Foes of Bill Will Attempt Recommittal in House Fight
In Washington the House debated changes to the presidents reorganization bill targeting the comptroller general’s office. Opposition moves to recommit could kill the measure, as seven of Ohio’s twelve representatives opposed a key motion and voting absences left the bill's fate to a small group.
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Washington
U.p—Administration
Roosevelt
House
Comptroller General
John O’conner
N. Y
Ohio
O’conner
Civil Service Commission
Comptroller-General
Civil Service
Congress
Attorney General
Senate
Storm Sweeps From Rockies Into South With 19 Dead
A fast moving spring storm roared from the Rockies into the South and toward the Atlantic, bringing tornadoes ice and snow. Nineteen people died across the Midwest and South from traffic crashes floods and a tornado near Aliceville Alabama. Utilities failed as ice blacked Mansfield and Illinois rumors of floods spread in Arkansas and Kansas.
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Rockies
Chicago
U.P
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic States
Midwest
Aliceville
Alabama
Indiana
Falls
Iowa
Jasper
Illinois
Middlewest
Kansas City
St. Louis
Peoria
Pontiac
Bloomington
Green County
Ark
St. Francis
Amarillo
Tex
Dodge City
Kan
Elk City
Okla
U. S
J. R. Lloyd
Rio Grande
New England
AHS Students Rally For Patriotic Program at Athens High
Athens High School hosted a patriotic rally in the auditorium at 11 with Prof Thomas N Hoover of the Ohio Northwest Territory Celebration Commission and DAR DAR DC representatives presenting a constitutional shrine. Students heard Northwest Territory history and awards for good citizen and essay winners Roberta Roach June Baird Ruth Hewitt.
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Thomas N. Hoover
Ohio Northwest Territory
Daughters of 1812
Sons of the
Daughters of the
Daughters of New England
Athens High School
Dwight Riley
DAR
R. W. Finsterwald
Jean Finsterwald
Finsterwald
Northwest Territory
Ohio
Roberta Roach
June Baird
Ruth Hewitt
Hoover
John Cross
Daughters of American Colonists
America
Japanese Navy Expansion Hint Amid War Build Up
Vice Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, Japan’s navy minister, says U S and British naval programs show signs of intended oppression toward Japan and may drive a larger Japanese navy. The comment reflects rising tensions as nations ramp up naval capacity.
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Tokyo
U.P
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Mitsumasa Yonai
Athens Club Dinner Hosts Kiwanis Guests in April
Athens Kiwanis club hosts guests from Gleuster Logan Marietta and Pt Pleasant West Virginia for a dinner at Hotel Berry on Monday April 18 with former Ohio attorney general Edward C Turner as speaker. Rev Phil E Auer and William B Starkey will be honored guests along with Judge A A Schramm. Turner recently returned from abroad will discuss conditions in Russia and Rex Koons and his orchestra will provide dancing afterward.
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Kiwanis
Athens
Hotel Berry
Edward C. Turner
Ohio
Gleuster
Logan
Marietta
Pt. Pleasant
W. Va
Phil E. Auer
Ohio District of Kiwanis
William B. Stark
Miss Mauk Dies at Home in Logan After Stroke
Miss Piezza Mauk 61, secretary to Harry J. Stevenson, died at her N Spring Street home this morning after a paralytic stroke. Funeral services likely Monday afternoon. A past Eastern Star matron and treasurer, she was active in the Business and Professional Women's Club and the Presbyterian Church. Her sole close relative is an aunt, Miss Catherine Hone, with whom she resided.
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Logan
Piezza Mauk
N. Spring St
Miss Mauk
Harry J. Stevenson
Eastern Star Chapter
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Presbyterian Church
Catherine Hone
Insurance firm plans largest apartment community in Bronx
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company outlined plans for a $35,000,000 development to house 12,000 to 20,000 families in the Bronx. The company stated it is prepared to invest up to $100,000,000 in housing developments in this and future projects.
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New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Bronx
Protests Over Mexican Oil Wells Expropriation
London announces that the government has protested to Mexico over the expropriation of British oil wells, signaling diplomatic tension and potential international repercussions.
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Mexico
London
Schoolboy Harold Swartz Dies by Own Action
The parents of Harold Swartz a 17 year old Carroll High School senior blame illness for his death by his own action.
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Lancaster
U.P
Harold Swartz
Carroll High School
Crews in Texas Killings Hint at Clues
Van Horn Texas District Attorney Roy D. Jackson says two bloody paper handkerchiefs found on the El Paso Van Horn highway may link to the slayings of Mrs Weston G Frome and her daughter Nancy Frome. He believes they show the victims were beaten and tortured away from the scene. Sheriff Chris P. Fox appeals to garage and filling station operators to watch for a blood stained car.
