Ethiopians Mass 400000 for Northern Front Battle Front
Addis Ababa jubilant as Emperor Haile Selassie orders renewed fighting against Italian invaders. Authorities say 400000 troops under five commanders close in on Makale, signaling a potential decisive phase in the three month old war. Regulars now arrive at the front as Ethiopian forces converge.
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Associated Press
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Desige
Haile Selassie
Pietro Badoglio
Makale
Ethion
Tigre
Ogaden
Controversy Over LSU Law School Standards Continues
In New Orleans the American Law Schools association debated alleged political interference at Louisiana State University Law School. Dr James M Smith of LSU denounced inspectors for hobnobbing with politicians. Ohio State's Herschel Arant defended the inquiry as not absurd. Continued on Fourth Page.
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New Orleans
Louisiana State University Law School
Association of American Law Schools
Huey P. G
James M. Smith
Association
Herschel W. Arant
Ohio State University
Dr. Smith
Council of the American Bar Association
Former High School Grid Star Is Killed
Knoxville dispatch reports coroner's jury to probe the death of Wymer Baldy Query, once a celebrated high school football star and later a noted boxer. He died shortly after being found badly beaten on the Norris Knoxville highway. Survivors include brother Dolphin Spud Query, a semi pro baseball pitcher.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Wymer
Baldy) Query
Query
Dolphin
Spud) Query
Pardons Granted to Two Louisiana Prisoners by Gov Allen
Frank Benjamin who was sentenced in De Soto parish on March 8 1932 to 5 to 15 years for manslaughter and J W Richards sentenced in New Orleans on August 24 1933 to 2 to 5 years for a statutory offense have been pardoned by Governor Oscar K Allen.
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Baton Rouge
Frank Benjamin
DeSoto Parish
J. W. Richards
New Orleans
O. K. Allen
Kipling Celebrates Seventieth Birthday at Burwash
Rudyard Kipling marked his seventieth birthday in Burwash Sussex sharing the day with his wife and daughter. The famed writer, long secluded in his greystone house, has produced little new work in the past decade, his latest poem being The King and the Sea published last July.
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Burwash
Sussex
England
Rudyard Kipling
the Downs
Kipling
Wee Willie Winkee
India
Greystone
Ruston Doctor Dies of Injuries After Auto Crash
Dr. William S. Rutledge, 52, prominent north Louisiana physician, died in the Ruston Lincoln sanitarium from injuries when his car overturned near Brandon Mississippi last Thursday afternoon. He and his brother Dr. C P Rutledge of Shreveport were en route to Demopolis Alabama to join a deer hunting trip.
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Ruston
William S. Rutledge
North Louisiana
Ruston Lincoln Sanitarium
Brandon
Miss
C. P. Rutledge
Shreveport
Demopolis
Ala
Rutledge
Cagney and Warner Brothers in continuing pay dispute
Hollywood December report says James Cagney remains off Warner Brothers payroll as he returns from a yachting trip. Officials confirm temporary removal with a $4,500 weekly contract, while friends deny salary demands and cite a wish to reduce film output.
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Hollywood
James Cagney
Warner Brothers Studio
Warner
Cagney
Hauptmann clemency plea eyed by New Jersey court
Albert B. Hermann said the New Jersey court of pardons discussed Hauptmann's mercy plea but set no date for a formal hearing. Hauptmann faces execution in the week of January 13 for the Lindbergh baby murder. He remained calm as officials said he believed something might yet save him.
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Trenton
N. J
Albert B. Hermann
Court of Pardons
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Lindbergh
New Jersey Court of Pardons
Hauptmann
Experts Say Bachelors Safe Despite Leap Year
New York reports leap year begins Wednesday yet marriage experts say bachelors remain safe. Rev Randolph Ray notes no surge in marriages over leap years after 13 years of weddings. Deputy City Clerk Philip Hines cites shy women and a trend of few proposals despite the extra day.
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New York
Randolph Ray
Philip A. Hines
World's Noted Talk Sees 1935 Open Season on Utterances
Chicago dispatch reviews a year of public speech with notable quotes from Roosevelt Hoffman Kohlmetz Mussolini Hoover Louis Townsend and Shaw. The piece highlights heated rhetoric and a push to redefine public discourse as 1935 begins.
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Chicago
Kohlmetz
Mussolini
Herbert Hoover
America
Joe Louis
Baer
F. E. Townsend
George Bernard Shaw
Death Intervenes as Wealth Nears in Boston Case
Boston December 30 death intervened to stop James Gadwood a 75 year old welfare recipient from accepting a $50,000 offer for an abandoned Montana mining claim he believed worthless. Gadwood lived in a south end rooming house with Mrs Ida Dupree and had recently fallen ill.
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Boston
James Gadwood
Montana
Ida Dupree
South End
Amelia Earhart plans another long flight discovery
Amelia Earhart Putnam, now on a lecture tour in Orlando, Fla, says she will fly again next spring after conquering two oceans. She predicts a future airland vehicle combining automobile and airplane, warning the air industry must develop it or risk losing ground to the auto industry.
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Orlando
Fla
Dee
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Miss Earhart
Atlanta’s $2 Million Ice Storm Strikes City
Ice and damaged power lines crippled Atlanta with $2,000,000 in damage and thousands left without lights heat or telephones. A man was killed by a live wire as crews repair outages and warm weather looms to melt the ice.
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Atlanta
Dawn
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Mystery Escort of Thelma Todd to Be Revealed
Los Angeles investigators say the fate of actress Thelma Todd hinges on why her mother cried that her daughter had been murdered. Deputy District Attorney Bla lock notes new information may solve the case as Mrs Todd and partner Roland West are summoned before the grand jury. The coroner’s jury had found possible accidental death from carbon monoxide poisoning. An DA investigator said West interrupted a tearful scene.
