Byrnes urges single TVA administrator amid White House showdown
Senator Byrnes proposes a one man TVA board and names a three member executive model as an alternative to the existing three man board. Senate leaders weigh the plan ahead of Roosevelt's Friday conference and House debate on the Independent Offices Bill containing disputed TVA funds.
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Washington
U.P
James F. Byrnes
S. C
Tennessee Valley Authority
Byrnes
Roosevelt
House Appropriations Committee
House
Independent Offices
TVA
George W. Norris
Neb
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
White House
Arthur E. Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
Harcourt A. Morgan
H. Styles Bridges
N. H
William H. King
Utah
Norris
Federal Trade Commission
Bridges
Lilienthal
Hitler
Tennessee
Auditor General
Congress
Gilbertsville
Britons and Nazis Start Parley as Ribbentrop Arrives
Anti Nazi protesters shouted during Joachim von Ribbentrop’s arrival at the Foreign Office for talks with Viscount Halifax over European issues. Police kept demonstrators distant at Victoria Station and around Downing Street, signaling a tense start to Britain Germany talks.
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London
U.P
Ribbentrop
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Foreign Office
Viscount Halifax
Great Britain
Germany
Victoria Station
Downing Street
No. 10
Rightist Offensive Push Forces Retreat on Aragon Front
Spanish Nationalists launch major offensive along a 110 mile Aragon front driving back government troops in nine battles. Rebels also strike along the Central front capturing foothills near the Guadarrama Mountains in a move seen as menacing Madrid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendaye
Redfern Found Alive Claim Reaches Guiana Village
Waldeck expedition says February advance into British Guiana Indian village yields claim that natives can guide to Redfern's plane and the lost aviator himself. The 10 year mystery of Paul Redfern's disappearance is addressed as the party seeks the missing man.
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Schenectady
N. Y
U.P
Waldeck
Paul Redfern
British Guiana
Redfern
Zanesville Man Wounded In Rifle Accident
John Mc Nulty Jr aged 19 was wounded in the abdomen when his rifle discharged as he stooped to tie a shoe lace. He was listed in serious condition in Zanesville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zanesville
John McNulty, Jr
Camp Nelson to Close as CCC Cuts Begin
Washington DP- CCC director Robert Fechner announced 291 camps including Camp Nelson in Hocking County Ohio will close before June 30 due to funds shortages while enrollment remains about 270,000. About 1,200 camps will continue, 10 more close by Oct 31, and 55,000 replacements will join April 1–20 to maintain strength.
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Washington
Robert Fechner
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC
Camp Nelson
Hocking County
Nelsonville
Ohio
Fechner
Police Extend Levine's Time to renegotiate ransom
New Rochelle New York police extended their hands off policy as Murray Levine seeks release of his 12 year old son Peter kidnapped two weeks earlier for $30,000. Local police officials agreed to the extension after reviewing all efforts to pay the ransom. Levine told reporters there was nothing new in his latest call.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Murray Levine
Peter
Levine
Congress
Treasury
Supreme Court
Congressional
Roosevelt
House
White House
Chautemps Cabinet Resigns Over Finance Powers Demand
Paris reports Premier Camille Chautemps and his cabinet quit after seven weeks in office as Popular Front followers rejected their demand for extraordinary financial powers to safeguard the treasury.
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PARIS
U.P
Camille Chautemps
Popular Front
Rail executives label freight rate hike inadequate
Washington dispatch reports railroad executives call the new freight rate increase inadequate and warn layoffs may follow. Southern Railway already adopts a spread the work plan with payroll cuts of 10 to 15 percent, others may follow. AAR directors meet to review ICC rate action and seek quick relief for a narrow revenue-expenditure spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Southern Railway System
Association of American Railroads
Interstate Commerce Commiss
Deny Foreign Requests For Hawaii Air Bases
The government refused British and Dutch aviation firms permission to set up commercial air bases in Hawaii for national defense reasons. Officials said granting such access could invite similar demands from other nations, with Japan specifically mentioned as a potential seeker.
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Hawaii
Washington
U.P
United Press
Japan
Little Business Leaders Criticize Roosevelt Administration
Representatives of Little Business from a February conference charge the Roosevelt Administration with trying to smother small enterprise and create a New Deal controlled counter-organization. Leslie E. Sanders of Orlando released a letter to the committee chair warning the group not to meet, citing Assistant Secretary Dra per as opposing a meeting and saying the group has nothing to offer the commerce department.
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Washington
Little Business
Roosevelt
Leslie E. Sanders
Orlando
Fla
Fred G. Roth
Cleveland
Sanders
Ernest G. Draper
Artment of Commerce
Plane Hunt to Continue for Lost TWA Airliner
Fresno report says air and ground teams will resume the search for the missing Transcontinental and Western Airways transport that disappeared ten days ago in the high Sierras. Mrs. Dirlam of Mansfield traveled to Fresno to join search headquarters. On board were her two Stanford students children Tracy and Mary Lou, plus four other passengers and three crew members.
