Ohio House Approves Higher Township Official Pay
The Ohio House passed three bills to raise township official salaries and terms. Clerk and trustee terms would rise to four years, trustee pay to 500 dollars annually, and clerks gain a 2.5 percent cut on expenditures over five thousand dollars. A separate measure guarantees at least 1,000 dollars to dependents of workers killed in industrial accidents. The Senate sent a civil rights bill banning race discrimination to the floor.
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Columbus
House
Senate
Ralph C. Lutz
Richland
al Kalb
Ottawa
Ohio
F. F. Mees
Meigs County
Keith Lawrence
Cleveland
Davey Seeks Relief Bill and Tax Reform Plan
Governor Davey will present a permanent relief bill and state tax overhaul to the Legislature and the public in a joint session Tuesday night. He estimates about 20 million dollars is needed for 1937 relief, with local subdivisions paying half. He criticizes local matching as essential and notes no state relief funds have reached Ohio counties since January 6.
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Columbus
Davey
General Assembly
Ohio
Delay in Court Issue Is Urged
Washington report on a compromise proposed in the judiciary reorganization dispute. Senator Edward R. Burke advocates a state convention action within a year to amend the constitution, aiming to resolve delays in Roosevelt’s plan. Senator Borah supports the idea, noting the prohibition repeal was added in 18 months by convention.
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Washington
Borah
Loyalist Volunteers Fall Into Nationalists Hands
Thirty North American volunteers of the International Brigade were captured by Nationalist forces in Avila after misrouting their two motor trucks. Three escaped when they spotted Nationalist sentries, according to general headquarters.
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Avila
Spain
U.P
International Brigade
Railroad Expands Walbridge Presque Isle Yards
Officials of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad announced a 500000 expansion for lake coal loading facilities. The new loading equipment adds about 25 percent capacity to Walbridge and Presque Isle yards and provides space for future shipments during the coming loading season.
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Toledo
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Lake
Walbridge
Presque Isle
WPA excludes slide repairs from flood program in three Ohio cities
Columbus report says earth slide repairs in Gallipolis Pomeroy and Chesapeake are costly and often not feasible for engineering reasons. WPA deputy Garber states no slide work in flood rehabilitation, funds limited to public property unless health hazards arise. Cleanup near Ohio River cities reported near completion with 17 000 tons of sediment removed in Portsmouth and requests for a 65 000 dollar school repair program.
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Columbus
Gallipolis
Pomeroy
Chesapeake
J. Otis Garber
WPA
Garber
G. J. Kane
U. S. Army
Ohio River
Portsmouth
Wpra
Dems Push Court Change Resolution After caucus split
In Columbus House Democrats seek more support for a resolution praising President Roosevelt’s Court packing plan after a secret caucus vote showed 64 in favor 16 against and two abstentions. The result would likely pass but not reflect unanimity.
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Columbus
U.R
House
Roosevelt
U. S. Supreme Court
British Defense Plans Spur U S Shipbuilding
Washington Roosevelt signals call for faster American naval construction after England unveils a proposed defense program worth 7.5 billion dollars. Naval heads meet to discuss speeding ship production.
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U. S. Shipbuilding
Washington
U.K
Roosevelt
England
Ex Slave William Johnson Visits Washington with FDR
The 79 year old ex slave William Andrew Johnson, born to President Andrew Johnson, was a guest of President Roosevelt in Washington. He toured the city with a cane inscribed Franklin D. Roosevelt and spoke with the President for about thirty minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
William Andrew Johnson
United States
Andrew Johnson
Roosevelt
Knoxville
Secret Service
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Auto Strike Talks Turn Friendlier As Parties Reach Accord
Detroit area negotiations between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers eased after both sides agreed to revise tactics. UAW first vice president Wyndham Mortimer said organizers would stop soliciting members on GM property, and GM would dispose of 1,000 billy clubs alleged to be in the hands of company police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit-Aup
General Motors
United Automobile Workers
Wyndham Mortimer
Auto Union
Rehearing Denied for Summit County Libel Convict
The Ohio Supreme Court denied a rehearing to Thomas B. Thorpe of Troy who was convicted in Summit County of criminal libel and served as editor of The Ohio Indicator.
