Duffy probes Shaw contract in Ohio fuel dispute
In Columbus Ohio on March 15 AP Attorney General Herbert S Duffy opened a probe into Shaw Transport Inc holder of the liquor haul contract after Governor Davey defended the highways hot mix program The governor denounced graft charges before the senate committee while Duffy ordered a transcript of testimony and signaled possible suit against Shaw if wrongdoing is proven The graft controversy ties to prior testimony that Shaw lacked trucks and paid former holder United Lines Inc a reduced rate The probe also touches on political figures John A Nolan and other party leaders as calls for action rise from lawmakers and Sparks a former highway engineer backs charges of bid collusion by Hot Mixed Bituminous Industries to the state
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Columbus
Herbert S. Duffy
Shaw Transport, Inc
Martin L. Davey
Highway Department
Senate
Shaw Transport
Davey
Liquor Department
Duffy
United Lines, Inc
Shaw
Shaw Company
John A. Nolan
Steubenville
Jefferson County
Verner E. Metcalf
Washington
Finance Group Eyes New Plan
Washington March 15 AP Senate finance committee members considered informally today a proposal to aid small business by downward adjustment of rates in the administration tax bill. Chairman Harrison indicated an attempt might be made to change house approved rates from 12 1 2 to 16 percent tax on firms with a net profit of 25 000 a year. Senator Bailey suggested study of a gross income tax or levy on capital investment to reach large corporations that might escape heavy taxes under the present bill. Sentiment appeared to be solidifying for outright repeal of the undistributed surplus tax, modified by the house.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Harrison
D-Mass
Bailey
D-Nc
House
Epstein completes stock move to Preston Building location
Charles Epstein of the Arcade Shoe Store finished rearranging stock in his new Preston Building space, the former Hansel Bros. dry cleaners. Most stock was moved Saturday night and the store reopened for business yesterday as workmen continued remodeling the room.
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Charles Epstein
Arcade Shoe
Preston
Hansel Bros
Flood waters block many Ohio highways
Overflowing streams in southern Ohio blocked highways after a two day rainfall. State Route 73 between Corwin and Waynesville was closed as Paint Creek and the Scioto River rose. Roads 278, 146, 313, 161 and 37 were reported closed by high water along various counties.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio River
Little Miami
Corwin
Waynesville
Butler County
Paint Creek
Bainbridge
Ross Co
Scioto
Hocking River Falls From Flood Threat in Valley
Cooler weather eased flood threat in the Hocking Valley as the Hocking River slowly dropped from near flood stage today after two days of steady rain. The river remained out of its banks in many upper-valley areas but declined toward noon with more rain forecast tonight and Wednesday.
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Hocking Valley
Hocking
Mulberry St
Counsel Fights For Trusty's Life In Ohio Murder Case
In Elyria Ohio March 15 AP counsel for Edward Hensley charged with first degree murder in the Louise Hornbeck assault slaying called additional witnesses to argue the crime occurred away from the orchard where her body was found. D F Redknell contends the prosecution failed to prove the 19 year old Grafton dentist's assistant was attacked in a lot near her home. Frank Klady a special investigator testified a footprint in the orchard did not match the prison farm trustys overshoes.
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Elyria, O
Edward Hensley
Louise Hornbeck
D. F. Redknell
Grafton
Frank Klady
Prison Farm Trusty
Worthy Nelson Faces First Degree Murder Charge
AP report from Cincinnati notes Worthy Nelson 21 a Works Progress Administration worker held on a first degree murder charge in the fatal shooting of his 76 year old stepfather Robert Whittington at a Mount Carmel area farm home. Nelson allegedly confessed to the shooting as county officer Holtke quoted him saying he would have done more if allowed. Nelson’s mother Emily Whittington 70 was injured when she tried to wrest the weapon from him.
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Cincinnati
Worthy Nelson
Works Progress Administration
William Holtke
Dudley M. Outcast
Nelson
Robert Whittington
Mount Carmel
Holtke
Emily Whittington
Tax deadline tonight in Washington
The government collected several hundred million dollars in income taxes today but exact totals await days of processing. The deadline for filing 1987 income tax returns is midnight tonight, with Treasury aiming for roughly 730 million dollars in this month’s tax receipts.
