Italo Ethiopian War Amba Aradam victory boosts position
Italian regulars and Fascist militia clear Amba Aradam after defeating 80 000 Ethiopian troops. The victory opens a path toward Amba Alagi as the next objective while Italians secure Enderta near Makale providing passes to Tembien. Marshal Badoglio oversees operations from Doghea Pass.
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United Press
Reynolds Packard
U.P
Amba Aradam
Amba Alagi
Enderta
Makale
Tembien
Ras Siyoum
Doghea Pass
Pietro Badoglio
Spain rocked by post election riots and jail mutiny
After yesterday's general election, Spain faced grave disorder with one death and four injured in Madrid during clashes between demonstrators and police. In Cartagena 900 prisoners mutinied, killing a warden and setting a jail fire, as riots spread and a state of alarm or martial law loomed.
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Lester Ziffer
Madrid
Spain
Cartagena
Puerto del Sol
Madrid University
Niceto Alcala Zamora
Manuel Portela Valladares
Catalonia
Probe opens into conditions at Illinois Twin Penal Institutions
In Joliet on February 17 a governor’s citizens committee began a sweeping probe of prison conditions at Illinois Twin Penal Institutions. Ten investigators met at Stateville prison after the Richard Loeb razor slaying, while Will County Grand Jury was convened to consider charges against James Day, the inmate who admitted slashing Loeb.
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Joliet
Henry Horner
Citizens’ Committee
Illinois
Richard Loeb
Chicago
Stateville
Will County
James Day
Loeb
County Tax Rate Remains at 62 Cents Per 100
The 1936 tentative county tax rate is set at 62 cents per $100 valuation, unchanged from last year, by commissioners in session. The rate will be officially fixed next August. Election judges for the expected abnormal ballot count were to be named today. The county operates 27 ballot boxes, all but one requiring four judges.
Japan Says Russia Plans Wave of Consulate Withdrawals
Tokyo reports from the foreign office say Russia will pull all consulates from Manchukuo except Harbin, seen as a response to a three year dispute over Japanese goals in Manchukuo. Officials stressed the move is not war preparation and note competing Soviet posts remain. The regime also censored domestic press to prevent escalation of fears after border clashes.
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Glenn Babb
Associated Press
Tokyo
Japanese Foreign Office
Hsinking
Russia
Harbin
Manchoukuo
Manchouquan
Manchukuo
Khabarovsk
Nikolskassarisk
Verkhneudinsk
Irkutsk
Glagovestchensk
Chita
Manchuquo
Mukden
Tsitsikar
Heiho
Manchuk
Pogranichnaya
Manchouquo
Manchouguo-Outer Mongolia
Rich woman and lawyer push Hauptmann confession
In Trenton, Evalyn Walsh McLean and Samuel Leibowitz joined New Jersey Governor and Justice T W Trenchard to press for the Lindbergh baby killer’s confession and looming death sentence. In Longview, Carl L Estes remained in critical condition after stomach surgery and oxygen support.
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Bruno
Samuel Leibowitz
Bruno Hauptmann
Leibowitz
New Jersey
Trenton
N. J
America
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Thomas
W. Trenchard
Lindbergh
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Longview
U.P
Carl L. Estes
Dillard Estes
Rochester
Minn
First McGurn Clue Discovered by Cops
Chicago police found the automobile of mobster Machinegun Jack McGurn two days after his boss Al Capone rival was killed at a bowling alley. The abandoned car yielded two keys on a ring with three car keys and hinted at a safe deposit box. Threats against McGurn's widow led officers to guard Louise Rolf known as his alibi. Twenty people were present at the scene but no witnesses identified the shooters.
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Chicago
Louise Rolf
McGurn
St. Valentine Day
George “Bugs” Moran
Byrd Lectures Tickets Go On Sale In Amarillo
Ticket sales for Admiral Byrd illustrated lectures open Tuesday morning at City Drug No 1 on Polk Street. Equipment will display 9000 feet of film from the bottom of the world at Municipal Auditorium. Matinee at 3 30 will be for school children. adult night show priced higher with several tiers. The Amarillo run, arranged by the Tri State Fair, has drawn capacity crowds.
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Admiral Byrd
City Drug No. 1
Polk Street
Municipal Auditorium
Amarillo
Texas
Crops, Livestock Face Cold Front in West Texas Panhandle
A sharp norther swept into Amarillo and the Panhandle bringing spitting snow and record lows. Temperatures fell from 19 to 6 degrees with noon at 6 and a forecast of 4 degrees tonight. Warnings urged farmers to protect livestock as West Texas braces for continued cold and clearing skies.
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Northery
Amarillo
Panhandle
H. T. Collman
Federal Weatherman
Texas Panhandle
Fort Worth & Denver
Texline
Kirkland
Childress
Fisherman watches line go cold off Palm Beach rails
The scene recalls Alfred E. Smith’s famous take a walk moment as a fish swings, but the lure fails to attract interest. A small craft sits near the water while a fisherman peers over the railing, puzzled by the empty bite.
