Townsend Gathering At Cleveland Upset By Internal Dispute
The Townsend Club convention in Cleveland was riven by internal strife over support for Father Coughlin and Gerald Smith while plans for a 1936 presidential bid were curtailed. Expulsion of Oklahoma vice president Gomer Smith drew attention as leaders barred formal endorsements and Townsend pressed a Lemke ticket tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Townsend Clubs
Charles E. Coughlin
Gerald L. K. Smith
Roosevelt
Townsend Club
Gomer Smith
Oklahoma
Francis E. Townsend
Father Coughlin
Gerald Smith
Frank A. Arbuckle
Lemke
Doctor Townsend
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
New Orleans
San Francisco
Elizabeth Thompson
Pittsburgh
Lake Erie
James A. Farley
Democratic National Committee
C. Jasper Bell
House Committee
Mrs. Thompson
Officials seek Roosevelt inspection of Muskingum project
Muskingum Watershed Conservancy district officials announced they would ask President Roosevelt to inspect the reservoir project if he visits Ohio for the Great Lakes Exposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Philadelphia
U.P
Muskingum
Father of Nine Trapped in Mine Collapse
In New Kensington Pennsylvania a dynamite blast sealed the Renton mine of Union Collieries trapping 44 year old coal miner Steve Harvard father of nine children behind about 1000 tons of rock. He was given only a one in ten thousand chance of survival.
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New Kensington
Renton
Union Collieries
Steve Harvard
Motive in Slaying of NYU Student Believed
Asheville police say Helen Clevenger 19, NYU student, was murdered during an attempted criminal assault. Medical exam rules out robbery. room shows no missing items. An unidentified man was seen near the room and a hotel employee noted a man vaulting the porch railing before escaping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
N. C
Friends
Plan to Purchase 4 Million Arid Acres in Five States
The Resettlement Administration announced plans to buy 4,000,000 acres of arid land in Montana Nebraska Wyoming and the Dakotas as part of a drought era stabilization program. The land use adjustment projects will form controlled grazing groups to support a permanent cattle industry, with agents already active in the Northwest. Estimated cost is 13,749,000 dollars about 3.25 per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Resettlement Administration
Montana
Nebraska
Wyoming
Dakotas
Northwest
Hold Woman in Plot To Murder Husband
In Wellsburg West Virginia formal charges were to be filed today against Pearl Thomas a 33 year old accused by police of plotting her husband Louis Thomas death to collect 6000 dollars in insurance. Frank Pratt 25 was also held. Louis Thomas was shot as he left his Windsor Heights garage. Pratt allegedly confessed his role and that an arranged signal by Mrs Thomas triggered the killing.
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Wellsburg
W. Va
U.P
Pearl Thomas
Brunet
Louis Thomas
Frank Pratt
Thomas
Windsor Heights
Pratz
Walter Mahon
Brooke County
Couple Die in Electric Chair For Poisoning
Mrs Mary Frances Creighton died in the electric chair after poisoning another woman and surrendering her 15 year old daughter to a notorious lover. Everett Applegate, her former lover, died in the same chair nine minutes later. The couple lived in Mineola and were convicted of murdering Applegate's wife to allow marriage with Ruth Creighton. Applegate proclaimed innocence with last words naming Nassau County DA Martin Littleton.
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Ossining
N. Y
U.R
Mary Frances Creighton
Everett Applegate
Applegate
Applegates
Creightons
Mineola
American Legion
Federal
Veterans’ Bureau
Creighton
Martin Littleton
Nassau County
Littleton
GOP Campaign To Be Ethical
Topeka Kansas reporters note steady visitor flow to Gov. Alf Landon as 1936 Republican campaign work continues. Eugene Meyer remarks on the campaign’s high type and absence of dirt. Frank Knox heads from Chicago to Manchester New Hampshire for ten days of speeches aligned with Landon’s Topeka notification on July 23.
