Three respirators aid two girls as Maybelle dies
Shirley Krause, 2 1/2, gained strength with three ventilators at Steele Memorial Hospital Denver. Maybelle Outcast, 14, died after infantile paralysis left her needing the machines. Maybelle's brother George, 17, died last week and the family was quarantined with three other children.
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Denver
Colo
Shirley Krause
Maybelle
Shirley
Steele Memorial Hospital
George
Body identified in river as Meigs man
The body of Henry Meinhart 64 of Pomeroy was found in the Ohio River at Pt. Pleasant and identified by clothing and pockets. He last was seen Sunday near Monkey Run. The manner of death is unknown. Burial will be at Beech Grove Cemetery after body return.
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Pomeroy
Ohio River
Pt. Pleasant
Henry Meinhart
Hobson
Meinhart
Monkey Run
George Meinhart
Meigs
James Fugate
Wendell
Fritz
Leonard
Rose Fisher
Columbus
Beech Grove
Grace Moore Undergoes Major Surgery
Hollywood star Grace Moore and opera singer Grace Moore is hospitalized for a major operation. Her physician refused to discuss the nature of the surgery. The trip to Europe with husband Valentine Parera was postponed to allow the operation.
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Hollywood
U.P
Grace Moore
Miss Moore
Valentine Parera
Peace groups urge Roosevelt to invoke Neutrality Act
Six peace organizations urged President Roosevelt to invoke the Neutrality Act and back his choice not to send more cruisers to the Far East. They asked him to halt the freighter Wichita bound for China with a cargo of war materials.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Far East
China
64 Per Cent of Spain In Hands of Insurgents
Nationalist Na varre brigades moved into Asturias province driving Loyalist remnants toward Gijon. General Franco controls 64 percent of Spain and 32 of 47 provincial capitals. 15 capitals remain under government. In Urbana a man was killed and another injured when a beer truck and two trailers left the road.
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Spain
Hendaye
Franco-Spanish Frontier
U.P
Navarre
Asturias
Gijon
Franco
Coastal Vessel Sinks in Gulf 17 Dead
Panama City Florida dispatch reports the Tarpon sank in a Gulf squall with 31 aboard. Coast Guard cutters and a Pensacola based amphibian plane searched for 17 missing as two bodies were recovered and nine survivors found. An oiler named Addley Baker reached shore after 25 hours at sea.
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Panama City
Fla
U.P
Coast Guard
Gulf of Mexico
Pensacola
W. G. Barrow
W. H. Russell
Triton
Addley Baker
Mobile
Here
President Roosevelt Ends Busy Day Before Fishing Trip
President Roosevelt sails on a five day fishing vacation aboard the yacht Potomac along Long Island Sound. He plans to return to Hyde Park Tuesday and may decide on a special session of Congress. he has just completed action on 937 bills, approving 897 and vetoing 40.
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New York
Roosevelt
Long Island Sound
Potomac
Hyde Park
Congress
Shanghai Battle Halts Japanese Offensive In China
Chinese forces repelled a major Japanese push toward Shanghai and threatened the Whangpoo River positions. American, British banks aid China war effort while U S lives and ships endure shelling near the International Settlement. An American mother witnessed a child killed by a truck in Cleveland.
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Shanghai
Whangpoo
Washington
U.P
Japan
China
United Press
Mokanshan
Hangchow
U. S
Nanking
Tokyo
Whangpoo River
United States
Augusta
Cleveland
Louise Russo
Robert Hunt Lyman Dies at 73 Former Almanac Editor
Robert Hunt Lyman aged 73 died of a heart attack. He retired last April as editor of The World Almanac, his career marked by long service in publishing and reference work.
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New York
Robert Hunt Lyman
Texas Pilot Killed as National Air Races Open
The opening day of the National Air Races in Cleveland ends tragically when Lee Miles of Fort Worth is killed after his small racer breaks apart during a Bendix Trophy qualifying run. The four day event features mass flights, stunt displays, and the Amelia Earhart Memorial Race for women alongside qualifying heats for multiple prize events.
