Peace Gesture Delays Oil Embargo in Italy Ethiopia War
Fighting continues between Italian and Ethiopian forces as the League of Nations considers postponing sanctions oil embargo talks. Rome warns such penalties would prolong the East Africa war while Paris and London signal renewed peace discussions between Mussolini Laval Hoare and Haile Selassie.
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Africa
League of Nations
Mussolini
Geneva
Paris
League
Italy
Great Britain
Rome
East Africa
Pierre Laval
Samuel Hoare
Hoare
Ethiopia
Grangers Take Up Milk Control Plan at Ohio Convention
Ohio Grange members convened in Lima for their annual gathering to discuss milk producers issues and farm policy. Governor Davey defended the milk control bill, while Walter F. Kirk welcomed about 1,000 delegates and Attorney General John W. Bricker prepared to speak. The two day session anticipated statements from L. J. Taber and a close Thursday finish.
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Lima
Walter F. Kirk
Port Clinton
Ohio Grange
Farm Organization
Davey
John W. Bricker
Aage
National Grange
L. J. Taber
Navy parley will take up tonnage topic in London
An authoritative source says the international naval conference will immediately address total tonnages of major navies. Delegates asked Japan to submit a detailed statement of tonnage demands for presentation at tomorrow's session to the United States Great Britain France and Italy.
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London
International Naval Conference
United States
Great Sin
France
Italy
Oy Associated Press
Utilities Holders Offer Cooperation with Government
Washington utility holding companies today offered to cooperate with the government to reduce the multiplicity of subsidiaries under the holding company act.
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Washington
Editor Walter Liggett Shot Dead in Minneapolis
Minneapolis editor Walter Liggett was fatally shot in an alley as he and his wife and child returned home. Police questioned Isadore Blumenfeld, alias Kid Cann, and examined a leading liquor executive after a threatening telephone call and Liggett’s recent editorials accusing Governor Olson of graft.
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Minneapolis
Today
Walter Liggett
Stormy Petrel
Floyd B. Olson
Gett
Marda
Isadore Blumenfeild
Kid Cann
Charles F. Urschel
Blumenfeld
al Marxensahil Liggett
Meyer Schuldberg
Hquor Distributing
Marxen
Liggett
Schuldberg
Setuidberr
Olson
Mills Criticises New Deal Costs in Speech
Ogden L. Mills former Treasury secretary rallied Columbus business leaders to curb government borrowing and restore financial order. He attacked the administration for profligate spending and noted gold devaluation created vast bank reserves, which he linked to credit inflation and the 1929 collapse.
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Columbus
Ogden L. Mills
Secretary of the Treasury
Mills
Columbus Chamber of Commerce
Hoover
Bank holdup escapees elude investigators stalemate in search
Cincinnati December 10 Department of Justice investigators report a stalemate in the search for two men who escaped after a holdup of the Franklin National Bank in Franklin last week. They deny rumors that a suspect was seized and found with maps showing the bank’s location.
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Cincinnati
Department of Justice
Franklin National Bank
Franklin
New Split Seen In Democratic Ranks In Ohio Race
Columbus dispatch reports a shifting factional split among Democrats after the retirement of Charles Sawyer. Governor Davey supporters claim strength while Mosier is seen as the logical anti Davey candidate. Republican Bricker remains the sole declared GOP contender.
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Columbus
Ohio
Davey
Charles Sawyer
Harold G. Mosier
Cleveland
Sawyer
G O. P
John W. Bricker
Chiseling in Sales Tax Raises Alarms Across Counties
Hearings in border and other cities report widespread chiseling in sales tax collection. R. P. Barthalow says 99 12 percent collections achieved in eight counties, far above prior expectations, while the sales tax chief calls it petty thieving.
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Columbus
R. P. Barthalow
Five Men Injured in Blast at Gallipolis Quarry
Physicians worked to save the eyesight of five men injured yesterday in a quarry blast near Crown City. Injured are J. F. Patton superintendent of the Hamer Brothers quarry and Robert Good of Pittsburgh, John Baker of Raccoon Island, Cletus Calwell of Bladen, and Barlow Berridge of Apple Grove W Va.
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Gallipolis
Crown City
J. F. Patton
Hamer Brothers
Robert Good
Pittsburgh
John Baker
Raccoon Island
Cletus Calwell
Bladen
Barlow Berridge
Apple Grove
W. Va
Ohio Legislature moves to fund relief for 19 counties
The Ohio Senate considers a $1.5 million advance from utility excise taxes to distressed counties lacking Carey relief bonds, with $750,000 already approved earlier. Debate centers on restricting emergency levies to one or two years while bills on levies and bond issues move through committee. Governor Davey awaits signature on the Kane drivers license bill.
