Audit Upholds Regional Plan Denied by Critics
A Texas relief cost comparison shows current administration overhead above nine percent, while preexisting chambers of commerce managed relief with about one and a half percent overhead. Governor Sterling rebuts claims, presenting audited figures and letters confirming past reports. West Texas cases and detailed county disbursements are cited as context.
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Austin
Ross Sterling
Chamber of Commerce
Texas Relief Commission
Lawrence Westbrook
Aubrey Williams
Hopkins
Washington
Williams
Cole
Texas
Relief Board
Chambers of Commerce
Sterling
Dr. Williams
Ferguson
National Relief Director
D. A. Bandeen
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
West Texas
Actress Sally Eilers Granted Mexican Divorce From Hoot Gibson
Hollywood reports screen actress Sally Eilers said she was granted a Mexican divorce from film cowboy Hoot Gibson in Chihuahua on August 28. She added that neither side wanted more publicity.
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Hollywood
Sally Eilers
Can
Hoot Gibson
Cowboy
Chihuahua
Hoot
Miss Eilers
Scheme urged to use cotton export plan
A Southern committee urged the Farm Adjustment Administration to remove 9,000,000 bales from the domestic market with one third sold to Soviet Russia to raise prices. Senator Bankhead and Oscar Johnston led talks seeking Soviet purchase of 3,000,000 bales and financing for 6,000,000 bales. The Soviet trading Amtorg also indicated Russia would buy more. President Roosevelt invited cot ton men to the White House, illness delaying a meeting.
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Washington
Russia
Farm Adjustment Administration
Roosevelt
White House
Bankhead
Democrat
Alabama
Oscar Johnston
Agricultural Administration
Jones
The
Reconstruction Corporation
Amtorg
United States
New Jersey Exchange to Merge With New York Listing Plan
The New Jersey stock exchange will be formed entirely of members from the New York Stock Exchange. The decision followed 942 adherents to the plan and was announced today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
New Jersey Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Globe-News Want Ads Offer Quick Solutions
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Globe-News
Recognition Seen Soon for Soviet Union
The United States is expected to recognize the Soviet Union before Congress reconvenes in January. President Roosevelt aims to act with freedom of action, weighing claims totaling about 658 million dollars tied to Kerensky loans, czarist debts, and confiscated property, while needed diplomatic relations unfold. Amtorg seeks a 50 million dollar loan via the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to expand Soviet exports, contingent on broader American access.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Kerensky
Kremlin
Archangel
Vladivostok
Moscow
Soviet Union
America
Amtorg
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Jesse H. Jones
New York
Shift U S Warships To Guard Americans Endangered in Cuba
The Navy moved four destroyers from Guantanamo Bay to protect Americans in Cuba. McFarland to Antilla, Bainbridge to Santiago, Gotf to Cienfuegos, Bernadou to the Isle of Pines. Ships reinforce Overton, Reuben James, Fairfax, and Taylor as tensions rise.
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U.S
Cuba
Washington
State Department
Navy
Guantnamo
Antilla
Saantiago
Isle of Pines
Guantanamo Bay
McFarland
Overton
Bainbridge
Santiago
Reuben James
Taylor
Manzanillo
Gotf
Cienfuegos
Fairfax
Bernadou
Isle of
Absentee Ballots Could Decide Curry County Wet Dry Vote
Five seventy five absentee ballots to be counted by county board Saturday may swing Curry County results on local option and repeal questions. Current tallies show 1 676 wets and 1 698 dry with 1 487 for national repeal and 1 523 against. Other Eastern New Mexico counties report mixed outcomes in national and state repeal and local option.
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Clovis
N. M
Curry County
New Mexico
Roosevelt County
Quay County
Union County
Harding County
State rests case in Oakley trial
Sulphur Springs Sept. 20 The state rested in the murder trial of Coy Oakley over the death of Bernice Clayton a three year old invalid after introducing statements by the defendant intended to show sanity The statements claim Coy and his brother Paul Oakley sane and feigning insanity Paul Oakley was later sentenced to 50 years in Linden for the child s death and Coy said Paul choked Bernice while the parents Sherman Clayton and Moselle Clayton prayed for divine help to cure him
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Coy Oakley
Bernice Clayton
Oakley
Paul Oakley
Linden
Bernice
He Coy
Sherman Clayton
Moselle Clayton
Tri-State Exposition Opens Amid Busy Fair Grounds
Tri-State Fair Grounds bustle marks the eight day Tri State Exposition opening Saturday at 9 am. Mayors and officials, including Ross D. Rogers and W F Lampe, along with Barney Oldfield, speak from the Merchants Building radio booth as exhibitors rush to set up displays and concession spaces under the new loading docks and rail spur activity.
