Mussolini Weighs Sending More Soldiers to Spain
Loyalists press Madrid defense as Franco’s rebels push toward Madrid and Cordoba. Miaja’s strategy defies rebels with a dozen fronts while Mussolini ponders risking prestige by sending troops or sticking to non intervention. Paris hints at a broader withdrawal of foreigners.
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Louis Femp
United Press
Spain
Cordoba
Jose Miaja
Madrid
Francisco Franco
Mintas
Valencia
Ihe
Burgos
Aranjuez
Mussolini
Rome
Italy
Dino Alfieri
Paris
Her Loveliness Blamed for Death in New York
A bespectacled man who collects pictures of naked women is held for investigation in the Beekman Hills slayings of Veronica Gedeon, her mother Mary and a boarder Frank Byrnes. Joseph Gedeon, 52, not charged, is described by police as the prime suspect in a case the district attorney calls practically solved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.R
Veronica Gedeon
Beekman Hills
Joseph Gedeon
Trict Attorney
Veronica
Strikes Break Out Across Auto Plants And Coal Fields
Detroit April 1 United Press reports a nationwide labor stoppage idling over 400000 soft coal miners who walked out at midnight after failed contract talks. Sit down strikes expanded to General Motors plants along with Chrysler Hudson and Reo partly halting production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
United Mine Workers Unon
Motors
Chrysler, Hudson
Reo Motor
Detroit
U.P
General Motors Corporation
Chrysler Corp
Hudson and
Reo Motor Car
G. M
Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Company
Juveniles in Reformatory Draw Attack
Texas lawmakers demand reform of juvenile commitments at Gatesville reform school after aides found children under twelve among detainees. Rep EB Harrell cites improprieties and urges new criminal code and policy changes to prevent incubating crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
U.P
EB. F. Harrell
Paris
Gatesville Reformatory
Harrell
Texas
Violet Greenhill
Georgia McNemer
Child Welfare Division
Luis Arteago
el Paso
Chidren
Vern Charlton Released After Kidnap Suspect Arrest
Vern Charlton was released by Sheriff Fred White in Tucumcari New Mexico after a week held as a suspect in the Mattson kidnapping murder. Government agents, who investigated upon the sheriff’s request, withdrew from the case yesterday as questioning ended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucumcari
N. M
Mattson
Vern Charlton
Fred White
Chariton Answ
Noric
Shari
Automobile Registration Crackdown Hits County
A fragment reports a considerable automobile registration drive in the county, detailing last year’s licensed cars and plates, with references to tax and registration records. The text is garbled but indicates an emphasis on vehicle registration enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wits Plate
Attempt To Force Ballot on Betting At Races Blocked
Texas Senate debates race repeal bill as sponsor Nelson plans to wait for docket clearing. A night session was planned but a motion to set House Bill 43 for April 7 failed. The adjournment left 57 bills ahead of race repeal on the calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Senate
Ender
G. H. Nelson
Liubbock
Grady Woodruff
Decatur
Woodruff
Sen
Joe Hill
Henderson
Land Hearing Set for April 6 on Boundary Territory Bill
Rep. Phil Ferguson announces a House public lands committee hearing April 6 on a measure to dispose of land along the Cimarron base line between Oklahoma and Texas. It would allow qualified settlers in good faith for ten years to claim up to 160 acres at 1.25 per acre, with townsite owners' titles to be relinquished. A 150 mile long strip, up to 500 feet wide, was withdrawn in 1934 pending disposal legislation.
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Washington
Phil Ferguson
Woodward
Okla
House Public Lands Committee
Texas
Oklahoma Panhandles
Ferguson
Interior Department
Cimarron Base Line
Oklahoma
North Line
Texas Land Owners
West
the Interior Department
County Inspector Bob Haley Faces Second Surgery
County official Bob Haley returned to St Anthony's Hospital for another operation after being released less than three weeks ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Hide and Animal
Bob Haley
St. Anthony's Hospital
One Day Left For Chamber To Reach Goal
Amarillo's Chamber of Commerce membership drive shows $16,875 raised, short of the $25,180 target, with one day remaining. Veterans of the drive, including division leaders Gilstrap Cullum Armstrong Taylor, push for a final push at tomorrow's breakfast and 6:30 PM dinner in Amarillo Hotel to close the campaign. Walter Barlow elected Chamber president for next fiscal year, succeeding Guy Saunders, with Jack Cunningham, Roger Martini, and Jim Farwell as officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Carl Hinton
Bill Gilstrap
Duke Cullum
Gilstrap
Cullum
John Armstrong
Mark Taylor
Ray Pinkney
Pinkney Packing Company
Charlie Pryor
Guy Sickler
American City Bureau
Walter Barlow
Great West Mill & Elevator Company
Guy Saunders
Jack Cunningham
Roger Martini
Jim Farwell
C. W. Farr
Horace Russell
Charles Ware
Amarillo Waives Water Rights for New Irrigation Plan
Amarillo likely waives rights to Conchas Dam water due to high costs, enabling Tucumcari New Mexico to pursue a federal irrigation program. Officials met with James Briscoe H B Jones and H W Mutch from the Reclamation Service, called by Mayor Ross Rogers, to discuss funding and feasibility.
