Italy annexes Makale as Ethiopian skirmishes flare
Makale known as the city of beautiful women was formally annexed to Italy by Gen. Emilio De Bono amid ongoing clashes on the Ethiopian front. Ethiopian ambuscades and Libyan cavalry aided Italian advances while Britain scorned Italy over sanctions and planned a League backed reply. In Egypt riots left one dead and 84 injured as British police restrained unrest.
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Italy
Hauzien
Ethiopia
Libya
Makale
Emilio de Bono
Harar
Great Britain
Egypt
London
Nahas Pashas
Wafd
Daggah Bar
Dev
Europe
Mussolini
League of Nations
Mediterranean
Paris
Il Duce
France
Rome
Deluge of employer questions over social security taxes
Washington reports the social security board faced a flood of questions from anxious employers. It clarifies that federal old age and unemployment taxes do not begin until 1937 and that 1936 returns are not due until 1937. Forms and requirements for future contributory benefits are still under development.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Henry Seidemann
Internal Revenue Bureau
Secretary Roper Promises Clear Economic Breathing Spell
Secretary Roper told the Associated Grocery Manufacturers of America that the basic program of reform has been completed and the nation should feel no uncertainty about future government measures. He cited Treasury and bank reforms as finished and outlined a commerce department plan to stimulate business through industry conferences, trade promotion, better statistics, and efficiency studies.
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White House
New York
Roper
Roosevelt
Associated Grocery Manufacturers of America
Roy Howard
Commerce Department
Assassin slays Chinese Marshal at temple in Tientsin
A 25-year-old woman assassin shot Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang at a Buddhist temple in Tientsin yesterday. She surrendered after the act, claiming Sun was responsible for her father Gen Sze Chung-Pin's execution. Sun opposed the Nanking government and had lived in retirement. The temple sits in the Chinese section of the city.
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Tientsin
China
Sun Chuan-Fang
Japan
North
Sun
Sze Chung-Pin
Nanking
Baltimore and Ohio granted permission to slash coal rates
The public service commission allowed the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to cut coal shipment rates from Mason county to the Ohio river division. The new rate is 70 cents a ton through April 30, 1986, down from 88 cents to $1.01, a move the railroad says is needed to compete with trucks. The commission reserved judgment after hearing Southeastern Gas of Charleston seek to buy Boone county utilities and Montgomery Gas of Montgomery.
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Charleston
W. Va
Public Service Commission
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Mason County
Ohio River Division
Southeastern Gas Company
Boone County Utilities
Montgomery Gas Company
Montgomery
Conduct of Morro Castle officers praised and condemned
The Morro Castle trial opened with mixed judgments on officer and crew conduct during the September 1924 fire. Prosecutor Adams depicted passengers fighting flames while staff prioritized their own survival, while defense lawyer Medalie argued personnel did their best under impossible conditions. Defendants include Acting Captain Warms Chief Engineer Abbott Executive VP Cabau d and the shipping company. The blaze off New Jersey claimed over 120 lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William F. Warms
Eben S. Abbott
Henry E. Cabaud
Pupils Escape Fire as Selma School Burns Down
Clifton Forge Virginia November 13 pupils flee a burning Selma school as flames trap fourth graders. Sixteen children escape from danger as eight remain hospitalized with fractures and burns including 10 year old Ruth Van Buren seriously hurt from jumping a second story window after the stairway collapse.
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Clifton Forge
Selma
Ruth van Buren
Dell Jackson
England Voters Hear Final Campaign Rush
London November 13 The British general election ends with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin facing a possible reduced but solid Commons majority of around 150 amid liberal uncertainties. Ramsay MacDonald and other senior figures are seen as at risk while Baldwin gains prestige as voters map national unity against continental turmoil and a League aligned slate.
