San Antonio Briefs on Leavenworth Narcotics Inquiry
Evidence on narcotics distribution among prisoners at Leavenworth will be presented to prison authorities by San Antonio officers after Judge R J McMillan noted information from here. Narcotic agent W H Crook will accompany the next prisoner transfer with statements gathered from addicts who served terms there. Local officers will supply information but not conduct an investigation.
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San Antonio
United States Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Kansas
R. J. McMillan
McMillan
W. H. Crook
Crooks
Fullbright Funeral Set For 3 P M Friday
Last rites for John W. Pallbright will be read at 3 o clock Friday afternoon from Boxwell Brothers Funeral Chapel by Rev. T D Sumrall. Pallbearers are John Gavin John Kenyon Bert Abrams Jimmy McDowell George Rhea and James Lanksford. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery. Fullbright, an R F C worker, was killed in an automobile accident Monday morning.
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John W. Pallbright
Boxwell Brothers
T. D. Sumrall
John Gavin
John Kenyon
Bert Abrams
Jimmy McDowell
George Rhea
James Lanksford
Llano
Mr. Fullbright
Personal Paragraphs Round Up Local Trips and Visits
Mrs Freddie Young of Borger visited Amarillo on Thursday. Miss Lucille Van Shaw former Borger teacher now in Los Angeles visits Fort Worth for a week to ten days. Bert J Peek of the Metropolitan Building and Loan Association in Amarillo traveled to Dallas on business. Rev FE Gaston Foote of Das Jacinto Methodist will return from Chicago after the World's Fair. Presiding Elder L N Lipscomb filled the pulpit during Foote’s absence. Mrs Gervis Taylor of Amarillo High School and her son Joe left for Galveston to visit Mrs Taylor’s sister. Mr and Mrs Roy Pavillard of Pleasant Valley left for a vacation in Roswell New Mexico. The National Carbon Company announced three factory representative meetings with servicemen in this region at the Herring Hotel in Amarillo Monday and two others at Pampa August 9 and Woodward Oklahoma August 11. Talking films will be shown with music. Kid gloves are made from young goat skins killed while on a milk diet before feeding on herbage.
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Lucille van Shaw
Borger
Los Angeles
Fort Worth
Amarillo
FE. Gaston Foote
Das Jacinto Methodist Church
Chicago
L. N. Lipscomb
Foote
The
National Carbon Company
Eveready Prestone
Herring Hotel
Pampa
Woodward
Okla
Amarillo Cost of Living Rises Sharply in Four Weeks
A 1933 analysis shows Amarillo’s retail prices jumping about 3 300 dollars daily for four weeks ending July 8. Bureau figures from BLS Census and Foreign and Domestic Commerce measured national price hikes, with clothing rising most and food costs climbing later. The piece notes sales fell from 1929 to 1932 and ties the local rise to broader economic shifts before NRA effects.
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Amarillo
U. S
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Washington
United States
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Bureau of the Census
Census Bureau
Arrest Noonan Wanted in Swindling Charges
H D Noonan sought since 1930 in a swindling indictment was captured by Texas rangers and brought to Austin for questioning by postal inspectors. Two DA investigators tracked him after a citywide chase. In 1930 he was linked to an $11300 oil deal defrauding Mrs. A B Burks and fled Chicago.
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Noonan
San Antonio
H. D. Noonan
Austin
Texas Rangers
A. B. Burks
Sooner towns to fight loss by Gulf ports
In Chickasha Oklahoma delegates from southwestern districts of the Oklahoma Communities Protective Association gather to oppose agencies they say unfairly drain cotton and other commodities. They cite inequitable transportation rates and facilities as causing depletion of the industry. J M Locke presides and six more district meetings follow in Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma Communities Protective Association
Oklahoma
J. M. Locke
Alleged Cotton Tendency Observed at Gulf Ports
The meeting cited an outstanding example of the alleged tendency in the concentration and compressing of cotton at gulf ports rather than at the point of origin.
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Gulf Ports
Rancher Hall Improvement Moves Homeward
Jack Hall, who has been ill for three weeks, has been removed from St. Anthony's Hospital to his ranch west of town for recovery.
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Jack Hall
St. Anthony's Hospital
Town
Oil film from liner spills over Atlantic north of Cherbourg
A film of oil extends some 00 miles from ships near New York and Cherbourg spreading across the Atlantic. Birds are trapped in the thick oil in several areas and efforts to clean the spill are underway.
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Ocean
New York
Cherbourg
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Leavenworth Head
Fullbright
Freddie Young of
Bert J. Peek
Metropolitan Bulding & Loan Association
Dallas
Gervis Taylor
Amarillo High School
Joe Taylor
Galveston
Roy Pavillard
Pleasant Valley
Roswell, N. M
All-Bran
Cnet
Helm
William P. Helm
National Recovery Administration
District Attorney's Office
Fox
CDRUG
Gulf
Chickasha, Okla
J.T. Cimmonnec
Piquant
Sue
White Swan
Chase & Sanborn
Pork and Beans van Camp's
Plains
Kraft's
Macaroni Comet
Fresh Garden
California
Kellogg's
Swift's
Pimento
Sunray
Amarillo Gro. CO
Geo
G. G. Laing
Nice
Rancher Hall
Gale
America
Amarillo Bakers
Roosevelt
Amarillo Baking Co
Bon-Ton Bakery
By Crany
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