Ohio lawmakers predict June special session on appropriation block
Ohio legislative leaders said failure to appropriate private funds for 1937-38 state government expenses halted the four month regular session. A special session is likely in June after the adjournment at 2:50 AM Sunday. The Senate rejected a compromise on the appropriation 24 to 9, while the House approved 74 to 32. A partial bill provides funds through July 1. further aid for poor relief may be addressed in the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. E. Easterly, JR
Columbus
Ohio
Senate
General Assembly
Assembly
Keith Lawrence
House
Walter L. Main Circus Arrives in Logan for City Show
The Walter L. Main Circus rolls into Logan from Jackson for afternoon and evening performances at the Fairgrounds. A free midafternoon exhibition at 3 PM and another before the 8 PM show feature a 150 foot aerial leap. The troupe includes a baby camel, Tarzan, a Hollywood ape, one of the largest elephants in captivity, a negro minstrel act, sword swallowers, dancing girls, a sharpshooter team, and many other acts.
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Jackson
Walter L. Main
Logan
Fairgrounds
Montgomery
Ala
Tarzan
Plans to Count Jobless Faces Senate Hurdle
Washington May 3 AP Proposals for a census of the unemployed drew senate commerce subcommittee consideration despite opposition from President Roosevelt The business advisory council and others urged the census as the surest way to measure idle workers Roosevelt said the idea would add little new information The unemployed total is about 9 000 000 per the National Industrial Conference Board and the American Federation of Labor but those figures lack a person by person check Meanwhile non farm payrolls rose to 34 138 000 in March up 8 241 000 from March 1933
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Washington
Senate Commerce
Roosevelt
Commerce Department
Business Advisory Council
National Industrial Conference Board
American Federation of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statics
Woman dies as auto struck by train at grade crossing near Wooster
In Wooster Ohio on May 3 Mrs. Willis Orr aged 55 died when the automobile she rode in was struck by a Central Avenue and Columbus railroad train at a grade crossing. Her daughter Mrs. Effie Reed who was driving and her infant grandson escaped unharmed.
Threaten Cut In Aid Budget In House Hearings
The start of House hearings on a relief def ic iency bill sparked talk of slicing one third from the 1.5 billion dollar Roosevelt aid request for 1938 relief. Rep Woodrum said Congress current economy mood could prompt such a cut, but no action is seen soon. Speaker Bankhead said decisions may wait until the President returns from a fishing trip amid deficits from relief spending.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Rep
Woodrum
D-Va
Congress
Speaker Bankhead
Logan High Girls Invited to Ironton Play Day
The Logan High School girls gym class was invited to represent at the Ironton play day on May 15 with selected students Roberta Westbrook Nancy Smith Helen Walsh Sue Rochester Betty Hall Ann Bowen Dorothy Krumlauf and Katy Gray. If successful it could become an annual event for southern Ohio high schools.
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Logan High School
Ironton
Roberta Westbrook
Nancy Smith
Helen Walsh
Sue Rochester
Betty Hall
Ann Bowen
Dorothy Krumlauf
Katy Gray
Ohio
Marksman Nicks Target (wife) in Legion show mishap
Cincinnati May 3 AP Jack Russell known as the lonesome cowboy fired bullets near his wife during a routine act in an American Legion show. Juanita Russell, 27, bore a bruised lip from the incident, while explanations differed about how the accident happened during the performance.
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Cincinnati
Jack Russell
Juanita Russell
Russell
American Legion
Man Hurt In Stove Blast At Bowen Street Home
Glenn Freeman aged 25 suffered serious burns when a gasoline stove exploded at his Bowen Street home early Sunday. He was rushed to Cherrington Hospital around 3 30 A M with extensive burns to his back and other areas, hospital officials said.
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Glenn Freeman
Bowen St
Freeman
Cherrington Hospital
Miller confesses to wife slaying in New Jersey home
Howard Anthony Miller aged 39 signed a confession today to the murder of his wife Edith Miller in their home in the borough of Haledon New Jersey. The confession was made in the presence of New Jersey officers and Chief of Police John C Calhoun.
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Hamilton
Howard Anthony Miller
New Jersey
John C. Calhoun
Edith Miller
Borough
Haledon
N. J
County Superintendent Denies Fund Transfers Rumor
County Superintendent of Schools J. W. Coleman told a Daily News reporter in an interview that circulating Ward Township rumors about transferring funds to Murray City are unfounded. He said such a transfer would be impossible under state law, with each district funded by average daily attendance according to the State Department of Education.
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J. W. Coleman
Daily News
Ward Township
Murray City
Coleman
State Department of Education
Hocking County Relief Status Quiet Amid State Crisis
Ohio’s relief dispute sent to cities but has little effect in Hocking County where funds remain ample for the year. Relief Director Frank Brown reports 85 families and 24 single persons aided in April, with 327 on relief rolls at the start of May. Few employables exist. WPA mining work absorbs most seasonal labor, including 50 men added to the New Straitsville mine project.
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Ohio
Hocking County
Brown
Frank Brown
WPA
Straitsville
Solons Await For Message From Roosevelt
Washington May 3 AP Administration leaders said a presidential message on nationwide power development flood control and navigation improvement may reach Congress before Roosevelt returns from his southern fishing trip. He has considered creating seven or eight regions modeled on TVA operations and a central agency to coordinate regional projects and regulate rates.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee River
Whitlow joins long fast after 52 days in Tennessee story
Dr. R E Standifer said Jackson Whitlow, who claimed a 52 day religious fast, showed improvement. He is stronger and, barring complications, should recover, the physician stated at Oak Stomping Stoop.
