Five Italian Wedges
Italian and Ethiopian officials announce fall of Aksum and widespread killings by air bombs. Diplomatic ties rupture as Haile Selassie orders Italy's envoy to leave Rome and Ethiopian charges d affaires recalled. Italy seeks to defend Addis Ababa with 50,000 reinforcements and requests prayers from Catholic missions.
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Addis Ababa
Aksum
Haile Selassie
Luigi Vincigigliucci
Negradas Yesus
Rome
Ethiopia
Italy
Queen of Sheba
Gorahel
Gerlogubi
Taftarikatama
Jialmo
Cornelius van H. Enpert
United States
Legation
Mussolini
Vinci
Vinei
Magalo
Great Britain
France
Ethiopia War Front Reports Fierce Fighting Across Eritrea
Ethiopians launch a daring raid into Eritrea led by Haile Selassie Hugsa as Ras Siyoum battles Italian forces. Dispatches describe heavy clashes near Adigrat and a plan to raid the railway linking Asmara and Massawa amid widespread war talk at the League of Nations.
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Sidney J. Williams
United Press
London
U.P
Dedjazmatch
Haile Selassie Hugsa
Haile Selassie I
Eritrea
Aberas
Aaile
Ras Siyoum
Adigrat
Rome
Haile Selassie Hagsa
Addis Ababa
Adowk
Alle
Daily Chronicle
Ras Siroum
Asmara
Paris
Filhiopia
Parix Soir
Adi Ugri
Adi Kate
Adigat
Akum
Ethiopia
Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Council
Italy
League
Austria
Hungary
Brune Fights To Save Life Sales Tax Attack Defeated
In Austin on Oct 10 the Senate upheld a three percent sales tax amendment to the House chain store tax bill, ruling it an occupation tax. Senator Holbrook’s gross proceeds plan would exempt essentials but tax athletic events, with the measure facing debate over constitutional intent.
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Austin
Senate
Will M. Martin
Hillsboro
Olan R. van Zandt
Tioga
van Zandt
Sen
T. J
White slavery charges filed in federal court
Mary Virginia Adams a 15 year old Amarillo girl was allegedly abducted by J D Young Lloyd Knight and Lucille Knight alias Betty Knight from Amarillo to Clinton Oklahoma for immoral purposes The trio all of Shreveport La will be arraigned this afternoon The Knights and Young were indicted by a Potter County grand jury for Mann Act violations following an investigation by US District Attorney Frank F Taylor The Cherokee Indian girl Mary Adams told investigators the defendants persuaded her to leave home for prostitution See MANN ACT Page 5
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Mary Virginia Adams
Amarillo
United States
J. D. Young
Lloyd Knight
Lucille Knight
Betty Knight
Adams
Clinton
Okla
Shreveport
Billy Culwell
Mary Adams
Knights
Young
Roy Brewer
Potter County
U. S
Trial Postponed for Red Craig in Amarillo Murder Case
The murder trial of G A Red Craig, linked to the death of George Engman, was delayed as Craig’s attorney Clem Calhoun went to Pampa after a 200‑man venire reported to Judge E C Nelson. Engman died two days after a nightclub affray on the Canyon Highway in South Amarillo. George Sargent, jailed with Craig, was no billed by a Potter County grand jury. District Attorney Grady Hazlewood cited Jack Engman as a key witness.
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G. A
Red’ Craig
George Engman
Amarillo
Craig
Clem Calhoun
Pampa
E. C. Nelson
47Th District
Engman
Canyon Highway
Potter County
Randall County
George Sargent
Grady Hazlewood
Jack Engman
Amarillo Area Weather: Fair and Warmer. Temperature Range
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday, with a slight warmup. West Texas shows fair and colder in the south and east portions tonight, then fair and warmer in the north and central. New Mexico likewise fair tonight and Friday with temperature changes. Today’s high lows reach 47 to 63 as recorded. Yemiticherehvin Ph 251 Shirts 15¢.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Drowned stepdaughters confession shocks Michigan lake
Ferrin Rowland confessed to drowning his two young stepdaughters in Muddy Bloat Lake near Flint after being captured. Coroner Voorhees found drowning as the cause with no marks of beating. the women were tied with wire and weighted before being dumped into 25 feet of water. In Texas, George Bailey was killed in a highway crash near Mount Pleasant. In Washington, Treasury reports show New Deal spending continues at about $20 million daily, piling debt as administration defends fiscal policy.
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Italy
Ethiopia
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Benes
Baron Aloisi
League of Nations
League
Flint
Mid
Oakland County
Ferrin Rowland
St. Louis
J. Lee Voorhees
New England
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Mogenthan
New Deal
Treasury
Roosevelt
Woman Lectured on Driving While Drank
In 47th District Court Judge E C Nelson sentenced Mrs Olga Darnell to 60 days in jail with 1 year suspended for driving while drunk after a guilty plea. The judge imposed a 60 day driving ban and warned contempt if violated, citing her lack of prior felony conduct. Burglary charges against Darnell and Mrs Gene Guenera were dismissed by Assistant District Attorney Bob Underwood.
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47Th District Court
Olga Darnell
E. C. Nelson
Darnell
Nelson
Gene Guenera
Panhandle
Bob Underwood
Attorneys of German Begin New Campaign
Hauptmann's lawyers launch a Supreme Court appeal after New Jersey high court rejected their bid for reversal. Hauptmann remains in the death house awaiting the next steps as his wife Anna marks their tenth anniversary.
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Trenton
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Supreme Court of the United States
Court of Errors and Appeals
New Jersey
Hauptmann
Anna
New York
Bronx
C. Lloyd Fisher
Fort Worth man questioned in Am arillo skeleton case
Grady Slaton, 27, held in Fort Worth jail, denied knowledge of G Victor White's death after skeleton found in a secret grave near Amarillo. White disappeared February 18, 1932 after leaving 700 Polk Street with Slaton. Slaton, jailed for a Tulsa robbery convic tion, says he last saw White in Liberal Kansas.
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Grady Slaton
Fort Worth
G. Victor White
Amarillo
White
Polk Street
Vivian White
Eleventh Avenue
Slaton Slaton
State Penitentiary
Tulsa
Slaton
Liberal
Kans
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