House To Pass Billion Dollar Navy Bill
Washington March 24 The House approved a plan to expand the Navy fleet to the largest in U S history by adding 22 battleships 950 aircraft and supporting ships at a cost of about 1 8 billion The measure faced opposition from Rep Ralph E Chueh who argued battleships are offensive weapons and unnecessary for a defensive fleet The debate ended with Speaker Bankhead steering the question toward passage and a motion to recommit for elimination of three battlestars remained the main lever for opponents The bill reflects President Roosevelts request to strengthen naval power amid global tensions and secure American defense interests
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Washington
Tadas
Attal
Fermi
Ralph Chueh
House
Roosesete Stillio
Miny
Wiliam B Bankhead
Ralph FE Chueh
R. Ill
Vanhig
United States
Lake steamer City of Buffalo damaged by fire
The Lake steamer City of Buffalo carrying passengers since 1897 was damaged to the patent of 700000 by a fire at her dock in Cleveland on Sunday. Officials of the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Co. were undecided about rebuilding. The origin of the fire could not be determined. The steamer was known as the Honeymoon Special.
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Cleveland, O
City of Buffalo
Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co
Weather Ohio warm spell with showers for Tuesday
Weather outlook says fair and warmer tonight in Ohio with a likely shower risk Tuesday. Showers expected Tuesday afternoon in western portions, followed by cooler conditions Wednesday. High pressure dominates the Ohio Valley while a low sits over the Central Dakotas and another high over California.
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Ohio
West Portion
Ohio Valley
Atlanta
California
Dakotas
Lake Region
St Lawrence Valley
Rocky Mountain
Missasippi Valley
Ptamns Staten
Japanese Push Near Key City North of Nanking
Dispatches from the front report Japanese forces driving toward Psihow and Hsuchow with fast artillery support. Vanguards reached within about 30 miles of Hsuchow while bombarding 10 000 Chinese entrenched at a strategic rail and canal junction. Chinese claims of heavy losses surface at two eastern ports as fighting intensifies along the Lung-Hai line near Tunghwan with disputed reverses for the Japanese.
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Psihow
Tientsins Samhing
Lsuchow
Lung Har
Hsucow
Lung-Hai
SNC
Penisin-Nanking
Tunghwan
Lung-Har
Expresses Horror Over Slaughter In Barcelona
Secretary of State Cardell Hull voiced the sense of horror of the American people over the slaughter of Spanish civilians in Barcelona by Nationalist bombing planes. The statement was issued as a strong denunciation of the attack and calls for international remedies.
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Barcelona
Bulletin
Washington
Cardell Hull
Britain Protests Barcelona Bombings
Britain protested to the Spanish Nationalist government over air bombings of Barcelona. Loyalist leader Julio Alvarez Del Vaso claimed about 2,000 killed and 2,000 wounded. Britain urged adherence to international law and civilized practice.
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London
Great Britain
Barcelona
Julio Alvarez del Vaso
Manchester Guardian
U S Deficit Nears Billion For Year
Washington report shows expenses 5,436,606,992.89 through March 18 1938 against receipts 4,541,709,067.68 leaving a gross deficit of 894,897,925.14 and a net deficit of 839,479,275.14. Public debt stands at 37,664,119,124.50.
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Washington
Grose
Urges Revision Of Taxes To Aid Business
Washington March 210 Fllsworth Alvord of the United States Chamber of Commerce urged revision of undistributed profits and capital gains taxes during House hearings on the tax bill. He proposed a 15 percent corporate tax on inventories, lower rates for incomes under 25 000, a 212 percent top wage rate, and a 40 percent maximum individual tax rate. He called for retroactive removal of key undistributed profits tax errors and said industry must be unshackled with stable revenues and employment opportunities for those able to work. He opposed salary publicity provisions over 15000 annually as unnecessary and alien to tax measures.
