Cold Wave Grips Fairfield Low 16 Below Official
Officials report Fairfield County endures a brutal cold wave with Lancaster recording an official low of 16 below. Drivers stranded on Route 37 and Berry Hill. state crews work overnight to free cars while residents assist with heat and shelter. Police aid elderly man found nearly frozen. several families moved to safer homes as temperatures dip to 22 below in Jefferson and mid county readings.
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Lancaster
Jefferson
Berry Hill
Bremen-Lancaster
Sugar Grove
Parifield
Homet
Dennisor
Dennison
Lancaster-Columbus
Carroll
Tian
Hunter
Blizzard
George Breet
Relaive
Gan
Vinden
Columbus
Firemen Called Out Twice Amid Severe Cold
Firemen responded twice today to winter hazards. At 7:08 a.m. they tackled a Matilda Huston residence fire on A517 and at 11:22 p.m. to the Kate Moore home 141 E Walnut St due to a defective flue causing $75 damage to the structure and $5 to contents. Flames burned a partition before extinguishment. Police provided hot meals for crews. buses reported near-normal service. County basketball and school schedules were disrupted by extreme cold with multiple cancellations and delays. Local garages ran full after frozen car incidents. Lancaster hotels filled with transients. One reporter, Leroy Boyd, faced stranded conditions returning from Pleasantville.
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Matilda
Huston
Kate Moore
E. Walnut St
Millersport
Bremen
Amanda
Berne Union
Liberty Union
Stoutsville
Glassco
Fairfield County
Pickerington
Pleasantville
Pickerington- Pleasantville
Sarraut Returns to Form French Cabinet Challenge
Albert Sarraut a Radical Socialist and former Premier accepted President Lebrun's invitation to attempt forming a cabinet to succeed Pierre Laval. He may lead an all radical cabinet with himself as premier and foreign minister or build a left center coalition around radical socialists with socialist support but no cabinet seats. Herriot declined. Laval resigned after radicals withdrew orders to support the Laval government.
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Albert Sarraut
Albert Lebrun
Pierre la
Yesteray
Sarraut
Socialist Party
Jeft Democrat
Radical Socialist Party
Alexander of
Jugoslavia
Louis Barthou
Marseillés
Edouard Herriot
Laval
Lebrun
Pierre Laval
Herriot
Elysee Palace
All Night Shelter At North Berne Inn Amid Snow Drifts
After a severe blizzard trapped drivers on the Lancaster Bremen route, twenty seven motorists sought refuge at the Blue Moon Inn in Bremen. An enormous drift near the Berne hill blocked traffic, pushing some to abandon vehicles and seek warmth, food, and safety inside the inn as state trucks cleared a path through the snow.
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North Berne Inn
Lancaster
Bremen
Berne Station
Berne
Eeene
Sime
Blue Moon Inn
Blue Moon Company
Columbus
Blue Moon
Omar
Grover Valentine
Lancaster Hatchery
Orville Stuckey
Ralph Beck
Fred Rempe
Harold ‘“Beef" Rugh
Barker
Stabilizer Frozen Delays Newark Landing Passengers Aided Pilot
A United Air Lines passenger plane with eight aboard faced a frozen stabilizer over Newark airport. Pilot Lou Graves and co pilot Morris Wiley directed a controlled approach with ground crew coordinating tail ballast from passengers to stabilize before a gradual nose down. Fire engines and ambulances stood by as the airliner touched down safely at 8 40 pm after hours of circling and headwinds from Cleveland.
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Newark
N. J
Morris Wiley
Wes
Lou Graves
Gravis
Wiley
Bernice Stick
Miss Blick
Frederick, Angstadt
Brooklyn
Angstad
United Air Lines
Cleveland
Truck Ditch Narrowly Avoids Train Collision
Neil Wycoff, driver for Sinclair Oil, ran his truck into a ditch to avoid a train at the North Crossing north of Weidner Park on Route 37 yesterday afternoon. Blinding snow hid the crossing. brakes froze and the vehicle tipped onto its side. Wycoff escaped uninjured and was later unable to right the truck, which was returned to its garage after a salvage attempt.
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Gazette
Leroy Boyd
Pleasantville
Urough
Bremen
Retere
Lanvester
Metin Dore
Chatadie
Otis
Neil Wycoff
Sinclair
N. ¥. C. Crossing
Weidner Park
Wycoff
Hell Freezes Over Ice Hits Small Michigan Village
RELL Michigan residents report a heavy blizzard leaving 6 inches of snow across a 50 year old village once thriving as Highland and Reeves Mill area. Ice covers the dam and pond that once drew community life, while winter anglers fish pike through the ice.
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Rell
Mich
Hell
Livingston County
Reeves Mill
Highland
Davey backs Roosevelt in Ohio for November vote
Gov. Martin L. Davey informed the White House that Ohio will support Franklin D. Roosevelt 100 percent in the November party split. The stance signals full state backing from Ohio leaders.
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Washington
Martin L. Davey
White House
Weather oddities cross Ohio in extreme subzero snap
In Hamilton county Mt Airy’s thermometer read 27 degrees below zero while a couple kissed in a car as if June in January. International Falls logged 55 below and Niles Ohio reports a fire risk from a torch thawing pipe. Toledo students faced heavy cold as schools opened with hardy resolve.
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International Falls
Matin
Deadlock on relief nears break today in Ohio
In Columbus readers report that the deadlock between Senate and House over poor relief financing may break today as a $90,413,000 appropriation is expected to pass the House. Tensions rose as Democratic J Freer Bittinger and Republican William McCulloch traded accusations, threatening a walkout.
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Columbus
Ohio Legislatize
Senate
House
McCulloch
Thretten
Bittinger
Coe
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