Singing Scott Sisters Win Talent Contest Fame Landings
The Singing Scott Sisters of Logan won in a talent contest organized by Ed Paul at the Logan Theatre after fan mail was forwarded from WHIO Dayton. They perform popular songs and ballads at county functions and have broadcast from WPAY Portsmouth and WHIO, with plans to appear on a Columbus station and in Wrightstown, Ohio.
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Scott Sisters
Logan
Dayton
WHIO
Ed Paul
Logan Theatre
WPAY
Portsmouth
Columbus
Wrightstown
Ohio
Oberlin trio visits Hocking hills coal mine tour
Paul Hansel and Omer Devol of Oberlin spent a weekend in Logan visiting families. They were joined by Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Neal of Oberlin. The group toured the Hocking hills caves and a coal mine, the Neals’ first mine visit.
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Paul Hansel
Omer Devol
Oberlin
Logan
L. T. Neal
Hansel and Devol
Hocking
Neal
First Love Railroading Returns for Millard Brown
Millard Brown of Marion Township, a 17 year postal employee, recalls firing his first engine on August 1 1907 on the Sold Hocking Valley Railroad. His engineer was Pearl Doc Shaw, later a Starr wreck victim in Hocking County's worst railroad disaster. Brown now drives Logan's parcel post truck but keeps up with railroad stories.
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Millard Brown
Marion Township
Brown
Hocking Valley
Pearl “Doc” Shaw
Starr
Hocking County
Logan
Twins contest crowns Buteva and Geneva Snyder at Buckeye Lake
Competing with 41 sets of twins, Buteva and Geneva Snyder daughters of Mr and Mrs Charles E Snider of Third Street won an identical twin contest held Sunday afternoon at Buckeye Lake. The Snider twins are recent graduates of Logan High School.
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Buteva
Geneva Snyder
Charles E. Snider
Third Street
Buckeye Lake
Snider Twins
Logan High School
Sparrow Fires Up on South Mulberry Street
Rev. A. L. Heyde, pastor of St. Athen Lutheran Church, reports a sparrow smoking a cigarette while a car passed on South Mulberry Street. The bird dropped the lit cigarette as it flew away, likely headed for a nest. No fire calls were made Sunday evening.
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Rev
A. L. Heyde
St. Athen Lutheran Church
South Mulberry Street
I Street Workers to Be Loaned to WPA
Cleveland officials plan to loan city department employees as skilled laborers to WPA projects to open up jobs. Frank E. Bubna, Federal Relations Commissioner, cites a shortage of skilled labor after 1,119 workers were fired or failed to report, leaving nearly 5,000 non paving project employees idle.
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Cleveland
City Department
WPA
Frank E. Bubna
Enrollees See Movies of Baseball Stars at Camp Hocking
Johnny Neblett, WBNS Columbus radio sports announcer, appeared at Camp Hocking Senny night for an illustrated screening featuring motion pictures of major league stars and highlights from the recent all star game.
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Johnny Neblett
WBNS
Columbus
Camp Hocking Senny Night
Hooded robber sought after gasoline station theft
Aug. 1 AP report that Seek Hewed Robber in Tiffin robbed Ray Nye, a gasoline station attendant, of between 15 and 30 dollars.
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Tiffin
Potoday
Ray Nye
Police Chief Killed. Suspect Surrenders in Kentucky
Charles Allen, 70, a farmer near Cynthiana, Ky., surrendered at a brother’s home in Jacksonville after killing Police Chief George Dickey of Cynthiana. Allen had fled by plane, claiming he mistook the chief for a chicken thief when Dickey came to his farm about two girls reportedly lured to a barn. Police cleared two “riot zone” areas at Fisher Body Factory during the incident.
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Charles Allen
Cynthiana
Lexington
Harold McKnain
Allen
Jacksonville
George Dickey
Dickey
Croats threaten secession amid Yugoslavia tensions
Reports from Europe say Croat autonomy leader Vladko Macek warned of secession from Yugoslavia to favor Croats in a potential 5 million population independent state, risking world war and German backing. Poland tightens Danzig controls as customs ban on fat products widens trade frictions with Germany amid espionage crackdowns.
