One Dies as Jams Add to Flood Threat
A 12 year old boy, Donald Musser, died after ice floes on the Nahoning River near McClintocksburg. The Ohio River near Steubenville faced a potential 15 foot rise after an ice gorge broke near Vanport. Red Cross aid prepared at East Liverpool as the river passed 26 feet. houseboats evacuated. Four missing persons feared dead in Idaho snow.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ralph Burr
Portage County
Donald Musser
Theahoning
McClintocksburg
Fastern
Steubenville
Ohio River
Vanport
East Liverpool
Red Cross
Flood Threat Forces Relocation along Maumee and Auglaize
Noar Defiance mobilized trucks to move lowland residents along the Maumee and Auglaize rivers to higher ground as floods approach crest. In Ottawa County Portage hover ice held with remote danger. Lake Erie peech and grape areas flooded. ice at Oak Harbor two feet thick risked three bridges including Wheeling and Lake Erie line. Rain expected for a second day worsens rising rivers. Scioto at Circleville 14 feet above normal. Ohio River rising from Pittsburgh toward Dam 43 then receding. Meteorologist Devereaux forecasts further rises upstream with frost expected in Cincinnati as next week approaches.
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Maumee
Auglaize
Finod
Ottawa County
Lake Frie Peech
Oak Harbor
Wheeling
Circleville
Scioto
Pickaway County
Ohio River
Pittsburgh
Louiisville
W. CC. Devereaux
Kanawha
Carrollton
Cincinnati
Conservancy District Appraisal Record Filed
In New Philadelphia an appraisal record lists 24 000 of 32 000 properties as benefited and 8 000 as damaged in the Muskingum conservancy district The record contains 19 large books and many exhibits and maps and was filed in Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court as the first step in outlining assessments and allocations for damaged property.
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New Philadelphia
Muskingum Conservancy District
Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court
Power Workers Strike Cuts Lights in City and Region
A walkout by power company employees halted streetcars and industry across the city and surrounding Texas and New Mexico territory. The second such stoppage in seven months left many houses with limited electricity for lighting and heating while radio stations and utilities paused operations.
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Paso
Tex
Texas
New
Ethiopian Emperor Hailie Selassie Note Reflected in Bank Claim
A New York bank honored a check endorsed by Emperor Hailie Selassie written in Amharic during the Maskal Feast. The piece hints at a curious, collectible value and cites a separate classified ad offering a second hand parlor suite for 1650 dollars from Swansons at 68-79 N.
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New York
Hailie Selassie
Brown celebrates Leap Year anniversaries in Logan
Parcel post carrier M. Brown, based in Logan, marks his eleventh Leap Year birthday observance on Saturday while his son observes a twelfth. Brown born February 20, 48 years ago, skipped 1900 and thus has his eleventh anniversary this year.
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Logan
Brown
Larkins Trial Opened for Murder in Meigs County
William Emmett Larkins, 17, goes on trial for the Jan. 14 slaying of Mrs. Sarah Lawrence in Meigs County. The case featured testimony from state ballistic expert FE J Yantis linking a .32 revolver owned by Larkins to the bullet, with 36 witnesses called including Miss Olive Ours and Sheriff Roscoe Fowler.
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Pomeroy
William Emmett Larkins
Sarah Lawrence
Meigs County
C. E. Peoples
W. R. White
Gallia County
O. Rowland
Athens County
FE. J. Yantis
Olive Qurs
Five Gangsters Sought in Garrettsville Train Robbery Case
Postal inspectors pursue five gangsters led by a top criminal. Grover Keady, 45, was arrested in Tulsa awaiting grand jury action on the Garrettsville robbery last November. FBI reports point to a ring leader, with Alvin Karpis among the fugitives, as authorities seek cash and securities valued at 46,000.
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Cleveland
Grover Keady
Tulsa
Okla
Garrettsville
U. S
Frank Wiedeman
Federale
Alvin Karpis
Karpis
Ohio
Keady
Burr
Wiedeman
William Ellis Glouster Justice of Peace Dies
William Ellis aged 65, Trimble Township justice of the peace, died at his home in Republic Avenue at 9 30 am from a cerebral hemorrhage. He had been unwell for weeks yet worked until Wednesday. He lived in Glouster 42 years and leaves wife, daughter Mrs T D McAfooes of Glouster, brother David of Akron, and sisters Mrs Sarah Jones and Mrs Amelia Buchannan of Columbus. Funeral plans not set.
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Glouster
William Ellis
Trimble Township
Republic Ave
Ellis
T. D. McAfooes
David
Akron
Sarah Jones
Amelia Buchannan
Columbus
Last Living Officer of Custer Massacre Dies
Col. Charlies A. Varnum, 7, U. S. Army retired, died last night in San Francisco. He was said by family to be the last surviving officer of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment which fought at the time of the Custer Massacre in 1876.
