Amarillo Badgers Accept Marshall Football Challenge
Amarillo College and College of Marshall failed to agree on a home game. After two days of wrangling, Amarillo accepted Marshall's offer to play in Marshall with a lesser guarantee, aiming to claim the Texas Junior College Conference title through an away game.
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BLUE
GRAY
Tigers
East Texas
Amarillo College Badgers
Texas Junior College Conference
Marshall
Amarillo College
College of Marshall
Amarillo
Marshal
Frank Kimbrough
Badgers
Kimbrough
B. BF
Masters
Capt
Cos Tay
Lamar
T. J. Dillehay
Kimbrought
Focal Business
Decatur
Pay Check Manifest Recovery Across States
Figures from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts show wide ranging job creation under the CWA CCC with 325,000 planned statewide workers and 131,000 in Massachusetts. Across the nation evidence points to new pay envelopes despite uneven progress and tool shortages hindering some efforts.
Big espionage ring busted as French police arrest 10
Paris police arrested an American salesman Robert Switz and his wife along with a Canadian couple in a sweep they described as the head of a 10 person espionage ring reaching into the French Ministry of Marine. Seized were 19000 francs, 33000 and 12000 francs in various pockets, three wireless sets, military documents and photographic equipment, with searches underway for two escaped members.
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Can Salesman
Robert Switz
East Orange
N. J
Switz
Marjorie Tilley
New York
Benjamin Bercowicz
Jaasy
Romania
Cohhief
Bercowitz
Clara
Bendery
Penon
Giangvetti
Roosevelt extends reemployment agreement for four months
President Roosevelt signed an executive order extending the President's reemployment program for four months beyond January 1. He urged employers to join the extension, maintain higher wages and shorter hours, and continue codes making progress while many workers remain out of work. The Blue Eagle symbol was to remain in use during the extension.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Indus
Cotton Ginnings Up Slightly for Year
The census bureau reports that by December 13 this year 12,356,769 running bales of cotton had been ginned, plus 568,090 round bales and 5,151 American Egyptian bales. Last year at the same date ginnings were 12,081,404 running bales with 622,016 round bales and 6,680 Egyptian. State tallies show Texas leading with 4,115,989 bales, Alabama 947,537, Georgia 1,184,740, Mississippi 1,126,707, Oklahoma 1,196,295, North Carolina 674,254, and others.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Missisippi
Missouri
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
States
Storms Center Fury Along Pacific Coast
Severe winter storms lash the Pacific Northwest with four days of gales. Three deaths are reported in Washington and strong tides flood lower Columbia and coastal regions. Vancouver BC and Tillamook suffer flood and power outages while rails near Koote nay Lake are blocked by a mudslide.
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Pacific Coast
Seattle
Pacific Northwest
Tillamook
Oregon Coast
Astoria
Ore
Washington
Sam Brewer
Snoqualmie
Richard Hilaire
Bellingham
Nicky Fumar
Port Angeles
British Columbia
Vancouver
B. C
Panhandle Road Aid Authorized for Flood and Drought Counties
Texas Highway Commission approves about 300000 for relief era road work in drought and flood counties. Potter Midland Hidalgo Howard Angelina Shelby San Augustine Nacogdoches Hemp hill Lipscomb Dallam Dawson named for improvements. Bids announced for NRA project about 450000. other bids 1248267. Edwards Smith Eastland Runnels Taylor McCulloch Milam Jefferson Brown also bid. Van London notes Potter County funds fund relief projects chiefly widening and repairing routes into Amarillo.
