Navy Planes Join Search For Earhart
Honolulu and Burbank reports say three Navy planes from the battleship Colorado scoured the Winslow bank and Phoenix Islands as part of a sixth day search for Amelia Earhart and Frederick Noonan. The effort, expanding toward Howland, covers about 300 000 square miles, roughly the size of Texas, awaiting Lexington’s arrival with more planes.
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Honolulu
U.P
Winslow Bank
Phoenix Islands
Indiana
Amelia Earhart
Frederick J. Noonan
Colorado
Guinea-Howland Island
Navy
Lexington
Putnam
Phoenix Island
George Palmer Putnam
Mrs. Earhart
Miss Earhart
Howland Island
Coast Guard
Mer
Noonan
Orin G. Murfin
14Th Naval District
Texas
Two Cadets Killed as Planes Crash in Midair
Naval authorities opened an investigation into a fatal midair collision near Pensacola Florida. The two occupants were Marine Corps Cadet W F Mershon from Mena Arkansas and Cadet J A McMann from Glendale California both of the Naval Reserve.
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Pensacola
Fla
U.P
Marine Corps
W. F. Mershon
Mena, Ark
J. A. McMann
Glendale
Cal
Naval Reserve
Ohio Supreme Court Recesses For Summer
The Ohio Supreme Court today recessed for the summer and will resume sessions in late September.
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Supreme Court
Columbus
U.P
Ohio Supreme Court
Engineer Spanks Young Scientist In Trainyard Incident
Harold Coles a 16 year old Independence High School student sued the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad after a physics lesson ended with a beating. The suit states Coles waved a red flag to signal a gun shot and an engineer stopped the train and struck him demanding an explanation.
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Cleveland
U.P
Harold Coles
Independence
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Common Pleas Court
Coles
Independence High School
Willow
Torso Killer Butchers Tenth Victim Still Unidentified
Cleveland police remain without a clew as bodies turn up along Kingsbury Run. Ten victims in just over two years show a cold blooded killer at work, with ongoing difficulties in solving the grisly cases and tracing the unknown assailant.
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NEA
Cleveland
Edward Andrassy
Kingsbury Run
Black Connery Wages and Hours Bill Receives Committee Support
The Senate Education and Labor Committee reported a revised Black Connery Wages and Hours Bill granting a labor standards board power to set minimum wages up to 40 cents per hour and a maximum 40 hour workweek. It exempts agricultural workers and small employers and prohibits hiring under 16 with penalties and interstate shipment bans for violators.
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Washington
Ul.p
Senate Education and Labor Committee
Labor Standards Board
Neighbors Testify In Minister's Trial
Beckley West Virginia defense witnesses testified for Rev M H Ball a Methodist minister aged 35 on trial for the killing of his wife Victory Gay Ball last March 5 Neighbors testified the minister appeared happy when he saw his wife safe after a car wreck two months earlier refuting the States earlier charge of attempted murder by wreck.
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Beckley
W. Va
M. H. Ball
Victory Gay Ball
Big Civil War Battle Rages Near Madrid Front
Nationalist sources report deep fighting in the Madrid area with Loyalist casualties exceeding 5000 in 48 hours and five Loyalist aircraft crippled. Nationalists claim air superiority as they strike from units across Usera south of Madrid and Brunate area west of the capital.
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Hendaye
U.P
Madrid
Usera
Brunete
CCC Will Maintain 40 Camps in State
The Civilian Conservation Corps will maintain 40 Ohio camps employing 6,480 enrolled during July August and September. Locations include State forests Scioto Hocking Ross Vinton and National forests McArthur Purchase Unit Vinton Lawrence and Wayne Purchase in Hocking County.
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Washington
U.P
Civilian Conservation Corps
Ohio
Whitcombe Leads Open Golf at Carnoustie
Briton Reg Whitcombe, veteran English golfer, shot 72 then 70 to take a 142 total and lead the British Open Golf Championship at Carnoustie Scotland today.
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Carnoustie
Scotland
U.P
Reg Whitcombe
Science Finds Correct Shaving Formula After Four Years
Four years of study at Mellon Institute involving 15 scientists conclude the best shave requires soaking facial hair 180 seconds in water at 120 degrees F and using sharp blades with a proper angle. Dry shaving is painful. hot water and non irritating soap aid a smoother shave.
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Chicago
U.P
Welles Urges New World Deal to Avert War
Under secretary of State Sumner Welles called on European statesmen to rename the postwar order with a moral and economic program. He urged abolition of trade barriers, armament limits, and frequent government conferences to ensure peace, condemning fascist actions and Spain’s civil war as destabilizing.
