Athens Plans Water Softening and Airport Lease Approved
Preliminary plans for a city water softening system approved by officials include Burgess & Niple of Columbus and total cost near 50000 dollars funded by National Industrial Recovery Act aids with no city taxes. A garbage disposal plant plan by architect William J. Da was ordered and Rowland Field lease for the municipal airport approved with federal support and a yearly city cost of about two dollars.
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Ater
State Department
Athens
Rowland Field
Industrially Act
Maxes
Burgess
Burgess & Niple
Columbus
Syftenm
Fedstance
Ohio
William J. da
Davis
Alsso
Missing Ackley youth stirs search by authorities
Parents of 18 year old Wil Ackley college student join in the search as authorities continue the daylight effort to locate him after he disappeared in the afternoon.
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Ackley
Wil College
W Ord
London Conference Confuses Beverly Hills Reader
A Beverly Hills reader criticizes a London conference noting divergent national plans and deadlocks. The writer suggests adjourning until January and proposes a permanent yearly delegation to attend conferences for travel and levity rather than serious statecraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
Speedy Action Planned on Industrial Codes
Industrial Administrator Hugh S. B. Johnson announced rapid action on codes for six major industries under the Industrial Recovery Program. He named iron and steel, women's apparel, oil, coal, automotive, woolens and lumber as near ready for public hearings and warned against run away prices. He proposed Open Price Associations to disclose wholesale and retail prices and quantities to curb overcharging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.R
Hugh
B. Johnson
Johnson
Iron and Steel
Recovery Administration
Jail Breaker Recaptured in Nelsonville After May Escape
Ed ward Sims was arrested in Nelsonville Sunday evening by Chief George Bateman after escaping Hocking County Jail with four others in May. Sims was returned to Logan with Sheriff Sol Ellinger and Deputy Joe Farbearn, while Huddy and Alva Lutz were sent to Mansfield Reformatory and John Chute plus Pat Allen held in Athens County. The three, including Huddy and Chute, are finishing sentences locally. Two more inmates escaped on June 25 and remain at large.
Union Trust depositors to get dividend checks
In Cleveland on July 4 six hundred typists in three eight hour shifts begin printing dividend checks for 260 000 depositors of the closed Union Trust Company amid holiday shifts.
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Cleveland
Closed Union Trust Company
Coast Guards Rescue 10 Marooned on Lake Erie Jetty
Ten men marooned for over 30 hours on a Lake Erie jetty were rescued as waves battered the rocks near Cedar Point. Coast Guard crews, led by Mate L. F. Hebert, ferried in a life boat to safety while the lighthouse keeper's wife relayed information via phone. The group faced hunger and drenched clothing after sleeping on the jetty until supplies arrived.
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Coast Guards
Lake Erie
Cedar Point
U.P
L. F. Hebert
Cleveland
Coast Guard
Herman Waibel
Monsoon In India Causes Widespread Deaths And Destruction
Monsoon storms strike across India causing hundreds of deaths and extensive property damage. Thousands displaced as crops and livestock perish. a train falls off a cliff in Southern India and a wedding party of 15 perishes when a house collapses in the United Provinces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta
India
U.P
United Provinces
Governor Studying Senate Tax Plan Amid Public Hearing Talk
Governor White reviews the stop-gap taxation package framed by the Senate and rushed through the legislature. He plans cabinet review and possibly public hearings to weigh effects on poorer school districts and overall state needs.
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Columbus
U.R
General Assembly
White
Senate
Carlton
Dargusch
State Tax Commission
Bedford pupils finish extended term on Fourth of July
Bedford School District children celebrate Independence Day after completing an extended 1932-33 term with final eighth grade exams held Saturday. The district kept schools open until July to meet the eight month requirement, a decision left to the local board amid a post election school tax delay. Long Bottom faced a similar situation.
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Pomeroy
Bedford
Io Long Bottom
Windstorm Damages Glen Burson Farm Near New Marshfield
A severe windstorm damaged the Glen Burson farm near New Marshfield. Two porches were torn from the home and a section blew onto the house, knocking down a new chimney. Heavy crop damage was reported.
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Glen Burson
New Marshfield
Cropa
Ideal Fourth of July Weather in Athens District
Pleasant Fourth of July described with mild conditions and a cool breeze. The Ohio Weather Bureau forecast fair skies tonight and rising temperatures tomorrow with a high around 82 and a low near 50, making sweaters comfortable after a cool morning.
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Ohio Weather Bureau
Fourth of July Fireworks Scare Rattles Chauncey
Chauncey residents spent the night shaken by blasts blamed on local youths preparing for the Fourth. Windows shattered along Con verse Street and near New York Central tracks as a steel freight car end was blown out. The midnight shocks followed earlier booms around 11:30 PM.
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New York Central
Converse Street
Hitler Pleased With Proposed Vatican Treaty
Vatican City July 4 Adolf Hitler cabled approval of the draft Germany Vatican treaty Franz von Papen will initial for Germany Hitler plans a Rome signing later The pact grants priests parity with civil authorities for weddings religious societies limited to religious activities Catholic Youth Organizations restore confiscated funds state control youth groups under state but religious leaders direct religious activities Catholic ecclesiastics receive honors religious education safeguarded and ecclesiastical authorities control instruction for their communicants
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Vatican City
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Vatican
Franz von Papen
Hitler
Rome
Cuban Storm Devastates Tobacco Crops At Coloma Cuba
In Pinar del Rio Cuba a off season hurricane caused flooding 112 miles inland at Coloma sweeping the western region. It destroyed houses docks and high grade tobacco crops with potential losses in the millions. A small death toll was reported amid evacuations by residents fleeing rising water.
