Eight Navy trainer planes crash after five hour fog
In Pensacola Florida eight Naval training planes trapped by dense fog for over five hours exhausted their fuel while seeking clear landing spots. Two pilots were killed Lieut G F Presser and Lieut Norman M Ostergren. Several others parachuted to safety with minor injuries. The crash total valued at about 144000 dollars.
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Pensacola
Fla
Lieut
G. F. Presser
Naval Station
Norman M. Ostergren
Fort Peck
Mont
McDavid
Here
R. F. Chalmers
Corry Field
E. G. Osborne
Alfonso C. T. Horta
Thomas P. Cumming
Myrtle Grove
C. W. Harbert
Florida-Alabama
R. E F. Harmer
Naval Air Station
Atmore
Ala
J. H. Brett
J. E. W. Whitener
W. G. Jackson
A. C. McDonough
Greenville
Navy
Presser
Horta
Naval Air Training Course
Gulf
Harbert
Biloxi
Miss
Valparaiso
McDonough
Whitener
Jackson
Brett
Legislature Considers Short Recess for Budget Work
In Columbus the House and Senate leaders discussed a possible two week recess to allow joint committees to focus on the biennial budget and a long range relief program. Actions ahead include school funding bills and a tax stamp redemption proposal to boost tax collections.
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Columbus
House
Senate
General Assembly
Withdrawal of Amlie Nomination Is Sought
Reliable sources say influential congressmen will urge President Roosevelt to withdraw the nomination of former Rep. Thomas R. Amlie to the Interstate Commerce Commission. They expect the Senate will not confirm the appointment upon Roosevelt's return from a Caribbean cruise.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Thomas R. Amlie
Wis
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate
Miller pleads innocent on insanity in Struthers slaying
Chauncey Miller, 22, of Struthers, today pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the October 17 slaying of Henry V. Fitch, a Struthers merchant.
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Youngstown
U.P
Chauncey Miller
Struthers
Henry V. Fitch
Struthers Merchant
Officiating organist and girl found at state line
Pasadena authorities recovered Davis the organist and Anne Louise Sweitzer eight after they abandoned their homes Sunday in a car. They were intercepted last night as they tried to cross into Arizona at Yuma. Anne Louise defended her abductor saying she wanted to leave a bad environment.
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Pasadena
Cal
U.P
Townsend Davis
Anne Louise Sweitzer
Davis
Arizona
Yuma
Anne Louise
Police Investigate Death of Gallipolis School Girl
Gallia County officers investigate the death of Myrtle Holmes a 15 year old Gallipolis school girl who died at midnight Monday. Self administered poison is suspected by officials.
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Gallipolis
Myrtle Holmes
Gallia County
Harvester Springfield workers to vote in 30 days
The National Labor Relations Board ordered a union representation election within 30 days for hourly and piecework employees at International Harvester Company in Springfield Ohio.
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Washington
U.P
National Labor Relations Board
International Harvester Company
Springfield
Chinese faction leaders assassinated amid Shanghai crisis
In Shanghai tensions spike as 20 Blue Shirts supporters of Chiang Kai-shek kill Chen Lo, the foreign minister of the Japanese soldered Nanking regime, during Shanghai’s New Year celebrations. Marquis Li Kuo Chieh, a pro Japanese Chinese leader, is reported assassinated in the Shanghai International settlement.
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China
Chiang Kai-shek
Blue Shirts
Chen Lo
Nanking
Shanghai Party
Li Kuo-Chieh
Japan
Shanghai
Roosevelt Joins War Games in Defense of Panama Zone
President Roosevelt moved into the war zone near southeastern Cuba to join naval strategists testing defenses of the Panama Canal. The cruiser Houston reported the president in the vicinity for the solution of problem 20 as more than 100 ships participate in the maneuvers.
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Miami
Fla
U.P
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Houston
Cuba
Davey Attacks Bricker at Jeffersonian Banquet in Mt Vernon
Davey Flays Bricker during Jeffersonian banquet in Mt Vernon Ohio saying Bricker would make the unemployment commission director a dictator. He accused Bricker of mean vindictive conduct and of ignoring civil service laws while praising his own Democratic administration.
