Funeral services for Winfield S Yaw in 1 30 today
Winfield Scott Yaw 57 died Saturday night while serving as Hocking County auditor. Funeral held at First M E Church at 1 30 with hundreds attending. Court house closed for rites. Burial planned at New Lexington. Survived by widow two sons father three brothers six sisters two grandsons.
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M. E
Winfield Scott Yaw
Hocking County
Court House
Logan Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Red Men, Eagles and Kiwanis Club
Yaw
C. W. Graham
Logan Church
New Lexington
Mr. Yaw
Frank St. Clair
E. L. Ewing
Fred Carpenter
Wilbur Lanning
R. N. White
Carl O. Spannow
Mysterious gray cap man sought in Ross kidnapping
Chicago report says a hotel bellboy described a man in a gray cap who spoke with 72 year old Charles S. Ross in Sycamore Illinois hours before the retired greeting card maker was abducted on a highway west of Chicago Saturday night. No ransom demand has yet been received.
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Charles Ross
Chicago
Ross
Florence Friehag
Charles S. Ross
Sycamore
Ill
Fargo
Florence Freihage
Bellboy
Meigs County Sheriff indicted in death case
Meigs County Sheriff Roscoe Fowler is indicted on a second degree murder charge. A grand jury continues its probe into the death of Lafe Williamson 42 after an Eagles Club party. Williamson’s body was exhumed for an autopsy and he died from a skull fracture. Fowler bonded out at 15000 dollars.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Roscoe Fowler
Old County
Fowdeath
Lafe Williamson
Williamson
Eagles Club
Fowler
L. Cary Davis
Davis
Geo. H. Beards
Roush
Dana R. Roush
C. E. Peoples
Cary
Bond
Roosevelt Sees Big Future For Bonneville Power Project
President Roosevelt on the Bonneville Dam site forecast a future where the $61 million Columbia basin project yields improved navigation cheaper electricity and power distribution to hundreds of small communities. He touted broader electric use and regional growth while denying plans for centralized national control.
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D. Harold Oliver Bonneville
Ore
Roosevelt
Columbia Basin
St. Lawrence Waterway
Canada
Senate
League Assembly Condemns Bombing of China Cities
In Geneva the League of Nations assembly condemned Japanese aerial bombardment of Chinese cities. The vote was a silent expression of unanimous approval for a Sino Japanese committee resolution, supported by Julio Alvarez Del Vayo and others, noting profound distress at civilian casualties.
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Joseph E. Sharkey
Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
China
Aga Khan
India
League
United States
William Munters
Latvia
Julio Alvarez del Vayo
Spain
Advisory
Soviet Ambassador Bogomoloff Leaves Nanking for Moscow
Dimitri Bogomoloff the Soviet ambassador to China flew to Moscow aboard a Eurasia airliner for an urgent mission to influence the Sino Japanese war. He heads to a four day flight for a high level conference on the Soviet stance after Japan bombarded Nanking, which Moscow calls illegal and responsible for damage to Soviet citizens and property.
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Nanking
Dimitri V. Bogomoloff
China
Moscow
Russia
Eurasia
Bogomoloff
Japan
Judge condemns teaching that man descended from a monkey
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania Judge Challen W Waychoff called as reprehensible the teaching that man descended from a monkey during a hearing over Laura Elms Morris seeking her teaching job at a one room country school. Everett Fuller an eighth grade pupil testified the teacher spoke of an ape like ancestor while showing a prehistoric man picture.
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Waynesburg
Challen W. Waychoff
Laura Elms Morris
Daily
Everett Fuller
Reporter shot at distributing Euclid Observer copies
Pat Pietro, 32, a reporter and circulation manager for a weekly suburban newspaper, says four shots were fired at him while he handed out special Euclid Observer editions in Euclid, an east Cleveland suburb, and he reported the incident to local police.
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Cleveland
Euclid Observer
Pat Pietro
Finance aides urge new heavier taxes to balance budget
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Morgenthau and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Eccles will push for balancing the 1938-39 budget with possible higher taxes. They seek to bolster business confidence and reduce the $36.864 billion public debt, noting the current deficit around $247 million versus Roosevelt’s $418 million estimate for the year.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Treasury
Smathers Warns of Delayed Black Supreme Court Nomination
Senator Smathers charged that a bloc of senators plotted to delay any Roosevelt court appointments for two years when Hugo Black was nominated. He said the plot aimed to thwart a brain trust pick and that Black's selection nullified the plan, prompting bitter attacks to embarrass the president.
