Leaned Pitch Duel Decides Game in World Series Clash
St. Louis pitcher Paul Dean faces Detroit ace Rowe in the sixth game with the Tigers leading 3 games to 2. Navin Field draws 45,000 fans as the crowd roars for a decisive showdown to claim the pennant and first World Series title in Detroit.
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Detroit
Tigers
Kid Brother
Win Field
Fmily
Dizzyanager
Frank Frisch
Paul Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Lynchoolboy Rowe
Schoo
White
Rf Cochrane
O Gehringer
Cf Gostin
If Regell
Greenberg
Ib Ef Owen
Sb “ Fox
Rip Rowe
P Kiem
Geisel
Reardon
In Hog Plan Referendum Seen in Athens County
The Athens County vote measured support for a hog and corn adjustment proposal in 1934. Of about 3,064 voters, 82 ballots were sent with five voting locations. The first question on the plan drew 76 votes, while the second on grain stock adjustment attracted 65 votes with 16 opposed.
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AAA
Athens
Failere
Grand jury to hear Withem case in Athens County
Withem of Jacksonville appeared before a magistrate and was found not guilty on a charge connected with intoxication. The case proceeds to the Athens County Grand Jury with a $400 bond set.
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Withem
Jacksonville
Athens County
Sure Signs Bad Luck In Everyday Life
A nation-wide study by two New York professors finds no infallible omen of bad luck. Readers are told common superstitions persist, such as walking under a ladder or stepping over banana peels, but these are not reliable predictors of misfortune.
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Fter
New York Eye
Messenger
Lea
Will Pleads Old Age In Forgetting To File
Fort Worth Texas columnist Will Rogers jokes about forgetting to file his telegram due to old age. He reflects on missing the Saturday edition, notes Detroit’s strong form after Paul Dean’s near shutout, and laments the World Series heat while promising to finish watching.
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Will
Fort Worth
Tex
Paul Dean
Detroit
Oklahoma
Will Rogers
P. S
Burdette Dies At Home In Athens At 78
Lewis V. Burdette 78, longtime shoe repair operator in Athens, died at his home 9 North McKinley Avenue just before noon today. Funeral at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the family home. burial in West Union Street Cemetery. Survived by four children Farley Athens Ruth Pratt Lulu Somerville, a wife who died 18 months ago, and siblings in West Virginia, Ohio, and Oklahoma.
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Athens
North McKinley Avenue
West Union Street
Burdette
West Virginia
Jackson County
George Pangratt
Akron
Farley
Ruth
Athens County
Effie Pratt
Williamstown
W. Va
Lulu Somerville
Charles
Sandyville
Lettie Custer
Jefferson
Ohio
Belle Sayer
Oklahoma
George Arnold
Belleville
Ponzi Shipped Back to Italy
Charles Ponzi, penniless and alone, sailed from Boston for Italy under compulsion after 31 years in the United States. His wife Rose was absent, and Ponzi apologized, saying he was to blame for his downfall from his get rich quick scheme.
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Italy
Boston
UPI
Charles Ponzi
Rose
S. S. Vulcania
Boston Harbor
Ponzi
Germans Must Bear Family Tree Cards
Berlin reports that all Germans must carry racial cards proving ancestral origin, as announced by Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick to 500 civil register officers. The so called Sippenblatt is added to the growing list of mandatory personal documents.
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Berlin
Interior
Wilhelm Frick
Sippenblatt
A F L Delegates Face 30 Hour Week Debate
At the American Federation of Labor convention in San Francisco delegates reassemble amid expected votes on a 30 hour week and the National Recovery program. Internal strife centers on industrial unions versus crafts and the fight over officer control in the building trades department. John Lewis promotes organizing the unorganized without replacing craft unions.
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San Francisco
American Federation of Labor
Building Trades Department
National Recovery Program
Federation Executive Council
Building Trades Convention
A. F. of L. Meet
International Unions of Carpenters, Bricklayers
Electrical Workers
Executive Council
Federation
John Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Charles Howard
International Typographical Union
Lewis
Roosevelt Schedules NIRA Meeting On Price Controls
President Roosevelt summoned the National Industrial Recovery Board to the White House as the future of price fixing in NRA codes hung in the balance. The board led by S. Clay Williams conducts all day sessions to inventory tasks ahead while Richberg urges business leaders toward sound competition in a free market.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Industrial Recovery Board
White House
Donald R. Richberg
Police
Industrial Recovery Board
Clay Willams
Unemployed chemist dies after poison claim in Philadelphia
Rodney R. Hickman, 31, rushed from a hotel to a hospital after telling a detective he took poison and would die within three days. He said he had been repeatedly rejected for work and felt hopeless. Doctors said his assertion of death was probably right.
