New Cruisers May Join U S Fleet
Naval experts speculate Congress may be asked to add 10 to 15 cruisers as President Roosevelt eyes a larger shipbuilding program. The budget includes two battleships, two light cruisers, eight destroyers and six submarines, with possible supplementary estimates for more ships.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Navy
Great Britain
Japan
United States
Britain
Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Wheeler
Brooks Funeral Set for Today Hereford TX
Funeral services for G. H. Brooks of Hereford will be held at 10 a.m. at the Black funeral home with Hereford Methodist minister officiating and burial in Hereford Cemetery. The 85 year old retired wholesale grocer died Tuesday after a long illness and left a large family including five daughters and one son.
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G. H. Brooks
Hereford
P. J. Wooldridge
Amarillo
Black Funeral Home
Brooks
Paris
Wichita Falls
Gainesville
Plainview
E. 8
Cutler
Okmulgee
Oklo
Virginia Brooks
Oklahoma City
P. J. Woldridge
E. H. Graham
Kansas City
William Mulford
Hollywood
E. T. Brooks
Charles H. Keffer
Betty Wooldridge
J. P. Harris
Hutchinson
Kan
Edwin Graham
Sue Katherine Keffer
Mayor Morgan to visit Amarillo this morning
Mayor John W. Morgan of Birmingham Alabama will arrive in Amarillo this morning by Braniff Airways en route west. He will depart on a TWA airliner at noon.
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John W. Morgan
Birmingham
Ala
Amarillo
Braniff Airways
Amarillo Area Forecast Highlights Thursday Conditions
Partly cloudy conditions expected across Amarillo and surrounding West Texas areas on Thursday with light rain or mist possible in the southeast portion. New Mexico forecast shows fair weather and little temperature change. Yesterday temperatures range from the 30s to mid 60s with a notable low around 32 and a high near 66.
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Amarillo
West Texas
West 100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Youre Just Kidding Yourself If You Make All Those Resolutions
Chicago psychologist Dr. Robert N. McMurry discusses New Year resolution behavior. He says meticulous people keep vows, while resolutions often serve as a conscience device to justify not changing disliked conduct.
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Chicago
Robert N. McMurry
The
Psychological Corporation
Murry
Tor
Chinese Spread Devastation In Flight
Chinese forces blew up telegraph offices in Tsingtao as explosions rocked the city, signaling a harsher phase of the war with Japan. American and British ships prepared evacuations while foreigners feared the political and economic impact of Japan’s expanding authority in Shanghai and surrounding regions.
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Tsingtao
North China
United States
Marblehead
Pope
Japan
Loyalist Trenches Stormed at Teruel
Spanish dispatches report a column under Gen. Miguel Aranda storming government trenches around Teruel as insurgents fight to retake the provincial capital. Inside the city a 3,000 man insurgent garrison and 3,000 civilians hold two strongholds while government forces shell the north of Teruel and press to seal the ring around the city. Weather improves aiding front-wide operations from Huesca to Teruel.
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Henday
Miguel Aranda
Teruel
Ciimly
M*rid
Aragon
Huesca
Zaragoza
Heflin Placed In Oxygen Tent In Alabama
Former U S Senator J Thomas Heflin, struck by lobar pneumonia at the height of a Senate bid, is under an oxygen tent, his physician Dr N A Sloan said. The doctor called Heflin a mighty sick man and warned the illness may have progressed.
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Lafayette
Ala
U.P
U. S
J. Thomas Heflin
Senate
N. A
S¢Lor
Heflin
Shiny-Nosed Girls Weigh War Entry At U S Convention
At Poughkeepsie December 29 U P report shows 150 universities sending delegates to the American Student Union gathering. Discussion centers on the Oxford pledge and whether to support Loyalist Spain, oppose Japan, and keep the United States from entering any war. The dispute reflects wide political diversity among delegates with limited Republican representation.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
U.P
United States
American Student Union
National Student League
Student League For Industrial Democracy
Chicago
Oxford
Joseph P. Lash
Lash
America
O ‘Ord
Spain
Japan
Center
Trotsky
Stalin
Peace Commission
Oxford Pledge
Pioneer George Gerlach Dies After Long Career in Canadian
Canadian native George Gerlach aged 74, pioneer merchant and civic leader, died at 7:15 this morning at his home after a long illness. Born Feb 8 1863 in Virden, he moved to Canadian in 1887, built the Gerlach Mercantile Company, later Canadian Hardware and Everybody's Dry Goods. Surviving: wife Dora E Knollenberg, four children Mary Parsel Winslow Dorothy Gerlach Charlotte Gerlach, a granddaughter Eleanor Winslow. Funeral Friday at 10 from his residence with Rev J C Jordan officiating. burial in local cemetery.
