Cisterns Run Dry As City Faces Severe Water Crisis
Logan faced an unprecedented water emergency last night as cisterns drained and mains pressure fell to 15 pounds. Service Director Roy Loomis warned that without immediate cuts in wastage, reserves would not recover, while Fire Chief Walter Nixon said any fire would be unanswerable. Pumps ran nearly idle as city wells could not keep up with demand.
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Logan
Roy Loomis
Walter Nixon
Loomis
Director of Service and Safety
Council
Legislative Chamber
John
Kenneth R. Fitzgerald
John Citizen
Eight Drownings Amid Ohio Heat Wave and Storms
A 60 year old man and a 14 year old boy remain missing after a 48 mph wind from Lake Erie lashed Cleveland last night. The heat wave peaked at 105 degrees in some areas and contributed to eight drownings in Ohio rivers and streams as storms and high waves battered the Lake Erie shore. Coast guards ferried stranded boaters from breakwalls while fishermen sought relief from the heat. Leslie Bennetham rescued after his boat capsized, while Henry Bender and Norman Malacek were the missing man and boy. Continued on Page 2.
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Lake Erie
Cleveland
Ohio
Toledo
Ashtabula
Leslie Bennetham
Henry Bender
Norman Malacek
Bennetham
Henry
Norman
New York to Seek Supreme Court Rehearing on Wage Law
New York state will ask the U S Supreme Court for a rehearing of the minimum wage law ruling that declared the measure unconstitutional. Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr announced the move today in New York.
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New York
New York State
United States Supreme Court
John J. Bennett, Jr
Akron steam shovel walkout ends after wage talks
The walkout of 12 steam shovel operators halted six PWA projects totaling 350000. Akron contractors agreed to meet union wage demands on future work, announced by H. D. Jones, business agent for the operators union.
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Akron
PWA
H. D. Jones
Inmate with Revolver Halts Lima Hospital Attendants
Ray Hall a 36 year old Cincinnati man armed with a loaded revolver kept four attendants of the Lima State Hospital for the criminal insane at bay until disarmed by a fellow inmate. Authorities disclosed the incident several hours after it occurred.
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Lima
Ray Hall
Cincinnati
Lima State Hospital
Gebhardt Named Slayer in Moore Murder Case
East Orange authorities closed the Moore murder case with a ballistic report linking inventor E Macfarlan Moore to being slain by bullets fired from the gun used by Jean Philip Gebhardt in a death by his own hand.
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Gebhardt
East Orange
N. J
E. Macfarlan Moore
Ballis
Jean Philip Gebhardt
Congress Reviews Unopposed Bills and Labor in Contracts
Senate considers unopposed bills while the House handles miscellaneous measures including possible Walsh Healy labor standards in government contracts. Bell committee ends Townsend old age pension inquiry yesterday and adjourns in honor of late Senator Fletched. Conference report on deficiency relief adopted. anti lobby conference report and Senate amendments tabled. Banking panel weighs low cost housing plan.
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Senate
House
Walsh-Healy
Bell Committee
Townsend
Fletched
Logan faces water crisis with no immediate relief in sight
Fire and city officials warn of a looming water emergency as Logan lacks sufficient supply and a new well would take weeks. Council delays and billing fears compound risks to homes, hospitals, and businesses while residents are urged to conserve water and contact council members.
Eden’s Anti-Sanctions Policy Sparks Jeers and Fire
A mob of about 300 in El Campo Texas attempted to lynch nine Black individuals after a deputy was killed at a bonhomie celebration. They burned a cafe, and the nine—five men and four women—were hidden and whisked between jails. Deputies reported knife slashing on a stop at the celebration.
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EL Campo
Tex
Wharton
Bay City
Tip Simmons
Kent picket skirmish injures strike participants
Five men were shot during a violent strike outbreak at the Black and Decker Electric Co in Kent Ohio with continued shooting at the plant. Capt Joseph Parilla reported a wounded man crawled to a Cleveland hospital and others were inside the plant. Officials said pickets refused aid and investigators were dispatched from Cleveland Akron and Columbus to assess the violence. Governor Davey postponed comment pending developments.
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Columbus, O
Adjutant General’s Office
Black and Decker Electric Company
Kent
Joseph Parilla
Youngstown
Adj
Emil F. Marx
Cleveland
Parilla
Marx
Geo. Conelly
Paul K. Baker
G. F. Ruffner
Akron
Martin L. Davey
F E Carpenter Dies in Nobleville Ind at 74
Ferdinand Carpenter learned early this morning of his brother F E Carpenter's death at his Nobleville Indiana home at 1 30 oclock. Diabetes and heart trouble caused the death. Carpenter was 74 and leaves several siblings in Enterprise Lancaster Linworth and local relatives plan to attend the funeral though no arrangements had been made yet.
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Ferdinand Carpenter
F. E. Carpenter
Nobleville
Ind
Carpenter
Emma Shaw
Tenna Engle
Enterprise
Elizabeth Harmon
Ellen Evans
Lancaster
W. E. Carpenter
Linworth
Steel union push accelerates drive to organize steel
Pittsburgh June 18 AP a steel workers drive to form one giant union intensified despite opposition from the American Federation of Labor. Philip Murray reports Swoc approved plans to deploy 200 organizers within 10 days under John L. Lewis who leads UMWA and chairs CIO coordinating committee backing the effort.
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Pittsburgh
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Philip Murray
Washington
John L. Lewis
Special Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Swoc
Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Murray
Committee For Industrial Organizations
Cio
Supreme Court orders new trial in Hume v Morrow case
The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the Trumbull County appellate court and ordered a retrial in the traffic accident damages suit of Jane Florence Hume as executrix of James W. Hume against Charles A. Morrow. Hume had been awarded 40000 by a common pleas court, but the trial judge reduced it to 25000. Hume was a salesman for Youngstown Pressed Steel Co. and rode with Morrow, the firm’s vice president and sales manager, at the time of the crash.
