Amarillo Weather, Football, and Holiday Hopes Stir Frantic Notes
A long, rambling Amarlan weather and sports column covers tomorrow's football forecast and a distant Christmas snow chance. It threads in local scenes about the Masonic Home, Sandies versus Masons, travel plans to Dallas for a championship, and community concerns over purse snatching and highway policing. The piece humorously blends odds and ends from local life, wit, and a final holiday goodwill benediction.
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Amarillo
Dallas
Baker
Adolphus
Greenville
Tomornight
Sandies
Masons
Masonic
Amarillon
Old Tack
Isupt
W. A. McIntosh
Blair
W. A
Tack
Frnka
Masonic Home
Herring Hotel
All of
Citroen Receivership Declared for French Auto Giant
Paris December 214 the Citroen Automobile Company was placed in receivership by the tribunal of commerce. Andre Citroen filed the petition as creditors failed to push bankruptcy. Receivers will manage the firm to obtain working capital and relieve more than half a billion francs in debt.
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Paris
Citroen Automobile Company
Tribunal of Commerce
France
Andre Citroen
Henry Ford
Reward Offered For Overcoat Stolen At Church
Alfred A. Huke reports a new black half belted double breasted overcoat was taken during a recital at First Baptist Church Monday night. He offers cash reward and asks for its return with no questions. He has no other coat for work and mentions cold mornings.
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Tack
First Baptist Church
Petty
Alfred A. Huke
Buchanan Street
Want Farm Place For Let Of Furnished Farm
Reader seeks furnished farm or ranch to lease with terms. Family offers work ethic and references. Mrs. reads Tack Letters. address given for contact Route 3 Box 112. PF Burton requests painting and home maintenance help. references available.
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Tack
Burton
Jackson Street
Santa Claus Firemen Work at Toys but Still Need More
Amarillo firefighters labor day and night to repair and prepare donated toys for needy children. Fire Chief George B. Cooper says more toys would help, as volunteers salvage even badly damaged items. Donors can call 8294 for pickup.
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Santa Claus
Amarillo
George B. Cooper
Fletcher Safe as GOP Leader Ballot Shows
A poll of 48 Republican National Committee members shows 43 against reorganization and removal of Henry P. Fletcher as chairman. Senator Nye signals no liberalization before 1936, making a 1936 meeting of the committee unlikely.
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Fletcher
GOP
Washington
Henry P. Fletcher
Republican National Committee
Borah
Nye
North Dakota
National Committee
Last Rites Pending For Mrs Lemaster
The body of 38 year old Roxie Lemaster of 1322 East Eighth Avenue is held at Boxwell Brothers Chapel pending funeral arrangements. She died at the family home last night. Survivors include husband Clyde E Lemaster a grocer and daughter June Lemaster.
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Roxie Lemaster
East Eighth Avenue
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
Lemaster
Clyde E. Lemaster
Amarillo
June Lemaster
Sues Former Sheriff Awarded Partial Back Salary
County Judge J. M. Simpson awarded $375 to C. W. Parley, a former deputy sheriff, in a suit claiming unpaid back salary for the last six months of 1932. Parley sought $900, alleging an agreement to pay $150 a month during Bill Thompson’s tenure as sheriff.
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J. M. Simpson
Bill Thompson
C. W. Parley
Farley
Thompson
Plans 50 Per Cent Cut on Power Cost
Washington December 21. Frank R. McNinch chairman of the Federal Power Commission said a 50 percent reduction in electricity bills is the Roosevelt power program’s ultimate goal. He noted such an outcome will take years and that rates are excessive in most of the larger cities as Secretary Ickes considers Public Works Fund use for municipal plans beyond New York.
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Washington
Frank R. McNinch
Federal Power Commission
Ickes
New York
McNinch
Masons Open Rivalry With Golden Sandies Big Attendance Expected
Amarillo fans prepare for a 2:30 kickoff as the Masons visit the Golden Sandies with Glenn Buskin and Eldon Ricketts unlikely to play. Officials note strong ticket demand, with Mossah Temple Drum Corps and 300 supporters traveling from Fort Worth and surrounding Panhandle towns expected to attend. Dinner for both lodges follows at Amarillo High School Auditorium.
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Masons
Mossah Temple Drum Corps of
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Blue Lodges
Sandies
Panhandle
Yuletide Snow Predicted For Panhandle This Weekend
Weatherman H T Collman forecast unsettled conditions may bring a white Christmas to the Panhandle as a low pressure area from the Canadian Northwest is expected to alter weather by Sunday night. If movements hold, snow could fall between Sunday night and Christmas morning. Amarillo reported a 36 degree low earlier.
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Panhandle
Plains
H. T. Collman
Death of Henry G. Hester Ends Cotton Trade Era
Col. Henry Garretson Hester 88 longtime New Orleans Cotton Exchange secretary died after brief illness. Emeritus secretary for two years, he guided weekly and annual cotton reports that were regarded as authoritative worldwide. Born New Orleans November 18, 1846.
