Pioneer speech links frontier era to modern nation building
In Harrodsburg on November 16 A speaker urged renewed frontier spirit to advance freedom of opportunity and national growth. He compared colonial hardship to current challenges calling for new pioneers and vast projects like reforestation to expand Americas commonwealth and secure opportunity for all. The talk referenced monuments and the Unknown Prairie figures at the entrance of the Wilders tear and a granite cenotaph at Acre.
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America
Acre
Wildertear
Pimsted Refuses To Invest After Holidays
The board of education in Pimsted agrees to hold off on funding after holidays. Hixson, vice chair, cites December figures and a $7,500 levy as pending decisions. The discussion centers on a 3-mill levy and securing budget lines through the Christmas period.
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Pimsted
Board of Education
Hixson
Hix
Long's debt moratorium bill sails through Louisiana legislature
In Baton Rouge the Louisiana Senate passed Huey P. Long's debt moratorium measure and advanced 43 special session bills. A civil service commission would control police and fire chiefs, moving government toward Long's vision of a utopia. Long suggested removing Alexandria police chief Clint O'Malley for riots in public squares.
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Louisiana Senate
Huey P. Long
House
Louisiana
Long
Civil Service Commission
Clint O'Malley
Alexandria
Public
Health officials back mine sealing law in Ohio
Ohio health officials urged a law to require sealing of abandoned mine openings. Sanitary engineer B F Hatch cited long term stream pollution from mine drainage and noted 2,500 openings closed with FERA aid, 15,000 remain, closures aiding stock watering, property protection, and stream restoration.
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State Health Department
S.E. Ohio
Ohio
FERA
Hatch
17 Year Old Florence Thompson Attacked Near Redtown
Athens County officials seek facts in the case of Florence Thompson a 17 year old girl found near Redtown on State Route 13 with a fractured skull. She was unconscious in Mercy Hospital Columbus after initial care at Sheltering Arms Hospital and murmured I hit me with a club before slipping back into unconsciousness. Sheriff Stratton probes three men questioned after they were with her at a Glouster dance.
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Florence Thompson
Redtown
Mercy Hospital
Columbus
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Columbus Hospital
John W. Bolin
Bolin
Charlies Stratton
Glouster
First Hunting Tragedy Takes Place in Ohio
Ohio hunting season moves into its second day amid one dead and 16 injured. Officials estimate about a million rabbits killed yesterday. In Bay Village residents chased trespassers from backyards as police hunted three hunters after Bryan Schwartz was shot in the face. Eugene B. August, 40, of Bellville, lost a finger and was wounded when he fell from a stump releasing his gun.
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Ohio
State Conservation Division
Bay Village
Cleveland
Eugene B. August
Bellville
John J. Pershing
Butler County
Bryan Schwartz
Sixth Victim of Cincinnati Fire Dies
Cincinnati report states Ruth Hobbs a 34 year old Black woman died today, raising the death toll from the house fire to six. Four children aged 26 months to 10 years died, while Louis Bell a 45 year old Black boarder also perished. A fifth child Jean 14 was reported near death.
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Cincinnati
Ruth Hobbs
Louis Bell
Jean
Athens Sees 19 Degree Low With Warmup Ahead
Weather observer Mrs. C. N. France reports a 19 degree low in Athens last night. Yesterday’s high reached 50, and before noon today the temperature rose into the upper thirties as a warming trend began.
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Athens
C. N. France
Ohio budget outlines 1935 pension spending and recipients
Columbus reports a 12 million dollar pension item for 1935 to fund old age pensions. M L Brown, head of the Division of Aid for the Aged, released a tentative budget and noted 76,000 people are projected to receive pensions in 1935, with 18,282 current recipients and thousands of applications on file. Additional 750 thousand dollars is sought for administration.
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Ohio
Brown
Columbus
M. L. Brown
Old State of Longiana Invasion by Debtors Predicted
A letter from Will Rogers contemplates Huey Long debt cancellation affecting移 transferees and hints at a Sinclair movement into California. The note mentions Bank of America Beverly Hills and invites secret communications by wire.
