Annexation a Weekend Act for Ethiopia Predicted
Rome sources predicted a Saturday decree annexing Ethiopia under Haile Selassie, with a Geneva League of Nations confrontation avoided. Italy’s forces seized the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad and Jijiga, consolidating control as Harar remained the last holdout city. Selassie fled toward Palestine after reaching Suez on HMS Enterprise. a Swiss villa is noted in exile plans.
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London
Ethiopia
Rome
League of Nations Council
Geneva
Grand Fascist Council
Haile Selassie
Itelians
Stefani
Addis Ababa
Paris
Italy
Dijiga
Rodolfo Graziani
Jijiga
Harar
Selassie
Giuseppe Bottzi
Great Britain
Anthony Eden
League of Nations
League Council
Faris
Genvieve Tabouis
Mussolini
France
Bute
Lion of Judah
Suez
H. M. S. Enterprise
Palestine
Egypian
Jerusalem
Levant
Europe
Switzerland
Emily Dickman 69 dies. sister of Mokane residents
Emily Dickman 69 died yesterday at Harndon Kansas. Funeral services are to be held here tomorrow in Idaho? No, for the sister of Dr. T. F. Hafner of Mokane Missouri and Rev. O. F. Hafner pastor of the Evangelical Reformed church at Fulton Missouri. She was a native of St. Charles County Missouri.
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Idalia
Colo
Tomorow
Emily Dickman
Harndon
Kans
T. F. Hafner
Mokane
O. F. Hafner
Evangelical Reformed Church
Fulton, Mo
St. Charles County
Missouri
Woman Falls at St Josephs Hospital in Denver
Mrs Ella Weckbaugh visiting a sick friend at St Josephs hospital in Denver slipped on steps as she left, breaking an ankle and wrist. She was in the hospital today receiving callers after the incident.
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Denver
Colo
Ella Weckbaugh
St. Joseph's Hosptal
Mrs Mollison Sets Record To Capetown Flight
Mrs Amy Johnson Mollison, British flier, arrived at 4 30 p m in Capetown creating a record for the England to South Africa flight. Mollison's time was three days six hours and 25 minutes. The previous record of three days 171 hours 38 minutes was set by Flight Lieut Tommy Rose, who had beaten Mollison earlier.
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Capetown
South Africa
Amy Johnson Mollison
England
Mollisons
Tommy Rose
Rose
Mollison
Luxury Zeppelin Flight Across Atlantic With Passengers Aboard
The 803 foot Hindenburg, carrying 108 aboard including 52 passengers, began its crossing from Friedrichshafen as the era of regular transatlantic air passenger service nears. The ship skirted France and England, with luxuries aboard such as smoking rooms, a piano, and onboard baths while meals and German beer were served. Arthur Voight, a Danzig millionaire, traveled to speak at the German Club of the University of Missouri.
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Atlantic
Globe
Pacific
Americus
Friedrich
Shafen
Lake Constance
Germany
Hugo Eckener
Zeppelin Jehies
Lehmann
Franz Wagner
Lady Wilkins
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Mannheim
Cologne
Eindhoven
Holland
Flusling
Channel
England
Mm. U. Speaker
Whiel
Arthur Voight
Danzig
Columbia
University of Missouri
Mrs Jenkins Loses 40000 Damage Suit In Auto Crash
Emma Jenkins wife of former Jefferson City mayor sued for 40000 for injuries from a collision between the Jenkins car with Delia Jenkins and three girls and a truck on the road between Jefferson City and Boonville. The jury returned verdict for the defendant and 250 to the truck owner. The suit named Missouri Kansas Motor Freight Company T B Lawrence and R B McNeely.
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Emma Jenkins
Garl. Jenkins
Jefferson City
Jenkins
Delia Jenkins
Boonville
Missouri-Kansas Motor Freight Company
T. B. Lawrence
R. B. McNeely
Fake robbery tale fails to win ride in Utah
Private Charles B Tyler of Fort Douglas called police claiming four singing bandits knocked him out with a guitar and stole his wallet as he sought a ride home. Officers questioned him at length and he walked away.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Charles B. Tyler
Fort Douglas
Tyler
Car stolen. thief gives owner a ride in Cleveland
Mrs Helen Conway reported her car stolen near Central police station in Cleveland. Three hours later she hailed a ride from a passing motorist at the same spot, called police, and the driver was arrested. The car was hers.
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Cleveland
Helen Conway
Central Police Station
Pedestrians Crash in Storm Injures Man in Tecumseh
Tecumseh Mich May 7 Herbert Waring suffered a broken rib facial cuts and bruises when he collided with another pedestrian during a heavy rainstorm one hurt in the incident as reported by UP
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Tecumseh, Mich
Herbert
Waring
FLEEING NEGUS SHIP PASSAGE HALIFAX TO EXILE
Emperor Haile Selassie and his 117 followers fled into exile aboard the British cruiser Enter prise as it passed the port of Halifax near Palestine without stopping. The voyage began May 7 with Selassie and family fleeing from Addis Ababa and routed through the region to Egypt.