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Palm Beach
Senate Approves Funds Measure and Taxi Victim Update
The Senate approves a massive appropriation totaling 2.61 billion dollars with 1.73 billion for bonuses and 879.75 million for government offices in the next fiscal year. Separately a taxi collision in Canyon injures Mary Lou Peters, 18, unconscious with skull fracture and internal injuries.
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Washington
Senate
House
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and Surroundings
Forecast for Amarillo and nearby areas calls for fair, slightly colder tonight with a low around 4 degrees and warmer, fair conditions Tuesday. West Texas shows partly cloudy skies, colder tonight in the southeast, 22 to 26 degrees, with rising temperatures northward Tuesday and livestock warnings in the north and east. New Mexico expected unsettled tonight and Tuesday with probable snow in the fast and north-central regions and colder tonight.
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Texas
Panhandle
U. S. Weather Bureau
Texas Panhandle
Amarillo
West
New Mexico
Sabotage suspected in spread of dairy tuberculosis
Washington February 17 The U S Department of Agriculture investigated sabotage linked to a tuberculosis outbreak at the Beltsville Maryland dairy research center where 82 of 378 cows in one herd fell ill. Two young cows were found beaten to death in a Beltsville field as officials consider where the tubercle bacille may have originated.
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Washington
U.P
Department of Agriculture
Department
National Research Center
Maryland
Beltsville
Ellesville
Death claims Roy D. Chapin in Detroit
Roy D. Chapin president of Hudson Motor Car Co and former commerce secretary under Hoover died in Detroit after pneumonia illness. He left college 35 years ago to build the infant auto industry and once told R E Olds he could photograph Oldsmobile catalogs.
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Detroit
U.P
Roy D. Chapin
Hudson Motor Car Company
Chapin
Hoover
Publicity May Lift Movie Off of Shelf
Hollywood reports that publicity may revive Sinclair Lewis novel It Can t Happen Here from shelving at MGM. Louis B Mayer says talk could lead to immediate production though Mayer notes no order from Will Hays and cites financial shelving as reason.
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Hollywood
Sinclair Lewis
Louis B. Mayer
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Will Hays
Lewis
Germany
Mayer
Hays
Power stock surge fades as TVA decision read
A surge in electric power shares followed Chief Justice Hughes reading the TVA decision. Power and holding company common stocks jumped $1 to $4 and some preferreds up to $9, then lost much of the gains as the reading continued and more quotes appeared.
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New York
Haoge
Hughes
TVA
Wall Street
Court Upholds TVA Grid Sale Ruling in Final New Deal Case
The Supreme Court upheld a contract by Alabama Power for selling transmission lines to the Tennessee Valley Authority. It limits its decision to the case at hand, preserving government rights to wider power markets. Hughes delivered the one hour opinion shaping the $12 billion utilities sector.
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James W. Douth
Washington
Supreme Court
TVA
Wilson Dam
Muscle Shoals
McReynolds
Hughes
Congress
Alabama Power Company
Tennessee Valley Authority
High Tribunal
Kincade Siblings Improve From Illness and Injury
Kay Kincade 18 son of Mr and Mrs A W Kincade of 2606 Hughes Street improved today at St Anthony's Hospital after critical pneumonia. Patti Jo eight year old sister injured in a Texarkana automobile crash in November 4 is improving rapidly and spoke her first words last Saturday. The mother Mrs A W Kincade had stayed in Texarkana and is now in Amarillo at her son's bedside.
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Kay Kincade
A. W. Kincade
Hughes Street
St. Anthony's Hospital
Patti Jo
Kay
Texarkana
Ark
Amarillo
Tom Cotten Named to Texas State Planning Board
Amarillo real estate operator and civic leader Tom Cotten was appointed to the Texas State Planning Board to succeed the late Wilbur Hawk. Governor Allred said Cotten was drafted for the work and would cooperate with a statewide program for resource conservation and public works handling. Spencer A. Wells of Lubbock was named director for Texas Technological College.
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Austin
U.P
Tom Cotten
Amarillo
State Planning Board
Wilbur Hawk
James V. Allred
Spencer A. Wells
Lubbock
Cotten
The
Globe
Allred
Strange Radio Hiss and Cosmic Messages Spark Debate
The Globe editors reference Arthur Brisbane and Jack McGurn while noting a hissing radio signal from deep space may carry important information. Science panels compare celestial broadcasts to a whistling grandfather to illustrate our limited understanding of the Milky Way and its 30,000 million suns.
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Milky Way
Isaiah
Legion Open House Repeats at American Legion Home
Open house returns at the American Legion Home in the Municipal Auditorium with Legion officials assisting veterans in completing bonus applications. Extra clerks join Adjutant Floyd Sloan and others to provide this service to all service men seeking benefits.
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American Legion
Municipal Auditorium
Legion
Floyd Sloan
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