21 Missing In Flaming Hotel
A fire at the Queen hotel in Halifax Nova Scotia left about 21 people missing and many feared dead. Roughly 87 guests and 30 staff were in the building when the blaze began, with 15 to 30 others admitted to hospitals including two firemen. Firemen fought the flames four hours after discovery as people clung to ledges and jumped from windows seeking escape.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Queen
Victoria General Hospital
Jean Sherwood
New York
Carnival Star
Assembly To Act Again On Fire Policies
Madison forward political notes report the assembly voting 53 to 39 to reconsider action on a bill barring cities towns villages and schools from insuring property with the state fire insurance fund. The measure was sent back to the insurance and banking committee while other measures including abolishing the Wisconsin development authority and the department of commerce were addressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Assembly
Committee On Insurance and Banking
la Follette
Wisconsin Development Authority
Department of Commerce
United States
Dodd Pleads Guilty to Hit Run Charge in Hanover
Dr. William E. Dodd former ambassador to Germany was fined 250 dollars plus costs in Hanover circuit court after pleading guilty to a hit and run injury charge involving Gisis Grimes a Negro child. The Dec 5 accident near here left the child in hospital with fair condition reported yesterday.
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Hanover
William E. Dodd
Germany
Leither Brenner
Dodd
Frederick WW. Coleman
Dr. Dodd
Gisis Grimes
Here
Hanover County
Grimes
Richmond
Cold Wave Looms From Northwest Across U S
Forecaster J R Lloyd warned a cold wave from northwestern Canada would sweep into the United States bringing temperatures to 5 to 15 below zero in North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota and 0 to 5 below in South Dakota. Light snow would accompany the plunge as the disturbance moves southeast. Temperatures were below normal across most of the eastern and southern states but much warmer in the upper Missouri and Mississippi valleys.
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Chicago
Canada
United States
J. R. Lloyd
North Dakota
Minnesota
South Dakota
Missouri
Mississippi
Walleys
Fond du Lac Man Given Sentence for Burglary
Harold F. Snow a 37 year old Fond du Lac man received a three to six year sentence in Waupun state prison for burglary after police said he left his calling card a card bearing his name was found in a coat at the Jacob Julian home Snow entered last Saturday night and took a sweater.
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Milwaukee
Harold F. Snow
Fond du Lac
Waupun State
Snow
Jacob Julian
Negrin's Spain Verdict Awaited Amid War Tensions
Madrid dispatch reports Premier Negrin poised to reveal whether Spain will continue resisting Franco with a 2.5 million-strong army. Public reaction minimal as Britain and France recognize the nationalist government and Azana resigns. Barrio expected to return to Madrid to facilitate new presidential election under the 473-seat cortes system.
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Spain
Juan Negrin
Franco
Manuel Azana
Madrid
Negrin
Barrio
Diego Martinez Barrio
Cortes
Azana
Martinez Barrio
Paris
Madrid-Valencia-Alicante
Figueras
Barcelona
Cala
Woman Eats and Eats, Physicians Are Puzzled
Mrs Dorothy Barber twenty wife of a WPA worker weighs 104 pounds after a year of voracious eating. Doctors at General hospital Kansas City puzzled by her case and running tests fear death if her appetite cannot be satisfied or normalized. They cite a rare pancreatic condition causing low blood sugar and abnormal digestive juice flow.
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Kansas City
Dorothy Barber
WPA
General Hospital
RB. K. Simpson
Simpson
Swapson
Court terms changed in bill signed by Heil
Governor Heil signed a bill altering court terms in Portege Wau paca and Waukesha counties in the Seventh judicial circuit. Requested by Circuit Judge H Severson the measure moves his court from May wrap to the first Monday in May and from the travel terms to the first Monday in April with no change in Wood county.
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Madison
Heil
Portege
Waupaca
Waukesha
H. Severson
Bil
Mey
Aprive
Wood County
Wisconsin Assembly advances labor bill amid debate
After two days of debate the Wisconsin Assembly moved the Wisconsin Council of Agriculture labor bill toward final passage by engrossing it 54 to 44. Proponents tout repeal of current labor law and bans on sit down and minority strikes and secondary picketing. Opponents call it an employers’ measure risking collective bargaining and farm exemptions. Speaker Thomson ruled a substitute bill by Westphal as not germane. Biemiller criticizes the bill as vague and divisive.
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Madison
Assembly
Wisconsin Council of Agriculture
Thomson
Richmond Center
Westphal
Milwaukee
Senate
Biemiller
Wisconsin
Two Seymour Men Die In Head On Crash North Of Seymour
A two-vehicle collision on Highway 55 north of Seymour left Lawrence Mueller 20 and Frank Miss dead. Virgil Paes of Navarino, and four others were injured and taken to Green Bay hospital. Mueller’s father Alfred, an Outagamie supervisor, arrived after the crash and confirmed his son’s death.
