President Roosevelt marks fifth inauguration anniversary
Washington observes the fifth anniversary of Roosevelt's inauguration amid a retreat for the New Deal. Government finances show a massive deficit. expenditures exceed revenue by about 15 billion dollars, debt rising from 22.5 to 37.7 billion. The New Deal party faces internal division as Congress balks at reforms and judiciary reorganization plans.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
New Deal
Democratic Party
Rescuers Search For Transcontinental Airliner Near Fresno
Nine aboard an airliner forced down in eight foot snow near Fresno are believed safe if the craft remains intact. Passengers include Mary and Jay Tracy Dirlam, Stanford students returning to Mansfield Ohio to tend a sick father, with Margaret H. Wilson of Bridgeport Ohio serving as hostess.
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Fresno
Calif
Margaret H. Wilson
Bridgeport
Mary and
Jay Tracy Dirlam
Stanford University
Mansfield
Food and Water Scarce in Devastated Southern California
Reports from a 30,000 square mile flood zone near Los Angeles describe 169 dead or missing as waters recede. Damage tops 25 million dollars. many towns cut off, Malibu residents without drinking water, tourists stranded in Palm Springs, and Atwood village wiped out with 11 deaths and 30 missing.
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California
Los Angeles
Santa Ana
Palm Springs
San Bernardino
Malibu Beach
Atwood
Anaheim
Advisory Board Formed for County Library in Nelsonville
Groups from most Athens County townships met at Nelsonville High School to form a county advisory council for the new county public library. D R Johnson chaired the trustees, with Paul T A Noon and Miss Mildred Sandoe present. Details on traveling extension service were outlined and Sandoe supported adoption of the program, noting the state library system is non political.
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Nelsonville
Athens County
D. R. Johnson
Paul T. A. Noon
Mildred Sandoe
Nelsonville County
Sandoe
Ransom Ready For Abductors Of Levine Boy
Murray Levine waits for the 12-year-old Peter to be surrendered and the ransom paid as police and federal agents maintain a clear channel to the Levine home in New Rochelle New York. The distraught father said he is ready and the way is open as the boy remains missing eight days after leaving school.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
U.P
Murray Levine
Peter
G-Men
Levine
New York City
Levie
Two Brothers Questioned In Counterfeiting Probe
Joseph and Richard Ranalli, Newark brothers, appeared before U S Commissioner Clarence J Crossland in Zanesville to answer questions about a national counterfeiting ring. They were to be questioned about counterfeit $5 and $10 bills passed in Baltimore, Washington and other cities. They were arrested February 8 by Secret Service agents.
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Zanesville
U.P
Joseph and
Richard Ranalli
Newark Brothers
U. S
Clarence J. Crossland
Baltimore
Washington
Secret Service
Victoria Davis Heft Succumbs in Logan
Victoria Davis Heft 80 dies at home in Logan after five weeks illness. Wife of William Heft she leaves two daughters Robfre D. Green of Princeton Kentucky and Ruth Heft. one granddaughter. A Presbyterian church member and DAR member. Funeral services pending.
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Logan
Victoria Davis Heft
William Heft
Robfre D. Green
Princeton
Iss Ruth Heft
Presbyterian Church
DAR
Hundred-Ten-Year-Old Woman Dies at County Home
Mrs. Julia Martin, believed 115, a Black resident, died at the Miami County Home. Born in Indiana, she had lived in the county for a century.
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Troy
U.P
Julia Martin
Miami County
Indiana
Kennedy Attacks Meigs Voting Law Abuses
Secretary of State William J. Kennedy denounced the absentee voting law abuses in Meigs County in a letter to the county Board of Elections. He urged starting the year with a clean slate, amid talk of possible removal of Clerk Albert Gloeckner after Charles Stivers was ousted for funds misuse and bailed.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
William J. Kennedy
Board of Elections
Kennedy
Albert Gloeckner
Charles Stivers
Inquest Held in Slaying of Tribal Law Violator
Miami Florida reports an inquest into the death of John Billy Semi nole Indian, said to have been executed by tribal leaders. Chief John Osceola ordered the killing, with Justice of the Peace Thomas S. Ferguson to oversee the inquest. Billy, 30, had been sentenced last May for violating tribal law, with reports he beat and kicked two Indian women at camp prior to his death.
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Miami
Fla
U.K
John Billy
John Osceola
Justice of the Peace
Thomas S. Ferguson
Senator Donovan Seriously Ill In Columbus
Senator Bernard Donovan of Toledo, a member of the Senate Graft Investigating Committee, remained seriously ill in Columbus with a stomach ailment as of today.
