Kidnapping Hunt Shuts Southwest Washington Roads
Tacoma and Shelton police and federal agents pursue two men in the Charles Mattson kidnapping case. Armored roadblocks and armed guards halt traffic as suspects reportedly demand a growing ransom and instruct the father to tell his son “everything is well.”
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Tacoma. Wash
W. W. Mattson
Charles
Seattle Daily Times
Tacoma
Wash
Washington
Charles Mattson
Clarence D. Martin
Shelton
E. W. Willson
State Police
Willson
Department of Justice
Mattson
G. R. Grubbe
Relief rolls fall in Hocking County in December
In Hocking County the December relief rolls declined to 312 persons on direct relief at year start. November ended with 344 recipients. December saw 400 people receive relief, with a monthly caseload of 132 and a year-start total of 104. Over 600 WPA workers have been interviewed about their financial condition.
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Hocking County
Frank Brown
WPA
Born New Year’s Day in Logan Route 1
Mr and Mrs Merrill Griffin of Logan Route 1 announce the birth of a son at 12 10 PM New Year’s Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merrill Griffin
Logan Route 1
Grand Jurors Called Today in January Term Court
Hocking County started its January term with 31 witnesses summoned as the grand jury began investigations of over 25 criminal cases. Judge Phil A. Henderson gave the first charge, Delmer Allen was named foreman, and Prosecutor Hubert Lappenbeck presented evidence to the panel. Members listed include Marcus Lohr John Smith Mrs. Otto Iles Frank Huffman Marion Kitchen John Rider Mrs. J. F. Brashares Delmer Allen William King Edgar Stillwell Mrs. Dan Roberts Wayne Hall George Sloan Bruce Brandt Henry Jacoby.
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Hocking County
Phil A. Henderson
Delmer Allen
Henderson
Hubert Lappen
Pope Pius Shows Slight Improvement In Health
Vatican City January 4 AP bulletin reports Pope Pius XI aged 79 regained strength as leg pain diminished and he enjoyed a quiet night. His circulatory ailments and weakened heart have kept him ill for a month, but doctors say his condition remains unchanged after the weekend.
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Vatican City
Pius
Governor May Act in Motors Tie-Up
In Cleveland and Detroit reports, police clashed with United Automobile Workers pickets at Fisher Body, injuring one officer and two strikers. About 200 pickets blocked entry, while General Motors plants faced industrial paralysis as eight strikes halted operations and 38,000 workers idle. Governor Murphy discussed mediation with UAW leaders and a workers board seeking arbitration if invited, amid plans for a possible general strike in 69 GM plants across 14 states.
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Cleveland
United Automobile Workers Union
Fisher Body Company
Lincoln R. Scafe
Associated Press
Detroit
General Motors Corp
United Automobile Workers
Frank Murphy
Homer Martin
Automobile Workers’ Union
Committee For Industrial Organization
Martin
Labor “Board of Strategy
General Motors
Automotive
Dems to Name Floor Leader in Opening Congress
Democratic House members raced to choose a floor leader to speed organizing the new Congress. The chieftain will work with Speaker Bankhead directing legislation as 332 Democrats meet for a caucus at 3 PM. John O’Connor and Sam Rayburn claimed first ballot victory amid whispers of a possible dark horse compromise.
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Washington
Democratic House
Bankhead
D-Ala
John O'Connor
New York
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Capitol
Prison Goods Act Upheld by Supreme Court
The 1935 Ashhurst Sumner Act was ruled constitutional, forbidding shipment of prison made goods into states that barred sale and requiring convict-manufactured labeling. The Court also refused to rule on a major part of the federal social security act taxing employers for unemployment benefits.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Ward Township Baby Believed First Born in Hocking County This Year
Elden Roy Stufflebean, 4 days old, son of Edward and unnamed Stufflebean of Nelsonville Ward Township, is thought to be Hocking County’s first 1937 birth. If unchallenged by Thursday midnight, Elden Roy will be named Mr 1937 and claim gifts from Logan merchants after a New Year’s Day 1:15 AM birth.
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Ward Township
Hocking County
Elden Roy
Edward Stufflebean
Nelsonville
Logan
Logan Daily News
W. B. Lacock
Stufflebeans
Dorr Run Road
Hocking
Stufflebean
Partment
Merrill Griffin
West Logan
Lethia Starr
Gilbert-Martin
Madrid maps reprisal plan against German sea forces
Basque officials in Bilbao report uncovering long range coast batteries for practice fire on patrol routes of two German warships. Spanish government pledges naval reprisal after the Koenigsberg’s seizure of the Marta Juquera near Cape Ajo. Foreign Minister Del Vayo vows swift response to every German aggression.
