Decision on Panhandle drouth rates to be ruled by Austin
Texas Railroad Commission heard testimony from stockmen and railroad officials on whether to discontinue the emergency drouth freight rates. Col Ernest O Thompson left for Austin to decide if the eight Panhandle counties can drop the relief, with rates currently set to expire December 31.
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Tairoans
Drouth
Texas Railroad Commission
Panhandle
Herring Hotel
Ernest O. Thompson
Austin
Texas Railroads
Oldham
Hartley
Hansford
Dallam
Carson
Randall
Moore
Potter
Arthur Walker
Fort Worth
Denver
Amarillo
Channing
Sherman
W. H. Blank
Santa Fe
H. N. Bainer
Santa Fe Railway
Moore County
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Changes
Partly cloudy and warmer Wednesday for Amarillo and vicinity. West of 100th Meridian mostly cloudy with occasional rain in the extreme southeast portion, temperatures slowly rising across the region. Northeast New Mexico generally fair Wednesday with hourly temperatures shown for Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Texas
100Th Meridian
Mexico
Oil Compact Commission Set to Meet January 18
Col. Ernest O. Thompson announced the next Oil Compact Commission meeting will be held in Oklahoma City on Tuesday January 18. The six member states Oklahoma Kansas New Mexico Colorado Illinois and Texas join Lt Gov Hiram Dow as vice chair and Art Walker as secretary. The 1935 waste prevention treaty and 1937 renewal bind the states to curb physical waste in oil and gas. Other 21 oil producing states are being invited to attend.
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Ernest O. Thompson
Texas Railroad Commission
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Oil Compact Commission
Oklahoma City
Thompson
Amarillo
Austin
Drouth
Hiram Dow
New Mexico
Art Walker
Oklahoma
Kansas
Colorado
Ilinois
Texas
Dallas
Congress of the
United States
United States Congress
REA Project for Floyd County Sought in War on Electrification
Aide to Rep Mahon and Artie Baker urge REA and FHA to coordinate on a Floyd County Texas irrigation power project. They seek approval of a loan and interpretation of housing act provisions to include irrigation financing under REA projects. Farmers would use power to pump well water for crops, with about 600 dollars of equipment financed by REA.
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Washington
Mahon
Texas
Artie Baker
Lockney
Tex
Rural Electrification Administration
Federal Housing Administration
Floyd County
Lloyd Croslin
Baker
REA
John M. Carmody
FHA
Croslin
General Motors To Lay Off 30000 Workers
Detroit December 28 William S. Knudsen president of General Motors Corp announced a nationwide reduction of about 30000 employees effective January 1 Michigan losses total around 20000 The plants will run on a three day week totaling 24 hours per retained worker He said the recession requires a readjustment and hopes for a return to normal by spring.
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Detroit
William S. Knudsen
General Motors Corp
General Motors
United States
Michigan
Knudsen
Baruch says economy not desperate. need wisdom to exit slump
Bernard M. Baruch, a New York financier, told Washington today that business conditions were not desperate and that with wisdom and forbearance the nation could pull out of the slump. He urged prudent policy to sustain recovery efforts.
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Washington
Bernard M. Baruch
New York
Government to Fight Monopolies in Recession Talk
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Ickes will radio a speech on government business relations amid recession concerns. The plan follows Attorney General Jackson’s charge that monopolies raised prices contributing to the downturn. President Roosevelt’s annual message to Congress scheduled for Monday may be delivered in person per Senate leader Barkley.
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Washington
Ickes
NBC
Robert H. Jackson
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
Roosevelt County Seeks 24 Dams
Roosevelt County New Mexico seeks 24 dams under the Panhandle Water Conservation Authority announced by WPA administrative officer Alston A. Meredith. The combined Panhandle Texas and eastern New Mexico total rises to 317 dams with Curry County requesting four lakes and Union County twelve.
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Roosevelt County
New Mexico
Panhandle
WPA
Coordinating Authority
Casino To Become School In Mexico Expropriation Decree
President Lazaro Cardenas decreed expropriation of the Agua Caliente Casino at Tiajuana for use as a school. The government ordered surrender of title to Agua Caliente properties once popular with American tourists along the border.
