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January 13, 1935

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Headlines from January 13, 1935

PROFESSOR G.P. BAKER

By Eugene O'Neill

Tribute to G P Baker

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STUDENTS OF '80S BEST, SAYS HAWKES; Columbia Dean Holds They Were 'Ideal,' With a Broader Culture Than Now.

By Unknown Author

The "ideal" college man was graduated in the Eighties and Nineties, according to Dean Herbert Hawkes of Columbia College, who said yesterday that the students of that day were a picked group with a broader cultural background than those of the present.

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NEW UTRECHT HIGH TAKES TRACK MEET; Regains Supremacy With 30 Points in Manual Games -- St. Benedict's Second.

By Kingsley Childs

New Utrecht's colors were returned to the team supremacy by a well-balanced track and field squad in the nineteenth annual Manual Training High School interscholastic meet yesterday at the Fourteenth Regiment Armory in Brooklyn as Ted Ellison, De Witt Clinton sprint star, turned in the feature individual triumph.

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Shortage of Keg Seats Aids Sales of Tobacco

By Special Correspondence, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Shortage of keg seats in store aids tobacco sales

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AUTO SHOW CLOSES WITH SALES-RISING; Flood of Buying Started Here and in Nation, Dealers and Manufacturers Report.

By Unknown Author

J R Crossley says it has reached saturation point

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Historical Events

1935A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to no more being a "region occupied and governed by the United Kingdom and France".^[†]

A referendum on territorial status was held in the Territory of the Saar Basin on 13 January 1935. Over 90% of voters opted for reunification with Germany, with 9% voting for the status quo as a League of Nations mandate territory and less than 0.5% opting for unification with France.