President Seeks End Of Steel Strike With Appeal
President Roosevelt reviewed and sent the CIO appeal for presidential intervention to the National Labor Relations board and Secretary Frances Perkins. The message from 80 CIO locals asks quick action to end the strike, but officials say no direct move was planned and it will be routed to the labor department and NLRB. In Youngstown Ohio the CSO strike against three large steel firms showed few signs of peace on the 12th day.
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International News Service
Washington
Roosevelt
National Labor Relations Board
Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins
Chicago
White House
CIO
Labor Department
NLRB
Labor Board
Youngstown
CSO
Spee
Pa Newc Observes and Local Notices Collate
East North street reports four boys on a single bike with a rider supporting a cross passenger. Harrisburg notes an amended election law extends polls to 8 pm. June 14 becomes Flag Day legal holiday. New Castle may require rubber horseshoes on horses on newly paved streets. Firemen report rising furnace smoke from drafts.
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East North Street
Pa Newe
New Castle
Gecour
Daily Weather Report Summary for 9 AM Period
United States weather reports show 24 hour period ending 9:00 this morning with max 86 degrees min 53 and precipitation 0.07 inches. River stage 4.6 feet. A Sunday period reports max 7 degrees min 58 and precipitation noted as trece.
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United States
Trece
Swarm of Bees Takes Over Car in Parked Lot
A large swarm of bees settled on the exhaust of Gottfried Ullrich’s car in the Jones parking lot on Rebecca Way. Mrs. Belle Miller reported the hum as hundreds swarmed the vehicle and a man and boy even coaxed some into a box. Ullrich drove the car home Saturday night and Sunday, but many bees remained.
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Gottfried Ullrich
North Mill Street
Jones Parking Lot
Rebecca Way
Belle Miller
Ullrich
Graduates Hear Baccalaureate in Cathedral Service
The 296 members of the June class of 1937 at Senior High School gathered in the cathedral for the baccalaureate service. Dr Norris A White spoke on Life At Its Full, with Rev D G Schnebly delivering the invocation and prayer. Principal Frank L Orth and class president William Chip led the procession as the senior choir sang Lovely Appear and Steal Away. The program included readings, an offering for commencement expenses, and the congregation sang America the Beautiful before White delivered his sermon.
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Robert, N. Montgomery
Muskingum College
Norris A. White
M. E
White
D. G. Schnebly
Madhoningtown Presbyterian Church
Frank L. Orth
William Chip
Wagner
A. Alfred Taylor
U. P
Latge Center
Schnebly
Joseph PF. Replogle
America
Dr. White
Slayer of Girl Pleads Guilty in Radio Studio Murder
Mischa Ross, 31, a booking agent, pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the killing of violinist Tan ya Lubova in the radio studio case. Judge Streit accepted the plea on a DA recommendation calling it a crime of passion with no premeditation. Ross faces 20 years to life at sentencing on June 21.
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International News Service
New York
Mischa Ross
Tanya Lubova
General Sessions
Streit
Dodge
Ross
Amelia Earhart Starts South Atlantic Flight Across Ocean
Amelia Earhart powers her large aircraft from Natal Brazil at 3 16 a m local time to begin the long south Atlantic crossing on the round the world route with Capt Noonan as navigator. The leg to Dakar is 1871 miles. she has 890 gallons of gasoline and eighty gallons of oil aboard.
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International News Service
Watal
Brazil
Amelia Earhart
South Atlantic
Dakar
French Senegal
Miss Earhart
Natal
Miss Jarnary
Atlantic
Wilmer Stutz
Lou Gordon
Fred J. Noonan
Miami
Puerto Rico
Campito
Venezuela
Faramaribo
Dutch Guiana
Fortaleza
Gladys MacKnight And Wightman Start Prison Terms
Gladys MacKnight and Donald Wightman were sent from Jersey City to the State prison at Trenton to begin 29 to 30 year sentences for the hatchet murder of Gladys mother Mrs MacKnight in Bayonne last July 31. Witnesses described farewell shouts as the youthful killers left, with Gladys birthday noted as 18 yesterday.
