Governors Act In Strikes To Avert Violence
Governors of two states intervened in the steel strike to avert violence and restore peace. Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan postponed a clash at Monroe mills between Republic Steel and the CIO, meeting at noon to resume talks. In Cleveland mass meeting, workers were urged to assemble and back deputies to keep order while Legion posts aided calm. A riot in Youngstown left two officers beaten and a man shot as tear gas dispersed wild protests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Republic Steel Corporation
Committee For Industrial Organization
Monroe
Mich
Murphy
Lansing
Powell
Ine
Lake Erie
American Legion
Owen A Knoz
Detroit Committee For Protection of Civil Rights
Knaggs
Plains
Knages
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Republic
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Columbus
Youngstown
Harold H. Burton
Ralph E. Elser
Market Street
Mayor Baird Ill Said to be under opistes today
Mayor Don A. Baird has been ill for a month and seriously ill for a week. He was reported to be receiving opistes today after a restless night with no apparent change in his condition. His illness began a month ago and followed two teeth extraction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don A. Baird
Opistes
Youth And 15 Year Old Bride Sentenced
District Judge E L Meyer sentenced Donald Blake 16 and Evelyn Mayer Blake 15 to seven year reformatories for robbing a filling station in Valentine Nebraska. They are from Painesville Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valentine
Neb
E. L. Meyer
Donald Blake
Evelyn Mayer Blake
Painesville
Weather Ohio Cloudy With Few Showers Tonight Through Friday
The weather report notes cloudy skies with occasional rain likely in southern areas tonight and Friday. Disturbances centered over the middle Atlantic states, Arkansas, and Utah influence conditions. High pressure over the lake region and plains. Showers stretched from the St. Lawrence to the Ohio Valley, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and the Rockies with heavier rain in parts of Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Temperatures run about 10 degrees lower than yesterday in the Ohio Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Middle Atlantic
Arkansas
Utah
Lake Region
Plains States
St. Lawrence
Ohio Valley
Oklahoma
Rocky Mountains
Indiana
Inos
Missouri
Power Restored To Saginaw Valley After Strike
Flint Michigan June 10 power was restored to 350000 residents in 180 communities as Consumers Power workers accepted a settlement granting a 40 hour week a five cent_an_hour wage increase and union recognition. The walkout halted work across 13 counties and affected about 70000 GM plant workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flint
Mich
Saginaw Valley
Consumers’ Power Company
United Automoblle Workers Union
Washington
Dan E. Karn
Power Company
Homer Martin
Auto Union
Martin
Frank Murphy
Saginaw
Bar City
Machinists Strike at Hamilton General Machinery Co
More than 1,000 machinists in three plants of the General Machinery Co in Hamilton Ohio went on strike over an employer election dispute. Strike leaders said the push was to determine whether Industrial Organization or the American Federation of Labor should represent workers. Pattern makers and moulders continued working.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton, O
General Machinery Co
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
U S Spending For Fiscal Year Tops 7 Billion
Washington June 10 With 22 days left in the 1937 fiscal year federal spending crossed the 7 billion mark on June 3. Expenditures as of June 8 reached 7,000,121,468.52 with end-of-year increases for life insurance funds, interest, and debt retirement. Receipts stood at 4,577,412,885.41 and the deficit totaled 2,422,708,683.11. Attempts to exceed budget estimates for expenditures by about 100 million and revenues by over 100 million suggest the deficit may not exceed 2.958 billion.
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Washington
Treasury
Nurse Admits Kidnapping Tale Was Hoax in Rockefellers Case
CHICAGO June 10 A pretty nurse Margaret Montgomery 27 of Presbyterian Hospital admitted she made up a story of a midnight kidnapping plotting to seize John Rocke Prentice grandson of John D Rockefeller to lure him back. She told Lieut Tom Kelly she did it to win his return and that the entire tale was false. Prentice who feared kidnapping notified police after the nurse claimed two men abducted her and left a ransom message. He had met her at the hospital two years ago and described her as a good friend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John Rockefeller Prentice
John D. Rockefeller
Margaret. Montgomery
Presbyterian Hospital
Tur
Lieus
Tom Kelly
Miss Montgomery
Prentice
Woman flags east bound Knickerbocker train in Ohio incident
Mrs. Martie Hastings of Marion, Ohio, halted near railroad tracks when her auto stalled. She stepped onto the rails and flagged the eastbound New York Knickerbocker flyer. The train stopped within a few yards of her car, with her dog Inky inside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion, O
Martie Hastings
Knickerbocker
New York
Inky
Hear Threat Of General Strike In Youngstown
In Youngstown unions sympathetic to the Steel Workers Organizing Committee threaten a general strike if Sheriff Elser Uses tear gas against workers after a riot at Republic Steel plant. Fifteen men under 24 questioned. two police beaten. one bystander shot. Police dispersal followed tear gas from deputies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Ralph BE. Elser
Republic Steel Corporation
Elser
Building Service Union
Michael Flynn
Answers Suits Against 3 Local Banks in Elyria
Denial filed by Elyria Savings and Trust Company and attorney Robert Rice. Suit by 20 Elyria attorneys claims banks illegally practice law via wills deeds and other tasks reserved for lawyers. Rice says he has advised bank officers to avoid legal activity and that any such conduct stems from lawyers, not the bank. Page 2 continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ebrria Savings and Trust Company Ia
