State Highway rolls 1600 Athens Hocking miners
Columbus Ohio John Jaster Jr state highway department director announced that 1600 unemployed Athens and Hocking County coal miners who worked two days weekly will be dismissed before September 1. The reductions aim to balance the year's budget due to a six percent drop in gasoline tax receipts. A new Oct effective act will switch workers to monthly wages, raising payroll about 1.25 million annually. Economies elsewhere will offset the increase. He pledged the department would end the year without a deficit.
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Columbus
U.P
John Jaster
State Highway Department
Athens
Hocking County
Jaster
Highway Department
State highway cuts hit Athens coal miners in district
Athens officials learned of Director John Jaster s order to dismiss hundreds of coal miners and others assigned to road work. The move follows a WPA relief gap after a summer $29,000 state relief appropriation. not all workers funded by the program were miners.
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Athens
John Jaster
State Highway Department
Shake Up In Ohio Dem Party Control
Ohio Democrats plan a party realignment led by gubernatorial candidate Charles Sawyer and Senator Robert Bulkley as state central committee meets to organize the fall campaign. Arthur L. Limbach of New Philadelphia expected to become state executive committee chairman succeeding Francis Poulson of Cleveland. Limbach would direct the state campaign and a campaign committee, with dates set for a platformful convention likely in late September after the Republican meeting on September 14-15.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Charles Sawyer
Robert J. Bulkley
U. S. Senate
State Central Committee
Arthur L. Limbach
New Philadelphia
Francis W. Poulson
Cleveland
Limbach
Central Committee
Two Youths Held for Kidnapping Canton Salesman
John A. Blake of Canton told Marshal West Priest that two youths awakened him in his automobile on a Columbus street and forced him to drive them to Newark and Johnstown where a robbery was planned. The pair allegedly abducted the salesman to aid in the crime.
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Johnstown
U.P
West
Canton
John A. Blake
Priest
Columbus
Newark
French trans Atlantic plane lands at Horta in Azores
Lieutenant De Vasseau Paris piloting the big flying boat landed today at Horta Azores as it proceeds toward New York scheduled for tomorrow with plans to continue across the Atlantic.
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Paris
U.P
de Vasseau Paris
Horta
Azores Island
New York
Conservation Division Adds 15000 Acres as Game Refuge
Ohio Conservation Division expands its game management by adding 15000 acres of State Welfare Department lands. The tracts border eight welfare institutions and will be designated exclusive game refuge areas posted to hunting restrictions within weeks. Includes property near the Hospital for Epileptics at Gallipolis.
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Columbus
Ohio Conservation Division
State Welfare Department
Lawrence Wooddell
Gallipolis
Windy telephone talkers doomed in Ghent Ohio
In Ghent Ohio the Northern Ohio Telephone Co. with 116 subscribers uses an automatic shut up device. It gives a warning buzz and then cuts off service after five to eight minutes of conversation. The invention aims to curb long winded telephone talks.
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Ghent
U.P
Ohio
Northern Ohio Telephone Co
Hawks fatal crash linked to basic flying rule
Buffalo report says veteran pilot Frank Hawks lost his life after misjudging a cross wind while flying a small cabin bi plane. The aircraft tangled with electric wiring and burst into flames. passenger J Hazard Campbell died later. The accident happened near East Aurora as Hawks, vice president of Gwinn Aircar Co., was picking up a prospective buyer.
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Buffalo
N. Y
V.P
Frank Hawks
Hawks
J. Hazard Campbell
Buffalo General Hospital
Campbell
Fight in CIO Defense of Wagner Act sparks clash
Washington U P A report says the CIO refused to revise the Wagner Act prompting a looming congressional fight over clarifying changes. John L Lewis reiterates CIO opposition while President Roosevelt says no specific amendments are agreed and all sides will study the issue before any revision.
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Washington
U.P
Committee For Industrial Organization
John L. Lewis
CIO
Roosevelt
William Green
A. F. of L
Green
Abandon Interurban Line Dayton to Columbus Approved
Federal Judge Robert R. Nevin approved an order allowing Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad Co to abandon its interurban line between Dayton and Columbus, effective November 1. The ruling clears the path for the discontinuation of service on the Dayton to Columbus route.
