Ohio Legislature Lets Study Delinquent Taxes
The Ohio Legislature moved to collect delinquent taxes with a resolution creating a nine member commission from the Senate, House, and governor to study the $152 million owed. The panel will tour the state, summon delinquent taxpayers, and draft legislation to improve payments. Governor appointees include a county auditor, a county treasurer, and a prosecuting attorney.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Verner E. Merclaf
Marietta
Senate
House
Metcalf
Roosevelt silent on compromise in court battle
President Roosevelt avoided comment on the McCarran compromise proposal for adding two Supreme Court justices. He noted frequent new plans and said he had not thoroughly studied the Wagner Act rulings or their impact on new minimum wage and child labor legislation, pending legal study.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Pat McCarran
Nev
McCarran
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Farmers Cooperatives Receive Allotments for Electrification
The Rural Electrification Administration approved $582000 in allotments to farmers' cooperatives. Licking and Knox Counties in Ohio will get part of a distribution system via Lickine Rural Electric Corporation of Newark for 142000. Ohio loans include North Central Farm Bureau Electric Cooperative of Tiffin for up to 270000 and Western Farm Bureau Electric Cooperative of Lima for up to 146606.
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Washington-Aup
Rural Electrification Administration Today
Lickine Rural Electric Corporation
Newark
Licking
Knox Counties
Ohio
North-Central Farm Bureau Electric Cooperative
Tiffin
Western Farm Bureau Electric Cooperative of
Lima
Baby Boy Wounded In Family Shooting Incident
In Cleveland an antique revolver kept as a gift for 25 years was fired by four year old Clifford, wounding his two year old brother Richard. Police say the old pistol, found under a mattress, caused the injury in a domestic accident.
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Cleveland
O.P
James Robinson
Richard
Clifford
One Man Riot at Lancaster County Relief Office
John Barton, relief recipient, staged a one man riot Thursday at a county relief headquarters after being denied a grocery order. He smashed a bluewriter desk and a window in the disturbance.
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Lancaster
John Barton
County Officials Named in 1936 Road Fund Abuse Probe
Former Athens County commissioners Fred Kittle Frank Biddle and Frank Minner along with county engineer J W Wilson face a probe into abuse of discretion in the 1936 road fund. The investigation covers authority to spend, use of materials and overtime work. The report cites 120 findings totaling 2235 70 and details expenditures of crushed stone culvert tile bridge plank and other road materials.
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Athens
L. P. An
Ohio Bureau of Inspection and Supervision
Board of County Commissioners
Fred Kittle
Frank Biddle
Frank Minner
Board of Commissioners
J. W. Wilson
Minner
Arms Hunt Ties to Probe in Harlan County Coal War
Senate Civil Liberties Committee deepens inquiry into miners and operators clash in Bloody Harlan County. Witness Theodore R. Middleton, Harlan County sheriff, testifies about deputizing hundreds of deputies since 1934, with most payments coming from coal companies.
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Washington
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Kentucky
Harlan
Robert LaFollette
Theodore R. Middleton
Harlan County
Middleton
Sales Tax Collections Reach 11 Million Mark
State Treasurer Clarence H. Kinsley reported weekly sales tax receipts of 1,227,261 with year to date totaling 11,619,781. The figure trails last year’s 12,759,728 by month.
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Columbus
U.P
Clarence H. Kinsley
Woman on Strike Shuts Down Local Telephone Exchange
Mae Leaf and her father refuse to use the Robinsport exchange as Mae, 45, protests unpaid wages of 15 dollars a month since February. The shut down affects about 400 residents with service limited to Canleton for emergencies while Ed Tinsley negotiates.
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Tobinsport
Ind
U.P
Mae Leaf
Telephone Exchange
Robinsport Telephone Company
Miss Leaf
S .W. Leaf
Mae
George Polk
Ed Tinsley
Wrecking Crew Sheds Light on No New Taxes Drive
Ohio Senate bloc critics press $89,000,000 relief bill cutting $23,000 for relief and trimming governor's budget. Tom Jones and Verner Metcalf back cuts as the group vows to press further amendments and oppose new taxes in a stalled relief fight.