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Bank of America
Beverly Hills
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Huey Long Replies to Will Rogers Debt Quip
Senator Huey Long fired back at Will Rogers over the Louisiana two year debt moratorium. He demanded a $1,000 legal opinion fee to wire a copy of the act and joked that Rogers would not understand it anyway.
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Will Rogers
Louisiana
Huey Long
Will
Huey
Postal Surplus Reaches Twelve Million Mark
Postmaster General Farley reports a 12,161,000 surplus for the fiscal year ended June 30, the first in 18 years, with October postal business up about 11 percent from a year ago. He had expected 5,000,000 before final figures and says adjustments for subventions and free mailing services were included.
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Washington
Farley
Davey Backs White in Ohio Tax Plan Return
Gov elect Martin L. Davey met Gov. George White to discuss the reconvened General Assembly agenda. A 1 percent utility tax rise and the McCluskey bill were on calendars with a three percent statewide sales tax as the likely financing core.
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Martin L. Davey
George White
General Assembly
White
House
McCluskey
Senate
Withdrawal slip dispute pits aunt against detective in Ohio
Mrs. Elizabeth Wolff Blackford of Tiro Ohio sues Cleveland detective Orley May and his wife seeking to locate four thousand three hundred dollars. She says she signed a September 1932 document believing it was not a withdrawal slip of her bank funds.
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Cleveland
Orley May
Elizabeth Wolff Blackford
Tiro
Campaign Cost Report Details Fess Campaign Expenditures
The Fess for Senator Committee reported campaign expenses of 15 500.05 dollars in the bid to reelect Len Simeon D. Fess, a Republican who opposed the New Deal, while Vic Denahey, his Democratic opponent, previously reported similar reserved endorsements and expenditures.
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Len Simeon D. Fess
Fess-for-Senator Committee
Fess
Vic Denahey
Prohibition Victory Spurs Kansas Woman to Lead 50-Woman Dry Brigade
Mrs. May Frazee of Kansas City takes up Carrie Nation style action after prohibition win. She leads a 50 woman cadre pledged to close illegal bars with hatchets if needed. Frazee heads the Arkansas City W C T U and aims to keep the state dry.
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Carrie Nation
Kansas
May Frazee
Urges Beauty Treatment for Roads in U S
Mrs W L Lawton chair of the National Roadside Council tells Athens crowds that highways should entertain as well as transport and warns beauty is sacrificed for strength and speed. She cites ugly shoulders banks and road signs as examples with Ohio Council progress noted.
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National Roadside Council
Athens High School
Lawton
Ohio Council For
J. M. Hyde
Nelsonville
Vinton Doctor Ends His Life
McARTHUR November 16 Dr Hugh Sawyer James a prominent Vinton County physician shot and killed himself yesterday at his home Sheriff H L Partee said He died from a pistol bullet in the head after illness He was about 75 years old practiced here over 20 years and was a World War veteran with a leg wound.
Four Injured as Fire Strikes Dynamite Shack
Four persons were injured early today when a fire destroyed a construction camp shack on the Dixie Highway storing dynamite. Injured were Rudolph Heage 29 Covington John Keene 2 Ludlow Ky Mary Smith 37 and Della Smith 15 Covington. The blast shook residents awake in Newport and Covington.
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Dixie Highway
Rudolph He
John Keene Ace
Ludlow
Mary Smith
Della Smith
Ace
Newport
Ohio Official Count Progressing Slowly
Columbus Ohio November 14 The official count of last weeks election in Ohio is progressing slowly. George Neffner statistician for Secretary of State George Myers said larger counties were delaying certification and the official count probably would not be complete before next Monday.
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Columbus
Ohio
George Neffner
George Myers
Neffner
Car backs from garage. fire damages wiring
In Gallipolis on November 16 a car backed from a garage at 7 o clock and sparked a fire in its wiring. The blaze caused only slight damage and the Fire Department was called to the scene.
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Gallipolis
Vint Tanner
Short Clr
Chamber Urges Budget Balance Over Spending Cure
The Chamber of Commerce Federal Finance Committee warns against government spending for spending's sake and urges a plan to keep next year's deficit irreducible minimum or balance the budget. It calls for immediate cuts and a balanced budget as essential to real recovery and confidence in government credit.
