Holding Companies Threat Seen Weighing on New Deal Strategy
Washington observers say conservatives think FDR may soften his antiholding company stance to avoid congressional backlash and spur business cooperation. Debate over tax changes and how to curb holding companies highlights a looming political clash while leaders from General Electric and the CIO meet at the White House amid fears for the economy.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Senate
Robert J. Bulkley
Ohio
Alva B. Adams
Colo
White House
Owen D. Young
General Electric Company
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Mr. Roosevelt
Lewis
Middleport Man Loses Legs in Rail Accident
Middleport resident Roach fell from a moving freight train near Black Betsy West Virginia Saturday. He was taken to McMillan Hospital Charleston in serious condition. Roach had worked in Cabin Creek coal fields and was en route to Middleport. In Medina, Mrs R H Halderson of Medina was killed at Greenwood South Carolina Friday while returning from Florida. she was former worthy matron of the local Order of Eastern Star.
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Middleport
Owen Road
Railroad St
Black Betsy
W. Va
McMillan Hospital
Charleston
Roach
Cabin Creek
Medina
U.P
R. H. Halderson
Greenwood
S. C
Florida
Order of Eastern Star
Rx for lost items in The Messenger Want Ad
Lost items are recovered through a practical notice system in The Messenger. Mrs Fred Ellis reported her paper hanger shears found after a Wednesday morning loss between her home and Hope’s Daily, and the items were returned promptly. Dial 0242 to place a lost item ad before 14,000 Messenger families.
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Hope
Fred Ellis
Ellis
Storm Controversy Sparks Senate Fight Over Anti Lynching Bill
The Senate last week heatedly debated the anti lynching bill with Southern leaders arguing it could crush the Democratic Party. A light skinned White, once near lynching, is described as a Negro and connected to Byrnes of South Carolina in accusing him of pressuring Congress to pass the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Senate
Democratic Party
Atlanta, Ga
Byrnes
South Carolina
Congress
France to Get Bonnet Cabinet
The Leftist People's Front collapsed as Finance Minister Georges Bonnet moved to form a cabinet drawn from Radical-Socialists. President Lebrun was informed of a temporary government to handle the crisis. The Socialists led by Leon Blum said they will oppose the move in parliament.
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PARIS
U.P
People’s Front
France
Georges Bonnet
Bonnet
Albert Lebrun
Leon Blum
Husband of Meigs Girl Is Held as Bigamist
Mrs. Flossie Buckner of E Main St will testify in a bigamy case against Jack La Rue, husband of her daughter Elizabeth. Wenatchee officials will pay her travel expenses. The couple wed Oct 28 1936 in Pom ery by Dr. A R Stark, with Buckner as witness. Beards reports inquiry that La Rue married a 16 year old in Wenatchee.
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Pomeroy
Flossie Buckner
E. Main St
Jack la Rue
Elizabeth
Radio Censors Debate NBC Mae West Skit
FCC reprimand of NBC over the Adam and Eve Mae West skit prompts Congress to call for self censorship by radio.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
National Broadcasting Company
Mae West
Willkie urges US to buy all utilities near TVA
Wendell L. Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern proposes the federal government buy outright all private utilities in the Tennessee Valley Authority area as a last resort amid a TVA holding company challenge. He cites a $645 million value for six subsidiaries as of 1936 and warns Roosevelt’s plan could destroy American investors.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Commonwealth & Southern Corporation
Tennessee Valley Authority
Willkie
Commonwealth & Southern
Tion
Roosevelt
TVA
Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee Valley
Two Suspects Admit Guilt in Blast Slaying
Special investigator Harry Avery said two men Lee Walker and Ulysses Walling confessed to the dynamite murder of three Gouge children in Elizabethton Tennessee. Four men face first degree murder charges and five others are charged as accessories in the blast linked to the killing of Arnold Tollett in 1937. Harmon Gouge confessed to killing Tollett claiming self defense and awaits February trial.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
U.P
Harry Avery
Harman Gouge
Gouge
Avery
Lee Walker
Ulysses Walling
White Tollett
Church Lester
Arnold Tollett
Harmon Gouge
Woman Killer Held in Detroit
Edith Mae Cummings a real estate millionaire was slain by friend and business associate Julia Barker near Detroit after a bitter quarrel over land sale operations. Barker fired five shots then fled across an icy Huron River, later surrendering claiming self defense.
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Detroit
Edith Mae Cummings
Julia Barker
Cummings
Kentucky
Soviet Strike Blocks Payments and Expands Navy
Soviet Russia suspended all payments due to Italian firms and announced a heavy naval build program. The move targets European powers including Japan Germany and Italy as Moscow escalates military pressure.
