Fall of Iron Near Rebels Bomb Plant
The Madrid area sees intensified fighting as loyalists and rebels clash across central Spain. A rebel bombing of the Hispano Suiza plant near Madrid ignites fires while Madrid and Malaga endure raids. An American exodus forms as civilians flee toward Alicante aboard the Cruiser Quincy.
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Madrid
London
United Press
Malaga
Hispano- Suiza
Guadalajara
Toledo
Guadarrama
Appea
Alicante
Quincy
Knox Points To Tax Boost
Frank Knox campaigning through Massachusetts attacked high taxes as harm to the economy. He argued 200 percent of a loaf’s cost and gasoline taxes exceed actual production costs, blaming Roosevelt era government for extravagance and waste.
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Knox
Frank Knox
Massachusetts
Washington
Roosevelt
Ohio River Festival to crown river queen court
Ravenswood WVa Ohio cities will send representatives to the river queen's court for the Ohio River Festival September 5 through 7. Dorothy Gilmore of Portsmouth is maid of honor and Frances Bay of Marietta is a princess among the listed in the social life lineup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ravenswood
W. Va
Ohio
Dorothy Gilmore
Portsmouth
Mary Williamson
Pomeroy
Frances Bay
Marietta
Princess
Mary Foster
Galipolis
Eleanore Roush
Middleport
Rain Comes Too Late To Save Drought Area
Weather Bureau said rain arrived too late to improve conditions in the corn belt west of the Mississippi. Some aid to late crops occurred in the Atlantic States, eastern Ohio Valley, and parts of the North Central States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Mississippi
Atlantic States
Ohio Valley
Weather Bureau
Richman and Merrill Planned London Flight
Dick Merrill and Harry Richman announced they will depart Floyd Bennett Field this afternoon for a round trip to London. They aim to take off between 2 and 3 p.m. EST and return after completing the flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.R
Dick Merrill
Harry Richman
London
Floyd Bennett Field
Akron Trucker Strikes Regina Helfrick in Run Toward Duslop
Mrs Regina Helfrick age 60 mother of ten died in Akron hospital after being struck by a truck while running toward Duslop. Police reported the pedestrian collision occurred on a city street, with investigators examining factors surrounding the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
U.P
Regina Helfrick
Dusslop
Sex Mad Killer Sought in Ruth Muir Case at La Jolla
Police hunt a thickset man with a protruding lip for the murder of Ruth Muir 35Y, YWCA executive, found beaten on the La Jolla Beach area. Strands of hair clutched in her hand aid identification. blood under nails suggests struggle. time of death estimated between 10 and 11 p.m. Muir was a Wellsley graduate serving as YWCA executive secretary at Riverside.
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YWCA
Wellesley College
la Jolla
Calif
Ruth Muir
la Jolla Beach
Joesph Muir
San Antonio
Tex
Miss Muir
San Diego
R.&. Rogers
John Phillip Sousa, Jr
Riverside
Relief Commission Denies Hughes Political Charges
The State Relief Commission in Columbus dismissed H. H. Hughes as statistician effective August 24 after his resignation set for September 1. The commission denied his claim that politics influenced relief administration and cited Hughes for failing to follow instructions and for eight days of unauthorized absence.
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Columbus
U.P
State Relief Commission
Ohio Relief Administration
H. H. Hughes
Hughes
Bricker asked to rule on free textbooks for Catholic school
The Cleveland school board asked Attorney General John W. Bricker to determine the legality of providing free textbooks to pupils at Annunciation Catholic School. The request centers on state funding and school finance implications for Catholic education.
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Cleveland
U.P
John W. Bricker
Cleveland School Board
Annunciation Catholic School
Board
Funda
Will Furnish School Books in Ohio Under New Law
Columbus Attorney General Bricker ruled that the free text book law allows boards to provide free books but does not require coverage for all pupils until 1936 37. For 1935 36 only grades 1 4 are covered, but from 1936 37 through 8th grade and all public school pupils will be eligible unless already supplied.
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Columbus
U.P
General Assembly
Boards of Education
John W. Bricker
E. L. Bowsher
Ohio State Fair Draws 25 000 Youth Exhibitors
Columbus Ohio crowds flocked to the 86th annual Ohio State Fair as the junior fair division, created in 1929, reaches record size with 25 000 farm youth displaying projects. Director B P Sandies notes growth from 358 exhibitors at the first Little Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
B. P. Sandies
Ohio
Unidentified well-dressed woman found in Cuyahoga River
The body of a well dressed woman was found floating in the Cuyahoga River and remained unidentified by officers today.
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AKRON
U.P
Cuyahoga River
Oddities and arrests cross paths in half-formed quotes
Silas Jump predicts Landon victory at Republican HQ saying candidates ending in on win. Joseph P. O Connor, once convicted of a $200000 jewel robbery in St Louis, is arrested in Kansas City for a $1 50 fruit robbery at City Market.
