Davis youth Colquitt Davis to stand trial for murder
Colquitt Davis, 20, was ordered held without bond after a preliminary hearing in Ardmore Oklahoma on a murder charge connected to the shooting death of Carter County deputy Don Keirsey, 36, at Wirt. Witnesses testified his brother D TI Davis shot the deputy and another officer during the incident. Vernon Cason, an undersheriff, was wounded and hospitalized.
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Associated Press
Ardmore
Okla
Colquitt Davis
Don Keirsey
Carter County
Wirt
Here
Davis
Cathryn Fox
D. TI. Davis
Colquitt
Wichita
Kas
Keirsey
Vernon Cason
Cason
Tyler Football Triumph Casts Light on Amarillo Sandies
The writer reflects on a season ending loss to Tyler in the state finals, praising the Sandies and Coach Cherry and Lynch for a brave campaign. He extols Tyler’s youth, praises Bill Allen and the team, and laments misread expectations while celebrating local football spirit and community pride.
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The
Panhandle
East Texas
Texas
Tyler
Amarillo
Sandies
Coach Cherry
Coach Lynch
Bill Allen
News- Globe
Oil Belt
Corsicana
Waco
Cherry
Lynch
McIntosh
Sandie
Republican rift widens over Norris ally Lucas funds
Senate campaign funds committee reports Andrew W. Mellon linked heir Andrew Mellon to a cancer of party graft. Robert H. Lucas allegedly used Republican National Committee funds to back anti Norris propaganda and loans. House Republican Wood urges strong stand against Norris and urges loyalty to real Republicans.
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Andrew W. Mellon
Robert H. Lucas
Senate Campaigns Funds Committee
Lucas
Nebraska
Republican National Committee
Senate Republican
Senate
Norris
National Committee
Rapitol
Wood
Appropriations Committee
Hoover
Mr. Lucas
Funeral for Mrs Abel set for Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret A. Abel wife of John S. Abel will be held at Griggs Funeral Chapel at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon with Rev R Thomson of Central Presbyterian Church officiating Pallbearers are J W Crudgington A C McCay C E Lester Allen Early J J Currie and F F Leforge Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery The Abels have lived in Amarillo 19 years and he runs a seed and nursery business
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Margaret A. Abel
John S. Abel
Monroe Street
Griggs
R. Thomson
Central Presbyterian Church
J. W. Crudgington
A. C. McCay
C. E. Lester
Allen Early
J. J. Currie
F. F. Leforge
Memorial Park Cemetery
Abel
Amarillo
500 heads of families seek work in courthouse crowd
A reader quotes an Amarillo Globe article describing wavering jobless crowds in the county courthouse and corridors. The letter compares wealth in the city to starving families and asks how many will get work and Christmas needs.
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Amarillo Globe
China
India
Christmas Spirit Drives Community Giving Efforts
A large Christmas party is planned at the Auditorium Wednesday night with about 600 food baskets to be distributed by the Legion and Salvation Army. The Globe-News notes many families may be overlooked and urges readers to help fulfill the season’s true meaning through charitable acts.
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Legion
Salvation Army
Santa Claus
Globe-News
The
Stalin builds Russia as world industrial power leader
The text portrays Stalin as ruler of all Russia after removing Rykoff from the council. It compares him to Peter the Great in autocracy and grandeur building. It notes his aim to industrialize Russia and make it a global leader, viewing big business as the de facto government.
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Congress
Stalin
Rykoff
Council of Peoples Commissars
Peter the Great
Moscow
Russia
Court reconvenes January 7 to review three year sentence
The ATE WIREcourt reopens on January 7 as the application seeks to overturn the opinion by Judge George Christian and court approval sustaining a three year term for an aged jurist charged as the slayer of Miss Lehlia Highsmith, a state supreme court commission stenographer.
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George Christian
Lehlia Highsmith
State Supreme Court Commission
Death of Earl Winburn at local hospital
Earl Winburn, 30, died at 10:30 this morning in a local hospital after a short illness. Survived by father G. W. Winburn of Mangum, Okla. Body sent to Mangum for funeral services planned Wednesday.
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Earl Winburn
Winburn
Burr Plumbing Company
Shamrock
G. W. Winburn
Mangum
Oklo
Blackburn Funeral Home
Okla
Shop Early Bill Finds Its Way Home
The Shop Early dollar bill returned to its sponsor after visiting 40 Amarillo merchants over two weeks. Pool Drug Store credited $2 in trade and guest tickets to two theaters before passing the bill to Will Winch. A full list of stopping places will be released later.
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Amarillo
Pool Drug Store
Berry Cleaners
Pool Store
Fai
Mission
Will Winch
Paramount Publix
Mr. Winch
Canyon
Shepard vows innocence as new trial set in Topeka
Major Shepard, released on a $20,000 bond, says he did not poison his wife and that the case will be thrown out. Defense lawyers seek a new trial in Topeka, Kansas, February 2 as the officer plans to depart for Denver amid a painful verdict and trial.
