Petition To Bring Bill to Floor Vote Gains Names
Signs of a break in the House deadlock over the wage hour bill appeared as Northern members added more than a dozen names to a petition to bring the measure before the House. With eight signatures needed to reach a majority, momentum suggested a vote before Christmas as the wage hour bill passed the Senate. The North South clash over farm and labor provisions intensified, while the AFL planned a December 3 meeting to propose amendments.
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Washington
House
Senate
Oklahoma
New Graham Cars Highlight Safety and Power Features
Keck Motor Company lists Graham advantages including widest rear wheel tread at 611 inches and safety doors on both ends. The car leads in front seat width, offers instant cylinder wall lubrication, exclusive supercharger, Fram oil filter for six months between changes, concealed door hinges, and high horsepower with lower displacement.
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Graham
Keck Motor Company
Keck
County Officials Back Road Funds Fight In Texas
County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas joins the Texas Highway Department in opposing a proposed cut in federal highway aid. Judge H M La Font of Hale County says halting road building would hurt western interests and urges strong cooperation with the highway group to defeat President Roosevelt's proposed slash.
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Commissioners of
Texas
Plainview
Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association
Texas Highway Department
H. M. LaFont
Texas Judges and Commissioners’ Group
la Font
Hale County
Highway Department
Judges and Commissioners Association
Judge LaFont
Roosevelt
French Minister Delbos Heads East For 17 Day Tour
Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos will depart Paris for a 17 day mission to Warsaw Bucharest Belgrade and Praha to ease fears of a British retreat from eastern Europe and to patch France's political fences.
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Paris
Yvon Delbos
France
Britain
Europe
Germany
Warsaw
Bucharest
Belgrade
Praha
Poland
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
London
Foreign Office
Delbos
Austria
Italy
Belgium
Soviet Russia
Escape of Nine Prisoners Sparks Texas Pursuit
Corpus Christi patrols chase nine inmates after two jailbreakers freed a taxi driver, tying him to a tree before he fled to Hebberonville. Federal prisoners Freemont McCollum and George W. Priest are suspected leaders as officers watch roads toward Alice and San Antonio.
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Corpus Christi
Marvin Latham
Nueces County
Hebberonville
Freemont McCollum
George W. Priest
Alice
San Antonio
Stayson Latham
Bonnie
Charlie
Pat Nulty
Highway Patrol
McCollum
Orange Grove
Latham
Herman
Wallace calls farm bill too restrictive for reserves
Secretary Wallace told senators Pope and McGill the Senate crop control provisions are too tight and would raise costs beyond the current soil conservation program. He urged larger reserves for cotton, wheat, and corn, lower loan rates, tax barriers for processors, and simpler subsidies to prevent price distortions and export losses.
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Administration
Pope
McGill
Roosevelt
Wallace
Congress
Patman
Washington Bird Captures Grand Champion Dressed Turkey
In Dallas the Southwestern Dressed Turkey Show awards grand champion to a twenty pound Washington hen from A. L. Hamilton of Chehalis. Hamilton also wins a 26-pound class prize while 256 birds compete, quality praised as higher than last year. George McFallance Jr confesses shooting Tom Cathey, a Dallas salesman, who survives three bullet wounds.
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Dallas
Tom B. Cathey
George McFallance, Jr
Bill Decker
Cathey
Duncanville
Cedars
Luron Brown
News Plainview
A. L. Hamilton
Chehalis
Washington
Hamilton
L. Greathouse
Brownfield
Levi Churchill
Muleshoe
Griffin
Turkey
Churchill
George P. McCarthy
M. College
Hale County
Chioie Huffaker
Hilburn
Plainview
H. H. Williamson
Texas Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service
Former Legislator John M Mathis Dies in Brenham
Judge John M Mathis aged 67 a former Texas legislator and noted criminal lawyer died in Brenham The funeral is scheduled for tomorrow local reports said
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Brenham
John M. Mathis
Texas
Complete Service at Palo Duro State Park To Be Continued
The National Park Service will end its work at Palo Duro State Park on December 15, but park operations will continue with expanded patrols for fire protection and visitor services. The park will remain open, with a museum move to Coronado Lodge and a fall winter schedule, while concessions stay under Texas State Parks Board.
