Mexico Enters Oil Business Amid Expropriation
Mexico forms the National Oil Exporting Company to sell domestic oil abroad as Congress convenes for emergency legislation after expropriating about 400 million dollars in foreign properties. Americans Francis W. Rickett and Bernard Smith were said to plan a visit to discuss the move with President Cardenas.
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Congress
Francis W. Rickett
Ethiopia
Bernard ©. Smith
New York
Chigo
Gracie Allen to Exhibit Eight Paintings Tomorrow Night
Gracie Allen will display eight paintings at Rancho Country Club in Hollywood tomorrow night before sending them to a New York gallery. The surrealist works include Dogs Standing On Corner Watching Two Men Fight and George Burns' Impression of Gracie Allen If George Burns Were Gracie Allen and Not George Burns. She was inspired by painters at her house.
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Hollywood
Gracie Allen
American Artists’Congress
Rancho Country Club
New York
George Burns
Radio Comedienne
Railroad Commission Set Hearing On Gas Oil Proration
The Texas Railroad Commission announced its regular monthly hearing on gas and oil proration will be held in Austin on April 18. Allowable production in May will be set after the hearing.
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Austin
Texas Railroad Commission Today
Collectors Seek Autographs in Landlord Notices
A light advert appears in the Globe-News Want Ads promoting autograph collection tied to rent receipts as a small value asset. It hints at leveraging funds via Sree Sam to finance a home, urging speed as beat locations are being snapped up.
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Sree Sam
Globe-News
Panhandle snow showers sweep from Clarendon to Lubbock
A Panhandle storm brought snow from Clarendon to Shamrock and south to Lubbock with several inches in towns like Hereford and Groom. Moisture varied, with some areas reporting two to four inches while others saw lighter snowfall or mist. Clouds lingered, temps dipped to 35, and later data gathering efforts expanded weather reporting nationwide.
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Shattuck
Wheat Belt
Clarendon
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Wheeler
Shamrock
Silverton
Quitaque
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Miainview
Dimmitt
Lubbock
Globe
Athrian
McLean
Groom
Sanford and Stinnett
Wilder- Ade
Texhams
Hereford
Mosture
Petruery
Mateh
Ararillo
Cellman
Dee
Gapeau
Potnia
Onin
Colorado
New Mexico
Kanes
Chicago
You Can't Frighten Five Pretty Girls
Five women travel home from Denton, in a green car, and survive a rollover with no injuries. A truck, a ditch, and a tire mishap lead to a dramatic escape as a sheriff and others free them. The event is recounted with refrain lines emphasizing the women’s resilience.
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Vernon Town
Louise Krohn
Shirley Meyer
Blanche Cathey
Beatrice Paschall
Helen Hutchins
Lady At the Wheel
Denton
Amarillo Camera Club draws 300 for Baumann lecture
More than 300 camera enthusiasts packed the Crystall Ballroom at the Herring Hotel for Amarillo’s second camera club meeting featuring Anton F. Baumann. Members from Canyon Pampa Lubbock Plainview and other towns attended as plans for a Panhandle Camera Club Federation took shape.
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Crystall
Herring Hotel
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Foster Peterson
Baumann
Tures
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Alaska
Austria
Lapland
Sweden
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Oklahoma
Albuquerque
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Plainview
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High Plains
Fishing boom as smelts flood Michigan Wisconsin rivers
The Department of Agriculture claims a fisherman's paradise in and around the Nicolet Hiawatha and Marquette National Forests in northern Michigan and Wisconsin. Smelts, originally from the Atlantic, have multiplied in Lake Michigan and will swim upstream each spring to spawn, making fishing abundant across the banks and streams.
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Washington
U.P
Department of Agriculture
Department
Nicolet, Hiawatha and
Marquette National
Michigan
Wisconsin
Atlantic Ocean
Lake Michigan
Negro George Washington Pleads Guilty in Burglary Case
In Houston on April 1, the 1 year old Negro George Washington pleaded guilty to a burglary charge. District Judge Whit Boyd joked about the cherry tree question and granted a five year suspended sentence after the boy asserted his guilt.
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Houston
George Washington
Whit Boyd
George
Boyd
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The report questions the accuracy of prior inquiries and accuses a previous investigation of unfairness. Offord says AT and T lacked cross examination rights and the ability to add written testimony to the record, arguing essential errors must be corrected.
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Ocifford
Offord
AT & T
Hope To Halt Fight Today On Government Reorganization Bill
House leaders aim to end general debate on the government reorganization bill and read it for amendments with limited member time. A roll call vote is expected as the April Fool's Day remark by Rep Stack underscores tensions. 45,000 telegrams and 5,000 wires were reported delivered to representatives supporting the measure.
