Nation celebrates 30th anniversary of U S air power
Wright Field Dayton hosts a nationwide aviation display marking 30 years since the first U S military aircraft. Officials and nine foreign attaches view pilotsless target planes and the Boeing four engine flying fortress, with flights from Mitchell Field to the region and civilians watching a mock invasion along the coast.
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Wright Field
Dayton
Army
Coun
Burbank
Calif
New York
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Roosevelt
Washington
Mitchel Field
N. Y
Pacific
United States
Boeing Flying Fortress
Floyd Nnett Field
California
Umstead
Kansas City
Hartford heroine rescues 32 when boat capsizes off Branford
Cynthia Chapin, 19, of Hartford Connecticut, saved 32 companions by swimming a quarter mile through fog and darkness in Long Island Sound to attract attention after a cabin cruiser capsized near Branford. Her cries led to a rescue by a tugboat.
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Cynthia Chapin
Hartford
Conn
Branford
Election Irregularities Probed in Pike County
Secretary of State Earl Griffith removed the Pike County Election Board and its clerk and urged a special grand jury to probe widespread irregularities including votes from ineligible voters and paid campaigns. The inquiry followed a November election in which Polk narrowly won after a strong Democratic Pike County showing.
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Columbus
Earl Griffith
Pike County
Ohio
Griffith
Aiel
Dieshlad
Haan
Kentucky
West Virginia
Emory F. Smith
Portsmouth
James G. Polk
Smith
Sixth
Polk
State Supreme Court
Congress
Bricker
John W. Bricker
Thomas J. Herbert
E. N. Dietrich
Rookie Fan Engaged To Reds Star
Auburn haired Miss Harriette Cook of Norwood announced her engagement to Ivai Goodman Cincinnati Reds outfielder. Miss Cook, formerly of DuQuoin Illinois, is a private secretary and recently attended last year’s All Star Game with her first major league view.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Harriette Cook
Norwood
Ivai Goodman
Cincinnati Reds
House Ok's Funds for Gallia Sesquicentennial
The Senate approved a resolution authorizing $10,000 to create a commission for planning a 150th anniversary celebration in Gallipolis Ohio as Congress nears adjournment.
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House Ok
Washington
U.P
Senate
House
Gallipolis
Ohio
Four Convicts Escape From London Prison Ward
Four inmates escaped the London Prison Farm hospital ward using a home made blow torch. The group includes Louis Vander vort aged 36 described as a slayer from Wilmington and three others Cal Adomack 41 Harold Court ner 39 and Nathan King 47 all with prior sentences from Ohio counties Cuyahoga Miami and Lucas respectively.
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London
WU P
Louis Vandervort
Wilmington
Cal Adomack
Cuyahoga County
Harold Courtner
Miami County
Nathan King
Lucas County
Optometrist J. Frank Johnston Dies in Bucyrus
Dr. J. Frank Johnston aged 65 a longtime optometrist in Bucyrus for 35 years died from an apoplectic stroke.
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J. Frank Johnston
Staples Offset Price Decline in Ohio July Report
Ohio Cooperative Reporting Service says rising prices for chickens eggs milk and potatoes offset declines in grains and fruits keeping the mid July price report unchanged from June. Grains fell to 66 percent of pre war, the lowest since 1932, while overall prices received stayed at 89 percent and the ratio to prices paid remained 74 percent. Ohio old wheat stock in interior mills fell from 750000 to 720000 bushels as national stocks rose by 7 million.
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Columbus
O.P
Ohio Cooperative Reporting Service
Ohio
Deathward move for ex LSU president Dr James Smith
Imprisoned former LSU president Dr James Monroe Smith has been relocated to Baton Rouge Louisiana to be near a hospital where his daughter Mrs Owen Waller Ware lies near death from blood poisoning. Mrs Ware recently gave birth to a son whom Dr Smith has never met.
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James Monroe Smith
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge
Owen Waller Ware
Robert C. Elliott, Sing Sing Executioner, Falls Ill at Home
Robert C. Elliott who executed more than 300 persons at Sing Sing and other prisons became critically ill in his Queens home. Associates said his nerves had been unstable for a year. A substitute carried out a double execution in Massachusetts last night.
