Halcomb Enters Texas House Race With Ten Bucks Platform
Dimmitt columnist W. W. Halcomb known as World's Worst Hick announces bid for state representative in the 120th District. He promotes a four word platform Ten bucks a day and vows to fund his campaign from a striped car bought with ten dollars. The district includes Palmer Castro Swisher Briscoe Floyd Hale Lamb and Bailey counties.
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W. W. (Hick) Halcomb
Dimmitt
Halcomb
Castro County News
Texas
120Th
Palmer, Castro, Swisher
Briscoe
Floyd
Hale
Lamb and Bailey
Ceding Public Lands Debated At Livestock Association
The American National Livestock Association rejected the Taylor Bill by a 197 to 425 vote and backed a minority report calling for ceding public lands to Western states led by Wyoming and Arizona. New Mexico delegates argued the bill would prevent Ickes fence removal orders while opponents urged state control of lands and mineral rights.
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Public Lands Committee
Wyoming
Arizona
New Mexico
Oliver M. Lee
Alamogordo
N. M
Public Land Committee
Congress
J. Elmer Brock
Kaysee
Wyo
Lee
Brock
Fred Bixby
Los Angeles
Frank Delaney
Garfield County
Colo
Dolph Briscoe
Uvalde
Texas
Taylor
Harry Jackson
Wayne Thornton
Phoenix
Ariz
Charles Ronstadt
Tucson
Byrd’s Pacific Antarctic Flight Cut Short By Weather
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and three companions began the flight at 3:30 A M from near the central ice pack in Antarctica. They turned back two hours five minutes after takeoff, unable to locate land, and weather prevented a non-stop reach to Little America. Byrd reported ice covered ocean and no land within reach.
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Byrd
Little America
Mackay
Richard E. Byrd
Pacific
Antarctica
Pole
King
Edward VII
Marie Byrd
Admiral Byrd
Caldwell convicted in Gerf kidnapping case in Waxahachie
Curiie Caldwell was convicted tonight on a charge of assault while masked in connection with the kidnapping of Robert Cerf son of a Corsicana bank president and sentenced to ten years in prison.
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Rie Caldwell
Robert Cerf
Corsicana Bank
Forecast for Amarillo and Vicinity This Saturday
The notice reports a fair and warmer Saturday for Amarillo and surrounding West Texas areas west of the 100th meridian. It notes fair conditions in New Mexico with colder tonight, and provides hour by hour temperature glimpses from yesterday.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Gopep
Peeti
Reese
Rudy Vallee Divorce Fight Upheld by Appellate Court
New York January 12 The appellate division upheld Rudy Vallee right to seek a Mexican divorce. It released documents recording tapped telephone conversations between Vallee s wife Fay Webb Vallee and Garfield Leon a dancer involved in the alienation suit. An affidavit by Vallee included a phonographic record of the conversations. The court affirmed a lower court ruling that Mrs Vallee cannot restrain her husband from going to Mexico for a divorce.
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New York
Rudy Vallee
Appellate Division
Vallee
Leon
Darling
Dear
Garfield Leon
Fay Webb Vallee
Lawyer trial site moved to Georgetown in Heidingsfelder case
District Judge Langston King moved the trial venue for Charles E. Heidingsfelder Sr an Houston attorney charged with embezzlement felony theft and theft by bailee over a 34500 loss to Adele Pipkin of New York After hearing 114 witnesses on impartiality in Harris County the judge ordered the change of venue on his own motion with trial likely set for early February The defense argued local prejudice and publicity while the prosecutor planned to seek an earlier start in Georgetown
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Houston
Langston King
Charles E. Heidinsfelder
Georgetown
Williamson County
Heidelsfelder
Adele Pipkin
New York
Harry Dolan
K. C. Barkley
King
Heidensfelder
France’s Chautemps Much-Need Confidence Vote Report
Paris January 12 The chamber of deputies gave Premier Camille Chautemps a strong vote of confidence 360 to 229 on his pledge to clean up the 40 million Bayonne pawnshop scandal. A second confidence vote 376 to 205 backed his promise to personally investigate the affair and name no one. Royalist threats and police troopers surrounded the chamber amid fears of a coup as turmoil over the Stavisky death deepened.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Camille Chautemps
Bayonne
France
Serge Stavisky
M. Chautemps
Edouard Herriott
Meat Canning Plant Doom Feared in Amarillo
The Amarillo meat canning plant, a major CWA project employing about 700, faces closure at 6 AM Sunday unless another appropriation arrives. Beef purchases by government buyer Tim Flores of Stratford continue, with no halt orders. Congressman Marvin Jones pressed for action, while Washington reports doubt any new Texas funds will be provided without a broader appropriation or increased use of existing state funds.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Tim Flores
Stratford
Flores
Marvin Jones
Civil Works Administration
News-Globe
Bascom N. Timmons
Washington
CWA
Tex
Appeal Filed Over Dean Law in Texas Habeas Case
San Antonio report on FE W Rickard jailed for possessing and transporting whisky under the Dean law. Judge W W McCrory sets January 26 for habeas hearing and signals readiness to escalate to the Court of Criminal Appeals. Attorneys Brown and Spears contend the law is unconstitutional post 18th Amendment repeal and challenge publication requirements.