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Pinar del Rio
Cuba
U.P
Coloma
Friends Trust Factor Wit to Win Release
Chicago report says friends of John Factor known as Jake the Barber abandon negotiations with his kidnapers and rely on Factor's known analytical mind to secure his freedom. They recall his past countermeasures when his son Jerome was abducted, using a forged ransom letter to expose internal rifts and win release without paying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John
Jake the Barber
Factor
Jerome
Missing Fairfax Postmistress Linked to Hoover Circle
Miss Lurema Sayre, Fairfax postmistress and Hoover era associate, is missing as postal inspectors audit her accounts. She skipped an appointment with authorities poised to hand the office to a Democratic appointee. Sayre was known as a White House guest and was consulted by the Hoovers on a Virginia mountain camp site.
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Fairfax
U.P
Misa Lurema Sayre
Herbert Hoover
Miss Sayre
Hoover
Deadlock at World Economic Conference prompts adjournment plan
Eight leading nations' representatives debated suspending monetary talks as a hopeless deadlock on currency stalled progress. The steering committee drafted a formula for indefinite adjournment of the monetary side while production coordination may continue. Cox, MacDonald, Hull and other leaders weighed Roosevelt's telegram and the shift in US policy.
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London
World Economic Conference
Geneva
League of Nations
Ramsay Mac Donald
Roosevelt
Cox
Cordell Hull
United States
Freeman Pleads Guilty in Beer Defrauding Case
Theodore Freeman of Buchtel admitted guilt on arraignment for defrauding an inn keeper after consuming eight 3.2 beer bottles at the Dew Hotel and leaving without payment. He received 60 days in Athens County Jail and must pay court costs. Police took him to Athens. a Murray City delegation noted similar prior visits. Harlin Deer and John Hysell were fined for intoxication. Hysell also faced a concealed weapons charge bound over to the Grand Jury.
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Nelsonville
Theodore Freeman
Buchtel
J. W. Hickman
Athens County
Athens
George Bateman
Freeman
Dew Hotel
Murray City
Harlin Deer
John Hysell
Hysell
Thurman Poole
Poole
Leo Diegel Qualifies With 150 At St Andrews
Leo Diegel of Agua Caliente Mexico, first overseas entrant to complete two British Open qualifying rounds, shot 75 in the second round for a total of 150 at St Andrews. He played the old course, was out in 39 and home in 39, taking a six on the fourth and a costly missed two footer.
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Leo Diegel
St. Andrews
Andrews
Scotland
Ri—Leo Diegel
Agua Caliente
Mexico
Diegel
Four-Cent Beer Trade Opens in Buffalo
Independence Day brings a price drop as Buffalo residents sip 3.2 beer for four cents with a luncheon offer. A tavern across the street matched the rate at five cents per glass, enhancing local price competition and drinker incentives.
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Buffalo
N. Y
50000 Workers To Hit at Sweatshops Strike Planned
New York July 4. A temporary walkout of 530,000 clothing workers is set for Thursday to pressure employers, especially sweatshops, to raise wages. Factories in New York Philadelphia Baltimore and New Jersey will be affected as union officials seek 10 to 30 percent pay increases led by Sidney Hill president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.
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E Rowland
New York
U.P
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New Jersey
Sidney Hill
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Rival Gangs Questioned in Cincinnati Murder Inquiry
Police in Cincinnati questioned rival gangs in the death of 36 year old Joseph Wallace. His hacked and bullet-riddled body was found in the rear compartment of an abandoned coupe on a suburban street after he left home Saturday with 60 to 70 dollars and several deeds.
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Cincinnati
Mquor Sang
Joseph Wallace
Wallace
Double Investigation Planned Into Mt Vernon Bus Wreck
In Vernon Ohio authorities ordered a double probe into Sunday's fatal bus wreck. The Ohio Public Utilities Commission sent Roy M. Snetzer to Mt Vernon to lead the first inquiry. Sheriff F J Mason and Knox County Coroner B L Eastman will conduct the second. Adolph Youngman of Cleveland, the third identified victim, had been working in Columbus.
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Iet
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Roy M. Snetzer
Mt Vernon
F. J. Mason
B. L. Eastman
Knox County
Adolph Youngman
Cleveland
Columbus
Vacchiano Taken to Ohio Penitentiary Death Cell
Toledo dispatch reports Frank Vacchiano, condemned for the Park Lane Hotel night clerk attack, was moved by Sheriff Kreiger Chief Jailer Gilday and three deputies to the Ohio Penitentiary death cell. He is set to die October 9. William Bierwerth, the guard attacked, rode with the escort to Columbus.
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Toledo
Frank Vacchiano
John McLaughlin
Park Lane Hotel
Ohio Penitentiary
Dave Kreiger
Jay Gilday
Vacchiano
William Bierwerth
Columbus
Ford Feud Proposal Referred to Senate Committee
The Senate Stock Market Investigating Committee was asked to probe Kenny Ford and his clash with powerful banking interests who allegedly seek control of his auto company. Herbert R. Wilkina, a Detroit banker, claims Wall Street engineered a bank hold to depose Ford, with involvement noted by committee counsel.
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Washington
U.R
Kenny Ford
Senate Stock Market Investigating Committee
United Press
Pletcher
Ferinand Pecera
Herbert R. Wiikina
Detroit
Wall Street
Ferd
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Bedford School
Burson Farm
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Chauncey
U. War
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