Italian Northern Army Smashes Ethiopian Last Front Army
Italian forces claim a three day battle near the Takazzee River routed 30 000 Ethiopian troops under Ras Imeru. Tem Bien area mop up follows as Abbi Addi, capital of Tembien, falls with little opposition. Red Cross clears thousands of dead and wounded as remnants scatter eastward.
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Ethiopia
Italy
Ras Imeru
Takazzee River
Lake Tana
Nile
Tembien
Rases Mulugheta
Kassa
Seyoum
Andino
Edna
Mariam
Qusi'am
Takazze
Abbi Addi
Red Cross
Hell Hollows
Grave fears for missionaries as peds march in China
Reports from Shanghai dated March 3 describe a Chinese Communist army movements into Shansi province casting grave fears for more than twenty American missionaries in the region. Red advances threaten Sino-Japanese tensions with martial law in Taiyuan and ambushes reported against Shansi troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Shanghai
Shansi Province
Taiyuan
Yen Hii-Shan
Girl Is Tarrant's 10th Grash Victim
Lorene Pettitt, 17, died in a Fort Worth hospital from a fractured skull after a crash on Paddock Viaduct. She was the tenth traffic fatality in Tarrant County for the year, with two other young women injured in the same collision early Tuesday morning.
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Fort Worth
Lorene Pettitt
Tarrant County
Paddock Viaduct
Watch For Your Name in City Want Ads For Free Theater Tickets
A city-wide promotion posts that 12 names will appear at random in the Want Ad columns. If your name is listed you win a pair of free tickets to the New Rio Alto Theater to see The Big Broadcast of 1936 starting Sunday. Turn to the Want Ad pages now.
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Rialto Theater
Offenders Nab Stallings After Canyon Highway Stop
Raymond Stallings a 20 year old Randall County farm boy wanted on parole violation was captured with Jack Sturge of Albuquerque at a Canyon area filling station five miles north of Canyon. Stallings was jailed in Potter County. Sturge was held for investigation as officers including Deputy U S Marshal Bill Lampe and county deputies closed the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Stallings
Randall County
Potter County
Canyon Highway
Jack Sturge
Albuquerque
N. M
Stallings
U. S
Bill Lampe
Randall and
Canyon
New Mexico
Sturge
Songs Make Stars Says Rudy Vallee
Rudy Vallee told the House patents committee that song popularity hinges on the quality of the song itself. He warned the Duffy bill to revise the 1909 copyright laws would hurt writers and end radio studios clubs and hotels behind the measure. He said the music would lose inspiration if restrictions pass.
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Washington
Rudy Vallee
House Patents Committee
House
Duffy
Vallee
Senatorial vote honors Byrd Antarctic expedition
The Senate banking committee voted favorably to authorize presenting silver medals to Admiral Richard E. Byrd and members of his second Antarctic expedition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Richard E. Byrd
Surplus Levy on Industry Sought by FDR
President Franklin D Roosevelt calls for a surplus levy on industry to fund war effort and reduce postwar deficits. The plan aims to tax windfalls from wartime production while preserving essential jobs and economic stability.
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FDR
Roosevelt proposes 620 million tax on corporate surplus
The White House calls for a major revamp of the federal revenue system to tax undistributed corporate profits as surplus rather than dividends. President Roosevelt brands undivided profits an evil and says reserves finance working capital but surplus harms tax fairness. Congress moves the plan to a sub-committee as heated debate erupts on the House floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Congress
Roosevelt
Ways and Means
Doughton
Rep
Knutson
Minnesota
Snell
Rep. O'Connor
New York
Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Hewitt to Fight Extradition Over California Mayhem Charges
Gov. Hoffman received notice from attorney William V. Breslin that Mrs Maryon Cooper Hewitt will contest extradition to California driven by accusations from her daughter Ann. Hewitt remains at a Jersey City medical center after a reported suicide attempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
William V. Breslin
Maryon Cooper Hewitt
California
Ann
Bear blocks water in Petersburg as marshal uncovers hibernating bear
City Marshal Ellery Carlson thawing pipes under his Petersburg home disturbed a black bear in winter sleep. He halted the task and left the pipes unfrozen as the bear remained dormant and undisturbed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersburg
Alaska
Ellery Carlson
Governor designates March 5 as Mother-in-Law Day in Texas
Governor Allred named March 5 as Mother-in-Law Day in Texas. The proclamation honors unselfish patriotic women and continues a tradition begun by Gene Howe of Amarillo.
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Austin
Allred
Texas
Gene Howe
Amarillo
Parleys on Walkouts Cloud New York Labor Strikes
Negotiations over three major strikes progressed with little concrete gain as spokesmen for both sides met in Mayor La Guardia’s chambers. The Hotel Workers Union reported seven more hotels joined the walkout, adding 5 000 to 6 000 workers, on top of thousands already out, while Akron talks aimed to resolve Goodyear Tire disputes.
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Associated Press
Manhattan Building Service
Firello la Guardia
Hotel Workers’ Union
Akron
Goodyear Tire
Baby Virginia Dell custody awarded to new parents
Judge Carmen E. Brazil granted custody to Maurice and Mrs. White in a hearing lasting one day. The Whites, theater manager Maurice White and his wife, will keep the infant’s given name Virginia Dell. Four couples had sought to adopt the foundling left in a hospital yard.
