Air Liner Crashes Into Arkansas Swamp Killing Seventeen
Disaster ranks among worst in American air travel history as rescue workers in knee deep water recover seventeen victims from the wreckage of a twin motor passenger plane on a Memphis to Little Rock flight. The crash scattered debris over boggy terrain with bodies transported for identification while officials probe cause. Detectives and WPA volunteers worked through the swamp, identifying remains amid the wreckage as dawn approached.
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ED L. Campbell
Associated Press
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Ark
Arkansas
Little Rock
Mem
WPA
W. R
Japanese delegates quit London naval talks after showdown
Japanese delegates withdrew from the International Naval Center discussions signaling the end of efforts to replace the expiring London Treaties. The withdrawal follows a perceived showdown at the conference as negotiators sought to reach a naval limitation agreement.
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Ndon
International Naval Center
Soviet Army Rises to 1.3 Million Men
Assistant Commissar of War Mikhail Tukhachevsky announced today that the Soviet army has been raised to 1,300,000 men. The disclosure was made before the Central Executive Ball of the Communist Party as the world’s largest standing army.
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Communist Party
Bootleg Liquor Purchases Tied to Jail Evidence
Testimony before a grand jury linked a Canton man and others to liquor purchases at a bootleg operation as the government nears the end of its conspiracy trial against Sheriff Ray Potts and 15 co defendants. An investigator testified to liquor buys at the county jail and a man identified as Joseph of the Federal Tax Unit corroborated the probe.
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Eveland
Ray Potts
Canton
Joseph
Federal Tax Unit
Amendment seeks power to regulate production power on guns
AIM to spike guns that killed AAA Senator M. M. Logan Democrat Kentucky proposes an amendment granting Congress authority to regulate and control production power. The measure argues for broader federal oversight despite the Supreme Court ruling it lacked such power.
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AAA
M. M. Logan
Kentucky
Congress
Supreme Court
Senate Relief Bill Ridiculed By House Leader In Columbus
In Columbus the six month relief program faced a setback as the $10.5 million appropriation for six months loomed for conference. House Speaker J Freer Bittinger derided the Senate amended Marlow Kilpatrick Relief Bill as ridiculous and said the House will not act unless urged by the body. Cuyahoga County reported no funds and warned it may appeal to the Red Cross. Bittinger also warned of a potential $5 million year end treasury deficit if the Mothers Pensions Federal Conformity Bill is enacted, though the House passed it and it awaits Senate action.
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Columbus
J. Freer Bittinger
House
Ohio
Cuyahoga
James A. Reynolds
Red Cross
Bittinger
Senate
Sales Tax Law Under More Rigid Regulation
Ohio's 3 percent sales tax starts the year under tightened rules after Christmas. The measure, which yielded over $46 million in 1935, reenacted by the legislature removes some exemptions and strengthens enforcement with an 8 percent use tax on items bought outside the state for use in Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio
Toledo U Student Dies After Bowling Green Crash
Bowling Green reports Howard Wendel, 19, of Toledo, died from injuries after a head-on collision that injured seven Toledo University students returning from a basketball game at Bowling Green State University.
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Toledo U
Bowling Green
Howard Wendel
Toledo
Toledo University
Bowling Green State University
Irvin Bright Claims Sheriff Demands His Money
In Quincy Florida Irvin Bright a Negro chef at the Governor's Mansion says $3 405 found in his pocket belongs to him. Sheriff Inman says Bright told conflicting stories after an accident and asks Judge Johnson to decide the matter.
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Quincy, Fla
Irvin Bright
Governor's Mansion
W. M. Inman
Bright
J. B Johnson
Grange Proposes Rewriting AAA With 10 Point Plan
The National Grange unveiled a 10 point, permanent federal aid platform to Congress challenging the New Deal AAA. Grange officers said the plan differs from administration aims, favoring higher tariffs, subsidized exports, and cooperative marketing, while some farms back soil conservation and production controls. Roosevelt voiced hope for a substitute program soon.
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New Deal
AAA
National Grange
Congress
Farm Order
Senate Agricultural Committee
Wallace
Grange
Roosevelt
Re Open Milk Bill's Hearing in Columbus
The Senate Taxation Committee reopened hearings on the Carey Creesy milk control bill after farm representatives urged milk price regulation. The bill, passed by the House, would create a four member commission to set prices and oversee the dairy industry amid claims of steep milk price drops since last June and profits not passed to consumers.
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Columbus
Senate Taxation Committee
House
Treasurer of Home Held for Embezzling
Troy Dahn a 60 year old Toledo secretary treasurer of the Reformed Home for the Aged in Upper Sandusky was arrested on two warrants for embezzling about 11000 of the Home funds. Rev C W Good filed the warrants saying shortages spanned three years.
