Hardware Men Dinner and Dance Climax Convention
More than 500 men and women will fill the Herring Hotel ballroom for a banquet and ball closing the Panhandle Hardware and Implement Association thirty-first annual convention. Dr. Thomas H. Taylor of Howard Payne College will speak on Building A Community as committee reports and officer elections follow an afternoon address.
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Herring Hotel
Crystal
Panhandle Hardware and Implement Association
Order of Business
Thomas H. Taylor
Howard Payne College
Brownwood
George Buchenan
Tulsa
Clyde Tomlinson
Hillsboro
D. H. Pace
Kansas City
Suit filed against Houston Automobile Dealers Association
Austin January 30 An anti trust suit filed in district court by Attorney General Gerald Co Mann targets the Houston Automobile Dealers Association and about 35 Bayou City dealers. The petition seeks charter forfeiture and statutory penalties plus an injunction to halt practices. It alleges a conspiracy to control sale distribution and marketing of new and used cars and cites ad limits among defendants.
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Austin
Houston Automobile Dealers’ Association
Gerald Co. Mann
Bayou City
Child Born in Hills Without a Doctor
Roy Custer, 35, tended his pregnant wife and four children in a snowbound Hills area ten miles from town. With no food and no doctor for days, he delivered the baby with his seven year old daughter acting as nurse. Volunteers brought food and a doctor reached the home. both mother and baby were reported in good shape.
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Entral Gity
Roy Custer
Custer
Alice
Britain Warns of Fuel Waste As Blizzard Strikes Europe
London January 30 government urged restraint to avoid fuel waste as a severe blizzard paralyzed Britain. Snow and ice gripped the isles, with supplies of coal and food threatened in areas reporting the worst winter conditions in living memory.
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Britain
Europe
London
U.P
British Isles
Dances Tonight Aid Crippled Children Fund
Five Amarillo dances raise funds for infantile paralysis research and local crippled children. Franklin D Roosevelt birthday observance funds split: half to Crippled Children's Council in Amarillo and half to the National Foundation. Tickets cost 1 dollar and are valid at all venues.
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United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Amarillo
Nat
Aviateix
Rainbow Gardens
Amarillo Hotel
Crippled Children’s Council
National Foundation For Research Work
G. A
Bert) McCullough
Potter County
National Foundation
Crippled Children's Council
Mr. McCullough
Panhandle
Lockheed Unveils Excalibur Giant for Pan American
Lockheed Aircraft announces a four engine airliner named Excalibur capable of 300 mph, carrying 30 passengers, six crew, and a ton of mail. The plane will be delivered to Pan American Airlines in about 18 months with three orders. Planned use on South American routes.
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Los Angeles
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Pan American Airways
Pan American
Lockheed
Mr. Collman Sees Little Weather Change Tonight and Tomorrow
The forecast notes smoke fog and clouds with no wind. Mr Collman predicts fair warm weather continuing tonight and tomorrow. High about 63 with a low near 27 at the airport and 35 in town. Tonight’s low expected similar. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Valued eyebrow fight enters damage suit in Los Angeles
Vivian Wildman, 22, a model, seeks damages of 50000 dollars for an eyebrow damaged in an automobile accident. The filing references the single eyebrow as the item valued in the suit filed in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Vivian Wildman
Russians Overwhelm Turkish Armies at Tabriz in Caucasus
Twenty five years earlier on January 30, 1915, Russians overwhelmed Turkish forces at Tabriz in the Caucasus, marking a decisive boost for Russian troops. The report notes a strong Russian advance and a notable shift in regional control during World War I.
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Tabriz
Caucasus
Youth to Rescue Cite Scouts For Daring Life Saving
Honolulu officials prepared citations for two Boy Scouts who swam through heavy seas to rescue two Army airmen, Lieut William Hindson and Private James Brenman, after a plane crash off Lualualei Beach. The rescuers faced wreckage, undertow, and near submersion, bringing the men ashore after a perilous quarter hour in the ocean.
