Italians Enter Addis Ababa as Ethiopians Fall
Four thousand foreigners in Addis Ababa feel relief as Italian troops seize the city, passing the British legation amid barbed wire defenses. Reports from London say Britain faces pressure to punish Italy, with Prime Minister Baldwin revealing bitter humiliation and calls to reassess League of Nations actions and sanctions.
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England
G. H. Anderson
London
Great Britain
Italy
Addis Ababa
Stanley Baldwin
League of Nations Union
Washington
United States
Ethiopia
Primaries Run Across California South Dakota and More
United Press reports Governor Alf Landon seeks the Republican nomination with primaries in California and South Dakota. Roosevelt leads in Maryland Democratic results while California and South Dakota delegate battles unfold. Indiana and Alabama also held primaries with Roosevelt dominant in Alabama and Indiana to nominate national convention delegates.
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Alf M. Landon
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South Dakota
Maryland
Roosevelt
Col
Henry C. Breckinridge
New York
Frank F. Merriam
William Randolph Hearst
Hoover
Indiana
Labor leader backs Roosevelt renewal at AFL talk
William Green of the American Federation of Labor urged re-election of President Roosevelt at a National Women's Trade Union League convention in Washington. He praised the NRA and Social Security program, warned against changing leadership, and urged continued pursuit of a broad social security system for all workers.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
National Women's Trade Union League
Destiny
Green
NRA
Supreme Court
New Deal
Butler Poke Sidetracks Pulitzer Prize Squabble
The Pulitzer prize awards sparked a clash after Columbia University president Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler criticized photographers at a journalism dinner. The Press Photographers Association said Butler’s remarks showed publicity hunger and insults to guests. The banquet proceeded with minimal dissent aside from the incident.
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Butler
Robert Musel
New York
Press Photographs Association
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Columbia School of Journalism
Amarillo Prepares for West Texas Chamber Convention
Amarillo dresses for the West Texas Chamber of Commerce convention May 11 13 the eighteenth annual meeting the first here in 10 years delegates to state convention to be elected for Potter County advance registration targeted at 3500 visitors lodging shortages addressed by housing chair John Xk Boyce and committee head Bill Gilstrap with input from regional publishers and host city officials
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Amarillo
West Texas
John Xk. Boyce
Bill Gilstrap
Chinese Girl Flies Snap Roll Like Pro Diarist Says
In Los Angeles a small 100 pound Chinese girl named Katherine Sui Fun Cheung flies a red and white biplane from a local airport performing stunts including the snap roll. The Globe notes Arthur Brisbane’s column explores bold ventures and views Italy as Cromwellian, with editor’s disclaimer about opinions.
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Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Los Angeles
Calif
He-Man
Katherine Sui Fun Cheung
Traffic Art Cartoon Warns to Stop Before Intersections
A vintage traffic cartoon urges drivers to stop before entering through streets. It notes that in 1935 more than one third of auto accidents happened at intersections, with 6050 killed and 337,980 injured.
Heat record eyed as temperature nears ninety
Weatherman H. T. Collman predicted a new yearly heat record today after noon. The thermometer read 87 degrees at 12 o'clock with an expected rise above 90 degrees this afternoon. The current year’s high stood at 90 degrees, set on April 15.
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H. T. Collman
One In Four Farmers Live On Government Aid
Government statistics show about one in four U S farmers relies on loans or direct grants from the government to earn a living from the soil. Most aid comes from the Farm Credit Administration with the Resettlement Administration providing the rest. If AAA and soil conservation benefits were counted, the figure would exceed fifty percent. Nearly 3,000,000 farmers participated.
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United Press
Washington
The
United
Farm Credit Administration
Resettlement Administration
AAA
Compila
Townsend March Begins to Lobby Pension Bill
A Townsend march to Washington, sponsored by the Townsend National Legion, starts with 10,000,000 endorsements planned for the McGroarty old age pension bill. A caravan of three trucks and about 20 cars travels via San Antonio, Texas, Kansas City and Columbus, Ohio, with nightly mass meetings en route to May 17 in Washington.
