Morro Castle Radio Chief Testifies on Agitator Onboard
George W. Rogers chief radio operator of the Morro Castle tells investigators that George Alagna and another operator tried to foment discontent aboard by collecting protest signatures over food. He recalls Captain Willmott discussing Alagna and says drills were held weekly and a panic claim noted an awful mess. Alagna testified as a key witness in the probe into the disaster.
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New York
George W. Rogers
Morro Castle
George Alagna
Rogers
Alagna
Robert R. Willmott
Willmott
Karl C. Nielsen
Hoover
White House for Ohio Levy Debates Fiscal Crisis Plan
Gov White argues Ohio faces a fiscal crisis and bankruptcy risk without tax reforms. He opposes a state tax increase plan favored by the Tax Commission, insisting the 61 million dollar package is rejected by citizens who repudiated its terms. White says a special session will review amendments and a radio address warns action is needed to keep schools open.
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Gov- White
Ohio
Legistor
Gate Tax Commission
Tax Commission
County Shooting and Family Trial Rumors Persist
In Puzzles County a woman was shot at her home as investigators pursue the truth about the incident. The case involves Jesse O Bryans and Elias O Bryan with reports of missing youth Trey and questions about a potential alibi or denial from Will Hayes. Local officials say no formal suit has been filed and the matter remains under inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spee
Hayes
Wit
Pliers Start Endurance Test Weather Forces Flight
A garbled report notes a flight attempt by Rene and the Owens team seeking an endurance record. Repeated tries were interrupted by weather and a forced landing on a third attempt.
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Rene
Jean la Owens
Texas
Foremost Says Be Quick and Reliable in Weeding
Mr Scottie outlines key advice for prompt and dependable weed control, stressing ease of use and timely action as weeds appear. Guidance emphasizes efficiency and reliability in garden maintenance.
Operators of Small Mines Win Victory in Code Fight
Six operators of small coal mines in Gallia County won a victory in Common Pleas Court as Judge W R White refused a temporary injunction to bar operating mines or selling coal below the codes of fair competition. Trial of the defendants’ case set for Sept 18. defense contends the state code prices differ from neighboring West Virginia coal prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Common Pleas Court
W. R. White
Cheshire
W. Donald Hall
Columbus
Douglas Darst
Wilbur Darst
Bert Scott
R. M. Sigman
William H. Siders
M. K. Swisher
Hall
Springfield
Lima
Newark
Ohio
R. M. Swisher
West Virginia
Swisher
Injunction Against Mac Chevrolet Manager Is Set Aside
Judge C F Rowland today set aside a temporary injunction against J C Hallett manager of the Mac Chevrolet Company in Nelsonville from alleged motor vehicle code violations. The order was granted last month in Pomeroy in Judge Peoples absence. An additional injunction request was postponed pending briefs. The case tests the constitutionality of New Deal industrial codes in Athens County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Hallett
Mac Chevrolet Company
Nelsonville
C. E. Peoples
Pomeroy
C. F. Rowland
Rowland
W. D. Hall
Hallett
Athens County
Former Pomeroy Resident Howard Williamson Dies at 56
Howard Williamson, 56, former Pomeroy resident, died today at his Huntington home after a paralytic stroke. He is survived by his sister Mrs. Dora Beards and four nieces including Mrs. F. Ray Wilson. His wife and children Irene and Marshall live in Charleston and at home. Funeral services will be held Friday in Huntington. The notice also recalls the death of George Clifton, formerly of Pomeroy, with survivors including Clara Feiger Clifton and three children.
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Pomeroy
Howard Williamson
Huntington
Dora Beards
F. Ray Wilson
Irene
Charleston
Marshall
George Clifton
Ewing Funeral Home
Beech Grove
Clifton
Atlanta
Pearl Clifton
Clara Feiger
Helen Brown
St. Louis
Harry Clifton
New Castle
Ind
C. C. Walkley
Housewives Curtail Purchases Price Falls
Hog prices slid at the Cleveland stockyards as housewives cut purchases. A 50 cent drop occurred with 1,000 holdovers from yesterday and 1,000 new receipts. Best hogs sold at 6.25 dollars per hundredweight, down from 8.10 dollars two weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Landis Fails to Appear in Reckless Driving Hearing
Duane Landis was arrested by the city police on reckless driving charges and did not attend the scheduled City Hall hearing. Mayor Len B. McCune said Landis forfeited a $10 bond he had posted.
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Duane Landis
Len B. McCune
500 Gallon Still Seized in New Philadelphia
In New Philadelphia on September 12 a 500 gallon still with an alleged weekly output of 1500 gallons and valued at 5000 dollars was seized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New
Philadelphia
Will Rogers Routes Through Vienna to Queen Marie’s Country
Will Rogers writes from Vienna describing the city as Europe’s hot box and a potential war starter, plans an opera visit, a vaudeville show, then travel to Bucharest to see Queen Marie’s country.
