Eight Die as New Plane Crashes Near St Louis
Eight people perish when a newly built transport aircraft crashes minutes after takeoff from Lambert Field. The craft fell on farmland 16 miles north of St Louis, killing six passengers and two pilots. Authorities found the wreckage after a lengthy search. weather was fair and no cause was established. Among the dead are Vernon Omilie, a former World War I hero, and his wife Phoebe Omilie, noted as the first woman pilot in the United States.
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ST. Louis
Lambert-St. Louis Field
Carleton Putnam
St. Louis County
Putnam
Ohio
Vernon Omiie
Phoebe Omiie
United States
One Good Turn Deserves a Detour in New Jersey Roads
Highway Commissioner Donald Sterner backs detour projects to keep traffic smooth and dustless. The note touts detours as practical, contrasting them with political or legal detours. Ad includes a lost money notice offering $17 for loose bills found between University Terrace and the swimming pool.
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New Jersey
Donald Sterner
University Terrace
Swimming Pool
Seven States Start Drive To Clean Streams
Columbus Governor Martin L. Davey opened negotiations with Kentucky Governor A B Chandler for a conference among Ohio Valley states to draft stream pollution and flood control agreements. Other eligible states Indiana West Virginia Pennsylvania Tennessee Illinois and New York received identical communications. Davey said pollution poses a serious menace and urged immediate action under the new treaty, though any agreement would not bind until state ratification.
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Columbus
U.R
Martin L. Davey
A. B. Chandler
Kentucky
Ohio Valley
Ohio
Chandler
United States Congress
Indiana
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Illinois
New York
Ohio River
Davey
Insurgent Democrats Name Dempsey Sports Division Chief
New York Roosevelt campaign names Jack Dempsey as chairman of the New York State sports division. Louis A. Johnson of Clarksburg named head of the veterans advisory committee as part of the veterans vote drive.
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New York
U.P
Louis A. Johnson
Clarksburg
W. Va
The
American Legion
Veterans Advisory Committee
James A. Farley
Jack Dempsey
New York State
Lovelock Sets New Mark in 1500 Meters
At the Berlin Olympic Stadium New Zealand's Jack Lovelock medical student won the 1500 meters in 3 minutes 47.8 seconds breaking the prior world record. Glenn Cunningham was second in 3:48.4 and Luigi Beccali’s 1932 Olympic mark fell as Lovelock set a new standard. Forrest Towns of Augusta won the 110 meter hurdles.
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Olympic Stadium
Berlin
U.R
Jack Lovelock
New Zealand
Lovelock
Bill Bonthron
Princeton
Milwaukee
Luigi Beccali
Italy
Glenn Cunningham
United States
Cunningham
Forrest
Spec
Augusta
Frederick Pollard
Chicago
Naoto Tajima
Japan
Gerhard Stoeck
Germany
Matti Jarvinen
Finland
Five Injured In Akron Strike Riot
Akron police and city workers clashed with about 400 strike pickets at a municipal garage as officers tried to move city trucks through the line. Two policemen plus three truck drivers were injured as a stone shattered a truck window and fighting erupted before the second truck passed.
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Akron
U.P
John Struzewski
Eugene Williams
Louise Pittman Garner Chooses Between Families
Louise Madeline Pittman Garner, 17, split time between two sets of parents after a court decision. The Garners and Pittmans claimed her as daughter. Louise said she belongs with the Pittmans but wants to live with the Garner family in Macon. Two nurses mispaired twins at birth but corrected the error. The Garners later misread a gravestone as Pittman.
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Atlanta-Au
Louise Madeline Pittman-Garner
King Solomon
Daniel Pittman
John C. Garner
Louise
Macon
Pittmans
Ashe
Atlanta
Mrs. Garner
Mrs. Pittman
Garner
Garners
Pittman
Ant New Deal Democrats plan session to preserve courts
DETROIT UP prominent anti New Deal Democrats from 22 states will meet Friday to outline strategy to preserve the Constitution and independence of the courts. Leaders include Bainbridge Colby Henry Breckenridge John H Kirby and others as they consider Jeffersonian tickets and backing of Gov Landon as protest against the New Deal.
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Detroit
James A. Reed
Missouri
Reed
Sterling E. Edmunds
St. Louis
Bainbridge Colby
Col
Henry Breckenridge
John H. Kirby
Texas
Thomas F. Cadwallader
Maryland
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
Eugene Co. Bonniwell
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
William A. Comstock
Michigan
Edmunds
Alf M. Landon
Loyalists Plan Major Offensive From Guadarrama Front
Loyalist military tacticians and government leaders set out for the Guadarrama Mountains to organize the first major offensive against rebels threatening Madrid. The government also empowered the Agrarian Reform Institute to seize farms over 100 hectares in five provinces, redistributing land to land-starved peasants. News from the south remained reasonably favorable to the government.
