Ohio Tax Dilemma Deepens As Legislature Delays Plan
In Columbus the legislature struggles to craft a revenue program meeting both houses. Governor White's joint session appearance fails to shift blame, while a 0.5 percent gross receipts tax plan tied to an $18 million yield faces weak support. Senate votes on a mothers pensions appropriation and tax collection reforms proceed amid caucus boycotts and uncertain gains.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
White
Senate
Gungett, van Wert
Taxation Committee
Marty
House to Call Wirt Over Red Plot in Special Probe
Washington March 29 The House Rules Committee approved a resolution to bring Dr Liam A Wirt before a special investigating committee and compel him to reveal his red plot claims Democratic Leader Joseph Wine warned that failure to name informants could lead to contempt citations. Wirt alleges President Veils brain trust boasted of thwarting the re pvety program to publish a Communist regime. The House itself was expected to act on the investigation resolution.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Liam A. Wirt
Joseph Wine
Indiana
Ator
Wirt
Veils
Brain Trust
House
Letter From Mary May Make Fairbanks Happy
London dispatch says K Kitchen an American newspaperman left Paris by air to Barcelona to inform actor Douglas Wks of a possible reconciliation with his estranged wife Marg Ard. The report notes the development could ease their tangle and please Fairbanks.
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Mary
Fairbanks
London
U.R
The
Daily Express
K. Kitchen
Paris
Barcelona
Douglas Wks
Margard
Must Reorganize To Bid
U S reaction to Postmaster General Farley’s plan to let bids soon for mail service by private airlines triggered debate. The order demands a drastic reorganization of airlines to regain the air mail role, with lines considering their stance in the ongoing bitter controversy.
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Farley
Lines
Washington
U.2
Gener James A Farley
Deprive Einstein of German Citizenship
Berlin report states Professor Finstein, a noted scientist, has been deprived of German citizenship by order of Interior Minister Dr. Wilhelm F. Bek. The action follows a government decree issued in March.
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Einstein
Berlin
U.P
Finstein
Wilhelm F. Bek
Two Meigs Townships Get April Relief Work Program
Salisbury and Sutton Townships will receive about 200 jobs under the Works Division of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration after the Civil Works program ends. April budgets total 5,900 for work and 9,089 for direct relief with projects on riverbank parking lots in Pomeroy and street work in Middleton.
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Pomeroy
Salisbury
Sutton Townships
Works Division
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Henry Corradini
Civil Works Program
State Relief Commission
Ohio River Bank
Pearl and
Grant Streets
Middleport
Corradini
Sutton
Morgantown Mother Kills Children Then Self in Tragedy
Police investigate a theory that 35 year old Mabel Fawley shot her son Harold 13 and daughter Margaret 11 in the Morgantown home before her body was found under the front porch. Authorities say she attempted to enter a furnace, drank disinfectant, slashed her wrists, then jumped from the porch roof.
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Mabel
Fawley
O. B. Fawey
Harold
Margaret
Morgantown
State Opens Drive on Dangerous Crossings
The Ohio state highway department will launch a grade crossing improvement program in central Ohio. Work focuses on Franklin Delaware Union Marion Madison Fayette Morrow and Pickaway Counties including a major upgrade at the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing on Route 36 in Union County south of Marysville.
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Columbus
State Highway Department
Ohio
Franklin
Delaware
Union
Marion
Madison
Fayette
Morrow
Pickaway
Union County
Marysville
German sets glider record in 14 loops
German pilot Wolf Hirth achieved a world gliding record in Buenos Aires on March 20 by performing 14 looping maneuvers. The feat was hailed as a record for sustained looping, reflecting advancements in aviation sport.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Woilf Hirth
Girl 9 Near Death After Farm Shooting
Luella Lengros, 9, lies near death in a Cincinnati hospital amid Brown County inquiries into a shooting at the family farm home near Mt. Crab Ohio. Police hold stepfather Harvey Becraft, 21, while the mother claims accidental self-inflicted wound by the girl.
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Cincinnati
Luella Lengros
Brown County
Lonely Farm
Mt. Crab, O
Fiva Becraft
Harvey Becraft
Becraft
Man O War At 17 Receives Special Hug And Dinner
Lexington report says Man O War, turf champion, turned 17 today. Owner Miss Elizabeth Daingerfield gave the horse a hug and a special dinner while he still did his morning canter on a private track.
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Lexington
U.P
Elizabeth Daingerfield
U.S. Pear and Apple Exporters Lose Out
Paris dispatch reports the ministry of agriculture set a global quota of 6,700 tons for pears and apples for April to June, ending U.S. hopes for a larger allotment. The United States had been allotted 5,000 tons and sought 10,000 in exchange for relaxing restrictions on French wines.
