Roosevelt Leads Breckenridge in Pennsylvania Democratic Primary
President Roosevelt leads Col. Henry Breckenridge in incomplete Pennsylvania returns from the Democratic presidential primary. Borah runs unopposed in the Republican primary with a substantial vote. Landon write-ins cited but not yet counted. Delegation selections seem set, with some district contests clarified by results in Philadelphia and surrounding counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Downing
United Press
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Henry Breckenridge
Pennsylvania
William E. Borah
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Col. Breckenridge
Sen
Borah
Gov
Landon
Lancaster County
Butler County
Ben. Borah
Massachusetts
Hoover
Cornelia Bryce Pinchot
James J. Connolly
Ohio State Football Ticket Prices Rise for Fall
Ohio State announced higher prices for home games next fall with season books for reserved seats at 10 dollars and box seats at 13 dollars, up from 9.50 and 11 last year. Henry Taylor said season books go on sale May 15 for five home games against NYU Pittsburgh Indiana Chicago and Michigan. Single game tickets will go on sale in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio State
Bucks
Henry Taylor
New York University
Pittsburgh
Indiana
Chicago
Michigan
Findlay Police Chief Declares War on Vagrants and Thievery
Police Chief Leo Parkins orders patrolmen to arrest all persons without visible means of support to curb petty theft and prowling in Findlay Q. These measures target vagrancy as a response to rising crime and public nuisance complaints.
Van Wert High School Band Heads to Washington and NBC
A large Van Wert High School group will tour the railroad to Washington, D C and perform for a nationwide radio audience. The Scarlet and Gray band, with 50 members named in the yearbook and 56 on the trip list, will be joined by 47 other pupils and adults. Leonard Wolf, director, will conduct the band live from 1 15 to 1 30 p m Friday at NBC studios as part of the National Farm program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Wert High School
Washington, D. C
Leonard Wolf
Scarlet and Gray Musical Organization
National Broadcasting Company
National Farm
Van Wert Band Festival Tour Leaders Shine
The North West Ohio Band Festival director, noted for leading the Greenville American Legion band in Paris in 1927, travels with a Van Wert group. They will dine at the Senate restaurant sleep at the Cairo Hotel, and tour Washington, displaying Van Wert banners and badges with white ribbons calling Van Wert the Peony Center of the World for June festival events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Wert
Ohio
Band To Parade From High School To Station
The article notes a parade for a band with four coaches on the Liberty jet transporting the group. A noon broadcast tie event is planned at the studios on 712 11th Street NW. W R Hall of Port Wayne arranged the trip with motorcycle escorts and Elks lunches on the train Thursday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Out Hearta
11Th Street
N. W
R. Hall
Port Wayne
Pennsylvania Railroad
Liberty
Jay
Pennsylvania Station
Elks Lodge
Traction collision at Donovan's Hill leaves 2 dead
Investigation continued after a head on interurban crash near here killed motorman Charles Patterson of Springfield and 76 year old E H Shroyer of DeGraff. Thirteen others were injured. Patterson allegedly failed to stop at a siding to wait for the other car. Mrs C R Willis of Columbus among the injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grbano
Here
Cincinnati& Lake Erie Railroad
Public Utilities Commission
Charles F. Patterson
Springfield
Donovan's Hill
E. H. Shroyer
DeGraff
Jesse K. Linkhart
Lim
David H. Moore
Corone
James Duncan
Lima
Patterson
Goshen Sheriff Delayed Returning From Trip
E. J. Bourke, Goshen Indiana sheriff of Elkhart County, delaying his return from Bucyrus to Goshen after a 2:30 PM automobile accident. His car and the prisoner transport were damaged. Bourke sustained minor injuries. Willard Fry of Goshen drove the other vehicle. name of the other driver not learned. George Windemaker, prisoner, was held at Van Wert county jail until Bourke’s deputy arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. J. Bourke
