North Texas Feels 1936 Cold Wave Dust Storm Risk Declines
The Associated Press reports North Central Texas endured its coldest 1936 spell with Dallas at 10 degrees and Fort Worth at 10.8. San Antonio reached 20 degrees. Corpus Christi tied a multi year low near freezing. Weatherman H T Collman predicted warmer, fair conditions tonight and tomorrow with an expected low around 11 and light winds reducing dust storm chances.
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Associated Press
Texas
Dallas
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Gulf Coast
Corpus Christi
H. T. Collman
Hauptmann to be resentenced as death warrant readied
Trenton New Jersey February 18 prime Richard Hauptmann will be resentenced to die the week of March 22 if Justice Thomas W Trenchard follows the attorney general's office recommendation. A new death warrant was prepared adding urgency to defense efforts. Joseph Lanigan assistant attorney general said the warrant will direct execution in late March or early April. Governor Hoffman said no further reprieve unless new developments warrant it.
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Trenton
N. J
Prino Richard Hauptmann
Thomas W. Trenchard
Attorney General's Office
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Joseph Lanigan
New Jersey
Supreme Court
Hauptmann
Justice Trenchard
Samuel S. Leibowitz
New York
Harold G. Hoffman
Washington bet on Washingtons birthday silver dollar toss
Rep Sol Bloom offered 20 to 1 odds that Walter Johnson would fail to throw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River on George Washingtons 204th birthday. Johnson, practicing on his Germantown Maryland farm, argued if Washington did it then he could. Bloom called the tale a myth and preposterous saying Washington was about 10 when the feat was supposed to occur.
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Eddy Gilmore
Washington
Sol Bloom
New York
Walter Johnson
Rappahanook
George Washington
Germantown
Maryland
Johnson
Bloom
George Washington Bicentennial Commission
Tragedy Strikes Hutchinson Family in Fatal Fire
A Hutchinson Kansas fire killed seven members of a single family, including Frank E. Broyles and his wife Florence, and their five children Michael Carl Helen Donald Glenn. Firemen found Mr. Broyles’s body near the doorway as an explosion was suspected.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Frank E. Broyles
Florence Broyles
Michael
Carl
Helen
Donald
Glenn
Cecil Mesker
Senate votes against move on neutrality proposal
The Senate rejected a plan to craft a permanent neutrality policy this session. The vote stood 61 to 16, with Bennett Champ Clark's three month extension defeated. Nye was absent as the debate began. Meanwhile the House Rules Committee advanced the administration farm subsidy bill for floor debate and possible Friday passage.
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Waseington
Senate
Congress
Bennett Champ Clark
Missouri
Clark
Gerald Nye
State Munitions Committee
Nye
Washington
House Rules Committee
Marvin Jones
Texas
House Agriculture Committee
Condemned man writes to King for life plea
A letter from condemned prisoner Alexander MacKay, alias Alexander Hunter, asks King Edward VIII to spare his life. MacKay and Joseph Kristy were to be hanged February 28 for kidnapping state parole board members during a San Quentin escape attempt 13 months ago. MacKay contends innocence in the robbery, and prison files show alternate name.
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San Francisco
Edward VIII
England
Alexander MacKay
Joseph Kristy
State Parole Board
San Quentin
MacKay
Alexander Hunter
Mien
Brisbane column and steam propelled turbine plane note
Arthur Brisbane writes in The Globe on current topics with his opinions. Russia conducts experiments with a steam propelled turbine plane for stratosphere flights, where water boils at half sea level temperature, exhaust steam recovered about 90 percent. Two years ago William and George Bessler in Los Angeles built
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Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Russia
William and
George Bessler
Los Angeles
Italians Fly Victory Flag Over Ethiopian Battle
Italy hailed a sweeping victory in Northern Ethiopia at Amba Aradam with mass meetings and flags, claiming 5,000 to 6,000 Ethiopian deaths and 1,212 wounded while Italian losses were 196 dead and 606 wounded. Addis Ababa dispatches countered the claim, stating only patrol skirmishes with Ethiopian losses 31 killed and 75 wounded.
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Associated Press
Italy
Ethiopia
Amba Aradam
Addis Ababa
Ras Mulugheta
Demos Enlist Texans To Aid For Campaign
Washington reports 300 Texas Democrats were mustered into party service to back a down-the-line Roosevelt Garner delegation for the Philadelphia convention. The effort features two lists of campaigners led by Vice President Garner and Mrs. Clara Driscoll Sevier to head the new Texas Democratic national campaign committee after ten days of conferences.
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Washington
Garner
Roosevelt-Garner
Philadelphia
New Deal
Clara Driscoll Sevier
Corpus Christi
Texas
Texas Democratic National Campaign Committee
Congressional probe of Townsend plan backed by Burns
Washington February 18 Speaker Joseph W Burns declared the proposed congressional investigation of the Townsend old age plan thoroughly justified as a defense of Congress. He cited FHA loans Long Bell Lumber Co. as supporting context in the discussion.
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Washington
Joseph W. Burns
Congress
Strikers Block Goodyear Plant In Akron Standoff
Nearly 400 tire workers trying to enter Goodyear Plant 2 faced pickets at the main gate and were turned back. Police withdrew after three failed attempts to move morning shift. Both Goodyear plants were paralyzed as production stalled and workers sat by idle machines. Officials sought Sheriff Flower for aid, but no immediate response was given.
