Ohio Coal Output Tops Year Amid National Shortage
Nelsonville reports January 1 stocks at 37.2 million tons, up 1.3 million from October. Nationally, 1930 showed lower consumption, weaker industrial demand, and a seasonal rise in fourth quarter use with total coal production down from 1929. Ohio produced 23.55 million tons in 1930. West Virginia and Pennsylvania also show declines.
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Nelsonville
Federal Bureau of Mines
Ohio
Federal Department
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
War General Buried Today
Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, a key figure in the St Mihiel Chateau Thierry and Meuse Argonne offensives, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Army leaders and private soldiers attended the funeral led by Rev. Ernest Smith as tributes surrounded the vault.
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Washington
U.P
Potomac
France
Clarence R. Edwards
Boston
St. Mihiel
Chateau-Thierry
Meuse-Argonne
Arlington Memorial Cemetery
Ernest Smith
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Edward
Tasker H. Bliss
Taft
Rescue Six From Fire in Cleveland Heights
Six people including a one year old and a 65 year old invalid woman were rescued from a two family house in Cleveland Heights as police officers carried the elderly woman and child to safety. A maid named Tillie Nysinger was lowered to safety after firemen broke a window to reach her. A separate item notes plan to consolidate two railroad subsidiaries by the Detroit Toledo and Ironton Railroad before the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Cleveland
U.R
Cleveland Heights
Homer David
Simeon Tully
Goldie Greenbaum
Bruce Roses
Uining
Tillie Nysinger
Washington
Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Detroit and Ironton
Toledo-Detroit Railroads
Will Rogers Sees Rain, Jokes, and Navy Budget Cuts
Will Rogers writes from Monica California describing relief from rain and fog while recalling a 75 foot altitude during a trip from Albuquerque. He notes a charity hat pass yielding a thousand dollars for Red Cross and comments on the Republican budget cuts in navy and airplanes.
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Albuquerque
Frank
Red Cross
Republican Party
U. S. Navy
Will
TA Monica
Calif
Senate Opposes An $85.5 Million Naval Bill
In Washington Feb 16 Senate members press opposition to an $85 500 000 naval construction bill described as a first step toward London Treaty parity with Britain The plan calls for an aircraft carrier flying deck cruiser cruiser four submarines and development funds for Diesel power plants The bill also proposes a smaller 13 800 ton carrier and submarines limited to 1 000 tons each The Navy seeks new designs and tonnage targets amid treaty constraints
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Washington
U.P
Great Britain
Senate
Hale
Naval Affairs Committee
London
Navy General Board
Arthur Brisbane Column Today
Daily column by Arthur Brisbane references current events and public concerns in a concise opinion piece common to the era. The syndicated text previews themes and reactions likely to shape reader perspectives.
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Arthur Brisbane
Desert Rain and Film Stars On a Southern Train
Northern Arizona soaked with rain and snow in the mountains promising good crops. Ina Claire travels with actor John Gilbert and hints at their separation as the Examiner notes their temperaments. Astronomers joke about stars in the firmament traveling together. The item ends with a mention of J. O. Jernigin aboard.
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Los Angeles
Arizona
Ina Claire
Harpo" Marx
Los Angeles Examiner
John Gilbert
Miss Claire
Claire
Hollywood
Trails Marked in Ohio Revolutionary Memorial Effort
Ohio Revolutionary Memorial Commission releases its first biennial report. It has mapped 22 trails totaling 1350 miles from the Revolution and War of 1812, marking them with art metal signs in Western Ohio and urging state-wide continuation with future appropriations.
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Columbus
Ohio Revolutionary Memorial Commission
General Assembly
Ohio
Miners Return to Work at Elm Grove No. 3 Mine
Two hundred miners resumed activity at Elm Grove Coal Company No. 3 Mine in Wheeling West Virginia after three months idle as operations reopened. General Manager Ernest C. Mobile said indications point to steady employment going forward.
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Wheeling
W. Va
U.P
Elm Grove Coal Company
Ernest C. Mobile
Flying boat wreck claims Commerce official
Donald T. Stevens of the Commerce Department Aeronautical Division drowned when a 200 foot Potomac River crash sank his lone flying boat at the U. S. Naval Station. Rescue efforts by officers and enlisted men proved futile as bystanders watched the tragedy unfold in Potomac Park.
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Washington
U.R
U. S. Naval Station
Donald T. Stevens
Commerce Department Aeronautical Division
Potomac River
Stephens
Potomac Park
Veterans Affairs Panel Recommends Pension Bill for Widows and Orphans
The House Veterans Affairs Committee voted to recommend passage of a pension bill for widows children and deceased World War II veterans parents. The bill does not cover childless widows.
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Washington
U.R
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Questionnaire Aims at Ideal Young Man Sermons
Rev M E Chatley of Park Street Church of Christ Geneva releases a survey on modern young men. Women cite liquor tobacco and heavy loving as key defects. Results to shape a sermon series on the Ideal Young Man following men’s questionnaires.
