Bill to Reflate Silver, Gold Mix Faces Senate Doubt
The Wheeler silver bill, approved 16 to 1 by the agriculture committee, would inflate currency by a fixed silver to gold ratio. Critics say the measure lacks inflation protection and faces a doubtful fate in the Senate. Meanwhile, House Democrats push social reform revisions as leaders seek to unite blocs for passage.
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GTON
Ap)—Thericulture Committee
Roosevelt Price
ESER
Wheeler
Treasury
Ington
House
Farmers to Receive Benefit Payments in Drought Areas
The AAA plans full benefits for farmers in drought regions after official designation. Benefits will require individual applications and production controls before payments are issued.
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AAA
Prices Jump Two Cents Per Bushel at Trade Opening
Wheat prices rose two cents per bushel as trading opened. May wheat touched around 98 cents while hogs and other grains showed activity reflecting a firmer market tone.
Invention Yarns About Tools and Materials
The passage jokes about new invention advantages and asks what use they have. It notes good materials and tools are available through The Messenger, with playful dialect and skepticism about applying innovations.
Nice of Hitler To Step Back for the Groom
Beverly Hills columnist Will Rogers notes humorously that Hitler attended a wedding but was not the groom. He alludes to stock market volatility and mentions meeting Fielding Wost of Michigan and praising coaches Stage and Warner as influences on youth.
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Will
Beverly Hills
Calif
N. Y
Ian
Fielding Wost
Michigan
Stage
Warner
Will Rogers
Attorneys for Thomas Fight Frazier Reams
COLUMBUS. A morals charge against former Ohio Penitentiary warden Thomas is challenged by his lawyers as they attack testimony by Olive Stills of Cleveland claiming immoral relations to aid her son’s release. The defense also questions affidavits from Cleveland residents and reads a letter exonerating Thomas by John McSweeney into the record. The hearing, halted to spectators during Stills’ testimony, resumes Friday morning.
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Frazier Reams
Preston FE
Thomas
Ohio Penitentiary
Olive Stills
Cleveland
Toledo
Women's Clubs Make Demands at Ohio Federation Meeting
Mrs. Letta W Hesse of Columbus outlined a program of state legislation favored by the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs. The plan seeks library funding, librarian employment, school for the blind aid, county reorganization, school financing, game bird list decisions, and auto driver financial responsibility. Mrs. J L Selby reported on scholarship funds aiding 24 young women in college and loans totaling 17800 aiding 178 girls over 24 years.
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Columbus
Letta W Hesse
Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs
Hesse
J. L. Selby
Greenville
Ohio Recovers $25 Million Relief Grant for 1935
Governor Davey said Ohio’s 1935 relief share totals 25 million dollars after Hopkins announced the allotment. The state has provided 9 million to date and seeks 15 million in county relief bonds, with the legislature asked to authorize.
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Columbus
Harry L. Hopkins
Davey
Ohio
Hopkins
Senate Study Of Foundation Bill Is Asked
The Senate Education Committee began examining the Traxler Keifer Foundation School Program to understand its mechanics and potential changes. The measure proposes an equalization fund of 45 dollars and 47.50 per pupil for elementary and high schools and is backed by the State Department of Education and the Ohio Education Association.
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Traxler-Keifer Bill
Columbus
Senate Education Committee
Traxler- Keifer Foundation
James Metzenbaum
D. Cuyahoga
Traxier-Keifer
State Department of Education
Ohio Educational Association
Government Seeks to Avert Tire Strike Talks
Washington reports focus on Frances Perkins secretary of labor as auto tire firms plan talks to avert a threatened strike by American Federation of Labor employees. Federation leaders including William Green and Akron organizer Coleman Claherty may meet Perkins Friday. the talks follow Roosevelt’s directive to intervene.
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Frances Perkins
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Coleman Claherty
Akron
Miss Perkins
Roosevett
Author of Detective Mysteries Is Dead
Anna Katharine Green aged 88, noted detective fiction author, died after months of illness in Buffalo New York. In private life she was Mrs Charles Rohifs and wrote 27 novels including The Leavenworth Case her first and The Step on the Chair her favorite, published when she was 77.
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N. Y
Anna Katherine Green
Miss Green
Charles Rohifs
Leavenworth
No Disorders Order for Students to Demonstrate
The National Student Strike Committee urged 150000 college and preparatory students to walk out for one hour on Friday to protest war. The final directive asked participants to demonstrate without disorder.
