Roosevelt Urges Eight Regional Plans To Halt Dust Storms
President Roosevelt urged Congress to create eight regional authorities to combat dust storms floods and droughts through a national planning program. He proposed duplicating TVA style development on major river basins with a Columbia Valley Authority and other bodies to integrate waterpower soils forests and resources while coordinating with state and local planning boards.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
Tennessee Valley
TVA
Columbia Valley Authority
Columbia River Basin
Bonneville
Grand Coulee
Mississippi River Commission
Permanent National Planning Board
Jean Harlow Stricken On Lot In Serious Illness
Hollywood star Jean Harlow suffering a gall bladder attack described as severe by her mother Mrs. Jean Bello. The illness intensified overnight while she was on the studio lot and she is now under constant nurse care.
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Hollywood
W.R
Jean Harlow
Studio
Miss Harlow
Jean Bello
Earhart Starts Third Leg From Venezuela to Paramaribo
Amelia Earhart took off from Caripito Venezuela at 6 48 a m EST on the third leg of her eastward world flight to Paramaribo Netherlands Guiana Pan American Airways reported Paramaribo airport sits in dense jungle and is about 740 miles from Caripito where she spent Wednesday night.
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Miami
Fla
Amelia Earhart
Caripito
Venezuela
Parimaribo
Netherlands Guiana
Pan American Airways
Paramaribo
Camipito
Miss Earhart
Roosevelt Urges Civil Service Merit System Expansion
President Roosevelt urged Congress to place all but policy forming positions in the federal government under the civil service merit system, signaling a push for broader merit-based staffing.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
Civil Service
Ohio Women Drivers Prove Less Fatal
The Ohio Highway Department released statistics showing women drivers caused only seven of 183 fatal accidents on state roads. The report argues women are not the inferior drivers often assumed.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Highway Department
Wound Picket In Strife at Warren Plant
Violence flared in a new steel strike area as Steve John, 40, a picket, was wounded by buckshot while blocking nonstrikers at Republic Steel in Warren Ohio. Gov. Davey offered mediation as 70,000 workers in three plants idled. Some Chicago strikers mourned five killed in a Sunday riot. 40 face conspiracy charges. In Detroit, a judge weighed a one man inquiry into Ford UAW clashes. Edsel Ford named as a witness in the probe.
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United Press
Steve John
Republic Steel Corporation
Warren
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Inet Steel
Republic
In Steel
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Committee For Industrial Organization
Chicago
Detroit
Common Pleas
Ralph Liddy
Ford Motor Company
United Automobile Workers Union
Liddy
Dearborn
Edsel Ford
Britain Proposes Peace Plan To France Germany And Italy
Britain submits a plan to France Germany and Italy aimed at restoring friendly relations over the Spanish crisis and urging Germany and Italy to rejoin the non intervention committee. It calls for guarantees to protect patrol ships and a coordinated system to prevent attacks by both Loyalists and Nationalists on foreign vessels.
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London -Hup
Great Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Britain
Foreign Office
Mine Union To Meet In Chauncey Friday
Local 358 United Mine Workers of America will hold a meeting at Mine No. 25 Chauncey at 10 o clock Friday morning officials Thomas Price Herman Theisen and Floyd Karns announced urging all members to attend.
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United Mine Workers of America
Chauncey
Thomas Price
UMWA
Herman Theisen
Floyd Karns
Industrial Head Proposes $16 Weekly Minimum Wage, 40 Hour Week
Robert Johnson, president of a major surgical manufacturing company with over 5000 employees, urged Congress to legislate a universal minimum wage of 16 dollars per week and a maximum 40 hour work week for all industries.
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Washington
U.R
Robert Johnson
Congress
Sit-downs Close Two Goodyear Plants
Sit-down strikes shut two Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co plants today keeping about 5 000 workers idle. The actions halted operations at Akron and another facility prompting a standstill in production and labor unrest.
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Sit-Downs
Akron
U.P
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Galion Youth Drowns in Local Reservoir
Leonard Fellenbaum, 23, drowned while swimming at the Big Four Reservoir in Galion late Wednesday. Rescue efforts failed to save him. Authorities investigated the incident as a swimming mishap near the water.
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Galion
U.P
Leonard Fellenbaum
British public backs Duke and Duchess amid cabinet push to curb U.S. residence
London reports show strong public support for the Duke of Windsor and his American wife. Cabinet fears of publicity are voiced as monarchists weigh future residence outside Britain. Royal observers expect potential life in Argentina or Central Europe with limited Dominion welcome.
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London
U.P
Neville Chamberlain
Duke of Windsor
United States
George VI
Argentina
Europe
Britain
Ohio WPA Roll Ordered Cut
Ohio WPA rolls to drop by about 15 000 on June 15 and 10 000 on July 15 as Washington lowers Ohio jobs quotas from 114 000. Dr Carl Watson states relief bill could restore near current levels in late autumn. Athens District cut 661 from 7594 to 6933.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Carl Watson
Washington
Watson
Congress
Athens
Freight Car Rider Seeks 200000 in Damages
Eugene T. Lemp of Cleveland files a $200,000 damage suit against the A. C. & Y. Railroad claiming loss of a leg while riding a freight train. The petition alleges trainmen instructed him to ride under a flat car.
