China Refuses Shanghai Withdrawal Under Hands-Off Policy
Tokyo reports Chinese refusal to withdraw from the foreign area in Shanghai endangers hopes for peace. British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon learns Japan fears no peaceful solution, as Geneva and border-garrison moves influence the crisis along the Yangtze Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
U.P
Shanghai
John Simon
Japan
Geneva
Harbin
Yangtze Valley
Simon
Tsuneo Matsudaira
London
Britain
Far East policy debated as cabinet splits over China Japan issue
U S cabinet weighs hands off approach to the China Japan crisis with no formal decision. Some urge renewed peace efforts while others favor sanctions if Tokyo ignores the Kellogg pact. Chinese businessmen urge America to press Japan and preserve peace through pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Ashington
U.R
Todcy
America
Stimson
Shanghai
Japan
Far East
Divorce Suit Filed in Athens County Court
Margaret Pierce filed for divorce from Don Pierce in Athens County Common Pleas Court. Pierce is serving a term in State Penitentiary for failure to provide for Pierce and their child. An appeal is also filed against a Justice of the Peace judgment for 26.50 awarded to C. D. Stewart from A. E. Tabler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argaret Pierce
Dis .Co
Don Pierce
Athens County
Common Pleas
Weddey
Pierce
State Penitentiary
Court of Justice of the Peace
S. T. McBride
Troy Township
Common Pleas Court
A. E. Tabler
C. D. Stewart
Tabler
Japanese Delegate Denies Territorial Ambitions in China
In Geneva February 10 the Japanese delegate Naotake Stated Japan had no territorial ambitions in China, provoking laughter from the public galleries. The League of Nations Council met with repeated positions from Chinese and Japanese representatives and tensions flared over remarks by Dr Yen, the Chinese envoy to Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Dashiell
United Press
Geneva
China
Far East
League of Nations Council
Naotake
Japan
Berlin
Dr. W. W. Yen
Queer Weather Year and Far East Crisis
The article notes a minister's failed crowd disruption and Sato's visible irritation amid a League discussion on the Far East crisis. A League official warns war would be a major economic and political catastrophe, paralleling pre WWI U S stance. The councils debate features dramatic efforts to forestall invoking a League of Nations assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sato
United States
Wilson
High League
United Press
League
Far East
China
League of Nations
Year of queer Weather Reported Across Regions
The article notes anomalous weather with sun spots blamed or ocean currents shifting. In the Mohave Desert rain pours and alfalfa greens early with recent snow, while Yukon temperatures plunge to fifty below zero reflecting unusual climate patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hodge
Calif
Arctic
Mohave Desert
Yukon
One Thought On Earth's Cold Vast Ocean
The author reflects on gratitude amid extreme cold with absolute zero unlikely on Earth. They compare surviving under a constant blood heat and air blanket, as the planet travels through a vast, frigid cosmos.
Religious quarrels fuel Britain’s aid in India
Mohamadans and Hindus clash as civilians fight Hindu policemen with casualties on both sides. The two religions remain bitter rivals, reportedly despising English rule and questioning its moral authority, while continuing daily hostilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
India
Women of India threaten British rule and stir history
The article notes young Hindu women challenging foreign rulers with fearless actions, with two sentenced to life for killing an official. It likens potential impact to historical events such as Charlotte Corday's murder of Marat, and hints at extended discussion on page 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Britain
France
Napoleon
Charlotte Corday
Marat
Italy backs abolition of major war weapons at Geneva
Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi told the world disarmament conference that Italy is ready to abolish capital ships submarines aircraft carriers heavy artillery all tanks and bombing aircraft and all means of aggressive chemical and bacteriological warfare. He urged a subsequent revision of wartime laws to better protect civilians and opposed the view that security must come before disarmament.
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Geneva
U.R
Italy
Dino Grandi
Grandi
Grandi Sadi
Weather Different From Back in 99
The article recalls 1899 and 1932 temperatures in Athens Ohio noting it was 100 degrees off the 1932 reading and 40 below zero three decades earlier. Local older residents compare 1898 cold to a mild current winter, calling it one of the mildest in this section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Walker
Athens
Ohio
Opinion Asked in Ohio Vote For Delegates
Ohio Secretary of State seeks Attorney General opinion on whether Republican and Democratic party delegates should be elected by counties at large or by wards and townships. Brown favors wards and townships for efficiency, warning countywide ballots would be enormous, with Cuyahoga County ballots potentially three yards long and about 150 names.
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Columbus
U.R
Clarence J. Brown
Bettman
Brown
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
Chauncey Miner Alonzo Walters Ends His Life
Chauncey, Feb 10. Alonzo Walters aged 58 a long time miner and Chauncey resident killed himself with a 41 caliber revolver in his High Street home He sat reading a newspaper when the shot was fired Death was instantaneous Coroner L F Jones and Dr C N Sanders attended No motive given but believed related to industrial conditions Walters survived by his second wife and six children including Edward California William Junction City Mrs Clarence Dailey Athens Marguerite Ralph and Charles at home The body sent to mortuary for burial.