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Federal Finance Committee
Congress
I D Studies Naval Problem
President Roosevelt weighs British overtures on joint naval cooperation with the United States and Japan. Secretary Hull carries dispatches from naval delegate Norman H. Davis as the London parleys loom. Japan demands naval equality amid British and American pushback.
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Roosevelt
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Britain
United States
Japan
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Hull
Norman H. Davis
Quarrel Over Tobacco Turns Fatal in Columbus
In Columbus on November 16 a 49 year old railroad switchman James Dooling died after a quarrel over a tobacco package. Thomas Smith, 54, a longtime friend, told police he struck Dooling with a brake club after Dooling accused him of stealing the tobacco.
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James Dooling
Thomas Smith
Dooling
Presidential Train Fans Local Depot
A yellow comet on wheels sped through Athens at 2 06 this morning carrying President Roosevelt to Harrodsburg Kentucky. The President planned to address the memorial dedication for George Rogers Clark and the schedule was kept secret with a pilot train standby. The Capitol Limited stopped briefly at 1 25 and the special was side tracked at Stewart.
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Harrodsburg
George Rogers Clark
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Alfred Dakin
South High Street
Ross Graves
Hamden
John Murphy
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J A Snyder Printer Dies This Morning
Thomas A. Snyder 47 died at home 129 Grosvenor Street after months of ill health. He long served The Athens Messenger as foreman of the mechanical department after joining the paper 31 years ago. Surviving are wife Mary A Bukley two children and a step son plus four grandchildren. Services set for Sunday at First Methodist with burial in West Union Street Cemetery.
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Marion
Ohio
Snyder
Warren G. Harding
Harding
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Athens
the Messenger
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Richwood
Walter Porter
William Huffman
Dayton
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First Methodist Church
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Distelhurst Kidnapers Used Acid To Halt Identification
Nashville report on six year old Dorothy Ann Distelhurst kidnapped and murdered. Doctor Herman Spitz says acid destroyed facial flesh and upper chest bones, skull fractured, gagged before death. Body found in a shallow Nashville grave. identification aided by a toothling. Funeral at Belmont Methodist Church announced. police without clues to kidnapper.
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Distelhurst
Nashville
Tenn
Dorothy Ann Distelhurat
Herman Spitz
Compromise Seen as Congress Debates Soldiers Bonus
A survey of congressional sentiment shows the House nearly split on cash bonus payments with 295 to 125 vote last session and the Senate evenly divided 24 to 24. The presidential veto risk and Legion pressure push toward possible compromise plans including canceling interest on adjusted service certificates.
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Navy
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Senate
Associated Press
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Hoosevelt
Wall Street
van Zandt
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American Legion
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Roosevelt
Legion
Two Airplane Pilots Die As Crash Burns Near Amazonia
Two pilots were killed when a tri motor air plane crashed and burned near Amazonia Missouri early today. The victims were H. Brashfield, private pilot and manager of the St. Joseph airport, and Ben F. Billings of Kansas City. Billings had piloted since World War I and managed Boston Airport from 1924 to 1928.
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H. ©. Brashfield
St. Joseph
Ben F. Fillings
Kansas City
Wns
Billings
Boston
Vanderbilt loses custody of Gloria in high court
News from New York reports Justice John F. Carew ruling that Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt should not have custody of her ten year old daughter Gloria. The sensational custody battle with Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney continues to unfold as the court weighs the child's best interests amid limited public comment.
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New York
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
Supreme Court
Harry Payne Whitney
Gloria
John F. Carew
United States Refuses Direct Chaco Involvement
Geneva November 14 The United States has declined to participate directly with the League of Nations in efforts to settle the Chaco war A letter refusing to join the Chaco conciliation committee was read at a private session of the committee.
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League of Nations
Chaco War
League
Chaco
Biddle Named Chairman of Labor Relations Board
Francis Biddle of Philadelphia is named chairman of the Labor Relations Board in Washington on November 16, signaling a key leadership appointment in national labor affairs. The move places Biddle at the helm of the board amid ongoing disputes and policy questions.
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Francis Biddle
Philadelphia
Labor Relations Board
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