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Paris
U.P
Ministry of Agriculture
United States
Rate Proposal for Appalachian Coal Miners Receives Partial Support
A 35 hour week and a 15 cent daily wage rise for Appalachian bituminous mines were recommended to the wage scale committee, covering Northern Coal Control Association operators. Southern Smokeless and Appalachian mines haven’t agreed. claims of potential field-wide effects grow as major producers including ONeill Peale, Kerr, Morrow, Francis, and Taggart back the plan.
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Washington
Appalachian
United Mine Workers
Northern Coal Control Association
Smokeless and Appalachian
Southern Mine Group
Charles O'Neill
Peale, Peacock and Kerr
J. D. A. Morrow
Pittsburgh Coal Company
James B. Francis
Island Creek Coal Company
Ralph Taggart
Stonega Coal Company
United Mine Worker
John L. Lewis
Phil Murray
Percy Tettlow
Sam A. Bittner
Hugh 8. Johnson
Kenneth Simpson
Six Industries Face Walkout Threats Across U.S. Mills and Plants
A diverse mix of industries from airplanes to soup manufacturing faced strikes or threatened walkouts. Curtis and Consolidated plants in Buffalo saw 2000 workers demand higher wages, while 1100 workers at National Airline and Chemical in Buffalo sought union recognition.
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New York
Curtis and Consolidated
Buffalo
Chemical
National Airline and Chemical Company
Hartford
Campbell Soup Company
Camden
N. J
Missing McArthur Folk Heading for Canada
A letter from Ruth Miller, a 20 year old, postmarked Charlotte North Carolina says she is ready to leave for Canada. The message mentions William Pyke who disappeared the same day, and references his uncle Wesley Pyke who vanished later. The trio’s disappearance remains unresolved two weeks after the events.
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McArthur
Ruth Miller
Charlotte
N. C
Canada
William Pyke
Pyke
Wesley Pyke
New Taxes To Raise Funds For Veterans Pay Increases Sought
Plans to transfer the Civil Works Administration to the Works Division of the State Relief Commission advance. The state divides into five districts with disbursing centers in Cleveland Cincinnati Cambridge Dayton and Toledo. All counties except nine join the works relief plan with a 32000 employee cap and minimum 825,000 for each county. Direct relief allocations remain for all counties. Nine counties receive no works relief allotment. CWA employment drops to 6000 tonight, two days later CWA ends, then 32000 workers chosen starting Monday.
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Columbus
U.P
Civil Works Administration
Works Division
State Relief Commission
CWA
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Cambridge
Dayton
Toledo
E. ©. Thaught
Braught
Brown Fulton
Holmes
Madison
Monroe Paulding
Pike
Preble
Union
10 Day Delay In Muskingum Project Seen
Ohio Legislature faces at least a 10 day delay before approving funds for the Muskingum Conservancy Project. Governor White will not sign appropriation bills until measures funding the project are enacted. An enabling act and a highway relocation bill, both emergency measures, await the governor’s signature. The first sets $2 million for the project, the second allocates $4 million by the highway department.
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Columbus
Muskingum Conservancy Project
Ohio
Highway Department
House
Senate
Once Mighty Martin Insull Sleeps in Jail
Chicago reports Martin J. Insull who once led a vast utilities empire has been jailed on a $944000 theft charge from Middle West Utilities. He awaits bond, may tour Morroco with family if parole allows, while his exiled exile status unfolds. The Turkeybound steamship Matetis, linked to Samuel Insull, nears the Bosporus as extradition efforts continue.
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Samuel Insull
Athens
Chicago
Insull
United States
Tin J. Insull
Samuel
Ineull
Illinois
Morocco
Ind
William Rafferty
Instanbul
Turkey
Matetis
Bosporus
Persia
If It's a Revolution It’s a Peaceful One Roosevelt Says
Roosevelt says if there has been a revolution since the New Deal it has been peaceful. He disputes charges of Fascism or Communism and affirms the policy is nonviolent, constitutional, and aimed at preserving traditional institutions and fair treatment for all.
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Roosevelt
New York
U.P
William A. Wirt
Brain Trust
Kerensky
Ing
Refunder Bill Again Defeated In Ohio House
The bond refunding bill was defeated for the second time in the Ohio House as a conference committee report was voted down. The measure would have let financially stressed cities postpone debt payments by refunding bonds and tap sinking funds for operations. Key Cleveland figures Taft Zoul Cassidy and Lawrence led opposition to passage.