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Oak
Tenn
R. E. Standifer
Jackson Whitlow
Change Residences of Shaw Family on Church Street
Mr and Mrs John Shaw and family have moved to the George Schorr property on Church Street. Shaw is an C and O employee.
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John Shaw
George Schorr
Church St
My. Shaw
C. and O
Test shows pupils ill prepared for citizenship lessons
Columbus dispatch reports Harrison M Sayre claims over 300000 pupils in 303 cities showed many cannot identify Roosevelt or Hughes and many know little of current world affairs. He argues schools fail to prepare good citizens and cites misattributions involving Landon Perkins Hoover and Franco in a satirical list.
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Columbus
Harrison M. Sayre
Roosevelt
Charles Evans Hughes
Sayre
Burlesk ban stirs Gotham court challenge
In New York City on May 3 AP reports the City’s closure of 14 burlesque theatres sparks a legal fight. The owners seek a writ of mandamus to force licensing and a stay to halt further interference while a final hearing decides if new licenses will replace those expired at midnight Friday.
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New York
Metropolis
Burlesque
State Supreme Court
Saul Moss
Mr. Wm. E. Heft Improves After Illness At Work
WM. HEFT III Mr. Wm. E. Heft a C and O warehouse clerk has been off duty several days due to illness. He is improving at this time.
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Wm. E. Heft
C. and O
Hollywood strike broadens as crafts and actors join
Hollywood reports a major production stoppage as about 6000 studio workers in 11 federated crafts unions walk out with 3500 on picket duty. Guild actors vote to delay joining for a week while both sides seek closed shop bargaining rights, risking 40 000 jobs and a 1 500 000 dollar weekly payroll.
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Hollywood
Guild
Federated Motion Picture Crafts
Federated Crafts
Charles C. Lessing
Crafts
Los Angeles
United States
Screen Actors’ Guild
Industrialists Dupont and Raskob Face Tax Charges
Pierre S. Dupont and John J. Raskob, leading industrialists and American Liberty League figures, appeared before the U S Board of Tax Appeals in New York on charges of fictitious stock sales to create losses for 1929 income tax. The government seeks $617,316 for Dupont and $1,026,340 for Raskob.
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New York
Pierre S. Dupont
John J. Raskob
U.S. Board of Tax Appeals
Dupont
Raskob
American Liberty League
Federal Building
City Hall Park
Lancastrians Die in Crash Near Home
Six Ohioans died in a violent week end, with three drownings amid mild spring weather. Dennis Cutlip aged 24 and Pauline Cutlip aged 22 were killed on Route 31 north of Lancaster when their motorcycle struck a parked car. The couple both had fractured skulls. Robert Long, 29, of Canal Winchester, was electrocuted at Hillards near Columbus after contacting a 2300 volt power line.
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Dennis Cutlip
Pauline
Lancaster
Robert Long
Canal Winchester
Hilliards
Columbus
Sam L. Hughes Dies in Bartlesville Oklahoma
Mr and Mrs Harry Hughes learned Saturday of the death of Sam L Hughes in Bartlesville Oklahoma He was the first of ten siblings to die The Hughes could not attend the funeral which was held today.
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Harry Hughes
Mr. Hughes
Sam L
Bartlesville
Oklahoma
Sun Glow worker injured at factory incident
Logan resident Guy Fiske, employed at Sun Glow furniture factory, was treated at Cherrington Hospital this morning for lacerations to his right hand after being caught in a machine at the plant.
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Guy Fiske
Logan
Sun-Glow Furniture Factory
Cherrington Hospital
Mrs Wilson III Ill at Home Under Care
Mrs. Bert Wilson of W Second Street is seriously ill at her home after several days under a nurse's care.
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Bert Wilson
W. Second St
Students Jump From Plane Defy Police Patrols
In Cincinnati Mount Healthy airfield authorities relented after Eastern Ohio parachute students, including a Toledo girl, jumped from a plane one by one. Instructor Paul Glinzak said they had permission and parental consent, ending a day of police patrols and guarding by Hamilton County deputies.
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Mount Healthy
Paul Glinzak
Hamilton Co
Glinzak
Charles B. Coddington
Department of Commerce
Wedding Looms as Judge Grants Decree in Simpson Divorce
In London a brief court procedure freed Wallis Warfield Simpson from her 9 year marriage to Ernest Aldrich Simpson and allowed the former King Edward VIII to plan marriage to her. Edward left Austria for Tours after the decree, while Simpson remained in seclusion at a French château near Tours awaiting May 12 coronation week.
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London
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Edward of Windsor
French
Touraine
Mrs. Simpson
England
Crown
Cupid
Edward
Austria
Duke of Windsor
Edward VIII
Tours
France
Simpson
Chateau de Cande
Chateau
Nisi
Garbo Defendant in $10,500 Suit
Los Angeles May 3 AP The legal machinery geared to day to raise the curtain on Greta Garbo in a court room drama as defendant in a $10,500 suit. An assignee of David Shratter seeks to recover three loans Garbo said he advanced her in 1924.
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Los Angeles
Greta Garbo
David Shratter
Berlin
Court delays ruling on Social Security Act fate
Washington May 4 The Supreme Court delayed final decision on the constitutionality of the Federal Social Security Act until at least May 17. The pause leaves open the possibility of ruling on unemployment insurance and old age pension provisions of the act in same session.
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Washington
Supreme Court
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Ireland
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Hollywood Strike
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WM. Heft III
Mrs. Wilson III
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Paris
Miklas
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Sir Boyd
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