Solons Study All Angles Of First Message
President Roosevelt faces Congress with hints of wage and hour reforms and court stance as party lines threaten to split. Budget, relief funding, and expansion of federal powers loom, with talk of state cooperation on a federal wage policy and slum housing as he plans future measures.
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Spain
Gerner
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RFC
Reconstruction Corporation
Chakeres Manager Called to Home Office
Ed C. Paul, manager of Logan Chakeres Theater, was summoned to the Chakeres Theaters offices in Springfield to advise on locations for six new theaters in the state. Phil Chakeres, head of the company, requested his opinion during today’s conference.
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Logan Chakeres Theater
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Springfield
Phil Chakeres
Mr. Paul
Chakeres
Chickens Stolen From West Virginia Justice of the Peace Hen House
In Weston West Virginia thieves took six of eleven chickens from the hen house of Justice of the Peace W T Connally. He installed a new lock but overnight the remaining hens and the lock vanished leaving the scene a mystery.
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Weston, W. Va
Justice of the Peace
W. T. Connally
Fall Fatal At Work Claims John Carroll In Alliance
John Carroll aged 55 died from a fractured skull after a fall from an industrial machine where he was employed in Alliance Ohio yesterday. He succumbed today to the injuries at a local hospital.
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Alliance
John Carroll
Boy in Kentucky Faces Murder Charge for Killing Father
Orin Warren, a 15 year old, is jailed in Munfordville Ky on a murder charge after allegedly killing his father to escape threats over selling a family chicken to buy gifts for younger siblings. His 13 year old brother Oris Warren is held on an accessory charge.
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Munfordville
Orin Warren
Oris
Severe cold grips western half of nation
A severe cold wave enveloped most of the western half of the nation with sub zero temperatures west of the Mississippi. Yellowstone Park recorded 26 below. Montana reported two deaths as the mercury reached an unofficial 45 below. Blizzards and heavy snow slowed travel in Utah Nevada Arizona and other mountain states.
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Chicago
Central States
Far West
Rocky Mountain
Mississippi River
Yellowstone Park
Montana
Utah
Nevada
Arizona
Ten Clay High Students Injured in Toledo Bus Crash
A state AP report says a collision between an automobile transport truck and a school bus near Toledo injured ten Clay high school students, three seriously. The bus was returning Jerusalem Township pupils to their homes when the crash occurred about a half mile from city limits yesterday evening.
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Toledo, O
Clay High School
Jerusalem Township
London Awaits Italo German Answer Today
London eyes Italy and Germany for a constructive reply to non intervention demands in the Spanish civil war. British warships move toward Spain ready to enforce a blockade if needed. Sir Thomas Inskip says no peacetime army conscription, implying readiness to draft if peace endangered. US action to bar arms shipments strengthens Britain’s isolation stance in the Little World War.
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London
Great Britain
Germany
Italy
Spain
Glasgow
Thomas Inskip
Defense Coordination
Britain
Rebels Push Toward Madrid Suburbs From Pozuelo Sector
Fascist forces moved from Las Rozas along the Madrid El Escorial highway toward Madrid, reportedly occupying the Pozuelo de Alarcon railroad station and surrounding buildings as they pressed the capital’s defenders back along the road.
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Pozuelo de Alarcon
Las Rozar
Madrid-El Escorial
Frank points to his record at University of Wisconsin
President Glenn Frank, facing possible removal, urged the board of regents to review his eleven year record. He argued an analysis of university accomplishments refutes inefficiency charges by Regent Chairman Harold M Wilkie. Regent George Mead accused Gov La Follette of initiating the ouster push, calling the proceedings petty and meaningless.
