Partial Bill Approved in Ohio Senate
The Ohio Senate amid Governor Davey opposition passed a partial appropriation bill totaling 31.447 million for nine months of state government, extending last Januarys measure. the House is not expected to approve it. Also approved 4.813 million emergency highway funding for the rest of the year, with expected House passage.
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Columbus
Davey
Senate
House
Joint Conference
Paul Yoder
Yoder
Strikers Lose Court Skirmish In Ohio
In Columbus the Steel Workers Organizing Committee seeks to restrain Gov. Davey from further troop use to reopen struck mills. State lawyers challenge Judge Underwood's authority and the suit’s three judge status, warning a temporary injunction could withdraw troops and create a dangerous situation.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
United States
Martin L. Davey
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Committee For Industrial Organization
Mell G. Underwood
William N. Evatt
Attorney General's Office
Earhart Delays Howland Island Hop Due to Radio Break
Amelia Earhart postpones departure for Howland Island because Malabar radio line failure prevents time signals to set her plane’s chronometer. The 2,550 mile Pacific hop is rescheduled for Friday if weather holds, seen as the riskiest leg of her around the world flight.
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Lae
New Guinea
U.P
Amelia Earhart
Howland Island
Malabar
Pacific
Monetary Pact Intact Amid French Crisis
Secretary Morgenthau announced the tripartite monetary agreement among the United States Great Britain and France remains in force despite France’s fiscal crisis and a franc devaluation. The Paris decree allows the franc to find its own level while the 4.35 cent minimum peg is questioned as the franc slides on the Paris bourse.
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Washington
U.P
the Treasury
Henry A. Morgenthau, Jr
United States
Great Britain
France
Paris
Officers Called in Chicago Riot Probe
The La Follette Civil Liberties Committee asked for details from a police sergeant and four patrolmen about the Chicago Memorial Day riot where 10 steel workers were killed. Supervising Captain James L. Mooney suggested Reds and Communists may have instigated the riots and financed with Russian gold.
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Washington
U.P
la Follette Civil Liberties Committee
James L. Mooney
Chicago Police Department
Highway Department Awards 14 Contracts
The state highway department announced awards on 14 improvement projects after bids this week. Two projects were held up. Turner Construction Co. of Logan won the Mineral City bridge removal and surfacing project on Conotion Creek for 30,883 dollars, within the Tuscarawas Muskingum Conservancy district allocation.
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Columbus
Tu.p
State Highway Department
Hocking
Logan + Lancaster Road
Good Hope Township
Tuscarawas
Muskingum Conservancy District
Mineral City
Conotion Creek
Turner Construction Co
Logan
Congressman accuses Treasury of partisan tax probe bias
Rep. Hamilton Fish charges the Treasury disclosed names of tax avoiders with deliberate partisanship. He urges presenting evidence that President Roosevelt uses tax loopholes. Fish cites Hyde Park estate and Georgia Cotton plantation taxes as examples and notes 27 of 60 cited names were Republican contributors.
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Washington
U.P
The
Treasury
Joint
Congressional Tax Investigating Committee
Hamilton Fish
N. Y
Roosevelt
Robert L. Coughton
N. C
Fish
House
Allen T. Tread- Way
Massachusetts
Frank Crowthers
New York
Mr. Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Hyde Park
Georgia
Legion Back Fresh Air Camp Effort Near Athens County
Probate Judge Louis J. Tyroler says the American Legion in Athens and the Rotary Club in Nelsonville will raise funds to launch a fresh air camp for neglected county children. A tag sale and house to house canvass start in Athens with ministers, youth, and women selling tags to raise up to 1. Funds will support a 10 room Strouds Run farmhouse camp beginning July 6 for 20 boys aged 14 to 16, with later groups for girls and medical exams prior to entry.
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Athens County
Louis J. Tyroler
American Legion
Athens
Rotary Club
Nelsonville
Floyd G. Hutchins
K. T. Crossen
Legion
Wayne Wingett
Dewey Goddard
Raymond Connett
Post
M. C. Morrison
John Dowler
Auxiliary
Plains
Chauncey
Albany
Tyroler
Strouds Run
Timber Workers Riot Leads to 53 Jailed in Michigan
In Bessemer Michigan state police detained 53 striking timber workers at the county jail after a clash near Marenisco. About 300 union members attacked logging trucks under escort, injuring five drivers as stones shattered windshields. Tear gas was used and police fired over the crowd.
