Earl of Jersey Weds Actress Virginia Cherrill in Chelsea
The Earl of Jersey married American film actress Virginia Cherrill at Chelsea register office today. It is Miss Cherrill’s third marriage after Irving Adler and Cary Grant. the Earl has been married once before and is now divorced.
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London
U.P
Earl of Jersey
Chelsea
Virginia Cherrill
Miss Cherrill
Irving Adler
Chicago
Cary Grant
Earl
Two Die as Ship Burns City of Baltimore Inferno
The 26 year old stern wheeler City of Baltimore burned in Chesapeake Bay with two dead, two missing and five injured among 93 aboard. Ninety one passengers and crew escaped by life belts into cold water as rescue boats and planes from Annapolis scoured the blaze. Captain Charles Brooks said he was last to leave, while planes surveyed the scene without locating more survivors.
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Baltimore
U.P
Chesapeake Bay
Callis
U. S. Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Norfolk
Charles Brooks
Arkansas
W. S. Lanner
Gary Cooper Home Ransacked by Burglars
Hollywood police report Gary Cooper's mansion was burglarized early today with losses topping $18,000 in jewelry plus dinery items and linens that may raise the total to about $25,000. Cooper and his wife Veronica Balfe were away visiting friends when the break in occurred.
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Hollywood
U.P
Gary Cooper
Cooper
Veronica Balfe
Plan conservation meetings in ten central states
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration scheduled conferences in ten north central region states in early August to discuss plans for the 1938 conservation program.
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Washington
U.P
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
North Central Region
Note for Anglers Warns of Worm Regrowth
A playful line explains that cutting a fish worm in two yields two good worms with heads or tails growing on each end, joking that this will "get ahead of the world" for fishermen.
Deadline for Want Ads in the Big Sunday Messenger
The Messenger announces the deadline for Want Ads in the Big Sunday Issue. Readers must submit ads by the specified cutoff to appear in the edition.
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the Messenger
Cotton Pickers Scarce in Texas Fields This Season
In Gonzales Texas a labor shortage curbed cotton picking as strangers faced jail or the fields for approaching workers. Authorities escorted two outsiders from town and patrols guarded harvesters. The Kenedy Chamber of Commerce urged 1,000 pickers as late frosts shifted crop maturity across regions, causing a simultaneous harvest.
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Texas
Gonzales
Tex
U.P
Wallace Ray
Karnes
Kenedy
Rio Grande Valley
Editor To Lie in State In Newspaper Office
Paris Missouri report says Editor Tom V Bodine will lie in state at The Paris Mercury office after dying in a Moberly hospital. Bodine longtime Democrat known for militant editorials died Thursday night.
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Paris
Tom V. Bodine
Paris Mercury
Bodine
Soviet Refueling Base Under Construction in Alaska
Two Soviet technicians worked hurriedly and secretly on an air plane refueling base in Fairbanks Alaska as they prepare for another Moscow to United States polar flight.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
U.P
Moscow
United States
Fire damages frame building in Middleport
Fire at 10 oclock a large frame building of the Middleport Wrecking Co on N Second St was brought under control by Middleport and Pomeroy fire departments after severe interior damage. The owner is James Williams and the business is headed by Oscar Baird. Loss is covered by insurance.
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Middleport
Middleport Wrecking Co
N. Second St
Middleport and
Pomeroy
James Williams
Oscar Baird
Paroles Granted to 44 Reformatory Inmates
The Ohio Board of Parole released 44 inmates from Mansfield Reformatory. Among them is Will Rodgers jailed for burglary, eligible for parole on or after Oct. 1, 1937, to relocate to Kentucky under parole supervision. the list includes inmates from Gallia and other counties.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Board of Parole
State Reformatory
Mansfield
Gallia
Will Rodgers
Kentucky
Lightning Start Fire Destroys Melmore M. E. Church
A bolt of lightning today is believed to have started a blaze that destroyed the Melmore Methodist Episcopal Church near…
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Melmore M. E
Baby Born in Trailer Challenges Iowa Birth Rules
In Des Moines a baby Wanda Mae Tharp is born in a trailer after Dr E F Levinger recalls an ordinance against births in vehicles. Attorney Herman Carlson calls it natural as an apple fall. The scene includes improvised anesthesia and a logs foundation.
