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Newspaper
Logan Daily News
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1937
Page
1
Circuit Judge Charles C. Marshall overruled defense motions to discharge the jury trying Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt on an indictment accusing him of murdering his sweetheart Verna Garr Taylor in New Castle Kentucky. The trial proceeds with the jury to deliberate the case.
Representative Hugh M. Rigney of Champaign Illinois asked Postmaster General Parley to issue a special stamp marking the 105th anniversary of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The request frames a commemorative issue tied to an early American territorial law.
James C. Oldfield reports at the Chateau de Cande in Monts France that Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor walked with a detective and Rogers of New York as gates kept the curious away. They argued about a home with Wallis favoring the United States and Edward preferring Austria though wedding plans appear delayed.
A six member Ohio commission will study methods to collect an estimated 200 million dollars in delinquent real estate taxes. Three senators three representatives a county auditor a county treasurer and a county prosecutor will begin work once staffing is finalized. Senators McCluskey Thomas and Metcalf are named among the members. The panel will make recommendations to the current or next general assembly.
A threatened Lorain transit walkout was averted as operators accepted a 20 cent hourly raise to 60 cents amid a 33 13 percent wage demand. Negotiations by the striking unions were reported broken off in a 19 day dispute affecting Akron’s transportation system. In Dayton a west side store reported two stench bombs hurled through a show window amid pressure from independent grocers demanding police protection for a uniform closing hour violation.
Harriet Boyden an 18 year old from Marathon New York was cleared by a Suffolk County grand jury on charges tied to the death of her baby boy found suffocated in a suitcase at an exclusive secretarial school. Assistant medical examiner Cornelius J. O'Leary testified suffocation as the cause.
St Louis May 5 AP Members of United Automobile Workers began a sit down strike at General Motors Chevrolet and Fisher Body plants to protest the discharge of 37 employees. Norman Smith organizer said 378 men ceased work within an hour, halting operations.
In Rockford Illinois on May 5 three hundred Harlem Consolidated High School students strike after the board of education reaffirms the dismissal of Principal Ben A Hoff man. The open meeting ends in wild disorder before deputies clear the wall.
London report says over 500 women finish last minute preparations for the coronation season first royal court at Buckingham Palace tonight. Fourteen American women will be presented as Her Majesties sit on gold thrones in the palace ballroom. gowns of lame or silk with long trains, white ostrich plumes, and tulle veils follow defined Lord Chamberlain instructions. The procession begins at 9 30 P M London time and lasts about two hours, followed by a royal buffet.
A lower torso of a woman was recovered from Lake Erie near Cleveland, matching an upper torso found February 23. Coroner Samuel Gerber says both portions align, potentially making the ninth victim. eight males and three females linked to a single killer, with four male bodies found in Kingsbury Run previously. The case traces to events starting September 5, 1934, as investigators search for the murderer.
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin called for industrial peace as London bus drivers threaten a walkout and 25,000 busmen join a national coal strike looms. A 12,000 streetcar workers delegation sought permission to join the action while MPs debated Welsh and English miners' strike decisions.
Nora Diver reported a burglary in Middletown Ohio where a burglar entered her room and took $1.25. The intruder covered her mouth and asked for quiet saying he was in a bad way and needed money, promising to return it once he found a job.
Gov Martin Levy signed a bill sponsored by Rep P E Ward to raise salaries for county commissioners with a 2000 to 5000 dollar range. Incumbent commissioners are not affected. Cleveland area Cuya hoga county keeps salaries aligned with the county auditor.
Picket lines form about a mile from Holy Hill Carmelite monastery as carpenters union members protest non union labor on a nearby construction site. Sunday pilgrimages by Catholics limit closer access, with shrine grounds extending to the highway edge. Walter Dunn notes the protest dates and location.
Hollywood reports predicted an end to the five day film strike as longshoremen and the CIO sent reinforcements while labor conciliator for producers forecast a resolution. A clash at I A T S E headquarters left six injured. the Screen Actors Guild began talks with producers to settle wage and working conditions, including a closed shop demand.
Cincinnati police detain six boys aged 10 to 14 after a threat to throw them in the river prompts questioning. The youths admit membership in a crime bent hooded legion, affiliates undergoing branding as initiation. Detectives say the group burglarized two cases and planned a third. initiates must own a white hood and endure an X burned on the wrist.
Columbus dispatch reports Detective Chief Harry Carson predicting the return by Saturday of Verl R. Billingsley Ohio State University athletic department official Robert Bair and James Shadrach missing 40 days. He suspects Billingsley misused money and the trio may be in a tourist camp or resort. a statewide hunt has been under way since their disappearance was reported Monday.
Cleveland May 5 The Republic Steel Corp facing a looming strike by the steel workers organizing committee said it was ready to meet with anyone to bargain for their representative and proposed a conference in Cleveland next Tuesday to discuss terms and resolution of the dispute.
State GOP Chairman Ed D Schorr files mandamus suit in Ohio Supreme Court seeking to force Secretary of State William J Kennedy to approve referendum petition forms. He argues the emergency declaration by the legislature to limit referendums is not final and that the bill unjustly alters county commissioner appointments previously set for 85 years.
New York May 5 AP The annual spring escape at Columbia University ended without arrests. About 1,000 students marched from dorms to Broadway toward Barnard College pulling fences, moving cars, and lighting bonfires. Police kept up but served mainly as observers.
Washington May 5 AP A subcommittee hearing on Roosevelts proposed 1.5 billion relief fund opens with Harry Hopkins endorsing the presidents plan. A rising faction seeks to cut 500 million while progressives push for 2.69 billion, arguing smaller sums require more requests later. Woodrum signals a test of monetary restraint balanced against relief needs.
A Barcelona radio report says the anarchist uprising against Catalan and Valencia regimes ended peacefully. It notes about 100 deaths, and cites Juan Garcia Oliver arriving to negotiate with President Luis Companys of autonomous Catalonia. The revolt aimed to disarm insurgents and seize control of telephone and telegraph lines.
Chairman Frank Miller of the tax commission said he was ordered by the governor to dismiss 200 of the 934 tax division employees. The list includes C Elbert Black, chief of the gasoline tax division, a civil service employee, named by secretary Myrna Smith of Gov. Martin L Davey's office.
Mrs. Carl Raymond Gray of Omaha the American Mother of 1937 calls for more religion and more children at home and bans cocktails and cigarets. She asserts the last goes for the men too and speaks as a vivacious 67 year old grandmother with golden hair.
Cleveland May 5 The Plain Dealer reports Dale Cox longtime business columnist resigns effective week end to join International Harvester Co Chicago in a new post.
Cincinnati report notes John Moore of Loveland Ohio displaying a tan, claims he once dashed to a Mayanete pie stash, Honduran cigarettes, and $1.13 as proof that a person can hitchhike to him and back in two weeks, the details reflecting a quirky travel boast from a local grocer.
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