New Deal Faces Delegation Row in New York City
Washington reports the New Deal seeks a compromise to avoid battle over New York City delegates to the Democratic national convention. EPIC and Upton Sinclair gain limited representation while California controversy continues as MacGroarty backs a Townsend plan delegate. Georgia also stirs with Talmadge challenge.
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Lyle C. Wilson
Washington
New Deal
New York City
California
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Upton Sinclair
United Press
John 8
McGroarty
Tammany and Smith
Massachusetts
James B. Ely
Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
EPIC
Roosevelt
End Poverty Organization
White House
Paul Redfern Found Alive by Pilot in Guiana Mountains
Alfred Harrod reports with Art Williams that they found Paul Redfern alive in the Tumac Humac Mountains of western Guiana. Redfern is said to be a crash survivor crippled with a broken body, held by an Indian tribe that will not allow escape, after the 1927 Brunswick to Rio solo flight attempt.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
Alfred Harrod
Paramaribo
Art Williams
Paul Redfern
Tumac Humac
Guiana
Redfern
Harrod
Brunswick
Rio de Janeiro
Williams
Civilization
Tom Roch
Guns sold as scrap metal prompt Senate actions
Jacob Paley testified that thousands of old army machine guns described as scrap could be reconditioned and used to topple the government, while the Senate moved to bar interstate shipment of firearms and ammo except by licensed dealers. Paley bought about 3,500 guns for roughly 12 cents each, originally costing the army over two million dollars. He warned experts could repair them and feared misuse by criminals.
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Washington
Jacob Paley
Senate Munitions Committee
U. S
Paley
Schenectady
Senate
N.Y. Army Depot
Army
New York
Department of Justice
Hauptmann allegedly knew ransom bills were cash
From Trenton and Flemington sources an official inside the Holdz death house alleges Bruno Richard Hauptmann knew the Lindbergh ransom money came from the first payment. Leibowitz claims Hauptmann is guilty in part of the Lindbergh baby crime and his execution date set for the week of March 30.
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Robert Musel
United Press
Trenton
N. J
U.P
Hauptmann
Isidor Fisch
Associated Press
Samuel 8
Leibowitz
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Byrd Here No Coat Byrd Here No Coat
Rochester report describes Admiral Richard E. Byrd visiting Amarillo from Lubbock with no overcoat, noting he wears one only when his wife accompanies him. The explorer, famed for polar expeditions, is slated to lecture at 3:30 this afternoon, continuing a two-venue visit.
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Richard E. Byrd
Icelands
Tobey Denounces New Deal Farm Program Move
Rep. Charles W. Tobey accuses the New Deal of rushing an illegal farm program to quick passage without hearings. He calls it a vicious unsound scheme aimed at bypassing the Supreme Court AAA ruling as debate on the farm subsidy and soil conservation bill continues.
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Washington
Charles W. Tobey
New Hampshire
House Agriculture Committee
New Deal
House
Supreme Court
AAA
Tobey
Senate
Harold D. Cooley
North Carolina
Agricultural Committee
Amarillo Area Snow Likely Tonight Through Friday Forecast
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for light snow tonight and Friday with colder temperatures on Friday. West Texas shows cloudy skies with rain in the southeast and likely rain or snow in the north tonight and Friday, warmer in the southeast tonight and colder in the north Friday. New Mexico expected fair to tonight and Friday with colder conditions in the southeast. Temperature extremes reach 15 to 25 at 1 o'clock today.
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Amarillo
Vicinty
West Texas
New Mexico
Panhandle Plains
H. T. Collman
Tammany to Back for at Demo Parley
Jeremiah T. Mahoney said the Tammany delegation to the Democratic convention is solidly for President Roosevelt. He predicted the Democratic ticket would carry New York in November after a visit with Roosevelt. He dodged a direct comment on Alfred E. Smith, noting Smith could speak for himself.
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Tammany
Washington
Jeremiah T. Mahoney
Roosevelt
New York
Alfred E. Smith
Mahoney
All Tries Are Short Of Record
In Fredericksburg Virginia residents pour iron washers into the Rappahannock River to test who can throw across its width citing civic pride and curiosity. Records show officials reaching varying fractions of crossing distance as citizens debate Sol Bloom that the river is too broad. See COIN TOSS Page 2
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Fredericksburg
Rappahannock River
Walter Johnson
George Washington
W. B. F. Cole
Commonwealth
Carlton Massey
Ben F. Pitts
Chamber of Commerce
Charles H. Lewis
Sol Bloom
Washington
Japanese Army Divisions Move Toward Manchukuo
Tokyo war office announces an early movement of two divisions from Japan to Manchukuo for annual replacements not linked to Russo-Japanese tensions and not increasing forces there. Russia rejects Japanese frontier proposals. boundary fixed by treaty, Izvestia reports. Japan votes in national election amid cabinet support questions. A light earthquake hits El Centro. Amarillo forecasts snow with 2 to 3 inches and colder temps. Overnight low 15°F. record stretch of freezing temperatures nears 37 days.
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Tokyo
Japan
Manchukuo
Tokyo War Office
War Office
Russia
Moscow
Izvestia
Secret British-Ethiopia report favors Italian control mention
A purported secret British memo discusses Italy's strong interest in Ethiopia and suggests that Italian domination could benefit British interests. It notes possible boundary gains andOpen Door policies, with concerns about Somaliland and the Sudan, while acknowledging Britain’s limited Ethiopian stake.
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Ralph Forte
United Press
Rome
Ethiopia
Italy
Lake
Tana
Nile
Sudan
British Somaliland
Kenya
France
Britain
League of Nations
Ogaden
Somaliland
New Deal Payroll Figures Show 16.5 Million Dependents
Work Relief officials estimate 16.5 million people rely on federal state or local governments for livelihood, a 20 percent drop from January 1935 and well above figures from January 1934, with the count just over 150 thousand higher than a prior milestone.
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Richard L. Harkness
Washington
Byrd Lecture at Auditorium Tonight With Film Show
Admiral Byrd illustrated lecture draws crowds as 9,000 feet of footage from the southern voyage will be shown. Tickets go on sale after 6 PM at the municipal box office, with prior reservations at City Drug Store No. 1 on Polk Street. Prices range 55 cents to $1.65. An afternoon session for children drew pupils from many schools.
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Admiral Byrd
Municipal Auditorium
City Drug Store No. 1
Polk Street
Panhamite Plains
Cook Asks His Name Be Cleared
CHICAGO February 20 Dr Frederick Cook once at center of the North Pole dispute asked for a full impartial investigation to have his discovery of the pole in 1908 recognized by science He said he is weary of jeers and wants his name cleared before he dies He cites support from Byrd Ellsworth Amundsen and Nobile for his polar descriptions.
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Chicago
Frederick Cook
North Pole
Science
the Pole
American Geographical Society
Greenland
Cook
Robert E. Peary
Pole
Richard E. Byrd
Lincoln Ellsworth
Roald Amundsen
Umberto Nobile
Peary
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Lindy Cash
Byrd
Arthur Brisbane
TVA
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Schwab
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Spain
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Paris
Congressman O'Connor
Father Coughlin
Rochester, Minn
Carl L. Estes
Longview
Texas Tech Queen
Leila May Zorns
Meadow
Texas
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
BY Eddie Gilmore
Keisuke Okada
EL Centro
Calif
Giornale D'Italia
Benito Mussolini
John Maffey
DR. Cook
PHA Loans
Long-Bell Lbr. Co
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