Costly Blaze At Cincinnati Destroys Factories
Fire in Cincinnati destroyed one factory and damaged part of another, causing about 120000 in losses. Three firefighters were injured by debris as flames climbed 60 feet, threatening six blocks of homes. The Stille and Duhlmeier Furniture plant and the Art Wood and Scroll Co. suffered major damage. cause undetermined. Chief Barney Houston praised manpower and hose as saving the eight-square area.
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Cincinnati
Barney Houston
Stille and Duhlmeier Furniture Company
Houston
Furniture Company
Fred Stille
South Amherst Plans Bond Vote For School Improvements
COLUMBUS, Feb. 4. The Board of Education of South Amherst Village School District in Lorain County was authorized by the state tax commission to hold a special election on March 9 to vote on issuing 17 000 dollars in bonds. Proceeds will fund a school improvement program.
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Columbus
Board of Education
South Amherst Village
Lorain County
State Tax Commission
Bridge Repairs To Begin Next Week
County Engineer Harry L. Dunham announced West Bridge street repairs start early next week after steel piling arrives Saturday. The 20 ton piling will be trucked to the site, materials cost about 750 dollars, with total project cost near 1200 dollars. The bridge has been closed two weeks due to foundation undermining from high water.
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West Bridge Street
Harry L. Dunham
Dunham
Weather Ohio Cloudy with Snow and Cooler Temperatures
The weather report notes cloudiness and bright snow in extreme north and inland east Ohio, with colder conditions tonight across central and western regions. High pressure extends from the St. Lawrence Valley to the Carolinas and Manitoba to Texas, while a low off Wisconsin shifts, light snow and rain from Lake Superior southeast to Florida, and heavier precipitation in California, Oregon, and Washington. Temperatures run higher over the Great Lakes and east of the Mississippi, cooler over the Rockies and plains.
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Ohio
Poron
St. Lawrence Valley
Caroline
Manitoba
Texas
Wisconsin
Oregon
Lake Superior
Florida
California
Washeston
Great Lakes
Mississippi
Rocky Fountain
Plains States
Lorain County attendees attend Columbus redistricting hearing
Lorain County representatives and residents joined a Columbus hearing on House bill 23 proposing two new Northeastern districts. The plan would move Lorain from the 14th to the 13th district along with Medina Huron Erie Seneca Sandusky and Wood, with Wood potentially moved to the fifth district, sparking debate over equitable representation.
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Lorain County
Columbus
Harter
Summit County
Lorain
Medina Huron
Erie
Seneca, Sandusky and
Wood
Wood County
Grange Meeting At Henrietta Draws Large Turnout
A county wide Grange meeting at Henrietta School drew 226 members with Penfield Grange leading attendance at 46. Acme 44 and Henrietta 41 followed as Belden 31 and other granges added small groups. A Juvenile Grange session with 19 members was led by Penfield and Ridgeville aides.
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Henrietta Grange
Henrietta School
Belden
Acme
Penfield
Penfield Grange
Acme Grange
Henrietta
Belden Grange
Frank Schriver
Schriver
Eaton School
Ripton
Frank Mason
Ridgeville
Senate approves Bulkley Bill on FHA debenture guarantees
Washington Feb 4 The Senate approved the Bulkley Bill to extend government guarantees of Federal Housing Corporation debentures until 1939. The current powers would have expired next July.
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Washington
Senate
Bulkley
Federal Housing Corporation
Sit Down Strike For Love Aims At Marry Or Move Out
Harold Hulen a 30 year old vaudeville singer locked in a sit down strike in Florence Hurlbut's Excelsior Springs apartment lobby. He vows to stay chained to a radiator until she promises to marry him, while Hurlbut, a 20 year old stenographer, delays and weighs the proposal. neighbors keep watch as the couple talks of love and marriage amid a public scene.