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Bessemer
Mich
Marenisco
Timber Workers Union
Gogebic
Boundary clash on Amur may settle Russo Japanese dispute
In Moscow vice foreign minister Boris Stomoniakov and Japanese ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu failed to break a deadlock in talks on the Amur River clashes between Russian and Manchukuo forces. The outcome could determine the long standing dispute over islands along the boundary.
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Moscow
U.P
Boris Stomoniakov
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Amur
Far East
Russia
Manchukuo
Duce's Paper Attacks British Stand in Spain
Rome dispatch says Mussolini's Popolo D'Italia accuses Great Britain of aiding the Spanish Loyalists while claiming neutrality. The editorial, attributed to I Duce, alleges Britain sends men munitions airplanes and uses refugee evacuations as a cloak for aid.
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Rome
U.P
Benito Mussolini
Popolo D'Italia
Milan
I Duce
Great Britain
Spain
Union Mails Copies of Maverick's Address
The United Automobile Workers of America mailed 10 000 copies of Maury Maverick of Texas address to Ford mass meeting attendees in congressional franked envelopes provided by Maverick.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers of America Today
Ford
Maury Maverick
Texas
Press Search For Sailor as Girls Slayer in Inglewood
Inglewood California police hunted a killer nicknamed Eddie the Sailor after three young girls were assaulted and strangled in Baldwin Hills. More than 100 men were detained for questioning. a lynch mob surrounded the jail for three nights as officers restrained crowds and two suspects were briefly held.
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Inglewood
Calif
Baldwin Hills
Eddie
Ed Muir
Scouts Open Business Sessions of Jamboree
Twenty six thousand Boy Scouts began official activities at the first national jamboree held near the Washington Monument. A campfire service inspired the event with messages from President Roosevelt and Col. Theodore Roosevelt, adding ceremonial weight to the opening.
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Washington
W.P
Washington Monument
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Candy Chokes Baby in Fredericktown Visit
Virgil Boggs aged 21 months son of Ora L Boggs of near Fredericktown died after choking on a marshmallow while visiting his uncle John Boggs in town Wednesday.
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Columbus
Au.p
Virgil Boggs
Ora L. Boggs
Fredericktown
John Boggs
Roosevelt Jr and Ethel du Pont Wed in Quiet Ceremony
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr and Ethel du Pont wed at Christ Church in Christians Hundred in a candle lit ceremony. The couple plans a secret honeymoon with reservations on the Empress of Britain departing July 10 from Quebec City to Liverpool.
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Ruby A
United Press
Greenville
Del
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr
Ethel du Pont
Montreal
U.P
Canadian Pacific Steamship
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Quebec City
Liverpool
Roosevelt
Christ Church
Christiana Hundred
Car Jumps 10-Foot Bank Injuring Three Near Nelsonville
Speedy driving mixed with moonshine liquor led to a Route 31 crash four miles south of Nelsonville. F D Roegge Ray Roegge and Walter Farms all of Nelsonville were in the Roegge car which swerved and fell down a 10 foot embankment. Roegge and Farms treated at Cherrington Hospital Logan with Roegge released. Ray Roegge jailed. A jug of bootleg whiskey was found at the scene.
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Nelsonville
Athens
State Highway Patrol
F. D. Roegge
Ray Roegge
Walter Farms
W. R. McDade
B. C. Day
Ray
McDade
F. R. Roegge
Cellophane Used as Covering for Brain in Quebec
A Quebec farmer, after a head injury from a horse kick, had a brain membrane replaced with sterilized cellophane and a shinbone graft. Officials say the recovery was complete. The farmer's name is not released by St. Luke's Hospital.
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Montreal
U.P
Quebec
St. Luke’s Hospital
Handwriting Experts Set for Ironton Ballot Case
Handwriting experts were to testify in Ironton as four Lawrence County residents faced trial for marking ballots to help Republican William Dickens win last fall’s county commissioner election.
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Ironton
U.P
Lawrence County
William Dickens
Boondoggle Defined as Honor in Scouting Terms
At a Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington the Rochester delegation awarded a deluxe Boondoggle to Congressman George B. Kelly for meritorious services. The originator of the term scoutmaster Overt Link of Rochester is pleased that the word now carries a genuine honor rather than political cynicism.
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Frederick C.othman
United Press
Washington
Potomac
Harry Hopkins
Absence of Soviet General Sparks Liquidation Rumors
The unexplained absence of General Yakov Alksnis, deputy defense commissar and chief of the Red Army air force, after Professor Schmidt's North Pole return fuels fears he may have been arrested or executed by a firing squad.
