Japan Denies Plan To Start Ship Building
AP reports in three capitals that Japan denies plans for a naval arms race after withdrawing from the international conference. Tokyo officials stress non aggression while Navy leaders promise readiness, with Vice Admiral Takahashi vowing Japan could win any clash against America and Britain even at 10 to 1.
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Associated Press
Japan
Washington
America
Congress
Tokyo
Okada
Great Britain
London
United States
Italy
Osami Nagano
Eit
International Naval Conference
Keisuke Okada
Sankichi Takahashi
Takahashi
Highway Dept Payroll Cuts Signal Wide Job Reductions
A projected economy plan led to the discharge of state highway department workers today. John J. Jaster Jr. declined to give exact numbers but indicated 500 men were released in 1935 and more reductions would follow in the next two months. Other departments have not yet begun reductions.
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State Highway Department
Poliey
John J. Jaster, Jr
Congress committees hold routine sessions and hearings
ICongress Today reports the Munitions Committee hearing more World War loan testimony with J P Morgan. Agriculture and farm committees study AAA replacement and good loans. Independent offices appropriation bill under review. Foreign affairs committee holds executive session on neutrality. Yesterday in recess the relations committee recommended changes in neutrality.
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J. P. Morgan
Agriculture and Farm
Foreign — Affairs Committee
Pat
Munitions Committee
Wife Testifies in Trial of Paralyzed Father in D C Slaying Case
The wife of the paralyzed defendant, Mrs David Ashcraft, testifies in Washington D C about strip poker parties as defense links, while police say the defendant admitted killing his five year old son by asphyxiation and his counsel pleads insanity.
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Washington, D. C
David
Ashcraft
Ohio gasoline tax receipts top 36 million in 11 months
Ohio collected about 36.07 million dollars from gasoline and liquid fuel taxes in the first 11 months of 1935. The state tax commission reported 938.315 million gallons sold to motorists, with July seeing a peak of 96.73 million gallons used.
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Ohio
Columbus
State of
State Tax Commission
Bombed Red Cross Hospital Unit in Ethiopia Kills 14
An attack by three Italian bombing planes on a Red Cross unit in Walida on the northern Ethiopian front killed 14 people and injured 35. Seven women and seven old men died. Major Gerald Burgoyne was unharmed. Across the southern front over 100000 troops engaged in a major Italo Ethiopian battle described as decisive.
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Roy P. Porter
Associated Press
Red Cross
Walida
Addis Ababa
Gerald Burgoyne
Rome
Paris
Trade links drove U S entry to World War I argues senator
Senate munitions committee members claim economic ties with the Allies forced U S into war more than German submarine warfare. Senator Clark cites documents showing Wilson opposed retaliation but did not curb British blockade that disrupted American commerce.
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Washington
Jan
America
Clark
D.-Mo
Senate Munitions Committee
United States
Germany
Wilson
Clerks Condition Improves at C and O Round House
Attending physicians report slight improvement in James Napp clerk at the C and O round house. He has been seriously ill with an infected hand at his home on 303 North Street. Infection developed after exposure to freezing. Injury has not fully responded to treatment.
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James Napp
C. and O. Round House
North St
FDR summons farm leaders for permanent farm law goal
A White House conference of administration and congressional leaders on the farm problem was called by President Roosevelt. Chairman Smith summoned the Senate Agriculture Committee to discuss the question before the downtown meeting. He said efforts would seek permanent legislation within the Constitution.
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Washington
White House
Supreme Court
AAA
Roosevelt
Smith
Senate Agriculture Committee
National Agricultural Conference
Ellsworth Rumor Sparks Flight Sighting in Antarctic
London report says Discovery Sleuth captain cites airplane sighting near Little America and a man seen on the Bay of Whales, fueling hopes about missing explorer Lincoln Ellsworth.
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London
Discovery
Lincoln Ellsworth
Ted
Little America
Bay of Whales
Two Notorious Killers Set For Sing Sing Executions Tonight
In New York, Albert Fish, 66, convicted of murder and abuse linked to the Grace Budd case, and John Smith, a one legged man convicted of killing James Wilson, are scheduled for the electric chair. Fish awaits a final thrill while Smith requires chair adjustment for the right to left electrode placement.
