Roosevelt meets five industrialists in push for New Deal tweaks
President Roosevelt held a White House conference with Alfred P. Sloan Ernest T. Weir M W Clement Lewis Brown and Cory M Chester to discuss possible modification of New Deal methods. Secretary Daniel C announced a larger business meeting with the president on January 19 to foster cooperation between industry and government.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
White House
Capital
Alfred P. Sloan
General Motors Corporation
Ernest T. Weir
National Steel Corporation
M. W. Clement
The
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lewis Brown
Johns Manville Company
Cory M. Chester
General Foods Corporation
Daniel C
Sloan
Sloan and Weir
White House conference opens talks with business leaders
United Press reports a constructive opening session at the White House where industrialists expressed a cooperative mood and offered general ideas to improve business conditions. No specific program or details were discussed. Roosevelt declined to name individual firms, speaking only about a general group rather than specific people or companies.
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United Press
White House
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Greyhound Bus Collision Near Leon WV Involves Doctor and Three Children
In Gallipolis Charleston service area near Leon West Virginia a Greyhound bus and a car driven by 62 year old Dr B F Sommer collided. Dr Sommer sustained a head injury three fractured ribs and shock with serious condition. Three neighbor children Avis Sayre 15 Robert 12 and Raymond Hill 12 suffered cuts and bruises.
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Gallipolis
Physician Dies After Long Illness in Glouster Milestone Figure
Dr. Andrew J. Crawford aged 77 longtime Glouster physician died at home Tuesday after a two year illness. Born 1861 at New Straitsville he moved to Glouster in 1886 after graduating from the College of Physicians and Surgeons Baltimore. He served Athens County in the Ohio Legislature and held roles in local government and several fraternal and professional groups.
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Glouster
Andrew J. Crawford
New Straitsville
Crawford
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Baltimore
Athens County
Ohio
American Medical Association
Athens County Medical Society
M. E. Church
of the Masons
Knights of Pythias, Elks and
Red Men
State Meeting of CIO Unions Scheduled
Columbus report says the first state meeting of unions affiliated with the CIO will be held February 26 and 27. John Owens regional CIO director announced the convention aims to form an Ohio industrial union council with a permanent headquarters. a constitution will be drawn and officers elected.
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Columbus
U.P
Committee For Industrial Organization
John Owens
CIO
Ohio Industrial Union Council
Owens
Senate filibuster leaders claim chance to stop anti-lynching bill
Senate filibuster leaders said they likely could block the anti-lynching bill. The South warned it would reject Democratic leadership if the measure passed, causing concern in the administration.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Yacht Murder Victim's Wife Living in Gallia County
Gallia County officers informed Mrs. B. Lawrence that her husband Arthur A. Lawrence aged 48 was shot to death on his yacht anchored at Miami Florida. The suspect, identified as Robert Revere, reportedly brought an Arabian named Musa Shalabi from Cuba. the animal is missing. Lawrence left the Bahamas in 1936 with his wife and seven others. Mrs. Lawrence has lived in Gallia County for a year with Ada Rosener.
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Gallia County
B. Lawrence
Arthur A. Lawrence
Miami
Fla
Lawrence
Florida
Robert Revere
Musa Shalabi
Cuba
Cers
Bahamas
South America
Ada Rosener
Second Ave
DuBinsky Urges CIO AFL Peace In Labor Fight
New York AUP David Dubinsky president of the ILGWU urged 250000 CIO followers to seek peace with the AFL. He told 1200 executive board members that peace must be established in the labor movement and blamed CIO chief John J Lewis for sabotaging talks after last month’s breakdown.
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NEW York-Aup
David Dubinsky
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
Labor Movement
Dubinsky
CIO
Ethiopian Recognition Bars Way to Treaty
Rome officials said Mussolini’s demand to recognize King Victor Emmanuel as emperor of Ethiopia could block a final U S Italian commercial treaty. American officials acknowledged that granting such recognition would imply acceptance of Italy’s Ethiopian annexation by force, a step the United States would not take.
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Rome
U.S
Benito Mussolini
Victor Emmanuel
Ethiopia
United States
Italy
Britain to field 10000 fighter planes in year ahead
London reports on high authority that Britain will amass a fleet of 10 000 military airplanes within a year. The claimed number would surpass the combined air strength of Italy Germany and Japan based on current estimates.
