Mind a Blank Crutchfield Denies Murder Charge
Prank Crutchfield, 27, in Potter County jail, says he remembers nothing of Capt. Pres Barnum’s shooting last Friday. He faces murder, robbery with firearms, auto theft, and related charges, claiming his mind was blank for three days and that he did not steal the car. He cites a recent blow to the face and appeals to his attorney for defense details.
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Prank Crutchfield
Potter County
White Deer
Capt
Pres Barnum
Globe
Crutchfield
Amarillo Helium Plant Faces Funding Standstill Action
Citizens meet at city hall to urge Congress to restore the Amarillo helium plant appropriation of 38 000 for ongoing operations and investigations. Telegrams were sent to Rep Marvin Jones and Sens Tom Connally and Morris Sheppard as Mayor Ross Rogers presided.
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Amarillo
Marvin Jones
Tom Connally
Morris Sheppard
Presides
Ross Rogers
Army
Navy
Billy Sunday Preaches Revival and Republican Views
Arthur Brisbane comments on Billy Sunday revival in New York at Calvary Baptist Church. Sunday mocks vice and preaches fear of God with humor about the devil and human frailty. Hearst suggests Republicans remain a steady opposition. crowd turnout was large.
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Billy Sunday
New York
Calvary Baptist Church
Mr. Sunday
Moody
Reverend Sunday
Air Line Stock Ties Lindbergh in 1920s Transfer Trial
Senate investigators heard Transcontinental Air Transport executive D. M. Shearer describe a stock transfer to Charles A. Lindbergh valued at 250000 dollars as payment for services. He cited tax arrangements and warned against naming Lindbergh on all shares. The hearing also explored Air Line contracts with Walter Brown and Western Air Express.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Black
Senate
United States
Post Office Department
Walter F. Brown
Transcontinenal Air Transport, Inc
Charles A. Lindbergh
D. M. Shearer
Air Company
Lindbergh
Shearer
C. M. Keyes
T. A.T
Breckinridge
Henry Breckinridge
Keyes
Western Air
Brown
Hoover, Jr
Sheaffer
Herbert Hoover, Jr
Hoover
Western Air Express
Pennsylvania Railroad
W. W. Atterbury
Atterbury
Republican National
Church To Construct Educational Building In Potter County
A $56 000 educational building project announced by First Christian Church includes three stories, Sunday School and Endeavor rooms, a young people parlor, a social center, kitchen and auditorium. Built of northwest Potter County native stone, the unit will occupy the old parsonage site at 717 Taylor Street, with construction to start within a week under Rittenberry Carder architects and S L Kirk contractor, while CWA and road caliche projects proceed nearby employing hundreds.
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First Christian Church
Taylor Street
Happy
Potter County
Amarillo
Christian Endeavor
Eighth Avenue
R. L. Rogers
Rittenberry & Carder
S. L. Kirk
Court motion to oust Plainview suit in federal court
A motion to dismiss a Community Power and Light Company suit against the City of Plainview and city officials was argued in federal district court before Judge James C. Wilson. The grounds cited were lack of jurisdiction and failure to include a necessary party. The hearing opened yesterday. Winter oils offered.
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Fort Worth
Community Power and Light Company
Plainview
Federal District Court
James C. Wilson
No Wolf Cry Over Record Sale For La Vie Paree
Amarillo readers learn La Vie Paree tickets are moving fast with about 400 seats booked in two days and another 100 expected before the Globe-News chart closes. The Greater Marcus Show of 1934 brings a midnight frolic to Municipal Auditorium on Tuesday January 23 with tickets at 1.65 1.38 1.10 and 0.55 dollars including tax. All 2 500 seats are reserved and orders go to Miss Lois Black at The Globe News.
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Amarillo
The
Panhandle
Municipal Auditorium
Lois Black
Globe News
Milk Strikers Settle Dispute In Chicago Blockade
After five days of sabotage and milk shortages, farmers and dairy officials agreed to resume deliveries. Prices will be determined at future conferences, with oversight not sought from Washington. Representatives from independent dairies and the Chicago Milk Council met the mayor as 300 Pure Milk Association delegates gathered to press a unified price demand.
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Chicago
Edward J. Kelly
Wallace
Washington
Pure Milk Association
Chicago Milk Council, Inc
Farmers’ Organization
Wynekoop Described Normal by Psychiatrist
Dr Alice Lindsay Wynekoop faces trial on the death of her daughter in law after a psychiatrist reports she is normal and above average in mental status. The testimony adds context to the Chicago case slated to begin tomorrow.
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Chicago
Alice Lindsay Wynekoop
Roosevelt urges federal guarantee for farm mortgage bonds
President Roosevelt told Congress a federal guarantee of both principal and interest on farm mortgage refinancing bonds is a moral obligation. He outlined rapid action on the 566 million dollar appropriations bill and signaled plans for additional emergency funding to June. He also urged sinking funds for railroads and utility companies to address vast mortgage debt.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House
First
Senate
District of Columbia
St. Lawrence
Treasury
Crater Oil Well Is Killed by Flood at Conroe Field
The Crater oil well in Conroe, long an outlaw producer, was finally killed after a flood of water flooded the pay sand. Humble Oil & Refining paid 300000 for the relief operation directed by H John Eastman. Four pumps delivered water at high pressure for 48 hours to shut off the flow.
