Britain halts arms sales to Italy and Ethiopia
The British government bans export licenses for arms to Italy and Ethiopia with a caveat allowing transit through British territory to Ethiopia if treaty obligations demand it. Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare cited a treaty with Ethiopia as granting its right to arms, while Belgium plans its own embargo and tensions rise at Geneva over a league solution.
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Associated Press
Italy
Ethiopie
House of «¢Omons
Samuel Hoare
Ethiopia
Foreign Affairs Committee
Belgium
Great Britain
France
iLeague of Nations
Geneva
Japan
Britain
London
Siramuel Hoare
House of Commons
George Lansbury
Samuel
Waronex Martin
George Toldey
Foreign Office
Alabama General Revenue Law To Be Distributed Next Week
Alabama officials will receive printed copies of the new general revenue law next week. Secretary of State Howell Turner said the final copy of the Measure will be sent to printers today or tomorrow. About 2,500 copies will be printed by Wetumpka Printing for the legislature and 1,250 by Birmingham Printing for state and county officials.
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General Revenue Law
Montgomery
Alabama
Howell Turner
Wetumpka Printing Company
Birmingham Tinting Company
Alabama Journal
Monthry
Republicans Claim Path to Power Soon in Washington
In Beverly Hills dispatches from the papers the GOP expresses confidence of seizing leadership within a year and a half, while Snell and Ham Fish debate tactics. The piece notes constitutional arguments and mentions elections and shifting control, hinting at early maneuvers in national affairs.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Snell
Ham Fish
Bert
Business Leaders Call For Reorganized Dothan Chamber
Business leaders and signers urge revival of the Dothan Chamber of Commerce with a Friday 8 p m city hall meeting. The call stresses federal funds, factories, and Alabama’s central agricultural region, led by city commissioners and established local business figures.
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Dothan
Chamber of Commerce
Ommons
Body of Citizens
Dothen
Alabama
New City Commission
Old Chamber
Reorganized Chamber
Aize
Eight New Faces to Greet Dothan School Children
Eight new instructors join the Dothan city schools for the 1935 36 scholastic year as announced by Bruce Flurry Ty, new superintendent of education. T G Vaughn of Beatrice Ala becomes principal of the senior high. The seven others teach at Young Junior High and Howell and Rose Hill with roles ranging from home economics to Latin to manual training.
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Bruce Fluyr- Ty
T. G. Vaughn
Beatrice
Ala
Flurry
Doria Porter
Tylertown
Young Junior High
Mary Joe Cook
Roanoke
David B Byrne
Tuscaloosa
Mildred Bruner
Ashford
Howell
Jessis Holland
Castleberry
Emily Slocomb
Headland
Caroline Stapleton
Dothan
Rose HI
City Board of Education
Grace Bonham
Louise Pelham
Margaret Williams
Opelika
Cortie Mae Garrett
Engltsh
Hope Hall
Ale
Fleasle Jones
Enterprise
Misa Lettie Stafford
Vernon
Fla
Sera Holbrook
Akron
Paul Tubb
EE. W. Walker
Selma
Bigs Vaesi
State Pardon Board Recommends Release for Jordan
State Auditor Charles McCall, one of three pardon board members, recommended permanent parole for former State Sen Elmer D. Jordan of Attalla. Jordan, sentenced to two to two and a half years for soliciting a £250 bribe from theater manager Lee Castleberry to influence passage of the Jordan act legalizing Sunday amusements in Gadsden. He was released on a day parole June 6 by Gov Bibby Graves after seven and a half months. The other two board members Atty. Gen. Carmichael and Secretary of State Turner had not acted on the application.
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Montgomery
Elmer D. Jordan
Attalla
Charles McCall
State
Jordan
Lee Castleberry
Gadsden
Jane
Bibby Graves
A. A. Carmichael
Howell Turner
Shirley Temple heads to Hawaii for five week vacation
Hollywood reports Shirley Temple, the first little lady of the screen, sailing toward Honolulu aboard the Matson liner Maripose with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Temple, for a five week stay in the islands amid much ceremony.