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International News Service
Jersey City
N. J
MacKnight
Donald Wightman
Trenton
Donald
Kid
Yoo Hoo
Gladys
Atike
Bayonne
Chain Store Tax Bill Is Signed
Harrisburg June 7 Gov George H Earle signed a graduated chain store tax for fourth class school districts. The levy expected to yield 3 500 000 over the next two years. The tax ranges from 1 to 300 per store depending on the number of stores in the chain. A companion bill earmarked proceeds for small school districts.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
George H. Earle
Legislature Ends Death Takes Session and Mandate Program
Harrisburg dispatch reports Gov George H Earle's mandate program was enacted in a 1937 legislature that ended its 114 day session at 7 55 am. The body approved sweeping relief consolidation labor, banking and utility regulation measures and merged the police with the highway patrol. The session launched a record two year budget exceeding half a billion dollars with many GOP amendments and portions dropped or altered.
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Harrisburg
George H. Earle
General Assembly
Relief and Public Assistance Administration
Police and Highway Patrol
Ford Assembly Plant Reopens After Vote to Return Workers
Richmond California June 7 The Ford assembly plant reopened after 800 employees voted to return to work ending a May 26 strike. U A W officials Ford executives and NLRB representatives held peace conferences as the union seeks sole bargaining recognition for all workers.
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International News Service
Richmond
Cal
Ford Assembly
United Automobile Workers' Union
Ford
National Labor Relations Board
Paint Brush Fire Causes Burns At City Home
Louis San Felice of 806 South Jefferson street suffered burns when a paint brush with flammable paint ignited from a spark from a motor while he cleaned it at 9 45 Sunday morning. Firemen arrived from Box 54 and the blaze spread to the building but was quickly extinguished with only a small loss.
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Louis San Felice
Jefferson Street
Smoking Furnace Alarm At 507 Court Street
Firemen were dispatched to the home of Henry Williams at 507 Court Street on Saturday afternoon after a box 311 alarm at 4 05. Williams was burning paper in the furnace and smoke filled the house.
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Henry Williams
Court Street
Willams
Child's Arm Injured In Wringer Incident
Nickie Richards aged about 3 son of Mr Patsy Richards of South Jefferson street received treatment in New Castle hospital today for a severe laceration of a left arm. The child's arm was caught in a clothes wringer.
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Nickie Richards
Patsy Richards
South Jefferson Street
New Castle Hospital
Tean Harlow Dies in California Hospital
Hollywood bulletin reports actress Jean Harlow died at Good Samaritan hospital today at 11 37 a m PST The blonde film star known as Jean Harlow passed away following illness and is survived by family and industry colleagues
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International News Service
Hollywood
Tean Harlow
Good Samaritan
Inday
Butler Seeks Change of Vote on Parking Meter Purchase
City council session records Councilman B F Butler requesting to switch his aye to a nay on parking meter procurement. The motion to refer the request to the jetty solicitor failed to gain a second and no action was taken.
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B. F. Butler
James L. Fink
Butler
General Strike Protests Sweep Lansing
International News Services reports a general strike called by the United Automobile Workers Union in Lansing Michigan as 5 000 protesters rally at the capital. Pickets vandalized traffic and 34 city buses were taken off the street. UAW local president Lester Washburn addressed the crowd from a city hall roof while his wife remained jailed after being arrested during a prior picket at Capital Wrecking Company.
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International News Services
Lansing
Mich
GIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Michigan
State Capitol
City
Lester Washburn
UAW
Washburn
Capital Wrecking Company
Westminster College Graduates 105 In 83rd Commencement
Approximately two thousand attendees including 103 graduates heard Dr. William H. Spencer deliver Westminster College's eighty third commencement address on Old Main South Terrace. The four day program featured May Queen crowning May Day events and a service schedule led by Christian associations.
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New Wilmington
William H. Spencer
School of Business
University of Chicago
Westminster College
Old Main Memorial
Ralph M. Davis
Church of the Covenant
Erie
Torcer
Donald Cameron
Christian Associations
Board of Trustees
Scarlett
Louise Hess
Avalon
Katherine Freeman
Mary Elizabeth
Earle Dismisses Two Highway Officials Over Gravel Scandal
Governor George H. Earle announced the dismissal of H. H. Temple chief engineer for the State Highways Department and E. A. Griffiths former district engineer after a state police probe. He ordered a halt to gravel purchases from Pioneer Materials and directed probes into the tender process as 57 000 tons of gravel bought by the department were found not up to specifications.
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International News
Harrisburg
George H. Earle
Erie
Highway Department
H. H. Temple
State Highways Department
E. A. Griffiths
Clearfield
Adams Lynn G. Adams
Armory Work To Resume Tuesday
The Joseph V. Cunningham Armory project will restart work Tuesday after a delay in funding. Lloyd McCormick of the Works Progress Administration says initial quarry work will begin, with admin building tasks to follow in about two weeks using a new appropriation of roughly 892000 to complete the armory.
