Administration Aims At Abundance Not Restriction
President Roosevelt said the administration seeks a balanced price system to expand production, raise national income and revive employment. He asserted the program avoids inflation, does not devalue the dollar, and targets a balance between prices and the broader economy. He cited easy credit and wage productivity as key factors in lowering costs through higher output.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve Board
the Treasury
Davey Accuser Promises New Graft Evidence
Ohio Senate graft panel heard Lee Bradley claim utilities and General Motors Truck Corp officials offered contributions to Martin L. Davey before his 1930 election. Bradley said Chrysler and other firms were asked for favors in return for state business, and he would present letters and documents from Pittsburgh safety deposit box. Governor Davey denounced Bradley as perjurious and warned of possible court action.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Senate
Lee Bradley
Bradley
Martin L. Davey
Senate
Cleveland
Davey
General Motors Truck Corp
Pittsburgh
Chrysler Motors
Chrysler
Henry L. Doherty Co
Ben E. Ling
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co
Davey Tree Expert Co
L. L. Tremper
Chicago
Frederick C. Horner
W. H. Barnett
Francis Poulson
James Metzenbaum
Lawsuits filed over steel strike injuries in Cleveland
Four suits against Republica Steel Corp allege injuries from last year’s steel strike seeking a total of 220000 dollars. Plaintiffs include named workers from Cleveland and surrounding areas. The actions were filed today in the county court.
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Cleveland
U.P
Republica Steel Corp
Honey or Money Beeline for The Messenger Want Ads
A playful comparison notes a honey bee travels 43776 miles for a pound of honey while a Messenger Want Ad travels over 280000 miles crediting the paper with its reach. Deadline for Want Ads is 3 PM Saturday afternoon. dial 0242 for ad-takers.
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The
Messenger
Saturda
Loyalists preparing for big offensives on Aragon fronts
Spanish Loyalists in the civil war’s 20th month may plan large offensives across several fronts. Observers note Nationalist forces around Teruel may be too thin to hold extensive attacks, as Madrid confirms Loyalists abandoned positions south of Vives Del Rio and in the Llerena sector after heavy bombardment.
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Hendaye
U.P
Aragon
Spain
Teruel
Madrid
Vives del Rio
Llerena
Seven Miners Rescued as Eighth Victim Found Dead
Seven miners were rescued from 500 feet underground at Spring Mountain Colliery Slope No 1 in JANESVILLE Pennsylvania after a reservoir burst flooded the shaft trapping them since Thursday. One worker, Paul Kurtz, 40, Hazleton, was found dead. The others suffered shock and exposure and received first aid at the mine entrance.
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Janesville
Spring Mountain
Paul Kurtz
Hazleton
Pipe-Smoking Woman Celebrates 111th Birthday
Dallas announce Saidie Cornett celebrated her 111th birthday. She won a pipe smoking contest at the Texas Centennial exposition two years ago and spent the $25 prize on tobacco. Birthday gifts included a wheelchair flowers a cake and a bank with 111 new pennies.
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Dallas
Tex
U.P
Saidie Cornett
Cornett
Blaser Becomes Ohio Hardware Association President
J. C. Blaser of Cleveland assumed duties as president of the Ohio Hardware Association after his election at the convention in Columbus.
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Blaser
Columbus
U.P
J. C. Blaser
Cleveland
Ohio Hardware Association
Izzy Einstein Prohibition Agent Dead at 57
Izzy Einstein known as Prohibition Agent No 1 and the Man of a Thousand Disguises dies at 57 in New York. He will be buried in Mount Zion Cemetery leaving widow and four sons Joseph Charles Edward and Albert. He retired after 1928 with Moe Smith to enter the insurance business and had claimed over 4900 victims during his enforcement years.
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New York
Izzy_ Einstein
Mount Zion Cemetery
Joseph
Charles
Edward
Albert
Einstein
Isadore Einstein
Izzy
Moe Smith
Alice White Debuts Divorce Ring In Hollywood Trend
Actress Alice White starts a new Hollywood fad by wearing a white gold Divorce Ring with Liberty and Freedom engraved after divorcing writer Sidney S. Bartlett. The ring, a gift from her lawyer Milton Golden, appeared on her left little finger outside the courtroom.