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San Francisco
Charlies A. Varnum
U. S. Army
Seventh Cavalry Regiment
John Abbott, Civil War Veteran, Dies at Ohio Home
John Abbott, 91, a Civil War veteran, died at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home on Wednesday. He entered in 19% from Bellaire. His death leaves six Civil War veterans at the Home.
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Sandusky
John Abbott
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home
Bellaire
Four Japanese Statesmen Assassinated in Military Uprising
Assassins killed four Japanese statesmen during a youth army revolt that seized Tokio government offices and key facilities. Admiral Keisuke Okada, 67, prime minister since 1934, faced militarist hostility for liberal aims. Admiral Makoto Saito, 78, former premier, praised as liberal leader. Korekiyo Takahashi, finance minister, famed fiscal expert. Fumio Goto named acting prime minister to form a new government.
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Gun
Tokio
Keisuke Okada
Makoto Saito
Japan
Korekiyo Takahashi
Makoto Aito
Jotaro Watanabe
Kantaro Suzuki
Nobuaki Makino
Suzuki
Army
Tokyo
Imperial Navy
Trotsky Exiles Sums Up Soviet Bureaucracy Crimes
In Norway Trotsky argues that political prisoners face harsh repression under a Soviet bureaucracy, citing Ciliga Zinogiev Kamenevy and other critics. He asserts enemies use reports to harm the USSR while urging end to bureaucratic crimes and misuses of information.
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Norway
Associated Press
Honefoss
Soviet Union
Anton Ciliga
Yugoslavian
Communist Party
Comintern
Zinogiev
Kamenevy
Lenin
Ciliga
Taroyv
United States
GOP Demands Inquiry Into Hagood Ouster
Washington report on the Hagood case cites army discipline after Major General Hagood mocked WPA funding and CCC activities. Republicans press for a sweeping senatorial inquiry while Democrats seek a quick settlement. General Malin Craig flags Hagood’s repeated intemperate statements in a letter to Secretary Dern. Senator Byrnes joins two reps in asking Dern to modify or set aside the disciplinary action.
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Washington
Johnson Hagood
Army
Hagood
House
WPA
War Department
Malin Craig
Dern
CCC
Byrnes
Hagaod
Nye Pushes Anti-War Profit Bill
Senator Nye vows to push a bill to curb war profits with stiff taxes on earnings and confiscation of individual income above 10000 dollars during war. A filibuster threat is noted to force consideration this session.
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Washington
Senator Nye
N.D
Nye
Ohio Assembly Returns Home
The Ohio General Assembly went home unresolved on an adjournment date. The House voted to adjourn amid a deadlock, while the Senate recessed until March 26. Governor Davey could adjourn sine die if the impasse continues, with milk price controls and social security measures among pending bills. A $535,274 deficiency appropriation was advanced by the House.
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Columbus. P
Ohio General Assembly
House
Senate
Davey
Funeral services for F P Phil lips held Friday
Funeral services for F P Phil lips who died Wednesday will be held Friday at 2 39 p m at the Phillips home 112 FE State Dr W H Fowler will have charge of the services and burial will be atHebbards ville.
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F. PP. Phillips
Phillips
FE State
W. H Fowler
Hebbardsville
Ten Day Akron Strike Widens Across Goodyear Plants
Edward F. McGrady of the Labor Department reports the ten day strike at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. expanding as Gov. Martin L. Davey weighs an appeal from non-strikers to protect workers. Pickets surround plants causing idleness for more than 14,000 employees while Goodyear demands an injunction limiting pickets to ten at each gate. Lyle Carruthers, speaking for 13,500 workers, accuses outsiders of mob rule and says the appeal seeks to resume operations. Davey says he will stay in touch with the situation.
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Akron
Edward F. McGrady
Department of Labor
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Martin L. Davey
Lyle Carruthers
Davey
Government Purchases Ross County Acreage
State Auditor Joseph T. Tracy approved the sale to the United States of 1 760 acres in Colerain Township Ross County for 8 240. The land set aside for school purposes in 1802 will join the Ross Hocking forest and recreation project tax free for 134 years and has long served as an almost perpetual camping ground for squatters.
