Shutdown talk at East Texas proration hearing
April 4 hearing in Austin on oil production controls. Commissioners considered a five day shutdown for the East Texas field to equalize pressures before potential tests. Shell engineer M Albertson supported a shutdown to balance pressures. Oklahoma City also ordered a complete field shutdown as of 7 AM tomorrow pending tests.
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Austin
East Texas
Railroad Commission
Est O. Thompson
M. Albertson
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
State Corporation Commission
Amarillo City Election Sees Low Early Ballot Turnout
In Amarillo, only about one fifth of eligible voters had cast ballots by Tuesday afternoon in the general city election. Voter turnout was light with polls open until 7 pm. By 1:30 pm the tally reached 1,282, across six precincts and roughly 6,300 to 6,400 eligible voters remained.
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Amarillo
City Vote Set Amid Light Campaign For Mayor
Voters in the city number between 6 300 and 6 400 eligible under poll tax or exemption. Polls close at 7 p m with a judge and four clerks per box and results expected shortly after. Ballot lists two mayoral candidates Ross D Rogers and Lon D Marrs with three candidates for each commissioner seat.
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Ross D. Rogers
Lon D. Marrs
Joe Jenkins
M. N. Twaddell
Co. W. Baynham
H. Ernest Smith
Fred Galle
John Winters
Faith on Macon, Airship Maiden Flight in Jeopardy
Investigators probe cause after the Akron disaster as Goodyear-Zeppelin officials defend the Macon with preparations for its maiden flight. Dr Karl Arnstein warns against speculation while officials note potential impact on the Zeppelin industry and pending mail airship licensing legislation.
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Akron, CO
Goodyear-Zeppelin
Navy
Macon
Akron
Karl Arnstein
Arnstein
Goodyear - Zeppelin Corporation
Alger H. Diesel
Fred W. Harpham
Goodyear Zeppelin
Blimp J-3 crashes off New Jersey coast
The naval air station at Lakehurst dirigible J-3 crashed about 1000 yards offshore at 1:45 PM. Eleven crew were aboard. Two survivors were pulled from the water and rushed to Paul Kimball Hospital in Lekwood. fate of the rest unclear. Commander Simon R. Sands of the fifth coast guard district commented.
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Sea Beach Haven
N. J
Simon R. Sands
Fifth Coast Guard
Asbury Park
Frank ©. McCord
Lakehurst
Herbert V. Wiley
Lakewood
Harold E. McClelland
Weaterly
George Calman
Tome River
Richard Cross, Jr
Herbert M. Westcoast
Herman J. Cowan
Charles F. Miller
Morgan Redfield
Wilfred Bushnell
Malone
N.Y
Cyrus Clendenning
Toms River
George C. Walsh
Dean
Carl C
Monmouth Avenue
Carlson
Arthur W
South Hayes Street
Moscow
Idaho
Barnhart
Benny
Central Avenue
Stine
Ralph C
River Road
Delmar
Deal
Richard E
Fourth Street
Engler
Ralph F
Manheim
Historic airships disasters list from 1912 to 1930
A compiled timeline of notable dirgibile and airship disasters with fatalities. Entries cover R-101 Italia Shenandoah Dixmude Roma ZR-2 R-34 NS-11 and L-1 L-2 Zeppelins among others, noting dates, wreck sites and casualties. It also notes the loss of four other large dirigibles Count Zeppelin owned.
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Associated Press
France
England
India
Italia
Arctic
North Pole
U. S
Ohio
Mediterranean
United States
Italy
Hampton Roads Army Base
Humber River
Howden
Chicago
North Sea
Vienna
Heligoland
Johannisthal
Atlantic City
Zeppelin
Churchmen to Meet Here For Three Day Convention
About 500 out of town delegates are expected in Amarillo for the three day district Sun day School and Baptist Training Service Convention opening Tuesday night. Services begin 8 o'clock at San Jacinto Baptist Church with Dr G L Yates preaching. A 7 30 o'clock long service starts the event. J M Sibley of Perryton will preside and a social hour follows at 8 45 with Miss Hettie Stith in charge. Rev D D Sumrall invites district youth. John Josey and Shamrock First Baptist Band provide music and entertainment.
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Amarillo
San Jacinto Baptist Church
Sixth Avenue
G. L. Yates
First Baptist Church
J. M. Sibley
Perryton
Hettie Stith
D. D. Sumrall
Hostess Church
John Josey
Shamrock First Baptist Church
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Tonight Through Wednesday
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday for Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas west of the 100th meridian partly cloudy to cloudy with thundershowers southeast portion, colder with probable frost in the Panhandle tonight. Wednesday fair and colder in the southeast portion. New Mexico generally fair tonight and Wednesday, colder. Temperature extremes today up to 49 and 67.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
White Sox Pirates Exhibition Set For Wednesday at Amarillo
Major league exhibition game between the Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates will be played Wednesday at 2:30 PM at Metro Park Amarillo after field prep. A downtown parade and welcome events precede the afternoon game with a crowd expected beyond 1500 seats in temporary bleachers.
