Insurgent Advance Blasts Caspe in Spanish Civil War
Spanish City is blasted by advancing insurgents as Caspe falls to field artillery and Franco rushes reinforcements to protect the coastward push toward the Ebro. Government forces retreat, with 6,000 prisoners reported and 27 planes downed in a week of heavy fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendaye
France
Caspe
Ebro
Francisco Franco
Zaragoza
Teruel
Montalban
Alcaniz
San Just
Spain
Franco
Barre-lona
Raimundo
Mediterranean
Bre
Salamanca
Barcelona
St Patrick's Day Reflections on Ireland Unity and Ulster
The piece traces Ireland's split over unity between Northern Ireland and Eire, noting Ulster and Southern Irish factions resist reunification. It cites De Valera's defeat in union efforts, historic tensions since the Boyne battle, and Ulster's hardline stance led by Lord Craigavon as time unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Patrick’s Day
America
DeWitt Mackenzie
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Southern Ireland
Eire
Famon de Valera
London
Britain
Ulster
de Valera
Northern
the Boyne
Society of Orangemen
England
Trish
Lord Craigavon
Orangeman
A Word to the Wise About Amarillo Real Estate
A historical note quotes Coolidge Field and Sage on home ownership and wealth. The text proclaims real estate as a lasting asset and security, asserting its timeless value today in Amarillo Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin Coolidge
Marshall Field
Russell Sage
Amarillo
Texas
Cupid Goes On Rocks After 57 Years
Eastland March 16 Mr and Mrs S H Stokes married fifty seven years sit apart in district court as she seeks divorce. Stokes 83 walks with a cane while Mrs Stokes nervous scans for their children. He allegedly nagged after his paralytic stroke and the couple separated last October. Their son Dale of Comanche County testifies the father saved over 55000 in bonds cash and property and kept his mother from ordinary conveniences. Mrs Stokes seeks half of community property.
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Eastland
U.P
S. H. Stokes
Stokes
Dale Stokes
Comanche County
Rail Commission Workers Cited for Seizing Books
District Judge W L Thornton cited four Texas railroad commission employees for contempt for allegedly taking possession of books and records of Texas Cities Gas Co in El Paso. The contempt followed a February 18 injunction and a March 8 continuation barring the commission from handling books of Lone Star Gas subsidiaries and from rate hearing actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
W. L. Thornton
Texas Railroad Commission
Texas Cities Gas Company
el Paso
Railroad Commission
Lone Star Gas Company
Thornton
C. P. Reming
W. E. Caldwell
S. C. McIntosh
F. M. Shaw
Community Natural Gas Company
Commission
Travis County
Travis County District Court
William McCraw
Madden Hill
Alfred M. Scott
Leo. G. Blackstock
Shamrock St. Patrick Day Fest Prepares Big Parade
Shamrock scenes a 15 000 crowd for a grand St Patrick day celebration with a 50 float parade at 11 am. A girls band leads Main Street, a coronation of My Wild Irish Rose and a free program features a band of 500 youth musicians, Irish football, old fiddlers, horseshoes, matinees and street dance. Abies Irish Rose and boxing charge admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erin
Main Street
Donegal
Shamrock
Panhandle
Abie
Ross Kidnaper-Slayer Gets Death Penalty
Federal court jury sentences John Henry Seadlund alias Peter Anders to die in the electric chair for a $50 000 ransom kidnapping of Chicago manufacturer Charles S Ross. Jury verdict delivered after 6 15 p m CST with motion for new trial to be heard Saturday at 9 a m before Judge John P Barnes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John Henry Seadlund
Charles S. Ross
Peter Anders
John P. Barnes
Seadlund
Barnes
Will Rogers Memorial Highway Fiesta Plans in Amarillo
Amarillo prepares a three day Coast to Coast Will Rogers Memorial Highway motorcade and celebration this August. 125 businessmen met at the Amarillo Hotel to approve the plan and fund the event with about 10000 expected to be raised by a grand pageant.
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Amarillo
Will Rogers
Amarillo Hotel
Carl Hinton
U. S. 66 Highway Association
Washington
John Boyce
Irwin Oschner
Ross D. Rogers
U. S. 66
Hinton
Panhandle
Wade Brymer
Greyhound
Dallas
el Paso
Roy Smith
Tucumcari
Southwest
Mason King
The
Globe News
Guy Saunders
Good Roads Committee
Man with bullet wound found alive near Hidalgo County road
Edinburg March 16 Ervin Going a fruit trader from Rio Fundo was found with a bullet wound in his temple along a highway five miles north of the city. Hidalgo County traffic officer Walter Lysinger who was pursuing a telephonetale rushed Going to a hospital where he remains unable to talk or move his right arm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburg
Ervin
Rio Fondo
Hidalgo County
Walter Lysinger
Viennese Life under Nazi Rule Crushed Cultural Ties
Vienna reports the swift suppression of sovereignty as Nazi authorities take control of customs, institutions and theaters. Major Emil Fey and family found dead amid reports of murder suicide. Foreigners flee while Jews face plunder and public intimidation as Nazi §reforms expand.