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London
Bilbao
Spain
Madrid
Koenigsberg
Cape Ajo
Santander
Bay of Biscay
Germany
Valencia
Julio Alvarez del Vayo
Berlin
Marta Juquera
New Faces in 92nd Assembly
Ohio's 92nd General Assembly convened in Columbus on January 4 with 105 Democrats and 33 Republicans in the House and 31 Democrats with four Republicans in the Senate. The session aims for seating new members and organization, while Gov. Davey pushes no new taxes and a $70 million tax program. A budget committee plans to report soon on 1937-38 appropriations, poor relief funding of about $221 million, and an extra $4 million for the school foundation program.
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Columbus
Ohio
92Nd General Assembly
House
Senate
Martin L. Davey
91St Assembly
Funeral services held for Mrs George W Hart in Lancaster
Funeral services were held in Lancaster today for Mrs. George W. Hart who died at her home Saturday. Burial was at South Perry. Mrs Hart was a sister of Mrs. James E. Campbell and George W. Seesholtz of South Perry.
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Lancaster
George W. Hart
South Perry
Hart
James E. Campbell
George W. Seesholtz
Lover dynamited, she escapes in Sioux Falls plot
Helen Sieler, 25, wounded with eight bullet holes and Harold Baker blown to bits after a dynamite death plot near Sioux Falls. She named three executioners and linked the attack to fears she would testify about a $37,000 jewelry store robbery in Sioux City. Police search wide for suspects.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Helen Sieler
Miss Sieler
Harold Baker
Baker
Sioux City
Logan High Girl Paralyzed After School Injury
A 16 year old Logan High School student developed paralysis days after an injury at a gymnasium exhibition. She has received local medical treatment. The article ties her case to the extended Wolfe family jinx linked to multiple past deaths and injuries tracing back to World War I.
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Logan High School
Miss Wolfe
Wolfe
Roy
Joshua Wolfe
Ted Wolfe
Haydenville
Logan
The
Man Marooned With Santa Claus Above Bierly’s Market
Warren Cannon, while taking down Christmas decorations before Bierly’s Market, borrowed a ladder from Armstrong Hardware and climbed to a ledge. The owners then took back the ladder, leaving Cannon stranded over twelve feet above the street with only a pasteboard Santa for company until Raymond Bierly found a replacement ladder to rescue him.
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Bierly’s
Warren Cannon
Armstrong Hardware Store
Cannon
Santa Claus
Raymond Bierly
Elks Hold Inspection and Initiation Tonight
Logan Elks will conduct inspection and initiation ceremonies at the club rooms with Charles Fast of Columbus, district deputy grand exalted ruler, as inspecting officer. A buffet supper will follow the ceremonies.
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Logan Elks
Charles Fast
Columbus
Newark Girl Kidnaped by Admirer in Ohio
Wesley Wheeler urged police as he filed an abduction charge against Arthur Spence for allegedly forcing his wife Onie Wheeler into an automobile near Newark’s public square. The 18 year old missing woman and Spence, a 32 year old man, vanished after a car stopped the Shaffers and Wheeler duo. The highway patrol broadcast an alarm and searched toward Columbus with no trace yet.
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Newark
Wesley Wheeler
Arthur Spence
Onie Wheeler
Onie
Highway Patrol
State Highway Patrol
Columbus
Richard Shaffer
Wheeler
Spence
Shaffers
Fatal Route 31 crash claims Nathan Newman in 1937
Hocking County records a fatal traffic accident when Nathan Newman sixty was struck along Route 31 near Logan late Saturday. He died Sunday morning at Cherrington Hospital from a ruptured brain after a rear end collision with a car driven by Claude Burns twenty. Burns, accompanied by Ralph Durst, reported braking on a wet road causing the skid that struck Newman. Nathan Newman’s son Floyd, an army man home on furlough, witnessed the incident. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 2 PM at Leonard Funeral Home with burial at Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Hocking County
Nathan Newman
Smith’s Chapel
Logan
Dougherty Farm
Newman
Cherrington Hospital
Claude Burns
Ralph Durst
Floyd Newman
Charles Notestone
A. F. Evans
Burns
Haydenville
Young Newman
Hubert Lappen
Jake Mohler
Whitcraft
Nathan C
Honolulu
H. I
Theodore
Floyd
Columbus
John
New Straitsville
James
Nelsonville
Mary Ward
Leonard Funeral Home
Oak Grove Cemetery
City Jail Lodges 350 Hoboes in 1936
Police Chief Lew Reynolds announced the city jail housed 350 hoboes seeking lodging during 1936. Addresses covered nearly every state. Six transients are already listed for 1937, five for one night, the second January.
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Lew Reynolds
Union
City
James Colbert Jr Arrested in Athens on Fine Charge
James Colbert Jr aged 26 of Melsonville Route 2 was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Smith in Athens and jailed in Ing County to begin a fine from a prior charge related to a Price's filling incident in Athens County.
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James Colbert, Jr
Melsonmeville
Athens
Smith
Ing County
Price
Athens County
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Hocking Co
Tugwell
Milburn L. Wilson
Montana
Rexford G. Tugwell
Wilson
Roosevelt
Lappen
Michigan
Scafe
DEMS
Central Press
William
Muriel Mattson
Virginia Chatfield
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