Moisture Now Seen As Benefit To Crops In Plains
The Panhandle and North Plains face continued light snow for a third day with about one inch of moisture in the past week. South Plains report cold, dry weather though snow adds to ground moisture. Boise City and Dalhart report four inches of snow with temperatures around 30 degrees and light winds.
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South Plains
Panhandle
Plains
North Plains
Dalhart
Boise City
Santa Fe, Rock Island and
Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Okla
Texas
Kiowa
Kansas
Rock Island
Tucumcari
N. M
Clayton, N. M
Fort Worth & den
Funds Search Continues in Lower House and Senate Debates
The House discussed ways to raise government funds while the Senate debated the Interior Department appropriation bill. Treadsway urged support for a billion dollar tax plan, Laguardia opposed the sales tax and proposed an alternative. The Naval Committee found the airship Akron satisfactory in safety. The Interstate Commerce Commission was authorized to study a six hour day for railway workers. National Farmers Union backed Lafollette’s public works program of 5.5 billion dollars. W A Moddy charged the Farm Board with denying drought aid to non member dairymen in 1929.
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Washington
House
Senate
Interior Department
Representative Treadway
Massachusetts
Laguardia
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
National Farmers Union
House Agriculture Committee
W. A. Moddy
St. Louis Livestock Exchange
Farm Board
Drouth
Uncle Sam Follows Mom on Every Shopping Trip
In Colton commentary Uncle Sam appears in every family outing as Congress debates a new tax bill. He would take about 20 cents of every dollar spent on shopping and 10 cents of the costlier theater tickets, aiming to move finances from red ink toward balance.
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Uncle Sam
F. B. Colton Washington
Mother
Daughter
Skirmish Near Kating Quietly Tests Sino Japanese Truce
Chinese cavalry and Japanese troops clashed five miles northwest of Kating just before midnight as both sides prepared for worst while Sino Japanese peace talks stall. Japanese front lines hardened with defense works from Nanjiang to Yangtze Road and an undeclared armistice holds.
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Morris J. Harris
Associated Press
Shanghai
Kating
Yoshinori Shirakawa
Nanjiang
Yangtze Road
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Unsettled Saturday with light snow in Amarillo and western Texas. Snow north and rain or snow south in New Mexico Saturday night. Temperatures show little change. hours of observation indicate high and low readings yesterday with trace precipitation for the 24 hours ending 4 PM yesterday.
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West
Babson Explains Where Money Went
Babson argues hoarding cash ignores the role of credit in wealth. He says true value comes from obtaining and using credit to produce real property like food clothing and shelter. He warns most money is really credit and savers risk loss by clinging to gold or currency.
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Babson
Babson Park
Fla
Ohio Senate Fight Prohibition War Heats Up
The Ohio senatorial race for the May primary grows into a wet versus dry clash as L. J. Taber of Barnesville announces his candidacy. Taber, head of the National Grange, is dry, while incumbent Democrat Robert J. Bulkley and Republican Gilbert Bettman are identified as wet and liberal respectively.
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Columbus
Ohio
United States
L. J. Taber
Barnesville
Taber
National Grange
Robert J. Bulkley
Gilbert Bettman
Approval Report Clears Akron Airship Work
A congressional committee in Washington on March 11 unanimously approved the workmanship and construction of the Akron dirigible. It found no basis for sabotage charges or dangerous overweight and praised the Goodyear-Zeppelin Company and the Navy for cooperation amid hearings with Goodyear officials workers and naval officers testifying.
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Washington
Congressional
Navy
Goodyear-Zeppelin Company
Goodyear Company
Akron
Naval
Attempt to kidnap artist's son fails in Riverton
In Riverton New Jersey police report an attempt to abduct 2 year old Chilton Vanderbeck Anderson son of artist Claude Anderson from the Riverbank home occurred at 1 30 AM. The child was secured by the father in the nursery and the kidnapper fled out the back door while house servants had bolted the rear entry.
