Front Page Set Is Ready Josey To Play
Stage sets for The Front Page at the Paramount Theater are completed. John Josey will provide organ music at 8 pm with intermissions. Tickets sold at City Drug Store Polk Street and box office Friday night. Proceeds go to the Community Kitchens. The play centers on Hildy Johnson, a star reporter.
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Paramount Theater
Criminal Courts
Chicago
John Josey
Paramount Wurlitzer
City Drug Store
Polk Street
Ben Hecht
Charles McArthur
Hildy Johnson
Star
McCormick Co
Earl Williams
Globe News
T. E. Johnson
Williams
Grace Rye
Millie Grant
Walter Burns
Fred Post
Christeen Buckland
Peggy Grant
Doctors Near Session Close With A Record
Doctors of the Panhandle and the South Plains met at the Her ring Hotel for the convention’s second and final day. Nearly 200 registered as the Panhandle society holds biannual meetings to share medical advances. Sessions covered gynecology progress and ENT topics with leaders Dr. Cross and Dr. Stewart in charge of the general session and Drs Crumé and Sandifer directing the specialists division. An illustrated lecture by Dr. T. E. Carmody closed the morning program.
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Panhandle
South Plains
Herring Hotel
Panhandle District Medical Society
Richard Keys
Panhandle Society
D. D. Cross
Lubbock
Allen T. Stewart
J. J. Crumé
Amarillo
Fred W. Sandifer
T. E. Carmody
Den
Special City Water Rate Announced for Amarillo
Amarillo residents can sign up for five month irrigation rates at the city water department before May 1. The minimum charge drops to 2.25 net with 0.20 per extra 1,000 gallons, higher than last year’s 0.15. The plan aims to favor small users and spur lawn watering this summer.
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Amarillo
Water Department
City Commission
Garden Club
Ross D. Rogers
Five British workers deny Soviet espionage charges in Moscow trial
In Moscow on April 12 the Metropolitan Vickers Company case began with eleven Russian employees and eleven British suspects. Five Englishmen Allan Monkhouse Charles Nordwell L. C. Thornton A. W. Gregory and John Cushny pleaded not guilty while MacDonald and others faced charges. The crowded courtroom, guarded by soldiers, heard the indictment as Judge Ulrich opened proceedings with defense teams and a Russian interpreter for Gregory.
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Moscow
M—W. HH. McDonald
Metropolitan
Vickers Electrical Company
Allan Monkhoure
Metropolitan Vickers Company
Charles Nordwell
L. C. Thornton
A. W. Gregory
John Cushny
Andrey Vishinsky
Monkhouse
Nordwell
Thornton
Gregory
Cushny
MacDonald
Anna Sergeyevna
Ulrich
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Summary
Forecast for Amarillo and surroundings shows fair and warmer tonight with Thursday partly cloudy. West Texas west of 100th Meridian expects partly cloudy to cloudy and warmer, while New Mexico sees generally fair conditions with warmer trends in the northwest tonight. Daytime extremes reach 40 to 60 degrees by 1 PM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Northwest
Court at Law Work Divided In Potter County
Abolishment of the Potter County court at law is approved by both houses and awaits Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson’s signature. Judge EF C Nelson Jr will transfer duties as criminal and parts of civil dockets shift to County Judge J M Simpson and two justices of the peace. Simpson also oversees county financial affairs and lunacy and pauper cases amid a countywide controversy with the Taxpayers League and Amarillo Bar Association.
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Miriam A. Ferguson
Potter County
Austin
House
Senate
EF. C. Nelson, Jr
J. M. Simpson
Justices of the Peace
108Th District Court
Simpson
Commissioners’ Court
County Commission
Taxpayers’ League
Amarillo Bar Association
Court Hears Child’s Right Versus Life in Eye Operation
In Hastings a court fights a mother over removing left eye of 2 year old Helen Vasko to save her life. Doctors seek surgery while parents refuse deeming God will decide. Appellate division to determine custody and welfare care.
