Northern Court Has To Thaw Out Texan
In Pittsburgh a federal case opener had witnesses braced by cold. Interpreting postmaster C W Dennett from Brownsville Texas struggled to talk as the room chilled him, and was warmed by a radiator. Ignacio Reyna of Nuevo Laredo testified against C W Ebp of Pittsburgh and C H Kennedy of Beaver accused of mail fraud in selling non productive Mexican banana land.
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Dennett
Reyna
St C. W. Ebp
Pittsburgh
C. H. Kennedy
Beaver
Mexico
Subfreezing Texas Weather Moderates Across State
The Associated Press reports colder air lingered in Texas but moderation appeared. Temperatures eased slightly overnight with further drops possible, yet not as severe as Wednesday. Strong variations occurred by city including Amarillo 25 forecast, San Angelo 32, San Antonio 34 for Friday, and Mission 40 in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
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Texas
Amarillo
San Angelo
San Antonio
Tyler
Temple
Austin
Beaumont
Corsicana
Abilene
Rio Grande Valley
Mission
Amarillo and West Texas Forecast Friday Clouds
Cloudy to partly cloudy Friday for Amarillo and surrounding area. West Texas west of the 100th meridian shows partly cloudy to cloudy conditions. New Mexico expects fair weather with little temperature change. Historical hour-by-hour temperatures for Amarillo listed, showing highs near 19 to 33 and lows around 34 in 1936.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
House vetoes amendments to crop control bill
The House rejected two amendments to the crop control bill 99 to 93 to remove corn marketing regulation and 78 to 59 against an earlier sales quota. Chairman Jones led the fight against limits, arguing quotas prevent 1932-like market collapse, with a floor vote seen for the bill itself tomorrow.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Coffee
Nebraska
Lucas
Illinois
Jones
Texas
House Agriculture Committee
Texan
Wallace
Donley Poultry Show Opens With Large County Exhibit
Clarendon December report on the Green Belt Poultry Association ninth annual exhibition. More than 400 birds entered by 33 exhibitors across 27 breeds, including Rhode Island Reds and White Langshaws. Judging begins Friday. $160 in cash and merchandise to prize winners.
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Donley
Clarendon
Green Belt Poultry Association
Donley County
Rhode Island
E. V. Quattlebaum
J. L. Cobb
Claude Primrose
Farwell
T. M Moore
West Texas State College
Priceinners
Minnesota Probes Existence of Old Family Bounty Law
Minnesota officials scrutinize century old statutes to determine if a bounty for large families exists. Comptroller Pearlove reviews letters claiming $1000 for seven sons or $500 for seven daughters while Assistant Attorney General notes the law may not be repealed or in effect.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
E. J. Pearlove
Mankato, Minn
Pearlove
New West
Duluth
Roy C. Frank
Wright
Charges Filed in Traffic Mishap
Charges of driving while intoxicated were filed in Justice of the Peace H. W. Duke's court against John Haynie of 2407 West Second Avenue after two Western Union messenger boys were struck while riding bicycles on West Third Avenue. Bond set at $1,000. Haynie jailed in Potter County. The injured boy, Lloyd Misener, suffered a leg injury. Jack Rogers Jr. was unhurt as police traced the license plate to Amarillo Cottage Camp residents C. O. Trower and Ed Day.
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Justice of the Peace
H. W. Duke
John Haynie
West Second Avenue
Western Union
Haynie
Potter County
Grand
Lloyd Misener
L. R. Misener
West Fourth Avenue
Jack Rogers, Jr
Jack Rogers
van Buren Street
West Third Avenue
Young Misener
Rogers
Young Rogers
C. O. Trower
Ed Day
Amarillo Cottage Camp
Lamar Street
Verdict in Skeleton Case Quietly Declares Natural Causes
A Lyford inquest concluded that the skeleton found near Raymonville likely belonged to John Blanton, missing since November 1936. The verdict is death due to natural causes, with Lyford peace justice Charles Mitchell and Willacy County Sheriff Howard Cragg deeming the identification tentative but likely.
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Raymondville
John Blanton
Charles Mitchell
Lyford
Howard Cragg
Willacy County
Blanton
Luther
WPA Reports Gain In Relief Rolls
The Works Progress Administration announced a rise in relief rolls to 1,509,505 on November 20, an increase of 5,411 from the prior week. State changes show New Mexico up 5,990 Oklahoma down 49 Texas up 1,060.
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Washington
Works Progress Administration
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Mother Superior Rostaing Dies in Rome at 80
Mother Superior Rostaing aged 80, long described as Pope Pius IX's spiritual daughter, died today in Rome. She led the Sisters of Our Lady of Cenacle in Italy.
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Vatican City
Rostaing
Pope Pius
Rome
Sisters of Our Lady of Cenacle
Italy
Two Children Among Fifteen Fire Fatalities in Two States
A Knoxville Tennessee tenement blaze killed nine and a farmhouse fire near Oregon New Jersey claimed six victims. Among the dead were Mrs. McKinley Connatser and her children Virginia Vallee and Luther, and Mrs. Glenn Large and five of her brood including an unborn baby. Fire Chief C M Johnson described the Knoxville ruin as a fire trap as survivors recounted families leaping to safety and others trapped by the flames.
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United Press
Tennessee
Illinois
Knoxville
Tenn
Oregon
C. M. Johnson
McKinley Connatser
Virginia
Vallee
Luther
Cora Tate
Eugene
R. L. Melton
Junior Melton
James Earl Melton
Gordon Tate
McKinley Gonnatser
R. C. Connatser
Connatser
Willie Wright
Lucille
Franklin
Glenn’ Large
Louis
Darlene
John
Jack
Donna Mae
Manufacturers Hit Closed Shop
The National Association of Manufacturers at its annual convention today denounced the closed shop and check off systems and declared compulsory arbitration of labor disputes contrary to American principles.
