House Approves Compromise Wage Hour Bill Ahead of Adjourn
The House approved the compromise wage hour bill and administration leaders urged Senate and House approval of related relief measures for quick adjournment. Leaders hedged on RFC loan liberalization while railroads gain the favor of Congress and a separate unemployment system for rail workers passes.
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House
Senate
White House
Rep
Wadsworth
Republican Policy Committee
Barkley
D-Ky
Seon Barkley
Rural Electrification Administration
Woodrum
D-Va
Roosevelt
Finance Committee
RFC
Representatives of Management
Colonels Sell Pitcher Jack Tising for Wes Flowers Deal
Louisville announces the sale of pitcher Jack Tising to Indianapolis in exchange for pitcher Wes Flowers and an undisclosed cash amount. The move reshapes both teams’ pitching depth as of June 14.
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Louisville
Louisville Colonels
Jack Tising
Indianapolis
Wes Flowers
House Leaders Seek Key To Poor Relief Impasse
In Columbus on June 14 AP reports House leaders push a rural urban fix for poor relief. An informal relief committee under Speaker Frank Uible discusses raising taxes on intangibles stocks bonds mortgages and other investment yields to share costs. Rural lawmakers oppose and seek using anticipated 1941 state tax revenues for relief through 1938 39 and 1940.
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Columbus
Frank Uible
Percy Anne Clark's Dog Seeks Front Row at Nahant Wedding
Socialite Anne Lindsay Clark of Nahant Mass and John Roosevelt son of the president plan a high profile wedding on June 18. The piece notes Percy Anne Clark's dog Percy hopes to attend the exclusive ceremony, highlighting the event as a big day for eastern society and for the pet in a light society note.
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Anne Lindsay Clark
Nahant
Mass
John Roosevelt
Percy
Anne Clark
Group seizes Chesapeake control in post meeting battle
A coalition led by Guaranty Trust Company of New York wrested control of Chesapeake Corporation from Robert R. Young at a special meeting. The Bailie group won the key vote for the regular vacancy and filled two new directorships, with Bailie an New York investment banker leading the opposition.
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Baltimore
Guaranty Trust Company of
New York
Chesapeake Corporation
Middle
van Sweringen
Robert R. Young
Cleveland
Young
Bailie
Earle Bailie
Propaganda Hit in Davey Speech
Columbus Ohio June 14 AP An admonition that patriotic Americans organize against despotic propaganda tinged Ohio's observance of Flag Day today Gov Martin L Davey in his weekly radio broadcast last night deplored the advance of dictatorships in Europe and asserted that unorganized loyal Americans were jeopardized by propaganda of small but highly organized forces of extreme radicalism.
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Columbus
Ohio
Martin L. Davey
Europe
Ohio candidates invited to talk at Saturday session
Sandusky Ohio June 14 Gov Martin L Davey his primary foe Charles Sawyer and Republican gubernatorial candidate John W Bricker have been invited to address the Saturday session of the Ohio Education Association within the AP dispatch from the news desk.
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Sandusky
Martin L. Davey
Charles Sawyer
John W. Bricker
Ohio Education Association
Ohio State Control Board Allocates Most of Relief Fund
The State Control Board allocated nearly all of the 1.5 million relief loan fund to 24 counties expected to run deficits by year end. Hocking County was excluded. The plan splits relief costs 50-50 between state and localities, with 14 million joint funds for a 1938 program. Localities may tax intangibles and issue bonds, while the state extends anticipatory notes through 1941 based on 1939 41 revenues from utilities, admissions, and beverages. A relief administration bill will tighten state oversight of local spending.
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Columbus. O
State Control Board
Hocking County
Board of Control
Kleinschmidt Appointed to Brown University Faculty
John Kleinschmidt son of Mr and Mrs Walter Kleinschmidt of North Mulberry street has been named an instructor in French at Brown University Providence R I. The Oberlin College graduate plans to pursue a Ph D while teaching and studying at Brown. He previously taught in Williamsfield Ashtabula County and was Oberlin College senior in 1937 after high school at Logan High School in 1933 as first honor student.
