Blue and Gray Trail caravan to visit Athens this evening
The Blue and Gray Trail caravan arrives in Athens around 5 30 PM for a five day Route 33 tour. Twenty cars carry 100 goodwill emissaries from cities along the federal highway. Queens from Kalamazoo Grand Rapids Pomeroy Battle Creek to join a local welcoming program at Hotel Berry with Athens officials and university hosts.
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Athens
Ruth McBride
Kalamazoo
Mich
Michigan
Virginia Compton
Pomeroy
Arline Thompson
Grand Rapids
Leila Bradley
Battle Creek
Athens Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs
Chamber of Commerce
Hotel Berry
Ohio University
Irma Voigt
P. F. Good
C. C. Cornell
W. A. Compton
Blue and Gray Trail Association
Beckler Wins Stay in Case Before Board
The State Board of Professional Engineers and Surveyors granted a three week stay before a decision on charges of mis representation against Athens County Surveyor B. F. Beckler. Gordon Gray asked for time to file a supplementary brief and Beckler’s counsel was allowed extra time to answer.
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Columbus
State Board of Professional Engineers and Surveyors
Athens
B. F. Beckler
Gordon Gray
Clarence Wolf
Waterloo Township
Beckler
Gray
Wolf
State Board
UAW Strikers and GM Hold Talks After Wildcat Shutdown
UAW negotiators and General Motors officials met in BAY CITY Michigan to discuss the Chevrolet parts plant closure after a wildcat strike. The factory employs 1000 workers as the sitdown began yesterday morning and picket lines were later placed around the gates before negotiations resumed.
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Bay City
Mich
U.P
United Automobile Workers Union
General Motors Corporation
Chevrolet
International Union
Man Falls. Tinsmith Hangs Self by Rope in Accident
EAST PALESTINE U P Paul Mansfield 52 a tinsmith fell from a roof today a scaffold rope caught around his neck leaving him dangling fellow workers cut him down and rushed him to Salem Hospital where his condition was listed as critical
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East Palestine
U.P
Paul Mansfield
Salem Hospital
Swinging Chain Kills Man Walking on Road
Jasper Sanford aged 77 was killed in Chillicothe when a five foot chain swun out from a truck end gate and struck him as he walked on U S Route 23.
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Chillicothe
U.P
Jasper Sanford
Bread supply halted as strike halts Cambria Indiana Somerset bakers
Bread supply in Cambria Indiana and Somerset Counties was exhausted due to a strike by bakery truck drivers. Housewives in the three counties were baking their own bread today.
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Johnstown
U.P
Cambria
Indiana
Somerset
Stay of Execution Saves Anna Hahn From Chair
Anna Marie Hahn, the Cincinnati poison slayer, received an indefinite stay just hours before execution. Chief Justice Weygandt granted leave to appeal to the U S Supreme Court, with a possible dismissal motion by the prosecutor and a future decision likely after the summer recess.
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Anna Hahn
Columbus
A.P
Anna Marie Hahn
Cincinnati
Carl V. Weygandt
State Supreme Court
U. S. Supreme Court
Hamilton County
Dudley M. Outcast
Ohio
Supreme Court
Relief clients demand food relief in Cleveland crisis
Organized groups among Cleveland's 75 000 relief clients mobilized to pressure the council and Mayor Harold H Burton for a solution. A growing crowd gathered at two relief offices demanding immediate rations overdue since Saturday. No orders were issued unless families proved they had no food or fuel or faced eviction.
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Cleveland
U.P
Harold H. Burton
$5 231 Sought From Former Liquor Agent
Columbus report states W V Archer of Belle Valley, former state liquor inspector, faced recovery of 5231.05 paid by the Liquor Department. Archer testified as the first witness before the senate graft investigating committee last winter, having earned commissions under a liquor agency contract while serving as an inspector and later being suspended but keeping the agency.
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Columbus
U.R
W. V. Archer
Belle Valley
Don A. Fisher
Archer
State Senate
Mine Mechanization To Put 98 000 Out of Work
Geneva report cites United Mine Workers leader predicting mechanization will cost about 98 000 U S miners their jobs within years. He urges a six hour day and thirty hour week to curb costs, noting a 95 million dollar annual payroll rise for operators and higher production costs.
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Geneva
Switzerland
U.P .A
D. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
World Coal Conference Today
United States
Lewis
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
UMWA
Department of Labor
Labor Board Under Fire From Unions and Chamber
The U S Chamber of Commerce Labor Section seeks congressional probe of the National Labor Relations Board and amending the Wagner Act. William S Knudsen of GM warns federal action may halt industrial unionism while independent unions push to abolish the NLRB amid claims the act erodes employer and worker balance.
