Nephew's Automobile Kills Man Lying in Road Near Haydenville
Arthur Bond 44 died after being struck in fog on Red Row road near Haydenville. Driver Raymond Bond 23 said his uncle lay in the roadway when wheels passed over him. Coroner ruled accidental death. funeral planned at Haydenville Methodist Church with burial at Haydenville cemetery. Four children survive.
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Arthur Bond
Red Row
Haydenville
Raymond Bond
Vance Brian
Joe Farbeann
Court House
Farbearn
U. S. Route 33
Natco
Rea Row
Levi Bond
Nelsonville
Natco Mine
Clarence Nihiser
Lester Sparks
Kathryn Hogan
Bond
Route 33
Gerald
Herman
Thelma
Marjorie
Ilinois
George
John
Billy
Orla Bond
Ernest Weed
Simon Bond
Pearl Bond
Shawnee
Naomi Cochran
Lancaster
W. A. Sterrett
Akron
Paul Radnoff
Cleveland
Haydenville Methodist Church
Heinlein Bros
Cans Sought for Murray WPA Canning Project
County Relief Director Everett Jacoby urged donations of used cans Saturday for the Murray City WPA canning program. With no funds to buy cans, residents were asked to call his office for pickup. Food from the WPA garden in Murray City would feed schoolchildren during the term unless can stock is found, risking spoilage.
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Everett Jacoby
Murray City
Jacoby
Gerald W. Lanning Former Hocking County Prosecutor Dies
Gerald W. Lanning 43 Logan attorney and former Hocking County prosecutor died suddenly in Columbus while working in the Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation office after 8:30 am the cause believed heat induced heart attack. He served as referee with the bureau board of review since last August and ran private practice from Stagecoach Inn. Survivors include his widow two children his mother and three brothers. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Gerald W. Lanning
Hocking County
Columbus
Logan
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Mr. Lanning
Stagecoach
Inn
Bureau
Board of Review
Logan High School
Cincinnati
Logan Post
American Legion
Knights of Pythias
First Methodist Church
Gladys Bebout Lanning
Ohio reapportionment plan likely to miss 1942 ballot
Cleveland observers say a plan to give larger cities more legislature seats probably won’t reach Ohio voters before 1942. Backed by AFL unions and urban groups, it faces resistance from rural interests and uncertain signature drives amid looming August filing deadlines.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
AFL
Cleveland Citizens’ League
John M. Hodson
Pioneer
Farm Bureau
William Corrigan
Ohio Federation For Equal Representation
Hodson
Ohio redeems over a quarter of stamps in first year
Ohio reports that more than a fourth of all sales tax stamps issued by merchants have been redeemed in the first year under the three percent face value. A total disbursement of $426,933 was recorded for stamp redemption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Toledo Legion endorses compulsory training at Ohio convention
The Toledo American Legion Post No. 335 approved a resolution endorsing conscription. The vote comes as members plan to present the resolution at the Ohio Legion convention in Toledo from August 25 to 27.
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Toledo
Toledo American Legionnaires
Ohio Legion Convention
Argentina Ready to Yield on Hemisphere Security Pact
Havana July 27 The lone holdout Argentina appeared ready to yield on a broad inter American accord to protect the western hemisphere from threats tied to European possessions. Delegates and Cantilo signaled progress as committees advanced proposals on economy and countering fifth column activity. Hull urged unanimous agreement while seeking to satisfy Argentine objections over collective trusteeship of colonies.
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Havana
Argentina
Peace Commission
Buenos Aires
Jose Maria Cantilo
Cordell Hull
United States
Europe
New World
Boy Electrocuted in Akron Bath Incident
William Leahy Jr., 13, died after stepping from a bath and touching a lamp. Coroner R. E. Ames said the electric current surged to a radiator contacted by his foot, causing the fatal shock.
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Akron
William Leahy, Jr
R. E. Ames
Feather's Report Highlights Court Fine Collections
The annual report by Clerk of Courts Don Feather shows 3 314.15 in fines and costs from July 1, 1939 to July 1, 1940. Cash collections totaled 869.13 with 145.22 as bail arid jail sentence payments. 2035.80 represented fines and costs.
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Don Feather
Common Pleas Court
State of
Ohio
Ohio Reformatory
Ohio National Guard expected to near double enlisted staff
Adj Gen Gilson D. Light moves to meet a war department order adding 91 officers. The Ohio National Guard may grow from 10,703 enlisted personnel toward 20,000 authorized, with officer strength rising to 836 by August 1. Promotions will place 44 officers up and 44 NCOs to second lieutenants. New officers assigned to 145th, 147th, 148th and 166th regiments.
