House Votes Today On Crop Control In Senate Split
House chieftains push to pass the crop control bill with compulsory wheat marketing quotes and cash income guarantees for farmers. Senate debate slows hopes for enactment during the special session. Democratic leaders target a final vote by Monday or Tuesday.
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Washington
House
Agriculture Committee
Senate
Jones
Agricultural Committee
Rep. Coffee
Dneb
Rep
Lucas
Barkley
WPA Expands Relief Jobs By 350 000 This Winter
Unemployment rises prompt Harry Hopkins to boost WPA staffing by 23 million dollars monthly. WPA rolls rise to 1,575,000 with 350,000 more jobs planned as winter relief needs grow. Hopkins says no new funds requested though expansion fits current budget.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Mayor Clinic
Rochester
Minn
WPA
Hopkins
Baby’s Fatal Scalding from Hot Water Fall
In Columbus Ohio a 20 month old girl Irma Jean Hammill died after falling into a large bucket of hot water yesterday. Authorities described the incident as a tragic household accident and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the scalding.
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Columbus, O
Irma Jean Hammill
French Public Enemy Sought In Connection With De Koven Murder
Paris dispatch reports Roger Million, alleged abduction and murder gang leader, escaped police along with his mistress Rene or Colette Tricot and a third suspect after fleeing Nantua hotel. Eugene Weidmann confessed to strangling Jean De Koven, a Brooklyn dancer, fueling the gang’s collapse and planned liquidation. Fritz Frommer was shot dead earlier, with three other gang members implicated.
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Jean de Koven
Paris
Brooklyn
France
Judiciary
Nantua
Roger Million
Renee
Colette” Tricot
Million
Eugene Weidmann
Weidmann
Miss de Koven
Syndicate In Crime
Fritz Frommer
Frommer
Crowded Trolley Overturns on Cedar Hill
In Cleveland on December 10 an overcrowded trolley derailed at Cedar Hill on the east side. Firemen and police climbed into the overturned car to rescue passengers, with about 30 people aboard. The trolley was traveling at roughly 55 to 60 mph, according to eyewitness Stanley Campen.
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Cleveland
Cedar Hill
Stanley Campen
Death by own action ends triple-slayer’s life
At ECISE Idaho a condemned man Douglas Van Vlack hanged himself 15 minutes before scheduled execution. His parents from Tacoma, Washington visited him four hours earlier, and he kissed his mother before breaking from guards and leaping from a 30-foot cell block to his death.
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Ecise
Idaho
Douglas van Vlack
van Vlack
Carl van Viack
Tacoma
Wash
van Viack
Roosevelt Urges ICC to Save Railroads Under Private Ownership
President Roosevelt said the Interstate Commerce Commission should preserve railroad solvency with the aim of keeping the system under private management and ownership.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Injunction Blocks $35,000 in Logan Clay Taxes
Judge Phil A. Henderson granted a temporary injunction stopping Hocking County officials from collecting over $35,000 in delinquent real and personal property taxes owed by Logan Clay Products Co. The suit alleges systematic under valuation since 1931 to 1936 and seeks voiding of taxes. The case cites potential tax advertisement next week.
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Logan Clay Products Co
Hocking County
Phil A. Henderson
Robert N. White
Ora B. Yaw
National Fireproofing Co
Landon Declines 1940 Presidential Run
Former Kansas governor Alf M Landon announces he will not seek the Republican nomination for president in 1940 and would not accept it if offered He says the move keeps him active in party affairs and does not indicate withdrawal from politics made upon arriving for the Gridiron Club dinner per newspapermen coverage
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Washington
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Gridiron Club
Landon
Plot Disclosed in Delbos Assassination Plot Case
Police disclosed a plot to assassinate French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos. A coded letter detailing the plan was seized and said to be addressed to Hungarian terrorist Koloman Budai, jailed after firing at the League of Nations building in Geneva in 1935.
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Valenciennes
France
Yvon Delbos
Koloman Budai
League of Nations
Geneva
Stop Gap Aid Measure Heads Toward Senate
Columbus Ohio AP December 10 The administration’s 1 million stop gap relief bill to fund local subdivision needs moved toward the senate after rural opposition in the house nearly derailed it. The emergency measure passed 98 to 7 with 93 votes needed to adopt the emergency clause.
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Senate
Columbus
Kenneth M. Petri
D-Crawford
General Revenue
State Emergency Board
Watchman Killed Near Marion Crossing
Railroad watchman John Seekings, 70, was killed when a car rammed a locomotive at a downtown grade crossing in Marion Ohio. Driver Fred Hochstetter escaped unharmed and his companion Mrs Garnet Dudley sustained a serious spine injury.
