Mining union and bosses meet in Cleveland over wage scale
United Mine Workers District 6 officials and Hocking Division join Ohio Coal Control Association and district operators in Cleveland at 10 o clock Friday to align the division wage scale with the national joint wage agreement signed in New York. The conference aims to standardize wages hours and conditions as mines prepare to resume operations despite Southern dissension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
St. Cial
United Mine Workers
Hocking
Ohio Coal Control Association
Cleveland
New York
John Owens
Herman Theisen
H. T. Rainey
John Wyckoff
William B. Morris
Charles J. Wolfe
George Curdie
Crooksville
Mr. Theisen
Charles Wolfe
Harlan County Coal Operators Association
Crummies Creek Coal Company
Crummies
Clover Fork Coal Company
Kitz
Harlan
Creed Bates
Yancy
Bates
National Guard
Walter Rowe
Operators Association
Elmer Clark
John L. Lewis’ Mine Workers Union
Harlan County
Chandler
West Virginia
Homer A. Holt
Kentucky
Robert Taylor Weds Barbara Stanwyck in San Diego
Hollywood reports Robert Taylor married Barbara Stanwyck in San Diego a ceremony held after midnight to dodge May 13th bad luck. The couple, now newlyweds, had a one day honeymoon curtailed by a press reception before returning to sound stages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
U.P
Robert Taylor
Barbara Stanwyck
Taylor
Miss Stanwyck
San Diego
Mussolini Signals Peace Effort Amid Danzig Tension
Europe listened as Premier Mussolini cautioned that European problems including Italy's demands against France must be solved before war can be ruled out. He urged peaceful solutions while notes from Berlin showed Hitler inspecting Limes forts as axis tensions continued over Danzig and the Mediterranean disputes.
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United Press
Europe
Benito Mussolini
Italy
France
Mediterranean
Turin
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Danzig
Germany
Poland
London
Paris
Suez Canal
Djibouti
Rome
Soviet Rejects British Pact for Moscow Front
London reports that Soviet Russia rejected Britain's proposals for a mutual aid front with Britain and France calling the British formula inadequate. British sources hope a broader agreement may be arranged when Soviet Vice-Commissar Vladimir Potemkin attends the Geneva League of Nations Council meeting on May 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Russia
Great Britain
Moscow
Britain
France
Vladimir Potemkin
Geneva
League of Nations Council
Selection of Jury for Triple Killing Trial
Norman Smith faces trial for the slayings of Henry Baumeister 38 his wife and Theodore 77 near North Lima on January 4 1938. Jury selection began before Judge Erskine Maiden Jr as Smith has been in county jail since last April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
U.P
Norman Smith
Henry Baumeister
North Lima
Erskine Maiden, Jr
Theodore
Act To Abandon All Neutrality Legislation
A movement to abandon neutrality legislation in this session of Congress is developing in administration quarters. Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate foreign relations committee has discussed delaying all action until next session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
United Press
Key Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Roosevelt to visit San Francisco Fair this June
The White House announced President Roosevelt plans to depart Washington around mid June to attend the San Francisco Exposition. The trip reflects official engagement with the coast fair and will involve travel arrangements from the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
San Francisco
White House
Prominent Mason Walter McKinley Dies in Ohio
Walter D. McKinley age 78 prominent Ohio Mason died Sunday after several weeks illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason
Columbus
U.P
Walter D. McKinley
Ohio
Man Confesses Killing Auto Salesmen for Car
Phoenix based confessing suspect Robert M. Burgunder Jr. admits he killed auto salesmen Jack Peterson and Ellis Koury weeks ago to obtain their car. He cashed $170 in bad checks to fund gambling losses including slot machines and pinball. Burgunder, a Tempe teacher college student, was captured in Johnson City Tennessee and said he was ready to face whatever comes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
Robert M. Burgunder
Seattle
Auto
Tempe
Johnson City
Tenn
Richard Harless
Burgunder
Hurry Checks For 3 Mines
Frank Smith of The Sunday Creek Coal Co and Ralph E. Cook of Social Security told the Columbus office of the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation that workers at Poston Consolidated Coal Co Millfield Sunday Creek Mines 9 Rendville and No 2 Carbondale will not face a new waiting period. When these workers report as shown on their ID cards, an order for the first check is written. The first check should arrive within five to seven days after the order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Smith
Sunday Creek Coal Co
Ralph E. Cook
Social Security
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Poston Consolidated Coal Co
Millfield
Rendville
Carbondale
Hill Receives $331,348 Salary as Tobacco Co. Head
George W. Hill, president of the American Tobacco Company, was paid $331,348 last year. The figure, disclosed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, marks the highest corporate official salary reported so far in annual reports filed with the commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
George ‘W. Hill
American ‘Tobacco Company
Securities and Exchange Commission
Commission
Showdown Over Business Appeasement Tax Plan With Roosevelt
Legislative leaders bring a business appeasement tax program to the White House for a forecasted clash with President Roosevelt. A possible compromise is expected before a public tax battle in Congress, amid unbudgeted farm subsidies and a major Senate grant awaiting House action. The delegation includes Garner Bankhead Rayburn Harrison Coughton Morgenthau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Congress
John N. Garner
John H. Bankhead
Sam Rayburn
Pat Harrison
Miss
Senate Finance Committee
Robert L. Coughton
N. C
Ways and Means Committee
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Committee To Hear Plea for Captain Carter
Cincinnati leader James W. Beckman will travel to Washington to confer with the Military Affairs Committee at Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins urging correction of Captain Oberlin M. Carter’s military record and setting aside his fraud conviction. The effort also seeks federal court review of allegedly fraudulent and unconstitutional court martial actions.
