Nation Moves Toward Prohibition Repeal Despite Modest Celebrations
Washington reports that 36 states have ratified repeal, but celebrations are restrained as regulators scramble to establish laws. President Roosevelt urges no return of saloons and promotes temperance, while federal authorities set codes for distillers, brewers, and importers and expedite legitimate bourbon imports.
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Washington
Utah
Roosevelt
Aperres
Joseph H. Choate, Jr
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
Ram Here-So What Gotham To Be Sober
New York report notes repeal impact with crowded taxis running late and lights burning in old apartments until dawn. The piece reflects on social patterns during late hours across decades.
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Ram
Gotham
10 000 Planes For England Plan Stirs Peace Dream
Arthur Brisbane notes the call for a 10 000 plane English air fleet as a deterrent and duty of the nation. The piece laments Britain’s readiness and argues for a fierce air combat capability to rival Germany and defend democracy. It contrasts air power with past naval empires and recalls prohibition era nightlife in New York as a backdrop to a world on edge.
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Hearst Ranch
San Simeon
Cal
England
Germany
Scapa Flow
France
Lindberghs Reach Brazil After 118-Miles-Per-Hour Atlantic Flight
Col Lindbergh and Anne Morrow arrive in Acclaim Natal Brazil after a 1,875 mile South Atlantic crossing from Bathurst Gambia. The Spirit of St Louis completed the flight in 15 hours 55 minutes averaging 118 mph with crowds welcoming the famous couple as streets and stores closed for the fiesta.
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Natal
Brazil
Charles A. Lindbergh
South Atlantic Ocean
Bathurst
Gambia
Africa
Amarillo
Lindberghs
Lindbergh
Anne Morrow
Atlantic
North Atlantic
Pan-American Airways
St. Mary Island
Colonel Lindbergh
Mrs. Lindbereh
Wireless
Death claims J. B. Gray at family home
Judathan Byron Gray 82 a long time Amarillo resident died shortly after 11 last night at 705 Jackson Street after five weeks of critical illness. He was a First Baptist Church member and an Odd Fellows, survived by wife Rossie May Gray and three children Claude A. Gray Byron W. Gray and Mrs Curtis Richardson all of Amarillo. Claude A. Gray operates Gray Photo Shop. Funeral arrangements were to be announced by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Chapel.
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Judathan
Byron Gray
Amarillo
Jackson Street
Mr. Gray
First Baptist Church
Odd Fellows Lodge
Rossie May Gray
Claude A. Gray
Byron W. Gray
Curtis Richardson
Gray Photo Shop
Amarillo Area Weather Outlook Turns Warmer
Forecast for Amarillo and nearby areas calls for fair skies and rising temperatures tonight and Thursday. West Texas west of the 100th meridian sees warmer conditions, with cooler northern portions tonight. New Mexico will also be fair, with a warmer Thursday and northeast portion tonight. Temperatures today reach 25 to 41 by 1 PM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Citizens Ask Primary Vote in Louisiana Sixth District
The Citizens Election League urged Gov. Allen to call a sixth district congressional election to permit two primaries. An offer by Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp to withdraw if a new election is called accompanied the league’s appeal, amid protests and claims of an unopposed Long candidate securing the seat after votes from about 146 precincts across nine parishes.
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Baton Rouge
Citizens Election League Today
Oscar x. Allen
Bolivar E. Kemp
Long- Allen
Huey P. Long
Kemp
Long
South Plains Doctor Killed in Car Smash
Dr. D. D. Shropshire of Levelland died instantly when their car overturned on the Matador Paducah highway eight miles east of Matador. Ford Payne of Levelland was seriously injured with multiple broken bones. The wreck left the men in the car for hours before rescue and transport to Paducah.
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Matador
D. D. Shropshire
Levelland
Ford Payne
Matador-Paducah
Here
Paducah
Shropshire
Payne
Greece May Give Up Chicago Power Man
The Pursuit of Samuel Insull may end as Greece seeks his departure by December 31 official sources say. A free pass possibility suggests he could be allowed to travel to other countries rather than be extradited to Chicago to face Chicago charges.
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Greece
Chicago
Athens
Samuel Insi
Insull
United Utility Czar
Cook
Highway Work Provides Job for 1430 Men
About 1430 men were employed Wednesday on highway and road projects through the Potter County CWA office plus numerous workers on city and relief projects. Active sites include Legion Home projects Thompson Park Northwest Texas Hospital city parks street repairs cleanups and canning plant relief efforts along with highways 5 33 and the Palo Duro Park area. Texas also received 15000 additional CWA workers raising the state total to 216000 and the national target is 4 million by December 15.
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Potter County
CWA
Grant Street
American Legion
the Legion Home
Municipal Auditorium
Thompson Park
Northwest Texas Hospital
Amarillo
Tenth Avenue
Canyon Hill
Palo Duro Park
Canyon
Austin
Lawrence Westbrook
Texas
Washington
Border Towns Groggy From Blow of Repeal
San Diego report details Mexican border resorts desperate to revive nightlife after U.S. prohibition repeal. Treaty ports at Tia Juana and Mexicali eyed to lure Americans with tax free imports, cheap goods, and casino-like offerings. Agua Caliente slashes liquor prices as pari mutuel betting faces legalization pressures. Mexicali suffers empty venues despite efforts.