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New York
National Association of Manufacturers
West Texas Social Welfare Group Opens Amarillo Conference
The Texas Conference of Social Welfare holds a two day regional meeting in Amarillo at the Crystal Ballroom Herring Hotel with speakers from government agencies welfare organizations and churches. Arthur O Moorehead Houston executive secretary presides Alwyn Williams WPA leads opening remarks and topics cover Public Welfare Family Welfare Youth and Public Health with sessions on Child Welfare and Government Programs in Texas.
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West Texas
Amarillo
Herring Hotel
North
South Anns
Texas
Beaumont
Tyler
Floyd Cooper
Alwyn Williams
Works Progress Administration
Alvin R. Allison
Levelland
Anne Twiss
Texas Relief Commission
Austin
Howard
Agnes Goodwin
Gladys Pittinger
The
Arpartment of Public Welfare
Fort Worth
Ingeborg Kilstoffe
Two Hitchhikers Captured After Man Beaten, Robbed on Highway
Ross R. Stine of Arcadia Calif. picked the pair as the hijackers of his car and $27 in cash near Washburn on Highway No. 5. Ben LaGarce 22 and Hazel McClure 18 both of St. Louis were arrested within two hours in Amarillo after a robbery and assault in which Stine was beaten and a bullet fired. Stine’s car was recovered on Arthur Street and officers from four counties aided in the manhunt.
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Amarillo
Ross R. Stine
Arcadia
Calif
Highway No. 5
Washburn
Ben LaGarce
Hazel McClure
St. Louis
Stine
Bill Adams
Potter
Carson
Armstrong
Donley
LaGarce
Tex Berry
East Second Avenue
Johnson and
Lincoln
Arthur Street
Erick
Okla
Pampa Youths Sentenced to Pen For Life in Slaying
Ray Jackson 17 and Marvin McEntire 28 from Pampa Texas were sentenced to life in prison for second degree murder in the shotgun slaying of Ed Hargus 54 near Delphos Roosevelt County. Jury retreated after deliberations and judge Patton imposed maximum sentences. The case linked to another local killing. defense declined appeal and will transport to Santa Fe penitentiary.
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Dee Blythe
Clovis
Ray Jackson
Marvin McEntire
Pampa
Texas
Ed Hargus
Delphos Seana
Roosevelt County
Harry L. Patton
Patton
Howard F., Houk
T. E. Mears, Jr
Jackson
McEntire
State Penitentiary
Santa Fe
William Gabriel
Dora
Hargus
Gabriel
Protests Claim Civil Liberties Denial by Mayor Hague
Twelve representatives heard union leaders accuse Mayor Frank Hague of denying civil liberties in Jersey City New Jersey. Morris L Ernst said police terror existed and warned of a dangerous nationwide pattern if Hague goes unchecked. Congressmen debated visiting Jersey City to observe conditions and potential obstruction of a congressional meeting.
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Washington
Frank Hague
Jersey City
N. J
Morris L. Ernst
New York
Committee For Industrial Organization
United States
Hague
Ernst
Maverick
Texas
Best
Woodworker 22 Fatally Injured in Buzz Saw Accident
Nathan Pruitt a 22 year old Black man was fatally injured in Dallas when a buzz saw he was using to cut wood shattered and caused fatal trauma. Police reported the accident occurred today as investigators searched for a cause and furniture workers at the scene described the machine as older and in need of maintenance.
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Dallas
U.P
Nathan Pruitt
Day of Plainview Named Texas Agricultural Association Head
Cliff H. Day of Plainview was elected president of the Texas Agricultural Association at Fort Worth. He succeeds H. G. Lucas of Brownwood and C. H. Pigg of Wexahachie was named vice president. Day and Lucas were chosen as delegates to the national association meeting in Chicago. The fourth annual convention opened with about 500 farmers present and 1,500 to 2,000 expected over three days.
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H. Day
Plainview
Texas Agricultural Association
H. G. Lucas
Brownwood
C. H. Pigg
Wexahachie
Day
Lucas
National Association
Chicago
Elsie Mies
Associated Women
American Farm Bureau Federation
American Farmer
Mies
McDonald
Congress
World Agricultural Ac
100000 Poised For Assault On Sino Capital Nanking
Shanghai Nanking region reports 100000 Japanese troops poised for a final assault on Nanking. Gen Matsui demands surrender by noon, warning of horrors of war if refused. US gunboats Panay and Yangtze patrol await orders as fighting reportedly intensifies around the capital.
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Shanghat
Nanking
Iwane Matsui
Shanghai- Nanking
Tang Seng-Shi
Wuhu
Yangtze River
United States
Panay
Yangtze
Kiukiang
Panay and & Standard
Chiang Kai-Shek
W. H. Donald
Hengshan
Onangsha
Hunan
Nanchang
Kiangsu
Matsui
Convict Captured After Prison Farm Escape
Denison reports Marshall Bates the convict who fled a Texas prison farm on November 24 was captured today after the entire police force surrounded his family home three miles from town. He offered no resistance.
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Denison
Marshall Bates
Texas
Tumbleweeds Put To Work On Plains Erosion Fight
Plains region erosion experts reveal how tumbleweeds help tear down wind formed sand dunes in a series titled Plainsmen Fight Again. Read the first installment in the Sunday News Globe.
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Plains
Sunday News Globe
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Texas Tech
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Ps Ac
Sino Capital
Chiankiang
Kiangyin
Chinkiang
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