Black Ready To Reply to Klan Charge
Justice Hugo Black prepares a radio address defending his past Klan ties and life membership allegations. The speech, drafted largely in secrecy at the Reconstruction Finance Corporation offices, airs at 9 30 P M EST as national scrutiny and political debate intensify.
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Washington
Hugo L. Black
Ku Klux Klan
Supreme Court
National
Mutual
Black
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Federal agents reach Ross kidnapping case in Chicago
Six federal agents were seen at the Ross apartment where Mrs. Ross awaited word from the kidnappers. The scene included Earl Connelley, a noted kidnapping investigator, as authorities hinted at possible contact with the captors of Charles S. Ross, a retired Valentine manufacturer.
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Chicago -Au P
Charles S. Ross
Valentine
Ross
Davey Orders Probe of Padding Charge
Governor Martin L. Davey orders a dual investigation into reports that highway department bid estimates were padded. He summons Highway Director John Jaster Jr. from Boston to lead a government inquiry and expresses deep concern.
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Davey
Columbus
U.P
Martin L. Davey
Highway Department
Highway
John Jaster, Jr
Boston
Truck Driver Burned To Death In Crash Near Mansfield
Joseph Bigler, 45, of Chillicothe, was burned to death 13 miles south of Mansfield when his truck left the highway while passing another vehicle, struck an embankment and burst into flames. R. G. Flee, also of Chillicothe, was seriously injured.
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Mansfield
U.P
Joseph Bigler
Chillicothe
Here
R. G. Flee
Bigler
Thief Steals $1000 From Ruppert Stadium Clubhouse
Police in Newark search for a thief who ransacked a trunk in the Ruppert Stadium clubhouse on Thursday night and escaped with $1000 in cash and jewelry belonging to Columbus Ohio baseball team members.
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Newark
N. J
U.P
Ruppert Stadium
Columbus, O
AF of L Plans Showdown With CIO Over Unions
The AF of L reports tentative plans for a convention battle to expel insurgent CIO unions. Key actions include granting the executive council authority to expel the United Mine Workers and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, while threatening to expel eight other unions unless they align with AF of L policy. The plan signals a shift from defense to an aggressive campaign to rebuild leadership of organized labor.
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Denver
U.P
American Federation of Labor Leaders Today
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
A. F. of L
Executive Council
United Mine
Lewis
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Sidney Hillman
A. F
L.ford
Organized Labor
Resignation of Ohioan From Home Loan Board Announced
The Federal Home Loan Bank board announced the resignation of Dr. H. Hoagland of Ohio as a member. He will return to Ohio University in Columbus to teach business organization. His successor is Dr. William H. Husband, formerly of Ohio Wesleyan University and Delaware.
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Washingtgon
U.P
Ohioan
Federal Home Loan Bank Bi
Anoth
H. Hoagland
Ohio University
Columbus
William H Husband
Ohio Wesleyan University
Laware
Death demanded for Yank aviator in Spain court martial
Harold F E Dahl of Champaign Indiana, a Loyalist prisoner, faces a second court martial on October 5 with several Russian aviators on charges of rebellion. The prosecution plans to seek the death penalty, despite a Franco aide previously indicating Dahl’s life could be spared. Franco still could pardon him after conviction.
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Salamanca
Spain
Harold FE
Dahl
Champaign
Franco
Union Job Printers Continue on Strike
In Columbus 200 union job printers held a three day sit down at the union hall rather than work. They seek a 10 percent wage increase from 28 employers and spent the day talking and playing cards awaiting an answer.
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Columbus
U.P
Endeavour I Returns After Grave Tow Heats Treasure
The yacht Endeavour I is back from the Atlantic drift after breaking its tow line in a storm near Newport. Edward Heard, aboard, recalls a hurricane that left the yacht 170 miles at sea with crew and granddaughter aboard. They faced days without refrigeration but no rigging damage and she resumed a calm voyage home.
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England
Endeaghe
Edward
Relle
Heard
Endeavour
Newport
Atlantic
Star Sues Heiress For Fighter's Love
Hollywood dispatch reports Judith Allen, a film star, files a $2,000,000 suit against Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker Goode heiress to the Dodge interests. Allen claims Goode thwarted reconciliation with her former husband Jack Doyle and plans to wed him.
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Hollywood
Judith Allen
Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker Goode
Dodge Motor Car Millions
Jack Doyle
Miss Allen
Colonel Black Joins Search For Slayers
Col. Lynn Black head of the Ohio Highway Patrol arrived in Cadiz to direct the search for three men seen talking to Patrolman George A. Conn before his murder near Freeport last Monday. William Harris and Don Whittaker, cattle buyers from Barnesville, reported passing Conn as he spoke with the three men beside a gray Ford sedan. John Earl, a truck farmer nearby, saw another man drive Conn’s patrol car and later the driver asked if the guns were obtained before both cars drove away. Conn was to be buried today in Zanesville after funeral services at Cumberland.
