Funeral for Wilbur Hawk Brings Citywide Mourning
Sorrowing friends from across the Plains and other states attend the funeral of Wilbur Hawk in Amarillo. All business suspends for an hour and city offices close as tributes extend from civic leaders, public officials, and business associates. The Globe-News and related firms observe the hour with a memorial service and staff attendance.
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Plains
Amarillo
Wilbur Hawk
Hawk
Texas
Capitol
Austin
West Texas
Central Presbyterian Church
Globe-News
KGNC
Tri-State Fair
Atchison, Kans
Atchison Globe
Wilbur C. Hawk
Globe Office
Globe
Claude King Davis
Atchison Presbyterian
The
Ross Rogers
Mr. Hawk
Tom Hughes
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Dee Howard
Portales
Tri-State
Sunshine State
el Paso
Dallas
Fort Worth
Lubbock
Wechita Falls
Robert Snowden
Carl Brown
Atchison, Kansas
Snowden
Busness
Kansas
Globe News Publishing Company
Brown
One Little Candle and Bright Civilizations in Brisbane Column
Arthur Brisbane notes cover topics on civilization and wartime work. A Faraday reference frames electricity magnetism history while a candle flame linked to a spirit flame crossing the Atlantic in less than a sixtieth of a second to illuminate a museum scene.
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Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
London
Michael Faraday
Museum of Science
Leaders hope to bring Army bill to vote in House
Washington February 14 House leaders faced a possible revolt over pork barrel earmarks as they sought to bring the peace time Army appropriations bill to a late day vote. The bill includes 565 aircraft and a plan to expand the air force. debate centered on aircraft strength and Navy needs.
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Mack Johnson Washington
House
House Appropriations
Air Corps
William N. Rogers
New Hampshire
Marion A. Zioncheck
Washington
Rogers
John J. McSwain
South Carolina
Military Affairs Committee
Army Air Force
Gerald J. Boileau
Wisconsin
Navy
McSwain
Army
Tension High Over Clashes in Mongolia
Soviet writer Karl Radek denounces Japanese militarists amid border clashes with Outer Mongolia as 10 Japanese-Manchukuoan troops were reported killed near Bulun Dersu. Doihara hopes no war breaks out while Japanese and Manchukuoan air forces ready for action and both sides suffer casualties.
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John Lloyd
Moscow
Outer Mongolia
Karl Radek
Izvestia
Radek
Manchoukuo
Outer Mongolian
Japan
Ulan Bator
Bulun Dersu
Harbin
Lake Baikal
Far East
Tokyo
Europe
America
Alan Bator
AMR
United Press
U.P
Manchukuo
Amarillo Weather Forecast This Weekend
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for fair skies tonight and Saturday with a slight warmup and low around 11 degrees. West Texas sees partly cloudy conditions with cooler air in the north and extreme southeast, warmer in the southeast. New Mexico expects unsettled conditions tonight and Saturday with probable snow in the northwest, colder in the southeast, and warmer in the east on Saturday. Temperature extremes reach 4 to 18 by noon today.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Panhandle
Pampa
Canadian
Boise City
Borger
Texline
Darhart
Fort Worth
Denver
Childress
Suspension of Two Top Bureau Officials Reported
Washington report says two senior officials in the bureau of navigation and steamboat inspection were suspended for violating commerce rules on information leaks to newspapers. Frederick L. Adams and Commander H McCoy Jones were notified and given 24 hours to respond, with possible dismissal if no reply by noon.
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Washington
Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection
Department of Commerce
Joseph B. Weaver
Frederick L. Adams
H. McCoy Jones
Weaver
Col. H. M. Johnson
Chief Justice Walker Hall Stricken Ill in Potter County
Chief Justice R. Walker Hall of the Seventh Court of Civil Appeals fell ill after arriving at his office on the sixth floor of the Potter County courthouse and was taken to his home. Attendants reported no alarm by noon and said he suffered acute indigestion. Justice A. B. Martin assisted him home.
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R. Walker Hall
Seventh Court of Civil Appeals
Potter County
Taylor Street
Judge Hall
A. B. Martin
Beaumont Woman Dies From Burns After Heater Fire
Mrs. Ethel Margaret O'Brien of Beaumont died in a hospital after suffering severe burns when her clothing caught fire from an open gas heater on January 28.
