Damages, Injunction Sought Over Hot Mix Suit
Columbus March 14 AP a tax payer suit in common pleas seeks injunction and punitive damages estimated 4 to 10 million from contractors supplying Hot Mix paying materials to the state. Attorney Agens B Dickinson names Highway Director John J Jaster 22 Hot Mix Bituminous Industries and Clifford Simpson. Governor Davey urges engineers to vindicate themselves after senate committee charges overcharged estimates.
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Columbus
Common Pleas Court
Agens B. Dickinson
John J. Jaster
Hot Mix Bituminous Industries
Clifford Simpson
Dickinson
Senate
Martin L. Davey
Jaster
Harry Sparks
Sparks
Reed Winegardner
Miss McKinley Dies In Columbus
Ruth McKinley aged 16 daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles McKinley near Logan died this morning at Children's Hospital Columbus of leukemia after months of illness and blood transfusions. Blood donor Ewald Schmitter of Logan gave a pint two weeks ago. A brother Leonard attends Logan High School. Funeral arrangements are with Leonard Funeral Service.
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Ruth Mc ®Kinley
Charles McKinley
Logan
Children's Hospital, Columbus
Miss McKinley
Ewald Schmitter
Leonard
P Logan High School
Lyda Roberti Actress Dies at 32 in Hollywood
Lyda Roberti, famed actress and daughter of a famous clown, died Saturday after a heart ailment. Born in Warsaw, she appeared on Broadway and in films such as Three Cornered Moon and The Kid From Spain. Her husband Hugh Ernst, a radio announcer, and sister Manya survive.
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Hollywood
Lyda Roberti
Spain
Roberti
Warsaw
Poland
Hugh Ernst
Manya
Capone Loses Appeal Over Parole Eligibility
Washington reports former Chicago gang leader Al Capone failed in the Supreme Court to escape a one year term in Cook county jail at the end of his 10 year Alcatraz sentence for income tax evasion. Time off for good behavior would end the sentence January 19, 1939. He was eligible for parole September 3, 1935 but the application was denied.
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Capone
Washington
Alphonse Capone
Chicago
Supreme Court
Cook County
Alcatraz
Private probe continues into Coleman charges by school board
The county school board pursued a private investigation into charges against Superintendent J W Coleman begun Saturday night. Nine signers of the original removal petition testified as the board, advised by Prosecutor Hubert Lappen, reviews efficiency and duty neglect claims and whether to file formal charges or dismiss. Coleman watched from an outer room as attorneys for accusers observed. no action on minutes or petitions was taken.
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Bill Miller
J. W. Coleman
County School Board
Coleman
Hubert Lappen
Lappen
Eiter
John Kelso
Nelsonville
Bertye P. Correll
Fred Murray
Eugene Wright
Clarence Skinner
Samuel Dillon
Dave Thorne
Darrow Dies, Noted Lawyer of Nation Dead at 80
Clarence Darrow renowned defense attorney died at his Chicago home after a long heart illness. He was 80, survived by wife Ruby, son Paul, and sister Jennie Canon Moore. Known for defending Debs and Leopold and Loeb, his career spanned from a rural teacher to a legendary figure in U.S. legal history.
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Chicago
Clarence Darrow
Ruby
Paul
Jennie Canon Moore
Eugene V. Debs
Big Bill’ Haywood
Western Federation of Miners
Frank Steunenberg
Idaho
Richard Loeb
Nathan Leopold
Little Bobby Franks
John T
Scopes
Granville Fotescue
Lieut
Thomas Massie
U. S N
Honolulu
Rebels advance with insurgents at Escatron Spain
On March 14 AP reports an unchecked 45 mile Aragon offensive penetrating near the Catalonian border. Moorish cavalry and mobile advance guards moved within miles of Caspe and Almendralejo, driving government troops back toward the Mediterranean coast.
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Escatron
Spain
Aragon
Jatalonian
Caspe
Alcaniz
Mediterranean
Mrs. O A Holaschuh to enter hospital for operation
Mrs O A Holaschuh of Hunter Street will enter White Cross Hospital in Columbus on Tuesday for a goitre operation.
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O. A. Holaschuh
Hunter St
White Cross Hospital
Columbus
Early corn saved by new insecticides, says bureau
Four newly compounded insecticides have saved early market sweet corn from the European corn borer. The Bureau of Entomology announced a practical method to control the pest in Ohio grain. The most dependable mix was nicotine solution with a tannic acid form called Chinese gallotannin.