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House
Senate
Mark Copeland
Cleveland
Realty Recovery League
Davey
Kane
Paul P. Yoder
Common Pleas
Pawl R. Ginger
Franklin
Constitution May Block Exemptions In Ward Tax Bill
Columbus Ohio December 10 the constitution may defeat the Ward personal income tax bill on exemptions for heads of large families The state tax commission says the maximum exemption is 3000 under the constitution potentially making a five member family pay more state tax than a smaller family even after federal tax.
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Columbus
Ohio
House
Senate
State Tax Commission
Roosevelt Begins Study of Budget
President Roosevelt returns to the White House to start three weeks of work before Congress reconvenes. He directs a White House budget conference to shape the fiscal year starting July 1 and faces a mounting deficit while potential Supreme Court decisions loom.
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Roosevelt
Washington
White House
Congress
Atlanta
Supreme Court
New Fight Over Hauptmann 10 Cent Under Way
New York reports Governor Hoffman pledging a vigorous bid to save Bruno Hauptmann from the electric chair, while a Trenton statement refutes the claim. Defense plans focus on new evidence and possible appeals to delay the death sentence or seek commutation as Hauptmann hears the Supreme Court decision.
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New York
The
New York Journal
Harold Hoffman
New Jersey
Bruno Hauptmann
Trenton
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hauptmann
United States Supreme Court
Bronx
Charles A. Lindbergh
C. Lloyd Fisher
Thomas W. Trenchard
Flemington
Court of Pardons
14-Year-Old Boy Shot to Death in Sacramento
Sacramento report says Homer Lee, 14, was found shot dead in his room. A pet bulldog lay nearby, aged and dead. A farewell note read: My best pal will never come back. Neither will. The world can go on without us.
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Sacramento
Calif
Homer Lee
Freight Car Loadings Set to Rise in 1936 for Ohio Valley
Shippers report estimates that freight car requirements in the Ohio Valley for the first quarter of 1936 will be 1.1 percent higher than in the same period of 1935.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Valley
Ayres Sees Modest 1936 Progress After 1935 Boom
Col Leonard P. Ayres, business statistician and vice president of the Cleveland Trust Company, says 1935 was the best of three recovery years and that 1936 may show modest recovery. He adds real prosperity requires a large scale revival in durable goods, doubling output in iron, cement, lumber, and freight transport.
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Cleveland
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Company
Col. Ayres
Legion Head Backs Freedom of Speech in Ohio
Milton D. Campbell, Ohio American Legion commander, said ministers questioned his criticism of a peace speech by a one year old girl at Jackson on Armistice Day. He stated the Legion believes in free speech but opposes radical government changes, urging orderly constitutional change.
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Urbana
Milton D. Campbell
Ohio American Legion
Ohio
Jackson
Campbell
Legion
Champaign County Legionnaires
G men asked to aid interstate truckers
In Cincinnati on December 10 reports of attacks on interstate truck drivers amid labor troubles led to referring protection of cargoes to the federal Department of Justice.
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Cincinnati
Federal Department of Justice
Berry Pushes Council Plan for Economic Coordination
Washington December 10 George L Berry industry coord inator urged business to quit quibbling over the proposed economic council and said the government is a partner in the effort and will form the council as planned. He claimed broad support against industry opposition. A six point AFL program urged shorter work weeks wage standards for women and minors end to child labor night work restrictions for women and homework enforcement of Wagner act wage and hour standards and nationwide bargaining standards with licensing for industry.
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Washington
George L. Berry
Berry
Roosevelt
National Association of Manufacturers and Chamber of Commerce
United States
William Green
American Federation of Labor
O'Mahoney
Wyo
Judge studies plea to halt Guffey Act taxes
Federal Judge John Paul examined a petition by Virginia and West Virginia coal producers for an injunction to stop collection of Guffey Act taxes until the act's constitutionality is determined.
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Lynchburg
John Paul
Virginia
West Virginia
Church group opposes Ohio state lottery proposal
The legislative committee of the Ohio Council of Churches condemned a proposed state lottery to finance government costs and opposed using federal funds to pay religious workers in churches.
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Church Group
Columbus
Legislative Committee
The
Ohio Council of Churches
Attorney Hurls Polls On Crop Control Plan In Supreme Court
In Washington a Supreme Court session heard former Senator George Pepper attack New Deal farm subsidies as bribery and robbery challenging the AAA. Pepper compared farmer allowances to college funding from fathers while Solicitor General Reed defended the act as constitutional federal regulation and revenue measure.
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Supreme Court
AAA
George Wharton Pepper
Hoosac Mills
Massachusetts
Peter
Paul
Stanley Reed
Pepper
Reed
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Justice McReynolds
McReynolds
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