Fifteen Smithfield Students to Parachute Jump
Fifteen students of the Smithfield Parachute Club will receive their diplomas with a mass jump from an airliner at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati. The event, supervised by club president Paul Glinzak, features ages from 14 to 25, including Dorothy McCourt, a 14 year old girl from Bergholtz.
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Smithfield
U.P
Parachute Club
Lunken
Cincinnati
Paul Glinzak
Dorothy McCourt
Bergholta
Tornadoes Kill Two in Missouri Towns
Three tornadoes ripped through small Missouri towns during a night of rain and hail. Two people were killed and three injured as widespread property damage occurred across the affected areas.
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Missouri
British Ship Shelled by Rebel Craft in Bay of Biscay Battle
The Loyalist aircraft bombed the insurgent Espana battleship after Velasco opened fire on the Wortham, five miles north of Bilbao. France and Britain agreed to aid civilian evacuation from Bilbao as Gen Mola’s forces neared the Basque capital amid heavy air raids and casualties.
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United Press
Velasco
Wortham
Espana
Bay of Biscay
Bilbao
Francisco Franco
France
Great Britain
Spain
Straits of Gibraltar
Catalonia
Paris
Emilio Mola
Guernica
Mola
CIO Hastens Auto Drive After Packard Union Victory
The CIO moves to speed up organizing efforts in the auto industry as Governor Murphy seeks to shield Michigan from strikes. Packard workers vote 11 588 to 2 655 under Wagner Act to make the United Automobile Workers the sole bargaining agent for all Packard employees.
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Detroit
Committee For Industrial Organization
Frank Murphy
Michigan
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Packard Motor Car Company
Packard
Refrigerator repair uncovers bird nest and fledgling squeak
Dr Calvin A Eaton complained of a squeak in his mechanical refrigerator in Yuma Arizona Repairmen found a bird nest behind the unit containing three unhatched eggs and a squeaking fledgling The incident was reported by United Press.
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Yuma, Ariz
U.P
Calvin A. Eaton
Congress Seeks White House Pact on Economy Fight
Senate leaders rejected a House backed plan to shift budget reduction powers to the White House. Roosevelt was approached for a settlement as administration leaders in the Senate raised questions about the President’s support. Harry Hopkins signaled WPA would stand firm on relief estimates.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate House
Senate
House
White House
Gulf of Mexico
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
Nelsonville Clerk to Appear on We the People Show
Sam McNamee Nelsonville clerk at S Davis Grocery will travel to New York City to appear Sunday afternoon on the national We the People program at 4 pm. He will recount life as a small city clerk in a town where customers are called folks by their first names and his trip is funded by the program sponsor.
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Nelsonville
Sam McNamee
S. Davis
Poplar
Fourth Sts
New York City
McNamee
Canton Killing Suspect Questioned in Detroit
Canton officials and Stark County prosecutors questioned a new suspect in the shotgun slaying of Mrs. Rose B. Cable. Det. Capt. Elmer E. Clark said the wife of the suspect, questioned in Port Huron, reported the man was in Canton seven weeks ago and owned a similar weapon.
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Canton -Au.p
Rose B. Cable
Detroit
Canton
A. C. L. Barthelmeh
Stark County
Elmer E. Clark
Port Huron
Mich
Clark
Best Seller Publishers Face Plagiary Charge
A federal suit accuses MacMillan Co. of copying parts of Gone With the Wind from Susan Lawrence Davis’s Authentic History of the Ku Klux Klan. Margaret Mitchell expressed amazement and said she had not read the other book until eight months after her novel’s publication.
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NEW York
U.P
Ku Klux Klan
Susan Lawrence Davis
Washington
MacMillan Co
Margaret Mitchell
Mitchell
Atlanta, Ga
Convicts Slain In West Virginia Pen Escape Bid
Four prisoners attempted to steal a truck and flee across the yard of the Moundsville penitentiary. Three convicts died from machine gun fire and stab wounds to guards. Roy Altizer, Wellsburg, the sole survivor, lay near death in the hospital.
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Moundsville
Roy Altizer
West Virginia
Ralph Richards
Wellsburg
W. Va
Pittsburgh
Clifford Stewart
Cabell County
Harry Rettle
Wheeling
H. E. Straley
Altizer
Battle
State Pays Construction Cost for Carpenter Street Project
The State Highway Department will cover all construction costs for the Carpenter Street improvement, with the city supplying the right-of-way. Mayor Len B. McCune announced the arrangement after Athens officials met State highway director John J. Jaster Jr. The state also agreed to pay for the Lancaster Street approach amid Athens’ limited finances.
