Woolworth Heiress Renounces Citizenship Amid Strike Threat
Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow renounced American citizenship and declared Danish ties after opposing estate tax collection on her Woolworth fortune. Meanwhile three Woolworth stores began a strike demanding a living wage for thousands on starvation wages, hoping she would intervene as the counts’ heir.
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New York
Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
United States
Woolworth
England
Europa
William Bondy
Kurt Haugritz-Reventlow
Lance
London
Dane
Hooded bandit’s burlap mask spurs Northwestern Ohio search
Police expanded their manhunt for a hooded bandit who has robbed 17 stores in Northwestern Ohio. A burlap disguise bag was recovered after an unsuccessful attempt to rob the George Lange filling station in Tiffin.
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Tiffin
Ohio
George Lange
Train derailment injures twenty near Detroit
Michigan State Police reported twenty people were injured when six cars of a Pere Marquette passenger train derailed after crossing a split rail near Detroit. Ambulances transported the injured to nearby hospitals.
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Detroit
U.P
Michigan
Pere Marquette
Christmas superstitions about lamps and elder wood
A Middle European belief links a lamp going out on Christmas morning with seeing spirits and burning elder on Christmas Eve with witches being revealed.
Special Session Legislation Stalls Amid Long Senate Night
Washington report: Roosevelt administration abandons hope for enacting major special session programs while seeking quick action on emergency housing and farm and labor bills. Senate delays, sectional clashes, and looming joint conferences push final enactment beyond Christmas. The Cotton loan proposal splits lawmakers as it faces opposition and dairy protections gain strength.
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Washington
U.p—Administration
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Nathan Straus
Mr. Roosevelt
Straus
Ellison D. Smith
S. C
Agriculture Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
Smith
Ralph C. Super Dies Today in Utica Hospital
Prof. Ralph Clewell Super, 62, longtime Hamilton College faculty member, died in St. Elizabeth's Hospital Utica New York from bronchial pneumonia. He taught French and Spanish for 25 years, previously lived in Athens and was the son of Dr. C. W. Super and brother of Frank H. Super. Funeral arrangements pending in Athens.
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Ralph Clewell Super
C. W. Super
Ohio University
Frank H. Super
Athens
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Utica
N. Y
Professor Super
Hamilton College
Clinton
W. Union St
Frank
Super
Panay attack ruled deliberate by Panay survivor
Lieut. Geist aboard the Augusta declared the bombing and sinking of the American gunboat Panay were intentional not accidental. He said Japanese planes bombed and machine gunned the Panay and a Japanese landing boat joined the firing before boarding, despite the American flag flying on the mast.
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Shanghai
U.P
Geist
Augusta
Panay
Would Make Lindbergh Chief of Air Commerce
Rep Jennings Randolph of West Virginia urges President Roosevelt to appoint Col Charles A Lindbergh Director of the Bureau of Air Commerce when the post becomes vacant June 1 1938 He argues the U S must lead in transoceanic air travel and Lindbergh could dedicate part of his life to the task.
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Washington
U.P
Jennings Randolph
W. Va
Roosevelt
Charles A. Lindbergh
Bureau of Air Commerce
Randolph
United States
Col. Lindbergh
Youth Released From Reformatory Sought in Slaying
Wendell Bowers a 19 year old released from Huntingdon State Reformatory two weeks ago is being sought as the killer of Mrs Wilma Carpenter a 38 year old widow. District Attorney Frederick Smillie said photographs shown to witnesses identified him as the casual killer who drank the victim's liquor and read her magazines before shooting her and attacking her friend Mary Griffin.
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Norristown
Wendell Bowers
Huntingdon State
Parole Board Frees Hocking County Man
The Ohio Board of Parole released 39 inmates from the London Prison Farm with 41 cases continued and two conditional releases granted. Included among those paroled is Hocking County man Howard Newsome for cutting to kill or wound. parole set for January 15, 1938.
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Columbus
O.B
Ohio Board of Parole
London
Hocking
Howard Newsome
Kidnapping Trial For Adkins And Travis To Reach Jury
In Huntington W V two men John Travis and Orville Paul Adkins face a jury over a $50 000 ransom plot tied to the death of Dr James I Seder. The case centers on their alleged participation in the kidnapping scheme.
