Espionage Seen in Murder Case
A theory that Dr. Walter Richard Engelberg used his post as first secretary of the German consulate as a cover for espionage was raised as investigators sifted through a mass of correspondence and nude photographs. The slaying, brutal and personal in appearance, led officials to seek two men and to question the conjoined suspicion of foreign intelligence involvement.
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New York
Walter Richard Engelberg
Dr. Engelberg
Engelberg
Hitler
J. Manuel E Marten
All-Un American Team Named By The News
The News unveils its first All-Un-American Team highlighting 11 players seen as standout headlines of the year. Fritz Kuhn leads as quarterback amid controversy with alleged misdeeds noted, while Adolf Hit is listed as right halfback with a reference to a Sing Sing scholarship.
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the News
Uncle Sam
Fritz Kuhn
Fritz
Dies
Sing Sing
Adolf Hit
British airmen beat off German raids and French troops stop Nazis
Britain reports successful air defense along the northeast coast as battle planes force two raiding German aircraft to retreat. French infantry rout German troops in no man’s land after repelling heavy assaults on northern Western Front outposts. Washington trawler sinks by mine. eight crew die. A tabloid claims a new British secret weapon downed a German airplane off the Norfolk coast.
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London
Great Britain
No-Man’s-Land
Britain
Washington
Norfolk
Daily Sketch
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity
The forecast calls for Friday fair weather across Amarillo and West Texas west of the 100th meridian and in New Mexico. Temperatures will be mild with little change, yesterday’s readings ranged from a low to a high in the mid to upper 60s in some spots.
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West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
CSR
Ieee
Cannes
Amarillo Symphony Debuts Tonight Under Lieurance
The Amarillo Symphony Orchestra opens the season with guest conductor Thurlow Lieurance. A 3 45 p m children matinee at Municipal Auditorium precedes an 8 15 p m concert featuring Mrs Lieurance soprano George B Tack flutist and Weta motah a Pawnee Indian. The augmented Amarillo College a Cappella Choir joins in four numbers and Lieurance’s works including By The Waters of Minnetonka and Trails Southwest headline a program built around travelogue pieces.
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Thurlow Lieurance
Municipal Auditorium
Lieurance
George B
Tack
Weta Mo Tah
Pawnee
Amarillo College
Fort Worth and Denver Seeks $1.3 Million for Zephyr Trains
Colorado and Southern and Fort Worth and Denver seek IC C approval to borrow 1.3 million dollars from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to buy two stainless steel diesel electric Zephyr trains. The service would run Denver to Dallas six hours faster.
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Washington
Colorado and Southern Railway Co
The
Fort Worth
Amendment shifts departure time for Texas National Guard unit
Battery B 131st Field Artillery of Amarillo must report to the National Guard armory by 12:30 today. The departure time for the move to the Matador field training camp was changed from 5 PM to 1 PM.
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Texas National Guard
Amarillo
Matador
National Guard
War at Sea and Skirmishes Near Firth of Forth
German Dornier flying boats were driven off while approaching the British east coast. One British plane did not return from patrol. The Tajandeen was torpedoed and burned in the English Channel with six crew missing. Britta and Primula losses, with six Britta crew killed, were reported off England and North Sea.
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English
West Indies
Netherlands
Britta
England
Wast
Primula
North Sea
Dalhart Banquet Speaker Urges Unity For Dalhart Growth
Dallas County Judge John Honts told about 400 at the Dalhart Chamber of Commerce banquet that Dalhart faces three main issues agriculture and ranching railroads and business leaders. He called for cooperation creation of a community center and improved farm to market roads including completed Highways 41 and 54 to aid county progress.
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Dalhart
William Jennings Bryan
Dallas
John B. Hants
Texas Center
Gisike
Mission Theater
Honts
Dallam
Persecutions Maverick Charge
San Antonio reports the trial of Mayor Maury Maverick on a poll tax payment conspiracy charge. Prosecution seeks two to five years as A. J. Wirta condemns the case as political persecution while M. D. Jones argues the crime strikes at democracy. Witnesses included Rebeca Taylor and others detailing alleged payments for poll tax of union members.
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San Antonio
Maury Maverick
A. J. Wirta
Austin
M. D. Jones
Maverick
Maxwell Harket
Burker
Rebecca Taylor
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
Dick Jeffrey
Taylor
George Glass
R. L. O'Brien
Aggies Banquet Plans With New Orleans Champion Turkey
Plainview Texas December 7 the champion Texas Aggies will feast on a grand champion 38 pound turkey sent from the Panhandle Plains after the sixth annual Southwestern Dressed Turkey Show auctions. The 2 a pound bird sold for 76 dollars to the Central Plains A and M Club and the Floydada Chamber of Commerce for a New Orleans Sugar Bowl celebration.
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Plainview
Texas Aggies
Panhandle Plains
Central Plains A & M Club
Floydada Chamber of Commerce
New Orleans
Aggie
Finnish Repels Soviet Push on Mannerheim Line
Finnish troops launch a fierce counter attack on the Karelian Isthmus to halt a Red Army advance toward the Mannerheim Line. Russian bombardments and land assaults are reported along the southern coast and central front as footage notes Finland holding its ground.
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Helsinki
Karelian
Mannerheim
Finland
Aaland Islands
Sweden
Russia
Red Army
Denmark
Norway
League of Nations For Peace
Ickes Seeks Congressional Showdown Over Hot Oil Case
Secretary Ickes called for a congressional or presidential showdown in response to Federal Judge James C. Wilson's critique of the handling of the hot oil case in Texas. He said he hoped the showdown would reveal why enforcing the Connally Hot Oil Act has been such a hopeless task.
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Washington
Ickes
James C. Wilson
Texas
Accident pairing makes world famous double piano duo
A Paris music pub meeting in 1928 between Jacques Fray and Mario Braggiotti led to a famed double piano act. They later joined Rubinoff and his violin for a Municipal Auditorium performance, performing Home Sweet Home with classical polish and popular flair.
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America
Jacques Fray
Mario Braggiotti
Rubinoff
Municipal Auditorium
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