Roosevelt outlines economy plan to balance budget demands
President Roosevelt abandons hope for a balanced current year budget and proposes quick economy or higher taxes. He orders liquidation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Public Works Administration, with existing commitments to be discharged. He forecasts a June 30 1938 deficit near 895 million and warns Congress of an economy storm in a session starting November 15.
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Washington
WU P
Roosevelt
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Public Works Administration
PWA
Alf M. Landon
Topeka
Kan
Republican Party
Treasury
Hyde Park
N. Y
Congress
Judge Orders All-Male Jury for Garr Brothers Murder Trial
Shelbyville Ky A judge ordered an all male jury to hear the Garr brothers charged with murdering Brig Gen Henry H Denhardt, the slain sister's alleged killer. Sheriff Barnes must summon 100 more veniremen after rejecting 17 of 34 called. women not permitted to decide the case.
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Shelbyville
U.P
Garr Brothers
Henry H. Denhardt
Commonwealth
Charles C. Marshall
Forrest Barnes, Jr
Martial Law Keeps Narragansett Track Card Off Track
Narragansett Race Track cancels a second day of racing under martial law as Gov. Quinn tightens security with about 300 militiamen patrolling the mile radius. Secretary Pat Horgan says entries are still being accepted for Wednesday.
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Providence
U.P
Narragansett
Pat Horgan
Robert FE
Quinn
Gallia County Man Is Shot During Quarrel
Bidwell Clench aged 30 was arrested by Gallia County officers on charges of shooting Jacob Bush aged 45 during a quarrel. Bush was wounded in the right leg and treated at Holzer Hospital where doctors expect a full recovery.
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Gallipolis
Bidwell Clench
Gallia County
Jacob Bush
Bush
Holzer Hospital
Clench
Slew Two The Weird Odyssey Of A Teen Slayer
Paul Dwyer of Paris Hill Maine recounted an eighteen year old driver’s two day trek through five eastern states with the bodies of two murder victims in their own car. Police say he confessed to killing Dr James G Littlefield during a medical exam and later strangled Mrs Littlefield after luring her from home.
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Paul Dwyer
Paris Hill
North Arlington
N. J
James G. Littlefield
Strong Buying Halts Runaway Stock Trading
Late day strong buying lifted the stock market after heavy initial losses the first two hours as liquidity surged. Overnight selling prompted reports that great investment trusts were buying, drawing in more buyers and sparking partial recoveries in major issues such as U S Steel, Chrysler, and American Telephone.
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New York
AUP
U. S. Steel
Chrysler
American Telephone
Young Killer Will Be Examined for Insanity
Paul Nathanial Dwyer, 18, who killed Dr. and Mrs. James G. Littlefield, was committed to an insane asylum for observation. Judge Emery ordered alienists at Maine State Hospital to report on his mental status by November 16.
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Paris
U.P
Paul Nathanial Dwyer
James G. Littlefield
Portland
George L. Emery
Maine State Hospital For the
Augusta
Witness Tells Jury of Hahn Wagner Relationship
Mrs. Anna Eberhardt testified through an interpreter about Jacob Wagner and Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn during her trial for Wagner’s death. She said Hahn barred entry to Wagner’s room during his illness, and at the funeral Hahn remarked that she had lost a second uncle that month.
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Cincinnatti
U.P
Anna Eberhardt
Jacob Wagner
Anna Marie Hahn
Wagner
Eberhardt
Hahn
Ross Ransom Paid With Marked Money
Federal agents disclosed that fifty thousand dollars in marked bills were paid for the return of Charles S. Ross the 72 year old greeting card publisher abducted September 25. A Hoover sign ed statement urged the public to report any recovered ransom bills to the Chicago FBI and noted Mrs Ross urged the abductors to return her husband alive by eight this morning.
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Chicago
U.P
Charles S. Ross
Daniel J. Ladd
Earl J. Con
Nelly
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
Ross
Hoover
Department of Justice
Randolph
Jacksonville Miner Killed in Millfield Roof Collapse
Joseph Thyne aged 50 of Jacksonville was killed and Fritz Olbers also 50 from Taylor Ridge was seriously injured when the No. 6 Mine roof at Sunday Creek Coal Co. collapsed at Millfield around 9 30 this morning. Thyne was married with no children and both men had long service with the mine.
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Joseph Thyne
Fritz Olbers
Millfield No. 6
Jacksonville
Taylor Ridge
Sunday Creek Coal Co
Millfield
Thyne
Olbers
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Chinese to seek aid at Brussels conference
Chinese readers will demand material aid at the Brussels Far Eastern conference to drive Japan from China and reject mediation as a path to end the war. Chinese officials cite recent army successes and strong resistance, aiming to shape the Brussels program with China’s position clear.
