Amarillo Chamber Drive Tops Goal But Pushes Onward
The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce drive surpassed the $25 180 goal reaching $25 360 by 11 a m with plans to continue until every prospect card is reported The campaign manager cites a 10 percent margin and notes a larger final target of $30 000 while praising key workers and announcing new officers including Paul Edquist as president and Carl Hinton reelected executive vice president
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Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Guy Sickler
American City Bureau
Carl Hinton
Chamber of Commerce
Paul Edquist
Borden’s
Walter Barlow
C. T. Crowe
Mlay
Thornton
Jim Farwell
Jim Florey
Harvey Allen
Clay Thornton
Bill Gilstrap
Mason King
Guy Saunders
Ted Lokey
Julius Dozenfield
Herb Budke
Jack Cunningham
Mr. Sickler
Buffalo, N. Y
Tickets To Hell Are Popular in Norway Visit
In New York on April 15 Mayor Lorentz Stenvig of Hell Norway visited aboard the Stavangerfjord. The thermometer hit a record 80 degrees for the date as tourists bought round trip tickets to Hell and mailed them to friends, explaining the name means slope.
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New York
Hell
Lorentz Stenvig
Norway
Stavangerfjord
Jewelry cache worth up to 150000 found in Miami
Sheriff Walter Clark of Broward County reported the discovery of a jewelry cache believed stolen. He estimated the value between 100000 and 150000 dollars.
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Miami
Fla
Walter Clark
Broward County
Rancher Surrenders After Shootout Killing Three Men
Lee Simpson, a rancher from Ayegate Montana, surrendered and confessed to killing Gerald and Robert McDonald and a deputy sheriff, after a four hour gun battle at his Golden Valley County ranch. Sheriff Dolve said Simpson held a wanted list of 18 names including his own.
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Ayegate
Mont
U.P
Lee Simpson
Guy Pollock
Lewiston
Simpson
Gerald McDonald
Robert McDonald
E. J. Dolve
Golden Valley County
Arthur Burford
Lavina
Burford
Dolve
Pollock
McDonald Brothers
France and Italy Seek Peace Pact and Labor Clampdown
Paris reports Premier Daladier and advisers plan a Franco Italian accord modeled on the Anglo Italian pact to secure British support and settle Mediterranean issues while France demands harmony at home with 160,000 strikers urged to return to work. The plan includes Syria guarantees and curbs on nationalist movements in Tunisia Algeria and Morocco in exchange for recognizing France’s conquest of Ethiopia.
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Paris
Edouard Daladier
Foreign Office
Rome
France
Europe
North Africa
Caladier
Metal Workers’ Union
Mediterranean
Italy
Ethiopia
Syria
Tunisia
Djibouti
Hunt for Slayers Focused Across Texas Mexico Border
Sheriff Chris Fox leads a wide manhunt for the Berkeley Calif. women slayings. Descriptions of a man and woman in a dark sedan were obtained from Newburyport Mass. tourists and broadcast to Mexican officials as investigators fear the killers crossed into Mexico after the March 30 murder near El Paso.
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EL Paso
Weston G. Frome
Daugee
Nancy
Mexico
Chris Fox
Frome
Berkeley
Calif
Hester Worcester
Chauncey
Newburyport
Mass
West
Texas
Fox
Death Joins the Union
The Funeral Casket and Ambulance Chauffeurs' Union announced after May 1 its members will not transport non union caskets to graves. Funeral directors were notified by union letters as pickets demonstrated before the Universal Funeral Chapel bearing placards accusing it of using non union caskets.
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New York
Union Today
Universal Funeral Chapel
Globe News Want Ad Rates And Deadline Notice
An advertisement plea announces a 70 per word rate for a want ad in the Globe and News. It states reach to over 99,000 copies and 33,000 subscribers daily for three days, with a deadline before 6 30 PM for tomorrow's Sunday edition.
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Globe and News
Globe
Globe-News
Coogan’s Mother Blocks Entry in Subpoena Battle
Superior Judge Ruben S. Schmidt faced a bid to order Los Angeles County deputies to force entry into Jackie Coogan’s mother’s Van Nuys home and serve a deposition subpoena in the star’s movie fortune dispute. An affidavit claimed electrically controlled gates barred access to the residence.
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Los Angeles
Rubens. Schmidt
Arthur L. Bernstein
W. T. Gelason
Man With $9569 Triggers Food-Check Riot in Boston
A Boston disturbance centered on a 75 cent food bill. A police car responded to a Huntington Avenue restaurant and arrested a man whose pockets held $9569 in cash. Lieutenant Morris Murphy counted the stash for nearly an hour.
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Boston
Huntington Avenue
Morris Murphy
Dr Nunn Ends 25 Years of Sunday School Lessons
Dr J E Nunn ends a quarter century of preparing the International Sunday School lesson used by up to 16 publications. The 86 year old Amarillo contributor retires after Easter. the Saturday morning News will carry the final lesson this week with continued plans for future readers.
