Landon calls for cross party fight against New Deal
Oklahoma City dispatch reports Gov Alf Landon urging real Democrats to oppose Roosevelt and the New Deal. He condemns Washington's administration as not Democratic and faults WPA funds for states including Oklahoma. He lists anti New Deal leaders who align with him and warns of party fault lines affecting the vote.
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Oklahoma City
Alf M. Landon
Washington
Alfred E. Smith
William H. Murray
Joseph B. Ely
Lewis W. Douglas
Landon
Oklahoma
Murray
Roosevelt
Fascist Smith Beaten After Radio Speech in New Orleans
Gerald L. K. Smith, a self styled fascist leader and ex preacher, was assaulted by three men during a broadcast at Station WSDU in New Orleans. He said he was struck in the face and stomach but suffered no serious injuries. Studio staff stopped the attack and the assailants fled. He blamed the attack on government affiliated workers.
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New Orleans
U.P
Gerald L. K. Smith
Huey P. Long
Townsend Old Age Pension Movement
Union Party
WSDU
Stream Pollution Down After Mine Sealing in Ohio
WPA workers sealed more than 13 000 abandoned mine openings across Ohio to curb seepage pollution. State health engineer B F Hatch noted tests show one eighth of pollution eliminated in seven streams. Ohio River acidity, fed by local streams, has risen for years. In Athens County 2500 openings sealed, in Hocking 2000, in Meigs 1500, with 10000 remaining.
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State Health Department
Columbus
Ohio
WPA
B. F. Hatch
Athens County
Hocking County
Meigs County
Athens
Vinton
Gallia
Meigs
Columbiana
Guernsey
Hocking
Corning
Sunday Creek
Wife of Governor To Speak in Nelsonville
Ohio's first lady Mrs. Martin L. Davey will attend a dinner and reception in Nelsonville hosted by the Democratic Women's Clubs of Athens County. The event at First Christian Church begins with dinner at 6 PM and will feature brief remarks by Mrs. Davey and Miss Gertrude Fortune before the reception.
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Nelsonville
Ohio
Martin L. Davey
Democratic Women's Clubs
Athens County
First Christian Church
Fort St
Davey
Gertrude Fortune
Russia Demands Right To Sell Spanish Arms
In London Russia informed the International Committee on Non Intervention in Spain that the non intervention pact has ceased in practice to exist. It demanded the Madrid government be given the right to purchase arms outside Spain and that participants be authorized to sell or withhold sales to Spain at their discretion.
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London
Russia
International Committee On Non- Intervention
Spain
Madrid
Dayton Masonic Lodge Elects New Grand Master
J Phillip Perry of Jefferson succeeds Dr E R Arn of Dayton as grand master of the Ohio Masonic Lodge during the 127th annual communication held in Dayton yesterday.
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Dayton
U.P
J. Phillip Perry
Jefferson
E. R. Arn
Ohio Masonic Lodge
Hit-Skip Truck Driver Injures Man at Logan
Carl Gruner aged about 43 of near Enterprise was seriously injured this morning on W Hunter St when struck by a red coal truck that stopped briefly then fled. He was taken to Cherrington Hospital with a crushed left hip a fractured pelvis and internal injuries as police search for the driver.
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Gruner
Enterprise
W. Hunter St
Cherrington Hospital
Hocking County
Gas Is Called Humane War Weapon by Army Officers
At a New York Academy of Medicine address 600 physicians heard Col Adelno Gibson and Major Samuel White Pan chemical warfare as a humane tool. They said gas causes far fewer deaths than bullets, with only about two percent of World War I casualties dying from gas, versus 24 percent from other battle injuries.
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NEW York
U.P
Academy of Medicine
Adelno Gibson
Chemical Warfare Service
Samuel A. White
Army Medical Corps
Gibson
Strategy in Pension Bill Probe Sparks Republican Charge
Rep Samuel L Collins of California accused the Roosevelt Administration of fueling the Townsend Old Age Pension Plan probe for political ends. He said the investigation was designed to disrupt the Townsend movement and avert embarrassment for Democratic members facing reelection.
