Editor Lacks Governor Trial Testimony Sparks Murder Talk
Witnesses describe a liquor and vice ring linked to Governor Olson. Mrs Liggett testifies her husband could have been murdered with Olson's approval, while defense questions and cross examination focus on gang connections and city corruption in Minneapolis.
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Walter Liggett
Olson
TheUu
Blumenfeld
Livan
Tessaid
Ol Walter
Kid Cann
De‘agl
Thomas McMeekin
Asing
Minneapolis
Mid-West
Tax Inflation Fight Looms In Congress
Inflationists and antis lined up in Congress awaiting a signal to clash in a spectacular fight. Led by Senator Thomas and Representative Patman currency expansionists vow to block new tax programs and favor printing new money if administration tax legislation is introduced.
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Washington
Congress
Thomas
D. Okla
Patman
D. Tex
Illinois prison probe explores Loeb escape plot details
A state inquiry into a 1940s Illinois prison escape plan surfaces as prison candidate Loeb, a notorious killer, is tied to new probes. State's Attorney McCabe reports on revelations of a plotted break for freedom amid legislative discussions led by Rep. Lyons.
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Candih
Loeb
Illinois
Adam R. McCabe
Richard J. Lyons
Unclear Military Action Report From a Fragment
Fragmentary text describes a clash involving Soviet Far East forces and Japanese elements, mentioning border pressure and casualties among guards. The excerpt is incomplete and lacks verifiable details such as dates, places, or official names.
Aide Predicts Plan to Capture Congress' Power
Rev Herbert leader of Father Coughlin's National Social Justice envisions capturing Congress to bends in favor of the hour Needs of the hour. Bigelow study suggests a revolution rather than overthrow as a means to seize the repository of American power.
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ATI
Herbert
Father Coughlin
National Social Justice
Congress
Tion
Union Bigelow
Poli
Funeral services set for 75 year old resident
The Athens community mourns the death of a 75 year old resident. Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday at 10 a.m. at the local home, with burial to follow at State Cemetery.
Candidatorial Discourse and Campaign Tactics Examined
A fragmented note discusses political ambitions and electoral strategy. It mentions politicians seeking success, campaign spending, and the challenge of balancing public image with private ambitions. The text hints at voter influence and business interests shaping campaigns.
Roanoke Rapids Negro tenant farmers endure bitter cold
In Roanoke Rapids North Carolina a group of Negro tenant farmers braved a week of snow and ice. They hitched a wagon to Old Dobbin, installed a stove and piping on the wagon, lit a fire, and rode to town in warmth to buy provisions.
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Roanoke Rapids
N. C
Dobbin
Cold Weather Hampers CCC Camp Program
Lieut. O B Stewart, former Athens CCC camp commander, will leave Athens this week to command Co 1509 at Zanesville Capt R A Van Deran has led the local camp since it was taken over by veterans from Camp Morgan Malta in January Cold weather in the last two weeks slowed camp work Plans for spring include laying walks grading hillsides moving 500 shrubbery pieces from Camp Morgan to Athens and replanting on terraces About 189 veterans are stationed at the camp.
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O. B. Stewart
Athens
Camp Morgan
Camp Athens
New York Vice Ring Believed Smashed After Raids
A weekend crackdown in New York aimed at vice and racketeering is believed to have dismantled a $12 million yearly network employing 1000 to 2000 women. Police report ring leaders and operators of at least 200 vice resorts are in custody, with 77 women and seven men held on bail as material witnesses.
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New York
Extra Police Called in White Negro Outbreak
Macon Missouri police doubled after a clash between white and Negro residents. Special officer Claude Whiles died from bullet wounds and seven others were hurt. Finney, a Negro club operator, was arrested along with 23 other Negroes including two women.