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Mexico City
Lazaro Cardenas
Agua Calinete
Tiajuana
California
Agua Caliente
Three Slashed to Death in Filipino District Outburst
In Oakland California a Filipino dishwasher Bonifacio Aranda 28 said he went crazy after his wife left him. He slashed and stabbed at least three men and ten others across a three block Filipino district. five or six were hospitalized. Police captured him and reported three killed including an unidentified Filipino and Guzman Delphine 25. The attacker claimed the killing spree began after seeing his wife downtown.
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Oakland
Calif
Bonifacio Aranda
Philippine Association of California
Aranda
Joe Bundhi
Mary Morales
Bill Kiraze
University of California
Savero Dulay
Guzman Delphine
Lee Brown
Dan Huge
Americans Flee Chinese Area in Shantung Ports Flight
Forty five Americans sailed from Tsingtao aboard the gun boat Sacramento amid feared Japanese attack as about 300 residents evacuated under Washington state department guidance. Other Americans and foreigners prepared to follow on Marblehead, Pope, and small coastal vessels while Chinese staff fled and native newspapers grew quiet.
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Tsingtao
United States
Sacramento
Shantung Province
State Department
Washington
Marblehead
Pope
Tokyo
Asahi
Taian
Tsinan
Weihsien
Here
Peiping
North China
Japan
Shantung
Tsiwan
Domei- Japanese
Li Tsung-Jen
Han Fu-Chu
Reduction in CCC Fund Announced
Robert Fechner said the new federal budget provides 226 million dollars for the Civilian Conservation Corps a cut of 124 million from current approval He described the reduction as an economy move The enrollment will drop from 306000 to 225000 and camps from 1604 to 1200
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Washington
Robert Fechner
Civilian Conservation Corps
White House
CCC
Fechner
Fifteen Ex-Pacific Mutual Officials Indicted
In Phoenix and Los Angeles federal indictments charge sixteen former Pacific Mutual Life executives with eight counts of mail fraud and conspiracy. George Cochran and Lee Phillips are named among those charged for using company funds to prop up stock value and for interlocking-loan deals benefiting the defendants.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Old Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co
Phoenix
Ariz
George J. Cochran
Lee A. Phillips
Tanker Toorak Runs Aground Off Cebu Island
The General Petroleum Company tanker Toorak, a 5205 ton vessel, went aground off Cebu Island in the Philippines, according to the marine exchange of the chamber of commerce.
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San Francisco
U.P
General Petroleum Company
Toorak
Cebu Island
Philippines
Marine Exchange of the Chamber of Commerce
Troops seize Teruel seminary citadel in Spain
A Madrid dispatch reports Spanish government shock troops occupied the insurgent defended seminary at Teruel, one of the last three insurgent citadels, in a decisive move amid ongoing civil conflict.
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Madrid
Teruel
Roosevelt expresses growing concern over world events urging naval buildup
President Roosevelt tells Congress he may seek additional naval funds beyond the 1939 budget. He notes preliminary estimates include two battleships two light cruisers eight destroyers and six submarines and asks for supplementary ship counts. He stresses no specific foe and says the expansion would start immediately though personnel needs would come months later.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Taylor
Colorado
House Appropriations Committee
United States
Navy Department
Panay
Naval Sub-Committee
Army
Navy quietly forges offshore forts to guard Pacific coast
Navy planners outline a global sea power race driven by Britain Japan and Germany with the United States expanding a mobile self-sufficient fleet. The strategy centers on a thousand mile projection from the coast and a steel elastic frontier backed by industrial strength and raw materials.
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NAVY
Pacific
America
Washington
Congress
Jane's Fighting Ships
Britain
Russia
Japan
Germany
Italy
France
Army
United States
United States To Continue Silver Buying With Mexico
Secretary Morgenthau and Mexico’s Eduardo Suarez announced that the U S would continue to buy newly mined Mexican silver at 45 cents an ounce delivered through January and would discuss a longer term program. the London silver pact expires Friday and not renewed.
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Washington
Mexico
United States
Morgenthau
Eduardo Suarez
London
Treasury
Orient
China
Canada
Peru
Australia
India
Spain
Assassination Plot Leaders Sought
London reports say two men and a woman of the OGP Q, Russia s secret police, hunted leaders of a plot to kill Josef Stalin. The Daily Sketch claims the scheme began in Ukraine, was uncovered with seized arms, and the plotters fled to Berlin Paris and London before renting a Sussez cottage near the capital.
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London
U.P
Daily Sketch
OGP@Q
Josef Stalin
Russia
Ukraine
Berlin
Paris
Sussez
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Aawahan II
U.S. Naval Defense Arc
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Alabama University
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