Seven Die As Truck Sideswipes Laurel Auto In Maryland
Seven people from Laurel Maryland were killed when a car returning from a Glen Burnie carnival was sideswiped on a highway near Upper Marlboro. The truck driver B M King of Munday Point Virginia was held on $500 bond pending inquest. David Manning died hours after rescue attempts failed.
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Maryland
Upper Marlboro
U.P
Here
Laurel
Bernard Lammers
Mildred Lammers
Anna May Lammers
Pauline
Glen Burnie
King
David Manning
Young Manning
Heat-Crazed Farmer Kills Three In Minnesota Slayings
Jens Thompson, 34, described as heat crazed, shot and killed Joe Lucas and two of his brothers, Louis and Anton, then wounded Fay Lucas near an Albert Lea farm. Deputies say no motive was found as possemen search routes into Northern Minnesota for the suspect.
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Albert Lea
Minn
Minnesota Wilds
Jens Thompson
Thompson
Joe Lucas
Lucas
Louis
Anton Lucas
Joe
Fay Lucas
Anton
Fay
Helmer Myre
Zip Goes Another Button Acurio Collector in Alfred NY
A woman in Alfred New York has started a button collection, compiling 2500 diverse buttons in three months. She believes buttons will become valuable museum pieces once zippers end the button trade. Her hobby appears to involve much clothing and a life in decline, as the narrator notes the elevator men’s quip about things “going down.”
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Alfred, N. Y
Deadline for Want Ads in Big Sunday Issue
The Messenger notes a deadline for want ads in its Big Sunday Issue. Details on submission times and mailing address not provided in readable text.
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the Messenger
Hold Man for Death Of Girl in Inn Fire
James McCormack, 31, a tavern handyman from Cleveland, was jailed and to be extradited to Michigan on suspicion of murdering 16 year old Detroit student Mary Jane Mohan. The body was found in the Daybreak Inn ruins at Anchorville on Lake St Clair after an inn fire.
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Cleveland
James McCormack
Michigan
Detroit
William L. van Antwerp
Port Huron
Mich
McCormack
Mary Jane Mohan
Daybreak Inn
Lake St. Clair
Anchorville, Mich
Canton suits flood damages from clogged storm sewers
Three Canton property owners filed suit against the city seeking 8500 dollars for flood damage from clogged storm sewers.
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Canton Aup
City of
Canton
Ohio Farm Bureau seeks TVA power to Ohio lines
The Ohio Farm Bureau asks Congress to route TVA power from Norris Dam to Ohio via REA systems. Key figures James R Moore Perry L Green and Murray D Lincoln discussed a 300 to 350 mile line to Columbus and southern counties. Rankin argued Ohio is overcharged and would gain lower rates. REA progress shows 3000 miles of lines staked and 5000 homes served cooperatively as of 1937.
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Columbus
WUP
Ohio Farm Bureau
Congress
Tennessee Valley Authority
Norris Dam
Ohio
James R. Moore
Perry L. Green
Murray D. Lincoln
John E. Rankin
Mississippi
TVA
Rankin
Hancock
Putnam
Crawford Counties
Farm Bureau
REA
China Army Withdrawals Reported Amid Peiping Talks
Gen Hajime Sugiyama told the cabinet that Chinese 29th Army troops were quietly withdrawing from Peiping war zone under a voluntary agreement with Northern Chinese officials. The war office said officials offered to withdraw troops suppress anti Japanese activity and prevent further clashes on July 19.
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TOKYO
A.P
Hajime Sugiyama
Peiping
Sugiyama
War Office
China
State Patrol Teletype Replaced With Morse
Ohio Highway Patrol to switch from teletype to Morse code wires to cut operating costs Col Lynn Black says operators already trained in code The change will not affect the police radio network which will continue to operate as before.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Highway Patrol
Lynn Black
Highway Patrol
Demands Action on Cancer Research Bill
Rep Alfred L Bulwinkle of North Carolina urged immediate action in Congress on his plan to provide 750000 dollars for a cancer research clearing house aimed at cutting the annual toll of about 140000 deaths. The Senate meanwhile approved a similar Bone bill by unanimous consent.
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Washington
U.P
Alfred L. Bulwinkle
N. C
Congress
Senate
Homer T. Bone
Wash
Seven Year Old Evangelist Ordained Tours Ahead
In Peoria Illinois seven year old Charles Jaynes Jr was ordained as the world’s youngest evangelist by Rev Dr B G Drake at Trinity Tabernacle. He sang and preached then left for an evangelical tour with nurse Miss Neva Duff. His parents are convalescing in Garden Grove California and he can read at a third grade level.
