Buy Now Campaign Launched By New Deal Officials
Washington Aug 7 The recovery administration launches a Buy Now campaign urging spending under the Blue Eagle to support employment as wage and hour agreements rise. Hugh S Johnson says buying supports jobs and warns spending elsewhere harms business leaders paying higher wages. The president backs contract adjustments to rising prices and a new labor arbitration board meets to study strikes.
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Associated Press
Washington
Recovery Administration
Hugh S. Johnson
Blue Eagle
Johnson
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Congress
Executive Department
CUNS CRACK IN MILK CLASHES
New York reports violence in a milk dispute as seven milk workers clash with guards. Machines and rifles reportedly used. patrols and guards were present after the clash near a village. Officials and sheriffs monitor the situation as order is sought.
Repeal Victory Seen in Arizona
Associated Press reports Arizona voters face a July 8 decision on repealing the 18th amendment. Anti repeal forces conceded likely passage despite a court bid to block ballots. Arizona’s 14 convention delegates were to be elected by counties with no anti repeal candidates nominated.
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Associated Presse
Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Anti Repeal
Bombs Wreck Ohio Thresher in Rural Gangs Conflict
In St Clairsville Ohio a thresher and a tractor were wrecked by two dynamite blasts as a rural gangland fight for the wheat threshing business appears at Bethesda district. Forrest Heskett owner of the outfit valued at about $4,000 said his loss. Sheriff Howard Duff noted the explosion on Roy Ballard’s farm drew hundreds of farmers to help but deputies found no culprits.
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ST. Clairsvillee
Ohio
Howard Duff
Bethesda
Forrest Heskett
Roy Ballard
Heskett
Free 15 Minutes Man Must Serve 2 Extra Years
Sam Wricht, 43, of Cleveland, must serve two additional years after a 15 minute escape from Ohio penitentiary. He was sentenced to 10 to 12 years for robbers by Cuyahoga County. A guard spotted him fleeing the quarry gate as a visitor shielded him, and he was recaptured 15 minutes later, with the extra time added to his sentence.
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Columbus
Sam Wricht
Cleveland
Ohio Penitentiary
Curahoga County
Wricht
Steme
de Neq
Gerete
Miners Snub Truce in Pennsylvania Coal Fields
Thousands of miners in southwestern Pennsylvania refuse to return to work despite a Roosevelt backed truce. The H. C. Frick Coke Co postponed reopening 10 Fayett e mines to tomorrow. Pickets form and National Guardsmen brace for possible resumption as union disputes persist over checkweighmen and fair competition terms.
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Associated Press
Prownsville
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
H. C. Frick Coke Co
Fayette County
Pinchot
Davidson
Connellsville Goal and Coke Co
Frick Company
National Guardsmen
Allegheny County
Pr. T. Fagan
District 5
Fagan
Pittsburgh Coal Co
Montour
Montour Mine No. 10
Washington
Hocking Miners Get Pay Boost
Ohio’s coal fields announce wage increases in Hocking Pomeroy and Crooksville districts after a miners’ scale committee meeting. The new scale, effective Aug 16, runs until a statewide or national code is adopted, with inside day workers at 3.87 dollars, leaders 0.42 per ton, and machine men six cents. Oral Daugherty, Sunday Creek Coal superintendent, predicts a five dollar scale by Sept 1 under NRA code.
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Athens
Ohio
Hocking
Pomeroy
Crooksville
Oral Daugherty
Sunday Creek Coal Company
NRA
Shoe workers get raise in Haverhill arbitration award
In Haverhill Massachusetts about 16000 shoe workers will gain wage increases averaging more than 25 percent as an arbitration award announced today takes effect the first payroll week after August 12 with a flat increase of one percent starting August 1. The settlement resolves differences over the wage scale and benefits for the workers and their contract terms.
