Relief bonds eyed as county plans mill tax levy
H M Spang relief director tells Athens County trustees and citizens that a mill tax levy in support of a relief bond issue will be voted on November 5. He cites 4200 families on relief in July and 1600 cases direct aid through WPA projects, with gradual end as employable workers find steady work and funds shift to other care arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
Biddle
Fred Kit- Minner
Athens
Individuhe County
Carey
Local Aid Disbursements Reported by State Division
The Division of Aged processed checks to H. M. Shumway for aid payments in the state. The report notes weekly disbursements with multiple aid allocations and counts of transactions.
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H. M. Shumway
Fragmented Local Notice Signals Community Hardship
A disjointed OCR fragment mentions sympathy for a family, a father figure once with Baltimore & Ohio, a fine or discharge related to a truck incident on Route 31, a highway patrol reference, and a small jury verdict. The text hints at local distress and public notices but lacks coherent detail.
City competes in mar keen event amid shortages
A brief community note reports a city program facing a $5,000 shortfall as women volunteers and organizers pursue a local ma keen competition. Officials warn delays but aim to press ahead with the event.
Farm Employee Dies After Fall From Apple Tree
Arthur Ziggafoose, 47, fatally injured Tuesday on W. M. Blackwood’s farm when he fell from an apple tree and was impaled on a fence. He died within an hour. He leaves a wife, two children Eugene and Mable, a Parkersburg father C. L. Ziggafoose, brothers B. W. and C. J., and sisters O H Griffith and Mrs Howard Stalnaker. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Lottridge
West Virginia
Blackwood
Arthur Ziggafoose
W. M. Blackwood
Ziggafoose
Eva, Ha
Aid
W. Va
Ohio
Eugene
Mable
C. L. Ziggafoose
B. W
C. J
Parkersburg
O. H. Griffith
Wheeling
Howard Stalnaker
Coolville
Suit Filed Over Alleged Heart Balm Claim
Counsel for Mrs Gazella A Wurster ages 53 resumed efforts to substantiate a 250000 heart balm suit against Edward Meyer age 53 who yesterday admitted from the witness stand in common pleas court that he might have been a little bit friendly toward the plaintiff He said the amiable trend occurred when he was drinking and sober he had more sense
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Cleveland
Gazella A. Wurster
Edward Meyer
Common Pleas Court
Government Extends Probe Into Relief Grafting
Washington reports the federal government assigns 50 special investigators to pursue grafting in relief programs as part of a broader effort to speed job creation. The rivers and harbors budget loses 16 million to fund Works Progress Projects, including 5 million redirected from Passamaquoddy Bay Maine. Aubrey Williams predicts the dole system will end in most states by November. A Federal Relief Administration survey shows states increasing expenditures for the destitute. Many investigators are ex-G-men.
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Washington
Passamaquoddy Bay
Maine
Aubrey Williams
WPA
Federal Relief Administration
Attempted Jail Escape Foiled by Deputy at County Jail
WARREN two men charged with first degree murder were in solitary confinement today after an attempted jail escape was foiled by deputy Frank Sexton. Leroy Keith and Ray Jutila, both 21, were found leaning from a barred window as officers were alerted. Keith faces trial Monday for the July 24 1984 slaying of Fred Griest in a robbery. he previously received the death penalty but won a new trial. Jutila is awaiting trial in the death of Mrs. James Tobin slain last May in a claimed fit of passion.
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Warren
Frank Sexton
Leroy Keith
Ray Jutila
Jutila
Keith
Fred Griest
James Tobin
Marion pension clerk position called political football
Mrs Lucy Scofield of Marion, a Republican, charged the Marion County Pension Board job was turned into a political football. She said she ranked first on a list of three nominees sent to Henry Berrodin, but Lulu B Arnold, a Democrat who was second, received the post.