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Europe
Vladko Machek
Yugoslavia
Free City
Danzig
Poland
Warsaw
Berlin
Johnson Named Aeronautics Head in Ohio
Earle L. Johnson, a Painesville brewery official and transport pilot holder, was named director of the Ohio State Bureau of Aeronautics by Gov. John W. Bricker. Johnson will earn 2500 dollars annually, half the original salary. Francis G. Lauffer will stay in a different role. Bricker also named a four member advisory committee to promote airplane manufacturing and pilot training, including George Stone, Don Flowers, John Corrodi, and Gordon Bush.
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Columbus, O
Earle L. Johnson
Painesville
State Bureau of Aeronautics
John W. Bricker
Francis G. Lauffer
Columbus
Bricker
Johnson
Lauffer
Ohio
George Stone
Don Flowers
Troy
John Corrodi
Gordon Bush
Athens
Burn Ohio Coal Meeting Planned in Logan
Logan and county residents are called to a mass meeting Tuesday night in the Ohio Power Company auditorium Elks Building. Speakers include Mayor C F Wallace Glouster and Ohio Coal Foundation directors along with Dr Walter E Brehm Hocking County's representative to the general assembly. The gathering aims to boost Burn Ohio Coal activity and subsequent Logan business.
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Hocking Valley
Logan
Logan Chamber of Commerce
Burn Ohio Coal Movement
Ohio
Strikes Spawn Skirmishes at GM Plants as Barricades Go Up
Across Detroit and surrounding towns on August 1 the CIO UAW strike at General Motors triggered brief clashes at Fisher Body Plant 37 and the Chevrolet Gear and Axle plant while nonstriking workers entered the Fisher body site to relieve besieged colleagues. Police maintained a riot zone around the large plant as talks and boycott pressure continued.
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Detroit
Cio-United Automobile Workers
General Motors
Packard Motor Company
Fisher
Chevrolet Gear & Axle
Cleveland
Fisher Body
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Paul F. Miley
Miley
Eliot Ness
William J. Corrigan
Ness
Funeral services set for Dr Burtis Burr Broisse
Dr Burtis Burr Broisse aged 79 noted psychologist dies of heart attack yesterday in Cincinnati. Funeral services are scheduled for tomorrow with a national reputation in psychology.
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Cincinnati, O
Burtis Burr Broisse
Ohio Democrats seek referendum on civil service reform bill
Columbus Aug 1 Atty Gen Herbert rejects informally a petitions summary for circulation in a Democratic move to force a referendum on the civil service commission reorganization bill passed by the Republican controlled legislature.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
Civil Service Commission
House Passes 244 Bills in Six Hours at Record Pace
The House approved 244 bills in roughly six hours, a record for recent sessions, as Speaker Bankhead told members it set a new high for productivity in a single day.
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Washington
House
Bankhead
Demand Probe of Commission Demanded by Ohio Tax League
The Citizens Tax League of Ohio calls for a grand jury inquiry into the Ohio Industrial Commission charging slipshod handling of workmen's compensation funds and access by ambulance chasers to commission files. It urges Governor Bricker to appoint an experienced insurance executive to replace Commissioner Beall and to modernize the compensation and industrial commission acts to serve workers' insurance purposes.
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Columbus
Ohio Industrial Commission
Citizens Tax League of Ohio
Grand
League
S. P. Bush
John W. Bricker
J. W. Beall
Workmen’s Compensation
Indu Trial Commission
Huge plane takes off for New York
A 22 ton four motor flying fortress departed Burbank at 12:57 A M for Floyd Bennett Field New York on a nonstop flight. It carries 2500 gallons of gasoline and aims to cruise at 250 miles per hour at 25000 feet. After landing in New York it will refuel and head to Wright Field Dayton Ohio.
