First U. S. Airmail Fliers Begin East Route 1918
In May 1918 Lieut. Torrey H. Webb piloted the first U S airmail leg from New York to Philadelphia then Edgerton continued to Washington. The 218 mile route carried 344 pounds of mail in 194 minutes at about 75 mph with a 24 cent postage rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torrey H. Webb
Belmont Park
L. I
U. S
New York
Washington
Philadelphia
Webb
Lieut
Bustleton
Phila
Delphia
James C. Edgerton
Edgerton
Killer's Body Found After Slaying Suspected Suicide
Columbus report says Arthur McKibben aged 54 shot himself shortly after killing his mother in law Lida Priest 70 at his home. Coroner and police found the body in a field near his home. sister Elle Brewer 53 beaten and critically injured in Mercy Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Arthur McKibben
Lida Priest
Vand
Edward EK. Smith
C. C. Cole
McKibben
Priest
Bergeene Cole
Elle Brewer
Logan
Mercy Hospital
Brewer
Sheldon Ave
Gladys McKibben
Methodist Merger Faces Court Challenge After Vote
In Birmingham Alabama opponents of a union within the Methodist Church claim about 3 million Southern Methodists did not vote on the merger with Northern Episcopal and Protestant branches. A nine member judicial council ruled the vote valid, affecting about 8 million Methodists nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Methodist Church
Supreme Court of the Southern Church
Rubber Workers Reject Goodrich Pay Cut Plan
The United Rubber Workers announced a 2 251 to 239 vote rejecting a proposed wage reduction at Goodrich Rubber Co. and calling for resumption of negotiations. Union officials said 180 of 300 Sun Rubber Co. employees voted to strike over a reported wage cut in two departments.
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Akron—Up
Goodrich Rubber Co
United Rubber Workers
Sun Rubber Co
Office Safe Blown Up In Toledo Theft
Thieves used a nitroglycerine blast to blow the safe at Hillebrand Bros furniture store in Toledo early today, stealing $1,200. The same safe had been blown last fall with a $1,000 loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Hillebrand Bros
Counties May Assume Probe Of Shakedown
Columbus Ohio attorney general Herbert Duffy told that the grand jury investigating an alleged shakedown of state employees salaries for a Democratic campaign fund may extend to several counties. Juries are empanelled in Cuyahoga, Lucas and Summit and could investigate the charges. Richland County parole inquiry is in recess but could be recalled. State workers reported circulars from a finance company offering loans to pay campaign contributions.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Herbert Duffy
Cuyahoga
Lucas
Summit
Richland
Chevrolet Plant Reopens Amid Union Threats in Bay City
The Bay City Chevrolet parts plant resumes operations with a skeleton crew after a two day strike. UAW leaders, unhappy with a Detroit agreement, instruct workers not to return, raising the threat of a power shutdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay City
Mich
U.R
Chevrolet
United Automobile Workers Union
Detroit
Non-Interference Policy Will Remain Unchanged
Washington officials indicated the State Department would delay a statement on Sen. Nye's call to repeal Spain’s arms embargo until President Roosevelt returns. Quarters predicted no change in the current policy of non-interference in Spain's internal affairs or those of any foreign country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Gerald P. Nye
N. D
Spain
Roosevelt
Fire Controls at Roxana Oil Plant Blaze
A $500,000 fire at Shell Petroleum Company oil refinery in Roxana, Illinois, was brought under control today. The blaze affected the refinery complex and prompted emergency response from local authorities. No injuries were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwardsville
Ill
Shell Petroleum Company
Roxana
Federal State plan to purge WPA chiselers in Ohio
Ohio official Joseph T. Ferguson urged a joint federal state effort to purge relief and WPA rolls of waste. He cited a 30 day state review finding about 20 percent of direct relief recipients need none and estimated a statewide inquiry could cost 600000 to 750000 and use 460 field workers and 40 central staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Ohio
WPA
Joseph T. Ferguson
Ferguson
Plans Form Airmail Day In Athens May Nineteenth
Members of the American Legion and the Athens Elks Lodge met in the Elks rooms with 175 present to hear tentative plans for the first air mail flight from Athens on May 19. Capt H D Palmer Don Peden Major M E Olmstead and John DeMolet spoke on possibilities including Marine Corps participation and a dance in honor of the chosen pilot to make the special mail flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Athens
Beginning of the great air transportation system
The article recalls the birth of the world’s air transportation network, noting the first airmail and the then-modern outlook. It mentions President Wilson and the rapid growth to multi-motored planes now flying about 70 million miles annually, carrying mail and passengers at speeds unimaginable in 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ounce
Wilson
Special Relief Session Called in Ohio May 16
Governor Davey issued a proclamation calling a special session of the General Assembly for May 16 to address the relief crisis in Ohio's large cities. The session is limited to relief unless the scope is expanded later, with the proclamation stating legislation is needed to prevent suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Davey
General Assembly
Ohio
Study of Bill for RFC Loans to Rails Opens Hearings
