New Dealers Prepare for Stiff Battle
Washington leaders rallied congressional supporters after the death of Senate Leader Joseph T. Robinson to press Roosevelt's judiciary reform. Democrats aimed to renew the fight to pass the court bill and stave off adjournment that could derail labor and farm legislation. Supporters and foes warned the battle would resume Tuesday with amid confidence of a Senate majority or foes planning to kill the measure.
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Washington
U.P.— Administration
Joseph T. Robinson
Senate
Roosevelt
Judiciary Organization
White House
Senate Leaders Plan State Funeral for Joseph Taylor Robinson
Washington leaders from both parties join Friday rites for the late Senate majority leader Joseph Taylor Robinson. The funeral in the Senate chamber begins at noon with Chaplain Zebarney Phillips officiating. His body will be taken to Little Rock on a special train Friday night, with services in Arkansas expected Sunday afternoon.
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Washington
U.R
Senate
Joseph Taylor - Robinson
Capitol Hill
Joe Robinson
Hill
Robinson
Zebarney Thorne Phillips
D. D
Ll.d
Lidle Rock
Arkansas Capitol
Little Rock
Navy Keeps Up Earhart Search Near Howland Island
The Navy presses on with the hunt for Amelia Earhart and Frederick Noonan missing since July 2. Despite a one in a million chance of survival, the carrier Lexington crew remains hopeful while mop up operations extend 600 miles toward the Gilberts and westward beyond Howland Island. Weather improves and up to 60 planes, each with four to six men, were to join today’s search after 40 flew yesterday.
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Honolulu
U.2
Navy
Amelia Earhart
Frederick Noonan
Lexington
Howland Island
Gilbert Islands
Miss Earhart
Oil tycoon Knight charged in plot to burn children for insurance
Lansdowne Pa police arrest 55 year old oil company executive Al rt R Knight on charges of attempting to burn three of his children for a 125000 policy with double indemnity. He holds 10000 bail awaiting grand jury action. Ruth Knight faces arson charge with her father.
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Lansdowne, Pa
Alrt R. Knight
William R.toal
Delaware County
Knight
Ruth
Sue
Mary
Lansdowne Court
David
Theatrical Stars Honor Gershwin At Final Tribute
Prominent stage and music figures gathered in New York at Temple Emanu El for funeral services honoring George Gershwin composer of Rhapsody in Blue. A Hollywood service followed for Gershwin who died after a brain tumor illness.
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New York
George Gershwin
America
Furfral
Temple Emanu-El
Hollywood
Kwin
Champaign Wheat Crop Forecast At 15 Bushels Per Acre
Elevators in Urbana say Champaign County wheat is of good quality with test weights from 56 to 63 pounds per bushel. The estimated average yield is about 15 bushels per acre, below the long term county average of 20 bushels.
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Champaign
Urbana
Tu.p
Champaign County
Wellsville seeks fire department aid in water shortage
Mayor Howard L. Kelley ordered the fire department to pump water from Aten Run into city mains to ease a 30 hour water famine. A snapped 18 inch feed line at the municipal storage dam disrupted supplies for Wellsville’s 7500 residents who relied on springs and wells for domestic use.
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Wellsville
U.P
Howard L. Kelley
Aten
Little Yellow
Launch Second Day Search for Fishermen
Coast Guards began the second day of a search for two Cleveland men missing on Lake Erie for more than 40 hours. Robert Stibrick and James Flaherty left Avon Lake Tuesday on a sixteen foot boat and have not been heard from since. Their wives alerted authorities prompting the Lorain Coast Guard to begin the search Wednesday.
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Cleveland
U.P
Coast Guards
Lake Erie
Robert Stibrick
James Flaherty
Avon Lake
Lorain Coast Guard
Rival labor chiefs speak on sympathy for other's strikes
John L. Lewis and William Green state 6,000,000 workers in the CIO and AFL will tolerate sympathy strikes. They stress that signed contracts and collective bargaining underpin stable industrial relations and that sympathy for strikers does not lead to local discipline.
