Gold Reserve Policy Aims To Spark Recovery In 1938
Washington reports a new Treasury monetary move may free up to 400 million dollars for credit channels in 1938. Economists see potential inflationary stimulus and credit expansion of about 4 billion in effect, with gold sterilization brakes removed. The plan retroactive to Jan 1, 1938 involves depositing gold in Fed accounts and shifts $30 million earmarked sterilization into circulation, setting a base for substantial credit growth.
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Washington
U.P
Treasury
Europe
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve
President Roosevelt expected to sign new farm bill soon
Washington reports Roosevelt was expected to sign the new farm measure promptly to enable the agriculture department to start operations for the 1938 marketing year. Senate chair Ellison Smith called the bill the most complex he has seen in years as Congress gave final approval Monday. Some senators warned of limited gains without broader controls on monopolistic practices and bureaucracy concerns were raised by Vic Donahey and others.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Agriculture Department
Ellison D. Smith
S. C
Senate Agriculture Committee
White House
Henry A. Wallace
Borah
William E. Borah
Coalition Plans Vigorous Push Against Court Ruling on Coal Prices
National Bituminous Coal Commission officials led by Chairman Hosford vow to fight injunctions blocking minimum price orders and to expose profiteering by some retail coal dealers. They note coal dealers have raised household prices while mine prices for lump coal stay flat, and move to seek reversals in courts across jurisdictions including DC Court of Appeals and actions against railroads.
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Washington
U.P
National
Bituminous Coal Commission
Walter H. Maloney
Charles F. Hosford, Jr
Roosevelt
Commission
William H. Matthews, Jr
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Cleveland
Matthews
Hosford
Associated Industries of
New York
Maloney
Station Owner Shoots Robber in Salem
War ren Evans, 64, owner of a Salem filling station, shot and killed a masked robber during a Monday night holdup as he sat alone. The victim was Glenn F. Zimmerman, 24, of Salem, a former friend of Evans. Zimmerman’s identity was revealed when the mask was removed.
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Salem
U.P
Warren Evans
Here
Glenn F. Zimmerman
Evans
Zimmerman
Utilities Battle Before Ohio Supreme Court
The Ohio Supreme Court considers Norwalk's appeal to overturn a utilities commission ruling voiding a city rate ordinance. The case centers on whether city councils or the state commission regulate utility rates when an ordinance is passed after a utility seeks rate increases.
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Columbus
U.P
State Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Supreme Court
Norwalk
Utilities Commission
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
League Seeks Debates On Sales Tax Repeal
Akron reports that Dr. Oscar Hayes president of the Anti-Sales Tax League issued calls for public debates and a forum on repealing the sales tax. The league sponsors a proposed constitutional amendment to abolish all excise sales taxes in Ohio except the gasoline tax.
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Akron
U.P
Oscar Hayes
The
Anti-Sales Tax League
Ohio
Italian Plane Crash Near Rome Reported Lost
An Italian air liner with 10 passengers and 4 crew crashed in a Mediterranean storm Sunday and has been given up for lost. The fate of those aboard was announced today.
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Rome
Mediterranean
House group readies anti war profiteering bill in Congress
The House Military Affairs Committee prepared a wartime profiteering bill amid Roosevelt defense messages. It would set price ceilings, federal controls on resources and industry, require registrations, license public services, and impose up to $100,000 fines and a year in jail for violations. The measure targets profits during war and aims to equalize war burdens while authorizing taxation on profits above a normal rate.
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Washington
U.P
House Military Affairs Committee
Congress
Roosevelt
Fish
Varl Vinson
United States
Road Material Prices Before Graft Probers
Ohio Senate Graft Committee, in its eighth week of state probe, questioned whether the state paid exorbitant prices for road materials. Cliff W. Simpson of Hot Mixed Bituminous Industry of Ohio, Inc. was summoned. The panel also reviews alleged lack of bid competition and higher statewide costs versus counties.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Senate
Cliff W. Simpson
Ohio, Inc
Highway Department
Davey
Senate
Four Verdicts Possible In Girl Tarzan's Trial
Philadelphia report says 19-year-old Mary Keenan OConnor sits with downcast eyes as prosecutors outline four possible jury verdicts in the slaying of five-year-old Nancy Glenn. The defendant is charged with killing the child in a rage after being begged for pennies and a bicycle ride.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Mary Keenan O’connor
Nancy Glenn
Miss O’connor
Austria to Hear Hitler Broadcast for First Time
Vienna reports the government expects to finish talks today after the Schuschnigg Hitler conference. A detailed communique is planned for tonight as reliable sources say Austria will relay Hitler’s Reichstag address Sunday, marking the first time an Austrian station will broadcast his speech.