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Haverhill
Mass
Uprisings Mark Strike In Cuba
In Santiago one dead and two wounded as police cracked down on a large strike demonstra tion that halted commerce across Cuba. In Havana police forced shops to reopen, clubbed storekeepers, and fired on doors and windows while the army waited. The strike raised rumors of government resignation and widespread food shortages as markets stayed closed. Jose Lazo, a 20 year old Tampa born US citizen, was among those attacked. Thousands joined the Santiago protest, halting bread milk ice and meat supply.
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Havana
Santiago
Cuba
Machado
Jose Lazo
Tampa
Fla
United States
Vanceburg Killing Tangles Thurman and Stidhams
In Kentuckian Petersville near Vanceburg Zolar Thurman 35 was shot to death by brothers John and Harrison Stidham 28 and 30 who fled into timbered hills while two eye witnesses stood by. Thurman had earlier struck Harrison Stidham with a rock after a Saturday argument.
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Zolar Thurman
Petersville
John Stidham
Harrison Stidham
Kentucky Hills
Thurman
Stidham
Eli Stidham
Stidman
John
Harrison Stedham
Secret goes to grave at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Aug 7 note reveals a hidden message about Johns Hopkins Hospital and Willem L Woods. the hospital lacks a cornerstone and contains hidden mementos. A funeral, a sealed envelope, and attempts to tell the truth are described, with posthumous hints about the grave secret dying with the patient.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Willem L. Woods
Baltt
Peeterder
Auto pileup injures nineteen near Portsmouth
Nineteen people are injured in a string of crashes near Portsmouth with six in serious condition. Two drivers face driving while intoxicated charges as responders describe a westbound Fannin family and Lamblin children among those involved. One vehicle rolled after Parker’s car left the road, ending up on the fan.
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Portsmouth
John Parker
Scito Trail
Parker
John Martin
Woodland Avenue
Sciotoville
H. D. White
Jackson Street
James F. Rabin
Ninth Street
Charles Davis
Morehead
Jack Schultz
Cline Charles
Cincinnati
James F. Bahin
Friendship
Fannin
Lamblin
H. T. Thornton
State Income Levy Studied for Ohio Relief Plan
Governor White weighs an earned income tax proposal for the August 16 special session. He asked Carl ton Dargusch of the state tax commission to study California’s one third of federal tax, to see how it would work in Ohio. A California style levy could yield 10 to 15 million dollars yearly, officials estimate.
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Columbus
White
Carlton
Dargusch
State Tax Commission
California
Ohio
Death mystery cleared in San Diego child death case
A playmate of Dalbert Apohian told Sheriff Ed Cooper that the boy died accidentally in San Diego. Medical experts reexamined the body and found it plausible that crabs could be portions of the child, suggesting a possible slaying and mutilation. Two experts disagreed.
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San Diego
Calif
Aug. T
Dalbert Apohian
Ed Cooper
Dalbert
Jackie Confar
Delbert
Get A Times Extra From Street Notices
Fragmentary text reveals a street notice about an extra edition of Get A Times Extra. Mentions 9 30 clock time and campaign interest. readable names and details are unclear due to garbled OCR.
Quiet New Boston City Council Primary Draws Few Voters
In New Boston a light council primary is expected with under 5,000 votes cast as polls run 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. FE C Hood reports 92 absent and disabled ballots. November saw 840. Six of twenty candidates will advance to a November runoff for three four year terms. Results anticipated by 9:30 p.m. with complete early Wednesday. Parties deny organized backing and observers note minimal campaigning due to low interest.
