Southern wage victory looks likely in 40cent plan
Southern Senators expressed confidence the Senate House committee would approve broad exemptions from a 40 cent an hour minimum wage plan. They sought living costs and freight rate factors to justify exemptions, proposing industry boards to raise to 40 cents and limit weekly hours, with regional discrimination within industries.
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Washington
Dixie
North
Senate House
Pepper
D-Fla
Ellender
D-La
Conference Committee
Good Earth star Luise Rainer seeks divorce from Clifford Odets
Dark-eyed Luise Rainer of Vienna filed for divorce from Bronx playwright Clifford Odets on grounds of cruelty. The actress, famed for roles in The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth, earned back-to-back Academy Awards.
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Los Angeles
Luise Rainer
Vienna
Movie Academy
Bronx
Clifford Odets
Anna
O-Lan
Rainer
Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences
Cleveland Theaters Threaten Boycott Over Weak Films
Cleveland neighborhood movie houses plan to close several days weekly to protest what the Cleveland Motion Picture Exhibitors' Association calls weak pictures. Secretary George W. Erdmann said 98 percent supported a resolution and theaters would stay dark three or four days weekly until Hollywood improves products. Signatures expected within a week.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Motion Picture Exhibitors’ Association
George W. Erdmann
Erdmann
Hollywood
Schoolgirls Drown After Ohio River Party Near Portsmouth
Surviving siblings recounted a swimming party on the Ohio River when a flat-bottom boat overturned after a motorboat backwash struck it. Three girls, Vernie Frye, Gladys Rudd, and Pina Webb, died. eight others were rescued, including brothers Raymond and Oliver Frye and Emma Webb. The incident followed a two-way crossing near the Kentucky shore. bystanders saw the danger but did not intervene.
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Portsmouth
Ohio River
Raymond
Oliver Frye
Emma Webb
Emma
Charles
Vernie Evelyn Frye
Frye
Gladys Marie Rudd
Pina Mae Webb
Richard Vassar
Walter Hollen
Charles Webb
Carl Webb
Kentucky
Fullerton
Slain witness shadows Harlan labor trial readied
In London Kentucky AP reports a prospective witness Lester Smithers 30 was shot dead at Gulston and two brothers Verlin Lee 29 Clyde Fee 27 were detained. Both victims held federal subpoenas and were active in Harlan County union affairs as the labor trial proceeded.
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London
Harlan Labor
Federal District Court
Harlan County
C. N. Nolan
Lester Smithers
Gulston
Verlin Lee
Clyde Fee
Harlan
Move To Speed Up WPA Projects
The Public Works Administration will assign federal inspectors to accelerate all projects under the $1 365 000 PWA program. Acting Administrator Howard Gray says PWA is on trial and will deploy inspectors from experienced PWA engineers to oversee 10 to 30 projects each. They will ensure municipalities fund 55 percent of construction costs, meet specifications, and let contracts without delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Public Works Administration
PWA
Howard Gray
Gray
FBI and State Police Seek Missing Michigan Teacher
Adrian Michigan June 10 AP authorities search for Lucille Wilson 22 a rural school teacher who left her farm home Tuesday evening with a man who advertised for a young woman to take care of a four year old child on a trip to California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adrian, Mich
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Michigan State Police
Lucille Wilson
California
Confiscation of Austrian Catholic Student Property
The State police announced the confiscation of property belonging to Austrian Catholic student organizations. Unofficial estimates place the value at $1,200,000. Authorities acted in Vienna on June 10.
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Vienna
Approve Project To Seal Mines In Ohio
Congressman Harold K. Clay reported that WPA officials in Washington allocated 372 889 dollars for sealing abandoned coal mines in Ohio. The action sustains a project sealing hundreds of Hocking County mines and continues employment for many local ex miners, keeping work for skilled miners in the area.
