Marshall and Amarillo Odds Rise for Junior College Title
Marshall College may meet Amarillo College for the Texas junior college football championship with a site still undecided. Amarillo supporters underwrote a $700 guarantee to host the game, while Marshall officials consider the proposal and discuss site options after meetings in Decatur.
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Tex
Groner
Marshall College
Amarillo College
Amarillo
C. T. Hamel
Hamel
T. J. Dillehay
Decatur
Amarillo Gridiron
College of Marshall
B. E. Masters
Badgers
Butler Field
Frank Kimbygush
G. Masters
Dcatur
T. J. Dilleday
Kimbrough
Masters
Beaumont
Lamar College Cardinals
Cardinals
Tigers
Texarkana
Photographers Force Sinclair Lewis to Quit Banquet
Nobel laureate Sinclair Lewis walked out of a Nobel banquet in New York as photographers prepared for pictures. He later returned, explaining he dislikes being photographed, while the event honored Alfred Nobel founders and included Albert Einstein and other winners.
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Dale Harrison
New York
Sinclair Lewis
Sauk Center
Minn
Main Street
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Lewis
Albert, Einstein
Irving Langmuir
Frank B. Kellogg
Dr. Einstein
Anne Morgan
Einstein
Lanemiuh
Mr. Kellogg
Havana rocked by bombings and gang clashes near presidential palace
Reports from Havana say seven bombs exploded last night as gangs roamed streets near the presidential palace. Armed groups forced shops to reopen. violence continued today with soldiers patrolling while authorities blamed a labor decree that requires 50 percent native employees. Several injuries reported, including a Spaniard, with additional car searches causing confusion.
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Havana
Members Added To Emergency Body
Washington December 19. President Roosevelt signed an executive order expanding the national emergency council by three additional members. The action broadens the body to include new officials amid ongoing wartime measures.
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Washington
U.P
National Emergency Council
Roosevelt
First Wheat Check Given J H Bishop Here This Morning
J H Bishop became the first Potter County wheat grower to receive a Uncle Sam payment check for next year’s wheat acreage. He got his check at 9:47 AM in the county agent’s office at City Hall. Other local growers also received checks as part of the wheat adjustment program with some payments pending minor adjustments. Total Potter County payments for December amount to 43 286 40 with 60 600 96 due in April. Oldham County growers also received December payments totaling 78 991 20. The cash distribution is expected to spur new buying ahead of Christmas.
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J. H. Bishop
Potter County
Sam
Mr. Bishop
Oldham County
Two Men Die In Hotel Fire At Yoakum
Fire swept the St. Charles Hotel in Yoakum Texas today killing two men. Victims were J. B. Hinkle 25 a Kenedy truck driver and J. W. Haley 22 a San Antonio taxi driver. Several others escaped in the blaze.
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Yoakum
Tex
St. Charles
J. B. Hinkle
Kenedy
J. W. Haley
San Antonio
Insull Plans English Trip After Greece Exit
Samuel Insull a dethroned American utilities czar plans to go to England when his Greek police residence permit expires January 31. British authorities said no visa would be granted until London issues guidance. The 74 year old fugitive has been largely bedbound since learning of the departure deadline. Greek courts have refused extradition to the United States over embezzlement charges related to his collapsed empire. His passport has been revoked by the United States and travel may require temporary papers.
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Athens
Greece
Samuel Insull
Czar
England
Insula
London
United States
Insull
Reuters
Scatter Yule Cheer Committee Seeks Amarillo Help
The Amarillo Christmas Committee opens headquarters at 1017 Polk Street to list needy residents for gift or food packets. Residents provide family counts and addresses so volunteers can deliver Christmas cheer, aiming to aid those overlooked by government aid and avoid waste.
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Polk Street
Amarillo
Two New York Peddlers Warned For Cruelty To Horses
Arthur Brisbane recounts magistrate Greenspan scolding two New York peddlers in Yiddish for cruelty to horses. He cites a Talmudic warning about kindness to animals and a fanciful note on reincarnation two centuries hence, noting the peddlers would be rare and valuable as horses.
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Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
New York
Greenspan
Earth
Youth denies charge in alleged city attack
City and county officers with the district attorney questioned Carl Phillips 22 after a 13 year old girl identified him following an alleged criminal assault in an alley between Pierce and Buchanan Streets and Seventh and Eighth Avenues late Monday night. Phillips arrested behind a store at the Transient Bureau 601 Johnson Street. He claimed innocence as a charge of criminal assault was filed. The youth said her attacker See YOUTH Page 2.
