Congress faces five major tasks before adjournment
Congress pushes toward Saturday adjournment with plans to act on the tax loophole bill sugar control the 78 million deficiency appropriation Wagner Steagall housing and Senate confirmation of Hugo Black. The House races to pass the deficiency bill while a wage and hour revival faces uncertain support and a party caucus is likely Thursday night. The first draft of 1938 tax program expected in two weeks may revise excess profits and undistributed corporate taxes.
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Washington
U.P
Congress
House
Wagner-Steagall
Senate
Hugo L. Black
Supreme Court
House Rules Committee
Henry B. Steagall
Ala
House Committee
Roosevelt
FBI handwriting expert to testify in Hahn murder trial
Cincinnati authorities said a Federal Bureau of Investigation handwriting expert will be called to testify in the murder trial of Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn 31 accused of poisoning two elderly men. The prosecutor said the expert would substantiate the state's theory about forged documents and a will. Police are probing a dozen other poisonings of seniors.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Anna Marie Hahn
Gordon Scherer
George Gsellman
Wagner
Sawyer May Re Enter Democratic Contests For Governor Bid
Former Lieutenant Governor Charles Sawyer informs State Representative Gus Kasch he is seriously considering a Democratic nomination bid for governor next year. Kasch urged Sawyer to run as the only Ohio Democrat who can remove the stench from the nostrils of the good decent people of the state.
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Akron
U.P
Charles Sawyer
Gus Kasch
Kasch
Sawyer
Ohio
City Council Orders Removal of Hitching Posts
Dobbin loses another lap in progress as Massillon council orders removal of all hitching posts remaining on city streets.
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Massillon
Massillon-Au
P—Dobbin
Drive to Restore Hapsburgs Marks Anniversary
A new push to restore the Hapsburg monarchy began today in Vienna, launched on the fiftieth anniversary of Emperor Charles birth. The movement centers on reviving royal influence in Austria amid lingering political tensions and public debate.
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Hapsburgs
Vienna
Hapsburg Monarchy
Charles
Woman Dies After Auto Crash Near Delaware
Mrs. Freda Arnold 30 of Columbus died in a hospital following injuries from a skid and loss of control two miles south of here.
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Delaware
Freda Arnold
Columbus
Here
Nine Justice Court Stability Endorsed by Van Devanter
Willis Van Devanter, 78 and retired, says in a rare exclusive interview that no further efforts will be made to alter the size of the Supreme Court. He argues a nine member court provides stability as Senate considers Hugo Black's nomination and Roosevelt's push to change the court.
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United Press
Ellicott City
U.P
Willis van Devanter
United States Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Washington
Senate
Hugo L. Black
Ala
Roosevelt
van Devanter
Beating Sparks Brooklyn Race Riot After Accosting White Woman
Albert Fugerson, a black man, allegedly provoked a race riot in Brooklyn by harassing a white woman, Mrs. Andrew Rera. Rera rebuked him, was knocked down, and white bystanders were attacked as a mob of about 20 black men clashed with police and rioters. Christopher Boyne, a white motorist, was dragged from his car, beaten, and robbed.
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New York
Brooklyn
Albert Fugerson
Andrew Rera
Christopher Boyne
Boyne
NYA Orders One Third Cut in NYA Part-Time Jobs
Washington AUP The National Youth Administration orders a one third reduction in students holding NYA part-time jobs. State administrators must cut to free up federal funds for adult unemployment relief and support BYRA program reductions in employment recreation and vocational training.
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Washington -Aup
National Youth Administration
NYA
BYRA
Rebels claim surround 15000 loyalists on Santander front
Nationalists report surrounding 15,000 loyalist troops in the Reinosa sector of the Santander front as a fierce rebel offensive continues.
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ST. Jean DE Luz
Reinosa
Santander
Organizers Seek Organizers Union in Detroit
Herbert Brown of the United Automobile Workers Union No. 431 leads a push to form an organizers union. He says Homer Martin has hire and fire power over organizers and demands a board with hiring power and guaranteed seniority rights.