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Columbus
Lucy Scofield
Marion
Marion County Pension Board
Scofield
Henry J. Berrodin
Old Age Pension Division
Lulu B Arnold
Steel Industry Operating at Five Year High in October
New York authorities report steel plants ran at 51.8 percent of capacity this week, the highest October level since 1930, suggesting continued gains in employment and payrolls as industry activity rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Tron & Steel Institute
Ohio officials push for a state department of justice
H G Robinson head of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation urged creating a state department of justice. He criticized parole boards and noted crime costs while recounting bureau moves and calls for consolidation with other state bureaus. The Ohio State Protective Association held its annual convention at the Hotel Berry with officers reelected.
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H. G. Robinson
Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation
London
State Department of Justice
Ohio State Protective Association
Hotel Berry
Ed R. Wyant
Springfield
Raymond Marker
Versailles
C. E. Beery
Canal Winchester
Orval Good
Fostoria
J. C. Katherman
Bradford
Will McGrew
Columbus
A. L. Dodson
G. L. Tuman
Green Springs
John Joseph
Katherman
Dodson
Berry
Robinson
Ohio
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Painter, Former Trust Stockholder, in Jail
Kenyon V. Painter once a Union Trust stockholder owes the bank about 2.3 million and rests in County Jail hospital ward. He surrendered Tuesday night to start a 40 day contempt sentence after last June’s deceitful asset inquiry ruling. The Ohio Supreme Court refused his appeal.
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Cleveland
Kenyon V. Painter
Union Trust Company
Painter
Ohio Supreme Court
Three Enter Race for Congressman at Large
Three men entered the race to succeed the late Charles Truax as Ohio’s congressman at large. John McSweeney former state welfare director announced his candidacy in Mt. Vernon Tuesday night and listed himself as a Roosevelt supporter. George Bender and Raymond Jeffreys Republicans from Cleveland also announced their candidacies.
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Columbus
Charles Truax
Ohio
John McSweeney
Mt. Vernon
Roosevelt
George Bender
Raymond Jeffreys
Cleveland
Truce Called in Strike After Two Are Killed
LAKE CHARLES LA PA truce was called today in the International Longshoremen strike after a pitched battle in which two men were killed and eight wounded. The bloodshed Tuesday followed a clash between pickets and special officers guarding the waterfront. Washington authorities reduced by 462000 today an approximate 3500000 allotment for a lock and dam system on the Kanawha River tributary of the Ohio.
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Lake Charles
International Longshoremen & Strike
Washington
Kanawha River
Ohio
Lightning Kills Farmer Ben Bauer in Barn doorway
A lightning strike killed farmer Ben Bauer, age 4, as he stood in the doorway of a barn near Bucyrus. The tragedy occurred during a storm, authorities said, with no other injuries reported.
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Bucyrus
Ben Bauer
Ohio Budget Clash Deepens Over 14 Million in Cuts
Ohio House Finance Committee invites State Survey help to revise the biennial budget. Governor Davey vetoes total 8.8 million with restorations around 927 thousand, while survey recommendations push for 14 million in economies. Critics call the survey a stench though the governor supports workable cuts. Senate and House delay action during a five minute recess as tensions rise.
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Columbus
House Finance Committee
Ohio
Davey
Finance Committee
Margaret Allman
Logan
Julian W. Schweller
D. Putnam
House
Senate
Tire Workers Poll Plan at Goodyear Akron Plant
Goodyear Tire workers press ahead with plans to poll employees on adopting a six hour day despite a warning from president P W Litchfield. Company says eight hour shifts return is already in effect at one Akron plant. United States Department of Labor involvement possible if the request is refused. Goodyear local of United Rubber Workers meets on Thursday to decide next steps. This signals a rare split between management and the workers group.
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Akron
P. W. Litchfield
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Employes Industrial Assembly
Litchfield
United States Department of Labor
Goodyear
United Rubber Workers of America
American Federation of Labor
Assembly
Explosion in Lanchow store of ammunition kills hundreds
SHANGHAI. Hundreds of persons were believed killed and many homes destroyed when a huge store of explosives and ammunition stored in Lanchow, Kansu Province for the anti Communist campaign blew up last Sunday, it was reported here today.