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R. R. Watchman
Marion
John Seekings
Fred Hochstetter
Garnet Dudley
Cold Wave Drives Icebound Links Across Lake Erie
Snow flurries spread across northern and central Ohio as a cold snap persisted into the weekend. Weatherman W C Devereaux predicted moderately cold conditions with clear skies while cutters Tahoma and Frederick Lee aided the grain carrier Wolf stuck in ice near Bar Point. Ice thickened in the Maumee River at Toledo as temperatures lingered between 10 and 13 degrees.
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Ohio
W. C. Devereaux
Cincinnati
United States Coast Guard
Tahoma
Frederick Lee
Cleveland
Toledo
Lake Erie
Detroit
Wolf
Bar Point
Detroit River
Gartland Steamship Company
Buffalo
Connelly
Atterbury
Lake Chelan
Maumee
Nanking Falls In Face Of Japanese Ultimatum And Attack
Japanese forces press their siege of Nanking after General Tang Seng Chi rejects a noon surrender. By afternoon Japanese troops reportedly seized Purple Mountain and breached the city walls amid ongoing street fighting and a general assault on the Chinese capital.
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Shanghai
Nanking
Tang Seng-Chi
Iwane Matsui
Purple Mountain
Great Wall
Two Men Seized In Farmer Slaying and Shooting
Illinois sheriff deputies captured John Jelliga and Mike Munjas in a case tied to the murder of Edward Pansa and the shooting of Hulda Pansa. Hulda Pansa identified the suspects who allegedly demanded 2000 inheritance money, ransacked the home, and fled after killing the husband. The couple's bodies and gun evidence were later recovered.
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Crete
Will
Cook Counties
John Jelliga
Whiting
Ind
Mike Munjas
Indiana Harbor
John Surdukowski
Hulda Pansa
Joliet
Shonk Heads Hocking County Medical Association
Dr C F Shonk was elected president of the Hocking County Medical Association at a regular monthly meeting at the White House. Officers include Dr C T Grattidge as vice president and Dr M H Cherrington as secretary treasurer. Dr Allan A Cole is delegate to the state convention with Dr Grattidge as alternate and Dr J S Cherrington as legislative committeeman. Guest Dr John Riebel Jr spoke on practical endocrinology.
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C. F Shonk
Hocking County Medical Association
White House
C. T. Grattidge
Laurelville
M. H. Cherrington
Allan A. Cole
Grattidge
J. S. Cherrington
John Riebel, Jr
Columbus
Fire kills infant in Nelsonville area blaze
Athens Ohio dispatch: Mrs Forest Perce rescued her four year old girl from a burning home near Nelsonville but could not save her nine month old son. The fire started after a mother used fire starters which exploded.
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Athens, CO
Forest Perce
Nelsonville
Arrangements Completed for Logan Holiday Parade Fete
Plans set for Santa arrival in Logan at 1 30 tomorrow with welcome by Judge Phil A Henderson at the Court House. Judges will award ten prizes for best nursery rhyme and comic strip characters as Logan Boy Scouts help Santa distribute candy after the parade led by the Logan High School Band. Parade forms at 1 p m from the high school with a route through Market Hunter Mulberry Main and High streets back to the Court House. County school children will march and a large holiday crowd is expected.
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Santa Claus
Logan
Court House
Phil A. Henderson
Santa
J. W. Coleman
George Carr
Harry Stevenson
D. O. Davis
Union Furnace
Joe Stone
Murray City
Logan Boy Scouts
Logan High School
Market St
Hunter
Mulberry
Main
Main Street
High St
Main St
Little Boy Blue
Little Red Riding Hood
Old King Cole
Mother Hubbard
Skippy
Barney
Google
Snuffy
Mickey Mouse
Ella Cinders
Industry Urges Coalition Government Plan
New York December 10 The American Industry leader Colby M Chester urged government and labor to form a coalition government with industry at its core. He spoke as 3 000 industrialists closed their annual convention opposing federal wage and hour legislation and seeking major changes to the Wagner act.
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New York
National Association of Manufacturers
Association
Colby M. Chester
Times
Government
Labor
Newark Man Faces Dismissal Charges
Dismissal charges against Howard G. Robinson of Newark, suspended chief of the state bureau of criminal investigation, were filed with the state civil service commission by Welfare Director Margaret Allman. The general charge concerns mis conduct during his tenure.
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Columbus
Howard G. Robinson
Newark
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
State Civil Service Commission
Margaret Allman
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Associated Press
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Illinois
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Shonk
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