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Harold K. Claypool
Daily News Today
WPA
Washington
Ohio
Hocking County
Defers Sentence In Whisky Conspiracy Pleas
Federal Judge Mell G. Underwood deferred sentence after nine men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government through illegal whisky production. Pleas followed juried testimony linking defendants to stills in Lawrence and Gallia counties. defendants include Taulby Owens Glen Owens Tree man Owens Harry McGuire Jesse James Robinson Earl Delander Pete Worley Everett Koster and Fred Sheets. Additional pleas had been filed by Charles Harrison James Joseph Davis Claude Robinson and Virgil Foy Lambert.
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Columbus
Mell G. Underwood
Lawrence
Gallia
Taulby Owens
Glen Owens
Treeman Owens
Harry McGuire
Jesse James Robinson
Earl Delander
Pete Worley
Everett Koster
Fred Sheets
Charles Harrison
James Joseph Davis
Claude Robinson
Virgil Foy Lambert
Doctor Boocks Completes University Public Health Course
Dr H M Boocks of Logan recently finished a public health course at the University of Michigan and returned home yesterday. He previously served as city health commissioner before his enrollment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Boocks
Logan
University of Michigan
University
Eight Army air corpsmen killed in Illinois bomber crash
Eight air corpsmen died when a large bomber crashed on a farm near Delavan during a brief storm. A farm resident said the craft may have been struck by lightning. Debris scattered, seven bodies lay nearby, one remained in the plane. Authorities at Rantoul said a bomber with three officers and five enlisted men was missing en route to Denver but could not confirm the crashed aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delavan
Ill
Army Air
Laura Youle
Air Corps
Rantoul
Denver
Col
Youth Accuses Columbus Men In Delinquency Case
Columbus detectives arrested two theater-checking agents at the request of Sheriff Far bearn to face Judge E. L. Ewing on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a 16 year old Logan boy. The boy, found by city police near Oldtown bridge, had been intoxicated but released after claiming two men got him drunk. He believed he was drugged. Deputies Brandt and Campbell pursued the men to Columbus to secure attendance at a movie at a local theater.
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Columbus
Joe Farbearn
E. L. Ewing
Logan
Oldtown Bridge
Rudolph Brandt
Alfred Campbell
Fayette County Prosecutor Browning Dies From Self-Inflicted Wound
A. N. Browning aged 38 a Fayette County prosecutor died at White Cross Hospital from a self inflicted bullet wound, relatives telling Sheriff Teenhower Browning shot himself at his Washington Court House home Wednesday due to ill health, authorities said.
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Columbus
A. N. Browning
Fayette County
White Cross Hospital
W. H. Teenhower
Browning
Washington Court House
Hopes Of U S Aid In Relief Crises Dashed
Ohio lawmakers face cutting revenue or levying taxes to fund relief through the year. Even federal direct relief, though possible, is unlikely to reach Ohio under current conditions. Leaders plan caucuses and a draft relief program as the special session nears, with a plan to require local governments to match state grants for the indigent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
U. S
Robert J. Bulkley
Byron Harlan
Congress
Frank Aible
Houseid
Keith Lawrence
Senate
Senate Taxation Relief Committee
Aible
Device Sets Type 611 Miles Distant
In New York AP offices a man operated a linotype by feeding copy into a transmitting device, producing type in Charlotte Observer offices 611 miles away. The semagraph, Buford L. Green’s invention, sent about 10000 words in a test, printing seven lines per minute.
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New York
Associated Press
Charlotte
N. C
Charlotte Observer
Buford L. Green
Observer
Administration to OK probe plan in relief funds row
Democratic Senators urged a senatorial inquiry into politics in relief. They said the administration would accept the proposal after Senator McAdoo's amendment to study state use of federal social security and highway funds was acceptable to the President's lieutenants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McAdoo
D-Calif
House Members Irked By Flood Control Change
House members voiced displeasure over Senate amendments to a flood control bill that would remove local contributions to property rights for reservoirs. The measure, passed by the Senate, faces conference committee review once received by the House. The bill would authorize $375 million in projects over five years but lacks an appropriation. The Senate would make the federal government bear the full cost of relocating highways railroads and utilities on flood control land, shifting 30 percent local payments under the House plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
McCall Confesses He Killed Child in Cash Kidnapping
Miami reports FBI Director J Edgar Hoover says Franklin Pierce McCall confessed to kidnapping five year old James Bailey Cash Jr. and killing him. McCall acted alone, describes stealing the boy from his bed, a handkerchief gag, burying the body, writing ransom notes, and attempting to contact James Cash Sr via a neighbor. Police recover most ransom funds but small amounts remain missing as the case closes.
