Eight Missing in Fire at Victoria Mansion Hotel
Lakewood New Jersey Feb 12 in searchlights firemen comb the Victoria Mansion hotel ruins for eight missing and eight dead from a blaze that killed three in bed and injured scores. Coroner says fractured skulls mainly caused deaths. Eight guests and 39 employees were inside. Two men, a sergeant and a firefighter, earned hero status for rescuing three people before ladders failed. Fire origin undetermined.
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N. J
Victoria Mansion
Walter Curtin
Raymond
Ruther Sherman
Bronx
Mildred Flacher
The
Harry Ehrileh
Oten
Redman Trial Nearing End as Jury Pending Verdict
The state rests in the Clyde Redman murder case with a jury expected to retire after final summations. Redman testified describing his relationship with his wife and plans the night of the killing as prosecutors and defense attorneys present dramatic closing arguments.
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Clyde Redman
Wells
Alvin J. Kart
J. Blackburn Wes
D. Unpinky
Ertz
Watts
Qy Redman
Farrel
Willie Willis by Robert Quillen
A concise quip by Robert Quillen attributes a blunt view on selling and desire, noting that what sells best is what people avoid consuming when they can act freely. The line implies a critique of appetite and choice in commerce.
Norris Roasts Supreme Court Over AAA Decision
Senator Norris attacks the U S Supreme Court for its AAA ruling and vows Congress can curb court powers. He denounces the court as an unconstitutional convention and urges action on an AAA replacement bill pending in the Senate.
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U.s.supreme Court
AAA
Washington
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Norris
Supreme Court
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Beitersi
Hauptmann Defense Stands Firm Over Story Doubts
Trenton February 12 17 Lloyd Fisher one of Bruno Richard Hauptmanns lawyers said any effort to alter Hauptmanns account would fail Fisher met Hauptmann in the death house after Samuel Leibowitz the New York lawyer conferred with Anna Hauptmann and said Hauptmann will not change his story and has only one tale to tell He added Leibowitz could join the defense if helpful but Hauptmann has no new defense and the ransom payment explanation remains unchanged in this case
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D-Ky
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Farm Credit Administration
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Wallace
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N. J
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Hauptmann
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New York
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Nemboit
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Myo
Otte Hauptmann
Bruno
Leibowitz
Haupmann
Flemington
Isidorisch
Germany
Leibowicz
New Deal
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan Republican
Alfred FE. Smith
Nebraskan 115-year-old Makes Old Age Pension Bid
Solomon Rickner of Monard county near T. Paul Neb will celebrate his 115th birthday and becomes the first county resident to apply for old age pension. Cora Corbett aged 20 is the second applicant. Officials expect Rickner's pension to reach the county maximum of 60 dollars monthly and note he may be the oldest man in Nebraska.
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Neb
Solomon Rickner
Monard County
Wisda Fer
Cora Corbett
Birkner
Nebraska
Fresh Snows Precede Cold Weather Across Midwest
A low cold wave moves into the middle west with scattered snow as temperatures plummet. Bemidji Minnesota records 41 below zero for the 29th straight day, Bramanck North Dakota hits 34 days below zero, and Saskatoon tops 56 days without above freezing, with other towns like Minot and Havre posting severe lows as the polar air grips the region.
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Middle West
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Bemidji
Minn
Bramarck
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Saskatoon
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Minot
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Havre
Mount
Sher
Woman 65 Falls Freezes to Death in Mountain Snow
Weather blamed for two deaths in the Mountain state as heavy snow drifts hindered aid. Physicians trudged through deep drifts to reach sick relatives in Raleigh county. A neighbor discovered Mrs. Ann Douse aged 88 dead in a cold, unheated shack near Cranberry Raleigh county.
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Raleigh County
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Cranberry
Chain Store Tax on Gas Argued Before U S Court
The case asks if West Virginia tax applies to Gulf Refining gas stations under an authorized dealer scheme. Gulf argues stations are not chain stores and dealers control staffing and pricing. West Virginia contends Gulf dealers have a property interest and company control.
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U.S
Washingto
Fey
W. Virginia
Gulf Refining Company
Port Arthur
Tex
Supreme Court
Fred L. Fox
West Virginia
Homer A. Holt
Wear
Virginia
Gulf
Arthur S. Dayton
Charleston
Otter
Senate Confirms Five Members of Rational Bio Luminous Coal Commission
The Senate approved five members for the rational bio luminous coal commission: George E. Accet California Walter H. Maloney Missouri Charles F. Hosford Jr Pennsylvania C E Smith West Virginia Percy Tetlaw Ohio, with Thomas M Wandward of Pennsylvania confirmed as van stipes coimees. Two labor board members were also confirmed: Foundhoo Easy of Pennsylvania representing organized employees and Tee C Gun ter of Tennessee representing producers.
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Senate Today
Rational Bioluminous Coal Commission
George E. Accet
California
Walter H. Maloney
Missouri
Charles F. Hosford, Jr
Pennsylvania
C. E. Smith
West Virgina
Percy Tetlaw
Ohio
Thomas M. Wandward
van Stipes’ Coimees
Hitamimens Real Labor Board
Foundhoo
Hitler declares world wide war on Jewry and Catholic arrests
Berlin reports Hitler proclaims a world wide war on Jewry while readying trials before the people's court against Catholic youth leaders. He links the strike to the murder of Nazi agent Gustloff and accuses Vatican silence of backing anti German actions.
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Bloodiest Russo Japanese clash reported near Mongol border
Tokyo headquarters say one Japanese officer and seven soldiers killed in heavy fighting near Olahucka on the Manchoukuo Outer Mongolia frontier. Mongol casualties run high with many wounded as both sides claim Olachuka and retreat into Mongolian territory amid fierce engagement.