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Chicago White Sox
Pittsburgh Pirates
Metro Park
Amarillo
Rock Island Depot
Ross Rogers
Chamber of Commerce
Herring Hotel
White Sox
Louis Comiskey
Lew Fonseca
Pirates
George Gibson
Pittsburgh
Survivor Describes Akron Sinking After Crash off Jersey Shore
Lieutenant Commander Herbert V. Wiley said the airship suddenly descended and was demolished on impact in the water off the New Jersey coast. He reported seeing men swimming in a lightning filled night, wreckage drifting away, and that discipline remained intact as the ship sank following a storm near Barnegat Light.
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Washington
Herbert V. Wiley
Akron
Navy
New Jersey
S P Mckinney Long Time Amarillo Resident Dies
S P Mckinney 71 a long time Amarillo Panhandle resident died at 1 30 pm at his home 1402 Hughes Street after a long illness He had been in Abilene with a daughter since last December Survived by wife Nettie two daughters Mrs A F Keirsey of Amarillo and Mrs George E Morris of Abilene and two sons G A and W E McKinney both of Amarillo
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P. McKinney
Amarillo
Panhandle
Hughes Street
McKinney
Abilene
Ama
Rillo
Nettie McKinney
A. F. Keirsey
Ama~rillo
George E. Morris
G. A. and
W. E. McKinney
The Mussolini film and its impact on education
Nicholas M. Schenck urges viewing the Columbia Pictures film of Mussolini to study his power and crowd appeal. He claims the documentary should be shown in Congress and at schools to illustrate the educational role of talking pictures and the influence of propaganda.
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Miami
Fla
Nicholas M. Schenck
Columbia Pictures
Mussolini
Italy
Congress
Officers and crew listed aboard the Akron airship
The Akron crew roster released from Lakehurst lists officers abroad the airship along with the extensive names and addresses of enlisted crew members. The document names guest officers and officers in charge, detailing ranks and home cities from Lakehurst to New York, Alabama, and the Philippines, among many others.
Probe Group Gets Broadest Powers
The Senate granted the banking committee the broadest powers for a private banking investigation. The Pletcher resolution extends authority to probe firms including J P Morgan and Company, aligning with President Roosevelt's sponsorship of the inquiry.
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Probe Group
Washington
Senate
J. P. Morgan and Company
Banking Committee
Roosevelt
Texas Senate Rejects Lee Pierson for Tech College Board
The Texas Senate in executive session refused to confirm Governor Miriam A. Ferguson's appointment of Lee P. Pierson of Amarillo to the board of directors of Texas Technological College at Lubbock.
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Austin
Texas Senate
Miriam A. Ferguson
Lee P. Pierson
Amarillo
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Nazis Call Off Jew Boycott Wednesday
Berlin reports the government will not resume the anti-Semitic boycott this Wednesday. The Nazi party had called a one day boycott last Saturday and reserves the right to reinstate it if the atrocity campaign resumes abroad.
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Berlin
Nazi Party
North Carolina Joins Ranks of Beer States
North Carolina moved into the beer states after the House passed 3.2 percent beer legislation by a 75 to 27 vote. The bill becomes law May 1 and cannot be vetoed by the governor.
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North Carolina
Rank OF
Raleigh
N. C
State House of Representatives
Dirigible Akron search over New Jersey coast report
Reporter aboard a Curtiss Robin from Floyd Bennett Field observes Navy squadrons sweeping the Jersey and upper Delaware coast for Akron wreckage. Circling at low altitude amid rain, no signs of survivors or debris are found as a coast guard cutter aids the search.
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Sidney
Coast Guard
Navy
Floyd Bennett Field
Phoebus Sees Lifeboat Rescue After Sea Sighting
Captain reports German tanker Phoebus in heavy storm off Barnegat near Tampico voyage from New York. He sighted flashing aircraft lights and signals from the sea, pulled four men from the water, but others were lost as lifeboats were deployed.
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Dalldorf
Phoebus
Associated Press
Barnegatight
Tampico
New York
Akron Dirigible Crashes in Storm Killing and Missing
The U S S Akron, world’s largest airship, crashed in a violent electrical storm off Barnegat with 76 aboard. Four rescued, one died. 72 missing, including Rear Admiral William A Moffett. Navy and Roosevelt officials ordered investigations as crews searched amid bad weather.
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New York
U. S. S. Akron
Pride
Air Force
Akron
Barnegat
Great Barnegat
William A. Moffett
Navy
Bureau of Aeronautica
Lakehurst
N. J
Washington
Akron flashes outline the dirigible Akron
A Chicago sheet records the Akron’s specifications: gas volume six million five hundred thousand cubic feet, length 785 feet, maximum diameter 1329 feet, height 146.5 feet, speed 83.6 mph, cruising range 10,586 miles, gross weight 403000 pounds, useful life 182000 pounds, eight engines and total horsepower 4480, cost 5 375 000. It notes a San Angelo Texas stop on May 9 1932 when stormy weather forced a western course change and a ground crew assembled before the craft turned south to the west coast. It also mentions the Akron’s peak crew of 207 aboard the ship in a prior record.
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Navy
Philadelphia
Jersey Shore
Barnegat
New York
U.P
Akron
Texas
San Angelo
Tex
West Texas
Reverend Conway Seeks Pulpit Reinstatement After Trial
Freed by a circuit court jury on charges of attempting to assault an 18 year old Sunday School teacher the Rev. G Lerner Conway announced plans to appeal for reinstatement in his pulpit at the Madison Street M E Church in Muncie Indiana today.
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Muncie
Ind
G. Lerner Conway
Madison Street M. E
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Fred T. Berry
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