Civil Works Administration nears goal of 240000 workers
The Civil Works Administration reported about 240,000 men and women on jobs, with 10,000 on duty today. The drive, aiming to extend to 27 counties, involves 68 work-days and 2,113,330 dollars in projects. Bureau offices are set up in Cincinnati, Toledo, Columbus, Dayton, and Canton to assist relief and re employment efforts.
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U.P
Frank D
Relief Commission
Cincinnati
Toledo
Colum- Dayton
Canton
For Information Service
Inflation Debate Shapes Congressional Reaction
Fragmentary OCR notes reference talks on currency inflation and remonetization. Mentions Rainey and Senator from Oklahoma debating Congress's response to proposals, with conservatives urged to support a broad sales tax, amid slow progress on economic policy.
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Congress
Rainey
Tho
Oklahoma
Guards Watch Over Suspect After Opera Singer Slaying
CITY Calif Dec 21 guards stood watch over Umberto Guisti 35 an Italian charged in the first degree slaying of his singer past departure from the metropolitan opera scene county officials feared an attempt to kill himself after the death of Emilia a South San singer They placed Wilsoners in custody of the accused
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City
Calif
Umberto Guisti
Emilia
South
Officers Raid Yields Liquor Gear at Lowery Home
Sheriff Charles table Frank White led a raid at the Lowery residence in Deanville. Officers found a small Des home liquor operation including a gallon container, a stove, a 20-foot colt, and seven items described as whisky equipment. Lowery was not present during the raid.
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Charles Table
Frank White
Ety
Lowery
Labor protest targets 40 hour workweek
Report from Akron on a protest against the 40 hour workweek. William Green of Labor presses for a shorter week while an advisory board readies to hear the issue. Phillips comments on the 40 hour standard.
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U.P
Akron
Shor Advisory Board
William Green
Labor
Government Moves to Improve Value in NRA Purchases
The government begins direct efforts to ensure consumer value in goods and services. Special Blue Eagles will mark higher quality work for cleaners and dyers charging above minimum NRA prices, with reductions for cash and carry operators. A Consumers Standards Board is planned to enforce accurate labeling for items like children's shoes gasoline and razor blades.
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Standards Board
Washington
U.P
NRA
Consumers Standards Board
Consumers Advisory Board
Robert S. Lyndh
None Better Than Mussolini When It Comes to Dictating
Beverly Hills letters claim Mussolini outranks other leaders in dictating policy. The writer notes he interviewed 92 mothers producing 1288 children, compares slogans about cars and babies, and mocks car based excuses for national power. Will signs off.
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Mussolini
Drunk Drivers to Undergo Medical Examinations
Columbus December 21 following orders from Governor White the highway patrol ordered medical exams for drivers suspected of intoxication. Capt Lynn Black said arrestees will be taken to a physician to assess breath odor coordination gait and reflexes to determine driving capacity. If no doctor is found witnesses must support testimony in court.
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Columbus
White
Highway Patrol
Lynn Black
Pearl French Resigns as Athens Red Cross Secretary
Miss Pearl French resigns as executive secretary of the Athens County Red Cross effective December 31. She will announce future plans soon after, having served since August 1930 with prior two years as a volunteer. Board regrets the departure and will meet after Christmas to select a successor.
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Miss Pearl French
Athens County
The
Red Cross
R. H. White
Miss French
Red Cross Board of Directors
White
Chorus Girls Kisses Cited in Aimee Hutton Divorce Suit
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton accuses her husband David L. Hutton Jr. of cruelty and seeks a divorce after he filed for divorce last summer. She describes a path lined with chorus girls who caressed and kissed him as grounds for the split.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Hutton
David L. Hutton, Jr
Bank Leader Held in Chicago Loop Mail Robbery Case
San Antonio date line reports 8 D. Bonner former president of Commercial National Bank San Antonio was seized by federal officers in connection with a $500 000 mail robbery in the Chicago Loop district on a date in 1942.
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San Antonio
Tex
D. Bonner
Commercial National Bank of
Chicago Loop
Tragic Boston Bakery Killing Leaves 18-Year-Old Victim
The body of Ethel Zuckerman, 18, found pinned to a bakery floor by a bread knife through her throat. A cross marked her forehead. $8 missing from the cash register. Detectives puzzled as a former taxi driver who bought stale bread for his dog is sought for questioning. workers below heard nothing.
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Boston
Ethel Zuckerman
Benjamin Bickofahy
Chinatown
Bickofskhy
Better Times In 34 Seen
CHICAGO Dec. 21 The secretary of labor Frances Perkins told railway labor executives that wages and incomes will improve in 1934. She warned serious problems remain but the outlook is better than in many months. She outlined economic security added leisure and adequate incomes as cornerstones for a new social order and renewed advocacy of a five day work week.
