Gas sessions end in peace in Panhandle gas case
A Senate committee wrap up of a four day hearing urged quick agreement on a plan to end gas wastage. The Stalcup plan would repeal stripping laws, restrict stripping to sour gas, and require ratable gas purchases, unitization, and strict gas oil ratios.
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Senate
H.M
Starcup
Tulsa
Skelly Oil Company
Don Emery
Phillips Petroleum Company
Stalcup
Ster Gas Company
J. W. E. H. Beck
Austin
Clint Small
Small
Insull to be escorted home from Istanbul after arrest
The article describes Samuel Insull's departure with an escort from Istanbul aboard the Adana and Exilena. Burton Berry of the American embassy will accompany him home, with a monthlong trip and Mediterranean stops likely. Insull engages politely with Turkish officials and press as he refrains from discussing his high profile case.
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Burton Y. Berry
Istanbul
Berry
Mediterranean
Boston
New York
Insull
Nail Bey
Fehrina
University of Chicago
Adana
Exilena
Trade Developments Point to Strong Spring Demand
Trade at A 101 developed as volume last Sunday in many centers was the heaviest in three years with gains of 40 to 50 percent over last year. Seasonal demand rises as spring requirements are partly met and workers’ higher incomes lift total levels. Industrial schedules are advancing faster than in March, and wholesale markets show unexpected activity as buyers replenish spring goods and place new orders for the next two weeks.
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New York
Detroit
Washington
0. S. Steel and
Curtis Publishing
Radio Common
U. S
Automobile
Consolidated Gas
American Telephone
Chrysler
General Motors
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Santa Fe
White House
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
PWA Loans Changed Washington
Secretary Ickes announced that 15 loan and grant allotments for non-federal projects were converted to grants equal to 30 percent of labor and material costs at recipients request.
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PWA
Washington
Ickes
Public Works
Painters Seek Work Dear Tack
Two painters appeal to Tack for work to support a large family. They describe their need and request consideration for employment opportunities.
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Tack
Road Restraint Order In County Names DeShong Truck Lines
Temporary injunction limits Amarillo Transfer & Storage from Highway 66 route to state line. DeShong claims contract on Sept 16, 1933 promised takeover of railroad certificate for 500 dollars. Company quit for 60 days then resumed. Potter County rural trustees elected include Frank Givens, T. B. Atkins, O. E. Austin, Loney District, L. C. Scott, George Fesser, George Menke, J. W. Cheney.
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Pete DeShong
Potter County
River Road Independent
Frank Givens
T. B. Atkins
Bushland
O. E. Austin
Loney
L. C. Scott
Allison
George Fesser
John Detten
George Menke
J. W. Cheney
State investigation reports nepotism in state jobs
A committee breaks down state payroll by divisions showing hundreds of related and unrelated hires across judiciary eleemosynary departmental and educational sectors. Chairman Cathey criticizes interdepartmental job swapping as a potential family network at the capitol and notes no legislative recommendation.
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Cathey
East Texas
Relief Rolls Reach All Time Peak
Relief rolls reached an all time peak of 4 700 000 persons on April 1 1934 according to U P reports from Washington The count marks the highest number of people on relief rolls at any time in the nation during the Great Depression era
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Washington
U.P
Relief Chief Hopkins Cites Employment Gains
Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins said today that despite increases in employment relief programs, progress continues with job gains and ongoing efforts to aid the unemployed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry JL. Hopkins
New York and Nationwide College Strike Calls Stir Campuses
The Student League for Industrial Democracy and the National Student League issued strike calls at Hunter College City College Brooklyn College and other schools in New York and beyond. Dean Morton D Gottshall City College warned of penalties for class cutting while Columbia College stayed neutral. About 30 Massachusetts State College students planned an hour walkout and Smith College women held an evening meeting. An undergraduate at Johns Hopkins urged a strike. In Massachusetts Springfield College saw 24 white crosses as antiwar protest. Haverford College students clashed over peace with one faction opposing war and another backing government decisions in wartime.
