Switzerland Warns It May Quit League Over Oil Embargo
Geneva reports say Switzerland could leave the League of Nations if an oil embargo pushes Italy to exit, with Motta warning a withdrawal might rally Swiss neutrality. Paris dispatches note Hungary may also pull back amid Italy’s crisis, while Haile Selassie accepts the League’s bid to open peace talks.
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Soviet to Populate Siberian Expanses
Washington Soviet military attache Vladimir Burzin reveals a drive to finish the second five year plan in three years to arm the USSR for potential war with Japan. Plans include Moscow to Vladivostok airline, Arctic sea route from Leningrad to Vladivostok, and intensified drilling and mining in Sakhalin Kamchatka.
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Honor Roll at Cornell College Noted for 1935–36 First Semester
Mount Vernon report lists six students with straight A high honors including William Owen Osage Edward Weismiller Appleton and Charlotte Radcliff Minneapolis. Forty Cornellians earned honors with several east Iowa names such as Margaret Fussell Mount Vernon Elizabeth Bryant Mount Vernon Naomi Livesay Toledo and Wayne Wilmarth Wheatland.
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Nina Trump
Polo, Ill
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Appleton
Wis
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Minneapolis
Donald Rugg
Rochester
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Suit and overcoat stolen from room and radio taken from truck
Mrs Adelen Hutchinson reported a room break in to Bob Mann at 529 First Avenue East where a suit valued at 40 dollars and an overcoat worth 45 dollars were taken. Ed Stoudt 521 Fifth Avenue SE a delivery man for Newman's said a radio worth 40.50 dollars was stolen from his truck parked at 1030 Fifth Street NW.
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Amnesia Theory Cited in Ella Diltz Missing Person Case
Washington police push a nationwide search for Ella Diltz missing from a rooming house since February 15. Sister Leela reports clues of memory loss including delay in a letter mailed January 9 and misaddressed mail. Public notices issued with Ella’s photo to aid the search.
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Leela Diltz
National Radio Institute
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Minnesota Prison Hunger Strikers Go On Bread And Water
About 950 inmates at St. Cloud reformatory began a hunger strike two days earlier. Superintendent H. H. Whittier said the protest against prison food was largely orderly and that a minority led the others to join the action. Bread and water were substituted for the inmates’ meals on Thursday.
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ST. Cloud, Minn
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Farnsworth Unveils Indefinitely Cold Radio Tube
Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrated a new “cold” radio tube called multipactor that works instantly without warming up and has an almost indefinite life. It eliminates need for filaments, delivers massive electron output, and could reduce tube counts while boosting television development and receiver efficiency.
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Philo T. Farnsworth
Philadelphia
Institute of Radio Engineers
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Aztec Authors Publish First American Medical Book Around 1550
The Smithsonian Institution holds a photographic copy of the first American medical book written by two Aztec Indians circa 1550.
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