Glamour of Stage in Court in Chicago Obscenity Raid
Chorus girls from Earl Carrolls Sketch Book faced cross examination as a Chicago court reviewed the mores of the show after a police raid halted performances on obscenity charges. Miss Effie D Sigler censor and head of the censorship board testified amid courtroom turmoil.
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Chorus Girls
Earl Carroll
Chicago
Associated Press
Effie D. Sigler
Justin F. McCarthy
Sigler
Moving Picture Censorship Board
Washingtons engineering feats cited by Hoover in 1931
In his introduction to writings for next year’s anniversary, President Hoover praises George Washington as a premier engineer and leader who reclaimed the Virginia swamp and advocated a combined highway and waterway from the Atlantic to the Ohio. He notes Washington as the first engineer in the White House and contrasts his influence with modern political struggles.
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Los Angeles
Calif
George Washington
Hoover
Washington
Virginia
Atlantic Coast
Ohio River
White House
England
McGeehee
Emory University
Atlanta
Flood Parley Hears Banker
Dallas February 19 Associated Press says M H Gossett president of the Federal Land Bank of Houston urged engineers to avoid ill advised conservation schemes. He warned that vast sums are lost without thorough study of reclamation irrigation drainage and conservation projects and urged cooperation to prevent foreclosures and losses. W G Potter of Chicago a drainage engineer presided at the morning session.
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Associated Press
Dallas
M. H. Gossett
Federal Land Bank of Houston
National Drainage, Conservation and Flood Control Congress
W. G. Potter
Chicago
Congress
Caraway Misstep Cited Over Color Comment in Letter
The New York World quotes Sen Thaddeus Caraway of Arkansas replying to a Texas critic on death policy. The letter, dated February 2, contends a negro always finds a complaint and urges the critic to confine correspondence to his own race. O G Halliburton of Fort Worth calls the reply undignified and insulting.
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Associated Press
New York
New York World Today
Thaddeus H. Caraway
Arkansas
Fort Worth
Texas
Senator Caraway
Joe T. Robinson
Red Cross
Senate
Halliburton
French Rail Engineers Visit Amarillo to Inspect US Methods
French engineers Henri Maux and Jean Bourgoin arrived in Amarillo from California via Santa Fe trains. They toured Boise City line construction and studied American railroad methods as guests of W. W. Kelly and Santa Fe officials. The pair are on a U S tour to study railway and general construction problems after routing from Vancouver and across Asia.
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Texas Panhandle
Henri Maux
Cambodia
Jean Bourgoin
Hanoi
Amarillo
Santa Fe
California
Boise City
W. W. Kelly
Maux
Phnom Penh
Bourgoin
Indo-China
U. S
United States
Vancouver
British Columbia
China
Shanghai
Peking
Manchuria
Mugden
Japan
Stephenson Convicted by Pampa Juries
Roy Stephenson was found guilty on two felony charges robbery with firearms and assault with intent to murder in the February 4 Alam ed bank robbery. He was sentenced to 30 years, 15 on each count, with McGee to stand trial Friday.
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Globe
Pampa
Roy Stephenson
First State Bank of
Alameed
State Penitentiary
Roy
Shortie) McGee
Stephenson
E. B. Hedrick
Lon Blanscot
Jim Bryant
Bryant
Alaneed
Mr.Hedrick
Jennie Sherrod
King found guilty of murder in Corsicana trial
T J King age 70 was found guilty of murdering his wife Ella King age 65 and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Defense plans to appeal but made no motions today. Verdict returned at 11 30 a m after the jury deliberated since yesterday 6 pm. Also latewire item notes potential wheat hold by Grain Stabilization Corporation up to 200 million bushels by July 1 as domestic carryover implications.
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United Press
Corsicana
T. J. King
Ella King
Nmade
Associated Press
Washington
Grain Stabilization Corporation
Legge
Farm Board
Stabilization Cor
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Amarillo and vicinity fair tonight with Friday partly cloudy. West Texas expect increasing clouds tonight and Friday with possible rain and cooler conditions in the western part. New Mexico remains generally fair tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Temperature extremes today at 1 PM were 58 and 38.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
More Officers for Gray County Plea Expanded
United Press reports in Austin that three additional deputy sheriffs for Gray County are proposed in an emergency Texas House bill to protect against bootleggers. Representative Dewey Young pushed the measure through out of regular order to speed passage. A separate Austin item notes a House panel voted to abolish automobile impounding for traffic violations, declaring impounders liable for fines and cities for penalties paid to owners.
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United Press
Austin
Gray County
Texas House of Representatives
Dewey Young
Associated Press
House Committee On Municipal and Private Corporations
Spain forms new cabinet to chart post dictatorial era
Madrid Feb 19 Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar Y Cabana heads a new cabinet formed after eight years without parliament. The move follows the resignation of Premier Gen Damaso Berenguer and is ordered by King Alfonso XIII to lay out a ministerial declaration for a fresh political era. Reports from the frontier claim Alfonso may buy a chateau near Bordeaux for possible exile. Bordeaux papers caution it is a decisive move, likening him to historic monarchs.