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N. Y
Sing Sing
Albert Fish
Grace Budd
John Smith
James Wilson
Bronx
Fish
New York
Jammed Speed Indicator First Clue To Disaster
Investigators recovered a jammed air speed indicator at the Arkansas crash site of The Southerner. The indicator read 180 miles an hour as the plane plunged into a swamp killing 17 aboard, with ignition switches and landing light switch found buried in mud. Eyewitness evidence and the wreckage point to an inflight malfunction under inquiry led by Eugene Vidal.
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ED L. Campbell
Associated Press
Goodwin
Ark
Eugene L. Vidal
Secretary of Commerce
Aeronautics
Arkansas
Clue
Science Aids In Murder Trial
The commonwealth uses science to bolster its case against justice of the peace James J. Weswood for Martha Westwood's murder. An expert explains the hot paraffin test as wax molds of Weswood's hands are made to detect gun residue, tying to a 72 hour window around the July death.
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Pittsburgh
The
Commonwealth
Science
Justice of the Peace
James J. Weswood
Westwood
Martha Westwood
McKees Rocks
William
Fifteen Men Survive Donner Summit Avalanche Escape
Fifteen men injured but safe recount escape from beneath an avalanche that crushed a steel coach of the Pacific Limited near Donner Summit in the Sierra. Tons of wet snow swept the mountainside through snow sheds, engulfing the third car from the rear. three men suffered serious chest injuries.
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Sierra Mountains
Colfax
Calif
Donner Summit
High Sierra Mountains
Southern Pacific
The
Pacific Limited
Salt Lake City
Oakland
House Considers $10.5 Million Relief Plan in Ohio
In Columbus on January 16, the House moved to vote on a $10.5 million relief program for six months. Senate leaders urged cooperation as the Senate paused for five minutes awaiting action. The bill, revised by the Senate, funds county budget relief based on 1933 expenditures, while House leaders push relief by demonstrated need.
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Columbus
Senate
House
J. Freer Bittinger
Paul P. Yoder
Brick or Baked Lumber Builder Chooses Building Materials
In Columbus on January 16, Prof. G A Bole of the Ohio engineering experiment station described baked clay lumber as a fireproof, lightweight, and strong clay product. He said it could be shaped on the job, produced cheaply by a special process, and might be more moisture impervious than brick in the future.
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G. A. Bole
Ohio Engineering Experiment Station
Gys
Cleveland
Howard Myers
Architectural Forum
Brick Manufacturers’ Association of America
Bole
Experiment Station News
Brno Richardson Hauptmann Granted 30 Day Reprieve
Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey granted Bruno Richard Hauptmann a 30 day reprieve just after the Supreme Court refused his appeal. Hauptmann was scheduled to be executed tomorrow night for the kidnap slaying of Charles Lindbergh's son.
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Harold Hoffman
New Jersey
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hauptmann
Chas. Lindbergh
Supreme Court
Hauptmann Petitions Supreme Court To Halt Lindbergh Kidnapper Execution
On January 16 in Washington Richard Hauptmann's attorneys filed a writ of habeas corpus and a stay of execution with the Supreme Court. Neil Burkinshaw submitted the papers in open court as Chief Justice Hughes asked for them. A reprieve from Governor Harold Hoffman or a favorable court ruling was the only path to delaying the Bronx carpenter's scheduled electrocution.
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James W. Douth
Washington
Richard Hauptmann
Supreme Court
Lindberg
Hughes
Neil Burkinshaw
Hauptmann
Harold Hoffman
New Jersey
Bronx
Burkinshaw
Hoffmann aide denies Hauptmann confession and reprieve decision
In Trenton New Jersey the Hoffmann press aide said no confession had been made in the Lindbergh case and any possible confession would be by someone else. The governor met a New York public official and Hauptmann’s lawyers sought a U S Supreme Court writ of habeas corpus as he faces execution.
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Trenton
N. J
G. Hoffman
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Veoaaralund
New York City
Washington
Hauptmann
Lindbergh
United States Supreme Court
Hoffman
William Conklin
Ohio Fuel Gas Co backs rate claim in Springfield
The Ohio Fuel Gas Company asked the state utilities commission to allow 83 cents per 1000 cubic feet to show an 8 percent return. Hearings are set for January 28 on the company’s appeal from a 48 cent rate. the utility is currently charging 60 cents.
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Columbus
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
State Utilities Commission
Springfield
Compa
Five Guest Rules Changed at Logan Theatre
Five Logan Daily News subscribers see changes in guest rules for Sunday pages and theater seating at Logan Theatre as officials revoke or alter previously set procedures.
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Logan Daily News
Ahlete
Ne Sunde
Sneheie
Logan Theatre
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