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Washington
U.R
Sumner Welles
Old World
Welles
Europe
Institute of Public Affairs
University of Virginia
The
Daily Mail
London
Roosevelt
Paul van Zeeland
Belgium
Palestine Split Into 3 States
Royal Commission report proposes partition of Palestine into Jewish Arab states with Jerusalem excluded from the Jewish state and a small British mandated enclave around Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Large UK forces on alert as tensions rise despite the plan.
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Jerusalem
AUP
Palestine
Holy City
Bethlehem
Study Fingerprints Of Murder Victim
Cleveland police studied fingerprints from the hands of the citys tenth torso murder victim. Police expert George Koestle said the prints are good and will aid identification. Copies were sent to federal and state bureaus.
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Cleveland
U.P
George Koestle
Police Department
Cuyahoga River
Barber Confesses He Murdered His Wife
In Columbus U P Police report Ray Davis age 41 confessed to shooting his wife Ruth Davis 36 with a shotgun claiming she nagged him. Investigators say the gun was fired from at least 10 feet and Davis broke down when shown the wound could not be self inflicted.
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Columbus
U.P
Ray Davis
Ruth Davis
Davis
Hog Prices Hit Nine Year High at Chicago Stockyards
Hog prices reached a nine year peak at the Chicago Stockyards with choice hogs around 225 pounds selling for 12.90 dollars per hundredweight. The day’s high surpassed Tuesday’s 12.70 and recalls prices dating to August 1928.
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Chicago
A.P
Mae West Admits Silver Wedding Controversy
Mae West acknowledges her 26 year marriage to Frank Wallace while denying consummation and disputing Wallace's claims. The actress says they never divorced and that Wallace later wed Ray Blakesly in 1916. Wallace seeks over $100,000 in community property and legal recognition of Mae as his wife.
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Hollywood
Mae West
Frank Wallace
Wallace
Milwaukee
Ray Blakesly
New York City
Miss Blakesly
New Jersey
Miss West
New York
California
Mae
Oil Land Award Grants Ricketts Profit Share
Black Gold figure Harry Ricketts a part Cherokee Indian from Peru Indiana earns hundreds of thousands as federal court grants him half current and future profits from a Tulsa oil field. Ricketts a twelve dollar a week WPA laborer sold land in 1908 for three thousand two hundred dollars and was eighteen at the time, making him entitled to a share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Ricketts
Peru
Ind
Tulsa
Oklo
Ricketts
Clarence
Government plans weekly $50 million borrowing start Monday
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau announced a new weekly borrowing program of $50,000,000 through bills due December 15 to keep a ready cash balance of $1,000,000,000. He did not specify how many weeks the borrowing would continue.
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Washington
U.P
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Morgenthau
Miner Frank Spangler Dies in Massillon Coal Mine
Frank Spangler aged 53 of West Lebanon was killed when a methane explosion buried him 150 feet underground in the Massillon Akron Coal Co. mine near Akron. The incident occurred Wednesday as rescue crews searched for others believed trapped.
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AKRON
U.P
Frank Spangler
West
Lebanon
Massillon-Akron Coal Co
Striker Killed As Riots Hit Tennessee Alcoa Plant
National Guardsmen surrounded the Aluminum Company of America plant in Alcoa Tennessee to curb violence after a gun battle between strikers and police. Two men died and 20 hospitalized as rioting followed the May 18 strike called by the Aluminum Workers of America over wage differentials with the New Kensington Pa plant. Henson Klick died at Maryville’s Carson Hospital and Officer William H Hunt died in Alcoa after the clash. An official estimated about 500 shots were fired before order was restored.
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Alcoa, Tenn
U.P
Aluminum Company of America
Pittsburgh
Aluminum Workers of America
American Federation of Labor
Alcoa
New Kensington
Henson Klick
Carson Hospital
Maryville
William H. Hunt
Jap Chinese Troops Clash Near Peiping Amid Heavy Casualties
In Peiping suburbs today Chinese and Japanese forces fought for hours in a fierce clash. Casualties ran into hundreds with Chinese bearing the brunt. Japanese artillery and machine gun fire faced stubborn Chinese resistance. Peiping authorities cited 10 Japanese deaths and 17 Chinese bodies. Chinese officials closed the east gate to block 500 Japanese reinforcements summoned from maneuvers east of the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tientsin
China
U.P
Peiping
Gallipolis Patrolmen Held to Grand Jury
Gallipolis city patrolmen W. B. Cooper and Chester Leaper were held to the grand jury on charges of assaulting Earnest White during an attempted arrest. The case stems from an incident in the city as prosecutors pursue a formal indictment.
