Mussolini orders 75 000 more Italian troops to arms
Premier Mussolini announced the mobilization of 75,001 soldiers including regular army divisions and a Fascist blackshirt unit with two replacement divisions. The move raises East Africa forces to about 235,000 with 140,000 already in Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, amid Ethiopian mobilization. Some reports suggest covert battalions, but officials declined to confirm.
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Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Riccardi
East Africa
Eritrea
Italian Somaliland
Red Cross Launched by Ethiopian Empire
Emperor Haile Selassie officially inaugurates Ethiopia’s Red Cross at a ceremonial launch in Addis Ababa. The event sets aims for Red Cross subscriptions and organizational setup with Foreign Minister Bellaten Gueta Herouy named president.
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Addis Ababa
Haille Selassie
Ethiopia
Italy
Red Cross
Bellaten Gueta Herouy
Adua
Menelik
Haile Selassie
Saint George Cathedral
Striking Workers Clash With Police in Brest
In Brest France striking shipyard workers clashed with police and soldiers at the naval arsenal after yesterday’s protest. Stones bolts and bottles flew as workers refused to work under a heavy guard. Strikers sang the Internationale and were joined by other shipyard workers as they objected to duties on the Dunkerque cruiser project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brest
France
Naval Arsenal
Longs Influence Clouded Mississippi Governor Race
Huey Long loomed over Mississippi's gubernatorial primary as his support to one of five candidates sparked charges and denials. Voters also chose about 2,500 state and local officers, with many foreseeing a second primary on August 27 to decide the governor's race.
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Jackson
Miss
Huey Long
Mississippi
Long
Louisiana
Cam
Expulsion Ends LSU Track Hopes for Two Star Athletes
Baton Rouge August 6 two LSU track stars Truman Thomas and E A Black were expelled for disciplinary rule infractions. The orders signed by Major Troy H Middleton cited best interests of the university. Thomas from Houston and Black from Fort Worth were summer school students on probation.
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Baton Rouge
Truman Thomas
E. A. Black
Louisiana State University
Thomas
Black
Glenn
Hardin
Troy H. Middleton
T. P. Heard
Bernie Moore
Houston
Tex
Fort Worth
Relief Workers Demand Bigger Kansas City Relief
About one thousand Wyandotte county relief project workers and unemployed persons gathered in the county courthouse to protest a 67 12 per cent relief cut for the next five weeks and vowed to stay in the building until more adequate relief is granted.
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Kansas City
Kas
Wyandotte
Nazi Fear Drives Efforts to Block Foreign Reporters
Berlin reports say fear of losing the 1936 Olympic Games motivates Nazi moves against foreign correspondents. Officials hope foreign money will boost a sagging economy as Goebbels targets reporters alleging plots by foreigners to cancel the Games. Foreign press groups question the charges and note some journalists aid German efforts.
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Berlin
International Committee
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Foreign Press Association
The
For
Greek Strikers Win Wage Rise and Return to Work
In Athens four thousand strikers ended a revolt after securing a 15 percent wage increase negotiated by Gen. Bakapoulos. He announced the surrender of rebels and directed the dispersal of riotous crowds in Candia with warnings against preserving stolen arms. Casualties from street fighting totaled six dead and 51 wounded.
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Athens
Bakapoulos
Candia
Bakopoulos
Lindbergh Favored As Presidential Nominee
Washington Aug 6. Robert H. Lucas reports broad support for Charles A. Lindbergh as Republican presidential nominee next year. Lindbergh would be under 35 until February 1937, four months after election and a month after inauguration. Other names on the questionnaire were former Gov Winant of New Hampshire and former Gov Caulfield of Missouri.
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Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Robert H. Lucas
National Committee
Lucas
Winant
New Hampshire
Caulfield
Missouri
State rests in trial of former baseball player
In Hayneville Alabama on August 6 the state rested its case against Elmer N. Avant after two officers testified that Avant admitted killing Mr. and Mrs. John E. Norman on June 20 at his home. Coroner Emmett Sheehan testified Avant said he wanted to get out of Fort Deposit and later ran toward the car as authorities arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayneville
Ala
Elmer N. (Shorty) Avant
John E. Norman
Arant
Norman
Emmett Sheehan
Government may use barge canal in intracoastal route
Major General Thomas Q. Ashburn arriving in New Orleans said he is studying the advisability of federal barge lines operating the intracoastal canal between New Orleans and Texas. He plans data gathering and a report to the secretary of war after meetings with waterway officials before returning Saturday.
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New Orleans
Thomas Q. Ashburn
Inland Waterways Corporation
Intracoastal Canal
Texas
Ashburn
Secretary of War
New York
Waterway
Papal Appointments Raise Church Leadership in Virginia and Nebraska
The Apostolic delegation announced Pope Pius appointed Monsignor Peter L. Ireton of St. Anne's Baltimore as coadjutor bishop of Richmond Virginia and Bishop James Hugh Ryan of the Catholic University here as bishop of Omaha Nebraska.
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Washington
Pius
Vatican City
Peter L. Ireton
St. Anne’s Church
Baltimore
Richmond
James Hugh Ryan
Catholic University
Omaha
Neb
Building boom slows in July as public works lag
Construction and engineering contracts in the south totaled 40.274 million in July with gains in private and industrial building. The month fell about 5 million below June due to slower public works and highway projects delayed by federal timing. Industrial awards for the first seven months of 1935 reached 55.863 million versus 41.332 million the prior year.
