Italy Seeks Oil Self Sufficiency as Embargo Threat Grows
Fascist sources warn that a new oil embargo would provoke fighting as Italy seeks to cut gasoline use and find substitutes. Mussolini pushes wells in Italian territory and Albanian deposits while US oil sales to Italy loom. Alcohol fuel boost and higher prices curb consumption, with Albania's sulphurous crude challenging refinement.
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Mussolini
Associated Press
Italy
America
United States
Ethiopia
Albania
Persia
Anti-Jap Groups Causing Unrest in North China
In Peiping a Japanese spokesman says Major General Hayao Tada will protest Chinese authorities over renewed anti-Japanese organization activities. Chinese General Sung Cheh-Yuan rejects foreign orders and urges reforms to prevent a Manchukuo-like state, as war minister Mo Ying-Chin meets Kenji Doihara in Peiping.
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Peiping
Hayao Tada
China
Sung Cheh-Yuan
Peiping- Tientsin
Sung
Nanking
Mo Ying-Chin
Kenji Doihara
Inner Mongolia
Ohio Girl Is Best Dressed On The Farms
The grand national style contest winner among 4-H clubs via the 14th annual congress is Miss Zehring of Ohio. Her wool or silk school dress outfit cost 34.12 and topped 200 000 farm girls in 41 states. Other national champions include Irene Kracht in the school of sports wash dress class, Mary Glenn Yeager in the best dress class, and Carol V. Clarke in the informal party dress class with outfits costing 13.24 25.00 and 16.01 respectively.
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America
Congress of
Miss Zehring
Josephine A. Bakke
Iowa State College
Style Revue
Irene Kracht
Aurelia
Mary Glenn Yeager
Terre Haute
Ind
Carol V. Clarke
Cohoes
N. Y
Hoover to sharpen New Deal critique next year
Hoover plans intensified attacks on the New Deal in the coming year. His ex-secretary says he has no political organization ready for 1936 and seeks no personal gain. Joslin notes Hoover’s renewed activity in public affairs after leaving the White House.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Theodore Joslin
White House
Hoover
Joslin Reflects on Opposition Duty to Debate National Policies
Joslin notes his view that the Republican Party, as the opposition, must fearlessly project debate on fundamental national issues before the American people. He served from 1931 to 1933 and comments on the current leadership's objectives.
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Joslin
Republican Party
Roosevelt voices plan for lower farm mortgage rates
At Warm Springs Georgia a delegation from Meriwether County says President Roosevelt favors lower mortgage and land purchase rates for tenant farmers. Judge Terrell reports the President backs private loan rate relief to as low as three and a half percent and supports the Bankhead tenant farm bill to aid tenants and reduce large estate holdings. The President plans a detailed agricultural policy address for the Chicago Farm Bureau convention next Monday.
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Roosevelt
Meriwether County
White House
Pine Mountain
Render Terrell
Greenville
Terrell
Supreme Court
Bankhead
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chicago
Crowds At Livestock Show Hit 200000 Mark
Chicago reports record attendance at the International Livestock Show with crowds surpassing 200000 on the second day. The grand champion steer is Pat's Blue Ribbon raised by Cleo Yoder of Wellman Iowa. Secretary Henry Wallace attended as visitors toured the amphitheatre and auctions were anticipated to raise the prize value to about 5000 dollars for the winner.
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Chicago
Pat
Cleo Yoder
Wellman
Henry Wallace
Indiana
Henry Carr Lentz
Earle C. Robbins
Greensburg
Borg
Borg Farms
Delavan
Wis
Belgium Fountain’s Naked Man Reputed Oldest Citizen
At Rue de Chene Brussels the famed fountain features a naked male figure nicknamed the city’s oldest citizen. The sculpture stands as Belgium’s enduring landmark attracting visitors and locals alike to admire its age and iconic pose.
Dry Crusade Launched by Prohibition League Leaders
The Anti-Saloon League of America calls on President Roosevelt to end intoxication at White House and public functions. Bishop James Cannon Jr. drafts the resolution as anti liquor crusaders from forty states gather in St. Louis to demand a renewed push for prohibition and harsher action against drunkenness and bootlegging.
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ST. Louis
Anti-Saloon League of America
Roosevelt
White House
Publc
James Cannon
Los Angeles
Washington
National Prohibition Seen as Not a Failure in Debate
The article argues that conditions were better under prohibition and, given past enforcement experience, a future national prohibition would be more effective. It asserts prohibition was not a failure and predicts a return of national prohibition with improved enforcement.
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