Bricker Denies UCC Reorganization Is Job Grab
Governor Bricker argues the ripper bill to reorganize the Unemployment Compensation Commission protects civil service workers and ends provisional appointments. The bill, passed 97 to 32 with an emergency clause, would abolish the Democratic dominated commission and create an administration and board of review. The measure faces Senate concurrence before final approval.
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Bricker
UCC
Columbus
Unemployment Compensation Commission
House
Senate
Commission
Board of Review
Keith Lawrence
Cleveland
Davey
Kasch
Martin L. Davy
Ward Senate
Club
Society Treasuries
Taylor Quits Treasury Job Amid Policy Controversy
Wayne C. Taylor resigns as assistant secretary of the treasury, citing a shift toward international matters not aligned with fiscal policy. The President also accepts resignations of Joseph B. Keenan as assistant attorney general and W Frank Parsons as director of the U S Employment Service.
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Washington
U.P
Wayne C. Taylor
W. Frank Parsons
U. S. Employment Service
Vinton Man Granted Reformatory Parole
Ohio Parole Board frees 148 inmates from Mansfield Reformatory. Vinton resident Robert McMannis, jailed for breaking and entering and larceny, is listed with a March 15 release date.
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Vinton
Columbus
U.P
Ohio Parole Board
Mansfield Reformatory
Robert McMannis
Fire destroys stalls at state fairgrounds shed G
Fire at the state fairgrounds destroyed eight stalls in shed G. Nineteen race horses were saved and a stable hand suffered a slight burn. The damage was estimated at $1,000.
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Fairgrounds
Columbus
O.R
Old Red School Is Going Modern
Marion Township board of education updates six one room school houses with indirect lighting and plans extensive spring refresh and repairs.
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OLD Red School
Marion
Marion County
Little Red
Board of Education
Marion Township
Mussolini narrowly escapes assassination in Rome
An Italian source reports Premier Benito Mussolini avoided death when a mentally unbalanced man shot Mussolini's private detective outside Villa Torlonia in Rome. The detective was wounded. Mussolini appeared as staff restrained the assailant and offered aid. Earlier attempts on Mussolini included 1926 and four between 1922 and 1926.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Il Duce
Mussolini
Villa Torlonia
Venice Palace
Violet Albina Gibson
Lord Ashbourne
Kidnap Victim to Identify Two Kentucky Suspects
Norma Meeks, an elderly ranch wife who survived three kidnap attempts last September, is expected to confront two Kentucky youths, Robert Grimes and Ollin Grimes, arrested by FBI agents in Louisville and returned to Yuba City. The suspects deny guilt, say they were in the area as fruit pickers but left August 31.
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Yuba City
Calif
U.R
Norma Meeks
Kentucky
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Louisville
Robert Grimes
Ollin
Relief Client Arrested For Pawning Clothing
Warren J. Devine a 19 year old was charged with violating a city ordinance against sale of relief clothing. He was arrested in a pawnshop fifteen minutes after obtaining an overcoat from city relief headquarters.
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Columbus
U.P
Warren J. Devine
Devine
City Relief
Aviation Day Sought for Orville Wright Birthday
The Aviation Defense Association began a drive to have Congress designate August 19, Orville Wright’s birthday, as National Aviation Day. The effort aims to honor the Dayton aviation pioneer and promote aviation progress nationwide.
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Aviation Day
Washington
U.P
Congress
Orville Wright
Dayton Aviation
The
Aviation Defense Association
Dry crusader Dr Clarence Wilson dies at 66
Portland churchmen and prohibitionists honored Dr Clarence True Wilson a longtime dry crusader who died Thursday at age sixty six. His death marks a milestone in the anti alcohol movement as leaders recall his decades of activism and influence in urban reform and religious circles.
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Portland
Ore
Clarence True Wilson
Franco Demands Paris Action Against Azana and Del Vayo
Generalissimo Franco protests to French authorities over the activities of Manuel Azana and Julio Alvarez Del Vayo at the Spanish embassy in Paris, claiming asylum privileges are violated. French right wing papers push to bar the leaders from political work on French soil as police reclaim the consulate from Nationalist sympathizers.
