Roosevelt clears way for TVA probe on Morgan ouster
President Roosevelt moves to prompt a congressional inquiry by sending a full report on his removal of Arthur E.B. Morgan as TVA chairman. Harcourt Morgan is elevated to chairman, with James L. Ply named possible next on the three man board amid ongoing TVA policy battles and charges of misconduct.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congress
Arthur EB. Morgan
Morgan
Harcourt A. Morgan
James L. Ply
TVA
Warm Springs
Dea
Bridges
R-Nh
Arthur Morgan
Harcourt Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
Senate
House
Norris
Ind-Neb
Morgan leaves Antioch after campus talk on TVA fate
Arthur E. Morgan, aged 69, ex TVA chairman, boarded a train for Chicago after addressing about 500 people at Antioch College. As residents speculated on a “business trip,” Morgan did not discuss his clash with the president over his TVA board removal, saying he was feeling relaxed with nothing to worry about.
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Yellow ‘Springs
Arthur E. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Morgan
Chicago
Antioch College
TVA
Man Charged With $7 Theft From Filling Station
Simon Stewart of Logan will appear before Mayor Dallas Kinser tonight to answer charges of stealing seven dollars from a cash register at Price's filling station on West Hunter Street. Police said the cash was taken while attendants were outside at the pump and the arrest occurred at 1 am today by Patrolmen A. F. Evans and Charles Notestone.
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Simon Stewart
Logan
Will Appea
Dallas Kinser
Price
W. Hunter St
A. F. Evans
Charles Notestone
Farmers Learn Details of 1938 AAA at Marion Meeting
Twenty eight farmers attended a meeting at Marion Township School to hear the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act details. Meetings are scheduled tonight at Nesboro and Gibisonville and tomorrow night at Rockbridge and South Bloomingville.
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Marion Township
Nesboro
Gibisonville
Rockbridge
South Bloomingville
Public Forum Sides on Gas Rate Increase Debate
City Council heard citizens debate a potential compromise on gas rates last night. Frank Phillips of Ohio Fuel Gas Co clashed with James Wonn over a petition opposing any rate hike, while two spokesmen urged no increase and three favored compromise.
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Frank Phillips
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
James Wonn
Third St
Freud Seized by Nazis in Vienna as passports are confiscated
Sigmund Freud the 82 year old famed psychoanalyst and his wife have had their passports seized by Nazi police in Vienna and all their ready money impounded to stop them leaving the country. Freud who is Jewish has not been active in politics but holds Zionist and anti Nazi views say observers. The action comes as the broader crackdown on Jewish citizens intensifies across Austria.
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Sigmund Freud
Vienna
Freud
Jaster Office Inquiry Scene
Columbus attorney Mrs. Agnes B Dickinson pursues a taxpayer suit to recover double the amount she says the state overpaid for hot mix materials. The case names Jaster and 26 others and seeks between 2 million and 5 million dollars. District transfer to the Highway Director’s office follows court rules on records during depositions.
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Columbus
Agnes B. Dickinson
John Jaster, Jr
Jasters’ Office
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
Highway Department
Ohio to issue 1938 plates by April 1 warning
Columbus Ohio March 23 AP Motor vehicle registrar Frank West warned there would be no extension for 1938 license plates beyond April 1. Only about 1 000 000 of the expected 2 000 000 licenses had been issued to date.
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Columbus
Ohio
Frank West
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
Pierce dies in river after hitchhiking near Covington
Charles Cluck Pierce 44 of Murray City drowned in the Ohio River west of Covington as coroner James P. Riffe opened an investigation. Esther Lanning 33, also of Murray City, detained on loitering charges after claiming they hitchhiked from Dayton yesterday. Pierce survived by parents Tom and Mrs. Pierce, a brother Carl and two sisters. Lanning is Eli Lanning’s divorced wife with four children at the father's home.
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Charles “Cluck” Pierce
Murray City
Ohio River
Covington
James P. Riffe
Esther Lanning
Goose Run
Tom Pierce
Carl
Lanning
Eli Lanning
W. Hunter St
Austria Denies Death by Own Action Rumors
Vienna officials rejected foreign reports of widespread panic after Austria joined Germany. They cited 96 deaths by own action in Vienna from March 12 to 22, with 50 linked to the political change, and noted only two former cabinet members under protective custody. The arrest of Archduke Antoine von Habsburg was denied.
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Vienna
Germany
Austria
Kurt Schuschsnigg
Antoine von Hapsburg
Trial of Craven Nihiser for second degree manslaughter begins
The trial will open tomorrow morning in Common Pleas Court before a jury. It was postponed Monday and rescheduled after two witnesses who were missing were located in Columbus.
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Craven Nihiser
Common Pleas Court
Columbus
Baer Advocates English Language Grand Opera
Frederic Baer, famed American baritone, argues for opera sung in English. He notes audiences deserve understandable diction and cites examples from other countries. A recent New York review lauded his clear English delivery and vocal superiority.