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Hollywood
Calif
Shirley Temple
Honeslu
Miss & Temple
George F. Temple
Islands
Harding Bannister custody battle takes new turn
In Los Angeles on July 25 AP reports a child custody suit over seven year old Jane between Ann Harding and ex husband Harry Bannister has entered a new phase. Harding filed a cross complaint accusing Bannister of not being a fit and proper person to care for the child, the same phrase Bannister used in his bid for custody.
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Arding-Bannister Row
New Phase
Los Angeles
Ann Harding
Harry Bannister
Jane
Biss Harding
Bannister
Bayonets Quiet Incipient Mobs in Terre Haute
Terre Haute Ind July 26 AP Renewed disorders with striking workers sent national guardsmen to enforce martial law. About 323 guardsmen at the Columbian Ename lading and Stamping plant created an army camp scene as 600 workers remained on strike. A 3,000 crowd faced troops near the Col umbian plant last night. One injury reported when Mrs Edward MacBeth 33 was cut on the hands after grabbing a bayonet. Eleven arrested, total detained 180 since the strike began. Guardsmen cleared beer taverns and enforced anti assemblage laws. Col Albert Whitcomb said 500 to 600 guardsmen on duty and no quick troop removal unless quiet returns. Private guards stayed at plant per union demand amid mediation by Federal conciliators.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Columbian Enameing
McNuitt
Edward MacBeth
Alberth Whitcomb
Columbian
Fedral
Charles L. Richardson
Harry E. Schenck
Possessor of Vast Oil Fortune Dies After Ill Health
Col Henry Huddleston Rogers, heir to a Standard Oil fortune and longtime associate of John D. Rockefeller, died in Southampton hospital at age 55 after a period of ill health since October. He was brought to the hospital for a blood transfusion from his summer home.
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Southampton
Henry Huddleston Rogers
Standard Oil Companies
Southampton Hospital
Rogers
Col. Rogers
H. H. Rogers
John D. Rockefeller
Tax Reform Turmoil Pushes Arena Tax Debate
Washington July 25 AP Controversy swirls as the administration presses a tax plan with graduated corporate rates from 10 3 4 to 16 4 4 percent and faces a revolt in the Ways and Means Committee over exemptions for charitable contributions. President Roosevelt insists exemptions end, while welfare groups warn the move harms private agencies.
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Clarence M. Wright
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Turkey
Roosevelt
Nazis Attack Foreign Press and Catholic Press in Coordinated Push
Berlin reports Nazi forces strike on three fronts including foreign press and home Catholic papers. Max Amann to target Catholic outlets. Steel Helmet veterans dissolved in Western Mecklenburg for subversive activity. Foreign press blamed for misreporting Nazi anti Semitic measures.
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Rudolf Josten
Berlin
War Veterans’ Organization
Steel Helmets
Germany
Max Amann
Reich Pross Chamber
Opaiiet Catholi
Steel Helmet
Mecklenburg
Parchim
Ludwigslust
Waren
Baden
Bucherer
Houston County to guarantee share in Dothan Hartford road paving
Houston County Commission prepared a resolution to guarantee the county’s share of the Dothan Hartford road paving costs under a three way plan. The project runs from Dothan city limits to the Geneva county line, about 4 924 miles, with Houston County paying up to $10 240 40 using the one cent gasoline tax. The state and relief administration would cover the remaining two thirds. The new resolution, requested by Probate Judge Saxon Peyner, follows earlier pledges that proved unsatisfactory in wording.
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Houston County Court of Commissioners
State Relief Administration
Houston County
Dothan-Hartford
Dothan City
Geneva County
Rallet Administration
Relief Administration
Saxon Peyner
City Receives 7500 Dollar Loan to Cover Debts
Two loans totaling 7500 dollars were placed with Auditor J L Vaughn for disbursement after the city commission authorized President E Geller to sign notes pledging water and light revenues and ad valorem taxes. The funds will pay current floating debts and maturing bonds due August 1 and were sent to New York for processing by the Hanover Bank and Company.
