Expect Recess As Legislative Jam Develops
In Columbus Ohio the general assembly faces a legislative jam this week with talks on school financing tax exemptions and county government consolidation. The plan includes a $48 million public school foundation program and a $5 million aid package for parochial and other schools. A senate fight over Governor Davey’s appointee for liquor board may surface as the session winds down. Proposals to reorganize county government include creating a county manager and consolidating offices to cut duplication, contingent on local votes.
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Columbus
Ohio General Assembly
Senate
House
Grover Traxler
Wyandot
John R. Davis
Cleveland
Martin L. Davey
George E. Eppley
Board of Liquor Control
Eppley
Davey
Mayors Ask County To Give Aid On Road Jobs
Wellington Mayor Lehman and two councilmen sought county aid to extend Herrick Avenue for about three quarters of a mile. County commissioners refused due to insufficient funds for county roads this year, referring the Wellington request to I R Ault the divisional state highway engineer at Ashland.
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Lehman
Wellington
Herrick Avenue
I. R. Ault
Ashland
Clay Products Co Workers Strike Over WT Affects Ohio Pennsylv
More than 100 Robinson Clay Products Co workers walked out today as the United Brick and Clay Workers of America called a strike based on a vote taken two weeks earlier. Sewer pipe and brick workers in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania were also called out.
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Akron
Robinson Clay Products Co
United Brick and Clay Workers of America
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Weather OHO Forecast for Tuesday Night and Beyond
Cloudy conditions with rain likely in the extreme east tonight and in the south and west portions Tuesday. Expect mostly cloudy skies, cooler temperatures in the south and east, with slightly colder air moving in from the southeast.
Russia and Britain Push Eastern Peace Pact
Eden, the British cabinet envoy, speeded to Warsaw to seek Polish endorsement of an eastern European peace treaty backed by military guarantees. The Moscow visit cemented Britain and Russia, with Litvinov calling for success, as Eden planned Prague talks before a Paris–Rome–Prague conference.
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Moscow
Anthony Eden
Warsaw
Poland
Europe
Russia
Germany
France
Czechoslovakia
Eden
Prague
Edouard Benez
Stresni
Italy
Great Britain
Nazi Germany
Sir John Simon
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Maxim Litvinov
Britain
Litvinov
M. Eden
M. Litvinov
Lawyers To Hear Judge Day On Holmes Life
Judge William N. Day of Cleveland will address the Elyria Lawyers Club on April 15 at noon about the life and career of the late United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Day was a personal acquaintance of Holmes. Richard Stevens, club president, chairs the event at the Elks Club restaurant. all county attorneys are invited.
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William N. Day
Cleveland
Elyria Lawyers’ Club
Justice Holmes
United States Supreme Court
Day
Elks Club
Richard Stevens
Cascade Park Improvements Funded by Ohio FERA
Ohio FERA Administration approved Cascade Park improvements as part of 13 projects in seven counties. The Cascade Park work received 3713 dollars, joining 135 projects totaling 609 jobs and 59957 dollars in wages and salaries across the program.
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Cascade Park
FERA
Ohio Fera Administration
Columbus
Flier Floyd Davis Dies In Bat Wing Parachute Mishap
Flint, April 1. Stunt flier Floyd Davis, 22, fell 6,000 feet to his death when a bat wing he designed failed to work after stepping from a plane piloted by Gordon Helm. The first parachute fouled the wing and the second rip cord was not pulled. Davis, a seasoned flier who learned to fly at 16, had modeled his wing after Diem Sohn.
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Flint, Mich
Floyd Davis
Davis
Gordon Helm
Diem Sohn
Lansing
New Orleans
Miami
Sohn
Detroit
Secral
President Enjoys Excellent Fishing By Roosevelt Cruise
In a tropic cruise near Crooked Island Bahamas President Roosevelt fished well during a week aboard the Nourmahal. The yacht anchored off Crooked Island after a run from Great Inagua as two navy seaplanes delivered mail and papers from temporary executive offices on the return trip to Miami. One plane piloted by Lieut S Quackenbush was forced down by a broken fuel line and towed to port by a coast guard patrol boat.
