Pickets Patrol Six Republic Steel Plants
Pickets patrolled six Republic Steel plants in Canton and Massillon after union workers voted a strike protesting alleged discrimination against John L. Lewis committee members. Two injures reported as a stone struck a car crossing a picket line near Stark rolling mill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic Steel
Canton
Republic Steel Corporation
Massillon
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Republic
Masaillon
James Seccombe
Ira Manderbaugh
Mercy Hospital
Paul Townsend
James Mesaros
Stark Rolling
Meszaros
Townsend
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Philip Murray
Jeaders
Youngstown, CO
Bethlehem Steel Company
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company
Inland Steel Corporation
Dantes
Pittsburgh
Repubic
C. I.0
Moa
Weather update showers cooler tonight and Thursday
A weather forecast predicts showers and cooler air tonight and Thursday. Stronger southwest winds shift to northerly by Thursday with possible thunder showers in the area.
Chest Officers Reelected by Elyria Community Chest
All officers were reelected for the coming year at a trustees meeting after a members meeting. Judge Guy B. Findley was named president, H. L. Reynolds first vice president, Mrs. A. M. Hannaford second vice president, T. L. Moise secretary and treasurer, and A. H. Waters assistant secretary and treasurer. Executive committee members include BE. F. Allen, W. L. Walsh, H. L. Reynolds, Mrs. Howard Barbour, Mrs. S. J. Birkbeck, Mia A. M. Hannaford, F. A. Smythe, Worth Fauver, and T. L. Moise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Elyria Community Chest, Inc
Community Chest Organization
Guy B. Findley
H. L. Reynolds
A. M. Hannaford
T. L. Moise
A. H. Waters
Assisant
BE. F. Allen
W. L. Walsh
Howard Barbour
Ford Workers In California Vote To Strike
Ford workers in Richmond California voted unanimously to strike demanding U A W A recognition. About 1 200 workers on the opening day of a nationwide campaign planned eight demands including reinstatement of two men from a brief April sit down and alleged company bias with union officials distributing leaflets on company time. Pickets were posted around the Richmond plant and others sent to the Ford plant in Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Cal
Henry Ford
United Automobile Workers of America
Ford Assembly
Ford Motor Company
Frank Slaby
Francisco
Ford
Uice
Hunt Members Of Gang In Four States
Loganport bold pursuit across Indiana Michigan Ohio and Illinois as officers patrol highways and skies to capture gang led by Alfred Brady who boasted he would outdo Dillinger. One officer gravely wounded and a bank robbery linked to the gang is under investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
Ind
Dillinger
John Dillinger
Indiana
Alfred Brady
James Dalhover
Clarence Lee Shaffer
Goodland
Paul Minneman
Elmer Craig
Matt Leach
Indianapolis
Michigan
Ohio
Illinois
Donald Winn
Department of Justice
Nyona Lake
Here
Minneman
Brady
Chicago
Goodland Foray
Farmland State Bank
Dalhover
Goodland Bank
Lyle Constable
Winn
Madison
Mioneman
Craig
Anderson
James Levy
Lima
Eucharistic Congress Opens Tonight With Parish Transport
Lorain Street Railway will shuttle St. Agnes Church members to Lorain for the Cleveland Diocese Eucharistic Congress events opening tonight. Two cars will take parishioners to the midnight mass at Lakeview Park led by Bishop McFadden. Tomorrow, processions form near Fifth Street Lorain and later return to Elyria. school children ride to Lorain for the procession. Bishop Schrembs calls the congresses a core Catholic devotion to the Blessed Eucharist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain Street
St. Agnes Church
Lorain
Cleveland
J. C. Welsh
St. Agnes
Bath Street
Lakeview Park
James A. McFadden
McFadden
Dewey Street
Elyria
Schrembs
United States
Eckener Seeks US Helium Support for Zeppelin Service
German airship pioneer Dr. Hugo Eckener told the Senate Military Affairs committee that Germany needs American helium supplies to continue commercial airship operations. He offered to pay on a commercial basis and suggested the United States could use dirigibles for scouting while pursuing transatlantic airship service with the new craft nearing Friedrichshafen completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hugh Eckener
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Germany
United States
Spredr
Atlantic
Friedrichshafen
Relief Setup To Be Continued In Lorain County
Lorain County will keep its present relief setup after a Columbus meeting with Commissioner Association officials. O P Van Schoik said counties with no relief funds must return relief to local districts, while the three counties with funds may continue as before. Lorain was noted for an outstanding relief administration record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County
Oscar G. Dunn
Columbus
Commissioner Association
Ohio
O. P. van Schoik
State Auditor's Department
van Schoik
Three Boys Die As Rifle Shots Ignite Powder Blast
In Scottdale Pennsylvania three youths Wilbert Sechrist sixteen Boyd Long seventeen and Howard Stull fifteen were killed when rifle practice using an explosive dump ignited a large powder supply. The blast wrecked powder stores owned by Loucks Hardware Company and damaged a nearby home injuring an elderly woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scottdale
Wilbert Sechrist
Boyd Long
Scottdale High School
Howard Stull
Huntingdon Township
Loucks Hardware Company
Westmoreland County
Postpone Meeting On Closing Murray Ridge School Elyria Township
Residents of Elyria Township will discuss proposed closure of Murray Ridge School at a meeting next week. The gathering was moved from Friday due to a scheduling conflict. date to be set. The plan would send Murray Ridge pupils to Lake Avenue and Markley Schools with eighth grades split. projected annual savings of about 4000 dollars plus state funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray Ridge