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Chicago
U.P
Frances Perkins
Secretary of Labor
Immediate Action Urged for Coal Region
The National Labor Board is urged to act quickly to settle the status of striking miners and to thoroughly investigate alleged labor abuses in the anthracite fields. A fact finding committee report depicts wide distress in the region and predicts turbulent times ahead unless stability returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Labor Board
Scientists to Gather in Columbus for Anthropology Convention
Leading scientists from the United States and Canada will attend the American Anthropological Association annual convention in Columbus next week. Life size models of heads and busts of Ohio moundbuilders and Indians, reconstructed from skulls found in Ohio prehistoric mounds and burial sites, will be displayed.
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Columbus
U.P
United States
Canada
American Anthropological Association
Ohio
Supreme Court rules property taxes tie‑prior to wages in receivership
The court held that personal property taxes have a prior claim on assets in receivership over wage claims, effectively deciding the priority in the distribution of funds.
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Columbws
Supreme Court
Hold Detective Held In Blackmail Inquiry Start
A private detective was held at Central Police Station in Cleveland in a case tied to a blackmail ring seeking money from Henry F. EiIert, head of EiIert Brewing. Detectives said the ring involved many prominent men, with the suspect declining to answer questions. The forger parolee was arrested after a trap at attorney Howard Hirsch's office. marked bills were found on him.
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Cleveland
Central Police Station
Henry F. “Ilert
Eilert Brewing Company
Howard R. Hirsch
Ejfert
Trimble
Condluct
May Intensify Ruviine of Gold
Washington reports declines in stock and commodity prices and hints that Congress may push inflation policies. Officials note the Federal Reserve Bulletin omits the gold program details while many Fed officials oppose it. The administration pursues an ambitious gold buying plan to lift prices, with expectations of rising gold prices if market weakness continues.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Federal Reserve
Bomb Explodes Outside Lakewood Barber Shop
A crude bomb exploded in the doorway of a Lakewood barber shop causing about 200 dollars in damage. Owner Robert O. Smith said he was in good standing with the Master Barbers Association.
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Cleveland
Lakewood
Robert O. Smith
Master Barbers’ Association
Tax on Hard Liquor For Revenue Sparks GOP Debate
Republican House leaders refuse to make liquor tax a party issue as they back a whisky tax of about 2.20 per gallon with revenue sharing to states. The Ways and Means Committee eyes a 5 per gallon beer tax, a liquor trade policy, and higher whiskies taxes.
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Washington
Republican House
Snell
Bacharach
New Jersey
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
President Roosevelt
Women divided over Mrs Roosevelt stance on Pan-American Treaty
Washington dispatch reports bitterness among feminist groups after the United States agreed to sign a Pan American Treaty granting equal nationality rights for women. Mrs Roosevelt declined to comment, a position that split groups led by the National Woman's Party and the League of Women Voters over treaty vagueness and principle.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
State Department
National Woman's Party
League of Women Voters
Buys Ad Space but No Magazine Appears
James Martin was arrested after a failed magazine venture left Daniel Jordan, a sandwich shop owner, out $5 he paid on September 25 for advertising space. Martin pleaded not guilty before Magistrate C H Porter, later returned the money, and the charge was dropped.
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James Martin
Daniel Jordan
Martin
C. H Porter
Favorable Senate Vote On Liquor Monopoly Expected Late Today
Economist Roger Babson urged President Roosevelt to grant surtax exemptions to spur growth. He proposed three measures including tax relief for agri sales, housing loans up to 10 000, and payroll support when banks deny credit. He warned revenue loss but forecast higher business activity and urged limited exemptions to risky expansions.
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Senate
Washington
Roger Babson
Roosevelt
Athens County CWA Jobs Surpass Five Thousand In Week
More than 5800 men received CWA employment in Athens County last week through the Federal re employment service. County manager William V. Walsh announced that offices operate 8 20 a m to noon Monday through Friday for registration with afternoons and Saturdays closed for filing. Those registered but not yet placed are asked to avoid inquiries at offices to prevent delays as men will be notified promptly when jobs are found.
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CWA
Athens County
Federal
William V. Walsh
Walsh
Department of Labor
Pound Baby Girl Dies on Sixth Day
Findlay’s famous pound baby girl died early today after subsisting on milk via a medicine dropper for nearly six days. Born weighing 1 12 pounds last Saturday, she was wrapped in newspaper by her parents Charles and Mrs Carmen, thought dead at birth, then revived two hours later.
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Findlay
U.P
Charles Carmen
Direct Federal Dealing Slows CWA Policy Clash
Columbus term discharges reveal a Scioto County investigation accusing J. Robinson and 18 workers of misusing their pay on liquor. Adj. Gen. Henderson asks Federal CWA for policy on relief subdivisions to avoid direct state demotion of authority.