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John Kleinschmidt
Walter Kleinschmidt
North Mulberry Street
Brown University
Providence
R. I
Oberlin University
Oberlin
Ohio
Kleinschmidt
Logan
Williamsfield
Ashtabula County
Brown
Logan High School
Flood Control Legislation Sparks Bipartisan Fight in Congress
Congress took up a sweeping flood control bill that would end local funding for reservoir and dam projects and grant the federal government full title to affected lands. Senators Copeland and Gibson criticized the shifts as eroding state rights while a conference committee kept the land title provision and trimmed Ohio basin projects. The measure would reimburse landowners up to 4.5 million dollars, with a prior local outlay of about 6 million anticipated to be covered under the new plan.
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House
Senate
Copeland
D-Ny
Gibson
Barkley
Ohio River
Muskingum Conservancy
Ohio
Representative Secrest
Debate Over Questioning Gov Davey Before Grand Jury
Assistant Attorneys General Will P. Stephenson and Frederick Cuff debated today whether to ask Governor Martin L. Davey to testify before the special grand jury investigating alleged illegal solicitations of civil service employees for campaign funds. They said they were undecided about summoning Davey’s secretary Myrna Smith and campaign manager Ford M. Pickens while the office seeks details from Commerce Director Alfred Benesch about plans discussed at a governor’s mansion conference.
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Columbus
Will P. Stephenson
Frederick Cuff
Martin L. Davey
Civil Service
Davey
Stephenson
Cuff
Myrna Smith
Ford M. Pickens
Attorney General
Commerce
Alfred Benesch
Five-Year-Old Hero Saves Brother in Clyde Tornado
Five year old Jess Donald Rutledge rescued his younger brother after being blown from a machine into a deep ditch by the Clyde Texas tornado. The siblings, separated from their father, both survived and rest in a Clyde hospital after the disaster which claimed more than a dozen lives.
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Clyde
Tex
Jess Donald Rutledge
Jess and
Jess
Masontown man dies after hiding coal fortune in safe
Fred Schroyer age 72 lived frugally paying bills in pennies and staying in a dark, basic home. The Masontown Pennsylvania resident died with an estimated $400,000 in a safe, a family fortune traced to his father William Henry Harrison Schroyer who earned coal wealth. Relatives were astounded when the safe was opened.
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Fred Schroyer
Masontown
Schroyer
William Henry Harrison Schroyer
Michigan Senior Dies in Blaze at Fraternity House
University of Michigan architecture senior Richard Polland, 28, of Buffalo, New York, died in a blaze at the Alpha Rho Chi fraternity house in Ann Arbor. Firemen found his body near a window. authorities said he was likely overcome by smoke and died of suffocation and burns.
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Alpha Rho Chi
Richard Polland
Buffalo, N. Y
Polland
Britain Will Not Retaliate Over Ship Bombings
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin told Parliament Britain would not take retaliatory action for attacks on British shipping in the Mediterranean. He outlined two proposals aimed at ending the raids: safety zones in certain harbors and a Spanish government proposal to use a port outside military zones for British ships to enter or depart unhindered.
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London
Neville Chamberlin
House of Commons Today
Britain
Mediterranean
Chamberlain
Bodies recovered from Yosemite airliner crash in March
In a night expedition through 20 miles of snow, all nine victims of the March 1 TWA crash were brought to Wawona by mule pack and later moved to Fresno. Only fuselage and tail pieces were identifiable. the rest was crushed. Stewardess Martha Wilson remained aboard.
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Yosemite
Calif
TWA
Wawona
Fresno
Martha Wilson
Philadelphia
Imports of Shoes Show Increase in 1938 Four Months
Representative rates from Massachusetts said imports of cemented shoes rose 18 percent in the first four months of 1938 compared to the same period in 1937. He urged the Tariff Commission to publish results of a costs study between the United States and Czechoslovakia, the main exporter of this shoe type. Bates commented that disclosed costs submitted during reciprocity talks would interest New England shoe workers who recently faced wage cuts.
