Piccard Injured in Balloon Landing Adventure
Swiss scientist Dr. Jean Piccard and his wife Jeanette endured a rough landing in hilly Appalachian terrain after a high altitude ascent. The pair, aboard a large gas gondola, escaped serious injury though Jeanette sustained scratches while investigators and air experts assess instruments and the fragile craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobb
Jean Piccard
Scratchedette Piccard
The
Sciea
Stratospherist
Ford Alrrborn
Mich
Lake
Chicago World's Fair progress and attendance projections
The report notes the upcoming Chicago World's Fair closing within a week, with gates closing mid October. It cites 38 000 guests and 22 505 859 turnstiles last year, and mentions a 1994 visitor impact and Burnham Park improvements. It also references a $119 million bond issue and payments to bondholders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Y of Progress
Midt i
Offensive vessels demand shapes naval talks in London
Washington seeks to press for construction of offensive warships while three powers insist on a defensive role under the current naval talks in London. The latest disclosures outline positions on cruisers destroyers and lines of action in the ongoing negotiation. In Chillicothe Marshall A. closes a 46 year business after illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wngton
Get
London
Chillicothe
Marshall
Fee
Southeast Ohio Education Meeting Opens Thursday
More than 1,500 educators gather in Athens for the Southeastern Ohio Education Association meetings starting Thursday night and running through Friday night. Three general sessions occur in Memorial Auditorium with 21 sectional meetings Friday afternoon. The event features talks by Dr. Stockdale and Dr. Roberts on education and media, plus Friday night remarks by Clarence Brown and Charles West. Public attendance is open, with events including a parent teacher session and an All Southeastern Ohio High School Band concert Friday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Southeastern Ohio Education Association
Ohio University-Marshall
Ohio University Memorial Auditorium
First Christian Church
Hotel Berry
Allen A. Stockdale
First Congregational Church
Washington, D. C
Lydia Roberts
University of Chicago
Roberts
Public Health Agency
Stockdale
James H. Richmond
Kentucky
David Wulf Anderson
Indianapolis
George Washington
D. Oberteuffer
Ohio State University
Clarence J. Brown
Charles West
Ellis Halis
the Messenger
All Southeastern Ohio High School
Memorial Auditorium
Chubb Library
Flying Britons Run Express in California Race
Will Rogers praises the English aviators Turner and Pangborn who won a two motor flight race in California, noting Dutch contenders waited and highlighting Wiley Post and Brisbane as notable figures in aviation chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sonora
Calif
Express
Wiley Post
Oklahoma
Douglas
Turner
Pangborn
Brisbane
Japan
California
Will Rogers
Ohio Campaigns Heat Up Over New Deal Front
In Columbus on October 24 Republicans attack the Roosevelt New Deal while Democrats push relief policy. Vic Donahey urges repayment of wartime debts. Martin L. Davey tours Ohio promising humane government. Clarence J. Brown counters that Republicans support relief and pledge full federal funds for Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Dover
Vic Donahey
United States
Europe
Senate
America
Martin L. Davey
Circleville
Clarence J. Brown
Youngstown
Fragmentary Medical Note From Patchy OCR
The text appears as incomplete notes about cures and remedies. It mentions a potato treatment for Paw and a pig’s tooth for healing, with garbled words suggesting a London tradesman and carpet worn. No coherent events or identities are clear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie
Ted
London
Bruno Hauptmann Plea and January Trial Date Set
Bruno Hauptmann entered a personal plea of not guilty to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping murder charge. Supreme Court Justice Thomas E. Trenchard set January 2, 1935 as the trial date in Flemington New Jersey. This marked his first direct plea in court since arrest on September 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flemington
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Supreme Court
Thomas E. Trenchard
Hauptmann
Supreme Court declares drunkenness indictable in Ohio
The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of Portsmouth Municipal Judge Horace L. Small, ruling drunkenness is an indictable offense. Small argued it was only a matter of misdemeanour and could be prosecuted in police or municipal court, but the court held otherwise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
State Supreme Court
Horace L. Small
Portsmouth
Scioto County
Common Pleas Court
Small
Cleveland pastor elected Lima
Oct 24 Rev Millard Breisford of Cleveland is the newly elected president of the Ohio Baptist convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Lima
Millard Breisford
Ohio Baptist Convention
Mexico Wars On Catholics
Mexico City reports show soldiers guarding schools as government moves to curb church power. Proposals to exile archbishops and bishops loom while several states have shuttered churches and expelled clergy. Bishops and priests face 72 hour departure deadlines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Mexico
National Revolutionary
Plutarco Flias Calies
Clarence J. Brown to Speak in Glouster
Clarence J. Brown nominee for governor will discuss schools and labor at a Public Square meeting in Glouster Friday night at 6. Congressman Thomas A. Jenkins will also speak. Brown's Athens appearance earlier that night prompted the Glouster start. An Albany Republican meeting follows Thursday at 7:30 with Verner E. Metcalf Dr. H. T. Phillips and Atty. John Woolley among speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence J. Brown
Glouster
Party
Thomas A. Jenkins
Brown
Athens
Southeastern Ohio Education Association
Albany
Verner E. Metcalf
Senate
H. T. Phillips
Atty
John Woolley