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London
A.P
Great Britain
Italy
Germany
Japan
Ohio aid program boosts health and class performance
Columbus reports E H Diet rich state director of education says a WPA luncheon project has improved health and classroom performance for 23 000 underprivileged Ohio children by providing free meals at school.
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Columbus
E. H. Dietrich
Ohio
Wharton Switches to Republican Bid for Congress
Kenton U P C E Wharton, formerly a Democratic candidate for the U S senator nomination, announced today his pursuit of the Republican nomination for congressman at large.
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Kenton
U.p—C
Giant Samoan Clipper Vanishes on Pacific Flight
Pan American clipper Samoan Clipper, on the last lap from the United States to New Zealand, disappeared south of Tutuila Island with seven men aboard led by Capt Edwin C Musick. Two hours after takeoff from Pago Pago an engine leaked oil and radio signals ceased 8:27 a m. The ocean search for the missing flying boat continues while aviation officials consider possible causes including fuel or engine failure.
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Pacific
United States
New Zealand
Pago Pago
Tutuila Island
U.P
Avocet
Pacific Ocean
Here
Musick
Pan American Airways
Air Express
Australia
Cc. G. Sellers
P. S. Brunk
F. J. McLean
J. W. Stickrod
J. A. Brooks
T. J. Findley
Pan American
Cal
Ifornia
Auckland
Honolulu
Kingman Reef
Kingman
South America
Equator
Need of 350 Millions Over Budget For 1939 Peak
Washington reports growing belief that the 1939 budget will require at least 350 million dollars more next year beyond the forecast. Officials warn additional defense and relief funds may be requested. The 1939 fiscal year bill to the Senate shows a 3.58 million savings from Roosevelt’s request and an appropriation of about 1.415 billion for 39 independent agencies.
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Washington
U.P
Agriculture Department
Mr. Roosevelt
Senate
Roosevelt
Oldest Youngest Students Are Kin at Rio Grande College
Gallipolis reports Rio Grande College has a mother and son as its oldest and youngest students. Mrs N H Clary, 37, enrolled to fund her children’s education. Her son Cline, 15, joined the college and studies in the Commerce Department. He farms tobacco in summer to pay expenses.
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Gallipolis
Rio Grande College
N. H. Clary
Cline
Rio Grande
Commerce
Cotton Made of Straw Paper
Pittsburgh reports Dr F. W. Hochstetter announced a process to make paper and synthetic cotton from straw and waste farm materials. He says farmers could gain income from discarded materials, labor would benefit with new jobs, and publishers would profit for obvious reasons.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
F. W. Hochstetter
Hochstetter
Logan Woman Takes Fifth in Ohio Farm Exhibit
Mrs. Ruth Funk of Route 3 Logan earned fifth place in a state contest for canned fruits and vegetables in Columbus. Her display previously qualified at the Logan agricultural exhibit. She receiv ed a cash award to help cover expenses for Farmers Week at Ohio State University January 24 to 28.
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Logan
Ruth Funk
Route 3
Columbus
Knox Warns GOP Role Must Be Positive to Survive
Col. Frank Knox 1936 Republican vice presidential candidate told a Cleveland audience that the party must take a positive role in national affairs or its services end and the party will die. He urged liberal tariff policy and changes to Wagner Labor Relations Law including licensing of unions and union financial disclosure.
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Cleveland
HU R
Frank Knox
Knox
Harold H. Burton
Chicago
Canadian Blizzard Not to Hit Ohio
The U S Weather Bureau in Cleveland predicted Ohio will miss the worst of a blizzard sweeping down from Saskatchewan. Temperatures will stay above freezing most of the day with only a few snow flurries possible.
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Cleveland
U.S
Ohio
Saskatchewan
U. S
Weather Bureau
Jap Leaders Map Program After Imperial Conference
Japanese leaders, the result of an imperial conference, map a program of diplomatic and military action possibly aiming at a final peace effort with China. Secrecy surrounds the meetings after Tuesday's solemn conference under Emperor Hirohito, the fifth such in modern Japanese history. If China rejects all peace efforts, Tokyo may shift to a forceful war policy to crush resistance and oust the current Chinese government.
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Tokyo
China
Hirohito
Double Electrocu tion Scheduled for Monday
In Columbus two men William M. Gardner and Charles Teddy Hines are to be executed by electric chair at the Ohio Penitentiary Monday night, the first double electrocution there since 1934. Gardner killed a Columbus hotel clerk and Hines murdered a Cincinnati woman.