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Tia Juana
Mexicali
United States
Agua Caliente
Mongolian Civil War Flare Reported in Tokyo
Japanese military reports say civil war has erupted in Outer Mongolia as nationalists rise against nine years of Soviet domination. Urga serves as the capital amid the turmoil reported to the war office.
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Tokyo
Outer Mongolia
Urga
War Office
Evading Liquor Tax Trial Post 18th Amendment Repeal
Fort Worth reports two defendants Glenn Hobbs and Cleo Johnson to face federal court today under the Moonshiners Act of 1868 for evading liquor manufacturing taxes. Proceedings follow the repeal of the 18th Amendment, with penalties including at least 500 dollars or six months imprisonment.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Glenn Hobbs
Cleo Johnson
Look at Your Left Face and See The Person You Wish You Were
Associated Press report from Durham describes mirror image photographs showing left facial sides revealing a person’s wished-for self. Werner Wolff and Duke University psychologist researchers note left faces often express hidden desires, persisting after death in mummies.
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Associated Press
Durham
N. C
Werner Wolff
Berlin
Duke University
Wolff
Connie Mack
Greta Garbo
Eddie Cantor
Woolley Trial Nearing Close in Dallas Murder Case
Mrs Esta Joynes testifies in the Woolley murder trial claiming Dorothy Woolley was shot in bed with a shotgun in Toy G. Woolley's lap. Joynes says Woolley hid a prior marriage and never provided a marriage certificate, learning of his past only after his arrest.
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Dallas
Toy G. Woolley
Dorothy
Esta Joynes
Woolley
Jaynes
Storm warnings issued from Apalachicola to Cedar Keys
The weather bureau ordered northwest storm warnings from Apalachicola to Cedar Keys and from Jacksonville to the Virginia Capes. A disturbance over eastern Louisiana was moving northeastward with rising intensity.
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Washington
U.P
Weather Bureau Today
Apalachicola
Cedar Keys
Fla
Jacksonville
Virginia Capes
Louisiana
New Roosevelt Group To Clarify Recovery
President Roosevelt creates a national emergency council to coordinate information services across the country and clarify government recovery activities. The council includes key agency heads and administrators and will act as a central bureau for those seeking government information.
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Roosevelt
National Emergency Council
the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
NRA
Federal Emergency Relief Organization
The
Home Loan Organization
Farm Credit Administration
Consumers Council
Frank Walker
Executive Council
Death Spree Fatal To Chicago Woman
In Hot Springs Arkansas on December 6 Jack Walton thirty of Chicago fatally stabbed a woman grievously wounded her daughter a hotel manager was terrorized and then killed himself Mrs Stella Shattas thirty and her daughter Irene fourteen both from Chicago escaped the hotel room screaming Walton attacked them and Mrs Shattas died moments after at the door Say Bilatz.
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Hot Springs
Ark
U.P
Jack Walton
Chicago
Walton
Stella Shattas
Irene
Legion Slams CWA Policy at Mass Meeting
The American Legion held a mass meeting at Municipal Auditorium with about 400 ex service members to push a resolution urging the federal government to enforce laws and give returning veterans with families priority on federal relief projects. Legionnaires denounced hiring practices on local CWA jobs that favored workers with no dependents over veterans with dependents. Commander James Cade presided as reports of underutilization of ex service men on CWA projects circulated.
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Municipal Auditorium
Legion
CWA
Legionnaires
James
Cade
Edmonton Meeting Stirs Tennyson Mystery in Frontier Hotel
In Edmonton Curt Tennyson and Smash Desplaines check in with little money as Superintendent Marlin from Vancouver plans a visit. A letter from Marlin hints at Fort Resolution and a new job with Consolidated Minerals, adding a puzzle to the trio’s return.
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Curt
Desplaines
Lacelle
A. K. Marlin
Marlin
The
Mounted Police
Vancouver
Rosalie
Rosalie Are Right Here With Us, Mr. Tennyson
Fort Resolution
Edmonton
Great Slave
Consolidated Minerals
Norris sentenced to death in Scottoporo case
Clarence Norris, the second of seven black defendants in the Scottoporo case, was convicted today by a Morgan County jury for attacking a white woman. The verdict carries the automatic death penalty. Don't Say Beer . . . Say Biatz.
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Decatur
Ala
Clarence Norris
Scottaporo
Morgan County
Byrd Plans Pole Expedition Sail Next Tuesday
Wellington reports Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd may sail for the South Pole next Tuesday. His Antarctic flagship stays in harbor as a wooden vessel will precede it for oceanographic work. The main camp is at Little America with an advance base 400 miles south for winter weather observations. Don't Say Beer.
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Wellington
N. Z
Richard E. Byrd
South Pole
Byrd
Little America
Amelia Earhart to Speak in Amarillo on Flying for Pun
Amelia Earhart, famed aviatrix, will arrive by train in Amarillo around noon tomorrow and speak at 8:15 PM in the High School Auditorium. Her lecture, part of the Amarillo College of Music Artist's Course, covers the Atlantic flight and women in flight with motion pictures to illustrate.
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Amelia Earhart
Amarillo
New York
Oklahoma City
The
Air
Emil F. Myers
Amarillo College of Music
Miss Earhart
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Astor
the Waldorf
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Maurice Dore
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
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