Lawmakers in Austin Introduce 37 Bills in House
The Texas House opened a flood of legislation introducing 37 bills on January 20. Proposals include a sales tax to balance the budget, liquor control amendments, malt beverage classifications, gas utility rate controls, tax delinquency penalties, and broad insurance law changes including repeal of the Robertson Insurance Law requiring 75 percent company investments.
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Austin
House
Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
Japanese Conscripts To Manchuria Front
Japanese army plans dispatch of most conscripts and auxiliaries under Gen Nobuyoshi Muto to Manchuria immediately. 1931 conscripts and veterans stay in service. total Manchurian force around 40,000, with many rookies soon available. Concentration on Jehol incursions. new Jehol advance reported as Korean frontier bands dispersed.
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Tokyo
Nobuyoshi Muto
Manchuria
Japan
War Office
Muto
Jehol
Peiping
Herbert R. Ekins
China
Great Wall of China
Chinchow
Shanhalkwan
Chinsi
Jeho
White House Talks Plan Britain Debts Conference
At a White House session President Hoover and President elect Roosevelt agreed to invite British representatives for an early March conference on war debts and world economic problems. Secretary Stimson will arrange the talks while discussions include ways to improve the world situation and the U S Britain mutual economic interests.
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Washington
Hoover
Roosevelt
White House
Great Britain
Red Room
Stimson
United States
Park service move explained as city forester position cut
Petition by Potter County Federation of Women's Clubs to retain Temple Robinson as city forester was denied in a lengthy Mayor Rogers reply. The city eliminated the office and staff January 15 as part of a required economy program. The commission warned taxes must fund debts and city operations, so costs were cut. Dallas County commissioners meanwhile ordered 24 spools of red tape for the district clerk's office.
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Potter County Federation of Women’s Clubs
Temple Robinson
City Forester
Robinson
S. E. Fish
Ross D. Rogers
Commission
Dallas
Winter Gale Sweeps Nation Huey May Talk for 90 Days More
Senator Huey Long aims to extend Senate debate on the Glass bank bill by 90 days, threatening to prolong obstruction despite a six week session remaining. He displays confidence while signaling alignment with President-elect Roosevelt, avoiding direct questions on branch-banking provisions. Long’s maneuvering follows a near cloture victory by one vote.
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Huey
Lyle C. Wilson
Washington
Senate
Louisiana
Huey Long
Long
Roosevelt
Amarillo Weekend Offers Bargains and Arts Splash
Townwide bargains headline the shopping spree with new fashions and reduced hotel rates. The Municipal Auditorium hosts Earl Carroll Vanities with vaudeville and a Paramount comedy, while the Texas and Paramount present Strange Interlude on screen. Willard the Wizard features in The Black and White Revue as a midnight matinee Saturday. The window runs Saturday through Tuesday, with a big Saturday ahead.
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Amarillo
Globe News
Municipal Auditorium
Paramount
Texas
Willard
Wizard
Zsu Pitts
Slim Summerville
Eugene O’neill
Vanities in Amarillo staged at 3 and 8:30 Saturday
The Earl Carroll Vanities return to Amarillo for two performances at the Municipal Auditorium with the same New York cast. Shows shift from 2:30 and 8 to 3 and 8:30, announced by Wilbur C. Hi who booked the act for the Panhandle. Tickets are on sale at City Drug Store with lobby hours kept open until 8:30 Thursday and noon Saturday at the downtown site.
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Amarillo
Wilbur C. Hi
New York
Panhandle
Caryg
Texas Road
City Drug Store
Polk Street
Hawk
City Drug
Susan Fleming Linked to Harpo Marx Ring Rumor
Hollywood reports claim stage dancer Susan Fleming wears a large diamond ring, with Harpo Marx named as the donor. The two smile and decline to comment when questioned about the conjecture.
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Susan Fleming
Harpo Marx
Susan
Harpo
Humble and Other Oil Purchasers Meet Slash Ship Wrecked
In a chaotic Atlantic storm the British freighter Exeter City lost four lives including her master and two crewmen. A radiogram to owners told of heavy seas and damage. Concurrently Humble Oil cut crude prices across Texas and New Mexico fields effective January 20, with various gravity-based adjustments and retroactive pricing. A separate report notes the lumber schooner Tiverton aground near Humboldt Bar as rescue efforts proceeded.
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New York
Exeter City
Giles C. Stedman
Houston
Rumble Oil and Refining Company
Texas Company
Texas
New Mexico
Humble
Louisiana
Arkansas
Sinclair-Prairie Oil Marketing Company
East Texas
North Texas
Ranger
Mexia
Powell
Boggy Creek
Richland
Wortham
Currie
Humblested
Eureka
Calif
Humboldt Bar
Tiverton
Christensen-Hammond Line
Eureka Coast Guard
Rotary International to hold 1934 convention in Detroit
The Rotary International board announced the 1934 convention will meet in Detroit from June 24 to 29, with next year’s gathering planned for Boston from June 26 to 30.
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Chicago
U.P
Rotary International
Detroit
Boston
Begin Probe into Oil Law Violations in East Texas Field
Tyler Texas January 20 oil and land owners testified before the Texas Railroad Commission in an inquiry into alleged violations of proration orders. L P Griffin of Kilgore, first to speak, denied any agreement with Golding and Murchison to overproduce his land but said he understood some over production may have occurred.
