Kipton Bridge Set for Spring Construction
Kipton Bridge will be built this spring after talks with state highway officials. Columbus Monday and Tuesday, county commissioners were told that removal of a dip in the Kipton road would be done this year, with further work pending road funds and pending legislation. Officials cited flood damage repairs as a priority on the state program, and hoped to include widening and resurfacing on Route 20 from Duck Pond Road to Oberlin and Avon Belden Road from Kingsley’s Corners to Route 82 as urgent local improvements.
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Columbus
Kipton
Duck Pond Road
Oberlin
Avon- Belden Road
Kingsley's Corners
Warns Restaurant Owners On Dish Washing
County Health Commissioner F. R. Dew urged hotel and restaurant proprietors to use boiling water or fresh chlorine solutions to wash utensils to curb colds influenza pneumonia and sore throat. Dr. Dew cited widespread contamination risk from improper cleaning after tests by J. S. Wetherill. The report notes dug wells with 50 percent colon bacilli and county data of 35 deaths 29 births in 31 villages with varied ages among new mothers and 160 contagious cases in January versus 169 last year.
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F. R. Dew
Dew
J. S. Wetherill
Soft Coal Parley Adjourned To March Ninth
New York March 3 The joint conference of miners and operators negotiating a new contract for the Appalachian districts of the Bituminous Coal Industry adjourned today on the motion of John J. Lewis United Mine Workers president until March 9. Lewis said the adjournment was to give both sides time to crystallize their views and the meetings had been amicable. the recess carries no significance beyond consulting their constituents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John J. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Lewis Group Begins Organizing The Shoe Industry
In Boston on March 3 John J. Lewis's Committee for Industrial Organization announced formation of the United Shoe Workers of America with a nucleus nationwide membership of 20,000.
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Boston
John J. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
United Shoe Workers of America
Weather Summary for Great Lakes and Pacific Coast Regions
The Weather QHIO reports fair and warmer conditions tonight with Thursday cloudy and warmer followed by showers. High pressure over the Great Lakes and Atlantic States, with a trough from New Mexico to Mantlada Santa Fe, 29.86 inches. Temperatures lower in New York, New England, Washington, and Oregon, rising elsewhere. Rain reaching Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas with scattered precipitation from North Dakota to the Pacific coast.
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Great Lakes
Atlantic States
New Mexico
Mantlada--- Santa Fe
New York
New England
Washington
Oregon
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
North Dakota
Pacific Coast
Lorain County poised to match state relief funds
Lorain County officials, after relief sessions in Columbus, expect counties to match state funds when the relief bill expires April 15. The county has about 100000 available to match, with current relief spending of 11000 monthly, enough to cover 18 months. There are 533 relief cases in the central area including Elyria and Lorain. 351 family and 182 single. Elyria reports 106 families and 3% single on relief. 128 cases are not employable, classed as permanent relief, per County Relief Director Ernest Holmes.
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Columbus
Lorain County
Ernest Holmes
Elyria
Lorain
Avon Lake
Amherst
la Grange
Holmes
Hiram College Plan Discussed by Elyria Rotary Club
Elbert H. Clarke professor of mathematics at Hiram College spoke to the Elyria Rotary Club at the Elks Club about a new plan of study. The plan emphasizes intensive study of one subject over a set period and a full year's work, with about 90 percent of students approving. A new member, Harlie Stevick, was welcomed to the Elyria YMCA board. Also, Ohio State Board of Real Estate Examiners secretary L. J. Corcoran resigned, per State Commerce Director Alfred A. Benesch.
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Fred D. Fagg Jr. Jabove
Northwestern University
Law School
Illinois Aero Commission
Federal Air Commerce Bureau
Washington
Eugene Vidal
Secretary of Commerce
Roper
Bureau
Hiram College
Elyria Rotary Club
Elks Club
Elbert H. Clarke
Hiram
Clarke
Harlie Stevick
Columbus
L. J. Corcoran
Columbia
Ohio State Board of Real Estate Examiners
Alfred A. Benesch
Corcoran
Benesch
Plan to Attack Judiciary Plan In Senate Hearings
Opponents of Roosevelts court reorganization plan outline a strategy as Attorney General Cummings testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Leaders from both parties map questions to press witnesses while some senators defend the bill amid call for possible constitutional challenges and alternative proposals.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Homer S. Cummings
Senate Judiciary Committee
Cummings
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
William E. Borah
Ida
Hiram Johnson
Cal
Edward R. Burke
Neb
Arthur H. Vandenburg
Mich
Frederick van Nuys
Ind
M. M. Logan
Rep
Frank Hancock
N. C
W Vandenburg
Prentiss M. Brown
Robert Jackson
Henry Ward Beer
New York Federal Bar Association
Judiciary Committee
Free Text Books Proposed for All School Spheres
In Columbus on March 3 the Senate education committee backed a bill to provide free text books for students in private parochial and public schools. The Senate finance committee heard arguments for a separate bill to appropriate 3.5 million dollars yearly for direct aid to parents of children in private and parochial schools.
