Italian raid on Ressye targets Emperor Selassie palace
Nine Italian planes bomb Ressye Ethiopia destroying the emperor's palace and his office. The assault killed about 12 and wounded 20 civilians, including women and children, while the American Seventh Day Adventist hospital was evacuated minutes before. Emperor Selassie reportedly fought back with a nine-grain gun. the hospital had been evacuated earlier. An Italian communique claims 24 Ethiopians and three Italians dead in northern-front clashes, seen as Ethiopia’s early offensive.
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Emperor Haile Selassie
Ressye
Ethiopia
Copyright Associates’ Press
Emperor Selassie
Associated Press
F Huntley Dies by Suicide After Long Cancer Battle
F Huntley former grocery operator and justice of the peace died by suicide at his home 218 North Hamilton street. Coroner J H Weaver ruled suicide after Shotgun on the back porch. He was born in North Carolina and moved to Arkansas in 1802. Funeral at 3 p m Saturday from the family residence. Surviving are his widow, three sons Fulton Huntley Santa Ana Calif PB Huntley Shanghai China B C Huntley Fort Worth Texas, five daughters Mrs J E Hunt Santa Ann Calif Mrs I H King Fort Worth Mrs Annie Huntley New Orleans Mrs Mary H Jaeger Lafay ette La Mrs dR Rhodes Arkadelphia.
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F. Huntley
North
Hamilton Street
J. H. Weaver
North Carolina
Arkansad
Hempstead County
First Baptist Church
Hamilton
State Revenue Agency Can Cancel Annual Liquor Permits
LITTLE ROCK The state revenue commissioner may cancel liquor permits December 31 when dealers applied for a one year permit. The attorney general's office ruled Thursday that under the 1985 liquor law only annual permits could be issued but permit fees could be paid in installments if due by January 1.
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Little Rock
State Revenue Caimmissioner
Annaluc
Attorney General's Office
Jy L
Jiy Band
Potatoes Tax Free Allotment Raised to Fifty Bushels
The AAA amended the potato central law, raising the tax free allotment for growers from five to 50 bushels. The national tax exempt limit of 226.6 million bushels was increased by about 7.5 million. Growers with annual sales 1932-44 may receive tax free allotment up to 50 bushels upon application, with sales beyond 59 bushels requiring county and state approval.
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Washington
AAA
Seven Hempstead County Farm Meetings Set During Farm Record Week
A series of seven community meetings will be held in Hempstead County during Farm Record Week December 9 to 14. County agent Frank R. Stanley says farm record books for 1935 submitted by about 500 farmers will be returned with analyses. Farmers will score operations on six income-leak points and compare with state averages and neighboring farms. Meetings will explain land-use surveys by the University of Arkansas and cover yields, acreage, livestock, and income comparisons. The project continues, with 1935 books prepared for 1936 analysis. All farmers, whether or not they submitted a record, are invited to attend.
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Hempstead
Frank R. Stanley
University of Arkansas College of Agingature
Hempstead County
South Arkansas
Hiler
Washington
Teade Ty Saveligh
Noted Detective Challenges Lindbergh Kidnapping Theory
In Trenton Governor Hoffman says Ellis Parker, Burlington County detective, suspects Bruno Hauptmann may be innocent. Parker, called into the case by former governor Moore, reportedly faced obstruction from state troopers, while Parker’s presence at the Lindbergh estate and his independent lines of inquiry are noted but unproven. Rosencrans defends Parker’s expertise amid ongoing intrigue.
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N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
Ellis Parker
Burlington
Hauptrann
Hoffman
Parker
Moore
Goyterpor Hoffman
Hauptmann
Hopewell
Parkers
Lindbergh
Rosencrans
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
New Jersey
Digest Poll Shows Roosevelt Backed by Five Southern States
The Literary Digest reports in its current issue that five Southern states approve The New Deal while thirteen Western states disapprove. The third tally of the 10,000,000 ballot nationwide poll records 421,560 votes with 187,156 in favor and 234,404 against. Continued on page three.
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Literary Digest
Multiple Local and National Incidents Reported in Briefs
Maynardville sheriff shot while stopping robbers from Citizens Bank of New Tazewell in an adjoining county. New Deal farm program denounced as a fraud in a Supreme Court brief by Jonuy W. Davis. Governor Eugene Talmadge announces a Democratic convention call within 10 days for a Grass Roots style meeting. Carl Funderberg killed by accidental rifle discharge in Monticello Arkansas. Northwestern train collides with Milwaukee freight near Clinton, injuring four. French Premier Laval introduces bills in the Chamber of Deputies for dissolving armed political leagues.
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Maynardsville
Tenn
AL. B. Mutchinson
Uniai County
Citizeng Bank
New Tazewell
Tennessee
Washington
New Deal
Supreme Court
Jonuy W. Davis
Yeo Miiler
Newgork
Eugene Talmadge
Cicorgia
Autonia
Jantasy
Four Dead and Thirty-One Escape in Mine Blast
In Stubenville Ohio rescue crews found four victims of a gas explosion at Warner Colliers mine Wolf Run Priday after eight hours of searching. Thirty-one other night shift miners escaped as the blast shook the depths. Officials believe confinement in main and side shafts helped avert a wider disaster.
