Flood Devastates Lancaster Ohio as River Rises
Rag ing flood waters in the Hocking river valley devastate Lancaster and nearby towns. An estimated million dollars in damage, 300 homeless, one death, several injuries. Bridges washed out, cars and homes swept away, residents evacuated by canoe and rowboat amid rising floodwaters.
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Lancaster
Here
Hocking
Rock Bridge
Joe Farbearn
Claude Carpenter
Lancaster Grocer
Grant Hensel
Sugar Grove
Jacob Ropp
Carpenter
Ropp
Hensel
Ohio
William Johnson
Adolph Raab
Fairfield County
Vera Dietrich
Albert Kelly
Richard Byers
Kelly
Columbus
Weather outlook across Tennessee Kentucky and other regions
Weather fair with a slight change in temperature countrywide. Tennessee Kentucky expect scattered thundershowers Thursday afternoon and little temperature change. Virginia sees fair tonight and Tuesday with a negligible temperature shift. North Carolina generally fair tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change.
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Tennessee - Kentucky
North Carolina
Senators push inquiry into power company activities
Washington July 23 The Senate lobby committee summoned five officials of Associated Gas and Electric to testify as it pushes its inquiry into the companys opposition to the Wheeler Rayburn bill. Investigators seek H C Hopson AGEs vice president missing for 11 days while Burroughs and other executives defend the campaigns and destruction of records from two states.
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Senate
New Power Company
Associated Gas & Electric Company
Roosevelt
Black
D-Ala
H. C. Hopson
Hunt Hopson
Justice Department
Gemen
Hopson
New York
A. G. EB
Burroughs
Senate Committee On
Call Off Drive Against Jews and Catholics
Berlin reports eased tensions among Jews Catholics and steel helmet members after a social visit by General Von Blomberg to Hitler at the Bavarian retreat. The war minister urged moderation and a decree allows some non Aryans to join armed services signaling a shift in policy and potentially moderating international opinion.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Warner von Blomberg
Hitler
von Blomberg
der Fuehrer
Hjukasr Schacht
Reichsbank
Foreign Office
von Bilember
von Bromberg
Wilhelm Frick
Farmers Approve Tobacco Program Extension
Washington reports four more years of production control for flue-cured tobacco growers. Contracts through 1939 will be available at county offices, adjusting leases to equalize treatment among all producers, with a final-year adjustment payment and a 35 percent cap on acreage and production reductions. About 137,500 cooperating growers across Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida participate.
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Washington
J. B. Hutson
AAA Tobacco
Hutson
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Browder Details U.S. Communist Growth At International Meet
Browder, general secretary of the American Communist party, told the Seventh Communist Internationale in Moscow that U S communists carry on 1776 revolutionary traditions and are heirs to the nation’s history. He cited party membership near 1,099,000 with 1,090,008 factory workers in its rank and noted growing influence among students, farmers, and white collar workers amid antiwar, antifascist sentiment. He accused Hoover and Republicans of aiding fascism and labeled Roosevelt Democrats complicit, saying Republicans and Democrats are true fascism’s conductors in America.
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Beas Browser
Coramunist
United States
Seventh
Communist Internationale
Mayen Tran
Browder
Communist Party
Groada
America
Hoover
Roosevelt
Deadline Set for 1935 Auto License Refunds in Nashville
Nashville July 29 41 Dan Cey Fort commissioner of finance and taxation set September 1 as the deadline for motorists to claim refunds on 1935 automobile licenses. The regular session reduced the lease tag price after some autoists had already purchased theirs. Fort said refunds are authorized within rules promulgated by the commissioner.
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Nashville
Dancey Fort
PWA Projects Under Way Across Washington State
Secretary Ickes announced nearly 1.8 billion dollars in PWA projects are under construction and will provide jobs before the 4 billion dollar work relief program peaks. The effort includes 4,514 active projects, 13,238 completed projects totaling 685 million, and 1,426 yet to begin at a cost of 321 million. State and local offices report a surge in applications as decentralization accelerates examining requests for permanent public works with share costs and government grants.
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Washington
Ickes
PWA
Washington Daily
England to Build New Battleships
London July 25 The Daily Herald claims the admiralty plans a largely new fleet by 1942 costing 70,060,000 with 12 capital ships 23 cruisers 63 destroyers 21 submarines and 3 aircraft carriers. Washington July 29 Navy quarters express interest but doubt the plan.
