Dallas Power & Light Posts 22 Million Earnings
United Press reports Dallas Power & Light earned 2 566 800 dollars or more than nine percent on investment for the year. In Washington cotton use for five months to Dec 31 rose to 2 195 935 bales from 2 010 153 last year. New York auto production in December hit 120 107 units, up from 70 114 in November. Baltimore Union Trust declares 15 cent extra dividend, with 1931 earnings at 860 000 versus 825 000 in 1930. Lipscomb dairy firm pays 87 cents per hour for milking duties in 1931.
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United Press
Dallas
Dallas Power & Light Company
Washington
United States
New York
Canada
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Baltimore — Union Trust Company of
Baltimore
Mail planes burned after crash in fog
A Transcontinental and Western Air mail plane forced down near Mobeetie in dense fog caught fire destroying about 17 mail bags. Pilot Ted Hereford escaped unharmed though the craft was heavily damaged. Salvage operations began as M E Dilday, Amarillo mails chief, retrieved remaining bags and burned letters.
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Mobeetie
Here
Ted Hereford
Wichita
Kas
Hereford
Amarillo
Wes Johnston
Clinton, Oklahoma & Western Railway
Three arraigned on bombing charges in Kansas City
Ermal J. Lime E M Evans and John E Gillespie faced arraignment on bombing charges under a capital punishment statute. They offered no pleas and set preliminary hearings for January 27. Lime and Evans as Sound Projectionists Union leaders said they prepared the bomb that exploded at the Midland theater killing a janitor. Gillespie said he placed the device thinking it was liquor for an usher.
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Kansas City
Ermal J. Lime
E. M. Evans
John E. Gillespie
Lime
Evans
Sound Projectionists Union
Midland Theater
Gillespie
Rail Negotiations Deferred to Today in Chicago
In Chicago on January 14, delegates from railway brotherhoods and nine railroad presidents deferred deliberations until tomorrow. Daniel Willard, chairman of the executives, announced that a question over authority vested in some railway presidents had arisen.
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Chicago
Railway Brotherhoods
Daniel Willard
Weather forecast for Amarillo and nearby regions
Friday forecasts show partly cloudy skies and continued cold in Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas expects partly cloudy and cooler conditions in the southeast, with New Mexico also noted. Temperature data from yesterday in Amarillo indicate a low near 28 and a high around 48, with further hourly readings and a record of 1931.87 for a historical reference.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
House Groups Back Referendum On State Liquor Control
Two anti prohibition factions in the House unite to back a referendum on state liquor control. The Senate sub committee heard three House members press the Bingham bill to legalize beer at four percent alcohol. Edwin Dinwiddie cites misrepresentation by Alfred E. Smith and John J. Raskob denying ABA backing for repeal. Republican prohibition reform and bipartisan net bloc committees endorse the referendum plan.
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Washington
House
Senate Manufactures
Edwin C. Dinwiddie
National Prohibition Board of Strategy
Alfred E. Smith
John J. Raskob
Democratic National Committee
American Bar Association
Senate House parleys on $2 billion reconstruction loan fund
Prospects for a reconvened conference between Senate and House to settle differences on the $2,000,000,000 reconstruction corporation measure grew today with a House amendment that would make $200,000,000 of the corporation’s funds available for loans.
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Washington
Senate
House
Reconstruction Corporation
Taxpayers Urged to Pay Delinquent Taxes in January
Am arillo residents have 13 days to settle delinquent school taxes without penalties or interest under a Legislature act effective Sept 30 1931. The savings apply to 1930 taxes 15 percent 1929 taxes 22 percent 1928 taxes 28 percent and 1927 taxes 34 percent. Penalties resume Feb 1 to fund schools and government.
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Amarillo
George Waddill
Waddill
Farmer is killed in Grandview. Memphis man held
Claude Pool, 50, a farmer, was shot to death at his Grandview area farm. Jess Posey, 24, of Memphis Texas, brother in law, surrendered to authorities. Pool leaves four children, a sister Mrs George Tibbs of Celburne, and three brothers Sanford Pool Dallas W C Pool Fort Worth and Frank Pool Waco.