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Philadelphia
Rodney R. Hickman
New York City
Hickman
Homesteads Called Shield Against Strife
In Cincinnati on October 6 the Nations Conference of Catholic Charities warned that centralization of industry has passed the point of safety and that the federal subsistence homestead program acts as a shield against potential internal strife.
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Cincinnati
The
Nations Conference of Catholic Charities
Ecme
County Commissioner L. H. Blackwood Dies At Home
Longtime Athens County official L. H. Blackwood died at his home at 99 North Congress Street at 10 this morning after years of heart weakness. He was 61, active in public service and agriculture, served on the Lodi Township Board of Education and Athens County Fair Board, and was a Mason and Elk. He leaves a widow Alma How ard, two daughters Lucille Good and Audrey Blackwood, a sister Mrs. John Orr, and his mother Mrs. Mary F. Blackwood. Funeral Wednesday at 2 in the Methodist Episcopal Church with burial in West Union Street Cemetery mausoleum.
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L. H. Blackwood
Athens County
North
Congress Street
Blackwood
Lodi Township
Harvey L. Blackwood
Board of Education
Alma Howard
Ames Township
Athens
Mary F. Blackwood
James Day
Lindbergh Testifies Before Grand Jury On Kidnapping Case
Col Charles A Lindbergh testified before a Hunterdon County grand jury in Flemington about the death and kidnapping of his 2 month old son 31 months earlier. Dr Charles E Mitchell, and handwriting experts Albert F and Albert B Osborne, also testified as the panel heard evidence linking Bruno Hauptmann to the crime. Lindbergh spoke briefly and left after about 15 minutes.
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Flemington
N. J
Charles A. Lindbergh
Hunterdon County
Filer
Col
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
New Jersey State Police
John H. Curtis
Lindbergh
Charles E. Mitchell
Mercer County
Mitchell
Albert
Scout Cabin Becomes Roy Dupler Lodge In Athens District
The Athens Scout District presents a new log cabin named Roy Dupler Lodge in a ravine near Peach Ridge. Kiwanis donor A. E. Whaley and Scout Commissioner Fred McKay attend as Scouts, led by Dupler and Knowlton, recite oath and prayer while Athens High Band plays. New flagpole and portraits donated by local groups arrive as part of the ceremony.
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Athens
Peach Rige
Athens Council
Roy Dupler
A. E. Whaley
Athens Kiwanis Club
Fred McKay
Scout Council
Bob Covert
Wilbur H. Fowler
First Methodist Church
C. C. Cornell
Kiwanis Club
Dupler
Arch Knowlton
Walton Davies
Athens High School
K. T. Crossen Post
American Legion
C. L. Jones
James Josten
Athens County Men Are Given Sentences
Four Athens County residents faced prison terms after pleading guilty or being found guilty on multiple indictments. Bill Radcliffe and Ivor Darnell received Ohio Penitentiary sentences for grand larceny. Lester Coakley and Alden Love were sent to the Mansfield Ohio State Reformatory for arson and forgery respectively. George Love Jr was found guilty of assault and battery against a 16 year old girl. sentence deferred by the Common Pleas Court.
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Ohio Penitentiary
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
Athens County
Bill Radcliffe
Ivor Darnell
Charles Stratton
Lester Coakley
Alden Love
Reformatory
George Love, Jr
Smith Says Church Not State Should Carry on Relief Work
In Cincinnati at the Catholic Charities conference, former New York governor and 1928 Democratic nominee Alfred E. Smith argues relief work should be led by the church rather than the government. He says government only scratches the surface of practical charity, while housing programs extend social justice. The address follows a day of religious ceremonies and peace gestures among Catholic leaders.
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Smith
New York
Cincinnati
National Conference of Catholic Charities
Amiete Giovanni Cleognani
United States
200 Million More Requested for Veterans Admin
Washington sources say Congress will be asked to appropriate about 200 million dollars more for the Veterans Administration next year than in 1934. The request reflects restored payments and a Supreme Court ruling, with total near 719 million envisioned for 1935 including pension hikes and costs for added widows and orphans benefits.
