New Snowstorm Heads East From Rocky Mountains
The second heavy snowstorm in three days moved eastward from the Rockies as midwestern communities dig out and brace for blizzards. Forecaster C A Donnel said the storm would bring heavy precipitation with strong winds from a low over Pueblo Colorado to Northern Nebraska. Snow flurries reached the California coast as New England clears after a prior system that left many dead. Detroit area traffic slowed and the Plymouth and Dodge plants closed.
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Chicago
Rocky Mountains
U. S
C. A. Donnel
Pueblo
Colo
Nebraska
North Central
Rocky Mountain
California
San Francisco
New England
Detroit
Plymouth
Dodge
Tax dispute over Muskingum Valley Conservancy assessments
Ohio Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert called the tax dispute a legislative matter after meetings with county prosecutors. They argued property owners in the Muskingum Valley Conservancy District could pay regular taxes without the conservancy assessments they deem exorbitant. Herbert suggested a Supreme Court ruling on including municipal assessments in regular taxes might apply.
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Columbus
U.P
Thomas J. Herbert
Southeastern Ohio
Muskingum Valley
Borah Taken to Washington Hospital in Illness Report
Senator William E. Borah of Idaho was taken by ambulance to Emergency Hospital in Washington. Conflicting reports said he suffered from pneumonia while his office cited la grippe. The 73 year old lawmaker’s precise condition remained unconfirmed.
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Washington
U.R
William E. Borah
Ida
Chavez Aiders Allegedly Skim WPA Wages for Campaign
Government called WPA workers to testify that friends of Senator Dennis Chavez took 10 percent of wages for a political campaign. The testimony centers on forced deductions from federal relief funds.
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Albuquerque
N. M
U.P
WPA
Dennis Chavez
Cave In Traps Six Men At Oklahoma Mine
Rescuers battled falling rock to reach at least three men trapped in a drift of the Southern Lead Mine near Picher Oklahoma. Three bodies had been recovered. 38 workers were underground when 300 tons of ore burst from the ceiling.
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Picher
Okla
U.P
Kansas State Line
Deposits Rise Across Ohio Building and Loan Firms in 1938
Ohio's 220 government insured building and loan associations saw deposits increase by 26,752,630 dollars in 1938, according to the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. report.
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Washington
U.P
Ohio
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp
New Cold Wave May Not Reach Ohio Says Meteorologist
U S Weather Bureau meteorologist Ralph C Mize said a cold wave centered in Nebraska moving eastward should be tempered by high temperatures over the Great Lakes and probably will not hit Ohio for several days. High pressures may divert the system from northern Ohio.
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Cleveland
U.P
Great Lakes
Ohio
U. S
Ralph C. Mize
Nebraska
Civil Service Expansion Grants Merit Status to 45000 Employees
Approximately 45000 federal workers received civil service status today under Roosevelt's broad merit order. The move brings the executive branch to about 610000 civil service employees, with most gains in Washington and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation affected. The order, issued June 24, extends merit rules to all but policy makers and exempted staff and became effective today.
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Washington
U.P
Civil Service
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Roosevelt
Four Die in Cleveland Tenement House Fire
A widow and her two small children and a man who roomed alone were burned to death in a west side Cleveland tenement fire. Two others were seriously burned and two injured by jumping 20 feet to escape the flames.
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Cleveland
U.P
West Side
Dollison Named Acting Postmaster In Logan
Paul Dollison was notified by the post office department in Washington to assume the duties of acting postmaster here succeeding C. W. Bowen. Dollison previously served six months as acting postmaster at the end of Miss Ida Steinman’s term.
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Dollison
Logan
Paul Dollison
Post Office Department
Washington
C. W. Bowen
Ida Steinman
Brown Bill Aids Small Businessmen For Bank Loans
Rep. Clarence J. Brown introduces a measure in the House Banking and Currency Committee to let national banks lend up to 80 percent of asset value for expansion of small businesses. Loans up to 10 years, max $500,000, with rate limits tied to state law or rediscount rate. Brown says it would mobilize over 3 billion dollars in bank surplus.