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M. E. Chatley
Park Street Church of Christ
Geneva
Chatley
Athens Christian Church
Oman
Ritchie Proposes Unconditional Prohibition Repeal for 1932
Maryland Governor Albert C. Ritchie outlines a Democratic presidential bid centered on repealing the Eighteenth Amendment without a federal substitute. He urges a Webb Kenyon style interstate commerce safeguard and insists the federal government retire from prohibition, leaving regulation to the states.
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Maryland
Raymond Clapper
United Press
Annapolis
Albert C. Ritchie
Ritchie
Statehouse
Smith
Democratic Party
United Press Today
United States
Kansas
Three Injured In Neighbor Card Game Dispute
In Urbana Ohio three people were injured after a neighborly card game argument turned violent. Ollie Knapp 45 was shot three times and Goldie Taylor in the cheek was wounded after Knapp retrieved a rifle. Michael Taylor 40 sustained facial injuries as the dispute over a $5 debt escalated.
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Taylor
Knapp
Library Board Upholds Vote on State Librarian Newman
Columbus February 16 The Ohio State Library Board reaffirmed the election of John Henry Newman Democrat as state librarian despite protests from Mrs. Dwight Young Dayton. A special meeting convened by State Director of Education John L Clifton revisited whether a governor can recommend a specific candidate for the post.
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Columbus
U.P
John Henry Newman
Democrat
State Library Board
Dwight Young
Dayton
John L. Clifton
Young
Cooper
Newman
Pardon board considers cases as Rockview pays reparations
Bellefonte Pa Feb 16 Officials at Rockview Penitentiary made reparations today as the state pardon board prepares to consider Irene Schroeder and W Glenn Dague under sentence of death for the killing of Corporal Brady Paul this week.
Embargo Prompts Soviet Orders Withdrawal in U.S.
Moscow reports indicate millions of dollars in Soviet orders placed in the United States will be withdrawn once the U S timber embargo becomes effective. Russian industrial and commercial circles denounce U S policy while printers, editors and workers rally against anti-Soviet moves.
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Moscow
U.P
United States
United States Treasury
United States Administration
Great Britain
Lila Jimerson Goes on Trial in Buffalo Murder Case
The state begins a second attempt to convict Lila Jimerson of killing Mrs. Clothilde Marchand. A jury is selected in Supreme Court after denials of dismissal and postponement. Prosecutors allege Jimerson influenced Seneca Nancy Bowen to murder Marchand, driven by jealousy over Henri Marchand.
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Buffalo
N. Y
U.R
New York
Lila Jimerson
Clothilde Marchand
Supreme Court
Alonzo G. Hinkley
Nancy Bowen
Three Die in Crash At Toledo Railroad Crossing
Two women and a man died when their car struck a Detroit Toledo & Ironton freight train in Toledo at midnight Saturday. Victims were Paul Shertzer 22 Hilda Shertzer 19 and Iris Enbody 20 all residents of Toledo or nearby. Enbody had been visiting her husband Freeman Enbody and daughter Marda 14 months.
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Toledo
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton
Paul Shertzer
Hilda Shertzer
Tiffin
Paul
Iris Enbody
Enbody
Enhboedy
Freeman Enbody
Marda
Hoover Requests $20 Million Public Building Plan
Washington February 16 President Hoover transmitted to Congress recommendations from Budget Bureau Director Roop for Treasury to proceed with public building projects totaling 20 105 000 in 1932 the plan aims to spend funds on government structures nationwide.
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Washington
Hoover
Congress
Budget Bureau
Roop
Treasury Department
Maine 18S Remembered at Havana Disaster Memorial
Ten thousand people gathered around the double shafted monument in Havana to mark the thirty third anniversary of the sinking of the battleship Maine in the disaster that sparked the Spanish American War.
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Havana
Business Improvement This Spring Expected by Ayres
ClevelandTrust vice president Col Leonard P Ayers says February indexes show a bottoming in the business downturn and a possible spring upturn. He cites January blast furnace activity rising seven furnaces and predicts clearer signs within six weeks on steel auto and construction sectors.
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Cleveland
U.P
Leonard P. Ayers
Cleveland Trust Company
Ayers
Ayres
Oil Men Face Hard Battles Over Foreign Oil Ban
Washington February 16 4U P The American domestic independent oil industry faces chaos unless foreign oil is shut out as proposed by the Copper Garber Bill said RE D Reeser Tulsa OK president of the American Petroleum Institute and of the Barnsdale Oil Corporation He testified before the House Ways and Means Committee endorsing the bill noting perhaps 300 000 of 350 000 wells operate at a loss and many wells on the verge of shutdown He spoke as Barnsdale president not API head and called for a broad thorough investigation of the oil industry.
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Washington
Copper-Garber
RE. D. Reener
Tulsa
Okla
American Petroleum Institute
Barnadale Oil Corporation
House
Ways and Means Committee
Reeser
Wella
Petroleum Institute
Garner
Texas
Brown Sues for Divorce in Probate Court
Alonzo Brown of Santoy files for divorce from Mary Brown in Probate Court citing gross neglect of duty. Married April 20 1929 at Zanesville. No children. He seeks a divorce and to deprive Mary of all dower in his Morgan County real estate.