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Tri-State Fair Grounds
Ross D. Rogers
W. F. Lampe
the Fair Association
Barney Oldfield
Merchants Building
C. F. Zeiger United
Tri-State
Fair Grounds
Fort Worth
Denver
Lottery Tickets Linked to Moose Charity Balls Trial
Government prosecutors traced the path of alleged lottery tickets tied to Loyal Order of Moose charity balls. In Scranton the tickets were printed for the Moose propagation department and shipped by truck and registered mail to the New York office of B. C. McGuire as part of the second trial of U.S. Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania and Theodore G. Miller.
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New York
U.S
James J. Davis
Pennsylvania
Davis
State Line
Loyal Order of Moose
Scranton
Lodge
Theodore G. Miller
Moose Propagation Department
Miller
James W. Reid
B. C. McGuire
Lindberghs Complete Stockholm Helsinki Flight
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife landed at Helsingfors Finland this afternoon ending a flight from Stockholm Reuters reports the couple reached their destination as part of their European visit in September.
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London
Reuters News Agency
Charles A. Lindbergh
Helsingfors
Finland
Stockholm
Railroad Passes Honored on Fair Special to Century of Progress
Railroad passes will be honored on the American Legion Special to a Century of Progress leaving September 30 for Chicago. The face value of the pass is deducted from the regular price. Two low rates: chair car $40.85 and Pullman $62.50, including fair attractions and meals. Walter Irvin Inc will store free all out of town cars in Amarillo.
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American Legion
Chicago
George Broome
The
Legion Transportation Committee
Floyd L. Sloan
Hanson Post
Walter Irvin, Inc
Amarillo
Prisoner Confesses in O Connell kidnapping probe and linked crimes
In New York seven men were questioned over the John J O Connell Jr kidnapping for 40000 dollars as part of a DOJ and police raid. Leonard Scarnici confessed to bank robberies slayings and a plot to kidnap a New York criminal lawyer. Others named include Anthony Reino Philip Zeigler Charles Herzog and Frank Prentel.
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New York
Department of Justice
John J.o’connell, Jr
Albany
John J. Sullivan
Leonard Scarnici
Scarnici
Sullivan
O'Connell
Anthony Reino
Mount Kisco
N. Y
Manhattan
Eleanor Scarnici
Wman
Emma Russo
Philip Zeigler
Brooklyn
Charles Herzog
Bronx
Frank Prentel
Prentel
Scarniel
Rensselaer
William Paffo
James Parken
Bedford Hills
Suspect Nazis Set Fire to Reichstag
An international legal commission concluded there were grave grounds to suspect Nazi involvement in the Reichstag fire last February, rather than Communist culpability. The unofficial panel noted its findings were based on incomplete material and stressed actions of terror contradicted Third International and German Communist party teachings.
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London
Berlin
Reichstag
Third International
Communist Party
Bankers in Kelly hunt lead to Gladewater trap
In Gladewater Texas two men detained while police pursue George Machine Gun Kelly claimed to be retired bankers from Wilmot Arkansas. They possessed $800 cash a silenced rifle and a pistol and were held for Dallas officers arrival. The car bore Texas and Arkansas plates as authorities questioned them.
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Monroe
G. D. Stovall
Wilmott
Ark
Monroe Morning World Tonight
Edwards
Lee Edwards
Gladewater
Texas
George
Tex
T. N. Green
Kelly
Wilmot
Arkansas
Green
Dallas
East
Fach
8. C. Roper
Roper
Britons Seek World Disarmament Pact Ahead of Geneva
London reports the British cabinet agreed that a disarmament agreement is essential for Europe and the world. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and ministers aim for a pact at the forthcoming Geneva conference, despite concerns over the arms situation. Britain also warned the United States about naval buildup affecting international perceptions.
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London
Europe
Paris
Anthony Eden
Foreign Office
Ramsay MacDonald
Norman H. Davis
Great Britain
America
United States
Enz
Prosecution Expands Case in Urschel Kidnapning Trial
Oklahoma City hearing details new guards with rifles and machine guns as Herbert K. Hyde leads witnesses from the west and south to build a pyramid of testimony linking the Harvey Bailey gang to the Urschel family kidnapping. Earl Hyde and Urschel testified about threats and nine day captivity while E. Kirkpatrick recounted paying ransom.
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E. 8S. Vaught
Harvey J. Bailey
Oklahoma City
Charles F. Urschel
Federal
Urschel
Herbert K. Hyde
Harvey Bailey
Albert Bates
George Kelly
Texas
Chicago
Hyde
Kelly
Kathryn
Joseph B. Keenan
Washington
Keenan
Department of Justice
E. E. Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
Tulsa
Dallas
R. G. Shannon
Paradise
Tex
W. I. Eads
Oklahoma County
Bailey
Federal Reserve
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100Th Meridian
Gibson
Eilers
U. S
New Jersey
Associated Press
Amtorg Trading Corporation
Tri-State Park
Lindys
Stovall
Edwards Brothers
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