Ferguson for all proposed amendments urged in Texas Forum
Austin July 21 The Forum led by former Governor James E Ferguson urged Texas voters to adopt five constitutional amendments. He supported repeal of the 18th amendment urging turnout to avoid overconfident neglect. The Forum favored home rule and opposed bond issues while advocating temperance, 3.2 beer, and homestead exemption as protections of the republic.
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Austin
James E. Ferguson
Texas
Ferguson
Shep Spard
Sy‘Jim
Reemployment push plans wage rise drive nationwide
President Roosevelt backed a national reemployment program urged by James M. Johnson to rally employers and chambers of commerce to raise wages and extend hours. The plan, printed at the government printing office, asks firms to sign a universal agreement to boost purchasing power and coordinate with NIRA and labor groups, with September 1 as a deadline for industry codes.
Barber War Ends With Nickels For Shaves In Huntsville
In Huntsville Arkansas a price war among barbers drops from 20 cents for a haircut and 15 for a shave to a nickel for both. A daresay promo offering free NAIR and a nickel shave further deflates prices until old shops revert to 10 and 5 cent options. Residents await hair growth before new cuts begin.
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Huntsville
Ark
Madison County
Employment Pact Details in Brief
Washington July 21 essential points of the President's re employment agreement for signers. It limits child labor to under 16 with three hours daily, 7 A.M. to 7 P.M., and a 40 hour week for clerical staff. Factory workers face an eight hour day on a 35 hour week with allowances for six 40 hour weeks through December 31 1933. Exemptions cover small firms under three workers in towns under 2 500, pharmacists, professionals, managers earning over 35 a week, emergency and highly skilled continuous process workers. Minimums set at 15 a week in big cities, 14.50 in medium cities, 14 in small towns, with a 20 percent rise in communities under 2 500 up to a floor of 12. Factory minimums 40 cents an hour unless 1929 July 15 pay was lower, then that rate holds. Piece workers receive the corresponding minimum wage. Wages above the minimum cannot be cut by hours reduction and must be readjusted equitably. Prohibits deceptive practices and limits price increases to production or cost increases. Signers must patronize other signers and help secure a fair code before September 1. contracts may be adjusted for fixed price deliveries due to higher costs. The agreement ends when a code is approved or the recovery administration substitutes its provisions. Those seeking hardship stays may file with a representative industry group and obtain a stay pending summary investigation. Each signer must report the number of employees at signing.
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Johnson
Clearing House
Rotary
Kiwanis and Lion Clubs
Merjchants’ Associations
Federation of Labor
Federation ‘of Women
Charles P. “Horner
Kansas City
Charles P
Liberty Loan Drive
Indusstries
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bulletin
Washington
Roosevelt
Recovery Administration
Ride to Fort Worth Wanted By Camp Soldier
C C Rider from Stephenville Tex asks for a ride to Fort Worth this Friday or Saturday. He is visiting his mother and offers to help with car care in return. He's in the C C C camp and hopes Tack will print the note in his column.
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Tack
Fort Worth
Cc. C. C
Stephenville
Tex
Texas to Vote Bond Issue for Federal Relief Funds
Potter County officials return from Austin after discussions on a constitutional bond issue of 20 million dollars to match federal relief funds. Every Texas county will vote on August 26. another 24 million for highway relief awaits August 12 as Panhandle leaders push for aid and infrastructure. Politicians urge support to assist drought and disaster affected areas.
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Potter County
J. M. Simpson
Julius Dorenfield
Amarillo
Austin
Lawrence Westbrook
Texas
Jim Ferguson
Miriam Ferguson
Panhandle
Simpson
Johnson's Home Aiding in Recovery in Fort Scott
Fort Scott Kansas July 21 The unanimous support of every employer in town was accorded General Hugh S. Johnson national industrial recovery administrator A city wide Chamber of Commerce meeting urged Johnson to heed the townspeople pledge their fullest cooperation with the recovery program in effect locally and nationally.
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Fort Scota
Kan
Fort Scott
Hugh S. Johnson
Chamber of Commerce
Johnson
Test of Patriotism Echoes in Unnamed Campaign Speech
A historic speech frames economic aid as a duty to restore breadwinners to work. The speaker rejects hype, stresses conscience and opinion as the only force, and declares the effort a genuine test of patriotism rather than a ballyhoo campaign.
Roosevelt Seeks New Spot for Moley in State Department
Washington July 21 Assistant Secretary of State Moley may receive a new assignment from President Roosevelt. Possible duties include war debt negotiations or work on Russian recognition. Officials said no official plan to resign has been announced though rumors persist, Moley vacationing in New York while performing duties in informal meetings.
