Bricker Accepts Major Pension Fund Cut in Budget Bill
Columbus reports House leaders expect Governor Bricker to approve the removal of the entire 2 096 000 public employes retirement fund appropriation from the general bill to trim about 4 000 000 off total expenditures versus the governors recommendation. Ballard argues the cut will not affect counties or cities while Bangham notes the bill covers old age pensions school costs and deficits.
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Columbus
House of Representatives
Bricker
House
Senate
Paul Ballard
Jackson
Ballard
R. R. Bangham
Clinton
House Finance Committee
Ting
Bricker and Schorr Clash On Graft Bill
Gov. John W. Bricker defends the Culp anti graft bill against criticism from Republican State Chairman Ed D. Schorr who urged delay. Bricker says the measure is badly needed to punish schemes defrauding the state. The bill passed the House weeks ago and faced Senate delay. Bricker urges swift passage.
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Columbus
U.P
John W. Bricker
Ed D. Schorr
Schorr
House
Senate
College Ripper Bill Approved in Ohio Finance Committee
The House Finance Committee unanimously recommended passage of a bill to abolish the current Wilberforce University board of trustees and form a new one with greater state representation. The measure, originally by Rep. Chester Gillespie, would expand governor appointees to six and church appointees to three. An amendment lets President D O Walker retain ex officio status with voting power.
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Columbus
W.pi
House Finance Committee
Ripper
Normal and Industrial Departments
Wilberforce University
Chester K. Gillespie
Cuyahoga
D. O. Walker
Methodist Church
Our
Church
British Rulers Arrive In American Waters
QUEBEC UP The liner Empress of Australia entered the St. Lawrence River today bringing their majesties for a 30 day tour. The revised program at sea will enable Daniel Caoe new United States Minister 730 a m at Wolfe s
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Quebec
St. Lawrence River
Daniel Caoe
United States
A. m
Wolfe
Ohio WPA Reductions Cut Jobs to 210 000
Ohio WPA rolls fall to 210000 after a 15000 cut in workers with another 15000 slated for June to meet the national WPA budget. Congress has not yet appropriated funds for the next year. peak WPA employment reached 286822 last October.
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Columbus
Works Progress Administration
Ohio
WPA
Congress
Columbus Judge Harold Kime Dies After Short Illness
Common Pleas Judge Harold L. Kime, 39, died of a brain tumor in Columbus today, four and a half months after his elevation to the Franklin County bench.
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Columbus
Common Pleas
Harold L. Kime
Franklin County
Butler University appoints Daniel S. Robinson as president
Indiana University philosophy head Dr. Daniel Sommer Robinson accepts the presidency of Butler University in Indianapolis. The longtime professor takes the helm after ten years leading Indiana University philosophy.
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Butler
Indianapolis
Ind
Daniel Sommer Robinson
Indiana University
Butler University
Witnesses Testify To Drug Smuggling At Ohio Penitentiary
Civil Service hearing on Warden James C. Woodard's dismissal heard Capt Eugene MacMurray testify that convict Jay La Roye passed morphine and marijuana to guard Arthur J. Miller behind the Protestant Chapel. James Clark, another guard, said liquor was bought inside the prison and that Woodard showed little backing for guards.
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Ohio Penitentiary
Clark
Woodard
UMW Wins in West Virginia
The United Mine Workers of America achieved a state wide contract as the Kanawha Coal Operators Association joined the Appalachian agreement. The association signed after adopting a resolution declaring it would be economic death by own action to resist union demands while other mining interests continued operating. The Kanawha group had dissented from the New York agreement signed last Saturday.
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Charleston
W. Va
Tu.p
West Virginia
United Mine Workers of America
Kanawha Coal Operators’ Association
Kanawha Association
New York
Noted Doctor Skeptical Of Childs Motherhood
Dr Morris Fishbein editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association doubted the report of a birth to Lina Medina a five year old Indian girl of Lima Peru. Speaking at the medical association convention in St Louis he said such a birth is biologically impossible.
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ST. Louis
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Lina Medina
Lima
Peru
The
Medical Association
Michigan Athletes Back Open Athletic Subsidization
About fifty University of Michigan varsity athletes signed a letter to The Michigan Daily endorsing open subsidization at the university and in the Big Ten. A football player circulated the petition noting little opposition among Michigan athletes to an intelligent subsidization program.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
U.P
University of Michigan Today
Big Ten
Michigan Daily
Michigan
Conservative Tax Plan Seeks End to Corporate Surplus Levy
Senate financing chair Pat Harrison proposes repealing the undistributed corporate surplus tax as part of a conservative program. The plan aims to shield small businesses and could raise about 1.3 billion dollars, but President Roosevelt objects that it would penalize small firms. A White House meeting yielded no concrete progress and further talks were urged to resolve tax policy before 1940.