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Los Angeles
Congress
Washington
Townsend National Legion
San Antonio
Texas
Kansas City
Columbus
Ohio
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Amarillo and vicinity: fair tonight, Wednesday partly cloudy. West Texas: partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. New Mexico: partly cloudy to night and Wednesday, cooler in extreme south central portion tonight. Temperature extremes Amarillo until 1 pm today 64 and 84 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
South Central
Rome erupts as Italy orders mass rally after Ethiopia victory
Sirens and bells in Rome signal major mobilization after Addis Ababa falls and Il Duce calls for a national adunata. Eden declines to chair League Council, saying Britain should not preside during the Italo Ethiopian dispute. Italy mobilizes millions in military displays across 17,329 cities as Mussolini insists on readiness for further actions.
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Geneva
Anthony Eden
League of Nations
League Council
Chile
Eden
League
Great Britain
War Ministry
Addis Ababa
Italy
Ethiopia
Il Duce
Europe
British minister reports U S legation evacuated in London siege
In London on May 5 Sir Sidney Barton announced the United States legation had been safely evacuated. American minister Cornelius Engert his wife and staff, with four navy wireless crew members and refugees, had endured a four day siege by rioting bandits in the dangerous quarter awaiting the Italian column.
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Frederick Kuh
United Press
London
Sidney Barton
Foreign Office
United States Legation
Cornelius van H. Engert
Legation
Engert
Navy
Barton
Ital
Ethiopian war not over after Haile Selassie fled
United Press dispatch notes the Ethiopian war extends beyond the emperor’s flight, with Italy set to consolidate gains over a decade. It cites feudal corruption, guerrilla resistance, and the enemy’s advancing troops into Addis Ababa, alongside international responses and exile movements.
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Haile Selassie
Edward W. Heattie
United Press
Addis Ababa
Enya
Beattie
Edward W. Beattie
New York
U.P
Italy
Ethiopia
Europe
Djibouti
French Somaliland
Red Sea
Palestine
Jerusalem
Solomon
Ras Nassibu
Wehib Pasha
Makonnen Abeba Damptu
Enterprise
Selassie
Alexandria
Egypt
Everett
A. Colson
Vevey
Switzerland
Colson
Lake
Tana
Blue Nile
What Kind of a Country Is This AMARILLO MAN GETS FIRST-HAND DESCRIPTION
Walter M. Craig cites a letter from William M. Cramp describing Ethiopia. Addis Ababa sits at 8000 feet, with mountainous terrain and an area around 400000 square miles. Eastern fringe barren, uplands temperate with June to October rainfall, about 26 inches yearly. Population around seven and a half million, largely non Negro Africans with Semitic ancestry.
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Ethiopia
Walter M. Craig
William M. Cramp
United States
Addis Ababa
France
Texas
Child Found Slain in Waterville Maine Suburb
In Waterville Maine on May 5 the body of 7 year old Mary Troulx was found bound and gagged in alder bushes by the Messalonskee stream. Officials say she was strangled and assaulted, with a bow knot and twine matching a prior similar crime. The death echoes the October Knights case involving Annie Knights, 12, with similar methods.
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Waterville
Mary Troulx
Messalonskee
Annie K. Knights
Fairfield
Napoleon Bisson
Death Comes to Milo Reno
Milo Reno Des Moines farm leader and former head of the National Farmers' Holiday Association died in Excelsior Springs Missouri. He had come for convalescence on March 7 after an influenza attack and, after a period of illness, his death was reported today. A notable critic of New Deal farm policy, Reno had been ill with pneumonia in recent days.
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Excelsior Springs
U.P
Milo Reno
Des Moines
National Farmers’ Holiday Association
Reno
New Deal
Attempt to free Capone may be made in Chicago
Chicago may pursue a writ of habeas corpus to challenge Al Capone’s confinement at Alcatraz. Lawyers consider a federal loophole, if available, with an opening move in U S District Court in San Francisco. Capone serves 11 years for federal crimes on the island.
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Chicago
al Capone
Alcatra Prison
California
Capone
San Francisco
Island
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