Athens County Considers New Jail With Small Tax Levy
Athens County officials move to replace the condemned jail and sheriff residence with a new facility assisted by WPA and PWA funds. They authorize a study on financing via a 0.25 mill levy over about 20 years, noting repairs won’t meet fire marshal orders and a public vote will be required.
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Athens County
Board of County Commissioners
Common Pleas
O. F Rowland
Harold J. Rose
Clyde O. Gibson
WPA
PWA
Gibson
Fear of Strikes Is Blamed for Recovery Lay
Washington reports say leaders of the United States Chamber of Commerce told the Senate education and labor committee that fears of strikes hinder the economic recovery. John W. O Leary and B C Heacock prepared statements accuse the National Labor Relations Act administration of boosting strikes and misreporting strike data.
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Washington
U.P
United States Chamber of Commerce
Senate Education and Labor Committee
John W. O'Leary
Chamber
B. C. Heacock
Caterpillar Tractor Company
Senate
O'Leary
Labor Board
Tarred and Feathered Gossip Columnist Seeks Arrests
Warrrenton Virginia Igor Cassini a 24 year old society gossip columnist for a Washington newspaper sought arrest warrants today for Ian Montgomery 38 Colin Montgomery 28 and Alexander Calvert 21 charging tar and feathering him in retaliation for items published about their families He charged them with assault and battery.
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Warrenton
U.P
Igor Cassini
Washington
Virginia Fox
Ian Montgomery
Colin Montgomery
Alexander Calvert
Virginia
Illinois Fliers Near Endurance Record Milestone
Springfield report says Wilbur Parrish and Hunter Moody, Decatur aviators, have reached the halfway point in a quest to break the 218 hour endurance record for light planes. At 8 40 a m EST they had logged 114 hours in their 55 horsepower monoplane.
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Springfield
Ill
U.P
Wilbur Parrish
Hunter Moody
Decatur
Court upholds FCC cancellation of WLW 500000 watt license
The U S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today affirmed the FCC decision canceling the 500000 watt super power authorization of WLW Cincinnati. The ruling maintains the commission's authority over transmitter power and station authorization.
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Washington
U.P
U. S. Court of Appeals For
District of Columbia
Federal Communications Commission
WLW
Cincinnati
Chamberlain Urges Patience Over Japan Reprisals
Reports from Shanghai indicate a month of air battles on the Manchukuo Outer Mongolia frontier with heavy Russian bombing of Japanese airfields and Japanese counteractions. In London Chamberlain urged patience while considering economic reprisals and pursued talks with Tokyo over the Tientsin blockade.
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Chamberlain
Shanghai
Manchukuo-Outer Mongolia
Manchukuo
Japan
Russia
Outer Mongolia
London
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Great Britain
Tientsin
Wardlaw Milne
George Craigie
Tokyo
Murdered Michigan officer hunted by scar-faced hitch hiker
Miss Ruby Doty identified a well dressed scar faced hitch hiker as the killer of Detroit oil promoter George Hall near East Lansing after a ride. She said the man forced her along lonely roads and made advances before promising a later date that let her escape.
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Michigan
Ruby Doty
George Hall
Detroit
East Lansing
Mich
Hall
Miss Doty
Vote on Strike At GM Plants
Tool and die makers engineers and maintenance men at General Motors plants in Michigan Ohio and Indiana prepared to vote within five days on a strike to press for a supplementary agreement with the company. Walter P Reuther informed the Michigan labor board that a strike was contemplated to meet the new five day notice requirement. The proposed agreement covers wages hours seniority apprentices overtime bonuses lay-off procedures preferred lists decentralization and union labeling.
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Detroit
U.P
General Motors
Michigan
Ohio
Indiana
Uaw-Cio
Walter P. Reuther
Michigan Labor Board
Lehman Urges Removal of State Trade Barriers
New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman opens the 31st annual conference of governors in Albany urging cooperation to discourage trade barriers. He warns that unchecked barriers would harm both the nation and individual states.
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Albany
N. Y
U.P
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Lehman
Hitler Defends Axis Before Italian Veterans
Adolf Hitler told Italian World War II veterans in Munich that any effort to sever the Axis alliance would fail against the resolved unity of Germany and Italy. He praised the two powers as sharing a community of fate for the future.
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Munich
Germany
1U.P
Adolf Hitler
Noted Pennsylvania crash claims Donald Cooley life
Donald Cooley age 21 of near Albany died after a car truck collision near Chambersburg Pennsylvania. His wife nephew niece and Steve Benyi of Sugar Creek were reported seriously injured. Alfred Cooley and other brothers learned of the death after departing Athens for Chambersburg.
