Venture of Stratosphere Fliers Hailed as Historic Flight
Nebraska pilots Captain Stevens and Captain Kepner aimed to reach the stratosphere aboard the Explorer from Rapid City to Kearney. The crash destroyed the balloon and the crew faced investigation as wreckage was scattered. Authorities, aided by the Air Corps, pursued causes of the failure and future plans to rebuild and resume the ambitious ascent.
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Ww. Stevens
Twakota F. Kepner
Rapid
Reuben Johnson
Orand
Stevens
Rapid City
Kearnthe
New York
Trusties Cut in Harlem State Farm Heist Report
An early morning incident at a Fort Meet area farm near Cattaina N. Owning the river bank involved men cutting into a trusties building around 2 am. Bloodhounds trailed the culprits as authorities investigated the break and attempted to recover stolen items.
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Fort
Cattaina
Project Approved to Create 13 Jobs in West Region
A state agency approved a project plan that will create 13 new employment positions and invest $328.75 thousand in the West region. The initiative aims to boost local economy and spur construction and service-sector growth.
Wang Editor Seeks Clarence From Public Post
A garbled query asks who is behind a public post and requests clarification from editor Wang. The fragmented text implies a media inquiry into editor identity and ownership.
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Ty Up
Mire
Alrea Wang
Public and Post
Think War Veteran Is Phantom Killer
Police in Steubenville believe they have the answer to a series of phantom-like killings at the Wheeling Steel Corporation mill, with authorities focusing on a war veteran as a prime suspect.
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Steubenville
Wheeling Steel Corporation
West Ready To Debate on New Deal With Fess
In Columbus on July 30 candidates for state and national offices traded barbs. Democratic senatorial hopeful Charles West challenged Republican Simeon D. Fess to a debate on the New Deal while Dean Davey and Lieut. Gov. Charles Sawyer spoke at Akron. Governor George White gained local support amid primary build up as Bulkeley endorsement drew responses.
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Fess
Columbus
Charles West
Akron
Simeon D. Fess
Roosevelt
Martin L. Davey
Charles Sawyer
Davey
Sawyer
George White
W Burr Gongwer
Cuyahoga County
Bulkiey
Want Federal Roads Money
A meeting to seek a share of federal road funds for Athens County feeder roads will be held Friday at 7 30 in the Athens County Courthouse courtroom. County officials bus drivers rural mail carriers and other residents are invited. Speakers include a representative from the Ohio Dodo roads Federation and another from the State Department of Education.
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Athens County
Ohio
State Department of Education
Jenkins
Congress
Hot Dog King Leaves Tiny Fortune to Widow
The estate of Harry M. Stevens, famed Hot Dog King who built his fortune at New York ballparks and sports venues, was left to his widow Mrs. Mary Stevens. The probate filing valued the estate at over $10,000. Stevens was a native of Niles, Ohio.
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New York
U“P
Harry M. Stevens
Mary Stevens
Stevens
Niles, O
Local Driver Suffers Leg Fracture After Collision
Howard Bolton age 26 of Carpenter received a fracture to the right leg and facial and arm injuries when his car was forced off the road by another vehicle. He is hospitalized at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Norma Caldwell of Athens underwent an appendectomy Sunday at the same hospital. Benny Rosenburg of Athens Junk Co. also had a serious operation yesterday.
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Howard Bolton
Carpenter
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Norma Caldwell
Athens
Benny Rosenburg
Athens Junk Co
Labor Leader Holds Fate of Meat Industry
Chicago faces a weeklong stalemate as 800 stockyards workers strike in sympathy with 8400 meat cutters. William Collins must decide whether to end the walkout, while federal mediators push for arbitration to resolve the dispute at the Union Stockyards and Transit Company amid livestock embargoes.
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Chicago
William Collins
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen
North America
Collins
Union Stockyards and Transit Company
Hugh Johnson
NRA
Fair Weather Forecast Extends Through Night
Weather outlook for the next 36 hours from Columbus reports fair conditions with moderate temperatures nationwide. The lake region and Middle Atlantic are unsettled while cooler air is expected tonight in the vicinity.
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Columbus
Lake
Middle Atlantic
Motor Car Sales Rise in Athens County This Month
One hundred sixteen new motor vehicles were sold in Athens County this month setting a new record. Nine were trucks and the rest were passenger cars. In June sales totaled 111 vehicles.
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Athens County
Ruth Burdette
Ice Cream Social and Plays by 4-H Club
The Loyal Daughters 4-H Club hosts an ice cream social and a two play program at Rock Riffie School on Tuesday night. Proceeds fund members' trip to the annual 4-H Club Camp.