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Detroit
U.P
Herbert Brown
United Automobile Workers Union No. 431
Homer Martin
UAW
Brown
Censure Davey For Choice of Home Chaplain
At the Ohio American Legion convention in Columbus Gov. Martin L. Davey was censured for appointing a non veteran as chaplain at Sandusky Soldiers and Sailors Home. Delegates urged future appointments be veterans only and disciplined wearers of insignia at strike meetings. An estimated 159000 watched the two mile parade.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio American Legion
Cincinnati
Martin L. Davey
Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors
Sandusky
American Legion
Logan Bank Receiver Declares Final Dividend Payment
Stanley McCall receiver announces the sixth and final dividend of 11.82 percent for First Rempe National Bank. Payment to proven creditors will occur at 9 am on Thursday August 19 in the receiver's office on the Arcade Building first floor Main Street Logan. Depositors must bring certificates. Total paid reaches 68.82 percent.
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LOGAN
Ohio cities press for state relief financing and tax plan
Officials from Ohio cities meeting with Governor Davey and lawmakers urged immediate state aid for a permanent relief program. They proposed funding options, a county by county relief commission, and a bare majority vote for local relief levies. The group seeks clearer relief laws and a 1937 deficit estimate to guide a special session. Governor Davey cautioned relief pressures may ease as business improves.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Davey
Ohio League of Municipalities
League
State Relief Commission
Paul P. Yoder
Hatchet Men
Senate
Remove Mayor of Chillicothe
James E. Ford, 73, of Chillicothe, was removed from office by Common Pleas Judge Harrison W. Jewell of Delaware after a hearing. Ford faced accusations from Ross County ministers over permitting slot machines and gambling devices in public places with public officers’ knowledge and consent. He had been renominated on the Democratic ticket at the municipal primary last week.
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Chillicothe
U.P
James E. Ford
Harrison W. Jewell
Delaware
Jewell
Ford
Ross County
Negro Lynched: Albert Gooden Shot by Masked Men
In Covington Tennessee the body of Albert Gooden a Black man was found hanging from a bridge railing near town. He had been shot and lynched by six masked men who abducted him from Sheriff Vaughns custody after he was indicted for a white man’s murder. He had been seized from the county jail in Memphis following a mob assault on July 18.
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Covington
Tenn
U.P
Albert Gooden
W. J. Vaughn
Gooden
Memphis
Roosevelt Set to Speak on Roanoke Island Anniversary
President Roosevelt leaves tense foreign matters and a divided Congress to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Virginia Dare on Roanoke Island North Carolina. His address is planned for 3 30 p m EST and will be broadcast across all networks.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
Virginia Dare
Roanoke Island
N. C
Bellevue Boy Hurt by Stone in Explosion Blast
Bertram Newell ten year old boy was struck by a two pound stone hurled by a dynamite explosion and was in critical condition.
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Bellevue
U.P
Bertram Newell
Senate Debates Black Nomination Amid Klan Charge
Senate opens hearings on Hugo L. Black for the Supreme Court amid Copeland accusations that the Alabama senator had Klan backing in 1928. Copeland denounces Black as a Klan sympathizer and ties the issue to anti Catholic bias and New Deal legitimacy.
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Black
J Copeland
Alfred E. Smith
Copeland
Ku Klux Klan
al Smith
Supreme Court
Airway Routed In Hunt for Lost Russians
An emergency airway was routed across the Arctic Circle for American and Canadian fliers seeking a lost Russian plane. Russia ordered ice-breaker Krassin to shore near the 148th Meridian to establish an air base on an ice cap while a second base was set at the Pole for meteorological operations. The search follows the disappearance of Sigismund Levanevsky and five companions on a Moscow to United States flight, with reports of a Russian station transmitting from Simnais.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
U.R
Arctic Circle
Russia
Krassin
Pole
Sigismund Levanevsky
Moscow
United States
Skow
Sinais
Flood Control Bill Sent to Conference on Major Basin Projects
Washington report states the House sent to conference with the Senate the $25 million Flood Control Bill for Ohio and Mississippi basin project work linked to flood control programs.
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Washington
House Today
Senate
Whittington
Ohio
Mississippi
Dr Frederick Nice Buried in Zanesville
Dr Frederick R Niece born near New Marshfield Athens County and once a student at Ohio University was buried in Zanesville after dying of uremic poisoning He practiced dentistry there for 13 years Surviving him are his wife two sons Glenn and Dale three brothers and three sisters. A second item notes University of Michigan Chinese students urging Roosevelt Hull and Congress to declare Japan an aggressor under the nine power treaty.
