Delegates Gather as U S 60 Hopes to Pan America Route
Delegates from six states meet at the Herring Hotel to promote U S 60 as the shortest safest scenic all year transcontinental route by 1935. Attendees include H H McClintock Bartlesville OK national president and E L George Bartlesville national secretary with Californias Frank Tetley and W A Sullivan of Globe Ariz among speakers. Leaders note progress along the Norfolk to Los Angeles corridor and key cities from Richmond to Blythe California.
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U.S. Highway 60
America
Highway 60 Association
Herring Hotel
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma
Illinois
H. H. McClintock
Bartlesville
Okla
E. L. George
Frank A. Tetley
Riverside
Calif
California Highway Commission
W. A. Sullivan
Globe, Ariz
Arizona Automobile Association
Californians Real Boosters
Los Angeles
Amarillo
Tinois
Cairo
A. A. Seibert
Hewitt Johnston
Norfolk
Richmond
Lynchburg
Charleston
Lexington
Louisville
Popular Bluff
Springfield
Enid
Pampa
Clovis
Socorro
Springerville
Globe
Phoenix
Blythe
President Roosevelt seeks law to end gold standard
President Roosevelt plans to remove the United States from the gold standard by statute and asked Chairman Steagall to introduce a resolution. The Alabama Democrat met with the president at the White House and briefed reporters with a copy of the proposal.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Steagall
House Banking Committee
Alabama
White House
Await Park Plan Act in Palo Duro Canyon
Amarillo park committee members awaited word from Washington on President Roosevelt approving a state plan to develop a great public park in Palo Duro Canyon. The effort involved support from several agencies and local civic groups.
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Duro Park Committee
Washington
Roosevelt
Canyon
Public park plan for Palo Duro Canyon advances
Proposed Palo Duro Canyon state park would showcase large rock formations as visitors would see them upon completion. Reforestation officials signaled tentative approval and the park bill aims to authorize land purchase and funding from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Amarillo officials push plans in Washington while a deed to a canyon tract awaits national approval.
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Palo Duro Canyon
Vay Terry
Canyon
State Park Board
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
James ©. Gulerie
Amarillo
Washington
Spudding Begins on Woolsey & Devore No. 1 Oil Test
The Woolsey and Devore No. 1 wildcat six miles southeast of Amarillo will be spudded Saturday between 2 and 4 PM. Access is via Tenth Street to the new cemetery then south four miles or Harding Ranch road to the red brick schoolhouse and three miles east. Drillers and operators are on site as Amarillo awaits its nearest oil test.
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Woolsey & Devore
Oxnard
Amarillo Area Weather Report Fair and Warmer Weekend
Forecast for Amarillo and nearby areas calls for fair skies and rising temperatures tonight and Saturday. West Texas up to 53 to 71 degrees with warmer conditions. New Mexico also fair and slightly warmer tonight and tomorrow.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Johnsson Concert Tonight and Gangs War News
Mayor John P. O Brien pushes to curb racketeering as Brooklyn gang killings rise amid Broadway violence. Esther Johnsson, famed Amarillo pianist, appears tonight at Municipal Auditorium with 500 reserved seats and student tickets, introduced by Mayor Ross Rogers.
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Esther Johnsson
Amarillo
Europe
America
Municipal Audi
Ross Rogers
WDAG
U. S
Miss Johnsson
B. V. Blackwell
Harrison Street
The
Philharmonic Orchestral Association
Lamar, Early Day Cattleman, Is Dead
J. R. Lamar an 81 year old Texas cattleman who drove herds on famed trails died at his Dallas home. Born in Cass County he worked as a cowboy and trailed on the Chisholm and Santa Fe routes. He leaves three sons five daughters a sister and a brother. Funeral services will be held tomorrow.
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Dallas
J. R. Lamar
Texas
Lamar
Cass County
Moses Perry Lamar
Chisholm
Santa Fe
Japan Pushes Scrapping of Naval Ratios at World Arms Meeting
At Geneva on May 26 Japan demanded removal of the 5 5 3 naval ratios from Washington and London treaties. Naotake Sato said Japan would join the arms convention only if the amendment deleting tonnage limits is accepted. Japan seeks a larger navy, arguing current terms cap its naval strength.
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Geneva
U.P
Japan
Washington
London
Naotake Sato
General Commission of the
World Arms Conference
United States
Great Britain
What aman Shires Held After Melee
Arthur Shires and Jimmy Adair two American Association players were jailed in Louisville on 1000 bonds each for malicious assault following a brawl at a South Third Street house. Proprietor Jack Deacon faced 300 bond for keeping a disorderly house and malicious assault after he was severely injured. Four others faced 300 bonds a piece. Prosecutor Briel urged continued detention.