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United Press
Washington
U.P
John L. Lewis
William Green
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
Lewis
C.I
Fire destroys Westmister Church. $75,000 loss
A three alarm fire completely destroyed the First Westminster Presbyterian Church in Toledo incurring an estimated $75,000 in damage. Fire crews battled the blaze but the structure was ruined. No injuries were reported.
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Toledo
First Westminster Presbyterian Church
Road bids asked in Columbus in two bid settings
The state highway department announced it would accept bids in Columbus on two dates, July 27 and July 30, for road projects.
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Columbus
U.P
State Highway Department
Strike Call in Michigan Halts Truck Fleets
Thousands of truck drivers in Michigan abandoned cabs as the American Federation of Labor ordered a statewide strike over wage negotiations. Intra state shipments halted at midnight with milk and perishables exempt from disruption as talks continued without a formal settlement.
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Michigan
Detroit
Mich
U.P
American Federation of Labor
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Flat Glass Laborites Ponder Future Course
Ousted from the Federation of Flat Glass Workers convention 27 locals debated future action to form a representative labor organization. William Ward of Clarksburg presided a rump convention and would not reveal tonight the outlawed delegates next move.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Federation of Flat Glass Workers
Glen McCabe
William Ward
Clarksburg
W. Va
Sheriff Bans Slot Machines in Ross County
Sheriff Joe Vincent announced a ban on slot machines in Ross County. Judge Harrison W. Jewell, sitting by assignment from Delaware, took under advisement evidence in the impeachment trial of Mayor James E. Ford.
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Chillicothe
U.h
Joe Vincent
Ross County
Harrison W. Jewell
Delaware
James E. Ford
Japan Says Chinese Fired On Patrol Near Peiping
Japanese authorities charged Chinese soldiers fired on a Japanese patrol at Tuanhotsun ten miles south of Peiping, killing a courier. Tokyo said China planned to replace Peiping troops with peace preservation forces as Japanese troops pour into the region.
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Peiping
U.P
Tuanhotsun
North China
29Th
Tientsin
Manchukuo
Japanese War Office
Japan
China
Mitsumasa Yonai
Ford workers' discharge hearings probe UAW coercion claims
NLRB summons more witnesses in Detroit as 39 Ford employees cited for transfer or firing. Discharged workers testified of intimidation by Ford service men described as inactive and nosy. UAW says May 26 clash with company reps spurred terminations. Ford denies. All but one witness said dismissal followed union joining.
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Detroit
National Labor Relations Board
Ford Motor Company
United Automobile Workers of America
Labor Board
Ford
UAWA
Auto Union
Three for Odd Fellows Honor at State Encampment
Cambridge report notes J. M. Elliott Alliance Charles T. Cross Canton and Samuel E. Hayes Cambridge were recommended for the Grand Decoration of Chivalry the highest degree of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at the closing session of the state encampment.
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Cambridge
U.P
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
J. M. Elliott
Alliance
Charles T. Cross
Canton
Samuel E. Hayes
Escaped Girl Captured After Release Attempt
Ruth Canada a 17 year old from Dayton who escaped the Girls Industrial School at Delaware was recaptured here on Wednesday. She was serving a four year sentence on a statutory charge.
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Dayton
U.P
Ruth Canada
Girls’ Industrial School
Delaware
Russian Fliers Rest Ahead of Civic Receptions in San Diego
Three Soviet aviators led by Michael Gromov completed a 7000 mile polar route from Moscow over the Pole across Canada to the Pacific Coast and into Mexico. They landed near San Jacinto after 62 hours 25 minutes of flight with fuel running low. Acknowledgments from Soviet officials and President Roosevelt are arranged, with celebrations planned in California.
