Danzig Return Near, Nazi Poland Talks Move Ahead
Berlin reports near conclusion of an agreement for the return of the free city of Danzig to Germany. Ribbentrop and Lipski and Warsaw discussions are said to be resuming soon as Britain France push to bring Soviet Russia into an anti aggression front amid rising European tension.
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Germany
United Press
Berlin
U.P
Free City
Danzig
Reich
Adolf Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Josef Lipski
Warsaw
Posal
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Roosevelt
Benito Mussolini
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Hermann Goering
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League of Nations High Commission
Great Britain
France
Webb Miller
Europe
London
Paris
Rome
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Spain
Portugal
Russia
Soviet
Soviet Union
Rumania
Howard Payne students form International Goldfish Defense League
Brownwood April 17 The 700 students of Howard Payne College founded the I G D L International Goldfish Defense League They adopted the goldfish as their emblem and call for emergency legislation declaring a closed season on goldfish worms phonograph records and snakes as they protest the treatment of the fish.
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Brownwood
U.P
Howard Payne College
International Goldfish Defense League
A! Hicks
Hicks
Farm Product Limit Held Constitutional By Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act provisions constitutional. It empowers the secretary of agriculture to set national marketing quotas for major crops and allot quotas to growers to curb excessive surpluses of cotton wheat corn tobacco and rice.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
U S Plans Antarctic Expedition To Cement Claims
The United States considers a government drive to the South Pole to secure potential resources as nations race for Antarctic rights. Rear Admiral Byrd may head the mission, funded by Congress, with experts weighing strategic value and unclaimed regions amid German claims and recent Nazi scouting activity.
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Washington
U.P
United States
South Pole
Richard E. Byrd
Antarctic
Byrd
Arctic
Nazi
WPA Leader Testifies On WPA Trip To Russia In 1937
David Lasser president of the Workers Alliance tells a House committee that WPA workers funded his 1937 trip to Russia for the 20th anniversary of the Soviet revolution and that he also visited Spain. He denies writing for the Daily Worker and notes a signed article appeared without his knowledge.
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Washington
U.P
David Lasser
Workers Alliance
House
WPA
Russia
Lasser
J. O'Connor Roberts
Spain
Subpena
House Appropriations
Alliance
New York Daily Worker
Communist Party In America
Roberts
The
Daily Worker
Texas Fields Fighting Over Their Output
Texas Railroad Commission chair Lon A. Smith abruptly recessed a proration hearing to seek agreement among oil fields. North Texas allied with East Texas to seek equitable production while Southwest, West, and Gulf Coast fields face reduced April allowances. May demand revised lower by federal estimates, with Texas production slightly above April demand.
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Austin
Lon A. Smith
The
Texas Railroad Commission
Smith
Southwest Texas
West Texas
Gulf Coast
House Votes Penalties and Interest on Delinquent Taxes
The Texas House moved a bill to final reading allowing penalties and interest on delinquent property taxes with optional city and school district participation and mandatory for other units. The measure would apply to delinquencies before July 1, 1938, and offer three installment options for catch‑up by 1941, or lose benefits if current taxes fall behind.
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Austin
House of Representatives
Aransas County
Rockport Seawall
Senate
W. Lee O'Daniel
State Safety School Boycotts Grave Digging for Drivers
The State of Texas announced a boycott on grave diggers as Col. Homer Garrison unveiled the first Texas traffic officers training school to run May 1 12 at Camp Mabry near Austin. Capt. Sid Harper of Amarillo is invited, with Amarillo considering sending a representative. Lt Kreml of Evanston Ill will head the faculty in a 12 day program covering traffic control enforcement and education among other topics. See SAFETY Page 7
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Texas
Homer Garrison
Department of Public Safety
Camp Mabry
Austin
Sid Harper
Amarillo
Ross Rogers
H. R. Smith
City Commission
Frank M. Kreml
Evanston, Ill
Pert
Kreml
Detroit
Michigan
House Panel Probes Atlanta Explosion Aftermath
A House committee orders an investigation into Saturday’s explosion in Atlanta that killed one and injured seven. Rep. Abe Mays requested the inquiry, with Rep. John E. Roach introducing the resolution. The blast is likened to the New London school disaster of two years prior.
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Austin
House Committee
Atlanta
Abe Mays
John EB
Roach
Forney
New London
Union Seamen May Strike Halt 184 Tankers
Union seamen prepared for a nationwide strike at midnight aboard 184 oil tankers operated by six oil companies and one steamship line. Build Now view John Maynard Lumber Co for estimates at 800 W. 5th, Ph. 5353.
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Houston
U.P
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Freeze Tonight Forecast With Mild Impact
Meteorologist Mr. Collman expects a freeze tonight as Colorado and western Kansas dust settles after sunset. Clouds and possible moisture may appear but the freeze should not be damaging. frost is unlikely though flurries moved with dust this morning. Temperatures fell to 37 degrees, with northwest winds around 35 mph.
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Colorado
Kansas
Panhandle
Siege of Thievery Strikes In Midst of Policemen
In Grants Pass Oregon Sheriff Don Barnes had his gun stolen by a burglar. Deputy Nella Lister then found two men siphoning gasoline from her car using a hose stolen from her garden.
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Grants Pass
Ore
Don Barnes
Nella Lister
Amarillo forecast shows frost and colder temps this week
Partly cloudy and slightly colder tonight with freezing temperatures. Tuesday brings fair, colder conditions across West Texas with frost in the west and north Panhandle. New Mexico sees partly cloudy skies tonight and warmer, fair Tuesday.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Train collision injures four near Pasco
A Northern Pacific passenger and freight train collided with a Spokane Portland Seattle freight train at Ainsworth Junction three miles south of Pasco Washington. Four trainmen were injured and the freight engineer Garmon suffered the most serious injuries.
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Pasco, Wash
Northern Pacific
Spokane
Portland
Seattle
Ainsworth Junction
Here
Garmon
King Zog to Extend Exile in United States
Athens reports King Zog of Albania will leave Larissa to continue exile in the United States with Queen Geraldine their infant son and a small retinue. He will likely stop in England en route. four of his sisters are expected to sail with them.
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Athens
Greece
U.P
Zog
Albania
Larissa
Geraldine
United States
England
America
Balkans as Key to European Peace and War
The Balkans, a mosaic of seven nations with artificial borders, sit at the gateway to Europe through the Dardanelles and Bosphorus. From Alexander the Great to Mussolini, power politics have repeatedly used this gate to shape empires, sparking wars when the straits are closed or contested.
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Turkey
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Baghdad
Seven Seas
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Mussolini
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Hull
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U.S
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India
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U. S. Bureau of Mines
Engineering Department of the State Commission
G. H. Little
Wood-Webb Lbr. Co
5Th St
King Zog
U. S
Amarillo Shade & Equip. Co
Morgan M. Beatty
Balkan States
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Tripoli
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Talian
Black Sea Gateway
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Black Sea
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