General to Rule Ethiopia as Italian Viceroy
Italian forces in Addis Ababa report Marshal Pietro Badoglio selected as viceroy of Ethiopia the first in Italian history. The campaign has effectively ended, with Italy seeking orderly occupation as bandit attacks threaten ambulances and native Eritrean troops depart for Dire Dawa. About 30 000 Italians remain in the area as stores reopen and reconstruction begins.
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Addis Ababa
Pietro Badoglio
Ethiopia
Victor Emmanuel
Askari
Diredawa
Fia
Roosevelt tax plan faces senate challenge in weekend talks
Administration leaders push to pass Roosevelt’s proposal taxing undistributed corporation profits as Senate opposition hardens. Fate of the bill and possibly Congress adjournment before June hinges on weekend conferences among wavering Democrats, with continued coverage on page five.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Farm hand charged with two slayings in Maine
James H. Folsom, a 35 year old farm hand from Skowhegan, confessed to assaulting and killing two young girls. He led police to the dead girl Mary Proulx, seven, found near an alder dump by the Messalonskee stream in Waterville. He also indicated a second crime scene in nearby Fairfield. Continued on page three.
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Waterville
James H. Folsom
Skohegan
Henry E. Burnell
Portland
Fairfield
Harold K. Maguire
Portland Police
Attorney General's Office
Folsom
Messalonskee Stream
Mary Proulx
Maguire
Dam Foreman Freed After $500 Bail Bond Posted
Albert E. Hughes, 41, foreman at the dam, was released after posting a $500 bond for his appearance before the September grand jury. He faces a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Hughes was arrested early Wednesday in a parked car near Finnegan's Rock with a 15 year old girl, who has since been sentenced to the state penitentiary at Salem.
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Albert E. Hughes
Toadsman
Hughes
Finnegan's Rock
Salem
Police warn beer parlors over minor use in county
State police report minors frequented beer parlors and uncover a license issue involving Tony's Place now Cityview. The March 3 1936 transfer of a beer license from Roy Kiger and Niel Clelland to Ray Huhn lacked a location or business type change. Corporal Emrick disclosed Huhn missing. license not posted with city permits.
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Tony
Grafton
Huhn
Ray Huhn
Tony Olivia
Drive Safely Warns Of Rising Auto Death Toll
A Taylor County Safety Council notice warns that 1922 to 1935 automobile deaths rose 55 percent beyond war fatalities, and implies a family with three children faces a likelihood that one child will be killed or injured in an accident, urging road safety.
Latrobe St Beer Parlor Entered In Morning Burglary
Latrobe Street beer parlor owned by John Boston was entered in the early hours today between 2 and 9 am. A music machine was torn up and about $20 from the cash box taken, plus a case of beer and tax cash. Police Chief A E Lockard said entry was gained from an adjoining building and the suspect(s) are being sought. Boston locked the place at about 2 am.
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John Boston
Latrobe Street
A. E. Lockard
Boston
Lockard
Methodist Leader Calls Fight on Red Communism
Bishop Adna W. Leonard urged the quadrennial conference to drive Russian Communism from the United States. He argued the church must strike at all evils and make Communism impossible under the stars and stripes, signaling a stance against the Federation of Social Service and its planned social economy program.
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Columbus, O
United States
Adna W. Leonard
Pittsburgh
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Federation of Social Service
Leonard
Fac
Neely Liberty Leaguers At Heart Holt Charges
Senator Rush D. Holt of West Virginia condemned Senator M M Neely s critique of the Liberty League saying the talk does not hurt the liberty leaguers They vote he said Neely seeks renomination in the Democratic primary next Tuesday Holt backs Ralph M Hiner his opponent for the nomination Neely s attacks the Liberty League across West Virginia highlight the law firms clients among the corporations noted by Holt
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Smashington
Rush D. Holt
W.va
M. M. Neely
Liberty
West Virginia
Liberty League
Senator Neely
Hiner Accuses Bittner of Blocking Free Speech in WV Campaign
Ralph M. Hiner told a panhandle audience he was denied free speech in his bid for the Democratic senatorial nomination after jeers and boos silenced him at two southern West Virginia meetings. He alleged hired hecklers attended Logan and Williamson events at the urging of Van A. Bittner, UMW leader and supporter of Senator M. M. Neely.