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Peoria
Ill
U.R
Charles Jaynes, Jr
B. G. Drake
Peoria Trinity Tabernacle
Hell
God's Penitentiary
Garden Grove
Cal
Neva Duff
Junior
Green To Face Dual Unionism Trial by UMW
William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, will be tried by the next United Mine Workers convention on charges of dual unionism. The UMWA executive board voted, citing Green's chartering of the Progressive Mine Workers and a dispute with John L. Lewis, to proceed at the convention meeting in January. Green, a 47 year member, boycotted the board sitting, saying he would not face an unfair trial.
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Washington
U.P
William Green
American Federation of Labor
United Mine Workers Convention
Mine Workers Executive Board
John L. Lewis
UMWA
Green
Coshocton
Ohio
United Mine Workers of America
Progressive Mine Workers
Barkley
Gle
Executive Department
South
Bishop Pleads For Parleys in Labor Disputes
In Cleveland the Very Rev Joseph Schrembs bishop of the Cleveland Diocese urges settlement of labor disputes through conferences to protect the public. He cites papal teaching on workers rights and employers duties, urging that neither side overlook the wider public interest and contract observance.
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Cleveland
L.P
Joseph Schrembs
Catholic Universe Bulletin
Schrembs
Leo XIII
Pius XI
Mystery Radio Signal Sparks Transatlantic Flight Fear
A garbled radio message from a ship at sea to a Chatham Massachusetts Radiomarine station led officials to believe an unidentified aircraft might be attempting a transatlantic flight. Authorities stressed no aircraft had departed from any accredited field for a Transatlantic hop.
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Mystery Flight
New York
Mercy death drama ends in Seattle physic ian and son
In Seattle Dr. Guy S. Peterkin 66 famed urology specialist shot his invalid son Shearman 22 at their home and then killed himself. Authorities say the illness was incurable. Both were prominent figures with the son a University of Washington student last year.
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Seattle
Wash
U.P
Guy S. Peterkin
Shearman
University of Washington
Actress Barbara Stanwyck hurt at preview incident
Hollywood report says Barbara Stanwyck endured bruises after a police officer rough handed her while she attempted to slip into a Stella Dallas preview and was mistaken for an autograph seeker. Robert Taylor intervened to protect her and reportedly threatened the officers.
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Hollywood
Calif
U.P
Barbara Stanwyck
Stella Dallas
Stanwyck
Glenn Abney
Robert Taylor
Wages and Hours Measure Seen Next Test of New Deal Sentiment
Washington reports Senate leaders push to make the minimum wage and maximum hours bill the next test of New Deal sentiment before adjournment. House Democrats press for caucus actions while leadership weighs a quick adjournment and a limited wage hour push.
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Congress
Washington
U.P
Senate
Roosevelt
House
House Democrats
White House
Night Bombardment Kills 150 in Madrid and Barcelona
Salvage squads removed wreckage and bodies from Madrid and Barcelona after renewed night bombardments. The attacks, possibly in retaliation for Loyalist offensives, caught the cities by surprise as shells hit central streets and port areas. The Nationalist warship Canarias conducted the Barcelona shelling.
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Madrid
Barcelona
Spain
Canarias
Kansas City Clergyman Seeks Visa to Organize Democracy Friends
Rev. L. M. Birkhead of Kansas City seeks a special visa to visit Germany and organize branches of the Friends of Democracy. He plans to march with the Stars and Stripes and shout Jeffersonian slogans, set up semi military camps on Nazi soil, and carry on propaganda against Nazism.
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Friends of New Germany
U. S
Rev. L. M. Birkhead
Kansas City
Germany
Friends of Democracy
Coast Guards Seek Heiress Missing After River Encounter
In Elkton Maryland Janet Louise Wohlsen an 18 year old Pennsylvania heiress vanished after a fishing trip on the Northeast River near Chesapeake Bay. A black hulled sailing boat with six men was seen near her rowboat whose shoes and gear were later found.
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Elkton
U.P
Coast Guard
Chesapeake Bay
Janet Louise Wohlsen
Pennsylvania
Miss Wohlsen
Nye says Labor Board biased in Wagner Act case
Senator Gerald Nye accuses the National Labor Relations Board of disqualifying itself as a referee by taking sides in labor disputes. He says the board appears partisan and biased, diminishing its judicial image while hearings over Wagner Act violations by Republic Steel proceed amid the CIO strike.
