Government Fund May Be Used for Restoring Railroad Men to Jobs
Congressional experts propose a stop gap plan to put about 150 000 furloughed railroad workers back to work at government expense. Wheeler indicates temporary legislation may use WPA funds with railways paying materials. The package includes railroad loans, reorganizations, and government traffic payments. subsidies are ruled out.
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Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Works Progress Administration
Wheeler
Reconstruction ‘Finance Corporation
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate ‘Commerce Commission
Voters Reject Bettman as Special Counsel Fight
The Ohio League of Women Voters refused Alfred Bettman Cincinnati as special counsel to oppose the Davey five percent campaign shakedown of state employees until an adequate appropriation is assured. Attorney General Herbert S offered funds for a court battle but none existed.
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Columbus
Ohio League of Women Voters
Alfred Bettman
Cincinnati
Davey
Herbert S
State Control Board
Bettman
C. C. Shively
The
League
Violence flares as 1000 truck drivers strike in Rochester
In Rochester New York a new outbreak of violence accompanied a 1000 truck drivers strike as negotiations with employers stalled. Police reported clashes as workers demonstrated and tensions rose during the day.
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Rochester
N. Y
U.P
Money Talks On Radio Tonight
A playful headline touts the power of 30 cent Want Ads in The Messenger. The notice claims 56 000 readers in eastern Ohio will notice the ad and cites a gas range sale as an example. Readers are invited to place ads by dialing 0242 before 3 PM Saturday for the Sunday edition.
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Akers
Messenger
Ohio
the Messenger
Three Killed After Woman's Dismissal
In Cleveland a 43 year old man William Gentry Peters killed two white men and a woman after confronting them about his wife's dismissal. He fired four shots at Lilly Mase Fordler in Shaker Heights then shot Hans Getslaff and M. J. Paser at their apartment buildings before eluding police. Peters proclaimed revenge and was captured after a pursuit by officers.
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Cleveland
U.P
William Gentry Peters
Hans Getslaff
Cleveland Heights
M. J. Paser
Lilly Mase Fordler
Peters
Shaker Heights
Getslaff
Paser
40 40 Wage Hour Measure Approved by House Labor
Washington UK The House Labor Committee favorably reported a bill to set 40 cents an hour for a 40 hour work week for three years and urged enactment to prevent wage cuts and deflation. The report, by Chairman Mary Norton, warned deflation could threaten government foundations as relief demands persist unless private employers cover the bare cost of living.
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Washington
House Labor Committee Today
Mary Norton
N. J
Labor Committee
Swanson Opposes Defining Naval Policy Amid Navy Plan
Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson rejected congressional moves to define peace time naval policy or limit naval operations with a theoretical defense line. In letters with Senator Homer T. Bone the Democrat from Washington, Swanson warned such an amendment to the large naval expansion bill would hamper the free use of the fleet.
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Washington
U.P
Claude A. Swanson
Navy
Homer T. Bone
Wash
Swanson
Beery Offers To Help Coogan In Legal Battle
Hollywood reporter Wallace Beery offered to assist Jackie Coogan in his suit against his mother and stepfather. Attorneys entered court to begin the first phase of the accounting of the millions earned in childhood. Beery backed Coogan’s claim that funds were promised for his future.
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Hollywood
Wallace Beery
Jackie Coogan
Jackie
Beery
Japan pays 2,214,007 Panay indemnity claim
Tokyo officials handed a draft for 2,214,007.36 to Eugene H. Dooman of the American Embassy as full payment of the indemnity sought by the United States for a Japanese airplane attack on the gunboat Panay and three Standard Oil ships.
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Tokyo
U.P
Foreign Office Today
Eugene H. Dooman
United States
Panay
Pomeroy Man Facing Trial Ends His Life
Robert Henry Cottrill 55 a WPA worker of Bailey Run near Middleport ended his life this morning by shooting himself just as he was to appear in Meigs County probate court on a delinquency charge. He left a wife and a son and was a former coal miner.
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Pomeroy
Robert Henry Cottrill
WPA
Meigs County
Cottrill
Middleport
Bailey Run
Predicts TVA Appropriation For Gilbertsville Dam
Rep. John E Rankin said the House will pass a 2 800 000 appropriation to begin a TVA dam at Gilbertsville Kentucky next week after two rejections. Sen Vic Donahey announced a Senate inquiry meeting planned for early next week.
