Hollywood girl tells of Nazi prison terror
Miss Isabel Lillian Steele of Hollywood recounts her arrest in August on suspicion of espionage and months of terror in Moabit and Berlin prisons. She describes brutal interrogations, crowded cells, and fears of a long term or death sentence while awaiting deportation.
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Edward W. Beattie
Copsright
United Press
President Harding
Dee
U.P
Isobel Lillian Steele
Hollywood
le Havre
France
Hamburg
MoaDdit
Berlin
Pen
Geist
Raymond H. Geist
Miss Steele
Cantor jokes failin talk with Il Duce in Rome interview
Eddie Cantor reports his December 13 1934 Rome interview with Premier Mussolini. Cantor pitches Italian film collaborations using American stars and capital while noting Mussolini's seriousness and calling him a leading world figure after Roosevelt. He argues Italians may enjoy American films and visits by American actors.
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Eddie Cantor
Associated Press
Mussolini
Rome
Milan
Italy
Il Duce
America
Lee on Stand Details in Birge Case Refuting Bribery Claims
In 47th District Court the state presents testimony from Lee and witness Leo Yselding to disprove charges against W. S. Birge. Police records back Lee’s claim he did not visit the Legion Home on October 17. Lee's account covers duty, gas fueling, a search for a boy with Mrs. Pierce, a stop at her home, and an arrest at Deandi Dance Hall, while memory refreshment and delays are explored. no trip to Griggs Ambulance is admitted.
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W. S. Birge
Randy Lee
Amercan Legon
47Th District Court
Lee
Legion
Leo Yselding
Fourth Avenue
Madison Street
Yselding
Vicey Pierce
South
Arthur Street
Tyler Street
Kennamer
Virginia Wilcox
Maddux
Tulsa Tribune
El Paso Jury Convicts Arthur C Wilson in De Bolt Slaying
Arthur C Wilson, a Cleveland steel chemist, was found guilty by a district court jury of slaying Mrs Irene De Bolt near Van Horn Texas on November 7 1933. He received a 99 year sentence in the state penitentiary amid an overnight deliberation.
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EL Paso
Arthur C. Wilson
Cleveland
Irene de Bolt
van Horn
Tex
State
de Bolts
Wilson
State rests in trial of Arthur Huey Canadian
The state rested in the Hutchinson County murder trial of Arthur Huey tax collector charged with killing A P Berger. Prosecution presented testimony about bystander L J Duncan wounded fatally in the Borger post office shooting last August 31. A dispute over that testimony halted evidence and led to a court recess. Much evidence faced defense objections.
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Arthur Huey
Hutchinson County
A. P
Ace) Berger
L. J. Duncan
Borger Post Office
Borger
Prisoner Manning Dies in Jail Death by Own Action
The body of B. J. Manning, held on theft charges, was found in his cell by Night Jailer Dick Vaughn at 10 p.m. He died from self strangulation using a wire coat hanger, ruled a death by own action amid remorse from narcotics use. Manning leaves a widow Ann of Amarillo and three brothers. Funeral set in Wichita Falls with N. S. Griggs and Sons handling burial.
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B. J. Manning
N. S. Griggs and Sons
Wichita Falls
Justice of the Peace
C. W. Carder
Manning
Dick Vaughn
State Tank
John Manning
Ann
Amarillo
Edward Manning
B. M. and
J. F. Manning
Lockney
Goodfellows Open Office to Receive Yule Gift Baskets
The Goodfellows Christmas Basket headquarters will open at 502 Polk Street tomorrow. Dr. D. Roach, chairman, urges Amarilloans to adopt needy families early and provide cash, clothes, groceries, and toys at the headquarters.
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Goodfellows
Polk Street
Get America Off the Dole Says U S C Leader
D A Skinner secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States urged removing people from relief and placing them in permanent industry payrolls. He spoke in Amarillo at the Chamber banquet urging cooperation among business, agriculture, industry and government and opposing government price controls.
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America
U.S.C
Garford Wilkinson
Dole
D. A. Skinner
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Amarillo
Skinner
Huge War Profits Revealed By Senate Inquiry
Senate Munitions Committee disclosed profits as high as 362 percent for war materials makers during World War I. Figures from the Internal Revenue Bureau show profits from 20 to 362 percent on many firms, with cost plus contracts cited and Bernard Baruch allegedly aided by the government. President Roosevelt urged cooperation to curb profits as the inquiry began to unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Munitions Committee
Roosevelt
Senate
Internal Revenue Bureau
Alger C. Hiss
Bernard Baruch Saih
Congress
Lamar Cardinals Head To Amarillo For Class B Title Game
Lamar enters the state championship at Amarillo Friday with 22 players. They travel after a Wichita Falls workout with preparations and a layoff since beating Schreiner 7 6 two weeks earlier. Coach John Gray’s Red Birds feel improved and ready to face Coach Frank Kimbrough’s Badgers who beat them last year.
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Beaumont Enterprise
Beaumont
Lamar Cardinals
Amarillo
Frank Kimbrough
Badgers
Wichita Falls
Schreiner
Mountaineers
Amarillo-Texarkana Game To Decide the North Texas
John Gray
Red Birds
Lamar
Gray
Northwest Texas
Cardinals
Westmoorland
San Antonio
Shamrock Fans Pack House For Badgers Cardinals Showdown
Shamrock fans look to Amarillo Badgers star Ed Cherry in the state junior college final against Lamar College Cardinals tomorrow at Butler Field. Tickets are on sale at Maxor Drug Store with box office opening at 11:30 AM. kickoff moved to 2:30 PM due to local business and school requests.
