France Faces New Governmental Crisis Amid House Split
In Washington and amid a split House, administration forces push for a government reorganization bill while two amendments threaten its scope. Debates focus on keeping a civil service commission, preserving the comptroller general’s independence, and extending classified civil service to most federal employees. Rayburn expresses confidence the bill will pass as O’Connor vows remaining opposition.
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Washington
Administration
House
Rayburn
Senate
Texas
Special Reorganization Committee
O'Connor
Registration of Jobless Dropped in Ohio
Columbus April 8 The emergency registration of Ohio unemployed aimed at early unemployment insurance benefit payments has been abandoned due to lack of public interest. Charles S. Leasure, chairman of the unemployment compensation commission, said only 7,000 of about 200,000 eligible registered, as many expected benefits not to begin before 1939 and deemed registration a waste of time.
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Columbus
Ohio
Charles S. Leasure
Ohio Unemployment Compensation Commission
Seek Passage Of Tax Bill By Nightfall
Senate leaders moved to pass the revenue bill by nightfall after minimal objections from Senator Barkley. Changes approved include replacing the undistributed profits tax with a flat 18 percent corporate rate and setting a flat 15 percent capital gains rate, with conference committee likely to reinsert some form of profits tax. A 25-cent liquor tax hike and a pork poundage proposal were notable items considered or rejected.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
House
Finance Committee
Bricker Blasts Davey In Ashtabula Speech
Former Ohio Attorney General John W Bricker told Ashtabula County Republicans that relief problems could be solved if the state government were run efficiently economically and honestly He criticized Gov Martin L Davey for raising pensions before the election and lowering them afterward stating the issue in a pointed political address.
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Ashtabula, O
Atty
John W
Bricker
Ashtabula County
Ohio
Martin L. Davey
Senate foes seek defense-only Navy expansion clause
Senate opponents of the billion dollar Naval expansion bill plan to insert a policy clause limiting the enlarged Navy to national defense uses only. Senator Nye of North Dakota urged the bill declare the United States not seeking aggressive war but defense.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Nye
R-Nd
Indicted in wife slaying at Centerburg home
Knox County Grand Jury indicted Fred Mosley a 45 year old World War veteran for first degree murder in the March 31 slaying of his wife whose battered body was found in their Centerburg home.
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Mount Vernon
Knox County Grand Jury
Fred Mosley
Centerburg
Relief funds budget tallied for Ohio counties
State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson said Ohio and its counties may need 15 to 16 million dollars more in 1938 to avert a relief breakdown. Based on relief expert O P Van Scheik's study, 21 distressed counties used 6.77 million of 11.58 million by March, leaving 4.8 million for nine months.
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Columbus
Ohio
Joseph T. Ferguson
Ohio League of Municipalities
Ferguson
O. P. van Scheik
Ashio League of Municipalities
Martin L. Davey
General Assembly
Move To Complete TVA Probe Board Move To Complete TVA Probe Board
Vice President Garner sought assurances for Senate acceptances before nominating a final member to the ten person TVA probe panel. He reportedly considered Senator Davis of Pennsylvania for the vacancy. Three appointees, including one Republican, said they would accept. Earlier, Schwartz and five House members had already accepted.
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Washington
Garner
Congressional Committee
Tennessee Valley Authority
Davis
Donahey
Ohio
Brown
Frazier
Schwartz
Wye
House
Prosecutor Receives Evidence Tying Carney and Judy
Franklin County prosecutor Ralph J. Bartlett received evidence linking two former state securities division officials Edwin Judy and Edward T. Carney to profits from stock sales approved by the division. Governor Davey ordered the data turned over to the courts as a grand jury convenes April 18. A division chief argued the material raises possible illegal acts by Judy Carney and Elmer Vossler of Findlay, with potential state losses from unsafe securities.
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Columbus
Franklin County
Ralph J. Bartlett
State Securities Division
Martin L. Davey
Dan T. Moore
Edwin Judy
Edward T. Carney
Bartlett
Moore
Judy
Carney
Elmer Vossler
Findlay
Ohio
FDR seeks larger aid funds as RFC loans face opposition
President Roosevelt said his next year’s work relief budget would rise beyond a billion dollars though he did not specify a figure. He noted a new public works plan was under review with possible long term municipal loans at zero interest. Senator Wheeler challenged the plan, warning RFC loans could bail out railroads and big business, but leaders expect swift passage of the RFC bill to the White House.