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Washington
John E. Rankin
Miss
House
Public Power Bloc
Tennessee Valley Authority
Gilbertsville
Independent Offices
Rankin
Vic Donahey
Senate
Joint Congressional Committee
TVA
Representative Throckmorton Dies in Columbus
Dean C. Throckmorton age 45 longtime Ohio House parliamentarian since 1936 died Thursday night from meningitis that started as an ear ailment in Columbus.
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Columbus
U.P
Dean C. Throckmorton
Ohio House of Representatives
Two Purposes Of Neutrality Law Explained
President Roosevelt outlined the neutrality law’s dual aims to keep the United States out of foreign wars and avoid aiding belligerents. He acknowledged difficulties in applying the statute and noted it does not permit embargoes on war materials to neutral nations, amid questions on Spain and trans shipment concerns.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
United States
Spain
End Seen for Six Day Strike in Columbus Transit
Federal mediators said there was a friendly move to break the deadlock as union representatives and company officials met to end the six day Columbus street car and bus operators strike. Labor conciliators Conner and Friel were optimistic after yesterday's four hour conference as merchants pressed for speedy settlement or truce.
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Columbus
John L. Conner
Hugh Friel
Davey Defends Hot Mix Road Program in Campaign Speech
Gov. Martin L. Davey, in New Philadelphia, calls the hot mix road program one of his greatest achievements. He promises relief-action steps at today’s local official conference and a fall special session to address the school deficit, while noting a new federal works plan could ease Ohio relief.
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NEW
Philadelphia
U.P
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Father of Quintuplets Seeks Judicial Probe of Finances
Ottawa reports Oliva Dionne’s lawyer asked for a judicial investigation into the quintuplets’ affairs including their finances, now pegged around half a million dollars. The move targets Dr Roy Dafoe and the Dafoe Hospital in Callander. guardians include Judge J A Valin and Percy Wilson.
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Ottawa
U.P
Oliva Dionne
Dionne
Roy Allen Dafoe
Dafoe Hospital
Callander
Ohio Mayors Seek Special Session on Relief Fund Crisis
Ohio mayors and city managers urged Governor Davey to call an immediate special legislative session to address relief funding. The Cleveland and Canton leaders led a campaign for rapid action, warning that city funds are exhausted and that central coordination is needed across state and county relief systems.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
James Seccombe
Canton
Davey
Seccombe
Ohio League of Municipalities
Harold R. Burton
Cleveland
Treasury to pour 1.4 billion in gold into credit system
The Treasury inaugurated a plan to inject 1.4 billion dollars of desterilized gold into the nation's credit structure while Congress postponed work on Roosevelt's recovery program for a long weekend recess. The president said the American people were confused about the forecasted course.
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Credit Washington
U.P
Treasury
Congress
Roosevelt
Chair Generator Fails Delays Executions at Texas Penitentiary
In Huntsville Texas two condemned men, John W Vaughn and Johnnie Banks, faced death while a motor generator powering the chair failed twice. Governor James V Allred granted each a week’s stay after the second failure, delaying the executions from midnight to 2 30 a m. Vaughn proclaimed his innocence before the second delay and then the reprieve was announced.
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Huntsville
Tex
Texas State Penitentiary
James V. Allred
John W. Vaughn
San Antonio
Johnnie Banks
Vaughn
Free nature walk on 30 acre farm draws visitors
Ross County farmer George A. Lockard opens 30 acres eight miles southwest of Chillicothe off Route 772 on Sunday April 24 inviting the public to take as many blossoms ferns and wildflowers as they wish from his land in a cost free gesture inspired by a park incident.
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Chillicothe
Ross County
George A. Lockard
Here
Amateur Hears Earhart Radio Message Reported
Stanislaw Poradowski, an 18 year old amateur radio operator from Bedzin West Poland, said he picked up SOS signals between 8 03 and 8 08 am Wednesday that he believed came from Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. Earhart disappeared July 2 1937 during their round the world flight.
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Warsaw
U.P
Stanislaw Poradowski
Bedzin
Poland
Amelia Earhart
Miss Earhart
Fred J. Noonan
Far Pacific
Quiz Underworld Chiefs In Phoney Check Plot
Chicago police arrested gang chief George Moran and Frankie Parker along with four associates for questioning in a plot to pass 200000 in fraudulent travelers checks. The arrests follow a Pittsburgh seizure of counterfeit railway express checks totaling 21800.
