Ohio license stickers go on sale in Columbus. births and fire patrols noted
The first Ohio auto license sticker buyers included Karl Poling and Carl Durant in Columbus while Thurman Thompson bought the first truck license. Charles and Mrs Hopkins of Logan welcomed an 82 pound daughter named Martha Jean amid family milestones. Ohio forestry officials report a successful fall fire season with aerial patrols across 19 counties. 183 fires observed, 27 out of control, kept in check by wardens and pilots, saving timber and buildings.
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Ohio
C. S. Chichester
North Spring Street
Karl Poling
Logan Barber
Carl Durant
Thurman Thompson
New Straitsville
Charles Hopkins
Logan
Martha Jean
Lydia Huffines
Junction City
Jacob Sater
Ohio Division of Forestry
Civic Air Patrol
O. A. Alderman
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Forestry Department
New Philadelphia
Cambridge
Zanesville
Athens
Fear Many Die In Montana Coal Mine Disaster
Bear Creek Montana reports 74 coal miners entombed by a Saturday explosion. Bodies were recovered today in small groups, thirteen found so far and only two identified. Rescue work continues amid dangerous gas and carbon monoxide hazards as hopes of survivors fade.
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Bear Creek
Mont
Pensioners urged to help harvest crops in Ohio
Ohio officials urge able bodied pensioners to assist farmers in salvaging corn and soybeans still in the field. Wages earned would be treated as casual employment and would not reduce monthly pension benefits, says Karl R. Rabb, chief of the Division of Aid for the Aged.
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Columbus, O
Karl R. Rabb
Division of Aid For the
Weather Delays Allied Interceptors In Pacific Clash
Allied airmen waited for clear skies as a 14 ship Japanese convoy, one of the largest in the sector, moved from New Britain toward New Guinea. The weather front kept patrols grounded while MacArthur warned of Japan concentrating ships, planes, and men in the islands north of Australia.
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Australia
Southwest Pacific
New Britain
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Rabaul
Salamaua
Lae
MacArthur
Pupils Get Holiday After Janitors Strike
East Liverpool Ohio March 2 1931 Pupil attendance halted as 17 public elementary schools dismissed due to janitors' no show leaving buildings unheated Superintendent H G Means announced 3300 children sent home Perle C Sheets president of the AFL Building and Service Employees Union said janitors asked for 12 month contracts instead of nine month term a week earlier but officials acted none.
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East Liverpool
H. G. Means
Perle C. Sheets
AFL Building and Service Employes Union
Board of Education
Robbery Suspects Nabbed in Kansas City
The FBI announced the arrest of William Isaac Radhay and Samuel Icketts in Kansas City today for a bank robbery in Cincinnati last November 23. The third suspect remains at large.
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Kansas City
FBI
William Isaac Radhay
Samuel Icketts
Cincinn
Brehm Proposes Southeastern Ohio Legislative Bloc
Rep Walter Brehm of Logan writes to six from Southeastern Ohio proposing a regional legislative bloc to unite the 30 counties interests. He outlines a long term program and a meeting to discuss legislation that would benefit the entire state by turning districts into an asset.
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Columbus Citizen
Southeastern Ohio
Walter Brehm
Brehm
Solons attempt to revise labor bill in Ohio
Three Ohio state senators formed a sub committee to shape a revised Ross bill aimed at expanding womanpower and youth in war industries amid labor shortages. The panel debated labor law relaxations, with employers backing broader limits while labor pushes for a suspending commission. Ted Gray said no passage date set as sessions yielded first compromise between camps.
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Columbus
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Theodore M. Gray
Amiami
Fred G. Reiners
Hamilton
E. E. Addison
Franklin
Ted F. Silvey
Ohio Cio
Gray
Organized Labor
Labor
Fire damages warehouse at Aluminum and Magnesium firm
Sandusky date March 2 A warehouse at the Aluminum and Magnesium Inc plant suffered damage from a fire that lasted into the night and briefly threatened the main facility leaving material losses unknown
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Sandusky, O
Aluminum and Magnesium, Inc
Legion to Meet Tuesday Night At Legion Hall
Members of the American Legion are urged to attend a meeting to be held Tuesday night at 8 P M in the Legion Hall.