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Grandview
Claude Pool
Jess Posey
Memphis
Tex
Pool
George Tibbs
Cleburne
Sanford Pool
Dallas
W. C
Fort Worth
Frank Pool
Waco
Plane Refuels, Reroutes to Tucson Mission
A transport plane carrying a breathing machine for a patient in Tucson, Arizona, landed at 4:30 P M and departed again at 4:50 P M after refueling to resume the flight back to Tucson.
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Tucson
EL Paso
Arizona
Lubbock Man in Critical Condition After Illness
Isaac B. Greer, about 52, of Lubbock, remained seriously ill on the sixth day of his illness as of January 14, with his strength steadily failing.
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Lubbock
Isaac B. Greer
Hoover Hat Tossed in Ring as Postmaster General Backs Hoover
Walter Brown Ohio postmaster general formally signals support for Herbert Hoover’s renomination. He pledges effort to secure convention delegates while denying a decision on the North Dakota primary. Johnson of California has not replied and anti Hoover forces seek alternative candidates.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Walter Brown
Ohio
Northwest
Brown
North Dakota
Nye
Frazier
Hiram Johnson
California
Johnson
France
Joseph I. France
Maryland
Coal Digger Gets Life For Plotting Slayings
William Hightower 77, an Evarts coal digger, convicted of counseling the death of a Harlan County deputy sheriff and given life imprisonment. The verdict follows the murder and conspiracy case against 30 strikers linked to the shooting of deputy sheriff mine guard Jim Daniels in a clash between strikers and officers. W. B. Jones, Evarts United Mine Workers of America secretary, also drew a life term.
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Mount Sterling
William Hightower
Evarts
Harlan County
Jim Daniels
W. B. Jones
United Mine Workers of America
Laval Puts Newborn Cabinet to Its Work
Premier Laval starts his new cabinet on preparations for upcoming conferences on reparations and disarmament. Socialist deputies threaten to interpellate him over foreign policy, signaling tension with the left wing.
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LAVAL
Paris
Pierre Laval
Aristide Briand
Confessed Slayer Freed After Self Defense Claim
Marvin Hinchee, an oil field worker from Lefors Texas, left Gray County jail after confessing to killing George Walters, 18, near Henryetta Oklahoma. He said he acted in self defense during a quarrel over a girl while riding with companions. Oklahoma authorities found no proof, but released him on the self defense plea.
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Marvin Hinchee
LeFors
Gray County
Oklahoma
Okmulgee
Okla
Hinchee
Walters
Henryetta
Lon Blanscet
Couple in Jail Seek Food for Children Amid Forgery Charges
Mr and Mrs M C Vaughn, each under two year suspended sentences for forgery, were rearrested on two new complaints. Destitute parents, they said they needed food for their three children. Bond set at 1000 for Vaughn and 500 for his wife, who was allowed to sign her own bond. The wife, 18, refuses charity and fears separation from her children if jailed.
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M. C. Vaughn
Justice of the Peace
J. W. Minter
Vaughn
Rhea C. Myers
Myers
Bowie County
Beans cheaper than water in Portales
Portales New Mexico January 14 a Portales woman faced a house fire while cooking beans. She threw the beans on the blaze to extinguish it and saved the rest. When an insurance adjuster asked to include the beans in the loss she said beans are cheaper than water anyway.
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Portales, N. M
Portales
Oklahoma Democrats Seek Farm Board Abolition
The Oklahoma Democratic congressional delegation announced they will sponsor a bill to abolish the Farm Board. The decision was disclosed from Washington on January 14.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Democratic
Evangelist George Rider slain in church self defense
Defense witnesses describe Evangelist George Rider as disruptive in church and in a pulpit fight with deacon before his death at Halley's Bluff Community Church. Mrs Candace Brown testifies the fatal shooting by Rev J A Brown followed a fight at the Brown home the day before Easter.
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Lamar
George Rider
J. A. Brown
Brown
Halley’s Bluff
Candace Brown
Borger Gas War Moves From Trenches To Courts
Borger Texas January 14 The Panhandle Power and Light Company halted work on a new gas system after obtaining a temporary injunction alleging citizens were not given a vote on the franchise. A mile and a half of trenching was evacuated as hostilities shifted to the courts.
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Borger
Panhandle Power and Light Company
Flint woman given 20 to 25 years in slaying case
Miss Helen Joy Morgan, daughter of a Flint businesswoman, was sentenced to 20 to 25 years for the April slaying of her garage mechanic sweetheart Lesse Casteel. A jury convicted her of second degree murder as her mother indicated an immediate appeal. She protested the sentence by shouting at police and the prosecutor.
