Debate Over New Deal Budget Sparks Congress Talks
Amid split views, Congress debates Franklin D Roosevelt's 4.0 billion relief to jobs plan. Democrats weigh lump sum versus targeted projects while critics urge faster action and state burden concerns. Senator Robinson signals possible message this week on unemployment relief and social programs.
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Jen
Democratic
Congress
Enol Gut Jso
Prestevelt
Yuns
Inauguration Trip Planned for Davey Supporters
Athens County Donahey Davey club announces a special charter trip to Columbus for Martin L. Davey’s inauguration. The train leaves Athens at 8 AM on Monday January 14 and stops in Columbus and Indianapolis with special rates. Union Depot arrival in Columbus Monday night. Athens High School Band to accompany and participate in inaugural events.
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Donahey-Davey
Athens County
Govert Martin L. Davey
Montrain
Athens
Fisonville
Union Depot
Columbus Dock
Iisonville High School
Pany
Three men linked to Burlington bank raid shot in pursuit
Police closed in on a trio linked to the People's Deposit Bank raid in Burlington Kentucky. One man, 28 year old TM Hall, was shot after attempting a shootout in a trap. the other two were captured.
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Inch
People's Deposit
Burlington
Hall
Radio pairing leads to mixed signals in Mount Clemens couple
C L Wright of Rochester England reportedly became engaged to Eleanor Fox of Mount Clemens Michigan after accidentally tuning into each other on the radio. The oddly matched couple bonded over music and the quirky coincidence. The item ends with a plug for used furnishings and classifieds.
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C. L. Wright
Cester England
Eleanor Fox
Mountmens
Operators Suggest NRA Drop Coal Code
Coal men gathered in Washington for code revision voiced perplexity over Congress action. Proposals included removing coal from NRA supervision and creating a recovery administration. John L. Lewis warned union talks or a legislative bill would proceed. The NRA plan to fix prices through June faced operator opposition.
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Washington
Congress
NRA
Secial
Lewin
D. Md
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
Recovery Administrative Board
Belpre daylight holdup nets $500 from Athens county man
A. D. Johnson, stock buyer from Athens Rural Route 7, reported a daylight robbery near Belpre. Two young armed bandits in a green coupe took about $500 including bank deposits and checks after stopping him as he waited for a bus on State Route 7. They fled toward Belpre, their West Virginia plates mudded beyond reading. Johnson later relayed the attack to Parkersburg police.
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Athens
Belpre
Parkersburg
Johnson
Marietta
Ohio River
Beipre
Corporation Line
West Virginia
County Board Elects Biddle for 1935 Presidency
Frank Biddle, the oldest member by service, was elected president of the Athens County Board of Commissioners for 1935 at the annual organization meeting. Other members include Fred Kittle and Frank Minner with Maude Lowry reappointed clerk. Porter Dicken remains dog warden and John and Mrs. John Spitzer stay as courthouse janitors. An appropriation funded an assistant prosecutor to help collect delinquent taxes, to be appointed by Prosecutor H. J. Rose. The board received a National Re-employment Service Committee resolution thanking them for aiding employment efforts.
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Frank Biddle
Athens County Board of Commissioners
Fred Kittle
Frank Minner
Maude Lowry
Porter Dicken
John Spitzer
H. J. Rose
National Re-employment Service Committee
Athens County
James P. Porter
Young Girl Burned in Luhrig Incident At Sheltering Arms
Eight year old Rebecca Reney of Wubrig suffered severe burns from ankles to chin while helping roast potatoes near the railroad tracks in Luhrig. Her dress caught fire and flames devoured her clothes as she fled toward a nearby house. She remains in serious condition but doctors express hope for recovery at Sheltering Arms Hospital.
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Rebecca Reney
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Steve Reney
West School Teacher Undergoes Appendicitis Operation
Miss Louisa Steele principal at West Side Public School underwent an appendicitis operation at Sheltering Arms Hospital today. Mrs. H R McVay is substituting for her at the school. Last night a son was born to Mr and Mrs B Sadosky of Glouster at the hospital.
