Addis Ababa Riots Cover Foreign Legations Siege
French and British armed trucks roved Addis Ababa in search of dead and wounded as Ethiopian soldiers mutinied at the French legation. An Italian air raid report surfaced while Haile Selassie and his family fled to Palestine after a seven month siege and uprising blamed on revolting tribes.
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Paris
Addis Ababa
Paul Bodard
Legation
Bodard
Ali Addis Ababa
Haile
Palestine
Djibouti
French Somaliland
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Africa
Maryland Man Killed in Robbery Attempt Near Salisbury
A man identified as Austin from Salisbury was shot and killed near a highway lunchroom when he allegedly tried to break in. Attendant Henry Wiggin of Warren County fired twice as Austin approached with a flashlight. No charges were filed against Wiggin.
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A. N.C
Salisbury
Austin
Jasper Shearin
Warren County
Henry Wiggins
Swan
Fayette Hotel
Baltimore
Wise
Iggins
Freighter Melville Dollar Grounds Near Negroes Island
The freighter Melville Dollar ran aground on Tomonton Shoals off Negroes Island today. Capt. M. Moleen reported the crew of 36 is safe. ship was not in danger and carries sugar copra and lumber bound for the Pacific coast.
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Manila
Melville Dollar
Tomonton Shoals
Negroes Island
M. Moleen
Pacific Coast
Middletown High to Graduate Class of 12 on May 25
Middletown High School will award diplomas to twelve seniors led by valedictorian Thelma Judy and salutatorian Betty Carper. Commencement sermon is set for May 24 at the Methodist Church, with the principal address to be announced. The seniors perform the comedy drama Bound to Marry on May 22 and 23 in the high school auditorium.
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Middletown High School
Orville W. Wake
Thelma Judy
Mary Waz
Virginia Ridings
Arreta W . Betty Carper
Kenneth Hooley
Eugene Pope
Norman Brill
John Swadley
Albert Foxx
Charles Reely
John Fred Larrick
Betty Carper
Methodist Church
Middletown
Hubert Sydenstricker
Braddock Street
M. E. Church
Wake
Rattlers Plague Austin Flower Beds
Mrs. June C. Harris of Austin was digging in her garden for spring planting when Arlington Caldwell unearthed a rattlesnake. Eleven more snakes slithered from the hole, causing alarm among neighbors.
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Austin, Tex
June C. Harris
Austin
Arlington Caldwell
Revolt Brewing Within Mexican Ruling Party
In Mexico City on May 5, unrest rose as defeated candidates criticized party procedures for choosing winners. Although President Lazaro Cardenas remained unchallenged, a developing revolt surfaced in Vera Cruz where deputy Manlio Fabio Altamirano was named gubernatorial candidate by the government party.
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Mexico City
National Revolutionary
Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
Vera Cruz
Manlio Fabio Altamirano
Rappahannock Truck In Mishap At City Intersection
A Virginia man sustained a sprained wrist when a Rappahannock truck driven by G. W. Water of Washington, used apples in transit, collided with a truck owned by Mrs. Henry Bell at Braddock and Gerrard streets. Earlier a top heavy Keffer and Harris truck overturned at Piccadilly and Braddock, killing several chickens.
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Virginia Ee
Front Royal
G. W.ater
Washington, Va
Henry Bell
Braddock and
Gerrard Streets
Paynter
Piccadilly and
Braddock
Keffer and Harris Produce Form
Marion
Mother Earns Diploma in Clovis High Honors
Mrs J C Canipe is among 103 New Mexico seniors awarded certificates of distinction for high grades in a state wide aptitude test. She will graduate with her son J Hedrick and his wife this month, joining the Clovis High School senior class.
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Clovis
N. M
J. C. Canipe
Liberals Back Plebiscite Plan With Concessions
The Liberal party central committee in San Juan announces approval of Senator Tydings' bill for a Puerto Rican independence plebiscite. It calls for amendments guaranteeing economic concessions from the United States if independence is granted.
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San Juan
P. R
Central Committee
The
Liberal Party Today
Tydings
Puerto Rico
United States
Rebels on Baghdad Basra rail line cut and attacked train
Government troops and army bombers moved to quell rebels who cut the railway in the Rumaitha district. Officials report revolting tribesmen fired on a locomotive and ripped up rails on the line from the canton to Basra near the Persian coast.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Basra
Turbulet Rumaitha
Cantal
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