Farmers of Corn Belt Delayed in Planting By Protracted Rains
Chicago May 3 Protracted rains delay corn belt planting for two weeks or more across Iowa Illinois and surrounding states. Only about 10 percent of spring plowing finished in Central and East Central Iowa while Illinois agronomists warn the late start will likely cut yields and raise risk of early frost impacts in autumn. Weather forecasts continue with showers anticipated and federal forecaster C A Donnell notes uncertainty ahead.
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Weather Bureau
C. A. Donnell
Iowa
C. R. Reed
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Illinois
Strikes Spread Across Nation Hit Bakeries and Dairies
An Associated Press report notes widespread labor unrest as hundreds walk out including bakers dairy and refinery workers longshoremen porcelain and furniture makers and truck drivers. About 1500 idle and 90 percent of Kansas City bread supply disrupted. Dairies supplying Cumberland milk strike, forcing doctors notes for children. Federated Motion Picture labor unions in Hollywood join, with 6000 out, while film production continues.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Dairies
Cumberland
Federated Motion Picture
Hollywood
Roosevelt Lands 90 Pound Tarpon
President Roosevelt hooked a tarpon at Port Aransas at 6 o'clock, fought it for 20 minutes, and landed a 90 pound silver king in Corpus Christi coastal waters. This was his first tarpon in the area and the catch occurred at 6:20 p.m. local time.
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Corpus Christi
Roosevelt
Port Aransas
Australian Flier Sets Air Record
Australian pilot H F Broad bent set a new solo record for the Australia to England flight landing at Lympne Airdrome at 6 40 P M after six days ten hours and five minutes. The prior record of seven days nineteen hours and fifty minutes was held by Englishman H L Brook.
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London
H. F. Broadbent
Australia
England
Lympne Airdrome
H. L. Brook
Buddie Rogers Saves Boswell From Fire During Stage Act
In Los Angeles at the Paramount theater Charles Buddy Rogers and Connie Boswell continued their show after Rogers extinguished a bed fire that started from a lit cigarette while Boswell rested in her dressing room. Boswell, partly crippled and wheelchair bound, was unharmed but shaken. Rogers downplayed the act as no heroics.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Charles
Buddy) Rogers
Connie Boswell
Paramount Theater
Rogers
Miss Boswell
Windsor Divorce Ends Empire Crisis as Simpson Remarries
Wallis Warfield Simpson wins an absolute divorce from Ernest Aldrich Simpson in London after a six month probation. She becomes free to marry former King Edward who has moved to France after pressuring to wed amid the coronation era.
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London
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Edward
Ernest Aldrich Simpson
Mrs. Simpson
Sir Boyd Merriman
Sir Boyd
Walter Frampton
Simpson
Monts
France
Ward
Duke of Windsor
Austria
Delay Granted In Garbo Trial
In Los Angeles on May 3, the trial of David Schratter's $10,500 suit against Greta Garbo was continued to June 21. Attorneys for Schratter's assignees argued MGM Studio is not a party, while Judge Fletcher Bowron noted Garbo's contempt for the court and questioned her good standing.
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Los Angeles
David Schratter
Greta Garbo
James J. McCarthy
Schratter
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio
Miss Garbo
McCarthy
Fletcher Bowron
United States
Heir's Death Leap Termed Death by Own Action
Chicago May 3 a coroner's jury ruled the death of Thomas Mauran Smith 35 heir to a 7 000 000 fortune as death by his own action at a fashionable apartment hotel He was despondent over ill health and heir to part of the estate of the late Francis Wells a Wells Fargo founder.
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Chicago
Thomas Mauran Smith
Smith
Francis Wells
Wells-Fargo Express Co
Six Deaths Hit Southern Storms Across Gulf Coast
Six people died as wind and rainstorms battered coastal Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana from Friday to Sunday. The storms caused about 1 million dollars in crop and property damage, with potato growers in the region warning their losses could reach 1 million.