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Donald Cooley
Albany
Steve Benyi
Sugar Creek
Chambersburg
Cooley
Messenger
United Press
Chambersburg Hospital
Benji
Boyd Cooley
Mary Cooley
Alfred Cooley
Pleasanton
Cecil
Carl Cooley
Donald
Athens
New York City
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Jehova’s Witnesses
Pennsylvania
George W. Robinson
Freeman Cook
Cumberland
State Highway Patrol
Bandits Rob Beverly Hills Club For Cash Receipts
Two well dressed men invaded a Cincinnati suburban night club office and forced bookkeeper Mrs. Katherine Easton to surrender between nine and eleven thousand dollars. They threatened force if she made a sound and pried open a cabinet to take the remaining cash.
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Covington
U.2
Beverly Hills
Cincinnati
Katherine Easton
Pete
Peter Schmidt
Negro Sought As Kidnapper In Upper Arlington
Deputies and state troopers hunted a man described as a Negro who forcibly abducted 23 year old Lois Sanford in Columbus area. The assailant flashed a shiny badge before ordering her companion Richard Kleinhen from their auto and forcing Sanford into his vehicle. She escaped in a field when he stopped to unfasten a gate.
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Columbus
U.P
Upper Arlington
Lois Sanford
Richard Kleinhen
Civilian Conservation Corps
Kleinhen
Miss Sanford
Shortage Prompts Hunt For LSU President
State police searched swamps on the west bank of the Mississippi River for Dr. James Monroe Smith president of Louisiana State University who resigned and left town as Gov Leche announced a funds shortage of several hundred thousand dollars. Police were ordered to bring him back in handcuffs for a grand jury hearing.
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Baton Rouge
Mississippi River
James Monroe Smith
Louisiana State University
Richard W. Leche
Woman Dies by Own Action in Train Incident
Coroner C. N. Gaskill ruled Mrs. Frank B. Green aged 45 died by self-inflicted action after being struck by a passenger train near Byer. The Wellston area report notes she had been in ill health.
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Wellston
U.R
C. N. Gaskill
Frank B. Green
London Bombs Linked to Irish IRA Activity
London police placed double guards at balloon sites anti aircraft and territorial army stations as raids expanded. Magistrates issued 130 search warrants in Scotland Yard. 30 suspects were arrested with 20 held. Reports claim 50 IRA terrorists moved to major British cities from Ireland and devote about 5000 dollars weekly to bombing.
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London
U.P
Double Guards
Scotland Yard
I.R.A
Ireland
Bandits Take 10000 From Cincinnati Baseball Office
Police hunted three bandits who held up 10 employees at Crosley Field concession office in Cincinnati taking about 10000 in receipts. Two bandits displayed guns as they entered and threatened concession manager Robert Sobol and nine others.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Crosley Field
Cincinnati Reds
Robert Sobol
Highway Head Faces Payroll Fraud Charge
Roy E. Brownmiller state secretary of highways in the Earle era faces likely fines and prison after a jury conviction on two counts of participating in a $1,000,000 campaign payroll fraud. Jurors spent ten hours deliberating before delivering the verdict on charges of routing funds to swell Luzerne County maintenance forces before the last election and failing to correct the scheme promptly.
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Harrisburg
U.R
Roy E. Brownmiller
George H. Earle
Brownmiller
Luzerne County
Grand Army of Republic Honors Civil War Dead in Ohio
In Columbus Ohio the remaining GAR members less than ninety honored Confederate soldiers buried in the army prison grave. Nine aged veterans led the rites at the graves of the Johnny Rebs as about 35 Union veterans plan to attend the 73rd GAR annual meeting. A governor’s mansion reception and a surprise party are on the schedule. Parallel conventions draw some two thousand members of affiliated organizations including the Women’s Relief Corps Daughters of Union Veterans Ladies of the GAR and the Sons of Union Veterans.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Grand Army of the Republic
Buckeye
G.A.R
Johnny Rebs
G A. R
Governor's Mansion
Boys In Blue
Veteran's Society
Women’s Relief Corps
Daughters of Union Veterans
Ladies of the Gar
The
Sons of Union Veterans
School Finance Director Blames Bricker for Ouster
Dr. David H. Sutton, ousted director of state school finance, accused Governor Bricker of pressuring to abolish his position after Dietrich informed him of the demand. Dietrich admitted telling Sutton of Bricker's demand and said the abolition followed reorganization plans and a new auditor role to oversee school foundation funds.