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Fred S. Dunham
United Press
Akron
U.P
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Frank Ross
Goodyear
James Flower
Weather Snapshot From Corsicana Sees Deep Freeze
Early morning readings show temperatures near twenty four degrees at 7 30 with sun shining though Corsicana records a low of twelve after a 24 hour span staying below freezing. By eight A M the thermometer reached sixteen as skies cleared.
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Corsicana
Bigger And Colder Winter In Sight
Chicago reports continued cold with more snow and bigger ice jams. Renewed flood threats raise alarms as conditions threaten further isolation and casualties.
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Chicago
What to Call Married Women Who Keep Maiden Names
New York report notes debate over how married women using birth names should be addressed. Dorothy Thompson and Fannie Hurst highlighted the issue at a Mrs. Roosevelt luncheon, while Frances Perkins and other notable women often use their maiden or married names in public life.
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Mary Elizabeth Plummer
New York
Mrs
Miss
Military Coup Upsets Paraguay Government
A military revolutionary movement proclaimed exiled Colonel Rafael Franco provisional president after overthrowing President Eusebio Ayala. Rebels led by Colonels Smith and Recalde, veterans of the Chaco War, won street battles as loyal forces collapsed by 10 P.M. Ayala sought refuge aboard the gunboat Paraguay. Foreign Minister Luis Riart was captured, and Gen. Estigarribia remained with the army. Franco, once exiled for alleged Communist activity, was in Buenos Aires and expected to return. The uprising began at 7 A.M. with encampment forces moving on Asuncion, seizing rail lines and fortifying near Plaza Uruguaya.
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Associated Press
Asuncion
Paraguay
Rafael Franco
Eusebiio Alaya
Smith
Recalde
Chaco
Ayala
Paraguay River
Luis Riart
Franco
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Jose Felix Estigarribia
River Navy
Campo Grande
Plaza Uruguaya
Oklahoma pension amendment voided by state high court
Oklahoma City February 18 The State Supreme Court struck down the $30 a month old age pension amendment voted last fall. Chief Justice Monroe Osborn wrote the decision with Justice N B Corn dissenting. The court did not rule on the plan's merits, saying the governor illegally submitted the proposition before the secretary of state completed required hearings.
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Oklahoma City
U.P
State Supreme Court
Oklahoma
Monroe Osborn
N. 8
Corn
EB. W. Marland
Frank C. Carter
Sears Roebuck to Spend $9.5 Million on Ads in 1936
General R. E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., announced in Chicago that the firm will spend 9.5 million dollars on newspaper advertising in 1936. Advertising manager G. W. Cunningham said newspapers are the most effective medium for promoting retail sales.
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Chicago
U.P
R. E. Wood
Sears, Roebuck & Co
G. W. Cunningham
Wilbur Hawk Honored by Texas Planning Panel
Austin officials released a resolution honoring the late Wilbur C. Hawk Amarillo newsman and civic leader. The Texas planning board committee on natural resources announced the tribute today in Austin, recognizing his service and memory.
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Austin
Texas Planning Board
Committee On Natural Resources Today
Wilbur C. Hawk
Amarillo
Solon Attacks Rev Coughlin On House Floor
Rep John J OConnor Democrat New York charged on the House floor that the Reverend Charles E Coughlin had maligned and scandalized the House of Representatives in a Washington dispatch dated February 18 U P from United Press.
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Washington
U.P
John J. O'Connor
New York
House
Charles E. Coughlin
House of Representatives
Col Estes Physician Update Says Condition Improves
Rochester bulletin reports Col Carl Estes East Texas publisher shows improvement after abdominal operation last week. Physicians attending him stated his condition was better and ongoing recovery expected.
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Rochester, Minn
U.P
Carl Estes
East Texas
Amarillo and West Texas Weather Outlook Tonight through Wednesday
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for fair skies and warmer conditions tonight and Wednesday with a low near 11 degrees. West Texas overall will be fair but not as cold tonight. Wednesday brings partial clouds and rising temperatures in south and central areas. New Mexico faces unsettled conditions tonight and Wednesday with probable snow in the north central region and warmer spells tonight in the east. Temperature extremes up to 1 o'clock today range from 4 to 18 degrees.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Next War Predicted to Start Mid 1937 by Expert
Genevieve Tabquis of Oeuvre outlines a global conflict plan beginning mid-1937 involving Germany attacking the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia, Japan striking Russia, and coordinated moves across Holland, Belgium, and beyond with rapid occupation targets and allied responses in a multi-nation war scenario.
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Paris
Genevieve Tabquis
Oeuvre
Germany
Japan
Russia
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Czechoslovakia
Roumania
Holland
Meuse
Albert Canal
Calais
Rhine
Zuyder Zee
North Sea
Great Britain
Rhineland
Mme. Tabouls
Pair Found Dead in Oklahoma Home From Gas Fumes
A. E. Deaver aged 76 and his sister Mary Wentz aged 73 were found dead in their Hobart living room from suspected gas stove fumes. The brief notice notes an FHA Title 1 remodeling loan deadline of March 31 and advertises John Maynard Lumber Co. for details at 800 W 5th.
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Hobart
Okla
A. E. Deaver
Mary Wentz
FHA
Act Quick
John Maynard Lbr. Co
King Carol Visits Monkey Gland Expert in France
King Carol of Roumania crossed the Italian frontier to meet Dr Serge Veronoff a monkey gland rejuvenation expert at Veronoff s monkey farm Chateau Grimaldi He traveled with Mme Madga Lupescu his longtime companion who once renounced his succession rights for her.
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Nice
France
Carol of
Roumania
Serge Veronofff
Carol
Veronoff
Chateau Grimaldi
Mme
Madga Lupescu
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