Man Lost Two Days In Mine Climbs Out
Pinckneyville Illinois December 7 Lawrence Lee a 28 year old bookkeeper spent two days lost in the old Briar Hill mine maze. He found an escape shaft in No 6 and climbed to the surface apparently unharmed. He was tired hungry and later examined at home.
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Pinckneyville
Lawrence Lee
Old Briar Hill
Edgar Newsom
Old
Old Briar Hill Company
Lee
Briar Hill
Newsom
John Ingram
John J Smythe Of Amherst Seriously Ill In Cleveland
John J Smythe former Amherst mayor solicitor and prominent attorney is in critical condition at the Cleveland Clinic from pneumonia and other ailments. He became ill Tuesday night and grew worse Thursday. he was moved to the clinic at 10 am under oxygen therapy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Smythe
Amherst
Atoorney
Cleveland Clinic
Fire damages home of E. Sparr on South Maple Street
A defective hot water heater vent caused a morning fire at 331 South Maple Street damaging the one story rear wing including the kitchen and bathroom. Estimated loss by Elyria firemen reached about 100 dollars. Hose Company No. 1 and Engine Company No. 1 responded.
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Elyria
E. Sparr
South Maple Street
Hose Company No. 1
Engine Company No. 1
Henry Standen
Highth Street Place
Weather snapshot from Ohio and Plains states
Mostly cloudy with snow flurries tonight in extreme west and near Jake Ene. Warmer in the west, colder in the extreme west on Wednesday. The Plains show a shifting high, with zero readings in Montana and North Dakota. Low pressure sits over the Texas Panhandle and New England, while snow falls from the Rockies to the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. An Aaron error truncation appears but the key items indicate regional temperature changes and light to moderate snow.
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Ohio
Jake Ene
Plains States
South Atlantic
Northwestern
Montana
North Dakota
Texas Panhandle
Wisconsin
New England States
Eaton Township Justice Of The Peace Seeks 50 Years Of Service
Eaton Township Justice of the Peace W H Giles has served 46 years and hopes to reach a half century in office. Sworn in last month for another four year term, he has never seen a higher court reversal. He works from his home, continuing a family tradition begun 70 years ago when his father held the post. His long career included many marriages and providing legal guidance to locals with his wife assisting in some duties.
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Eaton Township
W. H. Giles
Justice of the Peace
Giles
Walter Giles
Merly
B. M. Ross
Guy B. Findley
Rabbi Brickner Pictures Youth In Bewildered World
Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner of Cleveland closed a lecture series by Education of Public Affairs committees, discussing youth as he called it a bewildered world. He aligned with Roosevelt on Flaming youth as a burning issue and warned that youth is a perishable resource shaping the country. He described today’s youth as offspring of a psychopathic era, noting early memories of mob violence, war, hysteria, and Jazz’s crass melodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnett R. Brickner
Cleveland
Education of Public Affairs Committees
First Congregational Church
Roosevelt
Brickner
Parker Named Sergeant-Detective in Police Promotion
Parker Plain Clothes Work Chief Standkard says Parker will move to sergeant detective in the identification bureau under Lt Detective L E Sweet. He scored 81.4 percent in the civil service exam and will start the new role January 1 with four more patrolmen added after reorganization. He lives at 916 East River Street with wife and two daughters. His new salary is 2040 per year, 120 more than Class A patrolmen.
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Clare E. Parker
I. D. Faxon
Parker
BE. J. Stankard
Faxon
Standkard
L. E. Sweet
Mary
Jane
East River Street
Humane Society Reelects All Officers in Lorain County
Lorain County Humane Society reelected directors Mrs. L. D. Hamlin Otto K. Mischka and Frank E. Stevena for another year. Officers reelected include Mrs. A. C. Schulleman Elyria president Mrs. Geraldine Gifford Lorain vice president Mrs. Tempa Burrell Sheffield secretary and treasurer Richard F. Stevens Elyria attorney and Ralph Weimer agent for the Lorain district. A proposal to move the former county dog kennel to near Lorain was discussed with a committee named to study the plan. Annual reports by Stevens and Weimer covered investigations of cases from child support to animal mistreatment and noted cooperation with Red Cross and Aid for Dependent Children.
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Lorain County
Ralph Weimer
Lina Evans
Gifford
William Ashbolt
Arthur Bradley
Stevens
Weimer
The
Red Cross
Roosevelt Jaw Bone Found Not Infected
The White House report states Roosevelt’s jaw bone is not infected after dental removal. X rays show the infection remains in soft tissue around the extraction site and does not involve the bone. Secretary Stephen T. Early confirmed no scraping is needed.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Stephen T. Early
Mysterious disappearance of Arthur Fried in White Plains
Agents of the Bureau of Investigation joined local police to solve the case of 32 year old Arthur Fried, a construction executive missing since Saturday night from his fashionable apartment. Reports say a note demanded 200000 dollars for his return, though police and family deny kidnap claims. Hugo Fried allegedly followed a telephone tip leading to the note.