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Seymour
Wis
Here
Lawrence Mueller
Frank Miss
Mueller
Virgil Paes
Navarino
Green Bay
Roy Schmidt
Ching
Pues
Edna Pues
James Dingledicm
Mucer
Alfred
Outagamie
Sceena
Weather report fragment with cloudy spell and cold shift
Weather summary shows cloud cover and a cold front moving in from the northwest and west central areas. Forecast notes snow in the northwest tonight or Friday with colder highs Friday afternoon. Northwestern observations cite a 3 a.m. reading of cloudy skies and a warm-to-cool temperature trend, with minimal precipitation expected and southwest winds.
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Leni
Vascorsin
Miami Oat Waisan
Indictment of Former Judge Manton in Wisconsin Case
A Wisconsin banking commission allowed Fidelity Investment Association of Wheeling West Virginia to continue business after four changes. It linked license renewals to improvements, including proper fund allocations and expanded disclosures. Separate from this, Martin Manton former U S circuit judge was indicted on conspiracy to defraud the government with George Spector. Manton denied wrongdoing and faced hospital treatment during grand jury questioning.
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Madison
State Banking Commission
Fidelity Investment Association of
Wheeling
W. Va
Wisconsin
Securities and Exchange Commission
Detroit
Commission
Fidelity Securities
New York
Martin T. Manton
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
George M. Spector
Lafe
Archie M. Andrews
Manton
Dist
Thomas E. Dewey
Hatton W. Sumners
House Judiciary Committee
Joans
150 Rescued From Leaking Wood Ship Ranger
New York Radio Marine Corporation said the S. S. Newfoundland rescued 150 men aboard the leaking fishing boat Ranger. The Ranger kept afloat by bailing with buckets in heavy seas before a tow line was fastened. The Ranger, 354 tons, had left St. John’s yesterday for a sealing expedition in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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New York
Radio Marine Corporation
S. S. Newfoundland
Ranger
Radio Marine
Newfoundland
St. John’s
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Dispute Renewed Over President Power To Remove Officials
Washington notes a revived 150 year old debate over presidential removal power and agency abolition. The reform bill would allow abolishing agencies or their functions with congress approval, a provision sparking arguments about executive restraint and constitutional balance dating back to 1788. Early discussions involved Adams Jefferson and later presidents who used or contested removal power amid cabinet resignations and banking fights.
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W. B. Ragsdale
Washington
Congress
Crowton
Treasury
James Madion
House
Ator Butler
South Carolina
J Adams
Adams
Andrew Jackson
Radio tale ties Pacelli to Marconi in Vatican broadcast
Rome reports a historic link between Pope Pius XII and Guglielmo Marconi. The article recalls the 1922 Vatican broadcast opening by Pius XII and the friendship that fostered early radio experiments.
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Pacelli
Marconi
Rome
Pia Ril
Gughnes’ Marconi
Oiener
Pius
Vatican City
Marcon
Ter Yennia
Dever Colaboraten
Vatican
Carter Gandolfo
Judge Nomination Filed in Shawano for Tenth Judicial District
Joseph R. Vevaro, former district attorney candidate in Shawano County, filed nomination papers today for circuit judge in the Tenth Judicial District, opposing Judge Edgar V. Werner of Appleton.
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Atadisonre
Joseph R. Vevaro
Deroaidate
Shawano
Coamnty
Fied
Indav
Judeil
Edgar V. Wemer
Appleton
New Pontiff Takes Name of Pius XI
Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli elected pope on his 63rd birthday, taking the name Pius XI. He becomes spiritual leader of about 331.5 million Catholics, and is seen as continuing Pope Pius XI’s policies. The conclave acted swiftly on one day’s ballots, with coronation anticipated for March 12 pending his decision.
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Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Pope Pius XI
College of Cardinals
Popeius Xie
Charles H. Guptill
Vatican City
Pius Xie
Pius XI
Marian
Gregory XV
United States
Vatican
Pacelli
Pius XII
St. Peter’s
Camila Cardinal
Caccia Dominioni
Order of Cardinal Deacons
S. T
Eugenium Pacelli
Japan blast near Osaka shocks nation in 1945 disaster
An explosion at Hirakata near Osaka killed hundreds, injuring many and leaving 10,000 homeless. Officials blamed a possible accident in a gunpowder loading area at the arsenal. Relief groups, including police and army, organized aid with blankets and rations as fires destroyed about 800 homes.
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Tokio
Hirakgia
China
Seishiro Ita
Chinasanqao
Hirikata
Osaka
Tne
Edisce
Wren
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Petain
Conlinard
West Virginia Company
Furist
Spector
US XI
St. Peter
Staton
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