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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1935
Page
1
A compact report notes doubt over world force readiness and demonstration stamina amid a large Catholic parade led by ROTARIANS and CATHOLICS. Peace was reportedly maintained despite the extensive civic display.
More than 15 000 Catholics marched past the national palace denouncing the government and demanding open churches during the Rotarian international convention. A youth shouted at President Cardenas and was arrested. banners attacked social education and liberty of conscience. Police stayed away as the march ended peacefully near Buena Vista station.
Federal and local officers pursued clues to identify Jack Williams who was fatally wounded while attempting to extort 72000 from Herbert D. Vey, a Texas banker. Williams died without revealing his identity. 20 bystanders viewed the body and no fingerprint records exist.
Globe News offers a pair of tickets to Wheeler and Woolsey in The Nitwits for Want Ads ordered seven times. The deal promotes longer running Want Ads, costing 12 cents per word for 7 days. Dial 6.262 to take advantage today.
Former President Herbert Hoover told Stanford University's 1935 graduates that concentrating both economic and political power endangers freedom. He attacked hothouse methods of economic planning and warned that government by specific laws, not uncertain administration, is vital.
Tacoma June 16 authorities decide to prosecute Mr and Mrs Harmon M Waley under federal Lindbergh law rather than state law. The 9 year old Wey erhaeuser victim was returned unharmed, so federal penalty caps at life imprisonment while state law allowed the death sentence.
New York report details three boys Arnold 3 Eugene 5 and George Jr 7 found dead in an ice box on a truck after their father reported them missing. Police suspect hidden by children during hide and seek and note asphyxiation with no signs of violence.
The Pravda daily in Moscow reports Japan plans to carve a new empire from Manchukuo North China and inner Mongolia and expand conquests as trajectory of aggression.
In a Santa Monica letter, the writer argues nations remember past aggressions, citing Italy and Mussolini as reminders. The piece notes England and other powers resenting Mussolini over Abyssinia, while reflecting that giving back the Philippines might ease collective guilt and discourage expansion.
Four inmates launched a 20 minute assault using knives and an ice pick at the Central State Hospital for the Criminal Insane in Waupun Wisconsin. Led by Andrew Gilling of Green Bay the group attacked turnkey William H Harterink as they tried to reach the outer gate. no serious injuries reported.
The midget unit will be guided by J L ONeill with cooperation announced for planned activities. The arrangement emphasizes leadership and coordinated effort within the group.
President Roosevelt announces a stopgap National Recovery Administration with two divisions under Leon C. Marshall and Princiss L. Coonley to oversee fair competition and review code effects. James L. ONeill named acting administrator to rapidly reduce 5000 NRA staff while preserving core administration for possible future legislation.
The Dominion signal service reports the liner Empress of Britain and collier Kafiristan collided 40 miles east of Fame Point in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Empress of Britain escaped damage while the Kafiristan was damaged forward and taking water.
Forty-six bodies, only sixteen identified, lay in state as Reinsdorf mourns a devastating blast that wrecked the munitions village near Wittenberg. The town traces a slow path back toward normalcy after Thursday’s explosion.
Oklahoma City June 16 The Wilson and Company packing plant strike nears its third week with no sign of settlement as negotiations stall and workers remain on strike.
Richard Cole's orchestra will perform a lively dance program at The Nat tonight. Sponsored by the Music Corporation of America and the Tri-State Fair Association, admission is 1 per person 1.25 for stays, with 35 cents for night club reservations. Cole's 20 member ensemble travels from Oklahoma City arriving early today. The group recently closed an engagement at Hotel Skirvin Saturday night.
The 1935 Sunday rush to shade and water shows the mercury at 100 degrees the hottest day of the year. Residents flock to canyon waters city lake and pools seeking relief. Weatherman H JT Coleman notes 106 degree highs in prior years and predicts possible scattered showers tonight.
Washington June 16 The Senate Elections Committee found Holt of West Virginia guilty of no worse crime than youth. He expects to take his oath as U S Senator on June 19 his 30th Birthday. He has spent five months in Washington working from a local Senate office and learning from farm workers and industrial workers during a cross country auto trip. Holt financed extra clerks himself and believes lawmakers should go to the people to learn what's happening. He relishes the challenge and jokes about marriage proposals in his mail.
Fire officials blamed flimsy electric wiring for a hall blaze that killed the bridegroom’s mother and a guest while injuring the bride to be Pearl Lokolower age 21 and 23 friends. More than 300 guests attended the wedding on the Lower East Side as a rabbi was to marry Miss Lokolower to Louis Shein.
Four persons were killed and five injured in an automobile collision near Lakeview on the Dallas Highway. Deaths listed include Mrs. A. O. Hemmer and Mrs. W. M. Myers of Peoria Texas and both Mrs J E Tyson and Mrs J G Wiley of Dallas. Waco residents EE W Hammer A O Hammer J Tyson and FE W Hammer were among the injured.
London reports Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin has refused Lloyd George's proposed New Deal for Britain, deeming it no better than the government program. A cabinet committee previously studied the plan, which borrows from Roosevelt, meeting with Lloyd George over months.
Raging floodwaters swept through Texas forcing mass evacuations as six rivers rose to record levels. Mayor Tom Miller estimated Austin damage at over 2.5 million dollars as crops and livestock suffered heavy losses and several towns faced inundation. Missing persons and communications outages hinder early tallies amid warnings that more deaths may be confirmed.
Varied showers swept the Panhandle and Oklahoma yesterday afternoon bringing relief from heat. Amarillo reported a late night dust storm with visibilities near one percent at the airport. Dalhart area received a second drenching this week with over an inch of rain in late Sunday afternoon. General rains spread from Dalhart to Liberal with some hail noted.
Premier Mussolini told 7,000 veterans from the Colosseum that soldiers prefer action to words and Italy is a nation of soldiers. He urged readiness for a war with Ethiopia as arbitration over Rome's boundary with the African kingdom stalls and material shipments rise.
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