New Boston Board Cuts Pay for Three Teachers Nine Month Term Planned
The New Boston board of education approved nine month contracts and pay raises for most Glenwood High teachers while cutting salaries for three on the high school faculty. Coach Rome Rankin and teachers Fern Wheeler and Mildred Pfau faced cuts, including Rankin's from 2,800 to 2,300 after a 12 12 percent reduction last year. Several other teachers were rehired or newly employed as the district weighs funds from February tax collections to return to a 10 month schedule.
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Glenwood
New
Boston Board of Education
Rome Rankin
Fern Corry Wheeler
Mildred Pfau
Rankin
Fern Wheeler
Pfau
New Boston
Carie Keffer
Gallia Street
Mire
Lucille Lewis
Stanton Avenue School
Gallia Treet
Dorthy Chinn
Rosie Adams
Oak Treet
Lena McFayden
Glenwood High High School
Mary Evans
Glenwood Avenue
Bord
Ashbaugh
Toledo Teachers Face 50 Percent Pay Cut and 132 Jobs Cut
In Toledo Ohio the school board voted drastic expense cuts for next year including a 50 percent salary reduction for teachers and elimination of 132 positions. Annual contracts will replace tenure, and many staff reductions affect married and single instructors. Preschool and graduate programs face shutdowns or limits, with kindergarten scaled to one year and certain training positions reduced.
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Associated Presse
Toledo
Lst
Board of Education
Mine clash leaves two wounded in Springfield area
Two miners were wounded in a gunfire clash between rival groups near Springfield Illinois. The Peerless mine run by Peabody Coal Co and its union opponents faced a confrontation as National Guardsmen and sheriffs stood guard at the mine entrances to prevent further violence.
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Springfield
Peerless Mime
Here
Peerless
Peabody Coal Co
National Guards
Taylorville
Soe
United Bon Coreme
Woman Admits Taking Infant In Cincinnati Case
Mrs Virginia Rodgers a 31 year old mother of two told police and reporters she took six week old Patsy Sneed from its mother Mrs Madeline Sneed a week earlier due to illness and poor care in a riverfront home. The baby was found in Rodgers company in a third floor downtown tenement. Rodgers initially claimed the infant was her own, later changing her story after neighbors overheard claims of a doctor birth. Rodgers is married to Eugene Rodgers of the city welfare department.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
Virginia Rodgers
Madeline Sneed
Wigecat Teriam Eadi
Patsy Sneed
Million used in rail start
O P Van Sweringen testified in the senate inquiry that he and his brother and associates initially invested one million dollars to acquire railroad interests. He confirmed the amount during questioning by Ferdinand Pecora as the investigation into J P Morgan and Co. continued.
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Associated Frees
Washington
O. P. van Sweringen
Senate
J. P. Morgan and Co
van Sweringen
Ferdinand Pecora
Senate Committee
Styles Call For Redheads This Summer
Boston experts forecast a redhead trend for summer hair. Auburn tones will dominate and hair will be styled short but not extreme, according to the Massachusetts League of Women Hairdressers at their annual meeting.
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Associated Press
Boston
Massachusetts League of Women Hairdressers
Republicans push 1 percent sales tax to fund public works
Senate Republicans move to substitute a 1% sales tax for corporate levies in the $3.3 billion industrial recovery public works bill. They would exempt food clothing medicine and fuel and seek amendments removing presidential licensing powers for industries to join fair trade pacts.
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Washington
Senate
Reed
R.-Pa
Tax program drifts in Ohio
Ohio house taxation committee meets in Columbus to discuss income tax measures, cigarette tax, intangibles, and a proposed $2,000,000 for poor relief but takes no action. The debate focuses on money in state and local politics and the role of taxation. A separate Toledo item notes a worker killed while repairing a water mass leak.
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Associated Press
Columbus
House Taxation Committee
Mattern Gains Time In Flight On Round The World
Novo Sibirsk Siberia June 7 Jimmie Mattern was seen at 4 10 am flying toward Chita in the fifth lap of his round the world attempt. He landed at Omsk 54 minutes ahead of the Post and Gatty schedule but a broken wing strut caused a delay for repairs. He later spent hours resting and closed the Novo Sibirsk gap to 1 hour 44 minutes before continuing east.
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Associated Press
Novo Sibirsk
Siberia
Jimmie Mattern
Chita
Mattern
Omsk
Siberian
Post and Gatty
Novosibirsk
P H S Musicians To Boost City At World’s Fair
Portsmouth High School band of 70 travels by bus train and car to Chicago for the World’s Fair and Northwestern University national band contest. 54 students plus chaperones and parents embark for the event with plans for solo and group contests, marching, and a NBC broadcast.