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Columbus
David H. Sutton
Bricker
E. N. Dietrich
Dietrich
Sutton
Civil Service Commission
Martin L. Davey
Board of Control
Townsendites To Start Drive For 1940 Townsend Congress
Delegates to the fourth national Townsend convention returned home ready to launch campaigns to elect a Townsend controlled Congress in 1940. They backed a resolution to support only Townsend approved candidates, giving him influence over about 1.5 million votes. Another resolution called for a third party if major parties do not adopt the pension plan plank.
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Indianapolis
Ind
U.P
Townsend
Radio Priest Attacks Neutrality Bill Avant Garde
Detroit U P Father Charles F Coughlin in his Sunday address denounces the neutrality legislation as forcing America into war and dictatorship. He says the bill would make Roosevelt lord of the world upon passage.
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Detroit
U.P
Charles F. Coughlin
United States
Roosevelt
Coughlin
U S Perfects Gun To Cripple Tanks
The United States has perfected a 37 millimeter anti tank gun capable of crippling heavily armed tanks at about two thirds of a mile. Lieut. Col. G M Barnes described the weapon and its 900 pound field piece with armor penetration of 112 inches at 1000 yards in an ordinance article released this weekend.
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Washington
U.P
United States
G. M. Barnes
Senate Defeats Silver Bloc In Bid To Fix Price
Washington report says the senate defeated the silver bloc which sought to fix domestic silver at 1.16 per ounce by law. Despite a brief pause for amendment votes the bloc warned further debate before passage. The monetary bill must reach the president by midnight June 30 to keep the administration program alive and could delay a 1.735 billion relief measure prompting a possible night session.
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Washington
Senate Silver Bloc
Thhat
Senate
Ship Reported Missing Is Sighted Momentarily
Three disabled vessels were towed to safety by Coast Guards today while a fourth remains missing. The vessel was sighted briefly by the Latvian steamer Hercogs Jekabs on Georges Bank edge. signals and shots suggested distress, but the boat started its motors and vanished into fog.
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Boston
U.P
Hercogs Jekabs
Georges Bank
Cleveland State Senator Tom Gallagher Dies at 50
State Senator Tom L. Gallagher died suddenly at his Cleveland Heights home from a heart attack. He was 50.
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Cleveland
U.P
Tom L. Gallagher
Cleveland Heights
Murderer Caught After Nightlong Highway Blockade Near Portsmouth
Frank Case, 43, farmhand, captured in a field near Wheelersburg after an all night manhunt across central and southern Ohio. He admits killing Mrs. Jamie Richmond and Dan E. Letty, says he planned to kill his daughter, and shows a desolate, crazed state following the violence linked to a farm dispute and a family tragedy.
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Hillsboro
Ohio
Frank Case
Highland County
Jamie Richmond
Dan E. Letty
Wheelersburg
Portsmouth
D. H. Clark
Don Lowry
Ross County
Scioto County
Case
Richmond
Enteing Springs
Setty
Sinking Springs
A. C. Smith
Wilmington
Smith
Mrs. Ebersbach Dies After A Long Illness
Mrs. Peter Ebersbach aged 85 died at her home on Wetzgall Street Sunday after a long illness. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 2 30 pm with Rev. Frank Beuscher officiating. Burial will follow at Beech Grove Cemetery. She is survived by children Kate Anna Carrie Neutzling William Albert Adam Charles Joseph Jacob Arthur of Pomeroy Elmer of Pt. Pleasant W Va and two sisters Miss Rickey Bentz Cincinnati and Mrs Barbara Derry Tipton Iowa.
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Pomeroy
Peter Ebersbach
Wetzgall St
Frank Beuscher
Beech Grove Cemetery
Kate
Anna
Carrie Neutzling
William
Albert
Adam
Charles
Joseph
Jacob
Arthur
Pt. Pleasant
W. Va
Rickey Bentz
Cincinnati
Barbara Derry
Tipton
Iowa
Townsendites Win in Senate Judiciary Test
The Senate judiciary committee approved, 9 to 7, a Townsend pension plan amendment. Introduced by Sen. Charles O. Andrews, D Fla, it would grant Congress power to levy taxes for old age assistance.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Townsend
Charles O. Andrews
Congress
Gowdy’s Father Dies in Columbus at 88
Horace Greeley Gowdy father of Harry H. Gowdy longtime Cincinnati Baseball Club coach died after five weeks illness in Columbus. He was 88.
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Gowdy
Columbus
J.P
Horace ‘Greeley Gowdy
Harry H
Hank) Gowdy
Cincinnati Baseball Club
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