Bill to Raise Wages for WPA Skilled Labor
Rep Adolph Sabath introduces a bill to restore prevailing wages for WPA skilled workers, ending the 1940 security wage system. The move accompanies looming enforcement actions as about 75,000 to 100,000 WPA laborers strike nationwide, with state reports due on project closures and potential dismissals.
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Washington
Adolph Sabath
Mil
N. Y
James F. Murray
Mont
Senate
Sabath
F. C. Harrington
WPA
Hardington
Department of Justice
Harrington
New York City
Mother Says Son Kidnapper Kidnaping Her For Property
Mrs. Eliza Middlecoff Emery 67 accuses her son Hubbard Middlecoff 35 of kidnapping to gain control of property worth 150000. Emery was taken from a friend's home and found with her son in a San Francisco hotel seven hours later alongside six others charged in the case.
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Stockton
Calif
U.P
Eliza Middlecoff Emery
Hubbard Middlecoff
Los Angeles
Emery
San Francisco
Coal Act Administered By Group Under Ickes
Secretary Harold L. Ickes signed orders placing the bituminous coal act under the Interior Department. The Bituminous Coal Commission is abolished and its duties shift to the new division of the Interior Department effective July 1 under the Roosevelt reorganization plan.
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Ickes
Washington
U.P
Secretary of
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Department
Bituminous Coal Commission
Interior Department
Roosevelt
Milton Elliott Elected Commander In Ohio Legion District
Milton Elliott of Steubenville was elected commander of the 10th Ohio District of the American Legion at the Sunday convention in East Liverpool. He succeeds the outgoing leader as the district meets to organize for the year.
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East Liverpool
U.P
Milton Elliott
Steubenville
Ohio District of the
American Legion
Water Shut Off Planned Tuesday Afternoon in Athens
Athens city water department announced a water outage Tuesday from 2 PM to 5 PM citywide to allow repairs to a downtown main line. Residents should store water and expect service interruptions during the period.
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Athens City Waterworks Department
Ecuador Revolt Attempt Suppressed in Quito
Loyalist troops halted a Cayambe battalion uprising in Quito with no bloodshed. Officers in the army tied to the Socialist Vanguardia allegedly plotted the bid, with Captains Burbano and Carrillo leading rebel moves. Burbano was seized at Esmeralda barracks. Carrillo fled. Several relatives of former dictator Enriquez were detained.
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Quito
Ecuador
U.P
Socialist Vanguardia Party
Burbano
Carrillo
Esmeralda
Enriquez
McNutt Offered New Federal Job by Roosevelt
Washington officials reported Paul V. McNutt was offered the director post of the new Federal Security Administration by President Roosevelt. The commission of the Philippines was mentioned as a factor, and McNutt was expected to decide this week whether to accept the assignment.
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Washington
U.P
Paul V. McNutt
Philippines
Federal Security Administration
Roosevelt
McNutt
WPA Worker Kills Wife and Son in Suspected Crisis
In Lewistown Pennsylvania a WPA timekeeper named Guy E. Hartley killed his wife Mary Shahen Hartley age 31 and their eight year old son John Irwin with a rifle as they slept then shot himself. The act occurred amid a personal crisis scenario.
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Lewistown
U.P
WPA
Mary Shahen Hartley
John Irwin
Guy E. Hartley
Young Democrat Clubs Endorse Donahey As Favorite 1940 Candidate
In Columbus the executive committee of the Ohio League of Young Democratic Clubs named Senator Vic Donahey as Ohio’s favorite son candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1940 at a Sunday meeting.
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Columbus
U.P
Vic Donahey
Ohio League of Young Democratic Clubs
Ohio
Five Die Five Hurt in Columbus Area Crash
A head on collision near Columbus on the Three-C highway one mile north of Grove City killed five people and injured five others. Victims included William Driscoll and his family. the other driver was Donald Hammond. All injured and deceased were from Columbus.
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United Press
Columbus
Ohio
William G. Driscoll
Dollie
Grove City
Donald Hammond
Driscoll
Woman Smuggler Freed After 3 Months in Jail
Mrs. Elma N. Lauer released after three months for violating U S customs laws. Her smuggling tied to husband Edgar N. Lauer who resigned under fire from the state supreme court bench. Lauer smuggled 1833 dollars worth of Parisian finery in October with Albert N Chaperau whose activities involved Jack Benny and George Burns.
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New York
Elma N. Lauer
Edgar N. Lauer
State Supreme Court
U. S
Bricker Helps Dedicate New Davey Auditorium
CAMP PERRY U P Governor Bricker reviewed National Guard units and dedicated the Davey Auditorium named for former Governor Martin L Davey. A 19 gun salute marked the noon ceremony as more than 3000 officers and men were presented in review.
