Japan Near Open Break With China
Tokyo reports Japan has virtually severed diplomatic ties with China under a new Imperial policy and will recall Ambassador Kawagoe. Premier Konoye convened parliament to back a vigorous program to crush Chinese resistance and pursue a peace with a more compliant regime.
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Tokyo
U.P
Japan
China
Shigeru Kawagoe
Foreign Office
Fumimaro Konoye
United States
Eastern Asia
Ndt
Mongolian Troops March Toward Fighting Zone
Shanghai reports indicate one hundred thousand Mongolian troops from Outer Mongolia are prepared to advance toward Suiyuan Province to confront Japanese forces at the eastern border. Chinese dispatches note Japanese reinforcements arriving from several regions, intensifying border confrontation risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
U.P
Outer Mongolia
Suiyuan
Pailingmiao
Changhai
Hankow
Peiping
China
Girl and Suitor Missing in Snowbound Mountains
In Kane Pennsylvania a missing 18 year old Florence Williams and her 57 year old married suitor C C Vandermark are feared lost in snowbound northwestern mountains. Police said she disappeared last Tuesday after buying supplies with Vandermark who is married to an 80 year old wife. State troopers fear their fate may be revealed only in spring and warn they could have frozen if lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kane
U.R
Florence Williams
Pennsylvania
C. C. Vanwin
Vandermark
Miss Williams
Two Convicts Shot in Attempted Prison Break
In Joliet Illinois guards stopped a daylight escape attempt from the state penitentiary. Four convicts scaled the 22 foot wall, two were shot and wounded slightly, the others were captured or fled toward nearby buildings while a fifth retreated back to the prison as shots rang out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joliet
Til
State Penitentiary
Journal official dies after one day illness
Paul Eisele age 59 vice president and treasurer of the Ohio State Journal Co died Sunday night from a heart attack following a one day illness in Columbus Ohio He held senior roles at the paper and his passing is reported by local press.
Hahn Appeal Argued to Save Woman in Electric Chair
Anna Marie Hahn appeared before the court of appeals in Cincinnati to challenge her death sentence for the murder by poison of Jacob Wagner. Her execution is set for March 10.
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HAHN
Incinnati
U.P
Anna Marie Hahn
Court of Appeals
Jacob Wagner
Murder trial resumes for Paul A Wright in Los Angeles
Juror selection for the Paul A Wright murder trial resumed in Los Angeles. He is charged with the slayings of his wife and a guest at his home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Paul A. Wright
Detroit Woman Held in Killing of Ex Partner
Julia Barker a wealthy Detroit real estate operator faces a possible murder warrant for killing her long time friend and business associate Edith Mae Cummings. Assistant Prosecutor Dowling said Barker surrendered after the shooting and gave varying statements while police continued questioning.
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Detroit
U.P
Julia Barker
Edith Mae Cummings
William E. Dowling
Barker
Perry Man Shoots Brother in Family Quarrel
John Notestone was arrested after shooting his brother George with a shotgun around noon. George, wounded in the right arm and chest, was at Cherrington Hospital where doctors amputated his right arm in a bid to save him, with little hope for recovery. The incident followed a Sunday night quarrel at their parents’ South Perry home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
John Notestone
Joe Farbearn
Nellis Smith
George
Cherrington
John
South Perry
Mass Parley On Business Prep In Washington
Government and business plan the first mass conference on the economic recession amid uncertainty over Roosevelt’s decentralization plan. A business reform message to Congress is due. 50 Commerce Department advisory council members meet Roosevelt January 19. Willkie urged government purchase of Commonwealth and Southern assets as a fix to holdouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Business Advisory Council
Commerce Department
Purchase
Wendell Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Willkie
Tennessee Valley Authority
Rosevelt
Southeastern
Commonwealth and Southern
Supreme Court
Agriculture and Commerce Department
Murray Hints At New Drive
In Homestead Pennsylvania Philip Murray chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee told 600 steel workers that 1938 union contracts should be signed without difficulty despite a campaign to slash wages. He noted SWOC has contracts with 463 steel firms and signaled another campaign against little steel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homestead
U.P
Philip Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Murray
SWOC
Little Steel
Glass Companies Union Discuss New Contracts
The first wage conference opened today in Cincinnati between the Federation of Glass Workers of America and Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. of Toledo and Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Discussions follow a three day national committee meeting. Union contracts at both plants expire February 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
U.P
Federation of Glass Workers of America
Libbey-Owens-Ford Co
Toledo
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
National
Federation
Government Purchase of 7 Million Used Cars Proposal
Ward's Automotive Reports urged President Roosevelt to have the government buy and scrap seven million used cars at about thirty dollars each. The goal is to supply scrap metal for the 1938 armaments program and clear room for new car sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
U.P
Washington
Ward
Roosevelt
Dean Noe Says Fasting Transforms Him Physically and Spiritually
The Very Rev Israel Harding Noe in Memphis enters his 16th day without food or water claiming a spiritual plane beyond the natural. He says fasting has changed him mentally physically and aims to prove miracles and spirit over body while his weight has dropped from 200 to about 100 pounds and he appears ghostly to onlookers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
U.P
Israel Harding Noe
Dean Noe
One Killed Three Hurt In Logan Crash
Logan Ohio Sunday night accident on State Route 31 left Jess Harper 27 dead and three others injured when a passing car struck Harper and a companion as they changed a tire. Henderson Wolfe, driver of the second car, lost control and overturned into a parked auto. The injured were Ab Cohagen Hal Locke and Harold Voris.
