Italy Halts Volunteers to Spain as Talks for Accord Move Forward
Rome reports official suspension of volunteer shipments to Spain while negotiations seek a general agreement to ban dispatches to the civil war. Count Rossi, commander of Italian contingents, reportedly left for Christmas, with uncertain return. Berlin notes cautious attitude on the Bilbao steamer seizure and hints at a peaceful exit for Germany.
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Spain
Italy
Rome
Count Rossi
Balearic Islands
Urge Federal Action Against Strike Leaders
Chair man Thomas G. Plant of the ship owners committee urged the government to deal realistically with Pacific Coast maritime leaders as settlement talks in the 60 day walkout stalled. He sent telegrams to President Roosevelt and top officials alleging strike leaders disregard fairness and authority. Australian seaman leader Harry Bridges appeared in Long Beach court over the death of 8 year old Joe Miranda struck by Bridges’ car near Wilmington.
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San Francisco
U.P
Thomas G. Plant
Plant
Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
Daniel Roper
Harry Bridges
Long Beach Court
Joe Miranda
Bridges
Wilmington
Fight To Stop Payment Of Solons Fees
Arnett Harbage won an injunction to halt mileage payments to state legislators. Judge Charles Leach prohibited Auditor Joseph Tracy from paying $21,705 in alleged mileage expense accounts for trips not made to Columbus.
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Columbus
U.P
Arnett Harbage
Charlies Leach
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
Joseph Tracy
Record Cards Stop Burglars Bullet
Isaac Dyer a veteran Cleveland street car conductor recalled two bandits firing at him. He felt a thud and a hot sensation as a bullet struck him, but record cards stopped the bullet and saved him from injury.
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Cleveland
Isaac Dyer
Dyer
Fugitive Gary Barns Offers Surrender Over Murder Charge
In Richmond Indiana Gary Barns a Black man phoned Dayton police offering to surrender for the murder of Lewis Glenn if officers would come to fetch him. He was found waiting on a street corner by awaiting officers.
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Richmond
Ind
U.P
Gary Barns
Dayton
Lewis Glenn
Teacher Certification Law May Be Changed
The Ohio Education Association legislative committee plans to recommend changes to teacher certification and tenure regulation as the representative assembly meets. Members include Luetta Galloway of Dayton, E J Arnold of Nelsonville, Clyde Van Tassel of Toledo, and Glen C West of North Ridgeville.
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Columbus
Ohio Education Association
Luetta Galloway
Dayton
E. J. Arnold
Nelsonville
Clyde van Tassel
Toledo
Glen C. West
North Ridgeville
Fear Kidnaped Boy Killed Body Buried In Cambridge
Police ordered a sweep of vacant land near five year old Chester Harris home after more than two months of disappearance. Police Chief Timothy F. Leahy said investigators fear the boy was slain and his body buried. Father Arnold Harris insisted his son may be alive.
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Cambridge
Mass
U.P
Chester Harris
Timothy F. Leahy
Arnold H. Harris
Tain
Arbadella Wins $5,000 Bonds in Amos and Andy Contest
Mrs. Joseph L. Smith of Youngstown Ohio won first prize of U S bonds worth 5000 dollars for suggesting the name Arbadella for Amos and Andys baby girl in the radio contest.
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Joseph L. Smith
Youngstown, O
U. S
Amos
Ruby
Amos and
Andy
Arbadella
Arrest Woman After Murder in Fresno California
Mrs. Cora Switzer, 35, held after changing stories about the Christmas Day murder of Emery Parr 40 at the Lindsey home in Fresno. Parr’s decapitated body was found near railroad tracks. autopsy showed homicide not a train incident. The Lindseys and caretaker Bernard Smith employed Parr to watch the house over the holidays.
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Parr
George Overholt
P. C. Lindsey
Lindseys
Bernard Smith
Los Angeles
Lindsey
Switzer
Lindsey House
Fire damages three Hillsboro businesses estimated at 50000
A blaze in Hillsboro caused damage to three business houses and threatened to spread across a full block. Officials estimate the damage at about fifty thousand dollars.
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Hillsboro
Payroll Record Set at Sunday Creek Mine No 6
The Sunday Creek Mine No 6 in Millfield posted a two week payroll around $58 000, the largest ever paid by a coal mine in the Sun day Creek Valley. The mine operates two shifts and loads about 5 000 tons of coal daily.
