Steel Mediation Board To Quit Cleveland Tonight
Roosevelt mediation board plans to depart Cleveland as efforts to settle the C I O steel strike fail. Leaders at Republic Steel and J M T Steel reaffirm their positions while calls for a joint conference fade. The fate of further mediation remains unclear as martial law actions and Ohio national guard moves loom, with page four noting possible renewed talks later.
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Cleveland
Roosevelt
Tom Girdier
Eugene Grace
Republic Steel
Madingstown Sheet & Tube Com
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Johnstown
Otis
Martin L. Davey
Davey
Em.' Marx
Ohio National Guard
Ohio
Harvey Shain Death Victim in Fairmont
Harvey Swain prominent Fairmont and Grafenbuss Pressman died after months of illness at his home 140 Maple Avenue Fairmont. He owned the Grafton Feed and Storage company. Known for integrity and keen business judgment, he was highly regarded in the community. Funeral services set for 2:30 Sunday at his Fairmont residence.
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Harvey Swain
Fairmont
Grafen Buss- Pressman
Maple Avenue
Grafton Feed and Storage
Shain
Inter
Trusty Ready to Take Post
Charleston June 25 Chief designate Charles Trusty Jalimza prepared to depart Morgantown to start as superintendent next week. Captain H N Rexroad acting superintendent praised the appointment of West Virginia University's football figure Tallman as the new chief saying he is greatly pleased and expects good work. Tallman formerly starred at West Virginia in the 1920s sang Marshall College coach and WVU freshman coach and head coach but made no formal statement.
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Charleston
Charles Trusty Jalimza
Morgantown
H. N. Rexroad
West Virginia
University
Rexroad
Tallman
Marshall
Auditor announces more funds for tax delinquent lands
Charleston June 25. State Auditor Eagar B. Sims said another $50,000 collected in redemption of tax delinquent lands is ready for distribution to counties and urged delinquents to speed up their applications. Less than a week remains before the moratorium on property confiscation ends.
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Charleston
Eagar B. Sims
Armitage Heads Business Office of Department
Charleston officials announce Don Armitage former accountant for the Department of Public Assistance becomes chief of business management for the department. Director Garnett says disbursements auditing commodities distribution and office management bureaus are consolidated and the office of chief accountant is abolished.
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Charleston
Don Armitage
Department of Public Assistance
Department
A. W. Garnett
Ofice
Customer steals pay box after using phone
In Kansas City on June 25 a customer used a phone at night club owner David McIntosh’s establishment and then fled with the pay box and the phone. Police were alerted after the device vanished with the customer.
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Kansas City
David McIntosh
McIntosh
Tragedy’s Child Again In Trouble Held For Murder
In Paintsville Kentucky a jailed woman, Mrs Wilson Jennings of Naugatuck West Virginia, vows her innocence in the 3 year old slaying of bank clerk Robert Meade. She seeks her ex husband Wilson Jennings’s appearance to clear her name as both are indicted for the murder.
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Paintsville
West Virginia
Wilson Jennings
Meade
Jennings
Lawrence Piercy
Hansbarger Warns Some Beer Dealers Face License Denial
E A Hansbarger assistant state tax commissioner said some state beer dealers and distributors would be disappointed over licenses after July 1. He announced 2000 licenses mailed to dealers and 128 distributors, with some cases unfavorably reported. Five brewery licenses issued, four to beer bottling plants. Licenses will be mailed to about 1600 retailers as processing allows.
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Charleston
E. A. Hansbarger
Hansbarger
Sheriff Removes Corn Liquor From Jail Evidence
Oklahoma City June 25 deputy sheriff Dan Kean ordered 25 bottles of corn liquor removed from the jail evidence room. A small bottle remained and a prisoner reportedly drank from it, only to find it was filled with warm water.
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Oklahoma City
Dan Kean
Kean
Brothers and sister visit doomed man awaiting execution
Charleston dispatch reports Willie Beckner, 23, to be executed at Moundsville for ambush slaying of Cy Page. His ill mother sends brother and sister, while Arch Casto and another son accompany the body for burial. Gov Holt denied clemency after psychiatrists deemed Beckner sane.
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Charleston
Willie Beckner
Moundsville
Beckner
Cy Page
Kanawha County
Richard Beckner
Arch Casto
Penitentiary
Frog Creek
Arch Lees
Holt
Supreme Court
Dollman
Iwo Convicts Escape From State Road Camp
Two convicts escaped from a prison road camp at Walkersville in Lewis county. James Dillon of Wetzel county, jailed for burglary, and Clyde Grove, serving a two year term for forgery, fled as reported by Warden F. McClintic.
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Moundsville
Walkersville
Lewis County
F. McClintic
State ‘Penitentiary
James Dillon
Wetzel County
Clyde Grove
Italy Urges Calm Amid Spanish War Crisis
British Foreign Secretary Eden and Prime Minister Chamberlain urged Commons to keep cool as Spain’s war crisis unfolds. They stressed European peace not hopeless and that Italy and Germany likely remain in nonintervention. Gayda urged calm, predicting no dramatic action unless new complications arise. Soviet Russia, Germany, and Italy have sent large arms shipments to Spain. Two Americans detained in Valencia were freed after espionage roundup.
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Associated Press
Anthony Eden
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Italy
Germany
Rome
Virginio Gayda
Benito Mussolini
Gayda
Eden
Russia
Spain
Valencia
F B I Circulates 50000 Notes on Missing Parsons Heiress
The Federal Bureau of Investigation mailed 50,000 circulars about the disappearance of Long Island socialite Mrs. Alice McDowell Parsons. The notices include a detailed description and five photographs. She was last seen at her Stony Brook home on June 9.
