Hoover Attacks Roosevelt Policy at Western Republican Rally
Former President Hoover condemned Roosevelt fiscal policy at a Spirit of 73C6 convention in Oakland. He argued a balanced budget in 1931 1932 would have laid the foundation for recovery years earlier, accusing Democrats of blocking revenue increases and expenditure cuts. He warned of rising deficits and inflation under the current administration.
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Oakland
Calif
Roosevelt
Hoover
Democratic Congress
Bay State Guard Shot During Confinement Escape
Concord Massachusetts police report guard Harry Denton was shot in the abdomen when five armed convicts escaped from Concord Reformatory. The inmates fled after the escape, were pursued by state troopers, and exchanged gunfire near the jail. Denton was hospitalized in critical condition at Emerson hospital.
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Concord
Mass
INS
Harry Denton
Concord Reformatory
Denton
Emerson Hospital
Civilian Air Mindedness Lags in Britain Amid RAF Expansion
London AP reports Britain’s Royal Air Force expands to rival Europe, yet civilians stay air minded only modestly. The air ministry notes civil aircraft rose by 38 in the past year, with most owned by commercial firms. Britain’s civil fleet totals 1,297, versus 1,933 in France and 1,578 in Germany.
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London
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
France
Germany
Recognition and Growth in Lifelong Friendship
A 1935 reflection on friendship by DE Newton explores how friends are found rather than made, through recognition or slow growth. It celebrates enduring bonds across distance, loss, and time, noting that even quarrels can forge stronger ties and that true friendship remains, even in absence, as living presences.
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John Oliver Hobbes
Titus
Chicago Faces Milk Famine Amid Farm Strike
A milk shortage looms in Chicago as farmers protests disrupt deliveries. An estimated half of the normal supply is halted, with armed guards escorting milk trains and trucks. Herman K. Slater died when struck by a truck during clashes while farmers demand $2.50 per hundredweight instead of the $1.75 agreed price.
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Chicago
Herman K. Slater
New Munster
Wis
Illinois
Wisconsin
Pure Milk Association
Kane
DeKalb
Lake
McHenry
Man Confesses Robbery Murder Of Salesman
State police at Lafayette say Herman Wohl aged 45 confessed to luring Luther Wells a 38 year old Fort Wayne bakery salesman to a lonely Delphi road where Wells was murdered and robbed Wohl a patron of the salesman, the confession covers the Thursday night crime.
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Logansport
Ind
Lafayette Barracks
Herman Wohl
Luther Wells
Frankfort
Delphi
Wohl
Two Robinsons Face Kidnapping Trial Monday
In Louisville federal court on Monday the trial of two Robins ons for the $50,000 kidnapping of Alice Speed Stoll proceeds. Thomas H. Robinson Jr. and his father Thomas H. Robinson Sr. face Lindbergh law charges including kidnapping and conspiracy with potential life or death penalty if convicted.
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Louisville
Alice Speed Stoll
Louisville Society
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Young Robinson
Department of Justice
Robinson
Lindbergh
Thomas” H.robinson
Nashville
Tenn
Indianapolis
United States Supreme Court
House
Joseph W. Burns
Cordell Hull
Hill McAlister
Tennessee
Six Crew Killed In Blast Aboard Oil Tanker
An engine room explosion on the oil tanker Federal injured six crew members as a steam valve blew off the starboard boiler fourteen miles off Galveston bar. The coast guard cutter Saranac towed the ship into port, with two injured in serious condition, while the vessel was bound from Houston to Mobile with oil.
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Galveston, Texas
Federal
Houston
Mobile
Galveston Bar
Coast Guard
Saranac
L. J. Hughes
James Holmes
The
Petroleum Navigation Company
Houson
Debate Over Rugg Social Science Texts Spurs Cedar Rapids Parents
Cedar Rapids parents question the Rugg social science course taught in local high schools. They worry about subtle textbook propaganda against capitalism and the current American government, and whether pride in U S traditions is labeled ignorance. The Gazette notes readers seek more information by examining the books themselves and understanding Harold Rugg's views on national progress.
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Cedar
Rapids
Cedar, Rapids
Gazette
the Gazette
Rugg
Harold Rugg
Italian Advance Reaches 100 Miles Into Ethiopia
Northern front reports Italian spearhead approaching Aduma and Adigrat after rapid movement of fewer than four days. Air power aids push with strafing runs, motorized units, and light tanks supporting infantry as Ethiopian reinforcements mobilize near Adigrat, 40 miles east of Aduwa. Count Galleazzo Ciano returns to base badly shot up after leading air raid.
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Ibas
Tedestin Pass
Ethiopia
Viat Asmara
Eris
Aduna
Galleazzo
Ciano
Mussolini
Il Duce
Air Corps
Propaganda
Aduwa
Adigrat
Sky Clipper Starts On Flight To Guam From San Francisco Bay
Pan American Airways pioneering Clipper ships launched from Alameda California at 4 59 p m CST on a 6482 mile three stop hop to Guam This longest over water flight will include brief stops at Honolulu Midway and Wake Islands The crew is led by Capt R O D Sullivan with J H Tilton Marius Lodeesen W A Wright W T Jarboe Fred Noonan and Harry R Canaday The flight follows prior transpacific missions as preparations for commercial service to China.