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Macon
Claude Whiles
Lewis A. Duval
Whiles
Ernest Finney
Finney
Five Die inOhio Traffic Crashes on Icy Roads
Five persons died and scores injured in Ohio Sunday from crashes on icy highways. Elmer Massey twenty two of Painesville and Donald Weaver fifteen were killed in separate incidents near Willoughby and McConnelsville. Bates Haycox sixty five died at Westerville after a auto train collision. Two men in a second auto died in a Cleveland street car crash.
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Columbus
Ohio
Elmer Massey
Painesville
Willoughby
Donald Weaver
McConnelsville
Westerville
Bates Haycox
Cleveland
Coolville man fined after guilty plea on intoxication charge
Kenneth Legoulion of Coolville pleaded guilty before Magistrate T. R. Bennett to intoxication. He paid a $5 fine plus costs and was released. Arrest was by Marshal R. B. Henderson of Coolville.
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Kenneth Legoulion
Coolville
T. R. Bennett
Marshal R. 8. Henderson
Farm aid and mortgage bill push in wartime session
The Senate approved and sent to conference the 367.77 million deficiency bill funding farm benefits under old AAA contracts and bonus expenses. Supporters of the Frazier Lemke mortgage refinancing plan seek a House vote with 215 signatures, aiming for 218 to force action. Father Coughlin urged backing, claiming the plan would liberate rural debtors and advance prices for wheat corn and cotton.
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Washington—C
Senate
House
Charles I. Coughlin
National Union For Social Justice
Father Coughlin
Detroit
Crop Control Plans Gaining Momentum in Congress
A proposal for permanent crop control via federal purchase of surplus acreage advances in Congress. Senator Norbeck proposes it as a supplement to the Roosevelt soil conservation subsidy plan. Senator Bankhead pushes to debate the subsidy program as Cotton planting season looms in the South.
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Washington
Congress
Norbeck
Senate
Bankhead
Ala
South
Railroad Tunnel Work Resumed Near Kimbolton
Work resumed today on the railroad tunnel project 14 miles north near Kimbolton where a dynamite blast killed Gilbert Grubbs of Byesville and badly injured a second worker. Army engineers began an investigation into how an unexploded charge remained in place as drills struck it.
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Cambridge
Kimbolton
Army Engineers
Gilbert Grubbs
Byesville
Grubbs
Athens man fined for driving without proper lights
Francis Graham of Athens pleaded guilty to driving without proper lights and was fined $5 plus costs by Magistrate T. R. Bennett. A warrant had been issued for his arrest on January 1, and State Highway Patrolman M. L. Davis made the arrest.
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T. R. Bennett
Francis Graham
Athens
M. L. Davis
Governor May Name Mystery Suspect Today
In Trenton Governor Hoffmann prepared to name the man with the handkerchief in the Lindbergh kidnapping and may order his arrest. State police were to be asked to arrest or clear the suspect and the governor planned to brief Colonel Schwarzkopf on the latest inquiry.
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Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh
St. Raymond's Cemetery
Bronx
John F
Jassie) Condon
Lindberg
Hoffman
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
State Police
Schwarzkopf
Scranton Pledges Help To Meet Coal Famine
Scranton pledges to supply up to 2,500,000 tons of anthracite coal to regions facing shortages. Frank D. Schroth of the Scranton Republican telegraphed Ohio Indiana Missouri Illinois and Iowa governors Sunday, seeking cooperation of mine operators and railroads to ship stored coal if needed.
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Scranton
Frank D. Schroth
Scranton Republican
Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Illinois
Iowa
West Virginians Lose Homes In Island Fire
A Sunday night blaze on Wheeling Island, along the Ohio River, damaged three buildings and left several families homeless. Firemen estimated losses at 20 000 to 25 000 as they battled strong winds and frozen hoses after the fire started in a beer parlor.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio River
Traffic on Ohio River Halts as Water Drops
The Ohio River traffic was tied up as water levels fell over two feet in 12 hours grounding boats and halting coal shipments. Gallipolis residents skated on Gallipolis Island for the first time in 19 years.
