War Debt Cancellation Would Save Amarillo Over 3 Million
Government economists estimate canceling war debts would lift Amarillo’s share to exceed 8 million dollars. The nationwide plan would cost the U S about 22 billion in principal and interest through 1988, averaging 134 dollars per person or 184 dollars per resident. Families would face roughly 750 dollars each. The total debt to be paid under current agreements rivals the combined real estate value of a 300 mile wide strip along the Mississippi touching Chicago.
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United States
Amarillo
Uncle Sam
Mississippi River
Chicago
Thompson for Congress prompts Texas political shift
Amarillo reports Col. Ernest O. Thompson entering the statewide race for congressman at large. The third year mayor pledges to resist foreign debt reductions and foreign meddling while citing plans to focus on domestic work and curb wealth concentration in New York. In Washington, the House adopted a conference report adding 125 million dollars to federal land banks. reconstruction finance corp bill progress eyed for Senate approval and a possible presidential signature tonight.
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Amarillo
Texas
Ernest O. Thompson
Thompson
America
New York City
Congress
Ross Sterling
West Texas
National House
Washington
House
Senate
W.P
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover
Steagall
House Banking Committee
White House
Walcott
Delayed Lausanne Reparations Conference Hopes Persist
London officials say postponement of the Lausanne reparations conference does not cancel it. The government resumes preliminary work and hopes the talks will be held later and succeed.
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London
Lausanne
Governor Seligman to Dedicate Cave Elevator at Carlsbad
Gov. Arthur Seligman of New Mexico will dedicate the new 750 foot elevator at Carlsbad Caverns on Saturday with the shaft to operate Sunday. The fee will be 50 cents each way and the government guide fee reduced from $2 to $1.50. Trail entrance remains open.
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Carlsbad
N. M
Arthur Seligman
New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns
Thomas Boles
Milling Mob Seeks Seats At Judd Trial In Phoenix
Dozens jammed the Phoenix county courthouse stairs on January 21 to hear the Winnie Ruth Judd murder trial. Wealthy lumberman J J Halloran was present as a potential witness, but his status and call were disputed by the defense and county attorney. Judd interrupted proceedings by shouting at Dr Joseph Catton during a recess.
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Phoenix
Ariz
County Court House
Howard C. Speakman
Winnie Ruth Judd
J. J. Halloran
Herman Lewkowitz
Halloran
Lewkowitz
Andrews
Judd
Joseph Catton
San Francisco
Globe News Shoe Campaign Receives Free Repairs
The Post Office Shoe Repair Shop offers to fix 20 pairs of shoes at no cost to assist the Globe News Shoe Campaign. Facing harsh weather and illness risk to Amarillo residents, the fund seeks donations of any amount. Call 6262 or 8052 for a representative pickup.
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Post Office
Globe News
Plainview Officers Seek Lone Hijacker
Plainview officers sought a lone unmasked bandit who robbed the Santa Fe Railway safe of 125 dollars after holding up agent R. E. Knowlton. The bandit was thought to be the same man who stole an automobile earlier in the night on a downtown street.
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Plainview
Santa Fe Railway Company
R. E. Knowlton
Hex Doctor Suspected After Bechtel Slaying in Germantown
Norman Bechtel, a Mennonite worker from Boyertown, was stabbed on a Germantown vacant lot. Police found weird symbols carved on his forehead suggesting witchcraft influence. Investigators considered robbery but found the markings the key clue in this mysterious case.
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Philadelphia
Norman
Bechtel
Rch
Germantown
Boyertown
One Valuable Idea and the Dewart Rainbow
Arthur Brisbane notes that a single idea can shift markets and policy. He cites Germany's reparations, France, and Britain’s steam era power as proof, while Ricardo Dewart reports a Rainbow of GOP hope in Democratic moves toward the League of Nations. Will Rogers dominates the straw vote while Brisbane’s own tally is redirected.
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Dewart
Lewand
New York Sun
Republican
League of Nations
United States
Newton D. Baker
Baker
Quartet Held on Identity of Kidnapped Boy
Billy Culwell and three others were jailed in Amarillo on robbery with firearms charges after War rington Durrance identified them as his captors. Durrance said he was forced from a car with whiskey stolen and clothing stripped before he escaped near the Potter Carson Armstrong county line. Authorities issued warrants in Carson County and pursued two women and several men as the investigation continued.
