Clear-Cut Test In Kentucky Voting Today
Kentucky Democrats vote for U S Senate nominee in a bitter primary testing Roosevelt and the New Deal. Barkley seeks renomination against Gov. Happy Chandler with 500,000 votes expected. investigators monitor campaign methods amid accusations of coercion. Bellwether results likely late tonight, with rain delaying rural ballots.
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Kentucky
Louisville
United States Senate
Roosevelt
New Deal
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
A. B
Barkley
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
WDA
Chandler
Paducah
Versailles
Lexington
Weather Ohio: Partly cloudy with scattered showers tonight
The forecast notes a mix of partly cloudy skies and showers across Ohio and surrounding regions. Expect thunderstorms tonight and Sunday in southern areas with cooler air in the far north on Sunday. Conditions reflect low pressure over the Great Lakes and Plains with high pressure over the Pacific Northwest and Canadian Prairies.
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Ohio
Great Lakes
Plains States
Canadian Prairie Provinces
Pacific Northwest
Iowa
Missouri
Ohio Valley
Atlantic
Strange Disease Baffles Mich Health Dept
OWOSSO Mich Aug. State Health Department sets up temporary HQ after two more fall ill with a deadly infection already killing six children this week. Gilbert Vogelpohl, 18, and another woman are hospitalized. officials warn residents to eat only cooked foods. Toxacologists suspect a severe bacterial dysentery. tests are negative and a cause may remain unknown.
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Owosso
Mich
State Health Department
Gilbert Vogelpohl
Owasse
Owasse Hospital
Dan W. Guéakunst
Llewelyn Bennett
Benningtown Township
Helen Aldrich
Gerald Lara
Bennett
Pr. C. C. Young
Lansing
Records Of County Board In Fine Shape
Lorain County Board of Education records were praised as neatly kept with all bills checked and no errors found. Examiners suggested itemizing transportation expenses. superintendent C A Gibbons travels 1000 to 1200 miles monthly and will receive five cents per mile up to 500 miles monthly.
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Lorain County
Gibbons
Hankow Bombed by 54 Planes
Fifty four Japanese airplanes attacked Hankow today killing about sixty people living in shacks near the airdrome. The bombing occurred at Hankow in China as reported by U P. Bulletin.
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Hankow
China
U.P
Broken Neck Victim Loses Fight To Live
MASSILLON, Aug. 6. Joseph Nelson, 17, a Massillon high school athlete, died today after a neck stretching device failed to prevent death from a broken neck. He succumbed to bronchial pneumonia at Massillon City Hospital, where he had been treated under an oxygen tent after being rushed from Cleveland. Dr. Walter G. Stern of Cleveland prescribed the neck stretching treatment.
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Massillon
Joseph Nelson
Young Nelson
Massillon City Hospital
Cleveland
Walter G. Stern
President Roosevelt Tours Canal Defenses
Balboa Panama August 11 President Roosevelt sailed for Old Providence Island off the Venezuela coast after touring the Panama canal defenses. He departed Gatun at p m aboard the cruiser Houston on his return from a Pacific vacation cruise.
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Balboa. C. Z
New World
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Juan Demosthenes Arosemena
Panama
Cocos Island
United States
Arosemen
U. S. S. Houston
Balboa Pier
Acme
Balboa
C. Z
Roosevelt
Old Providence Island
Venezuela
Panama Canal
Pacific
Gatun
Houston
Corrigan Chooses Flight Over Fame After Ocean Flight
New York August 6 Corrigan the weary war hero spurns offers of stage radio and movie deals worth up to 20000 a day. He wants a steady flying job and vows to endorse only what he uses. He faces an X ray for chest injury from the Broadway parade and prepares to visit Peekskill for a National Guard event. Mayor LaGuardia praises his daring while Corrigan recalls the ocean flight.
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New York
U.P
Douglas Corrigan
Corrigan
Dublin
Peekskill
N. Y
National Guard
Dublin Society of New York
Hotel Astor
Dennis Mulligan
Bureau of Air Commerce
Washington
Ocean
Broadway
Willard Ellsworth
F. H. LaGuardia
Atlantic Ocean
Los Angeles
Doug
Iris
Charles Lindbergh
William Powell
Department of Sanitation
Lindbergh
Acme
Life Savings Lost to Two Confidence Men in McDonald
In McDonald on August 6, Jerry Simone, 25, was swindled out of his $4,000 life savings by two men who befriended him while negotiating to buy his house. They claimed one was the sole heir to a $25,000 estate and urged Simone to draw his money to share in the windfall, only to reveal the $25,000 was a roll of paper wrapped in a $1 bill.
