Court packing urged to preserve government harmony
Assistant Attorney General Robert Jackson told Congress that enlarging the Supreme Court is required to maintain proper functioning of the high court. He argued expansion would resolve dissension, align the court with modern needs, and sustain federal coordination amid social and economic strain. The hearing highlighted calls to add justices to prevent systemic paralysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Robert Ss. Jackson
Congress
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Eunealine Kafara Tha Gantta TuAi
Jackson
Homer
Cummings
High Court
Senate Moves to Pardon Tom Mooney in California
A resolution seeking a legislative pardon for Tom Mooney, the convicted San Francisco Preparedness Day bomber, moved to the state senate in Sacramento with little chance of passage after being approved 45 to 28 in the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Cal
U.R
Tom Mooney
San Francisco
State Senate
House of Representatives
Killed by Playmate in Cleveland Incident
A 14 year old, Joseph Filan Qgan, was fatally wounded by a companion, Emerson Webster, during a playtime incident in Cleveland. Authorities report the boys were playing when the tragedy occurred and no further details are available.
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Cleveland
Joseph Filan
Qgan
Emerson Webster
Rebel Troops Prepare for Crucial Battle
Franco moves 21 000 Nationalist troops with tanks and artillery toward Madrid from the northeast. Forces capture Brihuega and Torija as Moorish cavalry and mechanized units push Loyalist defenders across a 30 mile front. Terrain favors the insurgents in the looming clash near Guad alajara.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendaye
Francisco Franco
Guadalajara
Madrid
Brihuega
Torija
Publishing Co Reaches Pact With 950 Pressmen
Springfield based Crowell Publishing Co. officials say they have signed an agreement with 950 union pressmen on hour and wage scales. Details of the contract were not released.
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Springfield
U.P
Crowell Publishing Co
Senate Pays Its Tribute to Allen
Ohio Senate adopts a resolution expressing regret over the death of Capt. J. B. Allen Athens County Civil War veteran. The measure notes Allen's 32 years of public service in Athens County and active public life at county, state and national levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Ohio Senate
Verner H. Metcalf
Washington
J. B. Allen
Athens County
Allen
Parochial Aid Bill Seeks State Funding
The Senate Finance Committee prepared to recommend passage of a bill granting 3.5 million dollars annually to parochial schools. Protestant leaders opposed the measure while Columbus lay leader Thomas J. Duffy defended it, and committee members indicated sufficient votes to advance it at the next meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Finance Committee
Nance Committee
Thomas J. Duffy
Columbus
Hold Ohioans in taxi strike violence case
Police held Donald Forest age 30 described as a former Ohio convict and six others in Chicago amid violence during the taxi drivers strike. The arrests followed clashes among drivers and protestors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Donald Forest
Ohio
U S protest to Berlin over Nazi press slurs
Ambassador William E Dodd in Berlin to day instructed to press the German Foreign Office over anti American and vituperative articles in government controlled papers. The move follows Germanys protest over New York Mayor LaGuardias statue remark and a letter from Mrs Stephen Wise highlighting slurs against American womanhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Berlin
Washington
U.P
William E. Dodd
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York
Adolph Hitler
Germany
Foreign Office
Stephen Wise
American Jewish Conference
Hull
Filling Station Owner Wins Legal Battle Over City Trespass
Earl Milliron wins a permanent injunction against the City of Athens preventing trespass on the filling station property at White's Mill Bridge on W Union St. The decision awards Milliron one dollar in damages and ends an eight month dispute over title dating to 1834 with ties to Ohio University and Gulf Refining Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Milliron
White’s Mill Bridge
W. Union St
Milliron
W. J. Jones
McArthur
Athens
Elmer Tom
Gulf Refining Co
Gordon Gray
Silas Bingham
Ohio University
Former Athens Pastor Albert G. Jenkins Dies at 32
