Court Ruling Defied as Labor Board Challenges NLRB Power
In Washington the National Labor Relations Board defied a Pittsburgh federal district court by ordering set aside a closed shop contract at National Electric Products Corp Ambridge plant for 1600 workers. The board ruled the rival Union did not represent a majority and warned of broader conflict with court jurisdiction and potential Supreme Court review.
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Federal District Court
Pittsburgh
NLRB
National Electric Products Corporation
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Ambridge
District Court
American Federation of Labor Union
United Electrical Workers of America
Committee For Industrial Organization
Labor Board
Circuit Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Submarine Attack Off Spanish Coast Reported
London reports an unidentified submarine attacked the British destroyer Havock off Cape Antonio on Spain's east coast during the night. Further north, near SOSA MAR in Catalonia, a submarine twice attacked three Loyalist merchant ships but was repelled by an armed trawler escort. both sides exchanged fire with no damage.
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London
U.P
Cape Antonio
Spain
Admiralty
Sosa Mar
Catalonia
Blonde rescues Wash Tubbs and Fasy in river peril
Wash Tubbs and Fasy face a sinking boat ordeal in an Amazon tributary when a blonde heroine arrives to rescue them. The cliffhanger leaves their fate in her hands and asks readers what comes next each day.
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Wash Tubbs
Fasy
Amazon
Tubbs
Ruling Favors Gas Company In Norwalk Rate Dispute
Ohio Public Utilities Commission held that Norwalk cannot enact a new gas rate ordinance while a pending rate increase application by Ohio Fuel Gas Co is under review. The 2 to 1 decision voids Norwalk’s five year ordinance passed January and leaves rate determination to the commission. Chairman Schaber dissented noting the ruling reverses a 17 year old Lima case and calls it contrary to law.
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Columbus
U.P
Norwalk
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Charles F. Schaber
Commission
Lima
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Roy D. Williams
Dennis Dunlavy
Schaber
Open Probe in Bus Accident Fatal to Five
Elkhart County sheriff's officers began an investigation into a collision between an automobile driven by Allison Bishopric and a Greyhound Lines bus on highways 15 and 20 near Goshen. Five people were killed and 27 injured in the crash that left the bus overturned in a ditch and the engine on fire. The bus was en route from Chicago to Cleveland and carried 36 passengers.
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Goshen
Ind
U.P
Elkhart
Allison Bishopric
Bishopric Products Company
Cincinnati
Here
Bishopric
Greyhound Lines
Cleveland
Chicago
Freighter Crew Struck Ill at Sea as Coast Guard Plans Air Aid
The freighter S. S. Betty radioed that the entire crew suffered a serious stomach illness and Coast Guard air ambulances were readied to assist. Radiomen worked through the night to determine the ship's position near Jacksonville, Florida, where it is due to dock with a cargo of scrap iron for China.
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Jacksonville
Fla
U.P
Coast Guard
China
Tallulah Bankhead Weds New York Actor
Tallulah Bankhead married John Emery in a surprise civil ceremony at her father Speaker William B. Bankhead's home in Jasper Alabama. Bankhead declared this her first and last marriage and left for a honeymoon. Civil ceremony was conducted by Probate Judge L. G. Garrison Tuesday night.
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Jasper
Ala
U.P
Tallulah Bankhead
William B. Bankhead
John Emery
New York
L. G. Garrison
80 000 Expected at State Fair Thursday
The 87th Ohio State Fair heads toward Governor's Day with an expected 80 000 attendees. Despite weather threats, today’s crowd was forecast to match Tuesday’s 60 000. John A. Day of Springfield won the lightweight horse pulling contest aboard the Percheron team.
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Columbus
U.P
Earl H. Hanefeld
John A. Day
Springfield
Til
Cattle Prices Hit Nine Year High At Chicago Stockyards
In Chicago at the Stockyards the market showed strong demand with 1200 pound, well finished cattle bringing as high as 18.50 per hundredweight. The day marked a new nine year top price as buyers pushed values higher.
