New Jersey Considers Alibi Law in Hauptmann Case
The state weighs using an alibi law to bar alibi witnesses who claim Hauptmann was not at the kidnapping scene. Legislators say it could affect the upcoming trial starting January 2 in New Jersey while defense lawyers seek to reveal alibi evidence from witnesses near Hopewell and Sourland Mountain.
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Bruno Richard Hauptnen
Hopewell
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Hunterdon County
Hauptmann
Ing
Ter
Sourland Mountain
Hauptmann Hopewell
Ann
New York
Bronx
Anna
Lasher Recovering After Fatal Auto Crash Injury
Dr. George Lasher remains in Days Hospital Day after a crash near Flasher that killed Mrs. related to Prof. George r. L. Siddons, his brother, said the condition is serious but improving. Mrs. Siddons and Mr. Lasher suffer shock. their two daughters are in Daytona care.
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Flasher
Tict
T. R. Biddle
Daytona
Two Daughters Die in Indiana House Fire Tragedy
A Dec 27 Indiana report states two daughters of a truck driver died in a one room home fire caused by a stove accident. Fire investigators say a liquid used for heating spilled and ignited, triggering the blaze.
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Herry
Radio OY Opener Promises Morning Wake Up
A garbled late 20th century style ad notes a Midwest radio broadcast named Radio OY Opener to wake listeners by 9 a.m. It references breakfast and used items in a Messenger Want-ads style, with a cryptic line about a return for someone named Krys Lost near Newark and a dial number.
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Proma Midwest
Krys
Sen Neward
Arctic Blast Leaves Trail of Fatalities Across Regions
The Arctic storm sweeps the nation with heavy seas along the North Atlantic coast and a 57 mile per hour gale in New England. Cold snaps threaten the Middle West and Appalachians as Ohio sees near zero temperatures and Toledo records zero.
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North Atlantic
Maine
New England
Middle West
Appalachian
Middle
Ohio
Sage of Beverly Hills Predicts 1935 Outlook
In Santa Monica a chorus of civic leaders writes New Year forecasts. Will Rogers jokes that leaders seek inflation control and fair investment returns, while hoping government restraint will bring stability and prosperity in 1935.
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Beverly Hills
Santa Monica
Cal
Will Rogers
U S Moves to Centralize Air Defenses Nationwide
Washington December 27 The army reorganizes to form a general headquarters air force basing on the Atlantic Pacific coasts and the Southwest. The move centralizes command of almost 1000 fighters away from Foulois and army corps leaders to Lt Col Frank M Andrews. Secretary Dern calls it the most important modernization step since World War I.
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Washington
General Headquarters Air Force
Atlantic
Pacific
Southwest
Benjamin Dd. Foulois
Air Corps
Frank M. Andrews
Dern
Baker Committee
United States
Widow Seeks Compensation Lost in Ohio Supreme Court Ruling
In Columbus the Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the Stark County Appellate Court decision for the State Industrial Commission. Luella Hutchinson, widow of Archie Hutchinson, sought workers compensation after his death in an accident involving a pistol owned by employer Ralph H. Whittare. Hutchinson argued the death occurred in the line of duty during a gun cleaning incident at Canton.
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Stark County Appellate Court
Common Pleas Court
State Industrial Commission
Luella Hutchinson
Supreme Court
Muscling In Starts On Ohio Sales Tax Racket
Ohio authorities warn that the state sales tax law has become the basis of a racket. Police seek two men who impersonated officers and tried to collect licenses fees from two women selling goods door to door under the new tax statute.
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Leroy
F. J. Smick
Automobile trade boosts Cleveland industry in holiday run
The surge in auto manufacturing boosts Cleveland area plants as Otis Steel's semi finishing department ran on Christmas Day. Holiday suspensions in the Cleveland-Lake district were limited to one day.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Auto Parts
Otis Steel Company
Cleveland-Lain
Haste Warned On Ohio Sales Tax Start
Columbus warns against rushing the Ohio sales tax launch on January 26. The Ohio Education Association fears school revenue loss, while George Sheridan of the Retail Merchants Council urges careful setup of rulings and coupon distribution to prevent loss of millions through tax evaders.
