Dr Selectman Headlines Amarillo Visit From SMU Leader
The Southern Methodist University president, Dr. Selectman, spoke yesterday at Dimmit and Dalhart. He traveled from Amarillo to Dallas by Braniff Airways this morning, leaving at noon. The operation costs 250 dollars. Charlie's discarded parts will be used to build a stand in for hot movie lights to protect his varnish during camera adjustments.
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Dr. E. ©. Selectman
Southern Methodist University
Amarillo
Dr. Selectman
Dimmit
Dalhart
Dallas
Braniff Airways
Charlie
Poke salad cures and Amarillo growth talk in spring
The column extols poke salad and dandelion greens as spring tonics and praises diet. It notes Amarillo property activity with contracts for a Bowie Street home and plans to bid on land in Bivins addition. It argues inflation and building spur recovery, lauding Henry Ford and President Roosevelt and urging unity for prosperity.
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Amarillo
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John McBert
Fred Post
Newsar Up
Bivins
Roosevelt
Local humor and oil boom dreams in Amarillo column
A column blends light jabs at a busy editor with civic notes on a cocker spaniel reward, oil drilling talks near Amarillo, and reader tidbits from Melbourne to Oklahoma City. It touches on local job hopes, humor, and global headlines while praising small town resilience.
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Amarillo
Oklahoma City
Cliffside
East Liverpoolean blends slag work with violin making
W L Howell of East Liverpool works as a day shift power shovel operator for Standard Slag at the Pittsburgh Crucible mill in Midland. By night he carves violins, since 1933 crafting 16 instruments including a Dolphin Stradivarius copy from aged maple backs and spruce tops. He makes his own tools and has an excellent ear for tone though he does not play.
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East Liverpool
U.P
W. L. Howell
Howell
Pittsburgh
Midland
Jazz Bands and Crooners Bother DAR President
Mrs Henry M. Robert Jr new DAR President General complains about jazz bands and crooners calling them horrid saying they offend her. The April report notes her strong opposition to modern music influences in society.
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Washington
U.P
Henry M. Robert Jr
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Odd Facts From Various U S News And Notes
A collection of stray items including comments on communism and fascism, aging in tall men, dealer incentives for new cars, U S Negro property value, ideal towns without slums, British beer vending, Bank of France vault depths, and New York’s 1776 independence vote.
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United States
Detroit
Scarsdale
America
Bank of France
New York
Charlie McCarthy to Get New Pine Body Transplant
Hollywood reports Edgar Bergen will have Charlie McCarthy undergo a groundbreaking procedure to remove the dummy's head and graft a new pine torso. Bergen ordered a fresh three year-old Michigan pine body from wood carvers to replace Charlie's current form.
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Hollywood
U.P
Edgar Bergen
Bergen
Charlie
Government May Put 150000 Railroaders Back to Work
Congressional experts draft stop-gap legislation to hire 150,000 furloughed railroad workers at government expense. Senate Interstate Commerce Committee chair Burton Wheeler says temporary measures are being prepared for passage this session and may include federal cooperation with railroads.
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Washington
W.P
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Business Likes To Borrow Government's Money
Officials of the Securities Commission and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation reported today that business men were responding in increasing numbers to administration lending proposals. A spokesman said the RFC was putting the steam on to take care of loan applications pouring into its 32 regional offices, chiefly from small business men wanting some
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Washington
The
Securities Commission
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Man Held in Corsicana Not Howard Pierson
Corsicana officers said they were convinced a man they held for questioning was not Howard Pierson, the fugitive parricide from the Austin insane hospital. He differed in height and eye and hair color from Pierson, though initially fit the general description.
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Corsicana
Howard Pierson
Parricide
Austin
Pierson
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