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Santa Ana
Calif
U.P
Samuel L. Collins
California
Townsend Old Age Pension Plan
Congress
Union Teachers Seek Board Representation
In Cleveland the North western Ohio Teachers' Association opened a two day meeting as union leaders push for representation on the executive board. President Michael J. Eck announced plans to circulate 10 000 petitions among 17 000 delegates to challenge principal and superintendent dominance.
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Cleveland
U.P
Northwestern Ohio Teachers’ Association
Michael J. Eck
Teachers’ Union
Car Plunges From Bridge to Railroad Track. Three Die
In Cresson Pennsylvania three Johns town men are killed when their car drops 65 feet from a bridge into a Pennsylvania railroad freight train. The crash leaves the occupants trapped, and the vehicle was dragged about three yards after impact.
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Cresson
U.P
Johnstown
Pennsylvania Railroad
Shirley Temple Forced to Quit Film Work Due to Illness
Hollywood dispatch reports child star Shirley Temple fainted amid a severe cold and was unable to continue work on a picture. Production halted as she rests and recuperates under medical care.
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Hollywood
U.P
Shirley Temple
Girls Freed From Milk Theft Case in Sherborn
Three motherless Lowell girls pardoned after serving 52 days of a 14 month to five year sentence for stealing two quarts of milk. They testified they were hungry after a party and took the milk while en route home from a doorway.
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Sherborn
Mass
U.P
Lowell
Sherborn Reformatory
Senator James Couzens Dies After Surgery
DETROIT Michigan and the nation mourn the death of Senator James Couzens at 4 25 p m after a surgical operation He was 64 a philanthropist and industrialist who left his sick bed to dine with President Roosevelt recently His bid for a third term was rejected by Michigan voters in favor of former Governor Wilber M Brucker
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Detroit
Michigan
Nation
James Couzens
Couzens
Harper Hospital
Roosevelt
Congress
Wilber M. Brucker
Jim Couzens
Ford Motor Cam
Rumer Yaw
Pontiac
Mr. Yaw
Glouster
Ohio
Baptist Divine Dies in Pulpit on Baptist Convention
The Rev. G. C. Greenoe of Trenton Missouri died of a heart attack on a speakers platform during a state Baptist convention in Kansas City. He collapsed while delivering the closing address to about 500 attendees. physicians said his vigor in urging a crusade against sin may have contributed to his death. His wife assisted as doctors worked to revive him and the meeting adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
U.P
G. C. Greenoe
Trenton
Greenoe
W. E. Denham
Chauncey Civil War Veteran Dies at 93
Chauncey resident and Civil War veteran Adam Platt, father of 14, died at a son's home near The Plains aged 93. Funeral services are set for Saturday at 10 a.m. from the M. E. Church with burial in Chauncey Cemetery. He is survived by one son and four daughters. wife and nine children preceded him.
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Chauncey
Adam Platt
Mill St
Plains
M. E
Chauncey Cemetery
Chim
Forbid Maine Relief Clients To Cast Ballot
Senate campaign expenditures committee reports thousands of Maine voters threatened with disqualification for relief assistance. Officials claim an attorney general opinion held relief recipients as paupers under prior law, despite a 1933 revision shielding them from pauper status.
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Maine
Washington
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Clyde R. Chapman
State Attorney General
Senate
Murray City Woman Dies After Stroke
NELSONVILLE Mrs. Sarah Shelton wife of James M Shelton and mother of 13 died Thursday night at the family home in Murray City after a stroke of paralysis. The family has lived in Murray City 33 years and would have celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary on January 19. Surviving children include Bessie McLain Toledo Edgar Detroit Jesse San Francisco Virgil Detroit Mary McClellan Glouster Paul Mark Pontiac Mich Mrs Aileen Oakley Detroit Marjorie Kirkendall Buchtel Seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Two children Cora Matthews and Margaret Shelton preceded her in death.