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Los Angeles
Thelma Todd
A. A. Blalock
Alice Todd
Roland West
Miss Todd
Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett Dies at 78
Lieut General Hunter Liggett, 78, famed Indian fighter and World War I hero who led the A E F and the occupation forces in Germany, died at Letterman hospital San Francisco after a long illness. His wife Harriet Lane Liggett survives. they had no children. He was among the two officers to hold lieutenant general rank in overseas service.
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San Francisco
Hunter Liggett
Marne
Germany
Letterman
Dear Charges Another Scandal In Oil Lands in Louisiana
Dear accuses Governor O K Allen of a state lease to S A Guidry for 500 dollars that was later sold for 480 000 dollars. The lease covered Bayou Lafourche bed about 10 miles wide and yielded 1 978 363 barrels of oil by December 1935.
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Eunice
Cleveland Dear
Dear
O. K. Allen
S. A. Guidry
Allen
Bayou Lafourche
Louisiana
Assassination Brings Death of Chicago Solon Prignano
Lieutenant Richard Barry announced the assassination of State Representative Albert J. Prignano in his Bloody Twentieth Ward. Deputies described a stickup as Prignano and his wife and son approached their home, with four shots in the back and two in the head. Chauffeur Victor Galanti reported the gunmen fled on foot after failing to start a getaway.
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Chicago
Richard Barry
Albert J. Prignano
Prignano
John
Extortion Plot Arrest Involving Gannett Publisher
Roland E. Markell a 21 year old Rochester messenger was jailed in Buffalo on charges of attempting to extort 250000 from Frank E. Gannett publisher of the Gannett newspapers and Louis A. Wehle president of Genesee Brewing. Federal agents say he sent threatening letters by mail demanding 25000 to 100000 with threats of kidnapping or death.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Roland E. Markell
Rochester
Frank E. Gannett
Gannett
Louis A. Wehle
Genesee Brewing Company of
Markell
Rochester Artists
George W. Doherty
Specias
Department of Justice
Brewer
Doherty
Lava Held Back by Bombardment at Mauna Loa
In Hilo Hawaii on December 30 government volcanologist Dr Thomas A Jaggar reported indications that aerial bombardment by the army had halted the lava flow threatening Mauna Loa.
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Hilo
Hawaii
Mauna Loa
Thomas A. Jaggar
Governor Allen backs fair election push in Franklin
Governor O. K. Allen told crowds in Franklin and other towns that Home Rule candidates may have as many commissioners as they want at the January 21 election, but he wants one good man at each polling place to ensure a fair vote. He linked the issue to past treatment of Huey P. Long and urged ballots over bullets. He pledged a senate investigation into Senator Long’s death if elected.
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Franklin
O. K. Allen
Home Rule
State Machine Administration
Machine
Morgan City
Jeanerette
Huey P. Long
DeSoto Hotel
New Orleans
Sandlin
Senator Long
Montez
Earl K. Long
Cleveland Dear
Allen
Senate
Long
Lindberghs Receive Forty Messages in Liverpool Welcome
Liverpool reports forty messages and letters offering British hospitality to the Lindberghs. Charles Lindbergh his wife and son Jon are expected to arrive in Liverpool tomorrow aboard the cargo steamer American Importer.
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Liverpool
Charles A. Lindberghs
Jon
American Importer
Nurse Betty Gow Declines Return to Lindberghs Offer
Betty Gow, the Scottish nurse who cared for Lindbergh baby, said the Lindberghs asked her to work for them again but she declined. She spoke aboard a Glasgow streetcar while en route to a dress shop. The Lindbergh family remains abroad seeking peace.
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Betty Gow
Flier
Associated Press
Glasgow
Scotland
Associated Press Today
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Colonel Lindbergh
Jon
Vermilion Bay bottom mineral lease bids opened
Bids were opened today at Governor Allen's office for a one year mineral lease of the state owned Vermilion Bay bottom in Iberia parish. Cash bonuses offered include J. H. Reeves $5000 Louisiana Land and Exploration company $7500 W T Burton $15000 and Paul O Hernandez $2500.
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Baton Rouge
Gov. O. K. A.len
Vermilion Bay
Iberia Parish
J. H. Reeves
Louisiana Land and Exploration Company
W. T. Burton
Paul O. Hernandez
Louisiana voting disputed as factional claims surface
The article reports Democratic primary tensions in Louisiana ahead of January 21 with charges of potential vote theft by Long ally lines and calls for fair election oversight. Candidates include Governor O K Allen and Congressman Cleveland Dear with rivals such as Richard Leche and John Sandlin, amid a Home Rule ticket push.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Cleveland Dear
Huey P. Long
O. K. Allen
Long
Senate
J. Mark Wilcox
Boards of Supervisors
Dear
Richard Leche
Allen
United States
John Sandlin
Allen Ellender
Senator Long
Effort to Bar Straw Ballots to Be Launched
Representative Pierce Democrat of Oregon announced plans to bar straw ballots from the mails. He will take the issue to Postmaster General Farley next week and then to the Democratic national committee on January 9. Pierce says straw ballots can be framed to mislead and create a false bandwagon.
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Washington
Pierce
Oregon
Farley
Democratic National Committee
Roosevelt
Mother And Daughter Killed In West Side Apartment Shooting
Chicago report of a family quarrel turning deadly as stepfather shoots and kills his wife and daughter, then fatally wounds himself after firing on the children. Victims named include Mrs Pene lope Mikes and Lulu Voormas. wounded are Louis Voormas and Philip Mikes. Captain Albert Mikes leads the case.
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Chicago
West Side
Albert Mikes
Penelope Mikes
Lulu Voormas
Louis Voormas
Philip Mikes
Mikes
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