Senate Endorses Compromise Court Plan For Roosevelt
Senate leaders unveil a four justice compromise to expand the Supreme Court, drafted by Logan Hatch and Ashurst. The plan would add four justices now and up to 18 total by year 1938, with vacancies filled from 1937 to 1938 and a cap on additional federal judges. Debate expected Tuesday as supporters claim 54 votes forthcoming.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Joseph T. Robinson
Roosevelt
Supreme Cau
M. M. Logan
Logan
Carl Hatch
N. M
Henry Ashurst
Senate Judiciary Committee
Robinson
High Tribunal
Supreme Court
Willis van Devanter
van Devanter
Charles Evans Hughes
James C. McReynolds
Louis D. Brandeis
George Sutherland
United States
Sheriff Halts Lynch Threat in Athens Courthouse
A mob gathered at the Athens Texas courthouse as Sheriff Jess Sweeten prepared to guard Maceo Smith, 16, accused of rape. Deputy Aubrey Corley reported the crowd disarming his guns. Sweeten announced protection for the prisoner and urged calm. Some dispersed, others remained as the sheriff stood firm.
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Athens
Tex
U.P
Maceo Smith
Jess Sweeten
Aubrey Corley
Sweeten
New York Bandits Take Jewelry Worth 100000
Four bandits raided Beekman Place abducting social register Mrs Josephine Ogden Forrestal and fleeing with jewels valued near 100000. The scene lies close to the former Titterton murder site linking two high profile crimes in one block.
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New York
U.P
Swank
Beekman Place
Josephine Ogden Forrestal
Nancy Evans Titterton
John Fiorenza
Meigs Boys Given Suspended Sentences
Albert Collins aged 13 and Merle Lowry aged 14 confessed to attempting to derail a New York Central train near Dyesville Meigs County by placing iron on tracks. Judge C E Peoples of Meigs County Common Pleas placed them on suspended sentences to the Boys Industrial School.
Five Die as Firecrackers Ignite Idaho Drug Store
In Nampa Idaho a Fourth of July fireworks display in a drug store exploded killing five people and injuring more than twenty, with at least twelve in critical condition. The blast destroyed a two story building and spread debris across nearby streets as patrons fled to safety.
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Nampa
Idaho
U.P
R. Lewis Ord
E. L. Drake
Tradts
Pedestrie
Trians
Katherine Dyce Povek
Helen D
Filer
Miller
Deat Ladelle
Billings
Burns
Cinity
Kxren
Jack J
Apted Rescue
Scouting Cavalcade Presented at National Jamboree
Boy Scouts from New York New Jersey and New England perform the cavalcade of scouting at the first national jamboree. The premiere drew about 20 000 spectators at the Washington Monument arena with additional shows planned for Saturday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday nights.
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Washington
U.P
New York
New Jersey
New England
Washington Monument Arena
Alleged Bomb Plot Leader Under Bond
Warren leader Gus Hall held on $50,000 bond on suspicion of heading a terrorist plot to destroy Republic's plant with nitroglycerin bombs. Police accused six others.
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Warren
U.P
Gus Hall
Republic
Government records 1937 deficit tops two and a half billion
The government closed its 1937 fiscal year with a net deficit of 2,707,347,110.60 dollars, about 150 million more than the revised budget. Receipts reached 5,293,840,236.87 dollars, roughly 70 million above estimates and the highest since World War I.
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Washington
U.P
Treasury
Farm wagon struck by train kills 17 year old
Fred Hintz aged 17 was killed when a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train struck his farm wagon near Tiffin Ohio. The accident occurred as the wagon was crossing the tracks on the farm path. Local authorities investigated the incident and railroad crews assisted at the scene.
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Tiffin
U.P
Fred Hintz
Baltimore & Ohio
Here
Three Judges Set Plea Hearing For Steel Plant Case
Federal Judge Mell G. Usevoe postponed until next Tuesday a hearing on an injunction to prevent Governor Gowey from using Ohio National Guard to reopen the plants. Judge Underwood will hear testimony next Tuesday at 10 regarding a three judge court request and whether a single judge should hear the case.
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Mell G
Arts
Underwood
CIOS
RA rolls cut in five-state area to 2000 workers
The Element Administration announced a July 15 reduction in land utilization division quotas from 3000 to 2000 workers across Ohio Michigan Missouri and Iowa. Ohio projects affected include the Southeastern Ob erosion control project at five with 132 existing workers and 11 new workers. the Zaleski Forest with 540 existing workers and 294 new workers. Hocking project with 470 existing workers and 260 new workers.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Ohio
Miciena
Line
Missouri
Iowa
Zaleski Forest
Poss Hocking
Official Visits Home Town Alma Mater Return
Dr. H. H ng, Minister of Finance of the Republic, returned to his alma mater where he graduated in 1906, marking a notable homecoming during his current visit.
