Unanimous Finance Committee backs School Foundation Bill
The House Finance Committee unanimously recommended passage of the administration bill providing 12.6 million dollars from the General Revenue Fund for the February 28 school foundation allocation plus 400 thousand dollars reappropriated for vocational education. The measure marks a pay as you go approach to Bricker’s foundation program and likely advances to the House next week.
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Columbus
House Finance Committee
General Revenue Fund
Bricker
Administration
House
Senate
OSU Silent on Probe Request
Acting President William McPherson refused to comment on a Franklin County Council American Legion demand for an investigation of alleged Communist activities on the Ohio State University campus. The council called for a General Assembly inquiry into the Marxist Club American Student Alliance and other campus groups and asked officials to deny them meeting space.
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Columbus
U.P
William McPherson
Ohio State University
Franklin County Council
American Legion
Marxist Club
American Student Alliance
General Assembly
Ohio State
Movies force Tyrone Power to quit radio
Hollywood reports Tyrone Power, star of the screen and radio, is removed from the air after theater owners complain Hollywood broadcasts draw audiences away. Power sacrifices about $5,000 weekly radio earnings as the studio settles his contract with the sponsor, restricting him to film work after Sunday night’s broadcast.
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Tyrone Power
Hollywood
U.P
Power
Wheat boat sinks at Port Colborne with 115000 bushels of wheat
The lake freighter Northton anchored in winter quarters at Port Colborne harbor with a cargo of 115000 bushels of wheat sank mysteriously today.
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Port Colborne
Northton
Hit Skip Driver Narrates Fatal Run That Killed Boy
Police revealed a note from the hit-and-run driver to the mother of 12 year old Junior Whitson who died after being struck three weeks ago. The unsigned letter quoted the boy asking where he was being taken and whether he would die, and the driver said I cant before the boy’s final words.
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Akron
Junior Whitson
Nll
Former Dry Officer Dies In Slate Fall At Goose Run
J C Yates aged 74 of Happy Hollow former York Township constable and Prohibition era dry officer killed at Goose Run truck mine owned by him and three sons when a slate fall crushed him. Three sons witnessed the accident. Coroner ruled accidental death. Funeral plans pending at Stouts Funeral Home Nelsonville. He leaves wife Nora and ten children plus siblings.
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Goose Run
Nelsonville
J. C. Yates
Happy Hollow
York Township
Yates
H. A. Lines
George Baynham
Buchtel
Stouts
Nora Yates
Albert
Roy
Walter
Robert
Nellie
Carrie
May
Gladys
Lucille
Viola
Riley Yates
Deanville
Tillie Farrel
Chauncey
Ella Butterworth
Columbus
A. L. Pritchard
Safe stolen from Logan office carried away by burglars
A 300 pound safe containing $47 was carried away from the Western Union Telegraph Co. office in Logan Tuesday night by burglars. The theft is being investigated by local authorities.
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LOGAN
Western Union Telegraph Co
Prison Hunger Strikers Given Cream in Coffee
San Quentin Prison, Cal where 4000 of 5500 inmates joined a hunger strike over repeated meals of corned beef hash or corned Willie. Guards offered coffee with cream and sugar as a lure to break the fast.
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San Quentin Prison
Cal
U.P
San Quentin
Mrs Mittendorf Dies. Former Marysville Reformatory Head
Louise Mittendorf longtime superintendent of the Marysville Women's Reformatory who resigned in 1935 died at her Sarasota Florida home Wednesday. She had led the reform school and later retired from public life.
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Mittendorf
Columbus
U.A
Louise Mittendorf
Marysville
Explosion kills 18 month old in Lebanon home
Nellie Guinon, 18 months old, daughter of Mr and Mrs Leonard Guinon, died after a kitchen stove exploded Tuesday, burning the child in her Lebanon residence.
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Lebanon
Nellie Guinon
Leonard Guinon
Executioner Henri Deibler, France’s longtime official, dies
Paris reports the death of Henri Anatole Deibler the 76 year old official executioner of France for 40 years. He died as he descended stairs at St Cloud Gate Subway Station. He had cut off more than 400 heads and left a busy schedule with nine clients awaiting.
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Paris
Henri Anatole Deibler
France
St. Cloud Gate
Monsier de Paris
St. Cloud
Deibler
Andre Perrier
Deiblers
Bavaria
Lyons
Cinderella picks Mae Leslie as Month debutante
Twelve New York bachelors who hosted a mock debutante event name Mae Leslie of Antler North Carolina as Cinderella of the Month and plan a coming out party at a nightclub.