West Virginia Congressmen Split on Farm Refinancing Bill
Representative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia said he would back the Frazier-Lemke farm refinancing bill due for House action. Ramsay and Johnson planned to vote against it. The bill would authorize refinancing of farm indebtedness with up to 3 billion dollars in new money.
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Washington
Jennings Randolph
W. Va
House
West
West Virginia
Randolph
Bill
Mother's Day Revered Local Founder Taught Here
A city church service at Andrews M E church of Grafton on the second Sunday in May honors Anna Jarvis and her mother Anna Reeves Jarvis for creating Mother's Day. Rev. Dr. William E. Knox will deliver a Mother's Day message as robed choir music fills the service. The piece highlights Miss Anna Jarvis, once a Grafton teacher now in Philadelphia, who founded Mother's Day and shared honors with her mother, praising persistence and charity that spread the observance worldwide.
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Grafton
Andrews M. E. Church of
William E. Knox
Anna Jarvis
Philadelephia
Miss Jarvis
Plans Set for Preferential Election Day Polls
Final plans for the preferential election to be held Tuesday are formed as poll supplies are issued to election officials at precincts. Officials not receiving supplies today will get them by mail Monday. Election day is a holiday with public offices, the First National Bank, all county schools, and the state liquor store closed.
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First
National Bank
Senator Park Trammell Dies in Washington
Senator Park Trammell of Florida died at age 60 after a cerebral hemorrhage following influenza and pleurisy. Flags were half staff as officials noted his long effort to stay for a vote on a $12,000,000 Florida ship canal appropriation, which was later defeated.
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Washington
Park Trammell
Florida
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Senate
War Department
River murder probe details grisly Arkansas find
Deputy Coroner Howard A. Dishough reported a young white woman found in the Arkansas river appears to have been hacked to death with a meat cleaver or heavy butcher knife. Estimated age about 25 to 30. The victim's head bore four long gashes, with similar deep wounds on the throat chin and a severed right ear.
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Little Rock
Ark
Howard A. Dishough
Arkansas River
Voters Notified by Phone Call For Polls
A fragmented notice invites voters to the polls and provides a contact name JOHN WITIMAN and a partial phone string 4614-7 38-2tfp for information.
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John Witiman
Struggle Over Steel Union Strategy Sparks AFL-CIO Rift
A dispute erupts between John L. Lewis and AFL chiefs over organizing 300,000 steel workers. Lewis pushes for a single industrial union while the council backs craft unions. The federation plans immediate campaign with organizers to be sent to steel centers after council sessions.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Pygetts
A. F. of L. Executive Council
Lewis
A. F. of L
William Green
Amalgamated Association of
Hindenburg Makes Fast Atlantic Crossing to Lakehurst
The Hindenburg, largest Zeppelin, completed its first north Atlantic flight in a record 61 hours 53 minutes. It moored at Lakehurst Naval Air Base at 2:23 a.m. EST after leaving Friedrichshafen, Germany, sighted over New York at 4 a.m. with Nazi swastika visible on its tail fin. Dozens of planes circled above as the airship reached New Jersey.
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Associated Press
Lakehurst
N. J
North Atlantic
Naval Air Base
Friedrichshafen
Germany
New York
Long Island
Ambrose Channel
New York Harbor
New York City
Seek Clues to Identification in Headless Body Case
In Portsmouth Ohio on May 9 Evelyn Hatfield age 18 from Ch was found alive with a carnival company in Anderson Indiana. Relatives arrived to view a headless girl’s body they feared was Evelyn, amid a case tied to a Huntington girl missing about three weeks. Evelyn had left home Sunday to work as a dancer in the carnival show.
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Portsmouth
Evelyn Hatfield
Anderson
Ind
Evelyn
Miss Hatfield
Carnival
An ‘W. Vai
Huntington
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United States Senate
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