Davey links Bradley to 1934 campaign graft in perjury case
Gov. Martin L. Davey testified as chief witness that Lee Bradley tried to frame Huey Long in 1933 and sought campaign funds in 1934. He said Bradley was paid $500 in 1934 for sales work and denied discussing contributions or commission splits. The trial centered on Bradley’s graft inquiry statements and a New York conference among the men.
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Cleveland
U.P
Martin L. Davey
Lee Bradley
Bradley
Huey Long
Louisiana
Long
Davey
Marvin C. Harrison
Ohio Senate
Davey Tree Expert Co
Neil W. McGill
New York City
L. L. Tremper
General Motors Truck Corporation
21 Bolshevik Prisoners Denounced by Vishinsky
Moscow U P Attorney General Andrew Vishinsky opened the climactic stage of Russia s three year political purge by denouncing 21 Bolshevik leaders as defendants expected to face a Lubianka firing squad this weekend. The prisoners historically held vast power and sat in the box guarded by bayonetted rifles as the mass trial began.
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Moscow
U.P
Andrew Vishinsky
Russia
Minster Man Killed When Car Hits Tree
Joseph Henry Senger 25 of Minster died in a crash as his car left Route 54 and struck a tree in Celina.
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Celina
U.P
Joseph Henry Senger
Minster
Route 54
Used Car Week Ends With Boost to National Business
Used Car Week aims to move thousands of cars from 46 000 dealers stores and into bargain hunters by tomorrow March 12. The mass push is lifting national business as automakers increase production of new cars. Dealers report a splendid effect from one week of activity.
Ohioan Heads New Empire
Virgil H. Effinger of Lima claims to be commander-in-chief of the Patriotic Legion of America. The Toledo News-Bee reports he fights extradition to Michigan on criminal syndicalism and explosion charges tied to his alleged Black Legion links. The group is described as an invisible empire uniting American-born Catholics and Protestants against Negroes Jews and aliens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Toledo News-Bee
Virgil H. Effinger
Lima
New Patriotic Legion of America
Effinger
Michigan
Black Legion
The
News-Bee
Patriotic Legion
Guffey backs Kennedy in Pa Democratic primary
Washington dispatch reports Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania endorses Lt Governor Thomas Kennedy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in the state primary.
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Guffey
Kennedy
Washington
U.P
Joseph F. Guffey
Thomas Kennedy
Pennsylvania
Railroads to Hold Emergency Session Over Rates
Executives of the 26 billion dollar railroad industry convene in Washington to seek quick relief from ICC approved 5 to 10 percent freight rate increases. The Association of American Railroads plans a flat 15 percent boost and warns the industry faces its worst financial condition in history. Southern Railway System already trims payrolls 10 to 15 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Association of American Railroads
Southern Railway System
ICC
Figuli Faces Electric Chair For Killing Detective Cline
Stephen Figuli of Cleveland, a youth in a bandit gang, faced the electric chair after a jury found him guilty of first degree murder in the February 4 gun battle that killed Detective Robert Cline during a $3,500 bank holdup. Two survivors were in the gang.
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Columbus
HUP
Stephen Figuli
Cleveland
Robert Cline
Figuli
Cline
Girl Requests Song From Hospital Bed Amid Recovery Hope
In Kansas City Sylva Davis lies in a hospital with only her head showing above a respirator. She asks nurse Dorothy Regan for a song while awaiting a possible recovery from a risky spinal operation. The nurses and Davis hope the 20 year old may regain movement if the surgery succeeds.