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Madrid
HIU
Guadarrama
Agrarian Reform Institute
Union Party Candidates To Be on Ohio Ballot
The Union Party moves to place candidates on Ohio ballots after filing petitions with 445,145 signatures. The action seeks to nominate William Lemke of North Dakota as a presidential candidate.
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Union Party
Ohio
Columbus
4U.P
National
Georges. Myers
William Lemke
North Dakota
Early Opening Of GOP Campaign In Ohio Delayed
Ohio Republican leaders moved the official campaign start from August 27 after a Mt. Sterling rally date conflicted with the Madison County Fair in London. A committee meeting said the opening rally would likely occur sometime before August 27.
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Columbus
AUP
Ohio
Mt. Sterling
Madison County
London
Ohio Civil Service calls for county payroll roster by Aug
The State Civil Service commission orders county elective officers to submit a complete payroll roster of all employees before August 15 as part of Supreme Court driven classifications. At Canton IUP a carnival and picnic by central States magicians features professional and amateur conjurors this weekend.
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Columbus U.P
Ohio Supreme Court
State Civil Service Commission
Canton
IUP
Central States
Relief Outlays in 38 States Surpass Internal Tax Revenues
Federal relief expenditures in 38 states last year totaled more than sums those states paid in through internal revenue taxes. Ten states saw the government collect more than ERA and WPA spending within their borders. Ohio and others show relief outlasting tax receipts, with Ohio receiving far more in benefits than it paid in taxes.
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Washington
U.P
U. S. Treasury
Internal Revenue
Emergency Relief Administration
Works Progress Administration
Connecticut
Delaware
Illinois
Kentucky
Michigan
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Rhode Island
Virginia
Ohio
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Idaho
Mississippi
Montana
New Mexico
North Dakota
South Carolina
South Dakota
Utah
Wyoming
Explosions entomb 57 miners in Barnsley England
A series of mine explosions in Barnsley England entombed 57 men. Doctors reported all were dead as bodies were recovered from the pit and 15 were found in one location. Officials said the fire appeared extinguished.
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Barnsley
England
Union Group Claims 8000 Steel Recruits
Pittsburgh dispatch reports the John L. Lewis led campaign to unionize the steel industry enters its second month with leaders claiming 8000 recruits among about 440000 non union workers and 150 paid organizers active in mills across the nation. Steel executives plan time and a half pay for overtime and express strong opposition to outside organizing efforts. Philip Murray of United Mine Workers announces organizers in almost every plant.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
John L. Lewis
Steel Company
Philip Murray
United Mines Workers of America
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Actress and Husband Renew Court Struggle
Hollywood actress Mary Astor and her former husband Dr. Franklyn Thorpe escalated their child custody dispute with new legal maneuvers. Thorpe won a victory by ordering Astor to appear in court to answer deposition questions about her claim that he was married when they wed in Yuma, Arizona in 1931.
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Los Angeles
Mary Astor
Franklyn Thorpe
Hollywood
Miss Astor
Yuma
Ariz
Swimmer's Mate Will Sue Olympic Committee
Berlin, U P motion reported by United Press states Art Jarrett husband of Eleanor Holm backstroke champion barred by the Olympic committee over alleged drinking will sue the committee. Mrs Jarrett declined comment and will likely accept an offer from the Twentieth Century Film Co.
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Berlin
U.P
Art Jarrett
Eleanor Holm
Olympic Committee
Jarrett
Twentieth Century Film Co
Aluminum of America Announces Second 5 Percent Wage Increase
Pittsburgh reports that Aluminum Company of America raises wages for 20,000 hourly rated employees by about five percent within ten months. The move marks the second increase in the period.
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Pittsburgh
Aluminum Company of America
Restraining Order Halts Wapakoneta Power Plant Plan
A restraining order issued today blocks construction of a municipal power plant at Wapakoneta. The order names W. B. Priest as a local stakeholder. Ohio's 1036 peach crop is expected to be the lightest in 15 years, per F. H. Beach of the Ohio Horticultural Society.
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Columbus
U.R
Ohio
F. H. Beach
Ohio Horticultural Society
Maintains Innocence Before Death in Chair
John Pleyer, 31, convicted slayer of a Cleveland butcher, died in the Ohio Penitentiary electric chair while insisting on his innocence to state witnesses and reporters. Death row had one occupant, James Brown, 28, Cleveland, convicted of killing a railroad detective.
