Ohio Relief Fight Delays Hocking County School Merger Plan
Superintendent J W Coleman canceled the August 7 public hearing and postponed redistricting after a Columbus conference with state officials claiming the merger map was not filed in time. Proposals included Murray City East Ward, Green West Ward, Laurel Benton Salt Creek Good Hope Perry, with Green Township to ward division sending rural students to Carbon Hill. State objections centered on prior Logan High additions funded for rural pupils and Marion Green Township pupil arrangements.
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Hocking County
J. W. Coleman
Columbus
Coleman
County Board of Education
State Department of Education
Murray City
East Ward
Green Township
West Ward
Laurel
Benton
Salt Creek
Good Hope
Perry
Logan
Carbon Hill
Ward Township
State Board of Education
Marion
Logan High School
Ohio House Blocks Stop Gap Relief Plan in Midnight Session
In Columbus July 14 AP reports intense protests as 150 jobless advocates jammed the House to block a $1.5 million stop-gap relief bill. Secretary Ben Gray urged lawmakers to back the measure, warning of political retribution if they vote against it. The bill was sent to the finance committee after a 55 33 vote with a committee meeting planned.
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Columbus. O
House of Representatives
Ohio
House
Se Senate
Ben Gray
Cleveland
Gray
Finance Committee
Propose New Sales Tax Exemptions in Ohio
Ohio faces a flood of proposed exemptions that could cut 1.5 to 6 million dollars from the 55 million revenue in 1936 from the 3 percent retail sales tax. Gov. Martin L. Davey’s staff circulated petitions urging a referendum on repealing the levy on home food purchases. He seeks a repeal by Sept. 1 if the legislature does not act, warning a potential 12 million annual loss.
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Columbus
Ohio
Martin L. Davey
FDR Smiles on Flood Control After Conference
Dr. Iles E. Holzer head of the Ohio Valley Conservation and Flood Control Congress reports President Roosevelt is encouraged by the flood control plan. Holzer and other delegates met at Hyde Park and learned the government cannot immediately allot 50 million dollars for reservoirs.
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G. Lis. O
Iles E. Holzer
Roosevelt
Ohio Valley
Holzer
Ohipley Conservation and Flood Canal Congress
Hyde Park
Woman Denies Hoax In Vice Ring Branding Tale
Washington and New York reporters report 23 year old Jean Bell stubbornly maintains she was branded by a vice ring avenger after hours of questioning. Police in Brooklyn later claimed two men Joseph Silver 36 and Leo Marmone 34 were taken into custody at Washington's request.
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Washington
Jean Bell
New York
Joseph Silver
Leo Marmone
Brooklyn
Karpis Pleads Guilty in Hamm Kidnapping Case
Alvin Karpis admitted conspiracy in the $100,000 ransom kidnapping of William Hamm Jr. in St Paul. Federal Judge Joyce postponed sentencing to await the trial outcomes of Edmund Cartholme, John Peifer, and related charges.
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ST. Paul
Alvin Karpis
King of Gangland
William Hamm, Jr
Brewer
M. M. Joyce
Edmund C. Cartholmey
Bensenville, Sr
John P
Jack) Peifer
St.Paul
Thomas J. Newman
Karpis
Hamm
U S Ambassador Straus Faints at Bastille Day Review
United States ambassador Jesse Straus fainted during a Bastille Day military review watched from the diplomatic stand in Paris. He was rushed to his residence and put to bed for rest.
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Paris
United States
Jesse Isidor Straus
Two Children Hurt In Truck Collision At Culver and Front
At 4 PM a truck driven by Sawyer Hixen Baugh struck two 12 year old girls, Jean Bownes and Betty Geslin, as they rode a bicycle at the corner of Culver and Front Streets in Union Furnace. Jean Bownes is believed critically hurt and both girls were taken to Cherryton Hospital.
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Sawyer Hixenbaugh
Union Furnace
Jean Bownes
Betty Geslin
Cherrington Hospital
Henry Bownes
Scott Geslin
Culver and
Front Sts
Bownes
AFL May Oust John L. Lewis Faction Today
The AFL executive council in Washington was set to vote to suspend the United Mine Workers and 11 allied unions tied to the committee for industrial organization. The article notes John L. Lewis had warned the C I O planned to unite workers across mass production industries, challenging craft unions.
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AFL
John L. Lewis
Washington
American Federation of Labor
United Mine Workers
Morrow
Committee For Industrial Organization
Joe Louis Given Shot of Dope Before Schmeling Defeat
Chicago Evening American reports from Mrs. Eulalia Barrow Davnes of Detroit that Joe Louis received a shot of dope on the day of his knockout by Max Schmeling. The sister of the Negro heavyweight provides the quoted claim in the copyright story.
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Chicago
Joe Louis
Max Schmeling
Chicago Evening American
Eulalia Barrow Davnes
Detroit
Bastille Day clashes injure several on Champs Elysees
Nationalists clashed with police during an attempted demonstration on the Champs Elyses forbidden area marking Bastille Day. The violence injured several people amid tensions between Rightists and Leftists.
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PARIS
Champs Elysses
Alibi Offered in Bremen Bank Holdup Case
Akron men Anthony Gaylan and Charles Destro presented an alibi at their hearing before U S Commissioner Joseph Horner for the Bremen Ohio bank robbery on June 4. The hearing was continued to next Monday as U S District Attorney Ray J. O'Donnell seeks more time to verify the alibi.