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Madison
Wis
Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Board of Regents
Regent
Harold M. Wilkie
George Mead
Philip la Follette
Pope Pius XI Better Eyes Wheelchair Return on Work
Pope Pius XI, refreshed after a good night, inspected the specially constructed wheelchair he plans to use and resume activities. Informants say he hopes to undertake all work his doctor, Professor Aminta Milani, will permit.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
Holy Father
Aminta Milani
Resume Attack On Mine Fire In New Straitsville
Work resumed on three projects aimed at isolating a 40 million dollar mine fire burning for decades. Ninety workers are on site after WPA easement delays and Bureau of Mines tests. Barriers at Martin's Hollow, Shawnee, and near Perry County with 50 workers tunneling under a highway.
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New New Straitsville
Works Progress Administration
U.S. Bureau of Mines
WPA
Martin’s Hollow
Shawnee
Perry County
Hocking County
Ohio Bar Association Opens Annual Convention
Dayton report on the Ohio State Bar Association’s three day convention notes the committee on the unauthorized practice of law plans to target corporations formed to practice law and radio dissemination of incorrect legal info. Two lawyers condemn radio broadcasting and court procedure as not conductive to public welfare or fair justice.
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Dayton
Ohio State Bar Association
Joseph L. Stern
Cleveland
Wallace Outlines Ten point Plan To Help Agriculture
Wallace presents a ten point plan to bolster American farming in Washington with proposals on relief price supports credit avenues and market access. The plan aims to stabilize farm income and reduce costs through targeted policy actions and cooperative programs.
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Wallace
Secretary Wallace sets ten point plan for farmers parity
Secretary Wallace outlines a ten point program to keep 30 million farmers on par with business and industry. He asserts agriculture is no longer forgotten and notes a four year rise in farm income from 5.5 billion to 9 billion. The plan calls for farmer organizing rights, fair stable income, adjusted supplies, land use shifts, crop insurance with the ever normal granary, land ownership, tenant security, higher living standards for poorer farmers, and industrial policies benefiting wage earners and farmers.
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Wallace
America
United States
Bold Drummer Awaits Trial
Myrl Spicer a hardware salesman from Fraziersburg North Carolina was arrested after Mrs Roy Bagley of Ward Township complained he forced his way into her home sat on her bed and made improper advances He was arraigned before Judge Phil A Henderson on a charge of personal abuse pleaded not guilty and was held on a 300 dollar bond for trial
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Myrl Spicer
Fraziersburg
Shertt Newton Spencer
Roy Bagley
Ward Township
Spicer
Phil A. Henderson
Hubert Lappen
Bagsey
WPA Engineers Discuss Plans at District Conference
Ed Collins a Hocking County WPA engineer attended a district conference of county engineers at Athens reporting he has enough projects scheduled to employ all WPA workers through winter. He noted efforts to garner spring and summer work from city county officials and school boards. Collins said Second St repaving will begin around Jan 14 or 15 and predicted Zanesville Ave project would finish by Jan 13.
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Ed Collins
Hocking County
WPA
Athens
Collins
Zanesville Ave
Chinese revolt looms as former Manchurian army joins red forces
Reports from Sainfu Shensi Province say Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang's former Manchurian army, about 250,000 strong, has joined 50,000 Communist troops in Shensi and Kansu to revolt against the Central Government and seek to form a vast Communist empire in northwest China.
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Shensi
China
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Red
Kansu
Chang
Paris Determined to Protect Syria in Turkish Dispute
Paris officials said France will use force to block any Turkish attempt to seize Syrian cities Antioch and Alexandretta. They rejected the idea that Turkey’s President Ataturk would pursue Hitler like methods, while stating readiness to meet force with force.
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France
Antioch
Alexandretta
Kamal Ataturk
Turkey
Hitler
Portland police claim 1936 efficiency box score
Portland Indiana police report a record of 110 arrests and 110 convictions in 1936, presenting the figures as efficiency metrics. The terse box score-like tally highlights a dramatic, self-assured efficiency claim by local law enforcement.
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Portland
Ind
Way Cleared for Return of Child Kidnap Case
Charles Mattson's kidnapper was allowed to collect the $28,000 ransom and return his 10 year old son after 11 days. Law enforcement agencies remained inactive and the press corps withdrew, to avoid endangering the hostage's life amid pleas by Dr W W Mattson for no action.
