Duce Bolsters Army on East African Front
Italy's cabinet approved three new war measures as Italian columns on the southern Ethiopian front faced risks of rear attacks. Mussolini informed ministers he sent 50 000 workers behind lines to strengthen East Africa, while Addis Ababa reported Italian losses and Ethiopian counterattacks near Neghelli and Addi Abba Jan.
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Roy P. Porter
Associated Press
Italy
Wadara
Rome
Addis Ababa
Rodolfo Graziani
Neghelli
Ethiopian War Office
Mussolini
Council of Ministers
East Africa
Shale
Ras Seyoum
Addi Abba
Europe
Sarraut Aligns France With Britain for Peace
Paris January 30 AP Premier Albert Sarraut declared his support for Britain arguing cooperation with the United Kingdom is the essential guarantee of Europe’s peace. In a seven minute ministerial statement to parliament he pledged to pursue impartial elections while seeking to cut unemployment boost trade and defend the gold franc amid ongoing economic strain.
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Paris
Albert Sarraut
Great Britain
France
Europe
Bank of France
Congress Panels Mull Farm Aid Flood Control and Budget Bills
ICongress today reports on farm relief measures as the Commerce Committee reviews flood control proposals and the Appropriations Committee examines a deficiency bill. The House continues Interior Department appropriations debate as the Judiciary Committee meets in executive session on Judge Halstead Ritter's impeachment in Florida.
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Commerce Committee
Appropriations Committee
House
Interior Department
Judiciary Committee
Halstead Ritter
Florida
Postoffic Committee
Labor
Anb
Tire Workers Demand Action At Firestone Sit-Down Protest
Nearly 1,000 United Rubber Workers members in Akron stage a sit down to demand reinstatement of Clayton Dicks at Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. The company told a union committee that Dicks would not be rehired immediately amid an internal dispute and an investigation by W R Murphy. The protest has affected about 2,000 employees as extra shifts were worked and access blocked.
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Akron, CO
Firestone Tire & Hubber Co
S. H. Dalrymy
United Rubber Workers’ International Union
Wirestone
Clayton Dicks
W. R. Murphy
Firestone
Prosecutor Presses Denials on Prison Privileges
Will County State's Attorney William R. McCate questioned Nathan Leopold over alleged prison privileges at Stateville. Leopold, linked to Richard Loeb, faced scrutiny as authorities noted Loeb lacked special power inside the penitentiary while fellow inmate Ames Day claimed Loeb boasted.
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Leopold
Joseph Ragen
Loeb
Government offers new kind of loans to farmers in need
The federal government via the resettlement administration is offering short term low interest loans to farmers who rely heavily on farm income and cannot obtain credit elsewhere. County agricultural agents will assist in supervision and approval of credit for purchases necessary to profitable farming.
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Columbus
Resettlement Administration
Piqua Merchants Launch $200000 Industrial Drive
The Piqua Merchants Association opened a drive to raise 200000 dollars to aid local industries and attract new businesses in Piqua Ohio. The appeal targets supporting existing firms and drawing new ones to the area as of January 30.
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Piqua, CO
Piqua Merchants Association
Jury Debates 'Jealousy' Slaying
Memphis jury of married men hears the case of Dairy Alexander Root charged with second degree murder in the death of her husband Brentden Root after a dispute over alleged attentions to a cigar girl. The state argues deliberate killing. the defense says self defense after repeated indignities and when he reached for a pistol.
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Memphis
Tenn
Alexander Root
Brentdén Root
Blumenfeld Named Slayer In Minneapolis Trial
The prosecution's star witness Wesley Andersch identified Isadore Blumenfeld as the machine gun killer of Walter Liggett in district court. Andersch testified he saw two men in a car the night of December 9, with one occupant named as Kid Cann, but he could not confirm Blumenfeld’s identity.