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Alameda Airport
Alameda
Calif
Pan American
Airways
Guam
San Francisco Bay
R. O. D. Sullivan
Honolulu
Midway Islands
Wake Islands
China
J. H. Tilton
Marius Lodeesen
W. A. Wright
W. T. Jarboe
Fred Noonan
Harry R. Canaday
Canaday
Cedar Rapids
Midway
Wake
Midocean
Transocean
Motions to Attack Woodbury Indictments Set for Monday
Sioux City AP reports that lawyers will argue motions Monday before Judge Earl Peters in Clarinda over indictments against former police officers Nile Luke Kirby Kerr and John Diebert. The motions challenge grand jury procedures, special prosecutors, and oath administration, asking that indictments be set aside.
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Sioux
City
Arguenta
Cas
Gram Fury Ik
Earl. Peters
Clarinda
Nile’ Luke
Forsling
H. M. Havner
Des Moines
Woodbury County
Havner
Carlos Goltz
Ole T. Naglestad
Luke
Roosevelt Studies European Situation Aboard U S Cruiser
President Franklin D Roosevelt used the U S S Houston as a floating office in the Gulf of Lower California. He reviewed Washington bulletins on European and domestic matters and approved 26 000 000 for the Pennsylvania WPA. The party fished in Magdalena bay after listening to a World Series broadcast while seeking anchorage.
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U. S. S. Houston
Gulf of Lower California
ULP
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington
Pennsylvania
Houston
Gulf
Roosevelt
Magdalena Bay
Pacific
Hull
Embargo on Arms by U S Under New Law
President Roosevelt declares an embargo on arms, munitions, and war implements to Italy and Ethiopia under the new neutrality act. Licenses from the national munitions control board required after Nov 29 for listed items. violators face fines up to 10,000 dollars and up to five years in prison. The move follows Italy Ethiopia war state. no shipments to Ethiopia reported, some to Italy under $500,000 total in 1935.
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Washington
Italy
Ethiopia
Roosevelt
United States
National Munitions Control, Board
Aare
Congress
Weather outlook for Chicago Oct 7 to 12
AP reports a forecast for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys with generally fair skies. A chance of precipitation in the north portion on Tuesday or Wednesday, temperatures rising early week, cooling midweek, then warming again at the end.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
League council moves toward designating Italy aggressor in Ethiopia dispute
Geneva reports the League of Nations council took initial steps toward labeling Italy as aggressor in the Ethiopia dispute. It urges immediate action and expects formal vote on Monday to confirm the designation and trigger penalties. The committee of thirteen censures Italy while Ethiopia is not deemed aggressive.
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Geneva
League, “of Nations ‘Council
Italy
Ethiopia
Council
Britain woefully split over Italy's Ethiopian invasion
British officials maintained a firm stance against admitting Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia, urging joint action through the league. France’s refusal to offer unqualified support left London frustrated, while Samuel Hoare met Italian ambassador Grandi and pressed for a league solution despite mutual misunderstandings.
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London
Italy
Ethiopia
France
Britain
League
Samuel Hoare
Basotieeacca
Samuel
Dino Grandi
Grandi
Teague
Grid: Player Swallows Tongue After Adam's Apple Kick
In Braintree Massachusetts El dredge Allen a 16 year old football player swallowed his tongue after being kicked in the Adam's apple during a high school scrimmage Saturday night. He was reported out of danger.
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Braintree
Mass
Eldredge Allen
Cedar Rapids Sees Temperatures Sink Below Freezing
Temperatures fell from 48 degrees at 4 p.m. to 38 by 7 p.m. and 31 at 10 p.m. under clear skies in Cedar Rapids, according to Chambers Inskeep readings.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Demonstrations halted by police near Italian embassy
In London two anti Italian demonstrations were stopped by police who cleared crowds marching through Oxford Street and near the Italian embassy. Signs read Stop the fascist war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Eng
Oxford Street
War report of Ethiopian front line clashes and League action
Disjointed dispatch outlines fierce Ethiopian resistance at Adigrat and near Aduwa as Italian forces press along the Eritrean border. Reports say hand to hand fighting continues. Geneva is urged to order immediate military and naval actions against Italy and a League assembly is planned next week.
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Danakil
Atx
Rome
Addis
Ababa
Italian Force Advances Toward Aduwa in Eritrea
The report notes General Emilio De Bono leading about 100000 troops with planes, tanks, and artillery from Asmara toward Aduwa Eritrea. Ethiopian forces, skilled in terrain, resist in a semi encirclement as conflicting Saturday reports describe Aduwa’s status. Addis Ababa awaits official word.
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Italy
Hes
Flanders
Emilio
de Bono
Asmara
Eritrea
Aduwa
Addis. Ababa
Alcatraz gains seven Rettich gang convicts from Fall River
SAN FRANCISCO AP Seven convicts from the Rettich mail robbery gang arrived at Alcatraz federal prison after a train trip across the bay. Warden James Johnston refused to name the men. the group includes Carl Rettich John McGlone Joseph Fisher Charles Harrigan and Thomas Dugan each sentenced to twenty five years for the $129 000 mail robbery in Fall River Massachusetts last January.
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Eren Ee San-Francisco
Rettich
New, England
Alcatraz Federal
San Francisco
Bay
James
Johnston
John=ston
Fall ‘River
Mass
Carl Rettich
John McGlone
Joseph Fisher
Charles Harrigan
Thomas
Dugan
France Aims to Build Powerful Fleet Says Marine Chief
Brest France French minister of marine Francois Pietri told cadets aboard the training cruiser Jeanne d Arc that the fleet will no longer be the Cinderella of the Washington treaty. He predicted a day when France's fighting units will be replaced and carry the republics colors at sea, pledging a highly valued navy with an active construction program and ongoing renovations.
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Brest
France
INS
Francois Pietri
Jeanne d’Arc
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Associated Press
Benito ‘Mussolini
Bask
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