Immunity Impeachment Hearing Set On Mellon Charges
House Judiciary Committee to hold a public hearing on charges against Secretary Mellon with Representative Patman as the sole witness ready to be heard. Chairman Hatton Summers said Mellon may be represented. Patman accuses Mellon of violating laws by engaging in business.
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Blizzards and Severe Weather Hit Southern Plains
The forecast warns of a northward blizzard into Wyoming with high winds and heavy snow. Panhandle Texas will see colder temperatures with rain or snow and strong winds, while highways reopen after a week of mud. Tornadoes hit Southeast Texas causing two deaths and 17 injuries in two areas, with additional wind storms in Southwest Texas bringing 70 mph gusts and property damage.
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Honolulu crime inquiry sparks cabinet discussion
President Hoover opened a cabinet meeting with focus on crime in Honolulu amid calls for a high official to investigate. A House subcommittee was named to review naval committee details on recent incidents including the assault on Mrs. Massie and related violence in the Hawaiian district.
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Loved Jurist Ends 30 Years in High Court
Oliver Wendell Holmes resigns as U S Supreme Court justice as health declines. President Hoover accepts the resignation, noting his long service from 1902 to 1930 and near 91st birthday. Holmes cites bowing to the inevitable after a lifetime of public service.
Holmes resigns from Supreme Court after eight decades on bench
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes announces his retirement after nearly 80 years serving on the United States Supreme Court. He states the time has come to bow to the inevitable and submits his resignation to President Hoover.
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Negro Janitor Killed in Midland Theater Bombing
Beat CITY January 12. Arson experts linked a dynamite bomb to the bombing that killed Frank Alexander, 24, a janitor, after the final show at the Midland Theater. The lobby was damaged but no other injuries were reported as police suspect the victim picked up the suspected bomb thinking it was trash.
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Man Surrenders in Oklahoma Boy Killing Confession
In Pampa Texas officers probed a story of a man who surrendered to Sheriff L L Blanseot, claiming he killed an Indian boy at Okmulgee Oklahoma twenty years ago. He said he wanted to unload it from his mind. The man's name was withheld.
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Reindeer and Dogs Visit Amarillo by Show Group
A reindeer and several Alaskan dogs were brought to Amarillo today by a small group of show people. It was not learned whether the organization would stage a performance here.
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Mule Kick Fatal to Texarkana Boy Earlton Bower
A 15 year old boy Earlton Bower died after a mule kicked him at his DeKalb Texas home two months after he was injured there.
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Weather forecast for Amarillo and surrounding regions
Unsettled and warmer tonight, then colder Wednesday with rain or snow and windy conditions. West Texas: cloudy and warmer tonight, unsettled Wednesday with rain or snow, colder north. New Mexico: increasing clouds and warmer tonight, unsettled Wednesday, much colder east, snow in the northeast, strong shifting winds. Temperatures ranged 27 to 39 at 1 o'clock.
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Solons Favor Rum Revision Hearings In Senate
Two representatives testified for beer law changes. Clancy urged a Canadian style liquor system. Karch supported local retail beer stores. Edgar Allen Poe Jr. urged Volstead Act modification to permit beer. Poe argued 5 percent beer could shift public attitude amid unemployment.
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Federal operation of radio proposed in Senate study
The Senate ordered the Federal Radio Commission to survey broadcasting to assess government ownership feasibility. A resolution by Senator Couzens of Michigan cites growing dissatisfaction with radio facilities used for commercial advertising.
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Three hundred workers return to Shawnee shops
Three hundred Rock Island railroad employees laid off December 21 will resume work January 18 on a five day week. The decision follows Rock Island headquarters in Chicago announcing a broader return next week involving 1,700 shopmen in Shawnee Silvis Ill Cedar Rapids Ia and Horton Kan.
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Pola Negri Travels to Desert Palm Springs
Polish actress Pola Negri, then starring in American films, seeks recovery in the desert after an operation. She arrived yesterday in Palm Springs California to rest and recuperate.
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Texas Banker K M Moore Dies in Farmersville
K M Moore longtime banker and former bank president who helped organize the First National Bank died at his home in Farmersville Texas. Funeral arrangements not disclosed.
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Thompson To Run for Congress In Panhandle Confab
Austin reports that Amarillo Mayor Ernest O. Thompson will seek the congressman at large seat after political conferences in the Panhandle. Senator Clint Small has declined to run against Governor Sterling and will seek re election to the Senate.
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Amusing Opinion and A Striking Honolulu Murder
Arthur Brisbane comments on diplomacy and leadership amid European meddling and banking protests. A Honolulu murder case involving Mrs Fortescue and her son in law highlights racial tensions and crime in the islands.