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New Lexington
Alonzo Brown
Santoy
Mary Brown
Zanesville
Morgan County
Watch Messenger For Feature in Lenten Season
The daily devotions of the Fellowship of Prayer for Lent begin Ash Wednesday February 1 and run to Easter Sunday April 5. Rev. Dr. Clarence Wilson of Central Union Church Honolulu and chairman of the General Council writes, guiding worshipers toward beauty in simple life and overcoming temptations with themes on Home-town Folks Fishing The Women The Committee Neighbors Wise Mothers and A Business Risk.
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Fellowship of Prayer
Clarence Wilson
Central Union Church
Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
General Council of the Congregational and Christian Churches
Ash
Football rule change on try for point penalties
New York officials report a secret weekend Rules Committee decision altering fouls during the try for point in college football. Defending team fouls now cost one yard while attacking team fouls cost five yards. prior rule awarded or nullified points depending on which side fouled.
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New York
Trial resumes in Daugherty case in Ohio bank funds misuse
Washington D. C. February 16 UPI The state moves to the second week of its trial against May 5 Daugherty former president of the Ohio State Bank charged with bank fund misuse Prosecutor McLean special counsel Louis J Schneider says the state will rest by Wednesday Cecil Hall resumes testimony Witness John Perrill and C L Daugherty are expected to testify again
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Washington D. H
U.P
Daugherty
Ohio State Bank
Louis J. Schneider
Cincinnati
McLean
Cecil Hall
John Perrill
Fayette County
C. L. Daugherty
Bandits loot Echo Dairy for 1800 in Cleveland raid
In Cleveland three armed bandits overpowered twenty Echo Dairy employees and escaped with 1800 dollars from an open safe. Also from Bucharest Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, visiting from Belgrade, was reported to have measles with her condition described as satisfactory.
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Cleveland
U.P
Echo Dairy
Bucharest
Marie
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
End of Week Toll in Ohio Violence and Accidents
A United Press survey tallies ten deaths in Ohio last weekend from traffic crashes, stabbings, fires, and other violent incidents. Youngstown man Harold Lesale Wilson, 38, was stabbed after a car crash. Mort Jackson, 25, and two companions held in connection with the stabbing. Dallas. Columbus man Charles Fartzell Brieze, 89, died after ingesting chloride of mercury. Mrs. Pearl Gholston, 36, killed when her car hit a freight train near Elmwood. Three burned to death when a car collided with a Dyne freight train near To Those trapped. Palmyra girl Palmyra, 11, killed in automobile crash en route to a church party. Victor Smith, 21, wounded in Akron after shooting himself while playing with a rifle. Richard Lowe, 6, seriously wounded in Akron by his six-year-old brother Carl Eugene. Dr. EBBE Myers, 55, physicist, killed near New Madison when struck by an electric train. James West, Canton, fatally hurt at Alliance when his cart skidded into a passenger train.
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Harold Lesale Wilson
Mort Jackson
Wilson
Wouradé
Charles Fartzell Brieze
Columbus
Pearl Gholston
Elmwood
James Gholaton
Paul Shertzer
Toledo
Hilda Shertzer
Thaid
Freeman Enbedy
Alma Carlston
Palmyra
Victor Smith
Akron
Richard
Vert Lowe
Akcon
Carl Eugene
Ebbe. Myers
New Madison
James West
Canton
Alliance
Coal Keeps Power Place
Washington Feb 16 Despite use of power sources coal remains the map for steam and steam electric power. H Hoar of the Department of Commerce says coal will stay essential due to control technologies and gains in efficiency.
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Washington
H. Hoar
Department of Commerce
Indus
Hoar
Germany
Canton Bank Closes After Embezzlement Arrest
Canton Bank, a major financial house, was closed by bank examiners and vice president C Hanner arrested on embezzlement charges. Hundreds of depositors queued at the doors while R V Mitchell, bank president, and head of Mitchell Herrick Co. of Cleveland, swore to the warrant for Hanner.
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Canton
Caneton Bank
C Hanner
R. V. Mitchell
Mitchell, Herrick & Co
Cleveland
Hanner
Ohio State Chemist Says No More Steps To Prevent Accident
Dr. William I. Evans head of the chemistry department at Ohio State University says after investigating last Tuesday’s accident that everything possible has been done to avoid such incidents. He urges students to handle chemicals carefully and report any concerns immediately.
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Columbus
R. William I. Evans
Ohio State, University
Local Weather Brief Reads Mixed Across Regions
Yesterday's highs reached 70 in Miami and 64 in Los Angeles while Phoenix is unclear. Todays low near Paso Robles shows 4 below and in Prince area temperatures are unsettled with gusty winds. Widespread conditions indicate mixed ranges with signals of colder air moving into the vicinity tonight.
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Lo Angeles
Phoenix
Tododay
Pasa
Prince
Wreath
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