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Washington
Oct
Congress
Veterans’ Administration
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Bureau
Budget Bureau
Supreme Court takes up New Deal cases on Recovery Act
The court agreed to test the constitutionality of key Recovery Act provisions on oil production and gold payments. It will rule on Senate contempt power in MacCracken case and on milk price cuts by Borden's Farm Products. Original challenges were by Panama Refining and Amazon Petroleum of East Texas. lower courts split.
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Washington
Oct
Supreme Court
High Court
Senate
William P. MacCracken, Jr
Panama Refining Company
Amazon Petroleum Corporation
East
Texas
Little World Series Set to End This Week
Columbus Red Birds and Toronto Maple Leafs each hold three wins in the little world series. A single game tonight could decide the title with up to two more games tomorrow afternoon and night. If needed, the eighth game will be tomorrow afternoon and the ninth tomorrow night as a rare double header with afternoon fans admitted free.
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Columbus
Oct
Columbus Red Birds
Toronto Maple Leafs
Welfare Group Will Meet Here Tonight
An important meeting of the Community Welfare Association will be held at 7 30 o clock tonight in the Chamber of Commerce rooms in the Security Bank Building. Officers of organizations that shared in the Chest Fund will report on their activities for the past year. Columbus Ohio. Oct 6 7 Seven hundred fifty one small home owners of Ohio received loans from the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the week ended Oct 5 State Manager Henry Geer reported today.
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Community Welfare Association
Chamber of Commerce
Security Bank
Columbus
Ohio
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Henry Geer
Spain's Rebels Seize Arsenal in Four Day War
Rebels captured arsenals and towns across Spain in a four day civil conflict. Bombing planes dropped hundreds of bombs while fighting raged near Madrid ministers and war offices. Cadiz and Oviedo reported rebel advances with cities setting fires and authorities killed.
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Madrid
Ministers of War and Communications
Edwards Seeks New Trial in Slaying Case
In Wilkes-Barre Pa Robert Allen Edwards asks Luzerne County Court for a new trial claiming trial errors after being found guilty of murdering Freda McKechnie and sentenced to death. Defense contends 172 letters from a New York sweetheart were improperly admitted and fueled the verdict. The story also covers chaos in Spain with rebels, government bombardments, and political upheaval in Barcelona and Oviedo.
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Robert Alien Edwards
Luzerne County
Freda McKechnie
William A. Valentine
Edwards
Margaret Crain
East Aurora
N. Y
Miss McKechnie
Harvey's Lake
Miss Crain
Frank MecGuigan
Valentine
New York
Vail Carriers of S E Ohio Meet in Athens
The Southeastern Ohio Division of the National Association of Letter Carriers held its semi annual meeting in Athens with Prof. W. H. Cooper of Ohio University stressing the postal service trust and carrier coordination. Mayor Len B. McCune Ed J. Zinsmeister and David Bueh attended as featured speakers.
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Postal Service
W. H. Cooper
Ohio University
Southeastern Ohio Division
National Association of Letter Carriers
Chamber of Commerce
Security Bank
Len B. McCune
Ed J. Zinsmeister
Zanesville
National Organization
David Bueh
Mansfield
Kentucky Governor hosts informal Boone birthday ball
The Governor of Kentucky predicts Daniel Boone wore patched pants during his era and announces a November 2 Grand Ball in Frankfort to honor the pioneer's 200th birthday.
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Frankfort
Kentucky
Daniel Boone
Federal bid for injunction against Weirton Steel resumes
In Wilmington Delaware in U S District Court the government resumes its bid for an injunction against Weirton Steel as nearly forty more witnesses are lined up to testify.
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Wilmington
Del
Weirton Steel Company
United States District Court
David Walburn Found Dead in Automobile
David Walburn aged 72 was found dead in a car near his Harmony Road home at about six this morning cause of death listed as heart trouble by Coroner L F Jones. He attended a Albany coon hunt yesterday returning home with neighbor Elmer McClanahan who found him. He leaves a wife a son Fred and two daughters Mrs Rose Leach and Mrs Alice Curry of Columbus. Funeral services are set for 1 pm Wednesday at the family home near Harmony.
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David Walburn
Harmony Road
L. F. Jones
Walburn
McClanahan
Fred
Rose Leach
Alice Curry
Columbus
Harmony
Brother and Sister Die Within One Day
Mrs. Mary Stringfellow aged 83 died this morning at her State Street home from diabetes. Her brother Harry Ecker, 68, died in Holzer Hospital. A double funeral is expected though arrangements are not yet made.
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Gallipolis
Mary Stringfellow
State Street
Harry Ecker
Holzer Hospital
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