Rain Folows Wide Texas Shower Across Panhandle
Rain drenched the South Plains and southeast Panhandle with heavy moisture expected to continue.Totals ranged from near a quarter inch to two and a half inches in places with Lubbock at 1.13 inches and Fort Worth through Vernon receiving up to two inches. Officials say benefits to crops and cattle will be substantial if rains persist.
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Panhandle
West Texas
Amarillo
North Plains
South Plains
Fort Worth
Vernon
Childress
H. T. Collman
P. C. Bennett
Potter County
South Lubbock
Plainview
Lubbock
Texico
Seagraves
Bledsoe
Crosbyton
Slaton
Sweetwater
Lamesa
Brownfield
Lockney
Sterley
Clarendon
Sayre
Okla
Higgins
Sea Monster Washed Ashore at Cherbourg Rock
A hair covered creature with a camel head and long neck washed ashore at Querqueville Rock near Cherbourg drawing a crowd. Local scholars weighed claims it looked like a giant seahorse or a Loch Ness monster while experts doubted it as a real species.
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Cherbourg
France
Querqueville Rock
Corbiere
Wixecres
Scotland
New York
Roy Chapman Andrews
Andrews
American Museum of Natural History
Laughing Allegra of Poem Fame Dies in Cambridge
Annie Allegra Longfellow Thorp known as Laughing Allegra from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Children’s Hour has died in Cambridge Massachusetts at age 79. She was the poet’s youngest child and married Joseph Gilbert Thorp in 1885. five daughters and many grandchildren survive.
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Cambridge
Mass
Annie Longfellow Thorp
Allegra
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alice
Edith
Annie Allegra Longfellow
Joseph Gilbert Thorp
30-Hour Week Urged At NRA Protest Meet
At the NRA protest round up John P. Frey AFL Metal Trades Secretary urged a 30 hour week under manufacturing codes to raise employment. Forty hours is the current average. Johnson aims to expand jobs and may unveil a 10 percent cut in hours with a 10 percent wage rise, implying a 36 hour week. President Roosevelt will speak at the code conference opening session.
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Washington
U.P
NRA
John P. Frey
Metal Trades Department
American Federation of Labor
Frey
A. F P
Hugh S. Johnson
Code Authorities
Johnson
Roosevelt
Strikes Spread Across Regions In Auto Parts and Laundry Sectors
United Press survey shows rising industrial unrest as National Recovery Administration hearings run in Washington. Strike threats halt work in motor parts plants laundry and dyeing outfits and even theater ushers. In Toledo Ohio four thousand auto parts workers vote to return under a temporary wage deal with increases from five to twelve percent.
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United Press
National Recovery Administration
Washington
South
Fast
Middle West
Toledo
Pa-Yi Crowned Emperor of Manchukuo Amid Pomp
Henry Pa-Yi was proclaimed Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo in a sub zero ceremony under Japanese guard. The enthronement emphasized cordial ties with Japan as Empress Yueh Hua appeared briefly to greet dignitaries.
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Hsinking
Manchukuo
Henry Pa-Yi
Old China
Kang Teh
Japan
China
Yu-Yi
Elizabeth
Yueh Hua
T. C. U. Coach Gets Ohio State Offer
Ohio State University may hire Francis A. Schmidt of Texas Christian University as head coach after an advisory committee recommendation to the athletic controls board.
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Ohio State
Columbus
Francis A. Schmidt
Texas Christian University
Ohio State University
Board of Athletic Control
Philharmonic Concert Opens Tonight In Amarillo
At 8 30 the curtain rises on the Amarillo Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra fourth concert of the season conducted by Ellis B Hall Tickets on sale this afternoon at City Drug Store before 6 00 PM and at the Municipal Auditorium box office from 7 00 PM No reservations 25 cent front parquet 15 cent rear parquet and balcony seats Helen Fouts Cahoon of Fort looks on to the event
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Amarillo
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Ellis B. Hall
City Drug Store
Municipal Auditorium
Helen Fouts Cahoon
Fort
Dr Wynekoop Ready To Deny Slaying Girl
Dr Alice Wynekoop arrives at Criminal Courts Building in Chicago to deny killing her 23 year old daughter in law Rheta Gardner Wynekoop. Defense attorney Milton Smith says character witnesses add delay and the defendant may testify tomorrow.
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Criminal Courts Building
Chicago
Alice Lindsay Wynekoop
Rheta Gardner Wynekoop
Milton Smith
Dr. Wynekoop
The Record of a Great Year By Rader Winget
Franklin D Roosevelt faced 100000 tense citizens on inauguration day March 4 1933 in Washington. He called Congress to action and sought drastic peacetime powers as the nation faced bank closures and a fading gold standard. The year 1933 saw bold programs like beer repeal farm relief unemployment aid securities supervision and public works. The brain trust and TVA emerged as the New Deal’s experimental core.