Hunt 18 Year-Old Sought in Ranch Slaying Mystery
Payburn California officials hunted 18 year old Raymond Latshaw after a mass slaying at Latshaw Ranch left Amos Latshaw 38 and family dead. Sheriff Silva believes Amos killed his wife Ollie 39, father Charley 57, mother Bertha 95, and son Charles 6, then fell into a well.
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Payburn
Calif
Strangle Ranch
Charles H. Silva
Raymond Latshaw
Amos Latshaw
Amos
Latshaw
Silva
Ollie
Charley Latshaw
Bertha
Charles 6
Public menaced by diseased meat warned by expert
Washington report says the Senate Agriculture Committee heard that the worst black market in meat threatens public health due to diseased animals. Wilbur L. La Roe Jr. of the National Independent Meat Packers Association blamed price squeezes and quotas, urging a guaranteed maximum production of livestock and use of processing plants.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Wilbur L. la Roe, Jr
National Independent Meat Packers Association
Illustrated Rationing Lecture Is Scheduled
L. H. Edmonds of the Office of Price Administration will visit Logan Thursday and present an illustrated lecture on point rationing at the high school auditorium at 8 P M CWT. The talk targets restaurateurs grocers industrial concerns and the general public.
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Logan
Klapp named secretary of State Industrial Commission
Ralph Klapp dean of Franklin University college of law is appointed to succeed Richard Hildebrant as secretary of the State Industrial Commission in Columbus Ohio. Hildebrant recently became an appellate court judge.
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Columbus, O
Ralph Klapp
Franklin University College of Law
State Industrial Commisson
Richard Hildebrant
Call Demonstration At Consolidated Plant
In San Diego Calif AFL air craft union calls a second 24 hour demonstration at the Consolidated plant amid delays from the War Labor Board on wage disputes. Earlier a similar 24 hour meeting was set at the Boeing plant in Seattle after an all day AFL session.
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San Diego
Calif
AFL
Consolidated
AFL Aeronautical Industrial Lodge
Boeing
Seattle
H. C. Brown
Handicapped Workers Told Must Be Employed By Employers
Ohio War Manpower Commission official Wade Hammond urges employers to tap handicapped labor, citing a national first analysis. In January 1317 job seekers, about 20 percent were skilled, and 26 percent of that group had impairments remediable by treatment. Prospects look good for roughly one quarter, with half having fair chances and 23 percent deemed virtually unemployable without rehabilitation or training.
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Columbus
Ohio
Wade Hammond
War Manpower Commission
Hammond
Air War Expands as Tunisian Advance Continues
Allied forces push through central Tunisia reclaiming territory from Rommel including Sbeitla and Feriana while Naples, Palermo, and Berlin suffer heavy bombings. British and American air fleets press a around the clock assault as troops advance, capture Kassarine and threaten Beja and Medjez El Bab. German counterattacks slow with losses, including tanks and prisoners.
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Carl C. Cranmer
Associated Press
Berlin
RAF
Tunisia
Erwin Rommel
Mediterranean
Axis
Naples
Sbeitla
Reichsmarshal Goering
Germany
Italy
Moscow
North Africa
Feriana
Kasserine
Rommel
Sidi Bouzid
Faid Pass
Gafsa
Britain
Mareth Line
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Jurgen von Arnim
Beja
Medjez-El-Bab
Palermo
Sicily
U S May Take Full Control Of New Bases
Washington March 2 talk of a permanent transfer to the United States of Western Hemisphere bases leased from Britain topped Capitol Hill agenda alongside tax and manpower bills. Senator Tydings said he was drafting an amendment to lend lease to permit international swapping for the bases in exchange for 50 over age destroyers. House action on companion measures was awaited. A 20 percent withholding levy plan was approved by a Ways and Means subcommittee for July 1.
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Washington
United States
Tydings
D-Md
Senate
House
Ways and Means
Beardsley Ruml
Knox Questions Effectiveness of Sub Base Raids
Navy Secretary Knox said aerial bombings of German U boat bases in northern France were doing some damage by disrupting submarine life. He estimated 300 to 400 submarines available and noted that some stalls are heavily protected. He added there is no evidence of increased U boat activity in the Atlantic and called the Atlantic situation stable.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
France
Atlantic
Cadets Begin Studies in Alliance Ohio
Approximately 200 Army aviation cadets commence studies in Alliance Ohio as part of a training program.
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Alliance
Army Aviation
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