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Davey Flays
Bricker
Jeffersonian
MT. Vernon
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Unemployment Compensation Commission
John W. Bricker
John
Bricker the Ripper
Davey
Lame Duck
Keith Lawrence
Roosevelt Assailed by Leader of German American Bund
In New York 18000 attendees at a German American Bund event at Madison Square Garden praised Hitler era slogans and derided Roosevelt and New Deal officials. Isidore Greenbaum rushed the platform. he was beaten by Bund Storm Troopers. Police faced six hours of anti Nazi protests outside the venue. The rally, linked to Washington birthday celebrations for Bondsmen, drew 1700 officers and thousands nearby, with salutes to swastikas and the Nazi anthem. The Bund leader Fritz Kuhn denounced the New Deal and blamed Jewish figures for America’s troubles.
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New York
Isidore Greenbaum
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Greenbaum
Berlin
U.P
der Angriff
Labor Front
Madison Square Garden
Wilhelm Gustloff
Ernst Vom Rath
Paris
Lewis J. Valentine
Kuhn
Harold Ickes
Nazi Germany
Baruches
Untermyers
France
World
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Herbert Hoover
Gerald P. Nye
N. D
Coughlin
William E. Borah
Idaho
Two Appointed to Ohio Liquor Control Board
Governor Bricker names Col. William E. North of Greenville and William F. Hess of Cincinnati to the Ohio Liquor Control Board. North succeeds Leon J. Kujawski of Cleveland. Hess, father of Rep. William E. Hess, replaces Edith McClure Patterson of Dayton. Hess is a Republican.
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Columbus
U.P
John W. Bricker
William E. North
Greenville
William F. Hess
Cincinnati
Ohio Liquor Control Board
Colonel North
Darke County
Democratic
Leon J. Kujawski
Cleveland
Hess
William E. Hess
A Brewers’ Association
Edith McClure Patterson
Dayton
Jap Aerial Bombing Kills British Police in Raid
Japanese airplanes bombed British territory near the Canton Hong Kong Railroad killing a British Indian policeman. The raid left 98 people dead and more than 100 wounded in adjacent Chinese territory.
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Hong Kong
U.P
Canton
97 Year-Old Pilgrim Descendant Dies in Rio Grande
Hannah Brewster Randall aged 97, a descendant of New England pilgrim William Brewster, has died in Rio Grande Ohio.
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Pilgrim Fathers
Rio Grande, O
U.P
Hannah Brewster Randall
Wiliam Brewster
Army engineer urges Ohio River to Lake Erie waterway
Maj. Gen. Julien L. Schley, chief of army engineers, advocated a $207,257,000 project linking the Ohio River with Lake Erie through the Beaver Mahoning and Grand River Valleys.
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Urges Waterway
Lake Erie
Ohio River
Washington
W.P
Julien L. Schley
Army Engineers
Beaver, Mahoning
Grand River
Hollister Man Burns Near Death After Kitchen Explosion
In Glouster a kitchen outbuilding occupied by 60 year old Jack Bell exploded this morning. Bell suffered first degree burns and was taken to Shelter ing Arms Hospital Athens where he died is anticipated. The blast also ignited the Rankin home causing about $700 in damages. Rankin and his wife narrowly escaped as flames engulfed the building. Bell's son Edward lives in Glouster.
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Glouster
Jack Bell
Hollister
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Athens
Bell
Harry Rankin
Rankin
Edward
Car Used By Murderer Recovered In Pa Auction
The automobile linked to John W. Howland and his 15 year old cousin Aida Butler, missing since February 3, was found in Millersburg Pennsylvania after a purchaser attempted to re-register it. The car belonged to Miss Maude Horne 61 whose body was found February 4 on her Milton farm.
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Milton
N. H
U.P
Pennsylvania
John W. Howland
Ohio
Aida Butler
Millersburg
Maude Horne
Milton Farm
Civil War veteran Rodman M Drummond dies in Ross County
Ross County mourns as 92 year old Civil War veteran Rodman M Drummond dies leaving only four surviving Civil War veterans in the county today.
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Chillicothe
U.P
Rodman M. Drummond
Ross County
Simon Wins Support for Rearmament Debate
In the two day House of Commons debate on rearmament Sir John Simon disclosed government arms financing plans easing opposition. Prime Minister Chamberlain said Britain will spend 2.720 billion dollars on armaments in the new financial year with 1.079 billion revenue financed and the rest borrowed. The government weighs Italian troop movements to Libya and signals readiness to recognize Franco’s Nationalists in Spain, while a Moscow trade mission signals closer Soviet ties amid Eastern European discussions.
