Roosevelt budget projects record debt and deficits for 1939
President Roosevelt sent a budget to Congress forecasting a net deficit of 1.088 billion dollars for the current year and 949.6 million for the next twelve months, with public debt peaking at 38.528 billion by June 30, 1939. The plan calls for spending cuts, relief and defense funding boosts, and a possible further expansion if needed to aid families and national security.
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Roosevelt
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Mr. Roosevelt
Ohio House blocks vote on new inquiry in graft probe
The Ohio senate continuing its graft-hunting inquiry faced no House interference as the investigation pressed on. Alfred Iumphrey, liquor enforcement chief, was summoned after evidence showed eight highway department workers drew pay while serving two to six weeks at Franklin County Democratic headquarters.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio Senate
House of Representatives
Alfred Iumphrey
Highway Department
Franklin County
Senate
House
Davey
Nine of ten indicted men arraigned in county case
Seven of ten men indicted by the January grand jury were arraigned this afternoon before Judge Phil A. Henderson. Craven Nihiser pleaded not guilty to second degree manslaughter in the death of Mrs. Mary Krannitz and was held for trial January 17 on $1000 bond. Others pleaded guilty or not guilty to thefts and non support as the court weighed sentences and future hearings.
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Phil A. Henderson
Craven Nihiser
Haydenville
Mary Krannitz
Nihiser
John Cecil
Wellston
Logan Telephone Co
Ohio
Hubert Lappen
CNN
Henderson
Weakley
Carl Adkins
Springfield
Joe Thomas
Logan
Frank Pieterowski
Greendale
Clifford Mason
Logan Route 4
Insurgents Launch Fresh Offensive at Teruel
Insurgent forces seek to seize Teruel within three days as snow slows heavy weapons. Outside the city, insurgents say they advance on the government line while inside a beleaguered garrison resists near the pounded refuges. In the Orient, Japan asserts control over former Chinese government functions in Shanghai and occupied China, signaling news censorship abroad.
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Teruel
Orient
Shanghai
China
Bank Call for Condition of Banks Issued
The comptroller of the currency ordered a report on all national banks as of December 31. In Columbus, the state superintendent of banks issued a similar call for all state banks to report their condition as of December 31.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
Columbus, O
State Superintendent of Banks
Near Showdown On Relief Issue In Ohio Senate
Ohio Senate neared a showdown on 1938 poor relief as urban lawmakers press for rapid action. The taxation and relief committee backed the Lawrence bill to fund delinquent tax collections and began weighing the house plan. The house proposed about 12 million for relief with 3.25 million locally, while the senate favored 7.5 million with dollar matching.
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Ohio
Senate
House
Crosbys Welcome Fourth Son In Hollywood Birth
Mrs. Bing Crosby gave birth today to her fourth son in Hollywood. The newborn adds to the family of the crooning film star, with news released by AP from the January 5 report.
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Hollywood
Bing Crosby
Defeats Heflin For Senate Seat In Alabama
Rep. Lister Hill, a Roosevelt ally, defeats former senator Hugo L. Black’s seat in a sweeping Alabama primary. Heflin, ill with pneumonia at 68, unaware of primary day, loses to Hill and Charles W. Williams as Hill advances to serve out Black’s term ending January 1939.
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Ala
Lister Hill
Roosevelt
Senate
Hugo L. Black
Tom” Heflin
Heflin
Alabama
Montgomery
House of Representatives
Hill
Lafayette
Charles W. Williams
Black
Continue Probe Of Parole Board
The grand jury probing Ohio parole irregularities plans to push into pardons granted by former Gov. George White. A subpoena will be issued for S. P. Dunkle, White's executive secretary on clemency. White testified for 90 minutes as Marino slaying links to the underworld are explored.
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Columbus
George White
George Hurley
S. P. Dunkle
White
Roy
Happy) Marino
Youngstown
Marino
Underworld
American Identifies Woman Named Mrs Donald L Robinson in Moscow
An American in Moscow identified a passport photo as Ruth Marie Rubens of New York who used the name Mrs Donald L Robinson before disappearing in December. The woman was interviewed at a Moscow hotel, later vanished on December 9 and is now reported under arrest. The identification was sent to the U S State Department in Washington.
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Moscow
Ruth Marie Rubens
New York
Donald L. Robinson
1937 Schedule Of Tax Rates Announced For Hocking County
County officials publish the 1937 tax rates for every subdivision in Hocking County. Overall rates slip from 5.76 to 4.5 mills, with school levies ranging from 4.05 to 13.05 mills. Laurelville raises to 21.20 mills after a bond issue for fire equipment, while Murray City remains the highest at 32.30 mills. Logan City totals drop to 17.20 mills, with its general levy at 3.70 mills and the Logan School District at 15.65 mills.