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Des Moines
U.P
Iowa
Herman Carlson
State Health Department
Charles Tharp
Wanda Mae Tharp
E. F. Levinger
Tharp
Leninger
Wanda Mae
AFL Leader Backs Wage and Hours Bill Push
President William Green of the AFL urged passage of the Black Connery Wage and Hour Bill in its best form. Green refused recommitment but favored enacting a wage and hours law and hoped for later House amendments. Roosevelt summoned Green to the White House for talks as a nonpartisan bloc in the House pledged to oppose adjournment until passage.
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Washington
U.P
William Green
American Federation of Labor Today
Green
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Edward F. McGrady
White House
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Supreme Court
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Flying Boats Cross Ocean On North Atlantic Flight
Pan American Airways Clipper HS completed the eastbound crossing from Botwood Newfoundland to Foynes Ireland in 12 hours and 47 minutes as British Imperial Airways Cambria finished the westbound voyage in 14 hours and 48 minutes after headwinds pushed it 200 miles south of its planned route.
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New York
U.P
North Atlantic
Pan American Airways
British Imperial Airways
Foynes
Ireland
Botwood
Newfoundland
Funeral set for farmer Frank Bodi in Athens
Sheriff Bayless and deputies seek the murderer of Frank Bodi 70 of Lodi Township found beaten to death in his cabin on Wednesday. A stepson and two companions arrived in Athens to attend the funeral at Graham Chapel on Saturday at 10 30 a m local time.
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East Texas
Patton
Charles W. Bayless
Frank Bodi
Lodi
River Rouge
Mich
Athens
Graham Chapel
26 Killed in Wreck of French Express
Paris dispatch reports the Saint Etienne Express derailed at Villeneuve Saint Georges near Paris. The crash left 26 dead and 40 seriously injured as a wooden car burned after being crushed between two steel cars, with 22 bodies recovered from the fiery wreck.
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Paris
U.P
Saint Etienne
Vosges Mountains
Villeneuve Saint Georges
Lightning strike kills three in Brazil wagon refuge
Three men died and one was seriously injured when lightning struck a wagon shelter in Brazil, Ind. The incident occurred during a storm as the group sought refuge.
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Bolt
Brazil
Ind
U.P
Rain God Is Laxon Job. Spoils Record Rain God Is Laxon Job.
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania Jupiter Pluvius is blamed for a rainless Thursday breaking a July 29 rain record. A tattered log shows rain on July 29 from 1875 to 1936 except twice, including 1930, but this year there was no shower, making three dry July 29s in 62 years.
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Waynesburg
U.P
Jupiter Pluvius
Four Mayors Fail To Settle Steel Dispute
Cleveland and three Ohio city mayors met with John Owens CIO state director to hear a secret settlement proposal in the Republic Steel labor dispute. After talks with Republic executives Wyser and Patton, no agreement was reached on Owens proposal.
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Cleveland
U.P
Republic Steel Corporation
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Committee For Industrial Organization
Harold H. Burton
Ohio
Republic
John Owens
CIO
Owens, Burton and
Eliot Ness
R. J. Wysor
J. A. Voss
Thomas Patton
Wyser
Owens
Hatchet Men Defy Governor's Adjournment Move
In Columbus insurgent Democrats in the Ohio Senate openly defied Governor Martin L. Davey by naming a Columbus attorney to press an investigation into the civil service highway and liquor departments. The move, by the so called Hatchet Men, is seen as an effort to challenge the governors prorogation in court. State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson plans to refuse salaries while the Legislature is adjourned. Insurgents insist the Senate is considering the House motion to adjourn sine die July 23.
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Columbus
O.R
Ohio Senate
Martin L. Davey
Civil Service
Joseph T. Ferguson
Ships attacked off Spanish coasts heightens wartime tensions
British and French warships gathered off Spain after four submarines attacked a Spanish merchantman and a Nationalist cruiser captured a French steamer. Twenty three of the merchant ship crew of 34 died in the Grau du Roi raid near the French fishing port.
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Saint Jean DE Luz
U.R
Spain
Grau du Roi
Post Office Robbery Suspect Is Arrested
Federal authorities will bring Leroy Bussart, a 35 year old Columbus insurance agent, to face charges for the Laurelville Ohio post office robbery on June 28. Bussart was arrested in Detroit on a charge of taking 100 dollars in cash and 90 money orders from the post office and waived examination Thursday for return to Columbus.
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Columbus
Leroy Bussart
Columbus Insurance
Laurelville
Bussart
Detroit
Drink blamed for 18 month old death in Cleveland
An 18 month old boy Alfonso Harris died after his mother mixed a water softening solution. Police say the fatal exposure resulted from drinking the prepared mixture. Investigators are reviewing the case for further details.
