Solons Question Prison Cruelty Claims At Retrieve Farm
Texas legislators examine abuse charges at Retrieve Prison Farm amid disputes within the state prison board. Rep. C C Canon says findings show no brutality on a recent tour and expresses full confidence in prison manager Lee Simmons. The panel labels critics as attempting to discredit Simmons administration.
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Austin
Rep
C. C. Canon
Honey Grove
House Penitentiaries Committee
State Prison Board
Lee Simmons
Simmons
Canon
Retrieve
Salvation Army Leader Evangeline Booth Reveals Secret Love
A Daily Mail dispatch from Sydney reports Evangeline Booth, head of the Salvation Army, saying she reared three children as her own and calling them the secret love of her life. She denies overseas reports alleging a longing for children and past loves that stopped marriage.
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London
Daily Mail
Sydney
Australia
Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army
Dispatch
Weather fragments from Meath Maine 1934
Fragmentary weather notes show scattered times and temperatures for Meath Maine including mentions of morning and afternoon readings. Data appears garbled with references to max and min values and a date in 1934.
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Max. West
Crete
Vest
Rehabilitation program outlined for Texas relief families
Relief administrators from 36 North Panhandle counties will hear J. E. Stanford outline the rural rehabilitation program at 10:30 this morning in the Herring Hotel. A. A. Meredith reports 150 Potter County families will move from county relief to the rural plan as thousands more are slated for placement under the program.
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North Panhandle
J. E. Stanford
Texas
Herring Hotel
A. A. Meredith
Potter County
Boy, 15, Stabbed in Fight Over Gun at Orphanage
In Cherokee Oklahoma on April 4 Bobby McBeth 14 told County Attorney O M Ginder that a dispute over an old gun led to the fatal stabbing of his brother Billy 15 at the Helena State Orphanage. Bobby said Billy warned him to stay out of it detailing the motive.
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Cherokee
Okla
U.P
Bobby McBeth
O. M. Ginder
Billy
Helena
Bobby
Ginder
Rumors Put Federal Agents On Ray Hamilton Trail
Federal agents and sheriff's officers hunted for Raymond Hamilton after reports he fled Memphis for a boyhood country hideaway. Tips pointed to Wayne County and Waynesboro as possible crossings as agents traced his movements along the Tennessee border.
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Nashville
Tenn
Raymond Hamilton
Memphis
Tennessee
Hamilton
Wayne County
Waynesboro
Heart Trouble Cruelty Charge Grows From Bridge Game
In Chicago Earl Mayfield testifies at a divorce hearing that his wife Mil dred reacted with alleged cruelty after a Hearts game. He says a trick involving hearts led to a plate being hurled at him, illustrating the strained marriage.
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Chicago
Earl Mayfield
Mildred
Boy and Pet Parade Style Show Preview
Canyon and Guymon Oklahoma will send boys to Amarillo for a Boy and Pet Parade tied to the Amarillo Merchant's Spring Style Show. Maverick Club members from Amarillo Guymon and Canyon join Emmett Galloway founder of the Amarillo club in presenting latest styles for men women and children. The parade starts 7 30 with the style show at 8 and invites Panhandle towns to participate featuring many pets including dogs cats geese chickens rabbits pigs and more.
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Canyon and Guymon
Okla
Amarillo Merchant
Maverick Club
Amarillo
Guymon
Canyon
Emmett Galloway
Tion
Galloway
Panhandle
Mr. Galloway
Sheriff Killing Sparks Riot in Gallup
A violent clash in Gallup New Mexico left Sheriff M R Carmichael dead and a jobless miner killed after a court hearing for unemployed men. Six others including deputies and bystanders were wounded as officers moved prisoners to a courthouse alley amid a hostile crowd.
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Gallup
N. M
Justice of the Peace
D. W. Roberts
Revival Movement Planned by Texas Evangelical Delegates
In Dallas on April 4 delegates from six evangelical churches of Texas planned a Save Texas Centennial Religious Movement revival. Principal speaker Rev. George W. Truett. Rev. R N Huckabee of Amarillo, originator, elected permanent chairman. Rev. B A Hodges of Waco named secretary.
