Lorain County Ballot to Include Two Bridge Bonds
County commissioners will not place a courthouse annex bond on the August primary ballot. The Lorain two-bridge bond proposal for 1.58 million dollars is the sole county issue on the primary ballot, with total bridge costs around 2.733 million and 45 percent federal PWA funding. The bascule bridge at Erie Avenue and the high level bridge at 21st Street, plus annex costs, require county funding, with a 65 percent passage threshold unless law changes.
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Lorain
PWA
Erie Avenue
21St Street
Neutrality Pledges Backed by Germany and Italy
Germany and Italy pledged to respect Swiss neutrality in letters delivered to Swiss ministers in Berlin and Rome. The move mirrors Belgium protection efforts and aims to keep Swiss territory inviolate amid European conflict. Italy and France, Cooperation noted.
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United Press
Germany
Italy
Switzerland
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Galeazzo Ciano
Berlin
Rome
Belgium
France
Roosevelt urges funds to combat espionage
President Roosevelt said the army and navy should receive more money to fight espionage in the United States. He argued that intelligence branches have been underfunded to meet what he called a most serious situation following New York spy disclosures.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
New York
Hughes Seeks Paris Landing For Round-The-World Flight
Howard Hughes the American aviator and producer asked the French government via the American Embassy to arrange a landing at Le Bourget after Saturday noon on a round-the-world flight. He spoke from Paris on June 24 as plans move forward for the long voyage.
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Paris
Howard Hughes
le Bourget
Weather Ohio Outlook and Regional Conditions
The forecast notes mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers possible Saturday and tonight in extreme north areas. Cooler in extreme north, warmer in parts of the Ohio Valley, with high pressure over the South Atlantic and Canadian Prairies and lows over New England and Central Plains. Thunderstorms reported from the Rockies to the Great Lakes.
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Ohio
South Atlantic States
Canadian Prairie Provinces
New England
Central Plains States
Southwest
Rockies
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Nine Die as Montana Floods Sweep Havre Area
Cloud bursts and flash floods swept Bull Hook Creek and Gravelly Coulee, drowning nine people in Havre and rural areas while six were missing. Damages reached about $250,000 in Havre with barns, stock, and homes lost. victims include Charles Pratt Fred Tilghman James Brown Emil De Haan and his wife and three children. The De Haan home was carried away as bodies washed ten miles and found buried in silt.
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Havre
Mont
Mhes City
Milwaukee
Bull Hook Creek
Charles Pratt
Leredo
Fred Tilghman
WPA
Zurich
James Brown
Emil de Haan
de Haan
Oberlin Woman Seriously Hurt in Car Collision
Mrs. S. E. Miller of East College street was unconscious at Allen Hospital after an auto crash in Huron Ohio last night. Her companion Mrs. William Fitzner, driving the Oberlin car, was uninjured. The collision occurred near nine o'clock when a side street car struck Miller's vehicle causing the other car to overturn. Mrs. Miller's injuries were not yet known.
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Oberlin. O
S. E. Miller
East College Street
Allen Hospital
Huron
Ohio
William Fitzner
Oberlin
80 Year Old Man and 75 Year Old Bride Wed in Conneaut
In Conneaut Ohio on June 24 an 80 year old man, Alfred O. Kellog, guided his 75 year old bride Mrs. Lucas Lawrence to the altar. Kellog, a four time widower and father of three, shares three grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Lawrence had four children and a large extended family including 30 grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Conneaut
Alfred O. Kellog
Lucas Lawrence
Kellog
Hikers Missing In Sandia Mountains Near Albuquerque
Police searched the Sandia Mountains east of Albuquerque for Medill McCormick age 21 and Richard Whitmer age 21 both missing since last Wednesday after hiking Bear Canyon in the Sandia Range 12 miles from Albuquerque.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Sandia Mountains
Here
Medill McCormick
Ruth Hanna Simms
Comanion
McCormick
Richard Whitmer
Bear Canyon
Sandia Range
Japs Halted By Floods And Guerillas
Shanghai dispatches report floods and guerrilla actions slowing Japan’s year long push in China. South China saw Japanese landing troops poised near Swatow after taking Namou Island, while a repelled landing occurred on Hainan. Yangtze floods bogged down Japanese vehicles near Hankow and Taihu, despite claims of shelling.
