Emperor Haile Selassie appeals for world support in impending Ethiopian conflict
Emperor Haile Selassie I urged Ethiopians to back Britain and France against Italy and seek a pacific settlement as war looms. He noted Italy sending troops and war materiel to its colonies and expressed hope for a peaceful resolution despite escalating tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Beattie
Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie I
Britain
France
Italy
Ethiopia
Whimsey Unlucky Marriage Cancelled in 13th Hour Aug 1244
A Barcelona wedding ends before it begins as Maria Oltra’s father disrupts the ceremony declaring the union off. Manuel Castro Botella insists on proceeding, leaving Maria to face a sudden choice and a day of unsettled plans as bills for flowers and music arrive with a newly furnished home.
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Barcelona
Spain
Manuel Castro Botella
Maria Oltra
Maria
Manuel
Inflation tax debate alarms Senate and House leaders
Senate Finance Committee defers final vote on a revised income tax plan as Senator Robinson brands revisions as complicating the situation and prolonging the session. House leaders, Borah, and Chairman Doughton criticize the bill for hurting small taxpayers and deviating from the President's message while debating tax thresholds.
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Senate Finance Committee
Robinson
House
Senate
Borah
Idaho
Doughton
Ways and Means
Finance Committee
Willard and Simkhovitch Pursue Human Icicle Experiment
Dr Ralph S Willard and Stephen Simkhovitch press ahead with a plan to freeze Simkhovitch into a state of suspended animation despite protests. Simkhovitch a Hollywood writer, 34, says he will risk life for science while Willard aims to revive him later and claims tuberculosis germs and possibly other diseases could be destroyed in this process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Calif
Ralph S. Willard
Stephen Simkhovitch
Simkhovitch
Willard
Dust Grimness Fades as Heat Toll Rises Across Plains
Dust storms shroud Amarillo and Garden City while heat spread through the plains. Weather observer notes calm winds. Temperatures reach near 100 in Amarillo and 114 in Alva as forecasters predict clouds and showers. The season's heat deaths near two hundred with several states affected.
Big Session Seen for South Sens
A large turnout is expected at tonight's Plemons Shelby Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans meeting in the Civic Club Room Amarillo Hotel starting at 8. Commander C. B. Makeig notes three weeks remain to prepare for the 45th annual United Confederate Veterans reunion and calls for more volunteers for reception and entertainment. The Amarillo High School Band directed by Prof Oscar A. Wise will provide music with Old South themed selections. Mayor Ross D Rogers and Dr R S Killough are on the speaker lineup, with Makeig presiding. Civic workers and business people urged to attend.
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Plemons-Shelby
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Civic Club
Amarillo Hotel
C. 8
United Confederate Veterans
Amarillo
Oscar A. Wise
Old South
Ross D. Rogers
R. S. Killough
Makeig
Weeds Dug Out Of Courthouse Lawn
Nine county workers under ward foreman C A McDowell pulled vast quantities of crab grass dandelions and milkweed from the courthouse lawn through Thursday and into today two o clock to finish the three fourths block. The weed pulling was done by hand leaving the lawn clean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. McDowell
Ward
Guffey Coal Bill Approved by House Ways and Means
The Guffey coal stabilization bill passed the House Ways and Means Committee by a 12 to 11 vote. Two members abstained by answering present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guffey
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
More Mews and Page Nine Headlines
Summary unavailable due to fragmented OCR. Boxwell Bros. New Ambulance Egypt referenced alongside items on Mussolini Washington Hoover talks retail sales and dry vote urged. Police chief Texas noted.
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Mussolini
Washington
Hoover
Texas
Hitler Takes Lead In Drive For Total Nazi State
Adolf Hitler emerged from Bavaria to rally the Nazi base behind a fight for total victory. He claimed divine blessing for Nazism and urged supporters to crush all who defy them including Catholics Protestants Jews Free Masons war veterans and Socialists and Communists. The message reached millions through the regime controlled press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Adoloh Hitler
Bavaria
Hitler
Rosenheim
Hook defends relatives on government relief
Rep. Frank EF. Hook of Michigan says he is not ashamed that his father and three brothers have received or did receive government relief. He explains they applied before he sought Congress and that they are legitimately on relief, adding he had no role in their enrollment or continuation.
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Tronwood
Mich
Frank EF. Hook
Michigan
Hook
Congress
Japan Army Chief Killed by Sword Attack in Tokyo
Maj. Gen Tetsuzan Nagata, head of the war office military affairs bureau, was killed in his Tokyo office when a lieutenant colonel attacked him with a sword following an angry dispute. The incident raises questions about motive and circumstances surrounding the assassination. The same date reports a separate fire in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, claiming the death of Mrs. W B Tetamore.
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Tokyo
U.P
Tetsuzan Nagata
Bureau of Military Affairs
The
War Office
Nagata
Stroudsburg
W. B. Tetamore
Staten Island
N. Y
Kuhlenberg College
Paradise Valley
Birthday for Drummer Boy in Civil War
Brig. Gen. John Lincoln Clem A. S. A. retired, observed his 84th birthday in San Antonio Texas. The longtime child hood hero ran away from Newark Ohio to enlist at age 10, joined the 22 Michigan regiment as a drummer boy in May 1862, becoming the youngest Union soldier.
