Roosevelt Center With Owners Pinchot and Brack Attack New Deal
Roosevelt will meet rail executives in Washington to discuss wage disputes with unions and carriers. Mrs Pinchot accuses Hugh Johnson of aiding big interests to raise dividends and unite the NRA with the recovery drive. Bricker attacks federal power as Johnson advocates unity to complete recovery while blue eagle emblems are publicly withdrawn for noncompliance.
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GTON
U.P
Roosevelt
Hugh
Johnson
NRA
Pinchot
Ington
Hugh Johnson
Blue Eagles
Driver Safety Drive Heights on Ohio Highways
Ohio highway inspectors announce an intensive commercial vehicle safety drive following a crash that killed passengers. The push targets strict observance of rules and requires trucks to display warning flares to alert motorists. Herbert Baker supervises motor transportation for the commission.
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U.p)—Co
Ohio
Commission Safety
Ferive
High
Herbert Baker
Ercer
Hughes Johnson denounces press censorship charge
Hughes Johnson today published the charge that the Recovery Administration posed press censorship. He spoke before the convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, defending his position and describing his protest during the session. He concluded with a minutes long speech rebutting critics.
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NGTON
Hughs Johnson
Johnson
Bonfire incident ignites clothing as woman naps in vacant lot
A confusing report describes a bonfire incident on a vacant Bast street lot. Clare fell asleep in the warm night, clothes and garments burned, though details remain unclear. A club contest involving women and an Eisted is noted, with 46 participants mentioned.
Blackwood and Biddle Cleared on County Office Issue
Athens County Attorney General Bricker ruled that L. H. Blackwood and Frank Biddle did not forfeit county office by serving on the County Fair Board. He said a county agricultural society director is a private agent, and a commissioner may serve on the board without vacating office.
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Fair Board
Athens County
L. H. Blackwood
Frank Biddle
County Fair Board
John W. Bricker
John W. Bolin
Harry A. Mettler
Athens County Granges
Athens County Farm Bureau
Bolin
Biddle and Blackwood
A. B. Peckinpaugh
Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices
Biddle
Blackwood
Bricker
County Agricultural Society
Shots Panic Trotzky And Friends in Paris
In Paris on April 2 a volley of pistol shots outside Leon Trotzky’s villa near Fontainebleau Forest sent guards scrambling. Trotzky and his entourage waited behind barred doors for passport visas needed to allow a car dash toward the French frontier.
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Paris
U.P
Leon Trotzky
Trotzky
Fontainebleau Forest
Old-Fashioned Girl Debates Continue At Ohio University
Sixty Ohio University men debated in the second round of the inter-fraternity forensic contest on the question whether the old-fashioned girl is preferable to the modern sophisticated girl. To enter elimination debates starting next Tuesday, teams must win two of three matches this week.
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Ohio University
Inter-Fraternity
Sunday Want Ad Tips In The Messenger Classifieds
A Sunday classified ad prompt urges readers to phone in before 3:00 p m Saturday to place ads for buying selling or renting. The caller is advised to use the 0242 taker and taker line to give details and note that charges may apply.
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Big Sunday Messenger
Modification of Alabama Coal Scale Seen
Washington reports recovery administrator Hugh Johnson is to issue instructions that may alter his order raising southern bituminous coal miners wages. The move aims to align southern pay with northern increases while a study on wage differentials continues.
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Washington
U.P
Hugh Johnson
Johnson
Harvey Fremming
International Oil Workers Union
Fremming
Girl To Fight Sterilization
Marguerite Monson, 20, among eleven young women ordered sterilized by Oklahoma officials after hearings at Central State Hospital for the Insane. She hopes to marry and have children but doctors testified she may bear children with dementia praecox, and her guardian plans possible court action to prevent the operation.
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Norman
Okla
Oklahoma
Marguerite Monson
State Board of Affairs
Central State Hospital For the
D. W. Griffin
Richard Cloyd
New Matamoras Man Killed in River Gas Office
Marietta April 20. Donald Wilson shot and killed at the River Gas Company office in New Matamoras as he entered and tried to strike manager I. B. Nutter with a hammer. Friends say Wilson had threatened Nutter if he did not leave town within 36 hours after a domestic quarrel.
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Marietta
Donald Wilson
New Matamoras
Here
River Gas Company
I. B. Nutter
Nutter
Wilson
Hughes Names Legislators Who Sought Government Favours
Columbus April 20 Colonel John A Hughes state liquor director testified before a special senate liquor investigating committee listing 17 senators and 38 representatives as favor seekers seeking jobs permits or liquor. He named Governor White US Senator Bulkley and others as among those seeking influence while denying any improper requests or intent to break the law.