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Columbus
Joseph T. Tracy
United States
Colerain Township
Ross County
Ross-Hocking
Treasury plans 1.8 Billion March financing
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau announced a March 18 financing totaling 1.809 billion dollars with 800 million new cash. The plan includes 1.25 billion cash from new money and 459 million in refunding notes maturing April 15. Congress faces a White House tax parley tonight as Roosevelt weighs possible proposals.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Department
Push Fight on Road Bond Act Repeal Moves Forward
Henry Worley leader of opponents of the Lawrence Armbruster road bond refunding act said they will seek legislative repeal despite the Ohio Supreme Court ruling. He noted the repealer would restore 10 percent of auto license fees to counties, with many counties facing net losses over 15 years. The Marion item reports John Herr 12 of 14 children survive. Herr, a Marion and Rensselaer real estate operator, died Wednesday.
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Columbus
Henry E. Worley
Ohio Supreme Court
Worley
Springfield Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence-Armbruster
Marion
John Herr
Marion and Rensselaer
Athens County Fans Pack Gym for Annual High School Tourney
Athens Wednesday night drew 800 basketball fans defying high water for the county high school tournament at Ohio University Men's Gymnasium. Amesville faced The Plains in the opener with The Plains edging ahead late. Shade edged Stewart's red and black. Coalville and New Marshfield completed the lineup. The crowd included many local figures and several university staffers assisted with attendance and ticketing.
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Athens County
Athens
Ohio University
Stewart
Coalville
New Marshfield
Dog as Mail Carrier Delivers Letters During Cold Weather
In Webb Summit M W Howdy shell kept family in touch as a large shepherd dog acted as a mail carrier. Letters hung on the collar and the dog delivered between three nearby homes within about two hours, linking Harley Howdyshell and Wil liam Lewis to their father.
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Logan
M. W. Howdyshell
Webb Summit
Harley
William Lewis
Howdyshell
Gannett Named Second Choice by Borah Forces in Ohio
Publisher Frank Gannett was named as the second choice of Senator Borah’s presidential supporters in Ohio. Glenn Hancock said delegates would be named to back Borah, with Gannett meeting a state constitutional requirement by listing a first and second presidential choice and securing written consent.
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Columbus
Frank FE
Gannett
William E. Borah
Ohio
Glenn Hancock
Idaho
Borah
Republican State Central Committee
Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati
Charlies Frederickson
Coshocton
State Committee
Ladder motif dominates Lindbergh case probes in Trenton
Private investigators press that Hauptmann’s link to the ladder may be framed and a report will go to Gov. Hoffman. Joseph Perrone, an identification witness, said he saw a man resembling the hiree talking to a person in the Bronx. Investigators claim violet ray tests show four attic holes predate Hauptmann’s arrest.
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Trenton
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hoffman
Joseph Perrone
John F. Condon
Bronx
Hauptmann
Harold G Hoffman
13 Percent Rise in U S Bituminous Coal Output
The National Coal Association estimates weekly US bituminous coal production for the week ended February 22 at 9,625,000 tons, up more than 13 percent from the 1985 week of 8,456,000 tons.
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New York
National Coal Association
United States
Supreme Court Affirms Suit Against Mae West
A Supreme Court order was sent to Los Angeles County to authorize service on Mae West in a suit by actor Frank Wallace seeking to enjoin her from denying marriage.
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Supreme Court
Mae West
New York
Los Angeles County
California
Frank Wallace
Miss West
Insurgents Evacuate Occupied Buildings As Tokyo Crisis Grows
Insurgents who seized police headquarters and barracks in Tokyo began evacuating the buildings they held. Japan faces a possible shift to military rule as loyal troops tighten the siege while ministers seek a new premier after the assassination of Keisuke Okada and other officials. Battles and fragile calm echo through the capital as warships move to restore order.
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Upe
Japan
Emma Willis Found Insane in Father’s Murder
Emma Willis, acquitted of murder, was ruled insane by a jury citing abuses by her father Iddis Willis that impaired her sanity when she shot him in his sleep last December 21. Lawyer W M Cooper planned a writ of habeas corpus to seek release from the state hospital.
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Anadarko, Okla
Emma Willis
Iddis H. Willis
W. M. Cooper
Eme
Columbus Coal Truck Destroyed by Fire
Fire destroyed a Blue Blaze Coal Company truck on Route 31 south of Logan. Roy Stallsmith moved the truck to the scene. Pete Hunter of Logan was in charge. Fire department aided in the Wednesday afternoon incident.
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Logan
Blue Blaze Coal Company
Columbus
Fire Department
Roy Stallsmith
Pete Hunter
Army Officer Sent To Ohio University
Washington newswire reports Army orders include Lieutenant Colonel Thomas F McNeill Inf Hawai and Ohio University in Athens Ohio The item notes 1945 pricing context and mentions widow of scientist Hiram Percy Maxim Josephine Maxim dying at 70 in Hartford Connecticut
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Ohio University
Washington
Thomas F. McNeill
Inf
Hawai & Ohio University
Athens
Hartford
Conn
Josephine Maxim
Hiram Percy Maxim
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