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Washington
Smathers
Hugo L. Black
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Black
Dala
Justice Black
President Roosevelt
Buckeye Lake Yacht Club Plans Winter Open Club
The Buckeye Lake Yacht Club in Columbus Ohio announced it will keep the club open through the winter under the stewardship of Robert Irwin the Commodore following a fall meet.
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Yacht Club
Columbus
Buckeye Lake
Gas rate ordinance on council agenda tonight
Logan Chamber of Commerce backs a compromise gas rate ordinance with Ohio Coal Gas Co. It sets an average rate near 62 cents per 1000 cubic feet over five years, with specific steps by year. Also up for discussion is opening N Mulberry Street to Jennison Ave with two condemnation or street-around plans.
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Vernon Mauk
Logan Chamber of Commerce
Ohio Foal Gas Co
N. Mulberry St
Jennison Ave
Trimmer
Man in padded cell after wrist biting attempt in Los Angeles
John R. Walker a 36 year old cad dy in Los Angeles is recovering in a padded cell after biting his wrists in a suicide attempt. He confessed to killing Virginia Lee Darrow a 34 year old common law wife. Police found him unconscious bleeding after he opened an artery with his teeth and fell from his bunk.
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Los Angeles
John R. Walker
D. R. Patton
Walker
Virginia Lee Darrow
Patton
Highway Patrolman Shot Dead Near Freeport Ohio
State patrolman George Conn aged 28 was found slain in a ditch one mile north of Freeport Ohio. His body was wrapped in burlap and hidden in the ditch after his patrol car was found abandoned earlier that day. His disappearance followed a late yesterday call.
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New Philadelphia, CO
State Highway Patrol
George Conn
Freeport
Conn
Scout Court In Logan Tomorrow At 7 30 P M
Local Boy Scouts meet at the Hocking County Court House in Logan for the quarterly Court of Honor to recognize summer advances. Harley Meyer leads the program in the Common Pleas court room at 7:30 with Judge Phil Henderson addressing the group. District and troop officials will help present awards. the district flag goes to the troop with most awards. Moving pictures by the U S Forestry Service will also be shown.
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Hocking County Court House
Harley Meyer
Committee On
Scout Advancement
Common Pleas Court Room
Phil Henderson
Meyer
Logan Elks
W. D. Braddock
U. S. Forestry Service
Dept. of Agriculture
Neleerie
Four Power Pact Talk Reported Between Mussolini and Hitler
Mussolini and Hitler, meeting in Berlin at Col Gen Goering’s home, touted a staged four power plan with Britain and later France. They aim to show Rome Berlin and London unity while softening Britain’s stance, with France urged to join by discarding its Russian alliance. Nearly one million Berlin residents joined the Mayfield Olympic stadium broadcast during Mussolini’s state visit.
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Benito Mussolini
England
Themer
Col
Gen
I Goering
Berlin
Mayfield Olympic Stadium
Goering
Hitler
France
Rome
London
Mussolini
Britain
Mediterranean
Italy
Neville Chamberlain
Europe
Ronnie
Russia
Germany
Delaware Judge Offered Post on Parole Board
Governor Martin L. Davey of Ohio offered Judge H. W. Jewell of Delaware a vacancy on the state parole board. Jewell, dean of common pleas judges in Ohio, was to confer with the governor to decide on acceptance.
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Columbus
Martin L. Davey
State Parole Board
H. W. Jewell
Delaware
Common Pleas
Ohio
Jewell
Davey
Inhalor Saves Girl in Marion Fire Rescue
Marion firemen renowned for life saving rescue a 4 day old girl named Sonia after inhaling gas fumes. The infant was restored to breathing and is reported stable.
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Inhaltor
Marion
API
Am Inhaltor
Sonia
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Logan Funeral Home
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Bonneville Power Project
League’s Assembly
Patricia
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Patricia MaGuire
Oak Park
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Solons
Scout Court
Logan
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