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Frederick A. Storm
United Press
Washington
State Moley
Roosevelt
Moley
White House
New York
Tribute to Amarillo civic leader Dick Wingate dies
Interment will be at Llano Cemetery mausoleum. City leaders praise Dick Wingate as a rare type of friend and a model Rotary ethic adherent. Mayor Ross D. Rogers and Wilbur C. Hawk call his death a keen loss to Amarillo, noting his generous civic service and dedication to improving the city.
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R. B
Dick’ Wingate
Ross D. Rogers
Amarillo
Rotary
Wilbur C. Hawk
Hanna Named Minister to Guatemala by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt appointed Matthew E. Hanna of Ohio as minister to Guatemala in Washington on July 21. Hanna succeeds prior envoy and becomes the United States representative in Guatemala, reflecting ongoing diplomatic appointments under the administration.
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Hanna
Guatemala
Washington
W.P
Roosevelt
Matthew E. Hanna
Ohio
Mayors Convene to Tackle Kidnapping in Fifteen Municipalities
In the wake of a kidnapping case in Albany New York abductors still hold Young John J O Connell Jr as federal and state authorities move to curb racketeering. Senator Murphy of Iowa announces federal probe into major kidnapping and racketeering with new laws under consideration. Senators Vanderberg Michigan and Copeland New York join investigations in Michigan and New York.
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Gerald
Alton
U.S
Louis Murphy
Iowa
Senate
Michigan
New York
Vandenburg
Copeland
John J. O'Connell, Jr
Albany
N. Y
Sixteen Amarillo Scouts Camp on Cimarron Canyon
Sixteen members from Amarillo Troop 5 camp at Cimarron Creek in the Cimarron Canyons of New Mexico for a week. They are testing in Indian lore pioneering wood lore and fishing under Scoutmaster J. W. Bentley and assistant C. W. Mason.
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Amarillo
Cimarron Creek
Cimarron
Cotton Fluctuations Open Active in New Orleans Market
New Orleans cotton opened active and irregular with October at 10.60, down 21 points, later rising to 10.84 and December to 11.02 as liquidation and short covering affected prices. By mid-morning gains faded, then partial recoveries lifted near highs before another wave of liquidation trimmed values, with October around 10.87 and December near 10.57. Kansas City livestock followed, with hogs mixed to higher and cattle and calves steady to firm in thin, weather-influenced trade.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
Shorts
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
U. 8
D. A
Counties in Amarillo loan district list grows
Dallas July 21 James Shaw Texas Home Owners Loan Corp head office division of the state into four districts with Amarillo as one center announced. He named the counties in the Amarillo district including Loving Ward Crane Midland Glasscock Ector Winkler Andrews Martin Howard Mitchell Nolan Fisher Scurry Borden Dawson Gaines Yoakum Terry Lynn Garsa Kent Stonewall Haskell Knox King Dickens Crosby Lubbock Hockley Cochran Bailey Lamb Hale Floyd Motley Cottle Foard Hardeman Childress Hall Briscoe Swisher Castro Palmer Deat Smith Randall Armstrong Donley Collingsworth Wheeler Gray Carson Potter Oldham Hartley Moore Hutchinson Roberts Hemphill Lipscomb Ochiltree Hansford Sherman Dallam Reeves.
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Washington
Amarillo
Loving
Ward
Crane
Midland
Glasscock
Ector
Winkler
Andrews
Martin
Howard
Mitchell
Nolan
Fisher
Scurry
Borden
Dawson
Gaines
Airm field envoy arrivals awaited at union meet
The mid year convention of the Association of Airport Managers continued three days with delegates expected by noon Friday. No official business had occurred and officers may be elected late Friday or Saturday as American Airways officials and a Oklahoma City airport delegation arrive. The association covers Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico airports. Harold English of English Field heads the entertainment program. Headquarters are at the Herring Hotel with delegates from San Antonio to Tulsa.
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Association of
Airport Managers
American Airways
Oklahoma City
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Harold English
English Field
Herring Hotel
San Antonio
Tulsa
Four Die When Auto Drops Into Creek North Of Okolona
Four persons were killed early today when the automobile they rode in plunged into a creek eight miles north of Okolona Mississippi. The dead include Winston Jordan of Iuka chief surveyor on a bridge project between Okolona and Shannon John Rabel of West Point Ernestine Caldwell and Rachel McShann both of Tupelo Mississippi.