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Hollywood
U.P
Alice White
Sidney S. (Cy) Bartlett
Milton Golden
House To Get 1938 Tax Bill In Next Week
The House Ways and Means Committee meets to finalize the 1938 tax bill for introduction next week. Democrats forge a compromise on the tax on closely held corporations and soften its impact on family type firms. Firms earning up to 75000 will be exempt, with only 500 to 1000 of 200000 corporations affected. The revision eases the undistributed profits levy and adjusts capital gains and losses taxes in higher brackets.
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Washington
U.P
House
Ways and Means
Chancellor Schuschnigg to resign amid cabinet reshuffle
Vienna reports Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg plans to resign soon after a speech to the federal parliament next Thursday. A reorganization of the cabinet is expected to give Austrian Nazis greater representation, possibly naming a Nazi as national defense minister. Hitler is to address the Reichstag Sunday.
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Vienna
Kurt Schuschnigg
Schuschnigg
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Townsend Cheered as He Leaves for Jail
Dr. Francis Townsend, elderly pension advocate, is taken to Washington to serve a 30 day jail term and a $100 fine for contempt after refusing to testify before a House committee. He told supporters he would not pay the fine, risking additional jail time.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Francis E. Townsend
Washington, D. C
House
Athens Man Included In List of Parole
The Ohio Board of Parole released 92 inmates from two state institutions with 78 from the Men's Reformatory and 14 from the Women's Reformatory. Athens-Hobart Harvey, charged with grand larceny, received parole to start April 15, 1938. Ralph Graves, charged with operating a motor vehicle without the owners' consent, referred to Philadelphia authorities if wanted after June 1, 1938.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Board of Parole
Athens
Hobart Harvey
Gallia
Ralph Graves
Philadelphia
Coast Guard Aids Azalea City in Northwest Atlantic Gale
The Coast Guard Cutter Tahoe battled gale seas to reach the steamer Azalea City 135 miles southeast of Cape Race Newfoundland. The Azalea City with 51 aboard lost its propeller and faced a dangerous Northwest storm.
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Boston
A.P
Coast Guard
Tahoe
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Boy Shot While Playing With Gun In Columbus Area
James Hawk six year old son of Mr and Mrs Albert Hawk of Newcomerstown was accidentally shot while playing with a gun Thursday and listed in fairly good condition at White Cross Hospital in Columbus today.
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Columbus
James Hawk
Albert Hawk
Newcomerstown
White Crogs Hospital
Air Armada Flies Nonstop Over Andes on Goodwill Mission
Five U S Army flying fortresses completed a 2300 mile non stop flight from Lima Peru to Buenos Aires as part of a goodwill mission from Langley Field Virginia. One plane diverted to Lima due to propeller trouble, leaving six aircraft to press on.
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United States
U. S. Army Air Corps
Buenos Aires
Robert Olds
Argentina
Roberto Ortiz
U. S. Army
AURP
Andes Mountains
Lima
Peru
Langley Field
Poisoning of Family Deemed Accidental in Virginia Case
Detective Sergeant J. E. Adams said arsenic poisoning of nine members of the George Shifflett family was accidental, likely entering the flour bin. All members are reported recovering.
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Charlottesville
U.P
J. E. Adams
George Shifflett
French ship reports shell fired by Spanish warship
The French steamer FE Mansour was reported by radio today to have been fired on by a Spanish warship. No hit was scored.
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Marseilles
FE Mansour
Filibuster Rejects Garner Anti-Lynching Compromise
Senate leaders disclosed an unsuccessful bid by Vice President Garner to suspend the anti-lynching bill for six weeks. He proposed a joint congressional resolution to lay the measure aside and to send a joint House Senate committee to investigate lynching cases when they occur.
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Washington
U.p.senate
John Nance Garner
Garner
Congress
House
Senate
Senate eyes anti lynching bill after probe move
Following a committee report the Senate may take up the anti lynching bill with a full inquiry into congressmen amid a stalled filibuster. Garner proposed a joint resolution settlement to delay final action, but filibuster opponents rejected it and the measure headed toward burial.