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Washington
Bureau of Entomology
Ohio
Bureau
Senate group backs plan to alter tax bill
Washington March 14 AP a Senate finance committee hearing Treasury officials on the administration tax revision bill signaled broad changes ahead Committee members expect adjustments that will clash with administration aims on the Senate floor The House already struck a surtax on closely held corporations and added a tariff on pork Conservatives and administration forces are headed for a showdown over how far to modify tax policy to spur business Chairman Harrison Mississippi praised potential capital gains changes and urged elimination of the undistributed profits levy rather than tweaking it.
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Washington
Sénate Finance Committee
Treasury
Senate
House
Harrison
D-Miss
Finance Committee
Norris predicts TVA may withdraw offer to buy private utilities
Senator Norris predicted today the TVA might withdraw its offer to purchase private utility properties unless power companies show more willingness to play fair. He said the TVA will not keep its offer open indefinitely and that halting the public works aid to city power developments would only boost private firms’ leverage in bargaining for sale to TVA.
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Washington
Norris
Ind-Neb
TVA
Logan Group Meets Sawyer at Nelsonville District Conference
Charles Sawyer Democratic national committeeman from Ohio spoke at a Veterans of Foreign Wars district conference in Nelsonville. Judge Arthur H. Day of the Ohio Supreme Court, Dwight H. Schaffner, George A. Kistner, and O. H. Auer attended as VFW officials. over a score of Sawyer supporters visited him at the Hotel Berry in Athens. Sawyer petitions show strong Logan County popularity in Hocking County with hundreds of names already collected.
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Logan
Nelsonville
Charles Sawyer
Ohio
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Arthur H. Day
Ohio Supreme Court
Dwight H. Schaffner
George A. Kistner
O. H. Auer
Sawyer
Berry
Athens
Hocking County
Logan patrolman exam results and fire department tests
Harrison Litherland scored 76 in civil service patrolman exams and will be certified eligible for special duty. Logan civil service commission members meet tonight to grade papers for chief and assistant chief posts in the fire department.
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Logan Police Department
Harrison Litherland
Logan Civil Service Commission
Bricker Enters Ohio Governor Race With Tax Cuts Plan
Republican John W Bricker announced his run for Ohio governor in Columbus March 14 and called for tax reductions. He pledged a militant campaign against political racketeering and parasites and urged immediate steps to curb rising taxes. Bricker faces nominal opposition in the August primary, with Charles Sawyer the only other declared candidate.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
Martin L. Davey
Charles Sawyer
Engineers Set For Next Flood Plan
Cincinnati March 14 The United States engineers released a detailed plan to protect lives and property if the Ohio River overflows again. Major Howard M. Yost said the Cincinnati district would safeguard personnel and property and provide quick evacuation of residents in flooded areas along the Ohio Indiana and Kentucky borders as an emergency before federal flood control projects are completed.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
United States
Howard M. Yost
Dmas
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Yost
Jury summoned in Chicago for Seadlund kidnapping case
Chicago March 14 AP A federal jury was summoned to decide the fate of John Henry Seadlund 27 confessed kidnapper of Charles S Ross 72 year old retired greeting card manufacturer.
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Chicago
John Henry Seadlund
Charles S. Ross
Hocking County Organizes Child Welfare Board
Hocking County commissioners reorganized the Childrens Home Board into a Child Welfare Board to align with state law. Members named include W. W. Marks Ed Turner Curtis Cole Mrs Emma Shaw and Mrs Bess Mut chmore with Mut chmore filling the unexpired term of Ed Hamilton and Mrs Shaw succeeding Lucille Wright. Margaret Lutz remains executive secretary and Cora Brown stays as placement agent. Foster home placement has operated since Oct 1 1926 and the old Children’s Home building was abandoned June 1926 with demolition last summer.
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Child Welfare Board
W. W. Marks
Ed Turner
Curtis Cole
Emma Shaw
Bess’ .Mutchmore
Mutchmore
Ed Hamilton
Shaw
Lucille Wright
Margaret ‘Lutz
Cora Brown
Hocking County
Ex-Judge and wife shot at Cincinnati home
Former Ohio Supreme Court Judge Oleman Avery, 58, was found seriously wounded and his wife Sara dead, in the kitchen of their North Bend Road home. Police reported a revolver with two shots fired was near Avery, who was unconscious and taken to a hospital where surgeons said he would likely die.
