Hearse Drivers Union Expels Private Car Protest
Arthur Brisbane reports Chicago sees two modern headlines. Hearse drivers form a union and ban private cars from funeral processions, halting a U S attorney's mother's funeral and a high school captain's burial leading to injuries and a teen death. A bootlegger’s party ends in a deadly shooting, while gun violence and railroad travel illustrate national tensions.
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Chicago
Northcliffe
United States
George E. Q. Johnson
Union
Louis Lakin
Dolly Rand
Yoakum Water Fight Heads Back to Court
Yoakum Texas residents prepared to pursue court action to secure water and power after the Texas Louisiana Power Company cut off supply to avoid a daily $3,000 penalty. District Judge Lester Holt ordered the water on at midnight while receivers for the company, A P Barrett of Fort Worth, explained the shutdown aimed at avoiding fines under the utility ordinance.
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Yoakum
Tex
Lester Holt
Gonzales
Texas-Louisiana Power Company
A. P. Barrett
Fort Worth
James C. Wilson
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Region
Forecast for Amarillo and area shows partly cloudy to unsettled conditions tonight and Saturday. West Texas expects cooler temperatures in the southeast portion with partly cloudy skies. New Mexico sees fair and slightly cooler conditions tonight and Saturday. Temperature extremes today were 25 to 365.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Final Rout of Capitalism in Soviet Five Year Plan
Moscow reports the first five year plan ends with capitalism uprooted in Russian villages and outlines a second plan to raise workers living standards and double essential goods. It calls for abolishing classes, expanding nonferrous metals chemicals transport and roads, reorganizing agriculture, and broadening machine and tractor station use.
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Stanley P. Richardson
Moscow
Russia
Vyacheslaff M. Molotoff
Council of People’s Commissars
V. V. Juybishev
State Planning Commission
Soviet Union
Bandits Pal Found Dead in Burning Auto
The charred body of George Birdwell, tied to Pretty Boy Floyd’s gang, was found in a burned car five miles west of Seminole Oklahoma. He had a gunshot wound to the head. Police suspect Floyd killed him after Birdwell yielded to his wife’s plea to surrender. The car was stolen from H. J. Weaver of Cushing, identified by Floyd associates.
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Jack de Marco
Yiockford
Leavenworth Penitentiary
de Marco
Prohibition
Legs Diamond
Seminole
George Birdwell
Charles
Pretty Boy
Senate approves two billion Reconstruction Corporation bill
The Senate approved the revised two billion dollar Reconstruction Corporation plan and sent it to President Hoover. The House completed its action by adopting the conference report, paving the way for final action and a White House signature tonight.
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Senate
Washington
Reconstruction Corporation
Hoover
House
White House
Three Die In Beaumont Auto Crash Involving School Team
A Winnie High School principal L G Rodgers 29 a basketball player Francis McBride 16 of Bancroft and C E Teer 35 of Baton Rouge La died when Rodgers sedan collided with a construction company truck trailer on a bridge nine miles south of Beaumont Tex Eight others were injured.
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Beaumont
Tex
Winnie High School
L. G. Rodgers
Francis McBride
Bancroft
Winnie Cage
C. E. Teer
Baton Rouge
Rodgers
Winnie
Freezing Temperatures Hit Amarillo Panhandle Thursday Night
Amarillo and the Panhandle recorded a low of 25 above zero last night as cloudy skies linger. The Weather Bureau forecasts partly cloudy to unsettled conditions tonight and Saturday with gradual temperature rises.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Mercury
Weather Bureau
Gov Sterling Grants Nineteen General Paroles
Governor Sterling issued 19 general paroles to Texas inmates. Among clemencies, Aubra B Kent of Gray County received two years for forgery after more than sixteen months served in Gray County jail.
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Austin
Sterling
Texas Penitentiary
Aubra
Kent
Gray County
McDowell Reports Comfort After Stay in Hospital
Police Chief W R McDowell, in St Anthony's hospital for the last week, had a good night according to attendants. He remains under care of a special nurse and visitors are not allowed to see him. Griggs ambulance. Phone 4311.
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W. R. McDowell
St. Anthony's Hospital
Flood and court clash mark day in three cities
Flood waters on the Trinity River stranded a Fort Worth family and halted traffic on the Dallas pike as rainfall reached 2.44 inches. In Phoenix, Winnie Ruth Judd’s murder trial saw the state present its first exhibits a suitcase with human remains prompting objections. In Glendora Mississippi a disease risk rose in crowded refugee camps with physicians delivering medical supplies as floods eased.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
Agnes Anne LeRoi
Hedvig Samuelson
Los Angeles
Paul Schenck
Herman Lewkowitz
Miss Samuelson
Judd
LeRoi
Fort Worth
U.P
Trinity River
Landis
Weather Bureau
Dallas Pike
Village Creek
Glendora
Miss
Mississippi Delta
Sumner
Webb
Crowder
Rum Act Permanent, Al Smith Believes
Alfred E. Smith told the Hotel Association of New York that the prohibition amendment is in the constitution to stay and repeal is impossible. He suggested that a new amendment could allow states to take control of such matters with public approval.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
Hotel Association of
Haiti Charges U S Financial Dictatorship
The Haitian government sent a note to the United States accusing America of maintaining a financial dictatorship on the island. Haiti seeks permission to establish a new fiscal agency for payments or to fund its entire debt to clear obstacles to normal relations.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Haiti
Ohio for Hoover Dominates Central Committee Vote
Ohio's central committee backed President Hoover by a solid margin, assuring a strong delegation to the Republican National Convention. The decisive victory for Hoover supporters strengthens his bid for the party's nomination.
