Italy Rejects Direct East Africa Peace Talks Demand
An Associated Press report states Italy insists on direct negotiations with Ethiopia to end the East Africa war, with Mussolini aiming for a peace on Italy's terms. Italian sources claim a swift defeat of Ethiopian resistance is near as a motor column advances toward Addis Ababa, while Geneva and London discussions test collective security and Britain considers sanctions. Separate filing notes Mrs James Edgar II, once Kathryn Crawford, seeks divorce from Lewis Mallory III with her $300,000 alienation suit.
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Dessye
Rome
Italy
Great Briin
Anthony Eden
France
Reichshrer
Hitler
Great Britain
Belgium
London
Germany
James Edgar II
Kathryn Crawford
Screen and
Stage
Lewis Mallory III
Pennsylvania
Edgar
London Sr dies at Syracuse residence age 73
Pomeroy staff special reports London Sr age 73 died this morning at his Syracuse home. He is survived by his son Mollie London and several grandchildren and daughters in law. Funeral services set for 2 PM at the Syracuse Presbyterian Church with burial in the Syracuse Hill cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Eyh London
Syracuse
Mollie London
Fellow& Sons and
Joseph, Herman
Mary Ellen Roush
Iva Florence Roush
En Haven
W. Va
J. W. Teher
Toledo
George Hood Pomeroy
Clarence Stillagner
Neffs. O
Fred Willen
Kansas City
Syracuse Presbyterian Church
Urial
Syracuse Hill
Butter Prices Slip Amid Fading Demand in Chicago
In a brief market turn Chicago butter prices fell by over four cents per pound as demand waned after a period of high prices. Dealers had met recent surge requirements though activity cooled as buyers hesitated.
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Chicago
Nevens
Fingerprints Found on Slain Writer Bed in New York Case
Police files reveal prints on writer Nancy Evans Titterton's bed, mostly from one hand. Investigators seek whether they belong to the author or her killer as questions linger over a potential suspect.
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New York
Nancy
Evans Titterton
Lobby Hearing Ends Abruptly Over Witness Refusal
In Washington a Senate Lobby Committee hearing halted when a witness refused to answer questions. Kurt Grunwald of the Farmers Independence Council defied requests for contacts related to his anti AAA group. Chairman Black urged a decision on possible contempt and hearing continuations were planned. Concurrently, lawmakers discussed funding strategies amid House resistance to a $10,000 allotment.
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Washington
Senate
Kurt Grunwald
Farmers Independence Council
Jury Votes No Bill in Wendel Case
In Trenton New Jersey the Mercer County Grand Jury declined to indict Paul H Wendel after exoneration on Lindbergh kidnapping links. A pending murder warrant from Mrs Anna Hauptmann in Huntington County remained active, delaying Wendel’s release and ending further debate on the case.
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Bill
Paul H. Wendel
Trenton
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Mercer County
Grand Jury
Wendel
Anna Hauptmann
Huntrdon County
Girl Prisoner And Ex Pastor Escape From Cass Jail
Madge Copeland 21 freed herself by battering a jail door and releasing her brother in law and ex pastor Perry Griffin 24. They fled through Oklahoma Mississippi Kentucky Tennessee and Illinois before being captured in Springfield Missouri. Griffin earlier faced highway robbery charges and is father of three.
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Harrisonville
Cass County
Perry E. Griffin
Madge Copeland
Glenn Weaver
Griffin
Leroy Allery
Missouri Valley College
Oak Grove Baptist Church
Adonis
Creston
Iowa
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Kentucky
Tennessee
Illinois
Springfield
Fly Loses Leg Upsets Accounts in Sacramento
In Sacramento California a fly's broken leg caused the SERA Disbursing Office to miscount by six cents for a week. Auditors searched for the error until an accidental flick dislodged part of the fly's leg from above a numeral 1 mistaken for a 7, correcting the balance.
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Sacramento
Calif
SERA
Still Hope for Buried Miners
In Moose River New York engineers drill a five inch bore 140 feet deep to send food and supplies to three entombed men from Toronto. Rescue workers hope to establish communication through the hole and speed the rescue after a cave-in that trapped Dr. D. E. Robertson H. B. Magi and Charles Alfred Scadding.
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Moose River
N. Y
Toronto
D. E. Robertson
H. B. Magi
Charlies Alfred Scadding
Tiffin Grand Jury Indicts Ira Runyon for Maiming
The county grand jury indicted Ira Runyon aged 36 on a charge of maiming for allegedly throwing acid at his wife. The indictment was handed up on Wednesday.
