Ickes Revises Embargo Idea Amid Registration Threat
Secretary Hull warns firms and individuals handling arms must register under the neutrality act or face penalties including five years in prison or a $10,000 fine. A list of 86 registrants was released, while calls for stricter compliance follow Ickes's earlier statements about exports to Italy and Ethiopia being misinterpreted.
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Washington
Hull
Secretary of State
Secretary of
Tekes
Ickes
Italy
Ethiopia
National Control Board
Supreme Court Hears Attack on Bankhead Cotton Act
Texas planter Lee Moor argues before the Supreme Court that the Bankhead act oversteps federal power. He says the tax on cotton beyond a quota aims to regulate production and nullify state authority, violating the tenth amendment and lacking public purpose. Arguments resume December 10.
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Washington
Lee Moor
Texas
Supreme Court
Congress
Moor
United States
Longshoremen Halt Gulf Port Cargo Unloading Worldwide
San Francisco reports the Longshore Hiring Hall refuses to dispatch crews to unload the S. S. Katrina Luckenbach. A nationwide ILA boycott orders ship unloads from 19 gulf ports and related Transatlantic lines, impacting about 25 lines. The action targets recognition in Southern ports amid violence and union solidarity.
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San Francisco
International Longshoremen's Association
Katrina Luckenbach
Fall of Mexico
New York
International Longshoreman’s Association
Joseph P. Ryan
Pacific
Atlantic
Gulf Ports
Gulf
Ryan
King George Pledges Britain to Firm Italian Crisis Policy
King George pledged Britain to the government's firm policy in the Italian Ethiopian crisis in a throne speech delivered in London. The monarch affirmed full support for current government actions as tensions over Ethiopia remained high.
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King George
Britain
Rome
Italy
Ethiopia
League
Victoria
Lord Hailsham
United Press
London
Great Britain
Mussolini cabinet acts to ease oil embargo threat
Rome officials say Premier Mussolini's cabinet will increase oil production and cut consumption to blunt a League of Nations embargo. Albanian output and native Italian wells will be expanded, with steps to hasten supply. See MUNITIONS Page.
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Associated Press
Rome
Mussolini
League of Nations
Officer Shot By Bail Break In Oklahoma Jail Escape
Six prisoners broke from the city federal jail in Muskogee Oklahoma injuring Chief of Detectives Ben Bolton. One escapee was shot by Chief of Police Marsh Corgan. The fugitives include Dan Heady Dewey Gilmore Russell Cooper Leonard Short and Don Garrett linked to the O Malley gang.
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Muskogfe
Okla
Okemah National
Ben Bolton
Marsh Corgan
Trish O'Malley
Dan Heady
Kansas City
Dewey Gilmore
Dallas
Texas
Russell Cooper
Fort Smith
Ark
Leonard Short
Galena
Don Garrett
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Amarillo Hosts TCU Frogs Train Arrival Tonight
Amarillo fans will greet the Texas Christian University Frogs at 6 o clock tonight as they arrive by special train at the Denver station from Fort Worth to San Francisco. A welcome concert will be provided by Sandie hand from Senior High School on the platform, led by Principal R B Norman. Slinging Sammy Baugh leads the team toward California for an intersectional clash with Santa Clara. the train will stop for 15 minutes.
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Texas Christian University Frogs
Amarillo
Denver
Fort Worth
San Francisco
Calif
Sandie Hand
R. B. Norman
Sammy Baugh
California
Santa Clara
Breckenridge Seeks Return of Football Tickets
Breckenridge High School officials appealed to Amarillo to return as many Amarillo Breckenridge grid tickets as possible. The district game marks Oil Belt’s first since 1932 and all Breckenridge reserved seats sold out in hours. Superintendent C. M. Rogers warned Golden Sandie fans to buy early or risk losing tickets. Tickets sold at Maxor Drug Store and Santa Fe Railway offered $4.85 round trip.