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Prober
Columbus
U.P
Bernard Donovan
Toledo
Senate
Speed Action On Coal Price
Washington, D C The soft coal industry loses more than 15 million dollars a month but the National Bituminous Coal Commission will do everything in its power to reestablish minimum prices for soft coal as soon as possible Commission Chairman Charles F Hosford said today Prices of coal across the country have broken all to pieces due to doubts about the validity of its first minimum price orders and their revocation Several methods for resetting prices are under consideration and it could take four to six months to fix new minima that would withstand legal challenges.
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Washington
U.P
National Bituminous Coal Commission
Commission
Charles F. Hosford
Hosford
Hull Admits U.S. In Race For Armament
Secretary of State Cordell Hull reiterated the nation’s wish for peace while acknowledging the “regrettable fact” that the United States is drawn into an armament race as tensions rise globally.
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Hull
U. S
Washington
U.P
Cordell Hull
United States
Labor Department Turns Twenty Five With Wage Hour Pledge
President Roosevelt marks the 25th anniversary of the Labor Department by reaffirming support for minimum wage and maximum hour legislation. He urged passage of a wages and hours bill as labor leaders press Congress, though House Democrats voice skepticism amid a committee push for compromise.
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Washington
Labor Department
House Labor Committee
Robert Scripps Dies on Yacht Off California Coast
Robert P. Scripps, controlling stock holder of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, died Thursday afternoon aboard a yacht off Santa Margarita Island. Death said due to internal hemorrhage after sailing from San Diego on Feb 22 with friends. His father E. W. Scripps died aboard the Ohio in 1926 and was buried at sea. Survived by widow Margaret Culbertson Scripperaggs six children: Robert Jr., 19, Charles E., 17, Margaret Ellen, 16, Nackey Elizabeth, 14, Samuel H., 11, Edward Wyllis III, 9.
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San Diego
Calif
U.P
Robert P. Scripps
Scripps-Howard
Santa Margarita Island
Magdalena Bay
Scripps
E. W. Scripps
Monrovia
Liberia
Margaret Culbertson Scripperaggs
Robert P.,jr
Charles E
Margaret Ellen
Nackey Elizabeth
Samuel H
Edward Wyllis
Expert Studies Building Costs
Washington reports that L. R. Walker a Chicago building materials expert is working on a survey of construction price costs. The Treasury refused comment but it is learned he was loaned to Roosevelt price study committee by a Chicago mail order firm. The survey is seen as groundwork for possible admin efforts to lower building material prices.
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Washington
L. R. Walker
Chicago
Roosevelt
Price Study Committee
Treasury
Walker
Pastor Denies Jitting Charge In Steubenville Trial
A jury heard final arguments in a $100,000 breach of promise suit against Rev. Harold G. Zeis pastor of St. Pauls Episcopal Church. Plaintiff Mrs. Cora Lillian Burnham charges he jilted her after seven years of courtship to marry Steubenville society woman Emma Sharpe whom Zeis later married in 1935. Zeis testified he once loved Burnham and wanted to marry her but she refused.
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Steubenville
Harold G. Zeis
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Cora Lillian Burnham
New York
Emma Sharpe
Steubenville Society
Zeis
Sharpe
Burnham
Japanese Prepare for Greatest Battle of War
Neutral observers report Japan has concentrated 20 armored trains hundreds of tanks and many mechanized artillery units along the Peiping Hankow rail line in northern Honan above Chengchow. They prepare for a thrust against China’s Lunghai railway line and Hankow. The greatest battles of the China war are predicted.
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Shanghai
AUP
Peiping - Hankow
Honan
Chengchow
Lunghai
Hankow
Republic Steel Sued Over Strike Violence Damages
Eight lawsuits seeking damages totaling 180000 were filed here against Republic Steel Corporation and its officers over violence in the little steel strike last summer. The suits name seven Cleveland residents and one from Niles.
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Cleveland
Little Steel
Republic Steel Corporation
Niles
Army plans for parachute troops behind lines
Washington reports the army has perfected plans to drop squads equipped with machine guns by parachute behind enemy lines. War Department spokesmen said today the new tactic aims to surprise and disrupt enemy defenses while minimizing frontline casualties.
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AIR Washington
Army
War Department
Keep Vigil In Relief Plea By Fulton County Unemployed
WAUSEON U P More than 100 unemployed men waited all night at the courthouse to meet Fulton County township trustees seeking immediate relief and an emergency trustees meeting. WPA projects had halted a week earlier and trustees were not met on short notice. Fred Pfaff, president of the county association, said the trustees would convene today with Willis Bailey leading the unemployed group.
