Court orders arrest of 6000 Chrysler sit-down strikers
Wayne county circuit court issues a blanket writ ordering the arrest of Homer Martin and 6000 Chrysler sit-down strikers at nine plants. Sheriff Wilcox may request National Guardsmen as deputies are scarce. Strikers ignore an injunction demanding departure by 9 am and remain at the plants.
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Detroit
Bernard McGrath
Thomas Wilcox
Frank Murphy
Chrysler
McGrath
Murphy
Wayne County
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers
Chrysler Corporation
Allan Campbell
Chrysler Corp
Martin
Wyndham Mortimer
Ed Hall
Campbell
Amelia Delayed By Bad Weather
Amelia Earhart Putnam delayed overnight by a storm as she prepares to fly a new unexplored route to Howland Island, the second leg of her world circumnavigation. The $90,000 Lockheed Silver Lady underwent a near rebuild with new propellers after the Oakland flight, with three crew members aboard.
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Honolulu
T. H
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Howland Island
Lockheed “Flying Laboratory
Pacific Island
Equator
Oakland
Calif
Queen of the Air
Strikers Refuse To Pay Fines At Electric Boat
About 90 of 112 sit-down strikers at Electric Boat Co in Groton refused $3 trespassing fines in town court and were jailed pending appeals to common pleas court. The remainder paid $3.08 to cover fines and costs.
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Groton, Conn
Electric Boat Co
Common Pleas Court
Weather bulletin for Ohio and surrounding regions
Cloudy and warmer tonight followed by rain Saturday in the west portion then colder Saturday night across the extreme west. A western disturbance moved eastward, central over western Kansas this morning with a low of 29.20 inches at Pueblo Colorado and strong winds with dust storms from the Texas Panhandle. Other centers of low pressure off the Washington coast and over Maine. high pressure over southern California Saskatchewan and Florida. Thermometers lower over the lower Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, higher elsewhere. Precipitation light in the Ohio Valley Great Lakes and Northeast. rain then snow in the Kansas area ahead of a cold spell.
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Ohio
West
Kansas
Pueblo
Colorado
Texas Panhandle
Washington Coast
Maine
California
Saskatchewan
Florida
Lower Lakes
Ohio Valley
Rocky Mountain
Rockies
Great Lakes
City Hall to Close for Tiletex Flooring Remodel
City Hall offices except police and fire will close all day tomorrow to allow workmen to lay new tiletex flooring on the second floor. Water department to move to first floor by end of next week as remodeling advances. Project total about 24000 dollars including boiler and fire station updates.
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I. D. Faxon
Police
Fire Department
Faxon
Water Department
No. 1 Fire Staton
Brihuega Falls to Loyalists in Madrid Front Advance
Loyalist forces led by Gen Miaja rout an Italian division commanded by Gen Moscardo at Brihuega, capturing a supply train and heavy war materiel. The city, home to about 5,000 residents, was bombarded as the encirclement closed and half the town burned.
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Madrid
Brihuega
Garibaldi
Jose Moscardo
Alcazar
Jose Miaja
Siguenza
Miaja
Question Woman In Canton Case
In Canton Ohio Theresa Ludwig 47, mistress of a slain woman’s husband, is questioned as the Rose Cable murder probe continues. Ludwig is removed from jail to the home of detective Norman Van Alman with police and legal representatives guarding her statements. The lie detector has been used and reported to the county prosecutor. Private detective L W Gerth denies links between the Cable case and other affairs, stating his Wooster assignment is separate.
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Canton
Rose Cable
Theresa Ludwig
Miss Ludwig
Dueber S. Cable
Norman van Alman
William R. Quinn
William B Quinn
Ira Manderbaugh
Wooster
Attendance Campaign Extends Through Easter Sunday
Ten Elyria churches in the United Church Attendance Campaign plan two more Sundays of services. Attendance has hovered around 2,000 per week, with 1,958 at last Sunday’s services as the campaign runs from January 23 to March 28 ending on Easter Sunday.
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Elyria
United Church
Eucharistic Congress Set for Lorain May 26 and 27
Preparations for the Second Eucharistic Congress of the Cleveland Diocese proceed with Lorain chosen as host city. Bishop Schrembs presided over a Lorain deanery meeting as committees work on entertainment traffic processions records publicity sacristy music and finance among others. The event aims to attract thousands with Holy Hours adoration and a Corpus Christi pontifical Mass at St Marys Lorain culminating in a procession to Lakeview Park and Solemn Benediction.
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Cleveland
Lorain
Lorain County
James T. Daley
St. Mary’s Church
Elyria
E. J. Ahern
Leo A. Warth
J. N. Rohner
Catholic Universe Bulletin
Joseph Schrembs
St. Mary’s
Youngstown
Corpus Christi
Schrembs
Adam Senger
John N. Rhein
A. Ciampichini
Carl J. Anthony
William T. Moran
Lakeview Park
the Universe
A. A. Karper
John G. Hamrak
M. J. Slate
John Hreha
R. J. Steiger
G. J. Pawlewitz
E. J. Murphy
Jerome N. Rohner
Sylvester P. Lux
Ernest A. Rickert
James H. Smith
John Foster
Raphael Joseph
Isadore Rafferty
Bernardine Singleton
Leo J. Brissel
Joseph Buescher
Leo A. Worth
P. J. Ferron
Leo A. Rygwalski
George N. Stuber
Joseph Mattin
Lawrence W. Budny
Vincent O’dea
Ambrose Metzger
T. S. Zekany
Congress
James P. Brennan
Stephen Petrick
John T. Kasinski
Joseph P. Heffernan
Two Boys Escape From Juvenile School Transport
Marion Ohio authorities seek Troy Miller aged 17 and Raymond Litell aged 18 who escaped moments after being sentenced to the Boy's Industrial School at Lancaster. They broke away while being taken to an automobile by Deputy Warren Miller of the juvenile court.