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Ohio
Hoover
Columbus
Couple Held on Counterfeiting Charges in Texas
Harry E. Thomas aged 40 and his wife aged 25 were detained by officers in San Antonio Texas on charges of counterfeiting and passing counterfeit coin.
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San Antonio
Tex
U.P
Harry E. Thomas
Flier Found After Tail Wind Led Him Off Course
Otto Graff, New York businessman aviator, was found at Curtiss-Wright field between Dallas and Fort Worth after a two day search. He landed at 5:15 P M Wednesday saying he did not know he was lost due to a strong tail wind. He completed the Dallas to Fort Worth leg in 4 hours 50 minutes and planned to depart for Oklahoma City if weather cleared.
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Dallas
Otto Graff
New York
el Paso
Curtiss-Wright Field
Fort Worth
Graff
Midland
Oklahoma City
Dalhart Knife Case Bond Set
S L Criswell bonds for 3000 after an examining trial for assault with intent to murder on J H Hogan a prisoner at Dallam County jail. Criswell remanded. Hogan accused of knife attack on the night of the death of Juanita Criswell 19 who was fatally stabbed October 29. Physicians say Hogan to recover from neck wound.
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Edgar T. Neal
Hogan
Prosecution Rests In Scrivnor Murder Trial
The prosecution rested today in the murder trial of W. Shilo Scrivnor in Houston. Court adjourned until 1 P. M. when the defense will begin offering its testimony.
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Houston
W. 8
Shilo
Penalty Applies on City Taxes After Coming Week
Delinquent city taxes must be paid by midnight January 31 to avoid a penalty. Since the date falls on a Sunday the deadline may be extended by one day, though not finalized. Tax payments were coming in at a good rate at city hall on Friday.
Union Chiefs Study Plea for Wage Cut
Chicago January 22 800 brotherhoods and union leaders studied arguments of railway presidents who urged a 10 percent wage reduction to avert bankruptcies and loss of credit. Management offered to do whatever is practicable to stabilize employment and rejected most labor proposals including a six hour day.
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Chicago
Fight Against Communism Planned in Job Program
Pittsburgh report says the American Legion national employment drive aims to put one million people to work starting February 1. Henry I. Stevens Jr. described employers urged to raise payrolls by 10 percent, adopt a six hour day, six day pay, and a five day week.
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Pittsburgh
American Legion
Henry I. Stevens, Jr
the Legion
Stevens
Special chief justices named for Texas Supreme Court
Gov. R. S. Sterling appointed Sidney Samuels of Fort Worth and Hilton Howell of Waco as special chief justices to hear cases in which Chief Justice O M Cureton was disqualified. The appointment announced in Austin on Jan 22 assigns the two figures to preside over proceedings requiring impartiality.
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Austin
Sterling
Sidney Samuels
Fort Worth
Hilton Howell
Waco
Supreme Court of Texas
O. M. Cureton
Villareal Trial Opens Over Murder Charge in Laredo
Testimony began in Laredo Texas as Antonio Villareal former high school janitor faces murder charges in the October 4 killing of Juan Trevino. The case centers on Villareal’s involvement and the events at the school on the day of the slaying.
Oil 35¢ and 60¢ per gallon
Oil prices listed at 35 cents and 60 cents per gallon. Contact 219 Taylor for details.
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Taylor
Five Years For Robbery In Fort Worth Station Holdup
Albert Klase and Ralph Collins Crouch were sentenced to five years in prison for the Fort Worth filling station holdup in which 75 cents was taken. An attendant identified Klase in court and he pleaded guilty.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Albert Klase
Ralph Collins Crouch
Klase
Boy Sought as Death Club Murder Clue in San Antonio
Police sought a four year old boy as a possible clue to the murder of 24 year old Virginia Martinez a pecan sheller whose body was found last Wednesday in a rubbish heap by children in San Antonio.
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San Antonio
UPI
Virginia Martinez
Martinez
Policies Give Officers Clues In Hex Murder
Philadelphia police pursued leads in the death of Norman Bechtel, a 31 year old church worker found dying in a Germantown estate. Bechtel left $60,000 in life insurance and a will as investigators explored possible hex or voodoo symbolism.