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Darrow
Cincinnati
Ohio Supreme Court
Avery
Sara
North Bend Road
Martin Roettinger
Whitney Pilzads Guilty in NY Brokerage Case
Richard Whitney head of Whitney & Co. brokerage and ex NYSE president pleaded guilty to a grand jury indictment charging larceny.
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New York
Richard Whitney
Richard Whitney & Co
New York Stock Exchange
Rockbridge Man Believed Dead 16 Years Is Identified
Merle Dupler, presumed dead for 16 years, reappears in Newark as John Rish 32, a traveling entertainer with Bible Brothers Entertainment Co. He is recognized by a store clerk and family in Rockbridge area. Fingerprints to confirm identity. officials suspect amnesia.
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Rockbridge
Merle Dupler
Newark
John Rish
Rish
Bible Brothers Entertainment Co
Conrad Drug Store
Carl Conrad
Conrad
Dupler
Pearl Dupler
U. S
Hocking River Nears Flood After Steady Rain
Swollen by two days of rain the Hocking River at Logan stood within a foot of overflowing into Rachel Macher Park lowlands. State highway crews watched water rise. Route 278 from Carbon Hill to Nelsonville closed. many county roads impassable as Rush Creek floodwaters were expected to swell the river.
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Hocking
Logan
Rachelmacher Park
Rush Creek
Carbon Hill
Nelsonville
Wells Rites At Piqua Thursday
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at Piqua Ohio for Mrs. Mary Wells 69 widow of Robert K Wells who died at 11:45 am today at the home of a son James D Wells superintendent of Camp Hocking residing at 267 No Walnut St Mrs Wells had been in ill health for several years and had made her home here since last August The family home is at Piqua Another son and one daughter also survive.
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Piqua, O
Mary Wells
Robert K. Wells
James D
Camp Hocking
Walnut St
Fate of Soviet Traitors Dark Fate of Traitors
In Moscow on March 14 AP reports secrecy surrounds the fate of 18 traitors to the communist cause who face firing squad. Public knowledge is silent on the execution time while punishment includes long prison terms for three others in the ongoing Stalin era purge.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Hitler enters Vienna after Austria absorption triumph
Adolf Hitler rode into Vienna in an open car at 4:50 p.m after a 100 mile drive from Linz as crowds cheered. Heinrich Himmler and other Reich officials accompanied him. A chosen Austrian government welcomed the incorporation into the Greater German Reich amid a royal style procession.
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Vienna
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Hitler
Linz
Heinrich Himmler
Austria
Fuehrer
Britain to match Germany in reararmament warns Chamberlain
London dispatch reports Prime Minister Chamberlain warning Germany Britain will expand its vast rearmament program to match force with force in response to Hitler's annexation of Austria. In Rome Mussolini reassures Hitler of Italian friendship, telegram stating that Italy's attitude is determined by the Rome-Berlin axis alliance.
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London
Chambérlain
Germany
Britain
Rome
Mussolini
Free City of Danzig pleads for union with Reich
Nazis in Danzig, ruling the free city of 400,000, use their newspaper organ to demand union with the expanding German Reich. In Paris, March 15, France braces against further German expansion as Blum forms a new government to counter the Austrian crisis and defend the regime through diplomacy or force.
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Danzig
Paris
France
Leon Blum
People’s Front
Camille Chautemps
Hysteria as Austria joins Nazi Germany sweep through Vienna
Hysteria sweeps Jewry as Austria becomes part of Fuehrer Hitler's Reich. Jews line up at consulates seeking visas to leave while warnings appear on coffee houses. Post office steps up searches to curb smuggling, and withdrawals are limited. Factories banks and offices close at noon as crowds gather for the leader's triumphal tour through Linz to Vienna.
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Austria
North Sea
Adriatic
Vienna
Fuehrer
Hitler
Germany
Linz
Tncday
Souturn
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A. C. Griffith
Birdie Griffith
Floyd E. Brown
Harley Poling
Calvin Poling
William Bowlby
Earl Keck
Kinsman
Amarus Darrow
Hell
Chicago Herald-Examiner
Litherland
Seyss-Inquart
Call Seadlund Jury
Child Welfare Board Organized
Childrens’ Home Board of Trustees
Whitney Pilzads
Hocking River
Piqua
Miklas
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