Union Rule Yielded by Gangsters
Chicago officials report the Coal Teamsters Union ousted gangster influence as George Roy Baker installed as president after forcing out old officers. Police seek Public Enemy No. 1 Murray Humphreys and others tied to Capone era graft amid a wave of bombings and threats targeting unions and big business.
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Chicago
Coal Teamsters’ Union
Jack Sheridan
Milam Booth, Jr
Murray Humphreys
George Roy Baker
Baker
Capone
Humphreys
Jack White
al Capone
George “Bugs” Moran
White
O’donnell
Metzger
Arthur Metzger
Teamsters
Chicago Loop
Pledge Speed On Crop Loans
Crop production loans to cover winter wheat in the Panhandle have been made possible. A meeting will be held in Amarillo for all Panhandle committee chairmen and bankers as soon as new regulations arrive. Owen W. Sherrill told John E. Hill of Panhandle Lumber Company of the Dal las conference with the Southwest Loan Office regional manager. News of President Roosevelt’s approval reached Mr. Hill by telegram from Marvin Jones, Amarillo congressman and agricultural committee chair. The Dallas office aims to issue loans quickly once supplies arrive, with extra field men planned. Anticipated wheat acreage reduction and shift to maize or kaffir corn are cited to curb wind erosion. Estimated loan total may exceed a million dollars.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Owen W. Sherill
John E. Hill
Panhandle Lumber Company
Dallas
Southwest Loan Office
Roosevelt
Hill
Marvin Jones
Agricultural Committee
Washington
Sherif
Tornado Toll Rises Across Mississippi Delta to Illinois
Spasmodic tornadoes sweeping from Louisiana through Mississippi and Arkansas to Illinois have left at least 63 dead and more than 500 injured as Monday’s storms intensified. In Minden Louisiana at least 35 were killed, with extensive property damage and ruined farms, while Arcadia and Magnolia in Arkansas reported further fatalities.
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Associated Press
Louisiana
Ilinois
Thississippi Valley
Mississippi Delta
Minden
Fla
Mississippi
Arkansas
Morrison
Ill
Chicago
Arkansas- Missouri Line
Salem
Camp
Ark
Arcadia
Magnolia
Appeals Court Denies Denison Bid for Texas Highway Chair
The Third Court of Civil Appeals overrules a motion by F. L. Denison of Temple to certify his case to the Texas Supreme Court. An order will advance the case on its docket with submission set for May 17. Denison sought review of a Travis County judgment that held him ineligible to hold the highway commission chair after Senate confirmation failure.
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Austin
Third Court of Civil Appeals
F. L. Denison
Temple
Supreme Court
Texas Highway Commission
Denison
Travis County District Court
Senate
Highway Commission
Iowa County Attorney Would Defy Guardsmen
De fiance to patrols by two sections of Western Town arises as Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office reports no trouble, and County Attorney James Smith vows arrest of Guardsmen if they press forbidden searches. A military council forms to handle farm riot cases with Judge Hallagan as special prosecutor. Troops continue searches in occupied areas during martial law.
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LE Mars
Cherokee County
James Smith
Cherokee
Iowa National Guardsmen
L. Dee Mallonee
Audubon
National Guard
Frank B. Hallagan
Nominations announced for interior assist sec post and tax appeals board member
Washington May 2 pressing actions include L. Chapman of Denver nominated as assistant secretary of the interior. Jed C. Adams of Texas nominated to the board of tax appeals and Henry H. McPike of California named U S attorney for the northern district of California.
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Washington
Oscar L. Chapman
Denver
Interior
Senate
Jed C. Adams
Texas
Board of
Tax Appeals
Henry H. McPike
California
United States
Route Today For Canyon Highway Inspection
State officials and Amarillo delegations inspect proposed scenic routes through Palo Duro Canyon today. D E Colp John W Pritchett and Chester Cohn travel from Amarillo via Harding ranch to view sites for a potential Texas state park and highway. They return for a banquet at Amarillo Hotel where plans are outlined.
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Palo Duro Canyon
Amarillo
Panhandle
Canyon
D. E. Colp
Texas State Park Board
John W. Pritchett
State Board of Water Engineers
Chester Cohn
State Health Department
Amarillo Park
Harding
Trial Sheds Light on Strange Death in East Texas
Paul Oakley itinerant preacher faces murder charges in the death of Bernice Clayton a three year old invalid during a religious ceremony. Testimony shows the mother whispered she was better off dead and Oakley claimed innocence under questioning. Coy Oakley and Sherman Clayton also stand charged with murder with separate trials slated.
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Linden
Bernice Clayton
Paul Oakley
O. B. Snellgrove
Clayton
Bernice
Oakley
Coy
Pinewoods
Lindbergh
Oakley Brothers
East Texas
Sherman Clayton
Coy Oakley
Farm relief inflation bill advances as Democrats push currency expansion
The Democratic majority defeats Republican bids to block House action on the administration farm relief inflation bill. A five hour limit was adopted after heated debate, with 261 to 113 voting for the rule. The inflation provision then cleared for conference.
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Washington
House
Senate
Representative Snell
New York
Roosevelt
Claiborne
Missouri
Dunn
Pennsylvania
Hoeppele
California
Howard
Nebraska
Huddleston
Alabama
Lambeth
North Carolina
Black and Somers
Humble Oil Slashes Crude Prices Across Texas Fields
May 2 reductions in crude oil prices spread from East Texas to other Texas fields as Humble Oil and Refining Company cuts posted prices by 2 to 34 cents per barrel. East Texas field not posted as Humble would pay the going price. Gulf Oil matched action last week and more fields likely to follow into Oklahoma and Kansas.