Rev. Albert G. Jenkins former Wesley Foundation pastor at Ohio University died Wednesday in Methodist Hospital Indianapolis from a cerebral hemorrhage. He earlier served two years in Athens and became Wesley Foundation pastor at Indiana University last September. He suffered injuries in a November auto crash returning to Bloomington from Chicago. He leaves a wife and two children. Funeral services will be held in Toledo on Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert G. Jenkins
Wesley Foundation
Ohio University
Methodist Hospital
Indianapolis
Athens
Jenkins
Indiana University
Bloomington
Chicago
Toledo
Frazee to Be Buried Friday Afternoon
Funeral services for Jasper Frazee age 86 former Nelsonville resident who died Tuesday in Athens will be held at Stout's Funeral Home Friday at 2 30 p m Friends may call at the home of his daughter Mrs Edna Deland 53 W Union Athens until 1 p m Friday afternoon
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Nelsonville
Jasper Frazee
Athens
Stout
Edna Deland
W. Union &I
Drunken Juror Fined On Contempt Charge
Los Angeles juror Mary Plettner who became intoxicated during deliberations on the murder case of Helen Villa Love was fined 100 dollars and sentenced to five days in county jail for contempt of court. She offered no defense at the contempt hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
U.P
Mary Plettner
Helen Villa Love
Monkeys Infected At Lincoln Park Zoo Prompt Visitor Ban
Chicago reports a chimpanzee death from influenza and several monkeys with severe colds. Lincoln Park Zoo director Floyd Young bars sniffing visitors to prevent spread, noting primates’ low resistance to human illnesses.
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Chicago
U.R
Floyd Young
Lincoln Park Zoo
Young
Miner Slays Siblings and Wounds Father in Pa
Paul Emerick a 27 year old former coal miner is jailed in Cambria County after killing his brother and sister and seriously injuring his father. Police quoted Emerick saying God Almighty told me to do it and I am only sorry I did not kill father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnstown
U.pa
Paul Emerick
Cambria County
Emerick
Administration tax program hits snag in Ohio Senate
In Columbus the administration’s tax relief push stalls as a Democratic Senate revolt, led by Lt. Gov. Paul P. Yoder, rejects the public assistance bill. The Maxwell Bill consolidating child welfare agencies dies 14 to 18, delaying the Nichols Bill and other poor relief measures. A matching funds clause is added to a permanent relief bill, with total funding set at 11.84 million dollars for 1937 and 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Senate
Paul P. Yoder
Maxwell
House
Verner H. Metcalf
Marietta
U.P
Senate Taxation Committee
International Pact Sought for Textile Working Hours
The Committee for Industrial Organization plans to urge a world textile conference to adopt an international agreement on working hours for textile workers. Britain France Belgium and Czechoslovakia may attend starting April 2. Germany is not expected to send a representative. Francis Gorman of the United Textile Workers cites 55 to 60 hour weeks in the South and pushes for a 35 hour week with an $18 minimum wage as part of a bill for a "little NRA" for textiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.R
Committee For Industrial Organization
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Francis Gorman
United Textile Workers
Congress
Portsmouth Plans Relocation Above Flood Level
Portsmouth moves to resettle families displaced by January flood. Orin Ly Graves, secretary of the Rehabilitation Committee, says the city seeks land above the 1937 flood level and will take options on a site, believed to be Wheelersburg, for housing former residents now living near the Ohio River.
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Portsmouth-Au
Orin Ly Graves
Portsmouth
Ratify Bond Sale for Parkersburg Bridge
Parkersburg City Council approved a contract with Walter Woody and Heimerdinger to issue revenue bonds if a deal with Parkersburg Community Bridge Co. is completed for the Parkersburg Belpre Bridge over the Ohio River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
W. Va
U.P
Parkersburg- Belpre
Ohio River
Walter, Woody and Heimerdinger
Cincinnati
Parkersburg Community Bridge Co
Hummell Sees Support for Milk Marketing Commission Bill
Rep EB Hummell of Fairfield says the House agriculture committee has enough support to vote out a bill creating a milk marketing commission. The measure aims to regulate distribution and fix prices for produce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
EB. &. Hummell
Fairfield
House Agriculture Committee
Fire breaks out in fireman’s basement home
Cleveland Oklahoma Fire Department reports firefighter Howard L Byerley had a day off when a basement blaze started at his residence. Local crews responded quickly and contained the fire with no injuries reported.