New mining venture launched in Gallia County
A new company to operate mines in Gallia County with capital stock of $10,000 was announced by the incorporators Judge H. W. Cherrington Thomas McCray L. P. Donley and C. A. Bowman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
H. W Cherrington
Thomas McCray
L. P. Donley
C. A. Bowman
Missouri to Get Custody of Richetti
Adam Richetti, companion of Pretty Boy Floyd, is to be turned over to Missouri authorities as soon as papers are ready. He faces charges for the killings of state trooper Ben Booth and Sheriff Roger Wilson, and is held on concealed weapons and attempted murder counts with a $50,000 bond. Floyd’s body was en route to Oklahoma for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lisbon
Adam Richetti
Floyd
Ohio
Department of Justice
Wellsville
Charlies
Pretty Boy
Columbia
George Lafferty
Wellaville
Richetti
Ben Booth
State Highway Patrol
Roger Wilson
Fultz
Beautician Claims Millionaire Estate Amid Secret Marriage
Nellie Stratton of Logan plans to press a widow’s claim to Louis R. Sweetland’s estate after attending his funeral in Hamlin. Sweetland, 75, Huntington banker and oil and gas operator, died of double pneumonia. Stratton says they wed secretly in Pikeville Ky., Feb. 24, and a license for Nellie Stratton and L F Sweetland was issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Louis R. Sweetland
Nellie Stratton
Logan
Hamlin
Lincoln County
Sweetland
Lincoln National Bank
Sweetlands
L. F Sweetland
Oral Lowe
Pikeville
Trial postponement in Stoll kidnapping case near November
Louisville report says the Frances Robinson trial likely postponed to at least November 5 as lawyers await a ruling on bringing Thomas H. Robinson Sr to stand trial with her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Frances Robinson
Stoll
Thomas H. Robinson, Sr
Demand for Cash Bonus Seen Today
The American Legion Legislative Committee recommends immediate cash payment of the soldier bonus at face value. The move aims to boost circulation and reduce unemployment by releasing funds into the economy. The convention, to be held in St Louis in 1955, will consider the proposal along with other agenda items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
American Legion Legislative Committee
Associated Press
Legislative Committee
St. Louis
32 Injured as Night Flyer Leaves Tracks
Thirty two people were injured, none seriously, when eight cars of the Cincinnati Night Express derailed a mile south of Earl Park, Indiana. One car was hurled across U S Highway 41, blocking traffic on the arterial road south of Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Night Flyer
U. S. Highway 41
Chicago
Township Trustees to Pay Rent for Indigent Families
Ohio officials advise county aid for emergencies while clarifying liability for county vehicle drivers. Attorney General Bricker says trustees may cover temporary house rent under extraordinary circumstances though counties are not liable for all damages caused by county owned motor vehicles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
John W. Bricker
State Relief Commission
Stark County
Bricker
Mable, Bricker
Clyde Phipps Sentenced to Life for Gas Station Manager Murder
Portsmoth report details Clyde Phipps aged 19 receiving a life term in Ohio Penitentiary with no parole for the murder of Harry Campbell, a gasoline filling station manager. The sentence underscores a severe punishment in a fatal crime case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Clyde Phipps
Ohio
Harry Campbell
Odds Three to One Against Marriage of Miss McAdoo
Ellen Wilson McAdoo daughter of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo and Rafael Lopez De Onate 38 year old actor face opposition from three sides. Mrs Eleanor Wilson McAdoo announces there are no marriage plans now. Riverside license delayed pending proof of Geucasian ancestry for De Onate despite his claim of Spanish heritage.
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Hollywood
Ellen Wilson MccAdoo
United States
William Gibbs McAdoo
Rafael Lopez de Onate
Eleanor Wilson McAdoo
McAdoo
Woodrow Wilson
Riverside
de Onate
Bankers Urged to Lend Freely Amid Relief Debate
Cincinnati Oct. 24 Henry L Harriman president of the United States Chamber of Commerce urged a five point revision of the NRA favoring direct relief in cash food or clothing He warned about market demand for power from CWA and PWA projects and called for decentralization of workers to homes with land and larger village communities to improve social conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
NRA
Henry L. Harriman
United States Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Commercial Organization
New Textile Strikes Seen In Ten Days
Francis J. Gorman of the United Textile Workers warned of a wave of local strikes in the Southern textile industry within ten days. He said the emergency committee would meet in New York to act on strike sanction requests while denying a new general strike. Masked by last minute efforts, a 20 000 silk and rayon dyers strike loomed for midnight. In Paterson New Jersey area and Roanoke Rapids North Carolina cotton mills workers prepared to walk out on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
South
Francis J. Gorman
United Textile Workers
Paterson
N. J
Roanoke Rapids
N. C
Students form 140 piece band for teachers concert
A 140 student band from 16 high schools will perform Friday at Ohio University Memorial Auditorium for the Southeastern Ohio Education Association meeting. Directed by Henr Schwab of Portsmouth, the group will rehearse at Athens High School Friday morning and includes Athens and nearby districts. The program features His Honor, Santa pi el Over ture, Marchena, American Patrol, Morning Noon and Night in Vienna, Semper Fidelis, and The Star Spangled Banner. Athens High School selections include clarinetists Roger Welsh Richard Eddy Leonard Smith Carl Beasley Jane Parrett saxophonist Ruth Lewis Wendell Davidson trombone Arthur Michaels trumpet Lloyd Kelley drums Paul Lewis.
