FDRs Worldwide Radio Hook Up Marks Start of Session
Washington January 3 AP unusual suspense marked the new congressional session as President Roosevelt faces advice to push liberal leadership or moderate course. The House convened with diplomats present and radio broadcasts planned for the presidential message and next year’s budget estimates amid unemployment concerns and looming elections.
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Nathan Roe
TSON
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Mr. Roosevelt
Tooosevelt
Panay bombing pictures shown at Logan Theatre
First showing of the Panay bombing pictures featuring actual scenes of the attack, sinking, and abandonment of the U S gunboat is scheduled at the Logan Theatre Thursday. Manager Ed C Paul announced this afternoon. The uncensored Fox newsreels were filmed on the scene and released after a Washington preview.
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Panay
U. S
Logan Theatre
Ed. C. Paul
Fox
Washington
Probe alky deaths in Cleveland investigation widens
Police in Cleveland widen probe into seven deaths linked to drinking Anti-Freene radiator solution. Lieut. Olin Troescher said Norman Govang, 33, and three others drank the solvent after buying a quart for cents at a gas station. Govang died last night and four others have died in the past three days.
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Cleveland
Olin Troescher
East Cleveland
Norman Govang
Troescher
Farm worker falls through ice in quarry rescue
Edward Burner, 55, was treated for exposure after being rescued yesterday from five feet of water. He had fallen 25 feet at an abandoned quarry and plunged through thin ice in Tiffin Ohio.
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Edward Burner
Seneca County
Kinser Takes Office as Logan’s New Mayor
Logan appoints Dallas Jack Kinser as mayor succeeding Kenneth Fitzgerald. He took the oath before Common Pleas Judge Phil A. Henderson and reported for duty at City Hall Saturday morning. A large basket of roses awaited him on his desk as a welcome from city officials and employees.
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Dallas
Jack) Kinser
Common Pleas
Phil A. Henderson
Kenneth Fitzgerald
Kinser
City Hall
Seven youths die in Butler train auto crash
Seven young people, six of them high school students, were killed when their car crossed gates and was hit by a train at a Butler Indiana crossing. Coroner B O Shook cited fog on the windshield as a possible cause while two other teenagers escaped.
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Butler
Ind
Indiana
DeKalb County
B. O. Shook
John Figg
Figg
Marjory Roan
Gwendolyn Roan
Hicksville, O
Richard Staup
Marvin Miller
Lowell Blythe
Merle Sarver
Jacob Stauffer
Edgerton
Shook
Ohio
Betty Grover
National Holiday Toll Tops 300 Across Nation
Ohio reports 39 holiday deaths leading the nation as seven Ohio high school students die in a cross border crash. National toll exceeds 300 with New York 34 and California 17 also cited. Ohio losses include 24 traffic deaths and several fatalities from antifreeze, burns, shootings, drownings. State Patrolman Charles G. Cannon, 25, of Columbus, dies after his motorcycle hits a dog near Xenia.
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Ohio
New York
Illinois
Pennsylvania
California
Charles G. Cannon
Columbus
Xenia
Heflin III On Eve Of Alabama Election
Fiery J Thomas Heflin, age 68, is too ill to leave his room on the eve of his comeback bid for the U S Senate. He faces two competitors in Alabama with the pending new deal legislation as the election focuses on Hugo L Black's Supreme Court seat. Opponents include Lister Hill of Montgomery seeking promotion after 15 years in the House and Charles W Williams of Wilsonville, a self styled dirt farmer making his first bid.
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Birmingham
Ala
J. Thomas Heflin
U. S. Senate
South
Hugo L. Black
Supreme Court
Lister Hill
12 Cases Before Grand Jury Today
A light docket of about 12 cases opens with the January grand jury at the Court House. Foreman Joe Tucker leads as the jury, including Clyde Rose and several Mrs. Prim mer and Mrs. Sinnott, investigates cases with Craven N ihiser of Haydenville charged with second degree manslaughter in the death of Mrs. Mary Krannitz of Logan.