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Logan
Jess Harper
N. Walnut St
Haydenville
Henderson Wolfe
Ab Cohagen
Harper
Hal Locke
Harold Voris
Donald Barron
Cohagen
Voris
Murray City
Wolf's Basin
Wolfe Auto
Locke
Cherrington Hospital
State Highway Patrol
Sheriff's Men
Hold Man for Abducting Son
State police arrested Burt Shifflet in Athens after he abducted his four year old son following a struggle with his estranged wife. Deputy Hank Young and Assistant Chief Walter Wolfe escorted him to Pomeroy where he is jailed on assault and battery charges. Mrs Shifflet had traveled from Glouster to relatives in Pomeroy and says her husband knocked her down and took the child to a waiting car.
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Pomeroy
Athens
Burt Shifflet
Hank Young
Walter Wolfe
Mrs Bernard Baruch Dies at Home in New York
Mrs Bernard M Baruch age 65 wife of financier and adviser to the Democratic Party died of pneumonia Sunday night at home in New York City Her husband was at her bedside The former Annie Griffen of New York City she was noted for her philanthropies and married Baruch October 20 1897
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New York
U.P
Bernard M. Baruch
Baruch
Annie Griffen
New York City
Repeal of Profits Tax Urged by New Yorker
Washington U P M Seidman chairman of the tax committee of the New York Board of Trade urged the House Ways and Means Committee to repeal the undistributed profits tax entirely. He argued that exempting about 9 percent of U S corporations and the low rate on the rest would amount to a repeal. Why not then repeal this tax and be done with it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
M. Seidman
New York Board of Trade
House
Ways and Means
U. S
Seidman
Health director Hartung treated for kidney ailment
Dr. Walter Hartung state health director was hospitalized in Columbus with a kidney ailment. He received treatment and was listed in satisfactory condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.pi
Walter Hartung
Chautemps to Organize New French Cabinet
Camille Chautemps radical socialist leader agreed to form a cabinet to end a three day political crisis after his resignation. President Lebrun called on him again following Leon Blum’s failed bid to form a broader ministry. Daladier announced Chautemps would try as markets reopened. dollar at 30.40 francs, pound at 152 francs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Camille Chautemps
Popular Front
Leon Blum
Chautemps
Albert Lebrun
Blum
Edouard Daladier
Francis
Dr. Holzer To Attend Flood Control Meetings
Dr. Charles E. Holzer, director at the National Flood Control Federation, will attend the Jan 19 21 sessions of the Rivers and Harbors Congress in Washington. He plans to push for immediate congressional action and outlines the Ohio Valley region’s flood risks since the valley’s worst flood a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Charles E. Holzer
National Flood Control Federation
Rivers and Harbors Congress
Washington
Holzer
Ohio Valley
Barber Kills Wife and Self After Domestic Quarrel
Cleveland murder suicide report states Angelo Milaretto a 38 year old barber shot his wife and then killed himself after striking his sister in law 18 Mary Grimaldi with an ax. The sister in law was reported recovering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Angelo Milaretto
Mary Grimaldi
Turner Announces Candidacy for Ohio Supreme Court Seat
Edward C. Turner of Columbus former attorney general announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination to fill the Ohio Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Judge Thomas A. Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Edward C. Turner
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Thomas A. Jones
Former teacher Solomon Miller dies at 71
Solomon E. Miller, 71, a former schoolteacher at Upper Sandusky Chatta and Windfall, died here Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Solomon E. Miller
Upper Sandusky
Chata
Windfall
Sunny
Reed Seen Likely for Supreme Court Seat
Washington reports broad support for Senate confirmation of Stanley F. Reed as associate justice to replace retiring George Sutherland. Reed, labeled middle of the road, is expected to join the court’s liberal bloc on key New Deal issues, though anticipated to be less liberal than Hugo Black.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Senate
Stanley F. Reed
Supreme Court
George Sutherland
Sutherland
Willis van Devanter
Reed
Roosevelt
Hugo L. Black
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
Justice Black
Tennessee Valley Authority
Public Utility Holdings Company
Reed, Black
Harlan F. Stone
Louis D. Brandeis
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Mt Vernon Gun Battle Claims Two in Ohio Robbery
In Mt Vernon Ohio Walter Lehman 17 from Galena faces open charge after a gunfight that killed accomplice Edison Watts 19 from near Galena and wounded Deputy Sheriff Oliver Walker. Sheriff Clyde Biggs says Watts admitted a $47 grocery robbery hours before the clash on Route 3 near Mt Liberty.