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Austin
Drouth
Texas Highway Commission
Potter
Midland
Hidalgo
Howard
Angelina
Shelby
San Augustine
Nacogdoches
Hemphill
Lipscomb
Dallam
Dawson
NRA
Edwards
Smith
Eastland
Runnels
Taylor
McCulloch
Milam
Jefferson
Brown
W. J. van London
van London
Potter County
Amarillo
Government Keeps Gold Price At 34.06 An Ounce
The U S government again offers 34.06 dollars per ounce for newly mined domestic gold. The figure was reaffirmed after a White House conference with Acting Secretary Morgenthau Professor George Warren and Earle Bailie. No change in the gold program was indicated. Sterling opened at 5 14 1 2 to the pound in London with bar gold at 32 59 ounce. The dollar strengthened in early trading.
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Washington
White House
Morgenthau
George Warren
Cornell
Earle Bailie
London
Alice From Film Wonderland To Stop Here
The young film star Charlotte Henry will visit Amarillo tonight aboard a Fort Worth and Denver train to Denver, scheduled to stop at 7 45. The Paramount production Alice in Wonderland has wrapped filming and will be released Christmas week, featuring Gary Cooper Jack Oakie Cary Grant May Robson Charlie Ruggies Alison Skipworth Baby LeRoy and others.
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Paramount
Amarillo
Charlotte Henry
Fort Worth
Denver
Miss Henry
Gary Cooper
Jack Oakie
Cary Grant
May Robson
Charlie Ruggies
Alison Skipworth
Baby LeRoy
Edward Everett Horton
Roscoe Ates
Leon Errol
Louise Fazenda
W. ©. Fields
Skeets Galagher
Women Take Off for Non Stop Record Try
Miami pilot Helen Richey and Mrs Frances Harrell Marsalis launched at 10 42 AM aiming to fly nonstop past New Year’s in a bid for a women endurance refueling record. They previously failed with Viola Gentry due to refueling problems during high winds. Gentry is ill, and Gentry’s place is now taken.
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Miami
Fla
Helen Richey
Frances Harrell Marsalis
Marsalis
Viola Gentry
Three Death Penalty Appeals Upheld in Dallas County
The State Court of Appeals affirmed three death penalty murder cases from Dallas County. Bluitt Burkley Thurman Burkley and Jesse Mott were the defendants. they were convicted of killing Katherine Prince and James Tatum respectively.
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Austin
Der
Dallas County
State Court of Appeals
Bluitt
Thurman Burkley
Katherine Prince
Jesse Mott
James Tatum
WIFE SEEKS LIVERMORE IN SEARCH PARTY FOR MISSING WALL STREET PIONEER
Dec. 20 New York PA reports a major search for Jesse Livermore, famed stock operator, missing since yesterday after market close. Police and Justice Department agents probe two theories: kidnapping by manipulators or disappearance tied to business deals. Inspector Keir cautions against labeling it a snatch.
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New York
Jesse L. Livermore
Wall Street
Livermore
Department of Justice
Manhattan
John Francis Keir
War in Chaco jungle ends as armistice holds
In the Gran Chaco between Bolivia and Paraguay the fighting ceased at midnight after the armistice. Paraguayan forces, buoyed by a fortnight of gains, advanced to the wedge’s end but were told to halt pending orders. Bolivian detachments retreated or moved scattered in the jungle heat.
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Fort Saavedra
U.P
Gran Chaco
Potter County Men Grven Yale Pardons
Governor Ferguson issued four conditional pardons and one general parole to Potter County men. Richard Smith and Cal Davis received pardons for robbery and liquor law convictions. W. F. Mapes had a reduced fine from 400 to 25 dollars under Medical Practice Act violation. E. V. Allen and Otis J. Foster received ninety-day furloughs for burglary, robbery, and firearms offenses.
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Austin
Potter County
Ferguson
Richard Smith
Cal Davis
W. F. Mapes
Bell County
Christmas Is Certain For Needy Families In Amarillo
The Christmas Center committee in Amarillo at 1017 Polk Street will adopt at least 100 needy families this Christmas. The center lists each family with members and addresses and asks only small gifts and visits on Christmas Eve or Day. Mrs Irene Finley directs the office which will stay open nightly until 8 o clock this week.