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Riverton
N. J
Chilton Vanderbeck Anderson
Claude Anderson
Riverbank
Here
Anderson
Ex-sheriff Clint Lewis files appeal after extortion conviction
Clint D. Lewis former sheriff of Burleson County appeals to the Court of Criminal Appeals after a Travis County jury sentenced him to three years in the penitentiary for extortion connected with fees of office from the state.
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Austin
Clint D. Lewis
Burleson County
Court of Criminal Appeals
Travis County
Student Prince Admission Prices Cut For Local Show
The Student Prince at Municipal Auditorium lowers top price from 3 to 2.50 with seats at 1 1.50 and 2. Tickets on sale at City Drug Store 517 Polk Street or by mail to Wilbur C. Hawk care of Globe News. Show Monday night featuring George Hassell Gertrude Lang Allan Prior. music by Sigmund Romberg.
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al Jolson
Municipal Auditorium
City Drug Store
Polk Street
Wilbur C. Hawk
Globe News
New York
Boston
George Hassell
Gertrude Lang
Allan Prior
Sigmund Romberg
Needle swallowed long ago found between toes
Til Adair March 11. R. C. Raby now 79 recalls swallowing a needle at age 13 in 1866. He only today realized the long forgotten incident as he felt irritation between his toes and retrieved the needle.
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Adair, Til
R. C. Raby
Raby
Cotton truck fleets block roads ruling Austin
The Texas State Railroad Commission denied permits for Galveston Truck Lines to haul cotton from inland Texas to the Galveston port. It said highway use by cotton trucks is unreasonable for safety and would burden highways, harming rail common carriers.
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Austin
Texas
State Railroad Commission
Galveston Truck Lines, Inc
Galveston
4-H Calves Set Record For Dressed Beef At Amarillo Show
Calves from Amarillo Fat Stock Show entered by 4-H Club boys and girls dressed an average 63.9 percent by Pinkney Packing Company, with the grand champion steer at 65.8 percent. Pinkney calls the result unusually high and one of the finest examples of baby beef seen, praising the Panhandle's production.
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Amarillo
Pinkney Packing Company
R. R. Pinkney
Cotton Receipts Top Three Million Bales in Houston
Net cotton receipts in Houston reached 3,001,979 bales, marking a second crossing of the 3 million threshold. The earlier three million mark occurred February 7, 1927, when 3,008,993 bales were recorded, contributing to a season total exceeding 3,580,000 bales.
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Houston
Planes Collide in High-Altitude Crash Off Barcelona
Two military aircraft collided during maneuvers 6000 feet above Prat Llobregat Aerodrome and plunged into the sea. Both pilots, Captain Ramon Sicilia and Jose Naranjo, were killed.
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Barcelona
Spain
Prat Llobregat
Ramon Sicilia
Jose Naranjo
Panhandle farmers win relief on first liens for planted crops
Panhandle wheat growers will not need first liens on crops already planted to qualify for up to 50 000 under the Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan. A Capitol ruling states first liens apply only to crops yet to be grown and does not waive existing mortgage claims on planted wheat. The decision removes a major hurdle as local officials awaited formal confirmation.
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Seth Holman
Ford Conviction Demanded by Reds After Detroit Riot
Five thousand people attended a Communist sponsored meeting in Detroit calling for the trial and conviction of Henry Ford for countenancing the murder of union demonstrators. Speakers urged immediate removal of Mayor Frank Murphy and a Soviet government in the United States after Monday's Dearborn plant riot that left four unemployed marchers dead.
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Detroit
Mich
Arena Gardens
Henry Ford
Frank Murphy
United States
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn
Bright spots in business seen by Walter P. Chrysler
In New York Walter P. Chrysler reports definite improvement across many business lines as president of the Chrysler Corporation. In Washington the comptroller of currency notes only two national bank failures since February 17, the smallest number in nearly two years. In New York the Cotton Exchange estimates February domestic mill consumption at 447000 bales, up from January and February 1931 levels.