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Columbus
Senate Education Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Hunt Suspect In Woman s Death in Cincinnati
Police hunted a WPA worker as the slayer of Edith Caudill Nirl, 28, formerly of Huntington, W Va, whose mutilated body was found in Inwood Park. The suspect had a record of battering women, authorities said, as the search continued.
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Cincinnati
WPA
Edith Caudill Nirl
Huntington
W. Va
Inwood Vark
Hiri
Superintendent of Construction at Oberlin Named
Oberlin College appointed Cutler Merck 2 Raberom as Superintendent of Construction. Formerly with Owens Illinois Glass Co and the Ohio State Building and Bridge Department, he begins duties during Oberlin’s expansion. Projects include a 150000 dollar Physical Education unit funded by George Willard Hales and a 2000 dollar Allen Art Building addition from an anonymous donor. Cutler, a 1929 Marietta College graduate, earned mechanical engineering and architecture degrees from Ohio State in 1922 and 1929 respectively. He previously worked with Rust Engineering Co and state industrial construction work.
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Oberlin, Merck 2 Raberom
Cutler
Owens Illinois Glass Co
State of Ohio
Oberlin College
Oberlin
George Willard Hales
Oak Park
Allen Art
Marietta College
Ohio State
Marietta
Rust Ungneering Co
Pittsburgh
Owens Ilinois Glass Co
College Town Mourns Girl Found Dead in Charlottesville
Cleo Sprouse 18, a high school honor student, was found dead near an Virginia cemetery site. Relatives suspect murder and name a doctor as a possible suspect though no name is given. An autopsy found no sign of criminal attack. Lester Smith, her supposed fiancé, was cleared by alibi checks at a CCC camp.
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Charlottesville
Cleo Sprouse
Commonwealth Attorney
Cleo
Virginia
Chris Sprouse
Albemarle County
Lester Smith
CCC
Study of NRA objectives in constitutional terms
Washington March 3 The Roosevelt committee on Industrial Analysis outlined constitutional routes to achieve NRA aims despite its outlawing. It reviewed Supreme Court rulings validating NRA AAA and other laws, proposing federal industrial supervision price regulation corporate licensing and wage setting for interstate utilities as possible paths.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Committee On
Congress
Supreme Court
New York
Webb-Kenyon
Hawes- Cooper
Thirty three oil executives plead not guilty in Madison trial
In Madison on March 3, thirty three Major Oil Co executives waived reading of federal grand jury indictments and pleaded not guilty to Sherman Act charges. Judge Patrick T. Stone will hear demurrers and motions on venue and other pleadings. The indictments, returned since 1936 by two federal juries, involve price fixing of gasoline and a broad oil industry conspiracy.
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Madison
Wis
LCS
Patrick T. Stone
U. S. District Court
William J. Donovan
Formmer
U. S
Coolidge
Western
Wisconsin District Court
Keith Fanshier
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Warren G. Platt
Cleveland
National Petroleum News
Platt
Dilgram
Atty
Homer S. Cummings
X. T. Stover
Findlay, G
Qhig Oil Co
Tribute Paid To U S Steel Head By John Lewis
John L Lewis praised Myron C Taylor, chairman of United States Steel, for guiding a peaceful settlement in the $5 billion steel industry. In secret talks in New York and Washington, the two men discussed motives and reached an understanding, with both acknowledging the responsibility and potential benefits to industry and the nation.
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New York
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Myron C. Taylor
United States Steel Corporation
Stern
Lewis
Myron GC. Taylor
Washington
Taylor
Babar
Asks Reinstatement As Union Head
COLUMBUS Ohio March 3 Glen W McCabe suspended by the Federation of Flat Glass Workers executive board last week seeks reinstatement as president. He petitioned Common Pleas Judge Cecil J Randall to order restoration and to expunge the suspension from records and bar interference by union officials.
