Federal panel investigates fatal United Air Lines crash near Cleveland
A federal board of inquiry met in Cleveland to probe the Tuesday night crash and fire of a United Air Lines Douglas transport. Ten people died including Pilot James Brandon Hostess Mildred Macek and Co-pilot Austin Merrifield. The plane’s wings were sheared off and the fuselage burned near Cleveland Airport. It was the first fatal crash on 44 000 Cleveland New York Division flights in 11 years.
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Federal Board of Inquiry
Cleveland
United Air Lines Transport
Japs Reorganize Cabinet To Boost Army Power
Japan reshapes its cabinet under Premier Konoye to lift army influence with Gen Kazunari Ugaki named foreign minister. As Kaifeng battles rattle North China, European tensions rise with Czech crisis and Sudeten proposals amid German pressure.
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United Press
Japan
Fumimaro Konoye
Kaifeng
China
Tokyo
Kazunari Ugaki
Berlin
Mt Sterling Boy Dies After Being Struck by Car
Grover McKinney a 10 year old from Mt Sterling died in a Columbus hospital from a skull fracture after being struck by an automobile on Route 3 near Mt Sterling while he watched a railroad train.
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MT. Sterling
Columbus
U.P
Grover McKinney
Route 3
Mt Sterling
Need of More US Aid Seen
Detroit Mayor Richard W. Reading urged a meeting of mayors with New York City’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia to press Congress for direct relief funds. A WPA welfare study convinced him that more federal aid is necessary as Detroit’s welfare caseload sits near 41,000 families despite relief workers moving to WPA projects.
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Detroit
U.P
Richard W. Reading
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York
United States Conference of Mayors
Congress
Reading
Pheasant Hunters Seek Morning Shooting Ban Public Meeting
In Columbus the State Conservation Commissioner announced a public meeting for June 21 to hear sportsmen favoring a ban on pheasant shooting during the morning of each open season day. He noted hunters in many areas believe morning hunting harms game conservation while birds feed.
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Columbus
A.P
Wooddell
Young rider survives 75 foot cliff fall in Cleveland
Edward Zahutni aged 16 lost control of his bicycle and plunged over a 75 foot cliff in Cleveland. He was hospitalized with two broken ribs and a fractured pelvis.
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Cleveland
Edward Zahutni
Relief Bill Is Supplanted by Wage Measure
Senate leaders moved to replace the relief bill with the wage hour bill for conference. Majority Leader Barkley said he would push the wage measure forward and confer with Senator Harrison to ease opposition.
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Washington
U.P
Alben W. Barkley
Cy. Ky
Barkley
Pat Harrison
Miss
Jenkins Mosier Aided Retailers In Wage Exemption Efforts
George V. Sheridan says Ohio Retail Merchants Council credits Representatives Mosier and Jenkins for securing an exemption for retail merchants in the federal wages and hours act. Local retailers hope the carve out remains in the final bill as education labor committee reviews. A southern member may join the conference panel to press geographic wage differences.
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George V. Sheridan
Ohio Council of Retail Merchants
Athens Retail Merchants Association
Mosier and Jenkins
Washington
John W. Bolin
Harrison
Education and Labor Committee
Barkley
Conference Committee
Second Cabinet Would Include Dollar-a-Year Men
State Commerce Director Alfred A. Benesch proposed reviving the dollar-a-year men to serve in peacetime and war. He urged U S Senator Robert J. Bulkley to extend his national council idea to include these advisers across all government departments. Benesch condemned the current mistrust between government and business.
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Columbus
U.S
Alfred A. Benesch
Benesch
U. S
Robert J. Bulkley
Bulkley
National Council
Meigs County Aid Office Holds Pensioners to Liquor Rules
George Childs, administrator, announced suspensions of monthly payments for two old age pensioners and probation for two others to curb pension funds spent on alcohol. He said warning letters were issued under a state law prohibiting use of pension money for liquor purchases.
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Pomeroy
George Childs
Meigs County
Division of Aid For the
Childs
Dispute Leads To Killing of Union Leader
Arnold Ralph Johnson confessed to killing William S. Brown president of the General Drivers Union over a dispute about union funds. Johnson said he shot Brown last night after an argument about money. Brown’s death came as investigators halted the Corcoran murder probe and tied to unresolved killings of Walter Liggett and Howard Guilford, publishers who reported on local labor issues.
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Minneapolis
Minn
U.P
Arnold Ralph Johnson
William S. Brown
General Drivers’ Union
James Mullins
Johnson
Brown
Tammany Head Named In Lottery Racket Case
James J. Hines, a powerful Tammany Hall politician, was named in a broad indictment as a key figure in a $100,000,000-a-year numbers lottery racket. The case alleges bribery of judges and use of violence to maintain control.
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New York
ULP
James J. Hines
Tammany Hall
Visionary plans of deposed TVA chief surface at inquiry
Testimony shows former TVA chairman Arthur Morgan proposed a broad program including a separate Tennessee Valley coinage and dispossession of farmers, with H A Morgan calling the ideas alarming and outside the TVA Act. The hearing also covers Lilienthal and governance shifts after Morgan’s bid to block Lilienthal’s reappointment.
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Washington
U.P
Harcourt A. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Arthur E. Morgan
TVA
H. A. Morgan
Arthur Morgan
David E. Lilenthal
Tennessee Valley
Lilienthal
H. A. Mor
Investigation Of US Bund Proposed By House Panel
The House will consider a resolution to create a special committee to investigate the German American Bund and other un American activities. Rep Martin Dies led the proposal with Labor Committee backing and support from the American Legion and veterans groups.
