Sentences Handed Down for Liquor Violations in Columbus
Federal Judge Mell Underwood sentenced a group of guilty plea defendants for liquor violations. Recipients include William E. Nixon of Allensville, six months in jail and a 500 dollar fine, and Thomas Burgess of New Straitsville with similar terms. Other defendants such as Louis Greene and Charles W Hazleton received fines of 100 dollars and short jail terms. Additional sentences cover Levi Hammon, Barney Blankenship, Luther M. Burch Sr., Joseph Ivan Williams, and William J. Miller with fines ranging from 100 to 500 dollars and jail terms from 60 days to nine months or more, with one case suspended on good behavior.
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Charles W. Hazleton
New Straitsville
Levi Hammon
Glouster
Athens County
Barney Blankenship
Luther M. Burch, Sr
Nelsonville
Joseph Ivan Williams
William J. Miller
New Straits
Mrs Irving Berlin Delivers Daughter Early Today
New York report says Mrs Irving Berlin daughter born early today. The child is the Berlins third, and she is the wife of the renowned songwriter and daughter of Clarence Mackay, the millionaire communications magnate.
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New York
U.P
Irving Berlin
Clarence Mackay
Berlins
Plan To Appeal Wagener Ruling
Federal attorneys expected an order to appeal to the U S Supreme Court against a circuit court decision that the Wagner Connery Labor Relations Act is unconstitutional. The ruling stemmed from Jones and Laughlin Steel Company versus the National Labor Relations Board over 12 discharges for union activities.
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New Orleans
U.S
Washington
U. S. Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
Circuit Court
Jones and Laughlin Steel Company
National Labor Relations Board
New Deal
Labor Relations Board
Jones and Laughlin Company
Postpone Sentence On Athens Physician
Federal Judge Mell G. Underwood deferred for a week the sentence on Dr. Byron Danford of Athens for issuing fraudulent narcotic prescriptions. Danford pleaded not guilty but withdrew and admitted the charges, as defense seeks leniency for rehabilitation purposes.
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Columbus
Mell G. Underwood
Byron Danford
Athens
Danford
Underwood
Judge Mack Nominates Roosevelt for Second Term
Judge John E. Mack of Poughkeepsie said President Roosevelt would be nominated for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Mack previously nominated Roosevelt at the Chicago convention in 1932.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Roosevelt
Philadelphia
John E. Mack
Mack
Chicago
Africans admire spirituals in Africa tour
Homer Rodeheaver, long time musical director for Billy Sunday revival campaigns, reported on returning from Africa that the native people are genuinely interested in American negro spirituals.
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New York
A.p.homer Rodeheaver
Billy Sunday
Africa
Moth Plague Threatens Northern Ontario Farmlands
Sudbury Ontario reports a moth infestation sweeping an 8,000 square mile area along a 175 mile front. Farmers warn of stripping foliage, livestock distress, crop losses, and dangerous travel as trains halt and houses are covered. Officials say no effective control method exists.
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Sudbury
Ont
U.P
Ontario
Girl Identifies Man Sought in Father's Death
Beatrice Moore daughter of inventor D McFarlan Moore named a visitor who had called at the home hours before the Edison associate was shot in his garage. Detectives traced the man to Bloomfield New Jersey then Brooklyn New York but could not locate him.
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East Orange
N. J
D. McFarlan Moore
Thomas A. Edison
Moore
Beatrice
Wellesley College
Bloomfield
Brooklyn
New York
Troops Deployed to Contain Belgian Strikes
In Brussels troops were summoned to protect essential public services as 220,000 Belgian workers strike for higher wages and shorter hours. Premier Paul Van Zeeland’s government imposed drastic precautions to curb violence amid the unrest sparked by similar French protests.
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Brussels
U.R
Paul van Zeeland
Chiang Kai-Shek Drives Troops South to Crush Cantonese Movement
General Chiang Kai-Shek ordered a southward push of Nanking forces to quell the Canton government and its war stance with Japan. Foreign observers view him as at a crossroads between fighting Chen Chi-Tang's Cantonese legions or losing power in China.
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Canton
China
U.P
Chiang Kai-Shek
Nanking
Autonomous Canton
Japan
Chiang
Chen Chi-Tang
Income Tax Revenue Increases Over 1935
Treasury figures show June 1 to June 15 income tax receipts up by 42.97 million dollars versus the same period in 1934, an about 15 percent rise.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Landon Knox Rally Sparks Republican Campaign In Kansas
In Topeka Gov. Alf Landon and Col. Frank Knox led a Republican rally on the statehouse steps as supporters cheered. News from Oklahoma and New York hinted at party shifts while Landon mapped a broad East and West campaign including West Middlesex and Chautauqua New York for strong speeches.
