Charges Possible In Collision of Steamers Off Boston Harbor
Federal and state investigators moved to press charges after the collision of the steamers Romance and New York near Boston Harbor. The Romance sank in 66 feet of water with 159 passengers aboard while the New York, carrying 300 passengers and 125 crew, returned to Boston after the crash. Captain Wickens faced earlier hearings on negligence and recklessness. The Coast Guard and Cape Cod Steamship Company disputed the charges amid a dense fog and transfer of passengers to lifeboats.
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Boston Harbor
Boston
S. S. New York
New York
Providence
Adelbert C. Wickens
Wickens
U. S
Lancaster publisher buys Washington Record-Republican
R Kenneth Kerr publisher of the Lancaster Eagle Gazette and Logan Daily News announces the purchase of the Washington Record-Republican effective immediately.
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Lancaster
U.P
R. Kenneth Kerr
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Logan Daily News Today
Washington D. H. Record-Republican
Marietta Attorney Dies at 57
Marietta attorney Asa E Ward age 57 died here Wednesday from a heart attack. He practiced law in Marietta and was known in local legal circles. A funeral is pending.
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Marietta
U.p.asa
Ward
New Unofficial Poll Claims Astronomical Exactness for Election
A manager touts a nationwide unofficial poll that will allegedly reveal the presidential winner with astronomical exactness. The claim is met with skepticism, noting politics lacks certainty and even ads in The Messenger rarely guarantee success.
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U. S
Messenger
Fr Coughlin Attacks Roosevelt On Campaign Swing
Father Charles E. Coughlin launched a speaking campaign in support of William Lemke amid Vatican censure. At a Detroit mass meeting of about 10,000 followers he pressed voters to oppose Roosevelt, accusing the president of fountain pen inflation and debt entanglement with banks.
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Detroit
U.P
Charles E. Coughlin
Vatican
William Lemke
Father Coughlin
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Coughlin
Urbana mayor restarts traffic signals after experiment
Urbana Mayor Dallas McCrery ended a 36 hour test by turning traffic signal lights back on. He had kept them dark to raise public awareness of traffic law violations and reported many protests during the blackout.
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Urbana
U.P
Dallas McCrery
Divorced Ten Years, Couple Re-Married in Wheeling
Ralph P. Frake of North Canton Ohio and his wife, both in their late forties and fifties, reunited after a ten year separation. They were divorced on incompatibility after 19 years of marriage and remarried in Wheeling on Wednesday, citing inability to live apart. They have several children.
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Wheeling
W. Va
U.P
Ralph P. Frake
North Canton
Frake
Ohio auto license fees rise to 21 million in 1935
The Motor Vehicle Bureau announced that Ohio car license revenue totaled 21,015,043 dollars in 1935, up 1,586,928 dollars or 8.17 percent from 1934.
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Columbus
U.P
Motor Vehicle Bureau
Loyalists Press Offensive Near Madrid Front
Loyalist forces struck the Talavera area southwest of Madrid pushing forward to take outlying eastern houses and link with northern lines, creating a 115 mile front around Madrid. In San Sebastian Basque guards deter anarchists as they patrol to stop fires amid hostage tensions, while attacks continue at Toledo, Oviedo, and Huesca.
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Gibraltar
U.P
Talavera
Madrid
San Sebastian
Toledo
Alcazar
Oviedo
Huescain
Missing Baby Reported Seen In Michigan Ohio Search
A 400 mile arc around the Michigan Ohio border becomes the focus of an exhaustive search for 20 month old Harry Browe believed kidnaped from a Detroit park last Saturday. Arlie Braman of the Detroit Detective Bureau says a Milan area gas station attendant identified Browe pictures as a baby seen in a car stopped there Wednesday morning.
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Detroit
IUP
Harry Browe
William Collins
Detroit Detective Bureau
Arlie Braman
Milan
Browe
Braman
Toledo
O. Frank Neff
Neff
Man Rescued After Leap From Steamer Washington
An elderly man leaped from the lower deck of the excursion steamer Washington at Pt Pleasant West Virginia during a moonlight trip carrying 89 passengers. Life preservers were thrown to him and he was rescued. he did not provide his name.
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Gallipolis
Washington
Pt. Pleasant, W
Landon Opens East Tour Aiming for Indiana Maine Wins
Gov Alf M Landon launches aggressive campaign forward with stops in Gary Valparaiso Plymouth and Fort Wayne Indiana and nine appearances across New England as he pushes to swing Indiana toward the Republicans before the Portland Me speech closing Maine’s political barometer and shaping strategies for farm belt states.