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Court House
Don Feather
Clyde Rose
Sam Primmer
Phil Tschappat
Sam Jones
Mabel Wolfe
Emma Floyd
Ed Healey
Wesley Snider
Fred Chute
Jap O'Hare
Annie Sinnott
G. Grubb
Jay Karshner
Orland Delong
Joe Tucker
Tucker
Craven Nihiser
Haydenville
Mary Krannitz
Logan
Gifts Unclaimed for Hocking County’s First 1938 Baby
No claimant had been found for the title by 2 p m with Logan physicians and rural medicos contacted. Elden Roy Stufflebean, the 1937 winner, was born minutes after the year began, and Logan Daily News continues its watchful waiting with local merchants as godfathers. A final announcement will come Thursday.
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Elden Roy Stufflebean
Dorr Run
Logan Daily News
Poulson Quiz Postponed By Graft Probers
A special Ohio Senate committee questioned Francis W. Poulson then postponed further inquiry indefinitely. Poulson hinted at challenging the legality of the panel amid debatable legal questions. He cited his mother’s serious illness as a reason for limited attention to the proceedings. The investigators subpoenaed Poulson and his records from 1935 to 1937. counsel said some records were non existent but will be produced if available.
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Columbus
Senate
Francis W. Poulson
Poulson
Ohio
Adelaide V. Poulson
Cleveland
Francis B. Douglass
Charles S. Druggan
Mansfield Inmates Buy Favors Probe Expands
State investigators questioned over 500 ex convicts and found numerous cases of inmates at Mansfield state reformatory purchasing favors. A special grand jury was reportedly called to sift the testimony as the inquiry advances.
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Mansfield
Cleveland
Mansfield State Reformatory
Court Ruling Hits Coal Companies
Washington Jan 3 AP The Supreme Court ruled the government could fund publicly owned electric plants. Secretary Ickes said 52 power projects worth 84 million dollars would be impacted with loans totaling 30.2 million and federal grants of 21.7 million. Alabama Power and Duke Power challenged the program.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Ickes
Public Works
kLn
Alabama Power Company
Duke Power Company
Alabama
Buzzard Roost
Greenwood County
S. C
Senator Norris Calls for TVA Authority Investigation
United States Senator Norris of Indiana and Nebraska urged the senate to launch a general investigation into the Tennessee Valley Authority authority to examine its operations and governance.
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Washington
Norris
Ind-Neb
Senate
TVA
New Title Office Opens in Hocking County
The first automobile certificate of title under a new state law was issued to Ogg and Beasley, a local auto agency, at a newly opened title office on the court house third floor. Clerk Don Feather and deputy Iola Courter oversaw a morning rush with 12 certificates, three memorandums, three notations of liens and two sworn statements processed.
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Hocking County
Ogg and Beasley
Court House
Don Feather
Clerk Feather
Iola Courter
County Gasoline Tax Funds Allocated by Auditor
Hocking County Auditor B. Yaw announced receipt of 13000 in gasoline tax funds from the state. Of the total 10000 goes to the county and 300 is allocated to each of the eleven townships.
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Hocking County
Org B. Yaw
Indiana Governor weighs bending marriage law for teen parents
Betty June Lacer, 12, and Tommy Chapman, 13, seeking marriage to legitimize their newborn in Linton. Gov. M Clifford Townsend pledges to use power to name the child by parental marriage while the couple plans futures. Tommy, an Detroit high school freshman, would work to support the family as Betty shows skilled needlework. Indiana law bars marriage before 18 for girls and 21 for boys.
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Linton
Ind
M. Clifford Townsend
Indiana
Betty June Lacer
Tommy Chapman
Tommy
Detroit
Betty
Townsend
Former County Official Isaac Vancuren Dies at 71
Funeral services were held at Logan M E Church for Isaac Vancuren 71 a former Hocking County commissioner who died Saturday at his home after a lengthy illness. He served as commissioner from 1921 to 1923 and 1920s short term ending 1925. Survived by widow Stella three sons and five daughters with ceremonies led by Rev C W Graham. The body was placed in Oak Grove Mausoleum by Leonard Funeral Service.