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Tacoma
Wash
Charles Mattson
Department of Justice
W. Mattson
Mattson
Slayer Whines As Death Nears
In Ossining New York Joe Bolognia 24 known as trigger man in a 230 holdup murder faces execution at 11 tonight in Sing Sing while fellow death row inmates Salvatore Scala 19 and Theodore DiDidonne 31 await their fate. Three others spared by gubernatorial clemency react from the news.
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Joe Bolognia
Brooklyn
Sing Sing
Bolognia
Salvatore Scala
Theodore di Didonne
Yesterdy
Townsend Weekly Under Attachment
Townsend National Weekly, organ of the Townsend old age pension movement, was under attachment today due to a $2,600 suit by Charles Dalziel former advertising manager who claims the amount due for commissions.
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Los Angeles
Townsend National Weekly
Townsend Okd Age Pension Movement
Charles Dalziel
Dalziel
Fraud Probe Reverses Lawrence County Vote Result
In Columbus on January 7 AP reports Common Pleas Judge Wiel and Morrow County reversed Lawrence County elections officials and declared Harry Banton a Democrat county commissioner despite a recount that favored Republican William Dickens. The court cited fraud tampering with ballots between the official tally and recount. Secretary Kennedy ordered thorough investigation by the county prosecutor and elections board.
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Common Pleas
P. H. Wieland
Morrow County
Lawrence County Board of Elections
Harry Banton
William Dickens
Secretary of State
Wieland
Secretary
William J. Kennedy
Lawrence County Prosecutor and Elections Board
Woman 83 Dies After Auto Accident in Circleville
Mrs. Matilda Staiger aged 83 died from injuries after being struck by an automobile in Circleville Ohio on January 7. The AP report notes the crash occurred yesterday and lists Staiger as the victim in this fatal accident.
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Circleville, O
Matilda Staiger
Princess Juliana Weds German Noble Today
The Netherlands crowns Princess Juliana to German Prince Bernhard Zu Lippe-Biesterfeld in a civil and church ceremony at The Hague. Tens of thousands cheer as the couple depart in a gilded carriage. a Hitler telegram expresses best wishes for the royal union amid wartime tensions.
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Bernhard Zu
Great St. James Church
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Gap Blocking Peace Parley Narrows Strike Spur
Akron hopes for quick settlement of gas strike as sit-down stoppages arise in Briggs Body plant two departments with 2,500 workers and in Murray Body Company unit in Flint Michigan. Chevrolet announces suspension of all operations in Flint iron foundry and plants in Saginaw and Bay City, risking 19,875 GM workers’ jobs by Friday night.
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Briggs Body
Murray Body Company
United Automobile Workers
Flint
Mich
Chevrolet Motor
Saginaw
Bay City
General Motors
Governor sees possible direct talks in GM strike
Detroit dispatch reports Governor Frank Murphy after meetings with General Motors officials and United Automobile Workers representatives said direct negotiations look promising to avert a general strike. He will stay in touch with Labor conciliator James Dewey as talks hinge on plant sit down sit-downs and plant equipment concerns at Flint Fisher Body plants.
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Frank Murphy
Michigan
General Motors Corporation
James F. Dewey
Department of Labor
General Motors
Strategy Board
United Automobile Workers
Murphy
Lansing
Dewey
William S. Knudsen
Fisher Body
Flint
Mich
GMC
Associated Press
Settlement Looms in Petrol Strike
Akron motorists faced fuel shortages as a strike by gasoline truck drivers and station attendants closed most stations. City officials and labor conciliator Hugh D. Friel emerged after an eight hour conference, expressing hope for a rapid settlement to ease layoffs and keep essential transit and travel flowing.
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Akron
Hugh D. Friel
Department of Labor
Congress In Recess As Committees Prep Assignments
Congress in recess with the Senate today and the House Ways and Means committee meeting at 10 AM to arrange committee assignments. Yesterday the electoral vote count completed and President Roosevelt proclaimed the sage approval.
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House Ways and Means
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