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Valley
Glouster
Sunday Creek
Millfield
Sunday Creek Valley
3 Day Traffic Toll in State Raised to 38
Ohio's Christmas and weekend traffic wave pushed the state toll to 38 since last Thursday. At least 28 killed over Christmas and the holiday, with 10 more deaths increasing the total. Cleveland reported three fatalities raising its yearly toll to 213. Columbus saw Mrs. Della Norton die after being struck near her employer's home. Hamilton County reached 173 with two deaths.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Cleveland
Eliot Ness
Della Norton
Franklin County
Hamilton County
Autoist Killed In Fist Fight
Cleveland police report a fist fight sparked by a minor auto crash left 53 year old mechanic John Soeder dead from a fractured skull. Soeder and his wife were returning from a holiday visit when an argument began after he allegedly grabbed a crank handle. The assailant fled after being identified by a streetcar motorman who provided the attacker’s license number.
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Cleveland
John Soeder
Soeder
Speder
Fifty Five Die in Nationalist Air Raid near Santander
Fifty five persons were killed and six injured when Nationalist planes bombed Maliano suburb of Santander on Sunday. Civilians, mostly women and children, were among the victims.
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Santander
Spain
U.P
Maliano
Tainted Food Blamed For Illness at Ohio Soldiers Home
More than 400 veterans and Mansfield Reformatory trustees at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home fell ill from tainted food but have since recovered. The outbreak affected residents and staff during a period of dining service issues.
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Sandusky-Aup
Mansfield Reformatory
Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors
Masked Kidnapper Targets Tacoma Family Home
A 10 year old boy, Charles Mattson, is abducted from the Tacoma home of Dr. W W Mattson. Police, federal agents and deputies pursue a dark skinned masked man who left a ransom note and fled by car. The case echoes a 1935 Weyerhaeuser incident as authorities seal information and search Puget Sound areas.
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Tacoma
Wash
Puget Sound
W. W. Matts
Charles
Sound
Mansons
Washington
U.P
J. Edgar Hoover
Gmen
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Charlies Mattson
Hoover
George Hunt Weyerhaeuser
Harold Bird
Dr. Mattson
Charlies
William Jr
Muriel
William
Mattson
Mattsons
Weyerhaeusers
Weyerhaeuser
Sherman Public School
Ohio judges miss December salaries due to budget lapse
Columbus Ohio Supreme Court and appellate judges have not received December pay as legislative appropriations fall short. The shortfall affects 142 judges across the supreme court appellate and common pleas level, delaying salaries until funds are approved.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Supreme, Appellate and Common Pleas Court
Ford Patents Revolutionary Rear Motored Auto
Ford receives a patent for an experimental vehicle with the engine placed over the rear wheels. The unitized motor clutch transmission and axle sit in rubber, with a sideways V eight engine and radiator above the right rear wheel. Engineers predict a highly streamlinable tear drop form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
Ford Motor Company
United Press
Fight Over NRA Substitute Moves to Congress in New Session
Washington sources say administration divisions over an NRA substitute hint at a lengthy congressional fight. Lawmakers back piecemeal regulation including the Guffey Coal Bill and Ebien-Bogen textile measure with licensing provisions likely forcing House action first. The Connery 30 hour week bill aims to restore millions to work, backed by AFL and CIO.
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Washington
NRA
O'Mahoney
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
Connery
Congress
William Connery
D. Mass
Prince Edward smiles at Belgrave Square gardens photo
A lighthearted image shows Prince Edward, 14 months, in London’s Belgrave Square gardens near his parents the Duke and Duchess of Kent. He sits between two famous uncles, the Duke of Windsor and King George VI, with a cheerful expression.
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Duke of Windsor
George VI
Prince Edward of England
Duke
Duchess of Kent
Prince
Belgrave Square
London
Tax period ends February sixth in Athens County
Fifty thousand dollars has been paid into the Athens County treasury in the current real estate tax collection. Treasurer G. D. Gorham announced he will collect taxes at specified banks on January 13 to February 6, with February 6 as the final day for payments and a possible extension after that date. Penalties may be removed on all delinquent accounts by December 31, except for last year if paid in full.
