German Test Plane Lands In New York
The Nordmeer catapult plane of Deutsche Lufthansa landed at Manhasset Bay Port Washington after a 17 hour 42 minute flight from the Azores. Captain Blankenburg piloted the four engined craft as part of a 12 week summer test program aimed at establishing trans Atlantic service between Europe and North America.
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Port Washington
N. Y
Nordmeer
Deutsche Lufthansa
Horta
Azores
Joachim H. Blankenburg
Manhasset Bay
Pan-American Air Base
Donald C. T. Bennett
Mercury
British Aerial Airways
Atlantic
Foynes
Ireland
Schwabenland
Montreal
Deutsch Lufthansa
Pan American Airways
North America
Europe
Pan American Clippers
an-American Is
Lisbon
Marseilles
Frankfort
Berlin
Imperial Airways
British Air Ministry
Bennett
Botwood
Newfoundland
Southampton
Twin Sisters Drown in Lake at Old Homestead
Dorothy May and Doris Marie Webster ten year old twins of Lloyd C. Webster assistant superintendent of Prudential Insurance drowned at Old Homestead on the Lake Thursday. Joint funeral services will be held here Monday. The father left them in shallow water then joined his wife. the bodies were recovered on the beach about a half hour later.
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Sandusky
U.P
Dorothy May
Doris Marie Webster
Lloyd C. Webster
Prudential Insurance Company
Old Homestead
Cannot Confiscate Cars for Game Violations Rule
Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy rules courts cannot confiscate automobiles used by persons convicted for shooting game out of season. The opinion states automobiles are not within the phrase or other devices in the conservation law that authorizes confiscation of hunting apparatus in game violation cases.
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Columbus
Herbert S. Duffy
Lawrence Wooddell
Coroner probes death of Rep Crosser’s daughter
The coroner A. Magruder MacDonald began an inquiry into the death of Mrs Justine Sweeny, 29, daughter of Congressman Robert Crosser of Ohio. She was found dead at the home of Mrs May Connors, a widow.
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Washington
U.P
A. Magruder MacDonald
Justine Sweeny
Robert Crosser
Ohio
May Connors
Drowns in Bath Tub at Home in Wheeling
Mary Katherine Donovan 23 drowned Thursday night in a home bathtub in Wheeling West Virginia. Police say she apparently suffered a dazzling accident in what authorities classify as a domestic tragedy.
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Wheeling
W. Va
U.P
Mary Katherine Donovan
TVA Employees May Be Questioned by Committee Witnesses
A congressional panel at Knoxville approved a resolution allowing TVA employees to provide information to designated witnesses. The move ends earlier limits and follows a heated debate over witness access to TVA staff. TVA counsel Fly said management will drop its prior rule requiring approval before any employee talks with a witness.
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Knoxville
Tenn
U.P
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ohio
Francis Biddle
James M. Mead
N. Y
Jenkins
James Lawrence Fly
American Tanker Sunk By Japanese Plane Near Hankow
Shanghai report cites a Chinese news agency claiming an American oil tanker was bombed and sunk by a Japanese plane along the Yangtse near Kutang above Kiukiang. U.S. officials and allies could not confirm. Japanese raids also targeted Hankow as nine bombers dropped 40 bombs elsewhere.
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Shanghai
U.P
United States
Hankow
Yangtse
Kutang
Kiukiang
Monocacy
Standard Oil Co
Kroger Chain Founder Dies at 78 in Massachusetts
Cincinnati born Henry Kroger founder of a major Midwestern grocery chain died at his summer home in Wianno Massachusetts after a heart attack. Born January 24 1860 in Cincinnati he faced early poverty and repeated business setbacks before building a vast food distribution empire in the Midwest.
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Cincinnati
U.pb
H. Kroger
Middle West
Wianno
Mass
Cape Cod
Kroger
Meigs County Aged Get $21138 In June Aid
The State Division of Aid for the Aged reports 1,010 residents aged 65 or over in Meigs County received 21138 in old age assistance during June. The average grant was 20.92 dollars based on need. In June 1937 the division paid 18905 to 906 recipients in Meigs County.
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Pomeroy
State Division of Aid For the
Meigs County
iMeiga County
Shoes Idle Workers to Be Hired in WPA Projects
The United Shoe Workers of America executive board proposed WPA shoe manufacturing projects in New York and Boston to employ about 3000 idle workers. Leader Powers Hapgood urged relief distribution of shoes and sought surplus hides from drought damaged cattle via the Surplus Commodities Corporation. The move coincides with Farm Security Administration plans to produce clothing non profit at its 1200 acre cooperative near Hightstown New Jersey.
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Washington
United Shoe Workers of America
Works Progress Administration
New York
Boston
Powers Hapgood
Shoe Union
Committee For Industrial Organization
Surplus Commodities Corporation
Shoe
Farm Security Administration
Hightstown
N. J
Certified Transporters Cut Ohio Road Accidents
The Ohio Public Utilities Commission reported 41 percent fewer accidents and 46 percent fewer fatalities in the first half of 1938 among railroads buses and trucks under certification, compared with the same period in 1937. Most of the 132 fatalities were non passenger or non employee, underscoring highway risks from private operation.