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Civil Service Commission
Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
RFC
Wheeler
D-Mont
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate
White House
Funeral services planned for Henry Stratton auto dealer
Nelsonville today prepares for funeral services for Henry Stratton 46 a well known automobile dealer who died Wednesday in a Columbus hospital after an operation. He was born in Or biston and previously ran an auto agency at Murray City with brothers Cash and Charles who survive. He leaves his wife Audrey Hellyer Stratton a son Joe Bob another brother Carl Kirksville Mo and sister Mrs Mae Wilson Nelsonville.
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Nelsonville
Henry Stratton
Columbus
Stratton
Ephraim Stratton
Orbiston
Murray City
Cash
Charles
Audrey Hellyer Stratton
Joe Bob
Carl
Man smothered when house slips on mover near Avon Lake
Louis Heilman of Cleveland was crushed to death in Lorain when a house he was moving fell from jacks and pressed his face into soft earth at Avon Lake. The incident occurred yesterday, and Heilman died at the scene.
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Lorain, O
Louis Heilman
Cleveland
Avon Lake
Pioneers Relax and Prep Pageant at 150th Anniversary
Marietta Ohio hosts a week long 150th anniversary celebration of the first Northwest settlement with a reenactment flotilla by 37 college youths and a pageant titled Freedom on the March. Tonight the Pioneers present the pageant followed by the 150th Anniversary Ball, with speakers including Charles Sawyer of Cincinnati and Rep. Thomas R. Jenkins.
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Marietta
Charles Sawyer
Cincinnati
Thomas R. Jenkins
Ohio
Storms Flood Kill 23 Across Georgia and Alabama
In Whitestone, Georgia a store washed away by a flood killed thirteen people who slept inside. Included were Mr and Mrs F B Conner eight Conner children Carl Lindsey 22 and two visitors Thelma and Bonnie Ponder. In Aliceville Alabama the toll rose to at least ten from yesterday’s tornado as storms pounded the Alabama Mississippi line with rain floods and icy temps causing wide devastation.
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Jasper
J H. Dilbeck
Atlanta Journal
Whitestone
Dilbeck
F. B. Conner
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama-Mississippi
Aliceville
Rebels Claim New Victories Across Spain and China
Associated Press reports Galician insurgents seized Mount Turmell near a coastal corridor southwest of Barcelona, with a view of Vinarez and Tortosa nearby. In China, German-trained divisions entered southern Shantung to secure a Chinese win at Taierhchwang and slow the Japanese advance toward the Yangtze valley.
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Spain
Mediterranean
China
Shantung
Ed Lofty Mount Turmell
Barcelona
Shantung Province
Taierhchwang
Tientsin-Pukow
Yangtze Valley
Slayer Sought In Southwestern Ohio
Cincinnati police sought a slayer after Arthur Rowland a 29 year old musician from Weirton West Virginia was killed. A suspect described as 25 to 30 years old with a brown sweater coat light breeches and moccasin boots was seen hitchhiking south on route 22 near Zanesville where Rowland's abandoned car was found.
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Cincinnati
Arthur Rowland
Weirton
W. Va
Ohio
Zanesville
Emmett D. Kirgan
London, O
Rowland
Logan Daily News Adds Saturday Edition For Weekend Coverage
Logan Daily News announces a new Saturday edition to bridge the Friday Monday gap. The paper promises up to date weekend news and a more complete service beginning tomorrow for readers in Logan.
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Logan Daily News
Blum Resigns as Money Bill Is Voted Down
Paris dispatch reports Premier Leon Blum announced his government’s resignation after the Senate rejected his bill to grant dictatorial powers over French finances. The move comes amid leftist demonstrations and metallurgical strikes backed by the powerful labor confederation.
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Blum
Paris
Leon Blum
Senate
France
Elysee Palace
Lebrun
General Confederation of Labor
Exhume body of slain officer in Ohio case
Zanesville Ohio April 8 AP authorities seeking to solve the autumn slaying of state highway patrolman George Conn exhumed his body for an autopsy. Dr BE R Brush city health officer said the body was taken from Greenwood cemetery to a hospital for X rays then to an undertaker where two bullets were removed before reburial last night.
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Zanesville
George Conn
BE. R. Brush
Greenwood Cemetery
Orum
Brush
Crum
Conn
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