Floods kill and displace hundreds across New York State
In a 48 hour disaster across 28 counties, floods and storms leave at least 38 dead, 28 missing, and damages over 14 million dollars. Ithaca and central New York endure widespread inundation as 1,700 families flee rising waters, with lifesaving efforts led by Gov. Lehman and Red Cross teams.
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Ithaca
X. Y
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Herbert M. Lehman
American Red Cross
Washington
Weather Ohio Mostly fair tonight and Wednesday
The forecast calls for generally fair skies in Ohio tonight and Wednesday with a slight warmup. Wednesday temperatures expected to rise especially in the western portion of the state.
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Ohio
Four Villages Destroyed By Floods near Fort Peck
GLASGOW Mont July 3 Four mushroom towns near Fort Peck dam on the Missouri river were wrecked by tornado and flood after two cloudbursts. Two persons are dead and hundreds homeless with nearly 100 injured. Villages Midway Park Grove New Deal and Wheeler virtually wiped out. 200 families fled to higher ground as five to six feet of water besieged the towns. Wheeler destroyed. over 2,000 residents sought shelter in Fort Peck while relief workers mobilize and Glasgow Fort Peck doctors rush to aid.
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van Natta
Canajoharie
Geneva
Bath
Trumansburg
Hornell
Ithaca
Edward Landis
Trumansburg Creek
Warrow
Chenango River
Waverly
Jake Burkhart
Frank
James
George Sargent
Burkhart
Sargent
Greene
Painted Post
Tryone
Glasgow
Mont
Fort Peck
Missouri River
Midway
Park Grove
New Deal
Wheeler
Galpin Coulee
Park Dale
Barton Whealer
Here
Government Recreation Hall
Mid- Way
Fort Pack
Autoist Pleads Not Guilty To Manslaughter
Harry Sadowsky, 25, of Sloan Hotel Sandusky, charged as the hit and run driver who struck and killed 76 year old William King on Larchwood avenue near Stop 72 in Sheffield Lake. He pleaded not guilty before Justice of the Peace Joseph Q. Petro and was released on $1 bond pending a Thursday hearing. King left home Sunday morning for Beaver Park to fish. coroner’s post mortem described massive injuries and instant death. King is survived by four sons, Jaude, Charles, Frank, and William Jr.
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Harry Sadowsky
Sloan
Sandusky
William King
Larchwood Avenue
Lakewood
Justice of the Peace
Joseph Q. Petro
Justice Petro
S.C. Ward
Sadowsky
Mick
King
Jaude
Charles
Frank
Cleveland
William Jr
Claude
Beaver Park
Lorain
Ward
Begin Attack On Proposed Tax Program
M L Seidman of the New York Board of Trade testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee, opposing a tax-the-rich plan as confiscatory and class legislation. He calls for broadening the base to balance the budget, supporting higher taxes across all incomes and estates to reduce the national debt and boost business confidence. The plan, with social redistribution aims, is urged to be tackled with a four point approach.
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Washington
Organized Business
Roosevelt
M. L. Seidman
New York Board of Trade
House
Ways and Means Committee
Seidman
Lack of Tools Delays CCC Camp Groundbreaking
In Findlay Ohio on July 1 the 23 men serving in a government CCC camp arrived to begin work but found they had no picks or shovels. A truck loaded with equipment from Columbus held fire extinguishers instead.
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Findlay
CCC
Micn
Columbus
Former Mayor Dies in Magnetic Springs
Benjamin Fryman aged 67 and former mayor of Magnetic Springs died yesterday in Marysville Ohio. He served as mayor in Magnetic Springs and is remembered for his public service and local leadership.
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Marysville
Benjamin Fryman
Magnetic Springs
Bill Clears Path to Restore Archduke Otto in Austria
Vienna reports a government bill to end the 16 year exile of the Hapsburgs and restore Archduke Otto, 22, and select relatives to Austria. The plan includes returning eight estates, a Vienna palace, and other property valued at about 3.5 million dollars with annual income of 5,500 to 95,000 dollars. Nations surrounding Austria threaten war if Otto ascends the throne, and Italy moves troops to the frontier in defense. Otto to stay in Belgium until conditions allow a triumphant entry.
