Nationwide Memorial Day violence toll tops 290 deaths
The Associated Press reports nearly 300 people died in three days of Memorial Day weekend across 45 states. Traffic crashes caused 174 deaths and drownings 72. Illinois led with 25 fatalities, followed by Pennsylvania with 22 and Ohio with 20. A Big Four train struck a car at Columbus crossing, and two Ashland aviators died in a crash near Cheboygan Michigan.
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Illinois
Pennsylvania
Ohio
William Yaucht
William, Jr
Columbus
Charles F. Jenkins
David H. Armentrout
Henry Huey
Cleveland
Ashland, O
Frank Miller
Robert E. Riley
Miller
Mullet Lake
Cheboygan
Mich
Supreme Court Assembles Today
The Supreme Court met for its final eight month term session as decisions broadened government reach over labor relations and regulation. It considered three actions: NLRB withdrawal from Philadelphia litigation over Republic Steel reinstating 5,000 striking workers, a bid to revisit a Kansas City stockyards charge reduction procedure, and Mooney’s habeas corpus review after a California high court denial.
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Washington
Supreme Court
National Labor Relations Board
Third
Circuit Court of Appeals
Philadelphia
Republic Steel Corporation
Cewt
Wallace
Kansas City
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
California Supreme Court
Fire threat ends with no damage behind Ruble apartments
A rubbish fire in the alley behind the Ruble apartments on West Second Street at 1 P M threatened a nearby garage building. City fire crews contained the blaze with no damage reported.
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Ruble Apartments
West Second Street
Logan High graduates as 110 seniors to receive diplomas
Dr J L Clifton of Ohio State University will deliver the commencement address at Logan High School tonight at 8 o'clock in the hilltop auditorium. 110 seniors will receive diplomas, the largest class in the history of Logan public schools, as Representative Harry H Wright presents the sheepskins.
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J. L. Clifton
College of Education
Ohio State University
Logan High School
Logan Public Schools
Hilltop
Harry H. Wright
Logan Board of Education
Minnie Louise Bowen
Elmer Bliss
Trinity Lutheran Church
A. L. Heyde
St. Matthew Lutheran Church
Plan Baptismal Rites at Falls Mill
Baptismal services will be held at Falls Mill bridge at 2 P.M. next Sunday with Rev. Miranda Casto in charge. The public is welcome to attend.
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Falls Mill ‘Bridge
Miranda Casto
Auto dealer's body found near Bremen woods
Howard M. McCandlish, a well known Bremen auto dealer, was found dead Saturday in Ketter's Woods five miles west of Bremen. Coroner Dupler ruled death by own action. The body lay beneath his car with a blanket over the head. He had left for his wife and friend Clay Weldy. Two boys named Driver located the corpse. He disappeared the day after his daughter Virginia graduated from Bremen High School.
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Bremen
Howard M. McCandlish
Ketter’s Woods
Dupler
Fairfield County
Presbyterian cleric elected stated clerk in U S A Assembly
Rev Dr William B Pugh of Chester Pennsylvania was chosen as stated clerk of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America during today’s session in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
William B. Pugh
Chester
General Assembly
The
Presbyterian Church
Board seeks re hearing in coal case appeal
The Bituminous Coal Producers Board of the Ohio District asks the Court of Appeals for a new hearing against Starr Jackson Mining Co. arguing the court confused assessments with the excise tax and noting the 1935 Guffey Act gave code members broader benefits than stated.
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Court of Appeals
Phil A. Henderson
Taplin
Supreme Court
Carter
District Board
Starr-Jackson Co
Order abolishes agency at Drakes
Columbus Ohio May 31 The State Utilities Commission authorized the New York Central Railroad to change its stations at Drakes Perry County and South Zanesville to nonagency outlets for carload business only.
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Columbus
State Utilities Commission
New York Central Railroad
Drakes
Perry County
Zanesville
Borah Attacks Wage Measures in Congressional Row
Senator Borah assailed both House and Senate wage hour bills, warning the Senate version would grant a five member board Hitler like powers and excuse some firms from pay and hour rules. He refused to back the conference compromise without wage differentials, criticizing the House bill for lacking such differentials.
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Washington
Borah
Idaho
House
Senate
Hold Suspects In Ohio Kidnaping
FBI announced arrests in the West of James E Merritt and Edna Lucille Merritt in the Highland County farmer Har ley Spruance kidnapping. Dorothy Hikterbran, 17, surrendered to Springfield police and is free on bond awaiting grand jury action. Spruance was abducted by car to Indiana and forced to pay $3,000.
