Everglades Hunt for Stolen Child Ends in Pressure
Florida's largest manhunt for James Cash Jr. stretched across 100 square miles as 2,500 volunteers hunted the Everglades after $10,000 ransom was paid but the child did not return to Princeton home. A ransom note was left at John Manuel's home in the area.
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Florida
James Cash, Jr
Princeton
Fla
Everglades
John Manuel
James B. Cash, Sr
M. F. Braxton
Princeton Carpenter
Braxton
Ray Rayburn
G Men Intensify Kidnaper Search in Florida
Federal agents and a 2 500 man search force intensified efforts for five year old James Riley Cash Jr and his kidnappers. A blood smeared cloth fragment was found in a Tavineir rock pit as divers probed the Everglades while Chief J Edgar Hoover directed the operation.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
James Cash, Jr
Princeton, Fla
M. F. Braxton
Princeton
Fla
Florida
James Riley Cash, Jr
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Miami
J. Edgar Hoover
U.P
Tavineir
Florida Keys
Jimmy Cash
G-Men
Everglades
Millard Campbell
Safety Experience Plan of Insurance Approved
Columbus A P The legality of the safety experience plan of automobile liability and property damage insurance policies was upheld by Attorney General Herbert S Duffy in a ruling to state insurance superintendent Robert L Bowen The plan provides an endorsement refund of 15 percent of the premium if the insured’s automobile is not involved in any accident during the policy year.
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Columbus
A.P
Herbert S. Duffy
Robert L. Bowen
Logan's New Swimming Pool Set to Open July 1
The city board of education announced Logan's new swimming pool will open July 1. Waldo Terrell, an Ohio University athlete, is named lifeguard with attendants Mrs. Dorothy Eberst and Maurice Cole. Hours are 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. daily, 1 p.m. on Sundays. Season tickets for children and adults go on sale immediately.
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Logan
City Board of Education
Waldo Terrell
Ohio University
Dorothy Eberst
Maurice Cole
Fight Proposed Czech Boycott Threatens Trade Pact
The Ameri can Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce moved to stop a nationwide boycott of Czech shoes tied to the Bata Company campaign on the We Do Not Patronize list. Secretary Frank J. Rosner said the U S shoe industry faces little risk from Czech imports under current duties, which total about one and one quarter percent of home production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
British Labor Laws To Be Studied by U S
President Roosevelt announced a study group of seven or eight Americans would examine British labor legislation this summer. John L. Lewis opposed any study that could influence changes to the Labor Relations Act.
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U. S
Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Frances Perkins
President Roosevelt Dirigible Request Disapproved
The House Appropriations Subcommittee has disapproved the president's request for 500000 dollars to start building an experimental dirigible.
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Washington
U.P
House Appropriations
Roosevelt
Pomeroy Chief Of Police Put On Probation
Dana L. Tracy the Pomeroy police chief pled guilty to passing bad checks in Meigs County Common Pleas Court. Judge C. E. Peoples deferred sentence and placed Tracy on three years of probation under supervision of Court Bailiff Edgar Morris with monthly check ins. Tracy returned to duty in uniform after a three month leave of absence and was met with Judge Peoples surprise at the conduct.
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Pomeroy
Dana L. Tracy
C. E. Peoples
Meigs County
Peoples
Tracy
Ex-Convict Renounces Bank Threat in Buffalo
Reno De Elbe, an ex-convict, said in jail he was joking about blowing up Liberty Bank for $850 after entering with two dynamite sticks and nitro glycerin-labeled bottles that actually held mouthwash.
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Buffalo
N. Y
U.P
Reno de Elbe
Liberty Bank
Negro dies on gallows humming Steal Away to Jesus
Covington Kentucky Harold Van Venison a 33 year old black man was hanged at sunrise in Covington City Hall courtyard for rape. On August 16 1937 he and Donald Lattimore abducted a couple from a road and Venison assaulted the woman while Lattimore beat the man with a gun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covington
U.P
Harold van Venison
Covington City Hall
Venison
Donald Lattimore
Lattimore
Stamp Planned for Marietta Celebration
A purple three cent stamp marking the 150th anniversary of civil government in the Northwest Territory will go on sale July 15 at Marietta Ohio. The design derives from Gutzon Borglum’s statue A Nation loving Westward being erected in Marietta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Northwest Territory
Marietta
Post Office Department
Gutzon Borglum
Wayne National Forest land purchase urged for reforestation plan
Representatives of the Wayne National Forest Association urged Congress to include in the Federal Recovery Act provisions enabling a 10 million six hundred thousand dollar expenditure to buy over one and a half million acres of scrub lands in 14 Ohio counties. The plan would fund federal purchase with retention of former owners' rights and mineral rights, plus reforestation and erosion control by the Forest Service.