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Shanghai
Japan
China
Swatow
Namou
Honk Kong
Hainan
Yangtse
Hankow
Taihu
President Roosevelt Set for Nationwide Fireside Address Tonight
President Roosevelt returns to Washington to deliver a coast-to-coast fireside report on pump priming recovery prospects at 9:30 p.m. EST. He then plans a July 7 cross country trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Colorado and California before fishing near the Pacific. The piece notes 1937-38 unemployment at 3.3 million and overall deficits despite a downward trend in the present year.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Kentucky
Ohio
Oklahoma
Colorado
California
Pacific
Panama Canal
Treasury
South Amherst School Grant Is Approved
The $18,000 PWA grant for the South Amherst school was announced in Columbus by J L A Boulay, showing 45 percent of the $40,000 cost of the school addition. Voters will decide on a bond to cover the district’s 35 percent share with a related Berlin Heights project noted.
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South Amherst
Columbus
J L. A. Boulay
Regional Public Works Administration
PWA
South Amherst Board
Boulay
Berlin Heights
Ohio
Former Earhart Navigator Harry Manning Crashes Plane
Roosevel t Field Long Island June 24 Captain Harry Manning former navigator for Amelia Earhart and head of several ocean liners was injured when his monoplane crashed north of Roosevelt field. He fell an estimated 200 to 300 feet and was rushed to Nassau hospital with compound fractures of both legs and a possible skull fracture. Doctors call his condition fair with a good chance of recovery.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Harry Manning
Amelia Earhart
Long Island
Manning
Nassau Hospital
Copeland Estate Bequeathed to Widow in 1920 Will
In Surrogate's court today Frances Spaulding Copeland learned that her husband Senator Royal S. Copeland left his entire estate to her. The will dated May 5 1920 while Copeland was New York City health commissioner did not reveal the estate's value and was drawn 18 years ago.
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New York
Royal S. Copeland
Frances Spaulding Copeland
Field Mice Line Nest With Three Five Dollar Bills
Gus Love and three neighbors reported finding a mice nest in a Malta garage containing three five dollar bills. One bill had a corner bitten off and the other two were torn but redeemable by the U S treasury. The source notes uncertainty about the bills origin.
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Malta. O
Gus Love
Love
U. S. Treasury
Executions in Berlin Prison Mark Spy Era Climb
Friedrich Menz was beheaded at Ploetzensee Prison for espionage. He was the fifth spy executed in recent days. Kurt Madry and Otto Berger, convicted of murder, were also executed.
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Berlin
Friedrich Menz
Ploetzensee
Kurt Madry
Otto Berger
Fire Fighters Rally Invites Local Merchants And Public
Elyria fire fighters announce a mass meeting at West Avenue and Sixth Street at 10 am to hear Park L Roberts discuss the Akron system. O A Lysaght says national Junior Fire Fighters director may attend with a sound track. Diverse local clubs from McKinley Mary St Marys and Franklin schools listed among new recruits.
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Elyria
Junior Fire Fighters of America
West Avenue
Sixth Streets
O. A. Lysaght
Fire Department Educational Bureau
Park L. Roberts
Hughes
Akron
Roberts
Sudeten German Party Demands End to Delays in Minority Talks
The Sudeten German party in Prague announced it is tired of government delay over minority settlement and urged Prague to stop elbowing the Sudeten Germans. The memorandum criticized that talks only reflected Konrad Heinlein's demands without government counterproposals. An official communique indicated some progress.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Konrad Heinlein
Nationalists Report Progress on Front Near Sagunto and Valencia
Spanish Nationalists claimed penetration of last republican defenses in the La Clavela Mountains and encirclement of about 2,000 Loyalists near Sagunto and Valencia. Insurgent forces said to have linked Nationalist and Galician units from Valboa to form a pocket 52 miles from Sagunto and 69 miles from Valencia.