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Senate
Garner
Wage Measure Faces New Conflicts in Congress
Washington reports a fight over wage hour bill methods and procedures threatens enactment this session. House leaders clash with Labor Committee Chair Mary Norton over a compromise. Norton won’t accept less than a 40 cent hourly wage and a 40 hour work week for most interstate commerce employers. Labor committee members say rules group may block the bill from reaching the floor.
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Washington
U.P
House
Mary Norton
N. J
House Labor Committee
Labor
Rules Group
Duffey Targets Lawrence County Fair Directors
Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy filed with Governor Davey seeking authority to act against the Lawrence County Agricultural Society directors whom he accuses of extending their terms for a stipendiary payoff. He says they have not held a county fair on the fairgrounds for years and rely on leasing the grounds for funds.
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Columbus
U.P
Herbert S. Duffy
Davey
Lawrence County Agricultural Society
Roosevelt May Inspect Conservancy Project
Rep. William R. Thom suggests President Roosevelt inspect the Muskingum Valley conservancy project in Ohio next summer during a larger excursion. Thom said the President tentatively accepted an invitation to the Northwest Territory anniversary in Marietta on July 15 and could include the Muskingum inspection in the same trip.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Muskingum Valley Conservancy Project
Ohio
William R. Thom
Canon
Thom
Northwest Territory
Marietta
She Fights for Right to Dice in Alton Slot Clash
Irene Kite, freed on bond after injuring property, vows resumed anti slot machine action in Alton Illinois. Ministers praise her cause though the protests arose after slot operations during her husband’s banned dice game.
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Alton
Ill
Irene Kite
Lorain Police Seek Killer of Young Mother
Lorain police search for the killer of Mary Wallace 31 found beaten and throat cut in her bedroom. Her four children, returning from school, discovered the body as a struggle showed itself by broken furniture torn rugs and blood on walls. A hammer and a blood-stained knife were found in the home. Her husband is serving a murder sentence in Ohio Penitentiary.
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Lorain
Y.P
Mary Wallace
O Connor Girl Freed in Death of Young Child
Mary Keenan OConnor, a 19 year old physical education student, was acquitted today of slaying Nancy Glenn a 5 year old neighbor s daughter in Philadelphia according to UP.
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O’connor
Philadelphia
Mary Keenan O'Connor
Nancy Glenn
Congressional Action Crushes Effort Of Defaulter To Open Money Market
Washington reports a firm congressional no comment on a defaulter war debt proposal that could have opened U S money markets to foreign borrowers blocked by the Johnson Act. Officials denied talks on Britain debts or a reciprocal trade pact. The Johnson Act bars new loans to defaulting governments, leaving Britain France and Italy among the largest debtors to the United States.
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Washington
Great Britain
White House
Roosevelt
John N. Garner
Cordell Hull
Pat Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Robert L. Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
United States
Finland
France
Italy
Groom's Sanity Questioned Amid Bigamy Rally Here
Rudolph Charles Kaplan once known as Charles Bromley lies in Bellevue Hospital psychopathic ward after forgetfulness of his name and family during marriage to Mrs. Virginia Overshiner Stark Von Freiberger Seegar Gil bert Kahn Gould-Porter Cogswell Bromley. She swore out a warrant charging bigamy and conspiracy while Judge Lawrence Dunham had found him guilty of non support of his legally wedded wife and children in Elkton Maryland last Saturday.
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New York
U.P
Rudolph Charles Kaplan
Charles R. Bromley
Virginia
Stark von Freiberger Seegar
Gilbert Kahn Gould-Porter Cogswell Bromley
Bellevue Hospital
Kaplan
Elkton
Bromley
Lawrence Dunham
Landon Attacks Wallace Over Farm Surplus Talk
Topeka Kansas reports Alf Landon criticized Secretary Henry Wallace for telling foreign buyers the United States has a large farm crop surplus. Landon warned Wallace’s remarks may depress U.S. prices and hurt Kansas and other Middle Western farmers.
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Topeka
Kans
U.R
Alf M. Landon
Henry Wallace
United States
Slayer of Marino Sought Ties to Bank Bandit Ring
Columbiana County detective George Curran, on leave from Youngstown parole, heads toward Bradys Lake near Ravenna seeking more evidence to link a bank bandit gang to the Roy Marino slaying in East Liverpool. The investigation spans Sandusky and Cleveland areas as authorities pursue leads.
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Marino
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