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Breckenridge
Amarillo
Maxor Drug Store
Fisk Building
Santa Fe Railway
Maxor’s
Dalhart Lobbies Roosevelts Over Soil Conservation HQ Move
Dalhart residents await the president's reply to a telegram protesting the removal of the regional soil conservation service office to Amarillo. The Dalhart office employs about 125000 dollars yearly and has long led the high plains program across five states.
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Dalhart
U.P
Roosevelt
The
Soil Conservation Service
Amarillo
Elmer Elliott
High Plains
Soil Conservation
Texas
New Mexico
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
Morris Sheppard
Tom Connally
Rexford Tugwell
Marvin Jones
Elliott
Prince Serge Mdivani Linked to Ex-Wife Louise Van Alen
New York reports Prince Serge Mdivani may marry Louise Astor Van Alen, former wife of his brother Alexis. The engagement is said to be disclosed by Van Alen family friends in Newport. Alexis died in an auto accident abroad after a troubled marriage to Louise, and Alexis later wed Barbara Hutton. Prince David Mdivani, third brother, is divorced from Mae Murray.
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New York
Prince Serge Mdivani
Louise Astor van Allen
Prince Alexis
New York Daily News
Prince Serge
Miss van Alen
van Alen
Newport
R I
Alexis
Serge
Pola Negri
Mary McCormic
Society of
Barbara Hutton
Prince David Mdivani
Mae Murray
Ickes Names Pair To Tender Board In East Texas
Secretary Ickes announced the federal tender board appointments for east Texas naming James A. Frear as chairman and G. W. Van Fleet as a member. Norman Meyers will resign as executive secretary of the petroleum administrative board and George W. Holland will replace him as executive secretary. Thomas J. Kelliher remains head of agency one in the east Texas field.
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Washington
Ickes
James A. Frear
G. W. van Fleet
Federal Tender Board
East
Texas
Norman Meyers
Petroleum Administrative Board
George W. Holland
Geological Survey
van Fleet
John W. Davis
Petroleum Board
Thomas J. Kelliher
Petroleum Agency
East Texas
Unwilling Eagle Visitor Humbled By City Injuries Heal For Flight
A Mexican eagle over six feet across walked into a downtown service station on Seventh Avenue and Harrison Street. Found by Lonrie Johnson, the bird was rescued after being shot near Bushland. Turned over to T. Duncan Stewart, it was treated and sent to the Hoover Strader Ranch near Canadian to heal and be released back to the air.
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Lonrie Johnson
Seventh Avenue
Harrison Street
T. Duncan Stewart
Bill
Wing Stewart
Hoover-Strader Ranch
Canadian
Liquor Cases Quashed in Potter County After Wet Vote
Sixteen liquor cases were dismissed in 47th District Court as local option prohibition ended. Potter County went wet by 258 votes as 1,663 favored legalization and 1,405 opposed. Package store sales begin after Saturday, with court action on official canvass by county commissioners.
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47Th District Court
Potter County
Masterson
J. N. Riggs
State Board of Liquor Control
E. C. Nelson
Grady Hazlewood
Riggs
Court of Criminal Appeals
Hazlewood
Potter Reliefs Period Extended to December 15
M. W. Compton district administrator for the Texas Relief Commission announced an extended relief period to December 15 with five dollars allotted per family on relief. The extension aims to bridge until WPA pay begins. WPA workers may take private sector work briefly without losing eligibility, per A. A. Meredith WPA district administrator.
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M. W. Compton
Texas Relief Commission
A. A. Meredith
WPA
Meredith
Works Progress Administration
Two Slain and Many Injured in Pen Break in Boston
December 3 report says two men killed including a prisoner and a truck driver during a mass escape from Massachusetts state prison in the Charlestown district. Seven or eight prisoners took part. several guards and inmates were wounded. Most fugitives were recaptured, with gunpoint recaptures reported at Boston and Maine rail yards.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Charleston
Boston and Maine
Landslide Kills 50 in Verde Cocha Village
A landslide buried the village of Verde Cocha in Quito province this morning, killing 50 inhabitants instantly. Rescue teams rushed to the scene as authorities began investigations into the disaster and potential causes.