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Chauncey
Alonzo Walters
High Street
Walters
C. N. Sanders
Millfield
L. F. Jones
Junction City
Clarence Dailey
Athens
Marguerite Ralph
Charles
Cigaret Tax Revenue Reported by State Treasurer
Columbus report shows state treasurer Harry S Day announcing that net cigaret tax receipts totaled 2,003,771.59 dollars after five months of the levy. The figure reflects discounts and represents the state’s revenue to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Harry
Will Glad To Get Back to America Despite Everything
A letter from Will expresses relief at returning to the United States after a long trip. He notes business is down but still compares favorably to other places and argues for nonintervention. He reflects on distance and trouble, concluding with a patriotic sentiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will
America
New York
Tax Hike Needed To Balance Budget In 1934
Treasury estimates show the revenue shortfall requiring a 1.241 billion tax program to balance the 1934 budget by July 1. The Ways and Means Committee opens with income tax plans and surveys other levies on autos radios amusements cigars electricity gas gasoline oil to cover the gap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills
Treasury
Ways and Means
Kentucky House blocks liquor law referendum vote
The Kentucky House voted 79 to 9 against submitting liquor law repeal to a statewide referendum. Lawmakers later debated budget-balancing taxes on malt syrup and utility-rate measures while approving a bill letting cities build and finance own utility plants with revenue bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
U.P
Kentucky Assembly
F. A. Gnau
House
Senate
Prohibition Study to Continue at Ohio Wesleyan
Ohio Wesleyan University will extend its prohibition study in the Political Science Department next school year. Head Dr Ben A Arneson says fewer speakers and deeper legal analysis will shape the course with emphasis on evaluating divergent opinions. Col Amos W W Woodcock, head of the Federal Prohibition Enforcement Department, will speak on Feb 23 after prior cancellations due to government duties.
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Delaware
Ohio Wesleyan University
Ben A. Arneson
Arneson
Amos W. W. Woodcock
Federal Prohibition Enforcement Department
Ohio Wesleyan
Col. Woodcock
Japanese Foreign Minister Shidehara Collapses with Heart Trouble
Baron Shidehara, former foreign minister in the Wakatsuchi administration, suffered a collapse due to heart trouble on Monday. His conciliatory policy at the foreign office faced sharp conflict with Japan's powerful military during the Manchurian tensions.
Athens County Feeds Needy Children Under Relief Plan
Major E O Braught officials say hungry Ohio children will be fed through the present term, with school kitchens supplying nourishing meals. The program spreads from Athens to Vinton and other Southeastern counties, funded by state emergency relief not charity games, as shortages surge in Cleveland Cincinnati Youngstown Warren and Columbus. A National Guard truck will move food to county seats, aided by Miss Irma Winebrenner Dayton Frost and local PTA leaders.
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Athens County
E. O. Braught
State Emergency Relief Committee
Major Braught
Irma Winebrenner
Relief Committee
Dayton Frost
Ohio University
State Department of Welfare
C. Bird
Parent-Teacher Association
Athens
Vinton County
Ohio
Ohio State University
Braught
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Youngstown
Niles
Warren
Columbus
National Guard
Red Cross Elects Board Members in Athens County
The Athens County Red Cross held its annual board meeting selecting an Executive Committee of nine. Three members were chosen last night: Roger Conner, Mrs. W L Gard, and Fred Sands. The remaining six will be elected next Wednesday night.
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Athens County Red Crosse
Roger Connor
Fred Sands
T. M. Johnson
Carl H. Beasley
T. W. Craig
W. L. Gard
R. P. Imes
Dean E. W. Chubb
D. R. Zenner
T. R. Biddle
Athens
Clyde Gibson
Amesville
E. L. Wilson
New Marshfield
Edgar Dean
Albany
Walter Buck
Guysville
Ralph Wolf
Coolville
J. Biddison
Stewart
P. D. Hill
Millfield
C. B. Dillon
Glous
Ring and watch theft shocks Lancaster residents
In Lancaster on February 10 a burglary at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kerlin saw three diamond rings valued at 500 dollars, a wrist watch, and twenty dollars in cash stolen. Police investigated the home theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Harry
Kerlin
Romance Being Taken Out of Aviation by Reducing Wages
Century Airlines' fleet sits idle as pilots from Cleveland Toledo Detroit Chicago and St Louis strike over pay cuts. 23 pilots accepted tentative resignations after the wage reduction announcement. P P Willis, a company director, says aviation must become business-like. Schedules cancelled and calls diverted to other lines. Pilots belong to the Air Line Pilots Association, allied with the AFL.
