Welfare drive nears half way mark in Portsmouth appeal
Portsmouth Welfare association reports progress in the 14th annual drive. Today’s totals reach 26 917 24 with 688 76 to reach the halfway goal. Industrial and women's divisions exceed quotas while others raise funds. luncheon meeting marks the final push before the deadline.
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Ortsmouth Welfare Association
Combes
Washington
Public Service Division
Annabel Head
Ruth Mellyar
Chauncey Baughn
Public Service Roup
Emes
Portsmouth
Heeling Steel Corp
Paul R. Stockham
D. M. Lickle
James B. Miller
Ames B. Pugh
Pearl Newad
Ross Williams
O. D. Donaldson
L. D. Oder
James Manning
Sulard Stewart
L. C. Chapman
Ruth Mevar
Harold Thompson
Man and girl injured in Portsmouth car mishaps
A man and a girl were injured and nine vehicles damaged in a series of motor vehicle mishaps in Portsmouth over the weekend. Nine motorists were arrested with five charged for illegal parking after bonds posted. Charles McCormick and Barbara Jane Skiver were among those hurt in separate incidents. multiple drivers faced charges including disorderly conduct and illegal driving.
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Portsmouth
Charles McCormick
11Th and
Clay Street
11Th Street
Charles Rousch
Howard Wikoff
G. H. Lindley
Lucasville
McCormick
Gallia Street
Barbara Jane Skiver
John Skiver
Spencer Gowdy
Mercy Hospital
E. L. Price
Ieanc
Jack Major
Price
Pruitt
New E
Major
Harry Webb
Front Street
Madison Street
Second Street
Webb
Walter Chapman
Dry Run
Carroll Pyles
Amalgamated Strikes At Sandusky Plant
In Sandusky on June 7, the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers union led a walkout at Brown Industries Inc. after failed wage talks with president Oliver F. Scere. About 100 workers left, seeking a 40 hour week higher pay and reinstatement of a terminated employee.
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Sandusky
lAn «Caimated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Brown Industries Inc
le Clon
Oliver F. ‘Scere
Com- Par
Unclear Attack Report on New Britain Patrols
Fragmentary note from Okopo New Guinea describes eruptions and a patrol incident on New Britain island with about 500 victims reported among natives.
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Okopo
New Guinea
Ene
Rebaul
New Britain Island
Britain Acts To Stop Flow Of Gold To U S A
London pegged bar gold at 24.72 dollars an ounce to curb shipments to the United States. The price uptick narrows London-US margins, reducing bullion exporters profits and possibly easing government strains after weeks of large sales.
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Britain
U.S. A
London
United States
New York
Great Britain
One Killed as Indiana Plant Blast Injures Eleven
In Whiting Indiana a gas separator at the Carbide and Carton Chemical Corp plant exploded during a compressed air test. One man Edward Kemp 42 a pipe setter from Elmhurst Illinois died and 11 others were admitted to a hospital with injuries. Superintendent H D Kinsey said the unit had been reconstructed and no gas remained in the separator at the time.
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Ind
Carbide and Carton Chemical Corp
Edward Kemp
Elmhurst
H. D. Kinsey
Debris of large airliner found in Utah snow
Four men who found the long vanished craft report wreckage strewn across a half mile area near Alpine Utah about 25 miles from Salt Lake City. Guards guard the site as searchers hope to recover seven occupants and bodies with a large recovery effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
Alpine
M. G. Wenger
Emery Andrews
Bandits Take $10 000 in Newport Hold Up
Six men armed with sub machine guns pistols and shotguns robbed a Newport night club house car of $10 000 as it moved from a hotel to the resort. Four men held occupants at gunpoint while two others seized the money from the rear seat. Authorities placed on alert for possible gamblers war resurgence and launched an investigation.
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Newport
Campbell County
Edwin Offenbacher
Weather brief for today and yesterday
Observer Schirrman reports today at 11 a.m. the high was 73 and the low 63 with yesterday’s maximum 90. A year ago today the high reached 89 and low 64.
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Schirrman
Poisioning Fatal and Pact Sought in Harlow Case
Los Angeles June 7 Jean Harlow star died from acute poisoning linked to a gallbladder infection. She had been ill since May 29 while filming with Clark Gable. News notes include statements from her mother and admirer William Powell. DETROIT June 7 United Auto Workers pressed demands for a new GM contract as a one man grand jury probed Ford at Richmond plant.
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Los Angeles
Jean Harlow
Miss Harlow
Clark Gable
Jean Bello
Re Siane William Powell
Harlow
Detroit
United Automobile Workers
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Harry Bennett
Ford
Bermett
Henry Ford
Bennett
Richmond
California
United States
Canada
London Society Girl Sought by Yard in Nationwide Hunt
Scotland Yard announced a nationwide search for Diana Battye a 21 year old London society girl and aspiring film star who disappeared on June 1 after being last seen leaving the home of her childhood friend Viscountess Long during the coronation season.
