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Newspaper
Logan Daily News
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1937
Page
1
Mrs Marjorie Thompson Miners told police she had no hand in the clash between police and pickets at a Republic Steel plant in East Chicago but was arrested on unlawful assembly charges. The Steel Workers Organizing Committee protests all arrests as illegal under the Wagner act.
Chicago May 31 AP Three strike sympathizers were reported dead after a clash at Republic Steel South Chicago. Sixty six strikers and 23 police were injured. Hospitals reported additional deaths and many wounded as police and demonstrators clashed with rocks and gunfire. The riot began after a mass meeting near the plant as officers tried to halt the march toward gates.
Thomas Love, 31, Hollister, was killed when Clarence Roby, Carbon Hill, driving toward Hollister to pick up Love's wife for a Chauncey funeral, collided with a C and C passenger train near Beaumont. Roby escaped serious injury after the coupe wreck. The train left Logan half an hour earlier. warnings were given as the locomotive neared the crossing.
In Monts France on May 31 AP reports the duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield kept a low profile as their wedding looms in three days. Aunt Bessie Merryman from Washington watched over Wallis during tea at the Touraine retreat as the couple prepared for Thursday.
Berlin May 31 AP All shore leaves in the German navy were canceled after a cabinet decision to take measures following the bombing of the pocket battleship Deutschland by Spanish airplanes Saturday. The death toll stood at 23 with 19 seriously wounded. ministers met in a hastily called session as a semiofficial communique demanded satisfaction and nonrecurrence of attack.
In Crisfield Maryland on May 31 seven African Americans perished when a strawberry pickers shanty burned at Marion Station, pushing the week’s death toll from similar fires to eleven.
In Defiance Ohio on May 31 AP reports firefighters dragged the Maumee River seeking the body of eight year old Paul Parcher son of Glenn Parcher who has been missing since Friday and is presumed drowned.
Mystery surrounds a crowding gas like irritant on Logan's Main Street Saturday night. Many reported burning eyes and headaches with symptoms resembling tear gas. Explanations include road oil on dirt streets, car exhaust, or dust in the air, though officials doubt the oil caused the effect.
Service Director Roy Loomis announced the contract for plans and specifications of a new iron removal and filtration system at the waterworks was awarded to Burgess and Niple of Columbus. Four firms were considered Jennings and Lawrence Ullmann and Floyd Brown among them. The winner brings 15 years of Logan waterworks experience and prior survey work here.
Ed Collins, a WPA engineer, is reported seriously ill at his High Street home after a nervous breakdown. His condition is described as acute and neighbors report concern.
Three old soldiers in Hocking County recall the Civil War as more than 1300 local men served. Lucius Kepler of Green Township, 95 in January, fought at Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, then with Sherman to the sea. The county’s first company, Seventeenth Regiment, drew 91 men under Captain Barker at Lancaster in 1861.
An Athens County woman, Pauline Gillott of Redtown, died when her car went over a bank near Candytown on Saturday. Six others were injured in two separate Memorial Day weekend crashes on county roads. Police investigated. funeral services set for Gillott, who left behind a husband and two children.
Funeral services set for John P. Michel, 72, at Heintstein Funeral Home Wednesday at 2 30 PM. He died yesterday at 649 Church St. Rev A L Heyde to lead the service. Burial planned at Oak Grove.
The Pan American Airways flying boat Bermuda Clipper completed its second New York Bermuda round trip. It landed at Port Washington Long Island at 3 16 P M EST after a nonstop flight of a little over five hours.
Terry McGovern and family moved to Columbus today from their home on N Mulberry Street.
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