Michigan glider flight across Lake Michigan sets record
The German built motorless glider piloted by Bellair flew from Sturgeon Bay to Frankfort, a 54 mile direct route. He logged 56 minutes shore to shore, but covered over 90 miles after being blown south to Manistee. The flight, lasting 2 hours 39 minutes, marks the first motorless crossing of the lake and beats the prior 31 mile water record.
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Lake Michigan
Sturgeon Bay
Wis
Frankfort
Manistee
Michigan
English Channel
United States
Bellair
Lewis Warns Nation Faces Fascist Rule Over Labor Strife
CIO leader John L. Lewis told 43 CIO affiliated unions in Washington that fascism threatens unless the nation courageously solves problems. He warned of despair and black reaction and urged an aggressive organizing drive.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO
Lewis
Fall injures circus artist in Cincinnati accident
Mrs. Ross lyn Cameron, 22, Los Angeles aerialist with Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey, fell 48 feet when a ball ring supporting the tent canvas collapsed during a Cincinnati performance. She was hospitalized with a broken left wrist and elbow. Fellow performer Miss Lucky Lafaye, 20, escaped injury by grabbing a ladder ring. A watchman, Harry F. Hannon, 63, Lewiston Pa., was crushed by an elephant during unloading.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Rosslyn Cameron
Los Angeles
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus
Harry F. Hannon
Lewiston
Kansas Pen Inmates Demand Silk Underwear in Strike
About 400 prisoners at the Kansas State Penitentiary staged a sit down strike in the prison mine today demanding silk underwear. Warden M F Amline said he would not yield and declared he was prepared for any emergency.
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Lansing
Kans
Kansas State Penitentiary
M. F. Amline
Athens Man Included In Prison Farm Parole
The State Pardon and Parole Commission granted 88 paroles and one conditional release today to inmates at London State Prison Farm. The list includes Athens Homer Scott from Athens County for shooting to kill with a release date of September 1.
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Columbus
U.P
State Pardon and Parole Commission
London State Prison Farm
Hocking
Harry Weakley
Athens
Homer Scott
Bricker Signs Law for Central Vote-Counting in Big Ohio Counties
Governor Bricker signed a bill authorizing optional central vote-counting systems in Ohio in counties with populations over 250000. The action targets six large counties and sets framework for automated tallies.
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Columbus
Bricker
Ohio
Quick Action Expected on Tax Revision
A tax revision bill moves toward enactment before July 1, discarding the undistributed profits tax and other business deterrents. The House Ways and Means Subcommittee quickly approved Morgen-thau's plan for a flat 18 percent tax on corporations earning over 25 thousand, with net operating losses carryover for two years and new capital stock declarations in 1940. The panel kept nuisance taxes and postal rates for two years.
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Washington-U.p
House Ways and Means
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
GM Resumes Work Despite AFL CIO Fray
In Flint Michigan AFL pickets clashed with a CIO flying squadron and police as General Motors plants reopened and functioned near normally. The Fisher Body Plant No 1 confrontation involved about 30 AFL members against CIO guards, while the Buick plant, shut yesterday for staffing, resumed operations last night and ran normally today.
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Flint
Mich
U.P
AFL
CIO
General Motors
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers
Fisher Body
Score Cio
Buick
Fisher
King and Queen Tour Maritime Provinces
King George and Queen Elizabeth continued their maritime province tour riding by automobile and a special train after abandoning the royal train for most of the day. The trip ends Thursday night with their ship departure from Halifax for home, then a brief stop at St Johns before returning to England.
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Newcastle
N. B
U.P
Washington
New York
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Canada
Halifax
St. Johns
Newfoundland
England
Minister Seeks Hollywood Offer for Cash Needs
The Rev. R. Anderson Jardine who officiated the Duke and Duchess of Windsor wedding said he would take a film job if offered, claiming he is nearly broke and needs money. He indicated readiness to work in movies to improve his finances.
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Hollywood
U.P
R. Anderson Jardine
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Simpson
Mrs Celia Cavey Dies At Home Of Her Son
Mrs Celia Cavey former Glouster resident dies Monday night at 9 in Columbus at her son Meshick's home Funeral services to be held at Blower's Funeral Home in Glouster with details pending
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Celia Cavey
Glouster
Meshick
Columbus
Blower
Federal gold holdings top sixteen billion dollars
The Treasury announced the federal government's gold holdings now exceed 16 billion dollars. The update places the total well beyond earlier estimates and reflects continued reserves growth for the U S Treasury.