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Robert C. Elliott
Sing Sing
Queens
N. Y
Elliott
Massachusetts
Strikers Call Mass Meeting Over Riot Zone Tactics
A mass meeting of Fisher Body Company strikers in Cleveland addressed the riot zone restrictions imposed by Safety Director Eliot Ness after a clash that injured 100. The CIO United Automobile Workers union seeks recognition as the skilled workers’ bargaining agent and the strikers largely halted picketing. Police guard the homes of 27 non striking employees amid union circulated addresses.
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Cleveland
U.P
Fisher Body Company
Eliot Ness
Congress of Industrial Organization
United Automobile Workers Union
Firemen Hurt in Wreck Answering False Alarm
Cleveland news report says a false fire alarm triggered a response by a hook and ladder truck. Twenty minutes later the vehicle was rammed by a large transport truck, leaving three firemen seriously injured in a hospital.
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Cleveland
Gambling Ship Rex Surrenders After Siege Off California
In Los Angeles a besieged gambling ship the Rex halted roulette and table games with about 50 000 in play and surrendered to a navy of 250 officers led by Attorney General Earl Warren. The vessel moored four miles offshore off Santa Monica as a lawyer for owner Tony Cornero accepted a court order shutting down gambling aboard the ship.
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Los Angeles
Rex
Earl Warren
Pacific
Santa Monica
Tony Mero
Warren
Peggy Jean Sands Nine Day Old Baby Dies in Corning
Peggy Jean Sands age nine days, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Sands of Corning, died at home. Funeral services will be held at the grandmother's home in Corning today at 2 PM with Rev. Arthur Shonkwiler officiating. Interment will be at Athens. The baby's other grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Everett of Peach Ridge near Athens.
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Corning
Peggy Jean Sands
John Sands
Jessie Sands
Athens
Arthur Shonkwiler
Henry Everett
Peach Ridge
Milk and Cream Prices Rise Returning to Pre-Spring Schedule
Retail distributors restored the prior milk and cream pricing today after a spring reduction. The move marks a return to the previous schedule affecting local stores and consumers.
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Canton
John L Lewis Issue in Kentucky Primary
Washington reports a close Kentucky primary where John L Lewis of the CIO has become a campaign issue. Lt Gov Keen Johnson seeks the Democratic nomination with Gov Chandler's backing as rival factions differ over labor, Garner and New Deal politics influencing voters in the August 5 contest.
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Washington
WWP
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
John Young Brown
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Keen Johnson
State Organization
Gov
A. B
Happy) Chandler
Chandler
The
New Deal
Alben W. Barkley
John N. Garner
Garner
Johnson
Buchalter Sought in Nationwide Hunt for Witness Slayings
In a New York District Attorney statement Tom Dewey describes Louis Lepke Buchalter as the target of a nationwide manhunt. Dewey says Buchalter’s hired assassins are carrying out systematic killings of potential witnesses against the gangster.
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New York
Tom Dewey
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Dewey
Buchalter
U S labeled as enemy of Japs policy in Far East
Japanese propaganda in China targets Americans Britons and Russians as enemies while Tokyo plans recall of a U S envoy. Britain and Soviet Russia modify naval pact permitting larger battleships as London boosts its 1939 building program.
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China
Tokyo
Kokumin
Kensuke Hor~mnouchi
Washington
United States
Japan
Foreign Office
London
Neville Chamberlain
House of Common
Great Britain
Berlin
Hermann Goering
Germany
Far East
Tientsin
Britain
Soviet
Russia
Post-Intelligencer Violated Labor Act Says NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board ruled the Seattle Post-Intelligencer violated the Wagner Act by firing Ruth Givan and Helen Hoover for Guild membership and activity. Back pay and reinstatement in the classified advertising department were ordered. the paper is owned by Hearst Publications, Inc.
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Washington
U.P
National Labor Relations Board
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Hearst
Roosevelt
John Boettiger
Ruth Givan
Helen Hoover
Hearst Publications, Inc
American Newspaper Guild
CIO
Government pays for Eureka Dam road damages in Ohio
The Federal Government paid the Senate Highway Department 131000 today for damage to state roads caused by work building Eureka Dam in the Ohio River near Gallipolis. Director Robert S. Beightler said the check would be deposited to the department construction fund.
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Columbus
U.P
Senate Highway Department
Eureka
Ohio River
Gallipolis
Robert S. Beightler
Department
Federal absorbtion of Muskingum dams nears completion
Senate approval moves Muskingum Conservancy project in Ohio into national flood control program. The bill authorizes federal assumption of past and future land-purchase expenditures, advances 1.5 million to the conservancy district, and allows use of a 2 million state contribution. Land acquisitions must finish before flood control takes effect.
