State Supreme Court Upholds Utility Tax Valuation Ruling
The Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed Dane county court on a $1,110,000 tax dispute against Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co and Wisconsin Gas and Electric Co. for 1932 and 1933, rejecting claims valuations were far too high and backing the tax commission's figures after review of market value versus income.
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Supreme Court
Tax Commission
Milwaukee Railway
Wisconsin Gas
Madison
State Supreme Court
Dane County
Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company
Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company
John Wickham
Tower Court
A. G. Zimmerman
Wis. Gas and Electric Co
Ray Novotny Named Acting Oshkosh Postmaster
Ray Novotny 33, formerly an immigrant from Czechoslovakia and longtime Wisconsin assemblyman, is to assume Oshkosh postmaster duties this afternoon at 5. A telegram from the first assistant postmaster general confirmed the appointment and said to take charge of the office by close of business tomorrow. Novotny will resign his assembly seat, with no vacancy expected to fill unless a special session is called.
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Oshkosh
Ray Novotny
Czechoslovakia
Wisconsin Assembly
Novotny
Washington
Arthur H. Gruenewald
Gruenewald
Oshkos
New Zeppelin Hindenburg Sets Cross Ocean Voyage
Friedrichshafen Germany The luxury airship Hindenburg begins its first transatlantic cruise heading toward the Rhine Netherlands and the sea. It carries 54 crew 37 passengers serves mail parcel post and freight including Opel car parts. Com Scott E Peck US Navy observes the voyage with Paris Rio de Janeiro expected after about 80 hours.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
Rhine
Netherlands
Rio de Janeiro
Lakehurst
N. J
United States
Rhineland
Frankfurt
Holland
Opel Motor Car Factory
Com. Scott E. Peck
United States Navy
Fricérichs
Hafen
Ems
A. Lenmann
Body of Cheerio Owner Skipper Found Ashore
Kenosha Wis U S recovery of Richard Jacobson 28 owner and skipper of the tug Chesro which sank off Kenosha harbor Jan 17 after a severe snowstorm. His body washed ashore joining the earlier discovered A H Hanninen. Two crew members Her bert Tipler and Peter Sedena Jr remain missing. All were from Kenosha.
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Kenosha
Wis
Richard Jacobson
Kenosha Harbor
Jacobson
A. H. Hanninen
Herbert Tipler
Peter Sedena Jr
Gifford Quizzed in Phone Probe
Walter S. Gifford president of AT T told a federal hearing he saw little wrong in giving cigars luncheons to legislators and nothing very wicked in theater tickets. He defended meeting arriving lawmakers as a public service and said the company would use its own attorneys for lobbying.
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Washington
U.P
Walter S. Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Federal Communications Hearing
Gifford
Telephone
Communication Commission
Samuel Becker
Commission
Becker
Public Service Corporation
Hitler Proposes Border Armistice in Rhineland Crisis
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler offers a four month armistice with a three man international commission to oversee frontier zones of Germany and the French Belgian border as counter proposals to Locarno powers in the Rhineland crisis.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Two Year Old Hero Rescues Playmate From Drowning
In Beloit Wisconsin Rudy Arndt, age two, saved his playmate Russell Bronson, also two, from nearly drowning after Russell slipped into three feet of water in a fish pond. Rudy, who speaks only German, alerted his mother with a German cry, prompting Russell’s father to rush to the pond where he recovered and revived the child.
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Breloit
Wis
Rudy Arndt
Rudy
Russell Bronson
Russell
Italian Forces Seize Gondar Near Lake Tana
Italian troops led by Achille Starace captured Gondar at the head of Lake Tana, severing northern Ethiopia from Sudan supply lines. The move, part of a wider arc from Asmara to Umaga near Kassala, shifts the Nile region strategic balance and threatens British Sudan and Egypt.
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Gondar
Ethiopia
Lake Tana
Achille Starace
Fascist Party
Sudan
Nile
Lake
Tana
Blue Nile
Egypt
Starace
Danakils
Oreste Mariotti
Danakil
Graziani
Asmara
Eritrea
Umaga
Kassala
No Reprieve No Confession As End Nears
Bruno Hauptmann, amid final death row tests, proclaims innocence as his execution looms tonight at 8. Col. Kimberling reports Hauptmann’s plea and teary goodbyes. Gov Hoffman stands firm, denying clemency while prosecutors maintain guilt.
Warning Against Gangdom Issued By Federal Chief
Federal chief J Edgar Hoover warned Congress that a new high powered gear could render police armor useless. He described armored Rangster cars built by criminals and said six suspects had solved all 62 kidnapping cases since the Lindbergh act of 1922.