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Labor Board
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Congress
William S. Knudsen
General Motors Corporation
United States
Steel Workers
Knudsen
Edward R. Burke
Neb
Chamber
OGPU
Elimination of Rackets Urged by Ohio U Speaker
A. M. MacCutcheon engineering VP at Alliance Electric Cleveland urged elimination of all racketeering at an Ohio University convocation in Alumni Memorial Auditorium. He cited law enforcement gains in New York Cleveland and Kansas City and urged concerted action and adherence to the Golden Rule for success. He warned against government stifling competition and stressed initiative persistence opportunity and prudent early marriage.
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Ohio U
A. M. MacCutcheon
Alliance Electric and Engineering Co
Cleveland
Ohio University
Alumni Memorial Auditorium
MacCutcheon
New York
Kansas City
River and Harbors Appropriation Cleared for Senate
The Senate cleared the way for consideration of a 226.96 million non military War Department bill funding rivers and harbors projects. It followed approval of Roosevelt’s 1.156 billion naval expansion measure and kept 82 million for flood control, including 36 million for Mississippi River works.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
War Department
Roosevelt
House
Mississippi River
Eccles Details Ford Talk on New Deal Spending Policy
Chairman Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board said he told Henry Ford at a White House luncheon that the New Deal spending policy rests on correcting an imbalance in national income distribution. He denied any disagreement over fiscal policy.
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Washington
U.P
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Henry Ford
White House
Eccles
Administration
Roosevelt
Ford
Air Mail Flight Planned Tonight in Athens
Members of the K. T. Crossen Post American Legion and the Athens Elks Lodge meet at the Elks Club tonight at 7 30 to plan the first air mail flight from Athens on May 19 1938. A joint committee plans entertainment as part of the event. Roosevelt ship anchored off Sombrero Island near Puerto Rico, radio reports say.
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K. T. Crossen Post
The
American Legion
Athens
FDR
Charleston
S. C
U.P
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Sombrero Island
Puerto Rico
Peace Time Spy Decrees Reported To End In Death Penalty
Government plans to issue decrees prescribing the death sentence for spies in peace time. The move aims to curb a sharp rise in espionage.
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Paris
U.P
Police Declare Hunted Slayer May Be Armed
Columbus police seek Arthur McKibben 54 of Zaleski for beating his 70 year old mother in law to death and wounding his sister with a hammer. Brewer, 53, is in critical condition. McKibben may be armed with a revolver. one of several owned weapons is missing. Both victims were attacked as they slept. McKibben had threats to end his life and learned his family would be removed from relief rolls.
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Columbus
Arthur McKibben
Zaleski
Lida Priest
Ella Brewer
Brewer
McKibben
Priest
Experts Say Japs Losing
Impartial foreign military experts say Japan’s offensive power has been spent after heavy casualties and reluctance to send more troops. They note Japan suffered severe losses in Shantung and effectively lost Shansi Province and parts of northern Honan.
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Shanghai
U.P
Japan
Shantung
Shansi
Honan
Labor Seeks Fresh Support for Wage Hour Bill
Organized labor launched a major drive to gather backing for the wage hour bill and push it out of the House Rules Committee by petition. Yet despite labor support and claims of momentum, many lawmakers doubt the petition route can reach the floor.
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Washington
U.P
Organized Labor
House Rules Committee
Congress
Mrs Morgen thrums along in productive work experiment
The photo shows Mrs Henry Morgenthau Jr wife of the U S secretary of the treasury at the Perry Farm near Washington watching unemployed workers engage in a productive task as part of a government work program while her husband anxiously notes the scene seeking value for taxpayer money.
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Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Secretary of the Treasury
Perry Farm
Washington
Two Drowned In Waterspout At Avon
A 25 foot waterspout near Avon capsizes two small boats and two fishermen drown. The whirling column and backwash toss the men overboard as a tidal wave like wash follows from a sudden wind shift.
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Lorain
U.R
Avon
Jackie Coogan Rejects Mother's Settlement Offer
Hollywood reports that Jackie Coogan refuses his mother Lillian Coogan Bernstein's settlement offer as he pursues his court fight to recover earnings from his film career. Fans nationwide flood his mailbox with messages of support and help.