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Cincinnati
James W. Beckman
Oberlin M. Carter
Washington
Military Affairs Committee
Beckman
Thomas A. Jenkins, R
Carter
Jenkins
Iain Carter
Gallipolis
Chicago
Robert L. Benson
Justice For Carter Committee
Solons Act on Relief Tonight
In Columbus the House and Senate reconvene with plans to pass remaining relief measures and adjourn by late next week. The Senate is expected to approve a lower vote threshold for extra real estate levies for poor relief, while the House targets the $317 800 000 general appropriation bill. The calendar also includes the anti graft bill expanding state fraud penalties and AG prosecuting power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
House
Senate
Former Asylum Inmate Questioned in Stabbing
Cirkev ille Ohio authorities questioned Loney Tales 37 a former inmate of Lima State Hospital for the Criminal Insane as a suspect in the murder of Noble Crawford 39 whose body bearing 17 stab wounds was found in a shallow pool on the city outskirts. Tales a former boxer was taken into custody hours after the discovery with blood on his sweater and mud on his shoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circleville
U.P
Loney Tales
Lima State Hospital
Noble Crawford
Sage
Laurelville
Toles
Crawford
Merger Vote Units CIO Textile Unions
Delegates at Philadelphia conventions of the United Textile Workers of America and the Textile Workers Organizing Committee, both CIO affiliates, voted to merge the two unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
Philadelphia
U.P
United Textile Workers of America
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
War fears curb business optimism in Ayres review
Col. Leonard P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Co says war tensions keep business cautious though spring activity has been solid. He notes bright spots in shipbuilding aviation machine tools chemicals and auto parts while railroads struggle to cover interest costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Co
Business Review
Ayres
Woman Admits Fatal Shooting Of Stepmother
Violet Meeker 34, mother of five, confessed to shooting her stepmother Mrs. Pearl Holt 57 on Mother's Day in Gorabum yard after a money dispute. She also fired at Holt’s husband Charles V. Holt, missing him, and then called police. Meeker is divorced. two of her children are in a Delaware Children's Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucyrus
A.P
Gorabum
Pearl Holt
Violet Meeker
Two Die in Bucyrus Plane Crash at Airport
At Bucyrus airport a light two place plane piloted by Ralph Skinny Walcutt 34 crashed in a power dive after the wing fabric tore loose. Walcutt and Raymond Hannum 26 Upper Sandusky gasoline station operator died within minutes of the crash Sunday afternoon. The aircraft plunged from 600 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucyrus
U.P
Ralph
Walcutt
Raymond Hannum
New Three Man Board Holds First Meeting
Ohio's new three man board of parole held its first hearing at the Ohio Penitentiary with member Lawrence Payne absent due to resigning from the Cleveland city council. Judge Harrison W. Jewell and Emmett C. Everett conducted today’s hearings, replacing the former four man board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Farole
Ohio Penitentiary
Lawrence Payne
Cleveland
Harrison W. Jewell
Delaware
Emmett C. Everett
Lima
House Committee Gets Lewis WPA Demands
The House committee resumes hearings after John L. Lewis demands Congress fund 3,000,000 WPA jobs. Witnesses will discuss Federal Theater projects in Cleveland and Cincinnati and other Ohio relief activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
House
Works Progress Administration
Congress of Industrial Organizations
John L. Lewis
Congress
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mt. Vernon man dies in Route 36 crash
Orval Wagner, 38, of Mt. Vernon, died from a broken neck and fractured skull suffered in an automobile accident four miles east of Mt. Vernon on Route 36.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Vernon
Orval Wagner
Snite Will Visit French Shrine
Fred B. Snite Jr. 28, long confined to an iron lung, travels from Miami to Lourdes France seeking spiritual sustenance and possible healing. His father hopes Lourdes waters aid his infantile paralysis case before he sails on the Normandie Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Fred B. Snite, Jr
Our Lady of Lourdes
Miami