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Vienna
A.P
Kurt Schuschnigg
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Austria
Ohio Railroads Seek Freight Rate Increase
In Columbus the Ohio Public Utilities Commission heard requests from all railroads operating in the state for a general 15 percent rise in intra state freight rates. Shippers and trade groups opposed the proposed increase aimed at aligning Ohio intra state rates with ICC interstate levels.
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Ohio
Columbus
Ohio Publc Utilities Commission
Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Autry Initiates Sit-Down Strike Over Wage Dispute
Gene Autry, star of Western films, began a sit-down strike today to protest pay, as Hollywood faces labor unrest affecting cowhands and production. Autry’s action follows his boss’s label of the protest as a sitdown.
Detroit teen testifies voices urged killing sweetheart
Twenty year old Margaret Tack testified in a Detroit court that voices told her he would never marry her, and she feared becoming an unwed mother. She said she shot Lloyd McCardy and then killed herself in a parked car on September 9.
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Margaret Tack
Detroit
Lloyd McCardy
McCardy
Delay urged on Hawaii statehood plan by joint committee
A congressional committee recommended deferring statehood for Hawaii pending further study and a possible island plebiscite. The report urged equal treatment under national laws and equal access to federal policies for Hawaii’s industries and products, matching other states.
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Washington
U.P
Congress
Hawaii
Twin City Transit Strike Talks Continue in Minneapolis
Union representatives and officials of Twin City Rapid Transit Company pressed negotiations in Minneapolis as a strike that halted bus and streetcar services stretched into the day.
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Minneapolis
Minn
U.P
Twin City Rapid Transit Company
Yank Mission Bombed by Jap Aerial Attack in Chengchow
Japanese planes bombed the Southern Baptist Mission in Chengchow three times on Monday. Four Chinese patients in the mission hospital were injured by shrapnel. About 100 people were wounded in the hour-long raid. Three Americans one Briton and two Canadians avoided injury. An American flag 40 feet long with U S A marked on the roof and another large flag flew over the hospital.
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Chengchow
China
Southern Baptist Mission
Mission
Floods Threaten Grand Rapids as River Rises
Eight hundred workers built sandbag dikes along Grand River front as Michigan endures its worst floods in 25 years. Mt Clemens isolated with one highway link to Detroit area. Red Cross and Salvation Army open relief kitchens for refugees. Crews battle ice and floodwaters to save bridges roads and repair damages reaching hundreds of thousands.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Michigan
Grand River
Mt. Clemens
Detroit
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Highway Department
Union Has No Political Ties, Says Miner Paper
United Mine Workers Journal editorially states the union has no political party ties and that the group does not know which party it may support in upcoming elections. The piece notes UMWA contributions exceeded 450000 dollars to the Democratic campaign fund in 1936 during Roosevelt’s re election bid.
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Union
Miner
Washington
U.P
United Mine Workers Journal
John L. Lewis’ Mine Union
UMWA
Roosevelt
Governor Davey Sends Sympathy to Mrs McIntyre Wife of Columnist
Governor Martin L. Davey wired a note of condolence to Mrs. O McIntyre, widow of the newspaper columnist who died Monday in New York, in a dispatch from Columbus.
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Columbus
U.P
Martin L. Davey
O. ©. McIntyre
New York
May Continue Ax Crusade If Freed
Irene Kite, 32, hoped for release from jail to buy a new axe and press a Second Carrie Nation campaign against slot machines. Fifteen Protestant ministers urged her freedom, praising her work and denouncing county officials for jailing her. Kite said she raided taverns because her husband Daniel was barred from operating a dice game while others faced no penalties.
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Alton
Til
U.P
Irene Kite
Carrie Nation
Daniel
Ice Star Plans Norway Flight With Merrill as Pilot
Sonja Henie the Norwegian skating star and actress will attempt a trans Atlantic flight to Norway next summer with Dick Merrill as pilot. The plan follows Henie’s Miami ice carnival appearances and Merrill’s recent co flight with her troupe. CEO Mike Jacobs sponsors the venture and confirms Merrill’s agreement to pilot.
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New York
Dick Merrill
Sonja Henie
Mike Jacobs
Miss Henie
Miami
Merrill
Army Planes Leave for Argentine Inauguration
Six Army Flying Fortresses the largest and most powerful air craft in the Army Air Corps took off from Langley Field Virginia on the first leg of a 6000 mile flight to Buenos Aires for the inauguration of President Elect Roberto Ortiz. A seventh plane accompanied the six ships.
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Langley Field
U.P
Army Air Corps
Buenos Aires
Roberto Ortiz
Fight on Jackson To Be Opened in Senate Fight
Washington reports Senator Warren R. Austin, a Republican, threatened to continue examining the nomination of Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson for solicitor general until summer. Jackson, a staunch New Dealer, is mentioned as a Democratic presidential candidate in 1940.
