Rio Grande College Hall Destroyed by Fire at Rio Grande
Atwood Hall the four story campus building at Rio Grande College burned after 4 am. Fire chief Steven Jenkins was injured when a chemical tank exploded during fighting. Loss estimated around 100000 with Atwood Hall insured for 50000. Classes suspended until Monday and trustees will decide on a new building.
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Gallipolis
U.P
Atwood Hall
Rio Grande College
Rio Grande
Steven Jenkins
Holzer Hospital
Rio Grande Department
College Board of
Pontiac Local Votes to Extend Auto Strike Amid Internal Rift
In Detroit area action, the U A W Pontiac local defied international officers and voted to continue the strike that leaves 14 721 workers idle at Fisher Body and Pontiac plants. The move followed a promise by Homer Martin to reaffirm opposition to wildcat strikes as groundwork for talks with General Motors.
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Detroit
AUR
U.A.W. Pontiac
International
Fred C. Piper
U.A.W
Fisher Body Corporation
Pontiac Motor Car Company
Homer Martin
International Present
General Motors Corporation
Ohio businessmen demand tax revision
More than 125 Ohio businessmen returned home after urging Congress to repeal or sharply revise the excess profits and capital gains taxes. Clarence D. Laylin of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce called the tax situation urgent, urging immediate action at a meeting with Ohio lawmakers.
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Washington
U.P
Ohio
Congress
Clarence D. Laylin
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Nation Faces Unusual Cold Wave Across United States
Snow cover reaches one third of the country as weather officials report unusually low temperatures for wartime. In Woodsfeld, Bishop Worthy, 50, dies after being buried under rock and earth during a state highway project near here.
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Chicago
U.P
United States
Weather Bureau
Woodsfield
Worthy Bishop
Secrest Leaves Hospital After Illness
Rep. Robert T. Secrest of Ohio was discharged from Navy Hospital after six days of influenza and acute bronchitis confinement.
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Secrest
Washington
Robert T. Secrest
Ohio
Navy Hospital
Federal Court Sentences Six Men in Columbus Case
James Thomas Logan got five years for driving a stolen Idaho car to Columbus. R. J. Smith of Logan received a similar five year sentence for transporting a Detroit stolen car. Millard Davis of Gallia County had a suspended sentence for possessing a still. Walter Orndorf of New Straitsville got six months for a still and Russell Miller of New Straitsville six months. Orville Pritchard of Laurelville got three months for possessing a still.
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Columbus
James Thomas
Logan
Idaho
R. J. Smith
Detroit
Millard Davis
Gallia County
Walter Orndorff
New Straitsville
Russell Miller
Lancaster Banker Ed Mithoff Dies After 50 Years at Hocking Valley Bank
Lancaster banker Ed Mithoff, president of the Hocking Valley National Bank and longtime associate for half a century, died Thursday night of heart disease.
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Lancaster
Au.p
Ed Mithoff
Hocking Valley National Bank
Woman Stands By Man Who Slew Husband
In St George Utah a woman visits Charles Bosshard in jail after learning he killed her first husband Spencer Malan and hid him in a 150 foot well near her home. She plans to remain Bosshard’s wife, saying he has atoned by his good behavior.
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ST. George
Utah
U.P
Charles Bosshard
Bosshard
Spencer Malan
Charlie
Spencer
U S Envoy To Quit Nanking Evacuation Planned From Shanghai
The U S gunboat Luzon moved to Nanking to collect Ambassador Nelson T Johnson and staff as diplomats plan to evacuate the capital and shift emergency headquarters to Hankow amid the Japanese advance The rain grounded Japanese planes for a third day while troops pressed west of Shanghai through mud and disorganized Chinese forces.
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Shanghai
U.P
United States
Luzon
Nanking
Hankow
Nelson T. Johnson
Johnson
Yangtze River
Ohio Baker Sentenced to Five Years for Threatening Roosevelt
Earl A. Knowles, 56, of Belpre Ohio, was sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary after pleading guilty to mailing a letter threatening President Roosevelt. He claimed pension loss due to the President and Frank Hines of the Veterans Administration and also menaced Hines. He was arrested in Cleveland after seeking a gun.
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Columbus
U.P
Earl A. Knowles
Belpre
Baker
Roosevelt
Knowles
Mell G. Underwood
Secret Service
Cleveland
Frank Hines
Veterans’ Administration
Hines
Rebel Drive Threatening FD Program
Congress faces a split path as a rebel drive seeks immediate aid to business with a farm bill likely to pass, while resistance grows against the anti lynching measure. Senate leaders warn a major Roosevelt program item may be the farm bill only, with open support for wages hours legislation from John L. Lewis.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
Alben W. Barkley
White House
Supreme Court
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
R. Mass
America
State Department
Lodge
United States
Committee For Industrial Organization
John L. Lewis
House Labor Committee
Mary T. Norton
N.J
Depsite
Rand Bergoff Are Acquitted in Byrnes Act Case
In New Haven Connecticut a federal jury acquitted James H Rand Jr president of Remington Rand Inc and Pearl L Bergoff former head of an agency of New York City of violating the Byrnes Act during a strike at Remington Rand Middletown plant Rand called the verdict vital for American business and said the facts disproved charges by the National Labor Relations Board
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New Haven
Rand
National Labor Relations Board
Remington Rand
Shakedowns by Union Leaders Exposed in Cleveland
Six businessmen from New York Detroit St Louis and Cleveland testified at the Cuya hoga County Grand Jury investigation of labor racketeering. Safety Director Eliot Ness announced that witnesses were shaken down by union leaders and forced to pay tribute.
