Spy Relates Activities of German Ring
Guenther Rumrich a dishwasher and spy resumes direct testimony for a third day at the New York trial of three alleged conspirators. He testified of secret meetings, double dealings and attempts to steal U S military secrets while aboard German liners seeking material for Germany.
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New York
U.P
Guenther Rumrich
United States
Germany
Rumrich
Panama Canal Zone
Manila
Hunter Shot By Companion Near Buckeye Lake
Marion Lanning, 25, a Zanesville gas station employee, was accidentally shot and killed while duck hunting on Buckeye Lake near Avondale. He was in a boat with Jack Zavers and C. D. Moore when Moore and Zavers fired their shotguns. Lanning died instantly. Moore and Zavers rowed the body to Avon dale and were held for an inquest by coroner Dr. G. W. Sapp.
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Newark
U.P
Marion Lanning
Zanesville
Buckeye Lake
Avondale
Lanning
Jack Zavers
C. D. Moore
Moore
Zaver
Zavers
G. W. Sapp
Armless Driver Sues To Regain His License
Frank West and the state motor vehicles registrar face a suit in Xenia Common Pleas by Paul E. Layton a 21 year old armless Osborn farmer seeking to regain a driver license. Judge George H. Smith set the hearing for October 21.
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Xenia
Frank West
Common Pleas Court
Paul E. Layton
Osborn Farmer
George H. Smith
GMC Plans Rapid Hiring Of 35000 Workers In Two Weeks
General Motors will rehire about 35,000 workers within the next two weeks as production schedules are revised upward. Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. also said salaries reduced last February 28 will be restored to prior levels.
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New York
U.P
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Toay
General Motors
Findlay CCC enrollee Killed by Contact with Power Line
Walter Ray Mond Roush a 19 year old enrollee at the Findlay CCC Camp Urbana died Tuesday night after touching a live power line while working on a drainage project. He was employed in the Civilian Conservation Corps program.
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Findlay
Walter Raymond Roush
Urbana
CCC
Pilot Lands Flaming Plane in Alabama Saving 14
Pilot Dave Hissong landed a burning Eastern Air Lines plane from 1,400 feet coolingly saving 14 lives including himself. Passengers included Hearst general manager Joseph V. Connolly and E. D. Rivers Jr. son of Georgia’s governor. The craft, en route from Montgomery Airport,caught fire on the right engine and shed flame across the wing before reaching the ground.
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Montgomery
Ala
U.P
Dave Hissong
Eastern Air Lines
Joseph V. Connolly
Hearst Newspapers
E. D. Rivers, Jr
Georgia
New Mexico
Sparks' Suit To Regain Highway Position Begins
Columbus Ohio. The quit of Harry A. Sparks to regain his position as bituminous engineer in the state highway department began before Judge C A Leach. He was dismissed last February by Highway Director John Jaster Jr. on orders of Governor Davey after he testified before the Senate Graft Investigation Committee that the state was paying excessive prices for hot mix road materials.
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Columbus
U.P
Harry A. Sparks
State Highway Department
C. A. Leach
John Jaster Jr
Davey
Senate
Cambridge Council Seeks Harvard Incorporation
Cambridge Massachusetts city council moves to declare Harvard University a separate municipality to relieve Cambridge taxpayers from rising tax exemptions funding the university. The move arises from the growing financial burden on local residents.
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Cambridge, Mass
U.P
Cambridge City Council
Harvard University
Cambridge
1426 Autos Counted On Columbus to Logan Trip
Mr and Mrs John E Krieg counted 1426 autos while traveling from Columbus to Logan between 7 and 8 30 Sunday night They reported meeting 1103 autos between Columbus and Lancaster The count reflects the stretch of the trip and totals across two segments of the route
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Columbus
Logan
John E. Krieg
Lancaster
Cardinal Asks For Peace in Fearful World
The Catholic Church in the United States calls for freedom of worship and a return to the Christian faith. Cardinal Mundelein, archbishop of Chicago, urged via nationwide radio to go back to God as Europe remains tense and menaced by war.
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New Orleans
United States
George William Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Pius XI
Outlaw Kosher Rites Enforced by Fascist Regime
The government outlawed Kosher rites in Rome as part of the Fascist racial program moving into full effect. The decree targets Jewish religious practices, signaling intensified suppression during the regime’s policy push.
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Rome
U.P
Parents Refuse Pasteur Treatment for Children
In Menlo Park California two 14 year olds Robert Stentiford and Ruth Hunnel were bitten by a rabid terrier. Health officials said a court order may be sought to compel Pasteur treatment after the parents refused it citing minor bites and doubts about the remedy. Four others exposed are currently receiving Pasteur therapy.
