Democratic Executive Body Will Investigate County Officials
Athens County Democratic Executive Committee orders a formal inquiry into rumors of irregularities in county road materials and quarry purchases. Three Nelsonville residents will lead the probe with power to seek resignations and prosecutions if evidence warrants. The move follows a request for the commissioners clerk’s resignation and precedes ongoing courthouse talks.
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Athens County
Democratic Executive Committee
Oral Daugherty
C. G. Dew
John Call
Nelsonville
Ira Whitmore
Walter Maccombs
Frank Minner
York Township
Daugherty
Democratic Committee
Final Plea for Slayer Of Wife and Friend
Defense attorney Jerry Giesler made his final plea for Paul A. Wright who killed his wife and John B. Kimmel after finding them in an embrace. The three week trial nears its close as Judge Ingall W. Bull prepares to guide an eight man and four woman jury toward a verdict expected Friday.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Jerry Giesler
Paul A. Wright
John B. Kimmel
Giesler
Ingall W. Bull
Motors Stolen From Waldo School Prompt One Day Vacancy
Two motors were taken from Waldo School in Marion causing a one day pupil vacation. The devices powered a ventilating fan and the school water system, disrupting operations.
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Marion
U.R
Waldo School
Solons Prepare to Quit Work Feb 28
The Ohio Senate and House plan to adjourn sine die on February 28 after clearing most major legislation. Pending items include substitute poor relief bills, a $3,000,000 supplemental appropriation, and the Ogrin Bill to end liquor sales tax on drinks while taxing bottle sales. The Hesse Bill lowering needed votes for relief levies failed, and taxation and road assessment measures were rejected or left undecided.
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Columbus
U.P
Senate
House
Davey
Ralph G. Marshall
Muskingum
Union Fights Any Wage Cut by U S Steel
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee a CIO affiliate will oppose any attempt by United States Steel to use the escape clause of the extended company union contract to cut wages. Three hours before U S Steel renewed its agreement with SWOC independents cut prices up to four dollars a ton, prompting responses from Carnegie-Illinois Steel. The accord keeps the five dollar daily minimum, overtime at time and a half, the forty hour week, five years' service vacations, and continued union recognition as sole bargaining agent for its members.
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NEW York
U.P
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
United States Steel Corporation
Big Steel
SWOC
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel
Warden Denies Anna Hahn Collapse Rumors
Anna Marie Hahn, convicted of arsenic slaying of 78 year old Jacob Wagner in Cincinnati, is described as in a nervous condition after learning last Monday the court of appeals rejected her appeal for a new trial. Warden J C Woodard denies she is near collapse. Attorneys plan to appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court before March 1, likely delaying the March 10 execution.
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Columbus
U.2
Anna Marie Hahn
Jacob Wagner
Cincinnati
Court of Appeals
J. C. Woodard
Ohio Penitentiary
Ohio Supreme Court
Building Appropriation Bill Moves in Senate
Columbus report notes a Senate bill to create a state building commission with power to issue 10 million dollars in bonds for a new state institutional building program. The proposal mirrors the governor's 1935 plan, which died in that session.
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Columbus
Davey
Senate
Police hunt Capone mob in Costello shooting
Chicago Heights police and state investigators pursue three gunmen tied to Capone era gangsters after they killed Sam Costello 32 and wounded three associates in a bakery attack. The slain man was linked to a slot racket and a brother to Charles Costello described as the Capone of Chicago Heights.
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Capone
Costello
Chicago Heights
Ilc
Scarface _ Capone
Sam Costello
Chicago
Charles Costello
Senate Tables Anti-Lynching For Farm Bill
The Senate again set aside the anti lynching measure to take up the farm bill on Roosevelt's must legislation list. House approved the conference report 263 to 135, signaling early White House action. Sen Joseph C O Mahoney opposed, calling it a crop control bid to influence livestock dairy and poultry farmers.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Administration
House
White House
Congress
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Wyo
Youth Admits Starting Fires in Spur of Alcohol Fights
John Wade, 26, confessed to starting about 50 fires over two years, one causing three deaths. Police say most fires occurred when he was intoxicated after his mother, brother, and sister died in a September 1935 house fire.
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New York
U.P
John Wade
Wade
Brothers Collect Wages Earned 16 Years Ago
Joseph and James McBride of Ellwood City Pennsylvania earned wages for a half day at Mullins Manufacturing in 1922 but never collected. Secretary treasurer Andrew MacLeod reviewed payrolls, confirmed the claims, and mailed the overdue checks.
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SALEM
U.R
Joseph and
James McBride
Ellwood City
Mullins Manufacturing Co
Andrew MacLeod
MacLeod
Wanted 5 Horses From Mes senger Want Ad
A historical want ad notes five horse prospects in The Messenger at end of January with one sale completed and four still seeking a bargain horse. The entry lists ONE BAY HORSE weighing 1150 pounds, a mare colt coming two years old, credited to William Cheadle of Ohio.