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Warrington Durrance
Billy Culwell
R. Carter
A. Herring
Floyd Carter
J. W. Minter
Carson County
Durrance
Amarillo
Potter, Carson and
Armstrong
Culwell
Herring
Western Union
West Fifth Avenue
Callwell
Booker
Carters
South
Harrison Street
Rhea Myers
Denver Kidnap Auto Found
The motor car used by Benjamin J. Bower kidnappers was found abandoned on Denver’s outskirts. Police took fingerprints as officials offered 500 dollars for information leading to arrests. Bower’s wife urged the abductors not to kill him, saying she cannot pay any ransom.
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Denver
Benjamin J. Bower
Bakery Corporation
McDowell Reported as Not So Well in Hospital
Amarillo Police Chief W. R. McDowell remains in St. Anthony's hospital after a restless night and a week of hospitalization. Doctors have not decided whether he will undergo surgery.
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McDowell
W. R. McDowell
St. Anthony's Hospital
Amarillo
Traffic Club Banquet Tonight at Country Club
The Amarillo Traffic Club holds its annual banquet at the Country Club tonight, with D. B. Foy traffic manager of the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce as principal speaker. The event starts promptly at 7 o’clock.
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Amarillo
Mother Guilty of Murder in West Virginia Case
Minnie Stull, 30 year old Princeton widow, was convicted of first degree murder for fatally scalding her 9 year old stepson Mickey in a tub of water. The jury recommended mercy, making life imprisonment mandatory.
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Lewisburg
W. Va
Minnie Stull
Princeton
Mickey
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and Surroundings
Unsettled tonight and Friday with colder conditions. West Texas sees generally fair skies and colder nights, extreme southeast portions colder. New Mexico fair tonight and Friday with slight cooling in southeast and east. Temperatures at 1 PM reach 30 to 32. Oil priced at 35 cents and 50 cents per gallon. 219 Taylor
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Taylor
Truce on Trust Law Urged on President
Charles F. Abbott of New York told President Hoover a two year truce in enforcing antitrust laws is needed. Abbott, executive director of the American Institute of Steel Construction, warned a failure of emergency relief would imperil thousands of business groups nationwide.
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Washington
Hoover
Charles F. Abbott
New York
American Institute of Steel Construction
Abbott
Honolulu Assault Case Sparks Fresh Manhunt
Honolulu authorities intensified a manhunt after a 29 year old mother of two, Mrs Taka Okazaki, identified a suspect as Daniel Lyman in an assault near John Rodgers airport. The case emerges amid grand jury proceedings over the Kahahawai lynching and broader calls for stronger law enforcement.
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Honolulu
Taka Okazaki
John Rodgers
Daniel Lyman
Joseph Kahahawaii
Navy
Thomas R. Massie
Massie
Granville Fortescue
New York
Washington
Albert O. Jones
E. J. Lord
Kahahawai
Unsettled Cold Weather Downgrade Across Northwest Texas
The Weather Bureau reports unsettled conditions continue tonight into Friday and it will be somewhat colder. Heavy fog blankets Northwest Texas, making driving hazardous while air mail service is disrupted. Airmail schedules failed last night with planes grounded in Amarillo and Waynoka. Overnight low in Amarillo reached 30.
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Government Weather Bureau
Texas
Tey
Amarillo
Waynoka
Okla
Suit of Clothes Is Scrivnor Evidence
A gray suit draped over the witness stand became key evidence in the murder trial of W S Scrivnor in Houston. Prosecutors linked seven laundry marks from Houston and Galveston to the suit, part of the case tied to the August killings of Mr and Mrs Co A Jones and linked to the Cherris killing in reprisal.
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Houston
W. 5S
Shilo) Scrivnor
Scrivnor
Co. A
Keggy) Jones
John Cherris
Cherris
Galveston
Parker Struck by Husband in Front of Home
Lavina Parker remained in grave condition after being shot twice by her estranged husband James E. Parker in Wichita Falls. He wept in jail and offered no efforts for release as he faced an assault to murder charge.
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Parker
Wichita Falls
Lavina Parker
James E. Parker
Crowley the Boy Killer Faces Chair Tonight
Ossining New York January 21 Francis Crowley a 20 year old youth known as Two Gun and Bad Man faces the electric chair at Sing Sing for the murder of Patrolman Frederick Hirsch. Experts traced a troubled past from baby farm to tawdry dances and a string of holdups before the dime a dance girl Virginia Brannen killing and a two hour siege with police ending in Rudolph Duringer’s execution.
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Ossining
N. Y
Francis Crowley
Sing Sing
Two-Gun
Dora Dietz
Anna Crowley
Virginia Prannen
Frederick Hirsch
Nassau County
Crowley
Helen Walsh
Rudolph Duringer
Duringer
Miss Brannen
Congress weighs merging Army and Navy into National Defense
Washington reports the House Expenditures Committee was asked to merge the Army and Navy into a single Defense Department with an estimated saving of 100 million dollars annually. Chairman Burns urged cutting federal expenditures amid debates on relief and loan programs.