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Gallipolis
Ohio River
Gallipolis Island
Cleveland Police Seek Radio Safecrackers
Cleveland police hunt a gang accused of using police radio broadcasts to guide a second safeblowing in a month. They looted $1200 from an East Side market house after disarming a special policeman and a fireman.
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Cleveland
East Side
Unrest Halts Smithfield Market Strikes 10000 Workers Standstill
A sudden strike at London's Smithfield central market stopped work for 10,000 laborers and froze the world’s largest market serving about 8 million people.
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London
Smithfield
Washington Court House Students Strike For Probe Of Superintendent
About 250 of 500 Washington Court House high school students refused to attend classes, demanding an investigation into rumors about Superintendent A. D. St. Clair. The board previously found the rumors baseless and the principal, Dwight Ireland, expected to return soon.
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Washington Court House
Washington D. H
A. D. St. Clair
Worley Shepshear
Dwight Ireland
Ireland
Dormitory Blaze Traps Eight Die Near Parker Dam
Early morning fire at Parker Dam dormitory on the Colorado River kills eight men and injures many as high winds drive flames through bunks and into the mess hall. About ninety workers slept in the dormitory. search for more bodies followed.
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Parker Dam
Los Angeles
Colorado River
Metropolitan Water District
Comissary
Boulder Dam
Metropolitan Water District of
Holding Firm Files Petition for Reorganization
The Van Sweringen Company and six subsidiaries filed a 77B bankruptcy reorganization petition in federal court. The group claimed over two thirds of first mortgage bonds approved the plans. Judge Paul Jones set a 30 day deadline to file the plans with assets of 44.39 million and liabilities of 1.96 million.
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Cleveland
van Sweringen Company
Oris P
Mentis J. van Sweringen
Paul Jones
Eccles Named New Federal Reserve Head
President Roosevelt designated Marriner S. Eccles of Utah as chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System for a four year term.
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Eccles
Federal Reserve
Washington
Roosevelt
Marriner
Utah
Federal Reserve System
Propose New State Old Age Pension Plan
Charles H. Hubbell, Cleveland attorney, proposed an Ohio constitutional amendment for an old age pension up to 200 dollars monthly for residents over 60. He mailed the amendment and signatures to the Ohio attorney-general, advocating a state plan funded by store licenses, liquor taxes, and sales taxes, with funds spent within the state.
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Washington
Ohio
Charles H. Hubbell
Cleveland
Hubbell
Supreme Court
France Raises Anti Nazi Wall
Paris reports French authorities pursued negotiations with Balkan rulers and statesmen to block German expansion in eastern Europe. France aims to strengthen ties with Balkan nations and restore economic equilibrium through French British and Russian trade concessions.
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Paris
Europe
France
Hapsburgs
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Rumania
Underwood Approved By Senate Judiciary Committee
The Senate Judiciary Committee favorably reported the nomination of Rep. Mel G. Underwood Democrat of New Lexington Ohio to be federal judge for the Southern District of Ohio. Underwood plans to resign his House seat and move to Columbus to join the bench once confirmed.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Mel] G. Underwood
New Lexington
Ohio
Underwood
House
Columbus
Senate
Wreck of Reading Railroad Flier The Williamsport
Locomotive plunges 30 feet from an overpass near Sunbury Pennsylvania. The boiler explodes injuring passengers as cars derail. Engineer and fireman die shortly after.
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Reading Railroad
Williamsport
Sunbury
Rugged simplicity in politics older stuff says Cobb
Irvin S Cobb writes from Houston that candidates should drop the kitchen porch theatrics and stop courting visitors for show. He argues the era of flashing vaudeville style politicking is over and the common people are not naive, calling for more substance over image.