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Washington
Southland
Shiloh
John Lincoln Clem
Clem
San Antonio
Tex
War Department
Newark
Johnny
Michigan
Labor's Share Of Nation's Income Rises In 1934
The Commerce Department reports labor received 33.109 billion dollars of 49.44 billion total national income in 1934, about 67 percent. After relief wages of 1.394 billion, regular labor share stands at 64.2 percent, up from 65 percent in 1929. Total income rose from 44.431 billion in 1933 to 49.44 billion in 1934, still below the 1929 level of 78.576 billion.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Community Chest To Name Directors In Amarillo
Two new Amarillo Community Chest directors will be named at tonight’s 8 o’clock meeting at the Chest headquarters in the Amarillo Building. They replace Rabbi Perry Nussbaum and Gene Setile who recently moved from Amarillo. The directors will review the coming year’s budget and finalize plans for the fundraising campaign to run in September. Each board member is urged to attend, announced by secretary Fred DeCoster.
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Amarillo
Borah Favored as 1936 Republican Nominee in National Poll
A nationwide poll of Republican county chairmen and local leaders favors Sen. William F. Borah of Idaho as the 1936 Republican presidential nominee. The survey of 1,565 replies from 1,036 counties also shows Col. Frank Knox second and Gov. Alf Landon third, with Alfred E. Smith among the few cross-party mentions.
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Washington
William F. Borah
Idaho
Robert H. Lucas
Republican National Committee
Lucas
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago
Alf Landon
Kansas
Herbert Hoover
Charles A. Lindbergh
Winant
New Hampshire
Caulfield
Missouri
Merriam
California
Otis Glen
Illinois
Risk
Rhode Island
Alfred F. Smith
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Nearby
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight and Tuesday in West Texas and the Panhandle. Unsettled in New Mexico with possible showers and storms in eastern areas tonight and Tuesday. Temperatures ranged from 73 to 79 at the clock today.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Toto
Father Killed, Boy Sells Papers To Buy Flowers
Eugene Troupe, 19, manning a Dallas street corner, sells newspapers with the line about a Dallas man shot to death. He says he must sell many papers to buy a floral wreath for his father Floyd H. Troupe, 38, killed last night in a dispute over $10.
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Dallas
Eugene Troupe
Court House
Floyd H. Troupe
Robinson Says Hoover Wrong
Washington report notes Senator Robinson Democrat leader counters Hoover critique of the New Deal. He says administration aims to overcome the effects of Hoover policies while Roosevelt faces calls to outline constitutional changes before Congress adjourns. Republicans weigh Hoover as a potential candidate vs public opposition to the New Deal.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Robinson
Hoover
Roosevelt
Representative Treadway
Massachusetts
General Motors Unveils 50 Million Expansion Plan
General Motors announces a 50 million expansion program with Alfred P. Sloan Jr. stating a more assured outlook for profitable development. Most funds will go to machinery as the company releases its first half year report.
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New York
General Motors Corporation
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Leads Procession To Prove Spiritualism In Brooklyn
Father Divine the Harlem evangelist led a 4000 strong procession in Brooklyn to answer a challenge to prove his spiritual powers. Kiowa Costonie who issued the challenge did not attend his tent temple. Costonie arrived later by green automobile and called Father Divine a faker while claiming to uplift the race.
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New York
Father Divine
Harlem
Brooklyn
Kiowa Costonie
James Brooks
Costonie
Salt Lake City
Utah
Pather Divine
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Paris
Havas
Niagara Falls
Ont
Lew Stewart
Stewart
Philadelphia
Academy of Natural Sciences
Toughski
Warsaw
Japan
Arthur Brisbane
King Features
Cate
Livver
Hamobile
America
Globe
Brisbane
American Federation of Labor
Astor Project
Astor
State Building Trades Council
State Federan of Labor
Ohio
Solo
Bureau of Air Commerce
Langley Field
Bureau
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Fred Weick
Aeronautics Committee, and Associates
Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Corporation
Hagerstown
Waldo Waterman
Santa Monica
Waterman
Hammond Aircraft Corporation
Ypsilanti, Mich
Curtiss- Wright Airplane Company
Robertson
Fair Commerce
Waldo Waterown
Associated Press
Middle West
Garden City
Kas
H. T. Collman
Pikes Peak
Colorado
Los Angeles
Alva
Okla
Enid
Sherman
South Sens
Boxwell Bros. New Ambulance
Frederick Ofchsner
United Press
Solon
Relief
FHA
Long-Bell Lbr. Co
Community Chest
Grossoto
Ribolla
Kwiteherkikkin
Oklahoma City
S. A. Berrie
Muskogee
S. A. Berrie, Jr
Memphis
By Rader Winget
Gold Bloc Group
Holland
Switzerland
National Industrial Conference Board
General Motors
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