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Washington
White House
Pat Harrison
Miss
Senate Financing Committee
Roosevelt
Congress
Harrison
House
Senate
Robert L. Coughton
N. C
Ways and Means
Wallace Hikes Allotment on Wheat Crops
Secretary Henry Wallace set the 1940 wheat acreage allotment at 62 million, up 7 million from 1939, due to expected reduced supplies from a 1939 crop near 704 million bushels. He said marketing quotas would not be proclaimed as the supply seems about 47 million bushels below the quota referendum trigger.
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Washington
U.P
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Snite Sails to Lourdes Pilgrimage on Normandie
Fred B. Snite Jr., 28, seriously ill with infantile paralysis and confined to a mechanical respirator for three years, departs New York aboard the Normandie tonight for a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Miracles of Our Lady of Lourdes, France.
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Fred B. Snite, Jr
Chicago
France
Lourdes
Snite
New York
Normandie
Our Lady of Lourdes
Miami Co Ed Reported Missing Since April 27
Mr and Mrs Elmer Wittenbrink of New reported today that their daughter Marguerite 18 has been missing since April 27. She left Miami University Oxford and was last seen in Dayton late in the afternoon of the same day. She is described as medium blonde hair grey eyes 5 9 and a half inches tall 125 pounds.
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Wapakoneta
U.P
Elmer Wittenbrink
New
Marguerite
Miss Wittenbrink
Miami University
Oxford
Dayton
Russia asks England for binding pact in European front
The British cabinet faces pressure to form a broader anti aggression front with Soviet Russia. Moscow demands a stronger collective security pact and warns London as no decision on full cooperation is made. Germany and Italy plan declarations as Franco prepares a grande victory parade in Madrid with foreign troops to withdraw after.
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Russia
Europe
Neville Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Poland
Rumania
Britain
France
Moscow
London
Vladimir Potemkin
Geneva
Adolf Hitler
Galeazzo Ciano
Berlin
Hitler
Germany
Rhineland
Benito Mussolini
Warsaw
Wladimir Celewicz
Celewicz
Czechoslovakia
Spain
Francisco Franco
Madrid
Widow of Judge Is Killed in Collision
Mrs. Marrietta West aged 57 widow of Federal Judge Samuel H. West and an author and club leader died from injuries after an automobile collision at Peck's Corners Crossroads hamlet five miles west of Chardon. She suffered a fractured skull and broken ribs and died shortly after being taken to Huron road hospital.
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Cleveland
Marrietta West
Samuel H. West
Peck’s Corners
Chardon
WPA Beauty Parlor at State Hospital Sparks Probe
Federal Works Progress Administration investigations reveal a planned beauty parlor in the Cleveland State Hospital for the Insane. WPA officials say the project, intended to train patients and employ six beauticians, has not been approved.
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WPA
State Asylum
Washington
Federal Works Progress Administration
Ohio
George J. Shillito
House
Shillito
Robert R. Wright
Cleveland
Cleveland State Hospital
Columbiana County
East Liverpool
C.C.C
Canton, O
Board of Education
Roosevelt vows veto of wage act amendment changes
President Roosevelt signals he will veto any amendments broadening exemptions in the wage hour act. Rep. Mary T Norton who leads the House Labor committee says the president would not accept drastic changes. Norton withdrew a motion to let the House consider her amendments without alteration.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Capitol
Mary T. Norton
N. J
Norton
House Labor Committee
Mother's Day killing spurs motive search. Meeker arraigned
Mrs. Violet Meeker 34, mother of five, confessed to killing her mother Pearl Holt 57 after a money dispute and another undisclosed issue. She told Mayor George Dustman she planned to shoot her father too and remained uncaringly unrepentant at county jail. Meeker faces first degree murder charges.
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Bucyrus
U.P
Pearl Holt
Violet Meeker
George Dustman
Full Work Forces Return to District Mines
Kimberly Carbondale and Congo Mines in the district resumed operations with full forces after the old contract ended March 31. Goose Run and Riddle Coal Co. properties also reported workers returning. Millfield No 6 plans to resume on Wednesday.
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Nelsonville
Kimberly, Carbondale
Congo
Goose Run Coal Co
Riddle Coal Co
Millfield No. 6
Mother of Three Killed by Accidental Gun Discharge
Mrs Harold Hansen aged 25 mother of three was killed when a loaded gun fell from behind a door and discharged as she cleaned her kitchen on a farm south of Bellevue The incident was reported by U P The three year old daughter Mary Jane called her father from a field after the death in the home.