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Honolulu
T. H
Raymond Kane
Huel Ching
Lualualel Beach
Lieut
William Hindson
James P. Brenman
Group Whacks Farm Money
Washington report shows the House appropriations committee recommending a 20 percent cut to President Roosevelt's farm appropriation for the next fiscal year. The agriculture department would be reduced from 788.93 million to about 634.40 million, mainly by cutting 72.68 million from surplus commodity disposal, 47.98 million from the sugar act, and 25 million for farm tenant loans amid intense farm spending debate.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Appropriations
Agriculture Department
Mine Workers Say Garner Is Working Against Labor Law
Delegates to the United Mine Workers convention in Columbus charge Vice President Garner and “reactionary employers” with threatening the federal wage hour law. They accuse the wage hour administrator of weakness in setting industry committees and enforcing the act, and seek larger appropriations to administration amid attacks on amendments by “Tory representatives.”
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Garner
Columbus
United Mine Workers Convention
John N. Garner
Congress
Roosevelt
Triangle of Sparrows Work While Starlings Banquet
Three sparrows continue nest building in a Chinese Elm on Kentucky Street. They work in harmony while starlings from the courthouse lawn forage for food. The nest should be finished within a few days, per local observers.
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Kentucky Street
Courthouse Lawn
Name on license CASHTON man seeks inverted 337 370
Ole Lee of Cashton Wisconsin repeats his request to the state to issue license number 337 370 which when inverted reads Neely Greenhill Age. The plan centers on spelling his name with upside down digits for insurance purposes.
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Cashton
Wis
Ole Lee
Finnish claims Soviet air losses and Kronstadt raid details
Finnish communique says 21 Soviet planes down in raids on south Finland while new Russian assaults near Lake Ladoga were repulsed with heavy losses. Italians may have aided the Kronstadt raid on the Red navy base, with Finnish bombers hitting harbor yards and rail links. Reports say Kronstadt ships burned, and rail connections to Leningrad–Karelian front disrupted. Two hundred American planes for Finland arrived via Bergen.
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Helsinki
Finland
Lake Ladoga
Red
Kronstadt
Leningrad
Murmansk
Viipuri
Karelian Isthmus
Kandalaksk
Negro Employee Indicted On Charge Of Assault
FORT WORTH January 30 A former negro employee Alexander F. Thomas 27 was indicted by the Tarrant County grand jury on assault to murder the wife of a West Texas rancher oilman Mrs D H Snyder. He also faces an attempted burglary charge and his bond was set at 15000 dollars. He said he worked part time at the Snyder home more than a year ago.
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Fort Worth
Tarrant County
Grand Jury
D. H. Snyder
West Texas
Alexander F. Thomas
Snyder
Nonchalant Boy Rescued From Niagara River Ice
Constable Amos Voetsch in a canoe saved 14 year old Richard Abbey who rode an ice cake drifting toward Niagara Falls. Dey alerted help as rescue team prepared ropes ladders and a boat. The boy, shaken but safe, blamed on ice floes while Voetsch praised as captain for a risky mid stream maneuver.
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Nawanda
N. Y
Amos Voetsch
Niagara River
Richard Abbey
Niagara Falls
Falls
Joseph Dey
Woetsch
Woetsche
Polls of Potter County Lose Tax Appeal
Potter County polls show dwindling tax appeal as only 5 828 voting tickets issued at opening. Today’s business lighter than yesterday’s 671 receipts. Miss Jewell Davidson, county tax officer, says the office stays open until 8 pm tonight and until midnight tomorrow for late comers. no law requires after hours.
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Jewell Davidson
Flesher won't run against wife for Randall County peace
Amarillo attorney W J Flesher states he will not be a candidate against his wife in Randall County South Amarillo for the office of justice of the peace. He confirms the rumor is false and adds he will do whatever she asks.
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W. J. Flesher
Amarillo
Justice of the Peace
Randall County
Flesher
Drank Wine Instead of Water Dies at 100 in Indiana
Petersburg, Ind. farmer Herman Fulcher died at age 100 from pneumonia after admitting he drank sour wine instead of water his entire adult life. The report notes his unusual thirst habit and fatal illness. Also mentions Egypt report of unconfirmed quintuplets, all girls, born to Sayeda Gehessa.