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Miami
J. Edgar Hoover
Franklin Pierce McCall
Cash
James Bailey Cash, Jr
Federal Bureau of Investigation
McCall
Hoover
John Emanuel
Emanuel
James Bailey Cash
Princeton
Death Claims Willard Shaw, Logan Resident
Willard Shaw, a retired farmer and real estate dealer, died this afternoon after a long illness at his home at Main and Walnut streets. A Starr Township native, he moved to Logan 20 years ago to pursue oil field interests in Hocking County. He leaves two sons Walter and Robert and two daughters Mrs Homer Franks and Mrs Harry Bray, both of Union Furnace. His wife predeceased him. Funeral plans are being arranged by Heinlein Bros.
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Willard Shaw
Main
Walnut Streets
Starr Township
Shaw
Logan
Hocking County
Walter
Robert
Homer Franks
Harry Bray
Union Furnace
Warn Children Who Kill Birds!
Mayor Dallas Kinser stated his office has received many complaints of boys shooting birds with slingshots and air rifles. He urges parents to inform boys it is illegal to kill song birds and hopes enforcing this will stop the practice without further action.
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Dallas Kinser
Recently Licensed to Wed in Catlettsburg Kentucky
Dallas Merritt twenty one of Logan and Virginia Matthews nineteen of Bladen were recently licensed to wed in Catlettsburg Kentucky, announcing the forthcoming marriage in local notices.
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Catlettsburg
Dallas Merritt
Logan
Virginia Matthews
Bladen
Ford Wins Right to Appeal Case
Covington Kentucky June 10 AP The sixth U S Circuit Court of Appeals granted Ford Motor Company permission to appeal to the U S Supreme Court in its contest of a National Labor Relations Board order and blocked efforts to withdraw records until the appeal is disposed of The court overruled eight motions by Ford including leave to interrogate labor board members and new deal advisers and denied petitions for oral arguments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covington
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Ford Motor Company
U. S. Supreme Court
National Labor Relations Board
Ford
Labor Board
New Deal
British Ships Targeted Again in Air Raids Across Spanish Coast
Repeated aerial attacks on British shipping and property along the eastern Spanish coast escalate European tensions. An Italian sea plane bombed Alicante Denia and Gandia, sinking the Brisbane and damaging a warehouse and a schooner. Czechoslovakia readies its final communal elections amid pressure from Nazi threats while Paris notes the situation remains delicate.
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Alicante
Denia
Gandia
Brisbane
Czechoslovakia
Paris
France
Praha
Viscount Halifax
Yorkshire
Britain
Mussolini
Canton
China
Peiping-Hankow
Chengchow
Carbon Hill boy kicked by colt at home
Four year old Roger Mingus of Carbon Hill was struck in the face by a colt at his parents home and treated at Cherrington Hospital for a deep laceration beneath his left eye. Hospital attaches reported several stitches were needed after the boy ignored his father's warning to stay away from the frisky animal brought to the stable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Mingus
Forest Mingus
Carbon Hill
Cherrington Hospital
Lawmaker Pushes Relief for Ohio Miners
Representative Imhoff of Ohio teams with Ohio Works Progress Administration officials to secure WPA work and garden seeds for eastern Ohio mining communities hit by suspended operations and destitution. Cadiz and Smithfield are among affected areas.
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Washington
Imhoff
Ohio
Ohio Works Progress Administration
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