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Cleveland
Howard L. Byerley
Congressional Economizing Is New Deal Aim
Congress plans an economy drive to restrict new government expenditures not in the President's budget. Leaders aim to keep total appropriations within about 100 million dollars of Roosevelt's recommendations and to limit relief funding while pigeonholing new spending measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
President Roosevelts Vacation Sends Court Fight To Aides
President Roosevelt departs for a two week rest in Warm Springs Georgia leaving administration lieutenants to push the plan to enlarge the U S Supreme Court before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He will travel by special train to his cottage, maintaining close contact with Washington for reports on hearings and reactions to his broadcasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Judiciary Committee
Homer S. Cummings
Supreme Court
Sen
Borah
Idaho
Henry F. Ashurst
Ariz
Matthew M. Neely
W. Va
Pat McCarran
Nev
Washington
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
U. S. Supreme Court
Senate Committee
French Cruisers to Protect Merchant Ships in Mediterranean
Toulon France United Press report says light cruisers were sent to safeguard French merchantmen on Mediterranean routes after the Djebel Antar was machine gunned and bombed. The ship’s master reported no injuries among 12 passengers and 46 crew despite near miss by a bomb and low altitude attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toulon
France
U.P
Djebel-Antar
Reo Sit-Down Strike Marks First in Company History
Detroit report details a sit-down strike at the Reo Motor Car Company in Lansing, the first since its 33 years of operation. Governor Murphy hopes for peaceful settlement as Hudson and Chrysler strikes widen, with CIO and UAW action affecting 75,000 Detroit workers and court petitions pending. Strikers control Reo gates, and the plant remains closed with employees paid in full if no concessions are won.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Frank Murphy
Florida
Reo Motor Car Company
Lansing
Murphy
Hudson
Chrysler
General Motors Corporation
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
U.A.W
Allen Campbell
Reo Company
United Automobile Workers Union
Donald E. Bates
Reo
Bates
U.A.W.A
American Federation of Labor
Operators and Union Resume Coal Parleys
Ten men, five to a side, met in New York to draft a new two year wage hour contract for Appalachian soft coal. John L. Lewis and the miners policy committee defended union demands against five operators from the scaie committee led by Charles O Neill. The joint committee was reduced from about 25 to a smaller group after discussing all contract phases. A tentative agreement would go to ratification by about 150 miners and 150 operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
U.P
Appalachian
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Scaie
Charles O’neill
Alabama Votes Repeal Ends 22 Year Prohibition
Alabama voters approve repeal by 89 764 to 79 655 ending 22 years of prohibition. The state joins Georgia Tennessee Kansas Mississippi and Oklahoma as remaining dry states in the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
U.P
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Kansas
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Rabies Illness Follows Dog Bite in Columbus Case
Timothy Carey aged 41 is critically ill in Columbus after being bitten by a stray dog on February 22. Doctors diagnose rabies and monitor his condition as authorities investigate the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Timothy Carey
Hiram College mock constitutional convention votes
Students at Hiram College with 425 delegates from each state staged a realistic mock convention. The body voted 160 to 2 against the Roosevelt court plan and adopted amendments on marriage and divorce laws sterilization and birth control information, plus a child labor amendment and resources control. Proposals for war referendum and a wage hour amendment failed to pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collegians
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Congress
Riot Squads Assigned In California Strike
Police riot squads were placed on 24 hour duty without relief in Alameda to quell further violence at the California Packing Corporation after an hour long clash Wednesday night left 13 people seriously injured. A 300 strong crowd clashed with officers protecting 20 auto loads of non union workers as workers left the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alameda
Calif
U.P
California Packing Corporation
Radio Monopoly Claim Voiced in House Hearing
Chairman William P. Connery of the House labor committee told the House rules committee that a radio monopoly exists and that the three major broadcasting chains are controlled by power companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William P. Connery
House Labor Committee
House Rules Committee
River Town Votes To Move to Hills
Ninety percent of the 450 families voted to relocate the Ohio River town to the adjacent hills to prevent a future flood catastrophe. N C Wilsm of the Red Cross announced today.
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Unlon
Ohio River
N.C. Wils
The
Red Cross
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HIRAM
College
California
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Hills
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