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Bellevue
U.P
Harold Hansen
Mary Jane
Hansen
Here
Steel operations rise at Republic Steel in Youngstown
Republic Steel Corp opened an additional open hearth furnace boosting production in the valley to a 43 percent operating rate today.
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Youngstown
U.P
Republic Steel Corp
Reopening of Bell County mines despite picket lines
Brig. Gen. Ellerbe Carter ordered National Guardsmen into Bell County to guard Kentucky Cardinal Coal Corp and Southern Mining Co mines as 17 of 42 Bell and Harlan mines resumed operations on a non union basis. Guards blocked roads amid peaceful union picketing and no violence reported.
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Bell County
Harlan
Ellerbe Carter
Kentucky County
Harlan County
Kentucky Cardinal Coal Corp
Southern Mining Co
Insull
Bell Counties
Martin Green
Carter
National Guard
A. B
Happy) Chandler
Frankfort
United Mine Workers Union
Lewis brands Chandler Madman and calls for federal probe
John L. Lewis labeled Governor Chandler a madman and urged a federal investigation into the use of national guardsmen to reopen Harlan County coal mines. Chandler defended the troops as protecting workers' right to work and said Kentucky would handle its affairs.
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Philadelphia
A. B
Happy) Chandler
John L. Lewis
Harlan County
Happy
Chandler
United Mine Workers
Alben W. Barkley
Congress of Industrial Organizations
United Textile Workers
U. S. Treasury
Lewis
Union
Frankfort
Kentucky
Harlan
Washington
United Mine Workers Labie
Swedish Flyer Leaves On Atlantic Solo Flight
Swedish flyer Charles Backman departed Botwood Airport bound for Landskrona Sweden in a Lambert monoplane with 90 horsepower. Backman resides at Stumsnas Ratteick Sweden and began the solo Atlantic crossing from St Johns Newfoundland.
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ST. Johns
New Foundland
Charles Backman
Botwood
Laksand
Sweden
Backman
Stumsnas Ratteick
Senate Panel Backs Draft for Capital in War
The Senate Military Affairs Committee approved a capital conscription bill 12 to 2. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Josh Lee of Oklahoma, calls for drafting capital on the same basis as men if war occurs.
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Washington
U.P
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Josh Lee
Okla
Cornell College names Dr. John B Magee president
Mt Vernon Iowa Dr John Benjamin Magee pastor of the First Methodist Church Seattle Washington today was named president of Cornell College He will succeed Dr H J Burgstahler who was elected president of Ohio Wesleyan last November.
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MT. Vernon
Iowa
U.P
John Benjamin Magee
First Methodist Church
Seattle
Waek
Cornell College
H. J. Burgstahler
Ohio l Wesleyan
Fight Injuries Fatal to Potter Palmer in Sarasota
Sarasota reports Potter O Orsay Palmer 34 died after a barbecue brawl injuries last Thursday. Widow Pluma Louise Abatiello Palmer is named heir to a 5 million estate. Nosworthy allegedly struck Palmer with a fist after a beer bottle incident.
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Sarasota
Fla
Florida
Pluma Louise Abatiello Palmer
Potter O’orsay Palmer
Palmer
Kenneth Nosworthy
Honore Palmers
Labor Dispute Closes Detroit Plant
A labor dispute forced the Hudson Motor Car factory to close leaving 5,500 workers idle. Officials say the plant was shut by the company after a reduction in force caused a slow-down on the assembly line.
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Detroit
Hudson Motor Car
United Automobile Workers
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Attempts To Shoot Gas Well On Taggart Farm Fails
Thirty quarts of nitroglycerin were lowered 4400 feet into the Taggart farm gas well near Rolandus but did not explode. A Monday evening bomb of three quarts exploded without triggering the main charge. The device was not at the bottom of the well and further attempts were planned.
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Pomeroy
Taggart Farm
Rolandus
House approves bill to bar Bergdoll from return
The House passed a bill by Rep. Forest Harness to bar Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, a World War draft dodger, from reentering the United States as he plans to serve his sentence. The measure now goes to the Senate for action.
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House
Washington
U.P
Senate
Forest A. Harness
Ind
Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll
United States
Boy Dies of Rare Blood Disease in Parkersburg
Lester Harmon aged 12 died here yesterday from myelogenous leukemia a rare blood disease that baffled doctors.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
P— Lester Harmon
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Lenarue
American
UMW
Miami
England
United Press
Prexy
Potter Palmer
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