Amarillo Dispatches Mix Weather, Politics and City Gossip
Amarillo and vicinity forecast sunshiny and warmer with a cold night’s dip into the twenties. Washington reports feature Judge Hoover's Jack Garner lookalike, Mrs. Hal Peck as a prominent woman game official, and varied East Coast opinions on Texas, politics, and social norms.
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Washington
Amarillo
Hal Peck
Texas Game and Fish Commission
Peck
United States
Ij Washington
Old clothing drive at Paramount Theater aids Amarillo needy
A bundle of old clothes will be accepted for admission to the Paramount Theater Tuesday. The theater teams with Amarillo Community Chest to collect clothing, with emphasis on shoes and coats for school children, for distribution to the area's needy.
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Paramount
Paramount Theater
Amarillo
Goodfellows Fund grows with wide local support
Contributions to feed needy school children rose over the weekend with gifts from Mrs. Lee Bivins three beeves and 24 dollars for four kids, Miles Bivins three beeves for Pinkney Packing, and many others including Underwood and Strickland, Winona M. Frost, W. Herring, and the Mann Bakery. A request for towels to dry dishes at lunch sites accompanies the drive, with volunteers from the Ladies Auxiliary to the Carpenters Union and local merchants pledging sums as the total nears ninety dollars and more from area businesses. A California jewelry salesman also donated. Stockholm water usage rose to 40,400,000 cubic meters, up 54 percent from 1934.
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Goodfellows Fund
Lee Bivins
Miles Bivins
Pinkney Packing Company
D. 8. Harrington
Childress
Underwood and Strickland
Winona M. Frost
W. Herring
R. H. Ames
Carpenters Union
Charlies FE
W. A. Stewart
Harrison Street
Bess Davis
Dale
Nanadie Wright
W. H Ingerton
Metz Bakery
Mann Bakery
Palo Duro Furniture Company
L. E. Yocham
D. L. Shelton
Dee Huneke
J. B. Gould
Abe Sverdloff
C. H. Doebler
J. W. Anderson
J. W. Hill
Amarillo National Bank
C. G. Hester
California
H. H. Brunson
Ford Finance Establishes Amarillo Division Office
Finance in Oklahoma City will conduct a week of training before moving to work in the Amarillo office. Arthur Quinan, Okla homa City branch manager, arranged Amarillo division operations and plans recruiting in Amarillo for all positions except the manager and possibly one assistant. Quinan notes the office will aid Ford dealers and buyers in the territory. the Universal Credit Company remains a major finance partner handling Ford paper.
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Oklahoma City
Amarillo
Arthur Quinan
Quinan
Ford
Universal Credit Company
English press taxes and control of opinion in colonial era
The court opinion recalls attempts to curb expression in England with a newspaper and advertising tax, passed by Parliament at Queen Anne's urging. It argues the taxes were not revenue tools but control of opinion, linking these to the constitutional framers' awareness of English fights over 80 years and earlier Massachusetts tax episodes.
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England
Sutherland
Queen Anne
Massachusetts
Goodfellows Feed a Child Campaign Grows in Amarillo
The Goodfellows appeal to feed 1200 school children with hot lunches at 1.50 per child per month. Last week 1148 meals served. donations from merchants cattlemen and dairymen help start the program. About 1200 in cash raised. more is needed to keep meals going through the term. Checks to Goodfellows Inc mailed to The Globe News. contact Louise Evans at 6262 for pickup.
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Goodfellows
Goodfellows Organization
the Goodfellows, Inc
Globe News
Louise Evans
Budget bill seeks larger army and air power
War department officials urged rapid buildup to 165000 enlisted men and expanded air procurement as Congress weighs a 1937 supply bill. The measure funds 565 planes, 150000 minimum force, and coastal defenses with Hawaii Panama and West Coast projects included.