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Tiffin
Ira Runyon
WPA reports 75 workers leave for private jobs in month
Officials of the Works Progress Administration announced today that 75 WPA employees have taken private employment since the first of the month.
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Works Progress Administration
WPA
Press leader condemns Black Lobby Committee actions
Washington President Grove Patterson editor of The Toledo Blade denounces the Senate Lobby Committee led by Senator Black D Als restraining telegrams and private messages. He warns the American press will not tolerate senatorial overreach and defends freedom of the press against government intrusion.
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Patterson
Washington
Grove Patterson
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Toledo Blade
Roosevelt
Senate Lobby Committee
Black D-Al
Senatorial Committee
America
Davey vetoes three appropriation bills in Ohio
Gov. Martin L. Davey vetoed $125000 for a Xenia soldiers and sailors home school, $100000 for a State Fair Grounds horse barn, and $14000 for a Lake Erie soil erosion study rotary fund. He warned such sums hinder operating expenses and pensions while signing measures raising old age pensions and reclassifying bottled cocktails and parole work under welfare.
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Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home
Lake Erie
Ohio
Davey
Parole and Probation Departments
Miner’s Death May Clear Up Easter Gift Bombing
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania authorities probe a miner’s self-inflicted explosion at Buttonwood Colliery Glen Alden Coal to shed light on the Easter Gift bomb outrages that killed three in the region. Coroner calls it probable self action as state police question two Breslau residents and six others including a woman in Hanover Township.
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Wilkes-Barre
Anthony Denevige
Buttonwood
Glen Alden Coal Company
Wyoming Valley
Breslau
Denevige
Hanover Township
Belgian Royal Children Kidnap Threat Exposed
Liege police arrested 31 year old ex convict Nicholas Elsen after he confessed writing letters to King Leopold threatening to abduct the royal children unless money was left in woods near the border city. Queen Astrid mother of the children died in a car crash.
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Brussels
Leopold of
Liege
Belgium
Nicholas Elsen
Astrid
Striking Students Close Pennsylvania Schools
In Hazelton Pa a mob of about two hundred students and adult sympathizers protested dismissals by marching on schools that did not join the strike. Two are closed and a third with 162 students faced disruption as marchers pressed the campaign. Thirteen more schools were listed for today.
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Hazelton
Hazie Township
Frost Damage Estimate Rises to 3.6 Million for Roads
Columbus report by Highway Director John J. Jaster Jr states frost damage revisions raise repair costs to 3.6 million. Flooding in the southern region adds 900 thousand beyond the department's current year funds.
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Columbus
John J. Jaster Jr
Funeral time change for Mrs Filiza Jané Faires
Funeral services for Mrs Filiza Jané Faires who died at Glouster were moved from 2 o'clock to 1 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Church of Christ Glouster.
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Filiza Jané Faires
Glouster
Church of Christ, Glouster
Britain Hangs Mother of 5
Mrs. Dorothy Waddingham, 34, mother of five, was hanged at Winson Green Prison for poisoning a 55-year-old patient in a Nottingham nursing home. King Edward could have spared her with a reprieve, but Home Secretary Sir John Simon denied clemency after a jury condemned her on February 27.
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Birmingham
Eng
Dorothy Waddingham
Winson Green
Nottingham
King Edward
John Simon
Britain
Louisa Baguley
Mra. Waddingham
Girl Fatally Struck by Coal Truck Near Longstreth
Patsy Rath Gears six year old of Longstreth was killed when she darted in front of a coal truck driven by William Baughman of Columbus on the Nelsonville road to Carbon Hill. Norris and Smith accompanied the driver and said he was traveling about 20 miles per hour. The child was taken to a Nelsonville physician where she was pronounced dead. Authorities were notified at City Hall and Hocking County officials dispatched to the scene.
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Nelsonville
Patsy Rath Gears
Longstreth
Ambrose Gears
William Baughman
E. Mount St
Columbus
Eugene Norris
William Smith
Carbon Hill
Norris
Smith
Baughman
Roosevelt leads in Illinois Nebraska primaries and more votes
The piece notes Col Frank Knox's strong presidential preference vote in Illinois while Roosevelt runs unopposed with 1.16 million votes. It also covers Farley's critique of Hoover and Landon adopting New Deal farm policy, and Georgia's plan to hold a June primary with a 10000 entrance fee for presidential candidates.
