Miners Seek Pension and Insurance at Convention
IANAPOLIS Jan 26 U P The Miners union debate on pensions unemployment insurance and mine inspectors dominated the Mine Workers Convention. President John L urged against walkouts that break contracts while a Pennsylvania union urged keeping the strike as a last resort. resolutions also called for pensions based on 50 percent of average earnings and a weekly wage floor under ten dollars.
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Ianapolis
U.P
Jied Mine Workers
John L
Logan Woman Dies in Hocking County
Mrs. Nunemaker, 72, and McLaughlin, oldest Logan resident, died yesterday. McLaughlin’s son Frank Shanney of Peter Street survives. Nunemaker left a husband and two daughters Ward Hockman of Logan and C Nobie of Baltimore. Services set for Catholic and United Brethren churches with burial at Oak Grove.
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Ha McLaughlin
Wo- Hocking County
Nunemaker
McLaughlin
Frank Shanney
Peter
St. Catholic Church
S S T. Nevin
Oak Grove
Ward Hockman
Logan
C. Nobie
Baltimore
Ohio
Mrvices
P. Wright
United Brethren
Auction Prices and Crop Report Highlight Tobacco Sale
The report shows a sale of 2,184.140 pounds bringing $273,129.79 at Lexington Auctions, with an average price around $12.50 per pound and the HOM record at $27.10. The crop discussed is American Tobacco and the figures reflect the season's market activity.
New Car Orders Swamp Detroit Auto Factories
Detroit and Cleveland area auto plants surge to meet surging 1934 demand. About 325000 industrial workers mobilized as Ford GM and Chrysler push output toward 3 to 3.5 million cars. Ohio tire and steel firms raise wages to 10 percent for 40000 workers to boost spending.
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Detroit Auto
Detroit
U.P
Cleveland
Ohio
Lorain
Youngstown
Mansfield
Akron
Mercy Bullet Ends Life of Ill Son and Father
In San Francisco a retired fruit dealer, Joseph Perra, killed his son Elton J. Perra, 2, with a mercy bullet then died by suicide at the Marine Hospital. Doctors had warned of the boy’s incurable illness after leg amputation, and the father reacted upon learning the prognosis. The room held Mrs. Rose Perra and barber James Rose as the tragedy unfolded.
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Ban Francisco
U.P
Joseph Perra
Elton J. Perra
Marine Hospital
Perra
Petra
Rose Perra
James Rose
Vote To Revise Marriage Laws
Ohio lawyers urged Governor White to appoint a commission to study marriage and divorce law, erase common law marriage, and recodify statutes to reflect modern views. Judge Charles W. Hoffman proposed a commission of judges scientists and social agency representatives.
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Commission
Ohio
White
Charles W. Hoffman
Cincinnati
Jake the Barber Recalls Kidnapping in Chicago Court
John Factor known as Jake the Barber testified in Chicago as Roger Touhy and three henchmen faced charges of abducting him. Factor described being seized early July 1 after leaving a northwest side roadhouse and said he would identify three defendants as his abductors.
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Criminal Court Building
Chicago
U.P
John
Jake the Barber
Factor
Roger Touhy
Curse of Pharaohs Exploded by Scientist
New York January today Herbert E. Winlock director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art debunked the myth of the Curse of the Pharaohs tied to the King Tutankhamen tomb opening in 1923. He cited documents and cases showing only six of forty participants died and the deaths were from age illness or possible self-harm.
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New York
Herbert E. Winlock
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Egypt
Erskine Death Reported From Pulmonary Edema
Elwood J. Erskine Ohio University student died from pulmonary edema according to Coroner L F Jones. He was found in an apartment at 218 East State Street and is survived by Samuel B Erskine Athens attorney and the Erskin family of near Chillicothe. Funeral services are set for Sunday at 2 PM at the Concord Church on Route 50.
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Ohio University
L. F. Jones
F. D. Forsyth
East State Street
Erskine
Samuel B. Erskine
Athens
Walter J. Erskine
Chillicothe
Concord Church
New Radio Used To Warn of Bank Holdup in Carey
Three men robbed the Peoples' National Bank at Carey around noon today. A sheriff's radio station in Findlay broadcast the alert, warning of the robbery and aiding in pursuit.
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Toledo
U.P
Peoples’ National Bank
Carey
Find
Ohio tax panel struggles to agree on school funding plan
The Ohio special taxation commission failed to reach consensus on a permanent tax plan to boost school and sub division revenues. A tentative accord aimed at taxing publicly owned utilities like private ones emerged, while proposals for a sales tax, income tax, and gross receipts tax face likely opposition.