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Henri Schnabl
Portsmouth
Southeastern Ohio
Memorial Auditorium
Southeastern Ohio Education Association
Athens
Ohio University Memorial Auditorium
Henr Schwab
Athens High School
Amesville
Nelsonville
Lagen
Middleport
Coniton
Ironton
Jackson
Moxahala
New Strait
Kenneth H. Kay
Roger Welsh
Richard Eddy
Leonard Smith
Carl Beasley
Jane Parrett
Ruth Lewis
Wendell Davidson
Arthur Michaels
Lloyd Kelley
Paul Lewis
Weirton Steel Calls Character Witnesses
Four nationally known industrialists testified for Weirton Steel Company's employee representation plan in a federal court case. Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel testified the plan has reduced labor trouble at his plant, supporting the Weirton proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
Weirton Steel Company
Eugene Grace
Bethlehem Steel Company
Tornado Toll Rises In Marysville Camp Destruction
A Marysville tornado killed three people and left one missing while injuring 16 others, with 12 seriously hurt. Rescue crews surveyed about $300,000 in damage to homes, buildings, and a Veterans' Conservation Camp as the storm carved a mile long three block wide path. Barracks were toppled and hurled, two lifted from foundations and dumped 120 feet away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marysville
Veterans’ Conservation Corp
Vacant Home Burns At Racine Today
Two story frame house owned by Everett Hartley was destroyed by fire this morning. It had been occupied until a week ago by George Smith and has been vacant since. Hartley planned to move in Thursday. Cause of the blaze was not determined. Nothing was saved from the building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Everett Hartley
George Smith
Relief Bonds Authorized for Four Ohio Counties
The state relief commission authorized Meigs County and three others to issue and sell a total of 57,907 in relief bonds. Morgan 17,000 Warren 14,200 Meigs 6,60 Wyandot 15,000 will be retired from the state selective sales tax fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
State Relief Commission
Morgan
Warren
Meigs
Wyandot
State Liquor Store Robbed by Holdup Man
A holdup man robbed a Findlay state liquor store of 100 dollars shortly before closing. The bandit, described as well dressed and about six feet, displayed a gun and ordered manager Harry Frost to serve a woman customer without disclosing the hold up. The woman entered, Frost complied, and the bandit took the cash and fled.
Southwestern Ohio Teachers Gather for Annual Sessions
Five thousand school teachers from nine nearby counties gather in Cincinnati for the Southwestern Ohio Teachers' Association annual sessions on Friday and Saturday, beginning October 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bankers urged to liberalize loans at American Bankers meeting
Roosevelt administration pressed lenders to extend credit more freely even to loans they would not ordinarily make. RFC chairman Jeane H. Jones urged reductions in bank examinations to one year and called for looser credit and mortgage refinancing via government funds. He warned of concentrated power and suggested decentralizing credit control and examining interlocking directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Jease H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
American Bankers Association
Jones
Fork Country
Moet
Tas
Congress
RFC
Hearings Set on Western Union Postal Telegraph Merger
Federal Communications Commission orders hearings for December 3 on the advisability of consolidating the Western Union and Postal Telegraph systems. The inquiry may consider merging all telegraph companies and follows a directive to propose amendments to communications law by February 1, 1985. The issue ranks high in the Roosevelt era interdepartmental study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oct
Western Union
Postal Telegraph
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
Roosevelt
Tugwell Sees New Deal in All Trade
Rexford G. Tugwell, under secretary of agriculture, argued that cut-throat international trade could be eliminated as domestic trade is abolished, in a talk to the International Institute of Agriculture with leading agricultural economists present. He did not use the term planned economy but urged a broader system of economic planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Rexford G. Tugwell
United States
International Institute of Agriculture
Tugwell
Corporation Saved From Death by Gas
Velma Gresham, who tried to fund a movie career by incorporating Velma, Inc. and selling stock, is recovering after being rescued from a gas-filled Hollywood apartment. She capitalized herself for $20,000 and faced a dividendless venture but says she did not want to end her life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Velma Gresham
Miss Gresham
Memphis
Tenn
Velma, Inc
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Stern Ohio
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Ess
W. F. G. Swann
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Jeanette
Burnham Park
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G. O. P. Pounds
New Deal
Donahey, Davey
Mealy
Useum
Bruno
NEW Gallia Mine Firm
Missouri
Purvis
Federal Department of Justice
Melvin Purvis
Justice Department
Bureau of Investigation
Sallissaw
Okla
Akins
Sallisaw
Beautician
Ellen Conkle
Columbiana County
Miss McAdoo
William H. Neblett
Ellen
Head
CWA
PWA
REAL
Gorman
Ohio University
Orial Auditorium
Weirton Steel
Twister
Coc Camp
Meigs County
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