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Frederic Baer
Aproves
Italy
America
New York
Baer
Lin Reported Slain In China
K M James Lin foster son of President Lin Sen of China was reported killed in action against Japan at Hankow. He had married Viola Brown of Columbus Ohio in 1935 while a student at Ohio State University. The romance followed her returning his lost pocketbook. His foster father objected to the marriage. At that time Lin was said to have two wives and three children in China under local law. The American wife obtained a divorce two years earlier.
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Shanghai
K. M. James Lin
Lin Sen
China
Columbus, O
Hankow
Japan
James Lin
Viola Brown
Ohio State University
Lin
Quarantine Hits Claude Proctor Family Over Scarlet Fever
Eleven members of the Claude Proctor household at 193 East Street are under quarantine after baby Betty Joanne, nearly four months old, contracted scarlet fever. The quarantine includes Betty Joanne and Mrs. Phoebe Graham, 84, the foster mother, who lives with the family.
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Claude Proctor
East St
Betty Joanne
Phoebe Graham
Springfield youths held in car theft case
Sheriff Joe Parbearn said the FBI is checking on two youths and a Springfield girl arrested Monday in a stolen car. Those held are George Farmer 28 Ozella Rooks 19 and Robert Lewis 18.
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Joe Fparbearn
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Springfield
George Farmer
Ozella Rooks
Robert Lewis
Heat Record Broken Here in Logan March Weather Event
Logan experienced a record heat early on Tuesday with temperatures in the 80s marking the hottest March day. A heavy rainstorm followed, flooding streets and gutters and triggering rising streams. The Hocking River remained about ten feet below flood stage as rain persisted into the afternoon and minor road damage occurred near E Second Street.
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Logan
Hocking River
E. Second St
Driver pleads guilty in drunken driving case
Robert Walton 22 of Lancaster changed his plea to guilty before Judge Phil A. Henderson yesterday on a drunken driving charge. He was fined 100 dollars plus costs, sentenced to 30 days in jail, and had his driving rights suspended for six months after a Monday night crash into a guard rail at Scott's Creek Falls. Walton suffered minor injuries.
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Phil A. Henderson
Robert Walton
Lancaster
Walton
Joe Fearbearn
Scott’s Creek Falls
WPA Project Workforce in Hocking County Report
A report from LC. Gibson, director of WPA District Three, shows 1042 persons are working on five Hocking County WPA projects this week. The Athens office disseminated the figures.
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Hocking County
LC. Gibson
Athens
Frank Mathias Retires from Rockbridge School Board
Veteran member Frank Mathias of Rockbridge ends a 35 year board career and four years as clerk after forty years on the township school system. He helped shape the move to a centralized Rockbridge school, later serving as health officer assessor and trustee amid family memories of the Mathias farm and Hocking hills panorama.
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Frank Mathias
Rockbridge
Good Hope To Board of Education
Mathias
David
Antioch
Hocking-co
Otterbein College
A. Crad
L. E. Allery
Lakewood
N. J
Don’t Change Too Soon, Doc Advises
In Columbus Ohio Dr Walter Hartung state health director warns Ohioans amid measles and colds to ease into spring weather. Gradual clothing changes advised with lighter outerwear and rubber boots as damp weather or rains approach. He notes the pneumonia peak may be over but children's diseases remain common.
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Columbus
Walter Hartung
State Director of Health
Vivtung
McClain Rites Friday At 10
Funeral services for Mrs. Pansy McClain 29 wife of Walter McClain will be Friday at 10 a.m. at Advent Christian Church in Rockbridge. She died last night at Licking County Sanitarium near Newark after admission Monday. She leaves her husband and her parents Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Rider of Rockbridge. Burial will be at Fairview Cemetery by Woodard Funeral Service.
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Advent Christian Church
Rockbridge
Pansy McClain
Walter McClain
Licking County
Newark
McClain
Leroy Rider
Fairview Cemetery
Woodard Funeral Service
Power Line Survey Planned for Middlefork to Gibisonville
Darwin Kindler, engineer for South Central Rural Electric Cooperative, told County Agent James Smoot he will begin a survey of a proposed power line through Middlefork to South Perry and Gibisonville at 9 a m Friday. The survey, postponed from last week due to Kindler being in Washington, will determine route details.
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Darwin Kindler
South Central Rural Electric Cooperative
James Smoot
Middlefork
South Perry
Gibisonville
Kindler
Washington
Visiting clergy and kin linked at United Brethren Conference
Rev. J. C. Wilson of Beaver Ohio visits J. D. Tipton of Logan during the United Brethren Church Conference. Wilson is Tipton's brother in law.
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J. C. Wilson
Beaver, O
J. D. Tipton
Logan
Mr. Tipton
President rails at feudalism in Georgia speech
President Roosevelt denounced selfish privilege and a feudal system in a Gainesville outdoor talk on national progress. He urged cooperation to raise wages and buying power in the South, linked prosperity to better schools, health, and roads, and warned against fascism and the old political elite. He dedicated Roosevelt Square, praising local rebuilding after a prior tornado disaster.
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Roosevelt
Georgia
South
Washington
Warm Springs
Roosevelt Square
North
Middle West
Far West
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