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Wauseon
U.P
Fulton County
Works Progress Administration
Fred Pfaff
County Association
Willis Bailey
Florida Hunts Maniac Who Attacked Parents
Roy Ridenour, 32, sought along Florida east coast from Jacksonville to Miami after attacking his parents with an axe. He killed his father and wounded his mother before fleeing toward Daytona Beach. Ridenour had been committed to the Florida state asylum in Chattahoochee over four years ago.
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Jacksonville
Fla
U.P
Cincinnati
Florida
Florida East Coast
Miami
Roy Ridenour
Daytona Beach
Chattahoochee
Sixty Planes Search for Lost Airliner
Fresno Calif. a fleet of 60 planes searched the Castle Peak area sixty miles east of Fresno for a Transcontinental and Western Airliner missing with nine aboard after six planes and 400 ground searchers including 300 CCC members battled heavy snow. Airmen feared a crash on a mountainside amid a snowstorm as Pilot John D Graves and crew and passengers might be marooned in eight foot deep snow awaiting rescue.
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Fresno
Calif
U.P
Castle Peak
Here
CCC
TWA
John D. Graves
WPA Quota Is Unchanged in Ohio Through June
Ohio WPA administrator Dr. Carl Watson says extra congressional funds do not raise quotas but allow current allotment to continue through June. Athens District quota remains 21,000 with employment at that level. Ohio’s total WPA quota sits at 180,000 after a 49,000 boost.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Carl Watson
Athens
Straitsville Oil Director Dies in Marietta
A. E. Faine, 62, head of the Ohio Pennsylvania Grade Oil Producers Association and the Independent Gas Producers Association, died in a Marietta hospital after two weeks of treatment. He was from New Straits ville.
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Marietta
A. E. Faine
New Straitsville
Ohio Pennsylvania Grade Oil Producers’ Association
Independent Gas Producers’ Association
Meigs Poor Fund Allocation Reported by State
Columbus dispatch reports State Auditor Joseph Ferguson announced January and February allocations of state poor relief funds totaling 166,038.91 to counties. Counties must match two dollars for every one received. Meigs received 66.23 dollars per month in the allotment.
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Columbus
U.P
Joseph Ferguson
Meigs
CCC Camp in Mountains Destroyed Reports Describe Losses
Isolated mountain regions reported disaster as Camp Baldy in the San Bernardino range was destroyed injuring two and leaving many missing. An estimated 169 dead or missing were tallied with city counts by region. Air drops supplied food while roads remained impassable and a $3 million cleanup bill was forecast for Los Angeles.
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CCC
Camp Baldy
San Bernardino Mountains
Pershing Sits Up in Bed Requests World News
General John J. Pershing, hospitalized in Tucson, awoke and asked for a newspaper to read the world news after a near-death illness. The report notes his condition and desire to stay informed as he recovers.
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Pershing
Tucson
Ariz
U.P
John J. Pershing
Athens Officials Back National Used Car Week Effort
Athens County officials pledge aid to National Used Car Exchange Week to remove dangerous cars and boost the auto industry. Governor Davey allows 1958 plates for the campaign running March 5 through March 12, with local leaders endorsing Drive-a-Better-Car to improve safety and business.
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Athens County
United States
C. G. Dew
Ohio
Martin L. Davey
Nelsonville
Cliff Cornell
Athens
Ter
Patient Beats State Hospital Aide and Escapes
A 67-year-old privileged patient at Athens State Hospital attacked dining room worker Anna Swartz with a pipe then fled. Swartz suffered a head laceration and was taken to Sheltering Arms Hospital. police hunted Milton Selby, admitted in 1932, described as 5 feet 4 inches, 135 pounds, wearing dark overcoat suit and felt hat.
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Athens State Hospital
Anna Swartz
Cottage L
Milton Selby
Governor Davey under fire over liquor dept actions
Sen Verner E Metcalf questions why Governor Davey has not acted on disclosures to date, after the governor demanded proof of charges in the Senate Graft Investigating Committee report accusing the Liquor Department of forgery corruption and maladministration.
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Columbus
U.P
Davey
Liquor Department
Verner E. Metcalf
Washington County
Senate
Metcalf
Muscat Sultan Repays 1832 Diplomatic Visit
The Sul tan of Muscat, a 27-year-old bachelor in brown and white robes, arrives in Washington to repay a 106-year-old diplomatic obligation. He will meet President Roosevelt at lunch and be entertained by Secretary of State Cordell Hull at dinner, continuing U S government ceremony.
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Washington
U.P
Muscat
United States
Andrew Jackson
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
DIES AFTER CRASH MARietta UT Ernest Caldwell 30
Ernest Caldwell age 30 died after his car collided with a truck near Marietta last midnight. He was badly burned in the crash and authorities reported the incident as a fatal automobile collision.
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Marietta
Ernest Caldwell
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