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London
Great Britain
Stanley Baldwin
House of Commons
J. Ramsay MacDonald
MacDonald
Labor Party
John Simon
Herbert Samuel
Durhamshire
Britain
Labor
League of Nations
West Virginia to receive final FERA relief $650000
Gov. H G Kump said a final $650000 emergency relief allocation will aid West Virginia, enough to last to December 15, as FERA stops further grants. He warned the decision creates an impossible situation, urging an appeal and stressing a public responsibility for those unable to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
H. G. Kump
West Virginia
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Kump
FERA
Works Progress Administration
WPA
Aubrey Williams
Federal
National Guard
Social Security Board
Merrill G. Murray
Williams
Elkins
W. Va
Charleston
Mrs. Frank Sebaugh Dies West Virginia Club Leader
Mrs. Frank D. Sebaugh a prominent West Virginia club leader and long time official with the state congress of Parent Teacher associations died in a Huntington hospital after a period of poor health and a Friday illness. Funeral services are scheduled Friday at a funeral home with burial in Woodmere cemetery.
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Huntington
W. Va
Frank D. Sebaugh
West Virginia
State
Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations
Woodmere
Pig Bet Could Spur Self Pardon From Governor
St Paul Minnesota November 13 The pig payback for guber natorial bets may force Governor Clyde L Herring of Iowa to sign a self pardon He joked about needing legal help from Minnesota Governor Olson after being charged with gambling in Iowa for the bet on the Iowa Minnesota football game The 265 pound prize pig Big Boy Floyd of Rosedale was led into the Minnesota capitol as the bet was settled Des Moines Municipal Court Judge J E Mershon issued a warrant for Herring s arrest based on Social Justice Club member Virgil Case claim Case argued the governor should set an example for citizens Iowa gambling statutes classify such bets as a misdemeanor with a fine up to 500 or up to a year in jail or both
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St. Paul
Minn
Clyde L. Herring
Iowa
Floyd B. Olson
Minnesota
Cleon
Big Boy
Floyd
Rosedale
Des Moines
J. E. Mershon
Herring
Virgil Case
Eee
The
Social Justice Club
Final arguments loom in DC coal act case
Washington reports final arguments by week end in the DC supreme court test of the Guffey coal law. Witnesses described poverty in coal camps across West Virginia Kentucky and Allegheny County Pennsylvania with debt to company stores trapping miners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
District of Columbia Supreme Court
F. B. Critchlow
James Walter Carter
Carter Coalty
William PD. Whitney
Carter Legal
Mary Elizabeth Skinner
Children's Bureau
Nell Scott
Pittsburgh
Malcolm Ross
American Friends’ Service Committee of
Philadelphia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Allegheny County
Pennsylvania
Skinner
Alabama
Illinois
Indiana
Joseph Ashley
West Virginia Kidnaping Suspect Held in Ardmore
U S District Attorney Cleon A Summerg announced that Virgil Gulick a 26 year old held at Ardmore Okla has been identified by fingerprints as the Michigan indicted kidnapper of J O Shurmway of Parkersburg W Va The indictment says Gulick abducted Shurmway at Parkersburg May 16 and took him to Encorse Mich holding him for ransom He is being held by federal authorities at a transient camp narrative shows the capture and custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogee
Okla
United States
Cleon A. Summerg
Ardmore
Virgil Gulick
Michigan
J. O. Shurmway
Parkersburg
W. Va
Summers
Shurmway
Encorse
Mich
Kump Urged To Reorganize State Welfare Units
Governor Kump received a recommendation for complete reorganization of all state and county welfare activities. West Virginia University educators Dr. John Sly and Dr. George Shipman fault divided directions and lay control, calling for unified purpose and professional leadership. They urge new laws creating state supervision of local boards, broadened welfare programs, and a dedicated state agency for overhead operations.
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Kump
Charleston
W. Va
John Sly
George Shipman
West Virginia University
West Virginia
Board of Control
Stich
Sly and Shipman
President urges bankers to slash rates to aid recovery
President Roosevelt urged lower interest rates to spur economic revival while noting he cannot specify an exact figure. He cited 6 percent as a rough benchmark for real estate loans and pressed for cheaper money to support recovery, as the American Bankers Association met in New Orleans amid criticism of New Deal borrowing.
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Bankers Association
New Deal
Washington
Bankera
Roosevelt
American Bankers’ Association
New Orleans
RFC
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Federal Housing Administration
Stewart McDonald
Federal
Owner of Detroit Tigers Succumbs in Horse Riding Accident
Frank J. Navin, longtime Detroit Tigers owner and key figure in the club’s rise to a world championship, died of a heart attack after a fall from his horse at the Detroit Riding and Hunt club. Navin, 51, had recently guided the Tigers to baseball’s top honor and faced pressure to sell the team to prolong his life.