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Minneapolis
Wesley Andersch
Isadore
Kid Conn
Fred Pike
Andersoh
Pike
Kid Cann
Isadore Blumenfeld
Anderson
Frigid Blast To Drive Temps Toward Zero In Ohio
A new cold front aims to push temperatures into the 20s and below zero across Ohio with the southern area seeing the sharpest drops. The forecast calls for continued freezing conditions through Friday. The harsh January weather has already caused at least 50 deaths and widespread suffering statewide.
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Columbus
Ohio
Weather Bureau
Relief bill attack sparks Cleveland College forum
Marc J. Grossman, chairman of the Cuyahoga county relief committee, denounced the Ohio legislature relief bill as a vicious and un-American piece of legislation during a speech at Cleveland College's forum yesterday evening.
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Cleveland
Marc J. Grossman
Cuyahoga County Relief Committee
Ohio
Cleveland College
Youth Is Ill In East Hunter Street Home
Ross Struble a 15 year old son of Mr and Mrs John Struble is seriously ill at his home on East Hunter Street.
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Ross Struble
John Struble
East Hunter Street
Orphan Sisters Reunited After Eighteen Years Apart
Three sisters separated as orphans in Cleveland, Castalia, and Minneapolis were reunited after 18 years. Margaret Krueger, the eldest at 29, traced her siblings Franlka Irvin and the third sister through cross-state searches and a Toledo newspaper ad. The sisters, once adopted by different families, learned of each other and held a final reunion in Cleveland.
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Cleveland, CO
Margaret Krueger
William Krueger
Castalia, O
Margaret
Frances ©Lvin
Jobless Chauffeur Shoots Two Then Kills Self in Cleveland
John A. Kling, 69, president of Cleveland Builders Supply, lay near death after a discharged chauffeur, Frank Pozsgai, 40, killed a servant, wounded Kling, then shot himself. Pozsgai had worked twelve years at the Kling residence in Shaker Heights after an argument with Mrs. Kling over a remark by Lena Schenbier. Pozsgai was married with a 17 year old daughter and a 9 year old son.
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Cleveland
John A. Kling
Cleveland Builders Supply Co
St. Luke’s Hospital
Frank Pozsgai
Kling
Shaker Heights
Lena Schenbier
Pozsgia
Hunger strike follows suicide attempt in jail incident
Edward Stone, 24, jailed in Richland county on breaking and entering charges, went on a hunger strike after a suicide attempt, according to Sheriff BE. P. Long of Mansfield Ohio.
Georgia Governor Talmadge urged as possible FDR rival
In Macon Georgia on January 30 AP reported followers of Gov. Eugene Talmadge pressed to boost him as a Democratic presidential candidate. Georgia Democrats claim a practical plan to present him to the nation while critics note low attendance at the convention. Rep. Eugene Cox dismissed Talmadge's address as a meaningless hodgepodge opposing the New Deal.
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Associated Press
Macon
Eugene Talmadge
Gene
Hugh Howell
Georgia State Democratic Committee
Talmadge
Roosevelt
Georgia
Eugene Cox
Union Miners Begin Wage Talks For New Contract
John L. Lewis announced that negotiations between the United Mine Workers and anthracite operators will start February 24 in New York to replace the expiring March 31 contract. Miners seek a 30 hour week and higher pay in Pennsylvania hard coal fields while operators push for reduced rates amid a five year business decline.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
New York
John L. Lewis
Pennsylvania
Local PTA Delegation Attends Nelsonville Conference
More than forty locals including senior and junior high teachers and parents gathered for the annual district PTA conference in Nelsonville. Practically every state PTA officer and several national representatives were present.
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Parent‘Teachers’ Association
Nelsonville
The
PTA
Moore to Speak at McKinley GOP Dinner
Ellis Moore former congressman will headline the McKinley Republican club banquet at the Masonic club rooms tonight. The dinner is served by the Eastern Star and a brief entertainment program is planned by the committee in charge.