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New York
Comely Mae Leslie
Antler
N. C
Fingerprint-on-Gun Clue Is Myth Says Dewey
New York prosecutors and police rejected the fingerprint-on-gun theory. They said fingerprints are rarely found on firearms used in homicide or suicide, a claim echoed by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey after the Weinberg case.
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Dewey
NEW York
U.P
Herbert Lehman
George Weinberg
Thomas E. Dewey
Hamilton Patrolman's Murderer Executed in Ohio Penitentiary
John W. Cline, 24, convicted of killing Hamilton Patrolman Aaron Lau bach, died in the electric chair at Ohio Penitentiary. He walked to the chair with hands in pockets, the current began at 8 06 p m and he was pronounced dead at 8 09 p m.
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Columbus
John W. Cline
Aaron Laubach
Hamilton
Ohio Penitentiary
Cline
Fall Fatal to Clerk Warren
John W. Brooks a 31 year old Toledo railroad mail clerk died from injuries after falling from an Erie train at Leavittsburg. He was on his third day on the job when the accident occurred Wednesday.
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Warren
John W. Brooks
Toledo
Erie
Leavittsburg
Here
Ham and Egg pension plan seeks $1200 yearly aid
Sen. Sheridan Downey proposes a nationwide pension plan giving $100 monthly social dividends to every person over 55. He estimates 15 million retirees would benefit, with funding via monetary reforms. House backers of Townsend style pensions would consider immediate $100 monthly payments for those over 60 next week.
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Washington
U.P
Sheridan Downey
Calif
California
Congress
Downey
William Gibbs McAdoo
Senate
House
Francis E. Townsend
Burns on Probation Returns to Hollywood
George Burns, earning about 11 000 a week in radio and film, travels to Hollywood under a one year and a day probation. He paid 17 700 in losses plus legal fees and travel costs after admitting to buying smuggled diamond rings and bracelets from Albert N. Chapereau, a confessed smuggler, a crime that could have led to 18 years imprisonment and a 45 000 fine.
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New York
U.P
George Burns
Hollywood
Albert N. Chaperau
Burns
U S Congressional Isolation Clash Shapes European Crisis
Europe watches the United States as congressional fights over Roosevelt aid to Britain and France influence the German Italian alliance. Senators and Hoover oppose strict isolation while debating selling war planes abroad and public access to defense hearings.
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United States
America
Washington
Roosevelt
Democratic Front
Great Britain
France
London
Berelin
Paris
Rome
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Americas
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Herbert Hoover
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Senate
Congress
Administration
Committee
Warren Austin
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
White House
Allensville Man Slain Over $25 Auto Dispute
Everett Waldron, 24, was fatally shot and George Mossman, 19, wounded after a dispute over a $25 automobile on a Donald Martindill farm near Allensville. Martindill, detained without charge, claims a knife was produced. a .32 caliber revolver with three bullets was recovered. Waldron leaves a wife and parents.
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Allensville
John L. Weber McArthur
Everett Waldron
WPA
George Mossman
Here
Earl Stuck
Donald Martindill
Bing
Vinton County
Charles S. Keeney
Waldron
Mossman
H. D. Chamberlain
Martindill
Herbert Waldron
Harmon Humphrey
Use Ohio Coal Bill Advances From House Committee
The Mines Committee of the Ohio House unanimously recommended passage of a bill requiring tax supported institutions to use Ohio mined coal. Ohio United Mine Workers President John Owens urged the measure saying public funds should aid state industries and 30 000 Ohio miners could stay employed if Ohio coal is used.
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Columbus
U.P
Mines Committee
House of Representatives
John Owens
Ohio United Mine Workers
Ohio
Owens
Mother of Two Tries Hold Up Taxicab
Columbus police alleged that Mary Kuhn 28 and Inez Guy 26 conspired to rob a taxicab driver using a rusty toy cap pistol taken from a playbox. Kuhn said she acted out of desperation after her husband left, while Kuhn's prior Logan Ohio residence was noted.
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Columbus
Mary Kuhn
Inez Guy
Funeral mixup over obituary misread leaves mother stunned
In Indianola Iowa a mother Mrs J H Schreiber attended a funeral believing it honored her son's father in law. The obituary read at Chariton funeral home revealed the services were for her son and caused a rare misinterpretation of a death notice. Meanwhile Ohio Supreme Court blocked a Cleveland slot machine licensing ordinance as invalid.
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Indianola
U.P
J. H. Schreiber
Chariton
Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Cleveland
Bidu Sayao Captivates Athens With Glamour and Voice
Brazilian soprano Bidu Sayao visits Athens ahead of a Memorial Auditorium recital. The Metropolitan Opera star charms locals with tales of opera career brief remarks on women’s roles and her fashion, while a Berry stylist notes her jewels in voice and an inexhaustible supply of charm.