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Columbus -Au
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Gallia County Youth Drowns in Ohio River
In Gallia County Ohio a 14 year old boy Harry Mooney son of Clarence Mooney drowned while swimming in the Ohio River. Crown City officials spent the day dragging for the body. This was the first drowning of the year in Gallia Le
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Gallipolis
Harry Mooney
Clarence Mooney
Ohio River
Crown City
Gallia le
Ex Governor Cox Campaigns For Sawyer In Ohio Race
Former Ohio governor James M. Cox plans to campaign for Charles Sawyer in the Democratic gubernatorial race. Cox's endorsement appears in a Dayton rally letter and signals possible speeches before the primary. The Sawyer camp also gains Cuyahoga County backing as Burr Gongwer leads the county committee.
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Columbus
U.P
James M. Cox
Dayton
Democratic
Ohio
Charles Sawyer
Cox
Sawyer
Cuyahoga County
Burr Gongwer
Davey
Arthur H. Day
American Bar Association
State Supreme Court
Judge Day
Taft
Cleveland Bar Association
Sabotage Suspected In Canadian Forest Fire On Vancouver Island
Courtenay B C forestry officials charged that sabotage and incendiarism spread a forest blaze that destroyed Forbes Landing fishing resort. Water pumps jammed by sugar, cut hoses, and axes used to sever lines were cited. About 200 job seekers were sent back to Vancouver.
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Courtenay
B. C
U.P
Forestry Department
Vancouver Island
Forbes Landing
Vancouver
Five Entombed In Silver Mine
Five miners remain trapped in the Veta Silver Mine near Duncan Arizona after a collapse trapped them 24 hours ago. Rescue crews bored through a mud wall 700 feet underground while 100 workers work in 19 minute shifts sending food and air through intact lines as they battle debris and poor ventilation.
Mrs. Douglas Starkey Dies at 74 in Pomeroy
Mrs. Douglas Starkey 74 died at her daughter’s home on East Main Street in Pomeroy Thursday night. She is survived by her husband and son Robert of Toledo and by the late William Starkey, former Water Works superintendent. Funeral services will be at 2 PM Sunday at the Stephenson home with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Douglas Starkey
James Stephenson
E. Main St
Starkey
Robert
Toledo
William Starkey
Stephenson
Buria
Beech Grove
WPA Leader Hints Roosevelt Third Term Movement
GOP leaders see Hopkins remarks as launching a Roosevelt third term push. Hamilton accuses the administration of seeking to perpetuate power via relief funds while predicting voters will repudiate in 1940. Hopkins cites expanding WPA rolls with 200000 agricultural workers added in 11 southern states for subsistence until harvest.
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Washington
U.P
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
Republican National Committee
John D. M. Hamilton
Hopkins
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Hamilton
Colorado Steel
Pacific Coast
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Corrigan Declines Offers as Ireland Tour Looms
Douglas Corrigan, back from Ireland, says he is shocked by stage offers and will refuse most money making pitches. He accepts only a parade read in his honor through Brooklyn from Floyd Bennett Airport to mark his arrival home, while turning down a $15,000 magazine article deal. Corrigan plans to reach New York on August 5.
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Dublin
U.P
Douglas Corrigan
Brooklyn Borough
New York City
Floyd Bennett Airport
Los
United States
Cordell Hull
Mexico
Hull
International Arbitration Court
Lazaro Cardenas
Spain
Valencia
Paris
Europe
George VI
France
Great Britain
Adolf Hitler
One Dead Two Held In Gas Theft Attempt
Charleston dispatch reports Dennis Salisbury 24 Odessa along with companions Russell Matheny 23 Bomont and Orid Samples 23 Bomont tried to siphon gasoline from a drip tank. Salisbury drowned after being overcome by fumes while Matheny and Samples admitted weeks of tank theft from United Fuel Gas Co. in the Tuppers Creek area.
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Charleston
W. Va
U.P
Dennis Salisbury
Odessa
Russell Matheny
Orid Samples
Bomont
Salisbury
Matheny
United Fuel Gas Co
Tuppers Creek
Prison Fight Injures Convict at Ohio Penitentiary
Warden J C Woodard calls a cell quarrel a family quarrel after Theodore Wistner age 32 of Cleveland is stabbed in the abdomen by fellow convict John Eberling 21 also of Cleveland. The injured man is listed as in only fair condition. A state chemist report on bombs found inside the prison prompts stricter monitoring of charcoal and sulphur materials.
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Columbus
U.P
J. C. Woodard
Theodore Wistner
Cleveland
Ohio
Wistner
John Eberling
Woodard
Logan Man Killed in Ohio Gas Well Explosion
Clem ent Messbarger of Logan was killed in a gas explosion at an Ohio Fuel Co. well nine miles southwest of Zanesville. The accident occurred Thursday afternoon and authorities investigated the blast at the site.