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Rader Winget
Associated Press
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Thomas
AAA
NRA
Brain Trust
TVA
War Dept clashes with House over expansive army aviation plan
Secretary Dern denounces a pair of Mc Swain bills including a proposal for 4444 new planes as one sided and costly. The House committee accuses the War Department of bypassing bidding. A grand jury probes army contracts amid lobbyist pressure and pending indictments.
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Washington
Dern
War Department
House Military Affairs Committee
McSwain
Army
War Secretary
House
Department
Congress
McFarlane
Texas
Belgium
United States
Avis
Russians Speed Rescue of Party Trapped on Ice
A Russian rescue commission plans to extend to Alaskan passes an expedition to save 101 marooned on an ice floe in the Bering Straits off Siberia. The Cheliuskin sinking expedition members, including two children, suffer weakness and exposure. urgency drives a rapid plan.
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Moscow
Alaskan
Bering Straits
Siberia
Wrangel Island
V. V. Kuybysheff
Jimmy Mattern
New York
Washington
Mushrooms Kill Nine at Filipino Dinner in California
A community dinner for 22 Filipino lettuce pickers in San Luis Obispo with two American hosts ended in nine deaths and fifteen others gravely ill after eating mushrooms. Patients were admitted to the county hospital as deaths continued at a rapid pace.
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San Luis Obispo
Cal
Trainmen Strike Postponed After Kansas City Segments
A. B. Cranor, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen for the Kansas City area, announced that the planned strike of Kansas City Southern railway trainmen and enginemen scheduled for today at 6 had been postponed.
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Kansas City
A. B. Cranor
Brotherhood of Railway
Kansas City Southern Railway
Plan to Supplant CWA With Self-Sustaining Rural Programs
Washington officials say the Interior and Agriculture Departments and the Relief Administration will replace the Civil Works Administration with self supporting measures. The plan targets distressed rural families and single-industry communities with no future jobs, using existing machinery to place people on small farms growing diversified crops to yield most of their own food.
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Washington
Interior and Agriculture Departments
Relief Administration
CWA
Roosevelt
Department of Agriculture
The
Minds clash in trial of Major Ocker
San Antonio March 1 sharp verbal clashes marked this morning's court martial of Major William Co Ocker at Fort Sam Houston on charges he made derogatory remarks about commander Lieut. Col. H. B. Clagett at Kelly Field. The defense sought to impeach Major Clyde C. Johnston Kelly Field senior flight surgeon alleging bias and animus toward Ocker. The remarks were said to have occurred when Ocker visited Johnston's office for a physical examination on September 25.
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San Antonio
William Co. Ocker
H. B. Clagett
Kelly Field
Clyde C. Johnston
Ocker
Ocker. Major Ocker
Colj. Clagett
Major Johnston
Fort Sam Houston
Globe column by Arthur Brisbane on telescope mirror project
The Globe comments on the 200 inch telescope mirror being built at Corning with a $6,000,000 budget. The piece notes the project as pivotal science news and reflects on broader editorial viewpoints. Brisbane’s opinions are his own and not The Globe’s official stance.
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Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brishane
Corning
Four Bandits Rob Bank Near Dallas
Four bandits claiming to be Clyde Barrow's gang robbed the First National Bank at Mesquite near Dallas and escaped with 1500 to 2000 dollars. The leader entered the bank with a man armed with a machine gun while two others waited at the entrance.
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Dallas
Clyde Barrow
First National Bank
Mesquite
Here
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Vicinity
Rain this afternoon with unsettled conditions tonight and Friday. West Texas sees partly cloudy skies tonight and Friday. New Mexico reports fair weather with little temperature change. Today’s temperatures range from 35 to 59 degrees by 1 PM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Bread bonds up for sale in Texas relief drive
Governor Ferguson signed bills to issue seven million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars in bonds for unemployment relief and a moratorium on forced real estate sales. Five million in new bonds and two million seven hundred fifty thousand in old bonds will back the relief coffers as officials move to sell them immediately.
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Austin
Miriam A. Ferguson
Texas Bond Commission
Paul Reveres Serve Notice Capital Is Wet
Washington police in rapid order delivered liquor permits to 200 clubs restaurants hotels and night clubs as the capital moved from prohibition to lawful sale. Thousands cheered as sirens blared and the National Press Club claimed the first cork in the reopening.
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Washington
Paul Reveres
National Press Club
Rasputin Myth Power Debated In Royal Trial
Prince Felix Youssoupoff testified in a civil suit against Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures recounting Rasputin's alleged mesmeric powers in his St Petersburg study. He described being immobilized during treatment and testified about the plot to kill Rasputin and his own role in the murder.
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London
Rasputin
St. Petersburg
Felix Youssoupoff
Russia
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd
William Jowitt
Jowitt
Yous
Soupoff
Fee
Neva
Youssoupoff
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King Feature Syndicate, Inc
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