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P.H.S
Trojans
Portsmouth
Portsmouth High School
Chicago
Northwestern
University
Evanston
River City
Buckeye State
Croswell Transportation Co
Charties
Hayward Anderson
Harold Dyer
James Garrett
William Obenchain
M. H. Ogden
Rhoda Robinett
C. C. Harr
William and
Chad, Jr
Charles Steahly
George
Frank
Elizabeth Wikoff
Everett
Everett Hubert
Earl Dawson
Mary Alice
Henry Daulton
James and
Willam
Dale
Howard
Henri Schnabl
Kenneth Anderson
Schnabl
Homer Brown
NBC
da Saving .Y
Ohio
Mission Drive Reaches $5,767.22 Target Near One-Third
Union Mission campaign totals announced at All Saints Guild hall luncheon show $5,767.22 raised to date with $2,658.17 since Tuesday noon. President Homer Selby praised workers’ efforts under heat and explained the Mission’s religious foundation as separate from the Welfare association.
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All Saints Guildhall
Homer Selby
Union Mission Board
Welfare Association
Selby
Sweatshop Inquiry Sought In Assembly
A resolution by Rep. Earl D. Flaefner of Mahoning county requests a legislative investigation into alleged sweatshops, before the house reference committee in Columbus Ohio. The AP report notes the measure was before the committee on June 7.
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Associated Press
Columbus
House Reference Committee
Earl D. Fiaefner
Mahoning County
Fire damages Lancaster timber yard. losses pegged at thousands
A fire at the Leicester Lumber Co. in Lancaster caused destruction of a building and heavy losses, initial estimates placing damages around 3700 dollars. Fire investigators work to determine origin as flames tore through the site early today.
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Lancaster
Enkrows
Leicester Lamber Co
Aoring
Old Sol Puts Gears In High
A hot sultry day descends on Portsmouth as summer seems to arrive early. The weather man acts with no calendar caution, delivering a real hot day before the official start of summer.
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Portsmouth
Hail Storm Lashes Buena Vista Orchards and Gardens
A fierce hail storm swept Buena Vista and nearby areas with ice balls up to robin's eggs in size. Farmers report heavy damage to young plants and orchard fruit, with especially severe impact on the Flagg estate near Buena Vista and extending toward Rome in Adams county.
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Buena Vista
Portsmouth
Flagg Estate
Rome
Adams County
Weather Beats Down as Heat Surges in June
The weatherman forecast hot conditions with highs near 94 on Tuesday and in the 90s earlier in the week. Lows hovered around 72, driving residents to porch and lawn slumber to escape the heat as showers were expected to arrive later in the week.
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Mercury
Indiana Joins Wet Parade By 21 Vote
Indiana voted to repeal the 18th amendment in a statewide election. The tally 501,239 for repeal to 277,604 with 3,374 of 3,601 precincts reporting. Delegates to the convention will be 250 pledged for the amendment and 79 opposed. Rural counties boosted repeal in a statewide shift toward the 21st amendment.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Jone
Cyrus Curtis Dead at 82 Publisher and Philanthropist
Cyrus H K Curtis, noted publisher and philanthropist, died at his home in Wyncote after a long illness. He began as a newsboy at age 12 and rose to chair Curtis Publishing Co., publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and Country Gentleman. His wife died five days after him. funeral set for Friday at his home.
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Philadelphia
Wyncote
Sunes
Mia
Mary Curtis
Shine Institution
Curtis Publishing Co
Saturday Evening Post
Ladies Home Journal
Fleming Fined Gets Jail Term
Grover W. Fleming publisher of the American and Ohio Examiner must serve six months in jail and pay a $000 fine after the state supreme court upheld a criminal libel conviction in Shelby county. He was convicted for libeling Police Chief William J. O Leary of Sidney. The appellate reversal was overturned. In another brief item, three loreatoes ratified mine wage agreement for the Hocking district.
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Grover W. Fleming
American and
Ohio Examiner
Shelby County Common Pleas Court
State Supreme Court Today
Fleming
William J. O'Leary
Sidney
President roosevelt faces battle over veteran aid plan
Speaker Rainey outlined that if congress accepts the Connally amendment to boost veteran outlays without tax hikes and adjourns, the President would call another extra session to keep the budget balanced. Roosevelt aims to defend veteran care while opposing new taxes and seeks support from the public and Congress to sustain balance.
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Associated Press
Washington
Rainey
Congress
Roosevelt
Eut
House Democratic Steering Committee
Senate
White House
Medina homicide stuns town as ex-convict slain
Mor ris Asher, a 35 year old former convict from east Cleveland, is found dead on Medina road with five bullet wounds in the back. A powder blue sport suit coat is wrapped around his arms, suggesting he was killed while seated in a car. Sheriff Roy suspects the killer fired from the rear as Asher sat in the front seat.
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Associated Frees
Medina
Morris Asher
East Cleveland
Asher
Es Medina Road
Spitzer
Savings Deposit Bank of
Roy
Medina County
Insurance bill in Senate on thin ice in Columbus
The insurance bill passed by the house of representatives faced dangerous opposition in the senate today, described as being on thin ice with the threat of engulfment at any time. House action and looming Senate debate drew attention from Columbus officials and residents.
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Columbus
House of Representatives
Senate
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