Hardware Delegates Cite Broad Business Turn at Panhandle Convention
At the Panhandle Hardware and Implement Association 24th annual meeting in the plains region more than 265 retailers wholesalers and travelers from West Texas and New Mexico attended. Speakers urged assured bank reform farm price relief mortgage relief and measures against credit inflation as signs point to improved business conditions. The event featured a banquet with nearly 300 attendees and sessions titled The Call To Arms Over the Top and Laying Down the Barrage. Rivers was among the morning speakers.
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the Panhandle Hardware and Implement Association
West Texas
New Mexico
Rivers
Defense Arguments Begin in Russian Trial in Moscow
The April session opened with defense pleas as six British engineers face bribery and espionage charges. Prosecutor Visinsky urged conviction for Albert W. Gregory and others as spies and saboteurs while Russians face death or long sentences. Smirnov argued William L. MacDonald was misled by Russian counter-revolutionaries due to deprivation and lack of education.
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Moscow
Andrey Vishinsky
Albert W. Gregory
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company
A. A. Smirnov
William L. MacDonald
Factor Ready to Pay Ransom for Kidnapped Son
Chicago April 17 John Factor prisoner of extradition to England for fraud declares he will pay any reasonable ransom for the safe return of his son Jerome Jr. He says he talked by phone with Jerome 36 hours after the kidnapping and asks for prompt action. Factor adds he will negotiate alone and has not yet contact the abductors.
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Chicago
John Factor
England
Jerome, Jr
Jerome
Factor
Jack
Daniel Gilbert
Banquet at The Nat for Hardware Convention Delegates
Between 350 and 375 guests attended the banquet for hardware convention delegates and their ladies at The Nat last night. Dr. R. P. Parcells presided as chamber of commerce president and Rev. J.T. McClure gave the invocation. Gordon Taylor of Amarillo, new PHIT Club president, received a trophy won yesterday at golf and the event concluded with dancing.
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R. P. Parcells
Chamber of Commerce
J.T. McClure
Polk Street Methodist Church
Gordon Taylor
Amarillo
Phit Club
Hardware leaders gather for Oklahoma trade session highlights
Peterson and Dan H. Wilmot attend the closing session with Charles F. Nelson of Oklahoma City delivering the address. C. G. Pearce of J. I. Case predicts friendlier bankers for farm equipment dealers and continued farm relief boosting sales. Grayce S. Bryson criticizes salesmanship and notes frequent price rises in hardware merchandising.
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Grayce S. Bryson
Borden Produce Company
Amarillo
Clothing Tax Relief Reaches Agreement in Oklahoma
A conference committee with Governor Murray agrees on a revived sales tax bill: clothing under eight dollars exempt except silk. seventeen percent of revenue earmarked for weak schools.
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Oklahoma City
Murray
Senate backs beer legalization with two election plan
The Senate committee on constitutional amendments voted a unanimous favorable report on a House resolution to submit legalization of 3.2 percent beer to voters. The plan would delay beer in subdivisons that were dry before statewide approval, requiring a second local vote before sale is allowed, with floor action expected after the beer taxation bill is ready. The committee expects House concurrence and foresees possible action by next Thursday.
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Austin
Senate Committee On
House
W. K. Hopkins
Gongales
Senate
Hopkins
Trial of Scottsboro attack cases halted in Alabama
In Decatur Alabama on April 17 the Scottsboro attack cases were postponed indefinitely after Judge James E Horton ruled that a New York Herald Tribune article quoting Samuel L Leibowitz prejudiced the defense. Horton rebuked Leibowitz and delayed seven negro defendants accused of assaulting two white hoboes. The article allegedly quoted Leibowitz describing jurors as bigots. The matter continues with Patterson retrial prospects.
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Decatur
Ala
Scottsboro
Alabama
Samuel L. Leibowitz
James E. Horton
Leibowitz
New York Herald-Tribune
New York
Haywood Patterson
Horton
Patterson
Ferguson and Allred To Speak at W T C C Big Spring Sessions
Ferguson and Allred will address taxation public expenditures and budget laws at the West Texas Chamber of Commerce convention in Big Spring May 11 to 13. James E. Ferguson and James V. Allred speak May 12 and 11 sessions cover budgeting and state finance with other leaders from Baylor Texas Tech and Amarillo among speakers.
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James E. Ferguson
Miriam A. Ferguson
James V. Allred
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Big Spring
Ferguson
General Assembly
Allred
Bradford Knapp
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Pat M. Neff
Baylor University
Waco
Wilbur O. Hawk
Amarillo
Walter Cline
Wichita Falls
Texas
West Texas
Public Works Group
E. N. Noyes
Dallas
Lawrence Westbrook
The
Texas Relief Commission
Oklahoma House Overrides Veto on Chain Store Tax Bill
Oklahoma City April 17 House passed a tax bill on chain stores despite Governor Murray's veto by 87 to 7. The measure imposes a tax ranging from 5 to 500 dollars on chain stores. The vote demonstrates strong legislative support for the new revenue measure.