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Louisa Steele
North High Street
West Side
Buy Tax Licenses Retailers Warned in Ohio Bulletin
Ohio retailers received a bulletin from the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants warning severe penalties for merchants who fail to obtain licenses under the new 3 percent sales tax. Merchants without a license cannot operate legally after the tax becomes effective January 7.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Council of Retail Merchants
Scobell Not Liquor Director. Davey Plans Public Safety Agency
Governor-elect Martin L. Davey said Joseph H. Scobell will not remain state liquor director. He intends to appoint new appointees and seeks ideas from federal and Justice officials to organize a state public safety agency free from politics. He aims to revise liquor policies to eliminate tax or profits to curb bootlegging and to control prices directly.
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Cleveland
Jan
Martin L. Davey
Joseph H. Scobell
Scobell
State Liquor Control Department
Ayers declines state banks post in Davey administration
Governor elect Martin J. Davey cannot appoint Allan F. Ayers to lead the state superintendent of banks. Ayers, a banker from Akron and Cleveland, says personal business prevents accepting the job amid scrutiny over a $40,000 Guardian Trust loan. Davey and his interests held $195,000 in Guardian loans, reportedly collateralized.
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Martin J. Davey
Allan F. Ayers
Akron
Davey
Ayre
Ayres
Guardian Trust Company of
The
Guardian
Women Voters Back Civil Service Plan in Ohio
Members of the Ohio League of Women Voters support an eleven point program including four year terms for state officers civil service for all below cabinet appointees compulsory unemployment insurance and county home rule announced in the January issue of Ohio Woman Voter the plan born from a Columbus leaders conference on December 4.
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Dayton, Jan
Ohio League of Women Voters
Ohio Woman Voter
League
Columbus
Mussolini and Laval O K Austrian King
Hollywood letter from Will Rogers notes Mussolini and Laval may back Austriaian king Archduke Otto. He jokes that Austrians want a title and that France and Italy could install an archduke while describing Europe’s tangled politics and Hapsburg legacy.
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Highest Court Scraps NRA Oil Provision
The Supreme Court struck down the oil control section of the National Industrial Recovery Act by an 8 to 1 ruling. Officials warn the decision could threaten other New Deal laws as Congress faced limits on delegated power. Senator Adams of Colorado notes parallels to agricultural program provisions. The ruling bars interstate commerce in oil produced beyond state quotas, known as hot oil.
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New Deal
NIRA
Supreme Court
Capitol Hill
High Tribunal
Adama
Colo
Congress
Relief Changes Seen in Order Received Here
A Washington order to update relief records arrives at Ath ens County Relief and FERA headquarters. The plan introduces a wage scale to start February 1 and aims to tailor projects to workers' prior experience, with a three‑way committee setting wages and administering the new system.
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Washington
Athens County Relief and
FERA
Relief and Works Division
Relief Administration
Break School Padlock To Continue Classes
Dry Tavern School in Perry Township remains open after a padlock was broken, allowing teacher Elizabeth Brown to conduct classes since last Thursday. The Laurelville Perry Board of Education action to close the school is part of a district merger battle now before Hocking County Common Pleas Court.
Steel Industry Rule Rested With Courts
The major rule for collective bargaining in the steel industry rested with the courts. Petitions in the name of employee representatives asking that the order for employee elections at the Duquesne Pennsylvania and McDonald Ohio plants of the Carnegie Steel Company be set aside were filed in the Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia and Cincinnati yesterday.
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Washington
Jan
Duquesne, Pa
McDonald, C
Carnegie Steel Company
Circuit Court of Appeals
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Gas Light Rate Survey Is Approved in Athens
Athens City Council approved hiring an engineer to survey electric light and natural gas systems for rate making. Mayor McCune and two officials will donate about 2000 toward the survey. a mass meeting on a municipal electric plant will be called. The plan envisions a rate study and cost for an electric plant and distribution system.
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Athens
Len B. McCune
Council
C. W. Gross
Eva van Dyke
L. A. Sears
Oberlin
McCune
The
Unemployed League
United Mine Workers of America
Lick Run
Gold Clause Goes on Trial Before Supreme Court
The Supreme Court opened hearings on five cases challenging Congress in halting gold payments on securities with gold clauses. About 90 to 125 billion dollars in securities are implicated as the government defends its New Deal monetary policies, led by Attorney General Homer Cummings. Lower courts in three cases had ruled for the challengers.