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van Horn
Tex
U.P
Roy D. Jackson
el Paso
Weston G. Frome
Jackson
Chris P. Fox
Ohio State Student Held in West Virginia Slaying
Police announced a 21 year old Ohio State University sophomore is held for questioning in the slaying of 29 year old Arthur C. Rowland a Hollidays Cove West Virginia choir singer. He was taken into custody by Detective Captain Milt Stotts of Zanesville and Pennsylvania State Police.
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Zanesville
Ohio State University
Arthur C. Rowland
Hollidays Cove
W. Va
Milt Stotts
Pennsylvania
Schuschnigg Adviser Reveals Nazi Coup Dilemma
Rene Kraus, Schuschnigg’s adviser, recounted in a radio broadcast the Austrian leader’s split second choice on March 6 to risk war or surrender. Kraus, a Vienna escapee, says Schuschnigg chose not to doom Austrians and kept peace, though Schuschnigg reportedly then became a Nazi prisoner.
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Schuschnigg
New York
Kurt Schuschnigg
Rene Kraus
Dr. Schuschnigg
Kraus
Paris
Vienna
British French Pact Nears in Turbulent Europe
Britain moves to stabilize Europe as French cabinet turmoil and Spanish Civil War battles intensify. Daladier seen as a possible new leader in exchange for credits, aiming to ease Franco Soviet tensions. Nazi threats and Sudeten crisis add to regional tensions ahead of plebiscite in Austria.
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London
Great Britain
Spain
Blum
Edouard Daladier
Daladier
Britain
Italy
France
Tortosa
Mediterranean
Vienna
Hitler
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Phi Beta Kappa Names Two Athens Students
Joseph S. Gill and Philip Wilkinson were among nine new members elected to the Ohio University Phi Beta Kappa chapter on Wednesday. The initiation banquet is set for early May. Other inductees include Agnes Carrine Snyder Lewisburg Phyllis Ellen Neeley Steubenville Lois Evelyn Pond Youngstown Mary Bly Cleveland Everett Russell Hayes Chester and Jean Marguerite Jones Youngstown.
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Athens
Joseph S. Gill
Philip Wilkinson
Ohio University
Phi Beta Kappa
Agnes Carrine Snyder
Lewisburg
Phyllis Ellen Neeley
Steubenville
Lois Evelyn Pond
Youngstown
Mary Bly
Cleveland
Everett Russell Hayes
Chester
Jean Marguerite Jones
Chinese Army Halts Japanese Hankow Drive
Reports from Shan tung Province say a massive Chinese army stopped the Japanese advance toward Hankow as the campaign entered its tenth month. The defense around the Maginot Line in central China repelled the assault and halted the large Japanese drive.
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Shanghai
Japan
China
Shantung Province
Maginot Line
Hankow
Lima man dies after Dixie Highway crash
Louis Huber 28 of Piqua died in Bluffton hospital from injuries suffered when his car collided with a truck on the Dixie Highway.
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Lima
Louis Huber
Piqua
Dixie Highway
Bluffton
Ohio relief program needs 15 to 16 million for 21 urban counties
Twenty one urban Ohio counties require 15 to 16 million more funds beyond current resources to cover 1938 relief costs. Auditor Ferguson notes these counties carry 80 percent of the state’s relief load, with 141,871 cases in March and total projected costs near 25 million for the year.
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Ohio
Columbus
U.P
Joseph T. Ferguson
League of Ohio Municipalities
Davey
Parade Instructions For Northwest Territory Celebration
Readers and parade unit leaders in Athens are urged to review the parade order published in The Messenger on Page 12. Major M. E. Olmstead, chairman, asks anyone with unlisted entries to contact him by Friday evening or Saturday morning to arrange placement in the lineup. he is reachable at phone 26132 or 909.
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Northwest Territory
Athens
M. E. Olmstead
Ohio University Campus Carnival Planned for April 30
A Campus Carnival will be held at Ohio University on April 30 on the stadium grounds rather than Park Place. About 20 booths will line the archway and events include folk dancing by students, tumbling boxing and wrestling demos, a high school band concert, a singing contest, amateur hour, dancing on the tennis courts, and a fireworks demonstration from 1:30 to 12 with intermission 6 to 7:30 and a 7:30 to 8:30 finale.
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Ohio University
Stadium
Park Place
Charlotte LaTourette
Abandoning of Canada Trade Agreement Urged
Rep. William Lemke of North Dakota urged abandoning the proposed trade agreement with Canada. He objected to tariff cuts on barley and corn and blamed large Argentine corn imports last year for a price slump from 80 to 35 cents a bushel.
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Washington
William Lemke
N.D
Canada
Continued Bad Weather Boosts Price of Wheat
Chicago Board of Trade prices for wheat rose over three cents a bushel as traders reacted to reports of ongoing severe weather in the Southwest harming the winter wheat crop.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Southwest
Planes Join Hunt for Two Fliers Missing Since Wednesday
A dozen private aircraft joined by coast guard planes from Miami and St. Petersburg launched a renewed search over Orlando for two missing fliers who disappeared last Wednesday.