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Huntington
W. Va
U.P
John Travis
Orville Paul Adkins
James I. Seder
Hanging Ends Long Battle For Kentucky Negro's Life
Covington Ky John Pete Montjoy Negro accused of assaulting a white woman was hanged in the Covington Municipal Building courtyard. Officials witnessed the execution. reporters were barred. Montjoy claimed innocence and had declined escape from Frankfort Prison during the good time. The case, pursued to the U S Supreme Court by a civil rights group, ended after a two and a half year legal fight amid race prejudice questions. His attorney challenged the woman's account as unproven by physical evidence.
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Covington
U.P
John “Pete” Montjoy
Mt. Sterling
Montjoy
Frankfort
U. S. Supreme Court
Covington and Cincinnati
Montjoy Fair Trial Committee
The
Civil Liberties Union
William E. Wehrmann
TWO OKLAHOMA CONVICTS FLEE ALCATRAZ PEN
San Francisco police and federal officers battle thick fog to pursue two Oklahoma escapees from Alcatraz named Ralph Roe and Theodore Cole. Authorities question their survival as guards blocked the bay and Coast Guard boats hunted waters near the island. Cole, a noted escape artist, had prior imprisonments and was described as highly slippery.
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San Francisco
U.P
San Francisco Bay
Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz
Department of Justice
Ralph Roe
Theodore Cole
Oklahoma
James A. Johnston
Coast Guard
Roe
Cole
Oklahoma City
Stanley Rogers
Former Wisconsin U Head Leads New GOP Committee
Dr. Glenn Frank named to head the Republican policy committee to oppose the Roosevelt Administration. The 150 member program group includes lawyers educators farmers labor leaders industrialists and Young Republicans. The panel will draft a new Republican principles declaration and report to the party’s executive committee.
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Wisconsin U
GOP
Glenn Frank
ST. Louis
Roosevelt
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
Dr. Frank
Chicago
Frank
University of Wisconsin
Ers
Hamilton
Executive Committee
SWOC Drafts Wage Demands
SWOC proposed wage increases and a 30 hour week in steel contracts as the scale committee reports to the first convention session. The committee urges negotiators to have a free hand to meet changing economic conditions amid a 60 percent drop in steel operations over three months.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
SWOC
Youth in Iron Lung After Neck Injury
Harold Artis a 17 year old from Portsmouth Ohio is in an iron lung after a Dec 4 automobile crash that broke his neck and paralyzed him. Hospital staff said his condition remained good after his first day and he reported sleeping well for the first time in two weeks.
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Huntington
W. Va
U.P
Harold Artis
Portsmouth
Court To Hear Appeal Of Hahn Case
The Court of Appeals set January 17 to hear the appeal of Anna Marie Hahn who is under a death sentence for the poison murder of 78 year old Jacob Wagner. Hahn awaits execution in the Ohio penitentiary.
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Hahn
Cincinnati
Court of Appeals
Anna Marie Hahn
Jacob Wagner
Eight Die in Bolivian Plane Crash Near La Paz
A tri motor Huanuni plane operated by Lloyd Aerio line crashed into a mountainside en route to Apolo Caupolican Province, killing eight people. The crash occurred today near La Paz, Bolivia.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Huanuni
Lloyd Aerio
Apolo
Caupolican
Rail workers injured as speed er struck at grade crossing
Four Pennsylvania Railroad employees were seriously injured when their track speeder was struck by a truck at a grade crossing on L.5 Route 224 in Tiffin UP today.
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Tiffin
U.P
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hoover Proposes Private Enterprise Alternative to New Deal
Former President Herbert Hoover told the Economic Club of Chicago that five years of Roosevelt experimentation justify an alternative to the New Deal. He urged private enterprise to accelerate industrial progress, regulate business to curb abuses, and unify groups to end poverty through tax avoidance of fear and poverty.
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Chicago
HUP
Herbert Hoover
Roosevelt
Economic Club of
Mrs Andrew M Taylor Died After Illness in Ohio
Mrs. Andrew M Taylor wife of Reverend Taylor former pastor of Amesville Presbyterian died this morning at Sheltering Arms Hospital after three weeks confinement and two months of illness. The Taylors came from England. he now pastors at Beverly. Home at Gravel Bank near Marietta. Friends may call at Jagers Funeral Home Saturday afternoon. funeral Monday with arrangements pending.