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Kuerlin
H. H Ng
Here
Wagner Says Labor Act Enemies Still Fighting Law
Senator Robert F. Wagner charged that a few large corporations are opposing the National Labor Relations Act by every means. He spoke on a radio program for the United Auto Workers and said the minority aims to undermine economic proposals tied to the act. He asserted big firms refuse to bargain with unions and would not sign any agreement while disputes persist, and he noted those who fought the act before the Supreme Court now attack it by every method.
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Detroit
Robert F. Wagner
United Autobile Workers of America
Committee For Inirial
Wagner
Por
Avery
Canvass for Camp Funds Inaugurated
Dimes quarters and dollars were piling up in Glouster and Athens to fund a fresh air health camp for Athens County children. House to house canvasses began in the two towns with Nelsonville planned next week. In Athens 20 women learned the plan from Rev Neil Crawford and Floyd G Hutchins. The drive is countywide with support from ministers clubs and Legion posts. The camp opens next Tuesday at Strouds Run on a 10 room vacant farm house.
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Glouster
Athens
Athens County
Nelsonville
Christian Church
Neil Crawford
Floyd G. Hutchins
Legionnaire
Phillip Robinson
Louis J. Tyroler
Legion
Hutchins
Judge Tyroler
Strouds Run
Picketing Proceeds Across Marion Grocery Stores
Officials of the Marion Food Distributors Association announce a summer long picket plan as 15 stores face demonstrations. Bricks hurled from passing motorists shatter two windows while a second story toss drenches one store with blueing.
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Marion
Au.p
Marion Food Distributors Association
Earhart Aims For Hazardous Pacific Run On Howland Island
Amelia Earhart and navigator Capt. Fred Noonan press toward Howland Island in a perilous leg of their round the world flight. Coast Guard and naval authorities stand by to aid as the Lockheed Flying Laboratory crosses the 2,550 mile span from Lae, New Guinea.
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Howland Island
Oceania
Amelia Earhart
Pacific Ocean
Coast Guard
Miss Earhart
Fred Noonan
Lae
New Guinea
Navigator Noonan
Baker Island
Here
Plan Quick Action on Plugging Tax Loopholes
The congressional tax avoidance committee prepared for speedy enactment of legislation to close tax law loopholes. Treasury and congressional tax experts were to submit recommendations at executive sessions next week. Public hearings may end today.
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Washington
U.P
Congressional Tax Avoidance Committee
Treasury
Congressional
Spanish Coast Patrol Proposal Turned Down
Germany and Italy proposed at a non intervention committee meeting that both sides in Spain be recognized as belligerents with equal rights. They cited the French British plan for patrol of the Spanish coast by French and British warships and the withdrawal of all foreign volunteers.
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London
Germany
Italy
Non-Intervention Committee
Spain
Spanish
John Roosevelt Linked To Blonde Society Girl Hypothesis
Hyde Park report ties John Roosevelt to Ann Lindsay Clark after she appeared on the Roosevelt estate guest list. The Harvard student, last single Roosevelt, accompanied the debutante to the family summer home following Franklin Jr.’s wedding to Ethel du Pont.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
U.P
Roosevelt
John Roosevelt
Ann Lindsay Clark
John
Boston
Franklin, Jr
Ethel du Pont
Harvard
Accommodate Motorists at Columbus for Holiday Weekend
State Highway Director John Jaster Jr ordered division engineers to open all roads passable for the holiday weekend.
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Columbus
John Jaster, Jr
Coal Association Secretary Attacks Norris Power Bill
John D. Battle executive secretary of the National Coal Association urged a Senate Agriculture sub committee that the Norris Conservation Power Bill would destroy bituminous coal and threaten constitutional liberty by creating federal regional authorities with vast unchecked power. He warned these agencies could rule Congress in the future.
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Coal Association
Norris Power
Washington
U.P
John D. Battle
National Coal Association
Senate Agriculture
Seven Sisters
TVA
Congress
WPA Workers Join Fight on Grasshoppers
In Colorado Springs about 2000 WPA workers joined farmers, National Guardsmen, soil conservation service staff, highway crews and CCC boys in a dawn battle against a massive grasshopper invasion. The insects have stripped about 20000 square miles of Eastern Colorado plains, with entomologist Sam C. McCampbell forecasting winged generations that could spread the menace.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Colorado
National Guardsmen
Soil Conservation Service Service
CCC
Colorado Plains
Sam C. McCampbell
Colorado State College
WPA
McCampbell
Lawyer Bayless opposes Norris flood bill delay claim
Cincinnati counsel A. Bayless told a Senate Agriculture Subcommittee that there is no demand for the Norris flood control conservation power bill. He argued the measure would delay Ohio Valley flood control dam construction by replacing army engineers with a new group of experts.
