Central Ohio Faces Severe Storm Floods Across Region
A torrential rainstorm drenched central Ohio, flooding farms, roads and towns from Bucyrus to Columbus. Rivers rose, crops damaged, and highways including Route 23 and 98 were impeded as crews fought floods and outages. City fire alarms failed briefly in Marion as the region cooled after the heat wave.
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Weether Bureau
Columbus
Marion
Scioto
Prospect
Highway Patrol
Delaware
Bucyrus
Caledonia
Mt. Gilead
LaRue
Ohio
Cincinnati
Portsmouth
Sandusky
Erie County
Lake Shore
Gulf
Great Lakes
Biannual State Budget Talks Stall in Ohio Conference
Columbus June 25 The Senate and House conferees faltered again over the biennial state budget and related issues. Governor Davey is urged to intervene as a mediator with acceptable proposals. Debate continues on text book aid for parochial schools and separate handling of old age pensions funded from liquor revenues. Rural lawmakers worry relief funds may be misused.
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Columbus
Senate
House
Martin L. Davey
Tax examiner cites $4,401 shortage in sales tax division
L T Vessey reports a $4,401.92 shortage in the sales tax division of Columbiana County. Treasurer George S Boyce is held liable while deputy Ralph Sweger admits responsibility. full findings released in Columbus.
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Columbus
L. T. Vessey
Columbiana County
Georges
Boyce
Ralph Sweger
Ford patent suit fraud claim resumes in court
Cincinnati June 25 Floyd Co Williams attorney for Ford Motor Company said he would present evidence to show the $14,000,000 patent infringement suit against Ford is a fraud as the hearing continued in U S District Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Floyd Co. Williams
Ford Motor Company
Ford Company
U. S. District Court
Blast Kills Three In Pocahontas Mine Explosion
Three miners died in a gas explosion at the Pocahontas Fuel Company mine in Bishop Virginia. The blast occurred today amid ongoing mining operations and authorities investigated the cause and safety conditions reported from Bluefield West Virginia.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Bishop, Va
Peace Outlook Not Hopeless Eden Reports
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain urged Commons to keep cool over the Spanish civil war crisis. Eden said European peace looked possible with Italy and Germany aligned with pledged nonintervention, while Rome's Gayda warned against dramatic shifts unless new complications arise.
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Associated Press
Anthony Eden
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Italy
Germany
Rome
Virginio Gayda
Benito Mussolini
Ttaljians
International Non- Intervention Committee
Eden
Russia
Spain
Valencia
Britain
Chamberlain
Europe
Empire
Two Bodies Found Slain At Ironton
A man and woman both about 49 were found shot to death on a lonely road 12 miles northwest of Ironton. Sheriff Bernard Monte said it appears to be double murder. The woman was Mae Davis an Ironton police character and the man Evans Barnett a township city officer during prohibition. Both victims were shot three times and lay by the roadside since midnight.
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Ironton
Here
Bernard Monte
Monte
Mae Davis
Evans Barnett
Roosevelt Won't Run for Third Term Says Wagner
The New York Evening Journal reports Senator Wagner informed that President Roosevelt would not seek a third term. Don Budge advanced at Wimbledon by defeating Ladislav Hecht 6-4 6-2 6-2 in the All England championship.
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Roosevelt
New York
New York Evening Journal
Robert F. Wagner
Wimbledon
Eng
Don Budge
America
Ladislaw Hecht
Czechoslovakia
Colin Clive Dies in Hollywood at 37
English stage and screen actor Colin Clive died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood after several days of serious illness from pulmonary and intestinal ailments.
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Hollywood
Calif
Colin Clive
Cedars of Lebanon
Girdler Attacks CIO In Senate Postoffice Hearing
Republic Steel chairman Tom M. Girdler denounces the CIO as lawless and irresponsible before the Senate Postoffice Committee in Washington. He reiterates he will not sign a contract with the Lewis union as the panel probes mail interference by strike pickets.
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Senate Postoffice Committee
Washington
Tom M. Girdler
The
Republic Steel Corporation
Cleveland
Lewis Union
Girdler
Committee
Ohio Democrats to attend Roosevelt harmony weekend
Sixteen of Ohio's 24 Democratic congressmen planned to join President Roosevelt's harmony conference on Jefferson Island, Chesapeake Bay. Absentees included Vic Donahey and five others amid schedule conflicts and local duties. Conversations at the fishing lodge were rumored to touch on the Roosevelt Court Bill and various administration proposals ahead of Congress adjournment.
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Washington
Ohio
Roosevelt
Harmony
Jefferson Island
Chesapeake Bay
Vic Donahey
Huntsville
Frank L. Kloeb
Celina
James G. Polk
Highland
William A. Ashbrook
Johnstown
Robert Crosser
Martin L. Sweeney
Cleveland
Kloeb
White House
Federal District Bench
Toledo
Polk
Georgetown
Ashbrook
Sweeney
Donahey
Crosser
Arthur Lamneck
Columbus
Senate
Congress
Father Divine May Enter Hunt Case
Counsel for John Wuest Hunt, follower of Father Divine, consider direct intervention by the Harlem cult leader in the Mann Act case. Hugh MacBeth says Divine might aid on the West Coast as Hunt testsifying next Tuesday. Co-defendants Mrs Peters and Mrs Gardner dispute if a great light appeared when Dwight Jewett met Hunt in Denver last December.