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Shanghai
U.P
China
Brussels
Japan
Car Attacked by Plane Near Foochow in WWII Era
An Italian navy Captain Francesco Ribezzi along with a German, Russian, and Chinese escorts were attacked by fighter planes ten miles west of Foochow while traveling from Shanghai to Nanking. The car was riddled by gunfire but the occupants fled into fields and escaped unharmed.
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Nanking
Francesco Ribezzi
Foochow
Shanghai
President Roosevelt Leads Drive for Community Chest Campaign
In 454 cities the 1937 mobilization for human needs began with a radio appeal by President Roosevelt from Hyde Park New York. He urged moral and financial support to private charity noting federal relief will shrink with prosperity and taxes. state local and private efforts must grow.
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Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Seek To Quash Indictment of Eagles' Lodge
Attorneys for Meigs Aerie No 2171 Fraternal Order of Eagles filed a motion to quash six indictments and a plea in abatement arguing the record omits grand jury impanelling and that state witnesses who were Eagles members incriminated the fraternity. Similar motions by trustees cited Article No 3 and the court anticipated this as the first in a long series of actions.
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Pomeroy
Staff Special
Fred W. Crow
Charles Sacks
Meigs Aerie No
Fraternal
Order of Eagles
Meigs Aerie
Eagles
Lafe Williamson
Ohio
Grand
The
Meigs
Val Brown
Arthur Fick, Sr
William Lowe
Trustees of
Star Farmer title earned by young agriculturist
William Stiers 18 of Alexandria Ohio is named Star Farmer of the North Atlantic Region at the Future Farmers of America national convention. He began farming five years ago with 300 chicks and seven beehives and now co manages a 240 acre farm with his father. He runs a 10 cow dairy, 14 acres of corn and hogs for market and saved over 1600 dollars reinvesting 900 plus in livestock buildings and equipment.
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Kansas City
U.R
William Stiers
Alexandria
North Atlantic
Future Farmers of America
Stiers
Tragic airliner crash kills 19 amid stormy Rocky Mountain night
A Mainliner flying from Newark to San Francisco crashed between Rock Springs and Salt Lake City killing 19. The craft with 16 passengers two pilots and a stewardess disappeared in a violent rainstorm. wreckage found after rescue teams battled deep snow. Pilot Earl D Woodgerd, a former Athens County resident, led the effort.
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San Francisco
Newark
Rock Springs
Wyo
Salt Lake City
Earl D. Woodgerd
Athens County
Pilot Earl Woodgerd to be buried in Jacksonville
Relatives plan interment near his Jacksonville home for Earl D. Woodgerd 39, veteran pilot of transcontinental airlines who died in Utah crash with 18 others. He served at Cheyenne WY and married to Esther Johnson of Jacksonville, leaving two children Walter 12 Leah 9. He sought retirement ranch life after long career, with prior work on New York Central telegraph and barnstorming days.
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Earl D. Woodgerd
Transcontinental Airlines
Utah
Athens County
A. R. Woodgerd
Jacksonville
Cleveland
Denver
Dover
Ohio
Earl Woodgerd
Cheyenne
Wyo
Esther Johnson
Walter
Leah
Woodyerds
Earl
The
Messenger
Chey
New York Central
Toledo
Charleston
Harold
Fultonham
Carpenter
Meigs County
Woodgerd
Pittsburgh
New York
San Francisco
Miller chosen to fill Senate term after Robinson
Rep. John E. Miller won the Arkansas special election to succeed the late Joseph S. Robinson in the Senate. He defeated Gov. Carl Bailey who accused him of disloyalty to the national administration while Bailey claimed to back Roosevelt fully. Bailey’s loss signals a possible modest decline in New Deal support in the South.
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Little Rock
Ark
John E. Miller
Roosevelt
Congress
Joseph S. Robinson
Senate
Miller
Carl E. Bailey
Meeting to report 1937 corn experiments at Ames Bern High
Farmers and 4-H members invited to a Thursday night meeting at Ames Bern High School on October 21 at 8 o clock. Lawrence Best, vocational agriculture teacher, organizes the session where reports on 1937 hybrid corn experiments will be presented for 1938 planting.
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Ames- Bern High School
Lawrence Best
Theft at Covert Baking Co ice plant corner Poplar and Grosvenor
Approximately 30 in change was taken from the ice plant property of the Covert Baking Co. over the weekend. The incident was reported to police on Monday.