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Port Said
Egypt
Haile Selassie
Halifax
Palestine
Enterprise
Hopkins Defends WPA Plan as Congress Debates 1937 Budget
Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins urged cooperation between government and industry over a permanent relief program as the House debated a 1.5 billion dollar WPA appropriation for 1937. He projected work for about 2 million workers, warned private hiring must rise, and defended boondoggling against critics while citing Braille book projects and nursing visits as examples of WPA efficiency. April 1935 Washington report notes gradual employment gains and warning that further funds depend on private industry absorption.
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Washington
Congress
Harry J. Hopkins
House
Hopkins
Works Progress Administration
Appropriations Committee
WPA
Rep
Bacon
R. CN
Sofar
Met
Hight Opens In House In WPRs Policies
A House committee reports on the unemployment relief and public works funds, noting the full 1.5 billion appropriation may be insufficient if private employment does not rise. The CCC expansion to 1,703 camps follows a Democratic caucus fight over Ickes PWA projects and stalled relief scope into 1937.
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Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress
CCC
Beiter
D-N
Ickes
PWA
Roosevelt
Public Works Administration
House
WPA CCC Camp Totals Under Review By Committee
A congressional committee reported that over 35 percent of WPA workers were from relief rolls and the annual cost per man was under 800 dollars. CCC camp strength would decline from 2,158 on April 1 to 2,115 on July 1 and 2,021 in March 1937, with no camp closed until work finished or enrollment fell. Authorized strength excludes Indians and territorial enrollment.
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CCC
Federal agents capture kidnapper in Toledo seizure
In Toledo authorities hauled in Harry Campbell linked to the Karpis Barker gang as a parole violator. Agents found 2900 dollars in Campbell's room while a Cleveland doctor Moran, once of Moran, reportedly aided the gang's operations. Mrs Fosnaught witnessed the federal raid and identified Hoover among the arresting men.
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Oklahoma
Cokar
Campbell
Moorer
Moran
Cleveland
Lake Erie
Karpis
Hoover
Barker-Karpis
Toledo
West End
Genevieve Fosnaught
New Orleans
J. Edgar Hoover
ST. Paul, Minn
Harry Campbell
Karpis-Barker
Law and Order Restored at Addis Ababa
Martial law curfew and Italian patrols restored order in ravaged Addis Ababa under Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Soldiers extinguished fires, cleared bodies, and secured the city while foreigners assessed losses. Missing New York writer Eleanor Meade reportedly safe after hiding in former Italian consul house.
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Addis Ababa
Eleanor Meade
New York City
Mary Wasties School
A. Domnermuth
C. French
R. M. Shippey
Avoca
N. Y
After Night Fire the City Burns in Silence
Journal notes describe Jill at night startled by patrol carabiniere fire then quiet as the streets clear. Looters are blamed on vandalis m in the absence of police, while Malian victory frames violence. Marshal Badoglio forms military courts to punish rioters and reconstitutes Ethiopian police with carabinieri and infantry units.
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Jill
Carabinieri
Fietro Badoglio
Roosevelt seeks Senate approval for St. Joseph postmaster
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Theo F. Quinn for postmaster at St. Joseph Missouri. The action aims to fill the position in the federal payroll and ensure local mail operations continue under new leadership.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Theo. F. Quinn
St. Joseph, Mo
Troops to Guard $6 Billion U S Gold Transport
Washington May. The treasury outlined plans to move 6 billion in gold to Fort Knox Kentucky in a special train with federal troops. Testimony by W C Cram Jr before the House Appropriations Committee detailed transport costs about 1.43 million and noted a guard in each car plus plain clothes agents and Post Office personnel. Another bullion shipment of 400 thousand 900 is set to move from San Francisco to Denver next year.
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Washington
Treasury
Fort Knox
Congress
W. C. Cram, Jr
Bureau of the Mint
House Appropriation Committee
Cram
Philadelphia
New York
Secret Service
Post Office
O’rielly
San Francisco
Denver
Suit Too Shocking Divorced Husband Forgets to Contest
Dallas Dillon Decker was shocked by his wife's divorce action and failed to oppose before the decree. He belatedly sought to contest the divorce after it was granted, in Los Angeles reporting.
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Los Angeles
Dallas
Dillon Decker
Decker
Doans Pills Flush Out 15 Miles of Kidney Tubes
Doans Pills advertise relief for kidney and bladder issues. The ad claims frequent urination backache leg pains dizziness puffiness and swelling under the eyes and advises flushing out waste from the kidneys. It urges readers to ask a druggist for Doan's Pills, used for over 40 years.
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Doan
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