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Stony Brook
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Alice McDowell Parsons
Long Island Society
Man Killed As Truck Runs Picket Blockade
State Policeman Paul Randall said a truck leaving the Phillips Packing plant struck and killed James Cephas, 35, a nonemployee among strikers outside Cambridge gates. The two truck drivers were taken into custody as a blockade around the five packing plants intensified disruption to the city’s largest industry.
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Cambridge
Paul Randall
Phillips Packing
Randall
James Cephas
Cephas
Cooling Winds Relieve Heat Across Midwest
Chicago reports cooling winds cut temperatures from the upper nineties to lower ranges across the Midwest. The heat wave slammed the Great Lakes and Great Plains with at least 14 direct deaths and widespread prostrations. Forecasters predict cloud cover and possible rain in the north central region.
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Chicago
Broad Ex Gulf
Great Lakes
North Central
Britain Urges Calm to Avert European War Over Spain
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain urged Britain to keep cool and vowed to push efforts to keep the Spanish civil war from widening into a continental crisis. He proposed two steps: filling gaps in the nonintervention plan and renewing efforts to withdraw foreign volunteers. Warships massed as Britain and France sought to press questions on Germany and Italy amid Mediterranean fleet maneuvers. Chamberlain urged caution and restraint to save European peace. Alfred Duff Cooper outlined sea strength: Britain with twenty ships plus motor torpedo boats, including a battleship and cruisers.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
Great Britain
Hose of Commons
Chamberlain
Europe
Italy
Spain
Commons
France
Germany
Mediterranean
Third Reich
Leipzig
Alfred Duff Cooper
Britain
Spanish
Tonsil Operation Ends Long Stretch of Yawning
CHARLOTTE N C June 26 Mrs Jesse C Hinshaw relief from years of yawning after a tonsil operation Doctors said she had yawned about 413 hours during attacks since May 18 and had not yawned since a tonsillectomy.
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Charlotte
N. C
Jesse C. Hinshaw
Bankers warned of mild mood endangering cushions for capital
William R. Riggs vice president of the Bank of New York and Trust company warned bankers of Virginia that a minor depression could erode financial cushions. He said capital acts as a cushion and recent developments may jeopardize stability, leaving banks in a sagging seat.
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Virginias
William R. Riggs
Bank of New York and Trust
Capital
Belgian Premier plans further Capitol talks with Roosevelt
Washington June 25 Premier Paul Van Zeeland of Belgium altered his schedule to today to allow more talks with President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull on world economic problems. After two days of open-hearted conversations he will return to Brussels next Tuesday. At the State Department he said the discussions covered politics and economics as they sought peace through improved trade.
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Washington
Paul van Zeeland
Belgium
Roosevelt
Hull
State Department
van Zeeland saXi
Administration Claims Senate Votes For Roosevelt Court Bill
Washington report says administration leaders claim enough senate votes to pass a Roosevelt court bill compromise authorizing the president to appoint new justices at one per year for each incumbent over 75. Opposition leaders deny any compromise will reach a vote and warn the issue may be stalled.
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Washington
Senate
Supreme Court
Caroline O Day Becomes House Committee Chief
Washington June 25 Rep Caroline O Day New York Democrat became the second woman to head a house committee She was chosen chairman of the committee on election of the president Earlier Rep Mary Norton New Jersey Republican headed the district of Columbia committee and was promoted to head the labor committee O Day a close friend of Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt and Secretary Perkins was elected representative at large from New York in 1934
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Washington
Caroline O'Day
D-N. Y
House
Mary T. Norton
R-N. J
District of Columbia
Labor Committee
O'Day
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Perkins
New York
Nethken Reappointed To Public Service Position
Charleston report confirms C. E. Nethken will serve another term on the State Public Service commission. Term ends May 31, 1943. Nethken, a Mineral county lawyer and sheriff, was first appointed by Governor Gore in 1926 and reappointed by Governor Baird in 1931.
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Charleston
C. E. Nethken
State Public Service Commission
Holt
Mineral County
Gore
Troops Protect Workers as Strike Turmoil Hits Ohio Mills
Dynamite blasts mark a tense day as Governor Davey orders National Guard protection for Mahoning valley plants while Roosevelt mediation board heads home after failed talks. In Johnstown, 6 000 miners reach the city amid a planned 30 000 march that fizzles. Canton and Warren see multiple railroad bombings, damaging tracks and Republic Steel property as the strike widens.
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Youngstown
Mahoning Valley
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
National Guard
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Mediation Board
Bethlehem Steel
Cambria
Johnstown
William A. Clark
Murry Rush
Canton
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Republic Steel Corporation
William Webster
Republic
Warren
R. 8
Ursbrung
National
Miners Fail to Turn Out in Johnstown Strike Feud
Capt. William A. Clark said no sizeable miner march reached Johnstown as of midday. Union leaders claimed 6,000 miners arrived to support Bethlehem Steel steel workers at Cambria works, while 200 state troopers guarded the mill gates and martial law remained lifted.
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Johnstown
William A. Clark
Cambria Works
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Clark
Murphy Rush
James Mark
Fireworks oeee B. Facing Since Station Capitol Plaza
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Capitol Plaza
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Harvey Shain
Shields Motor & Trailer CO
E. Main
Taylor County Safety ‘Council
Kentucky
Page
Stanley E. Dadisman
Lawrence B. Read
Four Corners
W. Earl Dolman
Read
Joseph Kirby
Baltimore
Lawrence Gingell
Kensington
Iwo
State Road
Mussolini
Parsons
F.B.L
Midwest
Great Briiain
Caroline O’day
House Committee
Nethken
C.lo
S. K. White
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