Ethiopia Appeals to League for Arms Aid in Defense
Ethiopia pleads for a fair chance to arm for defense against fascist Italy. Emperor Haile Selassie I urges lifting embargoes while Italy resumes armaments and seeks to demand concessions and a colonial foothold in upper Ethiopia, with Paris talks hinting at broader Mediterranean power plays.
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Geneva
Ethiopia
League of Nations Council
Italy
Haile Selassie I
League
Paris
League of Nations
Britain
London
Mediterranean
Great Britain
India
Nile
Approval Granted to Sixteen WPA Projects
Details of an expanded erosion control plan and district WPA works show 16 Missouri projects with a total cost over 3.7 million dollars and 7,?000 man-years. New demonstrations will cover Clark Franklin and Callaway counties with hundreds of thousands in funding under R E Uhland.
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Chaffee
Oran
Oakwood
Webb City
Miner
Sikeston
Ste. Genevieve
Perry
Bollinger
WPA Dist
Malaria Central
Murray
Washington
H. H. Bennett
Soil Conservation Service
Missour
Clark
Franklin
Callaway
Harrison
Atchison
Clark County
Heney Creek
Kahoka
Calaway County
Jefferson City School Expansion Cited by Judge and Head
In discussing elections and growth, a judge and the school head urge building an eastern junior high addition, an athletic field, and a Washington school expansion. They note rising enrollments from 1500 in 1910 to an expected 3500 plus in 1935 and argue current construction costs are favorable for borrowing and future needs.
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East End
Washington
Jefferson City
Knox claims GOP would gain 75 seats in election
In a speech, Knox argues the GOP can win 75 seats and criticizes Roosevelt era policies. He pledges a balanced budget, sound currency, unemployment and old age insurance under state law, strict anti trust enforcement, and opposition to limiting agricultural production. He accuses the president and advisers of aiming to undermine the Supreme Court by pushing potentially unconstitutional laws.
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Knox
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Hopson May Be Cited For Ignoring Subpoena
Howard C. Hopson identified as a key figure in the Associated Gas and Electric system failed to respond to a senate subpoena to appear before the senate lobby committee. After over an hour, organizers announced a 3 pm session and threatened contempt citations. A senate resolution to strengthen its inquiry power was adopted. Also, requisitions were issued for Leroy Durbin and Nelson Scroggins on grand larceny charges involving bicycles, and a marriage license was issued to Morris Lanning and Mabel Southard.
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Washington
Howard C. Hopson
Jong
Associated Gas and Electric System
Senate
Senate Lobby Committee
Walte Jing
Hopson
Governor Park
Illinois
Leroy Durbin
Nelson Scroggins
Livingston County
Decatur
Morris Lanning
Rolla, Mo
Mabel Southard
High Gate
Lindbergh Nearer Death in 1931 Yangtze Mission
New York dispatch recounts Col Charles Lindbergh’s ordeals during a 1931 relief flight to Nanking China. Aboard a plane carrying a Chinese doctor and American doctor, he faced starving boats in flooded waters, narrowly preventing tragedy as sampans swarmed and a boat carried a fire and danger to the aircraft.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Yangtze Valley
China
Paris
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Orient
Alaska
Siberia
Japan
Lindbergh
Nanking
Hinghwa
Greyhound Wins the Hambletonian Stake
Greyhound the odds-on favorite from E. J. Bakers St Charles stable won the opening heat of the $33,000 Hambletonian trotting stakes at Goshen New York before a 40 000 crowd. Pedro Tipton driven by H Satey of Smith Newark finished second and Tilly Tonka of New York owned by C H Phellis placed third in a nine horse field.
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Goshen
Greyhound
E. J. Baker
St. Charles
H. Satey
Smith
Pedro Tipton
Newark
C.H. Phellis
Tilly Tonka
New York
Federal building swapped for new Springfield site
Representative R T Wood of Springfield Missouri announced federal officials approved trading the downtown Springfield building to the city in exchange for a new federal building site just north of the old structure The plan gained final approval from Admiral Christian J People head of the treasury procurement division Wood called the swap beneficial noting the new site is much larger and the government saves wrecking costs.
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Washington
R. T. Wood
Springfield
Federal
Wood
Christian J. People
Procurement Division
The
Treasury
Missouri sales tax card system proposed
A plan describes issuing sales tax cards with punched mill sections to track tax payments. Cards would be usable only at issuing locations, with exceptions for chain stores in Missouri. Example: a 5 cent purchase would be 6 cents paid, card punched in halves, leaving 9.5 mills to punch. merchants could remit tax monthly or daily receipts.
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Missouri
Japan Trading Right Assailed By League Mandate Commission
The League of Nations mandate commission questioned Britain over allowing Japanese products into Palestine under the 1911 Anglo Japanese treaty. It noted Britain had quotas on Japanese goods in colonies and suggested similar actions in Palestine despite Japan’s withdrawal from the league.
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Geneva
Japan
League of Nations
League Today
Mandates Commission
Great Britain
Palestine
Britain
League
West
Africa
Dodgers Beat Cubs In Brooklyn Tilt On One-Hitter
Watson Clark shut out the Cubs allowing a single hit over the last five innings as the Dodgers staged a five-run seventh and eight to rally for a 5-1 victory in Brooklyn on August 14.
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Dodgers
CUBS
Brooklyn
Watson Clark
Roosevelt fails to appear in police court
John A. Roosevelt son of the president did not appear in Irvington police court to face a speeding summons. The $10 bail he posted was forfeited by Police Judge James J. Leyden.
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Irvington -On -Hudson
John A. Roosevelt
James J. Leyden
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Seles Tax
Wice
John Roosevelt
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