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San Antonio
Tex
W. W. McCrory
Leonard Brown
J. Franklin Spears
Rickard
Shook
McCrory
Brown and Spears
Court of Criminal Appeals
United States
Texas
State of
Hall, Harrison
Edwards
Sutton
Terry
Real
Wichita
Reagan
Nolan
Erath
Terrell
Jones
Taylor
Chambers
Lampasas
Jeff Davis
Ward
Mother Gives 267 Bits of Skin To Save Child
NORTH BEND Neb Jan 12 A P His injuries repaired by 267 pieces of his mother's skin little Arlan Lutz was recovering today from burns covering nearly half his body. The boy was burned in a kitchen range explosion last September 3. Since then his mother Mrs Eugene Lutz has supplied 227 pieces of skin from 50 to 60 at a time for grafting on the chest leg arm and side of her child. Omaha surgeons who performed the operations predict recovery for both.
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North Bend
Neb
Arlan Lutz
Eugene Lutz
Omaha
Jury Chosen to Try Dr Wynekoop in Infanticide Case
A Chicago jury of 12 was chosen to determine if Dr. Alice Wynekoop killed her daughter in law Rheta and to decide the penalty. The panel was locked up for the weekend. Dr Wynekoop, 62, awaits Monday to face jurors as spectators were barred after earlier courtroom disorder. The defense may call her to testify with possible surprise moves involving her son Earle.
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Chicago
Alice Wynekoop
Associated Press
Criminal Courts
CWA
Aliee L. Wynekoop
Rheta
Farle
Earle
W. W. Smith
Wynekoop
Joseph B. David
Walker Wynekoop
David
Hopkins Advances Relief Funds to Texas Civil Works
Washington January 12 Republican era report notes federal relief administrator Harry L Hopkins announced advances to several states. Texas receives 250000 dollars for civil works service under relief program.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Texas
Civil Works Service
Garner Power Rouses Wrath in Texas Patronage Clash
Washington dispatch reports a revolt over Vice President Garner gaining post office patronage power in three new Texas districts. Key Texas lawmakers call a caucus to address the arrangement, with Rep. Kleberg urging Mrs. Fowler be kept as South San Antonio postmistress and Rep. Bailey organizing the meeting amid delegation tensions. The group includes Kleberg Thomason Blanton and Jones as the GOP-leaning contingent seeks to limit Garner’s influence.
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Washington
Garner
Texas
Dick" Kleberg
Farley
Charles 8. Fowler
San Antonio
Bailey
Mansfield
Kleberg
Thomason
Blanton
Jones
Garner Ar
Nationalist Troops Isolate Rebel Capital in Foochow
The Nationalist government claimed today that its troops have isolated the rebel capital city Foochow. The report notes the isolation of the rebel capital as of January 12.
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Shanghat
Foochow
Treasury May Get Metal of Reserve Bank
Treasury officials indicate potential metal transfer from the Reserve Bank to the treasury as discussions focus on reducing the dollar content and reshaping monetary reserves for stability.
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Treasury
Reserve Bank
Disputes Settle as Roosevelt Faces Monetary Policy Questions
Washington today weighed how to handle federal reserve gold and the dollar’s content amid a code dispute in the power industry. Attorney General Cummings said Roosevelt could seize gold if needed, while a Senate committee prepared to hear Walter Brown. House coinage experts and Dr. Sprague joined talks on monetary stabilization as Frank A. Vane’s influence lingered.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
Adinistration
Roosevelt
Cummings
Federal Reserve Banks
Power Commission
Ickes
Interior Department
Public Works Administration
Recovery Administration
Edison Hleetrie Institute
Brown
Senate
Walter Fr. Brown
Hoover Administration
Post Office Department
Capitol
House Coinage Committee
O.M. W. Sprague
Treasury
Frank A. Vane
Three Postmaster Jobs Open Until January 30
The Civil Service Commission announced three postmaster vacancies in Canadian Canyon and Shamrock with deadlines January 30. Applications must be properly executed and filed in Washington before closing business. Canadian offers 2400 dollars while Canyon and Shamrock offer 2500 dollars each.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Canadian
Canyon and
Briamrock
United States Civil Service Commission
Canyon
Shamrock
Choice Seats For Girl Show Still Available
Tickets for La Vie Paree remain available with reservations encouraged. Mail orders arrived from as far as Wellington Kansas. The midnight frolic is set for Tuesday January 23 at Municipal Auditorium with prices 1.65 1.38 1.10 and 0.55 dollars. Mail or telegraph orders go to Miss Lois Black at The News Globe office where the seat chart stays open until next Friday before moving to City Drug No 1.
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Wellington
Kan
Municipal Auditorium
Lois Black
News-Globe
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Albuquerque, N. M
American National Livestock As
Charles E. Collins
Kit Carson
American National Livestock Association
Admiral
Caldwell
GERF
Rudy
Wire
Fay
Mr. Vallee
Philadelphia
Garfield
Heidingsfelder
Point
Case
Chautemps
DR. Wynekoop, III
Solons
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