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National Guard
Panama
Hawegilan
Regular Army
National Guards
Hawaii
West Coast
Ordnance Department of Mobile
California
Washington
War Department
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Malin Craig
Budget Bureau
Smith Speech Sparks Albany Rebuke and Lincoln Day Invite
The Knickerbocker Press quoted Senator Pope of Idaho calling Alfred E. Smith's Liberty League speech most unfortunate. In San Francisco County, Republicans invited Smith Democrats and anti New Deal Democrats to a Lincoln Day luncheon.
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Alfred F. Smith
Liberty League
Albany
N. Y
Knickerbocker Press
Pope
Democrat
Idaho
San Francisco
al Smith
Helium Budget Approved for Plant Operations
Seibel notes that helium plant approval would raise its total budget to $60,000 for pond operations. The plan recommends funding to support ongoing use and maintenance.
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Seibel
Amarillo Goodfellows Fund Drive Lists Many Donors
Community appeal to support the Goodfellows Fund to feed hungry school children in Amarillo. The list of donors includes Mrs. Elizabeth Herring, Panhandle A. and M. Club, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ross, International Harvester Company employees, Seven-Year-Old Class of Buchanan Street Methodist Church, Plains Creamery, and dozens of individuals and local business groups contributing beef, groceries, cash, and clothing for needy students. Also details a radio program schedule and local charity notices accompanying the appeal.
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Goodfellows Fund
News-Globe
Amarillo
Elizabeth Herring
Panhandle
Harve Allen
J. Blinderman
Buchanan St. Methodist Church
J. E. Lowndes, Jr
W. L. Autry
Nolen
J. I. Pierson
Bessie Aronson
Charles J. E. Lowndes
W. H. Rife
Pearce
J. M. Pomng
Cescoens R. House Diceedelycrey
W. C. Kenyon Warehole
Marizona
W. D. McClure
A. G. Stanley
Debbie Patterson
May Roney-Tutt
J. J. Zofness
la Costura Club
W. L. Askew
J. W. Triplett
John Cavin
International Harvester Company
W. A. Fisk
Karl W. Freeman
W. T. Richey
H. M. Walker
P. G. Barton
G. D. Pence
D. M. Smith
Pete Hackley
W. D. Elder
Lee Henderson
Agnes Womack
Fred Kelley
J. A. Pollard
Roy Sessions
West
Fred Lyon
Eadedenrs
Ed A. Ryan
Panhandle Laundry Company
B. O
George H. McGrath
S. A. Jewell
W. B. Stevenson
Bob Greere Sai Ee
Lioyd Bivins
GOR Vy Ve Co de
Tees
O. B. Chesshir
Salvev
Zale Jewelry Company
Farle A. Shields, Jr
H. P. Brooks
Ae M. Sherman
Bricklayers Union No
G. W. Roberson
Vega
J. Lb
Randall County
Star Lumber Company
Glenwood School
Lon Sellars
J. R. Crawford
Mann Bakery Company
W. McIlroy
Carpenters Union
Murry Watts
Otis Williams
M. Mayfield
Earl Sanders
White and Kirk's
George Carns
The
Panhandle Fruit Company
Porter & Sons
R. D. Houck
Amarillo Baking Company
Mary Bivins
Ray Pinkney
Pinkney Packing Company
J. Lindsay Nunn
Henneman Grain Company
J. M. Tate
Virginia Street
Williams Hardware Company
Phit Club
McKnieght Transfer Company
Co. P. Hutchins Vo
Ray
Daniel
T. G. Nichol
Green Brothers Furniture Company
Carleton-Florey Company
Draper-Ross Produce Company
Amarillo Hardware Company
Purr Food Company
Walter Irvin
Ford Truck
World’s Largest Cotton Stalk Displayed in Georgia Museum
Reports indicate the Army and Navy have not submitted estimates to the plant superintendent. A monumental cotton stalk bearing fifteen bolls, grown in Alpharetta, Georgia, is on display at the Georgia Capitol Museum.