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Texas
Cleveland
Los Angeles
Lee Miles
Fort Worth
Tex
Genevieve Savage
San Diego
Calif
Presidio, Wen
Navy
Otto Hagenburg
Amelia Earhart
Porter Hoskins and Maywood Bowers Wage Wheelbarrow Match
In Nelsonville a wheelbarrow wager pits Porter Hoskins of the Connett district against Maywood Bowers over a Joe Louis Tommy Farr bout. The loser rides a wheelbarrow two miles from Connett to the Jot Em Down Store at Oak Grove. The Grand Push is set for Saturday at 5 30 p m with organizers promising straps if Hoskins backs out.
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Nelsonville
Porter Hoskins
Connett
Joe Louis
Maywood Bowers
Tommy Farr
Oak Grove
Hoskins
Bowers
Britain and France Push Anti Pirate Sub Campaign
British and French warships enter the Mediterranean to hunt pirate submarines that have torpedoed ships in weeks. A joint anti piracy fleet may form with Geneva talks next week as Soviet Russia eyes participation while Italy and Germany are not welcome. Captain Dimitrus reports submarines and confirms a ship carried non intervention flag aboard.
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London
U.P
Mediterranean
Britain
France
Geneva
Soviet
Russia
Italy
Germany
Gregorio Dimitrus
Woodford
International Non-Intervention Committee
Dimitrus
Ohio State Fair attendance tops four hundred thousand
Fairgoers flocked to the 87th Ohio State Fair with an estimated weekly total surpassing 400 000 as 90 000 attended yesterday amid brief showers. Gov. Martin L Davenport appeared as guest of honor. Union County 4-H livestock judging won first with Richard Schmidt Jr of Plain City high scorer. Seneca County dairy judging led by Warren Winniger Frederick Shober Luke Daniel won first. Darke Butler and Shelby counties trailed in senior judging.
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Columbus
Martin L. Davey
Union County
Richard Schmidt
Plain City
van Wert County
Ross County
Madison County
Seneca County
Warren Winniger
McCutcheonville
Frederick Shober
Luke Daniel
Tiffin
Darke
Butler
Shelby
Man and Wife Die Helping with 4400-volt Wire
Beckley West Virginia report says Mrs. Clifford Statzer, 33, warned her husband as he moved a fallen 4400-volt wire on their radio aerial. He, 38, miner, touched the wire and died. she released her baby to pull him away and was killed as well.
Vatican Pope backs insurgents in Spain via credentials
Vatican officials said the Pope showed sympathy with the insurgent cause by accepting the credentials of the nationalist charge d affaires last June. The report notes the Pope recently recognized the insurgent government as part of broader Vatican diplomacy.
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Vatican City
U.P
Spain
Vatican
Athens Democratic leader D. A. Rardin dies at 61
Dan A. Rardin longtime Athens County Democratic executive chairman and State Committee member died of a heart attack in Grant Hospital Columbus after four weeks of illness. Born June 27 1876 he built a career in coal lumber and building supply businesses and left a widow Grace and three children Alice Dan Jr and Virginia. Funeral services Sunday at his Morris Avenue home. Burial West Union Street Cemetery.Continued on Page 5
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Athens County
Democratic Party
Democratic Executive Committee
Grant Hospital
Columbus
Bardin
Athens
May
Morris Avenues
Rardin
Grace Rardin
Mr. Rardin
Clarks Chapel
John Hull Rardin
Mary Eddy Rardin
Harmony
E. State St
McBee Co
Clarence
Charles
Herman Rardin
East Athens
Grace M. Wilkes
Alice
Dan, Jr
Virginia
Morris
Lewis Seeks Farm Backing in Radio Appeal
John L. Lewis plans a 9 o'clock radio appeal to U.S. farmers urging support for the Committee for Industrial Organization based on shared economic interests. The move follows tension with President Roosevelt after the steel strike, as Lewis aims to grow Labor's Non-Partisan League into a potential third party with farm backing.
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Washington
U.P
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Roosevelt
Lewis
White House
A. F. of L
Yank Aviator Reported Facing Death in Spain
The State Department awaited official confirmation of a report that Harold E. Dahl an American aviator with the Spanish loyalists had been sentenced to death after capture by the nationalists near Madrid.
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Yank
Spain
Washington
State Department
Harold E. Dahl
Madrid
Midwest paralysis wave spreads to Northeast across U S
The U S Public Health Service reports an epidemic of infantile paralysis spreading from the Midwest into the Northeast. It lists 621 new cases last week and 492 the prior, with over a million children barred from Chicago and other cities’ schools as authorities push preventive campaigns.
