Cattle Tick Eradication Makes Progress Despite Pockets
The cattle tick death toll has fallen as eradication expands. Dr. John H. Mohler told the House appropriations agriculture subcommittee that 23 counties and parts of six counties totaling over 22,000 square miles were released from quarantine, with Oklahoma fully cleared. California built a Pacific to Sierra Madre fence to block tick spread, while Texas weighs a Rio Grande barrier to deter Mexican infestation.
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Associated Press
Washington
Texas
Agriculture Department
California
House Appropriations
John H. Mohler
Bureau of Animal Husbandry
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Sierra Madre Mountains
Rio Grande
Influenza Germ Research Moves Toward Vaccine Hope
Dr. Falk and associates report experiments on animals producing an influenza like disease while cautioning against overoptimism. They seek specifics through isolation of the germ and anticipate vaccines or throat sprays. Dr. Z O Jordan cites the 1918 epidemic as the worst health catastrophe since the Black Death with 20 million deaths.
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Falk
United Press
Chicago
Z. O. Jordan
Department of Bacteriology
University of Chicago
Boy Killed After School Altercation On Track
The incident began when a 160 pound boy shoved a smaller lad from a line. After school Rafner walked with two friends along a railroad track Brashiere followed and struck him twice in the chest then in the chin. Rayner collapsed and died three hours later.
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Brashiere
Rafner
Rayner
Kidnap Note Believed Hoax In Ohio Town
In Oarville Ohio on December 13 an anonymous note claimed a four year old missing boy Melvin Horst would be returned for a $100 reward and immunity. Police later admitted the note was a hoax as his mother and family awaited his return.
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United Press
Oarville, O
Melvin Horst
Raymond Horst
Texans Must Be Changing
A man reports entering his home to find another man there and removes the intruder’s clothes, keeping the man inside the house while he consults the police sergeant about possible charges. His wife was present during the incident.
Girl 6 Faces Blizzard in Bare Feet to Save Mother
Six year old Agnes Hundley faced a blizzard with no shoes or stockings to reach help for her ailing mother near Clear Creek, Mont. After her feet froze she was brought to a hospital while doctors fought to prevent amputation.
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United Press
Chinook
Mont
Agnes Hundley
Clear Creek
Agnes
Collier's Asks Libel Suit Venue Change
In Brownsville on December 13, Collier's weekly moved to change venue in the $1,000,000 libel suits filed by R. B. Creager Texas Republican national committeeman. Attorneys seek trial in Houston or Victoria citing inability to obtain a fair trial here. Judge Hutcheson had not ruled on removing P. F. Collier & Son Co as a defendant. the distributing corporation would still face the suits if the motion stands.
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United Press
Brownsville
Collier’s Weekly
R. B. Creager
Texas
Republican National
P. F. Collier & Son Company
P. F. Collier & Son Distributing Corporation
Poultry Show Awards Medal to Winning Team at Amarillo
Judging of birds began this morning and continues tomorrow with E. C. Branch of Lee Summit Missouri and Walter Burton of Dallas serving as judges. Exhibitors will banquet tonight at the Amarillo hotel coffee shop as Howard Ferguson chairs the agricultural department meeting of the city development board.
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E. C. Branch
Lee Summit
National Authority On Poultry
Walter Burton
Dallas
Poultry Department
Amarillo Hotel
Howard Ferguson
Agricultural Department of the
Board of City Development
Wind Wrecks Hangar Fatal for Noted French Airman
In Versailles on December 13 a fierce wind tore down the Toussus le Noble hangar killing Rougerie, the airfield director and noted inventor of night flying instruments. The accident cut a path through the airfield and claimed a prominent aviation figure.
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United Press
Versailles
France
Toussus le Noble
Rougerie
Mount Pelee Rumbles Amid Calm Base Tremors
Violent tremors were reported at the base of Mount Pelee today, the volcano remaining calm with no eruption. The report is from Fort de France via United Press, noting tremors as the unrest continues without an eruption.
