Amarillo Firms Gift Big Christmas Bonuses Across City
Local firms report large year end bonuses totaling thousands of dollars with several companies granting payouts of 10 000 each. Coca Cola Amaranillo Bottling J I Case and Badger Herring along with Amarillo Hardware lead the listed bonuses amid widespread holiday gifts for employees.
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Amarillo
Badger-Herring Sales and Drug Co., Inc
Big Spring
Clovis
Albuquerque
Amarillo Hardware Company
Horace A. Dyer
Badger-Herring Company
Jerry Ratcliff
Coca-Cola
Tom Wingate
Coca-Cola Company
J. I. Case Company
Santa
Amarillo Cotton Oil Company
F. W. Woolworth
Newberry Variety Store
Levine Department
Montgomery-Ward
Amarillo Bus Company
Dr. Pepper
Amarillo Bottling Company
Amarillo Furniture Company
Blackburn Brothers Clothiers
White's Auto Store Press & Company
F. W. Grand Silver Stores
Panhandle Outdoor Advertising
Meeesas
Repo
Sesquecs Wetantis
Roosevelt Signals U S to Lead in Foreign Crisis
President Roosevelt indicated the United States may assume leadership in a difficult foreign situation cited by Alf Landon. He urged cooperation and leadership to uphold standards of conduct aiding world peace while rejecting isolationism. Telegram exchanges centered on Far East tensions and the Panay incident with naval maneuvers and further official reports promised.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Alf M. Landon
Landon
State Department
Panay
Meanest Man Slugs Woman in Amarillo
Mrs. Daisy Ryan a 61 year old WPA sewing room worker was knocked down about 9 20 pm in the 700 block of West Sixth Avenue by a Latin American looking man who warned her not to speak and tried to grab her purse. Vernon Lane helped after the assault and the assailant fled southward.
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Amarillo
Daisy Ryan
WPA
Punch Boards Seized in Amarillo Officers Say
Constable W. L. Ottinger and deputies seized seven punch boards in a citywide drive against gaming devices in Amarillo. Four cases filed. The Capitol Sweet Shop and Rex Smith pleaded guilty to operating a gaming device and were fined $1 plus costs by Justice H. W. Duke. Similar charges filed before Justice C. W. Carder.
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W. L. Ottinger
Amarillo
Capitol Sweet Shop
Rex Smith
Justice of the Peace
H. W. Duke
C. W. Carder
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Amarillo and vicinity expect Wednesday fair with mostly cloudy skies elsewhere west of the 100th meridian and a chance of light rain in the extreme southeast. South portion may be warmer with little change in New Mexico temperatures. Hourly temperatures for Amarillo yesterday show varied readings, with a mix of highs and lows.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Britain Warns Japan on Provocations and Prods for Cooperation
In a House of Commons debate Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain urged Japan to prove its determination to respect British rights in China. He warned against asking the United States to defend purely British interests while considering a longer Far East naval patrol with six warships.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
Japan
China
House of Commons
Archibald Sinclair
Britain
Sir Archibald
United States
Great Britain
France
Far East
the House
U.S
Spain
Germany
Viscount Halifax
Council
Adolf Hitler
League of Nations
Brussels
Europe
Italy
League
Clement R. Attlee
British Empire
Al Capone Loses Court Appeal in Tax Case
Chicago December 21 Al Capone lost his appeal seeking a one year reduction of the 11 year sentence for income tax law violation A U S Circuit Court of Appeals sustained a motion to dismiss his appeal from a ruling by Federal Judge James H Wilkerson
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Chicago
al Capone
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
James H. Wilkerson
Kellogg World Court Judge Frank B Kellogg Dies
Frank B Kellogg former secretary of state and judge of the permanent court of international justice at The Hague died at 7 28 tonight in St Paul He would have been 81 tomorrow Kellogg caretaked pneumonia after cerebral thrombosis and a year of declining health He rose from a Minnesota farm to law politics and international service including the Kellogg Briand pact with 59 nations
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Kellogg
Frank B. Kellogg
Minnesota
United States
Great Britain
Permanent Court of International Justice
The
Hague
International Tribunal
Frank Billings Kellogg
Potsdam
N. Y
Asa Farnsworth
Abigail Billings Kellogg
Rochester
Amarillo Salvation Army Kettle Draws Alms From Shoppers
Amarillo reporter Margaret McKenzie rings a Salvation Army kettle at Seventh Avenue and Polk Street to collect for the worthy poor while a colleague, disguised as a bum, panhandles for comparison. Over three hours the kettle raised 3.44, versus 0.54 for the street effort. She notes cold, busy shoppers, and a public debate on charity rules as the moocher test unfolds.