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Cincinnati
Federal Bureau of Investigation
West
James E Merritt
Edna Lucille
Harley Spruance
Highland County
Dorothy Hikterbran
Indiana
Investigation Of Levine Murder Moves Forward
In New Rochelle on May 31, investigators pressed three fronts in the Peter Levine kidnap murder case. Medical experts conducted a painstaking microscopic exam of the boy’s organs to seek poison traces while officers searched the Long Island Sound shoreline and countryside for remains, clues, or the missing body parts. The 12 year old son of a New York lawyer disappeared February 24 and his body, lacking head and limbs, washed ashore after weeks amid three ransom notes.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Peter Levine
Long Island Sound
Levine Boy
New York
Freeman condition unchanged after shooting at attorney’s home
William Freeman remained in unchanged condition at Cherrington Hospital after being shot in the chest on Wednesday night. Allen R. McBroom, Logan attorney, is free on 1500 bond awaiting grand jury action on the shooting directed at Freeman and Mary Brooks who sought advice about a marriage license.
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William Freeman
Cherrington
Freeman
Mary Brooks
Allen R. McBroom
Logan
McBroom
Fort Wayne man dies as second victim in grade crossing crash
Morris E. Ferguson, 42, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, died last night as the second victim of a grade crossing accident that also killed his locomotive engineer partner Bert Young, also from Fort Wayne, the previous Thursday.
Logan High Graduates Hear Eversull On Christian Martyrs
Dr H K Eversull, president of Marietta College, urged Logan High School Class of 1938 graduates to embrace Christian martyrdom as a virtue. He contrasted Christianity with Paganism, stressing sacrifice, the cross, and the path to inner exaltation through belief in God. The baccalaureate drew hundreds of parents and friends, featuring performances by the Glee Club and A Cappella Choir under Minnie Bowen.
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H. K. Eversull
Logan High
Logan High School
Marietta College
Eversull
Logan High School Girls’ Glee Club
Minnie Louise Bowen
Peace returns at Goodyear Akron plants
At Akron Ohio on May 31 1946 peace prevailed as CIO United Rubber Workers members returned to four day strike after voting 9 to 1 to end the action. Union and non union workers resumed operations at 6 AM with minimal police presence and one cruiser near plant Number 1.
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Akron
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Goodyear
United Rubber Workers of America
Number 1
Crop Insurance Meetings Explain 1938 AAA Provisions
About 15 farmers attended a Laurelville meeting where local officials explained crop insurance provisions under the 1938 AAA. Two educational meetings reported total attendance under 30 farmers, with a Logan gathering Friday night drawing about 12 participants.
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Laurelville
AAA
Logan
Hikers and Tracksters Visit Logan After Weekend Outing
About 100 Columbus hiking club members halted in Logan for dinner after a WV hills weekend. One bus was driven by George Strasbaugh, formerly from Logan and now with Valley Public Service Co. Last Friday night over 40 Miami University track team members bivouacked in Logan before heading to Athens for an intercollegiate meet.
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Columbus Hiking Club
Logan
West Virginia Hills
George Strasbaugh
The
Valley Public Service Company
Miami University
Athens
Walter Simpson Fractured Rib Blasting Accident Near Logan
Walter Simpson of Murray City was struck by a rock during blasting at the Whitcraft quarry near Logan on Saturday and sustained a fractured rib. He was discharged from Cherrington Hospital Sunday and his condition is not serious.
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Walter Simpson
Murray City
Whitcraft
Logan
Cherrington Hospital
Five Year Old Kidnapping Shocks Princeton Fla
In Princeton Florida five year old James Bailey Cash Jr was abducted from his bed Saturday night. His father W P Cash, a wealthy merchant, reported ransom of 10000 paid via car drops following a kidnapper map. FBI and Hoover team to pursue leads as boy remains missing with threats noted in three notes.
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Princeton
Fla
W. P. Cash
James Bailey Cash
Young Cash
Cash
James Bailey Cash, Jr
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Miami
Here
J. Edgar Hoover
Washington
Cincinnati Girl Attacked Slain Confession Heard
Police announced Lindbergh Heist 15 alias Lindbergh Trent confessed to raping and stabbing six year old Shirley Ann Woodburn. Investigators held two others overnight while tracing clues from a five year old playmate who said she went with a man into the woods. The girl’s body was found in weeds after 28 stab wounds and one dozen more, with mud in her mouth, as authorities intensify a citywide search.
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Cincinnati
Patrick Hayes
Lindbergh Heist
Lindbergh Trent
Shirley Ann Woodburn
Walter Hart
Shirley Ann
Emmet Kirgan
Marion McLean
Arthur Rahn
Woodburn
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Blosser’s
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Lancaster
Howard McCandlish
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ORDER
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