Elyria Township
Lake Avenue
Markley
Lorain County
Ford Co Surplus Tops Six Hundred Million Mark
Ford Motor Company increased its surplus by 19,689,020 during 1936, bringing the total surplus to 602,666,675 as filed with the Massachusetts Department of Corporations and Taxations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Ford Motor Company
Massachusetts Department of Corporations and Taxations
Private funeral for John D Rockefeller at Pocantico Hills
In Pocantico Hills N Y private funeral services were held for 97 year old John D Rockefeller with 50 relatives close friends and old servants present. Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick conducted the rites assisted by the Rev Lester P Bent. The body was later moved to Cleveland for burial beside his wife at Lake View Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarrytown
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Ormond Beach
Fla
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Great Riverside Church
Rockefeller Church
New York City
Lester P. Bent
Pocantico Hills Union Church
Fosdick
Harold V. Milligan
Riverside Church
Dorothea Flexner
Rockefellers
Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Cleveland
Lakeview
Names Committee For Flag Day Exercises
A seven member committee led by George Colburn will organize Elyria Elks Lodge Flag Day observances. Members include Gerald Xau Jim Armitage Mose Wilder John Kolopos Tom Welsh and Charles Persons. The event will feature flags presented to 18 Elyrians newly admitted to citizenship and a delegation will attend a Bucyrus banquet for Charles A. Michael.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Colburn
Elyria Elks Lodge
3. M. Powell
Gerald Xau
Jim Armitage
Mose Wilder
John Kolopos
Tom Welsh
Charles Persons
President Rooney Rests? Ratification of Western Peace Treaties
President Roosevelt asked the Senate to ratify peace treaties and inter American conventions aimed at permanent peace in the western hemisphere. The agreements, signed by U S delegates at Buenos Aires in December, reaffirm a collective pledge to settle disputes by pacific means and to consult when regional peace is threatened.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Americas
United States
Buenos Aires
Caution Urged in Drafting Wage and Hour Bill
The administration urged care in drafting a new wage and hour bill to avoid NRA-style pitfalls. Democratic leaders planned expedited hearings but would ensure the measure withstand a Supreme Court test. Critics warned the draft may be hastily prepared and give excessive power to a five member labor standards board. The bill follows principles from a Roosevelt message and would eliminate child labor while setting minimum wage and maximum hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
Supreme Court
NRA
High Tribunal
Roosevelt
Congress
Ridgeville Memorial Day Program Time Change
Memorial Day exercises at North Ridgeville town hill will begin at 10 30 a m Monday morning instead of 10 o'clock. The firing squad plan at Fields Corners cemetery was dropped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Ridgeville
Fields Corners
Report Craft Shot Down By German Plane
Bulletin from Bilbao reports a French commercial passenger airplane was shot down by a German warplane as Spanish Rebel forces besiege Bilbao. A woman passenger and the pilot were injured. The airliner, with four passengers, fell 12 miles from Bilbao between Algorta and Plencia. The fuselage separated from the wings and the two engines buried in earth. The wreckage showed bloodstained debris near the pilot’s beret. Spanish Guards of Public Order monitored the scene.
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Bilbao
Spain
Algortia
Plencia
Bay of Biscay
Fight To Save Relief Bill In House Turf War
Washington reports White House efforts to salvage a 1.5 billion relief bill stalled by pork barrel amendments. House blocs earmark funds for flood control highways and public works, signaling a split with Hopkins Farley and West active to reel in regulars. Senate voices call for greater local government financial responsibility amid mounting pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Works Progress Administration
James A. Farley
Charles West
Works Progress
Harry L. Hopkins
Senate
House
Five Killed In Highway Crash Near Coxsackie
Five persons were killed when a heavy truck collision with two cars carrying an orchestra to a summer resort sparked a blaze. The dead include Leonard Fleming 40 Englewood New Jersey driver. Carl Bacheofsky 19 Boston. Jack Pastor 20 Lynn Massachusetts. Harold Bloom 18 Dorchester. Joshua Cohen 21 Dorchester and Robert Novak 16 Mattapan Massachusetts. Police said a blown tire on the coupe may have caused the crash and both vehicles burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coxsackie
N. Y
Leonard Fleming
Englewood
N. J
Carl Bacheofsky
Boston
Jack Pastor
Lynn
Masamate Goldstein
Revere
Axe
Harold Bloom
Dorchester
Mass
Joshus Cohen
Robert Novak
Mattapan
Catskill
Perkins backs specific wage and hour rules for major industries
Washington May 26 Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins urged Congress to apply precise wage and hour standards to key industries as a complement to the president’s overall program. She testified before a House labor subcommittee in favor of the Elsenhoger bill for a textile workers’ “Little Who,” urging swift action on the administration measure.
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Washington
Frances Perkins
Congress
House
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Sleepy Hollow
New York
Florida
John D. Jr
David
Nelson A
Winthrop
Laurance
John D. II
Acme
California
Dearborn
Mich
Calif
Harry Bennett
Hunt
Eckener
Elyria Two
Ford Co
Ridgeville
Bulletin
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