Weather and sports talk mix with Texas football praise
A long mixed column notes fair weather and cooler nights, praises Drew Ellis of Perryton as a key Texas Christian University tackle, discusses temperance, book gifts for Christmas, plans for a Bull Bowl in Amarillo, and humorous anecdotes about baths, bootleggers, and a Townsend Club organizer.
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Panhandle
Drew Ellis
Perryton
Calvin Flowers
C. F. Kenyeburg
Amarillo
Blair Cherry
Amarillo fights to keep Dalhart soil office and burns up air
A long vocal in a Amarillo newspaper column rails at moving a Dalhart soil erosion office to Amarillo. The writer accuses Washington officials and local figures of political games, praises Dalhart and Rexford Tugwell, lists past fights for road funds, and notes a nearby fire station gag about a letter.
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Dalhart
H. H. Bennett
Washington
Bennett
Amarillo
Finnell
Amarile
John McCarty
McCarty
Marvin Jones
Jonan
News- Globe
Panhandle
Plains
News-Globe
Wilbur Hawk
Old Tack
Sheppard
Connally
Garner
Jones
Port Worth
Dallas
Houston
Ama-rllo
State
Acuvisio
North Eighth Avenue
Fillmore Street
Amarillo Street
Sixth Avenue
Harrison Street
New Trial Denied To Former Dentist
The Arkansas Supreme Court today denied a new trial to Dr Andrew J. Bass 58 former Columbia Missouri dentist serving a life sentence for the $200000 insurance plot slaying in 1920 of William R Pearman Columbia business man.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Supreme Court
Andrew J. Bass
Columbia
William R. Pearman
Plymouth wheel and tire cover missing near town
Dear Tack Tam seeks help after losing a 1934 Plymouth wheel and metal tire cover Thursday in the south part of town. A reward is offered for information leading to recovery.
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Tack Tam
Plymouth
Court rules no rum levy in dry areas
The Supreme Court held the federal government cannot tax liquor makers and dealers in dry states after prohibition repeal. In a 6 to 3 decision read by Justice Roberts the court affirmed lower court rulings from Birmingham and Tulsa. Justices Brandeis Stone and Cardozo dissented, citing state rights concerns.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Roberts
Circuit
Birmingam
Tulsa
Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo
Fines Paid by Amarillo Drivers in Court
Sixteen more persons paid fines in the Amarillo corporation court this morning as police continued to wage war on traffic law violators. Parking offenses speeding reckless driving and stop signs were the counts before Judge Walter G Fly with stiffer assessments possible for those who failed to appear. Warrants may be issued for those who fail to report and present tags to the police judge.
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Walter G. Fly
Church Bazaar Planned Friday and Saturday
The Ladies Friendship and Fidelis classes of Buchanan Street Methodist Church will hold a bazaar at the Palo Duro Furniture Store on Friday and Saturday. The sale date was previously announced in error.
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Buchanan Street Methodist Church
Palo Duro
Supreme Court Invalidates Key HO L A Provision
The Supreme Court struck down a section of the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 authorizing federal incorporation of building and loan associations, over state wishes, nullifying that government authority and affecting housing finance during the era.
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Owners’ Loan
Washington
Home Owners Loan Act
Supreme Court
Woman Confesses to Killing Dentist in Los Angeles
Frances Mabel Wijlys, 38, alleged common law wife of Dr. Walter P F Hammond, 50, a prominent dentist, admitted to police she beat him to death. She claimed she was the happiest she had ever been, as quoted by officers.
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Tos Angeles
Frances Mabel Wijlys
Walter PF. Hammond
Albert Fall Relapse Threatens Fatal Outcome
Albert B. Fall clung to life after a relapse that physicians feared would be fatal. The 74 year old former secretary of the interior under Harding had been ill for months with heart disease pleurisy arthritis of the spine and general ill health. Mrs Fall was en route to Clarksville Texas to reach his bedside as family members were summoned.
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Paso
Interor
Harding
H. F. Pipes
Government Hospital
Fall
Teapot Dome
Clarksville
Tex
South Pole Bound Pilot Wrecks Plane in Atlanta Takeoff
Pilot Rus sell W. Thaw and his mechanic escaped injury when their expedition plane for Lincoln Ellsworth’s Antarctic search wrecked at Candier Field in Atlanta during takeoff for Brownsville Texas. The engine died after leaving the ground and the craft struck a tree. Thaw had arrived in Atlanta from Caldwell New Jersey the day before.
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Atlanta
Lincoln Ellsworth
Russell W. Thaw
Brownsville
Tex
Thaw
Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw
William Henry Klenke, Jr
Candier Field
Caldwell
N. J
Markets KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK AND COTTON REPORTS
Kansas City hogs and cattle quotes as of December 9 show 4800 hogs with gains 10 to 18 cents over Friday, best lots up to 160 in bulk, sows near 9.25, cattle opening steady with limited fed steer supply and steady to firm feeder stock. Sheep and yearlings steady with native lambs around 19.75 and fed lambs near 11.68. New Orleans cotton futures rise on opening with December 11.86, January 11.74, March 11.56, July 11.38 as traders react to government crop estimates.
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Texas
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Ee Enaee
Ba Deere & Company
Eaton Manufacturing
Weer
Electric Power & Light Sane
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Bay General Public Service
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International Shoe
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Serene of
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Wee
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Aly
Missouri
Kansas Texas
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Nash Motors
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National Steel
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New York Central
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North American Company
Northern Pacific
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Otia Steel
Packard Motors
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Pennsylvania
Phillipa Petroleum Pure Oil
Radio Corporation of America
Remington Rand
Tee Republic Sterl Aee
Reynolds Tobacco
BAL St Joseph Lead
Eeeenee Seaboard Oi
Cheap Revolutionary Oil Burner Invented
United Factors in Kansas City Mo offers a no cost oil burner sample and a 30 day trial to end coal or wood drudgery. Demonstrators are sought to show the device which heats instantly by valve turn and fits stoves or furnaces.
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United Factors
P-5002
Kansas City
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