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the Messenger
Advertiser
William Cheadle
Carpenter
Ohio
Mothers and girl on trial for murder in Newark
Mrs Eth el Bunny Sohl and 17 year old Genevieve Owens faced a jury in Newark N J after a hold up and slaying of a bus driver for 2 10. The prosecutor refused a plea to second degree murder and the pair stood trial for their lives.
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Ethel
Bunny” Sohl
Meeker
Genevieve Owens
Newark
N. J
Warden Denies Capone Breakdowns Threaten Prison
San Francisco U P reports Warden James A Johnston says Scarface Al Capone lies placidly on a prison hospital cot and that his mental breakdown was not serious or violent. The official statement counters sensational reports as Capone serves the final year of an 11 year sentence for federal income tax charges.
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San Francisco
U.P
Alcatraz Island
James A. Johnston
Scarface al Capone
Chicago
No Fatal Mishaps on Ohio Passenger Lines
Ohio Public Utilities Commission reports no passenger deaths in 1937 among transport firms under its supervision. The 1936 data showed four fatal passenger accidents, including two on bus lines and one each on interurban and steam railroads.
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Columbus
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Commission
Akron Ends 40 Day Traffic Fatality Drought
Akron records a 40 day stretch without a traffic fatality the longest since 1927 when 54 year old steel worker Max Rilling was killed.
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Akron
Max Rilling
Coal Commission To Rardin Bared Before Probers
Testimony from Athens County coal operators shows they appealed to Governor Davey's office to stop a 30 cent per ton state sale deduction by Dan Bardin. Five witnesses detailed checks and affidavits alleging a 30 cent cut with 10 cents for campaign funds and 20 cents as Bardin's commission.
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Columbus
WU P
Athens County
Davey
Dan Rardin
Senate
Ralph Hartman
the Plains
John W. Norris
Nelsonville
Oliver Savage
Buchtel
Beulah
Lottie Smathers
Building Hopes on Average Family
Columbus AP John J. Marsh of Dover, newly elected vice president of the Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, urged the average family to help revive the building trades. He said understanding profits and satisfaction in home building and buying would spark immediate activity and steer the nation into a new era of prosperity.
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Columbus
John J. Marsh
Dover
Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers
Marsh
Five killed as Pacific gale batters California coast
A massive Pacific gale with 80 mph winds lashed the California coast from Los Angeles to Eureka, killing five and injuring dozens. Buildings collapsed, trees were torn down, and power lines failed as hundreds lost homes and property worth millions. The storm’s worst effects were inland as it moved ashore.
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San Francisco
California
Los Angeles
Eureka
Spinal Meningitis Fatal To High School Student
Gallipolis West Virginia teen John McCullough Jr. age 17 of Ashton died at Holzer Hospital after a brief illness from spinal meningitis. He was a Pt Pleasant High School student who had played basketball with classmates less than a week earlier. Private burial was held in Ashton.
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Gallipolis
John McCullough
Ashton
W. Va
Holzer Hospital
Young McCullough
Pt. Pleasant High School
Sit-Down Strike Ends at Goodrich Tire Plant Akron
Normal operations resumed at the Goodrich Tire and Rubber Co. Akron plant after workers staged a brief sit-down strike in the tire division.
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Akron
U.P
Goodrich Tire and Rubber Co
Girl and Exile Dog Free New York Court Order
Miss Eleanor Ailinger a 23 year old technician at Sisters Hospital postponed her flight to Georgia with her Great Dane Symbol to meet a midnight deadline to leave New York or have the dog destroyed. The order from Justice Herman Jordan cites ear clipping as illegal in New York.
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Kenmore
N. Y
Eleanor Ailinger
Sisters’ Hospital
Georgia
Symbol
New York State
Justice of the Peace
Herman Jordan
Erie County Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Cleveland
Young killer pleads guilty to murder in Montgomery County
Wendell Forrest Bowers, 20, a reform school alumnus, changed his plea to guilty before three Montgomery County judges in Norristown Pa. He faced capital punishment for the murder of his benefactor Mrs Wilma Carpenter and an attempted assault on Mary Griffin, the beauty shop manager.
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Wendell Forrest Bowers
Reformatory
Montgomery
Norristown
Wilma V. Carpenter
Mary Griffin
Wire theft suspect shot during escape in Kerrs Run yard
William F E Wendle of Athens County was shot in the left shoulder at 11 am while fleeing Kerrs Run junk yard officers say he and Eugene Wendle were linked to a New Lexington mine wire theft. Eugene fled and is being hunted as officers pursue leads from Perry to Pomeroy.