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Simone
Karl Kalinski to Teach Music at Ridgeville School
Karl Kalinski joins Ridgeville for the 1938-39 year to lead the band and part of instrumental instruction. R. L. Crowe will direct the remainder of instrumental work and the orchestra. Kalinski will be at the school every Monday. he previously taught music in Avon and Brookside and succeeds Russell Petersen.
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Karl Kalinski
Ridgeville
Kalinski
R. L. Crowe
Kolinski
Avon
Brookside
Russell Petersen
All Workers For Bridge Projects Meet At Antlers Hotel
The Lorain bridge committee and all sub committees will meet at the Antlers hotel on Monday at 7 30 p m. All workers from every section are asked to attend. The meeting is described as a last minute rally.
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Lorain Bridge
Antlers
County to Have Large Delegation At Camp Crag
Lorain County plans a large show of youth at Camp Crepe in Medina County with 57 seniors enrolled Aug 10–14 and 53 juniors Aug 14–17. Delegations from Cuyahoga Summit and Geauga join. total junior enrollment expected 140 and senior over 100. Frances Eckert and C. J. Hummel lead, with Margaret Burkley and John Wilcox assisting in crafts.
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Lorain County
Camp Crepe
Medina County
MG Lorain County Club
C. J. Hummel
Frances Eckert
Hummel
Lorain
Probe Ordered Over Ohio Pensioners Political Appeals
The Social Security Board ordered a hearing to determine if Ohio violated federal law by using old age assistance recipients to back Gov. Martin L. Davey in the Democratic primary. Letters praising Davey as a friend of the aged were released, along with a governor’s letter requesting support. If found, Ohio could lose federal old age assistance funds.
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Washington
Society Security Board Today
Ohio
Martin L. Davey
Social Security Board
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Kentucky
Senate
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Davey
Mass Russian Tank Attacks Reported
Tokyo reports two Russian tank assaults on the Siberian frontier. A war office communique said Hill 29 opposite Korea was attacked by 50 tanks and about 1,000 troops, while another attack near Shatsaoping on the Manchukuoan border involved 50 tanks and half a battalion. Japanese artillery repelled both assaults.
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Tokyo
Siberian
War Office
Foreign Office
Moscow
Hill 29
Korea
Shatsaoping
Manchukuan
Former Mayor of Columbus Dies At 61 While Campaigning
Henry J. Worley 61 former Columbus mayor and Democratic congressional candidate died of a heart attack at the wheel of his car after a radio address. Campaign manager John Casserly was with him. Worley, born in England, moved to the U S at age four and settled in Columbus in 1908. He served on city council 1921 to 1931 and was elected mayor in 1931. He leaves a wife Sadie E Worley a son Henry Jr secretary manager of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce and two daughters Alice Eckhart and Mildred Worler.
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Columbus
Henry J. Worley
Congress
Worley
John Casserly
England
United States
Sadie E. Worley
Henry
Gunman kills two men in daylight shooting outside Alderman’s home
In Chicago today a gunman parked beside Bruno Switaz, 35, and Leo Muszinski, 32, and fired, killing both before fleeing. A witness said the shooter, joined by others, raked their car with bullets in front of Alderman Joseph Rostenkow’s residence. The incident follows rumors of underworld killings linked to horse race bookies. a day earlier Benny Bartellini, 28, was found dead with ten wounds near Lincoln Fields Race Track.
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Chicago
Bruno Switaz
Leo Muszinski
Muszinski
Joseph Rostenkow
Greater
Benny Bartellini
Chicago Heights
Lincoln Fields
School Cleaning Project Near Completion in Lorain County
C A Gibbons told the Lorain County Board of Education the WPA school cleaning program is nearing completion with Ridgeville last, Oberlin crews likely to finish this month, while a separate WPA book repair project at Clearview and South Amherst schools will extend through summer and possibly into the next school year. The book repair group remains small but will employ trained workers per WPA guidance.
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Lorain County
C. A. Gibbons
Amherst
Clearview
South Amherst
Gibbons
WPA
White Attacks Hopkins Over WPA Expansion Critique
Rep Dudley White of Norwalk denounced WPA head Harry Hopkins for his Memphis appearance promoting a 200000 worker WPA roll expansion in the rural south. He framed Hopkins as creating a false issue to look brave while warning New Deal policies harm cotton prices and southern economy.
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Washington
WPA
Harry Hopkins
Memphis
Dudley White
Norwalk
Republican National Committee
Kentucky
White
South
Roosevelt
Old South
Ohioan
Body Found Not That Of Golf Pro
Lima authorities search for Stanley Freber a 22 year old Lima golf professional after a false lead that rival Ant Fisher may have been found. A city limits discovery proved to be William Sree a man unknown, delaying confirmation of the missing man’s status as coroner and police pursue the true cause of death.
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Lima
Stanley Freber
Ant Fisher
William Sree
Burt Hiend
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