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Paris
U.P
Francisco Franco
Manuel Azana
Julio Alvarez del Vayo
Azana
del Vayo
Brussels
Belgium
Townsend Urges Pension Plan To Save Nation
Dr Francis E Townsend testified before the House Ways and Means Committee urging his pension plan offering up to 200 a month for citizens over 60 funded by a 2 tax. He argued current social security measures are absurd and warned Democrats must act or Republicans will gain power.
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Washington
W.P
Francis E. Townsend
House
Ways and Means
Townsend
Youthful Kidnapers Get Quick Sentence in Ohio
Everett Marks and Harold F. Williams, both from Columbus, were sentenced to 30 years in the Ohio Penitentiary for kidnapping and robbing a Wilmington insurance agent. They pleaded guilty and were sentenced by Judge F M Clevenger shortly after grand jury indictments in Clinton County.
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Wilmington
U.P
Clinton County
Columbus
Ohio
Everett Marks
Harold F. Williams
F. M. Clevenger
Wilson Called by Senate Panel in U S Policy Probe
The Senate Military Affairs Committee summoned Hugh Wilson the U S Ambassador to Germany to compare his views with those of Bullitt and Kennedy amid worries of a looming European crisis. The panel also opened a broader look at Roosevelt era defense policy after Morgenthau testified Roosevelt directed cooperation with a French air mission purchasing American planes.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Hugh Wilson
U. S
Germany
Wilson
William C. Bullitt
Joseph P. Kennedy
Europe
Europe Was Moving Toward Another Serious Crisis. Sen. H. Styles Bridges
N.H
Bridges
Bullitt
Kennedy
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Harry H. Woodring
Morgenthau
Dingell Faces Federal Investigation Over Mortgage Allegation
Mrs. Cecilia Kozlowski, a 70-year-old widow, accuses Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan's 15th District of using influence with RFC Mortgage Company to convert her property to his own use. The claim reports a federal probe into the charges.
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John D. Dingell
15Th
Michigan
Cecilia Kozlowski
Kozlowski
Dingell
RFC Mortgage Company
Moth Bag Death Ruled Self-Inflicted by Police Chief
Cincinnati report says Willard Armstrong 38 died from an apparent self-inflicted act. Police Chief Thomas Jenike noted the death followed a prosecutor’s report that $195 stolen from Armstrong's home was found in a private filing cabinet he supposedly hid.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Willard Armstrong
Thomas Jenike
Norwood
Carl W. Rich
Armstrong
Quebec Asylum Fire Destroys Beacport Hospital. 1,797 Residents Evacuated
A deadly blaze at the Beauport Insane Asylum in Quebec destroyed the five story East Wing after hours of fire and exploding oil tanks. Militia troops evacuated 1,797 patients as water froze in below zero temperatures. One patient died and two firemen were injured. The Grey Nuns led the rescue with nuns, firemen, and volunteers assisting under dire conditions.
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Quebec
Beauport
Order of
Grey Nuns
St. Lawrence River
Marie L’ange Gardienne
22Nd Regiment
Legion claims subversive campus links in Columbus hearing
A Franklin County American Legion official charged that the Communist Party has enlisted unsuspecting Ohio State University students in a secretly anti American program. The statement named the Marxist Club the American Student Alliance and the Peace Mobilization Committee as linked to the party.
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Columbus
U.R
Franklin County American Legion Council
Communist Party
Ohio State University
American Legion
Ernest A. Grabiel
Americanistic Committee
University Board of Trustee
Grabiel
Legion
Marxist Club
American Student Alliance
Peace Mobilization Committee
Lenin
Andrew ‘R. Ondairman
Cuyahoga County
American Student Union
Students League For Industrial Democracy
National Student League
Proletarian Youth League of Moscow
Isadore W. Garek
Trustees Committee
America
Charles E. Duncan
Ohio Department
United Spanish War Veter
U S Coal Act Upheld by Federal Court
A three judge federal court upheld the National Bituminous Coal Act against Atlanta Georgia injunctive challenge. The ruling said coal marketing chaos burdened interstate commerce and Congress acted to restore it without infringing city or state sovereignty.
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Washington
U.P
Atlanta
Congress
Careless Drivers Targeted in Hitler Purge Plan
Berlin report notes Hitler at the annual automobile show promising to rid Germany of careless drivers and car thieves. He unveiled the new people’s car with two black sedan models on display and announced mass production soon. Priced about 1,000 marks each.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Hitler
Roosevelt Heads South to Key West for Caribbean Maneuvers
President Roosevelt travels aboard a special train toward Florida and will board the Cruiser Houston tomorrow for fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean region.