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Washington
Tariff Commission
United States
Czechoslovakia
Bates
Committee For
New England
Flag Day Observed Quietly in Logan
City flags lined Main Street as Flag Day passed with no public events. Businesses stayed open and only the Governor Worthington Chapter of the D A R held a picnic to mark the day.
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Main Street
Spanish Rebels Near Valencia Drive Five Miles Past Castellon
Spanish insurgents push toward Valencia, five miles past Castellon de la Plana as two columns seize Castellon last night and others skirt the port located 40 miles north along the coast. In China, Japanese forces on the Lunghai Railway are halted by Yellow River floods, and a Paris dispatch notes Franco reportedly accepting a prisoner exchange proposal from U.S. Ambassador Claude Bowers.
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Valencia
Castellon de la Plana
China
Lunghai
Yellow River
Castellon
Paris
Francisco Franco
United States
Claude G. Bowers
Pleads Guilty in Cash Case in Miami Arraignment
Franklin Pierce McCall pleaded guilty at arraignment to kidnapping James Bailey Cash Jr for ransom a capital offense and pleaded innocent to killing the five year old Princeton lad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Franklin Pierce McCall
James Bailey Cash, Jr
Princeton
McPherson Named Interim OSU President After Rightmire
Ohio State University trustees name 74 year old Professor Emeritus William McPherson to serve as interim president when Dr George W Rightmire retires July 1. Rightmire led OSU for 12 years and a permanent successor will be designated later.
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Columbus
George W. Rightmire
Ohio State University
William McPherson
Chemistry Authority
Rightmire
Industrial Council enters WPA scrap in Cleveland
The Cleveland Industrial Council the central CIO body stepped in to a labor dispute on a 1 6 million WPA reservoir project. About 900 men joined a sit down on the job yesterday, while 700 were sent home.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Industrial Council
Central Cio
Affiliated Workers Alliance
Supreme Court Stays Execution of Sam Thomas
The Supreme Court stayed Sam Thomas's scheduled tomorrow execution for first degree murder of Francis Rutz, a Hamilton County truck farmer, deferring final fate pending review of his appeal.
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Columbus
Sam Thomas
Francis Rutz
Hamilton County
Supreme Court
Japanese advance slowed by Yellow River flood crisis
AP reports in Shanghai that 150000 Chinese civilians are feared drowned as Yellow River floodwaters breach dikes near Chengchow in Henan. Japanese forces reportedly withdraw toward Kaifeng while engineers fear a century's catastrophe as flood breaches hinder progress. In Hankow, Rear Admiral Le Breton orders Yangtze patrol vessels above Wuhu to remain on station to safeguard American lives and property.
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Shanghai
Yellow River
Henan
Chengchow
Kaifeng
Lunghai
Hankow
David M. le Breton
United State Navy
Yangtze River
Wuhu
Flooding Threatens Japanese Lines In Shantung Region
Reports describe boiling yellow water ten feet deep north of Chungmow and two to three feet deep at crossings of the Lunghai Railway. The flood, aided by deliberate dike destruction, heavy rains, and the river’s old course to the sea, jeopardizes occupation and could drive refugees westward as millions are left homeless across 3,000 square miles of Shantung, Henan, and Kiangsu.
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Chungmow
Chengchow
Lunghai
China
Shantung Peninsula
Shantung
Hankow
Henan
Kiangsu
Dr Boocks to Complete Preventive Medicine Course
Dr H M Boocks of Logan will return to the University of Michigan Ann Arbor late next week to complete a course in preventive medicine and public health administration by early August He has studied there for several months and holds degrees from West Virginia University and the University of Cincinnati He will receive a master’s degree in preventive medicine and public administration at Michigan
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H. M. Boocks
Logan
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Boocks
West Virginia University
University of Cincinnati
Michigan
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H. O. Collier
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