New Dealers Fight Second Reduction in Relief Fund
Senate leaders seek to avoid further cuts to the deficiency relief appropriation while supporting the House approved 725 million. The fight centers on restoring 875 million, with 600 million as a floor feared too high by Carter Glass. Harrington Mayor LaGuardia and WPA leader Lasser testify on needs. House testimony argues 1 billion or more is required for work relief.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Carter Glass
Senate Appropriations Committee
Glass
Works Progress
F. C. Harrington
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York
David Lasser
Workers Alliance
WPA
Record NY Buyers Show Surge for Retail Spring Trade
New York reports 1100 out of town buyers registering in a single day signaling a strong spring retail uptick. Merchandisers cite the influx as proof of growing trade as buyers fill hotels and showrooms for National Dry Goods Association Wholesale Dry Goods Institute and related trade shows.
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New York
U.P
New York Times
National Dry Goods Association
Wholesale Dry Goods Institute
Lifer Walks Out of Lebanon Honor Camp
Authorities search for Ernest Hughes of Hamilton County after he escaped from the State Honor Camp at Lebanon. Hughes is serving a life sentence for second degree murder in the fatal slaying of Raymond Mueller, an assistant superintendent at a Cincinnati packing plant where Hughes worked as a watchman.
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Columbus
U.P
Ernest Hughes
Hamilton County
Lebanon
Hughes
Raymond Mueller
Cincinnati
Claypool Named to Flood Control Committee
Representative Har old K. Claypool of Chillicothe wins approval from Democratic members of the House to join the flood control committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harold K. Claypool
Chillicothe
House of Representatives
Farley surveys national party trends on Roosevelt view
Postmaster General James A. Farley, as Democratic National Committee chairman, writes Democrats in Congress seeking reports on political factors nationwide. He aims to analyze conditions in all 48 states as he tests President Roosevelt’s belief that local issues drove last November’s Democratic reverses. Vice President Garner reportedly dissented from the President’s view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Farley
Democratic National Committee
Congress
Garner
Pomeroy Woman, 79, Found Dead in Home
The body of Lena Fox of Pomeroy aged 79 was found Monday afternoon in her bedroom on E Main Street. She likely died Saturday and was last seen by neighbor W L Stivers Saturday morning. Mrs Fox lived alone and has no close relatives. Funeral arrangements are being made.
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Pomeroy
Lena Fox
E. Main St
W. L. Stivers
Doctor Brewer dies at home after operation
Dr. Lyman A. Brewer 76 chief of staff at Mercy Hospital he organized died of a heart attack at home an hour after a major surgery yesterday in Toledo Ohio.
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Toledo
U.P
Lyman A. Brewer
Mercy Hospital
Marriage Didn't Take He Seeks Refund Of License Fee
Buffalo George W Koblich filed with City Clerk John J Coffey a claim for a $2 marriage license fee and $4 interest dating from 1924 after his marriage failed and he and his wife divorced and were evicted from their home.
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Buffalo
N. Y
George W. Koblich
Koblich
John J. Coffey
Major relief spending shows GOP vote in top states
A New Deal relief spending report shows a large majority of states receiving over 200 million dollars voted Republican in last November's election. It lists 13 states led by New York and Pennsylvania, with eight top spenders voting against the New Deal in 1932 and 1936.
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Washington
U.P
New York
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Ohio
California
Massachususetts
Michigan
New Jersey
Texas
Missouri
Wisconsin
Indiana
Minnesota
Massachusetts
Women, Old Men and Children Fortify Barcelona Defenses
Loyalists mobilize every able body to defend Barcelona as Franco's army advances. Women from the workers district boys from offices and girls from taxi halls join men too old for front duty to reinforce fortifications amid food shortages. The conflict worsens as Franco appeals for surrender and Loyalist leaders urge immediate aid from abroad.