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United Press
Vienna
Hapsburgs
Europe
Federal Diet
Archduke Otto
Steeneckerzeel Castle
Belgium
Otto
Roumania
Jugoslavia
Czecho-Slovakia
Austria
Italy
Hungary
Corcoran Denies Threat to Halt Passamaquoddy Project
Washington July 3 Thom as Corcoran Reconstruction Finance Corporation attorney told the House Utility lobbying investigation he did not threaten to stop the 35 million Passamaquoddy project in Maine if Rep Ralph O Brewster supported the holding company death sentence Corcoran charged Brewster had switched his position and Brewster said Corcoran tried to intimidate him into voting for the death sentence The hearing before the House Rules committee drew a crowded chamber.
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Washington
Thomsa Corcoran
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
House
Maine
Ralph O. Brewster
R. Me
Corcoran
Brewster
House Rules Committee
Brewster cites threats over Passamaquoddy power project
Washington July 9 House utilities lobbying inquiry opened with Rep Ralph O Brewster charging FAO attorney Thomas Corcoran and Dr Ernest Gruening threatened to halt 335 million Passamaquoddy tidal dam work if he did not vote for the so called death sentence on the utility holding company bill. Brewster testified in Statuary Hall noting the alleged threat was made about 2 pm July 1 as House debated the measure.
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Washington
Ralph O. Brewster
R. Me
House
Thomas Corcoran
FAO
Maine
Brewster
House Rules Committee
John J. O’connor
Rules Committee
Corcoran
Ernest Guening
Insular Affairs
Statuary Hall
Capitol
Gruening
Guening
Passoquoddy
Mayor Vanoster Returns From Southern Trip
Mayor W H Vanoster returns from a two week vacation traveling through five states West Virginia Kentucky Virginia Tennessee and North Carolina with his daughter Wilma. He visited Duke University in Durham and says it is good to be back on the job as the city police court docket is now clear after disposing of remaining cases yesterday morning.
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W. H. Vanoster
Wilma
West
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
North Carolina
Duke University
Durham
Workmen Save Giant Mirror From Flood At Corning Glass Works
Exhausted Corning Glass Works workers and volunteers fought flood waters overnight to save a 200 inch telescopic mirror and the annealing oven. The $5,000,000 telescope project faced ruin if water entered the oven controls or cooled the system, but crews kept pumps running and sandbags stacked as two feet of water covered the floor.
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Corning
Corning Glass Works
Scienes
Pleads Guilty To First Degree Murder
Norwalk July 9 A Common Pleas judge announced that Ethel B. Lamphier 45 indicted for the murder of Katherine E Wilde 65 pleaded guilty to first degree murder Lamphier waived trial by jury and was set for trial next Monday before Judges Martin Huston and Mougey with attorney Don J Bell and prosecutor F Bracy representing the state
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Norwalk
Common Pleas
E. G. Martin
Ethel B. Jaamphier
Katherine E. Wilde
Lamphier
Martin
Charles Huston
Mansfield
Walter J. Mougey
Wooster
Car Buried Under Stone Miners Hurt in Mine
BELLAIRE OH July 9 Eight miners were badly hurt requiring hospital care and several others lightly injured when a train of mine cars from McLainsville No 5 mine was buried by a stone fall. The accident struck only one car as 45 men on shift evacuated. those hospitalized include Gus Nerek Steve Lesho Harry Steivers William Wise John Steiner Barry St John Francis Garlock and Tony Olenvesky. The mine is owned by the Rail and River Coal Co.
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Bellaire
McLainsville
Gus Nerek
Steve Lesho
Harry Steivers
William Wise
John Steiner
Barry St. John
Auto Crashes Into Concrete Pillar Near Bucyrus
Early morning crash on East Bridge street overhead crossing left E. R. Leonard of 550 Virginia avenue Bucyrus and a companion uninjured after his auto struck a concrete pillar. Police say he dozed and lost control as the wrecked car was towed from a local garage.