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Chicago
U.P
New Deal Farm Aid Spending Tops Three Billion
The Roosevelt administration has spent over 3 billion dollars on farm aid in four years, with AAA lead expenditures of 2.2707 billion by last June and annual benefit payments of about 450 million this year. Other agencies including Resettlement, FERA, and WPA contributed hundreds of millions, while CCC, Commodity Surplus, and CCC loan programs moved large sums to relief, purchases, and price supports.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Resettlement Administration
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Works Progress Administration
Commodity Surplus Corporation
Commodity Credit Administration
Pilot Survives Great Salt Lake Crash After Nine Hour Drift
Lieut Lucien N Powell army reserve flier reached shore naked and shivering after a crash two miles from Black Rock. His mechanic Harry Pearson may be dead. Motors stalled on the return flight from Wendover leading to the water battle and rescue.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
U.R
Great Salt Lake
Lucien N. Powell
Army Reserve
Powell
Harry Pearson
Black Rock
Pearson
Wendover
Hotels Strike Paralyzes Pittsburgh Guests at Two Hotels
In Pittsburgh a thousand striking hotel workers left 1,400 guests without room service as pickets blocked the William Penn and Fort Pitt. Elevators stopped and staff walked out after wage talks failed and union officials rejected a closed shop contract over a loophole claim.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
William Penn
Fort Pitt
Hotel and Restaurant Employes Alliance
A. F. of L
Twelve Entered in Bendix Race from Los Angeles
Twelve racing planes were listed as possible starters for the Bendix Trophy Race from Los Angeles to Cleveland Friday. Five aircraft were credited with speeds over 300 miles per hour. Planes were spread across the country with weather and mechanical delays. Col Roscoe Turner’s new Comet suffered motor trouble in Albuquerque New Mexico.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Cleveland
Union Air Terminal
Roscoe Turner
Albuquerque
N. M
Huge Sum Available For Cotton Growers
Washington announces 280 million dollars made available to southern cotton farmers who join a production control program. Loans range from 7.34 to 9 cents per pound with a subsidy to ensure about 12 cents per pound, contingent on compliance with a Congress devised 1938 production plan.
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Washington
Congress
Miss Edna Corwin Van Pelt Dies at 90 in Camp Dennison
Miss Edna Corwin Van Pelt age 90 a grand niece of former Ohio governor Thomas Corwin died Tuesday at Camp Dennison Ohio. Funeral arrangements were to be announced by the family.
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Cincinnati
Edna Corwin van Pelt
Thomas Corwin
Ohio
Camp Dennison
Charlie McCarthy sparks end of Canova Bergen engagement
Judy Canova ends engagement to Edgar Bergen claiming she will not play second fiddle to a dummy. The ventriloquist’s wooden partner Charlie McCarthy had dominated the romance and sparked quarrels, fueling public attention on the radio duo.
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Hollywood
U.P
Judy Canova
Radio Comedienne
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Bergen
Charlie
Charlie Wat
Eddie
Ru‘y Vallee
W. C. Fields
FDR and Bingham Discuss Sino-Japan War at Hyde Park
President Roosevelt met with Robert W. Bingham at the Summer White House to review the Far Eastern conflict. Bingham had returned from London after talks with Cordell Hull, amid rumors of a joint Anglo American action plan.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
U.P
Roosevelt
Robert W. Bingham
United States
Great Britain
Bingham
London
Cordell Hull
Washington
State Department
White House
Orient
New Tax Agencies Consider New Tax Agencies
Columbus Ohio State Treasurer Clarence H. Knisley said he is considering establishing additional sales tax agencies in 50 communities. He will begin site selection next week and cited Glouster in Athens County as a likely pick. His staff tours aim to educate smaller communities to demand sales tax receipts amid evidence of underreported collections.
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Columbus
U.P
Clarence H. Knisley
Knisley
Glouster
Athens County
Health experts aid Portsmouth to curb typhoid outbreak
Health officials in Portsmouth with state and federal staff are investigating a typhoid fever outbreak. State Health Director Walter Hartung reports 51 cases in Scioto County and says the disease has not yet reached epidemic proportions.
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Portsmouth
INS
Federal Health Department
Walter Hartung
Scioto County
Hartung
Epidemic Halts Chicago School Opening Indefinitely
Chicago board of health orders public and parochial schools to stay closed to prevent infantile paralysis spread among 6000 pupils. Public schools to reopen September 7 and parochial schools September 8, with reopening delayed only if conditions improve.
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Chicago
U.P
Board of Health
Betty Jane Wasson Faces Forgery Charge in Seattle
Betty Jane Wasson, former University of Minnesota co-ed, is charged in Seattle with a $6 check forgery. To forestall prosecution she found work, and police broadcast her appeal for help, with several offers received as she smiles from a Seattle florist counter.
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Betty Jane Wasson
University of Minnesota
Seattle
Wash
Betty Jane
New Typhoid Vaccine Shows Higher Protection Level
Washington reports a new typhoid vaccine three to four times more effective than the Boer War era type. The Rawlings Strain vaccine, now used experimentally by the Army Medical Center, has shown remarkable protection against typhoid fever.
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Washington
NPR
U. S. Army Medical Center
U. S
Son Killed and Mother Injured in Grade Crash
The Martins traveling to Chicago amid vacation plans lost their five month old son Carl Jr when their car collided with a west bound freight train five miles north of Phillipsburg. Mrs Martin suffered serious injuries in the crash.