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Bucyrus
U.P
Eugene T. Lemp
Cleveland
A. C. & Y. Railroad
Lemp
Man 70 Walks Into Train Path, Killed
Louis Michaels aged 70 stepped from one track into another and was struck by a train Wednesday night in an incident near the UP railroad. Authorities reported he died at the scene.
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Tiffin
U.P
Louis Michaels
Wallis-Blue Dominates Duchess of Windsor Wedding Dress
The Duchess of Windsor chose a floor length Wallis-Blue crepe wedding dress with a matching jacket and long sleeves. Accessories included Wallis-Blue gloves, open-work sandals, and a Caroline Reboux hat featuring a blue straw skull cap and blue tulle halo. A blue ostrich feather boa completed the ensemble.
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Monts
France
U.P
Baltimore
Duchess of Windsor
Paris
Mainbacher
Trousseau
Caroline Reboux
Wallis-Blue
Violence Flare Up in Fremont Strike Clashes
In Fremont the two day strike at W. F. Emmons Manufacturing saw 150 women workers clash with 50 pickets. W. F. Emmons, a former Fremont High School football star, joined the fray as six policemen and G. L. Myers of the Toledo CIO textile union helped restore order after nearly an hour. Fifty workers entered the plant.
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Fremont
V.P
W. F. Emmons Manufacturing Co
W. F. Emmons
G. L. Myers
Toledo Cio
German Freighter Oliva Reaches Fire Control After Rescue
The German freighter Oliva, with fires raging in holds, was reached by the freighter Friederun about 150 miles northwest of Manila at 4 p.m. Manila time today.
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Manila
P. I
Friederun
Here
Work Relief Bill Faces Senate Opposition Over Funding
Senate leaders pushed the administration work relief bill toward a stormy vote amid blocs seeking to cut increase or earmark a $1.5 billion appropriation. Divisions were sharp with the economy bloc proposing reducing the fund to $1 billion, the only amendment seeming likely to pass.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Ohio Supreme Court orders reopen of Bell rate hearings
The Ohio Supreme Court issued a mandate to the Public Utilities Commission to reopen hearings on the Ohio Bell Telephone rate case. The decision directs a new review of rates and conditions affecting customers and the utility.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Supreme Court
State Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Bell Telephone
Morgenthau Announces $800 Million June Financing
Secretary Morgenthau said the Treasury will raise 800 million in the June quarter, including 500 million in new money and 300 million to replace maturing bills due June 15. The issue, notes, will be offered Monday and push the national debt above 35.7 billion. New borrowing for 1937 will exceed 2.2 billion.
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Washington
AUP
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Morgenthau
Missing girl leaves note and threat amid disappearance
Annabelle Lancaster aged 16 who has diabetes and requires insulin every four hours was reported missing by her mother Mrs Harold Randall. The mother said the girl left a note stating she would never be seen again and would commit suicide if pursued.
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Toledo
U.B
Annabelle Lancaster
Harold Randall
Randall
Windsor Wedding Joins Duchess To Exiled Duke In France
The Duke of Windsor married Wallis Warfield at Chateau de Cande in the Loire Valley. A civil ceremony by Mayor Mercier preceded a Church of England service led by Rev. Jardine. The couple then left for Wasserleonburg Castle for their honeymoon, seeking happiness privacy and a private life.
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London
U.P
Church of England
Duke of Windsor
Fulham
Robert Anderson Jardine
France
Jardine
News Chronicle
Liberal Party
Daily Mirror
Lord Rothermere
Webb Miller
U. P
Chateau DE Cande
Monts
New York
Wallis Warfield
British Empire
Loire Valley
Mary Queen of Scots
Charles Mercier
Yorkshire
Wasserleonburg Castle
Lower Austria
Edward
Marcel Dupre
Wasserloonburg Castle
Mercier
George V
Britain
Baltimore
Duchess of Windsor
Western Union
Athens
Wally
Forest D. Chism
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
United States
Presbyterians Vote To Drop War Sanction
In Columbus the Presbyterian Church in the U S A moves to remove the War Sanction from the Confession of Faith and Larger Catechism. The General Assembly approves drafting an amendment while reaffirming pride in wartime service by church members.
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Columbus
Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
Ex Athenians Hurt in Crash Near Richmond Indiana
Mr and Mrs Arthur Hickman were seriously injured in a collision with a street car in Richmond Indiana on Tuesday night Their son Earl Hickman of Columbus said both suffered broken arms and legs and other injuries They are hospitalized at Reed Memorial Hospital The couple formerly lived in Athens and were en route to return to their Athens home for the summer
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Arthur Hickman
Richmond
Ind
Athens
W. D. Robinson
Earl Hickman
Columbus
Reed Memorial Hospital
Hickmans
Indiana
Sentence for teen lovers in Jersey City murder case
Gladys MacKnight aged 17 and former sweetheart Donald Wightman aged 19 were sentenced to 29 to 30 years in prison for the second degree murder of Gladys's mother Helen MacKnight last July 31 in Jersey City.
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Jersey City
N. J
Gladys MacKnight
Donald Wightman
Miss MacKnight
Helen Mac- Knight
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