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Lufkin
Virginia Dell
Carmen E. Brazil
Maurice White
White
Clyde Creighton Convicted of Mail Fraud Sentenced
Clyde Creighton oil promoter convicted of mail fraud was sentenced to eighteen months in a reformatory in El Reno Oklahoma by Federal Judge William H. Atwell.
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Dallas
Texas
Clyde Creighton
el Reno
Okla
William H. Atwell
Tragic vault door accident at Panhandle Laundry claims Eakens
Edward Eakens 22 city laundry clerk died after a vault door fell while he worked the combination. Witnesses say he tugged the door to test it and it snapped from its mounting crushing his lower body. Firemen and workers moved the heavy door but he was dead at the scene. Funeral services set for this afternoon at 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Edward Eakens
Northwest Texas Hospital
Eakens
Edward
Douglas C. Jones
Neill Singleton
C. D. Coffee
Coffee
Singleton
Clay Thornton
Countess Barbara Hutton Improves After Illness
London reports Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz Reventlow remains seriously ill after giving birth to a son. A Home bulletin today says she is progressing satisfactorily with no new official update since yesterday.
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London
Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow
Schools to Stay Closed in Jefferson County
All Jefferson County schools will remain closed for another week due to the influenza epidemic gripping the area. The decision was announced by school officials in Beaumont on March 3.
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Beaumont
Jefferson County
Sharecropper Freed in Arkansas Controversy Case
Charges against Ward Rogers a 25 year old former minister and central figure in last years East Arkansas landlord sharecropper conflicts were dismissed in circuit court at prosecutors request in Harrisburg Arkansas.
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Harrisburg
Ark
Ward Rogers
East Arkansas
Plans To Entertain Southwestern Cattlemen Nearing Completion
Plans for the Texas Southwestern Cattle Raisers convention near completion as Panhandle hosts prep three day session. Gov Allred to speak at opening with Gov Allred promising 10 gallon hat and fanciest boots. Col Ernest O Thompson to join program alongside Dick Kleberg and other state figures.
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Panhandle
Harvey Allen
Pate
James V. Allred
Texas
Allred
Ernest O. Thompson
R. M
Dick) Kleberg
Statue Row Over Buffalo Bill Statue in Dallas Court
In Dallas March 3 a federal judge cited the Buffalo Bill statue controversy before newly naturalized citizens. Judge W. H. Atwell urged harmony and noted protests by groups linked to the Confederacy against placing the statue in the Texas Central Exposition Museum of Fine Arts. He did not name the scout or organizations involved.
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Dallas
Buffalo Bill
United States District Court
W. H. Atwell
Tral Exposition
Museum of Fini
Arts
America
Cal
United Daughters of the Confederacy
William F. Cody
U. D
Associated Press
Good wheat crop seen in Southwest as dust bowl fades
Good news comes from Garden City Kansas as Greening wheat fields revive hope for a 1926 crop. State inspector Tom Armstrong reports 75 percent survive winter and 50 percent in good condition across Kansas. Oklahoma Panhandle losses reach fifty percent. rain needed for revival.
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Garden City
Kans
Kansas
Tom B. Armstrong
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Mrs Roosevelt avoids black eye after Hyde Park spill
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt told reporters that she nearly sustained a black eye after skidding on a hill at Hyde Park with her daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger. She said she scraped her forehead and eye a little but was unhurt.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anna Roosevelt Boettiger
Hyde Park
N. Y
Embargo on Argentina Beef Stays in Effect
Jay Taylor reports from Washington that the United States will not lift the beef embargo on Argentina. Cattlemen fear importation could reintroduce foot and mouth disease, with Panhandle Livestock Association and Texas-Southwestern Cattle Raisers' Association voicing protests.
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Argentina
United States
Jay Taylor
Washington
Mr. Taylor
Ben
Tom Connally
Panhandle Livestock Association
Texas-Southwestern Cattle Raisers’ Association
New Habitat of Farry Man Found
Arno B. Cammerer announced discovery in Texas of a new habitat of pre historic man in Longhorn Caverns state park near Burnet. Dr. Charles N. Gould found arrow points metates and animal bones indicating shelters and homes in trap caves habitat rich in remains.
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Washington
Arno B. Cammerer
Park Service
Texas
Cammerer
Charles N. Gould
Longhorn Caverns State Park
Burnet
Longhorn Caverns
Gould
Dust pall sweeps over all Arizona
A heavy dust pall from the Plains states enveloped Nogales and drifted into Mexico. Mountains were obscured by noon and the dust appeared to be increasing as the U.S. Weather Bureau in Phoenix reported a dust pall over all of Arizona.
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Nogales
Ariz
Plains States
Mexico
U.S. Weather Bureau
Phoenix
Arizona
Derelict Ship Frozen in Alaskan Ice Sparks Theories
In Barrow Alaska a two masted schooner lies trapped in the Arctic ice off Point Barrow. Natives and whites debate whether it could be one of seven whalers missing for 50 years or the Baychimo. Eskimo and native observers persist in identifying the vessel amid uncertainty.
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Barrow
Alaska
Point Barrow
Eskimos
Claire Oakpeha
Wiley Post
Oakpeha
Bill Solomon
Charles D. Brower
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