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Rock Riffie School
Loyal Daughters 4-H Club
O'Clock
Island Rancher Raising Real Cattle on Parker Ranch
WAIMEA Hawaii reports Parker ranch hosts vast stock with thirty thousand head of Herefords over half a million acres. Cowboys ride high grade horses and work across islands linked by wireless telephone. Will Rogers writes from the “Honduly Islands” praising island ranch life.
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Will
Waimea
Hawaii
Parker Ranch
Hoenduly Islands
Will Rogers
Dressler Rites Tuesday Open To Intimates
Beverly Hills Calif July 3 AM Only a few who knew Marie Dressler the actress will attend her funeral tomorrow at Glendale The 62 year old film star died Saturday in Santa Barbara after a long illness She will be buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park after services at the Wee Kirk O The Heather Church Intimate acquaintances will attend the simple private services Some Hollywood notables will be present Jeanette MacDonald will sing Dresslers favorite hymn Abide with me
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Marie Dressler
Glendale
Santa Barbara
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Hollywood
Dressler
Ohio liquor prices cut again across brands and items
Col John A Hughes director of the department of liquor control ordered price reductions on 30 brands and 63 liquor items. The reductions take effect today and range from 10 cents to $1.15 per quart with corresponding changes in pint and half pint prices.
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Columbus
John A. Hughes
Department of Liquor Control
Rear Admiral Kaemmering, 76, Dies in Philadelphia
Rear Admiral Gustav Kaemmering, U S N retired aged 76 and once with Admiral Dewey on the Olympia at Manila Bay, died in Philadelphia. He was a Cincinnati native.
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Philadelphia
Gustav Kaemmering
George Dewey
Olympia
Manila Bay
Cincinnat
Snow Service Draws Congr at Union Square Church
In Somerville Massachusetts on July 9 the Rev Harold W Arthur of Union Square Baptist Church preached from a bank of snow. The cooled congregation sat in comfort and sang winter hymns as an ice company supplied the artificial snow for the novel service keeping the pews chilly while the city baked outside.
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Somerville
Mass
Harold W. Arthur
Union Square
Arthur
Ex-Policeman Confesses in Wife's Slaying
James Eden, 44, former Columbus police officer, confessed after an all night grilling to killing his wife near Portsmouth earlier this year. He said jealousy prompted the shooting as they stopped along the road and he fired into the car, then shot the windshield and windows before abandoning the body in the back seat. Eden was detained after officers found blood and four empty cartridges near the Scioto County line.
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Portsmouth
James Maen
Columbus
Putea South Point
Emery Smith
Scioto County
Art Oaks
Virgie Fowler
Eden
Scioto
Lott Stoefen Victors Again In Davis Cup Doubles
George M. Lott Jr and Lester Stoefen defeated Harold G N Lee and George Patrick Hughes 7-5 6-0 4-6 9-7 in Wimbledon Davis Cup challenge round. The win gives the United States a chance against Great Britain as two singles matches to follow between Wood Jr and Bunny Austin and Shielde and Fred Perry.
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Eng
George M. Lott, Jr
Lester Stoefen
Tony
Harold G. N. Lee
George Patrick Hughes
United States
Great Britain
Sidney B. Wood, Jr
Henry Wilfred
Bunny) Austin
Frank X. Shielde
Fred Perry
Infantile Paralysis Victim Improves at Home
Blaine Hall aged 10, son of Mr and Mrs Paul Hall of Elmwood and Hudson Avenues, is reported somewhat improved from infantile paralysis. County health director Dr J M Higgins said the window for additional cases passing and no new cases have been reported.
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Blaine Hall
Paul Hall
Elmwood
Hudson Avenues
J. M. Higgins
Republic Steel To Open Warren Mills
Republic Steel announces the Warren mill complex will resume operations tomorrow after a month shut down caused by weak orders and labor troubles. The facility, one of 18 tin mills in Warren, resumes as market demand improves.
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Republic Steel
Warren Mills
Warren
Republic Steel Corporation
Toledo Driver Killed in Fort Miami Track Crash
July Richard G Rosenthal of Toledo died when his car careened through a fence at Fort Miami track and struck a pole, authorities said.
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Toledo
Richard G Rosenthal
Fort Miami
Baldwin Says No Immediate War Risk In Europe
London July 30 AP Stanley Baldwin acting Prime Minister told the House of Commons there is no immediate danger of war in Europe as Britain defends plans to boost its air force. He rejected Labour calls for censure saying there is no cause for panic and peace in the near future remains possible amid troubling events in Sanur Memel Danzig and Austria and rising arms in Europe.