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Columbus
March
Ohio House of Representatives
Conference
Wee
Cuyahoga County
Taft
Zoul
Cassidy
Lawrence
Cleveland
House
Clothing Workers Win 25 Percent Pay Rise in Cleveland
Five hundred members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union of America in contract shops in Cleveland receive a 25 percent wage increase. Union manager Berry Peppercorn announced the raise and predicted further raises for non contract shops soon.
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Cleveland
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union of America
Bery Peppercorn
Peppercorn
Funeral services for H. B. Harmon in Chillicothe
H. B. Harmon aged 82 in Chillicothe receives funeral services today. Harmon was noted as the last local person known to have personally met President Lincoln.
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Chillicothe
H. B. Harmon
Lincoln
Goldfish Bowl Draw Shades on NRA Censorship
Washington reports the famous "goldfish bowl" used by Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson to shield NRA from reporters is being discarded as recovery administration issues orders. Public information will go through the public relations department and direct information to reporters is to be avoided.
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Washington
Hugh 8. Johnson
NRA
Recovery Administration
United Press
Alvin Brown
Congress Not F D Should Go Fishing Says Will Rogers
Will Rogers argues that Congress and not Franklin D. Roosevelt should go fishing to test how to run the country. He mocks lawmakers’ expertise and predicts college graduates would need interpreters to understand them. He cites Hoover visiting Florida as an example of poor electoral turnout.
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Congress
F. D
Will Rogers
Democrats Plan August Primary Candidacy Meeting
Prominent Democrats from Athens County will meet at the Lincoln Street party headquarters next Wednesday night April 4 at 7 30 to select Democratic candidates for county offices for the August primary. D A Bardin, county executive chair, said no endorsements will be made and a Democratic Victory Dinner will be held August 29 with Governor White invited. The committee has approved liquor store appointees Vic Kierce, Clarence E Fults, and William Welsch.
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Athens County
Lincoln Street
D. A. Rardin
Rardin
Athens
White
Ohio
County Central Committee
Bardin
Vickierce
Clarence E Fults
William Welsch
Arsa
Rardinwald
Department to press 300 more tax evasion cases
The Department of Justice under Attorney General Homer Cummings said 300 additional income tax evasion cases are being prepared. The cases vary in size and are not yet ready for grand juries. No individuals were named. Deficiency assessments were not made against several noted figures when actions began weeks ago.
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Department of Justice
Washington
Homer Cummings
Secretary of Treasury
Andrew W. Melion
Thomas W. Widie
Cleveland
Thomas 8. Lamont
J. P. Morgen
James J. Walker
New York
Mrs Emma Chase 79 Dies at Harrisonville
Mrs Emma Chase aged 79 died about 11 o clock Wednesday night at her Harrisonville home. She was preceded in death by husband H C Chase and daughter Nellie French and survived by son Dell Chase at home. Funeral services set for Saturday at 1 30 pm from Harrisonville Presbyterian Church with burial in Wells Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Emma Chase
Harrisonville
H. C. Chase
Nellie French
Dell Chase
Harrisonville Presbyterian Church
Wells Cemetery
Railroad To Take 200 Cars of Luhrig Coal
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced 200 car loads of Luhrig Coal have been contracted. The Luhrig mine lies on the railroad’s main line near Athens. Coal will be delivered as rapidly as possible, say officials.
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Luhrig Coal
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Luhrig Coal Company
Athens
Roosevelt May Seek New Tax Legislation After Veto Override
President Roosevelt may request new tax laws upon returning from a fishing trip to fund the 228 million veteran pay cut increases. House leaders say an override makes it possible for the President to seek immediate revenue measures. Senate and House votes showed strong margins for the veto override.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
House
Joseph W. Byrns
Congress
Byrns
Senate
Mr. Roosevelt
Independent Offices Bill Restores Pay Increases Amid Veto Clash
Congress passes the Independent Offices Bill restoring portions of pay cuts for government workers and veterans. Borah's amendment to keep a 15 percent reduction for higher earners fails. salaries rise to 9000 Feb 1 and 9800 July 1. bill adds 224 million above estimates. The veto override shows a Republican Senate opposition and wide Democratic split.
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William B. Borah
Republican
Idaho
Independent Offices
Ohio NRA To Wield Power
In Columbus and Cleveland officials launched a drive to enforce national recovery codes. W L Coffin, Ohio Recovery Act administrator, led prosecutions of cleaners and dyers for code violations with Assistant Attorney General Donald Hall. Prosecutions will follow in Toledo and court action against oil code violators was promised.
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Columbus
Ohio
W. L. Coffin
Ohio Recovery Act
Cleveland
Donald Hall
Cincinnati
Coffin
Toledo
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