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Vienna
Austria
Emil Fey
Dollfuss
Neues Weiner Abendsblatt
Louis Rothschild
Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Arthur Seysz-Inquart
Alpinist Association
Hitler Youth
National Library
Max Reinhardt
Salzburg Festival
Reinhardt
Gamble Pays Big for Girl
Sylva Davis of Kansas City has shown voluntary movement in her right leg and left hand for the first time. Her speech is clearer and she briefly left the respirator after a delicate spinal operation eight days ago. Surgeons crushed nerve bundles to free spinal passages, with doctors hopeful for further improvement next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Sylva Davis
Sylva
Sylvia
Tanks of Hot Oil Continue To Burn Kilgore Oil Fire
Two tanks of about 2700 barrels of confiscated crude oil caught fire midafternoon and were still burning at night in Kilgore. The oil, worth roughly 20 cents a barrel due to low gravity, was part of 6192 barrels seized by the state in February 1937 as property of W. D. Lacy and stored there since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kilgore
W. D. Lacy
Five years of Hitler rule reshape Nazi Germany
NEA Service surveys Hitler's five years in power noting rearmament and territorial moves from 1933 to Austria, Rhineland and Saar recoveries, Rome Berlin axis, and rising debt. It cites a German army of 1.3 million ready in 48 hours, 3,000 planes, 2,500 tanks, and a navy swelling toward a significant share of Britain’s fleet.
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Adolph Hitler
Nazi Germany
NEA
Adolf Hitler
Brown House
Munich
Austria
Germany
Great Britain
France
der Fuehrer
Europe
Nat Germany
Hitler
Saar
Rhineland
Reich
U. S
Amarillo Area Forecast Summary
Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas calls for Thursday to be fair and warmer with little change in temperatures. New Mexico also fair with slight warmth. Yesterday’s temperatures ranged from 44 at noon to 67 in the evening with highs around the upper 60s and lows about 45.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Rees
Wess Svever
Misia. Cies
France Assured Protection of Sea Roadway
Britain pressed Germany for guarantees of peace in Europe as tensions rise across Czechoslovakia Poland Lithuania and Spain. Viscount Halifax urged adherence to assurances and warned Germany to respect terms while Mussolini claimed no Italian threat from German moves. Soviet Russia pledged armed aid to Czechoslovakia if needed.
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Poland
Lithuania
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Geremany
Austria
Viscount Halifax
House of Lords
Germany
Europe
Spain
Britain
France
North Africa
Hitler
Republic
Soviet
Russia
Berlin
Reichstag
Tarsaw
Swinemuende
Baltic
Warsaw
Praha
Geremans
Mediterranean
Barcelona
Madrid
Two More Bodies Recovered in Southern California Flood
In Los Angeles on March 16 the bodies of two men were pulled from Big Tujunga wash. The death toll from the two week flood in Southern California rises to 145.
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Los Angeles
Big Tujunga Wash
California
B C D Bynum Elected Chairman of American National Bank
J H Paul announced at the annual meeting that B C D Bynum was elected chairman of the American National Bank of Amarillo board. New directors include H C Pipkin C R McAfee I H Davies Dr L K Patton Floyd V Studer and Chas H Keffer with F A Paul J H Paul Jennie Lee McCullough and Sharpe McCullough remaining directors. William J Byn and John W Mortis were named assistant cashiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. C
B. C. D. Bynum
American National Bank of
Amarillo
J. H. Paul
Mr. Bynum
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Emerald Isle
William of Orange
James II
Eamon de Valera
Tipperary
Cupid
Rail Commission
Sheaffer, Wah
Parker Fountain Pens & Pencils
Russell Stationery
Ross
Vral
Policy Association
Amarillo Philharmonic Orchestra
Clyde Whitlock
Fort, Worth Symphony
Denton
Robert Hopkins
Baylor University
Hopkins
United States
Canada
Clarence Brady
Conservatory of Music
Panhandle A
Goodwell
Oklo
H. L. Robinson
Friml
Tolzien
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