Wastage Launched Against Stripping Plants in Texas Panhandle
Testimony before a three judge federal court contends stripping plants lowered gas pressure in parts of the Texas Panhandle field and used far more gas than pipelines could transport. The Texoma Natural Gas Company and Texas Panhandle Gas Company challenge the anti gas wastage law’s rateable production clause and related Railroad Commission orders.
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Houston
Texas Panhandle
Texoma Natural Gas Company
Texas Panhandle Gas Company
Consolidated Gas Utilities Corporation
Texas Railroad Commission
Busby Berkeley Settles Auto Crash Damages
Seven lawsuits against Busby Berkeley totaling 370000 are settled out of court for 95000 after an automobile collision on September 8 left three dead and three seriously injured. Berkeley faces a second degree murder trial scheduled for February 24 after a hung jury in the first trial.
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Los Angeles
Busby Berkeley
Berkeley
Last Times Today For Guest Tickets For Musical at Fair Theater
Today marks the final chance to secure free guest tickets to see Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler in the current musical at the Fair Theater. Each time ad delivers two free tickets, and every third ad earns an additional ticket. Dial 6262 to act.
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Dick Powell
Ruby Keeler
Fair Theater
Moisture Boosts Nation's Grain Yield Outlook
Snow and rain over the wheat belt improve prospects for wheat, with up to 8 inches in parts of Kansas and Missouri. Oklahoma expert Harry B. Cordell notes moisture eases drought in the Dust Bowl area while Texas Panhandle reports 2 to 6 inches of snow.
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Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Texas Panhandle
Boise City
Guymon
Texas County
Harry B. Cordell
Oklahoma Board of Agriculture
ChicagoGets Snow and Wheat Outlook Amid Weather Chaos
Chicago faced a rare winter mix with snow rain and thunder causing transportation trouble and three inch slush. Six area deaths were reported as fires followed the storm. wheat prospects improved with moisture, while Dodge City noted a New Year dust bowl pause and Panhandle Oklahoma farmers eyed a 1936 comeback aided by rain and snow.
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Chicago
Dodge City
Kas
Nebraska
Philadelphia mayoral convention site seen by publisher
J David Stern, publisher for New York and Philadelphia, predicted Philadelphia will be chosen as the Democratic national convention site after a discussion with President Roosevelt. Stern said the final decision rests with the national committee meeting in Washington next week.
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Philadelphia
J. David Stern
New York
Roosevelt
Amnesia Victim Wakes Up Far From Home in Texas
Lester Elliott, 35, who appeared to suffer amnesia, woke in Fort Worth on January 2 claiming Buffalo, New York as his last memory. He recalled Christmas shopping on December 4 and finding his $85, a watch, and an overcoat missing. His home is listed as Wellsville, New York.
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Fort Worth
Lester Elliott
Buffalo
N. Y
Elliott
Wellsville
Governor Allred pitches Texas film scenario to Paramount
Governor James Allred of Texas met with Ernst Lubitsch at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood to discuss turning Texas history heroes into a movie. Lubitsch approved the idea and ordered the studio research department to compile material on notable Texas figures as Allred toured sets with the SMU football team.
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Hollywood
Calif
James Allred
Texas
Paramount
Ernst Lubitsch
Gov. Allred
Southern Methodist University
Lubitsch
Lone Star State
Cash Soldier Bonus Bill to Be Offered by Veterans Groups
Leaders of three World War veterans groups announced a cash bonus bill with their endorsement will be submitted to Congress. It will be introduced by Senator Clark and Representatives Vinson and McCormack and named the American Legion Veterans of Foreign Wars Disabled American Veterans Bill. Senator Robinson predicted swift passage. A House Steering committee meeting backed the Patman Bill to final passage.
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Washington
Congress
Clark
Missouri
Vinson
Kentucky
McCormack
Massachusetts
Robinson
Arkansas
House
Patman
Southwestern Bell reports gains in 1935 telephone business
St Louis January 2 Accompanying dividend checks of 1.75 a share preferred stockholders received statements reporting the company had recorded further gains in the volume of telephone business during 1935. At year end telephones in service were only 10 percent below the peak reached in May 1930.
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ST. Louis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Italy expands air force drive amid Ethiopian atrocity charges
Italy calls 1,500 pilots and 4,200 base workers to join a stronger air force amid Allied protests over Ethiopian bombings. Rome claims retaliation for Ethiopian decapitation of Italian pilots as Geneva and the Red Cross voice concern. Ethiopian communique reports casualties and Swedish doctors injured. protests threaten to escalate at League of Nations.