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Columbus
William M., Gardner
Charles
Teddy) Hines
Ohio Penitentiary
Gardne
Ard Hines
Cincinnati
Pipe Pierces Man on Trolley in Groin and Thigh
Los Angeles report of Aevander Olimant, 32, pinned to a street car seat when a three quarter inch pipe burst from the floor and pierced his groin and thigh. Rescuers used an acetylene torch to free him after 35 minutes, with a police ambulance accompanying the effort. The pipe likely lay in a groove beside the rail and the wheel flipped it upward.
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Angeles
U.P
Aevander Olimant
Ban« Ciets
Oliphant
Bodies of Plane Crash Victims Taken to Mortuary
Ten men who perished in the Northwest airliner crash in Bridger Canyon were removed from the rugged site and held at a Bozeman mortuary pending an inquest. The bodies were carried out on sleds to Alfred Nickles' ranch Tuesday night and transported by truck to town.
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Bozeman
Mont
U.P
Bridger Canyon
Alfred Nickles
WPA allotments approved for Meigs Gallia and Hocking counties
President Roosevelt approved WPA funds for Gallipolis school lunches for needy children at 3,320 dollars Meigs County sewing rooms 14,726 dollars and Hocking County sewing rooms 17,630 dollars indicating federal support for local relief and employment programs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Gallipolis
Schoor
Meigs County
Hocking County
man found dead with opened Bible in Bellefontaine Ohio
John Foughty aged 63 was found dead in a chair with an open Bible nearby at Bellefontaine Ohio. The tragedy was discovered by a passerby who alerted authorities. Investigators examined the scene for signs of foul play and are awaiting autopsy results.
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Bible Bellefontaine
John Foughty
Railroads Held Recovery Key
J. J. Pelley president of the American Association of American Railroads told a Senate committee that improving railroad business would spark broad industrial recovery and employ about 150,000 idle workers. He estimated that normal traffic could enable an annual program to add 2,000 locomotives and 100,000 freight cars, far above 1937 additions of under 500 locomotives and 75,000 cars.
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Washington
A.P
J. J. Pelley
American Association of American Railroads
Senate
Pelley
Brother Believed Dead Found Alive by Health Officials
Gallipolis reports Mrs. Henry Etta Singer rushed to Cuyahoga Falls after a garbled message claiming Frederick Harmon had died. She announces he is alive and well and notes Harmon's daughter's father-in-law, Mr. Jones, had died. Mrs. Singer stays with her brother and family.
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Gallipolis
Cuyahoga Falls
Frederick Harmon
Henry Etta Singer
Harmon
Mr. Jones
Rep Charles Bast, Ohio House Democrat, Dies After Illness
Canton reports the death of Rep. Charles E. Bast a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives after a long illness. His passing Tuesday ends his service in the legislature and prompts mourning from colleagues and residents.
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Canton
Charles E. Bast
Ohio House of Representatives
Delay Seen In Action on Ohio Relief
Columbus report on renewed hostilities between the Ohio Senate and House over a $40,000 appropriation for graft investigators delaying a poor relief measure. The House Finance Committee blocked the bill, amid Senate amendments and beverage tax changes, with final vote 35 to 76 to accept Senate changes and 76 opposed. The Senate adjourned without a clear plan.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
House
Senate
House Finance Committee
Finance
Lady Hum
Cuyahoga
Parole Probers Criticize Ohio Parole Chief
A special grand jury told Governor Davey it doubts Judge Harrison W. Jewell is temperamentally suited to lead the parole board. It endorses parole in principle but says Ohio's application of it is imperfect after a month-long probe into the parole and pardon system.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Davey
Harrison W. Jewell
Representative asks to name battleship Ohio
Rep Dudley White of Norwalk Ohio urged President Roosevelt and Navy Secretary Swanson to name one of the proposed new battleships the Ohio. He emphasized the regional pride and historical ties of Ohio to the Navy.
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Washington
Dudley White
Norwalk
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Navy
Swanson
Ohio
Indiana Court Closes Gretna Greens Marriage Mills
Indiana Supreme Court upheld a 1852 law requiring that marriage permits be issued by the county clerk where the bride resides. The ruling ends the rapid out of state marriage commerce once centered in Crown Point Valparaiso Auburn South Bend and similar towns. The court called loose marriage and divorce laws a great evil and noted many couples had fled Illinois to marry in Lake County.
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Ind
U.P
Indiana
Gretna
State Supreme Court
Crown Point
Valparaiso
Auburn
South Bend
Lake County
Cook County
Chicago
Illinois
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