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Nelsonville
Covert Baking Co
Corner Poplar and
Grosvenor Sts
Woman Dies in Columbus Crash as Car Skids
Mrs. Cora E. Turner, 41, was killed Monday night in Columbus when an automobile skidded and struck a tree. In Urbana, Catherine Hallan marked her 105th birthday at her home near St. Paris.
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Columbus
U.P
Cora E. Turner
Urbana
Catherine Hallan
St. Paris
Ohio Girl Slain Near Home in Grafton
The body of 19 year old Louise Hornbeck was found in a yard near her home in Grafton Ohio. She left her workplace at 9 35 pm to walk home and was killed by blows from a club. Her father and brother found her after a six hour search. She was a high school graduate described as a fine girl with no enemies.
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Elyria
Louise Hornbeck
Grafton
Forest
Miss Hornbeck
Joseph Novesky
Earl Maple
Davey Taps Two More To Highway Inquiry Board
Governor Davey expands the special board of inquiry investigating alleged State Highway Department irregularities. Professors George E. Barnes and Malcolm S. Douglas of Case School of Applied Science join the panel, bringing university highway experts to six. The board will have unlimited resources and personnel for the probe.
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Columbus
U.P
Davey
George E. Barnes
Malcolm S.S. Douglas
Case School of Applied Science
Cleveland
Plans Begin for Withdrawal of Foreign Volunteers in Spain
Nine European powers resumed talks in London on withdrawing foreign volunteers from the Spanish civil war. Delegates showed pessimism but French sources said Paris may offer an equal pullout from both Nationalist and Loyalist forces as a gesture of good faith. France has pressed for proportional withdrawal to match volunteer numbers. The meeting continued the chairmen’s sub committee session of the non intervention committee.
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London
A.P
France
Italy
Columbus man pleads guilty in attack on 10 year old
Donald White, 29, pleaded guilty to criminally attacking Betty Jane Rush, 10, on October 9. He also pleaded not guilty to assaulting Norma Jean King, 11, on October 1.
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Columbus
U.P
Donald White
Betty Jane Rush
Norma Jean King
Child Star Freddie Bartholomew Sees Salary Jump
Hollywood reports Freddie Bartholomew's pay doubled to 98000 a year as Louis B. Mayer boosts his allowance to 1 weekly. The 14 year old "Little Lord Fauntleroy" celebrates with his first banknote while his parents arrive for a custody hearing tied to an adoption void suit.
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Hollywood
A.P
Freddie Bartholomew
Louis B. Mayer
Lord Fauntleroy
Freddie
Cecil Bartholomew
London
Plane Wreck in Uinta Mountains Kills 20 Including Expectant Mother
United Air Lines transcontinental plane crash in the Uinta mountains leaves 20 dead after 18 bodies scattered 100 feet from the cockpit. A niece of Dr. Richard Roe was due to give birth. rescue parties faced darkness and deep snow seeking survivors.
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Salt Lake City
United Air Line
Ralph Johnson
Uinta Mountains
Knight
Wyo
Settlement of 15 Year Ohio Bell Case Rejected
Columbus Ohio Attorney General Herbert Duffy rejected a settlement for the 15 year Ohio Bell Telephone rate case proposing state refunds totaling 6.6 million dollars for subscribers. Duffy indicated willingness to back a reasonable settlement but withheld the size of the refund he considers reasonable as rates collected under bond total about 12 million dollars.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Bell Telesphone
Herbert&. Duffy
Duffy
Public Utilities Commission
Fire Destroys Entire Family and Hired Hand at Waters Ford Farm
A farmhouse blaze at Waters Ford, 12 miles south of Erie, killed six people including Mrs. Helen Molash and five Molash children aged 24 to 17, along with 51 year old hired hand Harry Orchoss. Authorities reported no survivors among the household.
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Erie
Watersford
Here
Helen Molash
Abe
Peter
John
Olga
Harry Orchoss
Samuel Standish Jr. Woods Stock former mayor dies at 89
Samuel Standish Jr. former Woods Stock mayor aged 89 died here Monday. He claimed descent from Captain Miles Standish and was born in India to missionary parents.
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Urbana
U.P
Samuel Standsish
Woods Stock
Capt
Miles Standish
India
Kiwanis Ohio District Convention Enters Third Day
The third day of the 20th annual Ohio District Kiwanis convention in Toledo highlighted discussions on education vocational guidance and services for under privileged children along with ongoing organization activities.
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Toledo
U.P
Ohio
Kiwanis Intere Nation
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Sall
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