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Orlando
Fla
Coast Guard
Miami
St. Petersburg
Ohio Senator Seen as TVA Investigations Chief
Washington buzz centers on Senator Vice Donahey of Ohio as a possible chairman of the joint congressional TVA investigating committee after four years in the Senate with no bills or speeches. The pick would oversee vast TVA expenditures amid questions about a state audit controversy over 40 cents spent on a baked potato.
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Senate
Vice Donahey
Ohio
Congressional Tva
Washington
TVA
Detroit Street Car Workers End Strike
Mayor Richard W. Reading announced an agreement with the street car workers union ending the dispute. Union president Edward McInerney said members expect to return to work once the agreement is ratified at a mass meeting. The private midnight talks followed threats over public transportation.
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Detroit
U.P
Richard W. Reading
Edward McInerney
McInerney
Unions Protest Rail Wage Cut
Chicago reports 450 000 railway workers demand that President Roosevelt reject any rehab plan requiring wage reductions. They urge legislation to retire old bonds at market value and issue new bonds at three percent interest. Delegates propose the Reconstruction Finance Corporation absorb bonds not accepted after rate cut.
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Chicago
U.P
Roosevelt
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Lindberghs Visit Carrel in Morlais France
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh met with Dr. Alexis Carrel in Morlais after arriving from Lympe England. The visit marks a notable exchange among prominent aviation and medical figures of the era.
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Lindys
France
Morlais
Charles A. Lindbergh
Alexis Carrel
Lympe
England
WPA Chieftain Pushes Massive Works Plan to End Direct Relief
Hopkins urged expansion of the Works Progress Administration and Social Security to abolish direct relief, pledge jobs for able bodied workers, and fund new projects such as homes, schools, roads, flood control, and soil conservation. He said direct relief degrades individuals and stifles future work. The plan envisions up to 4 billion dollars in spending and a broad public works agenda.
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Washington
Works Progress
Harry L. Hopkins
Federal Works Program
Social Security
United States
Hopkins
Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee
Roosevelt
White House
U. S
America
Senate
Congress
Joins Wife in Prayer Beats Her to Death on Anniversary
Marion Larner of Cordell Oklahoma confessed to beating his wife to death after a quarrel on their fifteenth wedding anniversary. He said he prayed with her and then struck her, and he admitted staging a car crash to feign an accident. He is a Methodist Church board member and local civic leader.
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Cordell
Okla
Marion Larner
Raymond Plumlee
Larner
Methodist Church Board of Stewards
Western Oklahoma
Shaw Factory in Logan Sold to J A Fickel
A Logan South building formerly used by Shaw Furniture Factory was sold this week to J A Fickel who traded a Marion Township farm for the property. He plans to use the site for automobile storage. the property was previously owned by Robert Shaw.
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Logan
J. A. Fickel
South Logan
Shaw Furniture
Fickel
Marion Township
Robert Shaw
Cleveland men killed and injured in Avon Lake house move
Lorain resident Louis Hillman aged 63 was killed and John Turosik aged 58 was seriously injured when a jack slipped during the moving of a house in Avon Lake Thursday, the structure toppled onto them.
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Lorain
U.P
Louis Hillman
Cleveland
John Turosik
Avon Lake
Exhume Body of Slain Patrolman for Evidence
The body of State Highway Patrolman George Conn shot near Freeport last September 27 was exhumed at Greenwood Cemetery in Zanesville to permit bullet removal. Col. Lynn Black said the bullets will be used as evidence in the murder prosecution.
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Zanesville
George Conn
Freeport
Greenwood Cemetery
Lynn Black
State Patrol
Columbus
1937 Bank Earnings Rise Across Columbus Up-State Banks
Samuel H. Squire announced in his annual report that 462 banks in the Columbus Up-State area earned a total of $7,995,492 in 1937. The figure shows an increase of $274,587 over 1936, reflecting improved bank earnings for the year.
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Columbus
Samuel H. Squire
Squire
WPA Near Ohio Quota Hit as 1100 Workers Remain
The Works Progress Administration was within 1100 workers of its 220 000 job quota in Ohio.
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WPA
Columbus
Works Progress Administration
Ohio
Northwest Territory fete marks Marietta pageant start
Marietta hosts 1938 Northwest Territory celebration with 37 Ipswich collegians enacting Wagons West. Rain-drenched events include a New England clambake, parade adjustments, and a 150th anniversary ball at Marietta College Field House. 50,000 spectators reportedly braved rain for the landing and parade.
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Marietta
U.P
Northwest Territory
Ipswich
Mass
Burma
Mance
Marietta College
George White
Federal
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Athens Club
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