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Topeka
Kan
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago
Kansas State House
Landon
Pennsylvania
West Middlesex
United Press
New York
Chautauqua
New York State
San Francisco
Portland
Los Angeles
Roosevelt
Art Dealer Jailed for Threatening Morgan
New York based Armenian art dealer Gregor Aharon, 52, held on $5,000 bail after being charged with threatening J. P. Morgan to buy a Madonna and Child statue for 2 million dollars. Aharon claimed he sought an interview for two years to secure the purchase of an alleged Michelangelo original.
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New York
U.P
Gregor Aharon
J. P. Morgan
U. S
John J. Dowling
Morgan
Aharon
Michaelangelo
Memphis Girl and Minister File Assault Charges
Memphis socialist worker Willie Blagden and Reverend Claude C. Williams said six well dressed white men beat them with a leather strap near Earle Arkansas during a Tenant Farmers Union strike. They reported the assault occurred Monday night as they urged members to vote in the dispute.
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Memphis
Tenn
U.P
Little Rock
Ark
Earle
Tenant Farmers Union
Willie Blagden
Claude C. Williams
Tiny theft, heavy penalties for youths in Illinois
Four Alton youths aged 15 to 17 pleaded guilty to stealing a fountain pen and a cigarette lighter worth 12.50. Circuit Judge Joyce imposed sentences from one year to life, sending two to St Charles School for Boys, one to Pontiac Prison, and one to either Pontiac or Chester Prison.
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Alton
Edwardsville
U.R
Joyce
Jane R. Hamilton
Illinois
Fred W. Scifres
Charles Herman Pearce
St. Charles School
Arthur LD. Garner
Pontiac
Ill
Delbert Tendleton
Chester
Youth Drowns During Swim In Ohio River
Gallipolis Ohio 19 year old John Newton Kerr son of Mr and Mrs Francis Kerr drowned while swimming with companions at the upper end of Gallipolis Island. His body was recovered by John Steinbeck after grappling hooks improvised by bystanders. Funeral services set for 2 30 pm Wednesday at the Baptist Church with burial in Moundhill Cemetery.
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Gallipolis
John Newton Kerr
Francis Kerr
Gallipolis Island
John Steinbeck
The
Baptist Church
George Sagen
Moundhill Cemetery
Young Kerr
Three Issues To Be Decided In Ohio Legislature
Columbus prepares for a reconvened session with three key issues unresolved. The sales tax on home food purchases faces repeal after Governor Davey’s message, while unemployment insurance and poor relief await final action. House Senate dispute over poor relief looms.
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Occupy
Ohio
Columbus
Davey
House
Senate
Marietta Man Sentenced in Federal Narcotics Case
Fort Audi bert Marietta charged with violation of federal narcotic laws in a sealed indictment opened here Monday was sentenced by Federal Judge Mell G Underwood to two years in a federal correctional institution.
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Columbus
U.P
Fort Audibert
Marietta
Mell G. Underwood
Celebration by Vet Results in Missing Bonus Funds
In Cleveland a veteran named Fried Loughren received his soldiers' bonus then celebrated. He woke up with only a hazy memory and found nine $50 bonds and a $39 check missing, per police records.
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Cleveland
U.P
Fried Loughren
Loughren
British Cabinet Defends Stand on Abolition of League Sanctions
The British cabinet, facing Commons debate, plans to defend abolishing league sanctions against Italy. Foreign Secretary Eden will present the case as the Foreign Affairs Committee recommended ending sanctions, while the government contemplates softening anti sanctions rhetoric by withholding recognition of Italy’s Ethiopia annexation amid European tensions.
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London
U.P
House of Commons
Italy
Foreign Affairs Committee
Anthony Eden
Benito Mussolini
Ethiopia
Ohio Social Security Cost Out Suggested
Tentative approval of a program to coordinate social security activities within the counties at a 5 million dollar annual savings was given today by state welfare representatives. The plan would coordinate county welfare activities under the Federal Social Security Law including aid for the aged blind dependent and crippled children and relief for indigent children, leaving local administration to county officials but under supervision of the State Welfare Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
State Welfare Department
Seven Die In Oslo to Bergen Airliner Crash
An Havpern airliner carrying three passengers and four crew members crashed into a mountainside near Oslo in dense fog. The accident occurred en route to Bergen, killing all aboard.