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U.S
Wayne National Forest Association
Berry
Congress
U. S. Forest Service
Gallia
Scioto
Lawrence
Ross
Pickaway
Jackson
Highland
Vinton
Athens
Washington
Morgan Noble
Hocking
Monroe
James W. Scott
Marietta
Pageant Conquest of the Years Draws Thousands in Nelsonville
The Centennial Week pageant Conquest of the Years drew a large crowd at New Athletic Field as 600 performers staged a dramatic history of the nation. Labor’s Day events are planned Saturday with speeches by Phillip Murray and Ray Edmundson, a free lunch, and an Eagles versus Crooksville miners ball game.
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Nelsonville
New Athletic Field
Hocking Valley
Phillip Murray
Ray Edmundson
John Owens
Miners’ Organization
Eagles
Crooksville Miners
Hill
John W. Hutchings
Joan B. Rogers Co
Progress in Meigs Death Investigation Moves Forward
Meigs County sheriffs report early progress in the case of William M. Cole a 71 year old Chauncey resident found slain near Downington. Authorities say the coroner will rule death by strangulation and rule out natural causes. Local searchers found a body two miles from Downington after Cole disappeared Friday while visiting his son Bert Cole at the E J Swift sawmill.
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Pomeroy
William M. Cole
Chauncey
Downington
George R. Beards
Cole
Beards
Meigs County
Bert Cole
E. J. Swift
Swift
Japs Continue Raids and Spain in Turmoil
Japan appoints Lieut. Gen. Seisho Itagaki as war minister as air raids strike Canton amid British protests. Hitler shifts focus to Spain as Franco aid falters. Britain seeks European powers accord to pull foreign volunteers. Brazil suspends cotton exports to Germany under exchange controls.
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London
U.P
Japan
China
Seishiro Itagaki
Canton
Spain
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Francisco Franco
Great Britain
Germany
Rio DE Janeiro
Death Toll in Mine Explosion Mounts to Ten
In Pittston Pennsylvania three bodies remained missing a mile underground at Volpe Anthracite Colliery after a coal gas explosion killed ten miners. Emergency crews battled black damp while searching for the three missing. two badly burned men may die and one survivor walked out with fractured ribs. Missing were Samuel Adonizio 23 Hughes town Gus Polick 43 and Adam Mark 42 all from nearby towns.
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Pittston
U.R
Samuel Adonizio
Hughestown
Gus Polick
Adam Mark
du Pont
Pastor Slain Motive Sought in Missouri Parish
In Centralia Missouri two masked men killed Reverend Charles E Einig and assaulted housekeeper Martha Rice as they sat in the parlor. The 65 year old priest led a small parish and was not known to have enemies. A billfold with $14 remained. one attacker was believed to be a Negro.
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Centralia
Missouri
Charles E. Einig
Martha Rice
Father Einig
Father Ejiing
Sturgeon
Pons and Kostelanetz Wed After Waiver in Norwalk
Opera and screen star Lily Pons and conductor Andre Kostelanetz were married in Norwalk after securing a waiver of Connecticut’s five day law. The ceremony was conducted today, marking a high profile alliance of two leading cultural figures.
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Norwalk, Conn
U.P
Lily Pons
Andre Kostelanetz
OU Faculty Members Appear on WOSU Broadcast on 1787 Influence
Ohio University professors A B Sias J Homer Caskey and Victor D Hill helped prepare a Friday program about the Ordinance of 1787 and education in Ohio and the Northwest Territory. Ruth Mansfield and Helen Hedden Roach contributed, with Roach performing songs with Vera Board at the Ohio University School of Music.
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WOSU
Columbus
Ohio
Northwest Territory
Ruth Mansfield
A. B. Sias
Ohio University
Gram
J. Homer Caskey
Victor D. Hill
Helen Hedden Roach
Ohio University School of Music
Vera Board
Morgen
Richard Strauss
Kosti Vehanen
Goring Thomas
Peru Ecuador clash over Oriente jungle battlefield
Ecuador reports forty Peruvian soldiers attacked an Ecuadorian patrol in the Oriente jungle. Quito protests with a sharp note to Peru as the 400 year dispute escalates into armed conflict.
