Nomination Judge J H S Morison Confirmed by Senate
Judge J H S Morison of Tennessee is confirmed as District Judge of Second Division Nome Alaska by the Senate. He arrived in Nome last August aboard the Arctic Cruise, helped lead relief after the September 17 fire, and is celebrated by friends and family including his wife and granddaughter.
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Washington
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Tennessee
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Alaska
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Judge Morison
Lester O. Gore
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil Dies at Southampton
Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, heir to vast Standard Oil fortunes, died at Southampton New York after a long illness from pneumonia contracted in October. His son H. H. Rogers previously served as vice president of Standard Oil and was a close associate.
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Southampton
N. Y
Henry Huddleston Rogers
Standard Oil Companies
H. H. Rogers
Standard Oil Company
New Cabinet To Be Formed On Broad Basis In Netherlands
Queen Wilhelmina charged Catholic party leader D P Aalberse with forming a new cabinet. The aim is a broad basis after Premier Hendrik Colijn resigned amid a financial crisis in The Hague.
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Associated Press
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Wilhelmina
D. P. Aalberse
Hendryk Colijn
Italy Reconsiders Approach in Abyssinia Dispute
The League Council plans a July 31 session on the African controversy as Italy shows desire for a conciliation commission. Ethiopia opposes revival, citing frontier delineation between Eritrea and Somaliland. Britain enlists guards at Addis Ababa while arms export ban draws Ethiopian disappointment. Ethiopia seeks League mediated solution.
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Rome
Great Britain
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Legally Dead Three Times A Man Allegedly Alive
The article recounts Fred Sauter, declared legally dead thrice in court as insurers paid out on his life. Sauter, a Memphis native who vanished seven years ago, appeared in Chicago alive with injuries, while his wife and daughters sue to recover sums from Metropolitan Life and other insurers. The sisters won verdicts for two additional $1,000 policies.
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A E F Sweetheart Injured In Auto Wreck
EASTVIEW New York July 25 fiss James famous entertainer known as the sweetheart of the AEF was severely injured in an auto accident. She suffers a concussion and deep scalp wound with blood loss. A blood transfusion may be needed. Her husband Gilbert Wilson was driving and also sustained a slight head injury.
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Associated Press
Eastview
N. Y
Fiss James
Gilbert Wilson
AEF
Mine Disaster in Giridih Kills 33, Injures 43
A mine disaster at Giridih caused thirty three deaths and forty three injuries today in Calcutta era reporting.
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Associated Press
Calcutta
Giridih
Lawmakers Push Back On Central Bank Proposal
Washington July 26 Democratic senate leaders unite to reject Father Coughlin and Senator Nye's central bank plan. They aim to pass omnibus banking changes with limited reforms while House leaders resist inflation proposals and mortgage refinancing measures totaling three billion dollars.
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Washington
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Governte Bules
House
France completes plan to stave off East Africa war
PARIS July 22 Authorities completed plans to avert a war between Mali and Ethiopia using conciliation. Melby signaled no immediate aims against the league, action to be decided at Geneva. French and British diplomats discussed forestalling league action by bringing the case under Covenant Act 124 rather than direct Ethiopian action.
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Ethiopia
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Tuly
No Jews Compete On German Team For 36 Olympics
Berlin reports the Olympic Committee disclosed that no Jews are among Germany’s athletes selected for the 1936 Olympic team. The move follows Nazi actions dissolving the East Prussia steel helmet veterans group and appointing a supervisor to purge Jewish influence from German art.
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Berlin
Germany
Olympic Committee
Steel Helmet War Veterans Organization
East Prussia
Guardsmen StandBy At Hoquiam Amid Lumber Riot
National guardsmen remain in readiness at Hoquiam after a lumber mill strike protest erupted into violence. A company rushing aid to a trapped squad faced a mob of about five hundred as rocks were thrown. one guardsman was slightly injured. The clash followed earlier shotgun fire injuring five workers and forcing a hotel eviction.
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Noquiam
National
German Sniper Is Winner 20 Years After Shot Fired
London July 26 A German sharpshooter fired a bullet into chemist William Hornby’s brain in 1815 at La Bassee but Hornby survived for decades. An inquest heard the bullet traversed his brain and, after years of illness and paralysis, he died recently at the National Hospital for Diseases London. A post mortem found the bullet lodged at the skull’s inner membranes, its path calcified into a tunnel.
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London
la Bassee
William Hornby
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National Hospital For Bren Diswises
Ingleby Oddie
Lead Bullet Poisoning Hint in Hornby Case
A fragment suggests Ty’s lead bullet possibly poisoned Hornby by absorption, noting the lead’s gradual effect and Hornby’s deteriorating condition. The text implies a lethal mechanism tied to the bullet’s lead content.
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Hornby
Five Year Plan Aims to Boost Japan Forces
Tokyo July 26 A five year plan costing 900 million yen about 2061 million dollars to upgrade Japan land and air forces was submitted to the cabinet. The plan calls for annual expenditure about 52 million yen and needs extra funds beyond regular military budgets. It cites Japan’s air force inferiority and air vulnerability with focus on land equipment first two years then air forces in last three.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
War Office and
General Staff
Japan
Mussolini's Two Sons Elevated to East African Air Force Officers
In Rome on July 25, Vittorio Mussolini aged 19 and Bruno aged 17 were made officers in their father Benito Mussolini's East African Air Force. Vittorio became a second lieutenant and Bruno a sergeant.
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Rome
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East African Air Force
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