New European peace making hopes faster
London dispatch reports Captain Anthony Eden returns from continental tour with notes on Mussolini’s intention to invade Ethiopia. British officials discuss four peace moves including eastern European pact and Locarno style disarmament while Eden outlines Italy’s demand for Ethiopian control and possible invasion if talks fail.
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London
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Sarajevo
Great Britain
Anthony Eden
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Ethiopia
East Africa
League of Nations
Il Duce
Eden
Mussolini
Geneva
League
Rome
Pierre Laval
France
Germany
Bee Flies into Car Sighting Injures Driver in New Lexington
Charles Roy sat in an automobile in New Lexington Ohio when a bumble bee flew in. He struck at it with his fist and missed, breaking the windshield and injuring his hand.
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New Lexington
Charles Roy
Congress Today Senate In Recess and Committee Deliberations
In recess, Banking committee debates amendments to the AAA bill as House discusses a utility measure. Ways and Means holds a Guffey coal bill hearing. Yesterday the rivers and harbors bill passed and conference reports on bank deposit insurance extension Wagner labor disputes bill nuisance taxes were approved. Ship subsidy bill moves, nui sance taxes extended to White House, temporary deposit insurance extended 60 days, and debate opens on the holding company bill.
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Banking Committee
House
TVA
Ways and Means
Senate
White House
Woman Connected to Slain Attorney Howard Dickinson
Detroit detectives search for an automobile possibly tied to the death of Howard Carter Dickinson, 52 year old New York attorney and Hughes relative. Dickinson was found shot in Rouge Park with two bullets, a hotel briefcase left behind, and a female suspect linked to the case through a hotel checkroom. Police seek aid across Michigan Ohio and New York to locate the car and any lead connected to the estate of William H. Yawkey.
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Detroit
Lansing
Mich
Howard Carter Dickinson
New York
Charles E. Hughes
Dickinson
Rouge Park
Michigan
Ohio
Robert Kallman
Wayne-co
Fred Frahm
Cadillac
Hughes
William H. Yawkey
Civil War-era estate draws 139 claimants in Illinois
In Urbana on June 28 AP reports that nine years after Thomas Walker died with no relatives, an administrator directed $7,655 go to Champaign county treasury. Now 139 people from over 20 states assert kinship and seek a share of the estate.
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Thomas Walker
Champaign County
Early Action Promised on Bond Proposal
Washington June 28 IAP. Promised early action on Roosevelt’s plan to bar gold clause bondholders from suing for payment in gold or devalued dollars. Senate Banking Committee chair Fletcher to convene a rapid review as Attorney General Cummings notes a draft exists. Critics warn of repudiation and dishonesty while some House leaders misjudge the timing of further proposals.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Fletcher
Senate Banking Committee
Congress
Cummings
Senate
House
Railroad executives urge end to government interference
James J. Pelley president of the Association of American Railroads urged the discontinuance of government interference in railroad operations before about 800 oil and railroad executives gathered in Findlay Ohio last night.
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Findlay, D
James J. Pelley
Washington
Association of American Railroads
Gag rule eyed to block amendments to FDR tax plan
Washington leaders discussed a gag rule to prevent amendments to Roosevelt tax legislation. The plan targets taxes on inheritances gifts corporate and individual incomes over 1 million while hearings were set to begin July 8. Republican leaders urged a real tax bill and higher revenue, with rates proposed by Harrison noted for inheritance and income taxes.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Ways and Means
Doughton
N. C
Ways and Means Committee
Morgenthau
Treasury
Coughton
Rep. Snell
New York
Rep
Reed
N. Y
Harrison
Miss
Senate Finance Committee
Reformatory inquiry ends in Ohio death case
Officials of Mansfield reformatory were absolved of blame in the death of Joe Miller of Youngstown from tuberculosis two weeks after parole. An inquiry by Oakley Spaght found no fault in Miller’s treatment or release, completing the investigation. Governor Davey ordered the inquiry after claims of improper care arose. Mrs Allman, director of Welfare, noted a plan to transfer inmates with tuberculosis to London Prison Farm due to a state law.
