Italians Accept bid to League's Parley
Italy accepts attendance at a League of Nations council meeting to discuss forwarding the Italo Ethiopian conciliation work. Rome states it will join the talks but reserves right to act if discussions widen beyond the commission's frontier issues. Italy opposes a fifth arbiter chosen by the council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Joseph A. C. Avenol
League of Nations
Italy
League Council
Conciliation Commission
Scheveningen
Netherlands
Ethiopia
Desire For Peace Told By Salassie
Addis Ababa Emperor Haile Selassie proclaimed Ethiopia’s desire for a peaceful settlement with Italy and said Ethiopia awaited the League of Nations decision. He urged the league to decide if a member can violate another state’s territorial integrity as council sessions set for July 31. The dispute centers on the 1908 Italo-Ethiopian treaty and the Somaliland frontier.
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Addis Ababa
Haile Selissie
Ethiopia
Italy
League of Nations
King of Kings
Lion of Judah
League
League Council
Foreign Conflicts to Get Wide Berth Roosevelt Asserts
President Roosevelt told reporters the United States will avoid foreign conflicts not involving the nation and pursue a continued good neighbor policy. He cited the Italo Ethiopian issue as an example and said the East African controversy may concern the U S only in the interest of world peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Nazi State to Direct Moves Against Jews
Berlin officials announce that the state itself will direct the anti Jewish drive and individual actions are banned. Police chief Von Helldorf warns that those who defy the order face punishment while noting provocateurs may seek to discredit the movement. Continued report signals further measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Berlin
Count von Helldorf
von Helldorf
Reich
New York
Bremen
Count Wolf von Helldorf
Faster Eastern Mails Assured by Muscatine Post Office
Mail bound for eastern points will reach Chicago about 24 hours earlier after Sept 1 due to a rearranged star route between Muscatine and West Liberty. The plan, supported by Albert S. Barry and local manufacturers, shifts West Liberty departure to 4 28 a m and Muscatine to 2 20 p m, with bids due Aug 20 and a four year contract from Sept 1 1935 to June 30 1939.
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Muscatine
West Liberty
Albert S. Barry
Chicago
Striking Iowa Bakers Plan Mass Meeting in Des Moines
Leaders of the six plant strike call a mass meeting outside Colonial Baking after failed talks on a closed shop clause. Negotiations with Master Bakers association broke down as Comfort offered re‑employment on prior terms. About 600 workers affected with $35,000 in wages lost. no immediate reopening planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Colonial Baking Company
Enier
George Consort
Clyde Herring
Master Bakers’ Association
Comfort
Association
Clear Lake
Reds Tear Nazi Emblem Off Bremen
German press demands U S apology after anti Nazi demonstrators tear the swastika flag from the Bremen in New York harbor. The assault sparks clashes with police injuring two officers and a man shot amid street battles near the liner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Washington
New York
Bremen
Wilbur J. Carr
Four Men Die in Yale Oil Tank Blaze in Billings
Flames from exploding oil storage tanks killed four Yale corporation refinery workers in Billings Montana. Ten tanks burned before fire teams contained the blaze. An unknown number were injured and damage totals could not be assessed. The first blast source tied to welding sparks igniting oil vapors.
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Billings
Mont
Yale Corporation
Vermejo Park visit with Wiley Post in New Mexico
A traveler writes from Vermijo Park New Mexico praising the region's beauty and hunting and fishing potential. They recall landing a plane at river canyons and visiting Waite Phillips, noting his vast 325000 acre property. Wiley Post fishes while the writer surveys cattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermijo Park
Mexico
Wiley Post
Lockheed
Waite Phillips
Vermejo Ranch
Southwest
Wiley
Congressmen Take Holiday as Tax Bill Looms
Congress adjourned for a休iday as Ways and Means Democrats moved to broaden Roosevelt tax levies to income as low as 50 000. Senate finance heard Distillers Institute on the new alcohol bill while Barlow faced contempt for naming sources. Patton finances under Senate lobby scrutiny. Banking bill clears to conference. central bank amendment defeated 59 to 10.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Democrats
Patton
Texas
Senate
AAA
Glass
Democrat
Virginia
Nye
Republican
North Dakota
Charles E. Coughlin
Detroit
Central Bank
Closing of Suez Canal Urged to Avert Italo Ethiopian War
London based Law Times urged Britain to close the Suez Canal to Italian warships as a disciplinary act under the league of nations. The move would align with Britain’s arms ban to Italy and Ethiopia and shield Eritrea and Italian Somaliland from long wartime detours.