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Beaumont
Ethel Margaret O'Brien
Forty Three Die of Cold in Bulgaria Frontier tragedy
A Reuters dispatch reports 43 people froze to death at Stara in the Zagora district Bulgaria as a gale swept their bodies toward Turkey. King Boris, staying in Germany, ordered government aid for affected families.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
U.P
Stara
Zagora
Turkey
Boris
Germany
Bruno Hauptmann May Have Changed His Lindbergh Story
Samuel Leibowitz, famed criminal lawyer, hinted Hauptmann altered his tale of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Leibowitz agreed to defend Hauptmann with backing from Evalyn Walsh McLean after an interview in which Hauptmann allegedly cried. further questions were deferred to Leibowitz and Hauptmann’s wife.
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Trenton
N. J
Samuel Leibowitz
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Leibowitz
Hauptmann
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Washington
Col
Charles Lindbergh
Haupt
Mann
Name-Calling Is Now Gentle Art
In Congress the gentle art of name-calling grows. speakers avoid insults, while terms like scoundrel or asinine spark debates. Parliamentarian Deschler weighs when words cross lines as Sergeant-at-Arms Romney maintains order and the mace ritual ends disputes.
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Eddy Gilmore
Washington
Congress
House
Rep. Blanton
Texas
Burns
Lewis Deschler
Kenneth Romney
Two Men Get 99 Years For Killing Detective
Dewey Gilmore and Russell Cooper were convicted of conspiracy in the death of Muskogee detective chief Ben Bolton during a jail break on December 3. They were sentenced to 99 years in prison by Federal Judge R. L. Williams after the overnight jury verdict. Gilmore of Dallas Texas and Cooper of Fort Smith Arkansas testified that Dan Heady, alleged leader of the break, fired the fatal shotgun blast.
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Muskogee
Okla
Dewey Gilmore
Russell Cooper
O'Malley
Ben Bolton
R. L. Williams
Gilmore
Dallas
Texas
Cooper
Fort Smith
Ark
Dan Heady
Bolton
Italians Gain Two Lose One In New Ethiopian Fights
Italian War Office reports three battles on the southern Ethiopian front with two Italian victories and one defeat. Detachments near Lama Scillindi destroyed an Ethiopian unit and captured British made arms. Dawa River auto truck column dispersed a hostile detachment. Ethiopian forces overwhelmed a 60 Dubais post at Durati in Ogaden.
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Rome
Pietro Badoglio
Ballei
Gestro
Lama Scillindi
Dawa
Bulbu
Dibdib
Neghelli
Durati
Gerlogubi
Ogaden
Betty Blythe Sues for 100000 Damages
Betty Blythe, silent film star, seeks $100,000 damages from the American Weekly and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She alleges a June 23 1935 article in the American Weekly damaged her career and denies quoted material.
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Seattle
Wash
U.P
Betty Blythe
American Weekly
Seattle Post-Intellingencer Today
Panhandle hit by a bitter cold snap across West Texas
Amarillo markets its fifth lowest barometer reading in 25 years as a new cold wave grips the Panhandle. Perryton records 4 below zero while Lubbock drops to 35 midnight low and Texline posts 8. Northerly winds, dust storms, and wind chills drive the Texas Panhandle into extreme cold with forecasts of continued freezing temperatures tonight and Saturday.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
English Field
U. S. Weather Bureau
South Plains
Lubbock
Perryton
Texas
Caracas unrest as troops fire on demonstrators
Four were killed and 15 wounded when troops on balconies fired into a Plaza Bolivar mob in Caracas. Demonstrators protested press censorship under a new government rule, with sympathy strikes spreading to multiple sectors across several cities.
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Venezuela
Caracas
U.P
Plaza Bolivar
Juan Vicente Gomez
la Guaira
Maracay
Puerto Cabello
Infanta Beatriz Delivers First Grandchild for Spain Royals
In Rome on February 14 the Infanta Beatriz gave birth to a girl, Spain's former king Alfonso's first grandchild. Both mother and baby were reported well. Infanta Beatriz's husband Prince Alessandro Torlonia attended the hospital as Former Queen Victoria, staying in Rome, drew renewed reconciliation rumors with Alfonso via Italian royals.
