Heavy Rains Swell Southern Ohio Streams
Widespread downpours flood Hocking River and smaller streams in Hocking County. Route 31 at Clear Creek sees nearly two feet of water with possible closure as the river rises rapidly. Goose Creek floods Orchard Street and North Orchard Street bridge. Residents protest lack of sewers in South Logan as basements flood and traffic halts. Buck Run and Goat Run swell near Rockbridge. Buckeye Pipe Line station at Ewing floods. Logan area streets become lakes. many homes surrounded by rising waters. Continuous river rise reported at noon.
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Clear Creek
Taffic
Hocking
Sugar Grove
Rockbridge
Hocking County
Logan
Goose Creek
Orchard St
Hunter St
Orchard St. Bridge
Alecinda Mosser
Logan High School
East Main St
E. Front St
Church St
W. Front
City Service Department
South Logan
Buck Run
F&d
Scotts Creek
Buckeye
Ewing
Guy Loomis
Senate Advances Airmail Bill As Congress Debates Copyright
The Senate moved a conference report on the airmail bill while debate continued on the copyright measure. The finance committee held tax hearings and the lobby committee heard Patrick J. Hurley as the House considered miscellaneous legislation. The Democratic steering committee aimed to defeat bonus riders to speed adjournment.
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Finance Committee
Patrick J. Hurley
Senate
Kentucky primary showdown for governor nomination
Tabulations show Tom S. Rhea leading A. B. Chandler in a tight Kentucky Democratic primary with 78 378 to 74 082 and a runoff indicated for September 7. Chandler opposed the sales tax repeal and attacked Governor Ruby Laffoon's administration.
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Tom S. Rhea
Kentucky
A. B. Chandler
Rhea
Chandler
Ruby Laffoon
Mussolini Orders Officers Resume Training Across Italy
The Italian War Department called back potential officers born 1909–1914 to resume training by November 15 and finish by May 15. It also invited pensioned officers under 39 and those who left service due to residence abroad to readmit. Public demonstrations erupted in San Remo Asti Milan as divisions were announced.
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Rome
War Department
Mussolini
San Remo
Asti
Milan
Voting Places Announced For Primary Election Day
Carl Brandt election board clerk announced changes in polling places for the upcoming primary. Precinct 1C voters will vote at Mrs. Verne Kitchen residence and 20 electors at a Pottery Street building owned by Jas Blosser. 3B polling will be at Chas Derr residence on Depot Street. Eighteen absent ballots had been received.
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Carl Brandt
Election Board
Flood Cleanup Crews to Begin at Big Pine Friday
Relief Director Max W. Johnstone says one hundred workers from relief rosters start flood cleanup at Big Pine Friday with another hundred to follow Tuesday. Crews run two shifts totaling eighteen hours weekly until completion, budget constraints drive frugal spending as the Emergency Schools Playground program reallocates instructors to the regular Emergency Schools Educational program amid earmarked funds.
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Max W. Johnstone
Big Pine
Johnstone
Public Offices Close Saturdays Under State Law
County offices will close every Saturday at 12 00 noon starting Saturday August 24 under State Law No 0978 G C Closing on Thursday afternoons will be discontinued as announced on the courthouse bulletin board.
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Court House
Lawn Flooded Damages Sought In Ohio Case
Mrs. Elizabeth H. Neff sues Mrs. Alter C. White over a roadway hole she claims acts as a catch basin for rainwater. Flooding damages include a weakened foundation, mud in a spring used for water, plaster damage, and debris on the lawn of a 14 acre estate in Chardon Ohio.
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Chardon
Elizabeth H. Neff
Alter C. White
Bricker Rules County Boards Appoint Pension Staff
Ohio Attorney General Bricker ruled that county commissioners have sole power to appoint investigators clerks and other old age pension administrative employees. The dispute over pension policies grows with Canton and Youngstown complaints as Governor Davey plans a fall special session to fund pensions. Lorain County Commissioner Oscar Dunn threatens mandamus over Berrodin’s alleged refusals to approve appointments for cause.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Henry J. Berrodin
Ohio
Elyria
Berrodin
Canton
Youngstown
Davey
Oscar Dunn
Lorain County
Dunn
County Pension Board
Tax collections show new slump in Ohio
Ohio sales tax receipts for the week totaled 825339.91 dollars, below the 938021 dollar weekly average. Merchants cited a summer lull in buying as the likely cause, per state treasurer H. S. Day.
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Columbus
Ohio
H. S. Day
President approves works relief allotment for Ohio projects
President Roosevelt’s works allotment board recommended approval of $209,274,693 in work relief funds. Ohio receives $3,269,198 for 536 projects as part of the distribution announced yesterday.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Works Allotment Board
Ohio
Nazi Steps Aimed at Halting Jewish Migration to Berlin
Berlin officials announced new measures to stem a flood of refugees, mainly Jews, pouring into Berlin from the provinces. The plan was drafted by Count Wolf Hendrik Von Helldorf and Julius Lippert but details were not disclosed. The refugees, driven from towns by anti Semitic campaigns, seek shelter in the capital despite warnings.
