Italy narrows League session over Italo Ethiopian dispute
Rome and Addis Ababa exchange notes as Italy signals limits on League of Nations talks and warns it may seek postponement or leave council table while Emperor Haile Selassie pledges peaceful settlement. Key dispute centers on 1908 treaty interpretation and Somaliland frontiers with arbitration urged.
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Italy
League of Nations
League Council
Council
Geneva
Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Lion of Judah
League
Assembly of the Council
League to convoke extra session on Italo Ethiopian dispute
Geneva reports that the League of Nations secretariat after consulting Maxim Litvinov will convene an extraordinary session of the council on July to address the Italo Ethiopian dispute. Italy hinted indifference to attending the date, leaving attendance undecided.
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League of Nations
Secretariate
Maxim Litvinoff
Council
Italy
Congress Takes Day Off As Bills Move Ahead
Washington reports Congress rested while the banking bill heads to conference and tax plans spark debate. Senate panel reviewed alcohol legislation. Patton's finances questioned. Wheeler Rayburn talks on utilities stall. wage contracts extended to Sept 19 easing potential coal strikes.
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Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Distillers Institute
Patton
D. Tex
Senate
House
Glass
D. Va
Alabama lumberman found shot to death beside road
Claude L. Beasley a 30 year old Columbia Alabama lumber man was found shot to death beside his automobile on a highway near Blakely Georgia. Sheriff Sid Howell said a negro found the bodies with two shotgun wounds and a firearm with notch barrels was recovered from the back of the car. Beasley recently opened his own business in Columbia. His widow and two children survive.
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Blakely
Claude L. Beasley
Columbia
Ala
Here
Sid Howell
Howell
Weather summary for Southeastern states forecast
Generally fair tonight and Sunday with local thundershowers possible in parts of South Carolina and Florida. Georgia and Alabama show partly cloudy conditions with south portions at risk of thundershowers, while northwest areas expect warmer Sunday and Florida’s forecast remains unsettled in places.
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Lurid confession read at trial of Gerald Thompson
Gerald Thompson's confession that he attacked Mildred Hallmark and left her to die in a cemetery ditch was read to a packed Peoria courtroom. The document, labeled by police as the most lurid ever, was admitted over his protest as Judge Joseph E. Daily presided. Spectators leaned forward in shock as prosecutors detailed the 19 year old convent trained girl's fate after a street car stop meeting.
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Ill
Gerald Thompson
Mildred Hallmark
Thompson
Joseph E. Daily
Edwin C. Champion
Blast at Italian munitions plant Leaves 50 Killed
Varese Italy July 27 nearly 50 persons reported killed in an explosion at the Brickford Smith munitions factory. Local authorities investigated the blast and warned of possible further casualties as rescue teams worked at the scene.
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Varese
Italy
Brickford-Smith
Karpis Sought by Officers in Ohio and Pennsylvania
Cleveland police and Ohio and Pennsylvania officers chased a car believed linked to fugitive kidnapper Alvin Karpis. Citizens reported a New York plated Auburn sedan with two men in the vehicle near Cleveland Public Square. Erie police also pursued a yellow Auburn sedan at high speed matching broadcast descriptions.
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Ohio
Pennsylvania
Cleveland
Alvin Karpis
Auburn
New York
Edward G. Bremer
St. Paul
Public Square
Pittsburgh
Erie Pa
Erie
Ames Kindle
Kindle
Four Hurt In Accident At Tifton Last Night
A Langdale Alabama family of four was hospitalized after an auto accident in Tifton Georgia on the Atlanta highway near a railroad crossing. James Oscar Johnston and son James Jr. 6 were seriously injured, while Mrs. Johnston and Adrian 4 sustained minor injuries. The driver of the other car, J. B. Whitaker of Valdosta, was treated at the hospital. police said the family was hitchhiking and no action was taken.
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Tifton
Langdale
Ala
James Oscar Johnston
James, Jr
J. B. Whitaker
Valdosta
Johnston
Whitaker
Atlanta
Communists Tear Nazi Flag From Bremen Liner in New York
A flag torn from the Bremen’s bow by Communists sparked a melee involving nearly 2,000 protesters and 375 police. One man was shot. two officers seriously injured as clashes spread from the pier to West 47th Street. Police and citizens restored order as the liner prepared to sail.
