Earthquake Toll Rising Across Chilean Cities
Fragmentary reports from the southern Chilean earthquake put dead at about 7,946 with 16,489 injured or missing. Cities such as Cauquenes San Gregorio Quirihue Longavi Nacimento and Parral were described as destroyed or heavily damaged as ships and troops rushed aid to shattered districts.
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Cauquenes
Concepcion
United Press
Temuco
San Rosendo
Exeter
Talcahuano
San Gregorio
San Carlos
Longavi
Quirihue
Nacimento
Parral
Franco's Army Seizes Barcelona in Catalonia Advance
Rebels led by Gen Francisco Franco's 20 divisions captured Barcelona after a months long offensive. Loyalist leaders fled, and Barcelona became Franco's temporary capital as refugees flooded roads toward Gerona and Figueras.
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Perpignan
U.P
Barcelona
Catalonia
Francisco Franco
Muall VE Leo Vailye
Burgos
Franco
Gerona
Figueras
Plan Drive to Amend Labor Act for Employer Equality
A campaign to amend the National Labor Relations Act to favor employers will start within a week. Republicans and conservative Democrats claim a Senate majority supports changes. Proposals would let employers express opinions on matters of interest and let the board investigate employer petitions for employee elections, ordering elections when warranted.
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Washington—Llp
National Labor Relations Act
Senate
American Federation of Labor Convention
Business Advisory Council Meets Hopkins for First Time
Washington reports say the business advisory council met today with Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins in its advisory capacity. The two day meeting aims to improve government and business cooperation and is seen as the most significant since the council's 1933 creation by Daniel C. Roper.
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Washington
U.P
Business Advisory Council
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Daniel C. Roper
Critic of New Deal Gives Up Citizenship
Jerome Arizona U P James S Douglas a wealthy mine owner born near Quebec Canada and outspoken New Deal critic renounced his United States citizenship. His son Louis S Douglas was director of the federal budget in Roosevelt's early administration.
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Ariz
U.P
Jamess. Douglas
Louis S. Douglas
Roosevelt
United States
Douglas
Quebec
Canada
Mt. Vernon Man Receives Carnegie Hero Medal
William E. Ackerman of Mt. Vernon Ohio was awarded a bronze Carnegie Hero Fund Commission medal for saving three children from a Vernon View residence fire on August 6 1938. The 41 year old merchant rescued Eugene Looker James Looker and Joretta Looker ages five four and three.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
William E. Ackerman
Mt. Vernon
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Vernon View
Ackerman
Eugene K
James L
Joretta Looker
Bricker Proclaims Fight Infantile Paralysis Day in Ohio
Governor Bricker announces Saturday as Fight Infantile Paralysis Day in Columbus Ohio to boost statewide awareness and public health funding.
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Columbus
Bricker
Ohio
Ohio Solons Begin Work On Permanent Relief Bill
In Columbus the House moved to the permanent relief plan after passing a temporary 5 million dollar relief bill. A ripper bill to reorganize unemployment insurance was offered alongside the relief measure, with the House set to consider it next week. The Senate approved the Maston Bill ending earmarking of most sales tax revenue, leaving 12 million to local government.
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Ohio
Columbus
U.P
House
Job Insurance Commission
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Board of Appeals
Senate
Bricker
Denver A. Ford
Fulton
House Taxation Committee
Carlton S. Dargusch
Police Chief Trautman resigns after 40 years in Bucyrus
Police Chief Philip Trautman, age 82, who served the Bucyrus force for over four decades, announced his resignation today.
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Bucyrus
U.P
Philip Trautman
Bucyrus Force
McCaw Named New Chief of Ohio Pensions
Tom McCaw of Dennison was appointed chief of the Ohio old age pension division. He pledged material economies in the division serving more than 112,000 elderly recipients. McCaw, 46, former American Legion state commander, Marietta College graduate, is married with no children. The division operates on a $97,000 monthly budget, $21,000 less than previously. Director Sherwood indicated further key personnel changes likely this week.
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Columbus
Tom McCaw
Dennison
Ohio
McCaw
American Legion
Marietta College
Aid For
Sherwood
Martin Ready To Fight CIO
Detroit Homer Martin head of one UAW faction returns from New York with two lawyers to wage a court fight Saturday for possession of the union funds records and property. He was ousted from CIO executive board and opposes by 18 of 24 original UAW leaders claiming to fight Stalinists while claiming broad rank and file support from about 400000 members.
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Detroit
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers of America
New York
Congress of Industrial Organizations
UAW
Billings Pardon Bid Before State Advisory Board
Sacramento California United Press reports the state advisory pardon board considers today Warren K. Billings pardon application. He and Thomas J. Mooney were imprisoned after the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco. It is Billings’ first application to the board in 22 years.
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Sacramento
Cal
State Advisory Pardon Board
Warren K. Billings
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Billings
Mooney
Northeastern States Grind Under Record Cold Wave
A record cold wave gripped the Northeast from the Great Lakes to Ontario with blizzards and fires causing deaths and extensive damage. Temperatures fell to seven above in New York City and 44 below in Ontario, while Toronto and Boston faced extreme lows. Fires in Connecticut caused over $200000 damage and a life loss at Willimantic. forty four homeless.