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Miami
Fin
Roosevelt
Crooked Island
Bahamas
Great Inagua Island
Cuban
S. Quackenbush
Coast Guard
Pope Urges Leaders Toward Peace Amid War Fears
Vatican dispatch reports Pope Pius XII condemning warlike mindsets and urging statesmen to pursue peace. He spoke after a secret consistory approving canonizations of John Wisner and Thomas More, citing the grim threat of conflict and asking believers to pray for an end to bloodshed and ruin.
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Vatican City
Pius
College of Cardinals
John Wisner
Thomas More
Henry VIII
Holy Father
Sailing Vessel Trandequoit Searched After Compass Failure
In St Petersburg on April 1 a 61 foot yawl named Trandequoit, part of a 21 vessel fleet in the St Petersburg to Havana Yacht race, was missing after its compass failed. The search focused on the Gulf of Mexico area as vessels from the race pressed toward Dry Tortugas and the Florida Straits. The 113 foot coaster Azara, owned by Huck M. Matheson of Miami, was the first ship to pass Dry Tortugas in the 284 nautical mile event.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Trandequoit
Havana
Gulf of Moxico
Huck M. Matheson
Miami
Florida Straits
Noted French Flier Killed In Crash
Paris April 1 Robert Bajac chief pilot of Air France died when a mail plane he piloted crashed in fog at Gournay en Bray while starting a dawn service to London. The mechanic wireless operator and passenger M Flatcreft director of Air France service were injured Rajac was regarded as one of France's best fliers.
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Paris
Robert Bajac
Air France Company
London
Gournay En Bray
M. Flatcreft
Air France Service
Rajac
France
Relief Crisis Nearing Climax
Washington reports the national relief crisis approaching a peak as President Roosevelt directs administration leaders to fight in Congress to overturn a conference change in the 4.8 million work relief bill. A White House picket line formed by Ohio unemployed protesters claims contemplated payments are insufficient while federal relief funds run perilously low with only two days of money left.
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Roosevelt
House
Senate
White House
Ohio
Congress
Akron Plants Preparing For Strike
Akron Ohio April 1 Sealed ballot boxes in the Goodyear Labor Union Hall held the results of a strike vote by about 3 000 Goodyear workers as organized labor seeks recognition in the tire and rubber industry. Voting continues to Wednesday night and counts follow.
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Akron
Goodyear Labor Union Hall
Organized Labor
Tire and Rubber
Big Rubber Company
United Rubber Workers Union
Goodrich
Firestone Companies
Goodyear
Coleman C. Claherty
American Federation of Labor
Claherty
A. F. of L
William Green
Firestone
Death Summons J. W. Solada
J. W. Solada Elyrian auditor and bookkeeper died Sunday at his Lakewood home after weeks of illness. Born in Gratz Pennsylvania he worked with the Chronicle Telegram as a client and relative of former publisher J. F. Burke. Survived by wife and two children Edna and Charles and a brother in Harrisburg. Funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m. Free Methodist church Franklin Boulevard. Body at William Daniels Funeral Home Detroit and Rosewood until noon Wednesday.
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J. W. Solada
Northland Avenue
Lakewood
Solada
Mr. Solada
Gratz
Pennsylvania
Chronicle-Telegram
J. F. Burke
Lorain County
Edna
Charles
Harrisburg
Pensylvania
Free Methodist Church
Franklin Boulevard
William Daniels
Detroit
Rosewood Avenue
Senate Doorkeeper Poole Dies in Ohio City
Charles W. Poole, 64, longtime Senate doorkeeper and former Democratic State Executive Committee member, died of a heart attack in Galion Ohio on April 1. He had retirement years in restaurant work and served on the party committee from 1921 to 1926.