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Moscow
Soviet
Russia
Japan
Germany
Italy
Over-Stocked Inventories Hint at 1938 Recovery
Cleveland statistician Col. Leonard P. Ayres notes inventories, boosted by veterans bonus demand in 1936, are being worked down. He cites a 34 percent drop in industrial production from normal December levels and calls the late year decline one of the sharpest in recent history.
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Cleveland
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Company
Monthly
Business Review
Economist
Jenkins Urges Probe of Coal Board Appointments
Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins of Ironton Ohio asks a House inquiry into how 23 National Bituminous Coal Commission field employees in Ohio were appointed He notes Ohio has 23 staff while Kentucky has 110 and calls for investigation of the appointment circumstances.
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Washington
U.P
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ironton
Ohio
National Bituminous Coal Commission
Jenkins
Kentucky
Detec tive Harry Raymond Bombed Near City Hall
Private eye Harry Raymond, hired by Clifford Clinton to uncover vice, was critically injured when a bomb exploded in his car near the City Hall. Raymond, in a coma, had hinted he possessed secret evidence linking vice rulers to political figures amid Clinton’s Civic Citizens Independent Vice Investigation Committee crusade.
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Los Angeles
Harry Raymond
Raymond
Clifford E. Clinton
Civic Citizens Independent Vice Investigation Committee
Clinton
Merger Filing for Five Toledo Central Subsidiaries
The Toledo and Ohio Central Railway Co. applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to absorb five subsidiaries of the Central system. The Kanawha and Michigan Railway Co. Kanawha and West Virginia Railway Co. Zanesville and Western Railway Co. Bailey Run Sugar Creek and Athens Railway Co. Middleport and Northeastern Railway Co.
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Washington
Toledo and Ohio Central Railway Co
New York Central System
Interstate Commerce Commission
Central System
Toledo and Ohio Central
Kanawha and Michigan Railway Co
Kanawha and
West Virginia Railway Co
Zanesville and Western Railway Co
Bailey Run
Sugar Creek
Athens
Middleport and Northeastern Railway
Miner Rescued After Four Days Lost In Coal Shaft
In Welch West Virginia Manuel Cordon a 46 year old Portuguese miner emerged from the Kingson Pocahontas Coal mine at English after four days of wandering. He told reporters through an interpreter at a local hospital that he was weary and hungry but expected to recover.
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Welch
W. Va
Kingson Pocahontas
English
Manuel Cordon
Social leader Joseph Timberlake dies in Columbus hotel
Joseph C. Timberlake 31 a West Point graduate and social figure in Columbus and St. Petersburg Fla ended his life in a Columbus hotel Friday night according to police reports.
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Columbus
Joseph C. Timberlake
West Point
St. Petersburg
Fla
Amish farmer killed by falling log near Plain City
Dan Hostettler a 44 year old Amish farmer died Saturday after being crushed by a 14 foot log while loading four wagons at his farm three miles south of Plain City Authorities reported the accident occurred on his property and Monday funeral arrangements were pending.
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Plain City
Here
Dan Hostettler
Rome Township Farmer Gored to Death by Bull
T J McGraw aged 70 of Stewart R F D 1 died at his home after being gored by a bull on his farm Wednesday evening. Mrs McGraw was saved by a collie that drove the animal away and dragged him to the field edge for help. Surviving are his wife two brothers Patrick and Anthony one sister Mrs Mary Rowan and many nieces and nephews. Funeral at St Pauls Catholic Athens 9 am Monday with burial Mt Calvary Cemetery. A brother Martin McGraw died Dec 17 1937 from burns in Parkersburg hospital.
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T. J. McGraw
Stewart R. F. D
Martin McGraw
Parkersburg
W. Va
Stewart
Dr Charles E Holzer Featured as Good Samaritan
In Gallipolis Dr Charles E Holzer hailed by American Magazine as Americas Interesting People for his river bridge and airport efforts to aid hospital access. He formed a bridge company opened a local airport to fly patients, sponsored a $10,000,000 dam project, and now runs a foundry and furniture factory to employ retired dam workers.
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Gallipolis
Charles E. Holzer
Ohio River
Charles F. Holzer
Ohio Valley
Western Dust Storms Spark Drought Fears in Plains
In Dodge City Kansas farmers and ranchers see dust laden skies and fear a repeat of drought. Soil drifting peaked Friday with Western Kansas Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle hit by the severest dust storms since spring 1936.
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Dodge City
Kans
Southwest
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Roosevelt to push naval expansion via Congress
President Roosevelt is expected to send a special message to Congress early this week urging a major naval building program. Secretary Claude Swanson indicated the request would come Monday or Tuesday as part of a broader expansion plan.
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FDR
BIG Navy
Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
Secretary of the Navy
Claude Swanson
Three Trusties Escape Mansfield Reformatory
Police searched for three more Mansfield Reformatory trusties at the Soldiers Home Honor Camp after they escaped Friday night. Seven have escaped within a week. Escaped were Earl Bennett of Fayette County Lester Waugh of Franklin County and Clyde Sidders of Athens County all sentenced for auto stealing.
