Meeting date set by FDR to talk plan
Washington January 2 Democrats set the stage for the 74th Congress opening as Joseph T Robinson was unanimously reelected Senate Democratic leader and President Roosevelt called a Friday night conference with congressional leaders to map the legislative program. House Democrats to name a speaker nominee Joseph W Burns of Tennessee. Senate leaders reelected include J Hamilton Lewis whip Hugo Black secretary. Key Pittman renominated president pro tempore with no opposition. Attendance noted with 47 of 69 Democrats present and two absentees Donahey and Moore. Congress opens with formalities before the president outlines the nation state.
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Washington
Senate Democrats
Joseph T. Robinson
Roosevelt
House Democrats
Joseph W. Burns
Tennessee
Senate
J. Hamilton Lewis
Illinois
Hugo L. Black
Alabama
Key Pittman
Nevada
Donahey
Ohio
Moore
New Jersey
Congress
Hauptmann Witnesses to Be Housed in Trenton Hotel
Fifty five state witnesses against Richard Bruno Hauptmann will travel to Trenton today by special train and stay on the third floor of a hotel while awaiting the Flemington trial. Tomorrow 68 more witnesses from the Bronx will go by motor, guarded by New York police and detectives. Also noted, criminologist Dr. Hudson said Hauptmann’s fingerprints were not found on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping ladder, questioning glove concealment as a factor.
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New York
Richard Bruno Hauptmann
Trenton
Flemington
Bronx
Hauptmann
James J. Finn
Walter Lyle
U.P
Bruno Hauptmann
FE. H. Hudson
Hudson
New Jersey
Thomas W. Trenchard
Charles Walton
Rosie Pill
Verna Snyder
Charles F. Snyder
Sourland
Hunterdon County
Veniremen
Justice Trenchard
Lindbergh
Texas to curb relief rolls with state aid plan
Texas moves to take about 300000 unemployables off federal relief rolls by February 1 and provide state aid instead. The plan uses $1.5 million in relief bonds for February, with potential $3.5 million more by legislature, to fund direct relief and a permanent program. National Relief Administration approval is sought.
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Austin
Texas
Fedral
John Wallace
State Board of Control
M. J. Miller
National Relief Administration
Miller
Washington
Wallace
Riggs Presides Over County Court Meet
County Judge J. N. Riggs opened his first commissioners' court session this morning. The court approved bonds for county officers and authorized deputies for office holders. An executive session was ordered at 10:30 for a potential appointment of Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 Place 2, created by the death of James V. Pottinger.
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J. N. Riggs
Flemington Sees World News as Lindbergh Trial Opens
Flemington New Jersey on January 2 endures a sudden influx of visitors and reporters as the Bruno Hauptmann Lindbergh case opens. The 178 year old town, with a permanent 2700 residents, swells to about 3500 as hotels and courthouses buzz with telegraph, typewriter, and telephone activity.
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Fremington
Bruno Richard Haumptmann
Main Street
Union Hotel
Flemington
Liquor Raids Net $600 Haul in Amarillo Bars
Four men A H Cornett Frank Blackwell M C Lane and R C Baxter faced grand jury action after police county raids on three downtown Amarillo bars yielded more than 600 dollars in bonded liquor. They waived preliminary hearing in Justice Carder court and their cases were sent to the Potter County grand jury. 34 1 4 gallons of whiskey were confiscated.
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Amarillo
A. H. Cornett
Post Office
Frank Blackwell
Lewis
M. C. Lane
R. C. Baxter
Knickerbocker Buffet
Justice of the Peace Co. W
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Update
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for fair conditions tonight and through Friday. Warmer tonight, slightly cooler Thursday, with warmer readings in most areas and possible cold in the Panhandle and parts of New Mexico. Temperature extremes range from 28 to 49 degrees by 1 o'clock.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Southwest
South
Panhandle
New Mexico
Borah Leads Debate on Monopoly Fallout in Congress
Washington reports a Federal Trade Commission call to strengthen antimonopoly powers fuels a looming clash in the Seventy fourth Congress. Senator Borah of Idaho views the recommendations favorably while urging enforcement of existing anti monopoly laws and noting concerns about the National Industrial Recovery Act. Senator Lonergan of Connecticut also signals cautious support pending study and aligns with the commission's proposed amendments to the Clayton Act and FTC Act.
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Washington
Borah
Idaho
Congress
Idaho Republican Independent
Federal Trade Commission
The
Trade Commission
Lonergan
Connecticut
Commission
Everything Is National Not So Barren That Indian Skeleton
Arthur Brisbane reflects on the year 1934 in a Globe column noting personal reforms, slow progress, and cyclical history. He sketches a world where revolutions return to familiar patterns and imagines future Russian grandees amid changing times.
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Russia
Rehearsal Set Tonight for Philharmonic Symphony
Conductor Christian Thaulow announced an important rehearsal of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra at 7 30 PM in the Municipal Auditorium. All members are urged to attend as only two more practices are planned before the next concert. Players should bring their music stands.
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Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Christian Thaulow
Shifting Ickes aides sparks White House dispute
Washington dispatch reports a White House hint to dismiss two trusted Ickes advisers. President Roosevelt and Ickes deny the rumor as graft probes within Ickes’s PWA security unit and his administration escalate the internal rift. The suspected targets are Louis R. Gravis and Ebert K. Burlew, key staffers in the anti graft effort. A cabinet member is said to be among those investigated by Ickes' detectives, fueling the tensions despite denials.