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Stubenville
Ohio
i/Pi
Warner Colliers Company
Wolf Run
Incomes in Upper Brackets Decline
Washington reports preliminary 1934 individual income tax statistics showing a 30 percent drop in millionaire incomes from 1932 levels. The Treasury release notes 513 returns of $1,000,000 or more were filed through August, indicating a peak in 1932. Continued on page three.
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Washington
Americi
Treasury
Polygamy Trial Highlights Three-Level Heaven Cult Clash
In Kingman Arizona three cult members accused of polygamy face superior court as the group known for a three-tier heaven belief seeks to justify plural marriages. They reject monogamy arguing Abraham David and Solomon practiced multiple wives while citing divine revelation. The Short Creek community of about 100 residents and 45 children lives in a semi communal colony split from Utah.
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Kingman
Ariz
NEA
Sylvia Alfred Spencer
E R, Spencer
Price Johnson
Ivinge
Heaben
Joseph Smith
John Y. Bar“Jaw
Abraham
David
Solomon
Utah
Mormon Church
Phere
Short Creek
Wileness
Arizona
Soviet airbase expansion amid Eastern field plans
Unclear text reports new airplane fields to be built by Czechoslovakia, described in a war budget release. Fields slated mainly in the eastern country, suspected for use by Soviet and air forces in case of war. The Czech-Soviet agreement allegedly grants rights to use Czech fields to ease allied forces in conflict.
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Vich Hichey
Counny
Fryaty
Soviet Union
Ge Bross
Farmer slain and children beaten near Van Buren
Crawford county farmer C V Marlin, 48, was shot to death at his home near Van Buren, and four children were beaten with a hammer. Mrs Rena Davis, who said she was Marlin's daughter, heard a shot and found her father dead and the children unconscious with skull fractures. Marlin had recently been in Ullwalth. the children's condition is described as critical.
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van Buren, Ask
Harrison Speaks to Kiwanis Club
The Rev Fred R Harrison spoke at the weekly Kiwanis meeting at Hotel Barlow on salesmanship. He highlighted painters on art of full fay and noted a charity bake sale and squirrel stew at Faire Park next Thursday night December 12 with football squad leaders and the Boys Band. Oliver Williams Dewey Hendrix and Claude Nuno were named as arrangements committee. Joy Bloyd new president announced W S Atkins as secretary, with Ralph Bailes leading the program.
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Fred R. Harrison Spulke
Ure Kiwanis Jlub
Barlow
Harrison
Faire Park
Feaderies
Oliver Williams
Dewey Hendrix
Third Man Slain in Jail Roundup in Oklahoma
MALESTER Okla 44 Dan Heady one of five federal prisoners who broke from Muskogee jail was slain and Dewey Gilmore captured at a farm house near Weathers Okla early Friday Five shots were fired in a sudden encounter with pursuing possemen two striking Heady leader of the Southwest s most dangerous outlaw since Pretty Boy Floyd Heady and Gilmore were linked to the Walter O Malley gang of bank robbers and kidnapers Heady s death marks the third in connection with the jail break Two fugitives Leonard Short and Don Garrett remain at large.
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Malester
Okla
Dan Heady
Muskogee
Dewey Gilmore
Weathers
Heady
Southwest
Pretty Boy Floyd
Gilmorey
Walter O'Malley
Headly
Leonard Short
Don Garrett
Governor defies court orders over highway department
In Columbia South Carolina Governor Olin D Johnson asserts control by mobilizing militia to run the Highway Department after a Supreme Court ruling declaring the initial move unlawful. Within an hour he reconstitutes a Board of Managers to continue operating the department, deploying a 65 man machine gun company and placing militia on duty at department headquarters.
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Columbia
S. C
Olin D. Johnson
State Highway Department
Johnston
Board of Managers
Iran
Highway Commission
Kraft Phenix plans Hope dairy plant shift amid survey
The Star reports Kraft Phenix dairy unit aims to inspect local plant sites in Hempstead County and nearby areas for a new cheese factory. Field agents in Kansas City, with Hope residents, will assess building suitability and milk market conditions before a potential 1929 operation restart. Officials foresee reliance on local milk supply amid broader southwest dairy development.
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Kraft Phenix
Hempstead
Kansas City
Phenix
Hope
Kraft
Starderstands
Kansas
Old Monastery Theme in Brewster Talks at Hope Rotary
Rev Thomas Brewster described a Trappist monastery near Gethsemane Ky as housing one of three North American units and containing a 3.04 acre farm along with priceless artifacts and paintings by masters. He noted monks’ simple life and the first human book to reach the New World. Women barred from this Old World enclave. The Rotary banquet for the football team will be at Hotel Barlow Monday at 7 with Ivan Grove as guest speaker. An Ankara report notes a military style forest guard to protect Turkey’s forests after last summer’s fires.
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Gethsemane
Hope
Thomas Brewster
Brewster
Kentucky
First Presbyterian Church of
Blue Grass
Nick Jewell
Rotary
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