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Hunter College
City College
Brooklyn College
New York
Student League For Industrial Democracy
National Student League
Morton D. Gottshall
Columbia College
Massachusetts State College
Smith College
al Johns Hopkins
Springfield College
Massachusetts
Lown
Haverford College
Roosevelt
Medlin Charged With Aggravated Assault After Hotel Shooting
Mrs Medlin sought an injunction and filed for divorce after Medlin fired a .38 revolver at Ford in a hotel. Ford was wounded with bullets entering the right abdomen and near the spine. doctors operated but did not remove one bullet. Medlin faces pending charges and county officials describe the case details.
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Harry Schultz
Medlin
Ford
Bus Hold Up Forces Driver to Fend Off Robbers
A bus held up by three robbers forced Wayne to speed along a rough road. The vehicle struck a bridge and crashed, flinging luggage from passengers. The gang, carrying a machine gun, looted luggage before fleeing in an opposite direction. Wayne reported the crime to Sheriff Barker and deputies in Weatherford. A passenger protested over a gas receipt, but the robbers ignored the plea.
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Wayne
Aledo
Weatherford
E. R. Barker
R. J. Doggett
Jack Barnett
Refugee Rescue Drama On Icy Sea Flight
A Soviet relief effort continues as refugees are loaded onto a small biplane. Sailors lash some men to the wings to reach safety as grinding ice during breakup season destroys their wooden barracks kitchen and airstrip on the distant sea ice.
Claude Farmer to Be Buried in Home City
Funeral services for Hugh Reed 43 prominent farmer and stockman near Claude will be held at 3 p m Saturday at the First Baptist Church Claude with Rev B W Wilkins officiating Pallbearers named Burial will be in Claude Cemetery He had lived 22 years 20 miles south of Claude Survived by widow Mrs Ellea Reed two sons Hugh Sharp Reed 7 and Edwin Andrew Reed 6 mother Mrs M A Reed Gainesville four sisters and four brothers Body to home this afternoon by Boxwell Brothers and remains in state until Saturday noon
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Hugh Reed
Claude
First Baptist Church
B. W. Wilkins
Ben Ranson
Berry Kerrick
Wiley Morris
B. C. Wooldridge
Herb Gunter
Landon Doak
Amarillo Sports And Literary Events Schedule
Students will host tennis contests this afternoon with tomorrow morning featuring typewriting music memory and Three R contests. Track and field preliminaries start at 10 at Tri-State Fair Grounds with finals at 2. Golf at Amarillo College Auditorium. Literary events include declamation essay writing and various contests at First Baptist Church Amarillo College buildings and high school venues.
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Tri-State Fair Grounds
Amarillo College
First Baptist Church
Amarillo High School
Roosevelt Praises Washington Climate At Welcome Stop
In Washington the President touted the climate noting July and August rarely exceed 110 degrees with no humidity and joked about staying. He spoke of lessons learned from barracudas and sharks and said he would return as a tough man. Members of the Senate and House along with Cabinet officials Hull Morgenthau and Farley joined a crowd of about 3,000 outside the station.
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Washington
Senate
House
Hull
Morgenthau
Farley
F D R Sawyers notes due in dead liquor brains
Promissory notes for 6500 dollars signed by Guernsey T. Cross, a lawyer and Roosevelt era official, appear in Max Greenberg estate records. Cross says he did not know Greenberg and arranged the loan via a third party. The estate also lists a 5000 dollar bill from A M Frumbert for removing Greenberg fingerprints.
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New York
Guernsey T. Cross
Roosevelt
Max Greenberg
Waxey Gordon
Cross
Washington
Greenberg
Elizabeth, N. J
A. M. Frumbert
St. Louis
Ten Italians Die As Mountain Slips
A landslide at Grondona near Alessandria, Italy, killed 10 people and injured two while leaving about 200 homeless. The event occurred in the early hours after residents heard a rumble as earth and boulders cascaded into homes. The dead include one man seven women and two children. An unrelated note mentions rat experiments on growth and maturity.
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Alessandria
Italy
Grondona
Bandit Youths Rob Delivery Boy on North Taylor Street
Dayton Hanson of Randal Drug Store delivering cigarettes to North Taylor Street was robbed of $2.35 and the cigarettes by two youths one armed with a pistol. They forced him to guide them to a back area behind the Radio Rink then to a North Polk Street intersection before fleeing. No arrests reported at noon.
