Views of Other Lands Stir Kiwanis Guests in Athens
Edward C. Turner former Ohio attorney general told 200 at a Kiwanis intercity event in Athens that Soviet Russia resembles capitalism in business farming and religion and would silence critics. He cited visits to Leningrad and Moscow noting wartime tensions and high prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Edward C. Turner
Ohio
Soviet Russia
Inter-Cities
Hotel Berry
Turner
Athens
Leningrad
Moscow
Sovnts
Japan
China
Hitler
Athens Kiwanis Club
Glouster
Logan
Marietta
Pt. Pleasant
W. Va
Ross Wright
Athens Club
Irvin Quick
L. P. Mooney
Logan Club
Mooney
Pete Land
Ohio Kiwanis
Frank J. Barron
Kiwanis
West Virginia
C. G. Bauerle
William B. Starkey
Roger Kittle
Glouster Club
Carol Seizes Nazi Plotters
In Bucharest King Carol jailed more Iron Guard members over a planned coup and a fascist dictatorship under Codreanu. About 30 percent of his lieutenants and over 2000 followers await charges from treason to sedition. several Greek Orthodox priests were arrested for aiding the movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucharest
Roumania
U.P
Carol
Iron Guards
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Codreanu
Miron Christen
War to End Democracy warns DAR head on war risks
Mrs. William A. Becker told the 47th Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution that a war could destroy the U S democratic system. In her closing DAR term she warned crushing taxes and wartime distress could pave the way for communism and fascism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
William A. Becker
Congress
the Daughters of the American Revolution
United States
DAR
Ker
America
Lie detector shows guilt in Ohio prison slaying case
St. Clairsville Ohio report states Francis Smith 33 was found guilty by lie detector in the killing of Nora Berkey 37 his former sweetheart. He remains under sentence of life imprisonment at the Ohio Penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Clairsville
U.P
Francis Smith
Ohio
Nora Berkey
New Plates Not Holding Up in Gallia County
Reports from Gallia County indicate 1938 ox team license plates rusting and peeling paint. Local registrar E. E. Caldwell says defects stem from lighter material used for Northwest Territory emblem. If plates become unreadable, the state automobile department will issue replacements free of charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
E. E. Caldwell
State Automobile Department
Caldwell
Northwest Territory
Buick Plant Closes Trigger 5000 Jobs Lost in Flint
In Flint Michigan union clashes halted Fisher Body Plant No 1 and Buick Motor Co assembly line leaving more than 5000 workers jobless. 400 blocked at Fisher gates by 500 UAW pickets over paid up membership as Patterson vows further closures. Buick follows Fisher leading to nationwide tension between union and management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flint
Mich
U.P
Fisher
Buick Motor Company
United Automobile Workers Union
Henry Wilson
UAW
Patterson
Buick
Wilson
Increase Vast Lending Funds Through End of Gold Sterilization
The Treasury ended the gold sterilization program, allowing gold acquired by the government to enter credit channels. Secretary Morgenthau announced the move as part of Roosevelt's recovery drive, while RFC Chairman Jesse Jones urged banks to extend credit to aid business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Republic Steel Appeals Wagner Act Decision
Republic Steel files appeal in U S Circuit Court from National Labor Relations Board ruling that it violated the Wagner Act. The company also seeks a stay on further board action including reinstatement of 5 000 strikers until the appeal is heard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
U.P
Republic Steel Corporation Today
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
National Labor Relations Board
Oil man’s $7500 Easter trip funds wife reconciliation
Joplin area report says L Douglass, once a mule driver who struck oil, sponsored a $7500 Easter vacation for 18 schoolgirls and then remarried his wife in Kansas. The couple, previously divorced for neglect, plan a second honeymoon in Oklahoma with their three children and classmates. June Douglass, 14, led the family home with hopeful words.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jutchinson
Kans
U.P
L. Douglass
Douglass
Arthur L. Miller
Oklahoma
June
Delores
Jimmy
Chicago
Fight Fires These Lads Get the Bird
Fire crews battled flocks of birds after a burning affiliated freight truck dumped three tons of bird seed on the street. Most sacks burst releasing sparrows and pigeons as salvage proved small and crews fought off the birds.
