Hauptmann Trial Witnesses Tied to Ransom Money
The trial of Bruno Hauptmann, beginning next week, is expected to reveal that Hauptmann had $49,600 more than the $50,000 ransom in his possession two years earlier. State officials plan to show motive through extortion links and identify several witnesses, including an auditor and a New York ticket seller, who will testify about ransom bills.
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Ton
N. J. Dee
Morrow Lindbergh
Tion
Bruno Hauptmann
Hauptmann
N. J
York Banking House of
N and Company
RTION
Proseculaid
A. Lindbergh, Jr
Ses
Fed Hauptmann
Relief outlook for Ohio in 1955 improves says Henderson
Adj D Henderson chairman Relief Commission notes relief in Ohio likely peaks this December and should rise during 1955 with improvements seen across the state. He does not expect a decrease and believes a steady upturn may occur as private relief rolls grow and prospects brighten.
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Ohio
Secrest Pushes Rural Road Measure
Rep Robert T Secrest of Caldwell Ohio has drafted a bill to supply 200 million dollars for rural mail routes on state highway systems. The plan would divert funds from the regular highway fund for two years to upgrade roads serving farmers nationwide and in Ohio.
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Washington
Robert T. Secrest
Caldwell
Secrest
Ohio
Federal Highway Department
World Navies Await Japan’s Denunciation
Washington reports the Imperial Japanese Government plans to denounce the Washington naval treaty, ending the 1922 arms limit on December 31, 1956. Navies fear open competition in warship construction, while some hope for a new accord before the existing agreement expires in two years.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Miss Mina Siville Dies After Six Month Illness
Miss Mina Siville aged 53 sister of Mrs Herb J Parker died at Sheltering Arms Hospital after a six month illness. She had worked in Columbus 16 years and lived with the Parker family since September. Survived by three brothers Bert Seville C L Seville and Herman Seville. Funeral Saturday 2 p m at the Parker home 46 East State Street Rev W H Fowler officiating. Burial Maplewood Cemetery Gloucester. Friends may call at Dowler and Ferguson and at home tonight or tomorrow until service.
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Mina Siville
Herb J. Parker
O'Clock
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Siville
W. M. Siville
Glouster
Columbus
Parker
Seville
Bert Seville
C. L. Seville
Zanesville
Herman Seville
Elyria
East State Street
W. H. Fowler
Maplewood
Giouster
Dowler and Ferguson
Midnight Deadline Set for 1934 License Tags
December 31 is the license tag deadline with no extension. Athens City and County police were alerted by Frank West, registrar of the Bureau of Motor Vehicle, to enforce the law and ensure use of 1934 plates.
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Athens City
Athens County
Frank West
The
Bureau of Motor Vehicle
West
Eight More Miners Near Death After Train Tragedy
Powellton West Virginia December 28 AP surgeons battle to save lives after a locomotive explosion killed 16 and injured 42 miners from Elkhorn Piney Coal Company. Mc Dunn is shocked as boiler hurled into a passenger car and the town mourns while the hospital at Montgomery treats 15 men with eight at risk.
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West Virginia
Powellton
W. Va
Elkhorn-Piney Coal Company
McDunn
Coal Valley Hospital
Montgomery
GOP Gravy In Sales Tax Setup Denied
Columbus news reports Republican vice chairman of the State Tax Commission defends hiring for the sales tax division saying selections are non political and based on qualifications. About 250 hires planned with 187 to 162 from outside civil service lists and a Jan 14 license deadline extension. Branch offices to open in Hamilton Lima Norwalk Mansfield Athens Zanesville Steubenville Ashtabula and Portsmouth.
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Columbus
State Tax Commission
Carlton
Darguseh
Darguach
Commission
Civil Service
Hamilton
Lima
Norwalk
Mansfield
Athens
Zanesville
Steubenville
Ashtabula
Portsmouth
End Huge Task With Balance in Treasury
In Columbus on December 28 a state office building project praised as an artistic asset to the capital city saw its supervising men resign with 37,768 remaining in the treasury. The commission said the work was completed within the original appropriation despite an explosion during construction that killed 11 people and wrecked part of the building.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Office Building Commission
Joseph J. Tracy
Quints Doing Well at Age of Seven Months
The Dionne quintuplets, seven months old, show healthy growth in Callander Ontario. Yvonne weighs 13 pounds, Cecile 12 pounds 10 ounces, Marie 19 pounds 10 ounces, An nette 12 pounds 10 1/2 ounces, Emile 11 pounds 4 1/4 ounces, and the group remains sturdy at the milestone.