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Dayton
U.P
Robert R. Nevin
Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad Co
Columbus
Love Triangle Gun Victim Improves at Hospital
Lloyd Angell aged 29 is reported improving at Holzer Hospital after being shot by Delbert Blazer aged 17 in a love triangle involving Mrs Angell. Angell believes in his wife’s fidelity amid alleged admissions. Blazer, released after arraignment on shooting with intent to kill, had bond set at 1000 by Judge Clark. Mrs Angell, 20, remains jailed without bond for the moment.
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Gallipolis
Lloyd Angell
Delbert Blazer
Clark
Garfield Blazer
A. K K. Merriman
Angell
Gallia County
Trace Crew in Torso Killings
In Cleveland police detained eight men and a woman at a rag and paper plant after a junk dealer claimed a quilt used to wrap the 13th torso murder victim was left there. Investigators questioned workers and the dealer Elmer Cummings before concluding the quilt went to the rag company. In Ambridge, Pennsylvania, four youths set a world bicycle marathon record of 500 consecutive hours while awaiting school reopening.
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Cleveland
U.P
Kingsbury Run
Scovill Rag and Paper Company
Central Station
Elmer Cummings
Cummings
Ambridge
Woman cuts hand and gouges eye after prayer in Merced
Mrs Cla rene Harwell, 26, reportedly used scissors to gouge her right eye and a chopping axe on her left hand after a Bible reading in their Merced California home. Her husband Wood row Harwell, 20, aided in prayer as neighbors were alerted for help.
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Merced
Cal
U.P
Clarene Harwell
Harwell
Hell
Mrs. Harwell
Gangster Weinberg testifies against Hines in lottery case
George Weinberg the talkative gangster on state’s evidence testified against James J. Hines and Tammany Hall leaders on trial for shielding the Dutch Schultz lottery racket. He said he delivered Hines’s weekly share and witnessed a judge dismiss a wagonload of captured gangsters after Hines ordered it, with the judge promising to “take care of it.”
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New York
U.P
George Weinberg
James J. Hines
Tammany Hall
Thomas E. Dewey
Weinberg
Schultz
Hines
Hulan Capshaw
Prayers No Use: Mother and preacher charged with manslaughter
A Los Angeles grand jury charged Mrs Lillian Volstad and Rev Wilbur Alvis with manslaughter over the death of Francis Warren Volstad nine, saying their religious belief prevented a needed appendectomy. The two knelt at his bedside and prayed instead of seeking medical care.
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Los Angeles
Lillian Volstad
Wilbur Alvis
Francis Warren Volstad
Break Picket Line in Fight With Unionists
WYANDOTTE Mich A skeleton force of 60 workers broke through a picket line at the Mc Cord Radiator Company after a brief riot that left two dozen beaten and many turned away. Sixty men entered the plant and returned to work, idle since a strike began August 12.
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Wyandotte
Mich
U.P
McCord Radiator Company
Arthur Cobb
Jap Planes Crash Kills Six Injures One Hundred Ninety
Two airplanes collided over Omori today and crashed into an iron works starting a fire. All six fliers died while the crash injured 190 workers. Fire spread but was controlled.
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Tokyo
Omori
Mary Astor Injured After Horse Incident
Movie star Mary Astor was confined to bed today with injuries from a fall off a horse. U.P. reports the incident occurred on the set and she is receiving medical care.
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Mary Astor
Hollywood
U.P
Italy defies non intervention pact to aid Spanish rebels
In Rome and London the world watches Italy’s planes and troops move to bolster Franco amid Britain’s fears of Mediterranean destabilization. Mussolini defends the troop shipments as replacements, while Britain, France, and others push for diplomatic channels to curb the Spanish civil war.