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Washington
Army and Navy
House Expenditures Committee
Burns
Appropriations Committee
Department of National Defense
Senate
Hoover
Manufactures
Robert Oakman
Detroit
Japanese Diet Dissolved as Warships Move to Shanghai
Tokyo January 21 The Japanese Diet was dissolved after government ordered a cruiser an aircraft carrier and four destroyers toward Shanghai. Warships at Sasebo prepared for action. Official casualty figures in Manchuria since September show 299 killed and 602 wounded among Japanese forces.
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Tokyo
Shanghai
Sasebo
Manchuria
Chicago Finance Act Passed in Illinois
Springfield report says Chicago won its first victory in financial rehabilitation as the state House and Senate moved a Cook County tax reform bill. The Senate passed 48 to 1 and sent it back for reconsideration after the House added two minor amendments.
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Springfield
U.P
Chicago
Cook County
Senate
House
Three Firms Admitted by Credit Association
Three new firms were admitted to the Credit Grantors Association at the Amarillo Hotel meeting. The Central Grocery, Van Shaw Bone Battery Company, and the E. D. Meyers Auto Store joined. Delinquent letters will be sent and a round table discussion on daily credit problems is planned for next week.
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Credit Grantors Association
Amarillo Hotel
Central Grocery
van Shaw Bone Battery Company
E. D. Meyers Auto Store
Amarillo Credit Association
Lytton Strachey Dies at 52 in Berkshire England
Lytton Strachey, a leading biographer of his era, died in Berkshire on January 21 after a lengthy illness. He was 52 years old.
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Inepen, Bershire
Eng
Lytton Strachey
Fire destroys historic Bush Temple in Dallas
Investigators pursued the cause of a blaze that swept the Bush Temple, long a focal point of Dallas music life, as firefighters battled the flames and authorities surveyed the scene.
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Dallas
Bush Temple
Hunting Farmer Fatally Shot Near Angelo
W L Alford a farmer was killed yesterday while rabbit hunting. His shotgun was found hanging in a fence near the scene.
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Ban Angelo
W. L. Alford
Railroads Lay Down Figures in Wage Conference
At a wage conference the railroads presented a 1200-word statement led by Daniel Willard of Baltimore & Ohio. The presidents cited declines in net operating income by 58 percent and drops in rolling stock purchases by 60 percent over the last two years.
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Chicago
Daniel Willard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Willard
Coast Guard Rescues Flood Refugees Across Delta
Swift coast guard boats manned by sailors and Red Cross workers rescued marooned families in the Mississippi delta. They concentrated the homeless at refugee centers and distributed food to thousands made destitute by high waters across an 200 mile wide sector eight weeks of flooding across six counties.
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Glendora
Miss
Coast Guard
Red Cross
Mississippi Delta
Mexico Cabinet Formed After Two Resignations
Mexico City jan 21 AP Mexico formed a new cabinet after the resignations of the finance minister and foreign secretary Manuel Tellez former ambassador to Washington and former interior secretary replaced Genaro Estrada as foreign secretary Estrada became ambassador to Spain with Alberto Pani recalled to Treasury secretary Pani had previously held the post years ago
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Mexico City
API
Mexico
Manuel Tellez
Washington
Interior
Genaro Estrada
Estrada
Spain
Alberto Pani
Treasury
Pani
Radio Commissioner Named Thaddeus Brown Pick
President Hoover named Pe Thad H. Brown of Ohio to the Radio Commission. The appointment was announced in Washington on January 21. Brown previously held related posts and will join the agency overseeing radio regulation.
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Washington
Thad H. Brown
Ohio
Hoover
Radio Commission
Quick Action Urged on Tickets for Crazy Quilt
Out-of-town theatergoers are urged by Wilbur C. Hawk, sponsor of the revue Crazy Quilt, to buy tickets now for January 28. Half the house is set aside for nonlocals, but seats will be released if not claimed in time. Ticket prices range from 1 to 3.85 dollars, and can be purchased at the News-Globe office or by writing to Mr. Hawk with a self addressed stamped envelope.
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Wilbur C. Hawk
News-Globe
Hawk
Care News-Globe
Pretty Boy Floyd Seen in Oklahoma City
A cafe waiter near the city jail identified Charles Pretty Boy Floyd as a recent customer in Oklahoma City. Police issued a general radio alarm and deployed scout cars with armed officers after the sighting while Floyd’s high school pupil era was noted by the witness.
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Pretty Boy
Oklahoma City
Okla
U.P
Charles
Floyd
Paden
Oklahoma News Building
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