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Washington
Gerald P. Nye
N. D
National Labor Relations Board
Nye
Republic Steel Corporation
Committee For Industrial Organization
Druggists Seek Action On Fair Trade Measure
The Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association closed its convention after asking President Roosevelt to urge Senate delay on the Tydings Millar Fair Trade Enabling Act so 6000 Ohio pharmacists can operate economically. The group also pressed Governor Davey to exempt pharmaceutical apprentices from the state minimum wage law.
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Toledo-U.p
Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association
Roosevelt
Senate
Ohio
Davey
State Pharmacy Board
14 Year Old Weds In Newport Ky Marriage Report
The marriage of 14 year old Edith Cummings to Floyd Sable 28 at Newport Kentucky on July 6 was announced by Mrs. John Marsh, with whom the girl lived at Morning Sun O. Edith was a seventh grade pupil.
Tammany backs Copeland for New York mayoral nomination
Tammany Hall supported Sen. Royal S. Copeland today to lead the Democratic mayoralty bid, backing the anti-New Deal stance of James J. Dooling and Copeland in the primary race.
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Tammany
Copeland
NEW York
U.P
Tammany Hall
James J. Dooling
Royal S. Copeland
Buffalo Sees Food Shortage Amid Citywide Strikes
Buffalo faces a severe shortage of staples and meat as 2 000 truck drivers and warehouse workers strike, halting deliveries for three days. Stores report dwindling butter eggs cheese canned goods New York area. Samuel Licata of Truck Drivers and Warehouse Workers AFL affiliates warns non union deliveries will be picketed. packing plant workers strike threatens exposure of meat firms.
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Buffalo
N. Y
U.P
Samuel Licata
American Federation of Labor
C. I
Mother Kills Four Children Then Kills Herself in Arizona
Marie Walkup, 35, allegedly strangled and stabbed her four children as they slept in Flagstaff, then drove away and shot herself. Sheriff's office reported the double tragedy in early release.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
U.R
Marie Walkup
Sheriff's Office
Motorcycle collision injures Lancaster man in Columbus
Paul Steinmetz, 25, of Lancaster, was hospitalized in critical condition after his motorcycle collided with a truck in Columbus. Local police described the crash as serious with injuries to the rider and ongoing investigation.
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Columbus
U.P
Paul Steinmetz
Lancaster
Automobile License Tag Fees Distributed in 1937
The State Bureau of Motor Vehicles distributed 3 165 516 in motor vehicle license fees for 1937. Funds support road maintenance with allocations to Athens 17064 Gallia 5976 Hocking 7272 Meigs 6984 Morgan 5544 in the listed counties.
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Columbus
State Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Athens
Gallia
Hocking
Meigs
Morgan
Discoverers of Ancient Treasure Trove Victims of Supposed Curse
In Panama’s Chiriqui Province a $3,000,000 gold cache at La Estrella Mine triggers a mystery. French prospector Johannes Van Steck is wounded in a tunnel incident after entering the shaft with police. German Antonio Hill is missing. American Arring Thorpe denies knowledge. A curse is suspected as the case unfolds.
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Panama
U.P
Chiriqui
Jose Arosemena
Piedra Candelas
Johannes van Steck
van Steck
List
Hill
Arring Thorpe
la Concepcion
Thorpe
la Estrella
van Stack
Opponents Celebrate as Court Plan Is Defeated
Senate leaders hailed the defeat of Roosevelt's Supreme Court bill 70 to 20 and moved to draft a substitute aimed at lower court reforms. The agreement trims the administration program while proposing direct Supreme Court appeals, AG intervention, circuit reassignment, and more lower court judges.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Roosevelt
Judiciary Committee
John N. Garner
Alben W. Barkeley
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Judiciary
Supreme Court
Sumners
House
Attorney General
Roosevelt Sees Court Plan Progress Despite Setbacks
President Roosevelt, in official circles, believes his push to liberalize the judiciary shows progress even after the death of his court plan. A survey of Supreme Court rulings since February five reportedly indicates shifts aligning with his goals, including upholding the Social Security Act and Wagner Act while McGuffey era rulings were narrowed.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
AAA
McGuffey
City to suspend relief operations on August 2
Auditor Shelton J. Overdort announced East Liverpool will halt relief efforts on August 2. He noted 1,273 people remain on relief rolls and will be affected by the suspension.
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East Liverpool
Shelton J. Overdort
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Pete” Traxler
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Board
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