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New York
U.P
Great Lakes
New Engand
Ontario
New York State
New England
New York City
Toronto
Boston
New Hampshire
Buffalo
Connecticut
Willimantic
Advertising as a Business Not a Game in Ohio Speech
Wilder Breckenridge of New York City told members of the Ohio Newspaper Association that advertising had shifted from a game to a business. He said the industry is now led by thoughtful, serious, intellectually honest professionals striving to improve methods.
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Columbus
U.P
Wilder Breckenridge
New York City
Ohio Newspaper Association Today
Small School Districts Win State Foundation Aid
Columbus report: State funds must cover minimum operating costs for small districts deemed essential. Criteria include more than one school, fewer than three teachers or an average daily attendance under 180, per Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert ruling.
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Columbus
U.P
Thomas J. Herbert
Missing Coast Guard Members Walk Home
Five Coast Guardsmen feared lost in a life boat on Lake Huron arrived in Cheboygan Michigan after a two day 20 mile hike in sub zero temperatures from the point where they abandoned their boat along the shoreline.
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Cheboygan
Mich
U.P
Coast
Boy 16 Dies After Skylight Fall At Columbus School
Tom Hann a 16 year old junior at North High School died from a skull fracture after falling 35 feet through a skylight into the gymnasium floor in Columbus Ohio.
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Columbus
U.P
Tom Hann
North High School
Poultrymen Plan Five-County Tour to Cleveland
Meigs Athens Hocking Gallia Jackson Vinton counties prepare a five county tour of poultrymen for the World Poultry Congress in Cleveland from July 27 to August 7. W A Compton named chair of the tour committee as they study chartering a train and arranging a Southeastern Ohio Day with guides.
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Pomeroy
Meigs
Gallia
Jackson
Vinton
Athens
Hocking
Cleveland
Poultry Congress
W. A. Compton
Ohio
Tobacco Allotments For 1939 Announced
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration today apportioned 1939 tobacco allotments totaling 1,540,500 acres among 22 producing states. Burley allotments include Indiana 11,112 acres and West Virginia 4,345 plus a national reserve of 5,000. Cigar filler and binder allotment lists Ohio 17,487 acres.
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Washington
U.P
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Burley -Indiana
West Virginia
National Reserve
Ohio
Diphtheria Outbreak In Los Angeles Jail Claimed Under Control
City health officer George Parrish reported today that a diphtheria outbreak among about 1200 prisoners in the Los Angeles city jail appears to be under control.
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Los Angeles
George Parrish
Court Upholds Hague Ruling On Jersey City Speech Ban
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction against Mayor Frank Hague and Jersey City officials for restricting peaceful assembly. Civil rights groups led by CIO and the ACLU won protection of public addresses and parades blocked by the city ordinance targeting speakers including Norman Thomas.
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Philadelphia
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Civil Liberties Union
Allied Groups
William Clark
Hague
Norman Thomas
Aeronautics Bureau Grounded Over Pilot Shortfall
The State Bureau of Aeronautics remains grounded as acting director Francis Bud Lauffer cannot fly the two bureau planes and funds are unavailable to operate or return them to air. The situation leaves the bureau unable to launch or recover aircraft in the near term.
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Columbus
State Bureau of Aeronautics
Francis
Bud) Lauffer
Survivors Roam Chile Quake Ruins in Desperation
United Press reports from Chillan describe streets choked with debris as survivors wander, many fractious or pleading. One man mourns four children while others build crude coffins from wreckage. authorities estimate about 10 000 killed and 10 000 wounded or missing in the quake's devastation.
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Chillan
Chile
U.P
Santiago
Administration Gains Strength In WPA Fight
Washington reports show administration leaders gaining strength in the Senate fight to restore the 150 million reduction in relief funds. House leaders aim to vote on raising the deficit relief total from 725 million to 875 million to extend work relief until July 1. Supporters of the smaller sum plan delays pending recovery of three ill members as a Senate poll suggested a 47 to 47 tie.
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Washington
U.P —Administration
House
Alben W. Barkeley
Roosevelt
Senate
Ford Attorneys Challenge Labor Board Ruling
Ford Motor Company lawyers argued that the NLRB finding restricting employees from organizing and bargaining would push the nation toward a Nazi regime. They filed a brief in support of exceptions to the examiner's intermediate report in Chicago.
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Chicago
Ford Motor Company
America
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Sterilization Proposed for Mental Defectives by Ohio Official
Dr. J. F. Bateman Ohio's mental diseases commissioner urged sterilization of congenital defectives at the probate judges convention in Columbus to curb rising mental hospital numbers. He argued the policy would immediately reduce the problem.
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Columbus
U.P
J. F. Bateman
Ohio
Bateman
Child Dies After Long Battle With Rare Skin Disease
Marietta reports the death of three year old Nora Dellehay after a decade long struggle with scleroderma, a rare disease causing skin to harden and "turn to stone." The illness affected her left arm and leg.
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Marietta
Nora Dellehay
Worker Killed by Auto in City Collision
Christian R. Ankrom a 46 year old railroad shop worker was killed Wednesday night when struck by an automobile driven by Louis Wells of near Chillicothe Ohio authorities said. The incident occurred in the city.
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Chillicothe
Christian R. Ankrom
Louis Wells
Chillingthe
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