Young West Virginia Senator Foresees Break With Lewis
Sen. Bush D. Holt of West Virginia told a non union audience that a breach between President Roosevelt and John L. Lewis would occur before 1940. Holt claimed Lewis’s political clout wanes while the American worker seeks jobs and prosperity and praised Gov. Martin L. Davey for calling in the National Guard during the steel strike. He predicted Davey would win Southern Democratic support for the presidential nomination.
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Akron-Aup
Bush D. Holt
West Virginia
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
Holt
Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Washington
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
National Guard
Davey
Japs Rush Fresh Troops Into North China Conflict
In Shanghai bombardment and air raids rattle the city as Japan pours 50,000 troops into North China. Casualties include 300 dead and 500 wounded from a Nanking Road blast. among the injured are Americans Billingham and Miss Tenney.
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Shanghai
U.P
China
Nanking Road
Anthony Billingham
Nashville, Tenn
New York Times
Winngon
Blanche Tenney
British French Hunt Submarine Pirates
Paris report says Britain and France tightened orders to track and retaliate against submarine pirates who have attacked numerous foreign merchant ships in recent weeks. Authorities instructed fleets to pursue and counteract such attacks.
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Paris
U.P
France
Great Britain
Kennedy Candidate Opens 39th USWV National Encampment
Alfred J. Kennedy of New York emerged as a leading candidate for commander in chief as the United Spanish War Veterans opened its 39th annual National Encampment in Columbus. The four day convention drew about 20 000 members from the parent group and the auxiliary and affiliated bodies.
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Columbus
U.P
Alfred J. Kennedy
New York
United
Women's Auxiliary
Assign Gallia Jurist To Portsmouth Case
Chief Justice Carl V. Weygandt assigned Judge William R. White of Gallia to hear a strike injunction case in Portsmouth on August 25.
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Gallia
Portsmouth
Columbus
U.P
Carl V. Weygandt
Ohio Supreme Court
William R. White
Gallipolis
Major New Deal measures outlined for 75th Congress
Washington outlines enacted measures including the Wagner-Steagall housing bill the unemployment census farm tenancy CCC extension RCFC hot oil gold stabilization fund dollar devaluation neutrality act new guffey coal act sugar quota rail pensions act Supreme Court retirement act lower court reorganization cotton loans work relief fund Miller-Tydings price maintenance act Bonneville Dam administration tax loophole act. It lists failed enactments such as Supreme Court enlargement government reorganization wages and hours control regional authorities and anti-lynching bill.
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Washington
U.P
Wagner-Steagall
Civilian Conservation Corps
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Miller-Tydings
Bonneville
Supreme Court
Tennessee Valley Authority
Four Women Attacked as Chicago Hunted Sex Crime Suspects
Chicago police, led by Chief Prendergast, hunt an ape-like suspect after the murder and assault of Anna Kuchta, a 19-year-old student nurse, while four more women report attacks. A 50-year-old domestic and several others are victimized as the search includes hundreds of suspects and a note allegedly linked to Miss America contestant Michaeline DeLeau.
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Chicago
AUP
Anna Kuchta
Edith Reuter
Ruby Stockel
Anna Hollender
Michaeline DeLeau
New Orleans
John Prendergast
John L. Sullivan
Miss Kuchta
Gunman Taken Back to Prison
Joseph J. Bruno former Republican leader of Kelayres Pennsylvania rushed through legal steps to return to Pennsylvania to resume serving a life sentence for his role in the 1934 election eve massacre. He escaped a Pottsville guard last December and was captured Sunday in New York. Bruno's influence at Kelayres waned in 1934 and a parade of his former followers taunted him as shots were fired killing five marchers.
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New York
U.P
Joseph J. Bruno
Kelayres
Pennsylvania
Bruno
a_ Pottsville
Authorities Scoff at Sacco Vanzetti Memorial Plan
On the 10th anniversary of Sacco and Vanzetti's execution Massachusetts Governor and Boston Mayor rejected a proposal to place a permanent memorial on Boston Common. The plan came from the Sacco Vanzetti Memorial Committee, an offshoot of the defense committee that dissolved after the executions.
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Boston
U.P
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Massachusetts
Boston Common
Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial Committee
Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee
Subway Car Jumps Track Injuring Twenty Nine in Newark-NY Ride
A five car Newark to New York subway train jumped the track injuring twenty nine people, four seriously. The incident occurred today as the Brooklyn elevated line continued to operate with delays.
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New York
Newark
N. J
Release Literary Convict Today After 13 Year Term
Ernest Booth, a 39 year old bank robber turned writer, is to be released from Folsom Prison today after 13 years. His wife Valverde Booth had campaigned since 1924 for clemency. Booth authored Ladies of the Mob and We Rob a Bank and wrote for detective and literary magazines.