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Bremen
Hudson
West 47Th Street
West 44Th Street
West 46Th Street
Hitler
Thaelman
Ernest Thaelman
Communist Party
Reichstag
Germany
Edward Drollette
Bellevue Hospital
Deutsche Allegemeine Zeitung
la Guardia
America
der Angriff
Rebecca
Washington
Guardia
Moscow
Progress Toward Prosperity Cited in Georgia
Augusta officials report measurable progress toward prosperity in Georgia through federal works programs. Leslie Cooke and Lincoln McConnell cite 60 000 WPA workers, 22 500 relocated families since spring 1934, and ongoing benefits from CWA FERA PWA funding. They emphasize no handouts, but job creation and economic stimulus.
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Augusta
Georgia
Lerlie Cooke
National Emergency Council For Georgia
Lincoln McConnell
Cooke
Work Progress Administration
FERA
CWA
McConnell
FARA
PWA
Cocke
WPA
Administration to Give Wide Birth to Foreign Rows
President Roosevelt vowed to avoid foreign conflicts and maintain a broad nonintervention stance. He outlined a continuing neighborly policy and cautioned that issues beyond U S interests should not drag the nation into war. The East African dispute was cited as a potential case of limited concern to preserve world peace.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Adolf Hitler
Germany
British Economists Urge U.S. Involvement for Peace
A non-partisan program by 153 British economists, publicists and writers argues U.S. isolation will ruin collective peace efforts. They stress American cooperation is vital to peace making and favor a five year recovery plan echoing Lloyd George. They warn that explosive forces and weak collective security threaten peace if the United States remains isolated.
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London
United States
Lloyd George
Communications Board Employes Receive Warning
The Communications Commission warns all employees in its AT&T investigation to avoid accepting favors or gifts from company officials or employees. The order, issued during Senate inquiry into private finances, bars loans and social favors tied to the investigation.
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The
Communications Commission Today
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Senate Lobby Committee
Patton D.tex
United States
Walker
Communications Commission
Telephone Division
Jury Selected in Slaying of New York Attorney
Detroit July 27 A 14 member jury seven men and seven women was chosen to try four persons for the slaying of Howard Carter Dickinson a New York attorney Five days to select the panel with the defense using all 80 peremptory challenges Prosecutor Runcan C McCrea opened the case noting confessions by William Lee Ferris and co defendants Loretta and Florence Jackson and Jean Miller who admitted luring the lawyer from his hotel on June 26 and killing him for his money
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Detroit
Howard Carter Dickinson
New York
Runcan C. McCrea
William Lee Ferris
Loretta
Florence Jackson
Jean Miller
Lines sharpen in Georgia highway fund debate in Congress
Washington dispatch reports a feud over Georgia’s share of federal road funds with Senators Russell and George and Congressman Ramspeck backing county city expenditure plans if the state highway board and federal bureau fail to agree. Representative Vinson visits Milledgeville while tending his farm and Baldwin county’s first bale of cotton awaits picking Monday.
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Georgia
Russell
Ramspeck
State Highway Board
Federal Roads Pereau
Roosevelt
Nie
Ramapeck
Vinson
Secretary of Agriculture
State of Georgia
Russells
George
Highway Board
Federal Roads ‘Bureau
Thomas WH. MacDonald
Ed Vinson
Baldwin County
Vinsom
State's Tobacco Law Enjoined Temporarily
Georgia tobacco handling rates were halted by a U S district court temporary order for 44 warehousemen. Daily sales reports and court-led refunds to growers if the law stands are required. A three judge panel will hear the case within two weeks.
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George Burt
Associated Press
Macon
Georgia
United States District Court
Bascom Deaver
Deaver
Tom Linder
South Carolina
Linder
State May Build Power and Light Plant at Milledgeville
Georgia considers erecting a light and power plant to serve Milledgeville institutions including the state prison farm college for women insane asylum and training school for boys. The state board of control in the governor's presence adopted a resolution to survey the power situation and assess feasibility. Estimated cost about 500000.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Milledgeville
College For Women, Insane Asylum and Training School For Boys
State Board of Control
Talmadge
E Lindsey
Mitchell to Aid in Reorganizing NRA
Atlanta July 27 W L Mitchell regional director of the NRA said he would go to Washington to assist in reorganizing the administration He noted the program details for the region by the skeletonized NRA have not been worked out yet The regional administrative staff has been cut drastically.
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Atlanta
W. L. Mitchell
NRA
Washington
Georgia tobacco warehousmen sue to block new rate law
In Macon Georgia 44 warehousemen petitioned for an injunction to stop enforcement of a new tobacco handling rate law. They claim the law is confiscatory and would deprive them of property without due process. The case names M J Yeomans and county sheriffs as defendants and moves to federal court over constitutional questions.
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Atlanta
Macon
Georgia
United States District Court
South Georgia
Tom Linder
M. J. Yeomans
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