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Carl Phillips
Pierce
Buchanan Streets
Seventh
Eighth Avenues
Phillips
Johnson Street
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Tonight Through Wednesday
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for fair skies tonight and Wednesday with slightly warmer temperatures. West Texas west of the 100th meridian remains fair with frost in the southeast tonight and warmer conditions in the north and east on Wednesday. New Mexico also sees fair skies tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. Daytime extremes reach 51 and 34 in the early readings.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Truce Signed Ending Strife in Chaco Area
Paraguay and Bolivia agreed to a Christmas armistice ceasing hostilities from midnight tonight until December 31. The Pan American Peace Commission hailed the move as a step toward permanent peace with talks led by the League of Nations Commission traveling from La Paz to Asuncion and Montevideo.
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Chaco
Chaco Boreal
Paraguay
Bolivia
Peace Commission
League of Nations Commission
World Court
Hague
Pan-American Peace Commission
League of Nations
Geneva
Gabriel Terra
Uruguay
Pan- American Commission
Montevideo
la Paz
Asuncion
Pius
Proposal To Abolish Foreign Tax Credits Opposed
Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson testified before the House Ways and Means Committee against the proposal to abolish foreign tax credits in the new revenue bill. He argued the repeal would amount to double taxation and reverse policy since 1918, urging that now is not a favorable time to burden foreign trade.
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Washington
John Dickinson
House
Ways and Means
Dickinson
Housing Survey May Come Here as CWA Project
Amarillo likely to receive a full federal survey of housing facilities as part of the Civil Works Administration real property inventory. The plan, in a dispatch from Washington, would employ 52 white collar workers and requires approval from state headquarters after study. Texas cities Austin Dallas and Wichita Falls also named for the investigation.
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Bascom ‘Timmons
Washington
Amarillo News
Julius Dozenfield Jr
Washington Dispatch
Amarillo
Civil Works Administration
CWA
Daniel Casey
Texas
Austin
Dallas
Wichita Falls
Student Kills Attacker After Auto Drag Attempt
Brit ton T. Young, Western Reserve University student, shot and killed a middle aged man who allegedly tried to drag Young's female companion from their car in Pepper Pike Village. The shooting occurred early today and Young surrendered with the girl at Shaker Heights police station. Police found Carl Meteling, 48, dead in the road near the scene.
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Cleveland
Britton T. Young
Western Reserve University
Finnegan Children Star in Yule Play
Fifty Amarillo junior players from the Amarillo Little Theater present Christmas Eve In Finnegan's Flat at the Municipal Auditorium with free admission. Directed by Oma Link Rowley, the two afternoon shows aim to spread holiday spirit to all.
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New York City
Finnegan
The
Amarillo
Municipal Auditorium
News Globe
Little Theater Group
Oma Link Rowley
Finnegan's Flat
Christmas Spending Spree Reported in Amarillo and Nation
Amarillo and the Panhandle show a brisk Christmas buying surge with heavy Saturday sales and steady postweekend gains. Credit Bureau notes rising confidence, relief wages totaling about 26 000, and Wheat allotment checks of 43 000 due today. Out of town shoppers and higher transit volumes support the banner trade as downtown traffic and store windows glow with holiday decor. Christmas trade across the nation also climbs with an 18 percent gain in the first half of December in major department stores.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Amarillo Credit Bureau
Rolla Townsend
New York
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Buying Booms Over State
Texas retailers report brisk holiday buying driven by Christmas demand and weather. E F Anderson of the Dallas Wholesale Merchants Association says the trend is statewide with stores scrambling to replenish stocks especially in toy departments. Dallas major retailer buys dolls locally as others rush to fill orders.
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United Press
Texas
E. F. Anderson
Dallas Wholesale Merchants’ Association
Dallas
Lindberghs Return From Global Flight Home for Christmas
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh completed a 25,000 mile aerial survey with stops at Glen Curtiss Airport Queens landing at 2 38 PM. They spent the night with Rear Admiral Aby at Charleston Navy Yard before resuming flight toward Newark or Long Island.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Glen Curtiss
North Beach
Queens
Charleston
8. C
James J. Aby
Charleston Navy Yard
Newark
Long Island
Atlantic Ocean
Labor Board Granted Federal Authority
President Roosevelt issued an executive order giving the national labor board full federal authority to handle industrial disputes. The order validates actions to date and ensures the board can continue its work with government backing.
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Labor Board
Washington
Roosevelt
National Labor Board
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