The Senate Banking and Currency Committee opened hearings on a bill to authorize Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation loans to railroads for new equipment. Rail labor groups pressed for a congressional probe of the Interstate Commerce Commission amid talk of a special committee to craft a long range railroad crisis solution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Wages and Hours Measure Faces Slim Support Chance
Washington high level estimates show only a slim chance for the wages and hours bill to reach House consideration today. Speaker Bankhead predicted a favorable outcome, but only about 30 Republican and 10 Southern Democratic signatures appeared likely. If 45 northern and western Democrats withhold, the effort to pull the measure from the rules committee would fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
House
William B. Bankhead
Rules Committee
Three Year Plan Is Suspended in Cuba
In Havana Col. Fulgencio Batista, Cuba’s army chief of staff and power behind the scenes, suspended his three year plan for social economic and political rehabilitation and announced he would work for stabilization of democratic institutions. The plan aimed to regiment almost every phase of national life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Cuba
U.P
Fulgencio Batista
Mussolini Displays Italy’s Naval Might for Hitler in Naples
In Naples Premier Mussolini staged a grand fleet review with over 200 warships including 90 submarines. He aims to impress Hitler and maneuver as a middleman between Germany, Britain, and France, seeking a four power peace while balancing Axis ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
U.P
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Bay of
Il Duce
France
AXIS
Mussolini
Britain
Hitler
World conflict blamed on Japan and Axis nations
Secretary Woodring warned Japan Italy and Germany that pushing democracies could trigger war. He blamed Japanese actions in Manchuria and Shanghai for contributing to global turmoil, citing rearmament by Germany and Italian aggression as successive provocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Manchuria
Germany
Rhineland
Ethiopia
League of Nations
Italy
Spain
Wallace Links Politics to Corn Belt Discontent Over Aldotments
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace said partisan politics fueled much of the Corn Belt protest against reduced corn acreage allotments. He noted meetings of Illinois farmers in the Corn Belt Liberty League resembled political rallies and declined to name the organizers. He reaffirmed that no increase in corn allotments will occur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Henry A. Wallace
Corn Belt Liberty League
Illinois
The
League
Wallace
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
State Bridges See Traffic Drop Across Toll Routes
A Columbus report to Governor Davey by the State Bridge Commission shows a sharp drop in traffic on state owned toll bridges in the first quarter compared with 1937. The decline is mainly due to fewer trucks using the highways, and none of the Pomeroy-Mason Bridge bonds have been retired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Davey
State Bridge Commission
Detroit plant closed ends Briggs Manufacturing shift
United Auto Workers officials report labor trouble led to the closure of the Briggs Manufacturing Company plant on Meldrum Avenue in Detroit. The stoppage halted production at the facility and prompted union involvement in the dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
United Automobile Workers Union
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Meldrum Avenue
UMWA and Ohio Coal Association Donate to Athens TB Health
A $1000 contribution from United Mine Workers of America District 6 and the Ohio Coal Association was received by the Athens County Tuberculosis and Health Association. Lawrence Worstell noted the donation, with signatures from John Owens District 6 president and R L Ireland Jr Ohio Coal Association president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Mine Workers of America
District 6
Ohio Coal Association
Athens County
Stagehand Withdrawn From Derby Due to Sickness
Louisville report says Stagehand, winter-book favorite to win the Kentucky Derby, was withdrawn from the race by owner Maxwell Howard because of illness. Thousands bet on Stagehand after wins at Santa Anita. Fighting Fox became 2-1 favorite after the withdrawal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
U.P
Stagehand
Maxwell Howard
Santa Anita
Fighting Fox
William Woodard
Galahad III
Eight-year-old girl dies in house fire tragedy
A family of seven on the second floor of a frame house near here was trapped by fire early today. Elsie Smith, age 8, burned to death after escaping from her father during a failed rescue. the parents and four other children leaped from windows to safety.
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Franklin
Here
Elsie Smith
Elsie
Child Burns To Death In Marion Fire
Joan Theresa Maloney aged 16 adopted daughter of attorney W P Maloney of Marion died Wednesday night from burns after her clothing caught fire from a match.
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Burns
Marion
U.P
Joan Theresa Maloney
W. P. Maloney
Septuplets Born Dead To Cuban Farm Woman
CAUTO EMBARCADERO Cuba seven dead babies were born to Mrs Rafaela Casanova Corrias on a remote farm ten miles from here The father dug a grave in the front yard and buried them A midwife attended the 34 year old mother during a ten hour ordeal Eight living children were at the home when the news spread Authorities planned to move any surviving infants to a hospital in Santiago with army aid ordered by Col Fulgencio Batista to reach the scene.