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Camp Perry
U.P
National Guard
John W.bricker
Davey
Jormer
Martin L. Davey
Bricker
Concert Pianist Dai Buell Passes In Newton
Miss Dai Buell, pioneering concert pianist credited with first piano recitals on radio and television, died yesterday in Newton Massachusetts. Her work helped bring classical performance to broader audiences on new media.
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Newton
Mass
U.P
Dai Buell
Noted Minister Dies in Salem at 74
Dr. Charles L. Smith aged 74 a soldier clergyman newspaper editor and outdoor life enthusiast died last night in Salem authorities said. The long time figure in church state and press circles was remembered for his public service and community work.
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Salem
U.P
Charles L. Smith
Neutrality Controversy Triggers Battle in Congress
Senate and House fight over a neutrality bill that could affect ties with Britain and France. The foreign relations committee will act within 48 hours as New Deal senators push to press for wage protests and the administration’s foreign loan plan.
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Washington
Great Britain
France
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Capitol Hill
New Deal
Works Progress Administration
United States
House
Roosevelt
Hiram W. Johnson
Calif
Soviet Russia
Paris-London
Sen
Bennett Co. Clark
United Press
Swanson Receives State Funeral in Senate Chamber
Secretary of the Navy Claude A Swanson was given a state funeral in the Senate chamber with President Roosevelt and cabinet members present. Swanson died Friday at age 77 and the ceremony included high naval and army officials and government dignitaries.
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Washington
U.P
Claude A. Swanson
Swanson
Senate Chamber
Roosevelt
State Seeks Bids for Liquor Warehousing Space
The state liquor control department issued invitations for bids on warehousing space for storage of state owned and bailment stocks in Cincinnati, Toledo, Columbus, Canton and Cleveland. Bids due by noon July 31.
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Columbus
State Liquor Control Department
Cincinnati
Toledo
Canton
Cleveland
World famous writer Havelock Ellis dies at 80
Havelock Ellis aged 80, renowned writer on sex psychology, died Saturday in Hintlesham near Ipswich, announced today.
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London
U.P
Havelock Ellis
Hintlesham
Ipswich
Heat Wave Ends After Killing Seventy Five and Crops Damaged
A week of extreme heat ended as showers and cooling breezes swept the nation. The heat caused 57 deaths, widespread crop damage, and 30 drownings in New England as drought hurt crops in the Midwest and New England. Arizona saw 112 degree highs before cooling.
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U. S
J. R. Lloyd
Chicago
Midwest
Old Mission Peninsula
Traverse City
Mich
Massachusetts
Illinois
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Wisconsin
Missouri
Alabama
Minnesota
Kansas
Indiana
Louisiana
Arkansas
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Maine
Rhode Island
New England
Arizona
Phoenix
Yuma
Torso Slayer Dolezal Feared To Reveal Polillo Head Location
Sheriff says Frank Dolezal fears revealing where Mrs. Florence Sawdey Polillo's head lies as other victim heads are missing. He confessed to beheading her. earlier statements claimed Lake Erie or a burial under a Kingsbury Run bridge. Psychiatrists probe to obtain the location for corpus delicti.
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Cleveland
Martin L. O'Donnell
Frank Dolezal
Florence Sawdey Polillo
Dolezal
80 Killed as Blast Shakes Spanish Town
BURGOS Spain military authorities ordered evacuation of Penaranda de Bracamonte after a massive explosion that killed at least 80 and wounded over 1500. The blast ignited fires, damaged most homes, and shook the 30 mile radius countryside. a train near Penaranda station was reported missing with its passengers and crew.
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Burgos
Spain
Penaranda de Bracamonte
Penaranda
Settlement Reached In Brooks Will Contest Case
A settlement was reached in the will contest filed by Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards Brooks of Cincinnati against Ann Edwards over late John Edwards estate. Brooks will receive 250000 in United States Treasury Bonds, while the defendant bears the case costs. The common pleas court jury was to reconvene for final action.
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Toledo
Elizabeth Edwards Brooks
Cincinnati
John Edwards
Ann Edwards
Scott Stahl
Fisher Plant Closed By UAW Picket Lines
UAW pickets massed at the gates of the Pontiac Fisher Body plant forcing a closedown in a union show down with General Motors. No violence occurred as a few workers slipped past the lines.
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Fisher
UAW
Pontiac
Mich
U.P
United Automobile Workers
General Motors Corporation
Bes teiro Sentenced to 30 Years for Aiding Loyalist Rebellion
Julian Bes teiro, who helped Madrid fall to Franco, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on charges of aiding the Loyalist rebellion against the Nationalists.
