Morgenthau Orders Demotion Over Secret Service Spying
Secretary Morgenthau demotes two Secret Service officials after learning agents investigated FBI activities. Joseph E. Murphy drops one grade while Grady Boatwright is reassigned from St Paul bureau. Treasury officials acknowledge the action and pledge disciplinary measures. An in-house probe linked the inquiry to the Dillinger case.
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Washington
Secret Service
Morgenthau
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Joseph E. Murphy
Grady Boatwright
St. Paul
aBe Sethlia
Tne Treasury Neaqge
Puviic
Cummings
Department
W. H. Oran
Treasury
Justice Department
Dillinger
Hi-Jacking of Potatoes Hits Shafter Market
In Shafter California reports say potato shortages push prices to 2.50 per hundredweight while truck drivers note a surge in missing 100 pound sacks from the haul in a growing gangland theft.
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Shafter
Cal
U.P
Rural Pupils Come to Town for School Training
Rural school districts of Potter County send about 100 high school pupils to Amarillo Public Schools annually. The city system collects the regular state per capita apportionment plus tuition fees for training these students. One rural school incurs roughly 2700 dollars yearly in tuition. Last year Amarillo Independent Schools provided rural pupils about three and a quarter months of schooling for the state apportionment.
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Potter County
Amarillo Public Schools
Amarillo
Rural school pupil transport lines draw Amarillo attendance
County Superintendent Carl Clifft reports River Road, Soney, Bushland, Cliffside, and County District No 3 will send about 50 to Amarillo High School, with Cliffside and Brady districts contributing additional students. Bus transportation operated by the districts will carry high school and some grade pupils to the city school.
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River Road
Amarillo High School
Carl Clifft
Soney
Bushland
Cliffside
Allison
Masterson
Highland Park
Brady
Clifft
Visit in Hammond brief for Carl Clifft and family
Carl Clifft the county superintendent of schools, with Mrs Clifft and Mrs Creswell, left for a brief visit to Hammond Oklahoma. The office will remain open at the courthouse during his absence. A F Housman, recently deceased, gained fame as the author of A Shropshire Lad.
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Carl Clifft
West
Ninth Avenue
Hammond
Okla
J. L. Creswell
Zook Family Reunion and Canada Fishing Trip Report
Andrew B. Zook returns from a four week vacation including a ten day fishing trip in Canada with five relatives. The Santa Fe engineer, a longtime resident of 1818 Taylor Street, visited Hargerstown Indiana and stayed with Charles N. Teeter of Perfect Circle Piston Ring Company. Zook’s brothers Aaron James and John, plus sisters Mrs L Shore and Miss Elizabeth Zook, are noted as family. The article also mentions a Thomas Reid descendant gathering in Orangeville Ontario and a Decatur Court filing related to the Hamilton estate, with Elizabeth and Leonard Lumbers Jr named heirs in Toronto.
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Canada
Andrew B
Andy) Zook
Santa Fe
Hargerstown
Ind
Charles N. Teeter
Perfect Circle Piston Ring Company
Teeter
Zook Brothers
Zook
Taylor Street
John Zook
Blackwell, Okla
Aaron
James Zook
Milen
Kansas
L Shore
Elizabeth Zook
Greensburg
Decatur
Thomas Morlan Hamilton
Elizabeth Lumbers
Leonard Lumbers, Jr
Toronto
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Carl Cliffts
Oklahoma
A. F. Housman
Journey’s End
F.D
New England
President Roosevelt
Campobello
N. B
Quebec
Lord Tweedsmuir
J. C. Penney CO
Batiste
Rayon
Taffeta
Penney
Broemore
Oxfords
Stant Arillo
Taylor St
Amarillo Bidg
16Th and
van Buren St
Polk St
Steffen Ace
Steffen
Fitch
Vitalis
Woodbury’s
St. Regis
Edgeworth
Domino
Domino Cigarettes
Irestone
Incorporated
Randal
Panama
Verazeptol
Handy Carton
16Th & van Buren
Roth
Williams
HINDS
Columbia
Rancal Drug
Andrew Zook
Orangeville
Ont
Thomas Reid
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