New Trial Bid Hapless Negro in Moore Case
Attorneys for Mont Moore’s killer seek a new trial after a district court verdict sentencing the defendant to pay the supreme price for the March 4 shooting at the Terminal Hotel. A four day hearing preceded the verdict as Clem Calhoun and E T Miller argued the defense.
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Pete) Moore
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Sie
Vest Pocket Motor Promises Air Flight Revolution
German expert Paul Heylandt announces a new vest pocket motor weighing 14 pounds designed to revolutionize air flying. He aims to sail to New York soon to promote a rocket motor improved from the earlier seven pound version.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Uere
Paul Heylandt
Max Valier
Herr Heylandt
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Wheat Farmers Told No Stabilization Planned for 1931
Washington reports the Farm Board declared no government stabilization for 1931 wheat production. It will rely on domestic demand, with current stocks stabilizing 1930 output, while noting limited relief for wheat and other grains. The board estimates about 200 million bushels held.
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Washington
Farm Board
Grain Stabilization Corporation
Opposition of AFL to Wage Cuts Outlined
President William Green announced the uncompromising AFL opposition to wage reductions during high unemployment. He argued prosperity would return when workers are employed and paid higher wages and criticized bankers and some employers who favor standard profits over workers.
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Associated Press
Washington
William Green Today
American Federation of Labor
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Weather Outlook for West Texas and Surrounding Areas
West Texas should be mostly cloudy with possible thunderstorms, cooler in north and west areas. Oklahoma trends toward increasing clouds with likely showers and cooler air in the east and south. East Texas sees rising clouds with warmth in the far east, thunderstorms and colder air in the northwest, moderate to fresh coastal winds shifting west to north by Tuesday.
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Pilot and Sweetheart Die as Plane Crashes Near St Louis
Raymond S. Bowers aged 23 and Elizabeth Eslinger aged 22 were killed when a plane he piloted fell 200 feet, struck high tension wires, and burned on the outskirts of St Louis. Bowers had just earned his pilot license three days earlier and was a sergeant in the Missouri National Guard aviation section. Eslinger resided in Wellston, a suburb.
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Raymond S. Bowers
Elizabeth Eslinger
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Missouri National Guard
Eslinger
Wellston
Oil Proration Dominates Texas Salons This Week
In Austin a proration hearing before the railroad commission is set to draw more than 1,000 producers and royalty owners. West Texans led by former Governor Moody oppose proration in the Rusk Gregg area as Governor Sterling pushes for an appointive oil conservation commission. A house hearing on the governor plan and related oil bills is scheduled, with potential impact on marginal wells and pipeline earnings.
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Rusk-Gregg County
Sterling
Tive Oil Conservation Commission
House Oil, Gas and Mining Committee
Hardy
Breckenridge
House
House Committee
Quartermaster Grimmer of Polar Vessel Perishes Off Swinburne Island
Willard I. Grimmer a 27 year old Philadelphia man and quartermaster of Sir Hubert Wilkins polar submarine Nautilus was swept overboard and drowned off Swinburne Island in the lower bay while the Nautilus towed toward the Navy yard. The crew and Caspian attempted to salvage but heavy swell and an east wind prevented recovery. The Nautilus planned for Arctic ice exploration next summer and the loss cast a blight over its arrival.
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Navy
Brooklyn
Willard I. Grimmer
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Swinburne Island
Navy Yard
Claymont
Del
Associated Press
Philadelephia
Concord flier lands near Hampden fifty miles from Horse Island
St Johns N F March 22 Lieut Robert F Fogg of Concord New Hampshire landed his open plane at Hampden 50 miles from Horse Island at 557 PM He was accompanied by Al Mangalone news reel cameraman Darkness made continuing to destination unlikely
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N. F
Robert F. Fogg
Concord
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Hampden
Horse Island
al Mangalone
Eastertide Spirit and Perryton Legion Meet End
The eighteenth district American Legion convention in Perryton closes after a two day gathering drawing 591 Legionnaires and Auxiliary members. Amarillo churches begin pre Easter revivals with Polk Street Methodist dedicating a $20,000 Pelcher organ and plans for nightly services through Easter Sunday.
