulated at the eighth Pan American Conference aims to end the U S Argentina deadlock. Drawn by Peru's Carlos Concha and Brazil's Afranio De Mello Franco, it would unite 21 republics against armed aggression and political penetration, with possible revisions after chief delegates meetings.
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Lima
Peru
United States
Carlos Concha
Afranio de Mello Franco
Brazil
Miners Hold Christmas Party Deep in Norris Mine
In Ishpeming Michigan Santa Claus descended 1400 feet to join three score miners at Norris Iron Mine for an annual Christmas party. The crew gathered around an electrically lit tree lowered into the shaft at seven o clock and sang carols, including Little Town of Bethlehem, halfway through their shift.
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Ishpeming
Mich
U.P
Santa Claus
Norris Iron Mine
Bethlehem
Barton Warns GOP Against Dole Promise
Rep Bruce Barton of New York urged the Republican Party to craft a simple government that restores respect and confidence. He warned against outpromising New Deal doles and called for preserving collective bargaining social security insured deposits and SEC regulation to sustain employment and rising national income.
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New York
U.P
Republican Party
Bruce Barton
N. Y
New York County
Republican Committee
AMA Indicted on Anti Trust Law Charges
A federal grand jury indicted the American Medical Association, three affiliated medical groups, and 21 individuals including Dr. Morris Fishbein of Chicago and other DC residents. The case alleges a conspiracy to block cooperative medical moves, centered on opposition to Group Health Inc. and its cooperative model, with wide implications for cooperative medicine and medical practice nationwide.
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Washington
A.P
A_ federal grand jury
American Medical Association
Chicago
Morris Fishbein
District of Columbia
Grand Jury
Group Health Inc
Cooperative Pioneer Medical Cooperative
United States
Two Firemen Hurt as Orphan's Home Burns
A $25 000 blaze gutted the Maryland Cottage of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics Orphans Home in Tiffin Ohio. The attic fire broke out as 60 boys were at school. officials blamed a short circuit in wiring. Two firefighters were injured during the effort to control the flames.
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Tiffin
U.P
Maryland
National Orphans’ Home
Junior Order of United American Mechanics
Truck strike kills 68 year old man in Springfield
William W. Johnson age 68 was fatally hit Monday night by a truck in front of his Springfield home. The accident occurred near his residence with authorities investigating the incident.
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Springfield
U.P
William W. Johnson
Drunk jailed hero leads rescue of 16 seamen in Alaska
Nels Ludwigson, released from a short jail term for drunk and disorderly conduct, guided 16 shipwrecked seamen to safety in Cape Fairweather with Sheldon Simmons. They landed in Otter Creek amid a storm, delivered food by parachute, and ferried the crew toward Lituya Bay as rescue efforts continued through harsh terrain.
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Juneau
Alaska
Nels Ludwigson
Cape Fairweather
Nels
Sheldon Simmons
Northland
Patterson
Simmons
Ludwigson
Otter Creek
Lituya Bay
Four Die in Coast Guard Plane Blast Over Boerne
Four members of the U S armed services were killed Monday night when a Coast Guard plane exploded and crashed in Boerne Texas The victims were Lieut F S Lyons pilot and unit commander Ensign C H Peague of the U S Navy Rupert H Germaine Coast Guard and George C Lat ham of Fort Bliss The plane reportedly burst into flames as it passed over town and crashed in a pasture near the city limits Justice of the Peace H L Davis said the pilot appeared to try to land before the explosion.
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Justice of the Peace
H. L. Davis
Slain Man Found in Well West of Sabina
Coroner Kinzel suspects murder after a 60 year old man is found in a well on an abandoned farm half a mile west of Sabina. Skull fracture and burlap gag with wire suggest foul play. Sheriff Hodson notes possible homicide linked to a nearby transient camp.
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Wilmington
U.P
Clinton County
C. FE. Kinzel
Sabina
Hodson
Cabinet Revolt Threatens Chamberlain Over Rearmament
London dispatch reports Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain facing a cabinet revolt centered on the government’s rearmament program. The dispute is not about foreign policy but aid to strengthen national defense amid tensions.
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London
U.P
Neville Chamberlain
Sister Veronica Haley Dies. Native of Wheelersburg
Sister Veronica Haley 59 of Wheelersburg Ohio was buried here Wednesday after dying Sunday in St. Marys of the Springs Convent. A former Catholic school teacher at Steubenville Newark Marietta Coshocton and Somerset she spent years in education across several Ohio cities.
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Columbus
U.P
Veronica Haley
Wheelersburg
St. Marys of the Springs
Steubenville
Newark
Marietta
Coshocton
Somerset
Directors of Musica Firm Will Testify
New York state fraud bureau summoned nine of McKesson and Robbins Inc. directors to a public hearing to explain how the Musica brothers secured control and swindled stockholders of $18 million over a decade. Federal grand juries and indictments target broader involvement as officials note potential Congressional ties.