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Columbus
U.P
John Pleyer
Cleveland
Ohio
James Brown
Two Killed as Greyhound Bus Overturns near Huntingdon
A Greyhound bus traveling from Chicago to New York overturned on William Penn Highway near Water Street west of Huntingdon Pennsylvania. Two people are confirmed dead including Joseph Kissh of Youngstown Ohio, with an unidentified young woman and possibly a third victim among 13 injured. The bus was driven by George Kukich of Pittsburgh.
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Huntingdon
U.P
Greyhound
William Penn
Joseph Kissh
Youngstown
Water Street
Here
George Kukich
Pittsburgh
Chicago
New York
Officers Demoted for Alleged Spy Activities
Assistant Secret Service Chief Joseph Murphy and Chief Agent Grady L Boatwright of the St Paul Office were demoted for allegedly spying on G Men activities. Treasury officials said Murphy ordered inquiries into G Man activities without authority. Departmental jealousy was blamed for the action.
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Washington
U.P
Secret Service
Joseph Murphy
Grady L. Boatwright
St. Paul
Treasury
Murphy
Seven Die in Head-on Crash on U S 31 Michigan
Seven people were killed in a two car head-on collision on U S Highway 31 near Niles Michigan. Victims included Herbert Hizer Eugene Newby and Howard Kelly of St Louis Missouri Joe Hill of Niles Lorene Barr Mishawaka Roy Warner of Culver and Richard Peterson of South Bend. The cars were travelling at high speed with no witnesses. The St Louis men were part of the Sixth Infantry in Michigan for Second Army maneuvers.
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Niles
Mich
U. S. Highway No. 31
Here
Herbert J. Hizer
St. Louis
Eugene Newby
Howard C. Kelly
Joe Hill
Lorene Vanetta Barr
Mishawaka
Ind
Roy Warner
Culver
Richard A. Peterson
South Bend
Sixth Infantry
Michigan
Hill
Indiana
Landons Birthplace Speech Set for August 22
Gov Alf Landon will deliver his first major campaign address on August 22 in his Pennsylvania birthplace. Initial engagements include West Middlesex Pa on August 24 and Chautauqua New York and Buffalo August 26, signaling a national swing toward the central farm belt where GOP leaders focus hopes for victory.
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Topeka
U.P
Alf M. Landon
Pennsylvania
West Middlesex
Chautauqua
N. Y
Buffalo
Farm Belt
WPA employment rises in Ohio driven by 146231 on 3392 projects
The state headquarters reported 146 231 persons employed on 3 392 WPA projects in Ohio for the week ended Aug 1, an increase of 1 204 from the prior week.
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Columbus
Ohio
Idaho the dog begins two year jail term in drowning case
In Brockport New York Idaho a German shepherd airedale mongrel was sentenced to confinement until October 1 1938 for contributing to the drowning of 14 year old Russell Breeze. Miss Mary Foubister of the Rochester Dog Protective Association cares for Idaho during the period awaiting release and public reaction mixed with approval and sympathy.
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Idaho
Brockport
N. Y
U.P
Mary Foubister
Rochester Dog Protective Association
Victor Fortune
Miss Foubister
Justice of the Peace
Homer B. Bene
Russell Maxwell Breeze
Justice Benedict
Benedict
Donald Duff
Breeze
Rebels Plan Rival Labor Organization
Washington dispatch reports that 10 John L. Lewis rebel unions will delay forming a rival labor group to the American Federation of Labor until after the November elections. They aim to decide after the Tampa convention, as the AFL suspends the CIO factions. The union leadership vows not to disband while awaiting possible seating at the AFL convention.
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John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
Executive Council
John P. Frey
Washington
Tampa
Lewis
Federation
Committee For
Industrial Organization
William Green
A. F. of
C. S. CO
CIO
A. F. of L
Sales Tax on Food Sparks Ohio Debate in Columbus
John L. Marsh of the Ohio Petroleum Industries Committee condemned Governor Davey’s food tax exemption plan as unsound stating each exemption would cost Ohio $12,000,000 and trigger tax headaches again. Edward Bryant, missing from Coalgrove, was found in Plain City, Ohio, after leaving for Columbus.
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Ohio
Marsh
Columbus
Edward Bryant
Coalgrove
Plain City
Ohio building and loan association report 1935 index
Indication of improved business in Ohio is shown in the annual report of the state superintendent of building and loan associations for 1935. The document summarizes activity in the sector, highlighting growth and stability within the year across the state.
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Columbus
Ohio
Building and Loan Aasotelations
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