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Washington
Jan
Supreme Court
Congress
Homer Cyummings
Milk Supply of Akron Hit by Threat of Strike
A threat to withdraw the entire Akron milk supply was handed to regional labor director Ralph A Land. The Milk Producers Association of Summit County and the Independent Milk Producers Association joined in pressing the boycott against Chestnut Ridge Dairy.
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Akron
Jan
Bhoycott
Chestnut Ridge
Ralph A Land
Milk Producers’ Association of
Summit County
Independent Milk Producers’ Association
35 Workers Laid Off During Protest Strike
The Val Decker Packing Company closed its plant after about 200 workers attacked in protest while eight employees remained. Company officials blamed slow business for the layoffs. Rotarians from five states welcomed international president Robert L. Hill in Cincinnati.
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Val Decker Packing Company
Park Department
Cincinnati
Jan
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Tennessee
Robert L. Hill
Columbia
Hauptmann Trial Captivates Flemington Youths At Pecks
In Flemington youngsters crowd the Peck scene to glimpse the Hauptmann trial. A boy at the bottom watches others peer through a grated window hoping to see the prisoner inside the grim stone structure.
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Hauptmann
Flemington
New Taxation Steps Up US Receipts in 1934
Washington reports a 42 percent rise in internal revenue taxes for the fiscal year ending June 30, totaling 9,200,914,308 dollars. Gains stem from new NIRA taxes on capital stock and dividends, liquor taxes after repeal, year full beer taxes, estate and gift taxes, manufacturers excise taxes, and tobacco levies among others.
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NIRA
Republicans of House Seek Share of Posts in Ohio
In Columbus on January 7 the Ninety first General Assembly opened quietly as Governor-Elect Martin Fiagey and other officers were sworn in after the November 6 election. Republicans, thwarted in their bid for the speakership by a Republican bolt, unite to demand full representation on committees.
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General Assembly
Martin
Fiagey
To Republicana
Prosecutor for Harboring Dillinger Trial Opens
Louis Piquett, former Chicago city prosecutor, faces federal charges for allegedly harboring outlaw John Dillinger. The trial before Judge William Holley is a government bid to curb legal aid to notorious clients and set a precedent on lawyers duties in aiding criminals.
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Chicago
United States
Louis Piquett
Bar of Justice
John Dillinger
Indiana
Piquett
Federel
William HM. Holley Marke
Hauptmann Linked To Night of Lindbergh Baby Kidnap
In Flemington New Jersey on January 8 1932 Amandus Hochmuth identified Bruno Richard Hauptmann as the man seen in Hopewell on March 1 1932 the night the Lindbergh baby was stolen Hochmuth said Hauptmann rode in a car with a ladder and pointed him out to officials during testimony Hauptmann stood near a state trooper as Hochmuth spoke
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Associated Press
Flemington
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hopewell
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Amandus Hochmuth
van Dyke
Hauptmann
Reilly
Hochmuth
Wilentz
Wilenz
Lindy's Road
New Jersey
Ohio U seeks budget boost amid enrollment rise and repairs
Ohio State University requests 4 1 3 1 1 5 2 for the current biennium up from 5 5 6 6 9 0 0, including salaries and maintenance and additions. Ohio University proposes 1 01 2 0 7 for the biennium, Miami 1 50 8 9 9, with additions and improvements factored in, reflecting growing enrollments and partial salary restorations.
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Ohio University
Athens
Miami University
Oxford
State To Have Relief Schools
State Relief Commission workers will attend three day training institutes at Athens Bowling Green Canton Columbus Elyria Hamilton Hillsboro Jackson Marion Piqua Steubenville Warren and Xenia. Professionals will receive field supervision and post graduate college credit toward degrees. No start dates announced.
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Jan
State Relief Commission
Athens
Bowling Green
Canton
Elyria
Hamilton
Hillsboro
Jackson
Marion
Piqua
Steubenville
Warren
Xenia
Queen Marie Returns Home To Stop Scandal
Queen Mother Marie arrives in Romania to lead a campaign to erase a royal scandal involving King Carol and Magda Lupescu. Dowager queen is urged to push Carol to remarry Princess Helen after his divorce. In India, eleven Indian soldiers were killed and 60 injured when an air force plane crashed during maneuvers near the Hubb River.
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Bucharest
Rumania
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Carol
Mme
Magda Lupescu
Helen
Karachi
India
Jan
Indian Air Force
Hubb River
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