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Logan M. E
Isaac Vancuren
Third St
Vancuren
Hocking County
John Lovett
Murray City
Stella
Harry
Cleveland
Mark
Charles
Logan
Charles Ziegler
Ed Barker
Grace Adcock
Vernon Shaw
Atharea Haynes
Lancaster
Henry
William
Haynes
C. W. Graham
Oak Grove
Leonard Funeral Service
Gunmen Shoot Man at Dresden Filling Station
H. E. Cullins, 52, was shot four times by two gunmen who invaded the Dresden filling station Saturday night and spoke to no one. Cullins is reported in critical condition. his son George, 16, says he had never seen the attackers before.
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Zanesville
H. E. Cullins
George
Cullins
Dresden
Interurban Line On Auction Block
SANDUSKY O Jan 3 AP The Lake Shore Electric Co seller of orange traction serving Toledo to Cleveland goes to auction at 11 am tomorrow at its barns near Sandusky Three hours later its rail subsidiary Sandusky Fremont and Southern railway will be sold at Fremont County Court House The road employs about 400 workers most of whom fear loss of jobs as buses may replace them The buyer will decide the fate F W Coen receiver notes private autos have undercut interurbans Bill Ackerman a longtime rail worker laments uncertainty
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Sandusky, O
Lake Shore Electric Co
Ohio
Toledo
Cleveland
Sandusky
Sandusky, Fremont and Southern Railway
Fremont
F. W. Coen
Bill Ackerman
Lake Erie
Leaders study jobless figures in census update
Washington reports that census figures show between 7.8 and 10.9 million Americans were unemployed in November. John D. Biggers notes the count increased since the snapshot, with results guiding federal relief decisions as WPA and other surveys underpin policy choices. In Chicago, relief financing is named a top 1938 priority by legislators, amid tax, finances, school aid, labor and liquor concerns.
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Washington
John D. Biggers
Ohio
Biggers
Works Progress Administration
Chicago
War Correspondent Edward J. Neil Jr Dies of Shrapnel Wounds
AP war correspondent Edward J. Neil Jr of the Spanish insurgent armies died in Zaragoza from shrapnel wounds suffered during a Teruel front counteroffensive. He was 37, one of three reporters wounded or killed when a 75 mm shell hit their automobile near Caude.
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Zaragoza
Spain
Edward J. Neil, Jr
Associated Press
Teruel
Red Cross
Caude
Bradish Johnson
Harvard
Spur
News Week
Sheepshanks
Reuters
Harry Philby
Times of London
Francisco Franco
Neil
Ohio Ends 1937 On Black Side
Ohio closes 1937 with a $1,986,500 positive ledger. State revenues reached $235,088,200 and expenditures $233,151,700, up from 1936 by $14,679,800 and $19,968,700 respectively. The liquor monopoly, excluded from state totals, brought in $54,194,800 and spent $39,194,000.
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Columbus
Ohio
Joseph T Ferguson
Perplexed motorist loses wife on New Year’s Eve ride
A Springfield man told Nelsonville police he lost his wife between Logan and Nelsonville after a series of missteps. The wife rode in front with the dog, exited on the opposite side at Logan, then rode to Haydenville and Chauncey by bus, while the husband drove on. She later rejoined him in Chauncey.
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Logan
Nelsonville
Hocking Valley
Lancaster
Springfield
Oldtown Bridge
Chauncey
Haydenville
Roosevelt Warns on Money Abuse Wrecking System
President Roosevelt warned Congress that misuse of capital imperils the economy and urged cooperation between capital, labor, and government. He outlined a broad policy agenda including a balanced budget not for next year, wage and hour reform revival, government reorganization, relief programs, and tax adjustments while stressing limits to government action and the need for national unity.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Congress of the
United States
House
Senate
Hoase Senate
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