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Shanghai
Lanchow
Kansu
Derby Figure Faces Murder Trial in Louisville Case
In Louisville Kentucky authorities pursue Willie Smoky Saunders twenty who rode Omaha to victory in the 1935 Kentucky Derby. The jockey is tentatively identified as a member of the party connected to the brutal killing of Mrs Evelyn Silwinski.
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Ula
Evelyn Silwinski
Louisville
Willie
Smoky’ Saunders
Omaha
Jockey Believed Linked to Marion Car Sale in Slain Woman Case
Lexington report says jockey Willie Saunders, sought for questioning in the Evelyn Sliwinski death, left for Louisville after talks with a Lexington attorney. Police cite a junk dealer description matching Saunders among three men who sold a 1920 sedan with Tennessee plates for $25 in Marion, with two men later boarding a bus to Baltimore.
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Lexington
Willlie Saunders
Evelyn Givens Sliwinski
Louisville
Marion
Ora de Wees
Willie Saunders
Baltimore
Saunders
Evelyn Sliwinski
de Wees
Tennessee
Utilities Commission approves Southern Ohio bond issues
The Utilities Commission in Columbus authorized the Columbus Railway Power and Light Co to issue 26 million dollars in four percent bonds due 1965 and Southern Ohio Electric Co to issue 5 million dollars in five percent bonds due 1985. Proceeds will retire obligations and reimburse treasuries for capitalized extensions validated by the commission.
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Columbus
Columbus Railway, Power & Light Company
The
Utilities Commission
Southern Ohio Electric Company
Southern Ohio
Commission
Violets Picked Mark Cold Tuesday In Painesville
In Painesville Ohio Mrs Mae Kintner displayed a large bouquet of violets she picked Tuesday as colder weather settled over northern Ohio.
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Painesville
Ohio
Mae Kintner
Thieves Loot Luckoff Store Office and Dentist Suite
Thieves pried open a second story window at Luckoff Store on South Court Street and looted the store office and Dr. W W Lee dentistry office above it. Losses tallied to about 8500 with seven sets of silverware and 12 watches taken. a check found nothing missing later and fingerprints were taken by authorities.
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Luckoff, Inc
Luckoff
South Court Street
Dr. W. W. Lee
Dr. Lee
Charles Stratton
Rolland Ruth
H. C. Robinson
State Bureau of Criminal Identfication and Investigation
Athens
Ohio State Protective Association
Herman Luckoff
Jimmy
Dentistry
W. E. Peters
Slayer Suspect Hangs Himself in County Jail
NEWARK Walter B Robertson aged 61 charged with clubbing to death his sweetheart of years hanged himself in his county jail cell early today. Sheriff deputy John Widridh found Robertson's neck tied in a blanket from a cell bar. He was held on a first degree murder charge for killing Miss Della Crottinger neighbors on farms in Licking County.
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Newark
Walter B. Robertson
John Widridh
Robertson
Della Crottinger
Licking County
L. D. Hague
Centerbury
Appeals Court Upholds Ohio Sales Tax Law
Akron nine district court of appeals upholds Ohio sales tax statute as constitutional in injunction suit by Michael L. Fox president of Summit Growers Market seeking to strike it down.
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Appeals
Ohio
Akron
Ninth District Court of Appeals
Michael L. Fox
Summit Growers Market
20000 Ethiopians Prepare for North Front Defense Against Italians
Addis Ababa reports 20000 Ethiopian warriors readying to march to the northern front as a requisitioning commission seeks 50000 silver thalers to fund commandeered goods. Italian casualties, water shortages, and desert tribes affect Middle Massa Ali area. Royal authorities share plans to redistribute Ras Haile Selassie Gugsa estates and expand Red Cross relief with foreign doctors joining local efforts.