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Flint, Mich
Helen Joy Morgan
Flint
Lesse Casteel
Carrie P. Morgan
Babson Argues 400 Economists Misread Depression Pattern
Babson contends that economists underestimated the Law of Action and Reaction in the 1929 crash. He says the mistake was judging mood by duration alone and ignoring the severity of the downturn relative to the prior boom, urging focus on duration times intensity of both boom and bust.
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Roger W. Babson
Babson Park
Fra
Two Lts Zettel and McGuire Die in Army Plane Crash
In Manila on January 14 two Army Air Corps lieutenants Ray mond C. Zettel and Elmer S. McGuire were killed when their bombing plane crashed near Nichols Field. Three enlisted men survived.
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Manila
P. L
Army Air Corps
Raymond C. Zettel
Elmer S. McGuire
Nichols Field
Here
Tenative Vacancies Become Tenanted Testimonial
Mrs. R. E. Logan of 1910 Fillmore says Globe-News Rent Ads secure desirable tenants. After Christmas income awaits. advertise now. Duplex with garage at 1910 Fillmore available for $25. Call 2-1818 or 7231.
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R. E. Logan
Fillmore
Globe-News
Campaign fund drive starts in 50 Banquets party
A fund drive kicked off as part of the 50 Banquets campaign with organizers promoting contributions to support party activities. Local supporters attended kickoff events and pledged to mobilize volunteers for the effort.
Democratic Dinners Open Victory Campaign Nationwide
In about 50 cities Democrats launched a $1.5 million victory campaign to erase the deficit ahead of the Chicago convention. Governor Roosevelt urged dignity for the party and protection of the President, while John W. Davis defended the fundraising effort as unrelated to any candidacy. Alfred E. Smith spoke in Boston as the campaign steps up.
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Associated Press
Chicago
New York
Frank D. Roosevelt
Apple Cart Tickets Going to Shaw Comedy Run
Weather delays broke. tickets for George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart flow into the downtown board. Two performances tomorrow afternoon and night attract teachers from West Texas State Teachers College and Spearman, with matinee pri ority. Amarillo patrons longtime Shaw fans buy steadily as last-minute night rush expected. Wilbur C. Hawk sponsor of
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George Bernard Shaw
West Texas State Teachers College
Canyon
Spearman
Panhandle
Japan to deliver reply on Far East affairs tomorrow
Premier Inukai announced that Japan will hand its response to Secretary Stimson on Far Eastern matters to Ambassador Forbes tomorrow. Ambassador Yoshizawa, newly appointed foreign minister and Paris envoy, arrived in Tokyo this morning and will read the draft reply beforehand.
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Tokio
Japan
Stimson
W. Cameron Forbes
Inukai
Kenkichi Yoshizawa
Paris
League Council
Yoshizawa
Forbes
Crazy Weather Puzzles U.S. Usual Here
January's weather brought mixed conditions with Amarillo and the Panhandle seeing average temperatures. The Northwestern storm did not reach the area. fog cleared to a sunny afternoon with highs near 43 and lows around 26. The Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy skies and little temperature change.
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United States
Amarillo
Panhandle
U. S. Weather Bureau
Weather Whirls Through Spring to Winter Across U S
United Press summary reports a day of extreme U S weather with subzero blasts and mid sixties in Boston. California snow drifts, Lake Erie swimming, Marietta 95, Rockies blizzards, Wisconsin mild winter record, Nebraska snow, Portland and Seattle snow, and widespread cold to warm contrasts. Authorities note tornado homelessness and food aid issues amid ongoing storms.
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California
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Marietta
Ohio
Rockies
Levee Break Floods Tippo Basin Near Glendora
The Tallahatchie River levee at Seawright plantation collapsed at 8 pm sending an eight foot wall of water into Tippo Basin, threatening about 5 000 people. Dynamiting by unidentified men near Glendora triggered the inundation as guards dispersed a six person group nearby.
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Glendora
Miss
Tallahatchie River
Seawright Plantation
Tippo Basin
Sharkey
W. R. Gray
Tallahatchie Riv
Magruder Dyke
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Babson
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Roosevelt
Ethics
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Apple Cart
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