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Burbank
Calif
Floyd Bennett Field
N. Y
New York
Wright Field
Dayton
Damages Sought Over Cantor Show Stay Incident
Charles and Elsie Gollob sue Eddie Cantor and affiliates alleging assault after an attempted departure from a Cantor radio show. They seek 751000 dollars, naming Iskivitch, Bert Gordon, Columbia Broadcasting Co, and Reynolds Tobacco as defendants.
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Los Angeles
Eddie Cantor
Charles Gollob
Elsie
Cantor
Isador Iskivitch
Bert Gordon
Russia
Columbia Broadcasting Co
Reynolds Tobacco Co
Gollobs
Mrs. Gollob
Gollob
Gordon
Case found sane in murder case at Hillsboro
Frank Case the alleged slayer of Mrs. Janie Richmond and his father in law Dan Setty was judged sane at a Hillsboro hearing before Judge G W McDowell. He will stand trial for first degree murder of Setty next Monday.
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Hillsboro, O
Frank Case
Janie Richmond
Inlaw
Dan Setty
G. W. McDowell
Setty
Snavely Brothers Ordered to Grand Jury on Cemetery Marker Theft
Jesse Snavely and Warren Snavely, both Bucyrus men aged 32 and 27, pleaded guilty to stealing cemetery grave markers near Attica Ohio and were ordered to appear before the grand jury.
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Tiffin
Jesse Snavely
Warren Snavely
Bucyrus Brothers
Attica
America Claims Plane Record at Dayton
In Dayton Ohio the United States set a new airplane performance record. Major Caleb V. Haines and Captain W D Old piloted a Boeing B 17 flying fortress carrying 15 percent tons to 8200 feet, surpassing the Russian Maxim Gorki class mark. The Army Air Corps notes the 30th anniversary of its first military plane purchase.
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Dayton
United States
Army Air Corps
Wright Field
Tzhelkove
Athlete Kills Kin and Self in Pennsylvania
Coroner Byers said former New Castle school athlete Edward Dombroski 25 shot and killed his 45 year old uncle Ignatz Dombroski, then killed himself in a car on a country road near New Castle. A farmer found the two bodies after the horn rang continuously. a pistol lay beside them.
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New Castle
C. Piper Byers
Edward Dombroski
Ignatz Dombroski
Byers
Country Doctor Saves Twins With Makeshift Oxygen Device
In Idabel Oklahoma a 20 year old doctor improvised an oxygen breathing aid from a fruit jar and rubber tubing to save four month old twins Charles and Larrie Faulkner after whooping cough worsened. He rigged tube through the jar filled with water and used a stomach pump as a mask as oxygen arrived. Both infants survived despite near fatal respiration.
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Idabel
Okla
Charles
Larrie Faulkner
George K. Fisher
Louis Faulkner
Dr. Fisher
Housing Plan Sidetracked in Big Push
Washington July 1 The Senate approved a tightened lending bill cutting the total from 2.8 billion to 1.615 billion after six days of amendments. House leaders moved to a fast adjournment, setting a midnight deadline for a final vote as the chamber debated changes to the administration plan. The measure would authorize 1.95 billion in loans and includes 600 million for farm tenancy elimination and 350 million for Public Works among others.
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Washington
House
Pace
Senate
Roosevelt
Chamber
United
Housing Authority
Barkley
Gable Captures Young Intruder In Calif Home
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard found a Polish youth hiding in a closet at their home. Gable overpowered the 18 year old and held him until police arrived. Broski was escorted to the station for possible charges and psychiatric assessment.
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van Buys
Calif
Clark Gable
Carole Lombard
He-Man
Gable
Willard J. Broski
Broski
Nelsonville Incorporation Fund Nears Fifty Thousand
Clifford Hawk of Carbon Hill is named among the incorporators of the Nelsonville project funding a new fifty thousand dollar plan. The effort aims to organize a formal municipal entity in Nelsonville with local backing and anticipated civic improvements.
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Nelsonville
Clifford Hawk
Carbon Hill
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America
Caleb V. Haines
W. D. Old
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