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Salvation Army
Seventh Avenue
Polk Street
Jack Litton
Margaret McKenzie
Salvationiat
Polk
Amarillo
Chie
Panhandle Water Conservation Association Opens First Annual Meeting
The first annual Panhandle Water Conservation Association meeting opens at 10 a.m. in Canyon's county courthouse with delegates invited to lunch at Canyon Chamber of Commerce. A tour to the Tierra Blanca dam site follows, marking the association’s first of nine major projects with excavation due to start January 15 and labor limited to National Reemployment Service certified workers. Directors represent 29 Panhandle counties and three New Mexico counties.
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Panhandle Water Conservation Association
Canyon
Canyon Chamber of Commerce
Cousins Hall
West Texas State College
Tierra Blanca
Umbarger
National
Four Arrested in Narcotic Raids in Galveston
Galveston is the scene of federal narcotics raids resulting in four arrests. Two arrestees, Joe Passerello and William S McDonald, were named in a New York federal grand jury indictment for conspiracy to violate the federal narcotic act. A Houston couple, unnamed by agents, were arrested at the hotel where McDonald was found and would face charges.
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Galveston
New York
Joe Passerello
William S. McDonald
Houston
McDonald
Seven Charged With Assault in Free-for-All at Efton's Cafe
In Amarillo a brawl at Efton's Cafe led to seven suspects charged with assault. Chester Shelton, shot with an ice pick, named Ethel Richards before Hazel Brown admitted stabbing him. The fight involved knives and fists, with injuries to Shelton and Hazel Brown’s brother Jim Brown. The case moved to the grand jury as officers collected statements and seized weapons.
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Chester Shelton
Ethel Richards
Hazel Brown
Efton
Shelton
Amarillo
Northwest Texas
Jim Brown
Brown
Bob Underwood
Jim Lumpkin
H. D. Shelton
C. R. Fudson
W. T. McDaniel
TVA seeks condemnation in Berry leases over Norris reservoir
In Knoxville Tennessee Valley Authority condemnation proceedings against general leases held by Sen George L Berry and 29 associates in the Norris reservoir lake area concluded. A three member commission will issue a decision in late January after briefs and arguments in January and a field inspection of marble deposits involved. The Berry group claims damages from 1.8 to 2.5 million dollars, while TVA asserts the leases are worthless and the marble is unmarketable.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
George L. Berry
Norris Reservoir Lake
Len Broughton
George Taylor
Berry Group
Berry
TVA
Arthur £. Morgan
Papers Fostering Fear Says FDR at Press Conf
President Franklin D Roosevelt told reporters at a press conference that a large percentage of American newspapers were fostering a psychology of fear. He made the remark after a discussion with two utility company executives about recent events.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Solons Fail To Complete Any Major Action
Washington December 21 Congress closed its five week special session without final action on Roosevelt's major proposals. The Senate passed the housing bill 66 to 4 but conference action delayed until January. Farm bill moved to conference. wages and hours regulation shelved. no action on reorganization regional planning or anti monopoly measures. Differences between House and Senate housing bills noted limits on mortgages and FHA loan caps under each version.
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Washington
Congress
President Roosevelt
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Barkley
FHA
Tri State Fair Directors To Meet Tomorrow
Tri State Fair officials plan an afternoon meeting in the Crystal Ballroom Herring Hotel at 3 o clock to discuss matters of importance. O L Ted Taylor secretary manager has sent notices to the large directorate and officers will be elected. Executive committee members listed include Howe Rogers Cullum McKnight Hardin Nation Howard Taylor Gilstrap Morgan Budke King Gouldy Baker Hill Fields Riggs Beechier.
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Crystal Ballroom
Herring Hotel
O. L
Ted” Taylor
Gene A. Howe
Rosse D. Rogers
J. Roy Cullum
John 8. McKnight
E. W. Hardin
R. R. Nation
Dee Howard
O. L. Taylor
T. W. Gilstrap
A. L. Morgan
Herbert Budke
Mason King
W. M. Gouldy
B. T. Baker
Grover B. Hill
Lewis P. Fields
J. N. Riggs
William J. Beechier
Wreck Injuries at Clovis Fatal for Mrs Dunbar
In Clovis on December 21, Mrs. C. F. Dunbar aged 66 died from injuries from a December 5 collision on the Clovis Texico highway. Driver 8. C. McKay was at the wheel. She and her husband, a retired Chicago popcorn machinery maker, were en route to California. her body was sent to Chicago.
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Clovis
C. F. Dunbar
Chicago
Clovis-Texico
C. McKay
Dunbar
Townsend Injured in Boston Fall
Dr. Francis E. Townsend 70 a longtime advocate of old age pensions is under treatment at a suburban Evans ton hospital for several fractured ribs from a fall in Boston more than a week earlier. Plaques and fine gifts available at Russell's.
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Chicago
Francis E. Townsend
Evanston Hospital
Boston
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