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Sweden
Red Cross
Ethiopia
Stockholm
Africa
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International Red Cross
Council of the
League of Nations
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Four Die as Havana Mercurio Building Collapses
A downtown Havana building formerly occupied by the Mercurio collapsed, killing four people and injuring eighteen. At least five remain missing and rescue efforts continue.
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Havana
Mercurio
Stanley Tells Source of 16808 Income to His Firm
Capt. E.N. Stanley chief engineer for the Texas Railroad Commission in East Texas oil fields and partner in Stanley Sadler Inc testified before Senate investigators he helped generate 16808 of the more than 70000 taken in from February to September 1935. He said the firm has not accepted work since October but he still draws a salary. He detailed bank deposits and a Neal Powers account linking earnings to his work.
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Kilgore
E.N. Stanley
Texas Railroad Commission
East Texas
Stanley Sadler, Inc
Senate
Stanley
Railroad Commission
W. R. Poage
Waco
Neal Powers
Tyler Law Firm
Allred, Powers
Allred
Poage
Touhy captured as law closes in on gang founder
Chicago authorities arrest Tommy Touhy founder of the Touhy gang without a shot. Though ill with a grave disease, he is found in his North Side apartment and ordered to surrender. Congress opens a session led by Vice President Garner to debate the bonus neutrality social security and farm legislation amid a pivotal day.
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Chicago
Tommy Touhy
Touhy
al Capone
United States Senate
John Nance Garner
Senate
Congress
Chesley Jurney
Arthur Capper
Kansas
Borah Affirms Social Security Measure Possible Now
Idaho Senator Borah, a leading Republican presidential hopeful, told reporters the present constitution allows effective social security and labor legislation. He did not commit on Wagner Act constitutionality before a Supreme Court ruling.
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Washington
Borah
Supreme Court
Motor Death Toll Reaches New 1935 High
The National Safety Council reports 1935 motor vehicle fatalities at about 36 400, up from 36 101 in 1934, with miles driven and regulation improving suggesting the rise outpaced by motoring growth. extra crashes would have reached 37 500 to 38 000 if rates matched motoring expansion.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Santa Barbara
Calif
Orange
N. J
Opening guns at Jackson Day Banquet in Amarillo
Democrats plan the opening guns of the national Jackson Day drive at the Herring Hotel in Amarillo next Wednesday night during the annual dinner. Jay Taylor was named chairman of the general arrangements committee as part of preliminary plans announced after yesterday’s party leaders meeting.
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Amarillo
Herring Hotel
Jay Taylor
Eye to see in the dark vacuum tube invention unveiled
In St Louis on January 2 scientists V K Zworykin and George A Morton of RCA presented a vacuum tube that converts infrared and ultraviolet rays into a visible moving image. They demonstrated focusing beams of electrons to form the image at the AAAS meeting.
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Jan
Science Today
American Association For the Advancement of Science
V. K. Zworykin
George A. Morton
Radio Corporation of America Laboratories
Scout Chief Sees End of Depressions in 25 Years
James E. West, marking 25 years as Boy Scouts of America chief, predicts depressions and crime waves will end within a quarter century through a public spirited citizenry. The organization launches a senior scouting program to mobilize former members age 21 and older to support government for the common good. Adult groups will remain apolitical to avoid national politics.
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New York
James E. West
Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts
Survey Finds Industry Holding NRA Standards Strong
A survey prepared for President Roosevelt shows a large majority of the industry has maintained or raised NRA standards. The report, ordered by the president, will be ready in about one week to ten days.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Night opening for Congress sparks partisan clash
January 2 193? Republicans attack Roosevelt plan to deliver opening message at night while Democrats defend the move. Priority topics include neutrality legislation soldiers bonus old age pensions rural electrification and farm relief amid new investigations and looming committee inquiries.
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Relief Administration
Representative Rich
Pennsylvania
House
Senator Robinson
Arkansas
Henry P. Fletcher
Republican National Committee
Snell
New York
Weather Forecast from West Texas Friday
Forecastle Friday forecast for West Texas along the 100th meridian shows warmer conditions inland with milder temps except the extreme western areas where heat may be strongest.
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West
Texas
Little AAA proposal to use 48 state programs in U S plan
Chester C Adams AAA administrator proposed creating 48 Little A A A offices to administer farm aid under federal supervision if the court strikes down the present law. Each state would run its own crop adjustment program with federal approval and funds dispersed to farmers. Processing taxes could be reinstated as excise taxes.
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Little Aaa
New Deal
Chester C. Adams
AAA
Supreme Court
Davis
Treasury
General Fund
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