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Quints
Callander
Dionne
Yvonne
Annette
Emile
Cecile
Marie
Flip of Coin Spells Doom for Oxford Council Member
In Oxford Ohio a village councilman E K Beeks died after a coin flip in jest. C Byrne recalled that four of six men elected two years earlier had died in office and Beeks laughed about who would go first before collapsing in a printing shop.
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Ohio
Oxford
C. Byrne
E. K. Beeks
Beek
65 Year Retirement Limit Gains Backing From Ohio Teachers
Delegates at the Ohio Educational Association convention rally behind a proposal to lower the retirement age for teachers from 70 to 65. W. E. Kershner, secretary of the state retirement system, opposes kicking out older teachers and supports keeping veterans employed. Superintendent E. J. Arnold of Nelsonville wins a three year term on the Ohio Educational Council.
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Columbus
Ohio Educational Association
W. E. Kershner
State Teachers’ Retirement System
Columbus School Board
Board of Education
Kershner
E. J. Arnold
Nelsonville
Ohio Educational Council
Plot Against Hitler Hinted in Saar District Vote Fight
Anti Nazi newspapers claim a plot against Chancellor Hitler sparked a wave of arrests across Germany ahead of the January plebiscite in the Saar Basin. Nazi officials say 300 were arrested for immorality, 200 released, and a clique of 100 detained for intrigue, while reports of 1000 arrests surface from elsewhere.
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Saarbruecken
Saar Basin
Ballota
Hitler
Germany
Saar
Sales Tax Coupons Protected in Ohio
Columbus reports severe penalties for printing prepaid tax receipt coupons and for issuing counterfeit coupons. Racketeers selling fraudulent vendor licenses have been seen in Toledo. The law assigns penalties under forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses, with vendor licenses issued only by county auditors.
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Columbus
Ohio
Toledo
Weather persists in Athens with near 30 today
Pleasant conditions continue in the Athens District with temperatures near 30 this afternoon. Rain is forecast for tonight. Yesterday’s high reached 47 degrees and the low last night dropped to 24.
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Athens
Unemployable Will Be Placed On Relief Rolls and Dole Ended
Donald Richberg warned at a Cleveland luncheon that internal dissension looms if the unemployed do not receive work. He urged business to create jobs and housing to rebuild America, arguing private enterprise can employ the idle or the government will have to step in. He cited the need to replace obsolete machinery and equipment to advance civilization.
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Cleveland
Donald Richberg
America
Gaard
PEARL
Richberg
Roosevelt
Ohio expects 1945 sales tax yield at sixty million dollars
State Tax Commission projects Ohio will collect 60 million dollars from the new sales tax in 1945. After deductions for collecting costs and relief programs, local governments and schools will share 41,114,500 dollars. Counties and school districts receive specific allocations led by Athens and Washington counties.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Tax Commission
Athens County
Gallia
Hocking
Lawrence
Meigs
Morgan
Perry
Vinton
Washington
Soviet aims seen in 1995 world trade push
Moscow reports high hopes for expanded economic ties with the United States and France in 1995. The assassination of Sergei Kiroff and the exposed terror plot strengthen the government’s resolve to push industrial plans and counter attempts to hinder them, driving toward socialization.
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Moscow
Soviet
Russia
United States
France
Sergei Kiroff
Bomber Blamed for Cleveland Blast Injures Teen
Cleveland police Lt. William Sargent blamed a bomber for a December explosion that shattered a store and sent Edith Rosen, 18, to hospital. The blast damaged a building already hit twice before by similar incidents and occurred near her residence above the store.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Cizens
Edith Rosen
William Sargent
Miss Rosen
Empty Coal Cars Blown Off Railroad Near Woodlawn
Ten empty coal cars on a Chicago Burlington and Quincy train bound for Southern Illinois were blown from the tracks by a dynamite bomb near Woodlawn early today. The blast disrupted both north and southbound rails and halted traffic for a time.
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Woodlawn
Dee
Burlington and Quincy
Insanity Plea Saves Former Columbus Cop
James C. Eden a former Columbus police officer was committed to the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane in Lima after a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. He was indicted for first degree murder in the shooting death of his wife Edna Eden while en route to visit her mother. Testimony showed Eden had acted queerly since a 1920 motorcycle accident and jealousy was noted as a motive.