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Columbus
Ohio Education Association
George V. Sheridan
Ohio State Council of Retail Merchants
The
Education Association
State Tax Commission
Sheridan
Tax Commission
Ohio Supreme Court backs milk coop contracts
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that contracts between milk dealers and cooperative milk associations are binding and not violations of anti-trust law. It reversed a Stark County decision blocking collection from George Tabeling of Massillon. The docket also covered liquor permit units, a death penalty date for Peter Treadway, and restoration of Frank M. Shelton to Springfield City Schools superintendency.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
High Court
Stark County
Stark County Milk Producers Association
George Tabeling
Massillon
Supreme Court
Peter Treadway
Cleveland
Ruth Steese
Frank M. Shelton
Springfield
Athens County FERA Project Is Approved
Five workers died and three were seriously injured in FERA undertakings from September to November, per a report to Adjutant General Henderson. The relief commission also approved Athens County project funding of 4175 dollars to build sewing center tables.
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Columbus
FERA
Frank D. Henderson
State Relief Commission
Relief Commission
Athens
Corn-Hog Payments Arrive for Athens County Farmers
Corn-hog checks totaling 9000 dollars are being distributed among 282 Athens County farmers by the Allotment Committee based in the Post Office. Checks began arriving from Washington last week and, with few exceptions, have been received now for all farmers who contracted with the government to reduce their production.
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Athens County
Allotment Committee
Washington
Judge Rules Against NRA Price-Fixing
Federal District Judge Merril FE Otis ruled that Congress lacked power to fix prices or authorize presidential action in interstate commerce. The decision denied a temporary injunction against Sutherland Lumber Company, which operates yards in Oklahoma, Iowa and Nebraska and had been selling below code prices. The case followed loss of the NRA Blue Eagle last March for undercutting lumber code prices.
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Kansas City
NRA
Merril FE. Otis
Congress
Otis
Robert Sutherland
Mae G. Sutherland
The
Sutherland Lumber Company
Oklahoma
Iowa
Nebraska
Maurice Milligan
United States
Smith Reynolds' Son Accepts Seven Million
Winston-Salem reports that Christopher Reynolds, posthumous son of Smith Reynolds, filed notice of acceptance of a settlement of the tobacco fortune estate. He would receive 7,000,900 dollars under an arrangement proposed by surviving heirs of R. J. Reynolds.
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N. C
Christopher Reynolds
Smith Reynolds
RC. Vaughn
Libby Holman Reynolds
R. J Reynolds
Train wreck in Columbus kills two engineers and injures many
Ohio at Lin den near Columbus reports Pennsylvania Train 614 crashed after a switch was found open. Foreman H S Beach and A B Eckles died. Fireman John Skolan serious. Sabotage suspected. switch and semaphore arm damaged. Marysville bank robbery follows in the same dispatch.
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H. S. Beach
Mount Vernon
A. B. Eckles
Cleveland
Pennsylvania
Linden
John Skolan
F. H. Krick
Krick
14 Young Reds Sent To Trial In New Purge
Moscow reports the Soviet government moved swiftly against 14 young Communists accused of plotting Stalin’s assassination and other high targets. Leonid Nicolaieff, linked to Sergei Kiroff’s murder at Leningrad, allegedly confessed after weeks of questioning, implicating Trotzky, now in hiding in France, as others await trial before a military collegium.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotzky
Leonid Nicolaieff
Sergei Kiroff
Leningrad
Supreme Court
Kiroff
Nicolaieff
Trotzky
France
Japan Tells Britain Shell Sack Treaty
Japanese officials inform Britain that Tokyo will denounce the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 this Saturday in Washington. In Alliance a man, Dr Lee Koehler, 24, dies from automobile exhaust fumes while repairing his car after a holiday visit with relatives.
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Britain
London
Tokyo
Washington
Alliance
Lee Koehler
Bright Outlook Pictured for Ohio Teachers at Convention
Ohio educators heard a optimistic forecast for 1935 as B F Stanton Alliance superintendent was named without opposition for president of the Ohio Education Association. Dr W E B Hocking urged teaching with real objects and beauty rather than preaching and rote textbooks. The convention adopted 22 resolutions including pay, tenure, and reducing heavy homework loads for teachers.
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B. F. Stanton
Alliance
Ohio Education Association
Ohio
W. E B. Hocking
Harvard University
C!s Room
General Assembly
Thomas seeks three cents more off the dollar
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma pushes for a January 16 conference to unite inflationist groups behind a program to cut the dollar to 1926 value. He cites Labor Department figures showing the 1926 dollar at 100 cents, argues for currency expansion through refinancing farm mortgages and veteran bonus payments, and links inflation to higher commodity prices. He recalls the 1920 currency surge under Wilson and spikes in wheat and cotton.