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Houston
East Texas
Texas
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Humble Company
Humble
Gulf
Oklahoma
Kansas
Front Page Tickets On Sale At City Drug
The Front Page will be presented for a second time Thursday night at the Municipal Auditorium to benefit the Community Kitchens. Tickets are sold at City Drug Store 517 Polk Street 50 cents downstairs 25 cents balcony all seats reserved. The cast is Ama rillo newspaper men and women directed by Dr. R. P. Parcells. Delegates to the Panhandle Press Association convention will be special guests.
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Municipal Auditorium
City Drug Store
Polk Street
Amarillo
R. P. Parcells
Paramount Theater
Panhandle Press Association
Rich Girl Kidnapped From Schoolroom In Harwichport
Margaret McMath a ten year old daughter of Detroit born engineer Neil G Mc Math was abducted after a fake telephone call to her school. A blue automobile carried the girl away with a man described as a negro. Police coast guards and state authorities searched Cape Cod Bay and areas to New London Conn fearing ransom.
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Harwichport
Mass
Margaret McMath
Neil G. McMath
Detroit
Francis GC. McMath
Cape Cod Bay
Boston
New London
Samuel Bledsoe Named New Head of Santa Fe
Samuel T. Bledsoe was named president of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway after W B Storey resigned. Bledsoe, 76, previously served as general counsel and chairman of the executive committee and has been with the Santa Fe since 1900. Storey, rail veteran born 1857 in San Francisco, led operations and growth. he will remain on the board.
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York
Samuel T. Bledsoe
Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe
W. B. Storey
Bledsoe
Mr. Storey
FE. P. Ripley
Banta Fe
Storey
San Francisco
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Clinton Couty
Southern Normal School
Business College
Bowling Green
University of Texas
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
Santa Fe System
Ardmore
Ohlo
E. E. McInnis
Charles H. Woods
Texan convict found guilty in wife slaying
A jury in Edinburg sentenced J. Frank Hogan to death for the November murder of his wife. Hogan killed Mrs. Hogan on the Hogan ranch north of Mercedes and buried her body in a thicket, discovered two weeks later.
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Edinburg
J. Frank Hogan
Owen D. Young Re-elected RCA Director
Owen D. Young was today re-elected a director of the Radio Corporation of America by stockholders at the annual meeting in New York May 201.
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New York
Owen D. Young
Radio Corporation of America
Dallas Woman Burned to Death in Home Fire
Mrs. Lynn Betts aged 70 died when a northeast Dallas home was destroyed by fire. Another unnamed woman suffered serious burns and a fireman was injured while responding to the blaze.
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Dallas
Lynn Betts
Texas House Reprimands Three for Lobby Fight
Fort Worth’s Charles F. Soeser Corsicana’s W C Stroube and Tyler’s Bryan Payne were reprimanded and censured by the Texas House after a hotel lobby fight with Representative Gordon Burns. The body accepted a plea to reprimand rather than proceed to contempt trial and debated legal bounds of the action as Burns remained hospitalized.
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Austin
Charles F. Soeser
Fort Worth
W. C. Stroube
Corsicana
Bryan Payne
Tyler
Texas House of Representatives
Gordon Burns
Huntesville
Stroube
Payne
Burns
Roeser
Rhode Island to Ratify Prohibition Repeal
Rhode Island will become the third state to ratify repeal when the all wet convention elected yesterday meets next Monday to take formal action. Michigan and Wisconsin have already ratified. The wet slate of 31 delegates won by 7 to 1, with 156,244 wet votes to 20,847 dry.
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Providence
R. L
U.P
Rhode Island
Michigan
Wisconsin
Fatally Burned Driller in Gasoline Drum Explosion
H W Roberts aged 38 an oil driller was seriously burned in a gasoline drum explosion one mile east of Gladewater Texas yesterday. The cause is listed as unde termined.
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Gladewater
H. W Roberts
Oil and Gas Commission Bill Sent to Kill in Senate
The Texas Senate committee of the whole voted 206 to 10 to recommend killing a House bill creating an oil and gas conservation commission. The measure would replace the Railroad Commission as the proration agency, with debate centering on its controversy and party lines. Senator Clint Small of Amartile supported the proposal while J. S. Birdwell of Wichita Falls spoke for the bill.
Texas Senate fails to approve bond amendment for unemployment relief
The Texas Senate did not submit an amendment to authorize 20 million dollars in bonds for unemployment relief and rehabilitation. It received 1% of affirmative votes, twelve opposed, with one present and not voting, leaving the measure blocked unless opposition yields. Several named legislators from Beaumont to Waco and Houston were listed among supporters and opponents.
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Austin
Texan Senate
Lawless Pioneer Days Revived at Guymon Jubilee
Guymon Oklahoma hosts a Panhandle jubilee marking the 1890 annexation act with 12 000 visitors from Kansas Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma. Two tons of beef barbecue feeds the crowd as a two mile parade and era dress showcase precede a square dance and rodeo entertainment.
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Guymon
Okla
Amarillo and City Forecast Mixed Wednesday Conditions
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for partly cloudy skies Wednesday with warmer temperatures. Unsettled in New Mexico with possible showers in north central areas. Hourly temperatures show highs near 83 and lows around 58, with yesterday's max 83 and min 47.
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Amarillo
Uicinity
New Mexico
Amarillo -Westerday
Issenachl
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