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Columbus-Au
Roosevelt seeks crop insurance and storage reserves plan
President Roosevelt urged Congress to enact crop insurance and a storage reserves system for the 1988 farm season as part of a broader agricultural program. The plan would insure wheat first, then other commodities, and help stabilize farmers incomes, consumer prices, and employment while conserving soil and water.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
Battles Rages At Madrid Southern Front As Blasts Kill Dozens
Nationalist artillery and air attacks near Madrid inflict 11 dead and 72 wounded in a midnight raid after heavy bombardment. A shell struck the Belgian embassy without exploding while reports claim Loyalist losses rivaled Nationalist casualties. 15 insurgent planes were shot down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
U.P
United Press
Hendaye
Rescue continues for nine bodies in Frisco Bay
Coast Guardsmen press on near the Golden Gate to recover nine of ten men hurled 220 feet when a traveling scaffold on the bridge fell. One body recovered. The net failed. two crew escaped. Foreman Evan Lambert, 26, was swept miles to sea with comrade Fred Dummitten in his arms. Survivor Tom Casey clung to an iron brace for 45 minutes.
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San Francisco
Coast
Golden Gate
Golden Gate Bridge
Evan C. Lambert
Fred Dummitten
Tom Casey
State of War Declared in Anderson Ind
Civil law in Anderson yields to military power as martial law is declared. Judge Smith says martial law supersedes civil authority while National Guard Commandant Whitcomb will ignore court orders. Seventeen UAW members jailed after a tavern shooting tied to a GM plant dispute remain confined without access to counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Ind
Charles FE. Smith
National Guard
A. H. Whitcomb
United Automobile Workers of America
Guide Lamplant
General Motors
German ambassador protests purge arrests in Russia
Count Friedrich Von Der Schulenburg, German ambassador to Russia, filed serious representations with the Russian Foreign Office over 23 Germans arrested last November and held without trial. They were likely swept up in the Russian purge tied to the Moscow trial that executed 13 Bolsheviks and sentenced four others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
U.P
Friedrich von der Schulenburg
Russia
Moscow
Circleville Man To Be Arraigned for Extortion
William Madden a 59 year old Circleville resident will be arraigned after a Saturday hearing on charges he unlawfully mailed an extortion note to his neighbor and childhood playmate Miss Jemima Dungan under threat of bodily harm. Police and six men arrested Madden attempting to extort money.
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Chillicothe
U.P
William Madden
Circleville
Jemima Dungan
Madden
United States
Davey Favors Liquor Probe by Competent Authority
Governor Martin L. Davey said he would welcome an investigation of the State Liquor Department and has no objection to a competent authority probing the matter. The statement followed Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson’s plan to subpoena the governor and Francis W. Poulson in relation to the liquor department inquiry. The governor noted no implied admission and said funding for the auditor and attorney general remained the same as predecessors.
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Columbus
Su.p
Martin L. Davey
State Liquor Department
Joseph T. Ferguson
Suboena
Francis W. Poulson
Actress Mary Astor Weds Manuel Del Campo in Secret Arizona Marriage
Mary Astor and Manuel Del Campo married in a dawn ceremony in Yuma Arizona aboard a chartered plane. Del Campo heads to Mexico City for his father’s funeral while Astor retains custody of Marilyn for nine months. the child remains with Astor at a Hollywood suburb home on Toluca Bay.
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Manuel del Campo
Hollywood
Mexico City
Franklin Thorpe
Miss Astor
Marilyn
Arizona
Clark Gable
Ne Wemen
Tolucca
Tolucca Bay
Rockefeller urges united church to stem moral decline
John D. Rockefeller Jr., a Baptist, urged in a radio address to Methodists that a united church of all sects is the only way to stem materialism and shifting morals. He suggested naming it the Church of the Living God to preserve differences while uniting in the fundamentals of religion.