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Excelsior Springs
Harold Hulen
Florence Hurlbut
Miss Hurlbut
Helen
Halen
John L. Lewis
Michigan Automobile Strikers
Inspector praises jail condition and calisthenics program
Sheriff William F. Grall earned praise for prisoner welfare and the jail’s state after a semi annual inspection by L W Woodring of the State Welfare Department. Woodring commended daily prisoner calisthenics as a unique, beneficial program. He noted 89 percent probation success among cases referred last year.
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William F. Grall
L. W. Woodring
State Welfare Department
Woodring
Grall
Truck Driver May Have Drowned In Flood Waters
Cincinnati police investigated whether Harry Wooley a 32 year old Liberty Indiana truck operator drowned in Ohio River flood waters or was murdered His ice crusted body was found against a transformer fence at Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co morgue staff could not remove frozen clothing to check for violence He arrived in Cincinnati January 22 with hogs to Union Stockyards and a dairy employee said stockyards were closed due to flood Bias a Liberty neighbor reported seeing Wooley in the area days later near Mood from two bridges
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Cincinnati
Harry Wooley
Liberty
Wooley
Sherman Bias
2 Bridge
Central Labor Union Elects Officers
Elyria Central Labor Union elected two new officers and reelected five others to lead the group next year. New officers include Albert Ralock as president succeeding J F Wilt, and Anna Blakeslee as recording secretary succeeding Reed Carter. Re-elected are E G Baxter, Alva Kemp, W E F Gregory, James Marsho, and Henry Rimbach.
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Elyria Central Labor Union
Albert Ralock
Keller- Kohn Company
J. FE. Wilt
Anna Blakeslee
Reed Carter
E. G. Baxter
Alva Kemp
W. E F. Gregory
James Marsho
Henry Rimbach
Begin Drive On Loyalist Port
Spanish Nationalists opened a full offensive on Malaga, the Loyalist port on Spain’s south coast, at dawn after a fleet bombardment. Nationalist wireless from Seville claimed troops captured Ojen, 28 miles southwest of Malaga and five miles inland from the coast, as the Nationalists press toward Marbella.
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Gibralar
Malaga
Seville
Ojen
Marbella
Schools Head For 17 Years Resigns
WINCHESTER O Feb 4 The Winchester school board accepted resignations of Kirk Short its president and C O Williams superintendent for 17 years Both were entangled in a bitter controversy sparked by four women teachers who accused Williams of improper conduct Short resigns immediately Williams leaves Feb 26 Claude Clark farmer was elected to fill the vacancy Edward Black was named board president and Stanley Glassco vice president Miss Lucille MacClain was appointed clerk to succeed McPherson Purdy The action followed a compromise after a suit filed by the teachers in Adams county common pleas court seeking removal of three board members who refused to remove Williams. Action on Williams successor was deferred.
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Winchester
Winchester School Board
Kirk Short
C. O. Williams
Williams
Short
Claude Clark
Farmer
Edward Black
Stanley Glassco
Lucille MacClain
McPherson Purdy
Adams County
U S Clashes With Utilities Over Public Private Ownership
Government foes private power in a high stakes clash with the U S Supreme Court likely to decide TVA status. Representatives for both sides see two main outcomes: TVA declared unconstitutional freeing utilities from government competition, or TVA upheld allowing federal action to crowd private utilities from the Tennessee River valley. The ruling will influence federal utility relations nationwide.
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Washington
U. S. Supreme Court
Tenesser Valley Authority
Commonwealth and Southern Corp
Commonwealth and Southern
U.S. Supreme Court
TVA
Tennessee River
Cold Wave Forecast For Ohio Valley
The Weather Bureau forecast a cold wave across the Ohio Valley tonight and tomorrow with temperatures about ten to twelve degrees above zero and no precipitation expected in the next 36 hours. A trace of rain was reported in the flood area in the past day while rivers slowly fall, with below freezing temps reaching as far south as Memphis and rising water levels above flood stage noted upstream.