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Senate approves Reconstruction Corporation bill in push for Hoover plan
The Senate backed a two billion dollar Reconstruction Corporation measure 63 to 8, advancing Hoover's economic program. The companion bill moves through the House as debate continues, while a second bill proposes boosting Federal land banks by 100 million dollars and hearings begin on a 150 million dollar bank deposit release corporation.
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Farmers seek changes to Farm Board Act in hearing
Edward A. O Neal president of the American Farm Bureau Federation L J Taber master of the National Grange and John A Simpson president of the Farmers Union asked the House agriculture committee to include the equalization fee and export rebenture relief plans in the farm board act. They said the marketing act should be amended to be more competent.
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Mussolini Calls For Canceling War Debts
Premier Benito Mussolini endorsed repudiating war debts and reparations in an article attributed to him in Popolo D Italia. A foreign office spokesman confirmed the article reflected official policy as Italian papers urged a clean slate and a finishing of Lausanne accounts.
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Judge Wilkerson Promoted to Circuit Bench by Hoover
Washington January 12 Judge James H Wilkerson of Chicago who sentenced Al Capone was advanced from the district to the circuit bench by President Hoover in recognition of services in breaking up gangster activities in Chicago.
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Apple Cart Seats On Sale At City Drug No 1
Tickets for Bernard Shaw comedy The Apple Cart go on sale Wednesday at City Drug No 1 517 Polk Street. Performances at City Auditorium Saturday January 16 include matinee and night shows with bargain and regular prices. Reservations by phone or in person via News Globe office and Miss Eva Lewis. remittance to Wilbur C Hawk News Globe Amarillo Texas.
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Arkansas Goes to Polls Today in Senate Race
Arkansas voters faced the special election to fill the late Thaddeus Caraway’s unexpired term. Widow Hattie W. Caraway was the likely winner, a first for a woman seeking a U.S. Senate seat, while opponents Sam D. Carson and Rex Floyd ran as independents.
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Navy bill faces opposition from Britten in ten year plan
Washington Jan 12 Congress faces divisions on a ten year Navy construction bill totaling 616 million. Representative Britten of Illinois, the ranking Republican on the House Naval Committee, argued the country is not in a “psychological condition” to accept such a large program.
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Mayor Gets Venue Change in Election Fraud Cases
Beaumont January 12 Mayor J P Pink Logan of Port Arthur won a change of venue to Liberty County. He faces 28 indictments accusing illegal payment of others poll taxes during his comeback campaign after a 1929 defeat lasting six years as Port Arthurs mayor.
Death penalty urged in Hawaii attack case
United Press reports mass meetings and civic groups push for a federal terrorism probe in Hawaii. Delegate S J Houston calls for the death penalty for attackers on women and mandatory sterilization for those convicted of lesser charges after the Massie case and the murder of her alleged assailant.
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Hawaiii governor denounces navy on Honolulu sex crime claims
Wastington January 12 The governor of Hawaiii Gov Lawrence Judd calls navy officers claims that white women were unsafe in Honolulu malicious and exaggerated in a cablegram to territorial delegate Victor S K Houston after Secretary of Navy Adams ordered naval authorities in Honolulu to refuse to surrender Lieut Thomas Massie to civil authorities.
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Laval cabinet members resign as Briand steps aside
Paris Jan 12 Members of Premier Pierre Laval's cabinet submitted their resignations to Laval today following moves by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand who had earlier placed his own resignation at Laval's disposal. Laval indicated Briand would likely be replaced and may take a permanent post at Geneva.
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Geneva
Plane Delivers Oxygen Chamber in Tucson Bid
A chartered six seat plane took a portable oxygen chamber on a 2200 mile flight from New York aiming to reach a Tucson sanatorium. The box like device will carry a nurse and patient in need of artificial lungs as two pilots, Robert Galloway and Stewart Reiss, fly via Columbus St Louis and El Paso.
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Parents sue for 1200 in pool death case
The Bradford parents sue Panhandle Lumber Company and Roy Pool for 1200 dollars claiming their four year old son Don Rucker Bradford drowned September 6 after falling into a cesspool at Roy Pool's property five miles north of the city. They allege the pit, covered with thin inadequate lumber and dirt piled on top, was a hidden hazard and the cause of the drowning.
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Panhandie Lumber Company
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Williams Street
Detective Lieutenant Hugh Crowley Shot While Apprehending Robbers
Los Angeles police detective lieutenant Hugh Crowley was killed yesterday when he confronted two robbers attempting a theater holdup. One assailant was wounded in the gunfire.
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Meeting of Commission Tonight Not Decided
The regular weekly session planned routine business but it was not determined at noon whether the city commission would meet tonight. Griggs ambulance, Phone 4311.
Parcells Defends Football System And Salaries Here
Dr. R. P. Parcells, a Amarillo school board member, defends football funding and coach Blair’s pay. He disputes G. G. Ordway’s claim salaries are out of proportion, citing Cherry’s $2400 base plus $2100 incentive and noting football profits support all athletics and improvements.
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