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Florida
U.P
Roosevelt
Key West
Houston
Caribbean
Republicans Will Fight FDR Emergency Power
Washington Republicans form a special committee to examine presidential powers and a Democratic survey seeks guidance from members for the 1940 campaign. House Republicans argue six years of emergency rule failed to solve economic and social problems and push limits on authority including gold value revaluation and greenback printing.
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William P. Cole, Jr
House
Joseph W. Martin
Mass
Martin
Jesse P. Wolcott
Mich
Veteran Actor John E. Young Dies Onstage
John E. Young, 64, a veteran Broadway actor, collapsed and died of a heart attack backstage while changing costumes between acts of Knickerbocker Holiday in New York. He had appeared in numerous Broadway productions and toured with Lillian Russell.
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New York
Maxwell Anderson
John E. Young
Young
Lillian Russell
Taft Voted Outstanding Yale Alumnus of 1938
U S Sen Robert A Taft of Ohio was voted the outstanding Yale University alumnus of 1938 in a poll by the Yale Alumni Magazine announced today.
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Taft
New Haven
Conn
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Yale University
Yale
Dies Undergoes Appendicitis in Washington
Chairman Martin Dies of the House committee investigating un American activities suffered an appendicitis attack today and was taken to an emergency hospital in Washington. The Texas legislator leads the committee and his condition prompted medical attention during the inquiry period.
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Dies
Washington
Martin Dies
D., Tex
House
Plan Last Pope Masses As Crowds Visit Crypt
Members of the congregation of cardinals completed arrangements for the last three of the nine day masses for the late Pope Pius XI. Endless lines of people waited to visit St. Peter's and pray before the tomb of the Pope.
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Crypt
Vatican City
U.P
Congregation of Cardinals
Pius XI
St. Peter's
Gunshot kills Toledo student at Illinois U
William Spurrier a 20 year old Toledo Ohio University of Illinois sophomore died from a bullet wound. He was shot Thursday from a hotel window in Champaign. Police arrested hotel owner Margaret Strothers 50.
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Champaign
Ill
U.P
William Spurrier
Toledo
University of Illinois
Margaret Strothers
McCall Attorneys Seek Stay of Execution in Florida Case
Attorneys for Franklin Pierce McCall filed in federal court a habeas corpus petition to stay Monday’s execution of the condemned kidnap slayer of five year old James Bailey Cash Jr. The petition argues the conviction violated constitutional guarantees.
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Jacksonville
Fla
U.P
Franklin Pierce McCall
James Bailey Cash, Jr
McCall
Manistique Tug Bob S Returns After Four Day Ice Standstill
Manistique Michigan reports the fishing tug Bob S and its four person crew were ice-bound for four days and are now back in port.
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Manistique
Mich
Gas Well Drillers Hit Gas Pocket on John Moore Farm
Oil operations on the John Moore farm between Fayetteville and Chasetown yielded gas reaching 320 feet as the first of three wells advanced. Haynes said the gas will power ongoing drilling with plans to strike oil around 1500 feet, aligning with a Cincinnati geologist’s report of a large underground oil lake nearby.
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Fayetteville
U.P
John Moore
Here
Chasetown
Haynes
University of Cincinnati
Sales Tax Receipts Rise Again in 1939 Weekly Total
Don Ebright, state treasurer, reports that the week ending Feb 4 1939 yielded 731 299 in sales tax receipts, up 36 494 from the same period in 1938. Year to date state receipts reached 3 546 998.
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Columbus
Don Ebright
Fair Weather Forecast Across Nation After Cold Spell
United States forecaster H A Downs in Chicago predicted fair skies and warmer temperatures nationwide after a cold spell in the Midwest. A light snow may fall in extreme northeastern areas while the North Central states remain clear and some eastern states see partly cloudy conditions.
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Chicago
U.P
Middle West
U. S
H. A. Downs
Quiet Front Pages in Spanish Civil War Fronts
Spanish Fronts reported quiet as peace moves were discussed in Paris and London. Frontier news notes calm across fronts with diplomatic efforts foregrounded amid ongoing conflict.
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Perpignan
U.2
Paris
London
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