Red Cross flood relief food to be bought locally say Athens paper
The Athens Messenger reports complaints from Southeast Ohio distributors over Red Cross flood relief purchases, urging the national HQ to source food from Athens Meigs Washington and Gallia counties. The letter notes local wholesalers and retailers can handle allocations to Marietta through Gallipolis, improving relief distribution and aiding local business.
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American Red Cross
Ohio
Athens
Meigs
Washington
Gallia
Cary T. Grayson
Washington, D. C
Ohio River
Marietta
Gallipolis
Columbus
River Town
THE
Athens Messenger
Gordon K. Bush
Red Cross Policy Encourages Local Food Purchases in Disasters
A letter from Walter Davidson of the American Red Cross to Gordon K. Bush explains that local supply purchases are preferred in disaster areas to aid merchants and stimulation of local business. The letter notes emergency periods may require outside bulk purchases briefly, especially when communities are cut off, but local markets should resume as soon as possible.
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American Red Cross
Washington, D. C
Gordon K. Bush
Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Mr. Bush
Admiral Brayson
Red Cross
Strike Settled At Ohio Boxboard Co Gluing Dept
A sitdown strike in the gluing department of the Ohio Boxboard Co. ended after five hours with workers returning to duties. No injuries or further details were reported.
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Bittman
U.P
Ohio Boxboard Co
Supreme Court Opens Test of Labor Relations Act
The nine justices hear arguments on the Wagner Act amid a firestorm over New Deal labor policy. The Associated Press v. National Labor Relations Board centers on reinstating discharged editor Morris Watson and whether the act infringes press freedom and employer rights.
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Supreme Court
Associated Press
National Labor Relations Board
Morris Watson
Press Fights Act
John W. Davis
Davis
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
New York City
Watson
American Newspaper Guild
Nationalists report Russian wounded in Loyalist hospital
Nationalists claimed they captured Cimpanelos on the Madrid front and found a Russian man strapped to a table in a Loyalist hospital. They said the doctor fled mid operation, a Nationalist doctor finished the surgery, and the Russian was reportedly recovering.
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Avila
Spain
U.P
Cimpanelos
Madrid
Offers Bill To Collect Debts From Counties
The House Finance Committee backed a bill to withhold counties sales tax shares if they owe wards in state institutions. Introduced by Democratic Floor Leader Jacob Davis, the measure passed 12 to 2 and would constrain allocations until counties sign a 10 year installment contract. State Finance Director M Ray Allision said 65 counties owe 3.15 million dollars. Athens County owes 81 thousand.
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Columbus
U.P
House Finance Committee
Jacob Davis
M. Ray Allison
Athens County
Yankee Trading May Face Senate Fight After House Approval
The Yankee trading program backed by the administration won House approval and now heads to the Senate for a possible floor fight. House leaders rallied in the Democratic chamber Tuesday to extend Roosevelt's authority to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements for three more years despite Republican and some Democratic objections.
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Washington
U.P
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Doctor Loses to Stork in Flood Hospital Run
Dr. C A Poindexter of Middleport struggled through flood waters on Thomas Fork Creek to reach Mrs. Emmett Daniels at Meigs County Infirmary. The matron led the effort as two healthy babies were born to the Daniels family, expanding to ten children in all.
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Middleport
Malcolm Hartley
Pomeroy
C. A. Poindexter
Thomas Fork Creek
Emmett Daniels
Meigs County Infirmary
Allard Pratt
Daniels
Poindexter
Supt
Glenn Thompson
Pratt
Thompson
Meigs County
Daniela
Agricultural leaders adopt program of farm legislation
The House Judiciary Committee prepared two bills as part of Roosevelt's proposed judicial reorganization. The measures include full pay for Supreme Court justices retiring after 70 with 10 years service and AG authority to intervene in private federal litigation on constitutional questions. State responses varied as Landon planned a New York speech to critique the proposals.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
House
Hatton W. Sumners
House Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
United States Attorney General
Texas
Texas Senate
Colorado House
Maine
Connecticut House
New Jersey
Senate
Judiciary Committee
South Carolina
Alf M. Landon
New York
Joe T. Robinson
Recommendations Based On Secretary Wallace's Granary Plan
Agricultural leaders at a 62 organization conference endorsed Henry A. Wallace ever normal granary plan to balance supply and demand. The pact favors loans for storage, continued soil payments, penalties for noncompliance, and tax powered reductions, with added calls for crop insurance and tenant farm programs.
