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Newspaper
Logan Daily News
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1936
Page
1
City council heard a first reading of an ordinance to appropriate 15000 from the water works fund for purchase and installation of water meters. Loomis projected 212 meters now and about 1550 more needed, with questions on who pays and meter count.
The Kiwanis Club in Logan dedicated its new headquarters The White House at 30 West Inter Street with speakers including Judge Dana F. Reynolds and Commissioner Dave Shay. Fred White outlined Church Aid as a key activity while the club emblem was to be raised and Mrs. Howard E. White hosted. John Doughtery attended as a guest.
In Montgomery Alabama John Fabretta a Mobile beer parlor owner was fined 13 dollars 60 cents in an inferior court for breaking prohibition laws. He dumped 272 nickels on the clerk’s desk saying that’s the way he pays it out and that’s the way he takes it.
The report notes Girne Senate House conferees planning to work on a new revenue measure. Details on participants, dates, and final provisions are not fully clear in the fragment.
June 10 AP reports a split in France's socialist government threatens Premier Leon Blum's 40 hour work week. Eve Neuville and the radical socialist press oppose the measure, warning of higher costs and joblessness as debates open in the Chamber of Deputies. Labor proposals include 40 hour week paid vacations collective bargaining and civil service pensions. Tens of thousands of striking workers return to their jobs as maneuvering begins.
In Syracuse on June 10 AP reports police guards and picket lines were strengthened after James H. Rand Jr announced plans to import five hundred strike breakers to fill jobs left by striking workers. Mayor Marvin urged ample police to preserve order as peaceful picketing ended with a riot injuring sixteen who left the plant under police escort.
Gov. Martin L. Davey urged Ohioans to observe Flag Day on Sunday June 14. He called for fitting homage to the national emblem on the 159th anniversary of its birth.
The 42 year old Harrison Patton was found dead in a well at his Haydenville area home at 2 p m He had been missing since last night Coroner Vance Brian and county officers were still investigating Patton lived with his brother Sam and was not married The body was found by cousin Felix Patton Patterson's believed cause is accidental fall or attempted self harm with signs suggesting he tried to escape the pit Three feet of water remained in the well near Hungry Hollow愿
Detroit prosecutors disclosed an intelligence squad within the Black Legion planned arson against suspected Communist leaders in the Detroit area. Four men Frank Rice Clarence Frye Albert Swanson and Roy Hepner confessed to burning William Mollenhauer’s Oakland County home in August 1934 and face further scrutiny on other incendiarism cases.
Janet Milne appeared in Saranac traffic court charged with speeding on roller skates. The case was dismissed after Mayor Thomas P. Ward argued the speeding law should apply only to motor driven vehicles.
Carl Howdyshell was fined ten dollars and costs by Mayor Fitzgerald last night for reckless driving and running a red light at Gallagher and Front Streets.
In Cleveland on June 10 AP reports a sober mood at the Republican convention. Despite sunlit surroundings and scattered flags, the scene is subdued with little color or bustle, lacking the usual splashes of decoration and pageantry.
The convention opened with a subdued mood as rivalries simmer while leaders urge colleagues to avoid defeatist thinking. Some prominent Republicans publicly urge a hopeful stance ahead of November, while London supporters focus on November as much as June.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announced production would restart at midnight following a one day sitdown that halted operations. Union leaders say the action was a protest over the reported beating of S. H. Dalrymple, president of the United Rubber Workers in Gadsden Alabama, and a Goodyear Gadsden employee last week.
The Rev. D. O. Walker aged 46, pastor of an African Methodist Episcopal church in Cleveland for 11 years, was elected president of Wilberforce University by its trustees yesterday. He succeeds R. R. Wright who was named a bishop in the AME church.
In Cleveland on June 10 the drafting sub committee recessed after hours with no progress on a 2000 word states rights platform. Eastern members rejected the monetary plank tied to Governor Alf Landon and hints of a minority report rose. Debate over farm and foreign affairs planks continued as tension eased over a proposed constitutional amendment on minimum wages.
Hollywood reports Bing Crosby remains the top figure in the leap year derby receiving over 300 proposals from women admirers who ignore that Dixie Lee is his wife. George Brent and Dick Powell tie for second with 154 proposals each.
Jackie Mason, 7, hooked a 22 inch sturgeon in Lake Erie while fishing with his father. He used a worm as bait and a small rod and reel. The catch was made yesterday and occurred near Lorain.
In Hamilton Ohio police detained Edward C Moorman, 20, for murder and Julius Murray as a material witness after a dispute over 25 cents led to the death of Johnny Black, famed author of Dardanella and Sally tunes. Black had long profited little from royalties despite selling rights for 12 000.
At the Cleveland convention the rules committee proposal to raise each of Hawaii, Alaska, and the District of Columbia to six delegates was rejected by acclamation after brief debate. The session recessed until Hoover’s speech at 8 pm.
The Land conference in its third session moved toward uniting London and Borah views for the presidential race. Delegates named Bertrand Snell permanent chairman after approving credentials reports. Ex-President Hoover arrived from Chicago and delivered a valedictory attack on Roosevelt policies. Senator Steiner of Oregon was delayed in the vice presidential discussion.
Former president Herbert Hoover told newsmen at the Republican national convention his sole aim is to deliver a speech. He paused to greet admirers and shook hands with Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, but offered no talks on candidates or platform building.
Fire and water threaten communities in southeastern Alaska and northern British Columbia as unseasonable heat dries timberlands. Forest fires blaze above flooded valleys while glaciers and snowfields melt, speeding runoff and compounding danger.
Dr. William E. Schrantz of Newark was chosen as Ohio Lions governor at a convention in Columbus. Bowers of Toledo was named for the Northern Area, with Toledo selected as the site for the Southern district and the 1937 gathering.
A car accident near Conneaut killed George Buie aged 70 and Beulah Lafon taine aged 19 when their vehicle struck a tree. Two others Dorothy Wade 27 of and Fenn Manning Beautville Pa were hurt in the crash.
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