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Portsmouth Times

Location

Portsmouth, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jun 29, 1937

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Three California Girls Murdered in Baldwin Hills

Three young girls Melba Everett Madeline Everett and Jeanette Stephens were found murdered in a Baldwin Hills gulch. Authorities pursued a 22 year old suspect later absolved by Sheriff Huntamer. Detectives questioned Otto Rasmussen and others as searches continued with police, volunteers, and Boy Scouts combing nearby grounds.

Inglewood Calif Melba Marie Everett Madeline Everett Jeanette Marjorie Stephens Baldwin Hills L. C. Huntamer Olympia Wash Huntamer Washington San Diego Dellar Jack Cornell Otto R. Rasmussen Los Angeles Carol A. Sims Baron Fitts Miss Sims Rasmussen Centinela Park de. A. F. Wagner Melba Everett Marjorie Stephens Madeline King Merle O. Everett Ive Everett Hat Hive Ipare Olive Cartain Ed Muir Baldwin Bob Brown Frank Don Morsaint Ww Smith

Parties Occupy Roosevelt Jr Bride To Be

Franklin Roosevelt Jr and Ethel du Pont plan a silent day of rehearsal and a late wedding in Wilmington tomorrow at 5 pm. Today relatives, friends, and guests from the du Pont and Roosevelt clans gathered with trains and cars, many visiting Owls Nest and Christchurch. A Harvard Fly Club stag party and a luncheon for bridesmaids and ushers were on the agenda.

Associated Press Wilmington Del Franklin Roosevelt Jr Ethel du Pont du Pont Roosevelt Owls Nest Eugene du Pont Christchurch du Ponts Mr. Roosevelt Miss du Pont Harvard

Anglo-French plan rejected over nonintervention fight

A Rome Berlin stand left Europe’s nonintervention talks in suspense as Britain and France faced a possible halt to efforts to isolate the Spanish civil war. Italy and Germany signaled support for a patrol that would aid the central government while warning of a possible stalemate benefiting the insurgents.

Italy Germany Spain Great Britain France Rome Russia Belgium Portugal Czechoslovakia Sweden

Relief Measure Sent To Roosevelt For Approval

The house approved a $1.5 billion relief bill and sent it to the White House for President Roosevelt's signature. Conferees resolved differences between the house and senate, striking a provision to disclose names and salaries of officials. The bill extends the PWA two years with $359 million for public works grants. senate backing followed.

Washington House White House Senate WPA PWA

France seeks aid as franc crisis tests new government

Paris reports the week-old French government facing a financial crisis that forced the franc off the gold standard. Parliament sources say France plans a revaluation and is asking for help from the United States and Great Britain to stop gold flight.

Paris People's Front France United States Great Britain

France backs Camie Chau Temps government in confidence vote

Paris June 29 The Camie Chau Temps government secured a confidence vote from the chamber of deputies by 393 to 142 as it works to preserve France’s financial structure amid ongoing struggles.

Paris Camie Chautemps France Chamber of Deputies

France weighs new path to end dollar parity

Camille Chautemps faces a crisis as deputies report the government seeks to disengage France from the dollar and pound parity. Renne Brunet says talks with Britain and the United States are under way, with tax measures projected to raise 2 billion francs annually to ease fiscal morass. A moratorium on gold and foreign exchange payments was decreed by M. Bonnet after midnight.

Mier Camille Chautemps Chamber of Deputies Rene Brunet United States Great Britain France Britain Raymond Poincare M. Chautemp Renne Brunet Finance M. Brunet Chautemps M. Bonnet Washington

Carter County Dry Wins In Local Option Vote

On June 29 Carter County voters approved a dry option by 453 to 912 against liquor and non 3.2 beer, with 459 voting wet. Drys carried 17 precincts to wets 13. the dry ban takes effect after 90 days, as many businesses expect closures when licenses expire this month. Kentucky now has 43 dry counties including Calloway Spencer Carter and Trigg.

Grayson Drys Carter County Kentucky Calloway Spencer Carter Trigg

Bellevue May Blast Dike To Let Big Lake Flow Through Town

Bellevue officials debated whether to deliberately break an earthen dike to release floodwaters from a 2000 acre lake behind the railroad embankment. Rural residents protested damages while city residents feared further losses. 300 homes damaged and 100 families homeless as underground rivers clogged drainage. National guardsmen patrolled the lake area amid the crisis in northern Ohio.

Bellevue Big Lake Associated Press George Burgess Ohio National Guardsmen Kilbourne Street Harmon Field

Shooting victim near death after bar shooting in Kentucky hills

Earl Phipps of Quincy, 25, father of two, lies critically wounded with two bullets at Schirrman hospital. A manhunt seeks Millard Baker, 28, of Quincy, after a 50 cent whisky dispute sparked the attack at a Briary Creek beer parlor. Baker fled, losing a shoe and hat. Wayne Harr, 28, was jailed on a separate charge. Phipps worked at Wheeling Steel in Portsmouth. Baker had been in Cincinnati.