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New York
U.P
State Fraud Bureau
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
Musica Brothers
Brian McMahon
United States
Congress
Thomas F. Dewey
Charles F. Michaels
Michaels
McKesson and Robbins
New York Exchange
Michaels’ Holdings
Confer an Emigration Proposal by Germany
George Rublee and British French and Netherlands finance experts discussed a German Reichsbank plan for emigration of German Jews. Dr Hjalmar Schacht outlined a proposal for an international loan to fund migration and for Germany to gain imports from Allied nations. The talks met with a cold reception.
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London
George Rublee
International Refugee Committee
Netherlands
Hialmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Schacht
Germany
Ukraine Independence Movement May Shape German Soviet Clash
1938 report speculates Hitler may test strength of Soviet Russia by backing a Ukrainian independence movement. It cites Nazi broadcasting to Ukrainians, Poland and Romania pivoting toward Russia, and a potential larger eastward collision affecting European balance. The piece frames a strategic German aim rather than immediate actions.
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Independence Movement
Hitler
Soviet
Russia
Joe Alex Morris
United Press
Nazi Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union
Fuehrer
Greater
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Poland
Rumania
Czechoslovakia
Texas
Kansas
France
Soviet Russia
Nazi Germany
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China
Berchtesgaden
Germany
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Carol
Red Army
Europe
Explorer Bernice Goetz Safe After Ecuador Ordeal
The 28 year old explorer poet Bernice M Goetz, long thought lost in Ecuador jungles, sent word she is safe and returning home. Her parents reported a desertion by porters, luggage theft, and a plane crash that delayed her voyage to Panama, yet she survived and wrote that another expedition helped her escape.
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Cleveland
Bernice M. Goetz
Ecuador
Panama
Henry G. Goetz
Drive on Mine Owners Begins
A Columbus UPA drive by internal revenue collector Harry Busey and Cleveland Bituminous Coal Commission representative Carl FE Moore started to collect taxes due under the Guffey Coal Act. Merlin Matthews of Cheshire, Gallia County, pleaded not guilty to failing to report and pay the tax. hearing set for February 24. The act imposes a $500 fine and up to one year imprisonment or both. The tax is one cent per ton for code authority members or 19 12 percent of fair market price for non-members.
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Columbus
UPA
Harry Busey
Internal Revenue
Carl FE. Moore
Cleveland
Bituminous Coal Commission
Merlin Matthews
Cheshire
Gallia County
U. S
Robert Newton
Code Authority
State pheasant law struck down by Mercer judge
Common Pleas Judge H A Miller of Mercer County ruled state limits of four pheasants unconstitutional. The decision follows a statute allowing two pheasants daily during the season and dismisses a case against Russell Harruff of Celina for possessing five pheasants.
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Celina
U.P
Common Pleas
H. A. Miller
Mercer County
Miller
Justice of the Peace
Russell Harruff
Produce Workers on Strike Ties Up Buffalo Food System
More than 600 market and produce workers walked off the job in Buffalo N Y to demand higher wages. Nearly 100 pickets guarded three exits at the Niagara Food Terminal halting all shipments except those to hospitals and charitable institutions.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Niagara Food Terminal
Parole Board Frees 66 Inmates At Ohio Penitentiary
The State Parole Board granted paroles to sixty six prisoners at the Ohio Penitentiary.
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Columbus
U.P
State
Ohio Penitentiary
Four Youths Held for Cattle Theft Near North Lewisburg
URBANA four youths charged with breaking and entering and stealing cattle from the Ainsworth Sheehe farm near North Lewisburg. They were held to the grand jury under $1000 bond each after police found two 300 pound heifers in a closed automobile in Chillicothe.
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Urbana
Ainsworth Sheehe
Lewisburg
Chillicothe
Bricker Inauguration Set for January Ninth
Governors elect John W. Bricker will be sworn in as Ohio's 54th governor at 2 pm on Monday January 9. Chief Justice Carl V Weygandt will administer the oath and Bricker will deliver the inaugural address. Officials in Bratislava say Slovak authorities will appeal to Hitler and Mussolini over alleged Hungarian terrorism near the Slovakia Hungary frontier.
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Columbus
U.P
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Carl V. Weygandt
State Supreme Court
Bratislava
Czechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Slovakia-Hungary
Taft Assigned to Senate Appropriations Panel
Senator-elect Robert A. Taft of Ohio was tentatively named to the Senate Appropriations Committee for the new session beginning January 3. The appointment signals early influence on federal spending and budget priorities.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate Appropriations Committee
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