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Yakov Alksnis
Red Army
Schmidt
North Pole
Train Leaves Trestle Fatal Wreck At Maybeury
A Norfolk and Western freight train with 53 cars plunged from an 180 foot trestle into Maybeury West Virginia killing the engineer and fireman. The wreck destroyed Lyte Ratliff's two story home and started a lengthy blaze as firemen fought the flames for eight hours.
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Bluefield
W. Va
U.P
Norfolk & Western
Maybeury
Lyte Ratliff
Welch
Keystone
Fishermen flock to new lake at Conneaut opening
The first of 250000 fishermen expected to reach Pymatuning Reservoir for game fishing arrived as the lake straddling Ohio and Pennsylvania opened. Railroads ran fishing trains and thousands lined the banks at dawn, many securing the daily bag limit of 30 fish across species within half an hour.
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Conneaut
Pymatuning
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Izaak Waltons
Thomas Day Found Unconscious at Home
Thomas Day was found unconscious in his cement block home on West Union Street near Herrold Bridge at 6 30 p m Wednesday. He was taken to the Athens County Infirmary. Safety Director Scott Haney said Day likely suffered a paralysis stroke Tuesday night. Haney is seeking Day's two sisters who live in Columbus.
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W. Union St
Herrold Bridge
Thomas Day
Athens County Infirmary
Scott Haney
Day
Haney
Columbus
Carpenter Killed by Saw in Columbus
Leon E. Hall 27 a carpenter died after a circular saw severed the femoral artery in his right leg on Wednesday in Columbus. Authorities investigated the accident as a workplace fatality.
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Carpenter
Columbus
Leon E. Hall
Asa Shiverick and Highee Co. President Dies in Cleveland
Asa Shiverick 59 president of the Highee Co. Cleveland department store died today from pneumonia. The store confirmed his passing and noted his leadership spanned several decades.
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Cleveland
U.R
Asa Shiverick
Highee Co
Cleveland Department Store
Inland Steel ends seven-state steel strike in East Chicago
Inland Steel Corporation orders 12,000 workers at East Chicago mill back to work under a SWOC led settlement ending a month long deadlock. The pact recognizes SWOC as bargaining agent and settles grievances under company policy or by the Indiana labor commissioner. Union calls for sympathy action at other mills if wage and hour terms are not settled.
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East Chicago
Ind
U.P
Inland Steel Corporation
Inland
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Indiana State Labor Commissioner
Rival Labor Groups Abandon General Walkout Plan
In Canton Ohio Republic Steel nears normal production as rival unions abandon a general strike. Authorities report 100 strikers arrested amid picket line clashes and missiles, while Mills reopen on a restricted basis and guards escort workers. Chris Lopez memorial planned. coroner cites natural causes. Gus Hall surrenders over alleged plot to blow up plant.
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Canton
Republic Steel Corporation
Ohio
C. IL. D
A. F
Chris Lopez
E. C. Reno
William Marlin
National Guard
Lopez
Gus Hall
Warren
Republic
60 000 Expected To Attend Mass Meeting At Johnstown
Johnstown, Pa. union leaders plan a July 4 mass meeting for 60 000 coal miners steelworkers and railroad men marching from across the state to press Bethlehem Steel for signed contracts. Martial law had been in effect after a June 20 proposed 40 000 march was cancelled, with city officials warning they would not assume safety responsibilities.
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Johnstown
U.P
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
James Mark
CIO
Bethlehem
George H. Earle
Marx
Earle
Ohio Spring Pig Crop Up Five Percent in 1987
Ohio's spring pig crop reached 2,168,000 head in 1987, five percent higher than 1936, according to a Federal State Agricultural Reporting Service estimate. The figure is based on rural mail carrier reports coordinated with the Post Office Department.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Post Office Department
House Action Emphasized Over Oratory to Speed Adjournment
Washington leaders announced a policy shift toward more legislative action and less speech in the House to hasten adjournment. The move aims to curb lengthy debates and accelerate business with a focus on concrete measures.
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Washington
U.P
House
Financiers Accused of Driving Ford Wage Fight in Almanac
Dearborn report says unnamed financiers push Henry Ford to accept a wage dictator to slash pay nationwide. Almanac argues Ford must keep a $6.00 daily wage to prevent other employers from lowering wages and forcing wage standards across industry.
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Dearborn
Mich
Ford Almanac
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
Almanac
Ford
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