Cleveland Council seeks new aid source Unisound Burton
Cleveland leaders seek emergency funds as 66,000 destitute residents await relief. City will borrow about 400000 against anticipated 1939 state sales tax revenue, applying to the Ohio Tax Commission. Mayor Burton cautions the plan may raise next year's real estate taxes and warns the relief bills in deadlock.
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Cleveland
G. A. Gesell
Ohio Tax Commission
Harold H. Burton
House
Senate
Assembly
Columbus
Brick paving advances on Rockbridge highway relocation
Over 3,300 feet of concrete base for brick paving is laid on the Rockbridge relocation project. The new road will extend 1.52 miles with a brick wall planned end to end as a continuation of the prior experiment south of the village. Excavation and fills on the Enterprise project are 90 percent finished, with concrete base work due to begin soon.
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Rockbridge
Boyd Wright
Enterprise
Wright
Arthur Morgan 60 Hoping For Rest
Arthur E. Morgan, who led the Miami Conservancy District and headed Antioch College, says he will rest after the TVA inquiry ends. The former TVA chairman, 60 yesterday, seeks another high‑level project if it can succeed, amid renewed maladministration charges and his removal by President Roosevelt for contumacy.
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Yellow Springs
Arthur E. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Morgan
TVA
Miami
Father and son eye senate seats in Colorado race
Justice Benjamin C. Hilliard of the Colorado state supreme court may run for the United States Senate, putting him in a race for the same seat his son Albert Hilliard, a Reno attorney, has already declared for the Democratic nomination. Both are Roosevelt supporters.
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Benjamin C. Hilliard
Colorado State Supreme Court
United States Senate
Albert
Reno, Nev
Hilliard
Alva Adams
Colorado
Roosevelt
Paraguay withdraws from World Court at The Hague
Paraguay notified the League of Nations it would withdraw from the World Court to block Bolivia from taking the Chaco conflict to international adjudication. A final settlement plan, drafted by six neutral powers including the United States, failed when Paraguay rejected the modified formula on June 7 after a May 27 foreign ministers’ meeting.
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Geneva
Paraguay
League of Nations
World Court
Hague
Bolivia
Chaco
International Court
Picandea
United States
Roosevelt Reviews Europe Ties After Congress Session
President Roosevelt, after a New England cruise, meets with Joseph P. Kennedy in Hyde Park to discuss European developments. He acted on 36 of 43 awaiting bills, vetoed seven, approving a farm act wheat allotment rise and authorizing rivers and harbors work. A veto would have raised veteran disability benefits.
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N. Y
Roosevelt
Congress
Europe
Joseph P. Kennedy
London
New England
Hudson River
Dead in Rail Mishap Near Miles City
In Montana 31 dead and 12 more believed missing after the Milwaukee Olympian sleeper plunged from a flooded trestle on Custer Creek. Bodies recovered include two unidentified women and nurse Lucille Stumley of Volga South Dakota. Searchers labored through the night as officials opened an investigation into the wreck.
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Miles City
Mont
Custer Creek
Milwaukee Railroad
Lucille Stumley
Volga
S. D
Holy Rosary Hospital
Townsendites Hear Old Age Statistics
Townsend old age pension advocates reported at their third national convention that population studies predict a sharp rise in the elderly share of the population in coming decades. Dr Warren S Thompson of Miami University said the 65 and over group will exceed four times the 1980 census figure by 1980, arguing care for the aged should be a public function as the 65 plus cohort grows.
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Los Angeles
Townsend
Warrens. Thompson
Miami University
Oxford
Thompson
Hull Develops Plan to Humanize Warfare at State Dept
Secretary of State Hull is forming a program aimed at humanizing warfare with a focus on stopping aerial bombings of civilians. Details are pending and no diplomatic talks have begun, while Davis of the Red Cross advocates neutral hospital zones and limits on bombing open towns.
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Washington
State Hull
State Department
Hull
London
Norman H. Davis
American Red Cross
Davis
Welles
Red Cross
Roosevelt
Pittman
D-New
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Far East
Spain
Minnesota Primary Battle Narrows Benson Petersen Lead
Minnesota voters in a close Farmer-Labor primary saw Gov Elmer Benson pull ahead of challenger Hjalmar Petersen as returns from about half the precincts showed Benson 109188 Petersen 104750. Rural votes boosted Petersen but later ballots from Minneapolis narrowed the edge. Republicans total trailed by about 75 000 votes signaling cross voting to stop Benson in November.
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Minneapolis
Elmer A. Benson
Hjalmar Petersen
Farmer-Labor
Benson
Petersen
Hennepin County
Da vey accuses Sawyer of sending hecklers at Toledo meeting
Cincinnati June 21 AP Gov Martin L Davey charged that Communist booers who harassed him at a Toledo meeting last month were working for Charles Sawyer. He said his Democratic rival for governor is the candidate of John L Lewis head of the CIO. Davey said Sawyer sought Lewis's support in Washington and Lewis later declined comment.
