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Newspaper
Lancaster Gazette
Location
Lancaster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1936
Page
1
A House fight to authorize 5.249 billion dollars in currency expansion gains speed with a vote likely to target the 3.0 billion dollar Frazier Lemke Farm Mortgage Inflation Bill. Inflation bloc backs funding by inflation and coalition effort.
Former Bull Moosers form Liberal Republican voters league to back Senator Borah for president. Edgar Cook leads the effort, a Roosevelt ally and 1929 Illinois delegate pledged to Hiram Johnson, while Borah denies knowledge of the plan.
A collision of two passenger trains on a trestle near the river front sent 13 people to hospitals with bruises scratches and minor injuries. One man Anthony Netherland 59 suffered possible skull fracture and spinal injuries. The Chesapeake 4 Ohio bound for Washington collided with the Southland of the Louisville and Nashville line. The tender and baggage car fell 80 feet into a street below.
The oldest known New Testament manuscript dates to the early third century and was discovered in Central Egypt. It contains portions of St Pauls Epistles. A. Chester Beatty, a noted collector, is mentioned in relation to the manuscript.
The Supreme Court may rule on TVA legality and related matters as it finishes its session. Analysts anticipate three possible outcomes including full TVA power development legality or limits on future expansion and question whether Alabama Power shareholders had standing. The court will also address press freedom and antitrust actions and hear cases involving the Bankhead cotton act.
JOLIET Feb 1 Detained to get all the facts A L Bowen state director of public welfare returns to Stateville prison to investigate conditions linked to the murder of Richard Loeb. State's attorney McCabe doubts James Day's self defense claim and cites evidence of a plot. Leopold in Stateville denies privilege and bribery claims, saying Loeb and he had jobs for interest not favors.
Fayette county officers reported a signed confession from Frank Clark, 36, Kingston miner, admitting to killing his wife Myrtle with an axe “because she was always sick.” He described entering the bedroom Thursday night and saying he would end her suffering, then striking her. He planned to kill himself but drank instead and was found intoxicated by a neighbor who found the body. He faces murder arraignment Monday.
Funeral services for John H Williams will be held Monday at 2 30 PM at the family residence 1341 EF Walver Street with Rev C B Poling pastor of Mape Street Church officiating. Interment in Himwood Cemetery under Frank E Smith Funeral Home charge.
Judge Frank M. Adam of Fairfield County Common Pleas Court took the Laurelville Perry district election contest under advisement after Thursday hearing at Logan Ohio. Briefs are to be submitted and until settled the 3 mill school levy remains uncertain. Hocking County board certified a three vote margin gain.
George Carleton Thornton 86 former railroad shop employee at Logan died yesterday at his Chestnut Street home. Influenza developing from measles led to his death. Survived by widow Jane Thornton, two sons and four daughters. Funeral Monday 2 p.m. at Bible Christian Church Logan Rev Castor officiating. Burial Oak Grove Cemetery Logan by C. F Sanders of Lancaster.
Government probes the cremation of twenty negro convicts in a dog wagon on a Alabama highway project. State officials led by Hamp Draper, Gaston Scott, and Arthur Houston conduct the inquiry. Coroner’s verdict ruled the incident an accident. Two convicts escaped and two others severely burned but improving.
Ex service men unable to visit the Service Officer Rezyeil Cunningham's office may fill out bonus payment forms Sunday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Legion.
The groundhog is said to reveal winter’s fate by its shadow. If the legend holds, six more weeks of severe winter loom. without a shadow, early spring would arrive. The superstition centers on whether the furred prognosticator emerges.
Doreen MacDonald, convicted in the Edward G. Bremner kidnapping, was today sentenced to 18 years in Leavenworth penitentiary after a February trial in OT Paul.
Rome reports Premier Mussolini summoned Fascist counselors to plan for an oil embargo and a looming European war. A national defense council meeting is set for February 4 to discuss internal measures, with the grand council to meet in secrecy late tonight and issue a possible communique.
Fifty more students at the University of North Carolina faced expulsion in a probe of a ring that allegedly obtained and distributed exam questions. Thirty three already expelled include Phi Beta Kappa members seven athletes and at least one Golden Fleece member. A graduate who ran the ring confessed he had access to the duplicating department and kept records of recipients.
New patients at City Hospital include Miss Kathleen Soit of 521 Boyd St admitted last night for an operation and Mrs Rose Britch of 226 W Sixth Ave admitted this morning for treatment.
Washington February 1 L P Euegene R Woodson controller of the Railroad Credit Corporation leaped eight floors to his death after arriving at his office. Authorities found on him his watch and a note indicating where his car was parked. Associates said they knew of no reason for suicide.
Coal dealers in Lancaster rush to replenish stocks as a cold wave breaks with forecasts of rising temperatures and snow. Crystal Ice & Coal received a timely car, while West Side Coal Co held an ample supply for orders. Miners may extend hours to ease Midwest coal shortages amid frigid conditions.
Mrs. Huey P. Long is named to serve the unexpired term of her slain husband in Louisiana. She plans to travel to Washington soon amid flowers and congratulations, with observers noting she may revive the share our wealth movement and pursue independent policies.
Tony Pippi, 12, of O'Gare Avene, is in the city hospital today with a fractured left thigh from a coasting accident yesterday. He was injured when his sled struck a trench.
Ohio University will confer degrees on 53 seniors at mid year graduation on February 7. Lancaster will be represented by Emerson Harrold Roush with a Bachelor of Arts and Ruth Lorne Hudson with a Bachelor of Science in Education.
Ithaca New York February 1 Dobie known as gloomy Gil resigned today as Cornell University football coach a post he has held since 1920. He gave no reason and his contract had two years left. Alumni had pressed for two years amid dismal showings by the team.
Mrs. Susie Mauger, 79, of Baltimore Route 1, was admitted to Lancaster Hospital yesterday with a fracture above the left knee after a fall at her home.
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