Roosevelt parallels cited in White Ickes clash over big business
President Roosevelt invoked Theodore Roosevelt to frame anti monopoly rhetoric while Harold L. Ickes warned 60 wealthily powerful families that new laws may curb big business. Senators McCarran and White urged enforcement of laws against monopoly as critics labeled the administration stance a smoke screen. In Columbus, Jerry O Connor on crutches after a second accident following a prior ankle fracture.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Nev
Mr. Roosevelt
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Wallace H. White
Robert H. Jackson
Ickes
America
Ferdinand Lundberg
Big Business
McCarran
Charles L. McNary
Ore
Hamilton Fish
N. Y
Jackson
White House
Crison
Columbus
Jerry O'Connor
Lost in Russia linked to spy case widens search
American relatives believe Mr. and Mrs. Arnold A. Rubens match the couple pictured with a report of a Moscow disappearance. Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Boerger of Miami appeal to President Roosevelt seeking the fate of their daughter who sailed for Italy with her husband last October. A federal agent reportedly said the Rubens were the couple who vanished in Moscow.
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Donald L. Robinson
Arnold A. Rubens
F. G. Boerger
Miami
Fla
Roosevelt
Italy
Boergers
Rubens
Moscow
Statewide Grand Jury Probe Expands to All State Departments
Ohio Governor Martin L. Davey is urged to broaden the special grand jury to probe affairs of all state departments as the Senate committee on graft asks for equal radio time. Senator Verner E. Metcalf calls for an expanded investigation and questions willingness to target highway and liquor departments alongside legislators.
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Metcalf
Columbus
U.P
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Verner E. Metcalf
R. Marietta
Senate
Capitol
al Humphrey
Willard V. Archer
Belle Valley
Noble County
Archer
Davey
New Coal Code To Cost Logan $1 000 In 1938
Logan officials estimate the Guffey coal code will raise coal costs for the water works plant by about 1000 dollars in the coming year. A new six month contract will be entered by Service Director R R Loomis after receiving one bid. The bid adds 76 cents per ton to current contract prices.
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LOGAN
Guffey
R. R. Loomis
New York Prepares For New Year Celebration
New York girds for New Year festivities as 376 police ready instructions to subdue drunks without violence. Times Square Broadway and surrounding districts brace for record crowds. liquor licenses total 1982 up 272 from last year with prices ranging from 5 to 15 dollars and theater box offices rising.
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New York
Merants
Times Square
Broadway
52Nd St
Greenwich Village
Harlem
State Liquor Board
Strike record set in 1937 NLRB disclosure report
Washington UPI said the National Labor Relations Board reported 4 017 strikes in the first ten months of 1937, the worst strike period on record, though evidence suggested the worst was over.
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NLRB
Washington
Congress
National Labor Relations Board
United States
Police Seek Three Gypsies After Robbery of Deaf Man
Wellington U P police search for three gypsies who robbed Henry Simpkinson of 15 dollars on Thursday after asking for road directions. Simpkinson is deaf.
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Wellington
U.P
Henry Simpkinson
Simpkinson
Chinese Plan Offensive on Three Fronts
Chinese troops organize a three front offensive in Shansi Province with separate armies attacking from south north and west. A veteran force harasses the Japanese on the northwestern front believed to be built on the Eighth Route Army. Vigilantes confront looters in Tsingtao as police abandon posts amid Japanese advances and explosions.
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Shanghai
Shansi
Eighth Route
Tsingtao
Interstate Commerce Commission Sets 60-Hour Truck Driver Week
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a maximum 60 hour workweek for bus and truck drivers. The rule tightens standards for many states and aims to curb fatigue by limiting weekly hours and enforcing daily rest periods.
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Washington
U P
Interstate Commerce Commission
Alexander Caldwell Dies at 91 in Coolville
Alexander Caldwell aged 91 died at his home in Coolville following residence in Carthage Township. Funeral services led by Rev. Howard E. Warner will be at Carthage Presbyterian Church Saturday at 2 p.m. Survived by son J. H. Caldwell of Warren and daughter Mrs. Dana T. Burns of Berea. He was a longtime farmer and prominent eastern Athens County citizen.
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Coolville
Alexander Caldwell
Carthage Township
Howard E. Warner
Carthage Presbyterian Church
J. H. Caldwell
Warren
Dana T. Burns
Berea
Caldwell
Athens County
Governor Daveys Testimony Not To Be Made Public
Governor Daveys testimony before the special parole grand jury in Columbus next week will not be released to the public as he requested. Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy announced the decision.
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Columbus
U.P
Davey
Herbert S. Duffy
Ohio Jobless Registration Opens Monday for Unemployed
Ohio unemployment commission will begin registration next Monday for workers who earned at least part of 20 weeks in 1937. About 100 temporary staffers from other state departments are borrowed to handle the drive as laws evolve to allow earlier benefit payments.
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Columbus
U.P
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Charles Leasure
Commission
Leasure
Washington
District of Columbia
Former County Treasurer Hurt in Horse Incident
Logan report says Boyd Troxel former treasurer of Hocking County Rockbridge was seriously injured Wednesday evening when kicked in the face by a horse he was leading. He was taken to St. Francis Hospital Columbus with a double fracture of the lower jaw and a crushed upper jaw. The full extent of injuries is not yet known.
