Santa Visits Virtually All Homes In City
Amarillo observes a Christmas day marked by kindness as the Good Fellows keep families fed and housed. About 500 families benefited from aid, while most stores closed for a citywide holiday. A dance is planned for next week as volunteer efforts continue to assist needy residents.
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Globe
Globe Office
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W. C G. Carlton
Jackson
Boy Scout Troop
Panhandle Fruit and Vegetable Company
Sidney F. Wyatt
Mild Christmas Weather Across Nation With Blooming Violets
The nation enjoyed mild Christmas weather with springlike warmth in many areas. Showers dotted the East on Christmas Eve as temperatures were forecast to fall, while violets bloomed in the Shenandoah Valley. A Defiance Ohio girl and her mother swam in the Auglaize River yesterday. At Lima a December 24 record high of 62 degrees was noted.
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T. R. Reeves
Patsy
Auglaize
Defiance
Lima
Cleveland
Special Kiddies Matinee At Fair Theater Saturday
The Fair Theater offers a Saturday morning kiddies matinee at 9 30 featuring Mr. Lemon of Orange with Swede E Brendel and Fifi Dorsay. Admission is ten cents for a child or adult. Several short subjects round out the program.
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Fair Theater
News-Globe Publix
Mr. Lemon
Santa Claus and economic doubt in 1931 reflections
Arthur Brisbane comments on Christmas hope amid 1931 gloom. He notes Japan’s Manchuria moves, League of Nations response, and debt pressures from Britain and Germany. The piece cites a New York store’s sales record and Burke’s advertising efficiency as indicators of cautious optimism.
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New York
John S. Burke
Burke
Suspect Held as Author of Kidnap Threat
Kansas City detective work ties a 39 year old race book maker named Charles Mele to a threatening note dictated by James A. Reed. Mele was arrested after Mrs Nell Donnelly was kidnapped. Reed claimed Mele wrote the letter under his orders. A second suspect, Mrs Ethel Depew, remains jailed in Bloomsburg Pa.
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Kansas City
James A. Reed
Nell Donnelly
Charles Mele
Martin de Pew
Bloomsburg
Nate Reed
Mele
Donnelly
George Blair
Reed
United States
Pennsylvania
Ethel Depew
Columbia County
Gibson Store Hit by Yeggs Loot Valued at $200
Burglars pried open a new safe delivered the day before at A. P. Skeet Gibson Pharmacy on Line Avenue and took cash between 75 and 90 dollars pistol fountain pens cigarets hair oil stationery and other merchandise. Police were checking the incident Christmas Day and were investigating this morning.
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Gibson Pharmacy
Line Avenue
Yeggs
Hearings Set on Bill to Aid Jobless in Senate
Senate committees plan hearings next week on two federal relief bills for the unemployed. Costigan proposes 375 million dollars for feeding and sheltering jobless this winter and next, while Lafallette backs 250 million. Hearings will feature social workers from New York and Philadelphia and a Russell Sage Foundation presenter. The aim is to show Hoover era limits on direct relief are insufficient as unemployment remains at six to seven million.
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Germany
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Arthur Woods
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Drouth
Red Cross
John Barton Payne
Convicts Help Strengthen Levees Amid Flood Threat
In Sumner Mississippi convicts and residents labored in four feet of water to reinforce levees after a Bayou Cassidy breach. Superintendent Jim Williamson oversaw convict work at Glendora while rescue crews evacuated marooned families along the Tallahatchie Quitman sector. Flood fears spread toward Monroe Louisiana as Ouachita gauges rose.
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Bayou Cassidy
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Glendora
Jim Williamson
State Penal System
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Monroe
Ouachita
Amarillo Christmas Home Decorating Contest Promises Lights
Amarillo prepares for the annual Christmas exterior home decorating contest judged tomorrow night. Citywide lights will shine from 6 30 to 10 as residents vie for a $50 prize. New entrants include Mrs H L Duhrkoop and Cecil Ingram alongside a long list of local homes and apartments.
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H. L. Duhrkoop
Tyler Street
Cecil Ingram
Fountain Court
Philip Taber
Hayden Street
George Kistler
Hughes Street
George L. Hudson
Alabama Street
C. J. Blackburn
Polk Street
H. B. Exum
Crockett Street
J. C. Spaeth
Bowie Street
W. E. Sturdevant
Missing West Coast clubman sought by police
Raymond O. Reeve a prominent Los Angeles clubman and former Dartmouth football star vanished last Thursday after traveling with a man who posed as a Hoover Dam builder official. Police traced him across three states and into Mexico while Mrs Reeve said the companion used a false name and Reeve carried a substantial cash sum.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Raymond O. Reeve
Dartmouth
Reeve
Southern California
Dartmouth Club
Seventeen Held in City Jail Over Christmas Cheer
Too much Christmas cheer led to 17 men and women ending up in the city jail on Thursday night and Friday morning. Charges of vagrancy and drunkenness predominated. Two prisoners are held on burglary suspicions.