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Hastings
U.P
Helen Vasko
John Vasko
Helen
J. W. Smyth
Westchester County Children’s Court
Grasslands Hospital
Power plans move to Senate amid quick committee vote
Senate agriculture and forestry committee reported Muscle Shoals Tennessee Valley project measure favorably to the Senate by unanimous vote. Reorganization plans for the commerce department aim to cut annual expenditures from 45 million to 26 million. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorsed the Rio Grande treaty with Mexico for valley rectification. House consideration expected on repeal of the 40 million federal check tax. President Roosevelt weighing options.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee
Muscle Shoals, Tennessee
Senate
Department of Commerce
Commerce Roper
Mexico
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Rio Grande
el Paso-Juarez
Doughton
Ways and Means
House
Roosevelt
Judd sanity question to be decided by jury
In Florence Arizona the judge will let a jury decide if Winnie Ruth Judd has become insane since entering prison. A verdict of insanity would stop her scheduled execution on April 21 for the murder of Agnes Anne Lerol and send her to the state hospital for the insane. Her lawyers plan to file a habeas corpus petition in the state supreme court.
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Florence, Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
Trunk
A. G. Walker
Agnes Anne Lerol
State Hospital
Used Car Bargains Offer Quick Transport in Want Ads
Amarillo used car dealers slash prices making car ownership affordable for job seekers and shoppers. The Automobile column in the Want Ads lists many bargains offering rapid means of transport and a family perk amid tough times.
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Amarillo
Today by Arthur Brisbane on repeal and public works
The column notes beer sales in the national House and Sunday access, predicts passage of prohibition repeal by 36 states, and highlights Roosevelt era projects like Muscle Shoals and Norris’s push for Tennessee basin development. The piece reflects on political passions and economic pressures shaping policy.
Texas Wheat Crop At Fifty Percent Of Normal
The USDA reports Texas wheat crop on April 1 at 50 percent of normal, down from 16 percent a year ago and below the 10 year average of 78.3. Conditions included dry soils, December freezes, and dry winter weather with February freezes. Rain is needed in most wheat areas and production may reach about 18.5 million bushels, far below 1932 and 1931 outputs. acreage abandonment is likely to rise if rains do not come.
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Austin
United States Department of Agriculture
Texas
Sponsor Sees House Favor as 3.2 Beer Bill Advances
The House voted 84 to 40 to table the 3.2 per cent beer bill. Railroads offered low fares to Lake Charles Opelousas New Orleans and other points as Texans head toward Louisiana for legal 3.2 beer. The Old Spanish Trail expected to bring thousands of motorists into deer country.
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Gordon K. Shearer Austin
U.P
House of Representatives
Rep
Houston
Louisiana
Lake Charles
Opelousas
New Orleans
Sabine
Deer Territory
Texas beer bill eyed for Friday vote in House
Preston Anderson expects a Friday vote on the beer bill after a favorable House showing and predicts around 100 final passage votes. George Parkhouse counters that 78 of 150 House members oppose 3.2 beer, while a Austin American survey suggests 17 to 20 Senate votes if House passes it.
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Preston Anderson
Anderson
George Parkhouse
Dallas
Austin American Today
Senate
Shaw Leaves America After Clarifying Offense Claim
George Bernard Shaw defends not intending to offend as he departs the United States aboard the S. and Empress of Britain after a world cruise. He addresses reporters again about Helen Keller remarks and insists he praised her abilities. The voyage to Southampton ends his American visit.
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New York
George Bernard Shaw
Helen Keller
Shaw
Miss Keller
Southampton
Borger Ends Two City Commissions After Election Ruling
Borger Texas April 12 two city commissions remained. The April 4 elected group won control after district judge E J Pickens issued a restraining order against the old commission. Trial of the contest suit is set for April 24. The new city manager police chief and all appointees named by the new commission were in office.
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Borger
Tex
E. J. Pickens
Po-Ice
Akron Repair Plans Tied to Structural Strength Falls
Lieutenant Commander Edwin F. Coch rane testified at a naval hearing on the loss of the Akron that after the last flight the ship would have its structure strengthened in the area where survivors said girders broke. An example girder was to be reinforced. In Akron Ohio weather threatened the Macon maiden flight with possible delays due to a soggy landing field and tests postponed to Friday or Saturday.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Edwin F. Cochrane
Naval Air Station
Akron
U.P
U. S
Macon
Brigands Kidnap U. S. Mission Medical Aide
In a mixed dispatch from Kentucky and Manchuria, convictions and acquittals in the Mills family murder case are reported with life and prison terms for three defendants. Separate dispatches note a U S mission nurse kidnapped in Manchuria and railway dispute tensions with Manchukuo.
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U. S. Mission
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