Strong Party Seen Under Moscow Rule
Communist organizers claim the Third Red International will boost Southwest strength in two years, field full Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Louisiana tickets, with peaceful aims and concessions possible. Comrade Charles Coder cites 200 dues paying members in Texas but notes broader, unpaid and affiliated groups.
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United Press
Dallas
Third Red International
Moscow
Southwest
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Charles Coder
Coder
International
Trade Union Unity League
Marine Workers Industrial Union
Hermosillo Feats and Future Plans Highlight Mexican City
The piece describes Hermosillo as a beautiful, busy capital of Sonora with fertile soil and rapid postwar development. Governor Francisco Elias promotes education and road building while leasing private houses as schools to educate hundreds of children. A dream of an international highway from Canada to Tierra del Fuego is noted amid emphasis on infrastructure.
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Hermosillo
Sonora
Mexico
Francisco Elias
California
Nile Valley
Elias
Canada
Panama Canal
Tierra del Fuego
Hermostilo
Nogales
Girl Teller Halts Robbery at Texarkana Bank
Miss Eura Langston a 20 year old teller remained calm during a bank hold up at the Guaranty Bond State Bank of Redwater. The two robbers fled without loot after the door misstep by Langston and a pursuing posse noted the stolen roadster license plate.
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Associated Press
Texarkana
Eura Langston
Guaranty Bond State Bank of
Ninth juror chosen in Hill murder trial at Eastland
In Eastland on February 24 the ninth juror was selected for the Robert Hill murder trial over the slaying of Police Chief G E Bedford during the Cisco Santa Claus bank robbery. Court adjourned until afternoon as Judge Davenport ordered a new panel of 35. The state used 11 challenges and the defense 10.
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Associated Press
Eastland
Robert Hill
G. E. Bedford
George L. Davenport
Virgo Foster
Workman Injured At Potter County Courthouse Construction
John B W McCaig a construction worker on the new Potter county courthouse was rushed to Northwest Texas hospital after an injury around 10 this morning. Fellow workers said he had a crushed hand and the full extent of injuries was not learned.
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B. W. McCaig
Potter County
Northwest Texas Hospital
McCaig
Congress Clock Costs Taxpayers One Hour At a Time
William Tyler Page testifies to the census committee that each clock hour in the house and senate costs about 1400 dollars. Under an eight hour day, senate expenses reach roughly 1010 dollars per hour and 8086 dollars per day, with 259 calendar days totaling 11396 dollars per day. The figures support the committee’s study of increasing house membership.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate
Treasury
William Tyler Page
Census Committee
Congress
Mit
Truck and Bus Regulation Hearings Resume in Austin
Senate and Highway and Motor Traffic Committees held a joint session in Austin resuming two hearings on truck and bus regulation after a four hour gap with two more sessions. Speakers framed the issue as a clash between railroads and motor carriers, with Sylvan Lang and Ben Keith urging legislative action against trucking.
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Associated Press
Austin
Senate and Mouse Highway and
Sylvan Lang
San Antonio
Ben Keith
Texas Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Shippers’ Association
Senator Price of
Fort Worth
Missouri, Kansas, Texas Railroad Company
J. F. Lang
Hearne
Nine years of WOR radio celebrated in gala show
New York February 24. WOR marked nine years on the air with a gala program featuring music sketches and many stars who began at the station returning to participate in the celebration. A Gaston Street skit was included in the festivities.
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New York
WOR
Ticket Sales For Feature Events At City Drug
Tickets are on sale at City Drug Store for a triple wrestling card at 8 p m next Friday and the Old Fiddlers contest on Saturday at Municipal Auditorium. Outside-city reservations by mail to Wilbur C Hawk president Tri-State Fair Association care of The News Globe. Wrestling tickets 50 cents to $1 50 Fiddlers 25 to 75 cents. No extra reserve fee.
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Municipal Auditorium
Wilbur C. Hawk
Tri-State Fair Association
News-Globe
Rejected filling station permits by city planning board
Thirteen applications for building gas stations were turned down at the planning board's first meeting since the zoning ordinance took effect. Only five of 19 applications approved, none for a station. The rejections cited wrong zones on the master map, with many at Thirty-sixth Avenue intersections including Monroe and Washington, Jackson, Har rison, and Van Buren Streets. Other denials included a temporary building on Washington Street and a station at 1000 North Fillmore Street. See NUMBER 7 Page 2.
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Mits
A. W. Smalley
Thirty-sixth Avenue
Monroe Street
Washington Street
Jackson Street
Harrison Street
van Buren Street
North Fillmore Street
Senate votes fund clash over 1931 summer school aid
The Texas Senate passed a $422,700 appropriation for summer schools, toppling the House's $250,000 request and signaling a looming conference committee. Earlier, the Senate approved $21,727 for the Frost Independent School district rehabilitation in Navarro county after the 1930 tornado.
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Associated Press
Austin
Senate
House
Senate Finance Committee
Greer
Athena
Frost Independent
Navarro County
Hawks named America's premier aviator for 1930
Paris February 24 Frank Hawks American speed flier was named America's premier aviator for 1930 by the International League of Aviators.
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Hawks
Associated Press
Paris
Frank Hawks
America
International League of Aviators
Girl Strikers Killed at Stroudsburg Hosiery Mill
In Stroudsburg Pennsylvania a 20 year old hosiery mill worker Alberta Bachman was killed and two others Mrs Elsie Bachman 25 and Russell Hastie 25 were wounded in the first outbreak of violence from a walkout at Mammoth Hosiery Mills. The shooting followed stone throwing at Clark Millers home last night by a former striker. Police said 35 picketers were arrested a week earlier and released on promise of peaceful picketing.