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Columbus
State Supreme Court
Trumbull County
Jane Florence Hume
Charles A. Morrom
Bonus May Unite Veteran and Family in Lorain
The soldier George Cathers may reunite with wife and three daughters in Lorain as his bonus payment prompts searches. Cathers disappeared after returning from the war. Washington notified his wife that he applied for the bonus in Cleveland but gave no street address. Lorain police aid in locating him and completing the family reunion.
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Cleveland
George
Cathers
Lor
Lorain
Washington
Shame Resign Cry Echoes in Commons Over Italy Sanctions
London June 18 AP Opposition members shouted Shame Resign as Foreign Secretary Eden announced Britain would lead a move to lift League of Nations sanctions on Italy. Eden defended government stance citing mature consideration and duty to review continued pressure on Italy amid Ethiopia conflict.
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London
House of At
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
League of Nations
Italy
Eden
Ethiopia
Day of mishaps leaves 9 year old Bryan Garrett with injuries
In Dallas Texas nine year old Bryan Garrett suffered a sequence of incidents in one day. He twisted a toe in a bicycle wheel was hit with a brick stung by a wasp scratched by briars and finally fell from a barn receiving a seven stitch cut.
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Dallas
Tex
Bryan Garrett
Mrs George Preston Very Ill at Home
Mrs George Preston is seriously ill at her residence and confined to bed for most of the time.
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George Preston
French refuse hospital plea over Neuilly strike
Paris June 18 The French government rejected Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus request for police evacuation of striking assistants scrubwomen and other workers at the American hospital in Neuilly sur Seine The strike risks the care of 85 patients including Americans with 23 in serious condition Strikers demand shorter hours Officials said police action could cause further trouble
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Paris
Jesse Isidor Straus
United States
Straus
Neuilly-Sur- Seine
Ohio bridge commission weighs state takeover of river crossings
The Ohio state bridge commission studied a plan to take over all or parts of 23 Ohio River bridges linking Ohio with Kentucky and West Virginia. Norman H. Houk, Sandusky Bay bridge manager, said traffic rose about 85 percent since state ownership and auto tolls dropped from 50 to 25 cents.
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Columbus
State Bridge Commission
Ohio River
Kentucky
West Virginia
Norman H. Houk
Sandusky Bay
Pension Applications Drop By Half As Aged Aid Plans Grow
Henry J. Berrodin chief of the state aid for the aged division said new old age pension applications have fallen about 50 percent from the peak. He predicted the division would reach a saturation point with about 110000 pensioners by year end. Currently 28 percent of applications are rejected. The program began in 1934 with 1150 pensioners receiving first checks and $14 000 000 distributed in the first year.
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Columbus, O
Henry J. Berrodin
State Aid For
Division of Aid For the
Census shows Ohio city deaths down in four cities
Federal census bureau figures released today show fewer fatalities in four of the eight most populous Ohio cities for the four weeks ending June 6, 1936, than in the same period a year earlier. Akron Canton Cleveland and Columbus reported declines. Cincinnati had 11 deaths per period while Dayton Toledo and Youngstown rose.
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Washington
Federal Census Bureau
Ohio
Akron
Canton
Cleveland
Columbus
Cincinnati
Dayton
Toledo
Youngstown
Ohio welfare aid bill faces larger relief package surge
The House Finance Committee in Columbus debates boosting the relief appropriation from 6.5 million to about 8.5 million, with an extra 2 million from year end general revenue. Welfare leaders push to raise the monthly family allowance from 12 to 14 dollars and demand cash grants for housing, food, clothing, medical care, and other essentials under a new state relief standard.
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Columbus
House Finance Committee
House
Julian W. Schweller
Putnam
Schweller
Marzel Levan
D-Cuyahoga
Unconscious 2-year-old struck by fork in barn accident
Billy King 2 1/2 of near Mechanicsburg lay unconscious in a Columbus hospital after a fork tine pierced his eye and brain when a hired man tossed the fork from a barn second floor. Physicians reported the tine paralyzed his right side and the incident occurred as the child played inside the barn.
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Columbus
Billy King
W. Paul King
Mechanicsburg
Veteran Vermaaten Receives Bond Return Found Near State Office
Columbus World War veteran Anton W. Vermaaten regained five $50 bonus bonds after W. A. Royer found them yesterday near the state office building in an envelope in a pedestrian path.
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Columbus, O
Anton W. Vermaaten
Columbus
Woman Beaten by Terrorists Tied to Black Legion
Detroit reports authorities pledge protection to informants aiding in rounding up 40 suspected Black Legion members as they probe a beating of Mrs. Dorothy Guthrie 33. Police guard named James Stewart after a similar informant tip. One suspect William Moore held. case linked to possible Black Legion homicide. Earlier, Hudson Motor Co. local UAW member John Bielak shot near Monroe on March 15 1934.
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Detroit
Black Legion
Dorothy Guthrie
William H. Guthrie
James Stewart
Ecorse
Michigan
William Moore
John I. Navarre
Navarre
John L. Bielak
Hudson Motor Car Co
State rests in first Wellington bank case trial
Elyria June 18 The state is expected to rest today in the trial of Edward Gromand and Theny Papes both 28 and Cleveland on charges connected with the first Wellington bank.
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Elyria
Edward Gromand
Theny Papes
Cleveland
First Wellington Bank
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Lake Shore
Gallipolis
Automobile Transportation
CAFE
F.E. Carpenter
Nobleville, Ind
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