Roosevelt plan leads in Amarillo straw poll results
The Globe News reports early Amarillo ballots favoring President Roosevelt's plan to expand the Supreme Court. Of 101 ballots received by 11 a m today, 57 percent supported the plan while 44 percent opposed. Most ballots came directly to the paper, with a few from out of town. The poll courier will print again today and in Wednesday editions.
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Globe News
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Amarillo
Globe News Office
Delay Plan In Lower House Delayed Action On Courts
The House Judiciary Committee postponed action on Roosevelt's court reorganization plan for at least a week. In the Senate, a subcommittee approved the Sumners bill letting federal judges retire at age 70 with full pay of $20,000. The measure aims to ease court controversy and may signal early Senate action.
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U.P
House Judiciary Committee
Roosevelt
Senate Judiciary
Sumners
Supreme Court
McCarran
Nevada
House
Senate
Texas
House Committee
Resource Tax Battle Remanded to Committee in Texas House
The Texas House rerouted the old age assistance bill with natural resource levies, ordering deletion of revenue features. The move, 82 to 57, drew claims that lobbyists outweighed the people as supporters warned the measure would recur.
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Austin
U.P
Texas House of Representatives
State Affairs Committee
Leland Johnson
Waxahachie
Jan Lucas
Athens
Pension
Jackson Cites Delay in Law in Court Reform Debate
Robert H. Jackson argues Roosevelt’s Supreme Court plan reflects a constitutional challenge to judges. The Globe-News surveys readers with a poll, printing a ballot for communal votes. Tomorrow Frederick H. Stinchfield presents opposition in a separate article.
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Roosevelt
Supreme Court
U. S
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Frederick H. Stinchfield
American Bar Association
Supreme Court Expansion Ballot Proposal Please Vote
The ballot urges a Roosevelt plan to add Supreme Court justices when a judge aged 70 plus ten years serves beyond six months. It asks voters to mark x for or against the plan and provides space for name address and instructions for a clean ballot.
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Roosevelt
Congress
United States Supreme Court
Resignation of Anderson Is Announced
R. B. Anderson resigns as chairman and director of the state unemployment compensation. Orville Carpenter appointed acting director on old age assistance. Mack Little to run the work temporarily. Anderson, 24, youngest state department head, resigned on February 12 and was confirmed yesterday.
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Walter Woodul
Carpenter
Schuschnigg Seeks Mussolini Advice On Hapsburg Restoration
Vienna report says Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg plans to visit Premier Mussolini for guidance on Italy's stance toward a possible restoration of the Habsburg monarchy, a move he favors.
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Vienna
Kurt Schuschnigg
Italy
Hapsburg
Auto Firm's Files Taken Stripped Of Labor Records
General Motors Corporation documents were allegedly stripped of all labor organization and espionage records after the Senate approved a civil liberties investigating committee resolution. Testimony was given to the committee today.
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Washington
U.P
General Motors Corporation
Senate
Civil Liberties Investigating Committee
Testimony Begins in Mike Allred Theft Trial
Testimony in the trial of Mike Allred, Randall County farmer charged with felony theft, was begun in Forty-seventh District Court this morning. Allred was indicted at Canyon in August 1935. The case was brought here on a change of venue. He is represented by Clem Calhoun.
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Mike Allred
Randall County
Forty-seventh District
Allred
Canyon
Clem Calhoun
Dr Allan Dafoe’s Condition Improves in Hospital
TORONTO Ontario February 16 hospital officials said Dr Allan Roy Dafoe physician of the Dionne quintuplets is improving after a severe influenza attack. Dr Gordon Cameron said he expects Dafoe to stay about a week in hospital.
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Toronto
Ont
Allan Roy Dafoe
Gordon Cameron
Dafoe
Mussolini Breaks Ground for Rome Subway Inauguration
Premier Mussolini swung a pick and buried its point in Piazza Bocca della Verita to inaugurate Italy's first subway. Streamlined trains are expected to begin service four years later to serve visitors for Rome's world exposition.
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Rome
Mussolini
Piazza Bocca del Verita
Italy
Hickman Boosts Children’s Home Fund to 1470
Joe Hickman of the First National Bank raised 265 for the Children’s Home repair and paint drive, part of a $3,000 project. The campaign, led by Oscar Randal, seeks weather-stripping, new plumbing, cabinets, larger water heaters, grounds work, and more, with a plan for room sponsorships by individuals and clubs.