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Frank J. Navin
Baseball
Detroit
Detroit Tigers
Detroit Riding and Hunt Club
Navin
Mickey Cochrane
Tigers
Chicago Cubs
Frank J Navin
Sam Crawford
Hughie Jennings
Georgia Peach
Ty Cobb
Cobb
Detroit College of Law
Thomas H. Yawkey
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Mandeville Man Sentenced for Murder Mutilation
Joliet Illinois November 13 Mandeville W Zenge convicted of a mutilation murder of his rival in a small town romance was brought to Joliet prison with ten other prisoners. He received a life sentence and planned to be a model prisoner to seek parole in twenty years. He expressed intent to study law or engineering in the penitentiary school. Dr Walter Bauer who married Zenges childhood sweetheart was emasculated last August.
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Penitentiary
Walter J. Bauer
Kirkaville
High Court Hears Freight Rate Case Across Coal Regions
The Supreme Court heard a coal freight rate dispute between Big Sandy field operators in Kentucky and Logan field operators in West Virginia versus the Chesapeake and Ohio railway. The case centers on rate differences for coal shipped to Catlettsburg and Huntington with prices ranging from 50 to 87 cents per ton and a 12 cent current differential.
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Washington
Big Sandy
Kentucky
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Supreme Court
Charleston
W. Va
Interstate Commerce Commission
High Tribunal
Logan Field
West Virginia
J.C
Logan
Huntington
Lc.c
M. Carter Hall
Richmond
Railway
Catlettsburg
Hall
L.C.C
Logan Fields
Motive Believed in Slaying of German Importer
New York police report jealousy and another woman as motives in the fatal shooting of Fritz Gebhardt, a German importer. Vera Stretz, 31, secretively pursued Gebhardt, shadowing him to a west side hotel where he allegedly met a second woman. Investigators cite German love letters and hotel records as they probe the case.
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New York
Vera Stretz
Fritz Gebhardt
Germany
Gebhardt
West Side
Miss Stretz
Fr. Gebhardt
Chatham
N. J
Court to Accept Bids in MacCorkle Estate Sale
Charleston West Virginia November 13 the Kanawha circuit court will receive bids tomorrow on stocks and bonds part of the estate of former Governor William A MacCorkle. A second sale was ordered after the Monroe company bid 86500 and Commissioner J M Woods received 71500 from the Kanawha Valley Bank.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kanawha Circuit Court
William A. MacCorkle
Monroe Company
J. M. Woods
Kanawha Valley Bank
Death of Raleigh deputy in West Virginia mystery
In Ripley West Virginia Joe Gunnoe 55 a CCC foreman was found dead after his body burned and hung from a tree police ruled it a suicide though motive remains unclear State Police Lt James H Fillinger noted doubt about how the act was done A burning can matches and other items were found at the scene Casto who sold Gunnoe the gasoline is a key witness and the widow says no warning was given to her The case remains unexplained as investigators await fingerprint tests
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Ripley
W. Va
Joe Gunnoe
CCC
James H. Fillinger
Gunnoe
Fillinger
Casto
C. R. Kessel
Kessel
Raleigh
James Elliott
Jonathan
Albert Hysell
Hysell
Jackson
Charleston
Sailors Praised for Rescue Work in Silverhazel Sinking
Survivors of the freighter Silverhazel were rescued after four days clinging to rocks in San Bernardino strait. Destroyers Peary and another ship carried forty three survivors toward Manila while two bodies were brought in. Captain Lennard is missing, reportedly last seen giving his life belt to a crew member.
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Manila
Peary
Silverhazel
San Franciso
San Bernardino Strait
Here
H. A. Lennard
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Queries Deluge Security Board
Tientain
Tokyo
Hsinking
Manchukuo
Russia
Orient
Washington State Department
Shanghai
Khabarovsk
Philippine
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Ohio
Morro Castle
England
Baldwin
RUMP
FERR
Frank Sebaugh
Carter Coal Company
West
Department of Public Welfare
Torch
Zenge
High Court
Big Sandy Field
Fulton Gunnoe
Filling Station Aide
Raleigh County
Sundial
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