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Okolona
Miss
Here
Winston Jordan
Iuka
Shannon
John Rabel
West Point
Ernestine Caldwell
Tupelo
Rachel McShann
Trading Suspended As Grain Markets Slump Nationwide
Wheat prices slumped by 19 cents per bushel while Fort Worth Texas halted trading on the grain board along with Chicago and Kansas City. No sales or quotations occurred in two days amid a volatile market as Minneapolis and Duluth likewise suspended grain and provisions futures trade, leaving Winnipeg as the only North American market staying open. Nearby alfalfa in the Nevada desert near Las Vegas grew 42 inches in 26 days.
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Ft. Worth
Fort Worth
Tex
Chicago
Kansas City
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
Duluth Grain Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Winnipeg
Nevada Desert
Las Vegas
Plan to plow up cotton acreage gains support
Washington dispatch reports county agents in cotton states prepared to issue permits allowing farmers to plow up land offered under the government acreage reduction program. President Roosevelt, in a Wallace message, lauded the initial success and urged full compliance to bolster price and buying power for cotton.
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Washington
Airbus Service Takes Texans to Old Mexico
The Wedell-Williams Air Service announced a new route departing Houston at noon and arriving in Monterrey, Mexico, at 7:45 P M the same day. Service starts tomorrow with a noon departure from Houston and a 2 30 P M stop in Laredo for a bus connection.
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Airbus
Texans
Old Mexico
Houston
U.P
Monterrey
Mex
Wedell-Williams Air Service
Wedell-Williams
Laredo
Pickwick
Hutton Drama Sketch Ends With Curtain Calls
Hutton teetered nervously in his dressing room while daubing grease paint and resisting group photos with chorus girls. The Sunkist girls danced on stage in bells as the master of ceremonies hailed the famous bari tone of Angelus Temple, and Hutton gave three curtain calls before returning.
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Hutton
Sunkist
Angelus Temple
Railroads Still Losing Money in Five Months Report
Texas railroads posted a net loss of 665772 dollars for the five months ending May 31, according to a report to the railroad commission. The figure contrasts with a net operating income of 14804 dollars for the same period in 1932, highlighting ongoing financial struggles in the industry.
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Austin
Texas
State Railroad Commission
Kill-Ko Insecticide Ad Highlights Fly Threat
An advertisement warns that house flies carry numerous germs and multiply rapidly in summer. It urges immediate action to kill flies with Kill-Ko insecticide, claiming it contains a high amount of pyrethrum powder for powerful effect.
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Sheppardon
Nira
Bonanza
C. C. C. Rider
White Elephant Sale
Regent’s
Wingate
Coca Cola Bottling Company
Llano Cemetery
Jno
F. Clark & Co
Close Co
T. Adams Express
Alaska Juneau
Allegheny Corp
Allied Chemical See
Allis Chalmera , Tee
Ott Tee
Armour & Co
Anaconda Copper
Anchor Cap Corp O
Mu Assoc Dry Goods
Atchison Top & S
Aee
Atlantic
Auburn Auto - Bat
Aviation Corp
Canada
Columbas & el
Crown Cork
Curtis Wright
A — del Lackawanna
Hudson Motor Lie
M Central RR
Internat Cement
Internat Harvester
Internat Nickel
Internat Tel &Tel
Johns-Manville
Kennecott Copper
Kresge
Kroger Groc & Bak
Liggitt-Myers ‘ Teberene
W'A Inc
Nat Distillers
Nat Pw & Lt
National Steel
NY Central
New Haven Hartford
SHAW
Dallas
James Shaw
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Sanna
Navajo Lake
Utah
Cape Province
South Africa
Alees , Penney, J. C
Pennsylvania RR
Peep Gas
Lt & Cokerice
Petroleum Corp
Phillips
Proctor & Mble
Public Serv Corp
Producers & Refiners
Keith Orpheeees
Reading Co
Remington Rand Heans
Republic
Pipe & Fdy
U_ S
U S Steel
U & Steel Pfd
Utilities
Pw & Lt
Vanadium. Corp
Warner rBos
al Warren Bros
Western Union AO
Westinghouse Elena
Woolworth Aneee Tee
Yellower & Coach Wr
Youngstown Sheet
Close Alum Co. of America
Am Gas & Electric Amer Superpower
Ark Nat Gas
Marconi
Cord Corporation Ll
Fisk Rubber
Ford Motor Co
Gulf Oil
Imperial Oil
Niagara Hudson
Indiana
Swift & Co
United Gas
Lydia E. Pinkham
Constance Bennett
Miss Bennett
Hollywood
Marquis Henri de la Falace
Gloria Swanson
Agrham
Wallace
Rigo Manufacturing Co
Nashville, Tennessee
Elmer J. Scott & Co
Russell Middleton
Certified Public Accountant
Oliver Fakle
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