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London
Stanley Baldwin
Great Britain
House of Commons
Europe
Labor Party
Baldwin
Sanur
Memel
Danzig
Germany
Austria
Accidents Claim 19 Lives Across Ohio
A clear holiday weekend in Ohio brought 19 deaths from various accidents. Victims include Phylis Spinn aged 7 struck by a car in Cleveland, Margaret Richey age 2 killed in a car truck crash in Zanexville, Fred Brockway who died after a gunfire incident in Columbus, Clarence Porter who died by suicide in Zanesville, and Edward Moltman who drowned near Cincinnati while fishing for a horseshoe.
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Cleveland
Phylis Spinn
Margaret Richey
Zanexville
Minas Rickey
Fred Brockway
Clarence P. Porter
Zanesville
Tom Clark
Edward Moltman
Covington
Nebraska Panhandle Hit by Shocks Across Region
The Nebraska Panhandle from Chadron to Sterling felt earthquakes shortly after midnight Sunday with no injuries or serious damage reported. Residents in Gordon Rushville Hay Springs Crawford Alliance Sterling and surrounding areas reported faint vibrations that were not strong enough to dislodge dishes.
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Nebraska Panhandle
Sterling Cole
Nebraska
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Rushville
Hay Springs
Crawford
Alliance
Sterling
Colo.aldo
Hindenburg Reported Very Up as Health Falters
Berlin reports Paul von Hindenburg, aging German president, remains seriously ill at Neudeck estate where he had been recently ill. Details on his condition are unavailable, but officials acknowledge his health is precarious. A Bayreuth source says a mysterious old gentleman in a distant locale adds to the rumor mill.
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Paul von Hindenburg
Germany
Starm
von Hindenburg
Neudeck
Detalia
Bayreuth
Chancrer Hiller
Austrian minister in hospital after alleged suicide attempt
Forty Nazis raided Vienna General Hospital seeking De Anton Rintelen former Austrian minister to Rome found seriously wounded but alive. Rintelen held as a prisoner of the Fascist regime for pro-Nazi leanings, contrary to earlier reports of his death.
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Vienna
Anton Rintelen
Rome
Nazia
Rintelen
Kurl Schuschnigg
Nazi Groupe
General Hospital
Steel Makers Expect Better August Trade
Steel makers in Cleveland forecast improved trade in August as automakers release material to finish inventories for new models. July absorbed consumer stock and represented the year's low for new tonnage, with government work supporting the structural steel market and anticipated buying from agricultural districts in fall.
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Cleveland
Steel Save Today
Bteel
Relief Needs Are Explained in Athens County Talk
Mrs Martha H Clarke director of social service work for the Athens County FERA outlined local relief office plans during a morning service at First Presbyterian Church in Athens She stressed citizen responsibility in supporting reconstruct ion efforts and Christian service Her detailed explanations linked FERA projects to community aid and will be continued in a future Athens Messenger issue
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Hocking Valley
Athens County
United States
Martha H. Clarke
FERA
First Presbyterian Church
Athens
Clarke
Grangers Enjoy All Day Picnic at Ohio River Beach
More than 100 Athens Grange members and families spent a Sunday picnic at Syracuse Beach in Meigs County. They arrived before noon and shared a basket lunch with swimming and boating as the main diversions.
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Athens Granges
Famies
Syracuse Beach
Meigs County
Akron Tragic Substation Fall Claims Ohio Edison Worker
John A. Mays age 47, a maintenance man for Ohio Edison, fell yesterday at the Barberton substation after coming into contact with 22 000 volts of electricity. Blight hope for recovery is fading today.
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Akron
John A. Mays
Ohio Edison
Barberton
Planetta blamed for Dollfuss murder as Nazi revolt unfolds
Vienna authorities say Otto Planetta, a disgruntled former sergeant with Nazi ties, confessed to firing the shot that killed Chancellor Dollfuss. In Vienna and across Austria, new government moves led by Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg seek to suppress Nazi resistance while reports of hospital abductions and further conspiracies surface.
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Vienna
Dollfuss
Otto Planetta
Rintelen
Nagte
Dollfusa
Austria
Bull for divorce over alleged poisoning attempt
Mrs. Clara Huber files for divorce in Lancaster against John Huber of Buckeye Lake. He is jailed in the Ohio Penitentiary serving one to eighteen years for an attempted poisoning on a farm visit last year. She seeks a new trial in district appeals court.
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Lancaster
Deportation Petition of Ponzi Denied by Court
In Boston on July 30, the United States District Court denied Charles Ponzi's petition to overturn immigration deportation orders to Italy. Ponzi spent more than 11 years in various jails and prisons for his 3 percent in 46 days investment scheme.
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Boston
United States District Court
Charles Ponal
Italy
Ponzi
Texas neighbors in dispute over governor primary votes
In Dallas two neighbors James V. Allred and Tom P. Hounter watched final vote tabulations that could push them into the second Democratic primary. The Texas governor race tabulation centers around August 28.
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Dallas
Tex
James V. Allred
Tom P. Hounter
Texas
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