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Conroe
U.P
Crater
Humble Oil & Refining Company
H. John Eastman
California
Fear for Six UW. Churchmen in China in danger
Grave fears were raised for the safety of six American Methodist Episcopal missionaries in Pukien province as fighting isolating Kutien separated them from contact for ten days. Communication lines are down and the missing group headquarters are in New York. Kutien hosts a mission and leper station near Foochow.
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Foochow
China
Pukien
New York
Min River Valley
Kutien
Ralphe F. Diffendorfer
Kulien
Fochow
Six Navy flying boats poised for Hawaii flight
Six gray flying boats of Patrol Squadron 10 sat at Paradise Cove awaiting a 2100 mile hop to Pear Harbor. Lieutenant Commander Knefler McGinnis led the transfer from San Diego as a calm patrol weather forecast aided the planned dawn departure toward Honolulu.
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San Francisco
U. S. Navy
Paradise Cove
Golden Gate
Hawaiian Islands
Patrol Squadron 10
Peara
Honolulu
Hawaii
Navy
Com
Knefler McGinnis
San Diego
Sam
Pearl Harbor
Dutchman Beheaded for Reichstag Fire in Leipzig
Leitzig Leipzig reports the execution of Marinus van der Lubbe, a 24 year old Dutch stonemason, for setting the Reichstag fire. He confessed to the crime but did not reveal possible accomplices. The guillotine was ready, the prison bell rang at 7:25, and the state carried out the death sentence.
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Leipzig
Germany
Marinus van der Lubbe
Reichstag
Berlin
van der Labbe
Supreme Court
van der Lubbe
Amarillo Area Weather Fair and Warmer Forecast
Forecast for Amarillo and nearby areas calls for fair skies tonight and Thursday with a slight warming. West Texas and New Mexico similar conditions, with little temperature change and daytime highs up to around 51 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Crowd Attacks Prisoners in Tourian Murder Case
In New York on January 10 an enraged crowd of about 500 people attacked seven men charged with murdering Archbishop Leon Tourian. As the prisoners were moved from a patrol wagon for arraignment, women attacked with sticks and umbrellas while men used canes and fists. Police protected the detainees and escorted them into the homicide court building.
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New York
Leon Tourian
Holy Cross Armenian Church
Re elect Heads of Labor Union At Central Meeting
The Central Labor Union roster of officers was re elected by acclamation at Carpenters Hall on Tuesday night. Jack Sears continues as head with C. A. Chessir vice president J. E. Mulhern secretary treasurer Harve Gray sergeant at arms and Maxwell Cooper reading clerk. W W Finch J E Mulhern and Herbert Lytle were re elected trustees. A President Birthday Ball is planned for Nat January 30 by the group. Gruhskey and W F Lofgren from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen attended for the discussion.
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Central Labor Union
Carpenters Hall
Jack Sears
C. A. Chessir
J. E. Mulhern
Harve Gray
Maxwell Cooper
Reading
W.W. W. Finch
H. O. Thompson
Ted McGovern
Finch
Mr. Chessir
Herbert Lytle
Carpenters Union
Nat
Gruhskey
W. F. Lofgren
Brotherhood of Railroad
I C C Man Urges Stock Rate Protest Dismissal
An Interstate Commerce Commission examiner recommended dismissing a cattle dealers complaint over freight rates for fat cattle stockers and feeders from points in New Mexico Texas and Oklahoma to Arizona California New Mexico and Texas. The report says the challenged rates were lower than a comparison scale and that evidence lacks shipment weights, only showing cost per car.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southwest
Pointe
New Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma
Arizona
California
Secrecy Surrounds Next Insull Plans
ATHENS January 10 Samuel Insull today refused to disclose his future plans while awaiting a state counsel decision on his appeal against a Greece exit by January 31. On fleeing to Turkey to evade extradition to the United States experts doubt Turkish American extradition reach. American legation officials expect nearby nations to deny Insull a visa if he reaches Turkey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Samuel Insull
Greece
Insull
Turkey
United States
Madwoman Held in Squalid Barn in New Jersey
Detectives probe the imprisonment of Mrs. Sophie Cerardi 42 held in a dirty closet like room over a stable on the Barnes estate. Her husband Joseph Cerardi 34 and house keeper Miss Mary Griffon 35 are jailed on false imprisonment charges amid possible abuse allegations. Cerardi, once a middleweight boxer, is linked by police to the Lindbergh kidnapping investigation.
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Ridgefield Park
N. J
Barnes
Sophie Cerardi
Bergen Pines
Joseph Cerardi
Mary Griffon
Cerardi
Hopewell
Geradi
Ceverdi
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London
King Feature Syndicate, Inc
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Truckers
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Sanborn
Summitt
Central High
Pleasant Valley
Sam Houston
Caliche
Masterson
Oil Field
Highland Park School
St. Francis
CWA
Grant Street
Morris E. Browning
Nanking
Min River
Olin Stockwell
Bartlesville
Oklo
Mintsing
19Th Route Army
Preas
All
Shanghai
Pacific
Oswin McCarty
Lee McSpadden
H. A. Daniel
Odel Harris
A. C. Nabers
W. D. Walsh
NRA
Mr. Walsh
I. C. C. Man
Fee Madwoman
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