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Portsmouth
James C. Eden
Columbus
State Hospital For the
Lima
B. F. Kimbie
Common Pleas Court
Wipe
Eden
Edna Eden
Lawrence County
Seiote
al Birdwell
Emory Smith
James C. Miller
Apenstant
Columbus Police Department
Economists urge swift return to gold standard in report
A group of teaching economists at the American Economic Association annual meeting urged the United States to return immediately to the gold standard. They warned against inflationary shoals and favored a middle course away from silver and a central bank, backing a fixed gold standard and criticizing silver purchases as inflationary.
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Chicago
American Economic Association
Pubuic
Association
Committee On Monetary Policy
United States
Adult Classes to Open Soon in Ohio Counties
Columbus report states the Ohio Relief Administration plans an emergency adult education program in agricultural economies starting January. About 124 teachers will conduct weekly three hour classes in five community centers per county, two teachers per class, coordinated with school authorities and the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.
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Columbus
Ohio Relief Administration
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Vandal Suspected in Columbus Train Wreck
Police and railroad detectives in Columbus pursue a vandal angle after a Pennsylvanian passenger train derailed a freight cars collision killing three and injuring twelve. Evidence points to switch manipulation, broken signals, and a severed semaphore arm.
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Columbus
Pennsylvania
Will Rogers pokes at steady job with U S Trade Commission
President Roosevelt asks the U S Trade Commission for a report after six years of inquiry. Will Rogers jokes he expects only casual notes from their early stage work and delays, noting the commission has just been introduced to him.
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U.S. Trade Commission
Will Rogers
Hollywood
Calif
Roosevelt
Federal Trade Commission
New England Cleans Up After Destructive Winter Gale
A powerful gale swept New England causing widespread damage as frame homes were splintered and other structures wrecked. Three deaths were attributed to the storm while economic losses were placed around half a million dollars as relief operations continued and temperatures moderated in the Central West.
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New York
Middle West
Upper Great Lakes
New England
Mt. Washington
N. H
County Sells S171,000 in Relief Bonds
Athens County reports total relief bond sales of 171000 over the past two months to fund direct and work relief per the State Relief Commission. Issues include 56200 in 1922 and 550000, 52200, 523300, and 514000 tied to state and selective sales tax revenues. Payments shown and all legal procedures supervised by county clerk Maude Lowry with no errors.
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Athens County
State Relief Commission
Maude Lowry
Kentuckian Killed At Grade Crossing
Hammond Ind Dec 28 A 48 year old Ashland Ky man John T Hubbard died after his car skidded into an eastbound Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train three miles east of Highland Indiana Trainmen found him unconscious in a frozen ditch about 100 feet from the crossing He died two hours later
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Hammond
Ind
John T. Hubbard
Ashland
Pennsylvania Railroad
Highland
Hubbard
Anne Gould Delays Religion Change in Montreal
Anne Gould, great granddaughter of Jay Gould, delays converting from Protestant to Roman Catholic due to ecclesiastical rules. She plans an early return to the United States with husband Frank A. Meador, a San Saba actor, after marrying by a justice of the peace in Harrison, New York, following a Christmas-night outing in New York.
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Montreal
Anne Gould
Jay Gould
United States
Frank A. Meador
New York
Meador
San Saba
Texas
Harrison
N. Y
Roosevelt Plans Elastic Budget to Shift Relief Burden
The Roosevelt administration outlined three major relief policy shifts including returning unemployed to state care by Feb 1, an elastic relief budget aimed at stimulating private job growth, and a move away from direct cash grants toward work aid. The AFL reported November unemployment at 11,450,000, up 420,000 from October and 400,000 from November last year, citing population-driven jobseekers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Harry L. Hopkine
Washington Post
Hopkins
American Federation of Labor
Death Train Kills Two More in Suburban Crash
In Blue Island Illinois the Inter national Limited of the Grand Trunk Line struck a car killing Mary Metzinger of Fargo North Dakota and Leona Metzinger aged around 70. Leona’s husband Leon Metzinger 38 was injured. The same train had killed seven in Harvey two days earlier.
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Chicago
Tec
International Limited
Tirand Trunk Line
Blue Island
Harvey
Mre
Mary Metzinger
Fargo
N. D
Leona Metzinger
Leon Metzinger
Wietimea
Reclusive Chicago man makes rare public appearance
Dee 2 Chicago reports Dee 2 Austin Kratzner, 24, long confined in a southside apartment, left home for the first time in years following police inquiry into his seclusion after his father, 88 year old Henry, an artist, died on Christmas Day. He said he had not left since before the low mood, except to attend his mother's funeral in 1904.
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Chicago
Dee
Austin Kratzner
Kratzner
Krataner
Henry
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