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J. L.vaughn
E. Gelleratedt
Vaughn
New York
Contral Hanover
Ernst Co
Suspect Cigars Gift In Lobby Probe Ties to Utilities Vote
Washington July 25 AP questioned by senate lobby investigators about a box of cigars reportedly given to Rep Patten as the House debated the utilities bill. John W. Carpenter of Texas Power and Light said his son gave a cigars box to Patten after an invitation to fish. Testimony also covered spending by the American Federation of Utilities Investors, including 65,000 in six months with 25,900 opposed to the bill and TV amendments. Carpenter noted payments to Peter Molyneaux for advertising and radio work. Magill testified receipts reached 75,000 in membership fees and 62,000 in early 1905, with sales of literature and 22,804 this year.
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Washington
Senate
House
Ohn W. Carpenter
Texas Power and Light Company
John
Patton
Texas
Hugh Magill
American Federation of Utilities Investors
Patten
Carpenter
Peter Molyneux
Texas Weekly
Molyneeaux
Mec
Molyneaux
Magill
Eleven Hurt in Mobile Bus and Engine Collision in Downpour
Eleven injured as a Teche Line bus collides with a switch engine near Kreele Mississippi in heavy rain. Most treated and released, several listed with fractures or bruises. bus driver John Berwirth from New Orleans among those treated.
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Mobile
New Orleans
Kreele
Jackson County
Moss Point
Wre
Jtosa Lee Parker
Biloxi
Joseph Bushy
Ebis
Brulacs
Ora Wells
State Relief Programs Expand Amid Job Losses On Roads
State relief officials report the Works Progress Administration and reemployment programs will shift, with 30 men authorized to report for work Friday on the Dothan Hodgesville road. The Houston rural rehabilitation office will move to Enterprise as district headquarters, displacing three clerks. The changes aim for closer supervision across eight counties, though many workers face continued unemployment as new projects await approval.
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Coffee County
A. J Mapea
Dathan
G. P. Morrison
Bus
Retief
Weal
Thad Holt
Dothan
Natonal
WRS
WPA
PWA
J. P. Morrison
NERS
Dothan-Hodgesville
Dothan-Hodgesavile
Pleasent- Travns-Colurmibia
CC McEachin
Posse shoots down and captures suspected killer near Greeley
A man hunted as Police Sergeant Lee Whitman’s killer was shot by a posse on a highway west of Greeley. He opened fire and died after a head shot. the gunman, named Jack Prinses, 37, was said to have lived in Ozark Missouri and Pryor Oklahoma.
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Greeley
Colo
Sergi
Lee Whitman
Hire
Theonacioun
Flert
Whitman
Jack Prinses
Ozerk
Pryor, Okle
May Transfer Murder Case Baffles Authorities
A Seminole murder case in Everglades involves Kon-Sa-Tees stabbed during a drinking bout. White authorities debate handing the inquiry to tribal leaders and medicine men for a moonlight punishment during the corn dance, risking tribal sovereignty and possible execution or banishment under tribal law.
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Few Thorpe
Collier County
Johnny Fitt
Barbour Farmer Denies Spouse Died of Poison
Clayton July 25 AP Leeta Singleton 65 a farmer who married his 22 year old housekeeper three weeks after his wife’s death denied reports his wife died of poisoning He said the powder given to Mrs Singleton before her death June 20 was likely a mistake and the body was exhumed for toxicology tests The investigation found no indication of poisoning and County Solicitor Crews Johnston awaited toxicology results before actions.
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Clayton
Leeta Singleton
Crews Johnston
Mra. Singleton
Kidnaping Hoax Exposed In Columbus Bet Plunge
Robert C Byers of Columbus confessed to police that his claim of being kidnapped near Cleveland was a hoax to win a bet that his name would appear on front pages within 72 hours. Cleveland police and Ohio authorities planned charges if not lodged locally. Byers had written a letter to a Columbus paper outlining the plot.