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Amarillo Badgers
Lamar College Cardinals
Shamrock Grid
Shamrock
Ed Cherry
Badgers
Cherry
Maxor Drug Store
Pisk
Maxor'’s
Butler Field
College
Japanese Epidemic Insight and Dr DaFoe Visitation
Arthur Brisbane comments on the epidemic issue while noting Dr DaFoe in New York. He recalls DaFoe introducing the Dionne quintuplets to the world and his record of keeping them alive. The column references contemporary events and figures in a period newspaper voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Dr. DaFoe
New York
Mecca
Mohammed
Heaven
New Deaths in Tragedy at Hotel Kerns
State police tally 26 known dead and 16 identified from the Hotel Kerns fire in Lansing. Eleven skeletal remains recovered from debris. among the dead is Rep. D Knox Hanna, increasing the toll to seven lawmakers. Hotel hosted many legislators during a special lame duck session prompted by recount petitions.
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Lansing
Mich
Kerns
D. Knox Hanna
Tuscola County
Amarillo Chamber Banquet Opens With D A Skinner Speech
The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce annual banquet begins tonight at 6 30 in the Crystal Ballroom Her ing Hotel with D A Skinner United States Chamber secretary as the speaker. Secretary Carl Hinton says extra space is available and invites all Amarillo residents to attend regardless of Chamber membership. Delegates from out of town have arrived, including a carload from Las Vegas New Mexico. Banquet tickets are one dollar.
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Amarillo
Las Vegas
N. M
Skinner praises reform plan and employment co ordination
The speaker backs a plan to coordinate federal relief and employment programs drawing on England’s dole system as an incentive to work. He hails the National Housing Act as sound and noncompetitive with private business and calls Agriculture Adjustment Act a strong emergency measure with room for changes.
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Skinner
Federal Relief and Employment Bureaus
England
Dole
Mr. Skinner
United States
Missionaries Dead Blamed On Band Kidnapping
American missionaries John Stam and Betty Stam were found dead fifteen miles from Tsingteh according to a cryptic telegram from the China Inland Mission Wuho office. The baby’s fate was not clarified, and authorities extended efforts to learn more as the governor confirmed the bodies were found near Tringtech.
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Shanghat
J. ©. Stam
China Inland Mission Office
Wuho
Anhwet
Wahu
Anhwet Province
John
Betty Stam
Tringtech
Crime drive spurs U S push against underworld
Tulsa report profiles Sheriff Price disputing a killer’s tale about a student dentist murder as federal crime conference pins 1 3 million annual serious crimes. Officials push for a national criminology institute and tighter interagency cooperation.
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Washington
UPA
National Crime Conference
National Institute of Criminology
Thorstein Berlin
University of Pennsylvania
Justie
Harry J. Anslinger
New Pre-Biblical Language Found at Ras Shamra
Dr Julian J Oberman of Yale announces discovery of a pre-Biblical Semitic language on cuneiform tablets from Ras Shamra near Antioch Syria The tablets written in a 30 sign alphabet may be the oldest known and provide a new key to biblical passages and the origin of alphabets The find dates to before 1500 B C and links script to the Canaanite region
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Julian J. Oberman
Yale
Ras Shamra
Antioch
Syria
Canaan
Oberman
Olton Man’s Fate Nearing Lubbock Jury
J W Dennis of Olton a 59 year old former mail carrier charged with robbery of U S mails last June 5 faced a planned jury trial in federal district court at Lubbock. Testimony ended this morning with a postal inspector and handwriting expert on the stand and two defense rebuttals heard.
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Lubbock
Pate
J. W. Dennis
Olton
Plainview
United States
Federal District Court
J. A. Willey
W. A. Weaver
Jack Crawford
Mamie M. Gordon
James C. Wilson
Alex Mood
Joe Jones
Co. C. Crenshaw
G. W. Dupree
Plan Grid-Graph Showing of Game At Lubbock Saturday
Grid-graph will provide play by play of Amarillo Golden Sandies versus Big Spring Steers at Texas Tech Field Lubbock with a simulcast to Municipal Auditorium. Game starts 2 30 PM local time and tickets cost 10 or 25 cents.
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Lubbock
Amarillo Golden Sandies
Big Spring
Texas Tech
Hauptmann Defense Wins Motion in Court
Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard ordered the state to supply the defense with its theories on the cause of death of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. The ruling affects the Hauptmann murder case proceedings in Flemington New Jersey.
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Flemington
N. J
Supreme Court
Thomas W. Trenchard
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Wells resigns as port traffic manager to rejoin railroad panel
Robert I. Wells, appointed port traffic manager, resigned yesterday and said he will return to the Texas Railroad Commission January 1 as intrastate rate expert. The city port commission accepted the resignation.
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Jon Beaumont
Robert I. Wells
Texas Railroad Commission
City Port Commission
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Vicinity
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with possible light showers. West Texas mostly cloudy with occasional showers Friday in south and west central areas tonight. Temperature extremes today up to 33 to 45 by 3 o'clock.
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Amarillo
Vicineity
West Texas
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King Festures Syndicate, Inc
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Mr. Stam
Paterson
Stam
F. Scott
Holyoke
Mass
Wheaton College
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U.S
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John Gorrel
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