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Pomeroy
William FE. Wendle
Athens County
Kerr's Run
Eugene Wendle
Pomeroy Junk Company
Wendle
C. W. Bayless
Adrian
Perry County
Boy Accused Killer Freed on Bond in West Virginia Case
Ten-year-old Joe Greenberg, charged with killing his foster cousin Dorothy Louise Lavender, 18, was released on a $5,000 bond. A hearing is set at the criminal court term opening April 4. Prosecutor Roscoe H. Pendleton fought the bond request. the boy testified he did not know the gun was loaded.
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Princeton
W. Va
Joe Greenberg
Dorothy Louise Lavender
Roscoe H. Pendleton
Bond
Japan to Answer Naval Strength Inquiries
Tokyo reports Japan will answer Saturday to U S British and French questions on naval building programs but government signals it will refuse to disclose detailed plans.
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Japan
Tokyo
U.P
United States
Pomeroy Merchant Frank Fugate Dies in Parkersburg
Frank Fugate 78 a Pomeroy merchant died late Wednesday in a Parkersburg hospital. He is survived by wife Margaret and four children Mrs. William Darnhardt Pittsburgh Mrs. Albert Whippel James Fugate and Frank Fugate Jr all of Pomeroy. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
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Pomeroy
Frank Fugate
Pomeroy Merchant
Parkersburg
Margaret Fugate
William Darnhardt
Pittsburgh
Albert Whippel
James Fugate
Rio storm kills Fifteen and injures at least fifty
In Rio de Janeiro a severe electrical storm struck late Wednesday killing fifteen people and injuring at least fifty others. Authorities warned of continuing weather hazards as rescue teams worked at affected sites.
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Rio DE Janeiro
U.P
Truck collision kills 26 year old in Marysville area
Eugene Cretal of Pontiac Michigan, aged 26, was killed when his truck struck the rear of another truck about 12 miles north of Marysville.
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Marysville
Eugene Cretal
Pontiac
Mich
Here
Foes Fight Roosevelt Navy Plan Before House Panel
National Council for the Prevention of War witnesses press ongoing opposition to President Roosevelt’s proposed 800 million naval program before the House Committee on Naval Affairs. Isolationists gain backing from peace advocates while they vow a finish fight and challenge current war profits legislation plans. Secretary Hull reiterates the U S has no alliances for armed action, even as Congress seeks foreign policy clarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
National Council For the Prevention of War
Roosevelt
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Peace Organization
Cordell Hull
United States
Jackson Under Senate Glass
Robert H. Jackson faced questions from a Senate judiciary subcommittee about his qualifications for solicitor general. Sen Warren Austin pressed on his views of constitutional law and Internal Revenue Service policies toward tax assessments and burdens of proof on returns.
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Washington
U.P
Robert H. Jackson
Senate Judiciary
Warren R. Austin
Jackson
Internal Revenue Department
Department
Roosevelt asks Congress for 250 million relief funds
President Roosevelt urged Congress to appropriate 250 million dollars for unemployment relief for the rest of the fiscal year ending June 30. He warned millions of jobless and applicants need swift aid and proposed relaxing work relief restrictions to extend WPA spending and keep about 1.95 million on its rolls.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Works Progress Administration
Dole
Senate
Charles McNary
R. Ore
Sheriff Minutes From Capture After Granada Theater Robbery
Bluefield West Virginia sheriff G H Crumpecker chased a theater bandit after a Granada Theater robbery that netted $150. his car ran out of gas during the pursuit slowing the pursuit and leaving the thief at large.
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Bluefield
W. Va
G. H. Crumpecker
Granada Theater
Chinese Flood Blocks Japanese Forces Large Area Dammed River
Chinese sources said troops dammed the Chang River crossed the Peiping Hankow Railroad and cut dikes to flood a wide countryside area hindering the Japanese. They reported 100000 cavalrymen heading to Suiyuan Shansi fronts as the Eighth Route Army harasses in guerrilla fighting.
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Shanghai
Chang River
Peiping-Hankow
Suiyuan-Shansi
Eighth Route Army
Farmer Raymond Godwin Convicted in Involuntary Manslaughter Case
Urbana report states Raymond Godwin, a farmer, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the death of his wife during a November 17 struggle over a shotgun. Police reported the shooting occurred in a domestic dispute at their residence.
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Urbana
Raymond Godwin
Officials Center on Aid For Small Businessman
Administration fiscal officials push a program of aid to small businesses aiming for early passage of long term loans. The plan seeks three to five year financing for secondary enterprises, with urgent action needed as no current machinery exists to provide such aid. Daniel C. Roper and Jesse H. Jones lead a intensive study with a promise of definite action within a week.
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Washington
U.P —Administration
Commerce Department
Little Business
Ment
Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C. Roper
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Jesse H. Jones
Roper
Bal
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Rardin
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Navy
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