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Hollywood
U.P
Jackie Coogan
United States
Jackie
Lillian Coogan
Bernstein
Hr Son
Pope Denounces Swastika Display in Rome Visit
In Castel Gandolfo the Pope addressed 500 newlywed couples and condemned the appearance of the Nazi swastika in Rome during Adolf Hitler's visit. He said the symbol "certainly is not Christ's cross."
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London
W.P
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Rome
Berlin
United Press
Mussolini
Axis
Hitler
Austria
Germany
Italy
Espec
Castel Gandolfo
U.P
FD Gets Vote Of Confidence In Florida Pol
Roosevelt backed Pepper for renomination as Florida Democrats gave him a majority over four rivals in the primary. Pepper faced charges he was a rubber stamp. Indiana had limited contests in three districts with two of ten incumbents opposed. South Dakota Democrats nominated Tom Berry for Senate while Republicans picked Chandler Gurney.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Florida
Claude Pepper
Indiana
South Dakota
Tom Berry
Senate
Chandler Gurney
Agriculture warns against larger corn allotment areas
The Department of Agriculture warned mid western corn farmers that expanding acreage allotments would threaten income. They maintained a firm stance against a general readjustment of allotments, while promising county by county adjustments to reduce inequities as quickly as possible.
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Washington
A.P
Department of Agriculture
Rebels Resume Attack On Aragon Front Near Teruel
Nationalist reports say forces under Gen. Jose Varela renewed the offensive on the Aragon front driving six miles through Loyalist defenses east and northeast of Teruel on the French Spanish frontier U P front.
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Hendaye
U.P
Jose Varela
Aragon Front
Fof
Teruel
Theater Owners Demand Pictures Over Stars
The Independent Theater Owners Association of New York ran a red bordered ad in The Hollywood Reporter claiming top stars like Mae West Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford are box office poison. It urged producers to focus on quality pictures and business sense, naming Katharine Hepburn Kay Francis Marlene Dietrich as negligible appeal with only Edward Arnold cited among male stars. The group led by Harry Brandt spent $300 to spell out what it sees as Hollywood’s problem.
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Hollywood
Independent Theater Owners Association, Inc
New York
Hollywood Reporter
Mae West
Greta Garbo
Joan Crawford
Katherine Hepburn
Kay Francis
Marlene Dietrich
Edward Arnold
Wieporta
Miss Hepburn
Harry Brandt
New York City
Proposed Flood Control Plan for Athens OK'd
Preliminary review of the Hocking River in Athens finds the flood protection plan feasible. Engineer Harry Pockras of the U.S. Engineers Office in Huntington led the inspections with local committee members and a survey request was sent to Congressman Jenkins for immediate action. The Huntington engineers can begin the survey once authorized, with a three month report timeline.
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Hocking
Athens
Harry Pockras
U. S. Engineers’ Office
Huntington
W. Va
Pockras
J. D. Arthur, Jr
John Dowler
Congress
Thomas A. Jenkins
Police Capture Four Convicts
Four escaped inmates from Michigan City Indiana penitentiary were nabbed near Mahomet Illinois after plans to meet three suspected bank robbers. Authorities say the arrests thwarted a Midwest gang plot linked to Dillinger style crime. One convict is the brother in law of a robbery suspect.
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Champaign
III
U.R
Indiana State Penitentiary
Midwest
John Dillinger
Michigan City
Ind
Mahomet
G-Men
Penfield
Apollo Steel Plant Reopens After 30 Day Shutdown
The Apollo Steel Company plant in Apollo Pennsylvania, employing about 1200 workers, reopened after a 30 day shutdown tied to a wage dispute with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. President A M Oppenheimer announced a small wage cut agreement with a committee he said represented a majority of employees, despite opposition from the SWOC.
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Apollo, Pa
U.P
Apollo Steel Company
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Committee For Industrial Organization
A. M. Oppenheimer
Swoc
Candy Makers Sue Film Over Rebecca Scene
The National Confectioners Association filed a 500000 suit in state supreme court against 20th Century Fox seeking removal of a scene in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm that allegedly damages the candy trade. The suit, on behalf of 325 members, alleges the film ridicules the profession and asks for prohibition of further exhibition until the scene is deleted.
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NEW York
U.P
National Confectioners Association
State Supreme Court Today
20Th Century Fox Films
Rebecca
Sunnybrook Farm
Shirley Temple
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UAW
Weygandt
Adriatic
Europe
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South Tyrol
Osservatore Romano
Vatican
Pope Pius
Victor Emmanuel
Pope
Ok’d
Apollo Steel
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