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Chicago
United States
U.S. Public Health Service
Milwaukee
Buffalo
N. Y
Omaha
Neb
Waukesha
Wis
Fort Collins
Colo
San Diego County
Calif
Detroit
Toronto
Ont
Morris Fishbein
The
Journal
American Medical Association
South Central States
Middle West
U. S. Public Health Service
Pennsylvania
New York
New England
Cash E. Baughman Dies At Marshfield At 75
Cash E. Baughman 75 died at his New Marshfield home Thursday after a weeks long illness. A local businessman for 40 years he worked as a tinsmith hardware merchant and auto dealer. Survived by wife and seven children including Harry of Athens and four daughters in Barberton. two brothers Pearl and Milton of Kansas City. Funeral Sunday 10 30 am at home with burial in New Marshfield cemetery. Friends may call Saturday.
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New Marshfield
Cash E. Baughman
Baughman
Harry
Athens
Eva Sherman
Fern Simon
Helen Jones
Barberton
Madge
Edith
Pearl
Milton
Kansas City
Elgin Opens School for Maturates Aimed at Elderly Adults
In Elgin Illinois a 16 room house is repurposed as a School for Maturates with no entrance exams no tuition and no strict rules. Dr Charles Sharp founder expects 100 students for the first term from nearby areas and beyond. The oldest enroll ee is 106 year old Calista Fowler who uses a wheelchair.
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Elgin
Ill
Charles Sharp
Calista Fowler
Elgin Old Peoples
Conneaut
Sharp
Lfe
Pickets Quiet As Shoe Plant Is Re-Opened
The Williams Manufacturing Company plant in Portsmouth reopened under a court injunction after a strike by United Shoe Workers ended. About 300 pickets, many women in slacks, formed a peaceful line while 13 deputies and 25 city officers and Ohio National Guard observers monitored the entries. The injunction bars union interference with individually contracted workers.
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Portsmouth
Willliams Manufacturing Company
United Shoe Workers
Earl Brandel
Ohio National Guard
Frank D. Henderson
E. P. Lawlor
F. G. Ruffner
Amesville girl wins style prize at Ohio State Fair
Mary Lee Thompson of Amesville Athens County won the style revue at the Ohio State Fair. The 16 year old will compete in the National Style Revue in Chicago. Also placing were Margaret Allen Van Wert first and Zora Marlan New Waterford third.
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Columbus
Mary Lee Thompson
Amesville
Athens County
Chicago
Riley B. Thompson
Margaret Allen
van Wert
Zora Marlan
New Waterford
Chauncey Baby Dies After Drinking Kerosene
Arthur Watson Tippie 16 months old, son of Mr and Mrs John Tippie Chauncey, died at home after kerosene ingestion. Funeral at Hebbardsvill Church Saturday at 1 36 pm with burial in Hebbardsville cemetery. Survived by parents two brothers Mount Junior and Charles Blaine and grandparents Mr Mrs Arthur Young Athens and Mr Mrs Charles W Tippie Chauncey.
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Chauncey
Arthur Watson Tippie
John Tippie
Hebbardsville Church
Hebbardsville
Mount Junior
Charles Blaine
Relief Crisis Still Faced by Many Counties
Columbus reports Ohio cities and counties face relief budget strains with little encouragement from a joint relief committee and the Ohio League of Municipalities. Proposals include re-enacting a one percent utilities excise tax to net about 600000 for relief and 8-month funding through 1938 with a sales tax, beverage and admissions taxes, and bond-based approaches amid calls for new governing agencies and ballot changes. The committee plans to draft bills at its next session.
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Columbus
IU R
Ohio
Special
Joint Relief Committee
Ohio League of Municipalities
General Revenue Fund
State Finance Department
Tax Commission
League of Municipalities
Meigs Countian Named To Tax Probe Group
Sen. Keith Lawrence of Cuyahoga named chairman of Ohio special commission on taxation and revenues formed to study a just and equitable tax system. Rep. P. E. Ward Geauga named vice president and Rep. Floyd F. Mees Meigs County secretary. Commission includes five senators five representatives and five governor appointees.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Keith Lawrence
Cuyahoga
Senate
Lawrence
Special Commission On Taxation
P. E. Ward
Geauga
Floyd F. Me
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Athens Co
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