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Amarillo
Conchas Dam
Tucumcari
N. M
James Briscoe
H. B. Jones
H. W. Mutch
Reclamation Service
Ross Rogers
Orderly Market For Bonds Assured
Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr announced that the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board together have ample funds to maintain an orderly bond market. The statement emphasizes coordinated effort between Treasury and the Fed to stabilize financing markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Treasury and
Federal Reserve Board
Widows and widowers teased by Chicago April Fool prankster
Mrs. Nelle Brooke Stull in Chicago declares aimed at pairing widows with eligible men a lighthearted April Fool plan. She forms a club to stage a sit down gathering, then shifts to a fish bowl raffle for handsome bachelors as part of the joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
Span of Life Could Grow Ten More Years Says Parran
Washington April 1 Dr Thomas Parran surgeon general US Public Health Service says average human life could be extended by about ten years with better use of medical knowledge. He notes life expectancy for men rose from 33 to 61 and for women from 40 to 64 in eight decades and cites cancer and heart disease as major future focus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas Parran
Parran
United States Public Health Service
Senator Logan Backs Plan To Boost Judges
Senator M. M. Logan a Democrat from Kentucky told the Senate judiciary committee that the nation faces one of historys cataclysms unless emergency legislation is passed to stabilize conditions and relieve large parts of the population. He questioned Dean Harry M. Bates of the University of Michigan law school about President Roosevelts judicial proposals and urged prompt action while noting the presidents popularity and congressional difficulty.
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Washington
Sen
M. M. Logan
Kentucky
Senate Judiciary Committee
Logan
Harry M. Bates
University of Michigan
Roosevelt
Congress
Editors Under Suspension at Sooner A&M
Stillwater Oklahoma April 1 Two campus editors at Oklahoma A and M were suspended by the student publications board for social probation. The board removed Danny Harbour editor of the O Collegian and Elbert Bowen editor of the yearbook Redskin while four staff members planned to strike.
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Stillwater
Okla
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
Student Publications Board
The
O’collegian
Danny Harbour
Oklahoma City
Elbert Bowen
Stamford
Tex
Redskin
President backs two year PWA extension at smaller scale
President Roosevelt favors extending the Public Works Administration for two more years but on a reduced scale, says Rep. Alfred F Beiter after a White House conference.
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Washington
W.P
Roosevelt
Public Works Administration
Alfred F. Beiter
New York
White House
Joe Clamp Pleads Guilty to Selling Liquor Case
Joe Clamp proprietor of a confectionery and liquor store at 225-B East Fourth Avenue pleaded guilty before County Judge Newt Riggs to selling liquor on Sunday in violation of state law. Clamp was fined 100 dollars and court costs of 23.70.
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Joe Clamp
East Fourth Avenue
State Liquor Control Board
Newt Riggs
Clamp
Texas Senate Passes Malodorant Gas Use Resolution
April 1 report says the Texas Senate, in a light April Fool gesture, approved a resolution urging the use of malodorants in gas supplies. The session concluded without dissent, though the mock bill appeared incomplete in the coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
U.P
Texas Senate Today
Rival CIO and AFL Textile Drives Spark Industrial Strife
Strikes were reported as the committee for industrial organization pressed its textile drive. Rival organizers at Mouston clash in oil industry campaigns. CIO drives begin April 5, AFL starts April 15. In Washington, Rep. Martin Dies seeks to outlaw sit-down strikes while the Senate weighs the Guffey coal control bill already passed by the House. Senate action on the Guffey bill appeared possible by nightfall.
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Committee For Industrial Organization
Mouston
American Federation of Labor
Washington
House Rules Committee
Rep
Martin Dies
Texas
Senate
House
Attorney Wales Madden Reported Improved After Illness
Wales Madden, a prominent Amarillo attorney, was ill in Austin and flown to Amarillo by plane yesterday. Authorities at St. Anthony's Hospital reported early this afternoon that his condition is improved.
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Wales Madden
Austin
Amrillo
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Madden
Amarillo
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Frank Byrnes
WPA
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Workers Alliance
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FHA Loans
Long-Hell Lor, Co
Chamber
Elmer J. Twittlefitz
Cupid
LIF
Dallas
Oliver Haines
Ditors
Sooner A. & M
PWA
Amar Junior College
Los Angeles
Culver City
Edward Graeb
Sheriff's Juvenile Bureau
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Brentwood Heights
Weat Hollywood
Beverly Hills
R. F. Linch
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Schoo
Linoke
Wales
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