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Baltimore
South
SAYS AAA PLAN HURTS RAILROADS
Mat thew S Sloan board chairman and president of Missouri Kansas Texas lines said restricted cotton production and federal loaning policies have seriously affected railroad revenue. He warned southwestern carriers face the cotton export trade's uncertain future as the 1934 35 season traffic was the lightest ever and most cotton remains inland rather than moving to Texas ports for export.
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New Orleans
Matthew S. Sloan
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Lines
Sloan
Katy
Texas
Oklahoma
Zenge Pleads Innocent To Mutilation Charge
Mandeville W. Zenge the Missouri carpenter pleaded innocent in Chicago to the murder by mutilation of Dr. Walter J. Bauer of Kirksville. He answered personally when asked by Judge Justin F. McCarthy and was remanded to custody after denying any knowledge of the doctor’s death.
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Chicago
Mandeville
W. Zenge
Missouri
Walter J. Bauer
Kirksville
Zenge
Joseph Greene
Justin F. McCarthy
McCarthy
Bauer
Monroe man arrested after two trucks crash
A post midnight collision 20 miles south of Baton Rouge injured two youths and sent 24 Iota Sigma fraternity members from New Orleans scrambling to safety. Monroe resident Tom Loftin was arrested as the driver who sideswiped the other truck. Loftin is jailed after allegedly failing to stop.
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Baton Rouge
Iota Sigma Fraternity
New Orleans
Andrew Panquerne
Ory Mier
A. P. Tugwell
Louisiana Highway Commission
Tom Loftin
Calypso Street
Monroe
Loftin
F. Strauss and Son
Jefferson Highway
Mier
Six Men Held In Looting Of Ship Monte Carlo Robbery
Six men were booked on suspicion of robbery after the Monte Carlo gambling ship looting on July 8 off Long Beach. Hooded raiders escaped with cash and jewelry valued at $32,000. Detectives Toland and Simon reported arrests and a house search yielding shotguns and jewelry hidden in a hollow bed post. The detainees are Lorell D Boyd August Wunderlich George Wunderlich Walter Miller Carl Carillo and a man identified as Blackie.
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Los Angeles
Monte Carlo
Long Beach
Harry Toland
Richard Simon
Lorell D. Boyd
August Wunderlich
George Wunderlich
Walter Miller
Carl Carillo
Blackie
Roosevelt Allocates 210 Million for CCC Expansion
President Roosevelt assigns 210 million dollars in work relief funds to bolster the civilian conservation corps toward a full strength of 600,000, with 425,000 currently enrolled. Part will finance forest and park work in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, employing about 4,400, plus plans to hire 12,500 Indians on reservations, raising total conservation work to 650,000. Since April 1, 521.734 million have been allocated. other funds support rural resettlement and a census of aged persons for pensions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Commerce Department
Two Cass county men held in fatal Texas shooting
In Linden Texas two Cass county men Raymond Gillespie and his son Wallace Gillespie were to be charged in the fatal shooting of Timber buyer Jack Parton and his daughter Kaydell aged 15 after they refused to reveal eloping couple’s whereabouts. Carrie Gillespie linked to the elopement.
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Texarkana
Ark
Cass County
Linden
Texas
Raymond Gillespie
Wallace
Carrie
Jack Parton
Kaydell
Parton
Forrest Whitworth
Gillespie
Sanity To Decide Fate Of Condemned Negro
Jim Edwards, a negro alleged attacker, is to be observed at Jackson hospital for criminally insane to determine if he will be returned to Jennings for hanging. He was captured in Oklahoma City after escaping from the asylum about a year ago and is now at the Jackson institution awaiting verdict on his sanity. He was convicted in 1932 for assaulting a 14 year old girl.
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Jennings
Jim Edwards
Jackson Hospital
Edwards
Oklahoma City
Jackson
Witness sought as Hopson described to police
Washington police were asked to locate H. C. Hopson, a leading figure in the Associated Gas and Electric System, whose testimony is desired by two congressional committees investigating the utility lobby. A hotel search at the Shoreham failed, with Robinson saying Hopson had checked out and likely stayed on the fourth floor.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
H. C. Hopson
Associated Gas and Electric System
House
Shoreham Hotel
Hopson
Senate
House Committee
B. B. Robinson
Associated
Herbert A. Boomquist
C. H. Tavenner
Robinson
Senate Leaders Block Riders on Roosevelt Tax Bill
Senate Democratic leaders decided to bar bonus payment riders and extraneous issues from the Roosevelt tax bill. They pledged to give bonus legislation preferred status next session to speed adjournment. Robert H. Jackson testified there was a general conspiracy by the rich to evade taxes.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Robinson
Robert H. Jackson
Internal Revenue Bureau
Senate Democratic
House
Thomas
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Frazier
North Dakota
San Francisco Awakens to Bridge Building Frenzy
Will Rogers notes San Francisco outshines Los Angeles in class and says the city is in a wild bridge building phase like paving. He mentions San Diego’s successful fair as a sign of times and jokes about rapid construction when plans form.
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San Francisco
Cal
Los Angeles
San Diego
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