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Columbus, CO
Mansfield Reformatory
Joe Miller
Youngstown
Margaret Allman
Miller
Reformatory
Davey
Oakley Spaght
Allman
37Th Division Veterans Association
London
Eva Coo Dies In Electric Chair After Mallet Murder
In Ossining New York on June 28 Eva Coo was executed in Sing Sing for murdering Harry Wright with a mallet to steal $12,000. She faced burial questions in Cooperstown as relatives in Ontario awaited word. Martha Clift received 20 years for aiding the crime. Leonard Scarnici, an upstate gangster, was electrocuted after her death, following a bank holdup in Rensselaer.
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Ossining
N. Y
Eva Coo
Sing Sing Prison
Harry Wright
Cooperstown
Ontario
Coe
Wright
Martha Clift
Leonard Scarnici
Galvin brothers buy Perry County News
W J Galvin and W W Galvin announce purchase of the Perry County News New Lexington Ohio from Ohio News Inc They also publish the Wilmington News Journal and The Greene County Journal Otto White becomes editor of the New Lexington paper with W W Galvin as publisher
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Wilmington, CO
W. J. Galvin
W. W. Galvin
Perry County News
New Lexington
Ohio News, Inc
Galvins
Wilmington News-Journal
Greene County Journal
Otto White
Manchester
Signal
Halliburton Will Not Hire Relief Clients
Duncan Okla June 28 The Halliburton oil well cementing company will not hire anyone who has received government relief. President Erle P Halliburton said no relief recipients will be considered for new employment after today, asserting that a good employee would not take a dole.
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Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company
Erle P. Halliburton
Arrest Abductor Santa Clara Cuba Case Details
Cuban soldiers rescued 14 year old Maria Alonzo from a farm house in Santa Clara and arrested a man accused of abducting her for demanding less than $1000. The incident highlights a suspected kidnap case and immediate law enforcement action.
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Santa Clara
Cuba
Maria Alonzo
Outside Please Doorkeeper Bans Baby Nurturing in Gallery
Washington AP reports doorkeeper Joseph Sinnot declared the house gallery no place to nurse a baby. Wilda Jean Parker eight months old daughter of a Tennessee farming couple, visiting with her family, prompted the remark after the mother began nursing during a gallery visit. The doorkeeper, guiding the family out, said he had never seen such a scene in his 40 years.
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Joseph J. Sinnot
Wilda Jean Parker
Tennessee
Washington
Hilda
Mother Held After Ohio Girl Attack
Mrs. Augusta Henry age 47 was arrested on a charge of assault with intent to kill her 16 year old daughter Virginia in Mansfield Ohio. The girl is in serious condition with multiple head and facial lacerations and a chipped skull. Henry said she struck the girl four times with a pipe wrench at about 2 am while she slept. Prosecutor G W Marriott noted Henry feared a relapse into a mental condition for which Virginia had treatment in Toledo State Hospital three months earlier.
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Augusta Henry
Virginia
G. W. Marriott
Richland County
Henry
Marriott
Toledo State Hospital
Toledo
Rumors swirl as Ohio leaders visit Washington capital
Rumors fly about Ohio figures including Governor Davey and former Governor Cox in Washington. The visits spark talk of resignations and possible appointments while Congress sessions blur lines on the coming Ohio gubernatorial primary.
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Ohio
Capital
Washington
James M. Cox
Carl Eggebrecht
Martin L. Davey
Robert J. Bulkley
Cox
Harold G. Mosier
Frank Gentsch
Cleveland
Ohio Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Matthew Denver
Wilmington
Charles G. Sawyer
Cincinnati
Sawyer
Stephen M. Young
Congress
Gee. S. Myers
Peiping Faces Mutiny as Government Forces Repress Clash
Loyal government troops repulsed mutinous Manchurian soldiers who tried to seize Peiping the Forbidden City. Martial law was declared and lifted after victory by peace preservation forces. The revolt cut rail links, an armored train change hands, and Japanese observers suggested a North China regime was the aim.
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Peiping
China
Forbidden City
Pat Chien-Wu
Fengtai
Tientsin
Shank Chen
Tokyo
North China
Italian Opinion Favors War With Abyssinia
Public mood in Italy has shifted toward support for war with Ethiopia as 1935 industrial growth and employment rise. Rumors of Ethiopian wealth in gold platinum cotton and coffee bolster this view along with reports of alleged slave conditions and Italy needing an outlet for its population.
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Rome
Italy
Ethiopia
Paign
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