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Nelsonville
Sarah Shelton
James M. Shelton
Murray City
Shelton
Bessie McLain
Toledo
Edgar
Detroit
Jesse
San Francisco
Virgil
Mary McClellan
Glouster
Paul
Mark
Pontiac
Mich
Aileen Oakley
Marjorie Kirkendall
Buchtel
Cora Matthews
Margaret Shelton
Former Meigs Resident Dies in Auto Accident
Alvin Henderson age 32 son of the late Charles Henderson of Portland Meigs County was killed in an automobile crash in Parkersburg West Virginia Thursday He was a teacher in Parkersburg Funeral services will be held in Parkersburg Sunday
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Gallipolis
Alvin Henderson
Charles Henderson
Portland
Meigs County
Parkersburg
W. Va
Henderson
Henry Kerns
Cedar St
Farm auctioneer Milo Lybarger Dies From Car Crash Injuries
Milo Lybarger age 67 farm auctioneer died Thursday from injuries after an automobile accident. He was returning home from visiting his brother who had been injured in a collision.
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Bowling Green
Milo Lybarger
Last Victim of N C Electric Chair Spared
Parole Commissioner Edwin M. Gill, awaiting a governor call in Hillsboro, learns that a reprieve for Coun try John Pressley, on Death Row for a dice game killing, delays the execution until November 13. Gill, tense in a Raleigh hotel, receives conflicting new evidence and finally relays the reprieve to Warden Honeycutt before leaving for air.
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Raleigh
N. C
John” Pressley
Bessemer City
North Carolina
Edwin M. Gill
J. C. B. Ehringhaus
Hillsboro
Ohio
Gill
Pressley
John Pressley
H. H. Honeycutt
State Prison
Madrid Food Supply Periled By Insurgents
Madrid faces a nationalists threat as militiamen surge into the Aranjuez area south of the capital. Officials fear an assault to seize the railroad to the east coast, potentially starving Madrid and cutting its main supply routes. Rail service has been curtailed to guard against air raids and allow repairs.
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Madrid
U.P
Aranjuez
Valencia
Roosevelt eyes final campaign push in a driving finish
President Roosevelt returns from New England tour buoyed by warm receptions in Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut. He plans a radio address to business leaders and two New York speeches next week with a Statue of Liberty anniversary ceremony on the 28th ahead as a major campaign speech.
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Washington
U.R
Roosevelt
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
Logan Man Sent to Pen for Non-Support
Clyde Nixon appeared before Judge Phil A. Henderson on a non support charge and was sentenced to the Ohio penitentiary. The history notes a 1954 court order requiring 8 dollars weekly support for two minor children, which Nixon failed to honor, with prosecutors showing he was financially able to pay.
Norwalk Rubber Plant's Indefinite Closure Announced
Norwalk Maple City Rubber Company plant will be closed indefinitely, announced today by Prosecutor Rex F Bracy amid a strike since September 28. A statement from nonretaker Oscar Prestley says 23 of 40 workers are willing to return while 17 remain unsatisfied with plant conditions.
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Norwalk-Au
Maple City Rubber Company
Rex F. Bracy
Oscar Prestley
Smith Attacks Roosevelt Finances in Chicago Speech
Alf M. Smith, 1928 Democratic nominee, told 3,600 at the Civic Opera House that the Roosevelt administration has driven the government toward the poorhouse via excessive spending and bureaucracy. He warned of mounting debt and urged voters to back Landon.
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United Press
Chicago
Roosevelt
Alffred E. Smith
Smith
Civic Opera House
Alf M. Landon
New York
Albany
Mr. Roosevelt
National Finance
Train Under Fire Near Alexandria Amid Strike Violence
A volley of shots hit a Louisiana and Arkansas passenger train near Alexandria during a strike by 500 union workers. One bullet shattered a Pullman window narrowly missing a sleeping passenger, with several others striking day coach sides.
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New Orleans
U.P
Louisiana and Arkansas
Alexandria
Alaskan Towns Shaken by Severe Quakes Across State
Anchorage Fairbanks and other Alaska towns were jolted by a violent earthquake Thursday night. It weakened toward midnight with no deaths or injuries reported. Property damage appeared minor though homes and businesses were unsettled and windows shattered. Separately funeral services were planned for three gas stove fume deaths including Mrs Milton L Nelson and relatives.
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Anchorage
Alaska
U,p
Fairbanks
Seward
Bowling Green
Milton L. Nelson
Nelson
Helen Cheneworth
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