Robert Rice
Elyria Savings and Trust Company
Elyria
Bank
Rice
Honors Pour In For Elyria High Graduates
Thirty five members of the Elyria High School graduating class are named honor students for maintaining at least 90 percent averages over four years. Valedictorian Lillian Dowdell led with a perfect A average and extensive activity including National Honor Society and drama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria High School
Lillian Dowdell
Jefferson Street
Jefferson Junior High School
Robert Bannon
West Avenue
Supietnes Club
Elytian
Herald
Players Club
Distinction Day
Norman Beller
West River Street
Airplane Club
L’ensemble Francais
Wanda Bleske
Louisiana Avenue
MacDowell Chorus
Lee Club
Friendship Club
David Chester
Lodi Street
Neomia Davis
Bath Street
Sapientes Club
Mac* Dowell Chorus
Alice Klinect
Longfellow Street
Albert Linden
R. F. DB
Jefferson Junior
Nova High School
Rodney Long
Park Avenue
H.Y
Almeda Martin
Princeton Avenue
L’ensemble
Francala
Josephine Mischka
Harrison Street
Saplenter Club
Elyrian
Leroy Moody
Perk Avenue
Ensemble Francais
Saplenter
Cluh
Monitor
Leonard Moody
Park Arenar
Sapientes
Virginian Noonan
Tenth Street
Nancy Oldfield
Kenyon Avenue
Compass Of Character Guides Elyria Graduates
Dr Ralph Sockman urged Elyria High School graduates to choose courses with a five point compass of character focusing on home work community and nation He emphasized time place and personal adjustments starting at home and warned against material comforts obscuring sacrifice The talk framed the eighty ninth commencement that awarded 233 diplomas and capped a capacity crowd in the school auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria High School
Ralph W. Sockman
Sockman
New York City
Seckman
Dr. Lockman
Christ Methodist Episcopal Church
New York
Elytia
Gella Widmer Endiey
W. C. Endiley
Elyria
Sockmen
Girl Has Perfect Attendance Record For Seven Years
Miss Bessie Blackwell of 404 High Street was among 255 Elyria High School graduates. She earned a diploma and a seven year perfect attendance record, being neither tardy nor absent in Elyria schools, after prior time in Norwalk. She attended Jefferson School and Elyria High School, faced occasional early alarms, and finished in the general course with basketball and volleyball participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Blackwell
High Street
Elyria High School
Elyria
Norwalk
Jefferson School
Svas Ie
Amelia Earhart Heads Toward African Interior Flight
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan depart Dakar at 6:55 AM GMT heading east to the Niger River Valley with planned stops at Bamako Timbuktu Gao and Niamey The voyage aims for Fort Lamy and Khartoum as France warns desert aviation posts to assist and watch for her amid poor weather.
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Dakar
Senegal
Amelia Earhart
Greenwich
Fred Noonan
Atlantic
Brazil
Niger River
Bamako
Timbuctu
Gao
Niamey
Niger
Miss Earhart
Fort Lamy
Lake Chad
Khartoum
Sudan
Air
Pierre Cot
Paris
Africa
Two Pairs Of Twins Win Elyria High Diplomas
Elyria High School awarded diplomas to two pairs of twins and three pairs of siblings. Leonard and Leroy Moody share similar records as honor students in classical studies, while Jane and Jean Crowe pursued varied interests in general courses. The Bieske siblings Carl A. and Wanda Jane, the Cluler siblings Charles R. and Rosemary, and Bermaica A. and Max H. Jalowlec also received diplomas, with plans for the future still undecided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria High School
Leonard
Leros Moody
E. L. Moody
Park Avenues
Jane C
Jean C. Crowe
Wiliam J. Crowe
West Avenue
Moody Brothers
McKinley School
Hays
Crowe
Friendship Club
Jane
MacDowell Chorus
St. Mary's School
Louisiana Avenue
Charles R
Rosemary Cluler
Chestnut Street
Bermaica A
Max H. Jalowlec
Fairiarn Avenu
Chicago Man Taken From Car And Beaten Up
Leondres McDonald, Chicago organizer for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, was dragged from his car by about 150 Newton Steel Co. workers and beaten in front of Monroe's post office. He fled toward the city limits as Governor Murphy met in Lansing to avert unrest at Newton Mill's reopening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Mich
Leondres McDonald
Chicago
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Newton Steel Co
Republic Steel Corp
McDonald
Frank Murphy
Lansing
Newton
Kidnaping of socialite Alice Parsons rattles Long Island scene
Federal, state, and local police seal off Long Island roads in a child kidnapping case. Missing social registrate Alice Parsons, 38, wife of a wealthy stock farm owner, reportedly received a $25,000 ransom note and a bloodstained hatchet was found. Police describe two men seen talking with her near her estate gate before she boarded a car. Parsons, a Yale graduate, is tied to prominent families and inherits wealth from the Sammies fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stony Brook
Long Island
Mia
Alice McDonnell Parsons
N. J
Alice Parsons
Parsons
Long Meadows Farm
North Shore
Bayshore Barracks
Edward M. Bridge
Brookhatten Township
Alice W. McDowell
Yale University
Georgia Stays In Dry Column
Georgia remains in the dry column as unofficial figures show a 94 942 to 102 940 repeal defeat in Tuesday’s special election. Returns from 1700 precincts indicate rural counties nudged the drys ahead, while urban centers stayed solid for repeal.
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Atlanta
Sune
Georgia
Dryn
Marcin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Baird
Illinois
Acme
Meyer Adelman
Steel Workers’ Organization Committee
John L. Lewis’ Committee For Industrial Organization
Oakley Mills
Adelman
Mills
Theodore Forby
Zion
Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation
Ill
Lake County
General Motors Corporation
Hamilton
U. S
Bulletin
Amelia
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