Act To Close Pension Data To Politicos
Columbus political fight over using official pension data for campaigning. Rep. Patrick F. Monahan proposes penalties for candidates who use pensioner information to solicit votes, with fines up to 1000 dollars and possible prison time. Other measures include removing state liens on deceased pensioners’ property and ending state transfer of pensioners’ property to the state. House and Senate advance routine business as Governor Bricker’s message is delayed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Patrick F
Monahan
Cuyahoga
John Hayden
Clermont
Hayden
John Bricker
House
Senate
Bricker
Brothers of Musica Seek Bail to Aid Government
The three brothers of the late Philip Musica seek bail to help the Federal Government unravel the McKesson and Robbins Inc. affairs. Pleading guilty to Securities and Exchange Act violations, they admitted disguising as George Vernard and George and Robert Dietrich, saying they want to assist in every possible way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Philip Musica
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
Securities and Exchange Act
George Vernard
George
Robert Dietrich
Bexley Ends 1938 With Surplus, No Real Estate Tax
Bexley, a Columbus suburb, closed 1938 with a general fund surplus of 152,982 dollars and will not levy real estate taxes for operations, the city council was told today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
WUP
Bexley
Stark named state purchasing agent in Bricker administration
Charles J. Stark of Cleveland was appointed state purchasing agent today by Governor John Y. Bricker. He will succeed Glenn A. Horn in the post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Charles J. Stark
Cleveland
John Y W. Bricker
Glenn A. Horn
Beightler declares 1000 highway workers to be laid off
State Highway Director Robert Beightler says 1000 department employees will be laid off within a week as a retrenchment measure ordered by Governor Bricker. He notes many layoffs are replacements for recent hires and the move saves about 150000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beightler
Harry D. Metcalf
Te Department
State Finance Director
Davey
War Before Summer Lay Ambassadors
Roosevelt prepared a special message to Congress on national defense as Congress debated the diplomats report that a general European war before summer was inevitable. A Rome dispatch denied Hitler's promise of full support to Mussolini as Chamberlain sped toward Rome for an official visit.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Rome
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
France
Neville Chamberlain
Jack Benny Indicted Over Smuggling Conspiracy
Albert N. Chaperau pleaded guilty to smuggling and conspiracy charges tied to diamond clips and a bracelet valued at 2131 dollars. Jack Benny faces trial on January 24 after Chaperau admitted with Benny awaiting verdict. Benny denied intentional wrongdoing and plans to fight the charges while Mary Livingstone is named in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Benny
New York
Albert N. Chaperau
Benny
Chaperau
Legation
Mary Livingstone
Agriculture Dept Threatens Sanctions Over Tenant Evictions
The Agriculture Department vows reprisals against landowners who evict tenants or convert them to day laborers. Confidential reports indicate nationwide practice with an estimated 500000 to 1000000 families affected. Benefits will be withheld from landlords shown to have evicted tenants or downgraded status to secure more AADA benefits.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Star Named In Swindle Involving Film Celebrities
Actress Loretta Young was asked to testify in the investigation of her broker friend William C. Buckner Jr. who allegedly duped movie celebrities in a $1,000,000 Philippine bond scheme. Thirteen other prominent film figures were subpoenaed by SEC agents from New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
U.P
Loretta Young
William C. Buckner, Jr
Securities and Exchange Commission
New York
West Virginia University Press Feud With Nazi Paper Rises
The Daily Athenaeum and Das Schwarze Korps clash over an Every Man a Hitler party at West Virginia University. Editors defend civility and tolerance while condemning the Nazi outlet for defamatory editorials and severing relations with Germany.
