Roosevelt Navy Bill Gains House Support and Funding
The House naval committee approved Roosevelt’s expansive navy bill with only three of 23 voting against. It authorizes 46 warships 22 auxiliaries and 950 aircraft at an estimated cost of 1.085 billion dollars plus 30 million for experiments. The plan includes a new dirigible and aims for four to six years of construction with patrols for the Atlantic Pacific Panama Canal Alaska Hawaii and overseas commerce.
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Roosevelt
Vinson
Georgia
Los Angeles
Congress
Navy Yards
Atlantic
Pacific
Panama Canal
Alaska
Hawaii
Brewster
Maine
Church
Illinois
Cole
New York
House
Senate
Plainview 4-H Lambs Top Denver Market Prices
Fourteen Central Plains 4-H boys from the Plainview area shipped 16 lambs to Denver via the Las Animas line. Prices ranged from 7.00 to 7.50 per head with several 7.50 sales. Jack McGarr’s lambs drew praise for a 14 percent dressing, and overall dressing averaged about 46 percent. Prime and second prime grades plus 92 star lambs marked the lot.
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Denver
4-H Club Boys
Plainview
C. B. Martin
Hale County
Las Animas
Santa Fe Railway
Martin
Central Plains
Marvin Goddard
Jack McGarr
Ellis
Pexton
McGarr
Goddard
Latta
Belk
Beach
Texas Lambs
Pickets Halt Building At Braslau Furniture Plant
Pickets remain on sentry duty at Braslau Furniture Company as three loads of steel beams sit on side streets. Union truck drivers refuse to cross the line while workmen strike for union scale wages on the new building site.
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Corpus Christi
Braslau Furniture Company
Globe-News Want Ads Set Records in 1938 January February
January and February 1938 saw record use of Globe News Want Ads with more ads placed than any January and February since 1931. Amarilloans relied on News and Globe Want Ads to rent buy sell and swap, continuing to bring home the bacon for thousands of satisfied users. Read Globe-News Want Ads for profit. Dial 6262 Globe-News Want Ads.
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Globe News
Britain Seeks To Make Italian Deal
Britain moves to open talks with Germany and Italy as Prime Minister Chamberlain seeks a peace path. Ambassador Henderson met Hitler and von Ribbentrop as Britain readies its 1938 arms budget with navy and army increases. The talks reportedly touched on colonial questions and German aims toward Austria.
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Britain
London
Neville Chamberlain
Europe
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Chamberlain
Neville Henderson
Berlin
Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
House of Commons
Henderson
Condition of Pershing Remains Question as Doctors Stay
In Tucson on March 3 two physicians attended Gen. John J. Pershing at the Desert Sanatorium. A 13 word bedside bulletin reported no change in his condition since the prior night. Doctors, reticent about his progress, had canceled plans to return to San Antonio.
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Tucson
Ariz
John J. Pershing
S. A. Marietta
San Antonio
Marietta
Ruland Davison
Pershing
Desert
General Pershing
Bombing Case Probed as Officers Chase Clues in Keck Death
Investigators narrow focus to systematic checking of reports and clues in the nitro bomb killing of Lewis A. Keck. Sheriff Adams and Chief McDowell away, Capt. Yielding and deputies interview witnesses while citizens offer information. Officers search within blocks of the Keck home and watch for taxi calls linked to the crime.
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Lewis A. Keck
Harrison Street
Bill Adams
W. R. McDowell
Heck
Keck
Stribling Sale Sets Record at Rancho Hereford Auction
John B. Stribling’s annual Hereford sale drew breeders from seven states as 57 head sold for an average of 541 dollars the highest since the Hazlett dispersion. Domestic Lamplighter topped at 1,750 dollars and Gentle Annie 17th brought 1,650 with multiple buyers including Wendell Mousel and L. L. Kinder.
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Rotan
John B. Stribling
America
Robert H. Hazlett
Eldorado
Kan
Stribling
Wendell Mousel
Cambridge
Neb
L. L. Kinder
Oklahoma
Gentle Annie
Calved
Warren Buckley
Plano
Ill
Mischief Maker
Capitola R
Brook Hereford Farm
Brady
I. B
Doc
River Pact Talks Stalled by New Mexico Objection
A Rio Grande compact commission meeting in Santa Fe was stalled today when New Mexico commissioner objected to a report proposed as the base for renewing the interstate water portionment agreement.
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Santa FE
N. M
Rio Grande Compact Commission
New Mexico
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Vicinity
Partly cloudy Friday with unsettled north portion and chance of rain or snow north central area. New Mexico region fair to the south. Colder Friday. Temperature data shows yesterday’s max around 37.50 near Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Birthday Parade to Launch Borger's 12th Anniversary
Hutchinson County American Legion Post sponsors a March 8 celebration with a 10:30 AM parade. Prizes total 70 dollars for best float and best comic entrants, with the Borger Daily Herald and Legion Post awarding top prizes. Hutchinson County's queen mother-in-law and three princesses are part of the event.
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Borger
Hutchinson County American Legion Post
Borger Daily Herald
Legion Post
Hutchinson County
Treason in High Soviet Circles Told Anew
Moscow reports Nikolai N. Krestinsky, the lone holdout, confessed to all crimes after initially denying guilt in the mass treason trial. Prosecutor Vishinsky pressed him to admit plotting with Germany and aiding espionage on Soviet soil, alongside other defendants including Bucharin and Yagoda who also testified to past plots and repression.
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Moscow
Nicholas N. Krestinsky
Russia
Krestinsky
Berlin
Andrei J. Vishinsky
Hans von Seeckt
Leon Trotsky
Mexico
Bucharin
Nikolai Lenin
Siberia
Yagoda
OGPU
Vladimir T. Ivanoff
Ivanoff
Bolshevist Party
Lenin
P. T. Zubaroff
Agriculture
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Joseph Stalin
Kiementi FE
Missing Skyliner Searched From Castle Peak To Bass Lake
A midweek missing skyliner near Fresno spurred a large search as aerial and ground teams pushed toward Castle Peak and Bass Lake. Weather hampered the hunt with heavy snowfall while reports of mysterious shots and a loud crash surfaced.
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Fresno
Calif
Here
Castle Peak
Huntington
Shaver Lakes
Bass Lake
Shaver Lake
Roosevelt Guest List Lights Up Amarillo Parade Week
Elliott Roosevelt and his wife accompany Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt for Amarillo events. The First Lady will lecture at Municipal Auditorium after arriving with family. Parade entries swell as preparations accelerate for the national celebration amid public interest and local sightings.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ruth Googins
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Elliott Roosevelt
Amarillo Hotel
Dangerous Flood Submerges LA Area Killing and Missing
Floods in Southern California left 144 dead or missing, thousands homeless, and millions in damage across Los Angeles and five counties. Red Cross reports 1,500 homes uninhabitable and nearly 20,000 homeless. five-day storm caused widespread destruction from Riverside to Ventura with rivers overflowing and communications crippled.
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Los Angeles
California
Frank Shaw
Esther Chadburn
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Los Angeles County
Orange
Riverside
San Bernardino
Ventura
Banta Ana
United States
Anaheim- Pullerton
West Riverside
Orange Counties
San Fernando Valley
Hollywood
San Francisco
Bay City
Joe BE. Brown
Santa Ana
Mother Gives Eye to Tot
NORTH WALES PA March 3 A 30 year old mother Mrs Irene Laverty plans to donate a cornea transplant from her eye to her two year old son Roger to restore his sight. She told reporters she moved to the area less than a year ago and called Roger their only child.
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North Wales
Penn
Irene Laverty
Roger
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