Today is Sunday, May 23, the 144th day of 2004. There are 222 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, May 23, the 144th day of 2004. There are 222 days left in the year. On this date in 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La.
In 1701, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after he is convicted of piracy and murder. In 1788, South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1937, industrialist John D. Rockefeller dies in Ormond Beach, Fla. In 1940, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, the Pied Pipers and featured soloist Frank Sinatra record "I'll Never Smile Again" in New York for RCA. In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces bogged down in Anzio begin a major breakout offensive. In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany. In 1960, Israel announces it has captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. (Eichmann is tried in Israel, found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hanged in 1962.) In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeals of former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell in connection with their Watergate convictions.
May 23, 1979: Eager beavers at Meander Dam cut a V notch in the splashboards at the spillway and are interrupted just in time to prevent release of about a billion gallons of water. Repairs have been made and all hands are keeping an eye out for further attacks on the splashboards.
5th Ward Councilman Paul Kechler blasts council's investigation of faulty work at the city's $5.5 million sewage treatment plant as a "silly witch hunt."
Automaker Henry Ford II says he will support President Johnson for re-election no matter whom the Republicans nominate. It will, he says, be the first time he has voted for a Democrat in a presidential election.
U.S. Judge Frank Battisti sentences a 27-year-old Campbell man to two years in prison for draft evasion. The man, a Jehovah's Witness, claimed conscientious objector status, but failed to report for civilian work at Columbus State Hospital in lieu of military service.
May 23, 1964: Despite the prospect of a world shortage of steel in five years, construction of a new mill by U.S. Steel Corp. at Conneaut is "definitely not in the bag," David M. Roderick, chairman of the company says.
General Motors Lordstown manufacturing plant will receive 33,000 gallons of gasoline from the Ohio Department of Energy's reserve supply to help the auto manufacturer meet its needs through May.
Officials at Bowling Green State University agree to double the number of police on campus after dark, partly in response to the death of a Youngstown woman, Kimberly L. Jackson, 22, in her apartment near the university.
Thomas Y. Fok, president of Fok & amp; Associates, is installed as president of the Mahoning Valley Society of Professional Engineers.
Friends of the Library plant a flowering crabapple tree on the grounds of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County to honor the service of two library directors, David W. Griffith and Robert Donahugh.
May 23, 1954: A high-ranking Air Force general is expected to come to Youngstown for a showdown conference with city officials on plans for an Air Reserve Training Center at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Contributions from 224 national firms doing business in Youngstown in 1953 and from their local managers totaled only $19,364 of the $800,000 Community Chest fund, says Jerold S. Meyer, chairman of the business leaders group of the Chest. Some have more than 500 employees, and one company with $60 million in annual sales gave nothing.
Beverly Neff of Youngstown is salutatorian of the 1954 graduating class of 27 students at Mount Union College.
General Electric Co. proposes a wage increase averaging 5 cents an hour for workers in plants, including those in Youngstown, Niles and Warren.
May 23, 1929: Campbell is invited by J.H. Bernard, president of Bernard Air Lines Inc., to take over Bernard Airport on New Castle-Youngstown Road as a municipal airport. Bernard says he'd give the city a five-year option to buy the airport.
Miss Francis Hall of Hubbard is chosen by popular vote by the students of Youngstown College to reign as the "Queen of May." The second annual celebration will open with a May Pole Dance. Miss Hall will be crowned by 1928's May Queen, Ruth Taylor.
Robert Mackey, a well-known black man in Youngstown, leaves his entire estate of between $500 and $700 to the Youngstown Hospital. He had been employed at the old Tod House and had worked for several of the city's leading businessmen.
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