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Kansas City
U.S
Sylva Davis
Toughie
Dorothy Regan
Gan
Hawaii
Regan
Ohio AAA Program Details Soil Building Acre Alotment
Elmer F. Kruse announces Ohio farm program basics for 1938 Soil depleting crops must fit acreage allotments and soil-building goals determine eligibility for payments Farmers receive per acre payments plus per bushel yields for corn wheat and potatoes Tobacco payments based on normal yields and per pound rates Continued on Page 2
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Ohio
Columbus
Elmer F. Kruse
St. Marys
Ohio Agricultural Conservation Committee
Green Studies Militant Bid For United Mine Workers
West Virginia labor leaders debated a militant bid by the AFL to recruit United Mine Workers. William Green urged miners elect their own officers, accusing CIO funds of misuse and pledging AFL policies despite possible conflicts. CIO leaders warned they will tolerate no raids on mineworker membership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green
United Mine Workers
CIO
Charleston
W. Va
U.P
West
Democratic National Committee
A. F. of L
West Virginia Industrial Union Council
John B. Easton
Former School Teacher Dead at 77 on Pleasant Hill Road
Mrs. John H. Allen age 77 died of a heart attack at 10 15 this morning at her Pleasant Hill Road home. She studied at Ohio University, taught in Athens County, and was reared by the Bean family near Hebbardsville after being orphaned. Survived by husband John Allen and three sons Herbert of Los Angeles Si and Wilken Allen at home. Funeral plans pending word from California.
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John H. Allen
Pleasant Hill Road
Allen
Ohio University
Athens County
Hiram Bean
Martin Bean
Hebbardsville
John Allen
Herbert
Los Angeles
Calif
Si Allen
Wilken Allen
California
Bitter Mooney debate continues in California Assembly
In Sacramento the Mooney pardon proposal stalls 37 to 33 after 10 absences. Mooney sat on the speaker's platform pleading innocence in the 22 year old bombing case. Legal authorities say the legislature lacks authority to pardon felons, leaving sponsors to seek a court ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Calif
U.P
Thomas J. Mooney
State Assembly
Mooney
Nurses End Strike At Champaign County Hospital
Seven Champaign County Hospital nurses, on strike since February 28, returned to work in Urbana after an agreement. They will not be penalized for striking but their demand to remove hospital supervisor Miss Ruth Clyburn remains unresolved. William E Heffner, president of the county commissioners board, announced the settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urbana
U.P
Champaign County Hospital
Ruth Clyburn
William E. Heffner
Board of County Commissioners
Roosevelt Convenes TVA Directors to End Quarrel
President Roosevelt convenes the three Tennessee Valley Authority directors in a high level session to resolve a quarrel threatening the New Deal program. outcomes may shape national economic policy and prompt a congressional examination, testing administration authority and TVA leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
New Deal
TVA
State Treasurer Reports 32 Percent Drop in Sales Tax
Columbus Ohio U P State Treasurer Clarence H. Kinsley said sales tax receipts for the week ending Feb 26 fell 271 563 dollars or 32 percent from the 1937 level. For the year to Feb 26 receipts total 5 037 712 dollars versus 6 330 220 dollars in 1937.
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Columbus
U.P
Clarence H. Kinsley
Roosevelt asks two billion to aid water conservation
President Roosevelt urged Congress to approve a six year program to develop and conserve water resources costing 2,111,091,000. The National Resources Committee report splits the cost into 891,091,000 for federal projects and 1,220,000,000 for municipal and state efforts, covering flood control irrigation water power rivers and harbors recreation and wildlife. The plan follows federal outlays of over 1.3 billion in similar work in recent years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Washington
U.P
Congress
National Resources Committee
Ohio
Mississippi Valley
Tennessee Valley Administration
FDR Invited To Marietta Pageant On July 8
The Northwest Territory Celebration Commission moved the Marietta Ohio event date to July 8 to accommodate President Roosevelt. Rep. Robert T. Secrest said the change makes his appearance "almost certain." Georges Bennett, French ambassador, also accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Northwest Territory Celebration Commission
Roosevelt
Marietta
Robert T. Secrest
George White
Commission
Secrest
Georges Bennett
France
Democrat Senator Bernard Donovan Dies in Columbus Hospital
Bernard R. Donovan a 63 year old Democratic Ohio Senate member from Lucas County died in a Columbus hospital after ten days of treatment for stomach hemorrhages He sat on a Senate committee that recently completed a graft investigation in state government Donovan was unmarried and lived with his mother who died in Toledo last Saturday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Bernard R. Donovan