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Wallace
National Farm Organization
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
L. J. Taber
National Grange
E. H. Everson
Farmers’ Union
AAA
Delegates Selected for National Wage Conference
Frank J. Bender and John Wyckoff were chosen to represent Division 1 of District 6 United Mine Workers of America at the national joint wage conference in New York City February 17. The Nelsonville meeting set the 35 delegates from 24 locals to 72 votes.
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Nelsonville
Frank J. Bender
Zanesville
John Wyckoff
Athens
United Mine Workers of America
New York City
Hocking Valley
Crooksville
Pomeroy
Jackson
Bender
Wyckoff
Washington
Miners’ Policy Committee
Herman Theisen
William B. Morris
Bach
Ohio Considers 12 New Taxes in Legislature
Columbus report details a dozen tax bills under consideration. Proposals include a half cent gasoline tax to raise 10 million dollars for poor relief, a 10 percent hotel room levy for old age pensions, a 3 percent tax on newspaper advertising, and a building permit rule for structures over 200 dollars outside municipalities with a 25 dollar township permit.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lady Hum
Cleveland
John E. Curtin
Lucas
Giles F. Guthrie
Portage
Ohio 1936 Liquor Tax Sees Large Rise
Washington area report shows Ohio liquor tax receipts rising to 36,979,484 in 1936 from 29,528,448 in 1935 by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. The increase totals 7,651,036, reflecting stronger tax collection in the state during the year.
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Washington-Aup
Ohio
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Music Store Manager Takes Own Life in Ohio Home
John Glendon Bagley 36 manager of Summers and Son Portsmouth branch shot himself in his Jackson home Monday night He died at Holzer hospital after four blood transfusions following the wound This appears to be a personal crisis and suicide incident reported by staff PMID Gallipolis Ohio.
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Gallipolis
John Glendon Bagley
Portsmouth
Summers and Son
Jackson
Holzer Hospital
Prisoners Escape Medina Jail Steal Sheriff Keys
Three inmates in Medina's century-old county jail escaped after stealing Sheriff Roy Kruggels keys while the sheriff and six other prisoners slept.
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Medina
Roy Kruggels
Akron woman defends child marriage with personal history
Mrs. Opal Coates of Akron Ohio argues every girl should marry at 13. She herself wed at 16 and had four children by 23 and a grandchild by 27. Her daughter Frances Satterly also married at 13 and has a 2 year old son named Dalton.
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Opal Coates
Akron
Ohio
Frances Satterly
Dalton
Flood Control Plan Offered
President Roosevelt proposes a vast public works program to fight floods and droughts, establishing eight regional water resources authorities. He sent the plan to Congress with the Great Plains Drought Committee report urging long term rehabilitation for drought ravaged farm states across the central West and Southwest. The program targets North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, aiming to create employment during industry lags and provide a planned project list for use in hard times.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Middle West
Congress
Great Plains
North
South
Araska
Dakota
Boys Take Turns At Bed Clothes
Gallia County truant officers report two brothers aged 16 and 17 missing from school due to lack of clothing. One pair of overalls is used by both on alternate days, hindering attendance. Superintendent H. B. Bradbury notes nearly one hundred delinquents for the same reason as Cheshire and Kananga schools plan to open February 15.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
H. B. Bradbury
Ollie Eblin
Charles Brown
Cheshire
Kananga
Steel executive Harry E. Sheldon dies at 75 in Pittsburgh
Harry E. Sheldon, 75, longtime president of the Allegheny Steel Company and a leading figure in stainless steel production, has died in Pittsburgh. He led the firm for 35 years and helped shape the industry during his era.