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Topeka
Kans
U.P
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Landon
Frank Knox
Chicago
Manchester
N. H
Change in Payment Of Old Age Pensions
Columbus report states a new Aug start date for old age pension payments. State Auditor Joseph T. Tracy announced a night clerical staff addition to speed $6,000 monthly disbursements and mail checks by the first of each month instead of the fifteenth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Joseph T. Tracy
Tracy
Farmers Begin Harsh Field Work Hours in Heat
Neelyville Missouri farmers start work at 2 a.m. to escape extreme heat and avoid livestock losses. They quit at 9 a.m., shifting schedule to protect crops and animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neelyville
U.P
Will Attempt To Reconcile Labor Heads
Washington reports secret conferences may start Monday among union leaders and advisors to bridge a breach within American labor. Edward F. McGrady plans to gauge positions of AFL President William Green and C IO chairman John L Lewis to seek unity without triggering the 12 rebel CIO unions case. Green hopes for federation solidarity and has not arranged formal talks with Lewis's committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Edward F. McGrady
William Green
A. F
John L. Lewis
Green
Lewis
Musician Orville Knapp Dies in Biplane Crash
Orville Knapp 28 prominent orchestra leader formerly of Kansas City Mo dies when his open cockpit biplane crashes at Beverly after engine trouble. His widow Mrs Gloria Knapp eloped with him last May and Justice Beverly area mourns the loss as the body is brought to Boston for funeral plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Orville Knapp
Kansas City
Beverly
Evalyn Knapp
Knapp
River carries body through three states
The body of Ralph Lewis, 22, CCC worker, drowned in a flood 54 miles from here was recovered from the Virgin River today. The body had been carried through three states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Utah
U.P
Ralph Lewis
CCC
Virgin River
Marble Mildred Sentenced to Chair in Husband Slayings
In Chicago two women faced diverging fates after admitting to killing their husbands. Mildred Bolton, dubbed Marble Mildred, received the electric chair after an 87 minute jury verdict. Pauline Drummond was exonerated by a coroner’s inquest which ruled the death accidental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mildred Mary Bolton
Pauline Drummond
Bolton
Drummond
Mildred
Cook County
Heat Prolonged in Middle West Brings Widespread Crop Loss
A relentless heat wave across the Middle West continues through the weekend with cooling from Canada offering only temporary relief. Officials report at least 4,200 lives lost and more than 600 million dollars in crop damage as drought relief efforts begin in the Dakotas and surrounding states. Grain markets show sharp gains as traders anticipate further drought impact.
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Chicago
U.P
Middle West
J. R. Lloyd
Chicago Weather Bureau
Dakotas
Lloyd
Illinois
Indiana
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri Valley
Mississippi Valley
Ohio Valley
Canada
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
Kentucky
Chicago Exchange
Officials Drop Assault Case In Grayling
There will be no further investigation into the beating and slashing of Mrs. Rachel Crume a Findlay Ohio teacher. Sheriff Frank Bennett tied the case to Mike Lux a resort proprietor whose body was found in the Au Sable River near Crapo Lake with a railroad tie weight.
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Grayling
Mich
Rachel Crume
Findlay
Frank Bennett
Mike Lux
Crapo Lake
Lux
Au Sable River
Bennett
Paroles Granted to Inmates in Two Ohio Prisons
The State Parole Board approved release for 46 inmates from London Prison Farm and the Marysville Women’s Reformatory. Among London parolees were Harold Neal Meigs and Samuel Runyon, both jailed for burglary and larceny with April 10, 1937 sentences, directed to West Virginia.
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Columbus
U.P
London
Women's Reformatory
Marysville
Meigs
Harold Neal
West Virginia
Samuel Runyon
French War Plants Under Public Control
The Chamber of Deputies approved the left wing government's bill to nationalize war industries, with public control extended to all industries of death. The measure, dividing producers of wet materials from those making accessories and parts, goes to the senate before a two week adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
U.P
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Forest Fires Light Up West Virginia Sky
Immense forests near Henderson in western West Virginia burned Thursday night. The blaze was visible several miles away with a bright glare lighting the sky above the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Henderson
W. Va
Here
Steel firm opposes closed union contract
Wheeling Steel Corporation reaffirmed its opposition to a closed shop and to a contract with the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Wheeling Steel Corporation
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Measure to Permit Debt Refunding Passes Both Houses
The Ward Bill to allow financially troubled cities to refund bonded debt over up to 80 years cleared the Senate and House and heads to Governor Davey. It enables districts to issue long term bonds when debt exceeds 15 percent of tax duplicates. Additional acts include compulsory delinquent tax lists and 1938 tax bill mailing.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Senate
House
Davey
Gallagher
Senate
Senator Yoder
Kitten Smothers Month-Old Baby in Crib Tragedy
In Booth Shore Maryland a kitten crawled into a crib and smothered a month old baby. Mrs Helen Nauton discovered the infant dead when she checked the room later. The kitten had curled up on the baby's face.
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Booth Shore
James Joseph Nauton
Helen H. Nauton
Board Refuses Parole To Examiner Editor
The Ohio Board of Parole refused to grant parole to Grover Fleming former publisher of The Ohio Examiner. He remains at London Prison farm on an obscene literature charge with a January continuance to check pending indictments and records disclosed.