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Marion, CO
Ohio
Marion
Troy Miller
Raymond Litell
Lancaster
Warren Miller
Only Living Former Justice To Speak On Judiciary Plan
Senate leaders announced that John H. Clark the only living former supreme court justice will deliver a radio address on Roosevelt's judiciary plan Monday night. The announcement came after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to request a docket condition report from the clerk of the supreme court.
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Washington
Senate
Joseph T. Robinson
John H. Clark
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Robinson
Senate Judiciary Committee
Two Confess To Dynamiting Gas Lines
In Wooster Ohio March 19 two Ohio Fuel Gas Company workers Cecil Eberhart Medina 24 and Irvin Lewis Woodruff Wooster 21 confessed to dynamiting gas lines. Eberhart held on 10000 bond after pleading guilty in Mayor Longs court. Woodruff to be arraigned later. Police say about a dozen other men are being sought. The confessions followed a lie detector test brought from Northwestern University Chicago. A strike by transportation workers had been ongoing since February.
House Approves Neutrality Bill
In Washington on March 19 the House passed the McReynolds Neutrality Bill signaling a likely clash with the Senate over keeping the United States out of war. Leaders of both chambers agreed to confer to resolve differences with the Pittman neutrality measure from the Senate. The administration prepared for emergency action if a conference deadlock delays passage beyond May 1, possibly extending the current act briefly by resolution.
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Washington
House
Senate
America
Cross on Wall Near Baby's Crib Reported in Paineville
In Paineville Ohio a baby named Betty two and a half months old died hours after many witnesses saw a cross on the wall above her crib. The vision occurred as firemen worked to revive her during pneumonia treatment.
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Painesville, CO
James Phillips
Frank Phillips
Sam Bain
Chester Hamilton
Jack Sheridan
Phillips
Betty
Man Rescues Family From Fire Saving Five Lives
Marion resident Ralph Miley, age 22, leapt from a second story porch as flames swept through a home on March 19. He saved three children of his sister and brother-in-law, Mr and Mrs Donald Mason, then placed a ladder so the parents could escape.
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Marion
Ralph Miley
Inlaw
Donald Mason
Explosion Kills 425 at New London School in Texas
A military inquiry was ordered into the New London rural school disaster where about 425 people died including 411 children and 14 teachers. Officials debate if a dynamite blast caused by a deliberate charge or gas explosion sparked the tragedy in East Texas.
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Balway Es Baa
New London
Texas
Tex
U.P
East Texas
Clarence E. Parker
James V. Allred
C. E. Shaw
National Guard
Military Board
New London School Board
Albert Evans
Red Cross
Henderson
Dallas
New London Rural School
Children Who Survived Tell Of Explosion
Survivors of a gas explosion in a fireproof school describe their feelings as the structure collapses, detailing the fear, smoke, and chaos inside the building in Overton Texas. The dispatch portrays a vivid, survivor’s perspective from March 19.
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Overton
Tex
United Press
Aftermath in Study Hall Disaster
A student describes a chaotic school incident with classmates injured or killed after a collapse or blast. Smoke and injuries scattered around as several students jumped from windows to escape. Victims lay on the ground outside while others helped pull survivors from the building.
Eighth Grade Explosion Survivor Recounts Harrowing Scene
A student describes a classroom blast that hurled classmates through the air leaving many injured and dead. He recalls being rescued by a man and awakening among crying, shocked parents as sirens and chaos filled the scene.
Quiet Classroom Witnessed Falling Roof at Junior High
Paula Echols recalls a deadly ceiling collapse during an English class at junior high. A brick and mortar portion of the roof caved in, burying the teacher except for a leg and desk corner while students screamed and one boy cried for help.
Debris hides fate of many more children at New London
In a steady rain reporters and rescue crews continued combing the New London consolidated school wreckage for missing children after yesterday's explosion. Doctors, oil field workers, and volunteers labor amid rubble as cranes lift debris and fear grows that more victims lie beneath shattered rock and clay foundations.
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New London Rural School
East Texas
New London
Tex
Urbe
Relief Agencies Rush Aid To Texas Town
President Roosevelt mobilized government relief agencies to aid New London Texas after a devastating school explosion. The Red Cross and military units were directed to stand by, with doctors and nurses dispatched from nearby areas. Senator Shepherd reviewed New London reports for possible federal inquiry.
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Texas
Warm Springs
Roosevelt
New London
Tex
Red Cross
Atlanta
Washington
War Department
Eighth Corps
Arma
The
Morris Shepherd
Sheriff and Wife Plan Florida Trip for Recovery
Sheriff William F. Grall plans a trip to Florida next week with Mrs. Grall to speed recovery from a severe influenza attack that kept him in bed since March 2. Mrs. Grall, also ill, is improving. Chief Deputy Smite will oversee department duties during their absence.
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William F. Grall
Florida
Grall
William G. Smite
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James Ward
Charles Clair
Paula Echols
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