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Athens County
G. D. Gorham
Gorham
First National Bank
Amesville
Citizens Bank
Albany
Citizens Central Bank
Nelsonville
Gandhi Ready To Take Nationalist Leadership
In Faizpur Gandhi told 10 000 delegates that he was ready to resume nationalist leadership and to go to jail or the scaffold if needed. He said his nonviolence program had failed to win broad Indian nationalist support after his 1934 retirement.
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Bombay
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Congress
Faizpur
Mahatma
Pope Pius Reports Restful Night Amid Ailments
Vatican spokesman said Pope Pius slept well last night though he felt neuritis pains in his left leg and discomfort from varicose veins. Intimates noted he prayed with his rosary during painful spells, never releasing the beads day or night.
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Vatican City
Pius
Vatican
Husband dies as wife killed in Tur lock crash
Police found Roy Sprague dead from a heart attack when they informed him his wife was killed in an automobile crash in Turlock California.
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Cherokee
Roy Sprague
Turlock
Cal
Columbus police hunt suspect in home safe robbery
Columbus police sought a bandit who robbed the home of James Terreg a restaurant owner. The thief took 1500 cash and jewelry valued at 1300 in a bold daytime break in.
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Columbus
U.P
James Terreg
Plan to keep the United States neutral debated in Congress
Senator Arthur Vandenberg proposed insulating the U S from war and a cash and carry policy with belligerents. He urged mandatory legislation to force the president to implement neutrality while studying depriving citizens who join foreign armies of their U S citizenship amid Spanish conflict recruiting.
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Washington
AU P
Arthur Vandenberg
United States
Vandenberg
Michigan
Senate
Girl Loses in Spelling Bee as Father Falls Dead
New York dispatch reports 11 year old Edith Fenyes wins several hard words in a spelling contest. Her father Morris Fenyes, watching proudly, collapses from a heart attack after Edith spells a difficult word.
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New York
U.P
Morris Fenyes
Edith
Fenyes
Watson To Hear Claim Of WPA Discrimination
A state building trades council committee will meet with Dr. Carl Watson WPA director to air grievances over alleged union discrimination on state projects. The group, formed at a statewide meeting, includes about 100 delegates.
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Columbus
U.P
State Building Trades Council
Carl Watson
WPA
Funeral services for Arthur Brisbane held at St Bartholemew's
Simple services were held today at St Bartholemew's Church for Arthur Brisbane veteran editor who died Christmas morning. In Columbus a freight train incident claims the life of Frank Sullivan one SO. was killed here today when run over by a freight train.
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New York
St. Bartholomew's Church
Arthur Brisbane
Columbus
Frank Sullivan
Plane Crash Kills Nine Passengers and Crew Members
Los Angeles dispatch reports sighting of United Airlines plane wreckage on a Saugus mountain slope about 35 miles north of the city. Officials say all nine passengers and three crew members are believed killed. Pilot Ed Blom. flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles vanished during stormy weather. Wreckage found by Santa Paula Airport manager E R Dickenson near a wooded ridge and canyon escarpment. Passengers include Everett Ford Jr and wife, Robert Ne Lean, Yvonne Trego, A L Markell, John Korn, and others.
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Los Angeles
Santa Paula
United Airlines
Saugus
United Air Lines
San Francisco
Union Air Terminal
Ed Blom
Burbank Field
California
E. R. Dickenson
Santa Paula Airport
Blum
Dickenson
Saugus Airway
Everett Ford, Jr
Ford
Standard Oil
Robert Ne Lean
Burbank
Yvonne Trego
Alameda
A. L. Markell
John Korn
el Centro
Teague
W. A. Newton
Alex Novak
FB. Valance
M. P. Hare
Blom
Three Departments Vie for CCC Control in Cabinet Feud
Washington reports a three cornered fight among Interior Agriculture and Labor for control of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Roosevelt is expected to intervene as CCC authority runs to March 31 but likely will be extended on a permanent basis.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Civilian Conservation Corps
Interior, Agriculture and Labor Departments
New Deal
CCC
Gas Main Explosion in Varege City Kills and Injures Many
A gas main explosion beneath a congested street in VANMEE Italy causes many believed dead and injured. Emergency services swarm the site as rescuers search for survivors and authorities assess the blast’s impact. Local officials urge calm while the investigation begins.
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Vanmee
Italy
Varege
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