Ethiopian front pictures through Asmara exile to Makale
Ray Rousseau, NEA photographer, recounts a rugged trek with Ras Gugsa’s army toward Makale. He details the brutal mountain roads, rainstorms, makeshift transport, and a 60 mile journey on foot and mule. He notes sparse food, scarce gear, and rare aid from Italian officers as he and a British cameraman filmed the occupation.
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Ray Rousseau
NEA Service
Lancaster Gazette
Emitrea
Rousseau
NEA
Asmara
Eritrea
Makale
Ras Gugsa
Torria
Adigrat
Army Photographic Corps
Agoula
Makole
Caspetite
Paroled asylum patient suspected in infant drowning case
New York police questioned Gussie Friedman 45 after a 10 month old, Jacob Horowitz, vanished from an East Side tenement. She had been paroled three months earlier from an asylum after twenty years confinement and was found wandering with a second infant Doris Mastin. Police believe she pushed Jacob into the East River as crowds and officers hunted the waterfront at night.
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New York
Jacob Horowitz
East Side
Walidast
East River
Gussie Fredman
Jacob
Gussie
Horowitz
Little Jacob
Doris Maslin
Jacobs
Water Front
Doris “Mastin
Lewis Schnier
Bao
Christmas Tree Blaze Destroys 35-Room Home in Toledo
Fire swept Gordon M. Mather's 35 room suburban residence in Toledo Ohio causing an estimated $200000 in damage. The Christmas tree fire gutted the Gordon Mather family home and Mather served as president of the Mather Spring Company.
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Toledo
Gordon M. Mather
Mather
Mather Spring Co
Unemployed League Unit to Elect Officers in Lancaster
Unemployed League Unit No 1 of Lancaster will hold a special closed meeting Wednesday January 8 for the election of officers.
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Unemployed League Unit No. 1
Lancaster
Pleasantville High School Orchestra to perform at PTA meeting
At the Pleasantville Parent-Teacher Association meeting on Thursday at 8 p m the Pleasantville High School Orchestra of thirty five pieces will perform under conductor J K E Murdock A trumpet solo by Raymond Sperry a trombone solo by Dorothy Jean Kagay and a piano accordion selection by Hazel Wheeler will also be featured The program includes a talk by Rey Hudnadd. Meanwhile Joseph W Thompson a 135 pound crippled man assisted by a crutch pulled Daniel J Ryan 64 at 190 pounds from icy water after a two hour struggle at the wharf in Washington.
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Rey Hudnadd
Pleasantville High School
Pleasantville
Asari
Raymond Sperry
Dorothy Jean Kagay
Hazel Wheeler
J. KE. Murdock
Washington
W. Thompson
Daniel J. Ryan
Thompson
Dinner party at Mrs. Astor fundraiser brings famed musicians
In New York a charity dinner honoring Mrs. Vincent Astor featured top opera and classical stars including Lawrence Tibbett Joscha Heifetz Albert Spaulding and Richard Crooks. The event raised $17,000 for musicians' charity from a crowd jokingly estimated at $900,000 in talent. In Chicago Chinese demonstrators protested Japanese policies with placards labeling Japan Public Enemy No 1, organized by Chinese student and fraternal groups.
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New York
Vincent Astor
Lawrence Tibbett
Joscha Heifetz
Albert Spaulding
Charles Hanson Towne
Theodore E. Steinway
Ernest Schelling
Richard Crooks
Praser Gange
Almet
Chicago
Japan
Chinatown
Chinese Students’ Association of North America
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Massawa
Marshal Badoglio
NEA Service, Inc
Africa
Agoult
Kitcheb
Jim
Gussie Friedman
Doris
Evenins
Masome
C C. Snyder
Leach
N. Broad St
Piano Taning
C. E. Fank
Michigan Navy
Embassy
Oleo
Wesco Feed
U.S
Rome
Armour
Gosan
the Hickle CO
Hickle’s
Wusun Geth
Priscilla
Bestar mi
Soha
Igo
Bungalow
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