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Washington
Brown
Bridget Hitler in Ireland and England family ties
Mrs. Bridget Hitler, sister in law to Adolf Hitler, married Alois Hitler in Dublin about 28 years ago. She now lives in England while Alois and their son Willy Hitler reside in Germany.
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Bridget Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Alois
Dublin
Slapping Wife O K If It Isn t Fatal
Chicago judge in a divorce case ruled a man may slap his wife as hard as he wants as long as it does not kill her. Circuit Judge Philip J Finnegan declared there would be fewer divorces if more men followed this view and said he would not grant the divorce based on the evidence presented.
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Chicago
U.P
Philip J. Finnegan
Insurgents threaten to trap Loyalists near Seo de Urgel
Dispatches from Nationalist territory report Spanish Nationalist troops closing on Seo de Urgel near the French frontier to trap thousands of Loyalists. A unit is expected to take Leo de Urgel soon, opening the road to Puigcerda about 20 miles away.
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Perpignan
U.R
Seo de Urgel
Leo de Urgel
Puigcerda
Children’s Aid Checks Being Mailed Today
Ohio residents receive January aid payments totaling 139 333 dollars to support the dependents program. The funds will be mailed to 31 000 children across the state who lack family wage earners.
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Columbus
U.P
Henry J. Robison
State Division of Public Assistance
Ohio
Ice shacks blown over Lake Erie mostly return
Seventy two of the 120 ice fishing shacks that blew away in Lake Erie during Monday's blizzard have been blown back today.
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Port Clinton
U.P
Lake Erie
Senate Ready To Take Vote On Relief Bill
The Ohio Senate prepared to vote on a $5 million emergency relief bill after concessions on local government matching dictated by the rural leaning House. Labor opposed provisions to reorganize unemployment compensation and debate continued on wage hour, labor relations, and school funding measures.
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Senate
Columbus
House of Representatives
House
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Labor
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Thomas J. Donnelly
Ohio Federation of Labor
John Owens
Ohio Congress For Industrial Organization Group
Donnelly
Labor Committee
Hum
State Labor Relations Board
School Foundation
McGregor
Great Britain's Cabinet Stands To Be Sterner
London reports the cabinet met to assess the international scene after Hitler's speech and to prepare a more vigorous British stance. Observers say Chamberlain's parliamentary address and cabinet members' recent rhetoric signal a shift away from appeasement, with a tougher line on disarmament and colonial questions.
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Great Britain
London
U.P
Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Britain
Anthony Eden
Chamberlain
Germany
Army Plane Borrower Gets Five Year Term
Private Ben Fliegelman of Brooklyn N Y discharged and sentenced to five years at hard labor at Governors Island New York for borrowing an army bomber and making a solo flight. He was injured slightly in a forced landing in a cane field on November 14. The aircraft normally needed six crew members to operate.
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Honolulu
T. H
U.P
Ben Fliegelman
U. S. Army Air Corps
Brooklyn
N. Y
Governor’s Island
Fliegelman
Crude Oil Prices Raised Again in Pennsylvania
Increased refinery demand prompts a second price rise for Pennsylvania crude oil in ten days. Joseph Seep purchasing agency announces 8 to 15 cent per barrel increases, marking the second rise since September 1937.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Pennsylvania
Joseph Seep
Burn Ohio Coal Bill Advances From Committee
In Columbus the Burn Ohio Coal bill was reported out of committee by a unanimous vote this morning Rep Walter E. Brehm of Logan announced at noon. Berlin Heinrich Schaeffner of Giessen in Hessen Province was executed by guillotine today for high treason.
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Columbus
Ohio
Walter E. Brehm
Logan
Berlin
U.P
Heinrich Schaeffner
Giessen
Hessen
Arrival of Norwegian Royal Couple to Open U.S. Visit
Crown Princess Martha of Norway and her husband will become the first Norwegian royals to visit the United States when they land in New York in April for a coast to coast tour.