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MT. Vernon
Walter Lehman
Galena
Edison Watts
Mt. Liberty
Here
Oliver Walker
Clyde Biggs
Knox County
Lehman
Delaware
Watts
Biggs
Relative Held In Twin Killing
In Mineola New York detectives arrested John Reovitch known as Reo a distant relative to Mrs Celinda Waite after a family dispute with the victim over money. The killings of Celinda Waite 59 and neighbor Jean Schuellain 18 remain under investigation.
Boy Glen Cooper Dies in Meigs Creek Ice Accident
In McConnellville Glen Cooper aged 17 perished when he fell through ice in Meigs Creek while checking traps five years after his father drowned in the same spot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McConnellville
U.P
Glen Cooper
Meigs Creek
Gotham Mayor Calls for Federal Relief for New York
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia told a senate inquiry that cities cannot bear relief burdens alone and urged federal aid. He cited New York’s weekly relief cases rising from 6,500 to 7,400 and called for expanding the federal employment service to verify unemployment and direct relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fiorella la Guardia
New York
Produce Strike Shuts Pittsburgh Fruit Market Threatens Supply
A strike of 800 produce workers over a rumored contract violation halted fresh fruit and vegetable deliveries in Pittsburgh. Officials expect no consumer shortages for 2 to 3 days due to ample stock, but warn a serious shortage could follow without early agreement. The union pledges a hands off policy on carriers serving orphanages hospitals and other institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Front Quiet as 18th Month of War Opens
Fighting was quiet as the Spanish Civil War entered its 18th month with both sides reinforcing lines around Teruel. Indications suggested intensification soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendaye
U.P
Teruel
Mercy Killing Advocates Move To Legalize Euthanasia
The National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia launches a federal and state drive led by Dr. Charles Francis Potter of the First Humanist Society of New York. Members urge safe guarded death for incurable patients, anticipating religious and professional opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U P
National Society For the Legalization of Euthanasia
Charles Francis Potter
First Humanist Society of
Potter
FDR Seeks Expanded Naval Funding For 1939 Ships
The House appropriations committee reported a 553 million dollar navy supply bill for the 1939 fiscal year adding funds for two new battleships and twenty other ships. The measure, with 182.9 million available for shipbuilding, also funds construction plans for battleships North Carolina and Washington plus three aircraft carriers and numerous destroyers and submarines. The committee notes a continuing policy of expanding the fleet under Vinson Trammell while awaiting a presidential supplemental message on naval expansion.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Navy Department
Budget Bureau
Roosevelt
William B. Bankhead
House
Treasury-Post Office
Appropriations Navy
North Carolina
William B. Umstead
N. C
Congress
Naval Aviation
Marine Corps
Navy
Second CIO Unit Urges Peace With Federation
New York U P Max Zaritsky founder of the Committee for Industrial Organization urged the CIO to make peace with the American Federation of Labor. He noted the AFL had conceded vital points demanded by the DS during Washington negotiations and argued there was no justification for continuing the "devastating war."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
U.P
Max Zaritsky
Committee For Industrial Organization
United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union
C.I.O
American Federation of Labor
Zaritsky
A. F. of L
D.S
Washington
Soviet Leader Demands Sterner Policy on Japs
In Moscow Andrei A. Zhadanov, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, urged a sterner policy against Japanese and Manchukuo hooliganism as the supreme Soviet resumed its session.
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Moscow
U.P
Russia
Andrei A. Zhadanov
Foreign Affairs Committee
Supreme Soviet
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H. C. Godman Shoe Co
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Dennison Ave
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New Yorker
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