Schools Close As District Removes Pupils Amid Seat Shortage
An Athens area district moves to close The Plains Mech Stewart and other county schools due to a pupil shortage. Commencement speakers include Jesse and others with ceremonies set for May 15 to May 26 across Ames Bern Hollister and The Plains. Two hundred graduates this year across 12 high schools plus eight months of state aid schooling noted.
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Athens
the Plains
Mechand Stewart
Stewart Cose
Ohio University
Jesse
Iill
Ames-Bern
Hollister
Rome
City Mayor Warns Dog Owners Over Garden Damage
Mayor Wood says dogs have damaged gardens near the City Building and urges owners to keep pets confined. He notes warden involvement, property destruction claims, and hopes for neater, safer yards where dogs will not trespass on neighbors.
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Wood
Damneighbor
House on ing Corporations May 10
Fragmented OCR notes describe corporations seeking sound basis for reorganize within public utilities and interstate commerce. The text mentions voluntary financial restructuring with creditor consent and reissuing assets, though specifics are unclear.
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U.R
Phim
Secretary of Coincidence Testifies on Senate Committee Rail Reorg
Daniel C of U R Commerce testified before the Senate Committee on rail reorganization that it was timely and aligned with the day and hour. He indicated he had previously accepted a position as a committee member and was unrestrained in his remarks.
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U.R. Commerce
Daniel C
Senerce Committee
Wes Leg Eye Arm Since 1913 in St Albans District
In a NW Virginia report from May 10, 57, a local incident ends with a limb loss after an accident. The article notes a man connected to St Albans and a November event, and mentions a discharge and a white dress. The fragmentary text references Kirk and a hound.
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Wes
Fortune
St. Albans
Kirk
City Council Initiates Marchers Feed Program
City officials announce a new program to feed marchers, aiming to support demonstrators and residents during ongoing civic actions. Details specify coordination with local groups and potential funding sources.
Four Roosevelt Bills Set for Quick Congressional Passage
President Roosevelt faces swift action as Congress moves to pass four major reconstruction measures this week. The House backed the farm relief conferees and rejected the price fixing plan, clearing the way for the inflation rider on the farm bill. The Senate Finance Committee advances an administration tax bill extending the one cent per gallon gas tax for a year and adjusts power taxes for 2 percent on commercial and domestic use.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
Treasury
Federal Reserve
Senate Finance Committee
Wagner
Democrat
New York
The
New Yorker
County Announces Daily Relief Credit For Workers
Athens County adopts a daily credit of 2.80 for men hired to fulfill grocery orders under the relief program. Workers will eight hours daily at 35 cents an hour, with Lieut. Ray Noble setting the uniform rate used in federal relief projects. Noble also serves as assistant county clerk and director of emergency relief at 175 dollars a month plus 25 dollars for automobile expenses. J. W. Wilson oversees county road projects with township trustees directing who reports for work.
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Athens County
Ray Noble
Lieutenant Noble
State Relief Commission
J. W. Wilson
Scores Die in Roaring Storm Hits Kentucky Tennessee
A massive windstorm swept the Kentucky Tennessee border into North Central Tennessee causing many deaths and injuries. Livingston reports 25 dead 75 injured while Tompkinsville has six dead and 30 injured. Lebanon lists two dead ten injured with unconfirmed reports of 50 dead at Byrdstown. Wires were down hampering casualty checks and several towns remained unreachable.
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Nashville
Tenn
U.P
Kentucky-Tennessee
Tennessee
Tompkinsville
Livingston
Byrdstown
Lebanon
Ohio Majority Opposes Farm Price-Fixing Amendment
The Ohio congressional delegation opposed the Simpson Amendment to the farm bill which would let the agriculture secretary set farm prices for cost of production and a fair profit. Only Sweeney Young and Truax voted for it. the measure failed 283 to 108 in the House and returns to the Senate.
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Washington
Ohio
Secretary of Agriculture
Sweeney and Young
Cleveland
Truax
Bucyrus
House
Senate
Means Conspiracy Case Nears Close in Lindbergh Kidnap
The government nears closing its case against Gaston B. Means and Norman Whitaker in Washington DC court on charges of conspiring to commit a 35000 fraud tied to the Lindbergh kidnapping. Colonel Lindbergh testified about the crime, keeping a steady recount of the infant’s abduction and death.