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Martha
Crown Princess
Norway
United States
New York
Admits Making Ballot Changes In Local Levy Vote
Henry J. Kessling a 45 year old architect and HOLC employee confessed to altering ballots during a November school levy election while serving as a Democratic judge. Prosecutor Paul Baden said the grand jury heard the admission and about 17 ballots in his precinct were changed due to his opposition to high taxes and fears of home loss.
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Hamilton
U.P
Henry J. Kessling
HOLC
Paul Baden
Baden
Kessling
Roosevelt Policy Extended US Defense to 1917 Front France
Roosevelt’s aid to democracies against aggressors seen as extending America’s defense line to France. Senators pressed for secrecy while France purchases American planes and Britain is also buying. Conflicting views on war prospects swirl as Lap Chambre asserts US help secures peace and planes will arrive.
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Washington
Roosevelt
America
France
Hiram W. Johnson
Calif
Senate
England
Canada
United States
Johnson
Air
Guy la Chambre
Chamber of Deputies
Pension Plans Debated By House Ways And Means
Washington D C Old age pension advocates prepared to present reform ideas to the House Ways and Means Committee. Social Security Board Chairman Ar thur J Altmeyer testified on extending coverage to 16 000 000 exempted workers. Townsend plan supporters in the House urged passage of Rep Joe Hendricks Florida introduced to enact the Townsend program. Hearings expected to last weeks as about 40 amendments to the Social Security Act await consideration.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Social Security Board
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Francis E. Townsend
Joe Hendricks
Fla
Townsend
Bowman Extradition Papers Prepared for Bowman Return
Extradition papers were prepared for Howard Cecil Bowman 28 a Brown County escapee from Ohio Penitentiary serving life for bank robbery. He was captured in Fort Worth Texas Tuesday unarmed and did not resist. He was en route to El Paso to visit a girlfriend.
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Columbus
U.P
Howard Cecil Bowman
Brown County
Ohio
Fort Worth
Tex
Bowman
el Paso
Trapped Owl Survives Week on Candles in Cottage
A Columbus area account says an owl became trapped in the country cottage of Thomas R. Amberg and survived a week by eating 12 candles fed through a chimney. Amberg reported the incident, noting the owl appeared wise and entered the home via the chimney.
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Columbus
U.P
Thomas R. Amberg
Amberg
13 Million Dollar Dam Planned on Ohio River
Army engineers map borings along the Ohio River from Greenup Kentucky to Portsmouth Ohio to locate a new high level dam costing 13 955 000 dollars. The project would replace several existing dams and include a 70 000 kilowatt hydro electric plant with 416 000 dollars annual net power value.
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Washington
U.P
Ohio River
Greenup
Portsmouth
Gallipolis
Upper
Ohio
Big Sandy
Japs Weigh War Declaration in China
Tokyo reports Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita saying government circles consider a formal declaration of war against China. A declaration would suspend extraterritorial rights of foreign powers and reflect a drastic shift urged by military insiders.
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China
Tokyo
U.P
Hachiro Arita
Arita
Godman Shoe Factory To Leave Lancaster
The H. C. Godman Shoe Co. will move its Lancaster plant to Columbus and make minor changes at Logan and Xenia plants. Lancaster payroll runs between 700 and 800 workers.
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le + Godman Shoe Factory
Lancaster
Columbus
H. C. Godman Shoe Co
Fred Miller
Logan
Xenia
Flood Threat Passes At East Liverpool
East Liverpool reports the danger from the Ohio River cresting at 28.2 feet after rain snow and sleet. The river began falling at 8 a.m. and government engineers at Dam No 8 predicted no damage from the swollen stream.
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East Liverpool
U.P
Sherman Home Acquisition Bill Proposed In Ohio House
A bill proposing a $15 000 appropriation to the State Historical and Archaeological Society would buy Gen William Tecumseh Sherman’s Lancaster home as a state memorial and museum. Rep Albert F Stokes of Fairfield introduced the measure in the Ohio House.
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Columbus
UPA
State Historical and Archaeological Society
Lancaster
William Tecumseh Sherman
House of Representatives
Albert F. Stokes
Fairfield
Milk prices cut in Akron U P two cents a quart
Retail milk prices dropped two cents a quart to 10 cents in Akron today.
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Akron
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