Pair Hurt In Christmas Eve Auto Mishaps
A Christmas Eve traffic rush in Amarillo caused six wrecks within two hours. Two people were injured. E. Jones, 65, fractured an ankle at Sixth Avenue and Monroe Street and suffered head cuts with possible internal injuries. Mrs. Paul Gore, of 2509 A Taylor Street, was cut on the right arm in a collision in the business district. No accidents were reported Christmas morning.
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Amarillo
E. Jones
Sixth Avenue
Monroe Street
Paul Gore
Taylor Street
Peace and Good Will Greatest Need Says Governor
Governor R. B. Sterling urges Texans to seek peace and good will in a Christmas message. He notes suffering but hopes for lightening burdens through the spirit of the Nazarene and calls for stronger faith, unity, and brighter prospects for Texas and the nation. He thanks the people for cooperation and hopes to visit more communities in the coming year.
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Houston
Gov. R
Sterling
Austin
Texas
Estelle Hurt In Auto Crash
Hollywood December 25 screen actress and former wife of Jack Dempsey Estelle Taylor was injured when the car she rode in was forced off the boulevard by another auto and crashed into a palm tree. She sustained a scalp laceration a bruised hip and a cut tongue. She was treated at Hollywood receiving hospital and later returned home under nurse care. The party had just left a hotel dance with producer Frank Joyce and chauffeur Noel Scott as witnesses.
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Hollywood
Estelle Taylor
Jack Dempsey
Miss Taylor
Herbert, Dasse
Frank Joyce
Joyce
Noel Scott
Evelyn Prent
Harry D. Edwards
Miss Brent
Dasse
Gasoline Prices Raised in Oklahoma City
Major oil companies in Oklahoma City raise gasoline prices by one cent per gallon for Christmas. Anti knock sells at 20 cents and regular at 17 cents. The move follows the anticipation of removing a one cent emergency tax on January 1, reducing the total tax from five to four cents per gallon.
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Oklahoma City
U.P
Oklaho City
Assassination Plot Reported In Moscow Ambush Idea Unconfirmed
Reports claim a staff member of a unnamed embassy in Moscow was asked to leave after allegedly proposing to involve a minor Soviet official in an attack on Japanese Ambassador Koki Hirota. Soviet police were alerted. Tokyo officials denied current knowledge of the plot and noted Moscow might seek action against the implicated diplomat.
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Moscow
U.P
Foreign Office
Koki Hirota
Tokyo
Hirota
U.pi
With Called
Russia
Japan
Clash as Troops Line Liao River in Manchuria
Bitter winter and ongoing fighting mark Christmas in southern Manchuria as Japanese columns push toward the west riverbank near the Liao. Chinese forces, estimated 100000 in the area including Chin Chow regulars, may face a broader assault.
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Mukden
Manchuria
Liao
Lee
Chinchow
Chinchhow
Tientchuangta
Victim Grabs Gan Captures Robber
TEXARKANA Tex Dec 25 The courage of H M Brock prevented robbery of Farmers' Cotton Oil Company Brock grabbed the robber's pistol struck him twice with it. In the scuffle the gun discharged and Brock was wounded in a finger The would be robber was identified as a man under bond on charges of robbing a grocer Jam was placed in jail.
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Texarkana
Tex
H. M. Brock
Brock
Wishier
Farmers’ Cotton Oil Company
Jam
Boy Revived After Gas Fumes At Virginia Street Home
Floyd Patton aged 14 was overcome by gas fumes in a locked bathroom at 607 Virginia Street. He was found unconscious and revived with an inhalator after household members forced the door open.
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Floyd Patton
Patton
Ted Arnold
Virginia Street
Young Patton
100th Birthday for Norfolk's Oldest Schoolteacher
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hodges of Norfolk turns 100 today, celebrating Christmas and the centennial of her birth as the city's oldest school teacher. She marked the milestone on Christmas Day in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Norfolk
Mary Elizabeth Hodges
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Amarillo area fair tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. 24 hour extremes 45 to 51. West Texas fair tonight warmer south portion. Saturday clouds increasing with possible rain in extreme west. Oklahoma generally fair tonight and Saturday, warmer in north portion. Arkansas fair tonight and Saturday with rising temperatures.
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Oklahoma
Arkansas
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