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Col
Frank Knox
Chicago
Minois
William E. Borah
Idaho
Washington
New Deal High Command
Illinois
Nebraska
James A Farley
Democratic National Committee
Albany
N. Y
Hoover
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Farley
Landon
American Liberty League
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Tlmois
Col Frank Knox
Senator Borah
Knox
Borah
Georgia State Democratic Executive Committee
Eugene Talmadge
New Deal
Marion Alien
Norrin
Burke
D-Nebr
Terry Carpenter
J. C. Quigley
Norris
Middleport Woman L. D. McMaster Dies
Mrs. L. D. McMaster wife of a Pomeroy business man dies in a Cincinnati hospital after emergency transfer from Holzer Hospital Gallipolis. She leaves husband son Gordon Middleport High School student and daughter Mary Lou in Columbus and Robert at Ohio University Athena. Funeral plans await return of the body to the family home.
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Middleport
L. D. McMaster
Pomeroy
Meigs County
Cincinnati
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Retired Banker 83 Faces Second Balm Suit in Court
Caldwell Miss Adelaide M. Jones formerly of Zaneaville sues Eugene Smith 83 for 100000 damages claiming he failed to marry after a decade together. The July 25 1935 wedding was postponed when Nellie Tilton sued for 5000 heart balm. the suit settled and the wedding was later called off.
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Caldwell
Adelaide M. Jones
Zaneaville
Eugene Smith
Smith
Miss Jones
Nellie Tilton
Mina Jones
College Youth Ends Life After Arrest At Hardware Store
Batavia police report 19 year old Hiram College sophomore Robert Moore shot himself after being apprehended in a hardware store. He died five hours later in Ravenna hospital. Moore, son of W G Moore of Lisbon Ohio, was identified by letters in his clothing. His brother Patton Moore studies at Western Reserve University.
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Batavia
Robert Moore
Hiram College
Fred Hendricks
Ravenna
Kenneth IT. Brown
Hiram
Moore
W. G. Moore
Lisbon
Hendricks
Patton Moore
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Amended Petition Filed In Middleport Action
POMEROY Staff Special Lyons of Middleport filed an amended petition in common pleas court to stop removing the Main St brick pavement for WPA repayment. He claims about $1,000 will be spent tearing up the pavement and accuses the village council of bad faith. A temporary restraining order to halt the work was not granted.
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Middleport
Lyons
Columbus Woman Dies At 100 After 40 Years Here
Mrs. Margaret D. Marot a Columbus resident for four decades died Wednesday thirteen days after her 100th birthday. Funeral plans were not released.
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Columbus
Margaret D. Marot
Ohio Farmers Oppose Insurance for Jobs
Ohio farmers oppose a proposed unemployment insurance law as a Senate committee probes the measure. State Grange leader Walter F. Kirk warns farmers would bear a burden without benefits. Miami University economist Dr. Edwin Sodd points to unsatisfactory outcomes from unemployment insurance programs in Britain and Germany.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate
Walter F. Kirk
State Grange
Edwin 5Sodd
Miami University
Great Britain
Germany
WPA Looks Beyond July 1
Dr Carl Watson of the Ohio WPA orders district directors to plan for a one year extension beyond July 1 if Congress approves Roosevelt's request for 1.5 billion dollars plus continuing legislation. The present WPA act expires in June and Hopkins directs preparedness steps while final form of legislation remains unsettled. Projects would require larger sponsor contributions and summer projects would be prioritized.
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Columbp
Carl Watson
Ohio Works Progress
Congress
Roosevelt
Watson
WPA
Federal Net
Harry L. Hopkins
President Lays Cornerstone of Interior Building
Washington. President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the new twelve million dollar Interior Department Building and urged renewed federal action to conserve natural resources. Secretary Ickes praised Roosevelt as the greatest conservationist in American history and urged Congress to rename the department to Conservation.
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Washington
Interior Department
Roosevelt
Ickes
Congress
Conservation
Prisoner Slapped by Cockroach Incident in Henrico Jail
Richmond Virginia W B Puckett a Petersburg federal prisoner in Henrico Jail slapped at a cockroach in his cell missed and was taken to a hospital for treatment. The swipe dislocated his shoulder.
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Richmond
W. B. Puckett
Petersburg
Henrico
Sale stats show tax yield rise in week and year
Income from the levy reported by State Treasurer Harry B. Day totaled 1,222,345.85 for the week of April 4, bringing 1936 year to date yield to 12,879,273.58. The same week in 1935 yielded 1,928,447.31.
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Columbi
Harry
Oberly Divorce Granted After Poker Dispute
Detroit Circuit Judge Henry G. Nicol grants divorce to Morris J. Oberly after he testifies Elia Oberly played etrip poker so poorly he often needed new ejotizes.
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Detroit
Morris J. Oberly
Henry G. Nicol
Elia
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