Move Boosts Fresh Races for Markets
Transatlantic air service plans push the frontier of aviation competition as Pan American prepares a 25 ton flying boat for Atlantic flights. American aviation aims to inaugurate airmail and passenger service amid strategic secrecy and near-term schedules.
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Devon Francis
New York
Santa Maria
Christopher Columbus
Air Transport Companies
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
Pan- American Airways
Atlantic
Pacific
America
Patterson Funeral for Retired Pennsy General Manager
The funeral for Jesse F. Patterson retired general manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad will be held here tomorrow afternoon. He died yesterday.
Youth in Duce's Army Shocks Ethiopian Vet
Ethiopian veteran Colonel Rayna Mashal laments Italian youths and vows night warfare with knives and spears. He notes rain and mud to slow tanks, plans trenches and ambushes along the Ogaden front as Ethiopian troops defend Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway. The aged commander, fluent in French and Spanish, carries a son’s letter of support.
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Diredawa
Ethiopia
Rayna Mashal
Italy
Ogaden Front
Mashal
Addis Ababa
Tank
Addis Ababa-Djibouti
Bayna Mashal
Mark Barron
Associated Press
Prisoners Thank North Buchanan Street Church for Christmas Candy
Sheriff Bill Adams and 50 inmates at the county jail thanked North Buchanan Street Church for homemade candy given on Christmas Day. Candy was distributed from a small tree visible to prisoners as gifts arrived. the jail cook, a trusted inmate, received praise amid a roast beef dinner.
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Bill Adams
Buchanan Street
New Cortin Medicine Reported To Aid Skill Habits
A Cornell University report describes cortin, adrenal cortex extract, as easing training in coordination. Experiments on sheep show improved nerve function, reduced irritability, and better resistance to fatigue, paralleling effects seen in humans. The study aims to develop sheep as a lab model for nervous disorders and treatments.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell University
Cortin
H. S. Liddell
C. D. Anderson
E. Kotyukin
F. A. Hartman
Neurology and Psychiatry
Archaeologists Bolster Homeric Troy Claim
University of Cincinnati researchers confirm Homer’s Troy after four years of digs in Asia Minor. They support Troy as the seventh of nine settlements on the site and report bones likely from a Greek assailant’s victim in the Helen abduction episode.
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Hey
Asia Minor
Troy
Helen
Amarillo Services For Dilve Jean Hall
The body of eight year old Dilve Jean Hall daughter of Mr and Mrs EF FE Hall of Dumas was sent there for burial. Funeral services were to be said at 2 30 this afternoon. Interment was in the Dumas cemetery under Boxwell Brothers Chapel direction. She died in an Amarillo hospital yesterday afternoon fifty minutes after being received there. She had been in a day and a half. Spinal meningitis was the cause. Her father is a North Plains wheat farmer. The parents and younger sister Jo Ann survive.
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Dilve Jean Hall
EF. FE. Hall of
Dumas
Dumas Cemetery
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
Amarillo
North Plains
Jo Ann
Rites Today for Mrs. Teresa Pyeatt
Last rites for Mrs. Teresa Louisa Pyeatt, 73, given at Griggs Funeral Home at 4 pm. Rev. W A Duncan of Glenwood Baptist Church presides. Interment Llano Cemetery. Pallbearers Green Wilson, Carl Powell, Olin Easthan, Noel Warren, Arthur Beard, Aaron Cosby. Died Tuesday at home 2410 Houston Street after 20 years in the area.
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Teresa Louisa Pyeatt
Griggs Funeral
W. A. Duncan
Glenwood Baptist Church
Llano Cemetery
Green Wilson
Carl Powell
Olin Easthan
Noel Warren
Arthur Beard
Aaron Cosby
Three Officers Die In CCC Camp Fire
Three army officers at a civilian conservation camp in Waterbury Vermont died in an early morning fire that destroyed the officers quarters. The dead are Capt Roland Potter of Northfield formerly Norwich University coach and athletics director Capt. E W Boothby of Watertown Mass and Lt Leonard C Busy of Concord New Hampshire.
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Waterbury
Roland Potter
Northfield
Norwich University
E. W. Boothby
Watertown
Mass
Leonard C. Busy
Concord
N. H
Three Highway Workers Die In Crossing Crash Near Paris
Three county highway workers were killed in a grade crossing crash in Paris. Another worker was critically injured and two others were hurt. the dead are Tom Collier 28 James Snyder 0 Dervis Owen 31 Virginl Dowdy was believed dying Lancy Jackson and Pleetwood Lowe suffered less serious injuries.
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Paris
Tein
Tom Collier
James Snyder
Dervis Owen
Virginl Dowdy
Lancy Jackson
Pleetwood Lowe
Unfinished Troy Timeline Notes Earthquake End Likely
The fragment discusses an early seventh Troy built largely from fallen sixth settlement debris. It suggests a severe earthquake may have ended its existence, with the seventh Troy lasting about a century before demise.
Locomotive Theft Ends in Collision Near Mattoon
Maurice Spurlin steered a stolen locomotive onto the Illinois Central main line and collided with a freight train near Mattoon, Illinois, injuring none but prompting charges and custody. Treasury data from Washington shows December 23 receipts and year totals with substantial emergency expenditures.
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Mattoon
Ill
UPI
Ilinois Central
Maurice Spurlin
Spurlin
TI. C
Washington
Treasury
Fragmentary excerpt from ancient settlement account
The passage references an early Twelfth Century B C event, describing a great cone flagration and a subsequent later seventh settlement, within a historical narrative about ancient communities.
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B. C
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South America
United States
South Atlantic
Duce
Italian Somaliland
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Howard W. Blakeslef
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Schenley
OM Qwake
Shane
Henry
Badger-Herring Company
Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
Carl W. Silegen
Dilve
Jean Hall
Teresa Pyeatt
CCC
Metropolitan Opera Company
Christmas
Coats
Bargain Group
Andar
Vine
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