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Fresno
Calif
Western Airways
High Sierras
Jay N. Dirlam
Mansfield
Tracy
Mary Lou
Stanford University
Metcalf Questions Davey Over Maiden Dismissal
Ohio Senate Republican leader Verner E. Metcalf challenged Governor Davey to justify why liquor enforcement supervisor Joseph Maiden was suspended and then reinstated after being accused of padding expenses, contrasting with the firing of State Highway Engineer Harry A. Sparks for similar testimony.
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Columbus
A.P
Verner E. Metcalf
Ohio Senate
Davey
Joseph Maiden
Lorain
Canton-Akron
Metcalf
Senate
Maiden
Liquor Department
Harry A. Sparks
State Highway Department
Swinging of Ballads Banned by Station
Detroit station manager Leo Fitzpatrick of WJR ordered the station to cut off orchestras when they swing old-time ballads. He said he issued the order after hearing the station orchestra massacre Annie Laurie and called the song semisacred to him.
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Detroit
U.P
Leo Fitzpatrick
WJR
Annie Laurie
Fitzpatrick
Ohio Supreme Court Reverses Gas Rate Case Ruling
Ohio communities gained more power to regulate utility rates as the Ohio Supreme Court overturned a state utilities commission order. The court ruled the commission overstepped by invalidating a Norwalk gas rate ordinance, forcing a rehearing of the Gas Company appeal. The company may keep collecting current rates under bond to reimburse any later excess charges.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
State Public Utilities Commission
Norwalk
The
Utilities Commission
Real Estate Tax Take Reaches $124000 in Athens County
John H. Preston announced that more than $124,000 in real estate taxes has been collected at the Athens County treasurer's office. He received notice from the State Tax Commission granting permission to extend the current collection to March 31.
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Athens County
John H. Preston
Preston
State Tax Commission
Numbers player held along with writer in Columbus arrest
Columbus police began arrests of people who play the numbers and those who compose them. Captain Eugene Ebright detained Mrs. Betty Wirthman after she placed a 10 cent bet with Paul Moore, who was also taken into custody.
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Columbus
Columbus Police Department
Eugene Ebright
Betty Wirthman
Paul Moore
Moore
Freak Accident Fatality in Bucyrus Truck Tire Blow
Alfred Ritter, 21, a truck driver, was killed when a high compression rim snapped while he changed a tire on a Bucyrus highway late Wednesday. The incident occurred in the UP region and authorities were notified. Ritter was employed as a long haul driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucyrus
U.P
Alfred Ritter
Bank Call Issued On National Bank Condition
Washington March 7 1931 Comptroller of Currency J F T O Connor issued a call for the condition of national banks as of March 7 seeking financial standing and compliance details from insured institutions nationwide.
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Bank Call
Washington
U.2
Comptroller of Currency
J. F. T. O'Connor
Hoover to Poland Berlin trip ends. Hoover heads to Warsaw
Former President Herbert Hoover left today for Warsaw on a trip that will include a visit to Poland. Officials say the voyage continues his postwar international diplomacy tour and aims to strengthen American ties with Poland.
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Hoover
Poland
Berlin
Herbert Hoover
Warsaw
Pilot Lands Safe After Weather Battle Over Richlands
An American Airlines plane from Newark to Los Angeles diverted through bad weather and fog, landing safely at Richlands North Carolina emergency field after seven hours and fifty minutes flight time. Seven passengers and three crew escaped injury. one report notes bent propellers. Peggy Fears among the travelers.
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Washington
American Air Lines
Richlands
N. C
Peggy Fears
New York
A. C. Blumenthal
Charleston
S. C
Carolinas
Carpenter
Atlanta
CIO Urges Book Burning in Cleveland
The CIO central group backed a plan by its Educational Committee to remove and destroy books deemed unfavorable in the Cleveland Public Library. The move, approved 5 to 4, would create a censorship board to examine library materials, supported by figures aside from WPA teachers president Robert Parker and Joseph R. White, who opposed it.
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Cleveland
Committee For Industrial Organization Central Group
Educational Committee
Cleveland Public Library
Robert Parker
WPA
Joseph R. White
Extile Workers Organizing Committee
Release More Millions for Low-Cost Housing in Ohio
Washington reports an extra 10 to 15 million dollars for low rent housing in Ohio by order of Nathan Straus. An additional 200 million was earmarked to help cities draft three year programs and speed work. Ohio is praised for progress as new authorities form in Warren and Zanesville seeking funds.
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Ohio
Washington
Nathan Straus
U. S
Straus
Warren
Zanesville
Graft Probe Trial Opens in Cleveland
Hearings on perjury charges brought by Governor Davey against Lee Bradley opened in Municipal Court before Chief Justice Burt Griffin. Bradley’s counsel challenged the arrest warrant asserting the statements cited were not made by him. Six of seven Senate Graft Committee members were under subpena. Governor Davey expected to testify.
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Cleveland
U.P
Davey
Lee Bradley
State Senate
Burt Griffin
Bradley
Subpena
Senate
Membership of Tax Committee Completed
Governor Davey completed the Tax Committee by naming the final appointees. J. Ewing Smith of Bellefontaine Logan County prosecutor, Charles Frank Summit County treasurer, and F. W. Grill Seneca County auditor were appointed to study delinquent tax issues.