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Columbus
Ohio Board of Parole
Grover Fleming
Ohio Examiner
London
Fleming
Athens County
Claims Huge Alligator Dwells in Ohio River
A sighting reports an alligator longer than a 17 foot boat in the Ohio River near Tiltonville U P The witness John Schook says he saw it on shore and multiple times in the water prompting an official warning to swimmers.
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Tiltonville
U.P
Ohio River
John Schook
Better Awards at Fair Columbus
Ohio State Fair premium awards will increase by 15000 dollars this year, announced by Earl H. Hanefeld state director of agriculture. The rise marks a larger prize pool for exhibitors competing at the Columbus fair.
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Columbus
U.P
Earl H. Hanefeld
Stockbridge heiress Kay Stewart snubs film role
Kay Stewart of Stockbridge Massachusetts, an heir to a Standard Oil fortune, rejects a glamorous movie part after rising to fame in a joke extra role. The Stewart family includes Robert G Stewart, his father James Stewart, both connected to oil wealth.
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Kay Stewart
Stockbridge
Mass
Robert G. Stewart
Standard Oil
James Stewart
Pioneer
Glouster Man Quits Hospital and Drowns Self
Glouster miner aged 37, An drew Walczak, walked from Grant Hospital ward and jumped into the Scioto River. In hospital since June 23 after an electric shock at Mine No 267, he was described as in a depressed mental state. He leaves a widow, two young children, three brothers, and a sister. the body was recovered and to be brought home for burial.
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Glouster
Andrew Walczak
Trimble Township
Grant Hospital
Scioto
Walczak
Hunterdon
Leo
City Without Light as Workers Strike in Mexico City
A million residents in the Mexico City area spent the night without electricity and faced breakfasts with improvised meals as electrical workers struck for higher pay, leaving gas shortages as a result.
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City Without Light
Mexico City
Parked Car Hit Severs Man Injuries in Gallia County
Clint Daniela injured when a truck struck his parked car near his home in Mercerville Gallia County. He was seated in the car and suffered a head injury and possible right shoulder fracture. The wreck severely damaged the Daniels car with the steering wheel thrown over 100 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Clint Daniela
Holzer Hospital
Mercerville
Gallia County
Daniels
Government plans gas mask covers for baby carriages
London reports the U P expects infants to be among potential target groups in future air attacks. Officials say gas mask covers for infant buggies are being developed to protect young children.
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London
U.P
Traveling Salesman Hero of Edward’s Life Attempt
Special Constable Anthony Gordon Dick, a 36 year old traveling salesman and former navy stoker, is recognized as the man who saved King Edward from a pistol attack during a parade. Dick tackled the assailant George Andrew McMahon, a 4 year old journalist, knocking the weapon away and subduing him.
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London-Au
Anthony Gordon Dick
Navy
Edward
George Andrew McMahon
King Edward
Ted
Constitution Hill
McMahon
Scotland Yard
United Kingdom
Ohio relief bill fails as both houses reject conference report
Columbus lawmakers adjourn after both chambers reject a House Senate conference committee report on a seven month relief measure. A new bill, backed by Senator Nichols, would set a 7.5 million dollar total with a 1 million emergency cushion and required local matches, while counties face arbitrary allotments and potential penalties for frugal relief spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Paul P. Yoder
Senate
Nichols
Clermont
State Relief Commission
House
Relief Commission
Rotary
General Revenue
Man Arrested for Possessing Liquor in Ohio County
Logan staff special report James Mills of South Bloomingville was arrested Wednesday by state liquor inspectors on a possession charge. He was arraigned Thursday before Judge Wilbur M McKenzie in Hocking County special court, pleading not guilty and posting a $500 bond for trial next Thursday. Officers kept a pint of whiskey as evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burrell Russell
Tuscarawas County
Ohio State University Board of Trustees
Verner H. Metcalf
Washington
Davey
Russell
John Kaiser
Marietta
Senate
John C. McWilliams
Cleveland
Ohio University
House
Metcalf
Washington County
First Talkie Director Dies of Pneumonia
Alan Cromland, 41, dean of motion picture directors and creator of the first all talking film, died of pneumonia. Notable works included Song of The Flame, Scarlet Lady, Viennese Nights, and Old San Francisco.
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Hollywood
U.P
Alan Cromland
Film Colony
San Francisco
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Smith
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Messenger
Athens
North Carolina
GOP
Campaign
To Be Ethical
Will
Labor
Herbert
Scioto River
House-Senate
Leonard Kuhlwein
Galloway
Sycamore Street
Sycamore
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