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Mack Johnson
United Press
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
America
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Hoover
Department of Justice
Underworld
Hoover at 19 as peak crime age warns Congress
J Edgar Hoover told a House Appropriations Committee that crime arrests rise from 16 to 19 before dropping off. He said 15 of every 100 arrests in 1935 involved individuals 19 or younger, arguing youth is the nation’s greatest crime problem.
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Washington
UPI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
House Appropriations Committee
Hamilton Fish Jr Speaks for Borah on Radio Tonight
Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr. will speak on the Columbia Broadcasting System from New York at 9:45 this evening. He will discuss “Why I am for Borah,” outlining his support for Senator Borah.
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Hamilton Fish JR
Borah
Radio Tonight
Columbia Broadcasting System
New York
Fish
Four Department Supply Bill OS Presented in Washington
The appropriations committee reported a four department bill expanding the FBI and Steamboat Inspection Service activities. Total $114,667,400 with allocations to State $17,654,400 Justice $41,261,300 Commerce $34,054,700 Labor $21,697,000. Increased funding supports public works and social security contracts, plus extra G men funding and steamboat inspectors.
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Washington
U.P
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Steamboat Inspection Service
House
Appropriations Committee
State Department
Justice Department
Commerce Department
Labor Department
Social Security
Guffey
Bureau of Investigation
Morro Castle
Mohawk
Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection Service
Lewisburg
Alcatraz
Chillicothe
McNeil Island
Persia closes U S diplomatic offices over Maryland incident
Iran withdraws its legation and consulates in Washington New York and Chicago after two Maryland traffic police arrest of Iranian minister Ghaffer Djalal. The move follows U S apologies and reflects Teheran's displeasure though relations remain technically intact.
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Washington
Iran
Persia
Maryland
United States
New York
Chicago
Ghaffer Djalal
Elkton
State Department
Hull
Djalal
Teheran
Hossein Ghods
Hossein Gadime
Jaroslav Smetanka
Ohio flood drives exodus as river nears crest
Flood waters from the Ohio inundate several thousand acres in Union township as Evansville relief units including WPA workers and U S coast guardsmen move families to safety. Salvation Army and other agencies provide care while damage is reported as not extensive.
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Evansville
Ind
Ohio
Union Township
WPA
U.S. Coast
Immell declines reelection as head of Adjutants Generals
Adjt. Gen. Ralph M. Immell told the Adjutant Generals association he will not seek another presidency. After seven years as leader he seeks more time for other duties. He also noted Wisconsin could gain 220 National Guard soldiers next year with a 10,000 strength increase, adding a third artillery battery and more quartermaster units.
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Ruby A. Black
Washington
Adjt
Ralph M. Immell
Adjutant Generals Association
National Guard
Wisconsin
Riots Erupt After Croatian Nationalist March
Emergency precautions were taken in Zagreb as Croatian nationalists rioted for hours. Fifteen demonstrators and seven policemen were injured in clashes that drew thousands. Police claimed they fired only into the air after the burial of Stephan Javor, a Croatian merchant released from amnesty.
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Zagreb
Saroslavia
Po- Nce
Stephan Javor
Fracture Fatal in Green Bay Traffic Crash
Mose Dashnier, 65, died in Green Bay after a basal skull fracture from being thrown from his car when it was struck by a truck at an intersection earlier the same day.
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Green Bay
Wis
Mose Dashnier
Twenty two House plan to act at once on St Lawrence pact
Twenty two members from Great Lakes states organized to secure ratification of the St. Lawrence waterway and power treaty. They call on President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull to present a mutually acceptable treaty to the senate, aiming to drop the Internationalizing of Lake Michigan and water diversion provisions. Culkin chairs the group with Christianson as vice chair and Pittenger as secretary. the committee includes Hull Snell Dingell Cordero and Lesinski.
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Washington
House
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence
Congress
Roosevelt
Hull
Senate
United States
Canada
Lake Michigan
Representative Culkin
New York
Christianson
Minnesota
Pittenger
Wisconsin
Snell
Dingell
Michigan
Condero
Lesinski
Democrats hold district session at Chilton City
About 50 Democrats from Winnebago county attended a gathering in Chilton with Oshkosh participants. Charles E. Broughton urged united support for Roosevelt and praised NRA impact on business recovery. He predicted new NRA style legislation is coming as a permanent safeguard for American enterprise.
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Chilton City
Winnebago County
Charles E. Broughton
Oshkosh
Chilton
Charles E. Brourhson
Shebovean
Borah
United States
Roosevelt
Broughton
Bonsevelt
NRA
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Raymond Novotny
A. H. Gruenewald
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Thomas W. Trenchard
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Dale Harrison
Bruno Richard Nauptmann
Lindbergh
Sourland Hills
Pardons Court
Harold G. Hoffman
Flemington
Hope
Hauptmann
Col
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Colonel Kimberling
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Anderson
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Immell
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