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Columbus
Ohio National Guard
Adj
Gilson D. Light
War Department
Light
John Williams
National Guard Bureau
Washington
145Th Infantry Regiment
Cleveland
147Th Infantry
Cincinnati
148Th
French Sailors Rally To Aid Britain In Coastal Defense
French sailors hoisted their tricolor and Britain's white ensign to sail in their own ships against German bomber aided torpedo boats off English shores. More than 200 French warships are to be in British ports as free French crews gather. French pilots join the British in defense as Nazi bombers strike shipping near Northern Ireland.
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Britain
Germany
North Ireland
Eire
County Dads OK Paying Oil Bid In Murray City Project
Hocking County Commissioners approved a resolution from Murray City Council to sponsor street and alley improvements. The council provides all material supplies and trucks. the commission accepts sponsorship as part of the county road project. A bid of 760 for 16 000 gallons oil from Southern Ohio Quarries Chillicothe was awarded.
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Hocking
Hubert Lappen
Ohio
Chillicothe
Doctor saves child in Columbus marble removal
Dorothy Francis seven swallowed a marble and nearly choked when Dr. Charles F. Bowen quickly constructed a dredge like instrument with two brass cups to reach her throat and remove the marble. The successful procedure took place in Columbus Ohio on a July 27 AP report notes the swift intervention may have saved her life.
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Columbus
Dorothy Francis
Charles F. Bowen
Government to Speed Defense Building Plans
The defense chief says the United States can mobilize to equip 2,000,000 men as naval shipbuilding expands and a new 92 million dollar aircraft engine plant opens. Knudsen and Stettinius testify on funding while Senate debates a peacetime training bill and a 4.8 billion dollar appropriation.
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Washington
United States
Defense Industrial Chief
Naval Shipbuilding
William S. Knudsen
Defense Commission
Roosevelte
Knudsen
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
House
Senate
Atlantic Seaboard
Pacific
Gulf
Seattle
Los Angeles
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
RFC
Hamilton County
Ohio
Cincinnati
Seaboard
Wright
Relief on Way Cooling Rains Head Eastward
Record heat in Hocking County lasts over a week ending with the death of Gerald Lanning a 43 year old Logan attorney. Showers were forecast as the heat toll rose statewide with 48 deaths from heat drownings and lightning.
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Hocking County
Ohio
Associated Press
Mary Lanich
Franklin County
Middle West
Chicago
Milwaukee
Cleveland
Des Moines
Topeka
Heald Named President of Illinois Institute of Technology
H. T. Heald aged 35 former president of Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago has been elected president of the new Illinois Institute of Technology formed by merging Armour Institute and Lewis Institute. The move makes him the first head of the consolidated Chicago technical school.
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Armour Institute of Technology
Chicago
H. T. Heald
Illinois Institute of Technology
Armour Institute
Lewis Institute
Oregon Executes Man for Chetty Killing in Gas Chamber
Salem Oregon July 27 AP Claude E Cline 46 was executed after confessing to shooting George W Chetty 35 of Xenia Ohio and Eugene Rosenstiel of Portland both former mining partners in a lethal gas chamber penalty carried out yesterday in Salem.
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Salem
Ore
Oregon
George W. Chetty
Xenia
Claude E. Cline
Chetty
Eugene Rosenstiel
Portland
New Motor Plant To Employ 12 000 Workers
Wright Aeronautical announces a new Hamilton County motor plant expected to hire 12 000 to 15 000 workers. The Reconstruction Finance Corp funds 92 million dollars. site near Sharonville eyed. Construction to begin after war department contract talks.
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Cincinnati
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Hamilton County
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Morris Edwards
Chamber of Commerce
Willkie Begins Drafting Speech Ahead of Nomination
Wendell L. Willkie started drafting his acceptance speech in Colorado Springs with plans to finish a rough draft by tomorrow. He will focus on attacking machine politics and renew his lashing of the Kelly Nashes Hagues and Crumps while preparing for a public campaign in the South and a speech in Elwood Indiana on August 17. Some supporters floated a third party idea to capture Southern Democratic votes, though Willkie urged a real campaign rather than a phony one.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Wendell L. Willkie
Kelly-Nashes
Hagues
Crumps
Elwood
Ind
Willkie
South
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Murray
Dren
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Warren A. Lanning
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Wilbur
Lanning
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Feather
Wallace
Roosevelt
Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
White House
Irish
Highway Barn
Midwest
Gerald Lanning
Indiana
Edwards
Sharonville
William B. Ardery
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