Von Hindenburg Fails to Be Re-Elected President
March 14 report shows President Paul von Hindenburg losing by 168,453 votes in yesterday’s election with 18,661,736 casting for him and 11,338,571 for Hitler. The Civil War vote outlook and national totals are noted amid surprise at Nazi strength and Communist votes.
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Tennessee
Lindberghs
von Hindenburg
Berlin
Paul von Hindenburg
Hitler
Adolf Hitler
National Socialist ‘Ascists
Herr Hitler
Ernst Thaelmann
Theodore Duesterberg
Gustav Winter
Panhandle Cattlemen Ready El Paso For Next Year Convention
Panhandle organizers mobilize for the 1933 Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association meeting in El Paso. Delegation plans travel over Rock Island with special fares while El Paso hosts a welcome banquet and press push led by Wilbur C. Hawk and Mayor Ernest O. Thompson. Mexican officials also plan to attend from Chihuahua and other Northern states.
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Panhandle
el Paso
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Rock Island
W. N. Durham
Bill O'Brien
Mason King
The
Chamber of Commerce
Henry Ansley
News-Globe
Claude Brummett
T. D. Hobart
Pampa
Texas and Southwestern Cattleman’s Convention
Paso del Norte Hotel
el Paso Chamber of Commerce
Wilbur C. Hawk
Ernest O. Thompson
Durham
Texas
Amarillo
Mexico City
Robert Dierro
Chihuahua
New Mexico
Chihuahua City
House Members Face Roll Call On Prohibition Today
Washington March 13 The House prepares a roll call on whether to consider a constitutional amendment for state liquor control. A petition with 145 signatures forced the action. Beck-Linthicum resolution supporters claim strength while prohibitionists anticipate a strong showing in likely wet sentiment.
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Washington
House
Ex Convict Convicted in St Louis Kidnapping Case
Edward Barcume, former convict, found guilty of taking part in the kidnapping of Alexander Berg, a St Louis furrier. Jury set Barcume’s sentence at 25 years. Berg was released last November after his family paid a $50 000 ransom. Charles Heuer also convicted with a 99 year term.
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ST. Louis
Edward Barcume
Alexander Berg
Berg
Charles Heuer
Shirt cuff proves fatal in New York shooting
Frank Collins aged 40 was killed when a shirt cuff caught the trigger of a service revolver owned by his brother Joseph a city detective. He was shot through the head in the incident.
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New York
Frank Collins
Joseph
Frank
Mellon Ready for Work After Rest in Georgia
Andrew W. Mellon returns to Washington after two weeks’ rest in Georgia and plans to travel next to Pittsburgh before assuming duties as Ambassador to Great Britain.
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Mellon
Washington
Georgia
Andrew W. Mellon
Pittsburgh
Great Britain
All-America Gridman of 1912 Dies in Boston
Percy L. Wendell the 1912 Harvard All American and college football coach died of pneumonia at age 42 in Boston. He leaves a sister Mrs. John W. Brady of Oswego Oregon and four brothers all living in Boston.
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Boston
Percy L. Wendell
Harvard
John W. Brady
Oswego
Ore
Special Train for Operetta Arrives Early at Rock Island
A special train carrying about 100 members of The Student Prince company arrived at Rock Island station just before 9 PM. Company manager John Lamp began coordinating for a Municipal Auditorium performance tonight. Principals went to the Herring Hotel while others stayed on their Pullmans. The troupe traveled from El Paso after Saturday night’s show.
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Prince” Company
Rock Island
John Lamp
Municipal Auditorium
Herring Hotel
el Paso
Amarillo
Tickets selling briskly for The Student Prince operetta
City Drug Store reports strong sales for The Student Prince with seating available in all sections priced at 1 to 2 50 dollars. Tickets may be bought at the Municipal Auditorium box office from 7 pm. Wilbur C. Hawk handles telephone orders for out of town patrons with holds and arrangements for pickup.
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City Drug Store
Municipal Auditorium
City Drug
Polk Street
Wilbur C. Hawk
Tri-State Fair Association
Hawk
Special train takes operetta to Dallas for final Texas stop
A special train carrying over a carload of scenery will move to Dallas tonight for The Student Prince in its Texas tour. Mr. Lamp promises unusual scenic and lighting effects across four acts and a prologue. Costumes are bright and costly as choruses frame Romberg’s tuneful music. The show, first on Broadway in 1925, has seen revivals after public demand.
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Mr. Lamp
Sigmund Romberg
Broadway
Amerigan Girl and Italian Noble In Romance Link
Rome reports a story tying Alicia Rodgers, granddaughter of the late U S ambassador to Italy, to Mar chese Lorenzo Solari. Families offered conflicting statements on a possible elopement and marriage plans, with no confirmed wedding and both youths under family control.