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Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia University
Daily Athenaeum
Das Schwarze Korps
U. of W. Va
Germany
Guttersnipes
Hitler
Athenaen
Goldsmith
The
Athenaeum
Frankfurter Branded Red by Authoress at Senate Hearing
Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling, author of The Red Network, asked a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to reject Felix Frankfurter for the Supreme Court. She alleged he aided revolutionary movements and worked with and for the Communist Party through the American Civil Liberties Union, calling it a seditious organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Elizabeth Dilling
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Felix Frankfurter
Supreme Court
United States
Dilling
Frankfurter
American Civil Liberties Union
The
Civil Liberties Union
Red
Communist Party
Jury Indicts Bready In Killing of Father
Ross County grand jury indicted 29 year old Robert Bready for manslaughter in the December shooting death of his father Rev. Russell H. Bready 62 a Bainbridge Methodist minister. Bready reportedly signed a confession claiming he killed his father while intoxicated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chillicothe
U.P
Robert Bready
Russell H. Bready
Bainbridge
Ross County
Search Is Ordered for Killers of Gambling Foe
Attorney General John E. Cassidy ordered the State Bureau of Investigation to hunt three men who assassinated Anton Miller a 50 year old anti gambling crusader in Peoria Illinois Miller was a locksmith and gunsmith who distributed keys to unlock slot machines and loot them pointing to a bold gambling racketeers confrontation
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
U.P
John E. Cassidy
State Bureau of Investigation
Anton Miller
Miller
Navy planes delayed by bad weather en route to Caribbean
Unfavorable weather in El Paso delays 18 Navy amphibian planes traveling from San Diego to the Caribbean for fleet maneuvers. The aircraft are held up as crews assess conditions before resuming the flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Paso
Tex
U.P
Navy
San Diego
Caribbean
Health Commissioner Urges General Vaccination in County
Newark report states Health Commissioner J F Miller urged general vaccination in Licking County to prevent a smallpox epidemic. Authorities warn residents to seek inoculation promptly to curb spread and protect vulnerable groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
U.P
J. F. Miller
Licking County
Predicament of Kennedy and Bullitt Hints at War Policy Action
The two ambassadors to Britain and France warned Congress that Italy may force early hostilities and France resists appeasement. They described Germany’s air strength as substantial and said the British mood is defeatist with war anticipated within months.
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Joseph P. Kennedy
William C. Bullitt
Great Britain
France
House
Senate
Italy
Britain
Germany
Hopkins Defends Record Ahead of Commerce Nomination
Washington ULP Harry L. Hopkins defended his political and economic beliefs and his WPA record before senators considering his nomination as secretary of commerce. He said he never recalls joining the Socialist Party, refused to deny it categorically, and disputed a quoted remark about endless spending and elections. He called the WPA record an open book and said he did everything to keep petty politics out of the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
ULP
Harry L. Hopkins
Socialist Party
Works Progress Administration
Appoint GOP Chairman To Conservation Office
Columbus report states Don Waters of Elmore Ottawa County to become state conservation commissioner succeeding Lawrence Woodell, appointee of retiring Governor Davey. Waters, a dog fancier and field trials judge, has interests in forestry and floriculture, announced by John T. Brown, state director of agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
WUP
Don Waters
Elmore
Ottawa County
Lawrence Woodell
Davey
John T. Brown
Waters
House Group Slashes WPA Request By 150 Million
A House appropriations sub committee cut $150,000,000 from President Roosevelt’s 875,000,000 WPA relief request to fund roughly 3,000,000 unemployed through year end. The panel also barred paying 33,000 WPA administrators from relief funds, setting up a clash with the President over relief funding and civil service rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Group
Roosevelt
Washington
House
Works Progress Administration
Congress
Appropriation Bill Approved By Committee
Columbus Ohio AP The House Finance Committee endorsed the administration partial appropriation bill by a unanimous vote to fund state departments until a general measure is enacted. The panel sliced 144000 from 43176395.40 with Ohio State’s 2280000 untouched, drawing Democratic critique and possible future amendments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
A.P
House Finance Committee
Ohio State
Bowling Green
Kent
Miami
Ohio
Wilberforce
Democratic Committee
R. R. Bangham
Clinton
Power Company Drops Appeal of Assessment
Muskingum Conservancy District says Ohio Power Co withdraws its appeal from a $362,939 flood benefit appraisal. Under a 50 percent assessment the company will pay $181,469.50 for flood benefits to properties in Coshocton Harrison Guernsey Morgan Muskingum and Tuscarawas Counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
U.P
Muskingum Conservancy
Ohio Power Co
Coshocton
Harrison
Guernsey
Morgan
Muskingum
Tuscarawas
Ohio Job Insurance Fund Reaches 97 Million
Ohio's unemployment compensation fund stood at 97,327,923 on Jan 1 as benefit sections took effect. The balance rose by 45,656,819 in 1938 and is expected to exceed 110 million with last quarter employer payments. Payments begin after a three week waiting period. funds largely sit in U S Treasury. The state covers about 46,000 employers and 1,750,000 workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Unemployment Compensation Commission
U. S. Treasury
Working Wives Fight Will Be Continued
COLUMBUS U P Rep Patrick Dunn Tuscarawas who is waging a one man campaign against the employment of married women both in public and private jobs is still on the war path. Dunn introduced in the House yesterday a bill which would prohibit the employment of husband and wife in any state department the same bill he sponsored in the last session. The house rules committee bottled it up that time. Dunn believes that if the state would set a good example private industry would fall in line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Patrick Dunn
Tuscarawas
Dunn
House
State Department
House Rules Committee
Mass protest of homeless along Missouri highways
Bonfires lit a 100 mile front as homeless and landless sharecroppers gathered in camps along U S Highways 60 and 61 in southeast Missouri. Sponsored by the Southern Tenant Farmers Union the demonstration grew in volume with about 500 families, black and white, camping near Sikeston Charleston New Madrid and the Arkansas line with their children and animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Likeston
U.P
U. S
Cotton
Missouri
Tenant Farmers’ Union
Sikeston
Charleston
New Madrid
Arkansas Line
State Road Department Eyes Election of Positions Abolishment
Columbus report says the State Highway Department plans a reorganization to abolish about 80 county engineer jobs and expand highway divisions. New director Robert B. Beightler announced the plan, claiming savings in salaries and upkeep for 89 offices.