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Washington
U.P
Gaston B. Means
Norman Whitaker
Lindbergh
Means
Whitaker
Evalyn Walsh McLean
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Mongol Revolt Looms in Chahar Against China
Reports from Kalgan indicate one million Chahar residents are ready to revolt and pledge allegiance to the Japanese backed Manchoukuo. Half a million Silingol Mongols and 500,000 Chahar Mongols would unite to form an autonomous Mongol state under Manchoukuo.
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Peiping
Chahar Province
Manchoukuo
Kalgan
Chahar
Japan
Manchukuo
China
Thy
Silingols
Agreement Reached on Muscle Shoals Bill at White House
A White House conference with President Roosevelt Senator Norris and Representative McSwain produced an agreement on Muscle Shoals legislation. McSwain said there is no misunderstanding and the bill is going to conference in the House after long efforts by TVA supporters.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Senator Norris
Representative McSwain
McSwain
House
Tennessee Valley
Mr. Roosevelt
Socialist Party Funds Confiscated by Nazis
The Nazi government confiscated funds of the Socialist Party and affiliated groups, marking a key step in the second phase of the Hitler revolution aimed at eradicating Marxism in Germany. The move leaves little opposition outside prison camps where hundreds of Communists and Socialists are held in protective custody.
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Berlin
U.P
Socialist Party
Germany
Manchurian Editor Deported for Propaganda
Harbin editor E Lenox Simpson of the Harbin Herald was ordered deported for publishing Communist propaganda and articles hostile to the Manchoukuo government.
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Harbin
Manchuria
U.P
E. Lenox Simpson
G. O. P. Old Guard All New Rabid Democrats
Washington dispatch says the Senate was out and the country felt relief after the President Roosevelt speech. A reporter notes Republicans transformed into strong supporters of Roosevelt, asserting his electoral strength and radio influence could outpace Congress.
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G. O. P. Old Guard
Bricker Addresses Troy High Graduates on Habits and Service
Ohio Attorney General John W. Bricker told the Troy High School class in Coolville that habits of industry thrift and application forge success and that luck does not exist. He urged modern educational facilities and free education as government backbone while youth uphold constitutional government. Kenneth C. Ray awarded diplomas to graduates, including Thelma Bailey Robert Baker Nina Barnhart Charlies Bentz Oville Bibbee Edna Buckley Josephine Bindling Emmett Friend Mary Elizabeth Gillilan Naomi Goodwin Thelma Goodwin Roberta Humphrey Blanche Lake Ruth McBride Gordon ONeil Robert Ramsburg Paul Richardson Helen Root Grace Russell Pauline Russell and Hazel Wines.
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Coolville
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Troy High School
United States
Kenneth C. Ray
Thelma Bailey
Robert Baker
Nina Barnhart
Charlies Bentz
Oville Bibbee
Edna Buckley
Josephine Bindling
Emmett Friend
Mary Elizabeth Gillilan
Naomi Goodwin
Thelma Goodwin
Roberta Humphrey
Blanche Lake
Ruth McBride
Gordon O'Neil
Robert Ramsburg
Paul Richardson
Helen Root
Grace Russell
Pauline Russell
Hazel Wines
Revaluation Agreed in Roosevelt Talks Worldwide
Reports from London say an agreement on international currency revaluation emerged from President Roosevelt's Washington talks with foreign statesmen. A schedule may be drawn at the World Economic Conference with possible 30 percent sterling devaluation and a 15 percent U.S. dollar devaluation to stabilize exchange rates.
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London
U.P
Roosevelt
Washington
Neville Chamberlain
United States
Farm Holiday Leaders Call Nationwide Strike on May 13
Milo Reno, head of the National Farmers Holiday Association, urged farmers and cattlemen to join a May 13 strike despite Roosevelt’s relief plans. He warned of peasantry or battle to the finish if production costs and profits and other demands are not met.
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Milo Reno
Des Moines
U.P
National Farmers Holiday Association
Roosevelt
Holiday Association
United Press Today
Reno
America
Congress
Armless and Legless Veterans Parade Planned in July
Akron reports a July parade planned by amputation veterans led by Tom Garrighty. About 10,000 of roughly 42,000 such veterans nationwide expected to join to protest cuts in veteran compensation. Garrighty says wounded veterans face 20 to 60 percent reductions despite assurances.