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Cincinnati
Toledo
Charles Sawyer
Martin L. Davey
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Sawyer
Ohio
Davey
Washington
Lewis
New York
Rules On Gasoline Not Used As Fuel
In Columbus on June 21 AP reports Atty. Gen. Herbert S. Duffy said gasoline used in vehicles for nonpropulsive purposes is not subject to state gasoline taxes. The opinion also says the Tax Commission cannot require installation of extra tanks for such operations but can request information for refunds. It adds county commissioners lack authority to contract for dog law administration and may reclaim funds beyond the 50 percent statutory minimum.
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Columbus
Atty
Herbert S. Duffy
Tax Commission
Duffy
U. S. Warships Arrive in Bangkok for Week of Festivities
Six United States warships reached Bangkok after a voyage from Manila for a seven day visit. The destroyers Alden Barke r Edwards Paul Jones and Whipple and the destroyer Black Hawk arrived as Siam planned a week of festivities.
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U. S
Siam
Bangkok
United States
Manila
Alden
Barker
Edwards
Paul Jones
Whipple
Tenden Black Hawk
Elizabeth Learning Housekeeping From Royal Heritage
NEW YORK. June 21 There is a homey note from London as Princess Elizabeth trains in bed making and cooking as a Girl Guide. The future queen follows a royal family tradition of household duties, a skill passed from mother Queen Elizabeth to grandmother Queen Mary, and learned under royal supervision.
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New York
London
Elizabeth
British Empire
Girl Guides
America's
Girl Scouts
Queen Elizabeth
Mary
Duchess of York
Nazis Defense For Jew-Baiting Drive In Berlin
Berlin reports say the Nazi press defends anti Jewish measures as self defense against Jews swamping Berlin. The Reichs fuehrer newspaper Justifies actions citing German prosperity and lax foreign press reactions while foreign Jews abroad face relaxed registration rules. The Ministry of Economy exempts foreign Jews from property registration amid US protests.
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Berlin
Today
Ministry of Economy
United States
Beobachter
Reich
Social Security official visits Logan on claims and death benefits
Donald D. Messmer, assistant manager of the Social Security Board in Columbus, met with Logan residents at the Chamber of Commerce to discuss account numbers and claims. He noted many death claims arrive long after estates close, risking costs to beneficiaries. The board pays 3 percent of wages to the deceased’s estate or kin for covered employment since 1937, and same percent lump sums at age 65.
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Donald D. Messmer
Social Security Board
Columbus
Logan Chamber of Commerce
Messmer
Logan
Barton A. Hall
Chamber of Commerce
United States Treasury
FBI Espionage Expert Quits Agency After Spy Inquiry
Leon G. Turrou, head of the U S espionage investigation, resigns from the FBI citing health strain and a wish to write. He plans to cooperate with J Edgar Hoover and devote time to his family as eighteen defendants are indicted by a federal grand jury. Turrou says he will write about the Bureau of Investigation’s work.
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Turrou
Federal Grand Jury
Edward
Victor
George Washington University
Washington
Turreu
Bureau of Inestigation
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Waterworks Coal Contract Awarded to Wesley Hawk
Service Director Roy Loomis announced the city awarded the coal contract for the waterworks from July 1, 1938, to January 1, 1939 to Wesley Hawk of Nelsonville at 1.38 per ton. Charles E. Snyder bid 1.80 per ton. Coal to be supplied from the mine and hauled to Logan by city workers.
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Roy Loomis
City Waterworks
Wesley Hawk
Nelsonville
Charles E. Snyder
Logan
Zanesville Hires Athens School Chief
Kenneth C. Ray, longtime Athens County schools superintendent, was elected superintendent of Zanesville city schools for a three year term and will succeed C. T. Prose in September. The announcement came from Athens, Ohio, on June 21 in AP dispatches.
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Athens, O
Kenneth C. Ray
Athens County
Zanesville City
C. T. Prose
Ohio Christian Endeavor Union Opens 53rd Convention in Dayton
Dayton hosts the four day session beginning this evening with about 4,000 delegates expected to attend the 53rd annual convention of the Ohio Christian Endeavor Union.
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Dayton
Ohio Christian Endeavor Union
Prospects of Foreign Accord Produce Boom
Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pressed for a truce in Spain’s civil war through a Non-Intervention Committee session. The 27-member committee announced near full agreement on all points, signaling brighter prospects for an accord.
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London
Britain
Neville Chamberlain
Spain
War Secretary Hore-Belisha Says Britain Ready to Defend Itself
London dispatch reports Secretary of War Hore-Belisha telling the pro-government Liberal National Party council that the country is prepared to defend itself. He claims significant progress in rearmament and confidence in national readiness.
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London
Hore-Belisha
Liberal National Party
Spain Crisis Shapes European Pacification Drive
S B Kagan warned of good prospects for an accord with Britain and France to settle Spain. Britain Italy and France seek a general European appeasement, with a move toward Anglo-Italian friendship once Spain settles. Mussolini’s demand to activate the pact was declined. Frankrijk urged Barcelona toward armistice talks as Franco’s air raids prompted Britain’s stance.
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