G O P Attack on Roosevelt Bill Planned
The Republican party prepares to challenge President Roosevelt's private air mail proposal as Senate and House committees rush to draft legislation. A heated debate looms as supporters and skeptics weigh the plan for private carriers and payment terms.
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G.O.P
Roosevelt Bill
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Interstate Commerce Commission
NRA
White House
Hugh 8. Johnson
Girl thrilled as Kids hike champ price at auction
Jimmie the Grand Champion Baby Beef of the Amarillo Fat Stock Show sold for 66 cents a pound totaling 595.32 dollars to Phillips 66 Petroleum Co. It was the oil firm’s third straight purchase of the Amarillo champion. Proceeds go to Shirley Grounds benefit fund and Presbyterian Children's Home in Amarillo.
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Jimmie
Amarillo
Phillips (66) Petroleum Company
Oil Company
Tri-State
Dorothy Smith
Placid
H. O. Starks
Phillips Petrileam Co
Shirley Grounds
Presbyterian Children’s Home
Solons Hunt 200000 Tots On State List
Texas senators investigate a state census revealing more than 200000 school children are on the rolls but not attending public or private schools. The hearings begin in San Antonio with planned sessions in Houston Dallas Lubbock Waco Amarillo Fort Worth and others as the committee maps the statewide distribution.
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San Antonio
Houston
Dallas
Lubbock
Waco
Amarillo
Fort Worth
J. W. EB. ML Beck
Pacific Flier Maitland Testifies In Ocker Trial
Captain Maitland veteran trans pacific flier recalls 178 landings between 1933 and 1934 with one bad landing after Ocker’s reinstatement. He confirms Ocker made derogatory remarks about Lieut. Col. Clagett and notes Maitland’s record as Kelly Field operations officer.
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Fort Sam Houston
Tex
U.P
Lester J. Maitland
Trans-Pacific
William C. Ocker
Maitland
Major Ocker
Henry B. Clagett
Kelly Field
Air Corps
Ocker
Charles A. ‘Howland
Murrell
Jor Ocker
Col
Grand Champion River wins at Panhandle Hereford sale
The Grand Champion River led the straw-covered ring as a 4 H exhibitor Bert Littrell of Elk City Oklahoma received the Panhandle Hereford Breeders Association trophy from R J Kinzer of Kansas City secretary of the association The W Harris Grain Company Sterling Colorado bought the Reserve Champion calf at 22325 The event featured tributes to 4 H club work by Grover B Hill Fat Stock Show Association president and Wilbur C Hawk Globe News publisher Auctioneer Fred Reppert of Decatur Indiana opened the sale with bids thick and fast The sales average was expected to top last year and buyers arrived from major packers See BABY BEEF Page 2
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McCulloch County
R. J. Kinzer
Kansas City
American Hereford Breeders Association
Harris Grain Company
Sterling
Colo
Bert Littrell
Elk City
Okla
Fred Reppert
Decatur
Ind
Boys Take Dangerous Game With Third Rail
In Queens four boys aged youths were seen bouncing between the high voltage third rail of an elevated structure. They described the stunt as skip the third rail and admitted touching it would mean instant electrocution. Officers cited the dangerous risk.
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New York
U.P
Queens
Prince Sigvard Marries Actress Defying Royal Rules
Prince Sigvard of Sweden wed German actress Erika Patzek at Caxton Hall. The ceremony, witnessed by about 500 onlookers, triggers the Riksmarskalk to strip him of royal status and succession rights for marrying a commoner.
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London
U.P
Sigvard
Sweden
Gustav V
Erika Patzek
Caxton Hall
Ostminster Abbey
Riksmarskalk
Stockholm
Labor disputes flare across the United States
Widespread unrest sees strikes voted in Cleveland and San Francisco, with 4500 Fisher Body workers in Cleveland voting to strike and 12000 to 15000 ILU Pacific division members in San Francisco set to vote on a March 23 action. Ohio, Pennsylvania, and southern textile districts also report tensions over wages recognition and hours.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Cleveland
Fisher Body Company
International Longshoremen's Association
Pacific Division
South
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Augusta
NRA
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Cincinnati
Toledo
Ashtabula
Portamouth
Lewis
Alabama
Spindale
Federal Labor Department
Lansford
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
First Lady Roosevelt Tours Virgin Islands Development
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt toured St Thomas visiting Bluebeard Castle site improvements farm work Lindbergh Bay roads schools and drainage projects She asked questions on poverty vagrant children and local concerns as federal aid and food aid reach the islands highlighting new deer and public works programs reached since 1917 voyage covered 1258 miles from Florida with stops in Santo Domingo Puerto Rico and Port au Prince.