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Troy Dahn
The
Reformed Home For the Aged
Upper Sandusky
C. W. Good
Girl Awakens From Six Day Trance in Detroit Church Case
Detroit report of 17 year old Shirley Tapp awakening from a six day religious trance at a Full Salvation Gospel revival. Doctors called it a coma induced by fervor as sect members claimed she was slain by the power of God and would awaken on the seventh day. She woke minutes before six days completed and described floating on a cloud while receiving four hour feedings.
Athens Companions Die Driver in Ohio Crash
Floyd Douglas 30 of Pleasant Hill Athens County died when his car overturned on State Route 31 near Darwin. Companions Clarence and Mrs. Barnett escaped with minor injuries. The crash occurred as Douglas allegedly lost control after leaving the pavement into mud. Douglas leaves a wife and three children. coroner and undertaker notified.
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Malcolm Hartley
Pomeroy
Floyd Douglas
Pleasant Hill
Athens County
Darwin
Douglas
Clarence Barnett
House St. Athens
Athens
Barnett
Charlies Nesselroad
Nesselroad
Lester Hart
Mim
Delno Pratt
Ohio Hotel
George Douglas
Jerseyville
W Henry Ewing
Hank Young
Middleport
Belief FDR Will Sign Bond Issue Bill This Week
A Democratic source says it is a pretty good bet President Roosevelt will sign the Senate baby bond bonus bill. The official prefers anonymity and expects Senate passage this week. The bill would issue special non-transferable bonds of eight dollars each with 3 percent interest for nine years, payable to veterans who may redeem them.
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FDR
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Mother Beats Children To Death In Westchester Tragedy
Westchester Pa. a deranged mother, Mrs Joseph Oberle wife of the Chester County Farm Extension Association head, beat her three children to death with a club while they slept and then tried to slash her throat in a suicide bid. Children named Mary 17 Louise 9 and Joseph 7.
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Joseph Oberle
Chester County Farm Extension Association
Mary
Louise
Joseph
Alleged Safecrackers Arrested in Cleveland
Cleveland police seized thirteen men and two women in raids on Tuesday as part of a wider investigation into a 21 member safe cracking gang. Three more men were arrested and detectives hunted four machine gunners still at large. The gang split into two groups with safecrackers and gunmen who targeted watchmen and workers before the robberies, totaling about sixty thousand dollars in the region.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Alfred Jones
Marietta Man Pleads Not Guilty to Reckless Driving Charge
Henry Wetz of Marietta indicted by the January Grand Jury for reckless driving and pleads not guilty at arraignment before Judge O F Rowland in Athens County Common Pleas Court. Bond set at $200 and he was released.
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Henry Wetz
Marietta
O. F Rowland
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Movie Acting Provides Mental Rest But Is Hard on Feet
Westwood California report from Cobb details production on Everybody’s Old Man a possible title The Rollo Boys in an Igloo noting fatigue among cast and crew including the head cameraman and director’s wife The actor reflects that film work offers mental rest but harms the feet with long shoots
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Cobb
Irvines
Liberty League Attacks New Deal as Intolerant
Chicago report. R B E Desveraine, chair of the American Liberty League lawyers committee, tells Hamilton Republican Club luncheon the sacred principle of democracy is denied when leaders stir class conflict. He links Roosevelt remarks on preventing autocracy to critique, claims Roosevelt will set a record for constitutional violations in a single term.
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Hamilton Republican Club
Desveraine
League
Lawyers’ Committee
Roosevelt
The
United States
New Charges in Probe of WWII Era Secret Pact
Senate Munitions Committee hears that a pre war agreement nearly settled the submarine issue and pledged the United States to attack Germany if it resisted a peace favored to the Allies. Nye cites two documents in alleging neutrality was compromised by booming Allied trade with Morgan partners on the stand.
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Washington
Nye
R. N.D
Senate Munitions Committee
America
United States
Germany
J. P. Morgan and Partners
Edward Grey
Edward House
Wilson
Lawyers Move to Seek Habeas Corpus for Bruno Hauptmann
Wilentz says he is reliably informed governor will grant delay while Hoffman studies the Hauptmann case. Defense lawyers push reprieve plea as a paper signed by Hauptmann accompanies them to Washington for possible U S Supreme Court habeas corpus action.
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Wilentz
Will
Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
Hauptmann
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Hauptmann's reprieve sought as fate nears electric chair
Mrs Bruna Richard Hauptmann told her husband that his habeas corpus petition failed and a reprieve may still save him from execution in the Lindbergh baby murder case. Federal Circuit Judge J Warren Davis denied relief, while defense lawyers planned to petition Governor Hoffman for mercy amid conflicting reports from officials and counsel.