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Cleveland
WUP
Cuyahoga County Grand Jury
Eliot Ness
New York
Detroit
St. Louis
Captain Eyston Sets New Auto Speed Mark
Captain George E. T. Fyston, a 40 year old British sportsman, today set a new world automobile speed record at 311.42 miles an hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
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Bonneville Salt Flats
Utah
George E. T. Fyston
Typhoon Toll Reported From Southern Philippines
Manila reports 26 dead as typhoon devastates southern parts of the Philippine archipelago with widespread havoc and damaged areas still being assessed tonight.
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Manila
P. I
U.P
Philippine Archipelago
Fowler to Seek Reinstatement as Meigs County Sheriff
Roscoe O. Fowler Pomeroy was acquitted by a jury of second degree murder in the death of Lafe Williamson and stated he would seek reinstatement as Meigs County Sheriff. He said his conscience is clear and that he and Williamson would have been friends if Williamson were alive today.
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Pomeroy
Roscoe
Fowler
Meigs County
Lafe Williamson
Athens Fund Near Goal as $321 Remains to Reach Quota
Officials reported noon totals show $12,839 raised toward a $13,160 goal for the 1937 Athens Community Chest drive. Late Thursday reports dwindled. a final push by six solicitors is planned Saturday morning with hopes to declare victory by Sunday.
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Margery Stalder
Frank Murphey
Dorothy
Five Hurt in Pre Game Rally Riot on Coast
Four police officers and another man were injured as riotous students clashed before the University of California Berkeley Stanford game. Property valued at $5,000 destroyed and 31 arrests were made during the frenzied pre game rally on the coast.
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Berkeley
Calif
U.P
President Roosevelt Cancels White House Appointments
President Roosevelt cancels all White House appointments for the fourth day on advice of his physician. He suffers from an infected tooth and a slight intestinal disorder but is considered in satisfactory condition.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
White House
Ross T. MelIntire
Meigs Sheriff Freed in Second Degree Murder Verdict
The Meigs County jury returned a not guilty verdict in the State of Ohio vs Roscoe Fowler after a swift hour and fifty minutes of deliberation. The courtroom crowd celebrated as Mrs Fowler and gratitude-filled supporters congratulated the sheriff and his family.
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Meigs
Truck Mine Operators Protest Unfair Industrial Rates
Truck mine operators from Southeastern Ohio spoke against what they call discriminatory rates for industrial compensation. At a meeting in Nelsonville officials from the Industrial Commission and the State Bureau of Mines explored safety and rate classifications, noting rates from 6.70 to 14 per 100 dollars of payroll, with some as high as 14. The division between electrical and non electrical operations was explained, and small operators warned they may abandon mining or drop insurance without relief.
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C. H. Bartlett
Nelsonville
Ohio
Industrial Commission
State Bureau of Mines
Lawrence
Meigs
Gallia
Perry
Hocking
Athens
State Department
Two Goodyear Plants Closed By Sit-Downs
Akron dispatch reports Goodyear Tire two plants were closed with 11,800 workers idle after sitdown strikes called by the Akron unit of the United Rubber Workers of America. Officials estimate about 1,000 strikers were inside the plants amid union discontent over layoffs tied to a business recession and planned reductions.
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Goodyear
Akron -Aup
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Akron
United Rubber Workers of America
C.I.0
Outline Grange Farm Policies
Harrisburg, Pa. The 71st National Grange convention outlined agricultural policy for Congress. It opposes mandatory regulation of farming, strict crop-cut programs, and soil conservation use to curb production. It seeks a fair share of national income via price stabilization, voluntary surplus control, and federal loans to growers to hold crops for profitable markets.
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Harrisburg
National Grange
Congress
Farm Fraternity
Man Pleads Not Guilty In Post Office Robbery Case
Leroy Brus sart of Hocking County pleaded not guilty in Federal Court to robbing the Laurelville Ohio post office and assaulting postmistress Florence Pontius with a .32 revolver. Bond set at 2500 dollars by Judge Mell G Underwood. Trial scheduled for November 30.
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Columbus
Leroy Brussart
Hocking County
Laurelville
Florence M. Pontius
Mell G. Underwood
Six Die in Colo Home Fire Early Today
Fort Collins, Colorado reports six people burned to death in their sleep as a fire swept Tomas Cebes home. The victims were aged up to 65, with the blaze discovered in the early hours. Investigators seek the cause and whether smoke alarms were in use.
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Fort Collins
Colo
Tomas Cebes
Bingo gambling case ends with guilty verdict
Julius Goldstein was found guilty by a Cleveland jury in Judge Oscar Bell's court of gambling charges tied to running bingo games.
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Cleveland
UPR
Julius Goldstein
Oscar Bell
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Williamson
Northwest Territory
Ipswich
Mass
Marietta
Pontiac
U.S
Bergoff
Captain Eyston
Roscoe O. Fowler
Athens Community Fund
Chest
By Malcolm Hartley
Messenger
Roscoe Fowler
Herman Beards
State of Ohio
Beards
Frank M. Acton
D. T. Summerfield
Judge Acton
Acton
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