May Change Flood Control Plans in Ohio
In Columbus the Scioto Sandusky conservancy district flood control project may shift as federal surveys take 8 to 9 months to locate reservoir sites. Murray Blanchard said the district’s 10 dam plan costing about 35 million dollars could be reduced or expanded. Some streams may require channel widening and early drillings are underway to test dam feasibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Scioto-Sandusky Conservancy District
Murray Blanchard
District Board
Blanchard
Talk Ways To Cut Vote Cost
Columbus report says Secretary of State Kennedy urged all county election boards to meet May 23 and 24 to discuss cutting costs and improving election machinery. He cited 1936 ballot costs from 45 cents to 1.71 and a general election expense of 2.6 million, aiming to save about 250 thousand. he also warned about illegitimate costs and proposed paying all board clerks 75 dollars monthly, up from some 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
William J. Kennedy
Kennedy
Loyalists Plan Offensive West of Madrid Front
General Jose Miaja prepares a large Loyalist push west of Madrid as Nationalists push toward Tortosa near the Ebro delta. Loyalist forces include thousands of troops and international volunteers from the International Brigade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendaye
N.2
Jose Miaja
Madrid
Tortosa
Ebro
International Brigade
Renewal of Revolutionary Activities Reported on Atlantic Coast
Managua dispatch says renewed revolutionary activity flared on the Atlantic coast. Reports indicate intensified actions by local groups and responses from authorities. No further details available in the brief cache.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Managua
Nicaraga
U.P
Atlantic
Always Done Davey Says of Payroll Raids
Gov Martin L Davey defends payroll contributions by state employees claiming parties have long used such tactics. He notes department heads assure civil service laws are followed and criticizes the Cuyahoga County Grand Jury for not indicting Lee Bradley for perjury based on Senate Graft Committee testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Martin L. Davey
Cuyahoga County
Lee Bradley
Senate
Highways Target 101 Million Additions in Recovery Bill
The House is set to add 101.5 million dollars in highway funds to the agriculture department bill as part of Roosevelt's recovery program. Rep. Clarence Cannon indicated limited opposition to amendments proposed for Rep. Wilburn Cartwright. The President had urged 100.1 million more for roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Roosevelt
Agriculture Department
Clarence Cannoh
Wilburn Cartwright
Okla
Appropriations Committee
War Department
House Passes Bill to Expand Army Reserve Force
The House approved a measure to create a regular army reserve of about 75 000 men, adding to the 165 000 authorized army strength, and sent the bill to the White House for signature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Washington
U.P
White House
Flood Control Plans Hit 300 Million Top Appropriation
The article reports President Roosevelt informing the House Flood Control Committee that a 300 million dollar authorization is the maximum for flood control projects. It details allied politics, opposition from the Ohio Chamber of Commerce to a national resources board, and discussions on cost-sharing and project prioritization as Congress considers the recovery program and WPA limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FAR
House
Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
House Flood Control Committee
William Whittington
Miss
Sam Rayburn
Tex
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
National Resources Board
Ohio Valley
War Department
Flood Control Committee
Frank Carlson
Kans
Army
Governanc
Congress
Alfred N. Beiter
N. Y
American Federation of Labor
Works Progress Administration
WPA
Beiter
Osneratt
Treasury
Japs Pay Panay Cost Claim Friendship Aid
The Panay sinking is used to promote Japanese American friendship. The government is expected to pay the United States 2,214,000 in demnity for the Panay and three Standard Oil ships, with payment due tomorrow or Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Panay
United States
Standard Oil
Solon Favors Moving Residents in Flood Zone
Rep. George W. Johnson urged Congress to define a policy moving residents from flood prone river areas where feasible, citing the Pt. Pleasant project as an example and arguing it can be cheaper than building flood walls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solon
Washington
U.P
Congressional Flood Control Committee
George W. Johnson
W. Va
Pt. Pleasant
New York Central Seeks Station Classification Change
The New York Central Railroad asks the Ohio Public Utilities Commission to reclassify its Drakes station in Perry County from agency to non-agency status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drakes Columbus
U.P
New York Central Railroad
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Drakes
Perry County
Not Bad Jackie Claims Dares Mother To Say So
Hollywood report says Jackie Coogan would accept his mother’s invitation and reveal the nature of the “particularly bad thing” he did at 20, but he cannot recall any serious misdeed beyond “kid stuff.” His mother, Lillia Covsan Bernstein, testified she refused to give him his $4.6 million earnings as a child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Skinner