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Logan Man
Zanesville
Clement Messbarger
Logan
Ohio Fuel Co
Here
Paraguay Bolivia Sign Gran Chaco Pact Ends Century Dispute
Representatives of Paraguay and Bolivia signed a formal treaty in Buenos Aires ending a century long dispute over control of the Gran Chaco border region.
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Paraguay
Bolivia
Buenos Aires
U.P
Gran Chaco
Canton youth drowns while swimming at Lake Cale
Joseph Nist junior, 14, son of the Stark County sheriff, drowned Thursday while swimming in Lake Cale.
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Canton
U.P
Joseph Nist
Stark County
Lake Cale
Ohio state borrows 800000 for July pension payments
Columbus reports a deficit in funds for old age pensions forcing an 800000 borrow from the general revenue fund to cover July payments. Finance Director Alli son secured the loan with anticipated liquor profits to be used for pensions as the liquor profits fund nears depletion and a potential annual deficit approaches 1.5 million.
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Columbus
U.P
General Revenue Fund
M. Ray Allison
Joseph T. Ferguson
Rotary Fund
Ferguson
Strike Settled at Portsmouth
Sel by Shoe Company closed by a strike on July 13 will reopen next Monday under an agreement giving workers a share of profits. Workers accept annual bonuses. union demands for a closed shop and restoration of a 10 percent wage cut denied. General manager N B Griffith estimated $75,000 in lost wages for workers and $50,000 lost business for the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
The_ Selby Shoe Company
N. B. Griffith
Owen Wister Dead Author of The Virginian Passes
Owen Wister aged 78, author of The Virginian, died Thursday at Crowfield his summer home in North Kingston. The Philadelphia born writer and Harvard classmate of Theodore Roosevelt gained fame from his first book, which drew on a hunting trip through Arizona and New Mexico during illness recovery.
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North Kingstown
R. J
Usp
Owen Wister
Crowfield
Wister
Arizona
New Mexico
Philadelphia
Harvard
Theodore Roosevelt
Ross Officers Hold Couple in Fatal Shooting
Ross County authorities hold Fred Coleman 31 and Bernadine 26 and their male companion as material witnesses after the fatal shooting of Ben Hunter 61, a railroad passenger conductor, near Londonderry. Hunter, described as a father figure to the Colemans, was shot as he headed to his car after dropping Mrs Coleman at Chillicothe for a movie. Hunter was a brother of Red Sox scout Fred Hunter of Columbus.
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Chillicothe
Umtwo
Ross County
Ben Hunter
Londonderry
Fred Coleman
Bernadine
Colemans
Hunter
Drop in Tax Revenue Reported by Kiisley
COLUMBUS four U P retail sales and use tax revenues through July 16 show a drop of about 7 million dollars from the same period in 1937. State treasurer Clarence H. Kiisley announced that last year’s collections reached 26,732,935 while this year’s total is 19,907,511.
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Columbus
Clarence H. Kiisley
Cleveland Murderer Gets Life Sentence
Sally Hart once labeled Cleveland's public enemy No 1 was convicted of first degree murder in the prior summer death of Youngstown underworld figure Roy Marino. Hart received a life imprisonment sentence.
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Youngstown
U.P
Sally Hart
Cleveland
Roy Marino
Hart
Child Gored to Death by Cow in Malta Area
Nine year old G Curry son of Mr and Mrs Brooks Curry near Malta was fatally gored by a cow with a newborn calf on Thursday. The tragedy occurred on the family farm and authorities reported no other injuries.
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Mcconnellville
U.P
Harold G. Curry
Brooks Curry
Malta
Indifference in Moscow Tokyo Faces Frontier Dispute
A frontier quarrel over a hill on the Manchukuo Siberian border sharpens tensions between Japan and Soviet Russia. Litvinov rejected Japan's claims as Moscow hints at little fear of attack while Tokyo reels from troop movements as diplomatic action proceeds.
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Joe Alex Morris
United Press
Japan
Soviet
Russia
Far East
China
Tokyo
Moscow
Maxim Litvinov
Frontier Hill
Mancchukuo
Yangtse
Kiukiang
Shansi
President of Printers Union Dies in Colorado
Charles P. Howard 58 of Indianapolis, president of the International Typographical Union since 1926, died of a heart attack while attending a trustees meeting for the printers home in Colorado Springs. Funeral services planned for today by ITU officials and members.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
U.P
International Typographical Union
Charles P. Howard
Indianapolis
Howard
ITU
Printers’ Home
Italian government orders Jewish Rome correspondent to leave
The ministry of popular culture told Dr Edward D Kleinlerer Rome correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency for 14 years he must depart Italy within eight days. It cited general nature reasons for the expulsion.
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Rome
Ministry of Popular Culture Today
Edward D. Kleinlerer
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Italy
Burns Fatal in Dayton Cleaning Accidental Fire
Mrs. William Crutchfield aged 246 died Thursday night from burns suffered while cleaning a mattress with gasoline in Dayton. The incident occurred at her home and investigators are reviewing the accident.
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Dayton
Au.r
William Crutchfield
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U. S
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Kiisley
Printers’ Union
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