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American Legion
Texas
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Amarillo
Polk Street Methodist Church
Pelcher
Woman's Missionary Society
Ira F. Key
WDAG
Ferrell Fox
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Laredo Youth 17 Faces Murder Charge Set for April 13
LAREDO Texas March 22 Trial of Harlan B. Carter 17 for the slaying of Ramon Casiano 16 March 32 was set today for April 13. Carter was freed last night on 7500 bond.
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Texas
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Ramon Casiano
Young Carter
French flier Bernard found near Casablanca after plane trouble
Casablanca Morocco March 2 Lieut Bernard a French flier missing since last Wednesday was found last night 50 miles off Cape Juby by the destroyer Touareg. He was sitting helpless in his plane after being forced down at sea during an attempted Marseilles to Dakar flight.
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Associated Press
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Morocco
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Touareg
Solon brands pen slayings as slaughter
The inquiry into the February 22 prison killings describes the escape as needless slaughter. Representative Michael Igoe questions Captain Erickson and Davenport about advance knowledge of the plan and the use of rifles amid 35 to 40 bullets fired. The committee keeps the session open after a heated debate over press participation.
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Igoe
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Kingsford Smith aids in plane search
An intensified search was conducted for a National Airways plane missing between Melbourne and Sydney with six passengers and a pilot. Five planes scoured the area after the last sighting at Wagaratta, 145 miles north, as Wing Commander Charles Kingsford Smith planned to join the effort tomorrow.
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Australia
The
National Airways
Sydney
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Arbor Day Tree Planting Slated In City Section Park
Arbor Day celebration will plant the final 1 500 of 10 000 trees at City Section Park followed by a 4 PM program. Officials from 62 Panhandle Tri State cities including Superintendent Thomas Boley and President G G Ordway will attend. Messages will be voiced by Lola Pascoe Ray Walling and others with Mayor Ernest C Thompson presiding.
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Carlabad Cavern
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Panhandle
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Ernest C.thompson
Lloyd Fletcher
Lola Pascoe
Ray Walling
Amarillo College
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G. G. Ordway
W.A. McIntosh
B. E. Masters
Seven Avery children die in New Hampshire fire
In Holderness New Hampshire on March 22 seven children of Mr and Mrs Louis Avery died as a backwoods home burned in under quarter of an hour. Parents and six other children escaped with burns. The infant Joseph perished with the others in the blaze. Neighbors summoned Plymouths fire engine too late to save the house. The Averys famed for a large family had many children living elsewhere. The cause of the blaze was not determined.
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Louis Avery
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Avery
Governor Murray Appeals to People
Oklahoma City March 22. Governor W. H. Murray roared defiance after questioning of two highway commissioners over a private cement purchase. He rallied the public to defend his administration and accused Republicans of using Lew Wentz to fight him through his appointees.
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Associated Proms
Oklahoma City
W. H. Murray
Lew Wentz
Bill Murray
Woman Dies in Fort Worth Poison Case
Mrs Mildred Matthews 23 of Woes lace Texas died in Fort Worth after ingesting poison. Found seated in a car with an empty poison bottle beside her she was taken to a hospital where she died two hours later.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Mildred Matthews
Woeslace
Texas
Six Die In Royal Scot Wreck Near Leighton Buzzard
Six people died and many were injured when the Royal Scot express of the London, Midland and Scottish line wrecked at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. Rescue teams worked through the tangled coaches as hospital trains brought physicians and nurses. The engineer and fireman were among the dead. nine people were seriously injured. The cause was not yet known. The Royal Scot, famed for speed, had recently averaged 90 mph on a London Carlisle run.
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