New Roosevelt Push in Congress to End Extra Session
June 12. A surge by Roosevelt forces aims to force the Senate to agree to final adjournment by night fall. House already finished its work and awaits ratification of measures including the industry recovery public works bill and veterans compensation funds. Senate faces large three point program and a $3.5 billion public works appropriation.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Independent Offices
Veterans
Mattern Believed on Journey to Nome From Kamchatka
Moscow reports aviator Jimmy Mattern likely departed Khabarovsk for Nome on a 2500 mile leg across dangerous flying areas. No telegrams yet. officials say 36 hours passed since landing. Western Alaska on alert as Mattern crosses Sea of Okhotsk Kamchatka coast and Bering Sea with 40 degree cold and 24 hour sun.
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Moscow
Jimmy Mattern
Khabarovsk
Siberia
Nome
Alaska
Siberian
Jimmie Mattern
Sea of Okhotsk
Kamchatka Peninsula
Bering Sea
Mattern
Winterhaler ex-auditor held for embezzlement in Amarillo
Charles H Winterhaler 35 former city manager auditor of Amarillo was jailed on embezzlement charges connected to city funds. Indicted by the Potter County grand jury amid audit findings claiming 964 10 owed to the city. He said he charged items to expenses he could have billed as city manager and later took them himself. Bond set at 1500. He earlier left Amarillo January 15 after a short tenure and sought a loan to cover the debts.
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Charles H. Winterhaler
Amarillo
Potter County
Bill Adams
Winterhaler
Dallas
Grand Jury
H. V. Robertson & Company
City Commission
Reeder & Reeder
N. V. Robertson & Company
A. S
United States
MaccDonald
Cool Weather Hope For Area Calms Panhandle Heat Wave
A cooling trend spreads across the Panhandle Plains with 81 degrees at 1 PM and a brisk north wind. Possible overnight thundershowers and Tuesday's partly cloudy forecast accompany a light dust storm that abated by noon. Data show a broad drop in heat from Alaska to the Rockies, aided by a strong southeast breeze and showers across North and West Texas.
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Panhandle Plains
Kansas City
Alaska
Rockies
Atlantic
Government
Weather Bureau
Canada
Montana
Idaho
Missouri
Kansas
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Texas
Reservations Open for Amarillo World Fair Tour
Mason King tour manager says paid reservations are piling up for a good will all expenses trip to Chicago June 25 to July 2. Wilbur Hawk sponsors with a 75 dollar all inclusive price from Amarillo. Reservations require $10 to hold and balance by June 20, with six days at the exposition scheduled.
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Globe-News
Mason King
Wilbur Hawk
Chicago
Amarillo
King
Lois Black
Globe News
Longest over water flight lands in Cuba from Seville
Capt. Mariano Barberan and Lieutenant Joaquin Collar of the Spanish air force completed a 4906 mile journey from Seville to Cuba in 40 hours and 3 minutes, over 4700 miles of which were water. They head for Havana at 2 PM to be received by President Gerardo Machado before continuing to Mexico City. The Columbia monoplane meanwhile departs Floyd Bennett Field on a 2400 mile goodwill flight toward Haiti with Capt. J Errol Boyd, Robert Lyon, and Harold Davis aboard, planning to drop flowers over Havana in memory of Wilmer Stutz.
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Camaguey
Cuba
U.P
Mariano Barberan
Joaquin Collar
Seville
Spain
Havana
Gerardo Machado
Mexico City
Columbia
Haiti
New York
J. Errol Boyd
Floyd Bennett Field
Boyd
Robert G. Lyon
Harold P. Davis
Wilmer Stutz
Four Dead In Wake Of Wind At Lake Front
Four persons are dead and at least one missing after a violent windstorm hit Houghton Lake on Sunday. The tragedy swamped two score boats as resorters fled the heat. The known dead include Robert Walcott of Charlotte John Townsend and his son Francis of Alma and Florence Labudo of Saginaw. Authorities feared more fatalities as cottages are checked.
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Houghton Lake Village
Mich
Houghton Lake
Roscommon County
Robert Walcott
Charlotte
John Townsend
Burglars Strike Kenyon Grain & Seed Company
Burglars late Sunday night entered the Kenyon Grain and Seed Company's property at 93 North Polk Street, stripped a truck and took additional loot. Five suspects were arrested by police. charges likely to be filed on Monday.
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Kenyon Grain & Seed Company
North Polk Street
Amarillo Area Weather Outlook Tonight and Tuesday
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for thundershowers and a cooler night with Tuesday partly cloudy skies. West Texas east of the 100th meridian remains partly cloudy with possible thunderstorms in the north portion this afternoon or tonight, cooler conditions overall, especially in the north and southeast portions. Temperature extremes through 1 PM today reached 81 degrees high and 68 degrees low.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
Tax Dodging 25 Cents or 10 Pennies
Arthur Brisbane comments on tax avoidance schemes and public vengeance, illustrating how both individuals and governments react to fiscal evasions. The column criticizes loopholes and urges stricter enforcement as a social justice issue in the broader economic climate.
Brisbanes View on Navy Exhibit at Century of Progress
Arthur Brisbane writes in The Globe urging readers to see the Chicago Century of Progress navy exhibit. He argues the exhibit shows how the navy protects trade routes and represents America worldwide, noting costs and debating balance between battleships and airships. He asserts viewing the exhibit should reassure support for a strong navy.
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United States Navy
Navy
New East Texas oil order seen at Austin hearing
A railroad commission hearing in Austin considers a new allowable order for the East Texas oil field amid testimony by practical oil men. The proposed rule would set field output at about 825000 barrels per day based on 15 percent of hourly well potential, a method a Fort Worth federal court recently tentatively upheld. The decision seeks to curb waste and extend the field’s natural flow life.