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Sandusky
U.P
Mansfield Reformatory Trusties
Soldiers Home
Earl Bennett
Fayette County
Lester Waugh
Franklin County
Clyde Sidders
Athens County
Hoover outlines plans for America's foreign policy
Former President Hoover spoke in a radio address outlining a policy rooted in peace, preparedness, and independence. He urged disarmament, adherence to the Kellogg Pact and Monroe Doctrine, and cautioned that strict neutrality laws could drag the U.S. into war while opposing treaty breaking and foreign entanglements.
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Hoover
America
San Francisco
Ludlow
Catholic Church Set Ablaze in Vera Cruz by Communists
Fifty Communists shouting Viva Stalin fired pistols and used sticks to drive 50 Catholics into the street and burn the Church of Christ in Vera Cruz. The church had been handed to the Mexican Catholic Church and was restored to local Catholics only last Wednesday by Indians who seized it.
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Vera Cruz
Mexico
Stalin
Law would place United States in economic alliance with aggressor
The statement argues that enacting the proposed law would bind the United States to a practical economic alliance with the aggressor, implying alignment over strategic and financial ties. The language suggests a geopolitical consequence affecting U S independence in response to an ongoing conflict.
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United States
Japs Move to Recall Chinese Envoy and China Responds
Tokyo reports that the Japanese Imperial Conference will recall ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe from China within a week while China's ambassador Hsuh Shih Ying in Tokyo will depart on his own initiative. The Domei News Agency says the decision aims to punish the anti Japan administration in China for disturbing regional peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Shigeru Kawagoe
China
Hsuh Shih-Ying
Domei
Japan
Flier's Fate Revealed In Shark Capture
Human bones and a shirt were recovered from the stomach of a shark caught on Tutuila Island near the site of the Samoan Clipper disaster that sank with Capt. Ed win C. Musick and six crew members. Also, a coal company tipple suffered a $40,000 loss when fire destroyed the number two tipple of the Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal Co. in Amsterdam, Ohio.
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Shark
Pago Pago
Samoa
Tutuila Island
Edwin C. Musick
Amsterdam
Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Co
Tragic Romeo and Juliet Tale Ended by California Law
In DIMBA California a Japanese farmer Sam Kurihara and American Jessie Jean Salsman loved despite caste and legal barriers. Her father A C Salsman shot Kurihara twice, later Kurihara was wounded and the girl, hearing more gunfire, took poison in grief. The couple's secret romance ended in tragedy as law barred interracial marriage.
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Dimba
Calif
U.P
Romeo
Sam Kurihara
California
Jessie Jean Salsman
A. C. Salsman
Jessie Jean
Salsman
Salman
Reed Nominated to Supreme Court by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt nominated Solicitor General Stanley Forman Reed to replace retiring Associate Justice George Sutherland. Reed, aged 53, is seen as a moderate liberal likely to win swift Senate approval and complete a liberal majority on the court.
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Stanley F. Reed
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Mrs. Reed
Ohio River
Maysville
Washington
U.P
Stansley Forman Reed
George Sutherland
Reed
High Tribunal
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Mr. Roosevelt
Hugo le Black
Congress
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Florence E. Alsten
Ohio
United States
Kentucky
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
University of Virginia
Columbia University
New York
Uniersity
Paris
France
Rain and Snow Forecast for the Week in Ohio Valley
Ohio Valley weather outlook calls for rain Monday and Tuesday with more rain developing across the south and a mix of rain or snow in the north to close the week. Temperatures mild early, turning colder midweek and warming again by Friday.
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Washington
Ohio Valley
Road Signs May Warn Against Drunk Driving in Ohio
Ohio Highway Director John J. Jaster Jr considers a request from the Ohio Women’s Christian Temperance Union to post statewide signs warning motorists of the dangers of drunk driving. The WCTU asks state aid to supplement a national budget of 14000 dollars for erection of signs.
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Columbus
John J. Jaster, Jr
Ohio Women's Christian Temperance Union
WCTU
Murdered Yachtsman's Widow Reaches Miami
Mrs. Esther B. Lawrence arrived in Miami from Gallipolis Ohio to claim the body of her husband Captain Arthur A. Lawrence who was shot to death Tuesday aboard his motor vessel in Miami.
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Miami
Fla
U.P
Esther B. Lawrence
Gallipolis
Arthur A. Lawrence
Child Run Down After Crossing From Parked Car
Seven year old John Grouse Jr was struck and killed Friday night in Elyria as he ran from behind a parked automobile. Driver William Talarsky remained at the scene and police investigated the fatal crash.
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Elyria
U.P
John Grouse, Jr
William
Talarsky Hie
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Dr. Holzer
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