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Marian Bush Reeder
Athens
Bidu Sayao
Metropolitan Opera Company
Memorial Auditorium
Bubbles Bidu
Bidu
Rosina
Rio de Janeiro
Paris Opera Comique
Rome Royal Opera
la Scala
Milan
Toscanini
New York
Metropolitan
the Berry
Eheim
State Welfare Chief Demands Clean-Up at Ohio Penitentiary
Columbus welfare director Charles L. Sherwood declared the Ohio Penitentiary must be cleaned up and dispatched corrections chief W. F. Amrine to aid Warden J. C. Woodard. He issued a 30 day ultimatum after taking office and cited liquor and narcotics sales to inmates with liquor price inflation inside the prison. He also reported low discipline and morale at the facility.
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Columbus
Charles L. Sherwood
Ohio Penitentiary
W. F. Amrine
J. C. Woodard
Sherwood
AFL Council to Hear Green Report on Labor Split
In Miami the AFL executive council prepared to discuss the civil war within the labor movement as William Green planned to present a report on recent CIO tensions. Green suggested CIO leaders might favor peace more than in past talks, but he gave no hint of any peace proposals.
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Miami
Fla
U.P
American Federation of Labor
Federation
Congress of Industrial Organizations
AFL
William Green
Green
CIO
Taft Urges Curb on FDR Inflation Power
A Taft led resolution in the Senate seeks repeal of the President authority to issue up to 3 billion dollars in currency. Republican senators argued the power risks harming small savers, life insurance holders, wage earners and those on fixed incomes.
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Washington
U.P
Robert A. Taft
Senate
Germany Fortifying Caroline Island Allegation
Rep. Melvin Maas testified to the House Naval Affairs Committee that Germany is building an air base on one Caroline Island, raising debate over plans to base air and naval forces at Guam near the Caroline Islands.
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Washington
U.P
Congress
Germany
Caroline Islands
Guam
Carolines
Melvin Maas
Minn
House
Naval Affairs Committee
OSU Farmers Week Crowd May Set Record
COLUMBUS Today Grange Day at Farmers Week on the Ohio State campus drew incoming grange members to swell the 7496 registration list toward a new record. A 8120 turnout in 1931 was expected to be surpassed despite rainy weather. Louis J. Taber national grange master will speak. DR. MONTGOMERY IMPROVES ZANESVILLE Dr Robert N Montgomery Muskingum College president who was taken ill Tuesday and brought to Bethesda Hospital was reported slightly improved today.
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Columbus
Farmers’ Week
Ohio State
Louis J. Taber
Montgomery
Zanesville
Robert N. Montgomery
Muskingum College
Bethesda Hospital
Loyalists Seek Peace in Spain
Premier Juan Negrin told the Loyalist Parliament that negotiations could end the Spanish war. He said the Republican Government would fight for Central Spain and Catalonia to the end and had long sought a peaceful solution. Reports on the frontier said France may be negotiating an armistice in Catalonia through a British intermediary at Burgos.
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Perpignan
U.R
Juan Negrin
Spain
Negrin
Catalonia
France
Burgos
Federal Tax Collections Lower in Ohio for 1938
The treasury reported Ohio federal tax receipts for 1938 fell to 318,687,262 from 328,300,846 in 1937, a decrease of 9,613,000 despite higher corporation and individual income taxes. Payroll levies, manufacturers excise taxes, and other items dropped below 1937 levels.
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Washington
Ohio
Treasury
Treasury Deficit Reaches Near Two Billion Mark
The Treasury reports seven months into the fiscal year shows a deficit of 1.961 billion dollars. Spending since July 1 totals 5.223 billion, up from 4.262 billion in the same period last year.
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Treasury
Washington
The
TVA Nears Power Pact With New York Group
The Commonwealth and Southern Corporation was reported to be nearing an agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority that could end the five year clash between private power interests and the New Deal.
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TVA
Nears Power Pact
NEW York
U.P
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tthe
New Deal
Quadruplets Born to Galveston Mother
Galveston Texas reports the Badgett family welcomed quadruplets all girls named Geraldine Jeannette Joyce and Joan after a patient wait by parents Esther and W Ellis Badgett. Existing siblings Geneva and Elsie 15 and 13 years old. Newborns healthy with varied eye color weighing 3 13 to 4 9 1 2 pounds. Total birth weight 16 2 1 2 pounds.
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Galveston
Tex
U.P
Badgett
W. Ellis Badgett
Esther
Geraldine
Jeannette
Joyce
Joan
Geneva
Elsie
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Richard Milroy
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Lawrence
Osu
Logan Office
Spotlighter
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St. James
Memphis
Tenn
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