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Will
Vienna
Marie
Europe
Bucharest
Queen Marie
Will Rogers
Four Mills Tax Proposals Advance in Athens County
County commissioners filed ten nonlimit levies with the election board. Two 2 mill road and debt levies would run five years and one year respectively, plus several one and three mill school district proposals for five years or unspecified terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
Election Board
Nelsonville
Athens Township Rural School District Board
Plains Rural School Board
Luhrig Rural School District Board
C. L. Jordan
Athens City Board of Education
Rome Rural Board
Nelsonville School Board
York Township Rural Board
Troy Township Rural Board
Troy
Democrats of Ohio Plan State-Wide Rally
Ohio Democrats announce a statewide rally to be held next Tuesday in Columbus Auditorium with Francis Poulgon, the state executive committee chairman, coordinating the event. Republicans reply their first campaign rally will be held in the same hall on Sept 28 featuring U S Senator Simeon D Fess and governor candidate Clarence J Brown as principal speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio Democrats
Francis Poulgon
U. S
Simeon D. Fess
Clarence J. Brown
Mrs Chiki Wins $2200 Damages in Athens County Case
A jury in Athens County Common Pleas Court awarded Mrs. Katie Chiki $2200 against Richard Kennedy in a suit tied to her daughter Helen’s death caused by a car collision last October. The same verdict absolved Pearl Walker, Kennedy’s grandfather and car owner, of blame. Mrs. Chiki had sought $5225.
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Katie Chiki
Richard Kennedy
Athens County
Slaying of Donald Dillon Prompts Three Questioning
Indianapolis police questioned three men in the case of 13 year old Donald Edward Dillon who disappeared Sunday night and was found dead in a South Side storm sewer. Gilbert Jacobs 37 whose mother worked as a housekeeper, and two brothers William 30 and Addison Jackson 20 were held on vagrancy charges with high bonds after detectives linked a rifle from Jacobs’ home to bullets in the boy’s brain. The Jacksons were previously convicted Feb 21 for molesting children under Shelby Street Bridge where Dillon’s body was found.
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Indianapolis
Donald Edward Dillon
Gilbert Jacobs
Jacobs House
Donald
South Side
William Jackson
Addison Jackson
Jacksons
Shelby Street
Dillon
French Labor Unrest Grows Across Paris and Regions
Discontent with Premier Gaston Domergue’s government rises as strikes and disorders spread. Douarnenez fishermen strike after cannery refusals, crowds invade canneries, and packers are blocked. Lyon silk manufacturers warn of potential penalties on exports under current policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Gaston Domergue
Douarneneez
Lyon
HOLC Weeding-Out Planned Next Week
The Home Owners Loan Corporation will weed out ineligible Athens County loan applicants within a week or ten days. County attorney Harry A. Mettler and deputy sub district agent Miss Helen Faulkner arrived with all county files and are sending letters requesting additional information to determine eligibility under the latest interpretation.
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Home Owners Loan Corporation
Athens County
Harry A. Mettler
Helen Faulkner
Zanesville
Athens
Mettler
Faulkner
Huey Long State Nominated in Eight Primaries
Eight states held Tuesday primaries from Washington to New Hampshire. Huey Long candidates won in Louisiana. Blease defeated in South Carolina. Johnson renomination bid narrowed in Colorado. Ashurst led in Arizona. Michigan nominees named. Vermont renomination solid for Warren Austin. New Hampshire incumbents Renominated. Washington Democratic Senate race tight as Dill retires. Long’s New Orleans clash with Walmsley marked by National Guard presence. Long’s slate swept voting.
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Huey Long
Washington
New Hampshire
Louisiana
South Carolina
Cole Blease
Olin D. Johnston
Colorado
Johnson
Arizona
Ashurst
Michigan
Comstock
Frank D. Fitzgerald
Vermont
Austin
Fred C. Martin
Rogers
Tobey
C. C. Dill
Ohio
Warren R. Austin
Harry B. Amey
New Orleans
Huey P. Long
T. Semmes Walmsley
Long
Militias Mobilized as Textile Strike Rages in New England
National Guardsmen were deployed across Rhode Island Maine and Connecticut to quell riots amid the textile strike. In Saylesville 500 troops faced 3500 strikers in violent clashes injuring about 70. tear gas and tombstone cover were used in a cemetery fight.
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Rhode Island
Washington
Saylesville
R. 1
Woonsocket
R. I
Maine
Connecticut
North Carolina
South Carolina
Pangborn and Turner Start Airplane Dash
Col Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn launched from Union Air Terminal Bur bank Calif for New York in a test hop aboard a bi motored monoplane as they prepare for the London to Australia Mac Robertson air race. They expect a 13 hour flight to Wichita for fuel and plan radio installation and pre flight checks before loading the S S Europa for sailing to England.
