State deficit is less Walter Cline advocates adoption of new constitution
West Texans at the Chamber of Commerce convention called for cutting public expenditures at home and for broader changes in Texas government. Rep. Penrose Metcalfe estimated a possible $4 million deficit next biennium with $34 million in revenues against $38 million in appropriations. Walter Cline urged a new Texas constitution and modernized government, including limited elected officials and shifted higher education costs. County leaders Otis Miller and Ray Nichols discussed county reform and home rule measures.
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Big Spring
Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Penrose Metcalfe
San Angelo
Walter Cline
Wichita Falls
West Texas Chamber
Torney
Civil Appeals Courts
Departments of Education, Transportation, Finance
Commerce and Agriculture
Otis Miller
Jones County
Ray Nichols
Vernon
Miller
County Judges’ Association
Nichols
Tulsa Tulsa Area Tornado Toll and Floods Across Midwest
May 12 report details multiple tornadoes and floods across Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri with at least five deaths in the Tulsa area six in Oklahoma total. Casualties include M F Gray Albert Martin Ralph Arnold and others while debris and damaged homes and overturned livestock are noted near Oologah Fulton and Duncan. Weather worsened with heavy rains swelling streams and flooding Parsons Labette Creek.
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Kansas City
Oklahoma
Tulsa
M. F.gray
Albert Martin
Bessie Brown
Ralph Arnold
James Pennington
Fulton
Kansas
Missouri
Duncan
Okla
Parsons
Labette Creek
Edgar P. Richardson
Brownwood
Texas
Oolagah
M. F. Gray
Edith Gray
Paul Martin
Albert
Bessie Martin
Velma McNamara
Henryella
Tony Chautfar
Mabel Bartleson
James Bartleson
Herrod
Straw Hat Season Opens in Amarillo Pan Handle
Amarillo merchants celebrate the opening of the straw hat season with new headgear displays. Panamas Sennits Milans Leg horses Banikoks and Tokies are featured at reasonable prices as shoppers welcome cool comfortable straw hats this sizzling season.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Plant Identified As Lindbergh Baby Debated In Court
Gaston B. Means testified in a Washington trial that Col. Charles Lindbergh’s baby was a plant in a ransom case. He claimed ringleader Wellington Henderson said the baby in Jersey was manufactured and that the real Lindbergh child was alive in Juarez, Mexico.
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Washington
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Gaston B. Means
Hopewell
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Wellington Henderson
Means
Jersey
Henderson
Chevy Chase
Bond
New Jersey
Juarez
Mexico
Irving Fenton
Fenton
Aiken
D. C
Bond Issue Vote Planned For Unemployed Relief
Both chambers approve submitting a $20 million state bond for unemployment relief on August 26. Differences on tax liability for bond retirement linger, with concerns that taxes would hinder bond sale. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation warns that any delay could cut federal relief funds to Texas.
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Austin
Senate
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Miriam A. Ferguson
Texas
House
Lawrence Westbrook
General Fund
Farm Prices Soar Nationwide After Inflation Act Enacted
Inflation era boosts lift farm goods as Roosevelt plans push prices toward pre war averages. Hides flour wheat corn up sharply with oats and hops hitting multi year highs. Oil lags due to oversupply while silver doubles and copper climbs. Wool rises about twenty percent in two weeks.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Oregon
Board of Trade
New York
Justice frees Happy banker in self defense case
In Talsa May 12 charges of assault with intent to murder against T H Campbell president of the First State Bank at Happy were dismissed after witnesses described an April 29 affray with Jim Crowder Happy school principal.
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Newa Talsa
T. H. Campbell
First State Bank
Happy
Justice of the Peace
James Freye
Jim Crowder
Clem Calhoun
Amarillo
Freye
Texas House Concur s in Probation Change
The Texas House voted 125 to 0 to concur with Senate amendments on a bill making violations of Texas Railroad Commission oil proration and conservation orders a felony. Previously violations carried civil penalties. The measure was prompted by the Railroad Commission.
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Austin
Texas House
Senate
House
Texas Railroad Commission
Railroad Commission
Two Bank Robbers Captured Near Gamaliel Ark
West Plains Mo May 12 Two of three men alleged to have robbed the Hammond Mo bank of about 1000 dollars Wednesday were captured today near Gamaliel Ark 35 miles southwest of here. The men gave their names as Orval Hoosen alias Blackie Williams of Springfield Mo and Jack Dillon of Cushing Okla
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West Plains
Bank
Hammond
Gamaliel
Ark
Here
Orval Hoosen
Sherrill to Explain Crop Loan Plan in Amarillo Today
Sherrill will outline the administration's new farm relief measure at a 10 o clock meeting in the Crystal Ballroom Amarillo Hotel. North west Texas seed loan committeemen county agents bankers and newspapermen from 45 counties will attend with Owen W Sherrill of Dallas presiding. The event follows a campaign to extend loan eligibility for summer fallow and wheat production and notes that May 31 is the loan deadline for the extended program.