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Italy
Spain
Europe
Pyrenees
Ebro
Francisco Franco
Gandesa
Alcaniz
Duce
Franco
Valencia
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini
Rome
Virginio Gayda
Giornale D’'Italia
Great Britain
Germany
Mediterranean
France
Britain
China
Haakow
Hitler
Nicholas Horthy
Hungary
Dies Group to Resume Probe Asaid Aid
Chairman Martin Dies announces the Dies Committee will seek executive department aid from President Roosevelt to expand its investigation into un American activities. He says sensational disclosures are planned regardless, hoping for cooperation before the eastern subcommittee's hearings next week.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Eastern Subcommittee
Martin Dies
Tex
Gallia Farmer Waits Pardon Hope Grows
Gallia County farmer Ann Childers, sentenced to one to 20 years in Ohio Penitentiary for shooting to wound, sees renewed pardon prospects as Governor Davey clemency secretary Wray Bevins studies the case and will make recommendations within two weeks. The trial hinged on common law rather than statutes for trap gun damage in a watermelon patch.
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Columbus
Ann Childers
Gallia County
Ohio
Wray Bevins
Martin L. Davey
Childers
Pension Investigator Dismissed Over Arrest in Ohio
Milton S. Cox, pension investigator and member of the Vinton County Democratic committee, is dismissed effective Sept. 1 by Henry J Berrodin of the Ohio Aid for the Aged. A warrant was issued for Cox charging intimidation of a pensioner and interference with primary ballots in McArthur.
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Columbus
Henry J Berrodin
Ohio Aid For the Aged
Milton S. Cox
Berrodin
Cox
Vinton County Democratic Committee
McArthur
Four convicts roasted alive in Philadelphia prison cells
Philadelphia coroner alleges four prisoners died from forced steam exposure as discipline. He says guards may have received orders from higher-ups and promises arrests as investigations continue. Hunger strike had involved over 600 inmates earlier in the week.
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Philadelphia
Charles M. Hersch
Philadelphia County
Garment Workers Leader Discusses War With Lewis
David Dubinsky president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union held a secret three hour talks yesterday with C. I. O. Chairman John L. Lewis. The meeting aimed at finding a new basis to settle the war between the AFL and the CIO.
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Washington
ULP
David Dubinsky
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
John L. Lewis
Sensational author seeks probate of will in Harding case
Nan Britton of Chicago seeks probate of Alben Freeman's will to establish a potential pro rata share for her daughter. Freeman, once a millionaire, left an estate reportedly worth less than burial costs. Britton had claimed in her book that President Warren G. Harding was the father.
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Miami
Fla.u.p
Nan Britton
Chicago
Alben Freeman
Freeman
Miss Britton
Warren G. Harding
Gallia Girl Escapes After Abduction Near Cadmus
Evelyn Rice a 16 year old Patriot resident escaped unharmed after being tied and forced into a car by three men who drove her over Gallia County near Cadmus and Flag Springs. She said they questioned her about elderly people with money and living alone, and investigators seek the trio with an Illinois license plate.
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Gallipolis
Evelyn
Jesse Rice
Patriot
Gallia County
Miss Rice
Cadmus
Woda
Willian Jenkins
Flag Springs
Abe
Vint Bostie
Bostie
Truck Labor Pact Signed
A joint conference committee of Midwestern truck operators and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced a preliminary labor agreement affecting 250,000 highway truck drivers employed by about 2,000 companies across 11 states. The pact was signed by 17 major operators and union representatives, an AFL affiliate. The agreement covers Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, the Dakotas, and Nebraska.
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Chicago
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
American Federation of Labor
Michigan
Ohio
Indina
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Dakotas
Nebraska
Berry Says WPA Campaign Charges Heavy in Tennessee
Sen George L Berry claims Tennessee Works Progress Administration employees were assessed 125000 for the campaign He says the information has been presented to WPA Administrator Harry L Hopkins and other federal officials but remains unacted upon A tunnel cave in near St Clairsville Ohio claims one life Stanley Vigioguchs 22 of Campbellton per UP report
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Washington
U.P
George L. Berry
Tennessee
Tenessee Works Progress Administration
Berry
Harry L. Hopkins
ST. Clairsville
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
iStanley Vigioguchs
Camboliy
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Trace Crew
Margaret Sikora
Rudolph
Edward Solomon
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Eddy
Pope
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James P. Pope
Ida
D. Worth Clark
Hyde Park
New Deal
Maryland
Georgia
GOP
Sen
Walter F. George
U. S
Lawrence S. Camp
Rep
David J. Lewis
White House
Millard F. Tydings
United Press
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Battling Frank
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ethel du Pont
Wilmington
Del
Hersch
Garment Workers
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Gallia
WPA
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