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Washington
Treasury
Moore assigned to Lancaster as Fairfield pension head replaced
Miss Josephine Justus was removed today as Fairfield county administrator of old age pensions and transferred to the Columbus state office. Ford Pickens, business manager, announced. Ralph Moore of Logan was placed in charge of the Lancaster office pending a new county chief appointment. Justus was bound over to the grand jury on a perjury charge related to an application used for her father George Justus to obtain a state pension.
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Josephine Justus
Fairfield County
Columbus
Ford Pickens
Ralph Moore
Logan
Lancaster
Pickens
Justus
Grand Jury
George Justus
William D. Fink
Miss Justus
Fink
George White
Springfield
Proposal for 120 passenger trans ocean flying yacht
Farmington, N Y March 15 AP A Seversky Aircraft Corporation bid to Pan American Airways for a stainless steel 120 passenger flying yacht to operate between New York and London. The design would cruise at 250 miles per hour at four miles altitude and serve the world’s largest trans oceanic air transport company.
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Farmingdale
N. Y
New York
London
Trans- Oceanic Air Transport Company
Seversky Aircraft Corporation
Pan American Airways
Seversky
Duffy Calls Final Grand Jury to Hear Parole Inquiry
Columbus Ohio March 15 AP Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy said the Franklin County special grand jury investigating the parole system would meet Monday to hear War den James Woodard of Ohio penitentiary. He warned likely funding failure by the legislature would force abandonment of the inquiry.
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Columbus
Herbert S. Duffy
Franklin County Grand Jury
James ©. Woodard
Ohio
Duffy
Eleven on death row in Ohio state prison
Ohio penitentiary heightened its death row count to eleven with the placement of Thomas Williams, 20, a Steubenville synagogue caretaker slaying defendant, in a cell alongside Sam Thomas, 23, Cincinnati, another inmate awaiting execution.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Thomas Williams
Steubenville
Sam Thomas
Cincinnati
British steamer bombed at Tarragona port
Aboard the British steamer Stanwell a seaman was killed and four crew members were wounded when the ship was bombed and set afire in Tarragona Spain. A Danish nonintervention observer was also wounded in the attack reported today by AP.
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Barcelona
Stanwell
Tarragona
Britain to Arm Then Offer Czech Aid
Prime Minister Chamberlain vowed to match Hitler’s armed might before pledging aid to Czechoslovakia. Britain privately signaled possible action if Hitler sought to Germanize the Czech minority while publicly avoiding a formal guarantee. Diplomatic notes went to Goering and Jan Masaryk, with Parliament told Germany might withdraw its army after Austria’s normalization. France pressed for a definite British pledge as Nazis sought to Nazify 3.5 million ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia.
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London
Chamberlain
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Hitler
Austria
House of Commons
Neville Henderson
Goering
Berlin
Jan Masaryk
Richard Butler
Parliament
Europe
France
Speed work on arcade building remodel
Work progressed today under contractor William Loomis on remodeling the Arcade Building first floor. Partitions were removed to create a single large store room. No leasing announcement by owner Charles Bell. All downstairs rooms vacated. Arcade Shoe Store moving this week. Upstairs houses Forest Weinrich law offices and Beta Phi Sigma fraternity.
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William Loomis
Charles Bell
Arcade Shoe
Forest Weinrich
Beta Phi Sigma
Rightmire Ready To Retire As OSU Proxy
Columbus March 15 AP Educational circles buzzed with speculation over a successor to Dr. George W Rightmire OSU president who told the board he will retire July 1 near age 70. Possible successors include James Morrill Chas West Clarence Dykstra and Theodore Tangeman. Morrill is main contact man for the university. The board meets next month and did not act on the request. Rightmire born November 15 1868 Center Furnace Lawrence County where his father was a foundryman in one of the southern Ohio charcoal furnaces.
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Columbus
George W. Rightmire
Ohio State University
Board of
Dr. Rightmire
Center Furnace
Lawrence County
Ohio
Three Eligible for Chief Job in City Fire Dept
Civil Service Commission certified candidates for chief and assistant chief positions in the city fire department. Top examiner Roy Stallsmith, acting chief, led fire chief candidates with 100 percent. for assistant chief Gerald McLaughlin led with 92. Ernest Price and others were also certified. Loomis not ready to appoint. Harrison Litherland also certified for police patrolman duty.