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Carpenter St
Len B. McCune
State Highway Department
Athens
John J. Jaster, Jr
Jaster
Lancaster Street
Athenians urged to keep cars at home for Mothers’ festivities
Mayor Len B. McCune asked Athens residents to park cars at home on Saturday to ease the traffic during Mothers’ festivities and Ohio University scholarship exams. City officials promised courtesy to visitors but urged locals to avoid crowding demand and leave vehicles at home.
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Athens
Len B. McCune
Ohio University
McCune
Carpenter Street Upgrade Nears Start In City Plan
Mayor McCune led a delegation including D. A. Bardin and George Banks to Jaster's office to push a Carpenter Street rebuilding project. Original cost was 74 000 dollars and will rise due to higher materials prices. The plan widens and brick-paves 36 foot sections from Lancaster to Congress and from Congress to E State, with sidewalks and three storm sewers, relocates Carpenter to ease a sharp Lancaster turn, and completes right of way within six weeks with state funding and some federal money.
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McCune
D. A. Bardin
George Banks
John Dowler
C. W. Gross
Ernest Gross
Harley
Calvin
Marietta
Jaster
Carpenter
Lancaster
Congress
Carpenter St
W. State
High
Mead
Connett Corner
E. State
Hears From Lord Set To End 52 Day Fast
Jackson Whitlow a mountaineer of St ooping Oak Tenn has not eaten since March 10 and weighed 137 pounds dropping to 90. He told his wife today he would break the fast with elderberry wine after claiming to receive a message from the Lord but physicians say nourishment may come too late and his death seems likely.
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Tenn
Jackson Whitlow
Plane crash kills two in Kentucky flight
Forest D. Stievers, 25, and Charles H. Carter, 26, died in a crash that left pilot G. Pack of Cynthiana, Ky., critically injured. The wreck occurred near Frankfort, Ky., and Pack and the two passengers were involved in the fatal incident.
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Frankfort
U.R
G. Pack
Cynthiana
Forest D. Stievers
Charles H. Carter
Farley Defends Roosevelt Court Plan at Ohio Civic Dinner
James A. Farley postmaster general and Democratic chief strategist spoke in Southwestern Ohio defending President Roosevelt’s court plan as reasonable. He condemned reactionary forces and praised the November vote for continuing the New Deal goals and justice in government, addressing audiences in Eaton Dayton West Alexandria Lebanon Franklin and Middletown.
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Cincinnati
James A. Farley
United States
Democratic Party
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Farley
Ohio
Eaton
Dayton
Alexandria
Lebanon
Franklin
Middletown
Il Am
Deadlock on Kane Gallagher Textbook Bill in Ohio House
Columbus U P The Finance Committee of the Ohio House remains deadlocked over the Kane Gallagher bill to provide free textbooks for students in parochial private and public schools. This marks the third setback for parochial school forces after earlier defeats of the Waldvogel and McIntyre bills totaling state aid and free transportation proposals.
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Columbus
U.P
House of Representatives
Kane- Gallagher
Senate
French Secret Service Arrives at Chateau De Cande
French secret service agents arrived at the Chateau De Cande to inspect threatening letters sent to Mrs Wallis Simpson. They visited hotels within twenty miles seeking suspicious persons in case the Duke of Windsor joins Mrs Simpson soon.
Python Feeds Pose Challenge for Hamilton Keeper
At Hamilton Ontario winter quarters Owen Dauphinee explains the task of force feeding a 26 foot python weighing 380 pounds. Seven men assisted as the keeper forced 20 pounds hamburger 24 eggs a quart of olive oil and a quart of citrate of magnesia down the snake’s throat.
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Owen Dauphinee
Hamilton
Ont
Storm Rages in Sun's Magnetic Field
Scientists report a massive solar magnetic storm creating a fog about 100 miles above Earth. The disturbance disrupts radio communications by preventing usual reflection of broadcast waves from the ionosphere.
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Washington
Denhardt Defends Self on Death Pact Claim
Brigadier General Henry H. Denhardt testified with his expert witnesses saying his sweetheart Verna Garr Taylor killed herself in a death by own action pact. He testified he wanted to live and did not intend her death. He previously told his account amid a first degree murder trial in New Castle Kentucky.