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Topeka
Kan
Richard J. Hopkins
Shepard
Denver
Grace Brandon Returns to Work After Major Shepard Trial
Grace Brandon, fiancée of Major Charles A. Shepard, sentenced to life for murdering his wife, resumes typing work in San Antonio. She testified against him in Kansas City saying she testified truthfully and had no choice. She doubts his acquittal, but says engagement remains intact and she still loves him.
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United Press
San Antonio
Grace Brandon
Charles A. Shepard
Kansas City
Shepard
Brooks
Farm Station Needs Emphasis in Bill to Aid Wheat Sub-Station
A visiting delegation pressed for emphasizing Farm Station in the bill to avoid steering major activities toward livestock feeding. They sought minor changes to assure wheat sub-station work for Spearman Perryton territory. The group, led by R V Converse, met noon with Amarillo and Panhandle committees to craft a satisfactory bill.
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Amarillo
Spearman- Perryton
R. V. Converse
Spearman
Agricultural Association
T. D. Moss
Perryton
P. C. Bennett
World grain exchanges closed Christmas Day
All grain exchanges of the world will be closed on Christmas Day. The Chicago board of trade and the board of trade securities market will close tomorrow at 12 o'clock noon.
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The
Associated Press
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Board of Trade Securities Market
Your Paper Boy Will See You Early Thursday
Community note urging readers to buy the carrier boys calendar as a Christmas gift. The article praises newsies for delivering through all weather and asks for generosity to support them during the holiday season.
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Carrier Boys
South
Newsies
Radio listings for Rochester and coast to coast programs
Radio schedule details from WABC WEAF WJZ and local stations for tonight. Harold Gleason at organ console in Rochester. Tonight includes A Christmas Carol with Arthur Allen as Scrooge, Julia Sanderson and Frank Crum mit, musical dinner with Brad Browne Al Llewelyn Freddie Rich, musical magazine on WEAF, Mendelssohn Glee Club with Happy Bakers, Howard Barlow Orchestra, and a San Francisco salute. Local features include KGRS program First Baptist Church choir directed by John Josey and WDAG Red and White treasure hunt.
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Amarillo
Arthur Allen
Scrooge
WEAF
Julia Sanderson
Frank Crummit
WABC
Brad Browne
al Llewelyn
Freddie Rich
Mendelssohn Glee Club
Happy Bakers
KGRS
First Baptist Church
John Josey
WDAG
Disorderly confession tied to Wildorado case.
L B Campbell, 47, explains arrival in Amarillo on December 15 1930 with a man using the alias F J Carney later identified as Joy Wilson. Campbell describes travel from Minneapolis in a Model T Ford, last seeing the man alive December 21, and identifying the dead man at the undertaker. He notes prior prison time at Fort Madison and fear of exposing his companion.
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L. B. Campbell
Amarillo
Santa Fe Road
Joe
Mr. Mathews
Wildorado
West Virginia
Fort Madison
F. J. Carney
Acquit Mrs De Bosis in Anti-Fascist Case in Rome
The funeral of Mrs Lillian De Bosis, widow of the Italian poet, was greeted with favorable reactions in official and unofficial circles in Rome. She was freed by a special tribunal for defense of the state which tried two women and five men on anti-Fascist activity charges.
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DE Bosis
United Press
Rome
Lillian de Bosis
Hogs and cattle prices steady to mixed at Kansas City market
Hogs 5500 head near steady to 10 cents higher with top 7.75. Packing sows 6.25 to 7.00, stock pigs 7.00 to 7.75. Cattle 7500 head, calves 1200, generally steady. Steers 600-900 lb 9.25 to 9.60, 900-1100 lb 9.00 to 9.50, 1100-1300 lb 9.00 to 13.00, 1500+ lb 9.00 to 12.50. Heifers 56 to 85 lb 7.75 to 11.75, cows 5.25 to 7.25, cutters 2.75 to 4.00, vealers milk-fed 5.00 to 9.00, stocker and feeder steers noted.
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Kansas City
Associated Press
Fort Worth Livestock and New York Cotton Market Update
Fort Worth livestock prices show steady cattle and lamb values with packer demand quiet and top cattle around $7.25. Hog and calf trade steady to firm, slaughter steers at $6.65 to $7.25, fat cows $4.50 to $4.75, slaughter calves $6.50 to $6.76. New York cotton opened steady up and down with December at 9.70 then 9.59, early gains erased, January around 9.64 and May near 10.20 amid light offerings.