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Columbus
SUP
State Highway Department
Robert B. Beightler
Beightler
Early Morning Fire Damages Crooksville Church
An early morning fire of undetermined origin caused $2,000 damage to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Crooksville. No injuries are reported and investigators review the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crooksville
U.P
Methodist Episcopal
Market chief named Columbus- U P appointment
W. Dale Hilbish, operator of an apple orchard near Painesville, was named director of the department of markets today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
W. Dale Hilbish
Painesville
Department of Markets
Blaze follows still explosion destroys church and buildings
A whisky still explosion led to a fire that destroyed the First Baptist Church in Wellsville Up and a vacant three story frame building. A store owned by James Pugin and a home of Dominic Compretta were damaged as flames spread after four hours of firefighting. Police found whisky making equipment in the ruins and will defer arrests pending state fire marshal investigation.
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Wellsville
First Baptist Church
Peter Cheffalo
James Pugin
Dominic Compretta
Oliphant Dies, Architect of New Deal Tax Plans
Herman Oliphant, 54, treasury general counsel and chief advocate of New Deal tax measures including the undistributed corporate income levy, died today at Naval Hospital. He played a leading role in drafting administration tax legislation for several years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Herman Oliphant
Treasury
Naval Hospital
Oliphant
Japanese air raid hits Shasi church school kills two
Reports from Shanghai say Japanese planes bombed Shasi striking the Lutheran Church Primary School. Two Chinese were killed and 30 wounded in the attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
U.P
Shasi
Lutheran Church
110 Millions To Be Spent For 1940 Flood Control Program
Washington reports 1940 flood control spending set at 110 million dollars, 28 million more than this year. Ohio Valley groups push for federal share of assessments while planning projects from 1936, 1938 bills. Huntington meeting January 27 will discuss local participation and dam gate installations to expand national scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau
Mississippi Valley
Congress
Ohio Valley
Charles Holzer
Gallipolis
Ohio Valley Conservation and Flood Control Congress
Huntington
W. Va
Miami River Valley
Ohio
Dayton
Miami
Army Engineers
Will M. Whittington
Miss
House Flood Control Committee
Pittsburgh
Louisville
Alan Jordan
Flood Control Congress
Miami Valley
Ohio River
Freshman Hangs Self In Fraternity House
Kenneth Kettering an 18 year old Baldwin Wallace College freshman hanged himself in the Phi Kappa Phi Fraternity house on Tuesday Friends said he was morose and uncommunicative. Fraternity president Gaylord Grove said Kettering admitted attempting death by his own action twice before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BEREA
U?p
Kenneth Kettering
Baldwin-Wallace College
Phi Kappa Phi
Gaylord Grove
Kettering
Loyalists Rush To Halt Big Offensive In Spain
Thousands of insurgent troops move toward the Estremadura front to halt what is described as the largest Loyalist offensive of the war. A major battle looms near Penarroya in the coal region as forces converge on the frontline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendaye
U.P
Estremadura
Spain
Penarroya
Glazier Resigns From Amesville Bank Board
L. B. Glazier resigns from the First National Bank of Amesville board after 35 years of service including 27 years as president. Clifford R. Glazier elected director to succeed him. directors organize with W. E. Thompson as president and E. F. Glazier as vice president.
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L. B. Glazier
First National Bank of
Amesville
Glazier
Bank
Ames
J. J. Beasley
Mr. Glazier
Clifford R. Glazier
F. E. Phillips
E. F. Glazier
W. E. Thompson
W. M. Painter
F. L. Thomas
J. P. Owen
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J. H. McGregor
McGregor
Lady Huml
Erican Federation of Labor
Wilford B. Bixler
Summit
Hudlett
Marshall
Paskell
Perry
Brothers of Musica
Buyer
Curley
Baltimore
Fernando de Los Rios
Robert Beightler
Highway Department
AAA
Bready
Father
Hopkins
O. K
GOP
Fla
Clifton A. Woodrum
D., Va
Col
F. C. Harrington
WPA
Workers Alliance
Jerry Voorhis
Calif
Power Company
State Road Department
New Deal
Japs Bomb School
Budget Bureau
Amesville Bank Board
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