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Cadiz
U.P
Col
Lynn Black
Ohio Highway Patrol
George A. Conn
Freeport
Barnesville
William Harris
Don Whittaker
Conn
John Earl
Zanesville
Cumberland
Roosevelt heads east as court, Klan ties issue looms
President Roosevelt travels from Lake Crescent after a mid day stop in Victoria to debate summoning Congress in special session and to address charges about Justice Hugo Black's Ku Klux Klan membership. The party weighs options to reach Washington.
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Edward R. Burke
Roosevelt
Kansas City
Supreme Court
Thomas Dixon
Edward Douglas White
Dixon
Federal District Court
Raleigh
N. C
White
Maltby’s
Lake Crescent
Wash
U.P
Washington
Congress
Hugo J. Black
Ku Klux Klan
Olympic Peninsula
Victoria
British Columbia
Tacoma
Seattle
Hat Switch Stunt Ends with Stolen Car in Portland
Tal Madge J. Staley cheered President Roosevelt in Portland during a western tour. He tossed his new $10 hat, which Roosevelt borrowed and wore. Staley hoped the hat would be mailed back, but police say the hat and his car were stolen from the post office area.
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Portland
Ore
U.P
Talmadge J. Staley
Roosevelt
Staley
Mr. Roosevelt
Browder Says Communist Party Aiding US War Effort
Earl Browder the 1936 Communist presidential candidate says he would fight for the United States in another war if not against Russia. He accuses his party of doing everything possible to strengthen the Roosevelt administration against reactionary attacks.
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Boston
AUP
Earl KR. Browder
United States
Russia
Communist Party
Browder
Roosevelt
Jones Will Filed In Columbus Probate Court
The will of the late Mrs. Grace Hoyt Jones widow of Ohio Supreme Court Judge Thomas A. Jones was filed in probate court. It leaves an estate estimated at 150000 dollars to children and grandchildren.
Japan Rejects Mediation and Vows Bitter End in War
Tokyo issued a general policy statement declaring no interference in China and a determined course to fight until China changes its policy. It rejected mediation at this stage and warned powers against joining China, while stressing joint prosperity for all nations and protecting foreigners in Shanghai.
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Tokyo
Japan
Foreign Office
China
Shoe Workers Back at Jobs After Six Week Strike Ends
About 400 workers at Williams Manufacturing Co. returned to the shoe plant in Portsmouth U P after six weeks on strike ended by union leaders order. Led by the Shoe Workers Organizing Committee officers, the marchers registered with the employment office. Few strikers will be rehired immediately due to production curtailment.
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Portsmouth
U.P
Williams Manufacturing Co
Shoe Workers Organizing Committee
Committee For Industrial Organization
Episcopal Church Not To Relax Marriage Law Confronts Convention
Rev. Russell S. Hubbard and Rev. Bernard Iddings Bell say the Cincinnati convention will likely resist relaxing the churchs marriage canons. A petition with 1200 signers argues delegates will vote against permitting divorcees to remarry. Parole board actions at Ohio Penitentiary include 33 parolees, nine conditional releases, and 136 continuances.
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Providence
R. L
Episcopal Church
Cincinnati
Russell S. Hubbard
St. Martin's Church
Bernard Iddings Bell
St. John's Cathedral
Ohio
Columbus
Ohio Parole Board
Ohio Penitentiary
New Party Called Key to Beating New Deal
Sen. Roy A. Copeland of New York urged in Washington that New Deal victory in 1940 is inevitable and only a new party can defeat it. He named Roosevelt La Follette Jr. and John L. Lewis as likely 1940 presidential candidates in that order. He argued benefits tied to New Deal support sustain its strength.
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Washington
Iu.p
Royal S. Copeland
N. Y
New York
Copeland
Roosevelt
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. P
Wis
John L. Lewis
Counties Withheld From August Tax Shares
Ohio auditor cut 45 counties from August sales tax distributions for local government due to unpaid debts or missing installment agreements. Counties listed include Athens with 83037 withheld and Muskingum 8048 withheld, plus several others with partial payments or arrears.
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Columbus
Ohio
Joseph T. Ferguson
Athens
Belmont
Carroll
Coshocton
Fairfield
Gallia
Guernsey
Harrison
Highland
Hocking
Meigs
Monroe
Muskingum
Noble
Farley Vows Democracy Harmony Amid GOP Coalition Talk
In Lansing at a Jefferson Club banquet, Postmaster General James A Farley told Democrats that party rifts would be resolved within Democratic councils. He dismissed Sen Arthur H Vandenbergs call for a GOP Democratic coalition as absurd, opposing President Roosevelt.