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Oklahoma City
House
Murray
Texas proposes $20 million statewide bond issue
Austin reports a $20 million state bond plan to supplement Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds for unemployment relief. If approved by voters, bonds would be issued as needed, bear 4 percent interest, and mature within ten years. Governor Miriam A Ferguson and a legislative committee cite urgent need to aid destitute families during the Depression.
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Austin
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Miriam A. Ferguson
Legislative Committee On
Haw k and Bandeen to Talk at Dalhart
Wilbur C. Hawk president of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce with D A Bandeen and Mason King will travel to Dalhart Tuesday morning to address the Dalam County Taxpayers League at the courthouse on taxation. West Texas Chamber leaders met for an all day session here to discuss the state convention set for May 11 13 at Big Spring.
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McCormick Co
West Texas
Brownwood
San Angelo
Amarillo
Plainview
Hawk
Cline
D. A. Bandeen
Stamford
Maury Hopkins
Spencer Wells
Lubbock
Wilbur C. Hawk
Bandeen
Hatton Lays Out National Leadership View for Lions
Charles H. Hatton of Wichita Kansas urged Lions international to back Roosevelt's program and inflation steps to pay debts. He warned of job scarcity and hunger amid surplus crops, calling 80 000 Lions a potential force for the new deal. Delegates from 54 clubs numbered over 400 as El Paso and others host meetings with election of officers set for Tuesday.
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Lions of
West Texas
Charles H. Hatton
Wichita
Kans
Roosevelt
America
Hatton
Dalhart and
Higgins
el Paso
Big Spring
Bank Robbery by Three Bandits in Arkadelphia
Three well dressed men robbed Citizens National Bank in Arkadelphia Ark of about $2500 using a submachine gun and pistols. They menaced employees and customers and later fought police before escaping. no one was wounded.
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Arkadelphia
Ark
Citizens National Bank
Love Puts End To Jousting of Texas Redbird
FORT WORTH April 17 A lone redbird that had sparred with its reflection for nearly a month stopped the duel today. It moved about lawns searching for food. Mrs. R J Newman, who hosted the bird, says a mate was found on a nest of eggs in a hedge along the alley, explaining the truce.
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Texas
Fort Worth
R. J. Newman
Drag Tigress Out of Court
Florence, April 17 Mrs Whnnie Ruth Judd was forcibly moved from the courtroom to a state prison cell during a sanity hearing. After a brief car ride with Warden A G Walker she returned meekly to the bench and sobered, following a violent outburst while her husband Dr William C Judd testified to her insanity. The Judds’ parents also testified that insanity ran in the family. The outburst ended with her removal and later quieting at the prison before her reappearance in court.
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Florence
Ariz
Ruth Judd
A. G Walker
Agnes Anne Lerot
William C. Judd
H. J. McKinnell
Darington
Ind
Train wreck near Emerson kills three including engineer
A northbound Flamingo fast Louisville and Nashville train wrecked in a cut near Emerson Georgia. Three persons including the engineer and fireman were killed and several others injured. Four ambulances rushed from Cartersville to assist the dead and injured.
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Emerson
Cooking School Opens At Auditorium Today
Amarillo housewives return to lessons as the News-Globe Cooking School begins this afternoon at 2 o clock in the Municip Auditorium. Demonstrations on economical dishes with new recipes and prizes from local merchants welcome attendees.
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Amarillo
Christeen Chitwood
News-Globe
Municip
Norriss
Panhandle
Amarilo Hardware Company
Pinkney Packing Company
Great West Mill and Elevator Company
Roberts & Olver
Coca-Cola Bottling Company Company
Parl Wyett Stores
Steffen's
Morrow-Thomas Hardware Company
Southwestern Public Service Company
Toney Chisum, Inc
Amarillo Gas Company
Perfection Bakery
McIlhenny’s Tabasco
K. C. Baking Powder
National Biscuit Company
Rinso
India Tea Bureau
Morton's Sait
Free Coinage Urged as Aid to Farm Bill
Senator Wheeler leads a push for remonetizing silver at 16 to 1 with gold to lift farm prices, but President Roosevelt opposes currency inflation as part of the farm relief program. The Senate defeats the silver amendment 43 to 45 amid Borah and Long protests and plans to reopen debate.
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Washington
White House
Senate
Roosevelt
Wheeler
Democrat
Montana
Robinson
Benator Robinson
Arkansas
Borah
Idaho
Thomas
Oklahoma
Shipstead
Farmer-Labor
Minnesota
Long
New Oil Order Expected In East Texas By Week’s End
Neal Powers assistant to the Texas attorney general said a new order to regulate oil production in the East Texas field would likely be issued Wednesday afternoon or Thursday. He and officials explored data from 290 wells using open flow tests showing an average potential of 521 barrels per hour per well, about 12 500 barrels daily per well.
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Kilgore
Neal Powers
Texas
East Texas
Powers
R. D. Parker
W. F. Knode
State Railroad Commission
Commission
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