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Washington
Fllsworth
Alvord
United States Chamber of Commerce
Cenate Fienamic Committee
Woman Drowns As Auto Plunges Into River Near East Lansing
In East Lansing on March 21 Mrs Frances Deming 634 Granville Ohio drowned when a car carrying her daughter two grandchildren and a neighbor’s child went into Red Cedar River. Four others including Mrs Mary Frances Powell and two Powell children Betty 11 and Robert 2 and Anna Marie Kremer 10 were rescued by state police after divers cut a hole in the submerged vehicle. Powell is the wife of Prof J E Powell of Michigan State College. The accident happened when Mrs Powell looked away lifting a gun from front to rear seat causing loss of control. Fire department revived all but Mrs Deming with inhalators.
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East Lansing
Mich
Frances Deming
Granville
Mary Frances Powell
J. E. Powell
Michigan State College
Lansing Fire Department
Mra. Deming
Two Ministers of Lithuania Resign in Protest
Kaunas March 21 Two Lithuanian ministers resigned amid dissatisfaction with Vilnius acceptance of Poland's ultimatum to restore diplomatic relations. Despite resignations sweeping the cabinet, no demonstrations occurred as the country remained quiet and relieved war with Poland was averted.
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Kaunas
Lithuania
Stasys
Lozorakis
Silingas
Poland
St Josephe
Josef Pilsudski
Vilna Terstart
Josef Beck
Nrither Vietor
Mads Dedd
Hensley Files Motion For New Trial In Sea Murder Case
Edward Hensley aged 22 of Grafton on farm trusts was convicted of the Sea murder of Miss Louise Hein beck of Grafton. His attorney D R Rendinell of Younestown filed a motion for a new trial this afternoon listing six reasons. The defense claims errors in evidence rulings the verdict was driven by passion and prejudice and against the weight of the evidence and accuses Prosecutor Howard R Bitler of prejudicial misconduct.
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Edward Hensley
Grafton
Louise Heinbeck
D. R. Rendinell
Younestown
Iat
Howard R Bitler
Lakewood Man Found Dead In Car
Missing since Tuesday Lloyd Pedford 42 of 2126 W WeKinley Ave Lakewood was found dead in his car at an old Brown Helm quality at 10 AM yesterday by James Leimbach who was target shooting nearby. Coroner S C Ward ruled death by own action noting an exhaust hose fed into the car through a window. He had been dead since Wednesday and is survived by his wife funeral services were set for 8 PM at Zieh Funeral Home Amherst and burial at 2 PM in Marysville Lomarran.
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Lloyd Pedford
WeKinley Avenue
Lakewood
Brownhelm Quality
James Leimbach
Bedford
Sears Roebuck and Company
Wiliam G. Smith
Chalme
Davidson
S. C Ward
Redford
Zieh Feneral
A Amherst
Marysville
Lomarran
Boy electrocuted flying kite near Jewell farm
James Steffel sixteen-year-old resident of a farm two miles north of Jewell was killed when a kite sailed into a power line carrying 6900 volts. The kite’s fine wire touched the line causing the fatal shock.
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Defiance
James Steffel
Jewell
Jewish Writer-Actor Ends Life in Vienna
A 64 year old Jewish writer playwright and actor Maieh Friedell died by suicide today in Vienna by jumping from a fourth floor window. Reports note his work History of World Culture published in England and the United States. Contemporaneous scenes describe Nazi influence in Austria with portraits of the Duke of Windsor displaced for Adolf Hitler and rising Aryan stock tests amid fears of Nazi violence.
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Vienna
Maieh SL
Fgon Friedel
Friedell
England
United States
Linz
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Austria
Germany
Ing
Duke of Windsor
Bristol
Adolf Hitler
Last Raft crashes into bridge pier. six missing
Rippling Susquehanna river drama as rescuers seek six missing raft crewmen after the Last Raft struck a concrete bridge pier Sunday. One man, W. C. Van Scoyoc, 66, of Philadelphia, was recovered dead. The missing include Thomas Proffett, Charles F. Taylor, Harold Berringer, Harry Connors, Malcolm McFarland, and W. W. Holly, with the raft’s bow pilot Connors attempting to steer away from danger as the swift current drove the craft into the pier.