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North Taylor Street
Dayton Hanson
Randal Drug Store
Hanson
North East Eighth Avenue
Polk Street
Kansas City Livestock and New Orleans Cotton Market Summary
Market notes from Kansas City show cattle and sheep with mixed demand. Cattle and calves outnumbered, with steady to lower prices and top cattle around 3.70. New Orleans cotton opened steady with later declines, May futures near 11.89 to 12.11 as weather and Bankhead bill hopes influence sentiment.
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Kansas City
New Orleans
Liverpool
Dillinger Gang Stages Escape From Police Lockup
Dillinger and two accomplices allegedly seized three bullet proof vests and two pistols from police lockers after forcing Pittenger against a wall. In the ensuing scramble they knocked Dillinger down stairs, then fled in a large blue sedan as a fire truck driver woke. A third gang member was suspected to be present. The trio sped toward the Southwest.
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Milton
Pittenger
Dillinger
Trips Dillinger
Hamilton
Nine Arrested But Barrow Still Missing
Hot Springs Arkansas April 13 Six men and three women were arrested during and after a raid on a Clyde Barrow hideout, though Chief Herbert Akers said none of the detainees was Barrow. A bushel basket of $20 bills was found in the apartment.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Clyde Barrow
Texas
Police crack down on alleged confidence men on highway
Officers, aided by a federal agent, detained two men and one woman with a small baby after pursuing a vehicle near the city. The group, described as card sharks, had estimated losses in the thousands and included suspects Guy Taylor Jesse Grover Butts Andrew McDaniel Frank Montgomery Bill H Thorne Clifford Kell. some prisoners had prior records.
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Den
Akers
Guy Taylor
Jesse Grover Butts
Andrew McDaniel
Frank Montgomery
Bill H. Thorne
Clifford Kell
Thorne
Friday the Thirteenth and Other Superstitions
The page recalls Friday the thirteenth as a prime watch out time for believers and lists common superstitions such as black cats, mirrors, ladders, weddings, and greetings. It notes varied reactions to dooms and mentions a strange tropical fish with a transparent belly revealing internal organs.
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Solon
Son
Andrew Donaldson Kirwan
Jean Nash
High Seas
Paul Dubonnet
DeShong
Clo Seud
Dan Thomas
George Scarbo
Granes Ruggles
Catalina Island
Enka
Gaynor
Gayngr
Janet
Long
Ig'lad RA
Monica
Wicaldo Corlez
New York Theater
Karen Morley
Soviets
Claude Farmer
Home City
F.D.R. Sawyer
NEW York Stock Letter
John F. Clark & Co
T. Close
Allied Chemical
American Smelt & Ref
American Sugar Refining
Bach
American Tel & Tel
American Tobacco
Anaconda
Atchison Topeka & Auburn Atttc
Ecsegecuede Consolidated
Borden
Free
Canadian Pacific
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
Chryslers
Cseesee Deere Eens
Columbian Gas & Electric
Columbian
Commonwealth & Southernm
Barnsdall
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Continental
Continental Oil
Curtis Wright
Douglas Aircraft
du Pont
Eastman Kodak
Gillette Razor
Goodrich Tire & Rubber
Goodyear Pd
Union Pacific Sc
United Aircraft
Nek Ph Eeve Pas
Firestone Tire
Freeport
General Electric
General Foods General Mille Great Northern Rrees
Hounton Oil
Ccc
Hudson Motor
Hupp Motor
Tilinoia Central Rr
Rot International Harvester
Johns Manville
Kelvinator
Kennecott Copper
Missouri Kansas & Texas Rr
Missouri Pacific
Montgomery Ward National Biscuit National Distillers
National
Producers
Oserecses
Radio Corp of America
Radio Keith Orpho
Ayy Republic Steel
Reynolds Tobacco Royal Dutch
St Louis & San Francr
Sears Roebuck
Teon
Shell Union Oil
Skelly Oil
Socony Vacuum
Southern Pacific
Standard
Standard Oil
Can
Standard of New Jersey
Studebaker Corp
Eeek
Chicago
Barrow
American Gas & Electric
Gulf Oil
Humble Oil
Imperial Oil
Standard of
Indiana
Standard of Kentucky
Swift & Co
United Carbon
U S
Wees
Western Union
Sede Ban Hong Westinghouse Electric Roar
Woolworth
Meyer & Meyer
Meyersmeyer Tailow and
Clothiow
Amarilo
Dolk Streets
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