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Ernest Booth
Valverde Booth
Prison Board of Pardons and Paroles
Clara Bow
Henry L. Mencken
American Mercury
Booth
San Quentin
Loylle
Tourists Seek State Probe Into Soviet Landing Ban
Angry passengers on the Italian liner Roma say 50 of 543 cruise members were denied landings at Yalta during a Mediterranean voyage with no Soviet explanation. Fourteen Rotterdam travelers report being prevented from docking at Leningrad during a July port call.
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NEW York
AUP
State Department
Roma
Yalta
Crimea
Rotterdam
Leningrad
Rest doctors order for Detroit radio priest
Father Charles E. Coughlin, famed Detroit radio priest, ordered by physicians to abandon Shrine of the Little Flower activities and take a complete rest after collapsing during a Sunday pilgrimage service.
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Detroit-Au
Charles E. Coughlin
Hope Is Renewed for 6 Lost Russian Fliers
In Moscow a renewed hope emerged that aviator Sigmund Levanevsky and five companions, missing since August 15 during a flight over the North Pole toward the United States, are alive after faint radio signals were received on their transmitter wavelength.
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Moscow-Ru
Sigismund Levanevsky
North Pole
United States
Jetee Radio Picks Up Distress From British Freighter Noemikulia
The Jetee Radio Station intercepted distress signals from the British freighter Noemikulia off the Catalan coast of Spain reporting bombardment by two planes marked with white crosses in black circles.
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Marseilles
U.P
Jetee
Noemikulia
Catalan
Spain
Wounded Deputy Marshal Hit by His Own Gun
Deputy Marshal Raymond Shippey of Chagrin Falls was hospitalized with a bullet wound near his heart after his pistol fell as he stooped to pick up parking tickets. The incident occurred in Cleveland Ohio.
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Cleveland
Raymond Shippey
Chagrin Falls
Fire losses mount as CCC youths battle Shoshone blaze
In Cody Wyoming 700 CCC youths fought a three day blaze in Shoshone National Forest 2000 acres burned with 12 charred bodies in the morgue and more than 40 wounded. Several dead identified among the eight or more missing include CCC enrollees and BPR workers as rescuers described a terrified dash through flames.
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National Forest
Cody
Wyo
U.R
Shoshone National Forest
CCC
Yellowstone National Park
Black Water Rim Rock
Thermopolis
Bureau of Public Roads
Erl Davis
Roads Bureau
Davis
Forest Service
Harold Rogers
George, Tex
James Sabin
Forestry Service
Hyattville
Rex Hale
Bill Lee
Alfred Clayton
Forest Ranger
Roy Bevin
Smithville
Tex
Hopi Snake Dance Draws Tourists Amid Rain Warning
Thousands of visitors watched the Hopi snake dance as priests of the Snake and Antelope fraternities prayed to underground water gods for welfare. The ceremony drew curious tourists while residents prepared to flee the pueblo to escape imminent torrential rains forecast within hours.
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Waspi
Hopi Reservation
Ariz
Aup
America
Changes in Liquor Act Go Into Effect Today
Ohio adopts changes to the Liquor Control Act effective today. Drug stores lose liquor sales on prescription while still selling alcohol, a $50 permit is created for prepared cocktails and ready-mixed beverages, and club permit fees rise from $100 to $200. A dry community must return 99 percent of unearned permit fees to holders under the new section.
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Columbus
Posts Huge Bond Gets WPA Wage
Charles Cummings, a WPA supervisor, posted property valued at 26 000 as bond for Willie Lugge. Judge Darius A. Brown remarked that a man with so much WPA property is not a matter for the court in this proceeding.
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Kansas City
U.P
Charles Cummings
WPA
Willie Lugge
Darius A. Brown
Jobless March Upon Hopkins Demand Work
Two thousand WPA workers marched in Washington seeking reinstatement after dismissal and not finding private jobs. David Lasser of the Workers Alliance presented demands to WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins seeking open relief and protection for those offered temporary private employment.
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Washington
Works Progress Administration
David Lasser
Workers Alliance
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
Congress
Hopkins
Work Relief Agency
Alliance
AFL To Plan New Tactics In Labor War
Atlantic City N J April details the AFL executive council meeting in secret sessions to map next moves against John L Lewis CIO and draft plans for the annual convention where CIO unions may be expelled. William Green notes the Federal Housing Act as the era's key law and laments the lack of a wage and hour bill from the 75th Congress.
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Atlantic City
N. J
A.P
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
A. F. of L
CIO
William Green
Green
A. F. of L. Executive Council
Congress
Speedy trial planned for shotgun slayer Borgwardt
Johannes Borgwardt 23 faces a speedy trial after confessing to the shotgun slaying of Ruth Cranston 47 in Knox Township. Authorities say he killed her believing she alienated his ex wife Evelyn Mae Cranston 20 who divorced him in June 1936.