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London
U.P
House of Commons
John Simon
House
Britain
Simon
Libya
Italy
Spain
France
Moscow
Soviet Union
Poland
Roumania
Germany
Push Action on Defense Plan Nearing Final Action
Congress pressed Roosevelt's emergency defense program toward final action as supporters and opponents clashed over New Deal foreign policy. The House began general debate on bases and planes while the Senate studied boosting air strength to 5,500. Chairman Key Pittman defended the policy in a radio address, accusing Germany Italy and Japan of planning domination across Latin America and beyond.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Administration
House
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Key Pittman D
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Italy
Japan
Latin America
Europe
Asia
Rivers Rise Threatening Coshocton Flood Tonight
Coshocton faces rising Tuscarawas and Walhonding rivers as temperatures drop and snow remains. Weather observer Owen Popham forecast flooding by nightfall if the 12 foot stage is reached, with six roads expected to flood. All roads were open at dawn.
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Coshocton
U.P
Tuscarawas
Walhonding
Owen Popham
Legion Offers Information to Investigators
The American Legion of Ohio pressed for a legislative inquiry into alleged un American activities at Ohio State University. The Ohio Senate has not prioritized the resolution, awaiting university trustees' review. The trustees have held two hearings with another slated for next Monday as Eli Jensen pledged Legion support with material on Communist influence.
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Columbus
U.P
American Legion of Ohio
Ohio State University
Ohio Senate
Eli Jensen
Springfield
American Legion
Legion
Carlton S. Dargusch
The
French Franco Parley Near End at Burgos Meeting
Paris sources said negotiations with Generalissimo Franco for Nationalist Spain would conclude Wednesday with a final meeting between Franco and Senator Leon Berard at Burgos under good conditions. They indicated Franco would remain aligned with Hitler and Mussolini and resist London’s offered financial credits.
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Paris
U.P
France
Francisco Franco
Spain
Franco
Leon Berard
Burgos
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
London
Election to Name Pope Set for March First
Vatican City announced the conclave to elect the 262nd pope in succession to Pius XI will open March 1. All 62 cardinals are expected to attend and be isolated from the world until a two thirds vote names the new pope.
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Vatican City
U.P
Cardinals
Pius XI
College of Cardinals
Wheeler Puts Abolition of Railroad Holders in Relief Plan
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee Chairman Burton K Wheeler proposes abolishing railroad holding companies as a key element of blocking relief legislation.
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Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
D., Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
State Patrol Officer Addresses Athens PTA on Safety
Sgt. Robert Clark of the Columbus State Highway Patrol spoke at the Athens Junior-Senior High PTA meeting about road safety. He noted Ohio had 1,746 traffic accidents last year and stressed three driving rules while urging awareness of signs and speed factors. The program opened with violin solos by Virginia Segale and Alice Maccombs and was led by PTA president Mrs. John Dowler.
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State Patrol
Athens
PTA
Robert Clark
Columbus
State Highway Patrol
Clark
Athens High School
Ohio University
Amesville
T. E. Clark
Ohio
Ark
Virginia Segale
Alice Maccombs
John Dowler
Scoff at Slow Down Protest Leads to Damages Suit
Ann Preston, a Cambridge seamstress, sues John F. Henry and Norman Johnson of Columbus for 100000 dollars after a Route 40 icy skid near Zanesville on November 24, 1938. She alleges the defendants ignored a plea to slow down and that the crash caused severe back injuries.
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Columbus
A.P
John F. Henry
Norman Johnson
Ann Preston
Cambridge
Zanesville
FCC Affirms Order To Cut WLW Broadcast Power
The FCC affirmed its decision to force WLW Cincinnati to cease broadcasting at 500000 watts on March 1 The ruling underscores the agency action to reduce super power transmissions by the station in Washington U P coverage notes.
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FCC
WLW
Washington
U.P
Federal Communications Commission Today
Cincinnati
George VI Launches King George V Battle Ship
King George VI visited Newcastle England guarded by police and Scotland Yard operatives to launch the 35,000 ton battleship King George V named for his father. The ceremony on Tyneside highlighted royal presence and naval significance.
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George VI
Newcastle
England
King George VI
Special Political Branch
Scotland Yard
Tyneside
King George V
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