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Columbus
U.P
Senate
Tom Jones
Meigs County
Verner Metcalf
Washington County
Davey
Offic
McIntyre
Zoul
Matthews
Metcalf
House
House Taxation Committee
Ford offered Peace or War in Kansas City clash
Ed Hall of the United Automobile Workers told Ford officials in Detroit that peace or war is their choice over the Kansas City assault on Barron De Louis and union organizer O W Penney. Hall planned to fly to Kansas City after the call and expected further contact from Ford.
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Detroit
U.P
Ed Hall
United Automobile Workers Union
Ford Motor Company
Kansas City
Hall
Barron de Louis
O. W. Penney
Ford Service Department
Ford
End of Marine Strike Settles on International Mercantile
A general strike by marine workers and radio operators on all ships of the International Mercantile Marine Corp ended. The agreement allows the United States liner President Roosevelt to sail from its Hudson River pier and ends a sympathy sit-down strike by 300 on the Panama Pacific liner California, which was set to sail for Havanna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
International Mercantile Marine Corporation
United States
President Roosevelt
Hudson River
California
Havanna
Akron Editor Cited to Appear in Court in Grand Jury Ban
Walter Morrow editor of The Akron Times-Press was cited for contempt for violating Judge Walter Wanamaker’s ban on publishing names of grand jury members and other jury news. The judge called the ban an experiment in the spirit of the law and had previously ordered the restriction in Summit County.
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Akron
U.P
Walter Morrow
Akron Times-Press
Walter Wanamaker
Pacific Coast R R Employes Out on Strike
San Francisco report says 8500 workers from two railroad brotherhoods on Southern Pacific lines across eight western states walked out at 6 p.m. Pacific to defy mediation orders. Officials predicted limited effect while leaders cite jurisdictional disputes amid Roosevelt mediation.
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San Francisco
U.P
Southern Pacific
A. D. McDonald
Brotherhood of
Roosevelt
National Mediation Board
Indict State Official On Bribery Charge
Franklin County Grand Jury indicts Edward T. Carney assistant chief of the Ohio Securities Division for taking two bribes totaling 6050 dollars. The charges allege 1050 dollars received January 31 1935 and 5000 dollars on October 8 1935 from E F Harsh of Old Consolidated Motors Co Lima in stock qualification work.
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Columbus
U.P
Edward T. Carney
Ohio Securities Division
Franklin County
Grand Jury
Carney
E. F. Harsh
Consolidated Motors Co
Lima
TVA Counsel Begins Defense of Project
Covington Ky James L Fly chief of counsel for the Tennessee Valley Authority took the floor in the U S Circuit Court of Appeals for a two hour defense of TVA and an argument for dismissal of a federal court injunction tying up the government's southern project since Dec 22 The suit attacks the constitutionality of the TVA power companies calling it an illegal proprietary federal monopoly and its yardstick rates fiscatory
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Covington
U.P
James L. Fly
Tennessee Valley Authority
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
TVA
Strassburg Board Urged to End High School Strike
Tuscarawas County schools superintendent E. Laws asked the Strasburg village board of education to reconvene with a students committee and perhaps parents of striking pupils. The students walked out Wednesday demanding reemployment of H. P. Lohrman as Strasburg superintendent.
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Strasburg
U.P
Ontario ministers urged to resign over GM strike stance
Due to their expressed unwillingness to join the Ontario premier's hard line against the General Motors strike in Oshawa, Minister of Labor David A. Croilright and Attorney General Arthur W. Roebuck, above, were asked to resign from the Ontario government.