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Bay Minette
Ala
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Frontier Day Parade Fetes Guymon With Dust Storms Fading
Guymon hosts the fifth annual Frontier Day Celebration drawing about 30 000 visitors despite a severe dust storm. The two mile parade features Indians Coronado era prospector pioneers trail drivers stagecoaches floats and bands. Prizes awarded to top floats and visiting bands include names from Guymon Keyes Hitchland and Dalhart with Perryton Texhoma among winners.
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Guymon
Oklahoma
Coronado
Tom Phillips
Black Brothers
Myers and
Gilbert
Keyes
Charles Hitch
Hitchland
George Foreman
J. B. Barbee
Beaver City
Joe Moody
Evans
Mr. Atkins
Anson Murty
Ruby Worth
Perryton
Texhoma
Dalhart
Parker links Lindbergh death to illicit profiteering
In Newark the government cites Ellis Parker in the Wendel kidnapping conspiracy case, saying the Parkers aimed to commercialize the Lindbergh death. Brooklyn co-defendants Bleefeld Schlossman Weiss plead guilty as Parker and son Ellis Jr face trial, with Schlossman and Weiss convicted and Bleefeld facing related charges.
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Newark
N. J
Ellis H. Parker
Wendel
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoffman
United States
John J. Quinn
Parker
Burlington County
Brooklyn
Paul H. Wendel
Lindbergh
Schlossman
Weiss
Bleefeld
Trenton
Parkers
Plains Water Session Called Before Banquet
A Panhandle Water Conservation Association directors meeting is set for 2 30 PM Thursday at the Amarillo Hotel with a banquet to honor the Texas Highway Commission at the Herring Hotel that night. Officers will serve as Panhandle Authority officers for 12 months and new directors will be chosen by the 32 county commissioners.
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Panhandle Water Conservation Association
Amarillo
Carl Hinton
Texas Highway Commission
Herring Hotel
Panhandle
The
Panhandle Authority
Commissioners Courts
Senate
Clint C. Small
House
Jack Little
Small
Max Boyer
A. B. Tarwater
Eugene Worley
Bob Alexander
Association
Hinton
Shamrock School Bond Issue Passes
Shamrock citizens vote 156 to 79 in favor of a 65000 bond to finance an extensive school building program. The North Ward building will be torn down for a new structure with an auditorium, and a gymnasium will be built at the high school site.
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Shamrock
Shamrock Public Schools
North Ward
Two Men Fall From Scaffolding Injuring Them in Texas Tank Job
Dallas reporters say two men were seriously hurt this afternoon after falling 25 feet from scaffolding while erecting steel sides for an 80 000 barrel oil storage tank. Robert Philpot aged 23 from Houston is listed as the more seriously injured. The other man is H. C. Hyer from Fairbanks Texas.
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Dallas
Robert Philpot
Houston
H. C. Hyer
Fairbanks
Texas
Court Revision Fees in Senate Begin To Yield
Washington May 3 The Senate opposition to Roosevelt court reorganization shows willingness to compromise for a gradual increase in Supreme Court members. Senator Burke Nebraska says a gradual plan has merit and Hatch New Mexico proposes six new justices over six years. Roosevelt opposes compromises and no agreement was announced.
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Senate
Washington
Burke
Nebraska
Supreme Court
Hatch
Senate Judiciary Committee
New Mexico
Roosevelt
Ashurst
Arizona
Robbery Charges Filed Against King Ranch Foreman and Employee
In Raymndville a charge of robbery with firearms was filed against George Durham foreman of a part of the King Ranch and Fernando Correa an employee. Luis Maldonado tenant on the E G Barnhill farm alleged they came armed to his home in January 1934 and took a shotgun. State Game Warden Morgan Miller faced false imprisonment charges in an unrelated complaint filed by L E Karr of Willacy County.