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Muncy
Susquehanna
W. C. van Scoyoc
Philadelphia
Thomas _Proffett
Universal Newsreel
Chester
Charles F. Taylor
Burgess
Mountgomery
Harold Berringer
Tyrone
Harry Connors
Burnside
Calcolm McFarland
Towanda
W. W. Holly
Bradford
Connors
Contracts For Hot Mix Probed By State Auditor
State Auditor Joseph T Ferguson assigned three engineer-examiners on March 21 to review highway contracts for irregularities in hot mix and other paving projects. The team will audit contracts and charges before the Senate Graft Investigating Committee, looking back as far as permitted to scrutinize administrations. The three are Stanley Curtis, Wilmington, and two others, with engineers to determine bidding and award irregularities.
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Columbus
Joseph T Ferguson
Senate
George White
Myers
Highway Department
King
Ferguson
Stanley Curtis
Wilming
Autobiography Of George Metcalf Begins Today
The Chromete Telegram starts publication of The Autobiography of the Hon. George Metcalf today. It promises unusual Civil War battle descriptions by Metcalf and invites readers to follow the serial installment in every issue for a complete scrapbook feature.
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Chromete-Telegram
George Metcalf
Metcalf
tele-Telegram
Elks To Elect Officers In Final Elyria Meeting
Elyria Elks Lodge will hold its last regular meeting of the lodge year with officers for the coming year to be elected. Lodges from Willard Bellevue Lakewood Cleveland and Sandusky will participate, with an out of town officer presiding. A birthday dinner precedes the program and Lakewood Riks male choir will headline the entertainment with 55 singers.
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Elyria
Elks
Elyria Lodge
Lakewood Riks
Davey urges state to quit trucking business in liquor contract row
Gov Martin L Davey in a letter to State Liquor Director J W Miller urged the state to get out of the trucking business entirely. He referred the liquor truck contract between the Liquor Department and Shaw Transport Inc amid a Senate graft investigation noting issues around Shaw Fibre poll ene nee minetan ae.
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Columbus
Martin L. Davey
J. W. Miller
Liquor Department
Shaw Transport, Inc
Senate
Shaw Fibre Pollene
Cleveland Man Killed and Lorain Injuries From Weekend Crashes
A Cleveland man, John F. O Callaghan, 31, died in a Lake Road crash near Lorain as John M. McGee, of Lansing Michigan, was detained for questioning after his car tipped on its side. Three Lorain residents, Ted Zahn, 23, James Cowle, 23, and Theresa Folino, 22, were injured in separate wrecks on East Avenue. An 18 month old Elyria child, Joseph Takacs, escaped serious injury when hit by a car on West River Street. he was treated for a minor abrasion.
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Cleveland
Lorain
Elyria
John F. O'Callaghan
East 120Th Street
John M. McGee
Lansing
Lake Road
Loram
Claude Adams
Joby B. Judge
Theresa Folina
10Th Street
Loam
Ted Zahn
Lakeview Drive
James Cowle
East 34Th Street
East Avenue
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Fred Bongs
Edward Stankard, Jr
Joseph Takacs
West 15Th Street
Foster Whitfield
West River Street
Elyria Memoral Hospital
Steve Pogan
C G .Aschenbach
Amherst
Broad Street
C. W. Hamilton
Loci Street
Hamilton
Seward Black
Dave Halimon
Fuller Road
Elyria Violinist Szabo Auditioning for Superior Rating
Eugene J. Szabo, 14, from Elyria, earned a Superior rating in the Northeast District Grade School Band Orchestra Choral Solo and Ensemble Festival held in Chardon for his performance of Zea papenda. He played alongside nearly 50 young violinists and was accompanied by Mrs. J H Crumley.
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Eugene J. Szabo
Elyria
Chardon
Jefferson Junior High School
J. H. Crumley
Ohio Musical Education Association
Mre
E. Szapo
Lake Avenue
Szabo
Etyria Comtestant
J. Martin Beck
Biyria
Biyriaws
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