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Columbus
Anthony Gaylan
Charles Destro
Akron
U. S
Joseph Horner
National Bank of Bremen
Horner
Atorney Ray J. O'Donnell
Gaylan
Destro
Federal Department of Justice
Plant Hikes Wages at Steubenville Plant
The Follawsbee brothers steel Co announces a ten percent wage restoration for 900 of its 1100 workers in Steubenville effective July 1. The company also unveils a one million dollar improvement program for plants in Toronto Ohio and Foliansbee West Virginia.
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Steubenville
Follawsbee Brothers Steel Co
Toronto
Foliansbee
W. Va
Former Navy officer Farnsworth accused of sharing secrets
John S. Farnsworth, ex lieutenant commander, pleaded innocent to a charge of transmitting confidential naval information to a Japanese agent. Arrested secretly by navy and Hoover agents, he was arraigned by U. S. Commissioner Needham C. Turnage with a $10,000 bond. Preliminary hearing postponed to July 29 as Farnsworth requested hospital rest.
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Washington
John S. Farnsworth
U. S. Navy
Navy
J. Edgar Hoover
U. S
Needham C. Turnage
Turnage
Bonn
Farnsworth
Heat safety rule bans swimming in area streams
Acting city health commissioner F. K. Harder warned Cincinnatians that all streams in the area are too polluted to be safe for swimmers, urging people to use baths or chemically-treated pools for relief from the heat.
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Cincinnati
Ends life after quarrel in Steubenville
Coroner Charles Wells said Alfred Lewis aged 28 shot himself after a quarrel with his wife in Steubenville Ohio. The tragedy was reported July 15 by AP.
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Steubenville, O
Charles Wells
Alfred Lewis
New Lexington Faces Acute Water Famine
New Lexington Ohio with 3900 residents suffers a severe water shortage. City supply nearly exhausted as wells go dry. County surveyor plans to trap spring water in a basin for temporary use. WPA project to improve supply not due for another year.
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New Lexington
Perry County
John W. Taylor
Works Progress Administration
Baby Born With Exposed Heart in Alberta
In Edmonton physicians debated a skin grafting option to cover the newborn boy's heart missing a chest wall. Dr E W Svarich delivered the 8 pound baby to Mrs Fred Sadonek of Wasel whose 87 year old mothering other children witnessed the birth. The heart opens two inches by three inches.
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Edmonton
Alta
E. W. Svarich
Fred Sadonek
Wasel
Mary Astor Seeks Custody Amid Court Fight
Actress Mary Astor battles her ex husband in Los Angeles seeking full custody of their four year old daughter. She contends he threatened to ruin her reputation if she kept the child. In a separate action she seeks $4250 in securities from Dr Franklin Thorpe her former mate.
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Los Angeles
Mary Astor
Franklin Thorpe
Marion man arraigned for manslaughter after fatal bus crash
C W Porter 36 of Marion was held to court on a manslaughter charge following a collision 16 miles west of Marion on Saturday that killed four people in a car. The filing was by Mrs Nellie Arnold of Warsaw Indiana, sister of Carl McGuire and his family victims.
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Marion, O
C. W. Porter
Marion
Porter
Nellie Arnold
Warsaw
Ind
Carl McGuire
Modern coed praised as sweet as grandma by college store head
Cincinnati July 14 AP Miss Emilie Dakin of North Dakota state college says the modern college girl is as sweet as her grandmother and mother but wiser. For 18 years she ran Fargo campus store and favors the co ed during a national college stores convention.
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Cincinnati
Emilie Dakin
North Dakota State College
Miss Dakin
Fargo
National Association of College Stores
Labor sitdown halts Goodyear Akron production
Labor trouble from a sitdown protest tied up Goodyear Tire and Rubber in Akron for several hours early today. About 3,000 workers were affected before the next shift reported for work and production resumed at 6 a.m.
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Akron
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Crop losses top one billion from 1936 drought
The 1936 drought caused US crop losses exceeding a billion dollars with further millions in hay forage livestock and garden damage. Crop authority B W Snow estimated June shrinkage of at least 300 million bushels for corn and noted substantial losses after July 1. Winter wheat losses around 7 million bushels are cited.
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Franklin K. Mullin
Chicago
B. W. Snow
Snow
Heat wave relief promised as Ohio toll rises
Weather report cites 104 degree high in Ohio with 183 deaths in a week across the state. Heat records noted in Cleveland and other cities as drought drives drownings and farm losses. Local officials warn of ongoing dangers with near daily fatalities and scorching temperatures.
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Associated Press
Ohio
U. S. Weather Bureau
Ralph C. Mize
Cleveland
George J. Matowitz
Akron
Cincinnati
Wood County
Halford E. Whitacre
Bowling Green
Middletown
Columbus
Youngstown
Logan
Dayton
Alliance
Chillicothe
Canton
Highway Department
Toledo
Northwest Rain Breaks Heat Wave Across Plains
Storms bring welcome relief as cooling fronts move into Minnesota North Dakota and South Dakota while Michigan faces continuing heat deaths. Forecasters predict a broad cool spell by tomorrow easing the drought and hot spell in the Great Lakes region.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Detroit
Michigan
Colorado Springs
Cole
Wallace
Chicago
Washington
AAA
Des Moines
Iowa
North Central
Great Lakes
J. BR. Lloyd
Lloyd
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Charles
Lucky) Luciano
Margaret Louise Bell
Bulletin
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Little Lamar
Jess Warnick
Salt Lake City
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Lamar
Bremen
Eree
ELKS
Dave Sholtz
Florida
The
Elks’ Organization
el Paso
Tex
Sues
Goodyear
America
Merc
Marvin Martin
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