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Cleveland
D.p
Century Airlines
Toledo
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
Air Lines Pilots Association
P. P. Willis
Air Line Pilota Association
Transport Pilots’ Union
Armerican Federation of Labor
Dayton Woman Says Acid Burn On Baby Was Attacked Case
Mrs. Vivian Moore of Dayton reported to police that her 2 year old boy was burned on the face with acid while in his crib. She claimed enemies hate her and a chair near a medicine cabinet showed the bottle was taken by someone unable to reach it from the floor. The child's condition was not serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
U.P
Vivian Moore
Mad Trapper Evades Guard In Arctic Chase Again
Albert Johnson the Mad Trapper eludes a police barricade near Rat River during a 40 day manhunt. Constable Newt Millen is dead, another wounded, as Johnson escapes into the wilderness amid blizzards and 0 degree below zero temperatures in the Northwest. Captain W R Wood May reports the latest developments as RCMP warn of harsh winter travel and possible death by exposure.
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Aklavik
Northwest Territory
Albert Johnsen
Rat River
Arctic Sea
Newt Millen
W. R. Wood May
North Country
Millen
Johnson
North Pole
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
90 Jobless Men Get Work in Columbus
Ninety unemployed men began work in Columbus on Riverside Drive and State Route 31 as part of a state city county relief program. State highway director O W Merrell announced the plan as workers were selected by the employment office and rotated to maximize jobs. Wages are about 40 cents an hour with $150,000 to be spent by state and county on the Columbus area. Work includes rebuilding and repairing road shoulders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Riverside Drive
O. W. Merrell
Vicinity
Petition drives Sunday movies in ADA Ohio
Carl B. Moore theater owner circulated a petition supporting Sunday motion pictures in Ada Ohio. About two hundred residents signed, including Ohio Northern University students, after Sunday movies began six weeks ago. The W C T U protested and demanded the theater close on Sundays.
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Ada, O
U.P
Carl B. Moore
Ohio Northern University
Senate Welfare Committee visits Junction City Brick Plant
Columbus February 10 The Senate Welfare Committee planned a visit to the Junction City Brick Plant as part of its probe into the prison system. It inspected London Farm the prior Tuesday but did not hear testimony from inmates. Committee members expressed satisfaction with Superintendent W F Amrine’s administration.
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Columbus
U.ab
Senate Welfare Committee
Junction City
London Farm
W. F. Amrine
War Secretary Hurley opposes Philippine independence timing
Secretary of War Hurley condemned proposals for Philippine independence as untimely in a statement to the House Insular Affairs Committee. He spoke after hearings on six pending independence measures and warned against rapid moves in the Orient political scene.
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Washington
U.R
Hurley
Philippine Islands
Orient
House Insular Affairs Committee
Famous Author Wallace Dies in Beverly Hills
British author and playwright Edgar Wallace, famed for mystery stories, died in Beverly Hills California early today after a brief illness of double pneumonia. He would have turned 57 next April. His widow Violet Wallace survived him along with two sons and two daughters. Wallace had come to Los Angeles to write screenplays for RKO-Pathe and had produced three, with one nearing production.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Edgar Wallace
Wallace
Violet Wallace
England
the Majestic
R-K-O-Pathe
Chaplin Likely To Stay In Europe Another Year
Hollywood reports Charlie Chaplin may remain in Europe for another year or more with no immediate plan to resume film work Carlyle Robinson, who traveled to England with Chaplin, confirms Chaplin’s strong preference to stay abroad for now and delays in new picture plans.
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England
Hollywood
Charlie Chaplin
Europe
Carlyle Robinson
Chaplin
Father Sues Trustees Over Burn Injury in Coal Township
Myron McGhee of near Coal Towns filed a $15,000 damages suit for his four year old daughter Betty against Coal Township trustees in Jackson County. He claims the child was seriously burned when a road crew left a fire burning by the roadside June 2 of last year and walked away without preventing injury.
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Jackson, O
U.R
Myron McGhee
Near Coaltowns
Betty
Coal Township
Jackson County
McGhee
Ohio miners strike goes 100 percent in Athens area
The Athens Hocking and Perry County mines shut down as a 100 percent strike took effect. Ohio Collieries Mine No. 255 at Drydock closed, with 500 to 600 workers idle. Operators propose shifting to Eastern Ohio and delaying Drydock work until coal demand resumes. Five Perry County shafts also idle with sympathy action and guard measures reported.
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Athens
Hocking
Perry Counties
Ohio Collieries Company
Drydock
Perry County
Crookeville
Ohio Collieries
Athena County
Sunday Creek
Tugaday
Ohio Collierie Company
Ohio
Manhattan Coal Company
Tropic
Buckingham Coal Company
Congo
Essex No
Los Run
Hannah Essex
New Straiteville
Manhattan
Buckingham
Essex No. 2
Hannah Eavex
Buckingham Company
Sunday Creek Valleys
Card Tells of Cruel Murder
New York police traced a killer’s post card to a tenement where 13-year-old Marie lay murdered. The note claimed a upstairs vacant apartment hid a shocking discovery and warned it was a murder. The body showed evidence of a brutal attack in a near-empty bath. The missing girl had not been seen since Monday.
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New York
Marie
Atenement
Rehired Bucyrus Worker Reported By Courts
A fragment notes the New York Central turning to work on Monday after a court event. The Court of Appeals is expected to emerge with a decision, indicating ongoing legal proceedings with mixed implications for local labor and transportation interests.
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Bucyrus
New York Central
Court of Appeals
Menon
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