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Columbus
Special Taxation Commission
General Assembly
Ohio
Most of Ohio Banks Opened
Washington reports that only 16 national banks in Ohio remained closed after the banking holiday. Sixty-nine have reopened or gained government approved reorganizations. five plans were rejected and eleven are in receivership. Eighty-five national banks failed to reopen. deposits totaling 851,744,000 are in reorganized banks with estimations of over 50 percent released to depositors.
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Washington
Ohio
J. F. T. O'Connor
Hard Coal Men Seek Flexible Price Rules
Anthracite price control terms were to be sent to NRA deputy William H. Davis today as Andrew J. Maloney, president of Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron, meets. Maroney's firm and Lehigh Valley Coal seek wide latitude to set prices to enter competing markets and boost sales.
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Washington
William H. Davia
NRA
Andrew J. Maloney
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company
Maroney
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Post Office Payment Plan Proposed by Representative Thom
Rep William R Thom of Canton proposes amending Home Owners Loan Corporation rules to allow debt payments at post offices instead of mailing to Washington. The measure aims to simplify payments and speed processing.
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Washington
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
William R. Thom
Canton
Detective Story Reader Tip Lands Dillinger Gang in Jail
A reader tip to Detective Story leads to Dillinger gang arrests and a push for extradition to Ohio. The tax reform item discusses easing burdens on the average man with a 10 percent earned income deduction up to $4,000 and a 4 percent tax on remaining income.
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Dillinger Gang
Ohio
Bootlegger Theme Spreads Across Three States in Alleys of Route
Report cites a rambling field note from Claremore Oklahoma about bootleggers outpacing CWA workers in Oklahoma Texas and Arkansas. The note mentions Anton Carter greeting planes and selling Roosevelt ball tickets in Fort Worth with optimism about funds. It references Bill Murray and a pigeon returning home across the Southwest.
Expect Return In Few Hours
In St Paul the family and police kept silent on new twists in the Edward G. Bremer kidnapping case. Federal and local authorities signaled no interference with Adolph Bremer’s bid to secure his son’s safe return for a $200000 ransom, with reports the payment had been made and a Saturday return expected.
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ST. Paul
Jan
Edward G. Bremer
Adolph Bremer
Roosevelt
Bremer
Byrd Antarctic Ship Returns to Bay of Whales Berth
The flagship of the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition lies at the Bay of Whales awaiting winter supplies. A Sunday night gale forced the ship to cast off, but winds eased by yesterday afternoon and the vessel returned to her former berth for unloading.
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Jacob Ruppert
Bay OF Whales
Antarctic
Mackay
Dynamite Explosion at Mansfield Plant Injures Two
Twenty two workers escaped injury when 199 pounds of dynamite exploded at the Mansfield Shale Products plant four miles north of Mansfield. Two brick kilns were demolished after a box of frozen sticks placed beside a kiln caught fire due to heat from the kiln.
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Mansfield
Jan
Mansfield Shale Products Company
Here
One Wounded As Police and Pickets Clash
At the Glen Alden Coal Company mine in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania a 14 year old youth Peter Dobranski was shot in the head and seriously wounded during clashes between strikers and police. Pickets claim a police officer fired the shot while local officers deny firing into the crowd. The incident began when pickets ambushed an automobile carrying officers their car was stoned and wrecked. Police moved in and shots were exchanged. Six pickets were arrested on rioting and violation of a court injunction.
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Wilkes-Barre
Jan U.P
South Wilkes-Barre
Glen Alden Coal Company
Peter Dobranski
Glen Alden
Dobranski
Ancient Deed Is Recopied In Meigs County
In Pomeroy Ohio the Ohio Company purchase deed is being recopied by CWA workers in the office of County Recorder George Meinhart. The document traces original ownership of land in Meigs County from George Washington to the Ohio Company of Associates, dating back to 17 recorded July 6 1803 with 1173 acre lots at five shillings. Blurred sections will be duplicated from Marietta copies.
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Ohio Company
Marietta
Meinhart
Carrie Franks Becomes County Treasurer in Ohio Change
In Wooster on January 2 Carrie Franks assumed the office of county treasurer succeeding her husband Elton Franks who has been ill.
First Lady's Bung Plan Under Attack in Congress
Washington reports anti government in business group in Congress challenges a Public Works Administration project to fund a $525000 Post Office factory in Reedsville West Virginia. Critics say the plan competes with private plants and would burden other industries through taxes while the project advances despite opposition.