Earl Phipps Quincy Millard Baker Schirrman Hospital Lewis County Cincinnati Phipps Clark Esham Kentucky Hills J. M. Fugate Noah Jordan Baker Fugate Wayne Harr Lewis Vanceburg Edna Carver Portsmouth Wheeling Steel Corp

Japan charges Russia invasion of Manchukuo border islands

Tokyo accused Moscow of invading the Senura and Bolshoi islands on the Amur river, invoking the Japan Manchukuo pact and demanding immediate evacuation. Japanese military leaders warned the response would hinge on Moscow’s tone, while observers fear border incidents could widen the rift between Japan and Russia.

Tokyo Japan Manchukuo Senura Bolshoi Amur Moscow Siberia Seruia Rusole

Heat Causes Death in Chillicothe On Route 33

June 29 report of 33 year old Edward S. Andrews an asphalt worker for Brewer and Brewer dying from heat prostration at Chillicothe hospital after collapsing while laboring on Death Span bridge on route 33.

Chillicothe Edward S. Andrews Brewer & Brewer Chillicothe Hospital

Danzig Pastor Jailed for Criticizing Hitler

Pastor Rudolph Walther, head of the Danzig Confessional church, was sentenced to three months in jail for criticizing Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich in a circular letter read from the pulpit in Danzig.

Danzig Rudolph Walther Danz‘g Atolf Hitler Third Reich

Nine Alexis lay brothers sentenced in Bonn immorality case

Nine lay brothers of the Order of Alexis received prison terms from six to 16 months in Bonn on immorality charges. The prosecuting attorney announced similar charges are pending against 53 other members of the order.

Berlin Order of Alexis Bonn

1937 Midyear Review Preview in The Times

The piece surveys the first half of 1937 with floods labor trouble stock market drop and asks how these events affected jobs payrolls and prices. The illustrated special review compiled by the Associated Press will appear in The Times on Wednesday.

Associated Press

Stop Gap Budget Possible in Ohio Senate

Ohio Senate faces three month stop gap funding as no new taxes bloc guards against a delay in the biennial appropriations. A bill of 1 224 644 dollars would fund state operations from July 1 while talks continue on school books funding and employee transfer rules. Conferees work toward breaking the deadlock with economy measures and departmental savings.

E. E. Easterly Jr Associated Press Columbus Ohio Senate Senate Finance Committee Paul P. Yoder Yoder House Senate Martin L. Davey Liquor Department Tax Commission William R. Ross Mercer County National Guard

Round defeats Jacobs. Marble advances to semis at Wimbledon

Dorothy Round of England upset Helen Jacobs of California in straight sets 6-4 6-2 to take the Wimbledon women’s singles title hopes from the American. Alice Marble, USA champion, advanced to the semifinals by beating Denmark Germany’s Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling 7-5 2-6 6-3, facing Jadwiga Jedrzejowska of Poland next.

Dorothy Round Alice Marble U. S Wimbledon Eng England Helen Jacobs California Miss Jacob Denmark Germany Jadwiga Jedrzejowski Poland

Temperatures report for observer Schirrman area

The report notes today at 11 o clock morning temperature 81 with a low of 58. Yesterday’s high reached 88. A year ago today the maximum was 100 and the minimum 54.

Schirrman

Mediation board urges man to man talks to break steel strike

Washington reports the federal mediation board told Secretary Perkins that direct talks between steel firms and the Committee for Industrial Organization are needed to end the deadlock. Taft and McGrady briefed Perkins, who noted government mediation failed but studies possible next steps. The board sees a workers company contract and vote on its terms as a constructive compromise.

Washington Federal Mediation Board Labor Perkins Miss Perkins Charles P. Taft Edward F. McGrady Steel Corporation Committee For Industrial Organization President Roosevelt

Hunt vows rafter shaking defense in Jewett case

Los Angeles June 20 John West Hunt, a follower of Father Divine, came to court with three associates to testify in the trial over transporting 17 year old Delight Jewett from Denver to Beverly Hills for immoral purposes. He promised to tell the truth and notes some revelations will shake the rafters.

Los Angeles John West Hunt Father Divine Jewett Hunt

Dynamite Blasts Hit Bethlehem Steel Plants in Johnstown

Explosions damaged two water supplying pipelines at Bethlehem Steel’s Caroina works in Johnstown Pennsylvania threatening thousands of jobs. A warrant in Warren names CIO leader Gus Hall as mastermind of a terrorism plot tied to the strike, backed by confessions from fellow unionists. Police intensified the manhunt while back to work momentum grew in multiple regions despite CIO opposition.

Bethlehem Steel Caroina Johnstown Warren CIO Gus Hall Franklin Gautier Cambria C. R. Fillicott Pennsylvania Ohio Hall Warren-Niles The Light & Power Co Mahoning Valley Calumet Indiana Illinois Townsend Chicago Ind Perkins B. J. Gillen

Man Killed in Clash of Deputies and Pickets at Beaver Falls

Beaver Falls Pa June 29 George Mike aged 45 of Aliquippa died from a fractured skull sustained in a clash between pickets and deputy sheriffs at the Moltrup Steel ducts Co plant. He was struck by a tear gas cartridge as deputies dispersed about 40 pickets halting 12 nonstrikers returning to work. District Attorney Robert E McCreary will question eyewitnesses before Frank Moltrup, company president, who blamed the pickets. The strike began May 26 by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and now includes 13 workers.

Associated Press Beaver Falls George Mike Aliquippa Uty Moltrup Steel Ducts Co Robert E. McCreary Frank Moltrup Mpeatha Steelworkers’ Organizing

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