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FE. C. Hood
Election Board
New Boston
Record Kentucky toll hits fourteen in election quarrels
The Associated Press reports fourteen people were killed and ten wounded across Kentucky mountain counties during weekend primary election disputes. Ballots were still being counted as guardsmen patrolled counties including Breathitt and Bell. Causes cited include county race passions, old grudges at polling sites, and a liquor-deal quarrel.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Kentucky
Brown Strong
Breathitt County
Frank Brock
Bell County
National
Harlan County
Harlan
House
Senate
General Assembly
Lindbergh Reports Daring Greenland Flight
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is reported to have completed a daring flight Sunday through fog and rain from Scoresby Sound East Greenland to Angmagssalik. Earlier he achieved the first westward crossing of Greenland’s eastern coast, continuing toward the goal of a wire mail route.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Charles A. Lindbergh
Scoresby Sound
Greenland
Angmagealik
Lindbergh
Boy 15 Shoots Half-Brother In Family Quarrel
Marietta Aug 7 Doctors prepared for a blood transfusion to save Joseph Law rence Sykes 15 after he was shot in chest neck and head by his half-brother David 13 during a family quarrel at Bonn pear. The five Weaver children argued and Joseph eldest by a former marriage threw a stone at Bessie 10. David then grabbed a shotgun and opened fire.
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Joseph Lawrence Sykes
David
Bonn
Pear
Joseph
Bessie
Girl Guarded After Threats at Lake Kezar Camp
National guardsmen surrounded Camp Bruno at Lake Kezar to shield Betty Downes, 15, daughter of a Pennsylvania railroad executive, after a kidnap threat. Deputies and police searched nearby roads. federal agents sought suspects. Downes said a threatening letter arrived and a phone warning followed.
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N. H
Lake Kezar
Betty Downes
Pennsylvania Railroad
Camp Brueno
James Downes
Philadelphia
Air Service Arranged at Raven Rock Airport This Summer
Everett . Newman, a pilot with years of local flights, will team with Hugh Ruel to run Raven Rock airport for the rest of summer offering commercial tax and cross country service. Vaughe A. Talbott of the chamber of commerce will operate the uptown office. another office will be at the airport. Newman, previously at Barden, flies a Stimeon cabin plane and has been based at the Col ume airport for about ten days.
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Chamber of Commerce
Raven Rock
Everett
Newman
Hugh Ruel
Vaughe A. Talbott
Barden
Healo
Colume
French Ocean Fliers Land in Rayak Syria
Paris Aug 7 The Air Orient crew Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos completed a non stop flight from New York landing at Rayak Syria at 4 pm GMT Beirut relay confirms. Earlier reports said they intended to land at Rayak after a long over water crossing.
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French Ocean Fliers
Rayak
Syria
Paris
Air Orient Company
Maurice Rossi
Paul Codos
Syrin
Greenwich
Portsmouth
New York
Rossi
Codos
Rossi and Paul complete 25th nonstop North Atlantic crossing
On August 7 in New York the flight by Maurice Rossi and Paul marked the 25th nonstop North Atlantic crossing not counting the Lithuanian aviators tragedy. The 3,600 mile hop to Paris took 38 hours 39 minutes.
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New York
Maurice Rossi
Paul
North Atlantic Ocean
Paris
French aces near record after crossing Atlantic to Paris
Reports claim the French pilots surpassed the British distance record by about 200 miles after passing over Strasburg and Munich en route to Paris. Their monoplane Joseph Le Brin, with Rossi and Codos, had flown roughly 5690 miles from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, despite rough weather.
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Aleppo
Syria
London
Rayak
Strasburgh
France
Munich
Germany
Paris
le Bourget Air Field
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York
Joseph le Brin
Rossi
Codos
Floyd Bennett Field
North Atlantic Great Circle
Roosevelt Discusses Money Problems With Dollar Mystery Men
President Roosevelt at Hyde Park meets with two economists and James Warburg to discuss the dollar purchasing power and the secret study in Washington. He signals no policy change and continues backing domestic economic steps while avoiding world stabilization until true currency levels are known. Reports from Pennsylvania note miners question the soft coal truce, but the president regards the pact with good faith and relies on industrial leaders to sustain peace.
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Associated Press
Hyde Park
N. Y
George Warren
Cornell
James Harvey Rogers
Yale
James Warburg
Washington
Mr. Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
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