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Army
Navy
Alpharetta
Georgia Capital Museum
Seek to Set Aside Will of Adopted Girl in North Carolina
Carthage, Feb 10. A fight to set aside Elva Statler Davidson's $500000 will revives mystery around her honeymoon death. Two relatives and a friend sue to invalidate a will leaving most of her estate to her older husband, claiming he drove her to despondency. A coroner's jury previously returned an open verdict on her death by carbon monoxide in Pinehurst.
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Carthage
N.C
U.P
Elva Statler Davidon
Davidson
Pinehurst
Thelma Todd
Body of Curtis on Way to Birthplace
The body of former Vice President Charles Curtis sped toward Topeka Kansas for final honors in his birthplace and rise from jockey to high office. An impressive Capitol funeral awaited the body arriving Tuesday after Curtis died suddenly Saturday in Washington from a heart attack.
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Topeka
Kans
Charles Curtis
State Capitol
Washington
Disease kills one fifth of Santa Rem inhabitants
Dispatches from Belem report that one in five people in the interior village of Santa Rem has died from an undiagnosed illness. Col. Antonio Figueira, village political leader, says more than 100 have died and at least five are dying each day.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Belem
Santa Rem
Antonio Figueira
Youth Near Death From Knife Wounds
Andres Chaves a Mexican youth is near death in St Anthony's Hospital from knife wounds sustained in an affray yesterday. Police are searching for the assailant. His identity was not made public.
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Andres Chaves
St. Anthony's Hospital
Chaves
Prairie dogs to be fought in Potter County
Potter County commissioners approved a final 258 dollars for poison and grain to be spread by the U S Biological Service in an extermination campaign to remove prairie dogs within the next year. County agent E R Duke called the effort a thinned down operation and urged proceeding to prevent re infestation while noting hundreds remain.
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Potter County
U. S. Biological Service
E. R. Duke
Duke
Hill Named Head Of Texas Farm Aid Body
Amarillo business leader John E. Hill was named chair of Texas Rural Resettlement executive committee by Gov. James V. Allred. Other Dallas and Spur members include John E. Owens Frank Holland Wyke M. Brown D. P. Trent. The group aims to address tenant farming as a key agricultural problem tied to home ownership.
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Austin
John E. Hill
Amarillo
James V. Allred
Texas
W. B. Lea
Spur
John E. Owens
Frank Holland
Wyke M. Brown
Dallas
D. P. Trent
Government Rural Resettlement Administration
Allred
State Farm Administration Committee
Trent
National Administration
Lea
Sons of South To Select Officers
Members of the Shelby Plemons Camp Sons of Confederate Veterans meet at Amarillo Hotel Red Room at 8 PM to elect officers and name delegates to the United Confederate Veterans reunion in Shreveport Louisiana scheduled for early spring.
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Shelby-Plemons
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Amarillo Hotel
United Confederate Veterans
Shreveport
Campaign to poison stray dogs on ranchlands documented
The report details a plan to target dog packs on colonies using mile maize bait and carbon disulphide. A third visit involved dropping high life to suffocate dogs in underground caverns, with governmental and CCC support and John M. Hill Jr. in charge. Ranchers assist the effort with cooperation.
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CCC
John M. Hill, Jr
Senate Recess Honors late Vice President Charles Curtis
The Senate recessed today in respect to the late Vice-President Charles Curtis. It will reconvene again tomorrow.
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Senate
Curtis
Washington
Charles Curtis
Blue Star Ointment Promised To Relieve Itching
Advertisement describes Blue Star Ointment as a remedy for itch rash tetter foot itch ringworm and eczema. It claims tested medicines kill itching and offers money back on first purchase if relief is not achieved.
Penetro Cold Salve Ad Promises Stronger Relief
An advertisement touts Penetro Medicated Rub with mutton suet base offering "113% to 227%" more cold medicine than rivals. It urges demand for stainless white Penetro to ease congestion aches and warns the 50c size has triple the content of the 25c size while the 81c size nearly eight times as much. Trial size is 1c and it is sold at all druggists.
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