Luxury airliner crash in Arkansas kills 17
A press report details the crash of the American airliner Southerner in a Arkansas swamp near Goodwin. Seventeen dead include 12 men four women and a child amid mangled wreckage and scattered parts over a 400 by 15 yard area.
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ED L. Campbell
The
Associated Press
Goodwin
Ark
Arkansas
Little Rock
Los
W. R. Dyess
Works Progress
Frank C. Hart
Hartol Products Co
J. C. Crawford
St. Francis County
W. S. Hardwicke
Beardstown
Congress In Recess As Committees Hear War Loan Bills
Senate in recess as the Munitions Committee continues war loan hearings with J P Morgan and partners. Foreign Relations and Finance panels study neutrality, liquor tax, independence offices funding, and war and agriculture supply bills. Agriculture committee hears AAA replacement talks.
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Senate
Munitions Committee
J. P. Morgan and Partners
Foreign Relations Committee
Appropriations
Foreign Affairs Committee
Finance
Agriculture and Forestry Committee
Agriculture and Foresttry Committee
AAA
Ign
President Expected to Sign Senate Bonus Payment Bill
A high Democratic official says it is a pretty good bet President Roosevelt will sign the senate baby bond bonus payment bill this week. The Senate Finance Committee approved the measure 15 to 2 with two dissenters, while Morgenthau warned the expenditure would not help the bond market. The official argues 11.3 billion dollars is not alarming and notes 5.0 billion dollars of refunding would not raise the debt.
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Authority
Senate
Washington
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Senate Finance Committee
Couzens
Two Walton Children Die In Cottage Fire
In Athens Ohio a fire destroyed a three room cottage killing Thelma 9 and Wilma Jeane 2, daughters of Frank Walton. Mrs Walton was critically burned as she tried to save them, while Frank Jr 11 and Dickie 7 were unharmed. Coroner L F Jones suspects an overheated stove caused the blaze.
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Athens, O
Frank Walton
Morriston
Walton
Thelma
Wilma Jeane
Frank, Jr
Dickie
Grange Proposes 10 Point Plan to Replace AAA
The National Grange, leading U S farm group, submitted a 10 point program to the Senate agricultural committee in Washington aimed at a new national farm plan to replace the AAA.
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Grange
Washington
National Grange
America
Senate Agricultural Committee
AAA
Reno Chums Plan to Trade Husbands for Remarriage
Two Reno divorced women, Gladys Burnett and Desiree Werder, plan to swap husbands after divorces. Attorneys say each will marry the other’s ex, with Werder intending to wed Burnett within months. L. E. Werder escorts both women at court and will care for the Werders’ baby Betty Lou until the exchange.
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Reno
Nev
Gladys J. Burnett
Desiree D. Werder
Redwood City
Calif
Roy E. Burnett, Jr
William M. Werder
Harry Swanson
Mrs. Werder
Burnett
Werders
Murnetts
Relief bill clashes with House as relief funds dwindle
Columbus Ohio January 15 AP Prospects for a six month relief program faded as the emergency 1.5 million dollar limit neared expiry in 16 days Speaker J Freer Bittinger called the Senate amended Marlow Kilpatrick relief bill ridiculous and refused to act unless requested by the House The 10.5 million appropriation would fund needs for six months but Bittinger warned it would require 30 million to finance this year He said the Senate amendment would bankrupt the state treasury and the bill should not be considered The bill sits in the Senate clerk's office awaiting amendments and a conference committee Cuyahoga County reported no funds available and faced possible Red Cross appeal Bittinger urged passage of the Laderman bill to aid Lucas county.
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Columbus, CO
J. Freer Bittinger
House
Senate
Scores
Bittinger
Cuyahoga
Ohio
James A. Reynolds
Red Cross
Laderman
Lucas
Insurance Agent Kills Two Daughters Then Himself
Albert Adams Sr., 45, a life insurance company agent in Macon Georgia, shot and killed his two daughters Helen eight and Emma sixteen at the family home in Vineville before fatally wounding himself. Police reported the deaths occurred today with Adams dying later in a Macon hospital. Mrs Adams could not provide a motive, saying he was in good spirits the previous night.
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Macon
Albert Adams
Vineville
Helen
Emma
Adams
Deranged mother kills three children in West Chester
Mrs. Joseph Oberle apparently became temporarily deranged and beat her three children to death with a three foot pinch bar as they slept in West Chester Pennsylvania before attempting suicide. The scene was found by investigators shortly after dawn.
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West Chester
Joseph Oberle
Athens County Man Dies in Accident
Floyd Douglas a 30 year old farmer of Athens County was killed near Darwin Ohio on State Route 31 when his car skidded off a 15 foot embankment and overturned. His two companions Mr and Mrs Clarence Bennett of Athens escaped with minor injuries. Douglas was father of three.