Goshen
Ind
Elkhart County
Bucyrus
Rourke
Diven
Willard Fry
van Wert
Lincoln Highway
Indiana
C. M. Crabtree
George Windemaker
Premier End Man to Provide Laughs for Trip Cast
On a Pennsylvania railroad run to and from Washington D C this weekend about 103 Van Wert residents will ride. Byron J Smith known as Red is the end man and keeper of good spirits for the trip. He is sent by the Elks lodge of which he is a past exalted ruler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
van Wert
Byron J. Smith
Red
Mr. Smith
The
Elks Lodge
Lima Man Shoots Self After Quarrel In Street Shootout
Leonard Leppla, 42, after quarreling with Mrs Emma Adrian, 33, entered a downtown Lima restaurant and fired six shots wounding her five times. Leppla pursued by Patrolman John Kalt. He reloaded and shot himself twice in the stomach. Both victims listed in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Leonard Leppla
Emma Adrien
Leppla
John Kalt
Adrian
Unification Talks Rise at Met Episcopal Church Assembly
Delegates begin arriving for the 32nd meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Church as talks on unifying the three main bodies continue. The merger would unite about 8.0 million members worldwide, including 4.296 million in the Methodist Episcopal Church and 2.0 million in the Southern church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Met’ Episcopal‘ Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Method Protestant Church
Pigs Surpass Pen Capacity At Fred Hinebaugh Farm
In Kenton Ohio a single litter on Fred Hinebaugh’s farm produced nineteen piglets, forcing some newborns to be fed inside the house due to overcrowding in one pen.
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Kenton
Fred Hinebaugh
Symphony Concert Pleases Wittenberg College Group
The Little Symphony of Wittenberg College Springfield conducted by Mrs. Betty Freeman Haynes presented a varied program at St Mark s Lutheran Church. The 28 student ensemble delivered graceful performances from Mozart to Strauss with notable string work and a featured First Symphony for organ and orchestra by Guillmont. Audience praise was strong though seats were not full.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wittenberg College
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Lawrence Garrison
Little Symphony Orchestra
Springfield
Betty Freeman Haynes
St. Marks Lutheran Church
Haynes
School of Music
Julliard School of Music
New York City
Oberlin School of Music
Lois Winkler
Eleanor Winkler
Mozart
Figaro
Frans Schubert
Papa” Hay
Warren Tripp
Johann Strauss
Mysterious Death Reported for Earl 42 in Boston Area
Sarah Stouder receives a clipping about the death of Earl 42 as reported in a Marion newspaper. Born in Van Wert, he lived in Toledo, Marion, and Boston. Survived by widow and three children Virginia, Eugene, and Jeanne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah ‘Stouder
Martti Watlinesenterest
Boston
Marion
Mr. Stouder
van Wert
Tolédo
Virginia
Eugene
Jeanne
Italian forces push toward Addis Ababa as Harar drive stalls
Italian leaders say 10 000 troops under Marshal Pietro Badoglio closed in on Addis Ababa with one motorised column near Makfud and another fording the Ips Alba mare. Rain and resistance halt the eastern advance toward Harar and Jijiga while civil governance shifts upon the capital’s fall.
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Stewart Brown
United Press
Coon
Rome
Eritrea
Pietro Badoglio
Addis Ababa
Makfud
Anabet
Alba Mare Thiz
Harar
Jijiga
Badoglio
YMCA Y Class Records Fall At Gym Meet
Elden reports YMCA gym meet across A B C classes with new marks and ties. Kenneth Conn tops A with 1278 points, Bob Pflum leads B with 1586, Jr Fackler wins C. four records and one tie noted including Bill Tindall in Push Ups.
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YMCA
Elden
Kenneth Conn
Bob Pilum
Junior Fackler
Bill Tindall
Gordon Palmer
Bob Pflum
Pflum
Curtiss
Van Wert To Hold 414 WPA Workers In Columbus Plan
Ohio officials announced in Columbus that 414 WPA employees will remain in Van Wert County until further notice as a weekly reduction plan continues through June 15. The move is part of a statewide effort to reduce WPA staff gradually.