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Washington
U.P
Herman A. Bayless
Cincinnati
Mississippi River Carriers’ Association
Pittsburgh Coal Exchange
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Senate Agriculture
Bayless
Ohio Valley
Army Engineers
State sales tax receipts hold a million weekly pace
Columbus Ohio State Treasurer Clarence H. Kinsley reported that weekly sales tax collections continue near a million dollars. For the week ended June 19 the receipts were $1,030,912, yielding $22,982,402 for the year.
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Columbus
U.P
Clarence H. Kinsley
Krench Rebel Against 40 Hour Week Decree
Paris reports thousands of American visitors amid preparations for a broad strike by hotel restaurant and cafe owners and 50 000 food shops. The protest targets a government decree mandating a 40 hour work week in the industry scheduled for Saturday.
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Krench
Paris
U.P
France
Perkins Pushes Indefinite Talks For Steel Conflict
Secretary Frances Perkins outlined steps toward a man-to-man conference of steel operators and strikers to resolve the five week labor dispute. The Federal Steel Mediation Board faulted Independent steel corporations for not signing with the CIO strike sponsors. Other notes include the Post Office urging a court about irregular mail deliveries to strike-bound plants and criticism of President Roosevelt by Rep. Ditter, plus Sen. Ellender warning the strikes could worsen misery.
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Washington
U.P
Frances Perkins
Miss Perkins
Federal Steel Mediation Board
Committee For Industrial Organization
Post Office Department
District of Columbia
Republic Company
William Ditter
Roosevelt
Sen
Allen J. Ellender
D. la
Senate
Youngstown Sheet and Tube to reopen mills near Chicago
East Chicago Ind U R The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company plans to reopen its sheet and tin mills outside Chicago after calmed picket activity. About 8 000 workers await assurances of violence protection before gates open. The NLRB handles the contract issue as Inland truce stabilizes Calumet area with 12 000 on the job and 200 pickets at the gates. John Rusak SWOC organizer expects a settlement with Youngstown soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ind
U.R
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company
Youngstown
SWOC
Wagner
National Labor Relations Board
John Rusak
Massillon Reopens Republic Plant Amid Guarded Return
Massillon workers return to the Republic Steel plant under heavy Ohio National Guard protection after a strike threat. About 375 entered with no immediate union resistance while 800 guardsmen patrolled the area. A nonstriker was threatened. a home blast injured two houses and a foreman’s porch was damaged as unrest followed reopening.
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Massillon
U.R
Republic Steel Corporation
Ohio National
Republic
Canton
Julie Julian
Julian
Matt Pericak
Killer Suspect Hangs Himself in Baldwin Hills Case
Inglewood Calif police close the book on a bear by noting Roy Harmon 57 who hanged himself after being briefly held in connection with the Baldwin Hills trio of murders. The Everett sisters Melba and Madeline are to be buried with Jeanette Stephens already laid to rest as investigators sought a suspect.
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Inglewood
Calif
U.P
Los Angeles
Baldwin Hills
Everett Sisters
Melba
Madeline
Jeanette Stephens
California
Roy Harmon
City Park Department
Wallace Warns Wheat Farmers Against Dangers of Surplus
Secretary Henry Wallace warned wheat farmers from 31 states about a price-depressing surplus next year and urged serious thought on possible 1938 AAA programs. Economists estimate a 200 million bushel carryover with three policy options under discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
Washington
U.P
Henry A. Wallace
Congress
Agriculture Department
United States
Trans Atlantic Tests Planned By Flying Boats
Two large flying boats prepared for trans Atlantic air service test flights set for Saturday. One leaves Port Washington, the other from Southampton. Pan American Airways and Imperial Airways supervise. The American craft will fly to Botwood then to Ireland before continuing to Southampton.
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New York
Pan-American Airways
United States
Imperial Airways, Ltd
London
Botwood
Mld
Ireland
Southampston
Tough Tony Dies In Sing Sing Electric Chair
OSSINING AU P Anthony Gare a Brooklyn hoodlum known as Tough Tony died in the electric chair at Sing Sing Thursday night for the murder of Isaac Shain a 55 year old delicatessen merchant Two of three accomplices also were executed for the slaying Shain was shot during a Brooklyn bar hold up on November 8 1936 Eisenberg age 42 and Edwards age 25 were executed.
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Ossining
Anthony Garelays
Brooklyn
Tony
Sing Sing
Isaac Shain
Shain
Bescause
Harry Eisenberg
Watson Edwards
Cigarette tax receipts rise in Columbus region record
Sales of cigarette excise stamps last month reached 718,678 dollars, up 18,240 from the previous peak in July 1933 at 700,437. Year to date collections total 3,548,445 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
W.P
Four Lawrence County Defendants Face Ballot Tampering Trial
The case of four Lawrence County residents on ballot tampering charges was to be given to a nine man nine woman jury today after a June 2 start.
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Ironton
U.R
Lawrence County
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New York Bandits
Meigs
Mell G. Underwood
CIO
Bond
Marion Grocery Stores
Long
Spanish Coast Patrol
Dan Cupid
Perkins Board
Pennsylvania
Massillon Republic
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