Famed Singers Lead Circus Tribute To Gatti-Casazza
In New York the Metropolitan Opera crowd honored Guilio Gatti-Casazza after 27 years as general manager. The gala finale of the 1934-35 season featured actors and singers in a burlesque circus style, with Lily Pons and Lauritz Melchior performing in a vaudeville skit, Wagnerian pieces adapted for the crowd, and a late tribute as Gatti-Casazza sat watching.
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Gatti-Casazza
New York
Opera
Metropolitan Opera House
America
Guilio Gatti-Casazza
Toca
Oxample
Rome
Rigoletto
Salome
Orchestra Pit
Lily Pons
Lauritz Melchior
Miss Pons
Mayor Strive for Strike Settlement At Steel Plant
Mayor W. H. Vanoster and officials of The Steel and Tubes Company arranged discussions this afternoon to resolve the 160 union members strike. Union organizer Ralph Covert said strikers will return to work if all grievances and conditions are corrected, and some wage demands are not the core issue. Company officials vow no discharge or rehiring of strikers guilty of destroying property, with cases to be handled later. County commissioners withdraw all sheriffs deputies from the strike zone, leaving policing to city police unless riot occurs. Rudy Schmidt of the regional labor board addressed the mass meeting explaining dispute settlement methods.
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Steel and Tubes Company
W. H. Vanoster
Ralph Covert
Detroit
Covert
Clarence W. Dick
National Tube Company
E. J. Stankard
J. W. Dilgren
Rudy Schmidt
Regional Labor Board
Cleveland
Federal funds for relief outlook low across nation
Washington reports government funds to feed and clothe the needy are severely limited. Administrator Hopkins announced only 15.9 million dollars immediately available for relief as congress discusses the administration’s proposed four to five billion dollar work relief package and earmarked reserves.
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Washington
Karry Z. Hopkins
Mos
Co Wo Ealaway
Benget
Aim
Roosevelt Fera
Unemployed Picket at the White House Protest
About 20 members of the National Unemployed League picketed the White House on April 1 protesting the four billion work relief bill. They carried signs including Dont Tread On Me and Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned while police and guards outnumbered the marchers in light rain.
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Washington
National Unemployed League
White House
Executive Mansion
Ohio
Nero
Rome
Secret Service
Mellon Admits Sale of Stock in 1931 Tax Loss Claim
Pittsburgh April 1 Mellon testified he sold 123000 shares of Pittsburgh Coal Company stock in 1931 to claim an income tax loss. He denied any agreement to repurchase the stock after his loss was claimed and said he overpaid his 1931 tax by 139000 dollars and seeks a refund. He said he acted alone considering his tax return, losses from shrinkage, and capital gains.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh
Mellon
Frank R.hogan
Union Trust
Coal
New Maple Floor Placed In Lincoln School
Laying of a new maple floor in the corridors of the first floor of Lincoln School began this morning as the sole spring vacation project. Completion is expected in a week and the floor will be ready when school reopens next Monday under James F. Brown. Other projects include Hamilton School interior painting and minor electrical work, Elyria High athletic field seeding and fertilizing, and arrangements with the county for a 50 ton roller to roll the practice field.
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Lincoln
James F. Brown
Hamilton
Elyria High School
Act To Meet Dust Storm Crisis
Washington April 7 House leaders moved to rush passage of a bill to address the dust storm crisis in the Middle West. At the administration’s request they agreed to bring up radar provisions under suspension of rules by Dempser Jones. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace would have powers to advance a soil erosion control program, requiring a two thirds majority for passage.
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Washington
House
Vday
Middle West
Dempser-Jones
Henry A. Wallace Brand
Clay Workers Idle as Wage Talks Break Down
New Philadelphia, April 1. In Tuscarawas County seventeen hundred clay workers in thirteen plants were idle after failing to reach a new wage agreement to replace the expired one. The dispute halted production across the county.
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Philadelphia
Tuncarawas County
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Louis Miller
University of Pennsylvania
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Wagner
Siegfried
Lawrence Tibbett
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Radio City
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