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Oscar Randal
Joe Parr
J. T. Glover
Emmett Galloway
Central Presbyterian Church
Furr Food Stores
Russell Stationary Co
R. Austin
Hugo Loewenstern
Killough and Davies
Carlton-Florey Co
Jim Zofness
Long-Bell Lbr
Amarillo Lbr
Roberts-Olver Co
Panhandle
Lbr
Sherwin-Williams Co
Hunsley’s Paint Co
Morrow-Thomas How
Montgomery-Ward Co
FDR Outlines Four Point Farm Security Plan
President Roosevelt told Congress the American dream of the family-size farm is eroding and action is imperative. He proposed a four point program including tenant ownership with liberal credit, modest loans with guidance, public land retirement for farming families, and cooperation with state local agencies to improve leasing systems.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
Director of Choir Found in Oklahoma
Dr. C F Matthews of Travis Avenue Baptist Church Fort Worth Texas identified Ronald Leath 25 choir director as the missing man. Physicians said he suffers amnesia. Leath disappeared January 19 from Fort Worth. Police found him wandering the streets and placed him in a local hospital. Matthews planned to take him back to Fort Worth.
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Okla
C. FE. Matthews
Travis Avenue
Fort Worth
Tex
Ronald Leath
Leath
Matthews
Amarillo Weather Forecast and Temperature Extremes
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight with low around 40. Wednesday sees more clouds and moderate southwest winds. West Texas and Panhandle similar, slight warmth. New Mexico partial clouds with little temperature change. Amarillo highs reached 47 and lows 35 earlier today.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Wife of Naval Officer Sticks to Her Story
In Honolulu a Navy officer wife, 24 year old Mrs. Bennett B. Copping, repeats her account of being dragged from a hotel cottage into a garage and attacked. Police question her as doctors find no conclusive evidence of assault and plan a third examination. The case mirrors Honolulu's Massie episode as officials consider next steps.
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Massie
Navy
Bennett
Henry M. Akina
Three Murder Charges In Agent's Death Probed
In Austin on February 16 three murder charges and nine conspiracy counts were filed against Ike Young Beulah Hamilton and Hysel Hamilton linked to Federal Agent W W Thomason's death during a raid near Boxwell Bledsoe said hearings start Saturday when federal district attorney can attendConspirators named include Beulah Hamilton Hazel Hamilton Husel Hamilton Augustine Garza Pete Ancia Charley Rivera Ysidro Saldana and Tony Arevealo
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Austin
U.P
Bruce Bledsoe
W. W. Thomasson
Bledsoe
Ike Young
Beulah Hamilton
Hysel Hamilton
Light Rains in The Panhandle Reported
Light sprinkles and drizzle spread across the Texas Panhandle from Amarillo to Hereford and Texico with heavier showers eastward. Areas west of Tucumcari saw snow while dust lingering from Monday’s storm cleared. Weatherman predicts partly cloudy skies and a high around 40, with similar conditions into Wednesday.
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Texas Panhandle
New Mexico
Texico-Farewell
Amarillo
Tucumcari
Hereford
Texico
Clovis
Belen
H. T. Collman
Texline
Childress
Panhandle
Roswell
N. MF
Danger Sign Is Hung Up by Clint Small
Sen. Clint Small of Amarillo warned Texas lawmakers that the state faces staggering appropriation bills. He spoke during a discussion on tax exemptions for fraternal insurance firms, warning that without restraint future revenue measures could yield a staggering appropriation bill.
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Clint C. Small
Amarillo
Small
Grady Woodruff
Decatur
Journal
Clint Small
Austin
Clint
Brush Fire Under Control Near Camp Sullis
A brush fire that scorched seven square miles and threatened Camp Sullis, the army training post, was brought under control after an 18 hour battle. The report from San Antonio notes the blaze was contained today, ending a tense period for local forces and residents.
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San Antonio
Camp Sullis
Authorities Plead Halt to School Parade Amid Church Conflicts
In Orizaba Vera Cruz Mexico authorities urged an end to religious clashes after angry parents with clubs blocked a planned schoolchildren parade protesting the reopening of Catholic churches. The incident followed tensions over church access and religious display.
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Orizaba
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Farnsworth Waits Verdict on Conspiring to Aid Japan
Justice James M. Proctor deferred sentencing of John S. Farnsworth a former naval lieutenant commander after he entered a no contest plea to conspiring to communicate naval information to Japan. Farnsworth claimed innocence but offered no defense. The maximum penalty is 20 years. his lawyers argued Japanese witnesses could not testify. Farnsworth had told reporters he discussed organizing an aviation corps abroad with agents of an Oriental power but denied malicious intent.
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Washington
James M. Proctor
Johns
Farnsworth
Japan
Mother and daughter jailed over shoplifting bid for college funds
A mother and her 18 year old daughter were arrested in Cleveland for shoplifting. They said they wanted to raise money to send the daughter to college.
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Cleveland
U.P
Getting Back on Your Feet Has Its Drawbacks Corns
A humorous column compares corns to a civilization affliction caused by ill fitting shoes. It notes corns hurt, can affect the whole body, and humorously claims some use corns as weather forecasters while predicting a weather change by the pain. It ends with a scene of a corn sufferer exiting a theater.
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