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Columbus
Robert C Lyers
Entey Ooenunsillor
Thomas A. Scully
Cleveland
Byers
Scully
Inter Cleveland Police
Agarinot Kiyore
Hing
Columbus Nowspaper
the Dispatch
Pape
Papace
Mobile County trio jailed in shooting of baseball player
Mobile County police arrested three youths after alleged confessions linked them to the fatal shooting of Ernest Lewis, 28, a semi pro pitcher, on a highway near Mabie following an altercation in Whistler. Suspects Morris Lynch 17 Timothy Boence 19 Malcolm Rodgera 18 face charges.
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Momilg
Sheerliti
Mobile County
Ernest Lewis
Mabie
Malcolm Rodgera
Lewis
Madison May Get 340000 In Roads
Madison county road paving project for 40 percent of the cost awaits final federal approval by the Public Works Administration. The Alabama headquarters notes 46 percent of the total cost would come from federal funds while Huntsville banks offer 35 percent loans to Madison County for asphalt purchases. Birmingham’s $6,545,147 school building loan and grant awaits a routine inspection before Washington.
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Montgomery
Madian County
Wrehington
Servny
Alabama Headquartsrapaf
Police Works
Huntsville
Madison Ccaty
Saphalt Lepep
PWA
Birmingham
Washington
Unexpected witnesses stall Houston county grand jury adjournment
An unexpected group of witnesses delayed the Houston county grand jury adjournment until Thursday afternoon. The dozen or more witnesses were being examined Thursday morning with adjournment forecast for after noon of the game day.
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Houston County
Administrative Cuts In Reform Of Projects In Alabama
Alabama's share of the WPA relief fund was $8,631,235 as seven new projects were approved in Washington. An order from FERA demobilizes county relief offices, consolidating to 12 district offices by Sept. 1 and merging with district WPA offices. Estimated job losses and district locations near Jefferson Mobile Montgomery Calhoun and other large counties were noted. The seven new projects total $2,002,817 for 7,887 jobs, adding to Alabama's 25,178 total across 152 projects. New work includes a state wide drainage and malaria control program costing $1,667,060 and a state wide sanitation drive for health departments employing 6,308. Mobile County requests $900,123 for drainage and malaria control, creating 844 jobs. Other approved projects include Montgomery drainage and sanitation at $9,793 for 247 jobs and Bibb county river channel work at $44,421 for 25 jobs.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Washington
Relief Administration
Alabama Relief Administration
Melcomb J. Muifer
FERA
Works Progress Administration
Thad Hall
Jefferson
Mobile
Calhoun
Holt
Health Department
Coupervision
Jobe
J. NM. Baker
Mobile County
Montgomery County
Bibb County
Ceohaba River
Heflin Joins FHA Barnstorming Tour As Speaker
Former Alabama Senator J. Thommen Heflin arrives in Atlanta to begin a two year 4600 salary post as an FHA administrative assistant. He will tour Florida Georgia Mississippi and Louisiana delivering speeches to homeowners.
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Atlanta
Jay 2
J. Thommen Heflin
United States
Alabama
Federal Housing Administration
Avanta
Charles C. McGehee
Heflin
McGehes
MccGehes
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
Lealiane
Georgia Chain Gangs Also Have Fugitive Men Among Them
The article reports Theo Spears a Negro who killed a Negro woman here and fled to Morgan Georgia where he serves a sentence in a chain gang for killing a woman there. Sheriff Alex H. May traced Spears to Morgan after taking office in January.
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Georgia
Theo Spears
Alex H. May
Morgan
Spears
May
Speers
Alaban
Weather outlook for Alabama and Northwest Florida
Mostly cloudy weather with local showers on the coast expected Thursday night in Alabama and Northwest Florida. The forecast calls for continued cloudy conditions with scattered showers shaping the coastlines and nearby inland areas.
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Alabama
N.W
Florida
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