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Cauto Embarcadero
Cuba
U.P
Rafaela Casanova Corrias
Juan Corrias
Candelaria Arauz
Bayamo
Ramos Chambeau
Bayamo Hospital
Fulgencio Batista
Santiago
Hungary approves strict press censorship law
Budapest reports the Hungarian Parliament approved the strictest press censorship in years. All publications except daily newspapers must be submitted to a censor before release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budapest
Hungary
U.P
Pact Survives French Crisis
The French British American monetary accord remains intact as Morgenthau states it will operate normally to curb currency speculation. Finance Minister Paul Marchandeau fixes the franc at a minimum 179 per pound, valuing the franc at about 2.79 cents or 36 francs to the dollar on opening London quotes.
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Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
France
Great Britain
United States
Paul Marchandeau
London
Ohio Supreme Court rules tax penalty refund unconstitutional
The Ohio Supreme Court declares unconstitutional the Oglin tax penalty refund law saving counties millions. The measure, enacted by the last regular legislative session, would have refunded to taxpayers penalties and interest on tax delinquency from June 1930 to January 1 1937.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Ohio
Prisoner 73 Based on Son Murder Confession
In WALLA WALLA Washington a 73 year old inmate and her son 42 face trial for the 1928 slaying of James Eugene Bassett a naval academy graduate. Prosecutor Warner said corpus delicti may be proven by circumstantial evidence. The woman confessed the son struck Bassett with a hammer and dismembered the body in a Seattle bathtub. She also claimed his involvement in three Idaho killings buried in a quarry.
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B. Graye Warner
King County
James Eugene Bassett
Naval Academy
Mary Eleanor Smith
DeCasto Earl Mayer
Warner
Smith
J. M. McCauley
Bassett
Seattle
Idaho
Loyalists Rout Rightists In Battle Near Teruel
Loyalist dispatches claim a Nationalist advance northeast of Teruel was halted with the annihilation of 1000 Moors in the village of El Pobo. The engagement was described as a rout, the only activity on the mud-sodden Aragon front as rain and stiff Loyalist resistance halted the march on Valencia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendaye
Spanish Frontier
U.P
Teruel
el Pobo
Aragon
Mediterranean
Valencia
Fire destroys liner Lafayetter in dry dock blaze
A fire in dry dock destroyed the 22 000 ton luxury liner Lafay ette of the French Line in Le Havre France. The blaze swept through the vessel causing total loss and prompting emergency response from local authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LE Havre
France
U.P
Lafayette
Jackie Coogan sues over insurance policy plans
Hollywood report states Jackie Coogan filed a four million dollar recovery suit after claiming his step father planned to cash in a one hundred thousand dollar life insurance policy on him for seven thousand five hundred dollars. He targets his mother and Arthur Bernstein in the lawsuit.
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Hollywood
Jackie Coogan
Arthur Bernstein
Infantile paralysis confines Chauncey boy at home
William Cline seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Cline of Chauncey is confined to his home with infantile spinal paralysia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Cline
Joseph Cline
Chauncey
Cooperation is AFL Proposal
The American Federation of Labor proposed that businesses adopt a cooperation program with labor. It urged discarding industrial warfare from employer associations and embracing a new labor capital attitude while upholding private ownership collective bargaining and contract sanctity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Hague faces federal suit over dictatorship claim in New Jersey
Labor and liberal groups prepare for a May 12 federal court showdown with Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. The injunction suit alleges Hague operates a dictatorship, violating freedom of speech and assembly while citing state rights and ignoring the Wagner Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Committee For Industrial Organization
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Hague
Mitchael Rites Set for Ohio Manufacturers Leader
Funeral services will be held Saturday for Charles F. Mitchael 63 president of the Ohio Manufacturers Association who died Wednesday after a yearlong illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucyrus
U.P
Charles F. Mitchael
Ohio Manufacturers’ Association
Plan War Evacuation of Americans From Europe
London reports that American consulates in Europe are preparing and rechecking plans to evacuate thousands of U S residents in the event of war. The effort covers listing eligible citizens, mapping evacuation routes, and arranging transport to avoid 1914 like chaos, with anticipated rapid warning and possible air raids.
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London
U.P
State Department
Europe
United States
Aid Raid Precautions Organization
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Paul Friggens
Goodrich
RFC
Rails
Pace
Shanghai
Tangcheng
Shantung Province
Taierhchwang
Japan
Rome
NEA
Fuehrer
Galeazzo Ciano
Ciano
Vittorio Emmanuele
Austria
America
UMWA
Tuberculosis, Health Association
Derby
Son
Walla Walla
Wash
State Prison
Jackie
AFL
Labor
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