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New York
U.P
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
United Church
Rockefeller
Church of the Living God
God
Christ
Mrs. Lynch Held on Extortion Charges
Mrs. Robert Lynch 19 waives hearing and is held to a federal grand jury in Parkerburg West Virginia on extortion charges. She and her husband alleged to have tried to extort 1500 dollars from John Pertz of Weston. The husband was arrested at Athens.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
U.P
U. S
F. P. Burk
Robert Lynch
Ohio Edison Electrician Dies From 66 000 Volt Contact
William Probst, 28, an Ohio Edison electrician, died after touching a 66 000 volt line at the Lowellville power plant on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
U.P
William Probst
Ohio Edison Co. Electrician
Lowellville
Welfare Committee Moves to Probe Ohio State Hospitals
The House Welfare Committee plans a five member inquiry into working conditions in 20 state institutions after witnesses described 12 to 14 hour days for as little as 12½ cents an hour. The action follows testimony from about 100 hospital employees and statements about overcrowding and low wages.
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Columbus
U.P
House Welfare Committee
Ohio
Robert J. Beatty
Franklin
Margaret H. Allman
Ohio State Hospital Attendants Association
Merl H. Champ
Library Recovers 1916 Dryden Volume After 20 Years
Freshmen returning to Denison University Library found a rare fourth volume of Poetical Works of Dryden dated 1454. The book, overdue since May 4, 1916, was fined 130.46 that the librarian had overlooked.
Lindberghs Continue Asia Flight From Rutbah Wells
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh continue their vacation flight over Asia. They took off from Rutbah Wells 250 miles west of Baghdad today as their itinerary remains undisclosed and their route unclear.
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Lindberghs
Baghdad
Iraq
U.P
Charles A. Lindbergh
Asia
Rutbah Wells
Girl Waits in Movie Date Robs Her Rooms
In Kansas City Charles J. Warren age 23 took Crystal Cramer to a picture show and they found her apartment robbed. Warren confessed after the show admitting he rifled the apartment stealing a radio and jewelry and sold the loot before returning to his seat.
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Kansas City
U.P
Charles J. Warren
Crystal Cramerer
Miss Cramerer
Warren
Eastern coal talks heated as union seeks 30 hour week
In New York today, 400000 Appalachian miners in seven states and United Mine Workers negotiators pressed for a 30 hour week and a flat 50 cent daily raise, while operators led by Charles O Neill argued wages are already high and a 40 hour week with no raise is needed. John L. Lewis urged no strike and expressed satisfaction with past relations.
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New York
United Mine Workers of America
Charles O'Neill
Eastern Coal Sales Corporation of
O'Neill
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Ohio
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Lewis
Tax features of Guffey Coal Bill move forward
House Ways and Means Committee tentatively approves excise tax of 15 4 percent on coal at the mine and a 1.5 percent additional tax to fund administration. The measure, stripped of wage and hour provisions, would set minimum and maximum coal prices to stabilize the industry and impose full 15 percent tax on noncompliant operators.
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Washington
U.P
House
Ways and Means
Fred M. Vinson
Kye
Supreme Court
Mansfield Veteran Bell dies at 91
Findlay Bell age 91 longtime Ohio G A R commander passed away Wednesday. He served with General Sherman on the march to the sea and was remembered for his military service and leadership in veterans groups.
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Mansfield
Findlay Bell
Ohio G.A.R
Sherman
Dust Increases Suffering of Flu and Pneumonia Victims
Dust storms sweep five states in the Dust Bowl area endangering residents with breathing difficulties and added risk to illnesses. Nearly a dozen deaths reported as authorities open church basements as emergency wards and urge dust masks.
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Dust Bowl
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
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