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Raymondville
George Durham
King Ranch
Fernando Correa
H. G. Wright
Morgan Miller
Wright
Durham
Correa
Luis Maldonado
E. G. Barnhill
Willacy County
Justice of the Peace
R. B. Sutton
Maldonado
L. KE. Karr
Wallacy County
Miller
Yturria Ranch
Mamma Duck Hatches Kittens Stirring Local Curiosity
In Wilmington Captain Warren Jones evicted kittens from under his house and a mama cat moved them to a duck nest where she plans to sit on the litter. Neighbors await a first duckling water trip as the brood grows. In Statesville the famed death oak is dead after many fatal crashes. Albany eases marriages with a 72 hour license lapse requirement effective Sept. 1. In Chicago a stockyards pen breach sends a steer roaming the South Side, finally resting on a front lawn. In Tucson a misrouted bath tale ends with a bath tub mishap and a newsboy dubbed Blind Tony seeking towels.
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Associated Press
Wilmington
N. C
Warren Jones
Coast Line
Jones’ Garden
Mama Duck
Denhardt Trial Ends as Judge Delivers Guilt Range
NEW CASTLE Ky May 2 Circuit Judge Charles C Marshall instructed the jurors in the Denhardt murder case to consider every plausible explanation for the roadside death of Mrs Verna Garr Taylor. Jurors hear that if guilty beyond a reasonable doubt they may convict Henry H Denhardt of murder or voluntary manslaughter with penalties from death by electric chair to a reasonable fine or confinement in jail. Closing arguments followed the charge.
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New Castle
Charles C. Marshall
Denhardt
Verna Garr Taylor
Henry H. Denhardt
Henry County
Two Hunters Missing in Texas Report
Dallas police search for John Hooten 27 who went to river bottoms near Dallas to hunt armed with a .22 rifle. In Gonzales authorities seek Leroy Wendel 15 missing over 24 hours, armed with a .22 rifle and a .22 pistol as his dog returned home. Fear of accidental shooting or snake bite noted.
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Dallas
John Hooten
Gonzales
Leroy Wendel
New London Parley Slated in Austin
E. W. Reagan president of the New London school board said a committee from the school and possibly Principal Troy Duran would confer with Texas education officials in Austin on Tuesday. He did not reveal topics. The reopening of the school, closed Friday, was described as a matter of time. Teachers stayed in temporary classrooms making adjustments.
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New London
E. W. Reagan
Troy Duran
State Department of Education
Austin
Reagan
Transatlantic air service possible during coronation week
Regular passenger and mail service between Europe and North America may begin during coronation week if the aircraft reaches Botwood, a harbor town serving as the North American landing point for the new route from Europe.
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ST. John's Newfoundland
Europe
North America
Botwood
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity today
The forecast calls for a fair, warmer day for Amarillo and surrounding West Texas. West of mile marker 100 in the Panhandle remains generally fair and warmer. New Mexico sees fair conditions with little temperature change. Hourly temperatures around Amarillo reach upper forties to low sixties. precipitation in the last 24 hours totals about .05 inches.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
Panhandle
New Mexico
Planned Cement Probe Discussed By Lower Group
Austin May 3 AUSTIN Senate advocates of a constitutional amendment for a 2 percent general sales tax failed by three votes to reach a two thirds majority. The House began debate on a legislative probe into bids by cement companies on highway work but adjourned without action. The Senate passed a general claims bill of 94322 and rural aid provisions of about 5 million annually. House leaders planned action on major money bills and a reconsideration on unemployment insurance validation.
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Austin
Senate
House
James V. Allred
Allred
John 8. Redditt
Lutekin
Senate Finance Committee
British Destroyer Rescues Refugees From Bilbao Siege
The British destroyer Faulkn arrived at St Jean de Luz from Bilbao with 12 refugees including the British consul and vice consul. The French vessel Aisne was due later with a larger group of 72 aboard.
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ST. Jean DE Luz
Frince
May
Faulkn
Bilba
Vie
Aisne Wa
Hoffman Raps Teachers in Strike Tiff
Governor Harold G. Hoffman defended state police actions in New Jersey over the Thetroid Rubber Company strike. He told the New Jersey Federation of Teachers that workers have a right to employment and that teachers who threaten or assault workers are not fit for public schools.
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