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Rome
Lorenzo Solari
Alicia Rodgers
Italy
Alicia
Marconi
Weather breaks nine day freeze in Amarillo region
After nine days of record cold for March the Panhandle warmed to 56 in Amarillo as snow mostly melted and farmers anticipated improved crop prospects. A U S Weather Bureau official called the break in the cold spell springlike and noted the period’s unusually low average temperatures for the month.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
H. T. Collman
U. S. Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Woman robbed on East Seventeenth Street
Mrs. Maud Ford of 1700 Johnson street was held up on East Seventeenth Avenue between Taylor and Fillmore Streets about 9:30 last night. A revolver was pressed to her back as the robber demanded her purse and fled. The bag contained a small amount of change and loan company papers.
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East Seventeenth Street
Maud Ford
Johnson Street
East Seventeenth Avenue
Taylor and
Fillmore Streets
Pampa Blast Fatal to One
March 13 R. H. Bell forty died from burns when the H. F. Wilcox Oil and Gas refinery at Pampa burned after an explosion. Five other men burned were expected to recover. The fire destroyed four thousand barrels of naphtha and several thousand barrels of crude oil. Bell, yard foreman since 1927, survived by his widow and three children.
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Pampa
R. H. Bell
H. F. Wilcox Oil & Gas Company
L. C. Lafferty
Jay Warren
W. L. Owens
John Oakes
Huskins
Bell
Lindbergh Baby Case: Lindberghs Reject Tennessee Telephoto
Col and Mrs Lindbergh view the Crossville telephoto and decide it does not match their missing son. New Jersey police report no concrete leads in the kidnapping as authorities investigate a Tennessee infant case and note discrepancies with the Lindbergh baby.
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Associated Press
Hopewell
N. J
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Charles A. Lindbergh
Crossville
Tenn
New Jersey
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Baxter Swicegood
Lindbergh
Tennessee
Col. H. Norman Schwerzkopf
Col Schwarzkopf
Morris Rosner
New York
Sino Japanese Talks Hit New Snag In Shanghai Move
Tokyo reports the Japanese general staff seeks the Emperor's sanction for the earliest withdrawal from Shanghai of Lieut. Gen Kenkichi Ugeda's expedition, while Shanghai probes the interpretation of withdrawal under the League of Nations peace plan, noting the term complete is absent from the resolution.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Shanghai
Kenkichi Ugeda
Trio Walking on Pavement Here Man Held by Police
Two people died and a third injured when a hit-and-run driver struck three pedestrians on the Panhandle Highway near the city outskirts early Sunday. Miles, 23, admitted driving the car and was jailed on murder, failure to render aid, and DUI charges with bond set at 4750.
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Panhandle Highway
Eighth Avenue
Pat Hooker
Buchanan Street
Ruby Lawrence
North East Seventh Avenue
W. M. Seymour
East Tenth Avenue
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Ames
Miles
Ranch
East Fifth Avenue
Po-Lce
Edw. W. Thomerson
Justice of the Peace
J. W. Minter
Rhea C. Myers
W. N. Thompson
Hooker
Lawrence
Seymour
O. J. Lewis
G. M. Bullis
Dick Graham
Thomerson
Buchanan Street Methodist Church
Raymond
Murray Confident in North Dakota Primary Victory
Oklahoma City dispatch reports Governor William H. Murray denounces Burton K. Wheeler’s North Dakota campaign for Roosevelt and predicts victory in the Democratic presidential preference primary. Murray argues the Senate is trying to nominate the President as it did in 1920.
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Oklahoma City
North Dakota
Burton K. Wheeler
Franklin D. Roosevelt
William H. Murray
United States Senate
Murray
Kreuger Death Shakes World Finances Across Europe
Ivar Kreuger, the Swedish match king, was found shot in Paris. His death unsettles boards at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel and prompts talk of financial runs tied to Kreuger & Toll interests in Berlin Paris and Amsterdam. Authorities report he vanished after leaving a note citing business and family concerns.
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Sweden
Paris
Basel
Switzerland
Bank For International Settlements
Ivar Kreuger
World Banking
Kreuger
Kreuger & Toll Company
M. Kreuger
Kreuger & Toll
Wall Street
Berlin
Ministry of the Interior
Man who flashed Custer massacre news dies at 90
John Cushing 90 died in El Paso after decades as a telegraph operator who first relayed news of General Custer and the Little Big Horn defeat. He sent details from Cody Wyoming to Washington and later served as a Wells Fargo messenger on the Lockhart Yoakum branch.
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Washington
Cushing
Wells Fargo Express
Houston
Lockhart-Yoakum
8. A. P. the
Seventh Cavalry
Custer
el Paso
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