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Berlin
Wolf Hendrik von Helldorf
Julius Lippert
Ohio tax amendment petitions unlikely for November ballot
Columbus Ohio August 7 AP with a filing deadline tonight none of the three proposed constitutional amendments on taxation appeared likely for the November ballot sponsors failed to reach 219000 signatures required by 630 pm to file with secretary of state Myers Ohio Association for tax reduction faced a setback when its secretary Oliver W Gillett 34 was charged with copying unauthorized names on petitions
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Columbus
Myers
Ohio Association For Tax Reduction
Oliver W. Gilllette
Two Killed In Truck Crash Near Vienna
A head on collision between a coal truck and an automobile near Vienna killed Orley Cox 53 of Willetsville and James Burns 55 of Allensburg and injured George Meyers 52 of Westerville the quarry operator who was taken to a local hospital in critical condition James Wood yard 56 of Willetsville was also injured
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Hillsboro
Vienna
Orley Cox
Willetsville
James Burns
Allensburg
George Meyers
Westerville
New Vienna
James Woodyard
Highway Patrol Identifies Auto Wreck Victim
Hugh Slate of the Tennessee highway patrol identified the man killed in an Oakdale auto wreck Saturday as Frank Bryson, a Cleveland convict.
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Harriman Tenn
Hugh Slate
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Oakdale
Frank Bryson
Cleveland
Deputy Sheriff In Eviction Attempt. Woman Rescued From Gas
Deputy Sheriff Robert Legner tried to serve eviction on Mrs. Mary B. Adams. She threatened suicide, slammed the door, and hid at the rear. Patrolmen Fritz and Wilson found her with her head near open gas burners. doctors say she will recover.
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Cincinnati
Robert Legner
Mary B. Adams
Charles Fritz
Oakley Wilson
Leaders Seek To Speed Bill In Senate After Tax Plan
Senate Democrats push to pass the tax bill within a week and adjourn by August. Senator McNary of Oregon says adjournment by August 17 is likely with a general GOP push to expedite the tax measure. Senator Borah Idaho warns debaters may block riders like soldiers bonus and Frazier-Lemke farm refinancing when the bill reaches the Senate.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
McNary
Oregon
Borah
RK Idaho
Lancaster Must Provide Own Flood Protection
Lancaster must fund its own flood protection says David C. Warner executive secretary of the state water conservation board. He notes Fairfield County cannot join the Scioto Sandusky district, as most of the county lies in the Hocking river basin. A Hocking watershed district could cover Fairfield, Hocking, Perry, Athens and Morgan counties with a survey crew from Ohio State.
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Lancaster
Columbus
David C. Warner
State Water Conservation Board
Warner
Fairfield County
Scioto - Sandusky Conservancy District
Hocking River
Scioto-Sandusky
Thomas Taylor
Gordon K. Bush
Athens
Wm. J. Barry
New Straitsville
John Lovett
Murray City
Ralph C. Baker
McConnellville
C. E. Sherman
Ohio State University
Hocking Conservancy District
Attack on Ohio parole system follows Cleveland holdups
Miss Leona Marie Esch director of the Cleveland Association for Criminal Justice called for reconstruction and destruction of Ohio s parole system after five paroled prisoners were involved in two holdups in less than 30 hours. Three captives were taken after a gun battle in which bystander Carl Palange was killed by a stray shot.
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Cleveland, O
Ohio
Leona Marie Esch
Cleveland Association For Criminal Justice
Carl Palange
Foes Prep for Kentucky Governor Runoff as Rhea Leads
In Louisville on August 7 AP reports Thomas S. Rhea and Lt. Gov. A. B. Chandler head into a September 7 runoff after the last Saturday primary. With roughly three quarters counted, Rhea holds about a 10,000 plurality over Chandler, but trails by 35,000 votes of the five-candidate field.
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Louisville
Thomas S. Rhea
A. B
Happy
Rhea
Chandler
Failure to Stop Auto Proves Fatal in Cincinnati
Cincinnati August 7 AP Raymond Carter 25 negro failed to stop his car after Patrolman Harry Batters jumped on the running board Batters shot Carter claiming the youth tried to knock him from the running board Carter had been driving with two other Negroes who were held for investigation by police
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Cincinnati
Raymond Carter
Harry Batters
Carter
Batters
Floods Ravage Ohio Rivers Forcing Mass Evacuations
Massive floods from the Muskingum and Tuscarawas rivers force hundreds of families to flee in Massillon and surrounding towns. In Irondale a 73 year old woman is missing. Millersburg and Killbuck face isolation. Bridges wash out and water supplies fail as rainfall tops six inches in hours.
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Marjorie McIntosh
Irondale Village
Eastliverpool
Massillon
Tuscarawas
Millersburg
Killbuck
Holmes County Fair Grounds
Clarence Gatchel
Beach City
Muskingum Conservancy District
Salineville
Loudonville
Muskingum Watershed Conservancy
Mansfield
Marietta
Dover
Columbus
Weather Bureau
R. K. Bowles
Waynesburg
Motive Sought for Toledo Slaying of Romolo
Police seek motive in the killing of Guito Romolo 41 operator of Main Motor Sales Toledo Ohio. Romolo was shot after buying ice cream while riding with a man who fled. A witness, a youth, saw them at an ice cream store. Robbery ruled out as officers found $113 and an endorsed check in Romolo’s pockets.
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Toledo
T—(Ap
Guito Romolo
Romolo
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