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Union Air Terminal
Burbank
Calif
Col
Roscoe Turner
Clyde Pangborn
trans-Pacific Flier
New York
Turner
Pangborn
Mac Robertson
London
Australia
Wichita
Kas
Floyd Bennett Field
Europa
England
Romance Theory Explains Disappearance of Virginia Gates
PINEDALE Wyo Sept 12 Sheriff W D Holt said the missing 23 year old Virginia Ewing Gates of Philadelphia social set vanished from the Jack Dew Dude Ranch 35 miles NW of here on Aug 14. Her father, Thomas Gates, had resigned from J P Morgan and Company to become president of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Pinedale
Wyo
Virginia Ewing Gates
Philadelphia
W. D. Holt
Thomas Gates
J. P. Morgan and Company
University of Pennsylvania
Jack Dew Dude Ranch
Here
Easier Bank Loans Urged by Roosevelt in 1944
President Roosevelt urges looser bank lending rules after critiquing federal bank examiners. He plans a system with Morgenthau and federal financing leaders to standardize loan approvals and ease restrictions during the current conference week at Hyde Park.
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Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Morgenthau
Major Rudolph Webking Bribery Trial Opens
A six men six women jury is seated in Cincinnati to hear initial testimony in the trial of Police Major Rudolph Webking charged with accepting a $500 bribe from a woman of the underworld.
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Cincinnati
Rudolph Webking
Underworld
Crowd of 300 Patrons Beat Sheriff at Akron Dog Track
About 300 patrons at the County Line Kennel Club attacked Dr. Oscar Hayes when he moved to close betting under a certificate system. Hayes, appointed sheriff due to illness of Ray Potts, promised to return to enforce a track wagering ban while deputies looked on.
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Akron
Summit County
Common Pleas
County Line
Oscar Hayes
Dr. Hayes
Ray Potts
Waterworks Bids Shelved
Athens city board of control rejected all bids for the water works improvement and advertised new bids. The plan budget was 50000 dollars but first bids topped by 14000 dollars. A September 26 setting may cut water line extensions to lower costs with more bidders expected. The project will be funded one third by the federal government through the FWA and the rest as a loan over 20 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens City
Board of Control
FWA
Marion Police Chief Fights To Hold Job
Hearing opened before the city civil service commission on the appeal of William E. Marks who seeks reinstatement as Marion’s chief of police. Marks was suspended after Mayor Clarence Bolin charged incompetence and gross neglect of duty over his handling of bootlegger prosecutions.
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Marion
William E. Marks
City Civil Service Commission
Marks
Clarence Bolin
Turnesa Eliminates Dunlap In Third Round
In Brookline on September 12 William Turnesa of Elmendorf, N Y outplayed and defeated national amateur champion George Dunlap 3 and 2 in the third round, advancing in the national amateur golf championship.
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Brookline
Mass
George Dunlap
New York
William Turnhesa
Elmaford
Turnesa
Newark man freed after fatal car collision claims
Columbus dated report says E. F. Pease of Newark was released by police after witnesses said an unidentified Black man stepped in front of Pease’s car and the accident was unavoidable.
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Columbus
E. F. Pease
Newark
Pease
Morro Castle Chief Operator Details Delayed SOS
Chief radio operator George W. Rogers testified that it took about thirty minutes after waking for orders to send an SOS aboard the Morro Castle. He described smoke, heat, a burning curtain, and passengers crying for help as rescue ships City of Savannah and Monarch of Bermuda approached.
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Morro Castle
George Rogers
Rogers
Marine Hospital
Staten Island
N. Y
New York
George W. Rogers
Beccause
Jersey
Alegana
Alagna
Scotland
Savannah
Bermuda
Warms
Morre Cartle
Probable Immunity To Cancer Reported
Cleveland report to the American Chemical Society describes a potential cancer immunity mechanism. An enzyme named phosphatase, abundant in kidneys of humans and animals, may explain why only about one in ten people develop cancer by aiding sugar and phosphate processing in the body's metabolism.
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Cleveland
American Chemical Society
Northwestern Fights Evanston Demand on Gate Receipts
Northwestern University said it would seek a restraining petition to block Evanston's demand for 3 percent of gross gate receipts from athletic contests. Attorney George P. Merrick asserted the university is exempt from taxation, intending to file within a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evanston
Ill
Northwestern University
George P. Merrick
Mary Jane Bower Dies After Long Illness At Pomeroy
Mary Jane Bower died early today at her home in Pomeroy after a long illness. She was married to Grant Bower and survived by a brother, Joseph Steward, x children and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday at the Ewing Funeral Home with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Mary Jane Bower
Grant Bower
Joseph Steward
Ewing Funeral
Beech Grove
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Morro Castile
Liner
Scottie
Nelsonville Motor Firm
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Lad
Holc
Presidential Mediation Board
William Green
American Federation of Labor
United Textile Workers
Pangborn and
West
Waterworks
City
Dunlap
Cristobal
Bradburn
Tampa
Canal Zone
Kobe
Japan
George Algana
Algana
Northwestern
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