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Hendaye
la Clavela
Sagunto
Sarrion
Teruel
Zaragota-Valencia
Valbona
Valencia
Fourteen Music Teachers Hired Across Lorain County Schools
Lorain County schools will add full time music or music and art teachers at four schools Avon Lake Columbia Wellington and Ridgeville while ten circuit teachers serve most others Gerald M Frank county music supervisor announced Eleven existing teachers return with one new hire Miss Helen Dickey Baldwin Wallace College will teach music at Brookside Penfield East Carlisle Brighton and Eaton also serve as violinist and soprano soloist with the county concert ensemble Tenor Sol ist Charles Butler in his third year heads Avon Lake staff Miss Mabel Rice DePaine College will teach at Columbia Miss Marke Adler Oberlin College will teach Wellington Miss Gayl Ford full time music and art at Ridgeville Miss Marguerite Spelbrink Oberlin College at Clearview South Amherst Brighton and Belden now in her third year Miss Marjorie Howe Bowling Green University will teach Henrietta Brownhelm Avon LaGrange and Grafton
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Lorain County
Gerald M. Frank
Helen Dickey
Baldwin-Wallace College
Brookside
Penfield
East Carlisle
Brighton
Eaton
Avon Lake
Columbia
Wellington
Ridgeville
Clearview
South Amherst
Belden
Oberlin
Marjorie Howe
Henrietta
Brownhelm
Avon
LaGrange
Grafton
Bowling Green University
Britain as Mediator Hopes to End Chinese Japanese War
London reports Viscount Halifax told the Foreign Affairs committee Britain standby to mediate in the Chinese-Japanese conflict. He suggested Britain could offer food aid as part of a possible peace initiative if a stalemate continues. Halifax also hinted at potential US cooperation to improve global atmosphere.
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United Press
London
Great Britain
Viscount Halifax
House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee
Britain
Japan
China
Lord Halifax
United States
Probe Costly Toledo Blaze
An investigation into the cause of a 100000 dollar fire at the Ideal Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co. plant in Toledo was opened by Earl R. Walterschied the fire department inspector. The three story building burned while a two story one was saved. Damage was estimated at 25000 to the building and 75000 to contents with several firemen narrowly hurt. Nearby residents fled in night clothing as a wall collapsed and two laundry fires hit the city in two days.
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Toledo. O
Ideal Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co
Earl R. Walterschied
Purity Laundry Co
Purity Laundry
Ideal
Leslie Thal
Navajo child saved by 15 hours of artificial respiration
Nazabeth Lee, seven, from the Navajo tribe, fell from a fence on the reservation. Doctors and three nurses in Ganado, aided by two drivers who brought an iron lung 700 miles, kept her lungs circulating for 15 hours. She slept as the device began to function and doctors see a good chance of recovery.
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Ganado
Ariz
Nazabeth Lee
C. G. Salisbury
St. Joseph Hospital
Phoenix
Albert
Golden Farr
Buckeye Lake Hatchery Purchase Aims to Restock Ohio Waters
The Ohio State Conservation Commissioner Lawrence Wooddell announced the purchase of 213 acres near Buckeye Lake for a federal fish hatchery at a cost of 14 000 dollars. A separate 118 acre purchase to enlarge the Lake St Marys hatchery at 15 000 dollars was also announced. The Buckeye Lake site will be the state's largest hatchery.