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New York
National
West Kansas Wheat Fails as Dust Storm Ravages the Plains
Flying dust and sand grip the Southwest as fields turn barren a month after hopeful forecasts. The latest government crop report notes a large portion of winter wheat abandoned with six Kansas counties showing zero condition. Weather experts warn the drought extends across Kansas Colorado Oklahoma Texas and New Mexico.
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Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Mansfield approves three year gas rate ordinance
Mansfield council adopts a three year gas rate plan that would refund 225000 to Mansfield gas users and set rates at 1 dollar for security and 50 cents per 140 in excess over 500. EF M Tharp of Ohio Fuel Gas Co plans to appeal the new ordinance and continue litigation against the old one.
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EF. M. Tharp
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Columbus
Mansfield Council
Tharp
Schools Get Tax Revenue In Athens County
Checks totaling 87 524 44 were received by Kenneth C Ray superintendent of the Athens County Schools from the state as the county s share of liquid fuel and sales tax revenue. After a deduction for an advance the amounts reflect averages for liquid fuel and sales tax.
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Carbondale
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Happy Hollow
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the Plains
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Shade
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Troy
Waterloo
York
Father and Son Wounded in East Side Robbery Fight
Cleveland proprietor of an East Side meat market and his 20 year old son were fatally wounded in a gun battle with holdup men. One suspect was believed to be wounded as a blonde woman accompanied the trio and they escaped in a stolen taxi. The owner Joseph Wenosky aged 60 and his son Albert aged 20 lay wounded on the pavement.
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East Side
Joseph Wenosky
Age WO
Albert
Cantacuzene Wins Uncontested Divorce From Curtis
Prince Michael Cantacuzene obtained an uncontested divorce decree from Clarissa Pelham Curtis of Boston in Waukegan Illinois on Thursday.
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Prince Michael Cantacuzene
Clarissa Pelham Curtis
Boston
Police Aided by Cinderella Club Shoe Clue Traps Suspect
In Philadelphia police arrest 18 year old Joseph Carney after a shoe found at an accident scene matches his footwear. Mia Anna Rizzo, 40, was injured in the crash. Carney is charged with leaving the scene of an accident as officers linked the single shoe to him.
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Joseph Carney
Mia
Anna Rizzo
Carney
Ohio gas fields showed untapped potential says OSU geologist
Professor Wilbur Stout told a Senate committee that northeastern Ohio gas fields around Lake, Ashtabula, Geauga, and Mahoning counties remain underdeveloped and could yield more. He urged cautious leasing to the Federal government for reforestation while protecting mineral rights, noting Ohio gas costs higher than West Virginia gas in Portage area.
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Ohio
Wilbur Stout
Ohio State University
Senate
Stout
Lake, Ashtabula
Geanoga
Mahoning
John Liegd
R. Beioto
Lloyd
Portamouth
West Virginia
Child Drowned In House Fire Near Salem
Firemen doused a house fire Wednesday night in Salem and discovered 2 year old Elizabeth Woods daughter of Mr and Mrs Fraser Woods drowned in the basement after a night search. The child was swept into the cellar by the water from the hose as the house burned upstairs. The family, moving into the home, lost track of her during the blaze and the effort to fight it.
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Salem
Elizabeth Woods
Fraser Woods
Ashe
Business Leaders Urged to Push Expansion Before Congress Adjourns
Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper told Cleveland merchants to stop delaying expansion plans until Congress adjourns. He spoke to a Chamber of Commerce meeting urging action despite recurring excuses and alibis centered on legislative delays.
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Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C. Roper
Congress
Chamber of Commerce
Commerce Secretary
Walt Undi Congress
Non-Support Charge Filed Against Husband in Athens
Harry Mitchell pleads not guilty and is bound over to Common Pleas Court on a $300 bond after a complaint by Mia Sylvia Mitchell at 3 Maple Street alleging he did not support their children Lucille 4 and Marty Jr 12. Darzy Vance, former NL ace, signed a Brooklyn contract after trial with Dodgers following his release from the Cardinals.
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Athens
Common Pleas Court
Justice of the Peace
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Mia
Sylvia Mitchell
Maple Street
Lucille
Marty Jr
Washington
Darzy Vance
Brooklyn Dodgers
St. Louis Cardinals
Brooklyn
France Seeks League Aid Over German Violations at Stresa
At Stresa Italy British French and Italian leaders plan to press the League of Nations to act on France’s appeal over Germany’s breach of the Versailles military clauses. France will back a memorandum detailing Hitler’s violations and urging action to avert war. Paris shows interest in pacts of mutual aid with Balkan states echoing Franco Russian ties.