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House
B. R. Allen
Western Union Telegraph Company
Postal Telegraph
Michael J. Stack
Pennsylvania
Congress of the
United States
Seven Indictments From Grand Jury Session
The grand jury returned seven indictments including Jess Slade for aggravated assault Walter Barnett for drunken driving and Thomas Devereaux for forgery. Slade’s case linked to an alleged attack on Amarillo attorney J O Gulerie. Bond set at 500 and the term ends tomorrow with a three week term to begin in Claude. Safety council finds only twenty five percent of U S drivers have perfect vision.
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Jess Slade
Walter Barnett
Thomas Devereaux
Slade
J. O. Gulerie
Amarillo
J. News Riggs
Claude
Markets Report From Kansas City and New Orleans Cotton
Kansas City livestock prices show hogs and cattle mostly steady with some gains in fat calves and lambs while New Orleans cotton opens with gains on favorable cables. May cotton starts at 8.76 and gains through the first trading hour. Grain quotes from E A Pierce include wheat details.
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Kansas City
New Orleans
Liverpool
April Fools' Day Jokesters Fuel $500,000 Year Trade
The April Pool industry reportedly grosses about $500,000 annually with many tricks priced at five cents. A major distributor says jokers are widespread nationwide, and jokes grow subtler as counterfeit versions mimic real items. Popular gags include marshmallow boxes, boot poppers, sponge rubber cigars, matches that fail, and spring-loaded gum slices.
Aviation Club Set to Meet at KGNC Studio
Amarillo's Aviation Club holds its second meeting on April 6 at 7 30 PM in KGNC's main studio at 216 West Eighth Street. Officers and committees will be decided, with talks on dues and a group name plus plans for model-building classes and flying trips.
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Amarillo
Aviation Club
KGNC
West Eighth Street
Thornton Oxnard
Oxnard
Slayer of Sweetheart Gets Dad's Support
Donald Carroll 16 who shot and killed his 18 year old sweetheart Charlotte Matthiesen for becoming a mother received a forgiveness letter from his father in Queens County jail. Frederick Matthiesen could not visit but sent words of support urging him to keep his chin up. Carroll awaits grand jury action.
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New York
U.P
Donald Carroll
Charlottee Matthiesen
Queens County
Frederick Matthiesen
Matthiesen
Donald
Senators push federal unemployment insurance for railroad workers
Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York and Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana introduced a bill proposing a federal unemployment insurance system for railroad workers.
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Washington
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Pryor Honored By Hotel Men
Amarillo Hotel manager C.8. Pryor will attend the Texas Hotel Association meeting at the Hilton Motel in Lubbock and has been named to the association's advisory board. The Western Texas division will host the conference with hotelmen invited to attend and Amarillo slated for a larger spring session later this month. The Hotel Greeters of America will also meet in Amarillo during the same period.
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Pryor
Amarillo
Texas Hotel Association
Hilton
Lubbock
Western Division
Texas
West Texas Hotel Men’s Association
Hotel Greeters of America
Deadline Today For Auto Plates As Courthouse Sells Tin
Hundreds of pounds of painted tin were moved from the courthouse this morning as the last day to pay motor vehicle license fees without penalty nears. New plates must be installed by tomorrow and the tax office stays open until midnight. Registrations near 9,000 with expectations to reach about 10,000.
Hoover May Be Pointing for Shot at the Presidency
Herbert Hoover in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on April 1 suggested a possible 1940 presidential run. He warned against alliances with Democratic nations and urged keeping America out of war, criticizing FDR's quarantine speech and stressing peace with dictatorships as well as popular governments.
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U.P
Herbert Hoover
Council of Foreign Relations
America
Roosevelt
Chicago
Hoover
Gambling Is Fine Way To Lose Money
Northwestern professor Arthur J. Todd estimates Americans lost 1.00009 billion dollars in 1937 to poker games and wagered about 2 billion on horses in 1935. Data from the Chicago recreation survey show Chicago spending on horse racing 37 million, policy games 20 million, newspapers 18 million, movies 10 million, radios 35 to 40.61 million, and bowling and billiards 3 million.
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Chicago
Arthur J. Todd
Northwestern University
Chicago Recreation Survey
Todd
Five Times Stronger Drug Against Streptococcal Infections
In Baltimore on April 1 two Washington scientists report a new sulfanilamide variant five times more powerful against Streptococcus infections. Drs Sanford M. Rosenthal and Hugo Bauer of the National Institute of Health presented the finding to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, building on the prior success of sulfanilamide introduced last year.
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Baltimore
Washington
Sanford M. Rosenthal
Hugo Bauer
National Institute of Health
Federation of American Societies
Thompson Opens Campaign for Governor in Waco Night
Ernest C. Thompson state railroad commissioner announced he will open his campaign for governor in Waco on the night of April 12.
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Thompson
Waco
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