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Washington
Ohio Valley
Weather Bureau
Memphis
Ohio
Evansville
Ind
Cincinnati
Cairo
Sitdown Strike Ends at Canton Hercules Plant
After 55 days idle the Hercules Motor Corp plant in Canton Ohio prepared to resume operations. Work will start Monday under a pact between company officials and the union. The last 100 strikers left the factory this morning. The agreement gave recognition to the committee for industrial organization as a bargaining agency but did not raise wages. The strike began December 10.
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Canton
Hercules Motor Corp
Committee For Industrial Organization
Hercules
Bad Weather Keeps Dirigible Aloft
Sunnyvale Calif Feb 4 Stormy weather keeps the army dirigible YC-13 aloft since yesterday afternoon unable to meet at Moffett Field Major Clarence Lober field commander disclosed today He said the ship has sufficient gas to stay aloft until midnight and that wind should abate soon with no safety concerns.
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Sunnyvale
Calif
Moffett Field
Clarence Lober
Lober
Robbers Loot Life Insurance Office in Cleveland
Three masked robbers lined up a dozen people at the Life Insurance Company of America offices in Cleveland Colorado. They looted cash drawers and a safe totaling about 500 dollars and escaped.
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Cleveland, CO
The
Life Insurance Co. of America
Seek Basis To Resume Work In Auto Plants
DETROIT Feb 4 Representatives of General Motors and the United Automobile Workers made progress beyond deadlock on union recognition and discussed a comprehensive plan to resume production in all GM plants. Sit down strikes would end in Flint plants, bargaining on wages hours and conditions would start, with hope the whole strike could be settled if a basis is agreed. No final answer on exclusive bargaining rights had been reached.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
United Automobile Workers
Flint
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
General Motors
Youth Spent Seven Days in Box Car Survives Frozen Feet
Bernard Debout, 17, reported seven days and nights in a box car without food, his legs frozen but saved by cylindrical vacuum therapy at St. Luke's Hospital Cleveland. Doctors question amputations, while detectives dispute his flood escape tale and identify him as a prisoner on the run from Morganza.
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Cleveland
Bernard Debout
St. Luke's Hospital
Bernard
St. Mary's
W. Va
Pennsylvania State Training School
Morganza
Townships LA Red Cross flood relief work praised
Harvey C Cheney and Edith Metcalf head the organized townships red cross drive credited with leading a strong flood relief response in the Elyria chapter area. Contributions totaled 3303.08 by yesterday plus over 5000 in the wider region with many townships still reporting.
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Red Cross
Harvey C. Cheney
Edith Metcalf
Elyria
American Red Cross
Mias Metcalf
Oberlin
Ridgeville
Wellington
Brighton
Camden
Carlisle
Columbia
Eirmia Township
Grafton
Henrietta
Huntington
la Grange
Penfield
Pittsfield
Russia Township
Rochester
Eaton Township
Iss Metcale
Armed Men Ready If Needed In Flint Strike Standoffs
Flint Michigan officials swore in a special reserve police force of about 1,000 to ready for emergencies as General Motors seeks a court order to remove sit down strikers from two Fisher body plants. City leaders pledge calm while strike leaders adhere to a formal agreement to avoid provocation.
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Flint
Mich
General Motors
Paul V. Gadola
James W. Wills
John M. Barringer
Barringer
United Press
Bareringer
City Hall
End of Coast Maritime Strike Seen in Vote
San Francisco February 4 with a large union vote counted showing 9 to 1 in favor of returning to work ending the three month West Coast maritime strike. Final tally awaited as steamship firms ready to fire boilers and fleet vessels prepared to depart on schedule.
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San Francisco
Waters Reach Ironton Flood Buries Homes and Businesses
Ironton Ohio reports the Ohio river receding after floods that ruined 200 homes, left 1000 people homeless, and damaged several large business buildings. Loss could top 1 million dollars. Five hundred workers begin cleanup over three weeks. National Guardsmen guard the business district as about 800 troops remain on emergency duty. Utilities gradually restored with limited telephone service.
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Stronton
Ohio
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