West Virginian Rescued After Eight Days In Mine
Robert P. Johnson 36, a rural mail carrier, survived eight days in an abandoned coal mine near Flemington West Virginia before volunteers CCC WPA and mining officials drained a pool and forced through slate falls to reach him. He was found conscious but barely alive and evacuated to a Clarksburg hospital.
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Flemington
W. Va
Robert P. Johnson
Here
Johnson
CCC
WPA
State Mining Department
Clarksburg
Mississippi Levees Hold as Ohio Valley Flood Fight Opens
Five hundred thousand residents of the Mississippi Valley rely on a billion dollar levee system as the crest moves from the Ohio River toward the Gulf. In Cairo Illinois workers report the river held back water within three and a half feet of the top walls while sand boils persist and engineers forecast stability for several days.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi Valley
Ohio River
Mississippi
New Madrid
Hickman
Gulf
Cairo
Ill
Great White Way visioned along flood roadways
Ohio officials at the Ohio Valley flood conference consider a Great White Way of illuminated highways powered by flood control reservoirs. The plan, backed by State Senator Jacob Weiss, would light eight states in a vast dam powered grid while aiding reservoir construction and reducing night driving hazards. Opposition from some Ohio legislators focused on private enterprise and utility interference. The conference seeks interstate flood control measures, water management, and reforestation under a proposed Ohio Valley authority.
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Columbus
U.P
Council of State Governments
Jacob Weiss
Indianapolis
Ohio
Indiana
New York
Kentucky
Illinois
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Weiss
John Taylor
Emerson Campbell
Belmont County
Verner
Metcalf
Washington County
Campbell
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Ohio Valley Authority
Ohio River Basin
Permanent Evacuation of Lowlands Urged
Army engineers call for permanent evacuation of flood prone lowland districts along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. They urge zoning for commerce or parks to prevent loss of life, with local authorities responsible for enforcement, creating river towns without riverfront districts for the poorer.
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Washington
U.R
Ohio
Mississippi
Army Engineers
Louisville
Army
Clair Gepples Dies of Pneumonia in Gallipolis
Clair C. Gepples 50 longtime Gallipolis Chamber of Commerce president and retired civil engineer died from pneumonia contracted during flood relief work. Survived by wife Edna Arnold Gepples and a one year old son. Funeral at Grace M E Church Monday 10 AM. Burial in Frankfort Ross County with his parents.
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Gallipolis
Clair C. Gepples
Can't Afford Hotel Asks To Be Jailed In Cleveland
Harold Smith a 43 year old Coshocton sales man asked Common Pleas Judge Samuel H Silbert to return him to a county jail cell after his release a week earlier He said he has no job and cannot afford a hotel He was given a jail cell for the night and permission to stay at Wayfarers lodge while probation officers seek him work.
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Cleveland
A.P
Harold Smith
Coshocton
Common Pleas
Samuel H. Silbert
Smith
Judge Silbert
Bill Expands County taxing power to professionals and businesses
An administration bill before the Ohio House would allow county commissioners to tax doctors and other professionals, business premises, liquor retailers, and motorists to fund flood relief and poor relief. It would levy 25 dollars per business, 5 dollars per worker, 3 percent of professional earnings, half the motor vehicle license plate tax, and half the liquor license tax, with details to be considered by the Taxation Committee.
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Columbus-A
House
J. Zablotny
Cuyahoga
Long Sr Survives Son by 17 Months
WINNFIELD LA Huey P Long Sr aged died Thursday night a year and five months after his U S Senator son was killed by an assassin s bullet Father of nine children Huey Jr rise to become a national figure as governor and later senator The failure never recovered from grief at his son s death
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Winnfield
U.P
Huey P. Long
U. S
Long
Huey, Jr
Louisiana
Huey Jr
Dirigible TC-13 Rests After 24 Hour Flight
The Army airship TC-13 remains aloft in Sunnyvale California after more than a day in the sky awaiting calmer winds. It settles into a former naval air field hangar as the windstorm abates.
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Sunnyvale
Calif
Naval Air Field
Red Cross Flood Relief Fund Tops 14 Million
Washington AUP The Red Cross announced public contributions to its flood relief fund have mounted to 14 119 000. Charleston W Va UP A E Haan director of Red Cross activities said 600 remaining refugees from Huntington were being returned there today.
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Red Cross
Washington
The
Charleston
W. Va
A. E. Haan
Red Cross Activities
Huntingtog
Rebels Beaten From Malaga
Wounded rebels filled field hospitals at La Linea as loyalist air power repelled the first major offensive on Malaga. Rebels fortify the Fuengirola Malaga railway while government planes conduct a sweeping mopping up operation and drive rebel cavalry from nearby hills.