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Columbus
Federation of Flat
Glass Workers
Glen W. McCabe
McCabe
Common Pleas
Cecil J. Randall
Ithe
Complete unionization of steel industry forecast
Pittsburgh March 3 union leaders predicted complete unionization of the steel industry employing 625000 people without strikes. After two days, SWOC and Carnegie Illinois signed a one year contract recognizing John L Lewis's union as bargaining agent. Wage rise of ten cents hourly and a 40 hour week take effect March 16.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie-Ilinois
United States Steel
Steel Workers Organizing
Commte
Steel Company
John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
Corporation of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Steel Union of the Committee For Industrial Organization
SWOC
Carnegie-Illinois
Benjamin F. Fairless
Murray
Fairless
van A. Bittner
Clinton 5. Golden
David J. McDonald
Lee Pressman
Walsh- Healy
Carnegie- Illinois
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem and Republic
Jones & Laughlin
Blaw-Knot
Wheeling Steel Corporation
Jones & Taughlin
Blaw-Knox
Lewis Foundry and Machine
Pittsburgh Rolls Corp
Union Steel Casting
National Alloy Steel
Ohio
West Virginia
Chrysler Wage Demands Loom As Auto Strikes End
Detroit reports a sit down at Motor Products Corp settled with management rehiring four discharged workers. UAW aimed to press wage and hour demands for Chrysler Corp talks covering 67 000 workers while unsettled strikes persist at Murray Body Corp and Zenith Carburetor Co. Motor Products, maker of dash panels and interior trim, saw 3 500 workers back at machines after the agreement and bargaining pledge.
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Detroit
Motor Products Corporation
United Automobile Workers Union
Chrysler Corporation
Murray Body Corporation
Zenith
Murray
Auto Union
Modern Valjean Returns To Ohio
James McCann 38, a modern Valjean figure, waived extradition and returned to Ohio to face possible imprisonment in the prison farm he escaped 16 years ago. Identified by fingerprints as Terrence Cannon from London Ohio, he confessed a domestic quirk led to the discovery. Parole officials escorted him by train as Gov Davey and detectives arranged clemency based on his clean life since escape. He has two daughters and a steel mill job history with Jones & Laughlin. A reunion with brother Robert Cannon followed arrest attention.
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Pittsburgh
James McCann
Victor Hugo
Jean Valjean
Ohio
McCann
Mc‘Cann
Terrence Cannon
London
Akron
Cannon
G. Warren Nicholls
Wray Bevins
Martin L. Davey
Walter Monaghan
Jones& Laughlin Steel Corp
Mathilda
Clean Bill Of Health For County Officials
Columbus report finds county administration sound with only 389 dollars misspent in the audit covering October 15, 1934 to April 28, 1936. Officials say all improper funds have been corrected and the county closes the books with a clean bill.
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Columbus
Lorain County
Mills Closes as Robesonia Mob Terrorizes Mill
In Reading area Robesonia mob stoned the William F. Mueller Hosiery Mill prompting its closure. The strike, first violence in a campaign that has shut 13 mills and left over 5,000 workers jobless.
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Reading
U. P
William F. Mueller
Robesonia
Nationalists Destroy Toxic Gas Factory in Spain
Nationalist army headquarters reported its aviation bombed and destroyed the Spanish branch factory of an American maker at Tarragona. They say Loyalists converted the plant into a toxic gas factory after taking over from the United States Flying Company, known for Flit insecticide. The same planes also damaged Catalonian electrical plants converted into munitions works.
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Talavera DE LA Reina
Spain
Tarragona
United States Flying Company
Mrs Allman to supply info on state jobs
Welfare Director Margaret Allman said she will provide the House Welfare Committee with information on salaries and working conditions in state institutions. She noted attendants are paid 40 to 60 dollars a month plus maintenance and work 12 hours daily.
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Columbus
Margaret Allman
House Welfare Committee
Robert J.) Beatty
Elyria Chamber of Commerce Elects Directors and Officers
Newly elected Elyria Chamber of Commerce directors met with President A H Weat presiding. A committee led by Al Mason with A J Robinson and J B Johnson will draft a list of officers to be presented next meeting for election. The next meeting occurs on Tuesday. Officers include a president two vice presidents secretary and treasurer.
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Elyria Chamber of Commerce
A. H. Weat
al Mason
A. J. Robinson
J. B. Johnson
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Bulletin
Lewis Group
White House
George Norris
Hugo S. Black
Ala
Lobby Investigating Committee
Joseph T. Robinson
Robinson
Kansas
Hunt
U.S. Steel
John Lewis
Carnegie Ilinois
Chrysler Co
Valjean
C. of C
Ladies
Harvard Avenue
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