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Barcelona
Joe Alex Morris
United Press
Spain
Catalonia
Madrid
Francisco Franco
Franco
Segre
Ebro
Julio Alvarez del Vayo
League of Nations
Germany
Italy
Juan Sarabia
Guards Deployed at Northern Ireland Leaders Homes After Bombings
London reports a special guard was placed at the Duke of Abercorn’s residence while Scotland Yard weighs tightening guards at cabinet ministers’ homes after a wave of bomb outrages blamed on the Irish Republican Army. Authorities fear IRA aims to paralyze power and water works as they push for Ireland-wide unification. Police compare today’s attacks to the Fenian era.
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London
U.P
Duke of Abercorn
Northern Ireland
Scotland Yard
Irish Republican Army
Ireland
Britain
Fenian Society
Eight Held in Subway Nickel Theft Plot
Eight men were arrested on grand larceny and forgery charges after the theft of 1.5 million dollars in nickels from the city’s independent subway system. Investigators say 26 million nickels were taken over three years, with 30 station agents and maintenance workers implicated for looting about 50 dollars daily.
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NEW York
U.P
Thomas E. Dewey
Buster the bulldog to receive satin casket burial
In Gallipolis Carrie Douglas, owner of a Court Street apartment, arranges an ostentatious burial for her bulldog Buster. Local mortician Elias Wetherholt provides a satin lined casket. The body is taken to Louisville for interment in the family plot with Mrs. Douglas and her daughter Mrs. H. W. Nixon present.
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Gallipolis
Buster
Carrie Douglas
Harold Wood
Court St
Louisville
Gas Execution Is Slow For “Toughest” Prisoner
Dominicko Nadal, labeled the toughest prisoner on Nevada’s death row, was executed in the lethal gas chamber. The process took 17 12 minutes from the onset of the hydro cyanide fumes to his death, longer than typical executions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carson City
Nev
Dominicko Nadal
Nevada
Spriggs Named Assistant Ohio Attorney General
David M. Spriggs of Steubenville was appointed an assistant Ohio attorney general assigned to the Industrial Relations Department in Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
David M. Spriggs
Steubenville
Ohio
Woman Dies From Bite of Dog Rescued From River
Detroit report tells of Stella Kronberg who saved a stray dog from the icy River Rouge with an ax and boat. She was bitten on the cheek during resuscitation and died three weeks later from rabies diagnosed by doctors.
Unemployed Plan Extended Demonstrations Across Britain
Leaders of the national unemployed workers movement announce plans to widen protests across Great Britain. Key organizers Will Hannington and Donald Renton coordinate a series of stunts that have challenged London police, including lay-down strikers at Oxford Circus and protesters atop the London Memorial demanding tea in a Ritzy hotel restaurant.
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London
U.P
National
Unemployed Workers Movement
Great Britain
Will Hannington
Donald Renton
Oxford Circus
London Memorial
Inauguration of a public relations program urged
H. W. Ingersoll recommended a group public relations project to improve producer consumer understanding. He spoke at an annual meeting as Jr. president of the Ohio Dairy Products Association, Inc. The report proposes a structured PR effort and collaboration within the industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
U.P
H. W. Ingersoll
Ohio Dairy Products Association, Inc
Frankfurter Nomination Approved by Senate to Supreme Court
The Senate confirmed Professor Felix Frankfurter as associate justice of the Supreme Court to succeed the late Benjamin N. Cardozo. The vote was by voice with no dissent, naming the 56-year-old Harvard law professor an adherent of Cardozo and Holmes liberal philosophy.
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Washington
Senate
Felix Frankfurter
Supreme Court
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Harvard Law
Cardozo
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Funeral for Mrs. Harley Beverage Held in Marshfield
A funeral service for Mrs. Harley Beverage, 60, will be at two o'clock Thursday at the Christian Church in New Marshfield. She died Saturday at her Wyandot Michigan home. Interment will follow at Hoodlet Cemetery. Surviving are her husband, several children including Mrs. Ethel Cullison and Mrs. Ida Lanning, a brother Harry Burchfield, and sisters Mrs. Lillian Couch and Mrs. Cunningham.