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Washington
Thomas
D. Okla
Congress
Labor Department
Wilson
Life of Shank Is Lengthened
In Tucker Prison Farm Arkansas Ohio attorney Mark Ho Shank, convicted of one of four Akron poisonings in 1933 near Benton Arkansas, received a last minute stay of execution. Federal Judge John E. Martineau granted a writ of habeas corpus and a temporary restraining order arguing Shank may be insane since death row. Todhunter, the prison superintendent, refused a sanity hearing claiming feigned insanity.
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Ark
Akron
Ohio
Tucker Prison Farm
Mark Ho Shank
Benton
John E. Martineau
Shank
Death Row
Todhunter
New Blood Purge Reported in Germany Wracks Berlin
A German report in Volksstimme claims a new purge matches last June in severity with about 100 murdered and 1,000 arrested targeting the SS and Hitler Youth. Weltbuhne is cited alleging 230 slain and 3,000 to 4,000 arrested in Berlin alone.
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Saarbruecken Saar Basin
Volksstimme Volkastimme
Hitler Youth
Brown
Weltbuhne
Berlin
Livestock Prices Jump at Cleveland Yards on Cold Wave
Livestock prices at Cleveland stock yards rose as dealers cited a cold wave. Lambs topped at 9.50, the highest since East Easter. hogs reached 7.25, a new three month peak. Calves hit 0.50, up one dollar, and cattle values rose to 5.50.
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Cleveland
Train Blast Kills 13 In West Virginia Coal Train
A witness account from Montgomery, West Virginia, reports an explosion on a work train of the Elkhorn-Piney Coal Company near Powellton. The blast occurred after a stop to pick up workers, killing at least 13 and injuring many, with ambulances and buses responding to transport victims to nearby houses and hospitals.
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W. Va
Powellton
C. R. Btai
Coal Company
Charleston
Brakeman Held Responsible for Rail Crash
TORONTO Pec 277 TM W A Kingsland of Canadian National Railways said KE Lynch forward brakeman of the London Toronto passenger special wrecked Christmas night caused the Detroit Toronto express to derail by throwing the switch resulting in 18 deaths.
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Pec
W. A Kingsland
Canadian National Railways
KE. &. Lynch
Iodiana Courthouse Fire Loss S500000
Fire destroyed the Porter County Courthouse in Valparaiso Indiana early today. Chief John G Marks of the local fire department estimated damage at $500000 to a building erected in 1884 that housed county offices and FERA headquarters. The tower rose 178 feet high.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Porter County
John G Marks
FERA
Trotzky Safely Hidden In France
Paris officials stated that exiled former Communist leader Leon Trotzky is safely hidden in France and will not be surrendered even if the Soviet Union seeks extradition.
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Paris
Leon Trotzky
France
Fatally Burned Near Kiln in Akron Incident
Martin Wratan of Youngstown died after being badly burned while seeking warmth near a kiln at a clay products company in Akron. Firemen fought a rural mine shaft blaze at Salem as temperatures dropped to near zero. nine teen miners escaped unharmed. In Ashland New Hampshire fire leveled the M-room Squam Lake Hotel and nearby structures, with damage pegged around $100,000.
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Akron
Martin Wratan
Youngstown
Clay Products
Salem
Ashland
N. H
Squam Lake
Air Lines Pilot Delivers Chicago to Cleveland in Record Run
Alfred S. Kalberer piloted a United States Air Lines plane from Chicago to Cleveland with ten passengers in one hour and 26 minutes despite icy gales. The brisk flight showcased swift cross country service on December 27.
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Cleveland
Alfred S. Kalberer
United States Air Lines
Chicago
Locomotive Boiler Goes Into Coach at West Virginia Mine
An explosion on a coal company train heading to Elk Horn Piney mine in Montgomery West Virginia killed thirteen miners and injured at least forty three. The blast damaged the locomotive and cars, throwing bodies and debris along the tracks and scattering workers from Powellton and surrounding villages.
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Montgomery
W. Va
Dee
Elkhorn-Piney Coal Company
200 Youths Seek To Join CCC in Athens
Athens County youths apply for 47 CCC enrollment slots as Ralph Shafer notes. Selected will undergo a preliminary physical in Athens likely Saturday, then proceed to Marietta for further tests. Passing recruits head to Fort Knox Kentucky for training before camp assignments.
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CCC
Athens
Athens County
Ralph Shafer
Marietta
Fort Knox
Student quits Ohio State over religious scruples
Greenfield December 27. William Shockey a one year old freshman at Ohio State University opposed compulsory military training on religious grounds and will enroll at Baldwin Wallace College.
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Greenfield
William Shockey
Ohio State University
Baldwin-Wallace College
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