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Washington
U.P
House
Martin Dies
Tex
House Labor Committee
American Legion
Samuel Dickstein
N. Y
Immigration Committee
Girdler Sees Steel Expansion If Private Capital Follows
New York businessman T. M. Girdler told the American Iron and Steel Institute that the steel industry is ready to expand on a large scale once private capital resumes flowing. He cited investor uncertainty as drying up funding and warned the current downturn may not last if confidence returns.
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New York
T. M. Girdler
American Iron & Steel Institute
Coal Head Re-Elected President of Ohio Conference
Harry Flory of Eaton was re-elected president of the Ohio Coal Conference at Columbus on Wednesday night.
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Columbus
U.P
Harry Flory
Eaton
Ohio Coal Conference
Veteran May Describe Old West at Centennial
Cicero Phipps, 92, of New Straitsville, Civil War veteran and long time G A R member, is expected to describe the westward expansion at the Centennial on June 2. He will recount Pony Express era, Army protection, and frontier hardships as Civil War era family tensions split north and south before uniting after Richmond.
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Nelsonville
Great West
New Straitsville
Cicero Phipps
Independence
Hill Post
Grand Army of the Republic
Masonic Order
Pony Express
Uncle Sam
Mr. Phipps
Cicero
John
Hancock
Richmond
Logan Lawyer Held In Youths Shooting
Logan attorney Allen R. McBroom age 83 is jailed after a revolver bullet fired through his Falls Mills home struck John Freeman age 19 passing through his lung and liver. Freeman is listed in fair condition. Freeman and Miss Mary Brooks under 18 were seeking legal advice when the shot occurred. McBroom arraigned on shooting with intent to kill and held to grand jury under a 1500 dollar bond.
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LOGAN
Allen R. McBroom
Hocking County
John Freeman
McBroom
Freeman
Cers
Roosevelt to Announce Tax Action Friday
President Roosevelt will announce action on the 5.33 billion tax bill in a 2 p.m. Friday radio address from Arthurdale West Virginia. He aims to act before midnight to avoid the measure becoming law without his signature, and may critique congressional changes to New Deal tax policy toward business.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Arthurdale
W. Va
White House
Recovery Bill Faces Delay Fanned by Educational Campaign
Senator Royal Copeland says opponents of the 3.25 billion recovery plan will block a Senate vote until next Monday. He describes an organized educational campaign to let the public decide on the spending. The drive followed a Wheeler attack on Ickes and Hopkins for intervening in Democratic primaries.
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Washington
U.P
Royal S. Copeland
N. Y
Senate
Copeland
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Ickes
Works Progress
Harry L. Hopkins
Blames Medicines as Causes of Deafness
Cleveland doctor Dr. H. H. Vail attributed deafness to quinine used by expectant mothers and medicines for rheumatic fever, and noted tobacco misuse can contribute. The remarks were made at the American Society for the Hard of Hearing conference.
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Cleveland
U.P
H. H. Vail
American Society For the Hard of Hearing
Delay Appeal On Muskingum Flood Project
Senate action on a resolution to urge the Federal Government to assume the entire cost of the Muskingum Conservancy District was delayed by Sen. James Matthews Clark County. The measure by Sen. Will Garver Holmes parallels a House-passed McGregor Resolution and would let property owners in the Miami Conservancy District decide if they want a similar appeal.
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House
Senate
Bernard McCluskey
Congress
Taxation and Relief Committee
Mc Cluskey
Francis Townshend
The
Pension Plan
Columbus
U.P
Muskingum Conservancy District
James Matthews
Clark County
Will Garver
Holmes
Matthews
Miami Conservancy District
Red Cross aids Murray City flood victims in Ohio
Florence Delaney from Washington DC supervises relief for about 35 Murray City families displaced by Snow Fork Creek flooding. Estimated 700 dollars needed to restore homes. Logan and Murray City American Legion posts donate 100 dollars each for mattresses and bedding. Delaney arrived from Pekinl following a cyclone.
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Logan
American Red Cross
Florence Delaney
Washington, D. C
Murray City
Snow Fork Creek
Red Cross
American Legion
Delaney
Pekinlil
Gallia County Grand Jury Sees No Shakedown Testimony
Gallia County grand jury met for a one day session but no witness appeared regarding solicitation for state civil service jobs for campaign funds. Prosecutor John W. Howell noted expected testimony did not occur. Restoration of 10 miles of the Ohio Canal along U S Route 21 north of Massillon was approved with a total cost of 80000 by the State Conservation Council.
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Gallipolis
Gallia
Columbus
U.R
Massillon
Ferguson Reversed in Ruling by Duffy
Columbus U P Attorney General Herbert S Duffy says State Auditor Joseph T Ferguson misinterpreted law by altering how retail sales tax revenues are allocated to the local government fund. The ruling boosts large counties including Cuyahoga County by about 1 3 million dollars this year and aims to avert a rural urban clash in the Legislature.
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Columbus
U.P
Joseph T. Ferguson
Herbert S. Duffy
Franklin County
Ralph J. Bartlett
Cuyahoga County
Ferguson
Aerial Survey Contract Awarded to Clyde H Butler
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration awarded a contract to Clyde H Butler of Cleveland for an aerial photographic survey covering 13 429 square miles in 32 Ohio counties to check compliance with the soil conservation program. Butler bid 37 601 dollars. Counties include Athens Fairfield Gallia Hocking Jackson Meigs Perry and Vinton.
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Washington
A.P
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Clyde H. Butler
Cleveland
Ohio
AAA
Butler
Athens
Fairfield
Gallia
Hocking
Jackson
Meigs
Perry
Vinton
Company Reports Loss For Quarter In Toledo
Willys Overland Motors Inc reports a loss of 203 246 dollars for the quarter. The figure is part of the latest financial results released today, reflecting downturn in earnings and impact on the company’s operations in Toledo.
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Toledo
U.P
Willys-Overland Motors, Inc
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