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Menlo Park
Cal
U.P
Pasteur
Robert Stentiford
Ruth Hunnel
New Wages Hours Regulations Take Morning Effect
Federal wage and hour controls under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 take effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday. The start sets a 44 hour week and a minimum wage of 25 cents, with overtime at time and a half. About 11 million workers are affected. enforcement covers goods made in violation.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Elmer F. Andrews
Auto Strikers To Testify In Hearing Today
Auto mobile workers from Michigan factories involved in the 1937 sit down strikes will testify at the House committee on un American activities hearing. Chairman Dies said yesterday's session included William P. Gernaey who accused a La Follette Civil Liberties Committee investigator of serving a subpoena at Communist Party headquarters and called the event stage setting. Rep. Mosier condemned the investigators for seeming to cooperate with the Communist party.
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Washington
U.P
Michigan
House
Dies
Tex
William P. Gernaey
Detroit
la Follette Civil Liberties Committee
Communist Party
Rep
Mosier
la Follette Committee
Gernaey
Hoover Says Munich Pact Preserved Peace
Former President Herbert Hoover declared the Munich agreement preserved peace in Europe. He rejected the idea that totalitarian powers would threaten the United States by invading the Western Hemisphere and urged the U.S. to build a trade province in the Americas to offset other nations’ blocs.
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Hartford
Conn
U.P
Herbert Hoover
Europe
United States
Germany
Japan
Great Britain
Five Years a Farmer Wins Highest Honors
Hunter Roy Greenlaw, a 20 year old Virginia boy who became a farmer five years ago, won the 1938 Star American Farmer Degree at the Future Farmers of America convention. He received a $500 prize and recognition from 171,000 members nationwide.
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Kansas City
Hunter Roy Greenlaw
Future Farmers of America Today
Greenlaw
United States
Fifty Added to Gallia County WPA Enrollment
Gallia County WPA rolls were swelled Tuesday by the appointment of 50 new road workers. This brings total WPA employment in the county to 1,220, the largest number enrolled to date. A Japanese column was reported advancing toward Hankow Canton railroad to attack Canton from the north.
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Gallia County
Gallipolis
Hong Kong
U.P
Hankow- Canton
Canton
New Deal Spent and Lent Over 33 Billion Since 1933
The National Emergency Council reports the New Deal has disbursed and loaned 33.091 billion dollars among states and territories since March 4, 1933. Through July 1, 1938 direct expenditures reach 18.118 billion, with 13.173 billion in loans and 1.799 billion in FHA insured loans. Relief spending totals 7.751 billion, including 4.683 billion via WPA and 3.067 billion via FERA.
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Washington
National Emergency Council
New Deal
Federal Housing Administration
Works Progress Administration
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
WPA
Ohio
West Virginia
Chamberlain to Meet Hitler and Mussolini Soon
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain plans early parleys with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini to push peace aims. Britain may formalize the Italy friendship treaty and acknowledge Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia while seeking a forceful solution to the Palestine rebellion as 25 000 troops confront Arab insurgents in Jerusalem and across the Holy Land.
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London
U.P
Neville Chamberlain
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Chamberlain
Italy
Ethiopia
Britain
Palestine
Old Jerusalem
Holy Land
League of Nations
Labor Board Rules Republic Steel Violated Wagner Act
The National Labor Relations Board ruled that Republic Steel violated the Wagner Act during the 1937 Little Steel strike. It ordered reinstate ment of about 5,000 strikers across six Ohio plants and back pay starting five days after reinstatement applications.
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Washington
U.P
National Labor Relations Board
Republic Steel Corporation
Little Steel
Ohio
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Committee For Industrial Organization
Republic
Order Ruth Etting To Testify in Shooting Case
Los Angeles County Grand Jury ordered Ruth Etting to testify against first husband Martin Snyder who is charged with shooting her second husband Myrel Alderman. Etting said she would not feel safe while Snyder is at large. Alderman declined to discuss her location, saying she has gone somewhere to rest.
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Hollywood
U.P
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Ruth Etting
Martin Snyder
Myrel Alderman
Miss Etting
Snyder
Alderman
Martin
Moe) Snyder
Meryl Alderman
Landon Sees GOP Victories
Former Kansas governor Alfred M. Landon told a Southern Illinois Republican rally in Vienna that relief funds fuel a New Deal political machine. He compared Roosevelt to Tammany figures Croker Murphy and Pendergast and predicted many more Republicans would win Congress and governor races next month.
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Vienna, Ill
Alfred M. Landon
Kansas
Roosevelt
Croker and Murphy
Tammany
Pendergast
Kansas City
Illinois
Landon
Pension checks in Gallia County face possible 50 percent cut
Gallia County age pension recipients storm offices of County Director Far R. McCormick seeking information on a rumored 50 per cent reduction in October checks. McCormick says no official information exists. Local checks are due October 20 for 803 pensioners in the county.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Far R. McCormick
McCormick
Allot $715000 in Ohio power line construction
The Rural Electrification Administration announced a $715,000 allotment for building several hundred miles of power lines by Ohio farmers cooperative groups.
