Couple Found Beaten to Death In Ogden
In Ogden Utah today Adam Snyder and his wife Mabel Snyder were beaten to death in their beds while their eight year old deaf mute granddaughter witnessed. Grace Mortensen, visiting from Salt Lake City, was badly cut and bruised as police sought her husband George Mortensen suspected in the killings. The child gave fragmented testimony as investigators pursued leads amid a tense scene.
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Ogden
Utah
Adam Snyder
Mabel Scott Snyder
Emma Scott Rose
Snyder
Grace Mortensen
Salt Lake City
Betty Becker
George Mortensen
Questoning
Aia
Shortage of Blondes Reported By Miss Loos
Anita Loos reports a blonde shortage in New York theater and Hollywood, saying no New York showgirl is pretty enough for a Hollywood waitress job and that the country faces a famine of blondes as many become redheads or brunettes.
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Miss Loos
Hollywood
Manhattan
Anita Loos
New York
Dust nuisance blocks U.S. Route 119 work progress
Prosecuting Attorney James C. Holt reports no power to close the road due to a contract clause with Keely Company. He urges action to curb dust from Brownlow Park construction, either by closing the road or oiling it. Residents east of the city seek relief and a petition circulates as the page six continuation notes.
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James C. Holt
Frank D. McEnteer
State Road Commission
Brownlow Park
Keely Company
General Contractors
Holt
Drive Safely Warning From Taylor County Safety Council
A terse public safety message from the Taylor County Safety Council urges careful driving and mechanical vehicle safety. It stresses no appeal in fatal incidents and calls for drivers to remain mentally and physically safe, linking alcohol and fatigue to deadly outcomes.
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Taylor County Safety Council
Circuit Court Finds NLR Act Lacks Authority
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the National Labor Relations Board lacked authority to issue orders affecting firms whose business does not directly involve interstate commerce. It dismissed the board's enforcement petition against Fruehauf Trailer Co of Detroit and directed the order be set aside. The decision questions the act's reach under the commerce clause and notes the case continues on page six.
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Cincinnati
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
National Labor Relations Board
Fruehauf Trailer Co
Detroit
Freuhauf Company
National Labor Relations Act
Three Get Prison Terms For Obstructing Justice
Three men convicted of obstructing justice after the slaying of Samuel Drukman in March last year were sentenced to a year in prison each. Henry C. Singer former assistant United States attorney in Brooklyn Joseph C. Silverman broker and Joseph J. Kleinman were the defendants. the jury disagreed on two other defendants.
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Brooklyn
W. C
Samuel Drukman
Henry C. Singer
United States
Joseph C. Silverman
Joseph J. Kleinman
Truck Driver Dies After Truck Hits Freight Train
NEW MARTINSVILLE June 30, Grady Bond 35 of Charleston died in hospital today from injuries after his truck collided with a freight train nearly two weeks ago. Both legs were broken. Lucille Schwartz of Punxsutawney Pennsylvania a hitchhiker on Bond s truck is recovering.
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New Martinsville
Grady Bond
Charleston
Lucille Schwartz
Punxsutawney
Bond
Woman Swallows Pin Faces Early Operation
Mrs. Herndon Lusk of Herndon was admitted to a hospital after swallowing a pin. She recalled a similar incident 15 years earlier, which required surgery at that time, and doctors now planned an operation again.
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Mullens
Herndon Lusk
Herndon
Head of slain man identified in Kentucky case
Carrollton Kentucky June 30 three persons last night identified a head found in a concrete box in a lake as Harry Miller former Cincinnati fire captain. Sheriff Walton Banks said the head and hands embedded with the body found weeks ago in a culvert near Eminence may belong to the same torso. Authorities awaited Miller’s sister Miss Flora Miller’s arrival from Cincinnati.
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Carrollton
Harry Miller
Cincinnati
Miller
Walton Banks
Shelbys County
Eminence
Henry
Flora Miller
Cincininiati
New License Plates Required By Commission
Charleston June 30 P A Road Commission announces all automobiles must carry 1936 37 plates to be operated tomorrow Hundreds gathered at the capitol seeking their plates George F Parrish head of the license bureau said applications were cleared May 20 and no extension Superintendent P D Shingleton ordered troopers to arrest drivers using old plates after tomorrow The line formed before windows opened at 9 a m crowd swarmed for blocks with women and children resting on the grass
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Charleston
Road Commission
George F. Parrish
License Bureau
P. D. Shingleton
Zioncheck Heads West After Release From Hospital Guarded
Washington dispatch reports Representative Marion A. Zioncheck travels west toward Garner votes after escaping a private hospital and eluding police. He fled Towson Md hospital, then returned to his office in the House building before boarding a train under guard as officers braced for a crowd. The Seattle congressman, once a source of police attention, left the district amid heightened security.
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Washington
Marion A. Zioncheck
Capitol Hill
Seattle
District of Columbia
Sheppard and
Enoch Pratt
Towson
New House
Nage Six
Landon’s Tiny Daughter Has Political Finesse
Estes Park Colorado June 30 A four year old daughter of Governor Alf Landon the Republican presidential candidate displays a political technique. She tells cameramen confidentially I don’t like photographers but I like you while being photographed. Her mother notes this comes from being born in a political family.
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Estes Park
Colo
Nancy Jo
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Magisterial Conventions Held In Three Counties
Democrats in three counties held magisterial district conventions to pick delegates for the district judicial sessions and the state party meeting at Clarksburg on August 8. Fern Boston in Wirt and Wood counties led the arrangements. Marshall county chose 21 delegates for the circuit meeting on August 5.