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Austin
U.P
East Texas
Railroad Commission
Fort Worth
Bankers Meet Panhandle South Plains Here Tuesday
Bankers of the Panhandle and South Plains will gather for their twenty sixth annual meeting. The Panhandle Bankers Association session is at the Herring Hotel Wednesday morning with a golf tournament at Amarillo Country Club in the afternoon and a lawn party and dance at night. Joe Norman's orchestra will provide music and there is a theater party for the ladies. L B Steele of Dalhart is president with DeLea Vicars of Pampa as secretary and T E Noel of Memphis as treasurer. Charles A Fisk chairs the entertainment committee.
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Bankers of the
Davis Pleads Not Guilty to Charge in Lottery Case
New York June 12 United States Senator James J Davis of Pennsylvania pleaded not guilty to a new indictment in the Moose lottery case. Trial date tentatively set for July 10.
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New York
United States
James J. Davis
Pennsylvania
Potter County Medical Society Meeting Announcement
The Potter County Medical Society will hold its regular meeting Monday night at 7:30 in the city commission room. Discussion topics include the City County Health unit. Dr. E A Winsett serves as society president.
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Potter County Medical Society
City Commission
E. A. Winsett
Water Needed Delays Palo Duro Camp Start
Water supply issues delay the Army Reforestation camps at Palo Duro Canyon as Randall County officials and Palo Duro Park Association arrange sources. Five camps for 200 men each were planned on Arnold ranch and Palisades area. Fort Sill officers survey sites and await transfer.
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Palo Duro Canyon
Arnold Ranch
Palisades
Amarillo
Randall County Commissioners’ Court
Palo Duro Park Association
Palo Duro
Big Park
Fort Sill
Okla
Relief Plans Up 10 Texans Aide Public Works in Texas
Twenty representatives of the Texas Relief Commission begin conferences with state officials to plan public improvements funded by Roosevelt's industrial recovery act. A $3.3 billion national pool will be available, with Texas expected to receive about $250 million. Each relocated job aims to employ 1,000 Texans per million spent, aiding relief rolls and spurring permanent improvements. Three regional chambers of commerce will help allocate funds.
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Austin
Texas Relief Commission
Roosevelt
Texas
Lawrence Westbrook
Relief Commission
Commission
West Texas Chamber leaders head to Washington on recovery program
Bandeen and Cline fly to Washington to discuss terms and applications of the national recovery act with a 3 billion dollar public works and self liquidating projects appropriation. The West Texas Chamber fully organizes to handle member towns’ applications with engineering and legal bureaus set up for full service.
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Bandeen
Cline
Washington
Abilene
D. A. Bandeen
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Walter D. Cline
Wichita Falls
Port Worth
West Texas Chamber
Ruby Keeler Enroute to Hollywood with Sister
Ruby Keeler wife of Al Jolson and a film star stopped at a London airport for lunch on Monday while traveling to Hollywood. She was accompanied by her sister on the trip.
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Ruby Keeler
Jolson
English Airport
Hollywood
Panhandle Officers on Trail of Wily Barrows
Texas-Oklahoma border chase for Clyde Barrow and Ivy Barrow follows a wagon wreck and kidnapping near Wellington. The fugitives abducted Sheriff George Corry and City Marshal Paul Hardy, forcing them at gunpoint to aid an injured woman and later abducted them to a location near Erick, Ohio, as a third man joined.
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Panhandle
Wellington
Texas-Oklahoma
Clyde Barrow
Dallas
Ivy Barrow
Steve Pritchard
Salt Fork
Pritchard
Corry
Paul Hardy
Erick
Ohio
Plane crash at Glen View leaves nine dead unidentified
A Sikorsky Amphibian crashed near Glen View, Chicago suburb, killing nine aboard including the pilot Carl V. Vickery and mechanic Harry Jacobs. Six victims were identified as Edward Schaller, J. T. Robinson, Edward M. Fay and others from Chicago, Wheeling, Storm Lake, and New York. Cause tied to attempting landing at the world’s fair harbor.
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Chicago
Glen View
World's Fair Harbor
Carl V. Vickery
Harry Jacobs
Wheeling
W. Va
Edward Schaller
Storm Lake
Iowa
J. T. Robinson
New York
Edward M. Fay
Kansas Officers to Junction for Pair
Warden Lacey M. Simpson said guards had started for Texas to return Billie Woods and Clifford Dopson, escaped convicts captured Saturday. Extradition papers would be sought from Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson in Austin. Woods and Dopson refused to waive extradition. The sheriff said two women and a child captured with them about 20 miles south of Junction would be freed soon.
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Junction
Tex
Lacey M. Simpson
Kansas Penitentiary
John Graham
Texas
Billie Woods
Clifford Dopson
Simpson
Austin
Miriam A. Ferguson
Woods
Dopson
World conference draws diverse delegates and a poetic pledge
Economic sidelights report from London notes Haiti delegate Constan tin Mayard declaring a whimsical solution while attending a gathering with President Edmund Schulthess of Switzerland and a large slate of prime ministers and ministers. Soviet envoy Maxim Litvinoff and Persian delegate Ali Akbar Khan Bargush are among colorful participants as Omar Khayyam inspires Persian thoughts amid last minute conference prep.
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Associated Press
London
Constantin Mayard
Haiti
Mayard
Ali Akbar Khan Bargush
Hyde Park
Omar Khayyam
England
Hite
Omar
Persia
King George Opens World Conference With Royal Welcome
King George greeted delegates with a silent tribute and slow, sonorous address as the world monetary and economic conference opened. Prime Minister MacDonald followed, calling the gathering into session with a buoyant speech and a ceremonial gong.
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George
League of Nations
MacDonald
Mr. MacDonald
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