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Dallas
Evangelical Churches of Texas
George W. Truett
R. N Huckabee
Amarillo
B. A. Hodges
Waco
Cato Injunction Hearing Delayed in Fort Worth
A dissolution hearing to halt a state trial of Garza County Sheriff W F Cato over the killing of Narcotic Agent Spencer Stafford was postponed to Saturday. Federal Judge James Wilson rescheduled after learning District Attorney G H Nelson of Tohoka could not attend.
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Fort Worth
W. F. Cato
Garza County
Spencer Stafford
James ©. Wilson
G. H. Nelson
Tohoka
Nations clash over arms in global gun talk
In Beverly Hills on April 4 a reader signs off with a horned note urging all nations to arm. The letter criticizes treaties that grant unequal gun power and argues for universal arms rather than domination by any one country.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Austria
Germany
England
France
Italy
Deadlock Broken on Relief Bill in Congress
The Roosevelt administration won a key compromise on the labor cost amendment of the $4.88 billion work relief bill. Conferees reached a plan allowing 25 percent of project costs to go to labor, with the president to set exact labor spend. Speaker Burns aimed to send the conference report to the House and then to the Senate before the weekend to speed passage.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
PWA
Burns
Senate
Penn men and coeds clash over dining rooms at Houston Hall
University of Pennsylvania students approve of coeds at dates but call them an invading menace at Houston Hall dining rooms. A Penn Sylvanian column notes women beat men to tables and linger over toast, while men demand a women only dining room in Sargent Hall. The coeds refuse.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Houston Hall
Pennsylvanian
Sargent Hall
Defense Seeks Second Man in Hamlin Wife Murder Trial
Testimony shifts to a second man theory as Mrs. Barr reports hearing something near the 901 Virginia Street home on January 4. Deputy Ramsay traces footprints from the Hamlin yard toward the alley while jurors recover from medical treatment and juror illness.
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George Hamlin
L. M. Barr
Virginia Street
Sam Ramsay
Hamlin Yard
Fred Cobb
Cobb
J. B. Wilmoth
FE. C. Nelson
Oakland
Calif
Honest Hat Cleaner Returns $100 Bill in Omaha
Honest cleaner George Mentis found a torn fedora band and a $100 bill dropped from it. He returned the money to the owner and received a $2.50 reward.
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Omaha
George Mentis
Tear Gas Quells Riot at Woodville Prison Camp
Fifteen black prisoners at the Woodville state prison camp near Elizabeth City surrendered after guards resumed gas canisters. Earlier, two inmates were shot during an attempt to break from their cell block. neither injury was serious.
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Elizabeth
N. C
Woodville State Prison
Here
Train Robbery on Illinois Fast Mail Ends in Escape
Four men, three masked, robbed two score passengers on the Louisiane fast mail train near Chicago or Kingston, wounding George Kerr in the hip as resistance sparked a brief struggle. The quartet fled as the train slowed, with sheriff John Stack noting possible confederate aid awaiting them. Continuous coverage on page 9.
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Kankakee
Ill
Illinois
Louisiana
63Rd Street
Chicago
Kensington
George Kerr
St. Mary's Hospital
John Stack
Door keeper mixup ends in twin confusion at Texas House
A doorkeeper E B Lindley tagged Rep Ross Hardin to distinguish him from his twin Doss. During a House call doors closed and both twins were mistaken for each other, causing a mixup at the exit. Ross Hardin was briefly admitted before the error was realized.
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Austin
E. B. Lindley
Texas House of Representatives
Ross Hardin
Prairie Hill
Hardin
Doss
Ross
Lindley
Oil Industry Bills Passed in Texas Legislature
In Austin the Texas House approved a bill raising the oil production tax from one eighth to three sixteenths of a cent per barrel to fund the Railroad Commission. A Senate measure to prune loopholes by restricting production to market demand was favored for expedited debate. The plan would add about 290 000 dollars, with 50 000 earmarked for the attorney general to enforce orders.