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The
Daily Herald
Admiralty
Great Britain
Lahorite
Washington
Navy Quarters Today
London Daily Herald
Britain
Judge backs AAA act as enforceable in Tennessee ruling
Federal Judge John D. Martin of the Western District of Tennessee upholds the constitutionality of the Agriculture Adjustment Act. He denied a Memphis packer’s suit to recover 6,863 in processing taxes and refused to block collection of a 1,267 penalty for late tax filing. He noted other district judges have deemed the act unconstitutional, but this court feels free to decide without binding authority.
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Memphis
John D. Martin
Western District of
Tennessee
Southern Association of Baseball Clubs
Martin
United States Court of Appeals of the First Circuit
Coal cooperation seen in industry
Associated Press staff writer reports Charles F. Huber, administrator for the anthracite industry, cites self regulation as boosting trust and cooperation. Eighty five percent participate in a program to end unfair price discrimination and secret rebates while filing past prices and terms to curb misrepresentation and standardize sizing. Huber notes improved producer dealer relations and optimism for fall demand as cooler weather nears.
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R. H. Hippleheuser
Associated Press
New York
Charles F. Huber
Huber
Glen Alden Coal Company
Pottsville Bay
Pottsville
Pennsylvania
Luzerne County
Lehigh & Wilkes Barre Coal Company
Glen Alden Company
Lehigh & Wilkes Barre
Move to tack rider onto pension measure tabled Nashville
July 22 The House faced an amendment to the Old Age Pension bill with a Shelby county liquor legalization local option. Rep Howell Buntin withdrew a Saturday soft drink tax exclusion. The wet bloc says liquor rider could join the pension bill. Rep C C Brown argued tax on liquor funds pensions and targets bootleggers.
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Nashville
House of Representatives
House
Shelby
Howell Buntin
Madison
Wet
C. C. Brown
Brown
Tennessee
Tennessee Speaker Pushes Repeal Amid Pension Bill Fight
Walter M. Haynes, speaker in the lower house, urged repeal with repeal forces this morning. Despite his efforts and Shelby County contingent support, the liquor rider to the pension bill was blocked.
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Walter M. Haynes
Tennessee
Shelby
Tennessee House Tables Liquor Legalization Rider
In Nashville on July 29 the Tennessee House voted 49 to 41 to table a liquor legalization rider attached to an old age pension bill. Speaker Walter M. Haynes urged repeal of the dry laws to regulate liquor openly, while opponents cited biblical arguments. The vote followed hours of debate and a shift in tactic by Wet forces aiming to fund pensions through liquor repeal.
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Tennessee House Today
Walter M. Haynes
J. N. Humphreys
Washington County
House Net
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Tennessee
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Pennessee
Republicans Seek to End Congress
Washington July 29 A renewed Republican bid to adjourn August 10 without acting on Roosevelt tax proposals found Democrats pushing business forward today and confident the session will end. Senator Vandenberg Michigan led the drive calling the plan a grim hoax and urging tax consideration be postponed until next winter for budgeting. Hastings Delaware joined in pressing the adjournment as a Republican tactic.
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Congress
Vandenberg
Michigan
Plan Vandenberg
Hastings
Delaware
Delegates Depart for Geneva Meet in Italy Ethiopia Row
Mussolini marked his 52nd birthday by ordering seven experts to Geneva for a League of Nations Council session on the Italo Ethiopian dispute. Six delegates depart tonight, Baron Pompee Aloisi leaves tomorrow, while a British approach to Aloisi aims to ease Italy's stance ahead of talks. Eden plans a personal appeal to Aloisi before the council opens Wednesday and before a three power discussion with Laval.
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Charles H. Aquptile
Associated Press
JIOME
Fremier Mussolini
Geneva
League of Nations Council
Italy
Ethiopia
Switzerland
Baron Pompeo Aloisi
Gouveil
Council
Pierre Laval
France
Trans-Pacific Air Service Ready to Operate
Pan American officials announce readiness of trans-Pacific passenger service as North Haven returns from Midway Wake and Guam construction. Matson Navigation and Inter-Island Steam join in a ship and plane agreement to move heavy baggage and transport passengers between non direct routes. Colonel Young says no start date yet. a Clipper plane based at Alameda Airport will conduct another test flight.
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Trans-Pacific
Pan-American Airways System
Pan- American
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Midway
Wake
Guam
Clarence M. Young
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Matson Navigation Com
Pany
Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company of Hawaii
Air Line
Young
Alameda
San Francisco Bay
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