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Roy Loomis
Civil Service Commission
Roy Stallsmith
Ernest Price
Alva P. Bray
Gerald McLaughlin
Richard Reynolds
Lawrence Evans
Harrison Litherland
Donald Bort
Clarence Blosser
Clinton Webb
Quezon McNutt Reach Agreement On Independence Reevaluation
Manila March 15 AP President Manuel Quezon and High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt agreed independence reevaluation is needed in light of recent world events. Quezon, who had urged immediate independence, conferred after a Washington radio broadcast in which McNutt urged sovereignty remain in the islands. The Tydings McDuffie Act fixes independence for 1946.
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Manila
Manuel Quezon
Paul V. McNutt
Dapper
Washington, D. C
McNutt
Tydings
Tydings-McDuffie Act, the Filipinos Are Guaranteed Independence In 1946. McNutt
Traitors Believed Executed in Moscow Purge Trial
In Moscow on March 15 AP reports that 18 condemned traitors and murderers were believed killed in secret OGPU executions. The Supreme Soviet presidium denied clemency to 17 of the convicted, with timing and location of the killings left undisclosed.
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Moscow
Ogpu
Russia
Presidium
Supreme Soviet
D A R Conference Opens In Ohio With State Regent
Opening sessions of the 39th annual Ohio State Conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution were scheduled to begin here today with Mrs. John S. Heaume of Springfield presiding as state regent.
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Columbus
Ohio State Conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution
John 8S. Heaume
Springfield
Negro Held in Death Charged in Slaying
Earl Parnell age 30 a Negro is charged with second degree murder in the stabbing death of Orliff Smith 43 operator of an automobile wrecking yard Smith was killed yesterday with details of the case noted in the police report and court filing.
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Columbus, O
Earl Parnell
Orliff Smith
Smith
Jews Denied Vote in Hitler's Austria
Vienna March 15 AP Germany seized the Austrian government and announced Jews would not be allowed to vote. Reich officials said Austria’s foreign office and treasury were absorbed into Germany as Joachim von Ribbentrop took the post.
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Hitler
Austria
Wilhelm Wolf
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Suggests People Vote On Navy Bill
Washington March 15 AP A proposal from Representative Sauthoff Wis to let voters decide in November on the administrations billion dollar naval expansion program is advanced The discussion in the House over foreign policy implications of enlarging the navy continued as opponents said current defense was enough and proponents cited the inevitability of another European war.
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Washington
Southoff
House
Davey Signs Bills To Fund State Education And Welfare
Governor Martin L. Davey signed bills appropriating 1.587 million dollars for six state universities and 310 thousand dollars to raise wages for low-paid welfare workers. He approved the Whittemore act enabling delinquent taxes to be paid in installments, allowed PWA bonds approved before 1935 to issue, and conveyed a Tuscarawas county land parcel to the Muskingum watershed conservancy district.
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Columbus
Martin L. Davey
Public Works Administration
Tuscarawas County
Muskingum Watershed
Funeral planned for former judge Coleman Avery
Plan rites are held in Cincinnati for Coleman Avery age 58, ex Ohio Supreme Court judge, who killed his wife then committed suicide. Coroner Coppock ruled murder and death by own action, noting Avery’s concerns over business affairs. Mrs Avery to be buried in Lynchburg Virginia.
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Cincinnati
Coleman Avery
Ohio Supreme Court
Frank M. Coppock, Jr
Avery
Dismiss AFL Petition At Mosaic Tile Zanesville Ohio
The labor relations board dismissed today a petition by the United Brick and Clay Workers of America AFL for exclusive bargaining agent status for Mosaic Tile Company employees at Zanesville Ohio. The board said the union failed to obtain a majority in a recent election.
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Washington
Labor Relations Board
United Brick and Clay Workers of America
AFL
Mosaic Tile Company
Zanesville
Mien
Hitler Departs Vienna After Triumph Visit
Adolf Hitler, concluding his Vienna visit, left the Aspern airport late today by plane, reportedly bound for Munich. The departure follows a triumph in Vienna and signals the next leg of his travel.
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Vienna
Adolf Hitler
Aspern
Blanne
Munich
Hitler annexes Austria as people hail unification
The German leader proclaims Austria a fortress of national socialism and unites Austria with the Reich. Officials from Austria’s forestry to interior ministries pledge loyalty to Hitler and German rule as Vienna erupts in cheering crowds.
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Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Interior Ministry
War Department
Kurt Schuschnige
Hitler
Austria
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