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Ellis Moore
Cambridge
McKinley Republican Club
Masonic Club
Eastern Star
Roosevelt asks 2.249 billion for bonus payments nothing on taxes
President Roosevelt submits a $2,249,178,375 appropriation to cover veterans’ bonus payments in a formal letter to Speaker Burns. Burns will route the request to the appropriations committee, while Ways and Means chair Doughton notes tax legislation may not be needed yet. Legion bonus applications begin Friday with discharge papers. no tax intent stated.
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Burns
Washington
Roosevelt
Appropriations Committee
Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
Legion
American Legion Hall
Ate
Mr. Roosevelt
White House
Treasury
Teres
NYA Director Outlines Local Youth Employment Plan
J B Lucas district director of the National Youth Administration spoke at Logan high school as the community planning committee chaired by Supt G E Carr met for the second time. He outlined a program to employ youths ages 16 to 25 with a traffic survey beautification of public property and work on county and city records. Plans to submit the project to state officials in Columbus were announced. The project is expected to begin soon.
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J. B. Lucas
National Youth Administration
Supt. G. E. Carr
Logan Senior High School
Lucas
Carr
Columbus
Berrodin Improves After Auto Crash Near Akron
Ohio pension director Henry J. Berrodin was slightly improved at Citizens hospital Barberton after his car skidded into a parked truck on a hillside twelve miles from Akron Monday night.
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Akron, O
Henry J. Berrodin
Ohio
Citizens Hospital
Barberton
Red Flannels Devotee Recalled as Forgotten Man in Cincinnati
A Cincinnati merchant recalls a customer base still buying old red flannel underwear. Columbus buyers report only six gray and one red mill remaining. Store offers include a $10 red suit or $7 gray heavies, with one elderly rheumatic customer in Columbus noted as a longtime purchaser.
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Columbus
Cincinnati
Reds
A. J.dworsky
Pullman
Francis Kuhn Fatally Injured at Rockbird Milling Company
Francis Kuhn 45 died after his clothing was caught in a pulley at the Milling Company in Rockbird. He suffered fractures of both legs and a right arm and died of hemorrhages after rescue attempts. Survived by wife Dang, two daughters Alice and Pauline, three brothers, one sister, and his parents. Funeral arrangements were being made at Heinlein Funeral Home.
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Rockbird
Francis Uhn
Kuhn
C. F. Shank
Logan
Dang Kuhn
Fred Conkle
Alice
Pauline
Bernard
Albert
John
Jake Wine
Shan Kuhn
Poison murderers sentenced to die in electric chair
Mary Frances Creighton and Everett C Applegate were sentenced to die the week of March 9 for the poison murder of Ada Applegate last September 28. Applegate proclaimed innocence in a calm court room, denying knowledge of poison purchase and any intimate relations with Creighton.
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Mineola
N. Y
Mary Frances Creighton
Everett C. Applegate
Applegate
Ada
Cortland A. Johnson
Government rests in mail theft case in Akron trial
Federal Judge Samuel West denied motions for directed verdicts after the government rested in the second trial of Anthony Labrizetti and George Sargent of Akron on robbing a Warren mail truck of over 100000. Two Akron waitresses and an attorney testified for the defense claiming the defendants were in Akron around April 24 1936.
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Cleveland
Samuel West
Anthony Labrizetti
George Sargent
Akron
Warren
Merchants' Society Loses Picket Suit
The East Tuscarangs Merchant Association lost its suit to join the canton local of the Retail Clerks Union. The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday affirmed Stark County courts ruling, denying an injunction against the boycott and picketing of association establishments.
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Columbus, O
East Tuscarangs Merchant Association
Canton
Retail Clerk’s Union
Ohio Supreme Court
Stark County
Gas victim dies in Ohio gas leak tragedy
Marion Ohio January 30 AP firefighters and doctors failed to save Luther G Myers 32 after he inhaled monoxide fumes from a gas stove in a 24hour effort to revive him.
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Marion
Luther G. Myers
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