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Cleveland
U.P
Alfonso Harris
Unregulated Ohio Coal Threatens West Virginia Industry
Ohio coal unregulated risks wrecking West Virginia's bituminous industry, lawmakers heard in Columbus as the National Bituminous Coal Association met. WV officials warned of price collapse, chaos, and cut throat competition if Ohio producers are not regulated under the Guelfey-Vinson Act.
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Columbus
U.P
West Virginia
Ohio
National Bituminous Coal Association
Commission
J. O. Terrio
Hancock
Brooke
Marshall
Panhandle
Terrier
Coal Producers Board For
Fairmont
W. Va
E. C. Streibid
Cleveland
Pittsburgh Coal Co
Independents Form Union In North East Area
In Hershey Pennsylvania representatives of independent unions from the Middle Atlantic and New England states met to draft a strong organization likely named American Federation of Independent Unions. Spokesman J Frank Traynor said the delegates cover about 300 unions with some 500000 members nationwide.
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Hershey
U.P
Middle Atlantic
New England
National Labor Relations Board
J. Frank Traynor
Rochester
N. Y
American Federation of Independent Unions
Bus lines resume after drivers settle for raise
Washington report says the tri state White Star and Penn Bus Company lines resumed service after a strike by 75 drivers. The workers insisted on a ten cent hourly pay rise and accepted five cents instead.
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Washington
U.P
Tristate
White Star and
Penn Bus Company Lines
Labor Clashes Threaten Akron Plant Amid U P Tension
In Akron a crowd of about 1000 strike sympathizers gathered near the Enterprise Manufacturing gate. Police dispersed them with 140 officers under orders attributed to May or L D Sehroy. Union leaders urged Sehroy to close the plant and remove police, but Sehroy said the plant would stay open and the police would remain to maintain order.
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AKRON
U.P
Enterprise Manufacturing
L. D. Sehroy
Sehroy
Biddle Funeral Arrangements Set For Sunday
Funeral services for Dr. James K. Biddle who died July 25 in Bend Oregon will be conducted Sunday at 3 p m at the home of Dr D H Biddle N Col lege St Athens Rev A Y Wilcox officiating interment in Hebbardsville Cemetery The funeral party will arrive in Athens Saturday
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James K. Biddle
Bend
Oregon
D. H. Biddle
N. College St
A. Y. Wilcox
Hebbardsville
Athens
Army Arrives Too Late in North China War
Reports from Nichi Nichi and United Press describe Chinese forces arriving near Tientsin and Peiping too late to stop Japanese advances. Japanese planes bomb and machine gun troops around Peiping while flames rise from supply dumps. Foreign concessions remain guarded by Italy France Japan and Great Britain as U.S. forces maintain positions. casualties cited by Japanese sources total 120 dead and 238 wounded.
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LEA
United Press
Tientsin
North China
Peiping
Tokyo
Nichi Nichi
Paotingfu
Shanghai
U.P
Nanking
Changhsintien
Italy
France
Japan
Great Britain
15Th
United States Infantry
Peiping- Tientsin
U S Will Stay Out Of Near East Wars
Senator Key Pittman reiterates that the United States will remain uninvolved in Far East conflicts. The Nevada Democrat urges patience with the Roosevelt administration and Secretary Hull, opposing calls to reveal planned actions under the neutrality act toward China and Japan.
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Washington
U.P
Far East
Key Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Pittman
Nevada
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
China
Japan
Ohio Troops on Strike Duty Cost State $60,000
The State Emergency Board released 60 000 from the emergency fund to the adjutant general to cover wages for National Guard troops on strike duty in Northern Ohio. The board will seek to cover the remaining 40 000 from the earlier 250 000 flood appropriation.
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Columbus
State Emergency Board
Adjutant General
National Guard
Ohio
Adj
Emil F. Marx
Smathers Case Hearing Extended in Athens County
Commissioner Joseph H. Horner extended the Smathers case hearing to August 2. Guy Smathers of Buchtel Athens County faces charges related to alleged activities. Court records indicate continued proceedings and pending indictment details.
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Smathers
Columbus
Ure-U. SS
Joseph H. Horner
Guy Smathers
Buchtel
Athens County
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Charles W. Shinnamon
Bituminous
Union
Alcatraz
San Francisco
A.P
Rafe Persful
James Johnston
Persful
Johnston
Biddle
East Station
Nankai University
Asissa
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