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Louisville
Arthur (the Great) Shires
Jimmy Adair
South Third Street
Stanley Briel
Stock
Jack Deacon
Deacon
Lola Deacon
Carria Potts
Robert Armstrong
Ruth Carson
Briel
Morgan probe halts at row in Senate hearing
The Senate investigation into J. P. Morgan and Company recessed until next Wednesday after a bitter clash over the inquiry. United Corporation testified it acquired stock in various utilities at $12,000,000 below market value, giving Morgan control over much of the electric and gas business. The session also noted questions about publication of debt lists and naval stake details as Ferdinand Pecora questioned witnesses.
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Washington
Senate
J. P. Morgan and Company
United Corporation
J. P Morgan and Com
George Howard
United
Morgan Banking Partnership
Glass
House of Morgan
Ferdinand Pecora
Howard
Morgan
Mohawk
Hudson Power
United Gas Improvement Company
Public Service of New Jersey
Common
J. P. Morgan
Demand for Federal Oil Control Prompts Senate Action
Secretary Ickes urged the Senate Finance Committee to pass strict federal oil regulation as essential to postwar recovery. He supported a streamlined proposal, while Senator Capper signaled plans to attach it to the industrial recovery public works bill. Marland and Capper pressed for prompt action amid a “desperate situation” in the oil industry. A separate White House note said a major administration banking bill would be introduced soon for passage.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Ickes
Iekes
Senator Capper
Kansas
Marland
Oklahoma
Capper
Congress
White House
Truce Signed as Japan China Agree to Withdraw Forces
Paris rejoices over a provisional truce with Japan outlined at Miyun. Chinese troops will pull back to the agreed line and no forces will enter areas near the Great Wall and surrounding railways until formal armistice talks. Japanese forces will withdraw to the Great Wall as China fulfills terms.
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Shanghai
Miyun
China
Great Wall
Peiping-Mukden
Peiping- Baiyuan
Peiping
Tientsin
A Horse Tale Sells Saddle Mares in Globe-News Want Ads
Two thoroughbred saddle mares aged six and seven, broken to ride, were advertised for sale by A. K. Webster, 5695, in the Globe-News Want Ads. The ad notes the sale of other livestock and credits the act for the successful disposition of multiple animals.
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Globe-News
A. K. Webster
U.S. Solons to Take Up Texas Dry Fight
Texas dry leaders plan a statewide campaign with Senator Morris Sheppard and Congressmen Wright Patman Tom Connally and John Box to defend the 18th Amendment and oppose beer legalization. A letter from Senator Sheppard confirms their support, received by Rev. W. R. White, secretary for United Forces for Prohibition.
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Fort Worth
Morris Sheppard
Wright Patman
Tom Connally
John Box
Texas
Sheppard
W. R. White
United Forces For Prohibition
Week's Business Pickup Greatest In Three Years
Dun and Bradstreet Review reports this week shows more consistent improvement than any week in three years. The rise in general business is stable and strong enough to withstand summer recessions, with rising employment in steel and related industries, autos, textiles, rubber goods, shoes, leather, and lumber.
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New York
Dun and Bradstreet
Farm Board is dissolved merging into new Farm Credit Admin
Washington May 26 The Farm Board created to aid agriculture at Hoover’s outset is out of existence today. Its usable functions are merged into the new Farm Credit Administration led by Henry Morgenthau Jr a key figure in Roosevelt’s wheat program.
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Washington
The
Farm Board
Farm Credit Administration
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Roosevelt
Roosevelts Gold Standard Repeal Sparks Stock Market Rally
President Roosevelt proposes repeal of the gold standard act triggering a broad stock market advance with gains from one to nine dollars or more. Representative Steagall touts freeing the United States from gold obligations and easing war debt payments in legal money. Chairman Fletcher to introduce identical Senate resolution. hearings planned for next week.
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New York
Roosevelt
United States
Steagall
Fletcher
Senate Banking Committee
Senate
Two Years For Means In Lindbergh Ransom Hoax
Gaston B. Means and Norman T. Whitaker received two year prison terms from District Supreme Court Justice Daniel O Donoghue after a denied motion for a new trial. The pair, former federal agent and lawyer, were convicted two weeks earlier of conspiring to defraud Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean of $35000.
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Washington
Gaston B. Means
Norman T. Whitaker
District Supreme Court
Daniel O'Donoghue
Means
Whitaker
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Washington Society
A B C Members Observe Tenth Club Anniversary
American Business Club members noted their tenth anniversary in Amarillo with charter members present such as John L. McCarty of Dalhart. Weekly sessions are held in the Amarillo Hotel with John Armstrong serving as president.
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American Business Club
Amarillo
John L. McCarty
Dalhart
John Armstrong
Stevenson Tries for Early Adjournment
AUSTIN May 26 Speaker Coke Stevenson advanced a plan for early adjournment by withholding a new conference committee for the education appropriation bill to see if the old panel can trim it. The House had rejected the bill as too high and sought a new committee. A joint meeting named Rep W M Harman and Sen John Redditt to work toward agreement. Similar steps were taken on the rural school aid appropriation. Governor Ferguson signed a delinquent ad valorem tax payment bill and approved other measures.
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Austin
Coke Stevenson
House
Stevenson
Senate
W. M. Harman
Waco
John Redditt
Lufkin
Ferguson
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