State police to answer Hoffmann kidnap questions
Gov Hoffman ordered renewed investigation into the Lindbergh baby case. State police will reply to 12 points on accomplices, Condon statements, Curtis contacts, the Faulkner deposit, and shifts from gang to one man theory. Hauptmann’s conviction remains central.
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James Y. Lawrence
Associated Press
Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
David T. Wilentz
Bruno Hauptmann
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Schwarzkopf
Hauptmann
Hoffman
John F. Condon
Jasfie
John Hughes Curtis
Norfolk
J. J. Faulkner
New York
McMichael Testimony Opens Special Grand Jury In Lima
Dora F. McMichael former deputy sheriff testifies on the first day of a special grand jury inquiry into Sheriff Ralph S. Marshall s conduct and loyalties in Lima Ohio. She later files a complaint with a state examiner.
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Lima, O
Dora F. McMichael
Ralph 8
Marshall
McMichael
Congress in Recess Studies Neutrality Legislation
In recess, the Foreign Relations Committee continues neutrality legislation study. Agriculture subcommittee reviews farm situation as the House proceeds with interior department appropriations and related supply bills. Senate votes to fund continued munitions committee work. Agriculture committee completes farm bill report and debates interior appropriations. Labor committee discusses textile measure.
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Foreign Relations Committee
Agriculture
House
Interior Department
Appropriations
Agriculture Department
Senate
Retaliation to Mussolini over sanctions and taxes
Rome sources predict Italy may sever diplomatic relations in retaliation to further sanctions while Premier Mussolini gears for a plan of opposition ahead of a Fascist grand council session. On war fronts, Italian forces report continued operations with minor engagements and captures near Neghelli, Dana Parma, and Neghelli authorities noting surrenders. A Geneva League pamphlet accuses Ethiopians of atrocities against Italian soldiers.
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Associated Press
Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Grand Council
Neghelli
Dana Parma
Pietro Badoglio
Galla Borana
Geneva
League of Nations
Columbus Charter Architect Fred F. Greene Dies at 75
Fred F. Greene, 75, who helped draft Columbus city charter in 1914, died last night in Columbus, Colorado? The report notes his role in shaping the city government and his passing at age 75.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, CO
Fred. F. Greene
Columbus
Sit Down Strike Ends at Firestone Plant in Akron
After 57 hours of peaceful idle protest, about 250 United Rubber Workers members at Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Akron voted to end the sit down strike. Clayton Dicks, suspended after a fistfight with a non union worker, will get half-time pay and return to work Monday. Dalrymple calls the outcome a victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
H. Dalrymple
United Rubber Workers of America
Clayton Dicks
Dalrymple
Red Flannels Not Found Across U S
A national inquiry about red flannels reveals near extinction from Maine to California and Alaska. Columbus Ohio sparked the hunt with reports of none in stock. Volney Richmond Jr of Northern Commercial Co says he hasn’t seen a pair in 20 years.
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New York
Columbus
Maine
California
Paul Bunyan
North Woods
Arkansas Lockwoods
United States
Alaska
Volney
Richmond, Jr
Northern Commercial Co
Roosevelt forecasts new taxes to fund farm program
President Roosevelt announced in Washington that at least 500 million dollars in new taxes are projected for enactment this Congress. The exact measures depend on a study of needs from a 2.349 billion dollar bonus payment and currency inflation debates. No specific tax forms were decided, and a special tax message to Congress is possible.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Capitol Hill
Ohio Bites Deep Freeze Threat as Death Toll Rises
Frigid northwest winds push Ohio temperatures 18 to 25 degrees lower. Eight below zero in Washington Court House. a man frozen to death in Cleveland. Mrs. Simon Baker died in Urbana fire. Schools closed for Hancock county rural pupils. Temperatures to 0 to 5 above then slowly rise on Saturday.
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Columbus
Ohio
Washington Court House
Cleveland
Simon Baker
Urbana
Weather
Hancock County
Supt. E. E. Ray
Heller Bros Challenge to National Labor Relations Act
The Heller Bros Co of Newcomerstown challenged the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. The Labor Relations Board had charged the firm with unfair labor practices.