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Palo Duro State Park
National Park Service
Amarillo
W. T. Taylor
William J. Lawson
Texas State Parks Board
Taylor
Texas Panhandle Plains
Floyd Studer
Stuart Johnson
The
Plains
Coronado Lodge
Charles Goodnight
Two Army Pilots Die in Crash Near Avery Texas
In a training spin near Avery Texas a Barksdale Field fighter airplane crashed killing two crew members Second Lieutenant Charles William Field 23 and Private George W Bolton Jr 19. Field reportedly lost air speed while joining two planes in formation.
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Shreveport
Barksdale Field
Avery
Texas
Charles William Field
Rocky Pace
Georgia
George W. Bolton, Jr
Blenville Parish
Ira Rader
Lieut. Field
H. M. West
Field
Rader
Amarillo Area Thursday Weather Forecast
Forecast shows fair and slightly warmer conditions for Amarillo and vicinity on Thursday. West Texas area mostly fair with a north zone partly cloudy south portion, temperatures slowly rising. New Mexico expects fair conditions with little change in temperature.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Avagauer
Nipons Return U S Launch Apologizes and Civilian Danger
In Shanghat 13 Americans mostly women and children are feared marooned in a Chinese Japanese battle zone near Mokanshan. The Americans include Prof and Mrs D L Sheretar and four children, Mrs W H Park of Florida, Mrs H L Lone of Texas, and several others. A Japanese crew returned an American-owned launch with apologies after it was seized. Japanese forces move toward Nanking Hangchow, with Chinese defenses and logistical disruptions reported. U S officials monitor the Shanghai situation as Admiral Yarnell plans Manila departure.
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Shanghat
United States
Mokanshan
Chekiang-Anhwet
D. L. Sheretar
W. H. Park
Hawthorn
Fla
H. L. Lone
Chillicothe
Tex
L. B. Edgar
Lawrence
Kan
McCullouch
Jackson
Miss
E. J. Peterson
New Sweden
Whangpoo River
Yangtze Delta
Nanking
Wuhu
Hangchow
Yangtze
Japanme
anghai-Nanking
Tanyang
Chinkiang
Lake Tai
Liyang
Yangtze River
Lankgiri
Suancheng
Haining
Hhangchow Bay
Changan
Shanghai Hangchow
Pore
Chekiang Provence
Tienshengchiang
Kiangyin
Nan-king
Paomin (Chinese
Ciaoshan
R. G. Howe
Hankow
China
Shanghai
Harry E. Yarnell
United States Asiatic Fleet
Manila
Marblehead
W. R. Carter
Hull Says Incident Closed
Secretary of State Hull announced the U S government is satisfied with Japan returning a launch seized from American owners and with an apology for hauling down the American flag. He noted the ownership question remains unsettled but that the action was taken on representations that the seizure was illegal.
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Washington
U.P
Core Dell Hull
State Department
Japan
Hull
Christmas Buying Season Opens With Amarillo Party
Amarillo merchants launch the Christmas buying season with a downtown party on Saturday. Santa Claus will ride down Polk and Taylor streets at 10 am tossing candy as the VFW finishes decorating the business district. 125 to 150 Christmas gifts will be awarded to visitors and turkeys and pigs given away from the courthouse square.
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Amarillo
Polk Street
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Santa Claus
North Pole
Polk and Taylor Streets
Courthouse Square
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Josh Lee
Thomas
Senator Lee
H. M. LA Font
IRBC
Los Angeles
Elysian Park
Russell Stationery Co
Nipons
U.S
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