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Dayton
Carl Martin
Chicago
Carl, Jr
Farmer Crushed by Straw at Black Run Truck Stop
Jacob Baugh, 60, a Black Run farmer, was killed Tuesday when bales of straw toppled on him as he watched a truck driver change a tire. The fatal accident occurred near Newark U.P. authorities investigated the scene.
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Newark
U.P
Jacob Baughman
Tokyo Demands Chinese Subdual Amid Prolonged War Costs
Japan tightens blockade of the China coast signaling a long war and possible interference with foreign shipping. A Shanghai embassy spokesman says advance notice of entering ships will be sought to avoid misunderstandings. Shanghai port largely shunned. Dollar Line avoids Shanghai. mail has trouble. cholera reported in the Chinese quarter.
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Japan
China
Shanghai
Chinese Aerial Attack On the Dollar Liner President Hoover
Dollar Line
State Sets Up Fund For Fish Nurseries
The State Conservation Council set aside 14935 for fish nurseries at Senecaville near Cambridge. Congressman Robert Secrest urged action noting federal support of 50910. Once sized, fish will be released into the Muskingum Conservancy project dams.
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Columbus
U.P
State Conservation Council
Senecaville
Cambridge
Robert Secrest
Muskingum Conservancy Project
Athens County WPA Workers Asked To Quit
A seven member committee representing about 500 WPA workers in Athens County calls on all WPA employees to lay down tools and halt work until direct relief funds are restored and WPA jobs resume. The notice lists signers including Nathan J. Smith W F Bricker T O Draper Charles Hardwall Wesley Ines W M Woodram and John L Southard.
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Nelsonville
WPA
Athens County
Athens
Ohio
Humanity
Nathan J. Smith
W. F. Bricker
T. O. Draper
Buchtel
Charles Hardwall
Wesley Ines
W. M. Woodram
John L. Southard
Jacksonville
Toll of Crash Mounts to Six
A collision near Minco Oklahoma Tuesday night raised the death toll to six. Odell Thomas 23 died in El Reno along with four others who were killed at the wreck site. Bernice Branum 22 died en route to hospital. Also dead were Russell Hubbard Jr 25 John Hawkins 25 both Fort Sill 18th Field Artillery Fern Brown 20 and an unidentified woman.
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EL Reno
Okla
Minco
Odell Thomas
Bernice Branum
Russell B. Hubbard, Jr
John V. Hawkins
Thomas
18Th Field Artillery
Fort Sill
Fern Brown
Buffer States of Entente Block Path of Duce
The Little Entente comprising Czechoslovakia Romania and Yugoslavia pledged loyalty to the League of Nations and vowed unity, resisting pressure from Hitler and Mussolini. They favored a hands off policy on Spain, stressing nations’ rights to internal regimes. France hailed this as a major diplomatic victory altering the European balance.
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Entente
Duce
Hitler
Paris
U.P
Europe
France
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Permanent Council of the Entente
Czechoslovakia
Roumania
Jugoslavia
Sinaia
League of Nations
Benito Mussolini
Spain
Three American Heavy Cruisers Headed to Shanghai Evacuation
Three U S Navy heavy cruisers the San Francisco Quincy and Tuscaloosa loaded with emergency supplies steamed for Shanghai to evacuate Americans amid Japanese offensives near Shanghai. Chinese forces retreat west as Tokyo plans base bombing across China with 120000 reinforcements and warnings for Americans to leave interior areas. Russia may intervene with reports of Soviet fliers aiding China as Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang face risk of widening conflict.
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LOS Angeles
U.P
San Francisco
Quincy
Tuscaloosa
Shanghai
China
Japan
Lotien
Tatung
Nanking
Kalgan
Canton
Woosung
Whangpoo
Russia
Peiping
Suiyuan
Outer Mongolia
Sinkiang
Employment Service To Find Jobs for CCC Men
The Ohio State Employment Service with 19 offices will aid former CCC enrollees in securing work once the rule limiting enrollment to two years and a maximum age of 24 takes effect September 30. Director W. T. Doe said the plan will help CCC alumni across the state.
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CCC
Columbus
Ohio State Employment Service
Civilian Conservation Corps
W. T. Doe
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National Labor Relations Board
Mediterranean
U. S. S. Chaumont
San Diego
Wichita
Baltimore
San Pedro
Calif
National Maritime Union
NEW Deal
Fdr
Mother Ix
Tokyo
United Press
Lawrence
Keith Lawrence
Ohio Senate
Common Pleas
N. Craig McBride
Hillsboro
Ohio Supreme Court
Thomas A. Jones
Jackson
Tientsin
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