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Chicago
AUP
George
Bugs) Moran
Frankie Parker
Pittsburgh
Paroled convict shot during $300 store holdup
Stanley Alaburda 28 paroled ten months ago from Mansfield Reformatory was in critical condition after being shot in a drug store holdup. Wayne N. Albee 45, drug store manager, was named as the suspect in the incident occurring in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
U.P
Stanley Alaburda
Mansfield Reformatory
Wayne N. Albee
Body Identified as John Rentz Found in Scioto River
The body of a man tentatively identified as John Rentz was recovered from the Scioto River today after being in the water for a week, according to police.
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Scioto Columbus
U.P
John Rentz
Scioto River
Ohio Bell to Refund 7.25 Million in Rate Case
The Ohio Public Utilities Commission asked to end the 14 year old rate controversy by approving an agreement between Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy and Ohio Bell Telephone Co to refund 7.25 million dollars to customers. Interest from the journal entry date to distribution could total about 250 thousand dollars. Individual exchange area refunds will be calculated after the journal entry, with checks possibly ready for distribution by early fall.
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Columbus
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Herbert S. Duffy
Duffy
Two Injured In Car Crash In Lower Middleport
A Pom eroy druggist Hanson Thomas and Thelma Hendricks were badly injured when a coupe carrying six people struck a tree on Route 7 in lower Middleport. Thelma Hendricks and Thomas Thomas suffered skull fractures and were unconscious at noon. Firemen aided until a physician arrived. The car also carried Mary and Carrie Hendricks and Robert Sayre and Floyd Pooler, who received cuts and bruises.
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Pomeroy
Hanson Thomas
Thelma Hendricks
Holzer Hospital
Thomas
Lower Middleport
Route 7
Mary
Carrie Hendricks
Robert Sayre
Floyd Pooler
Middleport
Ritz Cafe Collapse Kills Black Patrons in Phoenix City
Fifty soldiers from Fort Benning helped police search the Ritz Cafe wreckage after the roof sagged and crashed onto a crowd of Black people. The disaster left multiple dead and many injured while lottery tickets were found on victims and afternoon drawings were noted.
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Phoenix City
Ala
Tu.p
Fort Benning
Ohio Board Grants 106 Paroles at Reformatory
The Ohio Board of Parole granted 106 paroles and four conditional releases to Mansfield Reformatory inmates and four paroles to Marysville Women's Reformatory inmates. Notable cases include Kendall Deckard of Gallia for break in and entering and Harold Taylor of Meigs for manslaughter with a July 10 1938 date to West Virginia.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Board of Parole
Mansfield Reformatory
Marysville Women's Reformatory
Mansfield
Gallia
Kendall Deckard
Meigs
Harold Taylor
West Virginia
Walburn to seek auto inspection amendment in Logan
Councilman Joe Walburn will propose a city traffic code amendment next Tuesday to authorize the Safety Department to inspect automobiles twice yearly. The general inspection would check brakes lights and other mechanical equipment. He cites a Cincinnati ordinance upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court.
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LOGAN
Joe Walburn
Safety Department
Walburn
Cincinnati
Ohio Supreme Court
Conservation Chief cites federal aid for Muskingum lakes
Ohio Conservation Commissioner Lawrence Wooddell outlined two federal avenues to fund 11 lakes in the Muskingum watershed project after a state supreme court ruling. He suggested diverting Pittman Robertson revenues or land acquisition by the National Forest Service and related agencies to complete the $45 million flood control plan and create a larger outdoor recreation area for up to one million additional visitors.
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Columbus
U.P
Muskingum Watershed Conservancy
Ohio Supreme Court
Lawrence Wooddell
Wooddell
CCC
Muskingum Lake
Lowlies Court Decisio
Ohio
Pittman-Robertson
National Forestry Service
Park Service of Resettlement
Supreme Court
Middle West
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Association of American Railroads
Ey Brotherhoods
Robert L. Coughton
N. C
Ways and Means Committee
Lewes
Del
Samuel McChesney
Almira Mae
Margaret Wells
Spring St
Coogan
Japan
Pomeroy Man
Horace Russell
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Henri St. Jacques
Attorney General's Department
Toronto
Ontario
Percy D
Landon
Peka
Kans
Alf. M. Landon
Kansas
America
Mr. Roosevelt
Burton
O. P. van Schoik
Joseph T. Ferguson
Van
Earhart
Underworld
Bell Company
Los Angeles
Frances Woods
Billie Maureen O’shannon
Miss Woods
Ohio Board
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