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Topeka
U.P
Alf M. Landon
Indiana
New England
Portland
Maine
Gary
Valparaiso
Plymouth
Fort Wayne
Roosevelt to Speak at Charlotte Rally in Green Pastures Theme
President Roosevelt arrives in Asheville after a mountain trip and will address 75 000 to 100 000 Democrats at Charlotte Municipal Stadium at 5 P.M. EST. He plans no active campaign until later this month with a Syracuse, New York speech planned before delegates to a world power conference.
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Charlotte
N. C
U.P
South
Roosevelt
Asheville
Tennessee
North Carolina
Charlotte Municipal Stadium
Washington
Syracuse
N. Y
Trail Blazer Nearing U S On Transatlantic Flight
The German flying boat Zephyr, traveling at slightly under 100 mph westward from the Azores toward New York, is expected to reach Port Washington tonight if its pace holds. It left Horta at 7 10 p m Wednesday night and is a 10 ton craft owned by Deutsche Lufthansa, a test flight for a proposed Atlantic service by Lufthansa Imperial Airways and Pan American Airways.
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New York
U.P
Zephyr
Atlantic
Azores
Pan American Wireless Station
Port Washington
N. Y
Commercial Ocean Service
Horta
Aeolus
Deutsche Lufthansa Company
Lufthansa
British Imperial Airways
Pan American Airways
Italian Government Cracks Down on Rome Based Communist Network
Rome reports the government uncovered and dismantled a large Communist organization with headquarters in Rome and branches in Leghorn and Grosseto. Some ringleaders allegedly held high posts in the Fascist party and all were arrested and confined in Regina Coeli Jail in Rome.
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Rome
U.P
Leghorn
Grosseto
Fascist
Regina Coeli
Bricker Speech at GOP Conclave Calls Tax Reforms
Highlights from Attorney General John W. Bricker speech in Mount Sterling. He favors repealing the sales tax on food and opposes gasoline tax increases. He proposes a future highway commission and condemns campaign fund sources, radio contracts, and exaggerated economy claims by Governor Davey.
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MT. Sterling
U.P
John W. Bricker
Davey
Poulson
Francis W. Poulson
White
Highway Department
Bricker
PWA funds allocated for Ohio University dormitory
Public Works Administration officials allocated 49 110 for a men dormitory at Ohio University. The 109 000 building would add 90 beds now, with plans for a 300 man quadrangle later. The grant is part of eight Ohio awards from 7 750 000 nationwide, using the 1936 fund amid conditions on WPA labor and skilled work requirements.
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Public Works Administration
Washington
Ohio University
Herman G. James
Thomas A. Jenkins
University
George C. Parks
PWA
Ohio
Roosevelt
WPA
Columbus
University Terrace
Pearl St
Poplar Ave
Hoover, Dailey
Memorial Auditorium
Chubb
Hamilton Says Dems Looking for Alibi
Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton said Democrats were preparing an alibi for an expected Republican victory in Maine next Monday. He claimed the Liberty League contributions were insignificant next to the Roosevelt administration’s millions spent in Maine for relief and propaganda.
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Cleveland
U.P
John D. M. Hamilton
American Liberty League
Maine
Liberty League
Ohio Gets $1 030 263 NYA Aid For Students
The National Youth Administration announces a three month allotment of 1 030 263 dollars to Ohio for student aid and regular work projects.
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Washington
U.P
National Youth Administration Today
Ohio
Eccentric's Estate Sold After 11 Year Wait
In Cleveland an 11 year vacancy ended with an auction of the estate of "Old Cap" David Shaw. The three story house in an exclusive area drew about 200 bidders while $1,565,000 worth of assets and seven thoroughbred horses were settled for heirs amid legal fees of roughly $150,000.
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Cleveland
U.P
David Shaw
Old Cap
Shaw
Cap
North Randall
Joan
Pacer
Prince Loree
Trotter
Peter Mac
Grace
Lillian R
Ohio taps liquor profit reserve to fund August pensions
Ohio dip into its surplus liquor profit fund for 500000 to complete August old age pension payments. State finance director M Ray Allison announced the release after earlier saying the fund would not be touched immediately. Average pension now 29.15, up from 15.14 last month, with 89824 recipients totaling 2257277 in August awards.