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Washington
U.P
Congress
Reedsville
Reed
New York
House
West Virginia
Connecticut
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Tucson Police Nab Dillinger Gang Leader in City Trap
Tucson police trap gang leader John Dillinger and three accomplices after metro officers failed to capture the outlaw. Dillinger sought in Ohio for the Lima jail break where Sheriff Jens L. Sarber was killed.
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Metropolitan Police
John Dillinger
Tucson
Arizona
Dillinger
Ohio
Lima
Jens L. Sarber
Silver Star Presented to Hero's Widow
Four World War I veterans receive Silver Star citations from the War Department. John R. Carrow Miller Missouri Jack Michels Brooklyn New York Edward A. Schafer New Haven Connecticut and posthumous award to Jesse R. Wickham formerly corporal of Company C 166th Infantry 424th Division. Wickham’s action at Sommerance France October 21 1918 earned the honor as he braved heavy fire to scout and report on the barrage’s effect on enemy defenses.
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Washington
War Department
John R. Carrow
Miller, Mo
Jack Michels
Brooklyn
Edward A. Schafer
New Haven
Conn
Jesse R. Wickham
166Th Infantry
424 Division
Mary E. Wickham
Pomeroy
Business Has Grown Better Country Over
The Federal Reserve Board reports a December rise in its industrial activity index to 84 percent of the 1923-25 average from 73 percent in November, despite factory employment dipping mid-December. The December increase lifts the final quarter's activity to 13 percent above the 1992 benchmark.
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Washington
Jan
Federal Reserve Board
Grocery Sales in Ohio Rise in December
Ohio State University Business Research Bureau reports wholesale grocery sales in Ohio for December climbed 9.3 percent over December 1932 with average daily sales up 13.7 percent. Cash sales showed a larger gain than charge sales.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio State University Business Research Bureau
Ohio
Captain James D. Robinson dies in Henderson area
Gallipolis reports the death of Captain James D. Robinson aged 61 a longtime steamboat engineer on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers He passed away Thursday in Henderson near Gallipolis with his career spanning several decades aboard river boats for various companies.
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Gallipolis
James D. Robinson
Ohio
Mississippi
Henderson
Here
Machine Guns Guard Tucson Jail After Capture
Fift y deputies with machine guns guard Pima County jail in Tucson Arizona around four captured gangster killers John Dillinger Russell Clark Charles Makiey and Harry Pierpont. The gang faces robberies murders and a prison break across Illinois Indiana and Ohio.
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Tucson
Ariz
U.P
Pima County
Midwest
John Dillinger
Russell Clark
Charles Makiey
Harry Pierpont
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Lima plans Dillinger return to stand trial
Sheriff son proposes bringing John Dillinger and his henchmen back to Lima for murder charges after Dillinger’s escape. Sheriff Don Sarber moves to use legal machinery upon learning Hillinger and three companions were arrested in Tucson, Arizona.
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John Dillinger
Lima
Don Sarher
Hillinger
Tucson
Ariz
Dillinger Gang Surrenders In Chicago Firefighter Clue
Police seized five machine guns, numerous pistols, 12000 rounds, 26000 dollars, 12000 in jewels, and four women accomplices after arrests of four couples linked to the Dillinger gang. Fireman John Freeman’s detective story tip led to the capture and a $95000 reward. Police found two machine guns, bulletproof vests, money, diamonds, and nippers in Dillinger’s residence.
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Ity
Mary Kindler
Opal Long
Martin
Midge Reteger
Dillinger
al Capone
Pierpont
Chicago
John Freeman
Congress Motel
Makiey
Pope May Be Recognized in U S Holy See Diplomacy
Rome reports a widespread rumor that the United States may resume diplomatic relations with the Holy See. Vatican officials declined comment as observers note the papacy has held recognized sovereignty over its territory since 1867, altering the international legality of any accord.
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Rome
U.P
Vatican
Pius
United States
Holy Bee
Holy See
CWA Letters Reveal Discrimination Claims to Hopkins
Analysis of 37 000 letters to the Civil Works and Relief Administration shows 25.4 percent alleging discrimination during the week ended January 27. Complaints cited political, personal, Negro, veteran, labor, wage, material and truck contracts and alien status.
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Washington
Civil Works and Relief Administrations
Hopkins
Patrick Conroy Dies in Railroad Yard Accident
Columbus report states Patrick Conroy aged 70 a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad switch tender for 30 years was fatally struck by an engine in the railroad yards Thursday. Funeral plans pending.
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Columbus
Patrick Conroy
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
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