Robbins Road
Nelsonville
Athens
Hocking
East Bridge
Gallipolis
Louise
Hastings Addition
George Bateman
S. N. Skinner
Evelyn
E. S
Jackie
Hollywood
Jackie Coogan
Lillia Covsan
Columbus Mayor Refuses Police Aid to Trolley Line
Mayor Myron B. Gessaman refused police protection for street cars and city buses during a three day union carmen strike while urging arbitration of wage demands. Ben W. Marr of the utility said arbitration was not affordable for 455 employees and 230 of 287 drivers reported to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Marr
Gessaman
Senate fights over Roosevelt navy bill launch
The Senate opened debate on President Roosevelt's billion dollar navy bill as opponents concede they will vote against it. They plan a broad foreign policy discussion likely to be followed by a Hull revelation naming nations violating treaties. Rumor says Italy Japan and Germany will be named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Senate
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Sam D. McReynolds
Tenn
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Hull
Congress
United States
Italy
Japan
Germany
Bank Robbery Trumps Police Holdup Test in Bloomingdale
Two men robbed Bloomingdale State Bank just before a planned police fake holdup to test a radio alarm system. Police intended to stage the study at Homer, 160 miles away, to evaluate highway blockade response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomingdale, Mich
U.P
Bloomingdale State Bank
Homer
Italian Ready to Make Treaty With France
Count Galeazzo Ciano informed French diplomat James Blondel that Italy was prepared to negotiate a friendship treaty with France. It is believed Mussolini aims to reach an agreement before Hitler visits Rome in early May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
U.P
Galeazzo Ciano
James F. Blondel
Italy
France
Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Policeman Arthur W. Chalmers Sentenced in Pader Trial
New York up Arthur W. Chalmers, a mounted policeman, was convicted of killing Irma Louise Prader a French domestic who loved him and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Arthur W. Chalmers
Irma Louise Pradier
Paris strikers end occupation of 220 metallurgical plants
Sit down strikers who had occupied 220 metallurgical factories in the Paris region and all but paralyzed the government airplane rearmament program returned to their jobs. The reversal restores factory activity and eases wartime production pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PARIS
U.P
Wright Reinstated as Hocking County Resident Engineer
Boyd V. Wright today was re instated as Hocking County resident engineer for the State Highway Department with headquarters in Logan. He was removed three weeks ago for alleged insubordination. Wright returned to work today and the dismissal was stated to be due to a personal misunderstanding which has been adjusted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Boyd V. Wright
Hocking County
State Highway Department
Wright
Harley Calvin
Marietta
Two Miners Die In Rock Fall At Cadiz Mine
John Galliday age 53 and John Patterson age 51 were killed when a rock collapse trapped them in an old section of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Coal Mine near Cadiz. The accident occurred today as both men worked underground in the former mining area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cadiz
John Galliday
John Patterson
Ohio and Pennsylvania
CIO Sympathizers Plan Mass Return to Homes
In Sacramento two hundred CIO unionists and sympathizers from Grass Valley and Nevada City formed a motor caravan to return to their communities after vigilantes allegedly ordered them to leave and not return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Levine
Secondo
Frank Conti
Salt Lake, City
Utah
Conti
Levines
CIO
Sacramento
Cal
U.2
Grass Valley
Nevada City
Surgeon Amputates Leg After Man Is Pinched in Shaft
Marion Garep, trapped ten floors up in the Cardinal Hotel shaft, had his leg amputated by an ambulance surgeon while his rescuers steadied him. Dr David Wasserman of City Hospital carried out the procedure atop a narrow girder as Garep smoked nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
U.P
Marion Garep
Cardinal Hotel
Garep
David Wasserman
City Hospital
Police search Long Island for missing airplane
Police scoured Long Island hangars for the red and silver plane carrying Andrew Carnegie Whitfield, 28, nephew of the late Andrew Carnegie. He vanished after leaving an airport en route to Brentwood, hours after saying he would return shortly. Commerce and FBI aided the search today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Long Island
Andrew Carnegie Whitfield
Andrew Carnegie
Bethlehem
Brentwood
Department of Commerce
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Robert Quigley
Ohio University
Robert Bingman
Joseph E. Thackeray
J. P. McDonald
Marietta Club
Phil E. Auer
Galion
Rex Koons
Athens Kiwanis
Earl Beckley
Don Barr
Paul Beckley
Gallia Motor Car Owners
Republic Steel
West Madrid
Stork
Florence Hill Rudd
Florence
Rudd
Vallejo
Calif
Davey
Finsterwald
Cliff Cornell
Charles Bayless
Skinner
C. N. France
Athens Rescue Squad
Howard France
John Summers
Roy Robinson
Inlaw
Elmer Skinner
Fourth St
House of Representatives
Francis E. Townsend
Washington, D. C
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