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United Press
Fort Defrance
Martinique
Mount Pelee
Prisoner Demands Addition to 13 Jail Inmates
In Lincoln Nebraska on December 13 a City Jail inmate sparked fear of violence by insisting on adding at least one more companion. Transients without funds also sought lodging, increasing the group and easing the tension tied to the jinx claimed by the original inmate.
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United Press
Lincoln
Nebr
Al Smith seeks mooring mast on big NYC building
Former Gov Alfred E Smith arrives at the Navy Department to discuss placing a dirigible mooring mast atop his company’s 85 story New York building. Navy staff line corridors and cheer him as crowds press for handshakes while he arrives on foot after a taxi miscue.
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Associated Press
Washington
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Navy Department
Adams
New York City
Jimmy Walker
Department
State Department
Navy
Som Odd Facts Mention Deadly Traffic Emissions
A reader commends Amarillo News-Globe column and notes a home edition item under Som Odd Facts about invisible carbon monoxide clouds from idling motors. The letter references experiments on a guinea pig in traffic and warns of dangers in large towns.
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Amarillo
Plains Country
News-Globe
Fingerprint Expert Urges Bible as Family Record
Burt Wentworth, an internationally known fingerprint expert, argues that fingerprints belong in the family Bible record. He contends that the Bible offers a permanent, personal archive linking identities to lineage and memory across generations.
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Burt Wentworth
Dole Refuses Prize for Hongkong to Dallas Flight
Los Angeles December report says W E Easterwood of Dallas announced plans to sail to Honolulu with a $25 000 prize for the first aviator to fly from Hongkong to Dallas. Dole in San Francisco rejected any funding, deeming the Hongkong Dallas leg too risky, while Easterwood insisted the project could proceed without him.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Dec
W. E. Easterwood
Dallas
Texas
Honolulu
Hongkong
China
Easterwood
James D. Dole
California
Hawaii
Dole
San Francisco
Ozarks trial drama centers on Connie Franklin mystery
In a tense Ozarks murder case a man claiming to be Connie Franklin faces trial as witnesses, guards, and feuding locals fill a stone courthouse. Foster, who says he knew Franklin, testifies amid claims of a past blond, married man and a resident list of hill folk observers.
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Ozarks
Oklahoma
Connie Franklin
Foster
Franklin
Connie
Stone Court House
Coleman Foster
Tiller
Charlie Ruminer
Monroe Grimes
Jody Burns
Tiller Rummer
Hugh Williamson
Benny Williamson
Sam Johnson
Shovel Tooth
Bill Hooker
Red Bill
Hooker Bill
Buffalo Bill
Bill Younger
Possum College
Roaring Creek
Long Bill
Bill Canard
Fulks
Black John
Red John
White John
Aleck
Mexican Men Held In Death Of Woman
Two Dallas men Juan Rodrigues and Orosco Manuel were jailed in Waxahachie Texas amid a murder probe into the death of an unidentified Mexican woman found beneath an abandoned house. Police say a wire around the neck was the murder weapon and the men face liquor transport charges. Rodrigues says a truck found at the scene broke down. Manuel says he gave Rodrigues a ride after finding him walking. They were arrested in a small touring car.
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Associated Press
Waxahachie
Tex
Juan Rodrigues
Orosco Manuel
Dallas
Rodriguez
Manuel
Jail Plotter in Mexican Uprising
Luis Romero Gallardo, arrested as an accomplice of Luis Ibarra, alleged leader of a plot to overthrow President Emilio Portes Gil, was brought to Mexico City from Guadalajara and imprisoned in Santiago prison awaiting federal disposition.
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United Press
Mexico City
Luis Romero Gallardo
Luis Ibarra
Emilio Portes Gil
Guadalajara
Jalisco
Gallardo
Santiago
Seizure of Yaqui General Ramon Yocupicio Property
The federal government seized the Sonora property of former Yaqui general Ramon Yocupicio in Mexico City on December 13, valued at over 1.26 million dollars. Officials said the action was taken because of his participation in the Escobar rebellion.
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Inted Press
Mexico City
Sonora
Ramon Yocupicio
Yocupicio
Escobar
Desk Sergeant's Feat Tops Younger Cop Showdown
The desk sergeant Elmer G. Green proves athletic prowess by performing a handspring in the station lobby after a lighthearted bet with Motorcycle Officer O'Brien who offered a box of smokes as the stake. Green accepts, drops his coat, and executes a near handspring, winning the playful challenge.