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Quayaquil
Ecuador
Verde Cocha
One killed in four car crash near Miami Oklahoma
A four car wreck on U S Highway 66 near Miami Oklahoma killed Rod Lane 29 of Denison Texas and injured five others. Lane drove a transport truck in the collision reported last night.
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Miami
Okla
Rod Lane
Denison
Texas
Here
Lane
The Globe columnist Arthur Brisbane on Ethiopia slavery and rulers
A Globe column by Arthur Brisbane discusses Haile Selassie and Ethiopian elites using enslaved people. The piece asserts Arabs influence, cites two million enslaved Africans, and describes slaveholding as a cornerstone of Ethiopian prosperity and social order.
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Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Vicinity
Partly cloudy and slightly colder tonight and Wednesday with a low around 28 degrees. West Texas and Panhandle see similar conditions while New Mexico remains fair with little temperature change. Temperature extremes today range from 31 to 43 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
North
New Mexico
Jones to decide on leading export import banks post
Washington dispatch reports Jesse H. Jones, RFC chairman, is expected to decide today whether to accept the offer to succeed George Peek as president of the export import banks. Peek resigns after disagreements over trade policy. department notes reciprocal trade pacts with Brazil and Canada take effect Jan 1.
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Washington
U.P
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
George N. Peek
Peek
New Deal
Brain Trusters
R. Walton Moore
Jones
Roosevelt
Moore
State Department
Brazil
Canada
Hugh 8. Johnson
NRA
RFC
Probe begins as Hickman testifies in DPS investigation
Tom Hickman, recently discharged by L. G. Phares as senior Ranger captain, testifies that the acting director opposed merging the highway patrol and the state Rangers and said he would try to smother the Rangers. The Texas legislature committee heard the testimony in Fort Worth as the probe opened.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Texas Department of Public Safety
L. G. Phares
Highway Patrol
State Ranger Force
Rangers
Tom Hickman
Phares
Ranger
Peonage End Urged By Rex Tugwell In Valley
Rexford G. Tugwell urges an end to peonage in the Mississippi Valley in a Washington Star radio forum. He says the region pits people against each other in political conflict and advocates a well run economic system where all share wealth and freedom as a heritage. He contrasts northern farmers mortgaged to lenders with southern tenants and sharecroppers.
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Washington
Rexford G. Tugwell
Missssippi
Washington Star
Senator Long
Yule Business at Post Office Begins
Christmas business as the post office is beginning to trickle in according to Postmaster W D De Grassi who again has issued a mail early plea. The postmaster anticipates one of the heaviest Yuletide seasons in recent years and has warned against a last minute rush and delay to Christmas packages.
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W. D. DeGrassi
Traffic Safety Notes and Enforcement Reminders
A cluttered notice outlines common violations such as running red lights stop signs and excessive speeding along with penalties for double and overtime parking and parking in restricted zones. It urges citizens to follow traffic regulations and includes contact details for John Maynard at Lhbr. Co and a West South address.
Stage Plays to Promote Dry Cause in National Drive
The Anti Saloon League shifts from lectures to stage plays to combat alcohol. Director George Y Hammond says young people respond to dramatic presentations more than sermons. Plays like Prisoner at the Bar will travel nationwide with actors and local talent in each community.
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Hal Boyle
ST. Louis
Anti-Saloon League
John Barleycorn
George Y. Hammond
Los Angeles
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Varley
Braniff Airways
Farley
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Dallas-Amarillo
TCU Frogs
Brother
Serge Mdivani
Pen Break
King Features Syndicate, Inc. International
China
Hailie Selassie
Haile Selassie
Texan
Jesse Jones
Rex Tugwell
Weatherstrip & Caulking
John Maynard Lhbr. Co
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