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Petersburg
Ind
Herman Fulcher
Cairo
Egypt
Sayeda Gehessa
Air Raid Over East Coast as German Planes Attack Shipping
Royal Air Force fighters shot down a German plane off the east coast after 1 PM. German attacks on British shipping continued for a second day. Distress calls from steamers drew British fighters to the scene. one attacked vessel was the Jersey Queen, 910 tons.
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London
U.P
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
Jersey
Must Defend Our Wealth From Navy Fleet Expansion
Secretary Edison urged Congress to approve the navy’s 1.3 billion fleet expansion, saying dangerous abroad conditions justify “crushing weapons with our wealth to protect our wealth.” He warned that without strength, U.S. interests liberties and wealth would be targets, and that even the navy’s expanded plan offers only a fair degree of security.
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Washington
Edison
Navy
Congress
House Naval Committee
German Protests to Vatican About Radio Are Fruitless
Vatican reveals German complaints over radio broadcasts about excesses in German occupied Poland were dismissed as private and unofficial. Only German representation occurred in Berlin last week, with no official Vatican stance issued.
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Vatican
Vatican City
Poland
Berlin
Police and Patrolmen Plead For Safe Driving to Dances
Highway patrol urges careful driving to President's birthday dances to help afflicted children. Captain Jim Line says the full patrol will be on duty to guard against drunken driving.
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Highway Patrol
Jim Line
Weather forecast for Amarillo and nearby region
Amarillo and West Texas forecast fair with high cloudiness tonight and Wednesday. New Mexico also fair with high cloudiness. Temperature extremes for 24 hours ending 6:30 A.M. show maximum 62 and minimum 27. Noon temperature today 67.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Katharine Cornell Comedy Tonight at Paramount
Katharine Cornell headlines No Time For Comedy at the Paramount with Francis Lederer tonight at 8 15. Weather is forecast fair and warmer. the tour emphasis and Cornell remarks on touring careers are noted along with journeys to Oklahoma City. The piece recalls a previous Amarillo storm and praises Orson Welles while highlighting Cornell’s touring philosophy and personal reflections.
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Katharine Cornell
Mr. Collman
Miss Cornell
Municipal Auditorium
Japanese Demand Return Of German Seamen From Asama Maru
Tokyo demanded Britain return 21 German seamen seized from the Asama Maru by a British warship on January 21. Arita pressed the claim in a conference with British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie and said the return was essential. Britain’s unseen reply prompted Japan to prepare a written response demanding their return. In Washington, Senator Pittman urged using embargo powers to secure better treatment for Americans in China. He warned Congress must grant discretionary embargo authority to avoid Japanese confidence that they can proceed without U.S. leverage.
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H. O. Thompson
Tokyo
Hachiro Arita
Britain
Arita
Robert Craigie
Foreign Office
Craigie
Japan
Asama Maru
Washington
Pittman
Nevada
Roosevelt
United States
China
Congress
Perfectly Natural Mistake But Positively No Babies
North San Juan California report recalls a misread note from rancher John E Walker who believed his son and daughter in law had six children but received a letter showing four neighbors’ children under their roof. He later corrected the error saying he was grandfather to quadruplets, a misinterpretation caused by a day’s mix up as Mrs Walker cared for four neighbor children.
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San Juan
Cal
John E. Walker
Llewelyn Walker
Man Who Gave Away Money Dies in New York
Edward S. Harkness, 66, who built a fortune by giving away funds, died in New York. He and his wife lived as semi recluse while directing more than 100 million dollars of his father Stephen V. Harkness fortune to educational and welfare causes worldwide, including 55 million dollars between 1920 and 1930.
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New York
Edward S. Harkness
Stephen V. Harkness
John D. Rockefeller
London Reports Germany's Loss of Merchant Fleet
London reports a naval source says at the war start 350 German merchant ships in neutral ports. Twenty four ships totaling 103,037 tons have been captured or sunk and 23 ships totaling 139,236 tons have been scuttled by their crews. Twenty nine percent of the fleet remains tied up in neutral ports.
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London
Ine Formant
Build Now, John Maynard Lbr. Co. For Separance
Construction activity aims to finish a separance project involving John Maynard Lumber Company as the primary contractor with E A Regal Company noted in the scope of work. Details indicate a planned timeline and responsibilities for material provision and site coordination.
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John Maynard Lbr. Co
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