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Austin
Texas
House
Senate
Texas Railroad Commission
Attorney General’s Department
Texas Rangers
State Highway Patrol
Department of Public Safety
New Revolt Plot Nipped in Mexico City
Government orders military agents to hunt businessmen and clergymen tied to a supposed revolutionary plot to break out in Toluca Puebla and Mexico City. The movement was said to have a leader Miguel Ocampo who was killed before the uprising. Fourteen arrests reported.
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Mexico
D. F
Miguel Ocampo
Toluca
Puebla
Marland Decree Frees 48 Convicts in Oklahoma
Oklahoma Governor Marland signed a clemency order freeing 48 prisoners from McAlester penitentiary. He commuted sentences, canceled fines and costs, and gave time-served credit. The action, the first mass clemency in years, also granted 10 paroles including two murder cases.
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Oklahoma City
Marland
McAlester Penitentiary
Vaughn in Critical Condition After Kidney Infection
Sam B. Vaughn underwent an operation in a Dallas hospital yesterday and remained dangerously ill last night. Mrs. Vaughn and her brothers Arthur and Charles Ware, along with Dr. Don 8. Marsalis, are in Dallas with him.
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Sam B. Vaughn
Dallas
Vaughn
Arthur
Charles Ware
Don 8. Marsalis
Mr. Vaughn
Robeline Bank Robbery Sparks Manhunt In Three Parishes
Two unmasked men, well dressed, robbed the Bank of Robeline in broad day, taking an undetermined amount of cash. They fled into the woods and were believed surrounded by posses from three parishes as lawmen closed in.
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Robeline
Governor backs 60 million federal gas line plan
Governor James V. Allred urged the Legislature to create a public agency to partner with federal funds on a 60 million gas pipeline from the Texas Panhandle to St. Louis and Detroit. The House Conservation and Reclamation Committee quickly reported favorably and unanimously a bill establishing the Texas Gas Conservation Corporation.
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Austin
James V. Allred
Texas Panhandle
St. Louis
Iretroit
Conservation and Reclamation Committee
House of Representatives
Texas Gas Conservation Corporation
Senate
Panhandle Delegation Signs Pipeline Bill for Detroit Project
Senator Clint C. Small and Representatives Stanfield, Rogers, Worley, Alexander, Tarwater and others signed a bill to introduce a Texas Panhandle gas pipeline to Detroit and to create a public agency to build and operate it. Governor Allred supported the project, which proposes a government loan of 42 million dollars and a grant of 18 million.
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Panhandle
Austin
Clint C. Small
Stanfield
Rogers
Worley
Alexander
Tarwater
Texas Panhandle
Detroit
James V. Allred
Washington
Governor Eyes PWA Grant to Curb Gas Waste in Panhandle
The proposal would grant 18 million dollars in aid and 42 million dollars in a loan from the Public Works Administration for a gas conservation project. A governor-appointed board would oversee it with profits returning to the state after loan repayment. Officials indicated federal approval of terms and assurances of favored placement under the program. The governor noted prior warnings of huge gas wastage in the Panhandle fields and the need to develop markets for the resource.
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PWA
Public Works Administration
Friends
Allred
Panhandle
Ted Fio Rito On Air Tonight With 22 Entertainers
Ted Fio Rito noted composer and bandleader brings his 22 entertainer troupe from Hollywood to Ama rilo for a concert at the Municipal Auditorium and a Nat dance after an 8 30 broadcast on the Columbia network Campbell Soup hour. Tickets cost 175 and 50 cents for the concert and 150 to 250 for the dance with reservations via Miss Lois Black at News Globe.
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Fio-Rito
Columbia
Amarilo
Cocoanut Grove
Hollywood
Ambassador Hotel
Municipal Auditorium
Muzzy Marcellino
Ray Hendricks
Candy the Comic
News-Globe
Lois Black
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