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Columbus
Buckeye Lake
Lawrence Wooddell
Lake St. Marys
Wooddell
Ohio
Ashland Man Sentenced For Destruction Of Gas Well
Robert Adams, 22, of Ashland, was sentenced by Common Pleas Judge D A Cook to Mansfield Reformatory for a term of one to seven years for malicious destruction of property. Adams, uncle William Adams, and Phillip Cobb pleaded guilty amid the Belden gas well arson during a strike in February 1937. Probas were granted to William Adams and Cobb. Adams’s probation was denied.
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Robert Adams
Ashland
Mansfield Reformatory
Common Pleas
D. A. Cook
Adams
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Belden
Wiliam Adams
Phillip Cobb
Medina
William Adams
A. F. Hange
L. H. Gerth
Columbus
Gerth
Medina County
Raymond Coss
Reformatory
Explorers Conquer 14 000 Foot Peak in Alaska
In Valdez Alaska four members of the Bradford Washburn expedition report reaching Mt St Agnes a 14000 foot summit in the untrodden Chugach Range They said the ascent was made June 19 after a month of severe storms and near zero weather Washburn Norman Bright Peter Gabriel and Norman Dyrenfurth led the climb
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Valdez
Alaska
Bradford Washburn
Mt. St. Agnes
Chugah Mountain Range
Washburn
Norman Bright
Peter Gabriel
Normen Dyrenfurth
Pennsy Railroad seeks approval for $6.33 million equipment trust
The Pennsylvania Railroad asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to issue $6,330,000 of new equipment trust certificates to buy 1,008 freight cars 2 passenger coaches and 20 electric locomotives for a total cost no less than $8,440,000.
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Washington
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Interstate Commerce Commission
Heat Buckles Rails Near Main Street Crossing
Heat on the New York Central line at Wellington Buckled rails on the westbound track near Main street crossing A section gang was called to straighten them so service would not be interrupted The buckling rails were seen by a railroad employee before a train passed over them
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Wellington. D
New York Central Railroad
Main Street
Woman Accused of Swindling Elderly Amherst Couple
Deputy sheriffs seek a woman who posed as a faith healer named Madame Lupaz accused of swindling Mr. and Mrs. Schrader of Gifford Road Amherst out of 700 dollars. The couple were told to place cash in their Bible and not open it until the healer’s return, discovering only paper lookalikes inside.
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Madame Lupaz
Martin Schrader
Gifford Road
R. D
Amherst
William G. Smith
Edward Arndt
Compromise Plan On Relief Now Seems Assured
In Columbus Ohio on June 24 authorities announced a $13.5 million welfare building program is assured. Legislative leaders planned swift action in the House and Senate on a compromise relief plan for 1938. The conference committee expected to report this afternoon. If approved, major relief measures would be disposed of with Senate concurrence needed on minor amendments.
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Columbus
House
Senate
Three Boys Steal Yacht Heads to Federal Court
Three high school boys from Santa Cruz stole the yacht Tira valued at about 25 thousand dollars and sailed it to Puerta Villarta Mexico. Authorities say they will be returned for trial, with Lew Foote the owner filing the complaint. The youths are Lyle Tara 17 James Henniger 17 and Bill Grace 16.
Safety Council To Hear Gordon McKay
Gordon McKay of the National Safety Council will meet Elyria’s newly formed Safety Council to discuss a city safety program. The session is set for 11:31 AM at the Elyria Chamber of Commerce offices with 11 AM at the Elyria Chamber. Mayor Joseph Q. Petro chairs the council with Harry W. Luethi as secretary.
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Gordon McKay
National Safety Council
Elyria Safety Council
Elyria Chamber of Commerce
Local Safety Council
Joseph Q. Petro
Harry W. Luethi
Parking Rule To Be Enforced On Court Street
Safety Service Director J. D. Fas announced that the two hour parking limit on Court Street between Second and Third Streets will be enforced starting Monday. The rule will not apply on Saturday afternoon or evening or all day Sunday.
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Court Street
Second
Thir Street
Safety Service
J. D. Fas
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