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San Diego
Calif
U.P
Michael Gromov
Andrei Yumashev
Sergei Danilin
Moscow
Pole
Arctic
Canada
Pacific
Mexico
National Aeronautical Association
San Jacinto
Gromov
Shumovsky
March Field
Army Field
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Soviet Union
Phone chimes to usher in discord at home
Ohio Bell announces limited telephones that chime instead of ring. The base mounted mechanism produces four pitch chimes, and the instrument resembles a cradle type with a larger heavier base. Joe Doe will be detained at the office tonight prompting melodious chimes before an inevitable argument.
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Cleveland
U.P
Joe Doe
Doctor Warns Solons of Fast Working Pace
Senator Roy L. Copeland, the Senate’s only physician, warned that 1937 could be the most fatal year for Congress unless lawmakers ease the strenuous legislative schedule. He cited eight deaths in six months and noted high stress from bitter debates and air conditioning shocks at the Capitol, with Dr. George W. Calver supporting concerns about strain on members.
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Washington
U.P
Royal S. Copeland
N. Y
Senate
Congress
Joseph T. Robinson
Ark
Copeland
New York
Capitol
George W. Calver
Pay Crisis Hits State as July Checks Hang On
Columbus state employees face missing their July salary as the budget bill awaits the governor’s signature. The bill passed both houses late Wednesday, but Gov. signs or vetoes could delay pay. Auditor Ferguson cannot issue checks until action ends.
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Columbus
U.S
John M. Carew
Joseph T. Ferguson
40 Cities Join Pledge To Back Work Right
JOHNSTOWN Pa tU P More than 40 cities were represented at a meeting by the Johnstown Citizens' Committee to form a national organization pledging to guarantee the fundamental right to work and protect local government. About 200 people from places as far as Afton Oklahoma attended to discuss industrial conditions and the steel strike called by the Committee for Industrial Organization.
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Johnstown
Tu.p
Citizens’ Committee
Afton
Okla
Committee For Industrial Organization
Ex School Dean Waits Assault Charge Trial
Former Mt. Hermon School for Boys dean Thomas Edwin Elder faces trial on charges of assault with intent to murder and with a dangerous weapon. Indicted after grand jury heard S. Allen Norton 66, ex cashier at the school, say Elder brandished a shotgun at Norton in his garage on May 25. Elder claims he was with his wife in Keene New Hampshire over 40 miles away.
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Greenfield
Mass
Thomas Edwin Elder
Mt. Hermon School For Boys
Franklin County Grand
Elder
S. Allen Norton
Norton
Keene
N. H
Four Taken From Shaft Near Death
An explosion at the Baker coal mine in Sullivan Indiana killed at least four miners and trapped about 70 others. Twelve were rescued, with ten severely burned, as rescue teams from multiple towns searched miles of corridors for the missing. The origin of the blast remained unknown with theories of dust ignition or gas buildup.
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Sullivan
Ind
U.P
Baker Soft
Sullivan County
A. E. Wilson
Direcor
Henry Wallace
Vincennes
Terre Haute
Brazil
Indiana
Sullivan Hospital
Curt Miller
Allen Sawyer
Jess Pickett
Harry Cuts
Baker Mine
British Plan's Fate Pending
Delegates from the signatories of the Spanish non intervention accord meet in London to decide if neutrality control is revived or the Spanish civil war becomes a testing ground for a broader European war. They will consider a British compromise plan for neutrality control amid cautious reactions from Paris Berlin and Rome.
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London
U.P
Paris
Berlin
Rome
Film Extra Damages Suit Hits Hollywood Executives
David Ross of Chicago faces a $500000 damages suit filed by actress Patricia Douglas over an alleged assault at a 1940s hayman party. Named defendants include Hal E. Roach Edward J. Mannix and Vincent Coniff plus 50 John Doe placeholders.
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Los Angeles
David Ross
Chicago
Patricia Douglas
Vincent Coniff
Roach
John Doe
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Earhart Hunt
Secours Ocean
Liberty
Fire Department
Printing Trades Unions
By William Green
Toledo Church
Odd Fellows
Paul Codos
Maurice Rossi
Moscow Field
Doctor
Solons
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