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New Marshfield
Christian Church
Harley Beverage
Wyandot
Mich
Hoodlet
Charles Hook
Beverage
Ethel Cullison
Floodwood
Ida Lanning
Blanch Edgell
Earl
William McDonald
New Pittsburg
George Hankinson
Oak Grove
Harry Burchfield
Chauncey
Lillian Couch
Columbus
Cunningham
Ohioan Made Governor of Texas Today
W Lee O Dan iel, born in Morgan County Ohio, takes oath as Texas governor at the University of Texas football stadium after a 200 mile drive from Fort Worth with his hillbilly band to join inaugural festivities. He plans to push $30 monthly old age pensions with state and federal funding amid legislative opposition over Texas debt.
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W. Lee O’daniel
Ohio
Texas
Austin
Tex
U.P
Morgan County
Pappy
University of Texas
O'Daniels
Fort Worth
O'Daniel
Ohio University announces football 39 schedule completion
Director Don C. Peden confirms five home games and four on the road for next fall. A Kalamazoo game with Western State Teachers College on November 18 and a September 23 matchup with Western State Teachers of Bowling Green are set, completing the slate. The schedule lists September 23 Western State Teachers Kentucky, September 30 at Butler, October 7 Western Reserve, October 21 at Xavier, October 28 Dayton, November 4 at Morris Harvey, November 11 Miami, and November 18 Western State Teachers at Kalamazoo.
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Don C. Peden
Ohio University
Kalamazoo
Mich
Western State Teachers College
Peden
Western State Teachers of
Bowling Green
Athens
Western State Teachers of Kentucky
Butler
T--Western Reserve
Xavier
Dayton
Morris Harvey
Miami
Western State Teachers
Japanese Secret Group Warns FDR Against Sanctions
An ultranationalist group called Shiunso or the Purple Clog Society in Tokyo published an open letter to President Roosevelt threatening retaliation if the United States and Britain impose economic sanctions on Japan. The letter states Japan feels the US is an unfriendly power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
U.P
Shiunso
Purple Clog Society
Roosevelt
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Ickes Designates First Homestead as Park Site
Secretary Harold L. Ickes designated the first homestead farm as a national monument. The National Park Service purchased a quarter section on Cub Creek in Gage County Nebraska, originally claimed in 1863 by Daniel Freeman, an Ohio farmer.
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Washington
U.P
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
United States
Ickes
National Park Service
Cub Creek
Gage County
Nebraska
Daniel Freeman
Ohio
Columbia University Unveils Noise Eliminating Radio System
Columbia University unveils frequency modulation as a radically quieter radio method. The system uses shorter receiving wavelengths and new MAJ Edwin H Armstrong led transmitting over W2XMN with GE producing compatible sets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University
NEW York
U.P
W2xmn
Edwin H. Armstrong
Electrical Engineering
Columbia
General Electric Company
University
Bricker urges Ohio industry drive in speech to Legislature
Governor Bricker outlines plans to promote Ohio industry and employment, calling for a Bureau of Industry within the Commerce Department and a seven member advisory council. He criticizes prior administrations, vows stringent economies, and proposes measures to attract new businesses, expand existing ones, and advertise Ohio’s attractions. He cites a $2 million deficit and urges reform in public contracting and tax collection.
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House
Senate
Bricker
Ohio
Davey
Bureau of Industry
Commerce Department
Direc
General Revenue
William Simpson dies after New Miami cafe gun battle
William Simpson 64 marshal of New Miami dies from wounds after he and Deputy Andrew Cain surprised five burglars in a New Miami cafe Friday. The lawmen were wounded in the shootout and his death was reported as he died at an area hospital.
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Hamilton
U.P
William Simpson
New Miami
Andrew Cain
Electric worker dies after contact with high line
Joseph Brunn aged 28 an employee of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co died yesterday after touching an electric line and falling 15 feet to a concrete floor.
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Mansfield
U.P
Joseph Brunn
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co
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