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Columbus
U.P
Adj
Frank D. Henderson
Ohio Civil Works Administrator
CWA
Harry L Hopkins
Henderson
Portsmouth
Scioto County
Robinson
Remaie
Death notes praise Roosevelt after mortgage murder
A California rancher Michael Ovetinsky shot John Ugolkikhoff during a foreclosure on a chicken ranch then killed himself. Three notes by the Russian‑educated suspect praise Franklin D. Roosevelt as America's greatest patriot and describe the murder and suicide.
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Santa Rosa
Cailif
U.P
Roosevelt
America
Michael Ovetinsky
John Ugolkikhoff
San Francisco
Ovetinsky
God Breas
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Heroic Railway Signal Man Averts Wreck Of Flier
W. D. Waters and R. C. Kelly on an inspection tour near Oakdale Tennessee faced a landslide on the Ponce de Leon passenger route from Detroit to Miami. Waters, injuring a skull fracture, flagged the train to safety by damaging the block system to trigger danger lights while Kelly lay buried in rock debris. Both men were hospitalized at Rockwood Tennessee.
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Ponce de Leon
Detroit
Miami
W. D. Waters
R. C. Kelly
Waters
Kelly
Tennessee
Rockwood
Hye
Lancing
Tenn
Wellston Woman 70 Dies After Overdrinking Party
Jackson December 21 Mrs Lucy Phillips aged 70 was found dead in a field near her Wellton home after an all night drinking party. Death attributed to overdrinking and exposure. A son, Levee, held for investigation.
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Jackson
Lucy Phillips
Wellton
Here
Levee
Hanna Coal buys two Belmont mines in Ohio
Announcement from Hanna Coal Company of Cleveland states it acquired the Willow Grove Mine near St. Clairsville and the Lydia Mine at Bannock from Big Five Coal Company. The two collieries employ about 600 men together.
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ST. Clairsville
Hanna Coal Company
Cleveland
Big Five Coal Company
Belmont County
Willow Grove
Here
Lydia
Bannock
Aale
Civil Service Exams To Be Held In Four Cities
The last civil service examination of 1933 will be held in Columbus Cleveland Cincinnati and Toledo on December 28 and 2. Examinations cover 15 positions including cigarette vending machine investigator superintendent of State School for the Blind Catholic Chaplain at the Ohio State Penitentiary claims referee in the Department of Industrial Relations examiners under the tax commission stenographers mechanics and laborers.
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Columbus
Dee
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Toledo
Der
State School For the Blind
Ohio State Penitentiary
Department of Industrial Relations
Tax Commission
Firemen Aid Boy in Winning Fight for Life
Fourteen year old Steven Jambor in Cleveland fights pneumonia with oxygen aid from a fire squad. The boy’s condition improves as firemen assist him during the critical hour.
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Boy
Cleveland
Steven Jambor
Missing Stock Market Plunger Returns Home
New York police had searched for Jesse L. Livermore a famed stock market figure who was missing for 24 hours after being last seen in a New York hotel room. He returned to his Park Avenue apartment and his third wife who had reported him missing indicated she feared foul play. He said his mind was blank for the last two hours.
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New York
Jesse L. Livermore
Livermore
Park Avenue
Tam
Packers Report Strong Year Amid Prosperity Chicago
Chicago reports show three leading meat packers released annual results marking a year of prosperity. The industry, dubbed the hog butcher of the world, reflects gains across operations and markets as year closes.
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Chicago
Chicawy
Senate expected to pass liquor control bill in Ohio
The Ohio Senate reconvened to review House amendments to a liquor control bill. Provisions include temporary 90 day druggist sales permits, glass service for liquor, a ban on women selling by the glass, and removal of a gross profits tax. Final vote anticipated late today or tonight with emergency clause possible.
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Columbus
U.P
House of Representatives
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
State Board of Pharmacy
Liquor Control Commission
Noticr
Run Ohio
Ohio
Clupba
Court Upholds Kentucky Sales Tax Law
Kentucky's graduated gross retail sales tax enacted in 1930, after collecting over $1,000,000, was upheld by a three judge Federal Court in Louisville. The court noted stores may sue to recover taxes illegally paid and remanded for merits review. The ruling could shape revenue plans for other states.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Supreme Court
Tobacco Growers Plan National Organization
A national tobacco planning organization was recommended by a conference of farmers and state agricultural officials in Frankfort, Kentucky. The plan would unite federal government representatives and producers following executive orders to halt tobacco sales in Kentucky and Tennessee.
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Frankfort
National Tobacco Planning Organization
Kentucky
Tennessee
Convict Denied Pardon After Habeas Case In Ohio
Columbus December 21. Charles Tischler, Ohio Penitentiary inmate, argued before the State Supreme Court that good behavior reduced his sentence and the parole board should release him, but the court refused to grant the writ of habeas corpus and he must remain in prison.
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Columbus
Charles Tischler
Ohio
State Supreme Court
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