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Charleston
Clarksburg
Wirt
Wood
Fern Boston
Marshall County
Lehman to seek third term in Empire State
Albany June 30 Governor Herbert H Lehman announced he would yield to party pressure and run for a third term. A 200 word statement said he could no longer resist the pleas of his party in the state and nation. Democrats in 35 states joined the nationwide draft Lehman movement as Roosevelt era pressures mounted. He noted the decision comes after the Democratic National convention demonstration and invitation to Hyde Park, and follows George Balanch’s reconsideration of relief from office. Continued on page six.
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Albany
Herbert H. Lehman
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Gorgee Balarinshas
$10,000 In Cigarettes Stolen From B. & O. Train
Martinsburg reports thieves possibly from an eastern band looted a westbound B&O freight car early Saturday, stealing about $10,000 in cigarettes. Police recovered goods worth $5,000 dumped from the moving train near Kearneysville, with at least one truckload missing. No trace of the robbers found by Tuesday morning.
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Martinsburg
Baltimore and Ohio
Kearneysville
W. Va
B. and O
Heart Infection Claims Life of Marshall College Professor
Huntington report says Arthur Taylor Bragonier aged 46 died from a heart infection that began in March. Bragonier served as professor of applied mathematics at Marshall College and previously taught engineering at West Virginia University. He also worked for the State Road Commission from 1928 to 1925 and was a Shepherd College graduate with a civil engineering degree from the state university. Burial is planned at Shepherdstown.
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Huntington
Arthur Taylor Bragonier
Marshall College
Bragonier
College of Engineering
West Virginia University
State Road Commission
Shepherds College
The
State University
Shepherdstown
Future of Farley Remains Mystery In 1936 Era
Washington June 30 Farley who holds the posts of postmaster general and Democratic National Committee chairman sparks new interest as autumn election campaigns begin. One source says he sent a resignation to President Roosevelt another suggests a leave of absence from the post office department. In Atlantic City Farley states he has not resigned and offers no further comment.
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Washington
James A. Farley
Democratic National Committee
Farley
Roosevelt
Post Office Department
Atlantic City
Postminster
Steel union drive expands as industry faces labor clash
In Pittsburgh on June 30 1947 organized labor moved to enroll steel's 450000 workers into SWOC CIO with leaders predicting broad strikes and industry leaders resisting unionization. The SWOC field operations push includes Clarence Irwin Murray and attorney Earl Reed forecasting an England like walkout while CIO funds and Homestead Pa celebration plans unfold.
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Pittsburgh
Steel
Earl F. Reed
England
Philip Jasseldag
Steel Workers Committee
SWOC
Committee For Industrial Organization
CIO
Murray
Homestead
Sanguinary Steel
American Iron and Steel Institute
Charles P. Howard
International Typographical Union
Irwin
Clarence Irwin
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Reed
Youngs
Ellwood City
National Tube Company
U. S. Steel
Wheeling Steel Company
Gasoline Stolen from WPA Project in Morgantown
State Trooper Chilton Taylor reported thieves took 200 gallons of gasoline from a nearby Works Progress Administration project in Morgantown, part of a series of thefts in the area.
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Morgantown
Chilton Taylor
Black Legion clue linked to murder of night club singer
Chicago June 30 handwriting expert Herbert J. Walter examined an lipstick message found on a mirror in Florence Thompson Castle’s hotel room. The note read Black Legion game interpreted as Black Legion came with a skull and bones. Detectives pursue leads amid questions about misleading clues. Deboard, a former policeman, is charged with the slaying as seven others were injured in a beer parlor melee that killed Leo Fizer and involved calls for curbing beer hours.
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Chicago
Florence Thompson Castle
Herbert J. Walter
Black Legion
J. L. Sullivan
Sullivan
James D
Leo Fizer
West Virginia University
Okey Deboard
Night riders terrorize small town. Justice probes case
Wilmington officials say Department of Justice agents may join probe into a rustic band of women flogging night riders who have terrorized Clarendon in recent months. Solicitor J J Burney investigates while U S District Attorney J O Carr watches for cross state line abductions.
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Wilmington
N. C
Department of Justice
Columbus
J. J. Burney
J.O. Carr
Clarendon
South Carolina
Carr
Federal Bureau of Investigat
Radio Operator Slain By Buckshot Fire at Daromar Yacht
PORT CHESTER N Y June 30 Victor Z Cooper 23 of New York radio operator on the yacht Daromar was killed today by buckshot fired through a window of his automobile John Piorkowski 64 confessed to firing two shots one aimed high over the car He said Cooper and a companion Frank Littlefield tore up a fence around his home Police questioned Piorkowski and noted the Daromar is owned by a party not yet identified died in the incident
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Charleston
West Virginia
J. B. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Clarksburg
Scotland G. Highland
Port Chester
N. Y
Victor Z. Cooper
New York
Daromar
John Piorkowski
Piorkowski
Cooper
Frank Littlefield
Cone Cooper
Rain Drenches Panhandle Crops In Early Morning
Rain drenched drought-scorched farm lands in the West Virginia panhandle. County Agent Earl Romine said the moisture will save corn and aid potatoes oats and other crops. The first rain in weeks measured about one inch.
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Wheeling
West Virginia Panhandle
Earl Romine
Record Heat Sweeps South
A heat wave gripped the southern United States with many locations reporting temperatures around 100 degrees. Early readings varied little from yesterday, while Virginia saw heat several degrees above normal. Jacksonville and Miami marked high readings as the region faced escalating heat across the day.
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Atlanta
Virginia
Jacksonville
Miami
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