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Washington
Heller Bros. Co
Newcomerstown
District of Columbia
Supreme Court
Labor Relations Board
Train Hits Auto Kill Two In Dayton Crossing
A westbound passenger train struck an automobile at a city crossing in eastern Dayton last night killing George Zavakos, 25, and Sarah Elizabeth Hampton, 19, and seriously injuring two others aboard the car.
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Dayton, O
George Zavakos
Sarah Elizabeth‘Hampton
First identification of Kid Cann in Liggett murder trial
New testimony to identify Isadore Blumenfeld as Kid Cann was promised by the prosecution in the Walter Liggett murder trial. Assistant state attorney Fred A. Fike said Andersch would be called for redirect examination to relate how he told another person after Liggett's assassination that he saw Kid Cann in the killer's automobile.
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Isadore
Kid Cann
Blumenfeld
Wesley Andersoh
Walter Liggett
Fred A. Fike
Andesrch
Liggett
Tobacco auction set to close 1936 sales February 13
Baysville Ky January 31 AP tobacco warehousemen prepared to close the 1936 crop auctions February 13 as the season winds down.
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Baysville
Railroad Crews Strive After Reading Express Wreck
In sub zero conditions crews and volunteers battled wreckage after a Reading Company express train plunged 380 feet from a Susquehanna river bridge. Three dead and 1 injured counted on site, with a fourth killed later identified as a Bucknell student among the injured.
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Leo W. Sheridan
Associated Press
Sunbury
Reading Company
Susquehanna River
Bucknell University
Guy Rothfuss
Wil
Relief relief load declines in Ohio counties
The Works Progress Administration reports a two week period ending last Saturday saw decreases in direct relief load in six counties offset by increases in four, yielding a net drop of 1,729 cases in Ohio's ten most populous counties. Total direct relief fell to 84,367 cases affecting 295,284 people.
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Columbus
Ohio
Works Progress Administration
Three Die in Crash Near Fort Worth Texas
Three people were killed when their car was struck by an M K T freight train near Fort Worth Texas on January 31.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Fight over labor structure deepens as Lewis splits AFL threat
John L. Lewis and United Mine Workers push to withdraw 600000 members from the AFL. Observers split over a potential union-wide split while Lewis assails the AFL leadership as blocking industrial unions and threatening re election of William Green.
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Joseph L. Miller
Associated Press
Washington
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
United Mine Workers
Lewis
A. F. of L
Labor
UMW
William Green
Green
A. F. of L. Executive Council
Scottsboro tragedy as gasoline drum blasts trap kills twenty convicts
Twenty black convicts died in a transfer truck fire near Scottsboro Alabama after a 30 gallon gasoline drum ignited. Guards Middlebrook and Wasson suffered minor injuries while attempting to rescue trapped inmates as fire and ice on the road delayed response.
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Scottsboro
Ala
Middlebrook
Wasson
Camp C
Lee Highway
Kuhn Funeral Plans Pending After Fatal Mill Accident
Fran cis Kuhn a 45 year old miller of Rockbridge was killed at Conkle Milling Company when a pulley belt entrapped him He died about a half hour after the accident Surviving wife two daughters Alice and Pauline three brothers Bernard Albert John one sister Mrs Jacob Wine Logan and Mr and Mrs Shan Kube Big Pine The Heinlein Funeral Service prepared the body for burial
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Francis Kuhn
Rockbridge
Kuhn
Conkle Milling Company
Fred Conkle
Alice
Pauline
Bernard
Albert
John
Jacob Wine
Logan
Pakements
Shan Kube
Big Pine
Heinlein Funeral
Logan Girl Wins Scholastic Honor in Ohio University List
Forty eight Ohio State University freshmen earned scholastic honors with average grades of 3.5 out of 4.0. The roster includes Lillian C Kemper and other Logan residents among the honored students.
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LOGAN
Columbus, CO
Ohio State University
Lillian C
Kemper
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Richard Loeb
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