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John A. Hughes
Senate
Liuor
Hughes
Harold Mosier
Cleveland
Hugh E. Addison
Bernard J. McCluskey
E. LeFever
Athens County
Tom W. Jones
Meigs County
Colonel Hughes
White
United States
Robert J. Bulkley
8. P. Dunkle
William Leonard
Hamilton County
Bernice Pyke
Internal Revenue
Worley
Knndts
Nate McCoy
House
Belgium to extend wall of steel to the sea
Paris reports Belgium intends to extend the border fortifications from Switzerland to the sea creating an invisible barrier between Germany and France Belgium plans a completion within a year with steel and concrete fortifications spanning from the North Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
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U.P
Belgium
France
Switzerland
Germany
North Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Bandits Release State Highway Patrolman Near Boonville
A.P. Chester Oliver, a state highway patrolman, was found alive and safe after being kidnapped by three desperadoes. One robber posed as Clyde Barrow. Oliver, who feared murder, was released at a country church near here last night alongside McCullough, a Lake of the Ozarks filling-station attendant also abducted after selling gasoline.
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Boonville
A.P
Chester Oliver
Clyde Barrow
Oliver
Heré
McCullough
Lake of the
Senate Group Submits Market Control Bill
The Senate banking committee announced it is ready to report the stock market control bill to the Senate with a recommendation for passage. It would subject all security markets to legal standards of conduct beyond trade ethics.
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Washington
Senate
State agents raid four Columbus night clubs
Eight state agents with two Columbus police members raided four Columbus night clubs. They arrested six persons and seized a large quantity of liquor being sold without a license.
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Columbus
Charles Snow Dies Thursday in Columbus
Charles A Snow aged years died Thursday afternoon at his son Herbert L Snow's home in Columbus after a brief illness. Funeral services will be at Alexander Presbyterian Church Saturday at 2 pm conducted by Rev Howard E Warner. Snow, born near Union Athens Township November 26 1852, built a large Athens County dairy business at Fisher Station and on Canaanville Road. He had two surviving children, Dr D C Snow of Guyenville and Herbert L Snow of Columbus, with a late son Robert and daughter Grace Hammond preceding him. He was widowed twice and was a member of Masonic Fraternity and Odd Fellows Lodge.
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Herbert L. Snow
Columbus
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Jonathan
Ellen Fish Snow
Union
Athens Township
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Mt. Vernon
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Canaanville Road
Athens
Athens County
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Guyenville
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Grace Hammond
Cassa Clutter
Dina Fisk
Nelsonville
J. H. Carter
Walton, Ind
R. M. Cooper
Port Clinton
Ohio
P. A. Vorhes
Cincinnati
Masonic Fraternity
Odd Fellows Lodge
Harder Fight In Sight for 30 Hour Bill
Labor leaders launched a rescue drive to pass the 30 hour work week bill in Congress. They fear it may be pigeonholed since not on the administration list and seek White House talks with President William Green of the AFL and federation officials to press for a shorter NRA code week.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
NRA
Parkersburg Man Kills Wife Then Takes Own Life
Parkersburg West Virginia April 20 Philip Davis 38 killed himself with a pistol after fatally injuring his wife with a club and wounding her with a shot. He went to the cottage to reconcile, wounded her, beat her with the pistol butt, then killed himself as she lay unconscious. The woman is expected to recover.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Philip Davis
Davis
County Principals to Meet in County Office
Final meeting of Ath ens County high school principals will be held in County Superintendent Kenneth C. Rays office Monday night April 23 at 7 30 oclock. Annual reports will be given.
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Athens County
Kenneth C. Ray
County relief debts eyed as two cities pledge funds
Athens County Commissioners adopt four resolutions after receiving assurances from Athens and Nelsonville that each city has 2500 ready to contribute toward county relief bills. About 40000 dollars in relief purchases from January to March are owed to county merchants.
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Athens
Nelsonville
Athens County
Len B. McCune
8. G. Holland
Holland
State Relief Commission
Relief Commission
Will Rogers Mocking Tax Plan Draws Boston to Lexington
The piece contrasts Will Rogers in a letter about paying wages with political essays from Lexington and Washington. Ohio counties shift gasoline funds to relief as Athens and Nelsonville plan actions, while January and February relief outlays exceed budgets but March stays within. Columbus reports the sales tax defeat collapses the administration plan to raise school funding to 68 million dollars.