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Pomeroy
Floyd Douglas
Atheng-co
Darwin
Douglas
Clarence Bennett
Athens
Attorneys for Bruno Hauptmann Seek Late Reprieve
In Trenton on January 15 AP reports Hauptmann’s lawyers seeking a last minute reprieve to delay the electric chair for the Lindbergh baby killer. They planned to appeal to Gov Harold G Hoffman after federal habeas corpus loss. The court had refused a writ and stay, blocking further federal relief.
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Dale Harrison
Trenton
N. J
Bruno Hauptmann
Hauptmann
Warren J. Davis
Davis
Court of Errors and Appeals
Supreme Court of the United States
Wesleyans Protest ROTC at Ohio University
The Wesley Foundation at Ohio University scheduled a mass meeting for Friday to oppose the proposed Reserve Officers Training Corps unit. Sherwood Eddy was to address students and faculty as over 100 area ministers joined the protest, while Athens groups like the American Legion and local businessmen supported the ROTC plan.
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Athens
Wesley Foundation
Ohio University
Sherwood Eddy
Ohio
Foundation
ROTC
the Alleghanies
Athens American Legion
Girl in Religious Trance Kept Five Days in Prayer Room
Dr Edward Fisher examined Shirley Tapp 17 Dearborn Mich high school girl in a religious trance on a divan where she lay five days before doctors ordered her moved to a bedroom Miss Tapp a member of the Full Salvation Union sect entered trance after attending a cult and was surrounded by co-religionists with a loudly thumping piano awaiting awakening
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Edward Fisher
Shirley Tapp
Dearborn, Mich
Miss Tapp
Full Salvation Union
Italy Declares Arms Victory On Ethiopian Front
Italian communique reports Somaliland forces repulsing Ras Desta Demtu's drive on the Dolo front in a vigorous action. Marshal Badoglio says fighting continues along the front and Italian losses are not serious. Britain weighs fresh penalties against Italy at the League council session in London.
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Dolo Front
Associated Press
Italy
Dolo
Pietro Badoglio
East Africa
Ras Desta Demtu
London
Anthony Eden
League of Nations Council
British novelist Cyn thia Stockley found dead in London home
London report says Cyn thia Stockley, noted British novelist, was discovered dead at her flat with a gas tube in her mouth and the body near a gas fire. A friend arrived after the death was found and alerted authorities.
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London
Cynthia Stockley
Judge blocks NLRB interference with two Massachusetts firms
Federal Judge Elisha H. Brewster issued a temporary restraining order restraining the National Labor Relations Board from interfering with the management of two Massachusetts corporations cited before the board for alleged Wagner-Connery labor law violations. The ruling centers on the pending actions against the firms.
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Restrains Labor Board
Boston
National Labor Relations Board
Massachusetts
Elisha H. Brewster
Japanese Delegates Leave Parley at Naval Conference
The Japanese delegation plans a farewell appearance before withdrawing from efforts to restrict fleets. Admiral Nagano will summarize Japan's position in a valedictory statement and a formal note to Viscount Monsell will announce observers for future talks while ending the delegation.
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Osami Nagano
Japan
Viscount Monsell
Toledo Chief Orders Vice Squad Clean-Up
Police Chief Daniel Wolfe ordered a vice squad cleanup after a conference with City Manager John N. Edy. The meeting followed a missing 13 year old girl who said she had lived in two disorderly houses and worked as a nude dancer in two night clubs.
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Toledo
Daniel Wolfe
John N. Edy
Vital Half Hour Key In Trial Of J P Westwood
Pittsburgh report on the James J. Westwood trial over his wife’s slaying. The case hinges on a crucial half hour after midnight July 10 with alibi claims that he and Constable Drexler were away at Eddie Peyton roadhouse until after 2 am. Witness times and clock readings drive the prosecution defense battle.
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J. P
Pittsburgh
Justice of the
James J. Westwood
McKees Rocks
Chauncey Prager
Bertha Westwood
Squires
Martha Westwood
Westwood
Tim Drexler
Eddie Peyton
Prager
Drexler
William Colehan
John Slovik
Coleman
Slovik
Logan Council hears survey on local gas rate fairness
PUCO engineers presented an unofficial survey to Logan City Council proposing a local gate rate of about 0.1204 per met, based on gas from United Fuel and distribution costs. The report, read by O F Foster and Paul E B Weiland, notes the rate is nonbinding and tied to ongoing Columbus case before Ohio’s Supreme Court.
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Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Logan
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Council
O. F. Foster
Paul EB. Weiland
PUCO
Commission
Clarence H. Kinsley
Foster
Weiland
Public Utilities Commission
United Fuel
Ohio River
Columbia Gas
Columbus
Supreme Court of Ohio
Five More Guests Rules Change at Local Theatre
Five Logan Daily News subscribers who present today's paper at Chakeres Logan Theatre receive a free ticket. Guest tickets are valid only on the dates shown on the ticket.
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Logan Daily News
Chakeres Logan Theatre
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