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New York
Walter P. Chrysler
Chrysler Corporation
Washington
Comptroller of Currency
Cotton Exchange Trade Service
Staged Lindbergh Baby Search Proposed in Hopewell
A Mexican writer suggests a method for the Lindbergh baby search. He proposes assembling all local babies in white robes while Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh examine each child to identify their own. The plan was received by a United Press correspondent.
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Hopewell
N. J
United Press
Daniel Macazaca
Mexico
Macazaca
Youths Rescued From Sinking Pleasure Ship Nahma Off Diamond Shoals
Six youths led by Richard Du Pont were rescued from the waterlogged Nahma 100 miles off Diamond Shoals by the army transport Republic and to be landed at Cristobal Panama Canal Zone or transferred to another vessel. Also aboard were Vic tor DuPont Scott Townsend and Thomas Laffey of Wilmington and Lloyd Coates Benjamin McFarlane of Philadelphia.
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Norfolk
Richard du Pont
A. Felix du Pont
Wilmington
Del
Diamond Shoals
Republic
Cristobal
Panama Canal Zone
United States
Victor DuPont
Scott Townsend
Thomas Laffey
Lloyd Coates
Benjamin McFarlane
Philadelphia
Five youths held in torture death of newsboy
Several youths were arrested amid questions into the death of 14 year old Howard D Moore. The boy died after his clothes were saturated with kerosene and set afire. He had told peers that three youths who had been seen playing dice would “fry” him.
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Dallas
Howard D. Moore
Woman and two children die in Cement home blaze
A farm home one mile south of Cement burned after a cook stove exploded. Victims are Mrs. Marie Cutshall, 35, her daughter Bobbie Jean Cutshall, 2½, and Rudolph Knox, 5.
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Cement
Okla
Marie Cutshall
Bobbie Jean Cutshall
Rudolph Knox
Fire destroys Leon Springs school building in early morning blaze
A north wind drove flames that levelled the three room Leon Springs school in Bexar County. The blaze at 4 A M left 106 students without a school building with an unknown origin and about 3000 dollars in damages.
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San Antonio
Leon Springs
Bexar County
Salvatore Spitale Key Figure in Lindbergh Baby Case
A New York broker Salvatore Spitale, named by Col. Lindbergh to negotiate with kidnappers, reportedly planned to travel west on a promising tip about the Lindbergh baby. Detroit reports identify Spitale's attorney stating the child is safe and that a higher ransom may be demanded.
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Hopewell
Lindbergh
West
Michigan
New York
Salvatore Spitale
Col. Lindbergh
Spitale
Detroit
Detroit News
Isiah Leebove
Clare
Leebove
Lindbergh receives thousands of letters after kidnapping
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has collected about 50,000 letters from cranks and well wishers in ten days since his son’s abduction. Governor Harry A. Moore, speaking at the Newark Athletic Club, said he has received about 10,000 communications on the case.
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Newark
N. J
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Harry A. Moore
Newark Athletic Club
Attorney Linked to Kidnap Suspects Faces Tip Claims
In a Brooklyn liquor smuggling trial context, Leebove's New York office confirms attorney status for Spitale and Irving Bitz, alleged henchman. Spitale, contacted during a trial recess, declined comment. Spitale's NY counsel Abraham Kesselman says he received hundreds of tips, one so good that Spitale might flee west after the trial. Kesselman adds other tips were worthless.
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Leebove
New York
Spitale
Irving Bitz
Brooklyn
West
Abraham Kesselman
Kesselman
Lindbergh Baby Kidnap Information Circular Sent
The government begins preparing and sending to all U S police departments a circular seeking information on the whereabouts of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. More details to follow on page 11.
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Trenton
N. J
Classified Promises Goods and Homes for Sale
Local ads offer stores real estate used cars radios and apartments for sale. Shoppers can find deals across listings detailing available properties vehicles and electronics.
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