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Elmer G. Green
O’brien
Green
O'Brien
School Children Hear Walter Damrosch Radio Hour
Through arrangements between the public schools musical department and The Mathis Company more than 70 fifth and sixth graders at Margaret Wills School listened to the Walter Damrosch broadcast called the Music Appreciation Hour between 10 and 11 this morning. The tryout marked the first effort to bring this national educational program to classrooms and teachers and pupils reported nearly perfect daylight reception. The Mathis Company used a Philco radio with automatic volume control screen grid to handle the program and announced their equipment will be available to schools in the future.
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Mathis Company
Margaret Wills
Country Club
Walter Damrosch
New York
Philco Radio
Messiah Solo To Hit World Strife At High School
The bass solo Why Do the Nations from Handel's Messiah will be performed Sunday at 8 pm in the High School Auditorium. Emil F Myers, sponsor, notes the piece reflects ongoing international strife and will feature Rollin Waltz of Amarillo.
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High School
Emil F. Myers
Civic Choral Club
Mrs Woodruff Recital by Keirsey Woodruff pupils
Margaret Keirsey Woodruff presents beginners and advanced pupils in a recital tomorrow afternoon at 2 30 o clock in the studio at 1605 Harrison Street. Public invited to attend.
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Woodruff
Margaret Keirsey Woodruff
Harrison Street
Goodbye to a Panhandle leader Colonel Goodnight obituary
M E Bell Wint Barfield Jim Wilson Lou McClelland and Frank Mitchell attend the memorial. A vast gathering from the Southwest will honor the man who drove the Indians from the Staked Plains and opened the way for civilization. Survived by widow Corinne Goodnight and numerous relatives across Clarendon Claude Claude area. Funeral arrangements are with Burton Undertaking Company of Clarendon.
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M. E. Bell
Wint Barfield
Jim Wilson
Lou McClelland
Frank Mitchell
Panhandle
Southwest
Colonel Goodnight
Corinne Goodnight
Carrie Smith
Weatherford
Texas
Silas Sheek
Rising Star
H. W. Taylor
Laura Swearingen
J. T. Patman
W. W. Dyer
Mattie Graves
Clarendon
Charles McLaren
Claude
Albert Graves
Olney
Martin Lane
Jacksboro
W. G. McLaren
Conway
Burton Undertaking Company
Kansas City and St Louis Livestock Market Report
Markets report from Kansas City and East St. Louis with hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep trading. Kansas City hogs 6000 head up to 9.40 top. cattle and calves firm with varied ranges. sheep lambs 11.50 to 12.60, ewes 4.50 to 6.00. East St. Louis hogs 8500 head with prices 8.25 to 9.55. cattle, yearlings up to 13.50. vealers 15.25. sheep lambs 12.75, ewes 5.00 to 5.50.
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ST. Louis
Associated Press
East ST
Fort Worth Livestock Prices Across Hogs Cattle and Sheep
Fort Worth and Chicago livestock markets report higher hogs and steady cattle and calves. In Fort Worth 800 head hogs bought up to 9.25 rail. cattle 2,500 head, calves 1,100, with steady prices for common and yearling stock. sheep 700 head steady with yearlings around 9 and lambs 8 to 10. Chicago quotes 40,000 flags higher by 10 to 1 cent, top 9.60 for 280 lb hogs. cattle and calves offered with slaughter steers 12.25 to 14.50 for various weights, cows 7.75 to 10.00.
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Kansas City
Fort Worth
Associated Press
D. A
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
The Richest of Trees Soon Grow Poor
Poem excerpt notes a meditation on wealth and beauty as transient. It reflects on fortunes that vanish with time, contrasting the eye catching displays of silver leaves and gold embers with the fading memory of what was seen.