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Frederick R. Niece
New Marshfield
Athens County
Ohio University
Zanesville
Ohio State University
Nice
Glenn
Dale
Akron
Ray Nice
Athens Rfc
L. B. Nice
Chicago
M. W. Nice
Kingfisher
Okla
Madge Adams
Grace Bowden
Lupe
Ind
Ethel Galbraith
Anderson
Ann Arbor
Mich
U.P
University of Michigan
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Congress
Japan
Invaders Target Shanghai as 100000 Chinese Soldiers Described
Japanese forces launched a grand offensive around Shanghai to dislodge over 100000 Chinese troops as air superiority and rapid reinforcements tightened. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and the government prepared to abandon Nanking if needed while Americans and other foreigners fled Shanghai seeking evacuation to the Philippines and beyond.
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Shanghai
Japan
China
Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Changha
Philippines
Whangpoo
Refugees Evacuated as Warships Aid Shanghai Transit
Refugees voyage from Shanghai to Woosung under British destroyers and Chinese bombing planes. The Dollar Liner President Hoover sails from Manila to Shanghai to rescue Americans, with about 2,600 staying. Tsingtao port fears rise after two Japanese hlde jackets shot by a Chinese nationalist amid mob violence.
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President Jefferson
Manila
Whangpoo
Woosung
Rajputana
Shanghai
Dollar
President Hoover
American Company
Tsingtao
United States
Japan
Teller Tricks Bank Robber in Cleveland Hold Up Fail
In Cleveland a robber named Terrible Tommy attempted a bank holdup at South western Savings & Loan Co with a note threatening death and an outside machine gun. Miss Leona Phillips stayed calm and walked to the back as manager R. H. Spooner activated an alarm, causing Tommy to flee without the dollar.
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Cleveland
U.P
Tommy
Leona Phillips
Miss Phillips
R. H. Spooner
Berea student poet sought in Lover's Lane murder case
Police search rugged hills for George E. Wells 20 Berea College student poet accused by warrant of killing Opal Sturgell 19 on campus Lover's Lane. Witness William Anderson 19 present when she was shot. Wells famed for poem To My Lady. The death may reflect Wells suicide theory.
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Comb Hills
Berea
U.P
George E. Wells
Berea College
Opal Sturgell
Vernon Leer
Wells
Marion L. Sturgell
Houckville
Tor
Campus
Roosevelt to Proclaim War State in Sino Japanese Conflict
President Roosevelt and his cabinet considered issuing a formal proclamation declaring the Sino Japanese hostilities a state of war and applying the neutrality law. Officials debated sending more U S Marines to Shanghai to reinforce relief efforts while Navy and Marine units there prepare to evacuate Americans. The move hinges on the legality of declaring a state of war under the neutrality act as the administration weighs military options.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Mivisers
Shanghai
U. S
Manila
O. F. Reading Dies After Stroke in Athens County
O. F. Reading, 62, a noted Athens County farmer, died at his home on the Athens Pomeroy Road after a second stroke. Born in Jackson County he moved to Athens County at 17 with his parents. Survived by wife Emma L. Moler and children J M Maxwell Ravenna Paul E Reading Cleveland David Reading Detroit Thomas Reading Cleveland Robert Evelyn at home. brother W A Reading. sister Mrs E F Sells Athens. Funeral plans to be announced.
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O. E. Reading
Athens County
Athens-Pomeroy Road
Jackson County
W. Way
J. M. Maxwell
Ravenna
Paul E. Reading
Cleveland
David Reading
Detroit
Thomas Reading
Robert
Evelyn
John Wesley Reading
Reading
W. A. Reading
E. F. Sells
Athens
Methodist Church
Kiisley Opens 250 Prize For Tallest Ohio Corn
State Treasurer Clarence J. Kisley announced a $250 prize for the tallest stalk of Ohio raised corn submitted by a 4-H club member. Entries must reach at least 16 feet 9 inches, be mature, and bear at least one ear. Deadline is October 1.
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Columbus
U.R
Ohio
Clarence J. Kiisley
Nelson G. Kraschel
Town
Iowa
Katsley
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