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United Preas
Stroudsburg
Mammoth
Alberta Bachman
Elsie Bachman
Russell Hastie
Clark Miller
Calvin Gorgy
Mammoth Mill
Senator Charged Over Alleged Sugar Company Bribe
The report cites a demand for a full investigation into charges that an unnamed senator received between 100000 and 150000 dollars from a sugar company while the tariff bill was before Congress. Chairman Nye of the Senate campaign funds committee ordered the inquiry.
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Ough
Congress
Nye
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Homesick Edna Best Walks Off Movie Lot
English actress Edna Best, known for homesickness for London, walked off a movie lot as filming began for a new picture, leaving director John Gilbert and the crew puzzled.
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Edna Best
London
John Gilbert
City Leaders Attend Annual Chamber Banquet
City officials will attend the Chamber of Commerce dinner set for 7 o clock Tuesday night at the Her See NUMBER 4 Page 2.
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Chamber of Commerce
Modern Street Signs Go Up in Amarillo Business District
Amarillo's engineering department installs non rust metal signs embedded in concrete slabs with black backgrounds and bright letters. Over 300 signs planned for trial use along Fourth Avenue and Madison Street as workers cast blocks at the city barn. If satisfactory, signs may extend to nearby residential streets.
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Amarillo
Fourth Avenue
Madison Street
Amarillo Chamber Banquet Program Includes Noted Speakers
The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce banquet at the Herring hotel features Josh Lee from the University of Oklahoma as principal speaker and R K E Shepard of Wichita Falls as another noted entertainer. About 400 may attend with reservations meeting expectations.
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Amarillo
Late Wire Bulletins From Washington and Berlin
Congress discussed failure of the house ways and means committee to act on embargo and tariff bills with President Hoover Senator Capper will press for action in the senate on a bill to ban oil imports above 16 million barrels yearly despite house opposition Mrs Jane Daugherty mother of U S attorney general Harry Daugherty died at Washington Courthouse Ohio Soviet government bans the import of Bibles and religious writings in all languages under seizure penalty of destruction from Moscow dispatches in Berlin
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United Prowse
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Hoover
Capper
Rep
Hoch
Kepns
Kans
Sene
United Washington Courthouse
Jane Daugherty
Harry M. Daugherty
United States
Warren G. Harding
Mal A. Daugherty
Associated Press
Berlin
Union League Club Hints at Prohibition Repeal Soon
New York Times reports Union League Club plans a dedicatory day in its new clubhouse with optimism that the prohibition law will be repealed soon. Club members are largely Republicans in political and social life. Over four thousand people visited the opening yesterday, and the club has moved to include women dining and smoking areas and gymnastic facilities.
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Associated Press
New York
New York Times Today
Union League Club
George W. Fraker
House Committee
Union Length Club
Indictment Quashed Over Prohibition Amendment Validity
Judge Clark quashed the indictment against William Hf Sprague and William J Howey for possessing and transporting 60 half barrels of beer, ruling the prohibition amendment invalid and deeming ratification by state legislatures untenable. The lengthy opinion argues the eighteenth amendment’s path to effect.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William Clark
New Jersey
Clark
William Hf. Sprague
William J. Howey
Charge Murder in Fatal Bus Crash
One man was killed and two young women school teachers were seriously injured when a bus was sideswiped by a cotton truck four miles east of Barton Texas. Eleven other persons, mostly University of Texas students, were hurt slightly. L L Fowler of Elgin driver of the cotton truck owned by W C Danks Motor Freight Company of Elgin, was charged with murder.
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Associated Press
Brenham
Tex
University of Texas
Barton
Texas
L. L. Fowler
Elgin
W. C. Danks Motor Freight Company
Auto Show Features New Models at Fat Stock Exposition
The Fat Stock Show’s automotive feature in Amarillo will display more than 60 models, including about 1953 vehicles never seen before in the city, at the new $25,000 building on the Tri State Fairgrounds. The Amarillo Automobile Dealers Association expects strong spring interest with 1931 improvements showcased. Roy Cullum leads a committee including J. N. Riggs G. C. Odom and Willis Thompson. The building stays open during the show and the Amarillo Junior College band will provide music.
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Amarillo
Tri- State Fairgrounds
Roy Cullum
J. N. Riggs
G. C. Odom
Willis Thompson
Two Held in Fatal Grady County Farm Shooting
In Chickasha Oklahoma on February 24 two of four men arrested yesterday were held in jail today in connection with the fatal shooting of Jesse Day a farmer killed in a sparsely settled part of Grady county twelve miles southwest of Chickasha. Jimmy Smith and Herman Godfrey were kept in custody Melvin Scott and R M McNichols were released charges not yet filed.
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Associated Press
Chickasha
Okla
Jesse Day
Farmer
Grady County
Here
Jimmy Smith
Herman Godfrey
Melvin Scott
R. M McNichols
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Brief
Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas calls for fair skies tonight and Wednesday with cooler readings in the eastern portion. From New Mexico to the region, conditions remain fair with little temperature change. today’s extremes near 41 and 37 degrees at 1 p m.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Probe of Mexico bank activity eyed by House panel
The House Banking Committee chair McFadden proposed a special investigation into the so called International Committee of Bankers on Mexico and its members from J P Morgan Kuhn Loeb Speyer Ladenburg Thalman and others. The inquiry would probe whether bankers influenced U S policy and hurt Mexico credit or debt relations.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
McFadden
House Banking Committee
The
International Committee
Mexico
New York
Thomas W. Lamont
Arthur M. Anderson
Thomas Cochran
J. P. Morgan
William Edgerton Mortimer
Great Britain
E. de la Longuiniere
Special Joint Congressional Committee
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