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Philadelphia
Norman Bechtel
Germantown
Bechtel
Officers Seek Wounded Pair In Amarillo Search
Amarillo authorities hunt two wounded men fled gunfire near San Jon New Mexico. F C Sky Barnett and B M Horse Face Dixon named as suspects. deputies identify them in Tucumcari. Dixon arrested at Green Hut road house. Barnett at a cottage camp. Both men held on burglary charges for New Mexico officers.
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Amarillo
San Jon
N. M
Barnett
Dixon
New Mexico
Granite House owner receives city tax refund in Amarillo
J. H. Lancaster, owner of Amarillo’s only granite house in Sunset Park Addition, was granted a city tax refund after the board of equalization, the tax assessor, and the city manager recommended it. The refund reflects the high valuation of granite versus other building materials.
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J. H. Lancaster
Amarillo
City Commission
Board of Equalization
Sunset Park Addition
Cleburne Woman Shot Six Times Expected to Recover
Mrs Dollie Campbell, 34, was shot six times in Cleburne and doctors at the sanitarium said she is likely to recover. Leona Vaughn, a divorcee who surrendered after the shooting, was released on $2,500 bond on an assault to murder charge.
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Cleburne
U.P
Dollie Campbell
Cleburne Sanitarium
Leona Vaughn
Pollard to Seek Reelection in Texas Senate Primary
State Senator Thomas G. Pollard announced his candidacy to succeed himself in the upcoming primaries. His district includes Smith, Wood, Upshur, Camp, and Van Zandt Counties.
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Tyler
U.P
Thomas G. Pollard
Smith, Wood
Upehur
Camp
van Zandt
Fort Worth Man Wins Texas Meat Slogan Contest
Fort Worth resident James H. Lowry won first prize of 100 dollars in the Texas Meat slogan contest titled Eat Texas Meats. Judges credited the entry Texas Meat Sun Grown for its simple concise wording and broad appeal and plans for trademark use will be discussed by D A Bandeen and the West Texas Chamber of Commerce.
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Fort Worth
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
D. A. Bandeen
James H. Lowry
Texas
Sun Grown
Japs Warned by U.S. Consul in Shanghai
American Consul General Edwin Cunningham told reporters that Japanese must stay out of the international settlement to avoid disturbances. After a consular conference, he said if the Japanese remain out there will be no trouble. The meeting followed reports of 22 Japanese warships being loaded for emergency orders at Sasebo. Six more warships were expected in Shanghai, joining four already in port, with British and American naval officers discussing the matter.
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Shanghai
Wide Hunt For Kidnap Victim In Denver
A house-to-house search by police and firemen began in Denver for Benjamin P. Bower a 62 year old bakery manager abducted from his home by two men on Tuesday night. Kidnappers demanded fifty thousand dollars and no harm was confirmed as police checked every lead.
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Denver
Colo
Benjamin P. Bower
Bower
Progress satisfactory in West Texas Chamber fund drive
Reports from Amarillo committeemen on the West Texas Chamber of Commerce membership drive were highly satisfactory. Maury Hopkins assistant manager said the drive is going over in championship style in Amarillo as elsewhere. This morning's check-up is the first since the drive began Tuesday noon.
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Senate
Post Office Department
Treasury
FP. A. Tilton
Amarillo
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Maury Hopkins
Mrs Sarah M Snyder Dies in Laredo at 95
Mrs. Sarah M Snyder aged 95 died in Laredo Texas today. She was former grand matron of the Eastern Star order for Missouri and held that office in 184. Her passing marks the end of a long service record in fraternal circles.
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Sarah M. Snyder
Laredo
Tex
Eastern Star Order
State of
Missouri
Crazy Quilt board moves downtown for ticket sales
Due to heavy advance sales the Crazy Quilt board will relocate to City Drug Store No 1 on Polk Street tomorrow morning instead of Monday. Tickets go on sale at 9 AM with prices from 1 to 3 dollars 85 cents. Wilbur Hawk promotes the show with Fannie Brice Phil Baker and Ted Healy featured.
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City Drug Store
Polk Street
Wilbur Hawk
Fannie Brice
Phil Baker
Ted Healy
Bank Robbery in Jacksonville Nets Up to Fifteen Thousand
Five men overpowered five employees as they arrived for work at the Springfield Atlantic Bank in Jacksonville Florida on January 22 and escaped with between twelve thousand and fifteen thousand dollars.
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Florida
Jacksonville
Fla
Springfield Atlantic Bank
Continue Holdup Hearing: Culwell Freed From Jail
After testimony from 11 witnesses the preliminary hearing for robbery with firearms tied to eight individuals was continued until Saturday at 10 AM. The case, heard before Justice J W Minter, adjourned so officers and attorneys could attend J D Thompsons funeral. Billy Culwell remained jailed on a Carson County felony complaint for assault with intent to kill but posted bond yesterday.
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J. W. Minter
Floyd Carter
A. Herring
Billy Culwell
Billy
Carson County
Potter County
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