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Associated Press
Trenton
N. J
Bruna Richard Hauptmann
Federal Circuit
Hauptmann
Death House
J. Warren Davis
David T. Vilenta
Probe of Cut Prices Looms
In Columbus a potential legislative probe into bread price cuts emerged after the Supreme Court ended processing taxes on wheat. Rep Nicholas Schiesler urged a three man inquiry to stop predatory price cutting and ensure fair prices. Ohio Bakers Association asked Gov Davey to back a similar review as a Chicago firm claimed flour costs fell $1.35 per barrel and that savings reach the consumer. Some midwestern cities saw five cent loaves from a grocery chain. Ohio bakers argued higher ingredient costs offset tax removal benefits.
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Nicholas Schiesler
D. Cuyahoga
Ohio Bakers’ Association
Martin JL. Davey
Chicago
Ohio Bakers
Standard Oil Raises Gas Price By Half Cent
The Standard Oil Co. of Ohio announced today a one half cent per gallon hike on all gasoline grades. Other major firms followed with prices at 21 1/2, 19 1/2, and 18 cents per gallon.
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Standard Oil
Cleveland
Standard Oi Co
Ohio
Palmer, Engineer Arrested for Threatening Roosevelt
A long-running investigation in Austin ends with the arrest of Palmer, a wealthy engineer and sportsman, on charges of writing letters that threatened President Roosevelt’s life. The writer claimed the President was to blame for large stock market losses totaling about $1,000,000.
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Austin Phelps Palmer
Roosevelt
Palmer
Fohn Parker Found Guilty Of Shooting
John Barker was found guilty of maliciously shooting with intent to kill by a jury of ten men and two women. The offense carries one to twenty years in the penitentiary. The trial involved Dana Lee Tom, a 16 year old Athens High School student who testified. Barker was not sentenced and has three days to file a motion for a new trial.
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John Barker
Barker
Dana Lee Tom
Athens
Presbytery Conference Set for Athens First Presbyterian
Ministers and officers from Athens area Presbyterian churches will meet at First Presbyterian Church of Athens with sessions at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Thursday January 16. Rev Dr Murdoch McLeod of New York will address the gathering as a General Council representative on church finance and spiritual concerns for 20 area churches. The Presbyterian Church has 2,000,000 communicants nationwide. The Athens presbytery membership is more than
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First Presbyterian Church of
Murdoch McLeod
New York
General Council
The
Presbyterian Church
McLeod
Union
Presbytery of
GOP Playlet Fails To Come Out On Dial
Washington story of national Republican chairman Henry P. Fletcher missing an independent Chicago station’s skit “Liberty at the Crossroads” after radio chains declined to carry it. Fletcher complains of censorship while listening to a music segment that drowns out attempts to tune in.
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Washington
Henry P. Fletcher
Fletcher
National Republican
Chicago
Q Street
Tragic Morristown Fire Claims Two Children
A three room frame cottage housing the Frank Walton family at Morristown near Chauncey burned at 2 am. Thelma aged 9 and Wilma Jeane 21 months died in the flames. Mrs Walton suffered severe burns over two thirds of her body while two other children were rescued. Neighbors and Stanley Howard aided in evacuations as Walton and others escaped through windows after attempting to rescue the youngsters. The cause is believed to be kindling left to dry in an oven. Mrs Walton, 31, formerly Opal Files, is hospitalized in grave condition.
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Frank Walton
Morristown
Chauncey
Thelma
Wilma Jeane
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Palmer Pleads Guilty of Threatening Roosevelt
Austin Phelps Palmer, the retired engineer indicted for sending threatening letters to President Roosevelt, pleaded guilty in Federal District Court. He faces sentencing January 24 with potential penalties of five years in prison and a $1,000 fine on each of two counts.
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New York
Austin Phelps Palmer
Roosevelt
George Gordon Battle
Palmer
Missionary Societies Enter ROTC Protests
The Women’s Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church and the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church adopted resolutions disapproving a voluntary ROTC unit at Ohio University. Rev Reed J Downs clarified he did not refer to the ROTC in a sermon but voiced disapproval in a church talk. The Ohio University Board of Trustees will hold a special session Saturday to consider ROTC plans.
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Women's Missionary Society
First Presbyterian Church
Women's Foreign Missionary
First Meb
Ohio University
Reed J. Downs
First Christian Church
Ohio University Board of Trustees
Life Insurance Agent Kills Two in Macon Shooting
Albert Adams Sr aged 45 a general life insurance agent killed his two daughters at the family home in Vineville Macon then fatally shot himself. Mrs Adams could not provide a motive saying he was in good spirits Tuesday night and spent the evening playing cards with them.
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Albert Adams
Vineville
Macon ‘Cay
Adams
Italy Claims Crushing Victory on Dolo Front
Italy claimed its southern forces crushed a growing Ethiopian drive on the Dolo front and repulsed the attack while pursuing the enemy. In London the British cabinet met to outline Foreign Secretary Eden's course at the League of Nations council session Monday on fresh penalties for Italy.
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Italy
Dolo
Anethony Eden
League of Nations Council
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