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Lansing
Mich
U.P
James A. Farley
Jefferson Club
Democratic National Committee
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
Roosevelt
Weather's Warm Not Indian Summer In Ohio
State Meteorologist John C. Fisher explains the recent mild days in Ohio are not yet Indian Summer. He dug into dusty files and predicts more warmth with no scientific basis for an early seasonal peak.
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Columbus
U.P
John C. Fisher
Fisher
American cameraman Brandt survives Shanghai air raid
NEA Service cameraman Brandt and three other American photographers were attacked by Japanese planes en route to a Chinese front. They escaped by fleeing under fire to a dugout after bombing and machine gunning their auto.
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Brandt
NEA
Shanghai
Favors State funds To Aid Local Relief
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce backed temporary state aid to help municipalities meet the relief situation while stressing local responsibility. It urged that any aid not exceed anticipated balances and existing sales tax funds for 1937 and 1938, and support a fifty fifty matching basis using current revenue, with no new taxes.
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Columbus
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Accidents Kill Three Columbus Residents
Three Columbus residents died Thursday from motor vehicle injuries. The victims were Raymond D. Sullivan 55 Ruth Van Horn 39 and Russell Edwards 35. Edwards a truck driver was burned to death after a collision near Early Park Indiana.
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Columbus
U.P
Raymond D. Sullivan
Ruth van Horn
Russell Edwards
Edwards
Early Park
Ind
Leviathan to be scrapped after 24 years as ocean liner
The Leviathan, 950 feet long and 54 500 tons, tied up in Hoboken since 1954, is to be scrapped. It will be replaced by a 15 750 000 dollar, fireproof passenger and cargo ship, touted as the finest and safest liner on the seas. Bids from U S and foreign buyers are invited.
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New York
Leviathan
American Merchant Marine
Hoboken
N. J
U. S. Maritime Commission
United States Lines
Vaterland
Casualty List at Shanghai Estimated at 62 500 On Both Sides
Developments in the China Japan war report Tokyo rejecting interference and vow to fight to the end while Shanghai sees Japanese infantry breach Chinese lines. The Augusta comes under air attack as Chinese planes bomb near Yangtzepoo and heavy fighting rages north of Shanghai.
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Shanghai
United Press
Tokyo
Japan
Geneva
China
League
Shanghat
U.P
United States
Augusta
Yangtze- Poo
Whangpoo River
Secretary Hull to Let Public Opinion Decide on Japan China Bombing
Secretary of State Cordell Hull was expected to let public opinion decide if Japan’s bombing of Chinese cities is justified. American diplomats appeared ready to stop the note exchange after Japan said continued bombing of Nanking and other cities was necessary and unavoidable.
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Washington
U.P
Cordell Hull
Japan
China
Nanking
Japanese Press Claims Shanghai Battles Continue Amid Casualties
A Japanese spokesman says two north Shanghai fronts were breached as infantry destroyed Chinese pill boxes with mines and advanced. He cites total battleside casualties around 62,500 with 20,000 Chinese killed and 35,000 wounded, plus Japanese deaths and wounded. Chinese admit losses at Eternal Peace Bridge and Patriotic Girls School, while fighting shifts to a new defense line guided by German advisers. Chinese sources report a Communist victory over Japanese forces in Shansi Province led by Yen Hsi-shen.
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Shanghai
Lotien
Batle
Patriotic” Girls
Shansi
Eighth Route Army
Yen Hsi
Predict Lower Meat Prices by Year’s End
CHICAGO Meat prices are expected to fall by year end according to the Institute of American Packers. A spokesman cited bumper corn crops and increasing supply of well fattened steers as the main factors driving retail prices down. DIES OF PNEUMONIA IN COLUMBUS Louis Kreiter 44 deputy superintendent of the Ohio Insurance Department died of pneumonia at his home after attending the Ohio State Texas Christian game.
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Chicago
Institute of American On
Institute
Columbus
Louis Hh, Kreiter
Ohio Insurance Department
Notable Kidnap and Robbery Case in Springfield Court
Delor ough Scherer, 34, pleaded not guilty in municipal court before Judge Fred A. Wagner to charges of kidnapping and robbing Thomas B. Crowley of 2400 dollars last February. The case proceeds to trial.
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Springfield
U.P
Delor«ough Scherer
Fred A. Wagner
Thomas B. Crowley
Hunter Killed in Squirrel Hunt Near Caldwell
Clyde Johnson aged 20 was killed twelve miles east of Caldwell while squirrel hunting when a shotgun was accidentally discharged by George Kichonnell of Akron.
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Caldwell
Clyde Johnson
Here
George Kichonnell
Akrdh
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