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Lisbon
U.P
Johannes Borgwardt
Ruth Cranston
Knox Township
Borgwardt
Three Face Narcotics Charges After Arrest
Three people were to be arraigned today before U S Commissioner Robert Newton on narcotics charges linked to a seizure of several thousand dollars worth of heroin. The arrests followed a raid on a Columbus hotel Saturday and involved Dr Roy Boynton 56 Newton Mass Fred Sheehey 42 of Columbus and Eva Sheehey divorced wife of North Lewisburg Ohio.
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Columbus
U. S
Robert Newton
Roy Boynton
Newton
Mass
Fred Sheehey
Sheehey
Eva
North Lewisburg
Ohio
Hundreds of cash found on unidentified highway victim near La Porte
Authorities in La Porte Indiana received hundreds of claims to ten thousand dollars in cash found in the pockets of an unidentified automobile victim who died on a highway near the city. The man had no identifying marks on his body or clothing. The car driver was exonerated.
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la Porte
Ind
Mine Truckers Of Area To Discuss Prices
Southern Ohio truck mine operators from Perry Hocking Vinton and Athens counties will meet at the American Legion Building Nelsonville on Wednesday night August 25 at 7 oclock. The Guffey Vinson Act coal industry regulation is law and the local association will monitor its administration and district board No. 4 code prices for coal sizes and grades are being worked out by Clifford Hawk Carbon Hill a district board representative.
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Nelsonville
Southern
Ohio
Truck Mine Operators Association
American Legion
Perry
Hocking
Vinton
Athens
Guffey-Vinson
Ohio District Board
Clifford Hawk
Carbon Hill
Twelve Die in Auto Accidents
Ohio weekend fatalities include Leona Edwards 20 near Sunbury died from fire after her car left a ditch near Galena. Le Roy Wheeland 40 and E E Meyers 62 died in a Westerville collision with Tessy Wheeland 39 and Kendal Ulray 14 injured. Reed Conger 23 from Washington Pa and Eugene Sarchi 54 from New York killed near Newark.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Leona Edwards
Sunbury
Galena
Tessy Wheeland
Kendal Ulray
Westerville
le Roy Wheeland
E. E. Meyers
Lithopolis
Eugene Sarchi
New York
Reed Conger
Washington, Pa
Newark
Rebels Push Toward Santander as Nationalist Army Advances
Nationalist forces led by Francisco Franco moved from the Ruigomez Hills to within 15 miles of Santander. The insurgents captured 30 more towns and villages, 18 in the last 24 hours, bringing total Nationalist holdings to over 100.
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Santander
U.P
Francisco Franco
Ruigomez
Ohio Set For Major Federal Aid From Last Congress
The departing Congress left a string of bills with direct impact on Ohio. A new 1.5 billion relief measure will employ about 92,500 in Ohio during the fiscal year ending July 1. Ohio 1938 expenditures are expected at 80 to 90 million, down from 138 million in 1936. The Civilian Conservation Corps will operate about 6,480 workers in 40 Ohio camps. Flood control projects authorize 24.9 million for Ohio River walls and levees and 60 million for dams on tributaries above Cincinnati. The Wagner-Steagall housing bill may revive slum clearance in Cleveland Cincinnati and Toledo.
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Works Progress Administration
Ohio
Civilian Conservation Corps
Congress
Whittington
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Wagner-Steagall
Cleveland
Toledo
New Deal
Roosevelt
Senate
Supreme Court
House
Rival Groups Emerge From Intercel War
Washington discusses looming Democratic Party splits after a bitter 1937 program session. Conservatives within the party push to challenge New Deal forces ahead of the 1940 convention as Roosevelt considers a public counterattack and possible November session.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
John L. Lewis
Labor
Committee For Industrial
Lewis
Noted Sports Figure Buried in Boston
Funeral services were held today for George Wright a 90 year old national sports figure who died Saturday Wright played shortstop on the Cincinnati Red Stockings America s first all professional team and founded Wright & Ditson sporting goods in 1871
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Boston
U.R
George Wright
Wright
Cincinnati Red Stockings
Amereica
Wright & Ditson
Sporting
Ohioans Leave Shanghai Refugees Return on Jefferson
Mrs. B. F. Perry of Jefferson, QC and her two sons were among American refugees evacuated from Shanghai aboard the S. S. Jefferson. State department announced the removal as part of new measures.
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Shanghai
Washington
U.P
B. F. Perry
Jefferson
S. S. Jefferson
State Department
No Trade Balance Blamed on Drought by USDA
The United States imported $2 of agricultural goods for every $1 exported last year, a ratio blamed on drought. The report notes record imports of beef pork corn and other grains as the drought forced greater purchases abroad.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Department of Agriculture
Department
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