Emperor Haile Selassie Calls Ethiopians to Battle
Emperor Haile Selassie urged Ethiopians to follow him into war and sacrifice for independence, saying liberty is worth dying for. He blamed Mussolini for Italy’s aggression and praised Ethiopia’s past peaceful efforts. Mussolini announced Italy’s Eritrean force was ready, with Japan denying interest in Ethiopia.
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Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Haile Selassi
Italy
Mussolini
Rome
Eritrea
Sugimura
Japan
Gunman Louis Alterie Shot Dead in Chicago
Louis Two-Gun Alterie, a top Chicago bootlegger and former Capone lieutenant, was shot outside his hotel and died an hour later. His wife Irma, 35, was taken into custody as authorities link the murder to labor troubles amid ongoing bootlegging wars.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Louis
Alterie
Irma
Daniel Gilbert
Dion O'Bannion
Gilbert
Capone
Business Congress Opens in London With 34 Delegates
Delegates from 34 nations gather in London for the sixth international congress for scientific management calling it the largest business parliament. The Duke of Kent, standing for the Prince of Wales, asserts the management factor ties to each nation’s industrial future. The session opens with formal, nonresolutive discussions set to begin tomorrow.
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Associated Press
London
International Congress For
Duke of Kent
Prince of Wales
Boeing launches final tests for giant four motor plane
In Seattle on July 18 a massive Boeing ship powered by four 725 horsepower motors with a 105 foot wingspan was readied for final testing. Engineers called it the largest land plane yet built in the United States and said it could reach speeds of 200 to 250 miles per hour.
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Seattle
United States
Four Plane Crash Victims Hospitalized in Whitehorse
Four men injured in a Me Dames Lake crash in British Columbia are listed in stable condition at Whitehorse hospital. Pilot Howard MacDonald, mechanic Ray Arnold, and passengers Lynch Deallison and C Cushwa MacDonald, the most gravely hurt, are among the casualties. Everett Wason flew the injured to Whitehorse on Saturday.
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Whitehorse
Me Dames Lake
British Columbia
Howard MacDonald
Ray Arnold
Lynch Deallison
C. Cushwa MacDonald
Satur
Everett Wason
TVA Constitution Upheld by Fifth Circuit
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Tennessee Valley Authority act constitutional and valid. It upheld the government's right to sell electric power, reversing Judge Grubb's Alabama county contract nullifications with Alabama Power. Congress possessed statutory power enabling the federal agency's operations.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
W. J. Grubb
Northern
District of
Alabama
Alabama Power Company
TVA
Congress
Fedeal Agency
Two Found Dead At Italian Health Resort Cabin
In Tivoli near Rome a local health resort at Acque Albule reports the bodies of Mrs. Edwin F. Thompson of New York and Nedham Walter Scott a 49 year old British Am erican Express manager found in a single cabin. Both wore bathing suits and were at opposite ends of the cabin. Initial reports suggest possible carbon monoxide poisoning. Mixed bathing is a common practice at the sulphur baths.
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Associated Press
Rome
Edwin F. Thompson
New York
Nedham Walter Scott
Italy
American Express Company
Acque Albule
Tivoli
Thompson
Scott
Keaton Divorce Case Tops Los Angeles Courts
Mae Elizabeth Keaton sues Buster Keaton for divorce alleging infidelity with Leah Clampitt Sewell. Keaton seeks two hundred thousand dollars damages for alleged theft of husband. The couple’s marriage began in 1983 and ended after a hotel incident in July.
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Los Angeles
Buster Keaton
Mae Elizabeth Keaton
Barton Sewell
Keaton
Germany clamps down on Catholicism with Vatican clash
Berlin reports that Jean Guerlin, minister of_av and carmighite of German police, issued orders to prosecute to enforce decrees against political Catholicism. He calls for overcoming Catholic influence by national solidarity and singles out the Hitler Youth movement. The Catholic Church protests new sterilization laws and limits on Catholic youth groups.
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Berlin
Jean Guerlin
Carmighite
Asivedd
Hrch
Bolivia President Salamanca Dies of Heart Attack
Dr. Daniel Salamanca sixty six, who led Bolivia during much of the Chaco War, died Wednesday night of a heart attack at his plantation near Cochabamba.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Daniel Salamanca
Cochabamba
First Boat Arrives At Point Barrow Unloads Supplies
The sailing vessel under Captain C. T. Pedersen tied up near Point Barrow on Tuesday night and unloaded mail and emergency rations. Eskimo sleds carried goods ashore then to open water where skin boats transported them to the beach. Pedersen navigated a narrow lead to Barrow and then headed east toward Arctic Canada for trading interests.
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Point Barrow
Patterson
C. T. Pedersen
Pedersen
Barrow
Points
Arctic Canada
Bridges Attacks Labor Racketeers in First Statement
In San Francisco on July 18 Harry Bridges, San Francisco stevedore head, rejects charges of communism and accuses labor racketeers allied with ship owners. He targets Joseph P. Ryan, recently reelected International Longshoremen Association president, amid factional opposition from Bridges.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Joseph P. Ryan
International Longshoremen Association
Ast
Ov Bridges
Green warns unions on new labor organizing power
Wil vant Green head of the American Federation of Labor cautions members to be careful before pursuing prosecutions under the newly passed Warner Disputes bill. He says the law marks a new chapter in U.S. labor history and responsibility rests with workers and management alike.
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Green
Union
Associated Press
Washington
Wilvant Green
American Federation of Labor
Warner
Congress
Schuschnigg Attends Wife’s Grave After Fatal Accident
Vienna reports Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg watching the coffin of his wife Herma lowered into Heitzing Cemetery. He himself was injured in the same automobile accident last Saturday that killed her, yet he walked from church to the grave despite his injuries.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Engibert Dollfus
Kurt Schuschnigg
Herma
Heitzing
Schuschnigg
Seven Of Nine Men Entombed In Coal Mine Explosion
Seven of nine men entombed by a coal mine explosion were found dead today in Vanlear New York. Rescue workers abandoned hope of locating the remaining two miners as the search ended.
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Associated Press
Vanlear
New York
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