Ohio Senate
Lucas County
Donovan
Senate
Toledo
Senator Seeks Cleveland Honor for Navy Cruiser
Senator Robert Bulkley asks Secretary Swanson to name one of the new U S navy cruisers after the city of Cleveland. The request highlights civic pride and wartime ship naming traditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Robert J. Bulkley
Secretary of Navy
Claude A. Swanson
Cleveland
Flood control programs cost in past four years
The program would cost an average of $200,624,000 annually if the Ohio and Lower Mississippi flood control and TVA programs continued at the same scale for the last four years of the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio and Lower Mississippi
TVA
FDR Calls for Jobs Over Relief in Address
President Roosevelt urged national support for the Community Mobilization for Human Needs while stressing that stability depends on jobs with good pay. He cited millions under 25 who are idle and vowed to provide jobs rather than more relief. The East Room speech was to 400 delegates at the Community Chest anniversary event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
White House
Community Chest Movement
Abduction Sparks Michigan Manhunt for Ruth Hunt
Ruth Warren Hunt, 23, was seized from a Portland hotel restaurant by two men, believed to include her recently divorced husband Sherman Hunt. Sheriff Ross said the pair dragged her to a car after beating her. authorities launched an intensive search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Mich
U.P
Ruth Warren Hunt
Herbert A. Ross
Sherman Hunt
Hunt
Lansing
Kentucky Mountain
Academy Banquet awards gilt dolls to Tracy and Rainer
Spencer Tracy won best actor for Captain Courageous and Luise Rainer won best actress for The Good Earth at the Academy Awards banquet. The Life of Emile Zola won best production. others honored include Schildkraut Brady McCarey Wellman Zanuck Bergen Temple Gable absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer Tracy
Luise Rainer
Hollywood
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Tracy
Eration
Miss Rainer
Warner Brothers
Emile Zola
Joseph Schildkraut
Alice Brady
Chicago
Leo McCarey
William A. Wellman Pena
Robert Carson
Darryl Zanuck
Edgar Bergen
Academy
Shirley Temple
Clark Gable
Nazi Envoy Alarmed By Austrian Plebiscite Tensions
London reports say Britain pressed Germany to avoid intervention as Austrian independence plebiscite loomed. Ribbentrop warned Berlin could intervene to defend ethnic Germans if unrest erupted, amid troop movements near the Brenner Pass and talks with Viscount Halifax.
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London
U.P
Great Britain
Censtral
Europe
Germany
Buskaria
Viscount Halifax
Andre Charles Corbin
France
Brenner Pass
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Halifax
Ribbentrop
Neville Henderson
Berlin
Foreign Office
Austria
Vienna Flare as Nazis Clash Amid Plebiscite Delay
United Press reports fighting spreads to Austria's main cities as supporters of the Nazi and Fatherland Front clash. Chancellor Schuschnigg calls up 10,000 reservists and martial law consideration is shelved. Innsbruck sees the day’s fiercest scenes with 15,000 Nazis against bayoneted police. Over 150 wounded in Vienna Graz and Linz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
U.S
Austria
Kurt Schuschnigg
Innsbruck
United Press
Graz
Linz
Fatherland Front
Mishap Near Marietta Kills One Injures Eight
A sedan carrying eight occupants collided with a truck in Matamoras, 14 miles northeast of Marietta. Orland Edwards, 21, Deacher, driver of the sedan, was killed at the intersection. Eight or nine others were reported injured.
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Marietta
U.P
Matamoras
Here
Orland Edwards
Deacher
Pneumonia Fatal to Civil War Soldier M C Boice
Gallia County obituary notes M C Boice age 91 a Civil War veteran of the 91st Ohio Regiment died at his Ryger home from pneumonia Thursday night He is survived by two children daughter Emma at home and son Lester of Middleport Funeral plans indicate a Sunday service may be held
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William Hoover
Ohio University
Frederick Johnston
Columbus
Denton & Donaldson
Wittenberg and Wooster
Hoover
Ada Ingram
Akron
Arlington
Athens
Gallipolis
M. C. Boice
91St Ohio Regiment
Ryger
Emma
Lester
Middleport
Shenandoah Dirigible Memorial Bids Sought Near Ava Ohio
The Treasury invites bids on a $2,500 Shenandoah memorial to honor 14 crew members who perished in the Shenandoah crash. The memorial will be erected near Ava, Ohio, to commemorate the disaster and its victims.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Ava
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Vishinsky
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Martha
Dains
FDR
Schuschnigg
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