American Delegation Heads to World Economic Parley
The American delegation led by Cordell Hull sails from New York to Europe for the London economic conference opening June 12. Key figures include James M. Cox Sen Key Pittman Rep Sam D. McReynolds Ralph Morrison and Sen James Couzens with plans to push currency stabilization lower tariffs higher prices and more credit while seeking debt relief and tariff reform.
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Washington
New York
Europe
Roosevelt
White House
State Department
S. S
Cordell Hull
James M. Cox
Ohio
League of Nations
Sen
Key Pittman
Nevada
Sam D. McReynolds
Tennessee
Senate
House
Ralph W. Morrison
San Antonio
James Couzens
Michigan
Hull
United States
Fiouse Wrangles On Recovery Act
Austin May 31 The Texas House split over endorsing the Federal Industrial Recovery Act and suspending anti trust penalties. Rep T H McGregor offered the resolution. action delayed for mimeographed copies. The measure backs the act and cooperation with federal authorities while another bill to suspend state anti trust rules during the act faced opposition from Rep Albert Daniels who warned of unknown federal provisions. A separate bill to scale county officer fees awaits the governor's signature to become law with an November 1934 amendment plan. Senate halted final action on Mrs Sarah Hughes West Texas land bill.
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U.P
T. H. McGregor
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Crockett
Texas
Daniels
Senate
Hughes
West Texas
Sarah T. Hughes
Dallas
West
Long Needed Rains Bring Moisture to Panhandle Area
Good rains reached the Panhandle Tuesday night with totals from Amarillo showing .28 inch to larger amounts in multiple points east and north. The weather brought beneficial moisture to pastures and wheat, with thunder in some areas and forecasts of partial clearing and lingering clouds Thursday.
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Endee
Wildorado
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Groom
Alanreed
Lela
Shamrock
Sanford
Fritch
Grover
Hitchland
Hardesty
Okla
Stinnett
Morse
Phillips
Stratford
Texhoma
Hooker
Northwest
Fort Worth & Denver
Tascosa
Claude
Santa Fe
Happy
Bledsoe
Miami
Pampa
Hereford
Mobeetie
White Deer
Skellytown
Texico
Dumas
Weather outlook Amarillo to nearby regions and West Texas
Weather forecast notes likely local thundershowers tonight and Thursday for Amarillo and vicinity and partly cloudy to start with scattered thundershowers west of 100th meridian. New Mexico unsettled tonight and Thursday with showers this afternoon or tonight. Temperature extremes today up to 60 to 80 degrees by 1 PM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Good Roads Club Formed in Amarillo
A civic group named the Good Roads Club of Amarillo was organized Tuesday to back the highway program. Charter members ask Mayor Ross D. Rogers and the city commission to create a Board of City Development funded by taxes with up to $10,000 yearly, led by N. B. Griggs as president and E. R. Thompson, Bill Lampe, as officers.
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Amarillo
Ross D. Rogers
City Commission
Griggs
Good Reads Club
N. 8
E. R. Thompson
Bill Lampe
Julius Dorenfield, Jr
Frank Turner
Wilson W. Bailew
Chamber of Commerce
Morgan profits and lists loom in Senate probe
Washington report on May 31 details fresh revelations in the J P Morgan & Co inquiry. George Whitney presents a third client list for inside stock purchases, naming celebrities like William H. Woodin and Lindbergh, plus new figure Edgar Rickard. Whitney defends the practice as risk distribution and notes warrants sold for United Corporation stock yielded about 8.49 million dollars.
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William H. Woodin
Secretary of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo
John J. Pershing
Norman H. Davis
John W. Davis
John J. Raskob
Charles A. Lindbergh
Hoover
Edgar Rickard
New York
Mr. Rickard
Senator Costigan
Colorado
Whitney
Richard
Couzens
Michigan
Morgan
Morgan (United) Utilities
Morgan Partners
Morgan Bank
John Zimmerman
United Gas Improvement Company of
Philadelphia
Free captives unharmed and continue cash ransom note
Police chase leads across Kansas and Oklahoma after a Memorial Day prison break. Six convicts, led by Wilbur Underhill and Harvey Bailey, remain at large as two groups split up in the tri state area. Warden Prather and two guards released near Welch, Oklahoma, while hostages Mrs. M. J. Wood and two girls are safe.
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Pjr
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Ken
Oklahoma
Kansas
Kirk Prather
Otto L. Durkee
Cretopa
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Prather
L. A. Laws
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Welch
Okla
Wilbur Underhill
Harvey Bailey
Picher
Miami
Tri-State
Missouri
Jeff Weatherby
Underhill
Narcissa
Bailey
M. J. Wood
Kansas City
Louise
Cloris Wears
Higgins
Lacey Simpson
Canton
Landon
Chance Prather
Simpson
American Legion
Pleaganton
William New
Pleasanton
Louise Wood
Cloris
New European Pact Initialed Belief Mussolini Role
Rome May 31 belief holds that the peace accord will be initialed by the French British and German ambassadors and perhaps by Mussolini himself after translations. It may occur Thursday in Mussolini's Venezia palace office.
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Mussolini
Il Duce
Venezia
Senate Votes Mail Contract Authority
Washington May 31 The Senate approved grant of power to President Roosevelt to cancel air mail and ocean mail contracts.
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Senate
Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
GUILTY IN 8-YEAR-OLD HOLDUP One Dead, Five Hurt
Gunmen in a mass shooting at the Castle Cafe killed Charles Dominico and wounded five others in a Chicago style attack. A 15-year-old boy was treated for injuries as investigators review a national crime pattern. Vermillion case details recount a Claude bank holdup trial from 1925 with long legal proceedings and recent conviction.
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New York
Chicago
East Side
Charles
Buster
Dominico
Bernard Blaustein
Vermillion
First National Bank
Claude All
Borger
Potter County
State Penitentiary
Amarillo
Bring Change for $20 Bill Stunt Lands Man in Jail
A man identified as Alton Stringer is jailed in Amarillo after a late night stunt to “bring change for a $20 bill” ended with police finding a concealed weapon at 729 North Arthur Street. He confessed hunger and a two night prairie sleep prompted the scheme inspired by Fort Worth anecdotes. The Belgian made gun drew attention at city police headquarters.
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Amarillo
North Arthur Street
Fort Worth
Alton Stringer
University Wife Victim of Mysterious Violence
In San Jose California on May 31 David A. Lamson Stanford University Press sales manager was jailed on pending investigation into the death of his wife Allene Thorpe Lamson University YWCA executive secretary. Police questioned Lamson for hours and a psychiatrist called by his attorney said he was near hysteria. Friends noted peculiar behavior and relatives in Lamar Missouri were mentioned as possible move plans.
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Roper
Department of Commerce
National Association of Credit Men
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
San Jose
Calif
David A. Lamson
Stanford University Press
Santa Clara County
Jair
Allene Thorpe Lamson
University Y. W. C. A
Lamson
Stanford
Arthur M. Free
Joseph Catton
Free
Catton
Allene
Lamsons
Denison Loses Final Appeal for Highway Chair
Frank L. Denison of Temple failed to retain his appointment as chairman of the Texas Highway Commission after the Supreme Court denied his writ of error. The Third Court of Civil Appeals had upheld a Travis County ruling that Senate confirmation was required. Denison and Governor Ferguson argued a simple majority sufficed, but he never functioned as head of the commission.
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Frank L. Denison
Temple
Miriam A. Ferguson
Texas Highway Commission
Supreme Court
Third Court of Civil Appeals
Travis County District Court
Denison
State Senate
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