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Joseph V. Cunningham
Lloyd McCormick
Works Progress Administration
Governor Carle Takes Canadian Fishing Trip
Harrisburg reports Governor George H. Carle abandoned executive duties to undertake a Canadian fishing trip after pledging to pursue further reforms with legislative support.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
George H. Carle
Bodies in Snow Sought From Six Month Plane Crash
Seven victims from a Western Air Express luxury plane crash near Salt Lake City are being sought beneath deep mountain snow six months after the December 15 disappearance. Bits of wreckage found near Long Peak indicate the party remains buried about twenty five feet from the ridge top. The passengers include Pilot S J Samson of Glendale California and Co pilot W L Bogen of Glendale alongside stewardess Gladys Witt and others from Chicago Minneapolis and Dwight Illinois.
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International News Service
Salt Lake City
Here
Long Peak
Western Air Express
J. Samson
Glendale
Calif
Wiliam L. Bogen
Gladys Witt
John Wolfe
Chicago
H. N. Edwards
Minneapolis
Carl Christopher
Dwight, I
Young Pilot Rescued From Burning Plane Crash
Russell Kirbert age 22 Cincinnati Ohio State University senior was pulled from a burning private plane after a forced landing by two bystanders. He was treated for burns on his arms and legs. A broken fuel line caused the ignition.
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International News Service
Columbus
Russell Kirbert
Cincinnati
Ohio State University
Mother of Twins Jumps to Death at Allegheny Valley Hospital
Mrs. Lora Minne nilla 32 jumped from a second floor window of Allegheny Valley hospital Tarentum Pa after brooding since the births of twins. The hospital reported the twins were doing nicely and police said the event occurred about a week after the birth.
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Tarentum
Igle
Lora ‘Minnenilla
Allegheny Valley Hospital
Death Notices Record Two Dead and Several Ages
Death notices list David Walls 22 of Thorpe Street Arch Hoffman 55 of Qing Street Agnes Minnick 83 of New Wilmington Melvin Morrison 30 of Dewey Avenue Waters Whittaker 46 Ellwood City John Graham 79 Ellwood City Anne Guthrie Iman 5 Youngstown Cecelia Locke 54 Bessemer Joseph Meitraian 30 417 Euclid Avenue Charles Bollack 59 Bot h Joseph DeVincent 45 Koppel
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David Eugene Walls
Thorpe Street
Arch D. Hoffman
County
Qing Street
Agnes Dodds Minnick
New Wilmington
Melvin G. Morrison
Dewey Avenue
Waters Whittaker
Ellwood City
John Graham
Anne Guthrie Iman
Youngstown
Cecelia Locke
Bessemer
Joseph W. Meitraian
Euclid Avenue
Charles Roland Bollack
First Rural Voter Registration Days Set in Lawrence County
County commissioners announce three personal registration days for rural voters June , July 6 and August 10 to be held at regular polling places across 58 precincts. Voters must register by August 14 to participate in the September 14 primary. After registration days, rural residents must register at the Lawrence County Courthouse to vote or change party affiliation.
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Townships
Boros
Act of General Assembly
Registration Commission
Lawrence County Court House
Lawrence County
Accident injures man near Rose Point on Butler-New Castle road
John W. Logue of 609 West Penn Street Butler suffered a wrenched foot in a car collision on the Butler New Castle road near Rose Point at 5 30 p m Sunday. Patrolman said Drennan Baxter backed down hill into a line of cars. Logue’s car was hit by Gale Pitzers then struck Paul Frazer then Joseph Igow’s vehicle in a chain reaction.
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John W. Logue
West Penn Street
Butler
Butler-New Castle
Rose Point
Drennan S. Baxter
North Bay Street
Logue
Gale Pitzer
West Avenue
Paul Frazer
Butler Avenue
Frazi
Joseph Igow
Tarentum
Weedy Garden Dreams and Odd Weather Poems
A quirky verse features Arthur Mometer lamenting slow crop growth caused by weeds and stray grass. Flowers fail to heed and copy the weedy habits, turning the garden into a burden rather than a pleasure. A wish for plant magic echoes amid tangled imagery.
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Tris
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Daily Weather Report
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Annona
Mischa
Shidio
Elon Attankie
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Wightman
Democratic
State Assembly
Frederick N. Polangin
Totentina Service
Paudent
Jean Harlow
Dixie Queen
Petite Elvira Bryson
Asheville
N. C
Holmes Bryson
Earle
Utah
H Joseph DeVincent
Koppel
Arthur Mometer
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