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Pittsburgh
Harry E. Sheldon
Allegheny Steel Company
Drunk Man and Dog Lead to Brief Police Stay
Seattle report says Jack Rauito and his dog wandered city streets until police took Rauito into custody after he behaved drunkenly. Rauito received a 10 day sentence while his canine companion was not charged.
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Seattle
Wash
U.P
Jack Rauito
Jack
Rauito
Hatton Sumners weighs in on VA and Supreme Court plan
The Texas representative and House Judiciary Committee chair and his stance on the Roosevelt proposal will influence Congress. His undecided position and noted lack of enthusiasm suggest hurdles for the plan.
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Hatton W. Sumners
Texas
House Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
Congress
Sumners
Roosevelt
Conference in Auto Dispute Is Continued
Gov. Frank Murphy urged peace in Flint as he kept General Motors executives and United Automobile Workers in talks on a settlement. The union reportedly offered a compromise on bargaining rights for 20 plants idled by strikes, which GM reportedly refused. Murphy summoned Col. Joseph H. Lewis and National Guardsmen to Detroit for tense, ongoing discussions.
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Detroit
Frank Murphy
Motor City
Flint
General Motors Corporation
United Automobile Workers
General Motors
Murphy
Col
Joseph H. Lewis
National
Union organizers shot at in Kentucky ambush claim
JELLICO Tenn. UP William Turnblazer district president of the United Mine Workers charged that union organizers in Harlan County Kentucky are being shot at from ambush. Thomas Ferguson organizer from New Lexington Ohio was wounded twice in the shoulder while driving between Verfa and Brookside and taken to a hospital at Middiesboro.
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Jellico
Tenn
William Turnblazer
United Mine Workers
Harlan County
Kentucky
Thomas Ferguson
New Lexington
Ohio
Wags
Verfa
Brookside
Turnblazer
Middiesboro
Former Governor George White to Seek 1938 Governorship
The Cleveland Press reports reliable information that former Governor George White of Marietta plans to run again for governor in 1938.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Press
George White
Marietta
Ohio WPA rolls 130432 on Feb 3
Ohio WPA reported 130432 persons on relief rolls as of February 3 from state headquarters. The update notes ongoing federal work relief programs and the scale of relief in the state.
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Columbus
Ohio Wpa
No Survivors in United Airlines Crash Near San Francisco
San Francisco airport officials say all 11 aboard the United Air Lines Douglas liner died when it crashed five miles east of the city’s municipal airport after signaling for a landing on a two hour Los Angeles run. Pilot A R Thompson and Co Pilot Joe DeCesaro among the dead.
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San Francisco
B. M. Doolin
United Airs Lines
Musnicipal Airport
A. R
Tommy) Thompson
Los Angeles
Frank Fuller
Burbank
Joe Decesaro
North Hollywood
Ruth Kimmel
Alameda
Mark Fontana
Remo Margaron
Thompson
Pacific Coast
Western Air Express
Salt Lake City
United Airliner
Northwest Airlines
Idaho
Western Air
Celebrated Poet Found Mentally Incompetent in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn Supreme Court a jury ruled Edward Markham, famed author of Man with the Hoe, mentally incompetent. A committee will manage his affairs. Miss Mary Murphy, his sister-in-law, filed the action from Staten Island.
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New York
Brooklyn Supreme Court
Edward Markham
With
Mary Murphy
Staten Island
Fugitive Returns to Georgia Chain Gang
Georgia chain gang fugitive Harry Walker age 32 surrendered in Dallas after nine days in jail waiting for authorities to act. He said it felt like a fire how-do-you-do to be back in prison and will finish his four year sentence for attempted kidnapping to be with his family.
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Dallas
Tex
U.P
Georgia
Harry Walker
Gallipolis Faces Flood-Erosion Crisis Plan Outlined
Gallipolis engineers warn unless residents act, river and creek bank slips will meet in the city center causing severe damage. E Naret Leonard says piling and concrete walls are useless. propose trenching First and Fourth Avenues with a perforated pipe and 400 foot outlets to control water flow from sand deposits.
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Gallipolis
E. Naret Leonard
Gallia
Leon
Leonard
First
Fourth Aves
Chickamauga Creek
City
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