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Christmas Center Committee
Polk Street
Amarillo
Blaze Fatal As Hotel Burns In Lone Oak
Two people died when the McBride Hotel burned at Lone Oak, 14 miles southeast of Greenville. Six occupants were in the building. two jumped to escape, four injured. Fire started from an oil burner left on in the ground floor cafe.
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Greenville
McBride
Lone Oak
Clem Wilburn
Dr. Roberts
Howerd Hicks
Arch Rabb
Bob Shurlock
Jimmie Wallace
Claudie Thompson
City Commission Supports Widening Fillmore Street Plans
The city commission voted to cooperate with the state highway department to widen Fillmore Street and Thirty-Sixth Avenue. The project would expand the street to 30 feet on Thirty-Sixth Avenue from Harrison Street west to the city limits and add five foot shoulders. Through traffic would then move in a straight line from North East Eighth Avenue to Thirty-Sixth Avenue, easing business district congestion. Resolutions also authorize widening North East Eighth Avenue to the city limits and other streets widened under the national recovery act.
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City Commission
State Highway Department
Fillmore Street
Thirty- Sixth Avenue
Twenty-Fourth Avenue
Thirty-Sixth Avenue
Pillmore
Harrison Street
North East Eighth Avenue
North East Eight Avenue
Slayer of Singer Snatched From Mob
In San Francisco on December 20 a young radio singer Emilia da Prata 26 was slain by Umberto Giusti 35 who had been her rejected lover. Giusti was held for arraignment on murder charges as crowds demanded justice. Da Prata was bound for a New York tryout with the Metropolitan Opera Company and had attracted national attention including a presidential audience.
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San Francisco
Umberto Giusti
Emilia da Prata
Giusti
New
Comedy Of Yuletide Cheer At Municipal Auditorium
The play Christmas Eve In Finnegan's Flat features 50 Amarillo Little Theater juvenile players. It will be performed Friday afternoon at 2:30 in Municipal Auditorium, free for children and parents. Saturday show canceled due to the Community Christmas Tree party.
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Santa Claus
Finnegan
Municipal Auditorium
Amarillo
Little Theater
The
American Legion
News- Globe
Little Theater Group
Dense English fog halts traffic and city life
London reports the heaviest fog of the season with visibility near zero in many areas. Three deaths from fog related crashes and numerous injuries accompany widespread disruption to shopping, street traffic, shipping on the Humber and Mersey, and air travel remains paralyzed.
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London
England
Mranchester
Liverpool
Merseyside
Humber River
Hull
English Channel
Croydon
Nazis to Sterilize 460000 in Propaganda Push
Berlin report says 460000 people will be sterilized under the Nazi law for diseased progeny, evenly split between men and women. White House notes discuss possible integration of the coast guard into the navy as a corps.
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Pennsylvania
State
Civil Works Administration
Berlin
U.P
Washington
Roosevelt
Navy
Treasury
Coast Guard
White House
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Forecast calls for fair weather tonight and Thursday across Amarillo West Texas and nearby areas. New Mexico sees fair skies with little temperature change. Today’s high temperatures reach 55 degrees and 38 degrees by 1 PM. Oil prices noted as 10e qt and 25¢-35e gal. 1900 W Third Street.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Yuletide Symphony Program Tomorrow
Amarillo’s Phil harmonic Symphony Orchestra to present its second winter program at the Municipal Auditorium tomorrow night at 8 30. Ellis B Hall conducts a fifty piece ensemble with soprano Cecile Mitchell of Plainview as guest artist. Yuletide numbers and holiday music will be featured. Tickets on sale. ORCHESTRA Page 2.
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Amarillo
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Municipal Auditorium
Ellis B. Hall
West Texas
Opera Comique
Paris
Cecile Mitchell
Plainview
Miss Mitchell
France
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Globe
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Kitty Hawk
Panhandle IN New Road
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Alice From Film ‘Wonderland
Chaco
Yale
Bery
Otis J. Foster
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Yuletide
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