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White Plains
N. Y
Bureau of Investigation
Arthur Fried
Fried
Hugo
Offer Compromise On Relief Vote Ratio
Columbus Ohio December 7 1937 a compromise measure to cut the required vote for local tax levies for emergency relief in 1938 from 65 to 55 percent failed in the House Taxation Committee by a 13 to 9 vote The bill backed by Gov Davey and the League of Municipalities aimed to ease poor relief funding with a base majority for 1938 and 1939 passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, CO
House Taxation Committee
Davey
League of Municipalities
McNary Seeks 1940 Limit On Farm Bill Operation
Washington December 7 minority leader Charles L Mc Nary Republican Oregon proposed a 1940 limit on the operation of the new administration farm bill asserting the measure would be fixed in time to the 1940 calendar year. He argued the move would curb indefinite extension of farm policy.
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Washington
Charles L. McNary
Ore
Administration
Funds For Congressmen Christmas Travel Approved
The House approved 327 to 37 to spend 225000 dollars for mileage next year to finance Congressmen's Christmas trips home. Republican minority opposed vocally with Rep John Taber of New York arguing there was no legal authority for the action.
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Washington
House
John Taber
N. Y
Demands House Probe of NLRB Subpoena
Representative J Parnell Thomas of New Jersey called for a House investigation into the National Labor Relations Board over its subpoena of Hartley W Barclay editor of the Trade Magazine Mill and Factory in Washington on December 7.
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Washington
J. Parnell Thomas
House
National Labor Relations Board
Hartley W. Barclay
Mill and Factory
Assails Tax Critics Over Undistributed Profits Tax
Washington December 7 1937 Chairman Robert L Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee assailed critics of the undistributed profits tax for lack of constructive substitutes and pledged to revise it to be effective January 1 1938.
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Washington
Robert L. Doughton
D, NC
House
Ways and Means
Automobile Collision Leaves Vehicle Badly Damaged Near Oberlin
Victor Roberts aged 29 of Cleveland street reported his car badly damaged in a Route 20 collision about a half mile east of Oberlin. Will Smith of Park street Oberlin made a left turn in front of Roberts as the accident occurred at 5 20 p m according to a sheriff department report.
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Victor Roberts
Cleveland Street
Oberlin
Will Smith
Park Street
Sheriff Department
Opposition to Special Session Focuses Farm Bill Delay
Congressional leaders show growing opposition to Roosevelt's special session plan while pressing to pass the farm bill. House Speaker Bankhead seeks a wheat quota vote amid anticipated delays, and Senate leaders face possible revisions or committee rewrites. Roosevelt returns from Florida to discuss conferences with leaders as Congress weighs railroad policy shifts and new housing administrator confirmation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
William B. Bankhead
D. Ala
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Agriculture Committee
Senate House
Sion
Florida
John N Garner
Interstate Commerce Committee
Burton K. Wheeler
D. Mont
Wheeler
Milliken Says Higher Living Standard Depends On More Production
Dr Robert A Milliken head of Caltech and Nobel laureate told University of Cincinnati students science raises thinking and living standards. He urged that no way to raise living standards exists apart from increasing total goods and services produced and warned against redistribution without higher output.
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Dr. Milliken
Cincinnati
Robert A. Milliken
California Institute of Technology
University of Cincinnati
Milliken
Sigma XI
National Society For the Promotion
Jehovah
United States
Feast of Immaculate Conception Observed At St Marys
Wednesday Masses at St Marys church for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception include 5 38 6 30 7 30 8 30 with High Mass at 9 36 in observance of the Holy day of obligation.
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St. Mary’s Church
Elements Of Prosperity Are At Hand At Congress
New York December 7 The Congress of American Industry opened with leaders urging federal action to change attitudes toward business and repeal or modify laws hindering recovery. NAM president Warner called for cooperation to promote real recovery and four program points for government management capital and labor to aid revival. He also urged repeal of the undistributed profits tax and capital gains tax and said the Wagner Act should be amended to clarify collective bargaining.
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New York
Congress of American Industry
National Association of Manufacturers
Wisam EB. Warner
Warner
Waldorf-Astoria
National Industrial Council
Congress
Baffling Grafton Case Before Grand Jury
A two month probe into the sex slaying of Louise Hornbeck, 19, in Grafton, is presented to 15 Lorain County grand jurors with 58 witnesses heard by Prosecutor Howard R. Butler. Outside speculation centers on potential indictments for other offenses uncovered, despite uncorroborated confessions from two hitchhiker suspects in county jail.
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Louise Hornbeck
Grafton
Lorain County
Howard R. Butler
Airad
Hornbeck
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Ray Ross
San Francisco
Detroit
Toledo
Harold Riley
Marietta
Jacob 4
Sandusky
Columbus
Acme
Rabbi Brickner
Humane Society
Bulletin
Fear
Jimmy Saunders
Redwood City
Calif
Saunders
California
Education and Labor
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
Nathan Straus
Arthur H. Vandenberg
R. Mich
Straus
Supreme Court
Aluminum Company of American
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