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Rome
Infanta
Beatriz
Alfonso
Spain
Alessandro Torlonia
Victoria
Trucks Buried by Huge Snow Slide
State highway workers and patrolmen north of Millersburg reported 12 to 14 trucks buried by a massive snow slide from a mountainside early today. No injuries were reported.
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Millersburg
Tax Schemes Planned for Half Billion by Edward W Lewis
The administration plans several alternative tax proposals to raise 450 to 500 million dollars for a new farm program. Congress would choose among options with no direct recommendation. Possible measures include revised processing taxes, a broad manufacturers tax, income tax relief, higher liquor taxes, increased corporate levies, and new inheritance taxes. House leaders expect hearings to begin early next week as the budget study nears completion.
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Edward W. Lewis Washington
Congress
Treasury
William B. Bankhead
Alabama
House
Wij
and Means
Bankhead
Boy Awaits Visit From Ex-Playmates
A 15-year-old, Newman Parker, left St Anthony's Hospital after four and a half months. He hopes his former playmates will visit him at his Gallison Hotel home while he recovers from osteomyelitis in the left arm. He was bedridden since October 1 and, though partially recovered, faces likely loss of use. County Auditor H G Frosty Hamyick escorted him home as guardian angel.
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Newman Parker
St. Anthony's Hospital
Gallison Hotel
H. G
Hamyick
Spanish Vets to Hear State Commander in Amarillo Banquet
Spanish American War Veterans from the Panhandle will gather in Amarillo tomorrow night to hear state commander Curtis P. Kitchen of Brownwood. He will speak at a banquet in the Amarillo Hotel at 7 30 o clock. Reservations should be made with Postmaster W D DeGrassi, adjutant.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Curtis P. Kitchen
Brownwood
Kitchen
W. D. DeGrassi
Globe-News Want Ads instruction and call to action
A promotional note explains placing want ads by dialing 6262. It promises simple process, bargain weekly rates, and coverage in 33,000 papers. Encourages readers to try Globe-News Want Ads for renting selling or swapping items, stressing courteous service and quick inquiries.
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Globe-News
Beauty Sleeps On in Chicago Woman in Fifth Year of Coma
Patricia Maguire of Oak Park remains in a coma for the fifth year after encephalitis lethargica. Her mother, Mrs. Peter Miley, notes small signs of responsiveness and reports Patricia would turn her fingers to indicate two. Doctors say the case is the longest medical coma on record, with no clear outcome.
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Corrinne Hardesty
Chicago
U.P
Patricia Maguire
Oak Park
Peter Miley
Patricia
Ate
Pat
Seamen's Union Warns Against Propaganda Stirring Strikes
The International Seamen's Union convention in Washington warned its members to reject propaganda from anonymous sources aimed at stamping seamen into a strike. The panel, nearing the end of its fifth week, adopted the amendment from Victor A. Olander to alert district unions and seamen in the Atlantic and Gulf regions to resist such subversive activity.
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Washington
U.P
International Seamen's Union Convention
Victor A. Olander
Atlantic
Gulf
Senate Approves Cotton Sale Bill Despite Opposition
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved the Smith bill to sell about 5 million bales of government owned cotton in weekly blocks of 20 000 to 25 000 bales. The vote was 13 to 2.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
150 Die in Fire in Tianjin Slum District
Fire in a Tianjin slum district killed 150 people and left about 1,300 homeless. Firemen recovered bodies from the ruins and feared many more may be buried in the debris.
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Tientsin
China
Blumenfeld Defense Restes in Liggett Murder Trial
Isadore Blumenfeld’s defense rested after presenting about four score witnesses claiming he was in a downtown barber shop at 5 41 P M December 9 the night Water Liggett was shot. Blumenfeld denied involvement saying he was at the barber shop as the trial resumed.
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Minneapolis
U.P
Isadore Blumenfeld
Blumenfeld
Water Liggett
Thomas McMeekin
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