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DR. Nunn
J. E. Nunn
Nunn
Amarillo Daily News
Panhandle
Dr Nunn
Hale County 4-H Club Fat Stock Sale Sets Records
Hale County's 4 H Club fat stock show in Kansas City drew buyers from major packing houses. Calves totaling 173 brought 14075 28 with 900 pound average at 9.04 per hundred. 352 lambs sold for 2854 72 at 9.01 per hundred with 90 pound averages. Grand champion calf and lambs drew top bids from Plainview and Petersburg consignors. Sixty five youths from Plainview Matador Orton Hale Center Silverton and nearby Panhandle towns attended with Col Jack Bragg auctioneering. They plan to return home by late tonight.
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Kansas City
Hale County
4-H Club
Texas
Plainview
Galen Carr
Abernathy
Ellis Britton
Jack McGarr
Arthur Hegi
Petersburg
Col
Jack Bragg
Olathe
Kan
Hale
South Plains
Easter Trombone Choirs Herald Moravian Easter Morning
In Bethlehem Pennsylvania on April 15 Moravian trombone choirs begin the 150 year old Easter custom. The dawn procession starts at the old Moravian Church with the message The Lord Is Risen and ends with sunrise services at God's Acres burial ground led by trombone choirs and choruses.
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Bethlehem
Old Moravian Church
Central Moravian Church
God's Acres
Germany
Wheat Stocks in Canada Fall to Lowest Since 1920
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports March 31 wheat stocks at 84,160,585 bushels, 31 million below last year, with oats and flaxseed down, barley up, rye unchanged. The wheat level marks a record low since 1920 in Ottawa.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Amarillo Area Saturday Weather Outlook
Amarillo and West Texas will see Saturday partly cloudy conditions while New Mexico expects fair skies and warmer readings in the east and central. Hourly temperature records from yesterday in Amarillo show varying highs and lows with a 62 degree afternoon reading and a 56 degree minimum noted.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Max
Plains Editors Call For Unite To Influence Lawmakers
Panhandle press leaders hear Eu gene Worley urge organization to push favorable publication laws and educate legislators. He cites subgroups advancing laws, joking about his shift from journalism to law, as 125 to 150 editors attend the session led by Mayor Ross D. Rogers and Albert Cooper.
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Gene Worley
Shamrock
Panhandle Press Association
Worley
Texas
J. ¢. Estlack
Donley County
Clarendon
Register Worley
Texas Senate
Ross D. Rogers
W. H. Graham
Tribune
Farwell
Albert Cooper
White Deer FFA Wins Big in Tulsa Dairy Show
White Deer FFA captured top honors on opening day of Swisher County Dairy Show in Tulsa. they won the high team and the high individual. Judge P C Colgin reported more than 90 Jersey cows entered, with one Brown Swiss drawing notable comment. The Illinois bred cow owned by E Stapp drew attention as the lone non Jersey. Show wraps up Saturday with prize awards.
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Tulsa
White Deer Future Farmers of America
Swisher County
P. C. Colgin
Ilinois
E. ©. Stapp
Triple Slaying Solved in North Lima Farm Deaths
Sheriff Ralph Elser said Norman Smith a farm hand confessed to killing Mr and Mrs Henry Baumeister and the Baumeister’s father at their North Lima area farm on January 4. The case ends with a single suspect and formal charges anticipated.
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Youngstown
Ralph Elser
Norman Smith
Henry Baumeister
North Lima
President urges new levies for needed income
The Roosevelt administration proposed taxing future government securities and salaries of federal state and local workers to fund a 4.5 billion program. Officials expect $156 million annual from all securities and salaries, with hearings on the lending plan set for Wednesday led by Hopkins.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Treasenry
Taxation Program Bank Board
Roswell Magill
The
Treasury
House Appropriations Committee
Hapkins
Harry Hopkins
Senate Appropriations Committee
CCC
War Department
Agriculture Department
Boyd Gatewood Succumbs
Boyd Gatewood a 46 year old Texas newspaperman and publicity man died of a heart attack today in a tourist camp in Austin.
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Austin
Boyd Gatewood
Texas
Child Slayer Confesses in Los Angeles Case
Charles McLachlan a 55 year old painter confessed to murdering Jenny Moreno after being confronted by authorities. He described entering the shack drunk, striking the girl with a hammer three times and disposing of her body over a fence. A mob beat him during arrest.
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Los Angeles
Charles McLachlan
Jenny Moreno
Eugene Biscaduz
McLachlan
Moreno
Biscailuz
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McCormick Co
Plains
Panhands Press Association
Sam B. Harben O Richardson
Texas Press Association
Deskins Wells
Wellington
Ray Nichols
Vernon
Memphis
J. Claude Wells
Nora Tipton
Wells
Association
Clyde Warwick
Canyon
Tucumcari
Walter Kirkwood
Pauline Sartain
Bill Sartain
Hunt
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Union
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White Deer
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