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E. R. Leonard
Virginia Avenue
Bucyrus
Leonard
East Bridge Street
D. W. Rollins
Hich Street
Dexter
Dave Horton
Clifford Street
Flint
Mich
Middle Avenue
Oberlin Road
Rollins
Lorain County Receives Quarter Liquor Permit Funds
Lorain County's share of liquor permit receipts for the March to June quarter totaled 25,935 dollars, per State Auditor Joseph T. Tracy. A check for that amount was mailed today to Lorain County Auditor C. Keiser.
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Lorain County
Joseph T. Tracy
C. &. Keiser
More Men Called To Colors By Italy
Rome reports Italy extended wartime measures by drafting all sub-officers and specialized technicians from the 1909 and 1910 classes into the military ranks as Abyssinia tension rose.
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Italy
Rome
Abyssinia
Germany’s Defiance of Treaty Shown
London dispatch says Berlin’s naval program reveals Germany completed one submarine and laid down destroyers totaling 16 more this year. Two battleships and two cruisers are planned. total tonnage this year reaches 107,500. Paris signals fear of a naval race and France objects to Britain’s independent talks with Germany.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Great Britain
Paris
France
School Building Plans Move Forward With Rissman Selection
Plans to erect a county tuberculosis sanatorium school building proceed after selecting Paul Rissman Lorain architect to finish specifications and supervise construction. Fee set at 800, not 900, with bids to be advertised once materials specs are final. Work on bids may start in a week or ten days and construction four weeks after.
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County Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Paul Rissman
Lorain Archirect
Rissman
Allot Funds For Rebuilding Coast Guard Stations
Washington July 9 advisory committee on allotments releases recommendations to President Roosevelt to allot 115 105 dollars for rebuilding Coast Guard shore stations at Fairport Lorain Cleveland Ashtabula and Marblehead Ohio the action aims to modernize facilities and improve coast guard readiness.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Fairport
Lorain
Cleveland
Ashtabula
Marblehead
Ohio
Roosevelt
Baby Senator Rush Holt Proposes To Break Senate Precedent
Washington July 9 Rush D Holt the baby Senator startled Senate greybeards by proposing to speak on the public utility issue from the floor He would abandon the tradition that new Senators observe elders and refrain from intruding Holt plans to back President Roosevelt in the utility fight He has travelled 5200 miles and says public opinion favors the President by three to one in this matter
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Washington
Rush D Holt
Holt
Senate
Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
Indiana
Roosevelt
Dieterich
Kansas
Tennessee
United States
Elyria to Raise School Tax Rates by 1.40 Mills
Elyria district officials and county leaders discussed a 1.40 mill rise in the overall school tax to 9.6807 mills under the new state school foundation law. Inside the 10 mill limitation operating expenses climb to 3.2607 mills, with 0.44 mill for indebtedness bonds. outside the limit 3.0 mills for operations and 2.98 mills for bonds.
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Elyria
School Foundation
State School Foundation
Ohio
Goodrich Pleads Not Guilty at Preliminary Hearing
Detroit July 9 Merton Ward Goodrich pleaded not guilty at a preliminary hearing on first degree murder charges involving 11 year old Lillian Gallaher. He was held for immediate examination after a crowded courtroom scene. His wife Florence, arrested with him, was not present.
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Detroit
Merton Ward Goodrich
Lillian Gallaher
Thomas W. Cotter
Goodrich
Duncan C. Mc
Crea
New York City
Florence
Fear Typhoid In Ohio Flood Area
Belmont county authorities haul drinking water to flood struck areas amid fears of typhoid outbreak. Livestock drowned as cloudburst floods streams. officials warn water supply contamination risk. Relief funds deny emergency sanitation aid. county estimates over 500 wells contaminated and damage costs near 500000 dollars.
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ST. Clatksville
Belmont County
Anton Peschtar
Blizzard Of June Flies At Sandusky
Sandusky reports a severe influx of June bugs with millions arriving from Sandusky Bay on a NE wind. City street cleaning hauled swarms to dumps and burning. Pedestrians faced heavy bug traffic as streets darkened and local businesses closed doors to avoid swarms.
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Sandusky
Sapdusky Bay
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