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Actress Betty Hamilton Ends Screen Career With Self Immolation
New York reports Betty Hamilton a 21 year old Meadville Pennsylvania native and former English film actress leaped from an eleventh floor hotel. Manager Bud Pollack says this was her second suicide attempt in 24 hours following a quarrel with fiancé Fred Levy radio station owner. Hamilton had returned to America last December after five English films and a musical comedy and had appeared with Douglas Fairbanks in The Private Life of Don Juan.
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Betty Hamilton
Meadville, Pa
Miss Hamilton
Bud Pollack
Death in Syracuse mine slate collapse claims William Soulsby
William Soulsby, age 31, electrician at the Syracuse mine, was killed instantly Thursday morning when slate fell after a prop was knocked by motors. He lived in Syracuse and left a wife, one son, one daughter, and other relatives. Funeral plans not yet set.
Yankee veterans honor ex enemy in Minnesota
Detlef H. Rahnsen, a German World War I veteran, attends a farewell party in Martin County. The Truman American Legion Post 115 presents him a medal bearing the Legion emblem and the inscription Your comrades in the other camp.
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Minn
Detlef H. Bahnsen
Martin County
Truman American Legion Post
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Rahnsen
Legion
Minnesota
Bond Moratorium Faces Setback in Ohio House
The Ohio House Taxation Committee narrowly rejects Governor Davey’s bond moratorium proposal amid strong opposition. The panel approves a separate measure authorizing $15 million in poor relief bonds funded by a 1 percent tax increase, while bond demand has fallen from 10 to 37 points on the NYSE since the governor’s plan was introduced.
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House Taxation Committee
Dave
P. BK. Ward
Geauga
Ohio
New York Stock Exchange
Davey
Bowman Ride To Die Friday
Eddyville Ky. 19 year old Stanley Mercer faces execution by electric chair on Friday for the murder of storekeeper George Kaufman in Camp Nelson. Mercer's case follows Bowman's death sentence in Mercer County for a separate killing. Mercer testified against Bowman at Bowman's trial. Gov Ruby LaFoon has the clemency power.
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Stanley Mercer
State Penitentiary
George Kaufman
Ruby Laffoon
Mercer
Neal Bowman
Jessamine
Kaufman
Camp Nelson
Court of Appeals
Bowman
Conner Franklin
Mercer County
Franklin
Bomber Executed by Cuban Soldiers Near Moncada Barracks
Jose Gustavo Angulo Terry, the 19 year old bomber convicted of placing a hazardous device at a Puerto Padre customs administrator's home, was executed by firing squad on a public safety range two miles from Moncada barracks. He was led to the execution ground in a military ambulance.
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Santiago
Jose Gustavo Angulo Terry
Puerto Padre
Moncada Barracks
New Relief Work Faces Locality Challenge in Cities
Washington reports plan to put 350000 relief workers to work, but aims to employ them locally to avoid building camps. Roosevelt stance limits distant projects and pushes assistants to expand in populous centers with dam control, erosion, reforestation and rural electrification. About 3.46 million urban relief workers exist across eight dense states.
Ohio hopes to cut jobless rolls to 200000 under new program
Columbus AP report says Ohio and counties may bear relief costs before year end as federal and local funds pool. C C Stillman says no orders to change setup yet, expect state and local aid to cover unemployables until the new works program starts. County offices will keep operating despite questions on legality of county funding.
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Ohio
C. C. Stillman
Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Stillman
Hopkins
Cuyahoga County
C. C. &Tillman
Oho
Thireday
Irvin A. Miller
Fairfield County
Courts To Test NRA Decision In Kentucky Coal Case
The U S Court of Appeals in Cincinnati hears arguments on the Hart Coal Company and 38 firms in Western Kentucky over wage and hour provisions of the bituminous coal code. The case follows U S district attorney Thomas Sparks against a restraining order from pursuing civil or criminal action. The court previously upheld the local judge's stance on government interference. A separate dispatch notes the General Confederation of Workers and Peasants voting to call a nationwide general strike with over ten thousand members.
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Cincinnati
NRA
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Hart Coal Company
Kentucky
Thomas Sparks
U. S
Louleville
United States
Charles I. Dawson
Loulaville
Dawson
Government Appeals Case in Cincinnati Hearing
The United States Court of Appeals will hear the government's appeal on May 16 regarding a lower court ruling that halted a $1,680,090 public housing project in Louisville Kentucky.
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Cincinnati
United State Circuit Court of Appeals
Louisville, Kye
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