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Logan
Boyd Troxel
Rockbridge
St. Francis Hospital
Columbus
Davey Won’t Reveal Plans for a Third Term
Governor Davey declined to announce any future plans at the Jackson Day dinner in Columbus on January 8. Rumors had circulated that he would declare candidacy for a third term at the event.
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Columbus
U.P
Davey
Tragedy as Youth Dies From Kerosene Burns
In Columbus a 19 year old man named Robert Williams was doused with kerosene on his trousers. He lit a match to test ignition and died today from the burns.
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Columbus
Robert Williams
New Year Arrival Across the Pacific Across Time Zones
Wellington reports the New Year starting at 1 a.m. local time as 1938 arrives across the Pacific. In the Chatham Islands shepherds and fishermen greet 1938 while New York workers begin the last day of 1937 and London bells mark the old year.
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New Zealand
Au.r
Pacific
Chatham Islands
New York
Honolulu
Dee
American Samoa
Chatham
Hanson Island
London
New
Harry Wix Dies at Foster Place Home
Harry Wix 53 former Baltimore Ohio section worker died at his Foster Place home at 6 this morning after illness since last winter and floods service in January. He leaves wife Rosie Watson Wix and sister Miss Sarah Wix Pratts Fork. Funeral at Hocking Street Church of God Monday at two, burial New Marshfield Cemetery.
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Harry Wix
Baltimore & Ohio Section
Foster Place
Hold Dolan Funeral At New Straitsville
Rosa Dolan age 90 longtime St Augustine Church member was buried in New Straitsville after morning services. She died yesterday at New Lexington and rode the first train into town and helped raise funds for the church bell.
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New Straitsville
Rosa Dolan
St. Augustine
Rains Forecast for Entite State Tonight
A wet New Year’s Eve is forecast for Entite State as heavy rains loom over Columbus and surrounding areas. Forecasters warn of possible localized flooding and slick roads during tonight’s celebrations.
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Entite State
Pirate Mutiny Aboard Yacht Ends in Murder on South Seas
Federal agents questioned six survivors of the ill fated schooner Aaffe after a pirate turned captain shot the owner Dwight Faulding and locked passengers in cabins. George Spernack and Robert Horne later said they tossed Morgan overboard after he harmed them. Coast Guard towed the yacht to harbor as FBI investigated motives and self defense claims in a case mixing mutiny, survival, and tragedy.
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Catalina Island
Coast
Dwight Faulding
Santa Barbara
Jack Morgan
Los Angeles
Cal
South Seas
Coast Guard
Perseus
Department of Justice
Faulding
Morgan
Elsie Berdan
Gertrude Turner
Robert
George Sternack
Robert Horne
San Pedro
George Spernack
Horne
Spernack
Aaffe
Mrs. Morgan
J. H. Hanson
FBI
Stars Routed In Club Raid
Palm Springs Calif more than 100 Hollywood film celebrities were routed early today when Riverside County authorities raided the exclusive night club The Dunes eight miles from here. No stars were arrested and no names were revealed. Sheriff Carl Rayburn and District Attorney Earl Redwine and 10 deputies led the raid. Games of chance were being operated openly when the raid was made. Two truckloads of gambling equipment were seized and 10 men were arrested on suspicion of violating state gambling laws.
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Palm Springs
Calif
U.P
Riverside County
the Dunes
Carl Rayburn
Earl Redwince
Rayburn
Firestone Reports Record Net Income for Year End
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. reports a net income of 9,269,177 dollars for the fiscal year ending October 31, the largest sales total in the company's history. The announcement covers Akron based operations and highlights peak yearly performance.
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Akron
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
U S Battalions Join Bitter Fighting Near Teruel
Spanish Loyalists sent Abraham Lincoln and other battalions of the international volunteers to the Teruel front six miles northwest of the city. They joined Italian Moors and Spanish Republicans against Nationalist assault in a snowbound battle under near zero temperatures and dense fog.
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Hendaye
U.S
International Volunteers
Teruel
Abraham Lincoln
United States
130000 Jobs Supplied By Ohio WPA in 1937
Dr. Carl Watson Ohio WPA administrator announced the 1937 program provided 130,000 jobs to unemployed men and women in Ohio. Spending totaled $101,741,000 with $83,806,000 from the federal government and $17,936,000 from local communities. Wages accounted for about 78 percent of the total.
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Columbus
U.P
Carl Watson
WPA
Ohio
Watson
White House party fuels Roosevelts with Big Apple dance
About 500 guests danced in the East Room as the Roosevelt family hosted a New Year party for Mrs. Roosevelt Jr and Anne Lindsay Clark fiancée of John Roosevelt. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr and the younger Roosevelts led the celebration while the president and wife circulated among guests and later danced with their sons. The family planned a telephone call to absent children in Seattle and Fort Worth as the clock neared midnight.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
White House
Roosevelts
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Anne Lindsay Clark
John
East
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