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Washington
Treasury
Soft Hearted Dentist Begins Life Sentence
Pittsburgh. Dr. Norman T. Stewart, 34, who said he failed as a dentist because patients suffer, began a life sentence after pleading guilty to murdering his wife and four-year-old son with a hammer and knife. A psychiatrist called him chicken hearted. He had fled to Jacksonville, Florida, remarried under another name, and confessed after stealing $300 from a hotel register.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Norman T. Stewart
Stewart
Jacksonville
Fla
Fred Lawson Flake
Two Drown as Canoe Upsets Near Hamilton
Police recovered the body of Frank Curtis age 30 from the Tailrace of the Miami River after a 16 foot canoe with five others upset. Helen Davis age 30 drowned. Mary Ada Valentine 20 was saved after being washed through a spillway and revived. Geraldine Curtis 30, wife of Frank, and Mrs. Davis were in fair condition in hospital.
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Hamilton
Miami
Frank Curtis
Helen Davis
Valentine
Geraldine Curtis
Woman Vanishes After Soviet Court Acquittal
Ruth Marie Rubens, convicted and freed for entering Soviet Russia illegally, remained missing after her trial in Moscow. U S Embassy officials said she was last seen at the trial on Friday and have received no information or credentials from her. Washington reportedly issued instructions on the case.
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Moscow
U.P
Ruth Marie Rubens
Soviet Russia
U. S
United States
Girl, 3, clawed by bear at Columbus Zoo
Three year old Jennie Doss was clawed by a bear after slipping under a barrier. She required twelve stitches and was recovering today in Columbus.
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Columbus
U.P
Jennie Doss
Columbus Zoo
County employees on monthly salary deserve vacations and sick leave
Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert ruled in an opinion to Wood County Prosecutor F A Coller that county employees paid on a monthly salary are entitled to reasonable vacations and sick leaves, clarifying leave rights.
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Columbus
U.P
Thomas J. Herbert
F. A. Coller
Wood County
Nazi Refugees distributed to European nations aboard St. Louis
Nine hundred seven German Jewish refugees aboard the liner St Louis were divided among Belgium 250 The Netherlands 194 France about 200 and Britain the remainder by the Intergovernmental Committee of Refugees. The United States joint distribution committee offered to pay for their maintenance. Cuba or other New World refuge was refused. The captain slowed the ship to allow time for the plan.
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London
St. Louis
Germany
Intergovernmental Committee of
Belgium
Netherlands
France
Britain
United States
Europe
Termites Ruin Gym Floor At Washington Auditorium
Gallipolis officials report termites have practically ruined the large gymnasium stage at Washington Auditorium. E. E. Higgins says extermination and replacement of supports and flooring will begin. Termites were seen in great clouds during inspection of the super structure. Additional preventive treatment will be applied to other first and second floor sections.
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Gallipolis
Washington Auditorium
E. E. Higgins
Has Voted Illegally For Past 48 Years
Logan provenance Jacob Herzog 69 a Logan resident for 59 years and a lifelong voter since 1891 obtained citizenship papers after a court exam He came from Switzerland at age two and believed his father was a citizen His citizenship was questioned in 1936 He will cast his first legal vote in the fall election.
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Logan
Jacob Herzog
Herzog
America
Switzerland
Proposal To Limit WPA Cost Is Hit
WPA administrator Francis C Harrington told the House committee the suggested 25000 maximum cost limit would wreck the relief program He defended WPA record as one of remarkable integrity noting abuses are inevitable in a 3 000 000 person agency and urging against restrictive measures for 1940 relief funding
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Washington
WPA
Francis C. Harrington
House Committee
Harrington
Recent Rains Benefit Crops in Columbus Region
The Federal State Crop Reporting Service notes May drought hurt hay and pasture prospects, but rains since June 1 improved outlook for crops. Winter wheat is forecast at 35,682,000 bushels with 19 bushels per acre, compared to last year’s 46,332,000 bushels and 19.5 per acre. Apple production not yet forecast, but overall fruit prospects appear promising with about 75 percent of normal by June 1.
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Columbus
U.P
Federal
UAW Strikers Clash With Police at Milwaukee Plant
Striking United Automobile Workers members hurled stones and eggs at street cars carrying office workers to the Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee. Police and deputies used tear gas to break up the attack.
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Milwaukee
Wis
U.P
United Automobile Workers
CIO
Mile
Allis-Chalmers
Queen Elizabeth fashions blamed for dull American taste
New York stylists say Queen Elizabeth the second lacks oomph in her wardrobe. They warn American women may imitate Windsor Duchess styles and revive formal garden teas, long dresses, big hats with ostrich feathers, and fluffy parasols, influencing fashion back home.
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New York
U.P
Canada
Fifth Avenue
United Press
Kent
Windsor
Baltimore Officials Probe Junior Bund in Schools
Baltimore authorities investigate a beating and branding of 15 year old Jewish student Melvin Bridge at Gwynn Falls High School by pro Nazi classmates. A gang fight followed as classes dismissed with adults involved. one youth arrested and another hospitalized for a broken nose. A Jewish deli owner reported his son was targeted after wearing Nazi armbands.
