Roosevelt assigns chief to direct forest relief work
President Roosevelt selects labor leader Robert Pech of Massachusetts to head forest conservation and unemployment relief efforts. Fechner will coordinate among war, agriculture, interior and labor departments to move unemployed into forest work starting mid April.
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Washington
Aeunion
Robert Pech*r
Massachusetts
Roosevelt
Fechner
International Association of Machinists
War, Agriculture, Interior and Labor Departments
Labor Department
Forest Service
George Washington National Forest
Woodstock
Virginia
Interior Department
Gala Night musical program repeats at Amarillo College
The Gala Night concert by Amarillo College Balladers and Balladettes returns Thursday at Municipal Auditorium to accommodate fans who missed the first show. Mrs. Alta Potts Turk conducts the choirs as prominent local dancers join as guests for solos, ensembles, and dances. Funds from both performances support travel to San Antonio for the Texas Federation of Music Clubs convention program.
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Amarillo College
Municipal Auditorium
Turk
Alta Potts Turk
Galaight
Amarillo
San Antonio
Texas Federation of Music Clubs
Waitress Slayer Plans To Marry Behind Bars
ABILENE April 4 Wedding bells are to ring behind Taylor County jail bars Thursday. M C Teague serving a 16 year sentence for the slaying of Kitty Gordon Pyote waitress will marry Mrs Annie Marie Reynolds of Wink in the jail office at noon, with Rev Cal Wright officiating.
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Abilene
Taylor County
M. C. Teague
Kitty Gordon
Pyote
Annie Marie Reynolds
Wink
Cal Wright
First Methodist Church
Still Explosion Claims Two Lives
A still explosion near Mumford, Texas, showered flames and burning liquid on six people and blew out the side of a farm home. Two men, Frank Dechairi, 32, and John Dechairi, 35, died at a Bryan hospital. Four others, including Lena Dechairi and two sons Frenk and Joe, were hospitalized with injuries.
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Bryan
Tex
U.P
Mumford
Dechairi
Join Dechairi
John Dechairi
Lena
Frenk
Joe
R F C Meeting Due Monday For Panhandle Relief Funds
Representatives from 11 Panhandle counties will gather in Amarillo Monday at 10 A M in the Hotel Red Room to apply for May June relief funds. A W Elrod of the Texas Relief Commission will lead the session to standardize applications and resolve administration matters under new rules.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
A. W. Elrod
Texas Relief Commission
Amarillo Hotel
Red Room
Wilbur C. Hawk
Randall
Deaf Smith
Oldham
Potter
Carson
Hutchinson
Hansford
Hartley
Dallam
Sherman
Moore
Secret cult members indicted for murder in burial at island grave
Martinez California April 4 six men and four women members of a Filipino secret cult were indicted for murder for allegedly throwing a young wife declared unfaithful into a lonely island grave and burying her alive during a midnight ritual. The grand jury said torches flared as the burial was prepared and bound and gagged the victim witnessed the event.
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Martinez
Calif
First Lady urges women to buy Easter clothes under fair conditions
Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt urged women to buy reasonably priced Easter clothes from shops with decent working conditions. Secretary Frances Perkins supports the crusade, while Roosevelt notes budget limits and plans to press merchants to reveal garment production standards. She will wear a budget purchase and avoid overspending.
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Bess Furman
Washington
America
Franklin D. Roosevelt
League
White House
Furniture Man Celebrates 25th Year With Sale
Wolf Herring marks a quarter century in Amarillo furniture trade with a Silver Anniversary Sale at 405 Taylor Street offering new merchandise reductions from 20 to 50 percent. He has operated 12 years at the same location and thanks the Panhandle region for support, promising best prices as volumes rise.
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Wolf Herring
Taylor Street
Amarillo
Panhandle
Herring
Haskell Physician Dr. W A Kimbrough Dies at Home
Dr. W A Kimbrough a renowned Haskell Texas physician who led the Haskell Sanitarium died unexpectedly from a heart attack at his home on Monday. He practiced medicine in Haskell for 27 years leaving six sons and a daughter as survivors.
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Haskell
Texas
W. A. Kimbrough
West Texas
Haskell Sanitarium
Roosevelt Family Embraces Simple Easter Bonnet Trend
Mrs Roosevelt notes that simple clothing rules the family wardrobe and praises this season's Easter bonnet crop as a bargain. She recalls their modest Hudson River home and once backing a hat shop, giving insight into hat costs and ready-made attire.
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Nual Cost
Roosevelt
Hudson River
Lena Davidson to Graham for Funeral Services
The body of Mrs. Lena Davidson age 30 wife of Homer E Davidson proprietor of the Club Cafe was sent by Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home to Graham for services and burial. She died Monday morning in a local hospital and is survived by her husband her parents Mr and Mrs V Vanhooser a daughter Velma Jean 12 two brothers and six sisters.
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Lena Davidson
Homer E. Davidson
Club Cafe
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Graham
Woman Sues Oldham Man for 10000 Damages in Wreck
Mrs. Sarah Ferguson of Amarillo seeks 10000 in a suit filed in 108th District Court against J. P. Collier of Oldham County over a January 1932 accident on West Sixth Avenue in San Jacinto. She says she was permanently injured when struck by a car.
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Sarah Ferguson
Amarillo
108Th District Court
J. P. Collier
Oldham County
West Sixth Avenue
San Jacinto
Ferguson
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