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George Gerlach
Mr. Gerlach
Virden
Joseph Gerlach
George
Gerlach
Texas
Norse Creek
Canadian
Clear Creek
John
J. A. Chambers
Canadian Hardware Company
Everybody's Drygoods Clothing Company
Dora E. Knollenberg
Jacksonville
Til
Mary Parsel
Winslow
Lincoln
Neb
Dorothy Gerlach
Dallas
Charlotte Gerlach
Eleanor Winslow
J. Co. Jordan
First Christian Church
New Star Route Mail Service Planned for Pecos Valley
The post office department announced a new star route mail service between Clovis and Carlsbad New Mexico to start January 1. Patrons in Pecos Valley will receive Amarillo Daily News the same day as publication. The route connects with the Santa Fe train at Clovis, departing 2:30 AM and arriving in Carlsbad at 9:30 AM.
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New Star
Pecos Valley
Clovis
Carlsbad
N. M
Post Office Department
Four Children Die in Blaze Near Belmont Farm Home
Four small children Theodore Jr Lucille Jack and Ruth Eva burned to death in a farm house two miles east of Belmont New York in a fire that critically burned their father Theodore Oestrich who tried to rescue them.
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Belmont
N. Y
Here
Theodore Oestrich
Theodore, Jr
Lucille
Jack
Ruth Eva
GOP Chairman Divorced by Topeka Court
Laura Hall Hamilton was granted an uncontested divorce from John D M Hamilton chairman of the Republican national committee in Topeka Kansas on December 29. The separation ends a non contested action.
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Topeka
Kan
Laura Hall Hamilton
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
Editor Succumbs in New York Sun Chief Role
New York editor and longtime New York Sun night editor Andrew W. Ford, age 65, died last night. He had served as night editor since February 1933 and was a widely known figure in journalism.
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New York
Andrew W. Ford
The
New York Sun
Three of Four Planes Crash In Colombia
Seven Latin American goodwill fliers were killed when three of four planes crashed in a mountain storm twelve miles south of Cali. The "Nina" "Pinta" and "Santa Maria" were Cuban and sought funds for a Columbus statue in Santo Domingo. The fourth plane, representing the Dominican Republic, landed in Panama.
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Colombia
Latin America
Christopher Columbus
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Panama
Cali
Pan-American Columbus Society
Antonio Menendez
Manuel Naranjo
Ruy de Lugo Vina
Feliciano Bisech
Roberto Medina
Alfredo Jiminez
Pedro Castillo
Albuquerque Mayor Charged in Fraud
Mayor Charles Lembke of Albuquerque was charged on ten counts with converting city funds to his own use via a dummy corporation. He appeared, waived preliminary hearing, and pled innocent with bond set at 5000 dollars.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Der
Charles Lembke
District Attorney's Office
Lembke
Justice of the Peace
L. M. Tartagna
Fred Wilson
Paris Utility Strike Paralyzes Public Services
Paris faced a total public service stoppage as 120,000 workers walked out, halting subway bus and trolley lines while gas pressure dropped and lights faded. Police reported plans to use force to restore service as Premier Chautemps ordered evictions at six electric plants and two gas works, threatening a 24 hour water reserve.
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Paris
Chautemps
Body of Man Found Aboard Yacht Off California Coast
Dwight Paulding, 49, shot to death, was found aboard the 51 foot yacht Afige, 190 miles south of Los Angeles, with three women, two men and a boy who had been adrift for three days. Coast Guard cutter Perseus rescued six survivors including Mrs. Gertrude Turner and her son Robert, plus others from Los Angeles and Dos Pueblos Rancho.
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San Pedro
Cal
Dwight Paulding
Santa
Gertrude Turner
Robert
Dos Pueblos Rancho
Coleta
Jack Morgan
Congress Hotel
Los Angeles
Elsie Berden
George Spernak
Robert Horn
West Los Angeles
Paulding
Faulding
Santa Barbara
Coast Guard
Perseus
Wealthy groups halted New Deal, Jackson claims
Robert H. Jackson charged that monopolistic wealth concentrations struck against Roosevelt policies. He argued big business used recession to liquidate the New Deal and shed controls. Ickes to speak next, with Roosevelt’s anti trust measures under discussion for 1938.
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Washington
Robert H. Jackson
Roosevelt
American Political Science Association
Philadelphia
Big Business
Jackson
Ickes
Congress
Ac Isors
Federal Trade Commission
Trade Commission
White House
House
Commerce Roper
America Builds Up Small Army and Strong Air Force
Washington dispatch reports a growing U S secondary defense with a mobile army and advancing air power. Regulars number about 12 000 officers and 158 000 enlisted, guard units 192 000, targets set to 210 000 in the national defense plan. The air force contains 1 000 new planes with another 1 000 on order and a goal of 2 820 modern planes by mid 1940.
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Uncle Sam
Europe
Asia
Canada
Mexico
United States
Army High Command
National Guard
Congress
Mili
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Yangtze Valley
Chekiang
International Settlement
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U.S
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John Bryan, Jr
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