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Amarillo
Texas
Owen W. Sherrill
Dallas
New Mexico
Arizona
Panhandle-Plains
United States
John E. Hill
Panhandle Farm Relief Committees
Wilbur C. Hawk
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
P. C. Bennett
Potter County
Extension Service
Crystal Ballroom
Amarillo Hotel
Amarillo and West Texas Weather Forecast Update
The forecast calls for fair conditions in Amarillo and the surrounding area with fair skies across West Texas and New Mexico on Saturday. Temperatures yesterday reached a high of 82 and a low of 50 with earlier historical highs and lows noted.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Perfect Knot Ends as Joan Crawford Wins Divorce
Los Angeles May 12 Hollywoods perfect marriage ends as Joan Crawford wins divorce from Douglas Fairbanks Jr alleging jealous and suspicious attitude. The court action closes a long public romance with a high profile split and details of estrangement disclosed.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood
Joan Crawford
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Divorce Granted Inman Wife vs Pastor Case in Missouri
Gladys Inman was granted a divorce from Sharon C. Inman in Springfield Missouri after accusing him of immorally associating with Pat Holdridge and desertion. She won custody of two children as Ozark Presbytery began hearing charges of conduct unbecoming a minister against the pastor.
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Miss Crawford
Minor Moore
Superior Court
Springfield
Gladys Inman
Sharon C. Inman
Ozark
Cave Spring
Ezra
Pat" Holdridge
Inman
Warren I. White
Sam Wear
Pat Holdridge
Lowell
Daniece
Presbytery of
Cave Spring Mount Zion Presbyterian Church
Presbytery
Sobieski Trial on County Funds Conversion Bulk
The jury began deliberating in San Antonio tonight in the case of Joe E. Sobieski former county treasurer. He faced an indictment charging conversion of four thousand dollars of county funds to his own use.
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San Antonio
Joe E. Sobieski
Japs Advance Toward Miyun After Seizing Shihhsiachen
Japanese forces under Lieut Gen Yoshikazu Nishi stormed and captured Shihhsiachen, 50 miles northeast of Peiping, and pursued Chinese troops toward Miyun ten miles farther. Maj. Gen Kunizo Matsuda's 11th Infantry Brigade and Maj. Gen Yoshiiaki Takao's 36th Infantry Brigade crossed the Swan River and pressed westward.
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Tokyo
Asahi Shimbun
Sharhaikwan
Yoshikazu Nishi
Shihhsiachen
Peiping
Nishi
Miyun
Kunizo Matsuda
Yoshiaki Takao
Swan River
Solons In Another Fist Tilt
The Texas House rejected the conference report on a West Texas land bill 63 to 53 after a heated debate. Rep W E Pope of Corpus Christi and Rep Robert Calvert of Hillsboro exchanged insults and blows as Calvert refused to retract statements. A new committee was appointed to revise the bill to exclude some lessees.
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Austin
Texas House
West Texas
W. E. Pope
Corpus Christi
Robert Calvert
Hillsboro
Calvert
Pope
National Farmers' Holiday Strike Delayed
The national farm strike ordered for 12:01 A M Saturday by the National Farmers Holiday Association was suspended after a conference of seven leaders. Milo Reno Des Moines president announced the delay pending clearer understanding of President Roosevelt and Minnesota Governor Olson requests and the farm relief program details.
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Paul
National Farmers’ Holiday Association
National Association
Milo Reno
Des Moines
Northwest
Roosevelt
Floyd Olson
Minnesota
Reno
Washington
Public Works Plan Ready for Action
President Roosevelt backs a broad public works program tied to industrial cooperation to cut unemployment. A $3.3 billion bond issue will fund construction and tax questions aim to raise about $220 million yearly for interest and amortization. A special committee plans to decide taxes by tomorrow.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Bartlesville Man Killed by Train Near Town
W. 8. Hudson, 40, Bartlesville, died after his motor car was struck by a Santa Fe passenger train near Bartlesville Oklahoma today. The fatal crash occurred as the vehicle apparently failed to clear a crossing. No further details were available.
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Bartlesville
Okla
Hudson
Santa Fe
Vets Reject Forest Camp Job Offer at Fort Hunt
Veterans at Fort Hunt jeered President Roosevelt’s forest camp jobs as inadequate and unappealing. The crowd urged payment of the soldiers’ bonus while a faction labeled as Communist-linked refused army food and tents. Albert Sellers hoped for a living wage while Joseph Bose called the offer “selling yourself into slavery.”
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Washington
Bonus Army
Roosevelt
Fort Hunt
Forest Conservation Corps
Albert G. Sellers
Joseph Bose
Bose
Burden on Roosevelt Delegated to Key Official
A directive assigns major duties to a named Roosevelt official, shifting responsibility for specific tasks. The move signals a strategic delegation aimed at expediting oversight and implementation of policy initiatives.
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Burden
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Signs Farm Aid and Unemployment Relief
President Roosevelt signed the farm relief inflation measure and the 500 million dollar unemployment relief bill. The farm aid law centralizes broadcast powers for peacetime relief. the unemployment bill marks the first direct federal relief funds to needy individuals. He urged states and localities to sustain relief efforts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House Passes Major Relief Bill With Broad Powers
The House approved a 543,578,936 relief measure by 249 to 118, sending it to the Senate. It trims veteran costs, expands presidential authority to raise credit, alter money supply, and adjust gold content. Secretary Wallace moves to address milk industry distress and farm financing moves.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Wallace
Chicago
Mmibl
Gasoline Tax Bill Passed by Senate
The Senate approved the $18,000,000 gasoline electricity tax measure after rejecting over a dozen amendments and sent it back to the House for revisions. The bill shifts the three cent electricity tax from consumers to producers with a two percent levy on commercial and household energy and a one cent charge on industrial users, keeps a one cent gas tax for another year, reduces a postage rate, and authorizes the president to adjust other charges.
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Washington
Senate
House
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