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Oslo
Norway
U.P
Havpern
Bergen
Initiation Ceremonies Conclude in Cincinnati Saturday
A state wide initiation ceremony of the Knights of Pythias will close with a large public ceremonial event in Cincinnati on Saturday. Local and visiting members are expected to attend as the final act of the initiations.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Knights of Pythias
Treasury Converts Bonds to Cash for Veterans
The Treasury begins converting nearly 2 billion dollars in soldiers bonds to cash as veterans certify bonds for Treasurys checks. Lines form at post offices and banks as up to 3.5 million World War veterans may convert. bonds held through June 15 1945 earn 3 percent interest. The operation followed a 2.05 billion dollar bond sale to finance the conversion and pay veterans, despite a record peacetime debt peak.
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Washington
U.P
Treasury
United States
Morgenthau
Safevoft Securities
Copeland Skips Democratic National Convention
Senator Royal Copeland of New York announced he will not attend the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia saying the New Deal administration is not for him. He refused to commit to Roosevelt’s re election and hinted he may oppose the party’s leadership. Copeland, a longtime ally of Alfred E Smith, is part of a pro reform faction.
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Landon
Knox
William
Alfalfa Bill) Murray
Oklahoma
Southwest
Washington
Royal S. Copeland
N.Y
Alfred E. Smith
East
Sen
Royal
Copeland
New York
Philadelphia
U.P
N. Y
Roosevelt
Black Legion Plot Revealed in Detroit Hearing
DETROIT. The Black Legion conspiracy case unfolds as 12 superior officers are accused of plotting to kill Arthur L. Kingsley, Highland Park publisher opposing the Legion's mayor. Testimony shows exexecutioner Dayton Dean admitting efforts to kill Kingsley and naming eleven fellow members as conspirators in plans sealed by blood oath.
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Detroit
U.P
Dayton Dean
Black Legion
Black Hooded Order
WPA
Dean
Arthur L. Kingsley
Highland Park
Kingsley
Solons Seek Adjournment By Saturday
Congress races to adjourn by Saturday night as the House moves a substitute Guffey Coal Act to replace the invalid soft coal law. The measure aims to stabilize prices and wage levels for about 500,000 miners with administration backing and possible Senate action midweek.
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Washington
House
Supreme Court
John L. Lewis
Ways and Means
Senate
Interior Department
Patman-Robinson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Housing Authority
Roosevelt
Veteran Allan Clifton Found Dead After Foreclosure
Allan Clifton 41 a World War II veteran was found dead in his Hastings home by painters. Foreclosure left him to move out and his body was discovered hanging in the kitchen. A veteran whose hardship did not lift from receiving a bonus.
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Hastings-On-Hudson
V.P
Allan Clifton
France
Clifton
Alliance Tragedy as Train Strikes Car Killing Farmer
Garfield farmer W D Armstrong died Monday after a Pennsylvania passenger train struck his automobile at a grade crossing. The collision occurred as the engine and cars of the 4 Pennsylvania train hit the vehicle, authorities reported.
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Alliance
W. D. Armstrong
Garfield
Pennsylvania
Centre Preay Resigns From Centre College in Danville
Dr. Char ley J. Turek resigns as president of Centre College after 17 years at the helm to take a post with the Kentucky Department of Revenue. The move ends his long tenure beginning in 1927 and affects the Danville campus leadership.
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Danville
Charley J. Turek
Centre College
Kentucky Department of Revenue
Fifty Feared Dead In Tallinn Laboratory Explosion
Rescue workers searched for the bodies of 50 men feared killed when an army laboratory five miles from Tallinn was wrecked by a blast. Thirty soldiers were in hospital with serious wounds as 180 reserve officers were in a training class nearby.
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Tallinn
Fithonia
U.P
Army Reserve
New Electric Project Lights Rural Homes in Two Counties
Elelectra lights went on in Miami County farm homes as the pioneer rural electrification co operative begins its project. The new line will soon supply 190 families in Miami County and 385 in Shelby County with electricity.
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Columbu
Miami County
Pioneer Rural Electrification Co-Operative
Shelby County
Townsend Backer Leads In Maine Gubernatorial Primary
Augusta Maine August 4 U P secretary of state Lewis Barrows backed Townsend endorsed candidate Bim Page Skowhegan banker trails by more than 16000 votes as returns from Mondays Republican primary near completion in Maine.
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Augusta
U.P
Lewis
Fire kills twenty at HyderMad City cinema
In Madris India a destructive theater fire at HyderMad City claims twenty lives including women and children and leaves many injured. Local authorities investigate cause amid rubble and rescue efforts continue.
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Madris
India
HyderMad City
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