Christmas War Across Italy and Ethiopia
The AP reports Christmas under war strains as Italy and Ethiopia battle near the Tembian front. In Rome mood is grim while troops fight. in Asmara soldiers exchange modest gifts. Haile Selassie sends a peace prayer from Deasure. Mussolini plays Santa to Masawa troops with cargoes of cigarettes, cake, and cognac.
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Ethiopia
Europe
League of Nations
East Africa
Asmara
Eritrea
Africa
Deasure
Haile Selassie
Fihiopia
America
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Rome
Santa Claus
Massawa
Pyeatt Last Rites Not Yet Arranged
Burial rites for Teresa Pyeatt 73 who died yesterday at 2510 Houston Street are pending. The Amarillo resident leaves seven sons and three daughters with relatives in Virginia Arizona California Oklahoma and California. The body is in care of N. H. Grigas & Sons Funeral Home.
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Houston Street
Boby
N. 8
Grigas & Sons
Pyeatt
Amarillo
The
Baptist Church
Bho
Carl Pyeatt
Charleston
Fred Pyeatt
Ruby, Ariz
Douglass Pyeatt
el Paso
Earl Pyeatt
Imperial
Calif
Hugh Pyeatt
Los Angeles
Third Avenue
Polk Street
Will H. Warren
Cedar Rapids
Ellen Wareren
L. E F. McDowell
Lubbock
J. 8. Collings
Vernon
W. C. Pryor
Status of NRA Is Same Says League
The American Liberty League said Roosevelt’s NRA abolition order on January 1 does not alter the status of some 1400 NRA employees or the fundaments of the economic program. It will drop the NRA title while keeping most payrolls under the receded act until it expires on April 1, 1936.
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Washington
American Liberty League
League
Roosevelt
NRA
Lost luncheon cloth and missing items in Amarillo notes
A reader seeks return of a luncheon cloth found in Amarillo with description requested for identification. Other notices include a job request, a missing girl inquiry, and a brown coin purse lost between Fifth and Eighth Avenue on Polk Street with over $6 and a senior annual order.
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Tack
Amarillo
Mme
Stratford
Texas
Fifth and
Eighth Avenue
Polk Street
Radio schedules and Christmas deaths in Kentucky and Oklahoma
A grain of details from Dec 25 listings notes a WPA foreman and boxer Mack Jordan dies from a Clay County shooting. Survivor family statements follow Cedar Rapids ties. Oklahoma reports Don Wright and Fred Gore killed in a rural highway crash near Clinton. Gore and Wright identified among Webb residents.
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Mack Jordan
Clay City
Clayton Hall
Powell County
Jordan
Oklahoma
Clinton
Okla
Here
Don Wright
Webb
Fred Gore
Wright
Gore
Wreck continues as fiancé mourns in Amarillo
The couple, to be married in January, faced tragedy after midnight when Mack Warren and his fiancée learned of a fatal crash. Warren, a former Chickasha employee and long-time Amarillo resident, had recently started a men’s clothing store after moving from the Louie location to the Amarillo Building on Polk Street.
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Mack Warren
Amarillo
Chickasha
Oklo
Louie
Warren
Polk Street
Toddsenious Escort Mystery Stuns Community
Details emerge on Miss Todd's December 15 death from carbon monoxide as Mrs. Helen Ainsworth a hat shop employee testifies to the grand jury about the escort who was to take her to a party at the Wallace Fords on December 16.
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Wallace Fords
Miss Todd
Helen Ainsworth
Ainsworth
Grand Jury
Screen Star Weds Doctor in Yuma Wedding
Claudette Colbert and Dr. Joel J. Pressman wed in Yuma Arizona after a Hollywood ceremony. The couple, ages 28 and 34, plan to join Colbert’s mother at Christmas dinner in Hollywood. Justice of the Peace Earl A Freeman noted the couple’s happiness.
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Hollywood
Calif
Claudette Colbert
Screen
Joel J. Pressman
Hollywood Hills
Los Angeles
Yuma
Ariz
Justice
Miss Colbert
Justice of the Peace
Earl A. Freeman
Christmas at Miley home marks Pat’s quiet holiday
In Chicago a Christmas scene centers on Patricia Maglie, age 30, who has slept since 1922. The Miley family shares a dinner and gifts while the great grandmother and young Retta Jane celebrate. Pat’s awakening remains elusive as others enjoy the day. In Washington, the Roosevelt White House conducts a bustling Christmas with a Dickens reading and family gatherings as officials spend the holiday in or near the capital.
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Chicago
Santa Claus
Miley
Patricia Maglie
Pat
Gladys Hansen
Peter Miley
Sarah Isett
Retta Jane
Isete
Pat Dugan
Peter
Charles
Retta
Jane Pat
Washington
White House
Sara
Roosevelt
James Roosevelt
Curtis
Eleanor Dall
John Boettiger
New York
Hauptmann Family Christmas Day Plans in Bronx
Christmas was observed irregularly as he ate breakfast in silence and read late through the night. He heard carols including Stille Nacht from his German homeland. His wife Anna and their son Mannfried will spend the day in their Bronx apartment. Mrs Hauptmann said a prison rule restricts Sunday and holiday visits.
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Sandringham
England
George V
Royal Castle
Europe
George
Mary
Anna
Theiir
Mannfried
Will
Bronx
N. Y
Hauptmann
Christmas Jail Visit Endures Quiet City Heroism
In Dallas on Christmas Day a ragged mother, with a starving baby, sought her jailed husband for a holiday reunion. Sheriff Smoot Bchmid fed, clothed, and funded the mother and child, then contacted charities for lasting relief. The scene unfolds amid a backdrop of officials in Washington returning to work.
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Dallas
Smoot Bchmid
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