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Quito
Ecuador
Peru
Oriente
Bids Opened on Gallia County Road Project
The State Highway Department opened bids for seven projects today. In Gallia County the project along State Route 7 from Guyan to Gallipolis Townships carried an estimate of 102 863 dollars with Torreson Construction Co of Cincinnati named as the low bidder at 102 363 dollars.
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Gallia
Columbus
U.P
State Highway Department
Guyan and
Gallipolis
Torson Construction Co
Cincinnati
Ohio unemployment fund totals 71 million on June 1
Ohio unemployment compensation fund totals 71,514,293 as of June 1, with 52,269,923 allocated to the treasury and policy figures up to January 1, 1938, reported by State Treasurer Clarence H. Kinsley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Clarence H. Kinsely
Relief Head Says Office Is Swamped
Relief head Fred Shafer and John Wyckoff of the United Mine Workers spoke to about 40 local officials at the courthouse. They said 1,500 men are partially employed by the Kimberly Road project, but only 80 men work daily, draining county relief funds and leaving the office unable to fully meet demand. They urged doubling crew size and speeding money into circulation to ease hardship.
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WPA
Kimberly Road
Athens County Relief Office
Fred Shafer
John Wyckoff
District United Mine Workers of America Organization
Wyckoff
Shafer
Kimberly
Recovery Bill Action Push In Senate Fight
New Deal senators push to pass President Roosevelt’s recovery bill before a recess. Three anti administration Democrats Bailey Copeland Wheeler lead an effort to earmark all relief funds, limiting discretion over PWA allocations and top officials.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Josiah W. Bailey
North Carolina
Royal S. Copeland
New York
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Mr. Roosevelt
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes
PWA
Transpacific Plane Arrives in Honolulu
Richard Archbold and five explorers reached Honolulu today in a 14 ton airboat completing the first leg of a 6,284 mile flight from San Diego to Dutch New Guinea.
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Honolulu
T. H
U.P
Richard Archbold
San Diego
Dutch New Guinea
Floods Hit Kansas River Basin Hard
Floodwaters from the Smoky Hill River surged through McPherson and Saline counties in a major flood the worst since 1927. Authorities warn of rising water levels and continued damage as residents brace for further impacts.
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Kansas
Lindsborg
Kans
U.P
Smoky Hill River
McPherson
Saline
Mosier Announces Re Election Run as Ohio Congressman at Large
Representative Harold G. Mosier announces his candidacy for re election as Ohio congressman at large. He resides in Cleveland.
House Vote On Measure Seen Today In Ohio Relief Bill Debate
Columbus Ohio The House Taxation Committee reported favorably the Almendinger Bill allowing cities to levy for poor relief until July 1 1939. It faces a two thirds vote for immediate passage and may shift relief policy. Committee also backed a bond plan for counties and legalized bookmaking to raise relief funds amid statewide budget tensions.
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Columbus
U.P
House Taxation Committee
House
Samuel Almendinger
Marion
Senate
Boyd-Connolly
General Revenue Fund
Ohio
Gardner
Indictment Returned Against Woman in Kidnapping Case
LOCKPORT New York Mrs Anna Legare 41 a former North Tonawanda tea room operator was indicted on kidnapping charges connected to the disappearance of four year old Betty Jane Hobbs The child was found in Coolville Ohio and returned to her parents Ellsworth and Mrs Hobbs of North Tonawanda Legare was arraigned in North Tonawanda City Court and held for the grand jury
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lockport
N. Y
U.P
Anna Legare
North Tonawanda
Betty Jane Hobbs
State funds share relief burden proposed by treasurer
Columbus Ohio state treasurer Clarence H. Kinsley proposed that a fixed percentage of all state revenues be set aside for relief. He said this would ensure every fund bears its share and foster interest in relief administration.
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Columbus
Clarence H. Kinsley
Could Be Zippered In A New Metal for Non-Slip Coins
A novelty non-slip metal touted to resist wear and slipping under all conditions is proposed to replace current coins from nickels to fifty-cent pieces. The article hints the material could be minted into coins by Mint. It also promotes placing classified ads in The Messenger Big Sunday Want Ad Section with a phone number for participation and mentions a charge option.
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VU. 8. Mint
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Negro
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Forest Service
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Senate Appropriations Committee
Meigs
Hitler
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