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Gibraltar
U.P
la Linea
Malaga
Fuengirola
Truce Ends 98 Day Maritime Strike Across Pacific Ports
The Pacific Coast ports reopen as a 98 day strike by 40 000 maritime workers ends in a settlement described as a stalemate. Pay increases of 10 to 15 dollars monthly plus overtime pay and standardized conditions are agreed. Shipowners gain protection against quickie strikes and selectivity in hiring. The strike paralysed 300 ships from Seattle to San Diego and cost about 830 million in lost business and wages.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Seattle
San Diego
Pacific
Hawaii
Alaska
Roosevelt proposes broad court reform including six new justices
President Roosevelt asks Congress for sweeping judiciary changes including the power to appoint as many as six new Supreme Court justices if current members aged over 70 do not retire. The proposal follows a cabinet and congressional leaders emergency session and precedes ruling on the Wagner Act.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Supreme Court
Plan Senate Fight After House Defeat on Relief Bill
Columbus up dispatch says administration forces plan a Senate counterattack after House defeat of Gov Davey relief bill. The measure would spend 3.9 million for poor relief to April 1 and 1 million for flood relief. House reduced relief chief salary from 500 to 350 dollars and struck a 1 million dollar county matching provision.
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Davey
Senate
House
Columbus
Relief Commission
92Nd General Assembly
Old Relief Commission
Roy Wildermuth
Gomer Jones
Gallipolis
Dorothy Kiplinger
Toledo
Sit-Down Lover Holds Fort at Excelsior Springs
Harold Hulen, 30, a singer and amusements director, remains on Florence Hurlbut's doorstep in Excelsior Springs as a sit-down protest for marriage. He wears a ball and chain on his ankle, a dog chain on his wrist, and a radiator inside the lobby, while Hurlbut, 20, weighs options and pursues stage ambitions rather than marriage.
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Chamber of Commerce Amusements
Florence Hurlbut
Hulen
Miss Hurlbut
Helen
Petite
Brunet
Huribut
Cincinnati Flood Recedes After 18 Days of High Water
Ohio River fell below 52 feet ending Cincinnati’s longest flood stretch in 18 days. River stage reached 79.00 feet at the crest before retreating to safer levels. Authorities warned of remaining inundation and urged caution around affected areas.
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Cincinnati
U.R
Ohio River
Heavy Trading in Food Disclosed in January
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange reports a six year peak in butter egg and potato futures trading for January. Egg futures bought 4,260 contracts up 216 percent from January 1936, the heaviest since 1930. Butter purchases reached 2,900 contracts and potato contracts totaled 299,160 100-lb sacks.
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Chicago
Child Marriages Outlawed in Tennessee Senate
The Tennessee Senate voted unanimously to outlaw future child marriages. The move follows publicized weddings such as the Sneedville ceremony involving a 9-year-old girl and a 22-year-old mountaineer.
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Tennessee
Nashville
Tenn
Senate
Sneedville
Charge Manslaughter, Release Man on Bond
Ernest F. Buk, 50, driver of the auto that killed Frank L. Dean, 71, and injured Mrs. Etta Burnham, Dean’s sister in law, was charged with second degree manslaughter and released on $1,000 bond in Columbus.
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Columbus
U.P
Ernest F. Buk
Frank Ll. Dean
Etta Burnham
Dean
Liquor Prices Drop in New York War
Retail liquor prices tumbled in a New York price war. The greatest drop was a fifth of sweet Vermouth from 1.34 to 15 cents. Dealers slashed several Scotch whiskies and cut cheaper rye and bourbon brands by 25 to 50 cents.
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New York
U.P
Princess Mary Heads to Vienna to Visit Exiled Duke
London dispatch says Princess Mary the Princess Royal left for Vienna to visit her self exiled brother, the Duke of Windes.
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London
U.P
Mary
Vienna
Duke of Windse
Recognition of Lewis Union Chief Obstacle in GM Strike
Detroit report on efforts to end the General Motors strike with a Roosevelt mediated plan. Key dispute remains over union recognition as the UAW seeks exclusive bargaining voice while GM cites nonunion workers. Evacuations of sit downers and injunctions add to the tension amid ongoing talks.
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Frank Murphy
John L. Lewis
CIO
Detroit
General Motors
Murphy
Lewis
William S. Knudsen
Roosevelt
General Motors Corporation
United Automobile Workers
GMC
UAW
Committee For Industrial Organization
William Knudsen
Knudsen
Comepany
Flint
Fisher Body
Chevrolet
Paul V. Gadola
Ralph Gault
Plan To Build Dam in Lower Hocking Valley
At a nine state flood prevention conference in Columbus the Logan Chamber of Commerce discussed a possible dam on the lower Hocking Valley with prospects for smaller dams near the river head waters. Representing Logan were Rep. H. H. Wright of Hocking County B. A. Hall and resident engineer B. V. Wright who sought to learn if the plan would affect the Hocking River.
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LOGAN
Hocking
Hocking River
Columbus
Logan Chamber of Commerce
H. H. Wright
Hocking County
B. A. Hall
B. V. Wright
Friend of Confessed Kidnapper Is Quizzed
Willow Springs Missouri police planned to question Buster Brixey a 25 year old farmer friend of Robert Kenyon the 20 year old confessed kidnapper and slayer in the Dr J C B Davis case. Brixey found the physician's medical kit in the North Fork River sixteen miles southeast of Willow Springs days after the kidnapping.
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Willow Springs
U.P
Buster Brixey
J. C. B. Davis
Brixey
North Fork River
Here
Robert Kenyon
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Milan
Benito Mussolini
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Singer
Excelsior Springs
Harold Hulen
Harold
Princess
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