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Gallipolis
W. B. Cooper
Chester Leaper
Last Cleveland Steel Plant Is Opened Today
Republic Steel Corporation reopened the last strike bound mill in Cleveland as about 56 000 of 78 000 idle mill hands were reported back at work. Pickets of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee watched as workers entered the plant under militia protection. Four Cleveland mills were back in operation by tonight with first steel expected as the seven state siege began May 26 ends.
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Cleveland
U.P
Republic Steel Corporation
John L. Lewis’ Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Republic
Cleveland Mills
GOP Senators Rally Against Court Reform Effort
Senate Republicans joined leaders opposing the New Deal judiciary bill while delaying a filibuster plan. Warren Austin and Peter Gerry organized speaking schedules as Democrats control the floor for the week. Marvel Logan continued a speech criticizing the split as a move toward an Anti New Deal Party. Observers note opponents seem less organized than expected after two days of debate.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
High Command
Warren Austin
Peter G. Gerry
R. L
Marvel M. Logan
President Roosevelt Tours Scout Jamboree Tent City
President Roosevelt honorary chief of the Boy Scouts visits the first national jamboree in Washington. He inspects the 350 acre tent city, tours the camp, views a replica of the summer white house, and pins an Eagle Scout badge on Franklyn St. John of Poughkeepsie New York.
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Washington
AU P
Roosevelt
Boy Scouts
White House
Franklyn St. John
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Tom Mix Tours Athens In Motorized Circus Trailer
Tom Mix arrived in Athens in one of the 85 motorized circus units with 600 people and animals, not on horseback. He discussed life on the road, his friendship with Will Rogers, and hinted at talking national affairs during the visit.
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Tom Mix
Dan Wertman
Athens
Tony
Tom
Court St
Fairgrounds
Riley
Mrs. Mix
Thomasina
Pag 5
Thermometers Reach 110 in Plains States
Heat wave grips central and eastern United States with temperatures up to 110 degrees. Death toll rises with 43 fatalities reported and 27 drownings while 16 people suffer heat prostration as dry conditions spread from the Northwest to the Plains and beyond.
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Plains States
Chicago
U.P
United States
Plains
Rockies
Texas
Great Lakes
Missouri
Ohio Valley
New York City
Boston
Weather Outlook For Columbus Area Forecast
Clear skies and rising temperatures expected today and Friday in the Columbus region. Southern portions may see scattered thundershowers Friday, but relief is limited. A year ago today the high reached 102 degrees, a record for the date since 1878.
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Columbus
U.P
United States Weather Bureau
Heat Wave Downpour Pushes Temperatures Across Midwest and East
The heat outbreak scorched dozens of cities with official reads up to 110 to 115 degrees. Michigan reported six heat deaths while New York City logged one. dozens were rescued from drowning as dry conditions strained crops and farmers suffered heat exhaustion across the plains and Midwest.
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United States Weather Bureau
Concordia
Kan
Sioux City
Oklahoma City
Dallas
Tex
Wichita
Topeka
Omaha
North Platte
Neb
Kansas City
Indianapolis
Denver
New York City
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Chicago
St. Louis
Cleveland
Michigan
Massachusetts
Indiana
Pennsylvania
New York
Maine
Minnesota
Cloakmakers Strike Slows New York Garment Trades
About 35 000 cloakmakers in 1 500 shops in the metropolitan area walked out after failed last minute talks. The union seeks to ban manufactur ers from sending out mansnish styled women's garments to factories in needle trades with lower standards than international ladies garment workers union shops. Representatives referred the dispute to Sol A. Rosenblatt for resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
U.P
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Sol A. Rosenblatt
Father Saves Meigs County Girl From Well
Elizabeth Ann Riddle aged eighteen months was rescued by her father Odin Riddle after she fell into a cistern in Antiquity. The well contained about four feet of water and the child was recovering today.
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Pomeroy
U.R
Elizabeth Ann Riddie
Odin Riddle
Dog Bismark Avoids Death Penalty in New York
In Yonkers New York Bismark a German shepherd escapes a second death sentence by being paroled to owner Robert E Cook after the bitten child s parents refuse to file a complaint A year earlier another death sentence was revoked following character witness appeals from both children and adults
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Yonkers
N. Y
U.P
Bismark
Robert E. Cook
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Elbridge J. Casselman
Journal of the American Medical Association
Scipio the Younger
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