Normandie
Snite
Lourdes
St. Bernadette
Former State Official Is Tried for Bribery
James A. Bolinger of Fremont, a former examiner for the State Securities Division, goes on trial in Columbus Common Pleas Court on charges he helped two men solicit a $2,500 bribe. He allegedly aided Edward Carney and Edwin Judy in soliciting and accepting the payoff from William R. Parmelee and John L. Rossel in 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
James A. Bolinger
Fremont
State Securities Division
Common Pleas Court
Bolinger
Edward T. Carney
Securities
Edwin Judy
William R. Parmelee
Toledo Guaranty Co
Hoover to Aid in Multi-State Mass Murder Probe
J Ed gar Hoover director of the FBI will visit Philadelphia this week with G men to assist in a mass murder for insurance investigation. The team will focus on cases spanning two or more states as stated by District Attorney Charles F Kelley.
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Philadelphia
W.p—J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Charles F. Kelley
Murphy Raps Dictatorships
New York attorney general Frank Murphy denounced governments he called controlled by arrogant minorities with access to the gun room. Speaking to a joint meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors and the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, he urged citizens to act as trustees of civilization and defend civil liberties as the best safeguard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank Murphy
United States Conference of Mayors
National Institute of Municipal Law
Murphy
Police Hunt Putnam Kidnapping Suspects
In Los Angeles two men matching the publisher George Palmer Putnam described as his alleged abductors were sought by police after asking directions to his home Friday night. Putnam denied the stunt was a publicity hoax for his book, promising a forceful demonstration to any doubter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
U.P
George Palmer Putnam
Putnam
Unfair Labor Complaints Against Hoover Co Dismissed
The National Labor Relations Board dismissed union complaints of unfair labor practice against the Hoover Company of North Canton Ohio today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Hoover Company
North Canton
National Labor Relations Board
Injuries Sought After Bus Driver Negligence Crash
Gladys Simpkins files in Common Pleas Court for 1500 dollars against Earl Johnson driver of a bus. On May 10 1938 at 7 20 p m she rode in Charles Sweeney’s car on US Route 33 Chauncey intersection when Johnson’s bus swerved left without signaling and struck Sweeney’s car injuring Simpkins’s right knee and leg. She seeks 1500 dollars and costs, claiming injuries persisted over more than a year.
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Common Pleas Court
Gladys Simpkins
Earl Johnson
Charles Sweeney
Chauncey
Sweeney
Johnson
British Monarchs View New World on First America Voyage
King George and Queen Elizabeth reached the edge of America aboard the Empress of Australia in fog and ice. The liner neared Newfoundland at 6 30 a m and then passed within 18 miles of St Pierre and Miquelon, its snow covered hills sparkling in sunshine.
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Quebec
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Australia
America
Newfoundland
St. Pierre
Miquelon Islands
Five-Year-Old Indian Girl Gives Birth to Son
Lina Medina, a girl from Pisco, reportedly delivered a son at age five at a Lima maternity hospital. Doctors cited her as “less than six years old,” while her baptismal date conflicts with her father’s claim of birth in 1934.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Peru
U.P
Lina Medina
Lina
Pisco
Hipolito Larrabure
Maternity
Woodard Denies Charge At His Appeal Hearing
Columbus AP report states James C. Woodard, seeking to keep his warden job, told the civil service commission he did not allow liquor narcotics or marijuana to be found in convicts cells during his administration of the Penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodard
Columbus
A.P
James C. Woodard
Civil Service Commission
Bank Robbery Grips Berea Savings in Bold Break-in
Two men escaped with 650 dollars from Berea Savings & Loan Co after forcing the bank secretary Georgeee to lead them to an open safe. Police search for the suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berea—U.p
Berea Savings & Loan Co
George Ee
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