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Nited Press
Madrid
Spain
Juan Bautista Aznar Y Cabanas
Damaso Berenguer
Alfonso XIII
The
Associated Press
Hendaye
Alfonso of
Talence
Bordeaux
France
Alfonso
Petite Gironde
Charles I
Louis XVI
Nicholas II
Fat Stock Show Schedule at Tri-State Fair Grounds
Fat Stock Show runs March 2 to 5 at the Tri-State Fair Grounds with livestock shows and sales. The program lists Swine Show and Pig Club Show on March 2, Baby Beef Club Show and Hog Sale on March 3, Hereford Sale and Breeders’ events on March 4, and Baby Beef Show on March 5, plus an Auto Show in the Automobile Building and the Junior College Band as official show band. Cattlemen and Panhandle Swine Breeders’ Convention will meet during the event.
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Tri-State Fair Grounds
Junior College
Cattlemen's
Panhandle Swine Breeders’ Convention
Denies Part in Postal Probe in Senate Cross Examination
Former Postmaster General New testifies before the Senate committee denying any involvement with the grand jury probe of the St. Paul commercial station lease. Chairman Blaine hints at an effort to derail the investigation tied to the 1928 presidential campaign.
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Washington
New
Grand Jury
St. Paul
Senate Committee
Blaine
Fosler
Radio Clock Behind the Scenes Says Butterfield
CBS Nitwits writer and performer Brad Browne juggles songs scripts and piano work, producing five songs weekly and tight deadlines. He crafts lines for multiple Nitwits characters and can deliver copy in about an hour. A theremin recital is planned for February 26 on WABC and other stations at 2 80 p m with George Goreff.
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Associated Press
Central Standard
New York
Brad Browne
Browne
al Llewelyn
WABC
George Goreff
Bank Robbery at Cedarvale Bank Steals seven thousand one hundred dollars
In Cedarvale Kansas two masked robbers shut down telegraph and telephone lines, kidnapped two citizens, and forced Carl Osborn and A. Crosley to help break into Citizens National Bank. Explosions damaged safes as nitroglycerin wrecked doors while trains on the Missouri Pacific were halted. A town dog alarmed the theft. In Washington a protest over an Interstate Commerce Commission grain rate order was filed.
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Cedarvale
Kan
Citizens National Bank of
Missouri Pacific
Santa Fe
Carl Oxborn
A. C. Crosley
Crosley
Csborn
Citizens National Bank
Osborn
Bank
Billy
M. J. Barris
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Western Railroads
Dead Woman On Trial For Murder In Santa Ana
In Santa Ana California on February 11 a dead woman Mrs Guy Bates Post former wife of a noted actor faced a murder trial. Defense argues lack of precedent and pleads not guilty by reason of insanity as the judge orders the trial to proceed despite odd circumstances with Mrs Post represented by A Moressy White executor of her estate.
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United Press
Santa Ana
Cal
Guy Bates Post
Mra. Post
Donia Murray Palmer
A. Moressy White
Amarillo Building Boom Ignites Under Temporary Zoning Rule
Building activity in Amarillo surges under a new temporary ordinance while the planning board is bypassed. Officials report this week’s building permit applications and estimated cotta exceed recent periods and may rise further, according to city building inspector A. W. Smalley.
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Amarillo
A. W. Smalley
Planning Board
Modern fox chase turns deadly on Amarillo streets
Two silver foxes valued at 400 dollars, owned by W. F. Key, are pursued in Edgefield Addition as a staged hunt by traffic officers on motorcycles ends with one fox captured by hand and the other shot by a patrolman. The animals escaped from a pen at the Key residence.
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Amarillo
W. F. Key
Harrison Street
Edgefield Addi
Marshal Turner
R. E. Moore
State Highway Patrol
Gas tax fight roils Panhandle landowners
Panhandle gas producers and landowners unite against proposed 2 cent gas tax. They warn the levy could wipe out much of the local gas business by pricing out producers and cannot be passed to consumers. About 100 landowners and producers met at the Amarillo hotel to urge the legislature to delay tonight’s House hearing and allow Panhandle citizens to present their case.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
House Committee
Earl Fuqua
Ray Johnson
Charles Keffer
Wire tapping rules clash in Justice and Prohibition bureaus
Attorney General Mitchell urged a correction of the split policy on wire tapping between the Justice Department Bureau of Investigation and the Prohibition Bureau. He testified before the House Expenditures Committee that he issued a January 19 order allowing wire tapping in special cases with senior approval, while Assistant Attorney General Youngquist said three taps were approved since January 14 in the absence of the prohibition chief.
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Associated Press
Washington
Mitchell
Justice Department
Bureau of Investigation
Prohibition Bureau
House Expenditures Committee
Prohibition
Youngquist
Youngquint
Woodcock
Debate on Vet Bill Opens in Senate
The Senate began debate on the Veterans Loan Bill with advocates urging a vote before nightfall. President Hoover opposed it, predicting a veto, while supporters pressed for action to provide loans to World War veterans backed by adjusted service certificates.
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Associated Press
Washington
Couzens
Michigan
Harrison
Mississippi
Hoover
Capitol
Reed
Treasury
Hines
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