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U.P
Silas Jump
Republican
Alf M. Landon
Jump
Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Jackson
W. H. Harrison
Johnson
B. Harrison
Wilson
London
Kansas City
Joseph P. O'Connor
St. Louis
London Sure To Win He's Not Fireproof Mighty Have Fallen
Cleveland. Albert J. Ferbert, paint manufacturer and civic leader, died after Mayo Brothers Clinic told him he had seven days to live. He conducted his own funeral arrangements and, back in Cleveland, neatly wound up his affairs of 55 papers in four days.
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London
Cleveland
U.P
Albert J. Ferbert
Mayo Brothers’ Clinic
Ferbert
Landon Gains Ground in Magazine Poll
The American Press poll of 213,211 votes from 3,000 newspapers in 33 states shows Gov Alf Landon with 59.35 percent, President Roosevelt at 33.89 percent, and the rest split among four minor party candidates. Ohio and West Virginia appear in Landon�s column as gains are reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
West Virginia
New York
American Press
Alf M. Landon
Roosevelt
Landon
Vatican Paper Condemns Father Coughlin Speech
Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, rebuked Father Charles Coughlin for his political address and denied a Detroit bishop’s report of Holy See approval. The paper said anti authority invective harms social order and noted the priest’s behavior as especially improper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican City
U.P
Osservatore Romano
Vatican
Charlies E. Coughlin
Osservatore
Michael J. Gallagher
Detroit
Father Coughlin
Holy See
Gallagher
Roosevelt
Japan Scraps U-Boat Treaty
Japan announces it will possess a submarine fleet about 30 percent larger than the United States or Great Britain by year end. The move ends parity under the 1930 London Naval Treaty, in response to Britain’s July 1936 memorandum and its 40 000 ton excess. The United States was expected to protest.
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Great Britain
United States
London
U.P
Foreign Office
Japan
Northwest Territory Anniversary Plans in Ohio
Ohio's Northwest Territory Celebration Commission outlines plans with local communities to mark the 150th anniversary of the Ordinance of 1787 and Northwest Territory founding. New director E P Mildren seeks offices in Columbus as a $25 000 appropriation funds state participation with federal and neighboring states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Northwest Territory
Northwest Territory Celebration Commission of
Ohio
E. P. Mildren
Marietta
Woman and Protector Shot by Negro at Tyree Home
Deputy Ralph Harshe and Mrs. Granville Morning were killed by Clark Tyree, a 37 year old Black man, in Lima Ohio. Harshe was shot to death as he accompanied Morning to collect belongings. Tyree then killed himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
U.P
Ralph Harshe
Granville Morning
Clark Tyree
Negro
Harshe
Figure This Out for Family Tree
Mrs. Henry Sisson married Mr. Sidney Congo on Thursday in a ceremony conducted by Rev. W K Riggs. The union makes the couple step-parents and parents in law to at least three couples through intertwined marriages with the Congo and Sisson families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Sisson
Sidney Congo
W. K. Riggs
Mr. Congo
Sisson
Mrs. Congo
Governor orders purge of Black Legion members in Oakland County
Gov Frank Fitzgerald leads purge of Black Legion linked officials in Oakland County. Pontiac branch manager Gordon B MacDougall to be discharged, 64 named in grand jury report among 86 local residents in the group. Royal Oak and Pontiac officials investigated as police chief admits membership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontiac
Mich
U.P
Frank Fitzgerald
Black Legion
Oakland County
Fitzgerald
Johns. McDonald
State Liquor Control Commission
Gordon
MacDougall
Grand Jury
Spencer C. Howarth
E. M. Shafer
Royal Oak
Charles E. Coughlin
National Union For Social Justice
Charles MacMillan
Pastor Sues Transit Co. for Injuries in Columbus
Rev Walter Rutherford pastor of Wagner Memorial United Brethren Church and his wife Anna filed suit in Franklin County Common Pleas Court claiming more than 243000 dollars from Auto Transit Co Inc Norwood Ohio for injuries from an auto crash. The wife seeks 138364 for injuries and hospital costs plus 100000 for husband and 5589.93 for his injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Complete Auto Transit Co., Inc
Norwood
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
Walter Rutherford
Wagner Memorial United Brethren Church
Anna
Rutherford
Drought relief talks set for Des Moines meeting
President Roosevelt and Gov. Alf Landon plan a strictly non political drought relief conference at the Iowa State Capitol Des Moines with a private luncheon for governors and senators from eight states. Public access will be barred and each side will meet individually with state leaders.
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Roosevelt
Landon
Des Moines
Joe Alex Morris
United Press
U.P
Alf M. Landon
Iowa
Stategy
State Capitol
Clyde Herring
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Capitol
Topeka
Sen
George Norris
Injuries Fatal To Young Boy In Cave Collapse
Nelsonville report says 14 year old Jack Keating died in Marietta hospital from injuries after a cave in near the new high school field Sunday. He suffered a broken shoulder and a compound leg fracture. Charles Fick had a fractured collar bone. Five siblings remain with parents Jennie Tomas Lucille Elsie and Dorothy. body to be returned to Nelsonville.