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Baltimore
PTY Ee Mee Oh Peete
Anite Gnu UE
Gwynn Falls High School
David E. Weglein
Melvin Bridge
Gwynn Falls
Rotarian Officers Meet in White Sulphur Springs
More than 200 officers of Rotary International gathered with immediate past officers for an international assembly. George C. Hager of Chicago, the international president, addressed the opening session noting international crises but focusing on the rapidly changing international scene.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
U.P
Rotary International
George C. Hager
Chicago
Food Stamp Aid Disbursed in Dayton First Week
In Dayton during the first week of the federal food stamp plan relief clients received $31,000 in free stamps usable for surplus commodities. The announcement notes the program started this week and targets relief recipients.
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Dayton
U.P
Guard Pleads Guilty in School Escape Conspiracy
Donovan M. Bryant, 22, a guard at the Boys' Industrial School near Lancaster, pleaded guilty in Columbus police court to conspiring with two boys to escape from the school.
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Columbus
U.P
Donovan M. Bryant
Boys’ Industrial School
Lancaster
Blinded by bolt strikes truck driver near Cincinnati
Physicians at Good Samaritan Hospital treat 29 year old John Fenmore after a lightning bolt hit moments before his truck, leaving him blind. The incident occurred near Cincinnati as the bolt struck close to the vehicle.
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Cincinnati
URP
Good Samaritan Hospital
John Fenmore
Ilier and Girl Die Saving Children in Plane Crash
Ray Zuelke seventy four year old? No, 34 year old Milwaukee man sacrifices his life and that of Audrie M. King 25 Rockford fiancee when a plane bursts into flames while near a Rockford playground. Witnesses say the craft climbed away from the children then struck the golf course and burned.
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Rockford
U.P
Ray Zuelke
Milwaukee
Zuelke
Audrie M. King
Rockford Country Club
Plead Guilty in U S Court at Columbus
In Columbus in federal court Judge Meil G. Underwood presided as five defendants pleaded guilty. Francis Sowers, Fred R. Cortney, Robert J. Novak, Shirley McDonald, and Homer B. Blackston admitted possession of a still or theft from the U S mail. Sentencing set for next Monday.
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Columbus
Meil G. Underwood
Francis Sowers
Allensville
Fred R. Cortney
Robert J. Novak
Buchtel
Shirley McDonald
Laurelville
Homer B. Blackston
Logan
U. S
Theft of Watteau Canvas Stuns Paris Museum Scene
A daring thief seized Watteau painting L'Indifferent from the Louvre in Paris. The small canvas, about 104 by 8 inches, is nominally valued at 4,000,000 francs but likely far higher, marking one of the era’s greatest art thefts since 1911 Mona Lisa disappearance.
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Paris
U PR
Luvre Museum
da Vinci
Mrs Clemens Dies After Reunion With Long-Lost Brother
Mrs William Clemens 75 died in Columbus after reuniting with a brother she had not seen for 32 years. She was a sister of Mrs H N Snider of Cheshire Gallia County.
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Columbus
William Clemens
H. N. Snider
Cheshire
Gailia
Blockade Threat Grows as Japan Targets British Concessions
Tensions rise as Japan moves to blockade the British and French concessions in Tientsin at 4 p m EST over four Chinese sought for extradition. London considers a conciliatory court while the United States warns of its business interests in the British concession.
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Britain
Japan
China
Great Northern
Tientsin
United States
London
Europe
Germany
Poland
Bohemia - Moravia
Berlin
Danzig
Bohemia-Moravia
Wotja Benes
Eduard Benes
Hitler
William Strang
Foreign Office
Warsaw
Moscow
Russia
Pravda
Esthenia
Latvia
Finland
France
Hopkins Reports Rise In National Income
Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins announced that the national income in 1938 stood at 64 billion dollars, 60 percent above 1932 lows but 16 billion below Roosevelt’s 80 billion goal. The figure implies an average income of 500 dollars per person and is 11 percent below the 1937 recovery peak due to lower prices and reduced income volume.
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Washington
U.P
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
1940 Wheat Acreage Allotments Increased
Agricultural Adjustment Administration announced the 1940 state wheat acreage allotments under the national apportionment of 62 million acres. Ohio farmers will be permitted to plant 1,838,127 acres next year, up from 1,654,847 acres this year.
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Washington
U.P
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Ohio
Parole Denied for Cleveland Gang Leader Harry Weiss
The pardon and parole commission refused parole to Harry Weiss head of a Cleveland gang that exacted tribute from dry cleaners in Northern Ohio.
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Columbus
U.P
Pardon and Parole Commission
Harry Weiss
Cleveland
Ohio
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Rallak
William Green
American Federation of Labor
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Fray
King and Queen Tour Maritime Provinces
Wally
Orient
Ilegally
UAW
Guard
Ilier
Slovakia
Deblin
Czech Moravia
Prague
Czech
Hopkins
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