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New Castle
U.P
Henry H. Denhardt
Denhardt
Kentucky
Greta Garbo to Face Court Over Loan Claim
Hollywood Swedish actress Greta Garbo will appear in court next Monday as attorney James J. Mc Carthy seeks a bench warrant. Mc Carthy prosecutes a suit to recover 10 500 allegedly loaned by German director David Schratter to advance Miss Garbo's Hollywood career.
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Hollywood
U.P
Greta Garbo
James J. McCarthy
McCarthy
David Schratter
Miss Garbo
Congress OKs Neutrality Bill Rushed to Roosevelt
Congress passed a permanent neutrality law in a late action adding mandatory provisions. The bill, blending discretionary and mandatory elements, was sent by air to President Roosevelt who was fishing aboard his yacht in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas. If signed, it takes effect immediately at midnight. The measure empowers the President to embargo arms shipments and loans to belligerents and to restrict American travel and shipping related to war efforts.
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Washington
U.P
Congress
Roosevelt
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
House
Senate
Japanese Soldiers Slain in Manchukuo Reported Revolt
A fierce uprising spread across northeastern Manchuria with massacres, arson and looting. Dispatches indicate hundreds of Japanese soldiers civilians and emigrants were killed as the revolt against the Japanese conquerors intensified.
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Harbin
Manchuria
U.P
Manchukuo
Attack Suspect Held In Jail For Safety
Willie Hawkins a youthful Black man charged with attempted criminal assault of a white married woman was held in Chatham County Jail for safety after two men rescued him from a mob near Midville Georgia. He had been captured by a group of white men and held all day Thursday.
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Savannah
Willie Hawkins
Chatham County
Midville
Woman’s body found in Burnet Woods Lake
A woman about 40 was found dead today in Burnet Woods Lake. She wore a flannel nightgown a blue print dress and black shoes. Police investigated as a possible drowning or foul play.
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Cincinnati
Aupr
Burnet Woods Lake
Employers Protection Is Commerce Chamber's Aim
The United States Chamber of Commerce boards prepared to draft a Labor Relations program to amend the Wagner Act protecting employers. At their 25th anniversary meeting 1,600 member representatives authorized a plan including curbs on sit down strikes and union intimidation, compulsory arbitration in public utilities, and government employee strikes prohibition. They also backed federal economy, lower capital gains levy, and extending the initial 1 percent Social Security taxes for ten years. Summary will be sent to Congress with pressure for prompt action.
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Washington
U.P
United States Chamber of Commerce
Supreme Court
Congress
Chamber
Ohio House Rejects Senate Amends On State Budget
The Ohio House refused to accept Senate reductions to the general appropriations bill sending the proposal to a conference committee. The House doubled additions and betterments funding to 650 000 while insurgent Senate leaders claimed victory in resisting a full cut to 14 million over 1937 and 1938.
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Columbus
House of Representatives
Senate
House
House Finance Committee
U.P
Appropriations
Solons Limit Powers Of Magistrates In Traffic Cases
The Ohio Legislature resumes after a late session with bills limiting justice of the peace traffic jurisdiction to their townships. The Wilcox bill sets penalties for motor vehicle theft under $100 at 30 days to six months and up to $500. higher values carry longer terms. The Lutz bill raises township trustee terms from two to four years. A bill shielding on-duty policemen from personal liability in motor vehicle accident damages also passed the House and awaits Senate concurrence.
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Columbus
U.P
Justice of the Peace
J. P's
Senate
House
Wilcox
Lutz
State Board Grants Paroles From Reformatory
The State Parole Board approved 58 paroles from the state reformatory and continued 56 cases. Among those paroled were Delbert Freeman Hecking Reed Sailsbury and Athens Howard Clark with offenses including grand larceny and breaking and entering and parole dates set for June 1 1937.
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Columbus
State Parole Board
State Reformatory
Hecking
Delbert Freeman
Reed Sailsbury
Athens
Howard Clark
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Dennis B. Doyle
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Hudson Motor Car
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Big Sunday Messenger
Lord
Secret Service
Oklahoma Strip
Oklahoma
Canada
Texas Panhandle
Congress OK
Commerce Chamber
Ohio State
State Welfare Department
Ohio State University
Attorney General's Office
Department of Industrial Relations
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Horace W. Baggett
Mongomery
Nichols
Baggott
Harold D. Nichols
Clermont
Keith Lawrence
Cuyahoga
State Liquor Department
State Department of Agriculture
Solons
State Board
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