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Washington
Muskingum Conservancy
Ohio
Senate
House
Muskingum Valley
White House
Conservancy District
Robert T. Secrest
Caldwell
Doctor's Son Admits Killing Step-Mother
George W. Gore Jr. age 32, son of a wealthy surgeon, confessed to killing his step-mother Nancy Gore 45 in their home on July 23. He said he resented her taking his mother's place and admitted after being shown his wife Kathryn's signed statement. Deputy Sheriff said he brooded over his step-mother hastening his mother's death.
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Gore
Kathryn
Raymond Hayes
Ohio Awards Funds for Student Aid Jobs Estimate
Washington announced a federal allocation of 27,465,319 for student aid by the National Youth Administration. The funding aims to provide part time work for about 450,000 students in the 1940 fiscal year. Indiana receives 715,896 and Ohio 1,432,842 while West Virginia gets 353,565.
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Washington
U.P
Aubrey Williams
Indiana
Ohio
West Virginia
State issues bids for liquor trucking contracts
Columbus State Liquor Control Department announces invitations to bid on liquor trucking contracts today. Bidders may submit proposals as the department seeks new carriers and routes to handle beverage distribution statewide.
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Columbus
U.P
States Department of Liquor Control
Motor Launch Capsizes Off Cape Capines
Forty four persons were missing after a motor launch capsized in high seas off Cape Capines. Fifty six aboard were saved from the eighty persons on board, including passengers and crew.
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Manila
U.P
Cape Capines
Logan Club Leader Urges Southern Ohio On Map Drive
Nelsonville Rotarian James Wells urged a regional effort to promote Southern Ohio. He highlighted parks lakes and recreational potential from Lake Zaleski to the Ohio River, calling for Route 278 improvements and wider publicity to attract longer tourist visits. He noted cooperation across communities and invited local support.
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Logan Club
Southern
Ohio
Nelsonville
James Wells
Logan Chamber of Commerce
Nelson‘ville
Wells
State Forestry Division
Lake Zaleski
Vinton County
Ohio River
Lick Run
Logan
Bill Miller
Bill Woodard
W. B. Lacock
Fate of wage hour, water pollution bills uncertain as Congress nears adjournment
The fate of legislation remains unclear with Sabath questioning chances for wage hour amendments and rulings on water pollution and impeachment bills. Roosevelt warned that defeating the lending bill would curb industry and cost relief recipients, urging accountability from House members who blocked it. Senators Murray and McCarran hinted at deferring relief changes and restoring WPA wage terms, potentially renewing the relief dispute and delaying adjournment.
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Szerese
House
Roosevelt
Sabath
Congress
Sen
James E. Murray
Mont
Senate
Pat McCarran
Ten Boy Scouts Die in Plunge Near Chihuahua
Ten Mexican Boy Scouts were killed and 30 injured when a bus carrying them plunged 50 feet into a canyon north of Chihuahua City after a truck struck the vehicle. Twelve injured were in serious condition, others with bruises. The truck driver Encarnacion Espinoza was jailed under protective custody amid crowd threats.
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EL Paso
Tex
U.P
Chihuahua City
Mexico
Encarnacion Espinoza
Substitute Takes Longer in Death Chamber
A secretive substitute executioner at Charlestown State Prison in Boston took 42 minutes to perform the death sentence, longer than the usual 15 minutes. He stood in for ill Robert G. Elliott and executed Wallace Green, 22, and Walter St. Sauvener, 19, who killed a shopkeeper in a $3.50 holdup.
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Boston
U.P
Charlestown
Robert G. Elliott
Wallace Green
Walter St. Sauvener
Brownhelm Trustees Vote Against Raise in Compensation
Elyria Ohio Brownhelm Township trustees refused a roughly $100 salary increase for each member citing frugality and prudent budgeting in a local economy drive during a recent meeting.
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Elyria
U.P
Brownhelm Township
Attica Lineman Electrocuted By 6900-volt Line
Chris Keller aged 42 of Attica, a lineman for a construction company, was electrocuted yesterday after contact with a 6900-volt power line. Authorities described the incident as a fatal workplace accident with ongoing investigations.
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Ada—Chris Keller
Attica
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