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Akron
Tom Garrighty
Garrighty
High Waves Credited With Saving Her Life
Mrs Martha Gwiazda 57 leaped into Lake Erie near Avon Lake, Ohio, last night in a suicide attempt. High waves washed the body to the shore seconds later, deputies found her unconscious on the beach. After revival she was taken home reportedly little the worse for the ordeal. Sheriff Clarence Dick said the waves saved her life.
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Lorain
U.P
Martha Gwiazda
Lake Erie
Avon Lake
Witnesses Describe Fatal Stabbing by 16 Year Old Friend
Young witnesses recount Harry Murch's alleged plan to stab 12 year old William Bender in a vacant house. The victim was bound gagged and beaten before a knife was used in the attack. Johnnie Miller and Grace Murch testified about the night of the incident in court in New York.
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New York
Harry Murch
William Bender
Murch
William
Johnnie Miller
Chum
Harry
Bender
Koy
Willie
Johnnie
Grace
Paraguay Declares War on Bolivia in First War Since 1918
Paraguay formally declares war on Bolivia under special powers after a year of fighting in the Gran Chaco. The decree cites Bolivian aggression, Pitlantuta attack, and failed peace efforts. The conflict has involved airplanes, tanks, and heavy casualties reportedly over 20,000.
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Paraguay
Asuncion
Bolivia
Guatemala
Congress
Pitlantuta
Gran Chaco
Paraguay River
Argentina
Brazil
Iaat
U B Report Attacks Beer In General Conference Address
Akron May 10 Attacks on capitalism beer and divorce court leniency dominate the United Brethren Church quadricennial address read to conference delegates by Bishop A R Clippinger. The report calls for wealth redistribution and warns that beer signals repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Akron
U.P
Thirty-First General Conference of the
United Brethren Church
A. R. Clippinger
Dayton
New York Factory Employment Rises to April Peak
The state industrial commissioner reports April shows the largest monthly factory employment gain in New York since 1914, with payrolls up 4.4 percent from March and wages rising. The metal sector posted its first rise since November, aided by a March bank holiday distortion.
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New York State
New York
U.P
Yesy
Labor Pleads for Federal Operation of Railroads
Donald R. Richberg, counsel for the Railway Labor Executives Association, urged the Senate Commerce Committee that direct and complete government operation of railroads is preferable to the administration’s plan for a Federal coordinator. He argued the bill would deflate labor, create private monopoly, and threaten 50,000 to 300,000 railroad jobs while transferring public money and power to private hands.
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Washington
U.P
Donald R. Richberg
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
Senate Commerce Committee
United States
Richberg
Conference to Endorse Truce
London reports the World Economic Conference organizing committee will meet to endorse the American tariff truce proposal after Washington approved revised wording. The British foreign office said the committee may convene tomorrow if all represented governments authorize their delegates.
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London
Norman H. Davis
Washington
Britain
Fearful French Foreign Legion Ambushed on Atlas Summit
Anxiety gripped Paris as four columns of the French Foreign Legion faced Berber tribesmen atop Mount Jebel Sagho in the Atlas Mountains. Rabat issued reassurance while official notices admitted columns halted to allow dissidents to remove their dead and wounded.
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Paris
U.P
French Foreign Legion
Mount
Jebel Sagho
Atlas Mountains
Rabat
French Morocco
Power production shows year-over-year gain in week to May 6
In the United States production of electric power for the week ended May 6 rose 1.2 percent from the same week in 1932, the first year-over-year increase in 15 weeks. The report, filed in New York, notes the improvement marks a shift after a extended decline.
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New York
United States
Storms sweep Symmes Creek Valley causing extensive damage
Gallia District reports the worst wind and hail storms in 20 years across Gallia Lawrence and Jackson counties. A bridge on State Route 233 was washed out, gardens suffered severe losses, and farmland ready for planting was flooded amid high streams this morning.
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Gallipolis
Symmes Creek
Gallia
Lawrence
Jackson
Mercerville
L S Seeks To Limit World Wheat Output
Geneva May 10 U P The United States aims to cooperate with major wheat producers to cap output and raise world prices said Henry Morgenthau head of the U S delegation at the World Wheat Conference
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L. S
Geneva
U.P
United States
Henry Morgenthau
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Taxation and Schools Committee
W. M. Goodwin
Hamilton County
Joint Taxation Committee
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Robert Fuller
J. L. Marsh
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