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Barcelona
Julian Besteiro
Madrid
Francisco Franco
Japanese May Block French Inside Hankow
Hankow tension rises as Peiping and Nanking puppet regime delegates meet to form a central government for occupied areas. French concession faces possible isolation after French authorities refused an anti Chinese government parade. Wang Ching Wei may be named head of the new Japanese backed regime.
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Tsingtao
Seacoast
Wang Ching-Wei
China
Bridges Trial Opens Today
Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast director of the CIO, faces deportation as an undesirable alien in a hearing ordered by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. James M. Landis of Harvard Law is the examiner. Bridges is charged as a Communist and advocate of overthrow, a demand raised since 1935 after the San Francisco general strike.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Pacific Coast
Congress of Industrial Organizations
James M. Landis
Harvard Law School
Frances Perkins
Bridges
Ex-Sheriff's Slayer To Be Tried Aug. 8
Louis Pope age 19 of Cincinnati and John P. Mitchell age 17 of Van Wert face first degree murder charges in the slaying of Robert E. Willis former Guernsey County sheriff during a holdup. Pope will be tried August 8. Mitchell's trial date not set. Judge Milton H. Turner denied a joint trial.
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Camebridge
Louis Pope
Cincinnati
Robert E. Willis
Guernsey County
Common Pleas
Milton H. Turner
John P. Mitchell
van Wert
Mitchell
Bus Driver Chester Speer Dies by Own Shot
Ada Ohio report says illness believed to have prompted 63 year old Chester Speer a farmer and school bus driver to take his life with a shotgun last night He is survived by his wife and a daughter Mrs Claude Skidmore of Marysville
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Ada
U.P
Chester Speer
Claude Skidmore
Marysville
88 High for Sunday Mercury Drops Today
The high reached 88 yesterday as Athens residents felt slight relief from two hot days. A light breeze kept the temperature at 82 late morning, with a low of 65 last night.
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Athens
Lawyers Hear High Court Hit
In San Francisco Frank J. Hegan, president of the American Bar Association, told the 62nd annual ABA convention that the Supreme Court no longer preserves constitutional liberties. He said the court reversed doctrines and that the legislative branch must protect people from arbitrary power, praising Justices McReynolds and Butler for defending landmark rulings.
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SAN Francisco
U.P
Supreme Court
Frank J.hegan
American Bar Association
James Clark McReynolds
Pierce Butler
Jailbreaker Fished Out Of Swollen Ohio River
Judy House, 21, of East Liverpool, escaped from Lisbon jail last Wednesday and was captured in Martins Ferry after driving in from Wheeling in a stolen Parkersburg Virginia plate car. Police waited, he fled into the rain swollen Ohio River, and officers retrieved him.
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Martins Ferry
Judy House
East Liverpool
Columbiana County
Lisbon
Wheeling
Parkersburg
W. Va
House
Ohio
Canton Youth Killed While Riding to First Job
Wilbur Braden, 24, of Canton Ohio, was killed when a borrowed motorcycle crashed near Beaver Falls as he hurried home to take his first job in nearly a year. He had visited his parents here and had learned of an Ohio job opening.
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Beaver Falls
Wilbur Braden
Canton
Braden
Ohio
Bus Fire Near Marseilles Kills Eight in Roquevaire
A bus carrying 25 people caught fire at Roquevaire near Marseilles. Eight passengers died, five were gravely burned, and twelve escaped.
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Marseilles
France
U.R
Roquevaire
New York Actress Sentenced for $60,000 Theft
Lilian Schrein, niece of Martin Beck, was sentenced to two to four years in state prison for stealing $60,000 from a 71 year old theatrical producer.
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NEW York
U.P
Lillian Schrein
Martin Beck
Britain Ready to Aid Poland If Danzig Is Threatened
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons Britain is firmly resolved to fulfill its guarantee of military aid to Poland if Polish independence is threatened at Danzig. He urged calm, noted Polish Germany tensions, and urged all sides to avoid actions that could threaten European peace.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Tosday
Great Britain
Poland
Free City of
Danzig
Germany
Free City
Chamberlain
Warsaw
Britain
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Marshal Pilsudski
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Memel
Berlin
Josef Beck
Reich
Europe
Biddle Dies of Burns Cleaning Auto in Salem
Salem William Biddle age 28 died from burns he received when gasoline caught fire while he was cleaning his automobile.
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Biddle
Salem
William Biddle
Coshocton WPA Workers Return to Work After Strike
Coshocton County WPA workers voted to end their strike over the 130 hour work month, then returned to their posts today under protest.
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Coshocton
U.R
Coshocton County
WPA
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