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Ontario
General Motors
Oshawa
David A. Crolsright
Arthur W. Roebuck
Spanish Foes Agree First Civil War Truce Near Madrid
A truce in the El Pardo area north of Madrid allowed Loyalists and National forces to bury their dead before resuming fighting. It was the first such halt in the war. Both sides paused as Nationalist shells fell on Madrid while Loyalists repelled relief attempts for 10,000 besieged Nationalists in University City.
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Madrid
U.p)x
el Pardo
University City
County Record Probe Began in Lawrence County
Auditor Joseph Ferguson and a corps of examiners opened a probe into Lawrence County records citing a disgrace to county and state affairs. School examiners were assigned to districts and investigators will visit all 14 township offices. Special prosecutor Thomas Burke Jr. continued his inquiry into alleged ballot tampering from the last election.
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Ironton
U.P
Statite
Joseph Ferguson
Corps of Examiners
Lawrence
Ferguson
Thomas Burke, Jr
Cleveland
Gavagan Anti-Lynching Bill Moves to Senate
The Gavagan Anti-Lynching Bill, approved 276 to 119 by the House after seven hours of debate, heads to the Senate amid expected opposition. Southern Democrats denounce it as an invasion of states rights. Sen. William E Borah signals opposition.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
House
William E. Borah
Idaho
Italy Plans Marriage Loans to Grow War Ready Troops
Rome reports a cabinet backed program to boost births for future wars. Marriage loans lighter taxes and preferential wages will favor prolific parents as every worker gains higher pay on the birth of a son.
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Rome
Farm Youth Sought in Cruel Double Murder
Ray Larsen a 22 year old farmhand is sought in a warrant for the murder of elderly farmer Jehiel Davis and his sister Lydia Hildebrant and the likely fatal beating of the farmer's wife Eleanor Davis. The victims were over 70. A wooden mallet was used in the slayings and one body was found in a bed while another was found nailed in a barn feed bin. The crime likely occurred Wednesday night and was discovered Thursday.
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Fenton
Mich
U.P
Ray Larsen
Jehiel H. Davis
Livingston County
Lydia Hildebrant
Utica
Eleanor Davis
Flint
Davis
Hildebrant
Bus Drivers Strike Sidelines Akron Transit
Akron's bus system shut down as drivers walked off the job without warning, stranding hundreds of morning riders. Bus garages were picketed to stop buses from leaving.
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AKRON
U.P
Robber Slugs, Robs Man on C&O Train in Charleston
Floyd White 34 of Charleston West Virginia was bounded and robbed of 94 dollars while on a Cincinnati bound C&O train. He told police he was slugged and later hospitalized here with a possible brain concussion.
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Cincinnati
Floyd White
Charleston
W. Va
Ohio to Build $100 Million Unemployment Fund by 1939
Ohio expects to accumulate more than $100 million for unemployment compensation by Jan 1, 1939, from employer contributions. Projections show $40 million for 1937 and $60 million for 1938, with a peak relief roll of 341,000 in January 1935. A merit-rating system will replace the flat rate in 1942, rewarding stable employment and penalizing high unemployment.
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Columbus
Ohio
Five CIO AFL proposals to curb union powers urged
Labor leaders vow full cooperation with industry to make Wagner Act work while five recommendations to Chamber of Commerce seek curb on union power. Proposals urge protection of property from seizure, fair labor expression, union incorporation, financial disclosures, and withholding relief to striking firms. John L. Lewis calls for a cooling off period amid high tensions. William Green says policy unchanged despite Wagner Act.
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Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
United States Chamber of Commerce
CIO
Lewis
United Automobile Workers
John L. Lewis
United Press
Green
William Green
AF of L
Supreme Court
Chamber of Commerce
Former deputy probate clerk bonds out on embezzlement charge
Earl B. Cookes, former deputy probate clerk in Portsmouth, pleaded not guilty to embezzling 8200 dollars from court funds. He was released on a 5000 dollar bond and is set for trial on April 27.
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Portsmouth
Earl B. Cookes
Liberty
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