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Washington
U.P
Warren R. Austin
Robert H. Jackson
Jackson
Doctor to TR Taft Wilson Dies From Sinus Infection
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson long trusted physician to Presidents Roosevelt Taft and Wilson died at 59 in Washington from a sinus respiratory infection. He led the Red Cross expanding public health nursing Pellagra work and roadside first aid.
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Cary T. Grayson
American Red Cross
Washington
Grayson
Red Cross
Taft
Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Virginia
Admiral Grayson
William and Mary College
University of the South
U. S. Naval Medical School
Navy
John Barton Payne
The
O. O. McIntyre to Return Home to Gallipolis Residence
Gallipolis mourns its famed writer O O McIntyre and his wife Mabel Small McIntyre planned to retire at Gatewood a house they restored and named for Mrs McIntyre's grandparents. Funeral services are set for Thursday at Gatewood with interment at Mound Hill Cemetery.
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Gallipolis
O. O. McIntyre
Mabel Small McIntyre
Gatewood
D. C
McIntyre
Mrs. McIntyre
Mound Hill
Athens County Woman Killed in Alamogordo Shootings
Mrs. Lewis Leadinghaus, former Glouster resident, was killed in Alamogordo New Mexico on Monday night. Her husband was critically wounded. Police hold Dan and Mrs. Jackson for questioning. Leadinghaus sister connections to Trimble and Glouster noted. Funeral plans unavailable.
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Glouster
Lewis Leadinghaus
Alamogordo
New Mexico
Leadinghaus
Dan Jackson
Minnie Brown
Trimble
Morrison Brown
Clarence Brown
Otto Leadinghaus
Athens County
Shooting Suspect Gives Himself Up in Adams Killing
Marietta area man Guy Warman, 52, surrendered to Washington County authorities after confessing to the shooting of Andrew H. Adams last week. Warman said he traveled by hitchhiking to Pomeroy Huntington Charleston and back to Marietta before turning himself in, with Prosecutor William Summers confirming the admission.
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Marietta
Guy Warm
Andrew H. Adams
Here
Washington County
Warman
Pomeroy
Adams
Huntington
Charleston
William Summers
Rescuers Near Goal for Four Soviet Ice Scientists
Icebreakers moved toward the North Pole ice floe station off Greenland where four Soviet scientists are stranded. Rescue was expected to be announced momentarily as crews pressed forward.
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Moscow
North Pole
Greenland
FCC chief to seek probe of radio monopoly trend
Chairman Frank R. McNinch of the Federal Communications Commission told the National Association of Broadcasters that he planned to ask a commission investigation into the growing trend toward radio monopoly.
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Washington
U.P
Frank R. McNinch
Federal Communications Commission
National Association of Broadcasters Today
Commission
House Appropriations Committee Backs 250 Million Relief Bill
The House Appropriations Committee reported favorably the 250 million dollar supplemental relief appropriation sought by President Roosevelt to fund 750 thousand Works Progress Administration jobs through June. Debated tomorrow. Senate action could send it to the President for signature by weekend. WPA officials testified the funds would lift employed to 2.5 million next month, averting further cuts from 1.9 million currently at work to 1.8 million.
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Washington
U.P
House Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
House
Senate
WPA
Bricker Predicts a “Killing” for Republicans in Ohio
John W. Bricker of Columbus declared his gubernatorial candidacy and warned that next November will be a killing in Ohio for Republicans. He accused state government privileges of being sold to the highest bidder in Columbus and urged Republicans to resist paying for business with the state at a Crawford County meeting.
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Bucyrus
John W. Bricker
Columbus
Ohio
Rpublicans
Bricker
Crawford County
Poulson
WPA Grant Could Add 50,000 Jobs in Ohio
Columbus report says Congress funding of an extra 250 million for the Works Progress Administration would add about 50,000 WPA workers to Ohio. State administrator Dr. Carl Watson warned the Ohio WPA would lay off 75,000 workers on March 1 if the funds are not appropriated.
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Columbus
U.P
Congress
Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
Ohio
Carl Watson
WPA
Watson
Japanese Drive Toward Hankow Warned by Shanghai Experts
Foreign military experts in Shanghai believe Japanese forces in central China have begun a push toward Hankow the temporary government seat on the Yangtze River. Chinese authorities announce the government is forming 10 new armies totaling 500000 men with Russian arms and guerrilla training slated.
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Shanghai
U.P
China
Hankow
Yangtze River
Search for missing 3 year old Billy Jack Ward continues
Huntington West Virginia state police aided by many private citizens pressed the search for three year old Billy Jack Ward missing from his Wayne area home since last Friday. The inquiry focuses on locating the boy and determining the circumstances of his disappearance as authorities coordinate ground and possible aerial efforts.
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Huntington
W. Va
U.P
Billy Jack Ward
Wayne
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