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Los Angeles
John Wuest Hunt
Father Divine
Delight Jewett
Denver
Betty Jewett
Hunt
Hugh MacBeth
MacBeth
Elizabeth Peters
Martha
Agnes
Mary Masdalene” Gardner
Dwiight Jewett
Rescued Warden Recalls Six Days of Agony
Edward McDonald, veteran warden in Jasper Alberta, survived six days after a bear attack left him trapped two days in his cabin. He crawled 200 yards to call for help, enduring cold, hunger, and three days of immobilization before rescue. His horse trampled him and bears stalked nearby before he reached safety.
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Jasper
Alberta
Edward McDonald
McDonald
Isaac Creek
National Parks
Strikes at a Glance in Steel Industry
Steel strike enters its 30th day with about 100000 workers idle across seven states. Daily losses total around 1 million in wages and profits as Youngstown authorities and civic leaders coordinate with national guard to defend rights to work and to strike. Cleveland steel firms reject Roosevelt mediation urging direct talks with CIO leaders. Cambria Works sees a threatened miner march. reports vary on numbers. Warren sees a bridge dynamited and an attempted bombing of a National Guard troop carrier, with caches of clubs and pipes uncovered.
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Youngstown
Mililia
Steel Company
National Guard
Cleveland
Roosevelt
CIO
Johnstown
Cambria Works
William A. Clark
Clark
Union
Warren — Bridge
Youth Finds Body of Stabbed Girl in Cleveland Home
Miss Mary Mathes a 20 year old clerk was slain in her east side kitchen after returning from a dance with Charles Sepic 25. Sepic led police to a man on the doorstep who claimed to be doing nothing. Sepic then left to fetch help and three passersby discovered the victim.
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Cleveland
Mary Mathes
East Side
Charles Sepic
Sepic
James Hogan
Earhart Arrival Preparations Underway on Howland Island
Preparations began on Howland Island for the anticipated arrival within days of Amelia Earhart and her globe girdling plane. The U S Coast Guard cutter Itasca is offshore, awaiting the mission’s progress as the small coral atoll hosts the expected visit 1,552 miles southwest of Honolulu.
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U. S. Coast Guard
Itasca
Howland Island
Amelia Earhart
Pacific Ocean
Honolul
Farley Testimony in Senate Probe Debated by Committee
Senate investigators clashed over whether Postmaster General Farley should be summoned to testify about steel strikes. Chairman McKellar pressed Bridges on his questions while Howes said Farley had little to do with strike policy. Captain Mooney described the May 30 riot in Chicago where ten protesters died.
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Washington
Senate
Farley
Bridges
R-Nf
Administration
Moc Kellar
D-Tenn
Republic Steel
Chicago
McKellar
W. W. Howes
Tom Girdler
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
CIO
James L. Mooney
Chicago Police
Simon Seeks Billion for Exchange Equalization Fund
Sir John Simon asks the House of Commons to raise the exchange equalization fund by 1 billion dollars to back Britain’s monetary agreement with the United States and France. He says the fund would reach about 2.75 billion dollars to meet unsettled international monetary conditions.
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London
John Simon
Exchequer
House of Commons
Britain
United States
France
Simon
Commons
Knox Elevated to Colonel in Reserves
Manchester and Chicago publisher Lieutenant Colonel Frank Knox has been made a colonel in the reserves and named commanding officer of the 365th Field Artillery, per the 97th division headquarters report from Manchester New Hampshire.
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Manchester
N. H
97Th Division
U. S. Army
Frank Knox
Manfichester
Chicago
365Th Field Artillery
Davey backs National Guard to reopen Mahoning mills
Gov. Davey announced Ohio plants could resume operations under Guard protection as violence and bombings rocked cantons and Warren while Johnstown and Youngstown see pickets and failed mediation. CIO leader John Owens ordered strikers to refuse work amid mass idle in seven states.
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Youngstown
Mahoning Valley
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
National Guard
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Mediation Board
Bethlehem Steel
Cambria
Johnstown
William A. Clark
Canton
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Republic Steel Coreporation
William Webster
Republic Emsploye
Warren
Republic
Taft Seeks Home Rule Vital to Government
Robert A. Taft urged Ohio township delegates to embrace local self rule as essential to democracy. He acknowledged some tasks suit larger units but warned centralization advances in the name of efficiency and economy.
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Taft
Cincinnati
Robert A. Taft
William Howard Taft
Ohio State Association of Township Trustees and Clerks
County auditor lacks power to pick lands from delinquent list
Attorney General Herbert Duffy ruled for Cuya hoga County prosecutor that the county auditor may not select and advertise specific parcels from the delinquent tax list. He must certify all delinquent lands in his county.
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Columbus
Herbert
Duffy
Cuyahoga County
Markets At A Glance
New York stocks ease led by rails and metals as markets retreat. Bonds move lower with rails in demand. Chicago wheat climbs amid heavy Canadian damage. Corn rises on scarce offerings. Cattle hold steady to weak while hogs gain 20 cents to $12.10 top.
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New York
Chicago
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FORD
Blast
Mediterranean
Budge
Central Press
Congressional Democrats
Coast Guard
Amelia
Mid-Pacific
Ask Farley
Davey
Ursbrung
John Owens
Ohio Cio
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
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