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Associated Press
New York
Liverpool
Detroit Aircraft
Wee
A General Mills
Durant Motors Paenenne
General Motora
Seee Baty
Elee Bond & Share Ote
General Ry Signal
Gillette Safety Razor
Van
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Glidden Company Eee
Big Ford Motor Ltd
Gold
Mavis Bottling
Granby Consolidated Copper
Niagara
Grigsby Grunow
Penroad Corp
Great Northern Rapid
Great Western Sugar
Regia Paper Vane Hahn Dept Stores
Air Trans
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United Gas
Whee
Hudson Motors
Leht & Pwr
Hupp Motors
Illinois Central
New
Deeseeeteee
Aoa
Johns Manville Sane
Bhs
Rye— Allied Chemical & Dye +e
Julius Kayser
March Seueee
Ad Allegheny Corporation
Kelvinator Corporation
American Car & Foundr
Kroger Grocery & Baking
American Qi Krueger & Toll
Et. Fetter
American Commercial Alco
Lambert Co . von Ton
American International
MK & T
Barnsdall
Fanteee
Nash Murray Corpsareneeee
Gulf of Penn
Auburn Auto
North West Utility
Tae
Aviation Corporation Aeeee
National Dairy Products Oless
Umble ‘ Oper
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National Biscuit Company
Teeee Settee Ay
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National Power & Light Sec
Toba
Bendix Aviation
New York Central RR
Rest & Company
National Cash Register
Bethlehem Steel
City
NH & H RR
Louisiana
Nee
Hohn Aluminum
Nevada
Steeedeennes
Mexican Seaboard
Borden Company
Northern Pacific RR
Mid-Continent
Borg Warner aLists
North America
Briggs Mfe Co
Esseres Ae
Oliver Farm
Iglis
Paramount Publix
S.ereveersess
Bulova
Pathe Exchange
Pandem
Eee
Neenee
Burroughs Adding Machine
Packard Motor Cargy
Packard Motor Cargy 88) ‘Panhandle
IC Penney Co
Petroleum Corp Pushdh Peeses
California
Sane
Pennsylvania
Philliereeeec Eto
Canada Dry Wees
Pillsbury Flour
Cerro de Pasco
Keith Orpheum
Catee
Calumet & Heela
Reiter-Foster
Chesapeake Corporation
Remon Rand
Rio Grande
CM & St P Prd
Royal Dutch Seaee Eee
Cri&prr
Republic Iron & 8
Chrysler Corporation
Reynolds Tobacco
Shell Union
Nee Oy
TOM GM St Joseph Lea
Simma Ataeee
Coca Cola Company
Schulte
Aee
Binclair
Dane
Cola Fuel & Iron
Sears Roebuck
Ekelly Eee
Columbia Gas & Light
BK Simmons
Congoleum Nairn
Southern Calirnia Edison
Columbia Grapho
Studebaker Corp
St'd
Calif
Consolidated Gas
Southern Pacific
Continental Baking
Texas Gulf
Trans American
Texas Corp Terre Neuer
Coty
Tex Pac Ld
Crucible
Union Pacific
Cutler
United Aircraft & Tra
Cuba Company
Aly United Cigar
Tex Pac Cl & Oil
Curtiss Wright
United Corporation
Texan Oil & Land Bee
United Fruit
Vacuum
Thay
United Carbon Teens
P. Oe
Davison Chem Sigveceesace
United Gas Improvement
Warner-Quinlan Fees
Delaware & Hudson, Co
Seer Towers
Dela Sac & West RR
Tees Eee
Union Carbide
Venter- Dupont
US Pipe & Foundry
Eastman Kodak
US Steel
Universal Pipe & Radic
Vanadium Corporation
Tee
Warner Bros Pictures
Wel
Elec Pow & Light Wee
Warren Bros Company
Amer
Austin Fl Erie Railroad
Western Maryland RR
Ark Nat Gas
Marshall Field & ‘Co
Western Union Heegeee
Ass’d Gas & Elec
Ols Fisk Rubber
Westinghouse Electric
Marconi Scenee
Foster Wheeler, Inc
Westingouse
Fener
Freeport
Texas
Ennebes
White Motor Company
Wats Cities Service
Willys Overland
Ate
Woolworth Co
Columbia Picture
Wee Eeenies
Yellow Truck & Coach
The Mountain of Knowledge and the Student
A speaker compares college to a mountain of jewels guarded by a watcher. Each person may take what they can bear and must dig alone to claim knowledge. The text argues that studying for truth yields riches on display, with no one to monitor how much one takes.
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Bill
Isadore
Ikey
Tkey
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Radio Chester
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Ivan
Wickersham Prohibition Committee
South America
Knute Rockne
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Rockne
Co. C. Biggs
Lubbock
Pandle
Polk Street
Sheppard
RADIO
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Rochester
N. Y
Wabc and Chain
Harold Gleason
Campbell
Crosley Radio
Chester
Edgar A. Guest
Clearing House Association
First National Bank
Amarillo Bank & Trust Co
Amarillo National Bank’ National Bank of Commerce
American State Bank
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