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Oroville
Pickaway
Murray City
Laurelville
Logan City
Logan
Kidnap Suspect Cuts Fate After Jail Jump
Richmond Indiana January 5 AP Harry C Walter 52 and William Marcum 30 arrested last night for Christmas Eve kidnaping of Centerville banker son. Walter leaped from a jail balcony suffering a fractured skull in what officers call apparent suicide attempt. Detectives Richard son Foster and Officer Pickering traced the case near Muncie, finding Marcum admitting involvement.
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Richmond
Ind
Harry C. Walter
William Marcum
Centerville
Ernest Richardson
Fred Foster
William Pickering
Muncie
Long Vanished Boundaries Haunt Hocking County Land Sales
Tax delinquent property sales in Hocking County will face many issues, especially in fixing exact boundary lines. Descriptions from early records, often vague and archaic, complicate abstracts and title work. Even roads and landmarks long forgotten render deeds murky, risking disputes and delays at sale.
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Bill Miller
Hocking County
Ford Chief's Daughter Elopes to Indiana Marriage
The 17 year old Trudie Bennett, daughter of Harry Bennett Ford's personnel director, disappeared from Michigan State Normal College in Ypsilanti, triggering reports of abduction. She reportedly eloped to Auburn, Indiana, marrying 21 year old Russell Hughes, a fellow student.
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Harry Bennett
Ford Motor Company
Michigan State Normal College
Ypsilanti
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Auburn
Ind
Russell Hughes
Farmhand sought in triple slaying near North Lima
Three states join hunt for a 21 year old farmhand after Henry Baumeister 35 his wife 40 and Theodore Baumeister 60 were found dead on a side road farm near North Lima. Henry was killed by a shotgun blast while the others were hacked. The missing worker and a quarrel over wages were noted by neighbors.
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Elser
Sheriff's Deputies
Theodore Baumeister
Youth Admits Slaying Widow in Philadelphia Case
Wendell Forrest Bowers, 23, sought since December 13 for the slaying of Pennsylvania widow Mrs. Wilma Carpenter, confessed to the crime in Louisville after fingerprint checks identified him. He faces arraignment on a federal charge of flight to avoid prosecution on the Pennsylvania murder count, with Miss Mary Griffin, 22, as a surviving witness.
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Louisville
Wendell Forrest Bowers
Pennsylvania
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Wilma V. Carpenter
Philadelphia
Bowers
U. S
Ray Kirchdorfer
Pane of Glass Leads to Arrest in Ohio
In Toledo on January 5, Herbert G. Stull a 35 year old paroled convict was arrested on counterfeiting charges after passing counterfeit silver certificate ten dollar notes. He was traced to his home in Vickery after paying for a window pane with one of the bills in Whitehouse Ohio. Ira A. Brought head of the U S Secret Service Bureau reported the counterfeit activity occurred in the last three days.
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Toledo
Whitehouse
Herbert G. Stull
Ira A. Brought
U.S Secret Service Bureau
Thes
Vickery
Hocking County Officers Make Year’s First Arrest
Hocking County officers arrested an individual yesterday afternoon on a secret indictment for non support. Police did not release the suspect’s name or the precise charge details pending further inquiry.
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Hocking County
Clifford Mason
Logan Route 4
Logan to Name Honor Baby Tomorrow in County Result
Hocking County's 1938 Honor Baby will be named tomorrow with carload of gifts from Logan merchants. Jackie Lee Dexter is the only claimant so far, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dexter of Washington Ave Logan. He was born at 6:10 pm Monday at Cherrington Hospital.
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Hocking County
Logan
Jackie Lee Dexter
Jack Dexter
Washington Ave
Jackie Lee
Cherrington Hospital
Logan Daily News
Widow seeks electric chair for two in bus driver murder
In Newark on January 5, an unsmiling widow faces two girls charged in the $2.10 holdup slaying of her bus driver husband. Ethel S Jouw Sohl, 20, daughter of a Newark radio policeman and wife of a reformatory inmate, and 17 year old Genevieve Owens are held after meeting in the house of detention.
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Newark
N. J
Ethel S Jouw Sohl
Genevieve Owens
E.hel
Advanced age triggers Supreme Court justice retirement
Associate Justice George Sutherland notified President Roosevelt of his retirement from the Supreme Court effective January 18 1938. He will be 76 in March, ending 15 years on the bench under the Summers retirement act. The move follows Willis Van Devanter's 78 retirement last June and narrows the court to two conservatives.
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George Sutherland
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
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High Court
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