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Mount
Ras Haile Selassie Gugsa
Makale
Aduwa
Galeazzo Clano
II Duce
Adigrat
Haile Selassie
Ogaden
Rodolfo Graziana
Graziani
Ras Desta Demtu
Webhe Shibeli
Cobb Observes Roosevelt Boys Missing From News
In Santa Monica Irving Corr notes front pages lack any mention of the Roosevelt sons this past weekend. He mocks sensational headlines and suggests the presidential brood avoid traffic trouble, implying the news cycle favors dramatic events over ordinary youth.
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Cobb
Roosevelt
Santa Monica
Calif
Irving Corr
Automobile Inferno Ends Gangster Louis Amberg
In New York early today Louis Amberg was found dead, chained in a burlap hood with an ax-battered skull, after assailants poured gasoline over him and burned the body in a car. Investigators tied the slaying to gangland feuds over rackets in East New York as part of a widening feud that has already claimed Amberg’s brother Joseph and his chauffeur Morris Kessler.
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New York
Louis Amberg
Amberg
Louis
Joseph
Morris Kessler
Brooklyn
Brownaville
Frank Teitelbaum
Brooklyn Bridge
Joseph Amberg
Sixty Districts Join Fight Over Road Bond Refunding Law
Springfield reports that sixty counties are in a test of constitutionality of the Lawrence-Armbruster road bond refunder law. Judge Golded C Davin allowed five more counties to join the court challenge. Clark County prosecutor Orville Wear secured an injunction blocking county commissioners from enforcing provisions of the statute. He argues seventy counties would lose automobile license fees surpassing retirement needs for road bonds, a contention backed by fifty other counties.
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Springfield
Lawrence-Armbruster
Common Pleas
Golded C. Davin
Orville Wear
Clark County
19 Year Old Negro To Die in Chair Tonight
Theodore Blackman aged 19, Cincinnati Negro, is to be executed by electric chair tonight for the murder of a filling station attendant Charlies Boyd and his wife during a robbery. Governor Davey declined to intervene. Blackman admitted killing the attendant but claimed Boyd shot his wife accidentally.
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Columbus
Theodore Blackman
Cincinnati
Davey
Charlies Boyd
Boyd
Carbondale Man Injures Self In Shotgun Wound
Carl Frank of Ten Spot Ridge near Carbondale attempted suicide Tuesday night by placing a .16 gauge shotgun to his chest and firing. He survived with a flesh wound beneath his right arm. Frank, married with six children, manages Birch Hollow picnic grove. No motive was learned.
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Carbondale
Carl Frank
Ten Spot Ridge
Here
St. Anthony's Hospital
Columbus
Frank
Birch Hollow
Peace talks and pacific moves brighten Ethiopian war outlook
British, French, and Italian discussions edge toward a settlement of the East Africa conflict. Hoare’s House of Commons speech renews pacific efforts while Laval presses for minimal terms. US exports to Italy rise but weapons trade stays low. Ethiopian fronts show mixed progress as rains slow Italian advances.
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Italy
Ethiopia
Paris
London
Rome
Pacific
Samuel Hoare
House of Commons
Pierre Laval
France
Laval
Mignolini
Haile Selassie
League of Nations
Conservancy Fund Release Delayed by State Board Action
Columbus report says the Muskingum Conservancy District fund release of 175000 is on hold awaiting State Control Board reaction to directors’ statement. Board seeks assurance the full 2000000 total fund will be requested from the state. remaining funds have already been released.
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Columbus
Muskingum
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Trushell
Ald
Foniven
Seneca County
Chindis
Lnsoberness
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House Committee
Tire
Europe
Southern
Violets
Luckoff Store
North Front
James A. Mills
Associated
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Danakil
Eritrea
Gugsa
Red Cross
Ities
King of Kings
Euaperul
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Associated Press
United States
Department of Commere
Emilio de Bono
Harar
Dessye
1 Duce
Geneva
Yugoslavia
Stanley Baldwin
Conservancy
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