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Andrew M. Taylor
Taylor
Amesville Presbyterian Church
Sheltering Arms Hospital
England
Presbyterian Church
Beverly
Gravel Bank
Marietta
Jagers
Public Debt Hits Record $37.56 Billion on Dec 15
The Treasury disclosed that the national public debt rose to a new all time high of 37 562 835 918 dollars on December 15.
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Washington
U.P
Treasury
Hotel Fire at Stonewall Jackson Draws $15,000 Damage
A blaze in Clarksburg West Virginia forced 100 guests to flee the Stonewall Jackson Hotel Thursday night. Damage was estimated at 15000 dollars with no serious injuries reported.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
U.P
Stonewall Jackson Hotel
FDR Approves Davey Plan on Job Insurance
In Columbus Governor Davey wins White House backing to start unemployment compensation in January. President Roosevelt urged Congress to amend the Social Security Act to permit earlier state payments for those slow to enact unemployment laws. The plan aims to relieve distress among unemployed workers amid the recession.
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FDR
Davey
Columbus
U.P
Ohio
U. S
Homer S. Cummings
Roosevelt
Congress
Roosevelt says national war referendum conflicts with government
President Roosevelt told reporters a national referendum on war would be incompatible with representative government. He noted the Ludlow amendment to the Constitution would require a petition to force a House floor vote on the proposal, with exceptions only in case of invasion.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ludlow
New Reports of Plot Against Franco Heard
London dispatch reports that Nationalist leaders including Generalissimo Francisco Franco faced an alleged assassination plot. Lisbon telegraph said many arrests occurred and troops kept strict frontier vigilance as frontiers remained closed.
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London
U.P
Francisco Franco
Lisbon
Appropriations Measure Wins in Lower House Amid Graft Rumors
The Ohio House approved a 3,236,000 appropriations bill and a relief program amid graft chatter tied to state purchases under the Davey administration. The measure passed 76 to 26 after a four hour debate, with Lieut. Gov. Paul P. Yoder leading the opposition.
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Senate
Columbus
U.P
House
Davey
Paul P. Yoder
Passports Forgeries Tangle In Spy Mystery And Political Gridlock
The report follows a Russian spy mystery with a wife using a forged birth certificate to obtain a U S passport for a man believed to be Donald Louis Robinson. State Department statements say the man’s true identity remains unknown while a boy’s birth certificate was used for the passport. Senate insurgents and Republican leaders clash with the governor over a relief funding bill and 50-50 state matching plans, risking delays as investigations threaten other budget measures. The fight centers on whether the compromise relief package will pass in both chambers and whether inquiries into department spending will proceed. If the governor blocks adjournment, the Senate vows not to act on further legislation.
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State Department
U. S
Donald Louis Robinson
Senate
Yoder
House
Republican Representatives
Farm Bloc
William M. McCulloch
Miami
Kenneth M. Petri
Crawford
House Republicans
Finance Committee
Akron Restaurant Owner Fatally Shot During Holdup
Four men hunted in Cleveland after pantazis Pantazis, 45, an East Akron restaurant owner, was killed during an attempted holdup. Pantazis was shot by the gang leader who thought the proprietor reached for a gun. His wife, an 18 year old son, and four customers witnessed the shooting.
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Akron
William Pantazis
Cleveland
Pantazis
Japanese Troops Enter Nanking in Formal Triumph
Japanese forces made a formal entry into Nanking, the conquered capital, as reported by Comet news agency, marking a decisive advance in the campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
U.P
Nanking
Comet
Panay Attack Detailed by Survivor Editor says Panay sunk after air strike
Weldon James recounts aboard the Oahu the Japanese planes bombing the Panay and three Standard Oil ships near Shanghai. The gunboat fought back as crew and civilians fled upriver to safety, with officers and sailors sustaining injuries from bombs and machine gun fire.
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Weldon James
United Press Bureau
Nanking
United States
Panay
Standard Oil
James
United Press
U. S
Oahu
Shanghai
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Eastern School
Lindbergh
Air Commerce
Parole Board
Hocking County
Kentucky
Hoover
Andrew M., Taylor
Robinsons
Donald L. Robinson
Moscow
UU. S
Ruth Norma Birkland
Hohsien
Lee
James J. Hughes
Washington, D. C
John Henry Lang
Long Beach
Calif
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