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van Wert
Ohio
WPA
Columbus
Passage of Presidents tax proposal moves in House
In Washington on April 20 the House rushed the presidents tax bill toward passage by a one sided vote despite Republican protests. The measure would raise $3.36 billion from a new corporate surplus tax and apply a 15 percent rate to banks and insurers, with additional funds from windfall taxes and retained excess profits taxes. The bill heads to the Senate for possible revision as hearings begin tomorrow on related fiscal measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Lewis
United Press
Washington
House
Republicana
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Treasury
Relief Law Soon To Expire in Ohio
In 13 weeks the Ohio emergency relief law will end with July 31 the State Relief Commission dissolving and relief appropriations ceasing. About $13,000,000 has been distributed and counties face funding gaps unless new state money and adminis trative machinery are provided.
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Columbus
Ohio General Assembly
State Relief Commission
Search widens for killer type in Indianapolis manhunt
Authorities push the biggest Indiana hunt since Dillinger era for three desperadoes charged with Sergeant Richard Rivers’s slaying. Federal, state, and local police follow a burned car trail as they close in on gang leader Joe Lombardo after a jewelry store robbery in Lima, Ohio. Three suspects were earlier detained near Huntington but released.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
John Dillinger
Sergt
Richard Rivers
E. B. Rose
Lima
Joe Lombardo
Carlinsville
Ill
Huntington
Fred Hillen
Detroit
Mich
John Sranley
San Jose
Calif
John Schroeder
Dayton, O
Pupils Named to Take State Scholarship Tests
Van Wert county pupils will represent the district at Bowling Green State University on Saturday May 2 at 9 30 a m in state scholarship exams. List includes Wayne Stetler Edwin Adam Robert Friedly El Oise Heyman Charles Hablit vel Vernon Becker Billie Buchholtz Lowell Leistner Ardolis Collins Ruth Miller Kenneth King James Lowell Davis Billy Voltz Olen n Hoverman Winona Bennett Rosanna Rauch Katherine Bilderbach Helen Marie Prestidge Mary Stemen Edith Kidd and others from multiple schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Wert County
Bowling Green State University
Wayne Stetler
Ohio City-Liberty
Edwin Adam
Middle Point
Robert Friedly
Tully-Conroy
el Oise Heyman
Hoaglin-Jackson
Charles Hablitvel
Vernon Becker
Wiltshire
Billie Buchholtz
Lowell Leistner
Willshire
Ardolis Collins
Ohio City
Liberty
Ruth Miller
Kenneth King
James Lowell Davis
Billy Voltz
Wren
Olenn Hoverman
Winona Bennett
Rosanna Rauch
Katherine Bilderbach
Helen Marie Prestidge
Mary Stemen
Ohio City Liberty
George Cowgill
Thelma Jones
Willodene Fowler
Maxine Adams
Union
Amy Janelle Cowan
Irma ‘Schumm
Roberta Bothman
Mildred Lininger
York
Virginia Voltz
Edith Kidd
Fdyth Roller
Kansas Landon Leads In Early Presidential Preference Ballots
Report outlines incomplete results from Republican and Democratic primaries with Gov Landon leading in early returns. No presidential names appear on ballots, voters chose preferences privately, and exact figures were uncertain amid mixed signals from New England and the industrial East. Frances Townsend and several noted figures received scattered votes in both parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landon
Kansas
Herbert Hoover
Massachusetts
Rooseevelt
New England
Gov. Landon
Hth
Hale
Zon
Jaws
Joseph B. Ely
Usetts
Ope Mills
Ben. George W. Norris
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
Eon
Smith, Lahoe
Stameenaan Ver
Wiliam E. Weud
Frances B.townsend
Townsend
Stated move renders phones in district temporarily out of order
A public official said the action will render phones in the district temporarily out of order. The outage affects communications during the stated period and requires alternative contact methods.
Unclear Weather Notes From An Uneven OCR
Fragmentary weather blurb notes colder Thursday with vague temperature hints. Text includes garbled times and scattered phrases about sunrise and nightly lows but lacks coherent data or locations.
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Ertan
Urbana
C. R. Willis
W. A. Gouty
North Washington Street
M. E. Church
Methodist
Meni Stouder, O
Eatee Nase
Mussolini
Elden Hawk
New York
John
Bowling Green
Wese-Ee
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