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Ohio
Washington
Rural Electrification Administration
Ohio Farmers’ Co-Operative Groups
Lutherans Decline Merger Across Three Branches
Delegates at the American Lutheran Church Convention in Sandusky heard that merging the three Lutheran branches would be impractical at this time, with officials outlining obstacles and differing doctrines.
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Sandusky
American Lutheran Church Convention
Lutheran Church
Six Candidates Speak at Capitol for Ohio Association League
In Columbus six major party candidates addressed the Ohio Building Association League today. Bricker and Sawyer spoke in Columbus with Bulkley and Taft also on the program. Bricker plans a Dayton address tonight while Hamilton chairs the national committee. Bulkley and Sawyer will give statewide radio talks later this week at 6 30 p m.
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Columbus
O.R
Ohio Building Association League
John W. Bricker
Charles Sawyer
U. S
Robert J. Bulkley
Robert A. Taft
Carl V. Weygandt
Ohio Supreme Court
Walter B. Wanamaker
League
Bricker
Dayton
John D. M. Hamilton
Sawyer
Senator Bulkley
Blame Murder On Hitch-Hiker In N Y Suburb
Henry Wilcott Fitch a Poland Township hardware merchant and trustee was found slain in his sedan in front of Struthers Police Station. A 38 caliber bullet pierced his heart as a man emerged from the car after it paused by the entrance. Eyewitnesses reported a hitch hiker suspected in the robbery attempt.
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Youngstown
Henry Wilcott Fitch
Poland
Fitch
Poland Township
Struthers
Mercy Killer Released From New York Asylum
Harry C. Johnson a 65 year old wealthy retired gasoline distributor who killed his dying wife Jennifer was released from Meadowbrook Hospital prison ward in Mineola Nassau County after a grand jury declined to indict him Johnson was admitted following the killing and released today on the absence of indictment source notes he acted out of pity not malice
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Mineola
N. Y
Harry C. Johnson
Jennie
Meadowbrook Hospital
Nassau County Grand Jury
Ox-Team Caravan Concludes Historic 18 000 Mile Journey
Marietta hosts final leg of the ox team caravan that set out from Ipswich December 3 last year. Thirty six youths from 13 states and 25 colleges completed an eleven and a half month trek covering over 18 000 miles and visiting 210 cities. The event drew crowds well over 1 800 000 with peak attendance around 80 000. The expedition featured the pageant Freedom On the March and included the famed oxen Tom and Cherry and dog Buck.
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Marietta
Ipswich
Mass
Northwest Territory
Eant
Tom
Cherry
Belpre
Buck
Pennsylvania
Carl Applegate
Terre Haute
Indiana
United States Aims to Unite Americas for Democratic Security
A high official indicated post Munich that US policy will strengthen Western Hemisphere efforts to safeguard democratic institutions. The plan emphasizes pacific regional settlements, limited disarmament prospects, and continued Anglo American trade cooperation within a framework of law and order. The aim is consolidating American republics and ensuring stable world economics through free trade.
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Washington
U.R
United Press
Western Hemisphere
United States
Europe
Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Hull
Museum Receives Funds To Buy Underground Railroad Site
The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society was allotted 5000 by the State Board of Control to purchase the Eliza House in Ripley. The old station sheltered escaping slaves and is linked to Harriet Beecher Stowe's early writings. It will be converted into a historical museum.
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Columbus
U.P
The
Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society
State Board of Control
Eliza
Underground Railroad
Ripley
Harriet Beecher Stowe
13 Ton Coal Shipment Moved by Truck to Portland
Nelsonville report: the season’s largest truck shipment, weighed on city scales, carried 13 tons 300 pounds to J. H. Money in Portland Indiana. The hand picked splint coal from Pancake Bros mined at Doanville was purchased by Money.
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Nelsonville
J. H. Money
Portland
Ind
Mr. Money
Pancake Bros
Doanville
Five Thousand Ohio Employers Fail to Report Wages
Columbus Ohio The Ohio Unemployment Compensation Commission reports five thousand employers did not report individual earnings for the first quarter of 1938. This lapse is a misdemeanor under the job insurance law as announced by Charles S Leasure, chairman.
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Columbus
O.R
Ohio
Charles S. Leasure
Ohio Unemployment Compensation Commission
Retired railroad worker killed at Columbus Union Station
Elmer M. McClainage, a 0 year old retired railroad switchman, was killed last night when he was run over by a baggage car at Columbus Union Station.
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Columbus
Elmer M. McClainage
Uneion
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