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Nelsonville
Jack Keating
Edward Keating, Jackson Sr
Marietta
Charles Fick
New High School
Keating
Fick
Jennie
Tomas
Lucille
Elsie
Dorothy
Wages Paid on Ohio Projects Top $771K in July
Wages totaling 771,341 dollars were distributed to 11,344 workers across 512 Ohio WIA professional and service projects during July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Believe Posse Nears Capture of Two Slayers in Beaver Creek
In Yreka California three posses closed in on John and Court Brite after a smoldering campfire and a .32 pistol were found near Beaver Creek. Sheriff W G Chandler led a pursuit across Oregon California border country as towns prepare for possible mob action over the killings of Martin Lange Joseph Clark and Fred Seaborn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yreka
Calif
U.R
John
Court (Coke) Brite
Beaver Creek
Sterling Mountain
Court Brite
W. G. Chandler
Oregon-California
Clyde Johnson
Martin Lange
Joseph Clark
Fred Seaborn
Brite Brothers
Workers' Compensation Group To Meet Sept. 15
The Senate special committee on workmen's compensation voted to meet September 15 to review a Workmen's Compensation Fund report from a sub committee led by Senator John F. Hunter. Hunter opposed immediate consideration by the panel, claiming lobbyists tried to derail the inquiry and urged Senate-wide review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Workers’ Compensation Group
Columbus
U.P
Senate
John F. Hunter
Toledo
State Industrial Commission
Hunter
Blow by blow Madrid air raid heard in London office
United Press London bureau staff listened to a Madrid air attack as Irving Pflaum dictated a blow by blow account from the Madrid desk. The London newsroom heard plane motors, anti-aircraft fire, sirens and explosions as the raid unfolded, with censorship unusually silent.
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Madrid
London
Iu.p
United Press London
Irving Pflaum
Pflaum
Bouverie Street
Fleet Street
Johnson and Boswell
Samuel Pepys
City
Westminster
United Press
Budget Revision Attack by GOP as Semiannual Fiscal Juggle
President Roosevelt forecast a 1937 fiscal year deficit of about 2.097 billion dollars in a revised mid year budget estimate, citing improved business conditions and higher tax receipts. The budget predicted a national debt near 34 billion at June 30 1937, with potential 500 million in new relief funds needed by Jan 1. Republicans labeled the revision a semi annual fiscal juggle and accused Treasury officials of funding election campaigns from the General Fund to prop up spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Chester C. Bolton
Republican
Ohio
General Fund
Bolton
United States
Harper Sibley
United States Chamber of Commerce
Four Taken in Liquor Raids in Gallia County
Gallia County officers arrested Ora Shafer and his son Earl of Bulaville Lew Davis of Adedison Township and Mrs Virgie Holley of Gallipolis on liquor charges. At the Shafer place one gallon of whiskey and one gallon of mash were taken and a still found in the woods. A new copper 100 gallon still was found at the Davis home with four barrels of mash and four gallons of whiskey. Mrs Horsley was arrested while selling moonshine and two gallons of whiskey were taken as evidence.
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Gallipolis
Ora Shafer
Earl
Bulaville
Lew Davis
Adedison Township
Mra
Virgie Holley
Shafer Place
Davis
Vote To Retain Liquor In Local Option Election
Barnesville report shows 1 255 wet 1 071 dry with four precincts won by each side. Campaign mobilized voters including invalids cripples and the aged to the polls amid a close contest.
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Barnesville-40
Romance Born in Air Culminates at Altar
A romance that began aboard the Hindenburg during the first eastward flight from Lakehurst led Miss Helena Leisy of Peoria Illinois and Commander J Murray Thornton U S Navy to marry at last. They met at the table of Commander Hugo Eckener during the zeppelin voyage high above the North Atlantic.
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New York
North Atlantic
Helena Leisy
Peoria
Ill
J. Murray Thornton
United States Navy
Comemander
Hugo Eckener
Lakehurst
N. J
Pope Pius XII Receives Spanish Refugees in Italy
Pope Pius XII resumed audiences at Castel Gandolfo, receiving a group of Spanish refugees seeking asylum in Italy. The papal welcome underscores ongoing humanitarian efforts amid postwar unrest.
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Pope
Castel Gandolfo
U.R
Pius
Italy
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Louis F. Keemle
Iran
Paris
Manuel G. Mansillas
Argentina
Emilio Mola
New England
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Richman and Merrill
Carlton B. Chilton
Martin L. Davey
Chilton
Oklahoma Reformatory
Franklin
Relief Commission
Marshfield
Condo Evans
Fred Jones
Coughlin
Pastor Sues
White House
Marietta Hospital
Dinant
Belgium
Germany
Believe Posse
Slayers
Joseph Grigg, JR
GOP
Treasury General Fund
Gallia County
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