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Hrinking
Manchoukuro
Manchorkun
Qulet Mongolia
Demel Clapanceel
Olahucka
Lakear
Wip
Olarudka
Manchoukuo
Outer Mongolia
Knox Declares Open Candidacy For Republican Nomination
Boston February 12 Frank Knox announced he is an open candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. When asked if he was a candidate already Knox said yes. Knox filed to appear on the Springfield ballot for the April primary and drew no official statement beyond urging readers to review his past speeches attacking the New Deal.
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Inday
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Nia
Raex
Hines
Doctors Rush Serum to Ship for Meningitis Outbreak
Balboa Canal Zone February 12 The naval radio reported a training ship California State en route to contact the Tatnall off the Pacific with doctors and serum to combat a meningitis threat aboard the ship. Three doctors and eight long corpsmen were sent from Gorgas Hospital to replenish supplies aboard the Tatnall.
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R. B. Skinsner
Kenneth Courtney
Army Hospital Corp
Edgar King
Gorgas Hospital
California State
State Nautical School
San Francisco
Katina
Mexican Soldiers Chase Kidnapers
In Guadalajara on February 1 a kidnap gang held American mining official Samuel C. Fanouf for two days as relatives sought a ransom. A federal cavalry detachment pursued the bandits but would not strike until next actions clarified. The gang’s suspected leader is Candelaria Rosas whose wife, Hortensia Fanouf, in San Francisco expressed relief that Rosas would reportedly treat victims well if the reward is paid promptly.
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Mexico
Samuel C. Fanouf
Fancut
Candelaria Ro
Hortensia Fancut
San Francisco
Hajas
Rosas
Rescue of 27 MilwaokeeChildren From Snowbound Hospital
Twenty seven children stranded for ten days at Milwaukee Children's Hospital, seven miles west of Milwaukee, were rescued as eight foot drifts were cleared by a snowplow and tractor. Workers from the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light company and farm volunteers carried the children by bob sled to the electric line. No injuries occurred, but manager Hazel Nuggelin warned fuel shortages had nearly frozen the home.
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Miwaukee Children's Hospital
Milwaukee Mlecific Railway & Light Company
Miey Hazel Tnugelen
Lincoln Birthday Revered As Nation Mulls New Deal Critics
Nationwide Lincoln commemorations mark the 127th anniversary as President Roosevelt visits the capital shrine. Hoover in Portland denounces the New Deal as a fountain of fear while Vandenberg urges an anti New Deal coalition. Lincoln memorial events and related speeches highlight political divide.
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Portland
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Herbert Hoover
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Supreme Court
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Hoover
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jack~ann
Daniel Webster
Theodore Roosevelt
Four Perish In N Y Blaze At Lexington Ave Site
A three story building on Lexington Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street burned for an hour. At least four people died including a woman and three men and more than twenty were injured. The blaze started in a Chinese restaurant on the second floor Lum’s attracting 1140 spectators and drew fight ambulances and four police squads.
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Lexington Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Lum’s
Holy Name Society of We Church of Our Lady of Peace
Two Dead and Score Injured in Chicago Explosion
Bulletin reports a blast in the Chicago Sanitary District near Kedzie Avenue and West Thirty-Eighth Street killed two workmen and injured about a score. Police blamed dynamite in the course of work. Two dead arrived at West Side Hospital, identities not yet released.
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GOP Leaders Honor Lincoln at West Virginia Dinners
Republican events in Parkersburg and Spencer featured Robert A Taft Henry D Hatfield and Walter Mallanan addressing party members about Lincoln memory and national politics The remarks touched on constitutional issues and 1934 campaign outlook as party figures urged unity and caution in the era's tensions
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Abraham Lincoln
Parkersburg
Robert A. Taft
Wood County
Cincinnati
Hatfield
Henry D. Hatfield
Huntington
Spencer
Rush D. Holt
Walter S. Mallanan
Charleston
Wolfsburg
Alfred E. Smith
Ripley
Lewis H. Miller
Cause of Common Cold Is Captured in Battle
New York reports that a Columbia University test tube has housed the elusive cause of the common cold for 20 months. Dr. A Raymond Dacies says an invisible virus grows in artificial culture, reproduces in humans and chimpanzees, and weakens respiratory organs allowing bacteria to incite sickness. He cites ape studies and recent shifts in belief about cold and influenza causation.
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Roward W. Blakeslen Setener
New York
Columbia University
A. Raymond Dacies
Columbia University School of Medicine
Dochre
Dochez
Lincoln Day Talk Warns of Tax Confiscation and Debt Repudiation
Former Minnesota Governor Theodore Christianson warned at a Lincoln Day dinner in Minnesota that Americans face confiscation of property by taxation and repudiation of debts taken on by the Roosevelt administration. The overflow crowd at the Daniel Boone hotel heard him contrast progressive reform with reactionary movements in the campaign.
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Sen
Vandenberg
Herbert Hoover
Lincoln
Sen. Vandenberg
National Republican
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Franklin Hoosevelt
Theodore Christianson
Minnesota
W. W. Wertz
Daniel Boone Hotel
Man's Alibi Is Tops Judge Grants Time
RAN JOSE, Calif. Feb 12 Noles Eileman said he could not pay the remaining $25 driving fine due to employer closure leaving him jobless his wife wrecking the auto a prior hospital stay and a stolen last unit from a savings establishment. Justice C. tena granted him time to repay.
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Calif
Noles Eileman
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