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Tyler
Texas
East Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
L. P. Griffin
Kilgore
Golding and Murchison
Poultry Show Directors Named at Panhandle Plains Meeting
Slaton reports that Lof gren of Plainview was named one of 11 directors of the Panhandle Plains Poultry Show Association at the annual meeting last night. D. O. Fox of Lorenzo will head the association the coming year.
Winter storm dumps heavy damage across western states
Frightful mid winter winds brought rains and blizzards across Idaho and the West with snow drifts up to six feet. Southern California faced downpours and gale winds endangering ships. Battleships and a destroyer sailed from San Pedro to ride out the storm. California citrus towns saw early snow though crop losses were expected minor. Los Angeles rainfall reached 2.07 inches with rapid downpours. Flood reports kept police busy. Canoga Park residents evacuated as water threatened. A bridge on a normally dry stream was weakened and closed. Cajon Pass saw two feet of snow halting traffic on the transcontinental highway. The highway later was...
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Associated Press
Idaho
Western
California
San Pedro
Riverside
San Bernardino
Calif
Los Angeles
Canoga Park District
Cajon Pass
San Bernardino Needles
New Grain Tax For Peasants In Soviet Decree
Moscow January 20 Vyacheslav Molotov and Joseph Stalin issued a decree replacing the grain collecting system with a tax in kind. The aim is to curb peasant sluggishness and boost deliveries after 1932 shortages. The plan lets peasants know in advance their obligations to the state.
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Moscow
Vyacheslaff M. Molotoff
Union Council of Peoples’ Commissars
Joseph Stalin
Communist Party
Kremlin
Air Mail Pilot Located After Overshoot to Jourdanton
Dallas report at noon confirms Ray Puller, overdue air mail pilot, landed near Jourdanton in Atascosa County about 50 miles south of his intended destination San Antonio.
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Dallas
U.P
Ray Puller
Air Mail
San Antonio
Jourdanton
Atascosa County
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Tonight and Saturday
Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Far West Texas west of 100th meridian mostly cloudy with occasional rains southeast portion tonight and Saturday. Temperature extremes today up to 1 PM range from 40 to 54.
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Amarillo
Far
Texas
100Th Meridian
Fliers Seek Lost Air Ace Crews Found in Alps
In Lausanne on January 20 Capt. W. L. Hope and Lt Hinley, missing during a search for Bert Hinkler, were found at Vetrox in the Simplon Valley after landing near Diablerets Mountain. They had gone afield to trace Hinkler's plane, prompting another report of a French plane missing during a separate Africa search for Lady Mary Bailey.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
W. L. Hope
Hinley
Bert Hinkler
Vetrox
Simplon
Diablerets Mountain
Hinkler
Paris
Africa
Oran
Mary Bailey
Captain Hope
Lady Bailey
French West Africa
Amy Johnson
Cape Town
Denver wants man here for theft charge
Jack Edwards, 35, a wrestler, was arrested here on a felony warrant related to the December 31 robbery of Denver shoemaker F. A. Furness. Edwards, in Potter County jail, denied the crime and signed a waiver for return to Denver after arrest. Furness was assaulted and robbed of $20 at his Pearl Street shop. Extradition papers would be issued per instruction from former Denver police chief Albert Clarke.
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Jack Edwards
F. A. Furness
Denver
Edwards
Potter County
Furness
Pearl Street
Albert Clarke
Baby and royal lineages cross time and fate
Arthur Brisbane discusses Mrs. Snipes new baby born in prison's shadow and the Aga Khan's child, linking ancient tales to present scandal. He notes Mrs. Snipes avoided hanging, the hospital birth, and the wider debate on motherhood’s stigma, while detailing the Aga Khan’s wealth, lineage, and horse racing interests.
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Aga Khan
Ita
Fatima
Mohammed
England
Broker Death Case To Jury Tonight
Oklahoma City January 20 jury to cast first ballot around midnight to decide fate of Sam Wilkerson farmer on trial for slaying Insane EF Hemmingway a farm loan broker who came from Iowa years ago neighbors denied burying the broker on the Wilkerson farm Wilkerson testified Hemmingway slain by an unnamed nephew final arguments under way this afternoon
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Oklahoma City
Sam Wilkerson
Hemmingway
Oklahoma
Iowa
Wilkerson
Car Swerves to Miss Dog in Road Fatality
Emil Lange a 30 year old watchmaker from Chicago died at 2 30 Friday morning in Ama rillo hospital from injuries sustained in a car wreck Thursday afternoon near Friona. Joe Lange his brother was injured but not in danger. The driver swerved to avoid a dog and the car overturned in a bar pit. Emil Lange will be sent to Chicago Friday night for services and burial. N 8 Griggs & Sons handled arrangements.
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Emil Lange
Chicago
Amarillo
Friona
Joe Lange
Mr. Lange
Griggs & Sons
Mrs Judd Faces Fourth Session of Legal Battle
In Phoenix, Winnie Ruth Judd heads into a fourth witness stand session as attorneys spar over points affecting her fate tied to the Halloran preliminary hearing. She faces possible execution for the Lerol murder and her alibi regarding other deaths is contested. The judge will rule on mental competency and whether she may answer further questions.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
John J
Happy Jack) Halloran
Agnes Ann Lerol
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