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New Orleans
U.P
South
Henry Garretson Hester
Col. Hester
Hester
Mrs. Louise Cassio Dies at 60 in Amarillo
Louise Cassio 60 died at 319 Taylor Street after a two year illness. Widow of Leo C. Cassio she was Amarillo pioneer of 35 years. Funeral 4 p.m. Griggs Chapel with pallbearers T R Bankston Grady Robins Emmett Belles Jordan Williams Clarence Jordan W G Prince. Burial Llano Cemetery. Survived by four sons Arthur Melvin Irven William and four daughters, including Mrs W W Keith and Mrs C M Siebel.
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Louise Cassio
Taylor Street
Cassio
Leo C. Cassio
Amarillo
Griggs Chapel
E. B. Fincher
Ellwood Park Presbyterian Church
T. R. Bankston
Grady Robin
Hold Last Service For W. H. Jones 69
Funeral services for William Henry Jones 69 who died at his home 210 Georgia Street will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow from the First Church of Nazarene conducted by Rev S R Brannon Borger. The body will be sent to Sweetwater for burial. Survivors include his widow four sons a sister and several other relatives.
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William Henry Jones
Georgia Street
First Church of Nazarene
S. R. Brannon
Borger
Sweetwater
Blackburn-Shaw
Jones
Amarillo
Mary Elizabeth Jones
Lee K
Robert
Willie J
Everett Jones
Mattie Jones
L. F
McDonald
Phoenix
Ariz
B. F. Hill
Murder suicide ends double tragedy in Dallas home
In Dallas on December 21, 1938, Flla Mae Peacock aged 38 and John Moore aged 55 were found dead from a murder and death by own action. Justice Ben H. Fly ruled Moore, a railroad switchman, shot Peacock and then killed himself. Peacock's husband Fred Peacock could not explain the motive.
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Dallas
U.P
Flla Mae Peacock
John Moore
Ben H. Fly
Moore
Is the Universe Evolved by Atomic Force Lesson Theme
Christian Science services center Sunday on the lesson theme Is the Universe Including Man Evolved by Atomic Force. Golden Text from Amos 4 13 emphasizes the Lord as the form of mountains wind and thought. Genesis 1 26 and Science and Health cite God creating and governing the universe and man and all spiritual ideas obedient to Mind.
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Churches of Christ
Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
Warren Autry Held on Driving While Drunk Charge
Warren Autry was indicted by the Potter County grand jury this week on a driving while drunk charge and was held in the Potter County jail after an arrest last night. Three others were indicted for perjury connected to the grand jury investigation.
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Warren Autry
Potter County
Grand Jury
Goodfellows appeal for Christmas help for beleaguered families
A crowded plea describes multiple families facing poverty and hardship during Christmas. It seeks baskets of food and second hand clothing, noting lost earnings, illness, and recent misfortunes. Local welfare organizers urge readers to remember mothers and children and provide essentials.
Family 98 Seeks Christmas Dinner for Widow and Children
A widow and her three children aged 16, 14, and 12 are seeking a Christmas dinner to bring happiness. The message notes the family in need and appeals for aid from the community.
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Santa
Family No 100 Faces Christmas Hunger Strain
A large family struggles to cover basics as 8 children aged 2 to 18 plus several teens and preteens face food, clothing, rent, and school needs. The parents seek help amid hardship described as universal thrift and diligent effort.
Bodies found on highway near Laredo in apparent car crash
Sidney A. James 58 president of James Mercantile Company Encinal and Stanley E. Vogler 35 geologist were found dead on a highway about three miles north of Laredo. Their demolished car lay across the road after overturning. James a longtime Encinal resident and rancher died near the wreck. Vogler, from Philadelphia, had worked in Encinal two years for an independent oil concern. Both men had arrived in Laredo on business and were returning to Encinal.
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Laredo
Texas
Sidney A. James
James Mercantile Company
Encinal
Stanley E. Vogler
James
Encinas
State Announces Land Recovery in Zapata County
The attorney general announced recovery for Texas of 2,560 acres of land in Zapata County and mineral rights to 640 more acres in the same county. The judgment in State v Perkins and Federal Land Bank of Houston benefits the permanent school fund and grants Perkins a preference to buy the surface of 640 acres with a mineral reservation. Assistant Attorneys General Ralph Yarborough and Homer DeWolfe handled the case.
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Ralph W. Yarborough
Homer C. DeWolfe
Hogs and cattle prices mixed in Kansas City Livestock data
Kansas City wholesale livestock reports show hogs mostly 19 to 25 cents lower with top at 86.50 and feeders and calves listed. Cattle trading steady with good short fed steers around 6.40 per hundredweight and variety of grades up to 9.50, plus a strong lamb market with native and crossbred lambs bringing around 7.25 to 7.75. New Orleans cotton opened irregular as December and May futures shifted with stock market activity.
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D. A
New Orleans
Liverpool
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