Will Regulate Mine Disputes in Ohio
Labor troubles in Ohio coal retailing will be reviewed in Columbus on Monday at a formal hearing before division 21 of the Retail Solid Fuel Industry Code Authority. The panel will investigate price cutting and low wages in several counties and, if proven, establish higher wages and shorter hours under the National Recovery Act, with possible wage scales and more workers.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Division Code Authority
Ohio Bell refund suit seeks 13 million in Ohio
Cleveland April 2 Two suits filed ask a receiver for 13 280 172 dollars claimed as refunds from Ohio Bell Telephone Co to about 200 000 persons. Accounting and disbursement to rightful beneficiaries requested. Largest receivership action in state history by dollar value.
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U.P
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Riso
Ohio Common Pleas Court
Fish Market Bomb Shocks Three Families
Bombs exploded in the doorways of two Standard Poultry and Fish Markets in Cleveland early today, sending three families from their beds. Police sought two men linked to a poultry dealers association Morris Sherman had recently refused to join for questioning.
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Cleveland
Standard Poultry and Fish Markets
Morris Sherman
Cleveland Strike Could Pause As Stations Reach Truce
In Cleveland on April 20 a potential break emerged as gasoline station attendants and company representatives showed rare willingness to negotiate ending the two thousand strong strike.
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Cleveland
Renewal of Pavement Markings Planned on State Highways
Columbus reports the State Highway Department will begin renewing pavement markings on state highways soon, outlining maintenance action and expected schedule.
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Columbus
State Highway Department
J. T. Hanson Dies From Auto Crash Injuries
Dr. J. T. Hanson age 83 dies from skull fracture after a motor car collision in Addison. A Gallia County figure, he served as coroner, former county auditor and once president of the automobile club. Survived by son Harry of Gallipolis and daughter Mrs Alice Moore of Charleston. Funeral plans await arrival of Mrs Moore.
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Addison
Hanson
Gallin County
Athens State Hospital
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Florida
South
Harry
Alice Moore
Charleston
W. Va
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Produce Seller Arrested Here
Joe Goldfarb a Columbus Wholesale Company truck driver was arraigned before Magistrate Carl H Porter on selling two crates of tomatoes without a grade statement. The fruit was sold to an Athens grocer. Goldfarb pleaded not guilty and was released with trial set for April 25. A statutory case against Nellie Pack Dowler of Nelsonville ended with not guilty plea and $200 bond posted.
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Joe Goldfarb
Columbus
Carl H. Porter
Ohio
Athens
Goldfarb
A. C. Secrest
Atate
Frank White
Nellie Pack Dowler
Nelsonville
Rennie Pack
Porter
White
Photograph Mailed Linking Lindbergh Case Suspect
A photo showing William Larener, 37, of Boston, a man with many aliases, was mailed to Dr. John F. Condon the Lindbergh kidnap intermediary. Larener, who knew Chicago’s Touhy gang, is serving three years in Leavenworth for passing a counterfeit $1000 bill at Boston Airport on January 25.
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Boston
John F
Ohio House Defeats Two Percent Sales Tax Bill
In Columbus the House defeated the 2 percent sales tax bill 35 to 0. For the bill were Jones of Meigs County, against were Welch Hocking Niday Gallia King Vinton. Four representatives opposed an amendment to distribute revenue by tax duplicates. Advocates pressed the measure twice, first after reducing the rate from three to two percent, then with a reconsideration. Administration forces pushed a final bid.
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House
Welch
Hocking
Niday
Gallia
King
Vinton
Taft amendment seeks tax revenue sharing by county
Rep Kingsley A Taft Republican proposes distributing tax revenue among counties by tax duplicates aiming to favor richer metropolitan areas but the measure fails. The House adjourns with no comprehensive tax or school program likely until after a possible Senate substitute tax plan and Gunsett bill consideration.
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Kingsley A. Taft
Cleveland
Senate
House
D. J. Gunsett
van Wert
Indict Vehicle Drivers In Elyria Bus Crash
Lorain County authorities promised a speedy trial for two drivers indicted on manslaughter charges from the Center Ridge Road bus crash that killed six. Named defendants are William Daniels, 32, Pittsburgh, driver of the Nevin Western Lines bus, and A W Schaffer, 42, Norwalk, truck driver.
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Elyria
U.P
Center Ridge Road
Lorain County
William Daniels
Pittsburgh
Nevin Western Lines
A.W. Schaffer
Norwalk
Unemployed League To Hear Truax Saturday
State President Truax of the Unemployed League will speak at a Masa meeting of the Athens County Unemployed League at the Fairgrounds. The event begins at 1 30 p m Saturday afternoon.
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The
Unemployed League
Masa
Athens County Unemployed League
Fairgrounds
Woman Jumped From Tenth Floor in Dayton Laundry Office
Dayton report states Mrs Duskey Weaver 33 leaped from the tenth floor of a downtown office building used for weekly laundry deliveries. No other details given.
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Duskey Weaver
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