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Columbus-U
Ohio
M. Ray Allison
H. J. Berrodin
Division of Aid For
Davey
Berrodin
Ace Spanish Aviator Joins Franco Rebels
Major Ramon Franco, air attaché at the Spanish Embassy, announces he will join forces led by his brother Gen Francisco Franco. He says he would return to Spain to fly with the rebel air forces, a move tied to his earlier Madrid leaflet drop that helped ignite the republic overthrow.
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Washington
U.P
Ramon Franco
Spain
Francisco Franco
Franco
Madrid
New Deal Critics Crushed in Georgia Primary
In Atlanta Georgia the New Deal surge defeated Governor Eugene Talmadge and his ticket in the Democratic primary. Senator Richard Brussell Jr won the U S Senate nomination with the critics of the New Deal losing by more than two to one.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Richard Brussell, Jr
Eugene Talmadge
U. S. Senate
Talmadge
Loyalists Destroy Two Rebel Regiments Near Zaragoza
Loyalists announced they surrounded and destroyed two rebel regiments southeast of Zaragoza after crossing the river at night. They advanced behind an advance guard while rebels swam the stream through a stormy moonless night.
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Madrid
Zaragoza
Two Die In Odessa Crash Between Ada Hartmann And Harry Rudy
Ada Hartmann age 25 from Akron and 71 year old Odessa resettle ment worker Harry Rudy were killed when their automobile crashed into a tree near Odessa. Police said the crash occurred today and the victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
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Odessa
N. Y
U.ph
Ada Hartmann
Akron
Harry Rudy
Bricker Hits Davey in Mt Sterling Campaign Stop
Ohio GOP campaign opens in Mt Sterling with Attorney General John Bricker and ex Senator Henry Allen headlining. Bricker vows budget reform highway overhaul and end to political waste while opposing food sales tax repeal and opposing higher gas levies.
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MT. Sterling
John W. Bricker
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
Ohio
Madison County
Bricker
Withdraw U S Ships in Spain Move Orders Issued
Washington reports American warships will be withdrawn from Spanish waters to nearby European ports effective immediately. Secretary Hull said ships will not return to Spain unless specifically instructed to evacuate Americans or other nationals. State Department personnel in Spain are instructed to act at their discretion.
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Washington
U.P
Spain
Cordell Hull
Navy Department
State Department
Hull
$10,000 Bill Found On Jersey Sidewalk
Seabright New Jersey police seek the owner of a genuine 10 000 gold certificate bill found on a sidewalk by Mrs. William Worth who turned it over to a bank. Bank officials verified its authenticity and sent the receipt and bill to Washington.
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Jersey
Seabright
N. J
U.P
William Worth
Typhoid Hits Second Columbus Hospital Patient
Miss Dasela Stefani, 28, of Flushing Ohio, died at the Columbus State Hospital for the Insane during a typhoid fever epidemic. Superintendent Dr W H Pritchard reported 42 cases among inmates and said all are segregated with few likely new cases.
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Columbus
U.R
Dasela Stefani
Flushing
Columbus State Hospital For
de. W. H. Pritchard
D Zenner Co Assets Sold For 35100 In Bankruptcy Auction
Fred H. Uhlman of Bowling Green Ohio bid 35100 to acquire all assets of The D Zenner Co subject to Federal Court approval. The sale included merchandise fixtures and accounts receivable with bids for separate assets ranging up to 32550 for combinations before the winner was declared. About 50 merchants from New York Philadelphia Charleston and Ohio attended the auction conducted on the store floor.
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Fred H. Uhleman
Bowling Green
Ohio
Michigan
D. Zenner Co
Uhlman
O. C. Ingalls
Columbus
New York
Philadelphia
Charleston
W. Va
Empire Retailers of
M. W. Zentmeyere
Part of Man's Body Found Near Cleveland Run
A portion of a man's upper body was found today in Kingsbury Run Cleveland near the site of previous decapitation murders. The discovery lies close to locations where the mutilated remains of Edward Andrany, aged 28, and another unidentified man were found last September and where a headless young man was found last June.
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Cleveland
Kingsbury
Edward Andranay
James Hanged for Rattlesnake Murder of Seventh Wife
Robert James was sentenced to death by hanging for the so called rattlesnake murder of his seventh wife Mary. The case draws scrutiny over the alleged plot and the use of poison in the crime.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Robert
James
Mary
Red Army Air Corps Drops 1200 Soldiers Behind Foe
The Red Army Air Corps claims a world record for unit transport by parachute in Volga maneuvers. It says 1,200 soldiers, 150 machine guns and 18 cannon were dropped in eight minutes behind enemy lines for a surprise attack.
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Moscow
AU P
Red Army Air Corps
Volga
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