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Cobb
Houston
Tex
Cons
Cans
McIntyre and Heath
Yoder Enters Democratic Run for Ohio Lieutenant Governor
Senator Paul Yoder of Dayton announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. Observers expect Gov. Martin L. Davey to face opposition if Lieutenant-Governor Harold G. Mosier runs in the May primary. Mosier would not discuss plans in Cleveland. Yoder met with Mosier and other leaders in Cleveland last week and claims broad support from Cuyahoga County. If Mosier runs, national administration support would be a factor and may reflect lingering strains between Washington and the state.
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Columbus
Paul P Yoder
Dayton
Martin L. Davey
Yoder
Harold G. Mosier
Mosier
Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Washington
Fire Department Responds to Elevator Pit Water Leak
Firefighters were alerted around 6 a.m. when a safety valve in the elevator pit of the C. 10. Shafer Co. building at West State and Shafer Streets leaked spraying water. The Athens Fire Department shut off the water and reported no damage.
Three Reported Dead in Romanian Plane Crash
In Romania, a passenger plane traveling from Arad to Bucharest broke apart in the Carpathian Mountains. A pilot and two other persons were unofficially reported dead, with the last radio message: The ship has broken in two, we are falling.
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Bucharest
Carpathian Mountains
Arad
Rumania
Strikers Return to Work as Pickets Clash with Officers
In Pekin Illinois 75 pickets threw bricks while 2% deputy sheriffs used tear gas bombs as 200 American Distilling Co workers including women resumed work after nearly two weeks of strikes. Deputies escorted the workers to the plant led by Sheriff Ralph Goar.
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Pekin
American Distilling Co
Ralph Goar
Roosevelt urges repeal of three agricultural Acts
President Roosevelt asked Congress to promptly repeal the Bankhead compulsory cotton control act the Kerr-Smith tobacco act and the Potato Act of 1935 saying the agricultural production adjustment program has Terminated and the acts were auxiliary to it.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Supreme Court to Rule on Securities Act After TVA Decision
The Supreme Court ended opinions without ruling TVA constitutionality, delaying the TVA decision to next Monday. In a brief session, the court agreed to rule on the Securities Act. Edward Jones of New York City won review, with lower courts upholding the law and the SEC’s enforcement power.
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Washington
Supreme Court
TVA
D. Edward Jones
New York City
Securities and Exchange Commission
Supreme Court Tests Bankhead Cotton Act Constitutionality
The Supreme Court reviews the Bankhead Cotton Act for constitutionality in a case brought by Georgia Governor Eugene Tale madge. The administration seeks a substitute farm program to replace the AAA amid ongoing legal action.
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Supreme Court
Eugene Talemadge
Georgia
Johnson Hits Neutrality Bill
Washington reports Senator Hiram Johnson launches a new crusade against pending neutrality measures. He argues the proposals risk drawing the United States into trouble rather than keeping it out, echoing past fights over the World Court and League of Nations. Veteran senators hesitate to predict his defeat.
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Washington
Hiram Johnson
Senate
America
Johnson
World Court
League of Nations
Buildings Burn While Firemen Hunt Hydrant
Libertyville Illinois firemen answering an alarm at the Y J Peterson estate searched twenty minutes for a hydrant buried under a snow drift. In the meantime a creamery and cattle barn were destroyed with damage estimated at 25000 dollars.
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Libertyville
Ill
Y. J. Peterson
Child Fatally Burns While Saving Baby Brother
Seven year old Gertrude Kwiatkowski died in a Cleveland hospital from burns suffered while rescuing her 14 month old brother Leonard. A blanket ignited as she carried it to cover the baby, her dress caught fire, and she pulled the child from the crib before escaping into the cold to seek help.
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Cleveland
Gertrude Kwiatkowski
Leonard
Victim coughs up new clue in Flood shooting case
John Flood, a former Matawan patrolman shot June 18, 1934, recounted how he coughed up the lead slug two hours after an attack that had caused fainting spells for two years. The discovery renews a still unresolved inquiry into the weapon and assailant.
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New Jersey
Matawan
N. J
John Flood
Flood
William A Shepherd
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