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Edgar A. Guest
Cotton and stock market report with prices and shifts
Stocker and feeder steers 10.25 10.75 and lambs 12.66 18.66. New York Cotton opens steady with January to 17.16 and May to 17.70, later easing. New Orleans listing shows gains to 17.39. Liverpool spot and futures steady. Chicago butter eggs poultry prices noted. New York Stock Letter reports mixed opening with notable gains in several industrial and utility stocks and easing in foreign exchanges.
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New York
Associated Press
Liverpool
New Orleans
General Motors
0. S. Steel
Midland Steel Products
Nash Motors
Sears Roebuck
American Telephone
Westinghouse Electric
St. Paul
J. I. Case
A. M. Byers
American
U. S
U. S. Steel Common
Consolidated Gas
International Telephone
Montgomery-Ward
Jno
F Clark & Co
Abitibi
Allis Chambers
Sly Allied Chemical & Cy
Allegheny Corporation
American Amerada Corporation
American Metal
American Car and Foundry International Newts
American Ag Chem
American Steel Foundry
American CR Tech Ewanterome American Can Eeenewee Oo Abt
American Power
Wbeenewee
American Foreign Power
American Smelt & Eeweee TB Tbm Armour of Illinois
American Tobacco
Anaconda Copper
Associated Dry Goods
Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore & Ohio
Bethlehem Steel
Oily
Best & Seere
Bendix Aviation
Agneto
Briggs
Brunswick-Balke-Col .Ene
Fucyrus-Erie Company
Burroughs Adding Machine
California Packing Co
Calumet & Heelawae
Calumet &Arizona
Canadian Pacific
Canada Dwee Tee
Central Age Joy Steel
Cerro de Pasco Copper
Chesapeake & Ohio Chie, I & Pee
Chicago & Northwestern
Hio, Mil
Chrysler
Coca Cola
Columbia Gas
Columbia Graph Co
Colorado Fuel & Gas
Columbian’ Carbon Co
Commonwealth
South
Grees
Congoleum Continental Motors TY
Gas of
Continental
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Houston
Princeton
John Kerr
Cleveland
David
McMillan
Anne
Triangle Club
Quebec
Collier’s
Havana
la Esperanza
Vatican
Tiber River
Vatican Field
Canada
AL Smith
Buffalo
N. Y
Bernice Frank
Harry Radcliffe
Red” Duke
Jeremiah O’brien
Edward Flynn
Wagner
William Sevier
Teddy Rodjacki
Eddie Przybyl
Xmas
Care the Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
W. R. Browne
Messiah
Alxs
Jno. F. Clark Brokerage Co
Julius Kayser
Cssseerseese
Kelly Springfield
Kelvinator Wreeee
Kennecott Copper
Kolster Radio C.esseee Kreuger & Toll
Loose Eee - Lorillard
Louisville Gas & Elec Ht
Louisville &Nashville - Lowe's Inc
Mack Truc
Missouri Pacific
Competate Wa
Nah Motors
National Biscuit
New York Central
Otis Steel
Packard Motors
Pennsylvania
Teeeee Rog Pullman Tetas
Purity
Die Eesseseves Steee
Radio-Keith-Orpheum
Reading
Remington-Ran
She Republic Os
Sears
Pry
Senecca Aes
Southern Pacific RR
Southern Rail
Cm Tobacco
St. J Cole Lea
Stewart Warner
Timken Roller
Union Pacific
United Aircraft
Universal Pipeline
United Carbide
United Corporation
United Fruit United
Thee
United Gas Im
United States Ubber
UU. Ss
Panesee Vanadium Corp
Virginia Care Chem
Warner Bros
al Westinghouse
Western Union
Wee Willys Motors
Willys-Overland
Woolworth
Atlantic
Barnsdall
Texas Pac Land & Trust
Texas Pacific C. & O
Css
Texas Corp
Ween Weaeres
Tidewater
Union Oil Et al
White Eagle
Arkansas Gas
Oe Co
Butler Bros
Curtiss Flying
Fokker
Ford of
England
United Gas Co
Humble Oil
U. N
Lone Star Gas
Eee
Ohio Oil
Sesesesves m1 Standard
Indiana
Esers
Penn Road
Trans Air Trans
Victor
RADIO
Panhandle Music Co
Dia
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