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Washington
U.P
New Deal Administration
Harold L. Ickes
White House
Roosevelt
Ickes
Louis R. Gravis
PWA
Ebert K. Burlew
Tabloid To Honor Grid Champs Here
The Globe-News will publish a souvenir tabloid next Sunday honoring the Sandies and Badgers and their coaches for Amarillo’s dual state championship football titles. It will include photos, comments from writers and coaches, team records, and a special article by Old Tack. Advertising space is limited. call 6262 to reserve.
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Sandies
Badgers
Globe- News
Amarillo
Texas
Old Tack
Advertising Department
Miners Face Death For Wage Demands
In Warsaw on January 2 sixty miners in the Baska pit of the Bobrowa coal field undertook a death by own action strike to demand two months' back pay. They stayed in flooded galleries as water poured in at 250 cubic feet per minute, refusing to evacuate until their pay demand was satisfied. A crisis loomed as water approached the mine shaft.
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Warsaw
Baska
Bobrowa
Power Named Judge. Bench To Be Sought In Texas
Fort Worth attorney Andrew J Power was appointed judge of Ninety sixth District Court by Gov Miriam A Ferguson. A B Curtis Fort Worth assistant secretary of state announced he will contest the seat in the next Democratic primary. Both Power and Curtis are Ferguson supporters. Curtis said he remains the governor s friend but believes he was the choice of a large majority of Tarrant County voters.
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Tarrant County
May Free Convicts Who Risked Lives
In Gaffney South Carolina on January 2 a group of white and negro convicts who were trusted to guard the Cherokee home for the aged risked their lives to save 32 residents from a blaze. Five inmates died and 15 were injured while others drove hospital transports.
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Gaffney
S. C
U.P
Butler Field Paid Out to General Tax Fund
Butler Field has been transferred to the Senior High School athletic department. At noon the trustees ordered $9,740 paid from the athletic fund to the general tax fund. The field was bought with general funds and repaid via yearly football receipts. The athletic fund now shows a $1,900 balance with no debts. The season was financially successful, including Amarillo’s share of receipts at $9,788.81.
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Butler Field
Senior High Schoo
Athletic
General
Amarillo
Butler
Snowplows Free Four Mile Jam East of Little Falls
Snowplows freed a four mile line of buses trucks and automobiles from snowdrifts reaching ten to twelve feet just east of Little Falls New York today. In the line were four buses carrying about 150 passengers. One bus with sixty aboard had been stalled since 11 oclock last night. Griggs Ambulance Phone 4311.
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Little Falls
N. Y
Japanese Naval Officer Matsuda Leaves U S After Harbor Photos
Yoshio Matsuda, a Japanese naval officer, departed St. Petersburg for Washington after immigration authorities confirmed his entry was legal. The Japanese Embassy planned to explain his activities to the Navy Department. Matsuda had been observed taking harbor photographs from a moving taxicab and was briefly detained by police.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Yoshio Matsuda
Washington
Matsuda
Navy Department
T. Yamaguchi
FE. L. Roux
S. B. Hopkins
Tampa
Department
Roux
German faces Lindbergh as trial opened
Bruno Richard Hauptmann began his trial for the murder of the Lindbergh baby, with jurors selected swiftly and Colonel Lindbergh present at the prosecution table. Mrs. Lindbergh was absent, while Hauptmann sat stolid as a crowd and media gathered in Flemington New Jersey.
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William A. Kinney
Associated
Fleming,ton
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Veniremen
Charles A. Lindbergh
Frank Norris May Move to Detroit Post
The Rev. J. Frank Norris, longtime Fort Worth Baptist pastor, conditionally accepted a call to Detroit Temple Baptist Church. He has preached in Detroit for a week and said he would reluctantly leave Fort Worth's 10,000-member congregation, believing his post lies in the North.
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Detroit
J. Frank Norris
Fort Worth
Texas
Detroit Temple
Norris
North
Alabama Triumphs In Rose Bowl Over Stanford
A late game touchdown by Dixie Howell helped Alabama defeat Stanford in the Rose Bowl at night in Amarillo. The Globe plans a photo plate of Howell’s score for Page 2, supplied by NEA Service for printing this afternoon.
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Amarillo
Alabama
Stanford
Globe
NEA Service
Howell
Mulloy denies third degree methods in Union Station case
Federal agents deny using coercion to obtain an oral statement from Frank B. Mulloy in the Union Station slayings conspiracy trial. Judge Otis halted proceedings as Mulloy claimed agent Turrou insulted him and threatened jail if he did not talk. Turrou and Traner refuted the charge, noting Mulloy’s prior July 1933 questioning about a $500 telegram to Frank Nash, and Mulloy’s denial of sending the order.
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Kansas City
Frank B
Fritz) Mulloy
Union Station
Merrill FE. Otis
Mulloy
Leon G. Turreu
Flemington
N. J
Turrou
Frank Nash
George W. Miller
Hot Springs
Ark
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Anthony M. Hauck
Riggs
John Ferris
Dayton
Tenn
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Callander
Ont
Liberty
Arthur Brisbane
King Features Syndicate, Inc
America
Mr Brisbane
H. A. Loans
Lbr. Co
John Maynard She Co
FHA
General Fund
Griggs Ambulance
Frank Norris
Dixie Howell
Stacci
Chicago
Verne C. Miller
Turreu
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