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Columbus
Davey
J. Ewing Smith
Bellefontaine
Logan County
Charles Frank
Summit County
F. W. Grill
Seneca County
Death Row Overcrowded At Ohio Penitentary
Nine men and one woman were on death row at the Ohio Penitentiary. Carl Ferritto, 20, Cleveland, sentenced to die June 13 for killing two policemen, was placed in a cell with Robert Snow, 27, Akron, after forcing Warden James Woodard to relocate them.
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Columbus
O.P
Anna Hahn
Ohio
Carl Ferritto
Cleveland
James Woodard
Ferritto
Robert Snow
Akron
Man Killed as Autos Collide in Snowstorm
In Bellefontaine Ohio Donald Morningstar six of West Liberty was killed and his father Herbert Morningstar forty suffered a leg fracture in a collision of autos during a snow storm on U S Route 68 north of the city Wednesday night.
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Bellefontaine
U.R
Donald Morningstar
West Liberty
Herbert Morningstar
U. S. Route 68
Here
Truck Kills Child in Springfield
Margaret Allender aged eight died in a hospital after being struck by a truck. The incident occurred earlier today in Springfield and she succumbed two and a half hours later.
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Springfield
Margaret Allender
Cleveland Police Captain Calls Schools Fire Traps
Police Captain Arthur G. Roth condemned 33 Cleveland public schools as fire traps and urged fire alarm installations in all school principals offices.
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Cleveland
Arthur G. Roth
Ohio Woman's Mystery Death Baffles Police
Police seek to solve the death of Nora Burkey 37 found nude on a bed in her Bellaire home with a piano wire around the neck attached to a light fixture. Coroner says she likely died three days earlier. Evidence suggests murder though self-harm setup attempted. Burkey last seen Friday. husband Jack and daughter Leona in New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellaire
U.P
Nora Burkey
Clyde Hardesty
William Green Speaks At W Va Labor Meet
Charleston West Virginia William Green president of the American Federation of Labor addressed the opening session of the state AFL convention called after a split in West Virginia organized labor ranks last summer Gov Homer A Holt will address Friday and Sen Rush D Holt will speak Saturday
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Charleston
W. Va
U.R
William Green
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of L
West Virginia
Organized Labor
Homer A. Holt
Rush D. Holt
John L. Lewis
CIO
Psychiatrist Questioned In Shooting of Coroner
Dr. W D Wayne of Spencer State Hospital was arrested for questioning in the shooting of Roane County Coroner Dr F K Stewart at a house party honoring Wayne and his wife. Stewart, who intervened in a quarrel among guests, was wounded during the incident in Spencer West Virginia.
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Spencer
W. Va
W. D. Wayne
Spencer State Hospital
F. K. Stewart
Roane County
Stewart
Bryn Mawr Girl Jeanne Hislop Dies in College
Jeanne C. Hislop age 19 daughter of Mr and Mrs John H Hislop of Columbus died of a heart attack at Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
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Bryn Mawr
Columbus
O.R
Jeanne C. Hislop
John H. Hislop
Bryn Mawr College
To Circulate Petitions for Liquor Sale Initiation
Columbus announces petitions to abolish the liquor monopoly will circulate next week. The plan would shift wholesaling to state licensed dealers and retail by bottle to druggists, keep glass sale under state license. Supporters must gather 90,000 signatures for 1939 Legislature consideration.
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Columbus
Townsend Asks Review of Jail Term Validity
Dr. Francis E Townsend, pension advocate, asks the Supreme Court to review the 30 day jail sentence for contempt of a House committee. The motion seeks to overturn the conviction and jail term in the federal case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Townsend
Washington
Francis E. Townsend
Supreme Court
House
Soil erosion linked to rural poverty, says H H Bennett
H H Bennett chief of the U S Soil Conservation Service told the Senate unemployment and relief committee that soil erosion is a serious cause of rural impoverishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
H. H. Bennett
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee
Court Upholds State Withholding Allocations
The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the state’s authority to withhold allocations from counties delinquent in payments to private hospitals for insane patients. The court denied Montgomery County’s writ to force release of sales tax funds despite its debts to hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Ohio Supreme Court
High Court
Montgomery County
Joseph T. Ferguson
Representative Proposes 7‑Member Social Security Probe Panel
Rep. Paul W. Shafer of Michigan announces a resolution to form a seven member House select committee to investigate alleged diversion of the Social Security Reserve Fund for government operating expenses.
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Washington
ULP
Paul W. Shafer
Mich
House Select Committee
Social Security Reserve Fund
Metcalf Eyes AG Run as Graft Inquiry Raises Profile
State Senator Verner E. Metcalf, 44, seeks higher office amid Ohio graft probe. He contemplates Attorney General bid but may face party barriers, with possibilities of Lieutenant Governor or 15th District Congress run. Metcalf rose from Marietta politics to Senate minority leader after two terms as prosecutor and local official.
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Columbus
Verner E. Metcalf
Ohio
Senate
Metcalf
Marietta
Washington County
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