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London
Scotland Yard
Diana Battye
Fela
Viscountess Long
Lady Long
Astronomers Se to Study Longest Sun Eclipse
Naval observers and National Geographic astronomers monitor Canton island setup for tomorrow's total solar eclipse lasting 213 seconds. Franklin Institute and Princeton University teams will photograph the corona from an anchored Pacific boat. Hayden Planetarium Grace party will view the eclipse from Peru as a partial phase is seen along a southwest coastal band.
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Washington
Naval
National Geographic Society
mid-Pacific
Hiterto
Canton Island
Portsmouth
Pacific
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
Princeton University
Peru
Hayden Planetarium-Grace
New York
Eureka
California
Amarillo
Tex
Shreveport
Biloxi
Miss
Tampa
Pam Beach
Fla
Strikers Take Steel Dispute to Roosevelt
Striking steelworkers appeal to President Roosevelt for intervention as SWOC mobilizes thousands in protests against three major producers. Gunfire erupts at Canton with 100 shots fired. no injuries reported. Industrial leaders accuse workers of sabotage amid rising tension across Ohio Indiana and Illinois.
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Associated Press
Youngstown
Roosevelt
Steelworkers’ Organizing Committee
John L. Lewis
SWOC
White House
Gary
Ind
Calumet
Philip Murray
Republic Steel Corp
Inland Steel Co
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Chicago
Great Lakes
Canton
John McDonald
McDonald
Murray
Indiana Harbor
Nicholas Fontecchio
Youngstown, Niles and Warren
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Martin L. Davey
Famous Mount St Bernard dogs condemned after girl’s death
In Grenoble France on June 7 news reports say the Mount St Bernard Monastery condemned ten famous dogs after one killed a 10 year old girl Marie Anne Bremond. The dogs have long aided travelers in the Alps and two others mauled a skier prior to this action. Dr Jean Bremond father of the victim was said to have decided not to pursue legal action against the kennel owners.
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Grenoble
France
Mount St. Bernard
Marie-Anne Bremond
Jean Bremond
Onkeles Oogan m
Pennsylvania railroad seeks 10 special policemen at Steubenville
June 7 in Columbus the Pennsylvania railroad offices at Steubenville asked Governor Martin L. Davey to commission 10 of its employees as special policemen. Under state law the governor handles all such commissions.
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Columbus
Pennsylvania Railroad
Steubenville
Martin L. Davey
Labor Pickets Seize Lansing in General Strike
A crowd of several thousand gathered in Lansing for a general labor holiday protests after eight United Auto Workers pickets were jailed at Capital City Wrecking Company. Lester Washburn announced a settlement and planned negotiations as workers blocked streets and left plants.
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Lansing
Mid
United Automobile Workers of America
Lester Washburn
Capital City
Washburn
Ninth torso slaying victim uncovered in Cleveland
The skull and bones found in a burlap sack under a Cuyahoga River bridge were confirmed as the ninth victim of Cleveland's torso slayer. Dr. T Wingate Todd and Coroner S R Gerber identified the skeleton as a colored woman, noting the use of lime to obscure identity.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga River
T. Wingate Todd
Western Reserve University
S. R. Gerber
Kingsbury Run
Greater
Russell Lauer
Il Duce Demonstrates Sea Power Before Blomberg
Off Naples Mussolini staged a mock battle with more than 150 ships and 70 submarines to show Germany’s Werner von Blomberg Italian naval strength in the Mediterranean. Mussolini and Blomberg watched from the D Aosta as cruiser squadrons and destroyers engaged.
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Andrue S. Beading
Associated Press
Mae
Strale
Naples
Mussolini
Italy
Werner von Blomberg
Mediterranean
Adolf Hitler
Ilduce
von Blomberg
Francisco Franco
Spain
Gaeta
D'Aosta
High Seas
In Duce
Duce
International
Amelia Earhart Begins South Atlantic Flight to Dakar
Amelia Earhart heads toward Dakar on a 1900 mile leg of her world flight. She left Natal at 1 16 am in a light craft and radioed after more than four hours that everything is going fine.
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Natal
Brazil
Amelia Earhart
South Atlantic
Dakar
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A. Graves Williams
Roy B. Leichner
Adolph Glockner
Kenneth B. Lehman
W. E. Davidson
W. Lewis Harris
Edward K. Moore
H. C. Doughty
J. J. Tierney
Russell Stockham
Totley
Lowell Buchett
28Th Street
Everett Weghorst
Amalgamated
America
The
Indiana
Bandits
Bilbao
Salvation Congress Hall
G.M.C
Auto Workers’ Union
YARD
Mr. Davey
C. W. Galloway
Miss Eccles
Eleanore May Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Harold J. Steel
Houston
Ogden
Eccleses
Blomberg
Paris
Amelia
Aviatrix
Africa
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