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London Law Times
London
Suez Canal
Italy
Ethiopia
London “Law Times
League of Nations
Law Times
Geneva
Mussolini
Africa
Eritrea
Italian Somaliland
Weather Outlook for Midwest and Illinois
Iowa remains generally fair tonight and Sunday with possible local thundershowers in extreme northeast. Cooler in the northwest tonight and Sunday. Illinois mainly fair with a chance of local thundershowers in the extreme north portion, cooler in the north. Chicago forecast: period July 20 to Aug 3 shows above normal temperatures with occasional showers in most sections on one or two days.
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Iowa
Northwest
Illinois
Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Great Plains
Police widen hunt for Alvin Karpis near Cleveland
Ohio and Pennsylvania police scoured routes east of Cleveland after a man matching fugitive Alvin Karpis was seen driving a New York plated car toward the city. Two citizens recognized him and followed to Cleveland's public square before losing the vehicle. Authorities, aided by highway patrol, warned eastern cities and Pittsburgh while noting Karpis fled after an Atlantic City escape and linked kidnap victim Horace Hunsicker.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Alvin Karpis
Karpis
New York
Edward G. Bremer
St. Paul
West Side
Avon Lake Village
Pittsburgh
Atlantic City
Horace R. Hunsicker
Allentown
Medina
Thompson Protests Admission of Confession at Trial
In Peoria Illinois Gerald Thompson objects to admitting his signed confession accusing him of rape and murder of Mildred Hallmark 19. He says detectives pressured him and claims life sentence was expected. Police described the document as lurid and listing attacks on 16 other girls with 64 more unsuccessful assaults.
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Peoria
Ill
Gerald Thompson
Mildred Hallmark
Thompson
Youngest Iowa Sheriff Wins Submachine Gun Honors
Mason City Iowa Sheriff Albert T Pederson Cresco youngest among Iowa sheriffs won the submachine gun competition at the sheriffs association midsummer school of instruction with a 72 of 75. Sheriff Milford Engelbert Marengo won the pistol and revolver title with 78 of 100 firing both hands and rapid fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason City
Albert T. Pederson
Cresco
Iowa
Mercury to Remain at High Mark
Sweltering Muscatine residents faced continued heat this weekend as temperatures linger near the season’s peak. The weatherman warned of no sharp cooldown by Sunday while noting every small drop in temperature helps. Residents awoke to stagnant air and improvised cooling efforts after a warm night indoors.
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Muscatine
Clues Gained in Peoria Robbery
In Peoria Illinois three men escaped with 2000 after a daylight robbery and gun battle. Dick Day identified as a Dillinger mob member, wounded in the exchange, provided a lead linking a Chicago doctor to the crime. Police aim to locate the fugitives through the physician.
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Peoria
Ill
Chicago
Dick Day
Dillinger
Fred Nussbaum
Nussbaum
Lindberghs Visit Little Falls Home Town Historic Park Visit
Col Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife Anne returned by plane to Little Falls Minnesota for a visit to his boyhood home now part of a 99 acre state park. The trip fulfilled a three year plan and included renewed ties with old friends from barnstorming days.
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Col. Lindbergh
Little Falls
Minn
Charles A. Lindbergh
Anne Lindbergh
Montana
Augustus Nelson
St. Paul
Lindberghs
Davenport
M. A. Engstrom
First corn hog payments total over a million in Iowa
The farm administration mailed Iowa farmers over 1.19 million dollars in 1935 corn hog benefit checks the first disbursement of more than 4 million to 33 states. 61,478 Iowa checks total 1,195,828.05 dollars, with Nebraska and several other states receiving substantial sums.
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Washington
Farm Administration
Iowa
Claude Wickard
Nebraska
Missouri
North Dakota
Ohio
Kansas
Oklahoma
Minnesota
Indiana
Marion
Monroe
Wickard
Berlovich Seeks New Trial in Des Moines Case
Des Moines inmate Berlovich, life sentence for the March 10 1935 killing of Donald Merrigan at the Sportsman and Garden Club, petitions the state supreme court for a new trial. He contends the indictment lacked specific intent to kill and he was rushed to trial without adequate defense time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Dewey Berlovich
State Supreme Court
Berlovich
Sportsmans Club
Donald Merrigan
Sportsman and Garden Club
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T. Somaliland
Rand, McNally & Co
Benito Mussolini
Varese
Bickford- Smith
Claud Callan
Joe
Publishers Syndicate
Salassie
A. D. Stefferud
Star
Yours
Roper
McNaught Syndicate
Mercury
High Court
Aunt Het
Robert Quillen
Jennie
Publishers
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