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ST. Thomas
Virgin Islands
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bluebeard Castle
Lindbergh Bay
Port-Au-Prince Heiti
San Pedro de Macoris
Santo Domingo
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Florida
Former County Official Dies At Own Hand
George Bryant aged 45 a former Eastland County tax assessor killed himself in a West Seventh Street tourist camp. He left letters blaming a woman saying hunger will drive a man to any thing Justice of the Peace Prichard returned a verdict of death by own action.
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Fort Worth
George Bryant
Eastland County
West Seventh Street
Justice of the Peace
Prichard
Japan vows fleet expansion amid Vinson bill impact
Admiral Ineo Osumi announced Japan must build more warships due to the $750 million Vinson navy bill. He projected end of 1939 figures showing Japan about 60 to 65 percent of U S ship tonnage and 150 to 195 ships, detailing battleships carriers cruisers destroyers and submarines for both nations.
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Tokio
U.P
Ineo Osumi
United States Senate Ay
Japan
Osumi
United States
U. S
Borger Celebrates 8th Birthday With City Parade Gala
Borger marked its 8th birthday with a record Parade of Progress featuring 100 plus floats and civic events. Sen Clint Small and Old Tack spoke at a luncheon. Charles Poe led the official program. Jack Dempsey planned to referee a boxing show with his wife Hannah Williams attending. Indian dancers and wild west acts lined the streets as band music filled the day.
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Civic Club
Clint Small
Old Tack
Amarillo
Charles Poe
Jack Dempsey
Hannah Williams
Borger
I C C Comes to Aid of Cattle Feed Shippers
The Interstate Commerce Commission eased drought strain on Texas Panhandle livestock shippers by authorizing emergency rate cuts for hay straw livestock feed poultry feed and livestock moving to Roger Mills and Custer Counties in Oklahoma. Rates may be reduced until May 31 1934 with approvals for Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe and Panhandle and Santa Fe.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Texas Panhandle
Panhandle
Roger Mills
Custer
Oklahoma
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe
Panhandle and
Quake Shocks Felt Near New York
Fordham University seismograph station recorded two shocks at 5 47 and 5 52 this morning. The quakes were about 2000 miles from New York, likely originating in Mexico or Central America.
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New York
U.P
Fordham University Seismograph Station
Mexico
Central America
Supreme Court Backs State Milk Price Control
King Feature’s Arthur Brisbane notes Supreme Court rules five to four that New York State may fix milk prices and citizens must submit to state control, aligning with Roosevelt’s push for the New Deal. Court, Congress, and public trend together as authority shifts of the era.
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Supreme Court
New York State
Roosevelt
Bank Guard Robbed of $50,000 in Downtown Greenville
A South Carolina National Bank messenger and a guard were robbed of $50,000 on a downtown Greenville corner. Clinton Foster the messenger and Hugh White the book keeper were forced to the curb by two suspects in a light fast car while transporting a shipment from the port office to the bank.
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Greenville
D. C
South Carolina National Bank
Clinton Foster
Hugh White
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Forecast calls for fair conditions tonight with warmer temperatures to follow. West Texas sees fair skies with frost and freezing risk in the south tonight, gradual warm up by Friday. New Mexico reports fair tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Extreme today ranges from 22 to 44 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Hitler Becomes Car Salesman in Plea to Germans
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler opened the International German Automobile Show urging Germans to embrace motor cars. He argued for mass production and ownership to reduce unemployment and boost industry, insisting cars are not luxuries and Germany must build 6 million vehicles at home to compete abroad.
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Berlin
March &A
Adolf Hitler
United States
Wintry Visit Ousted by Sun
Last night winter made another attempt to enter the Panhandle with a stiff north wind and snow. By noon the weather warmed and temperatures rose. Snow amounts varied from traces to two inches around Boise City and areas of Oklahoma and Texas reports. Spring weather is forecast for Amarillo as the U S Weather Bureau predicts fair and slightly warmer conditions tonight.
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Panhandle
Boise City
Okio
Santa Fe
Pampa
Canadian
Waynoka
Okla
Spearman
Shattuck
Banta Fe
Amarillo
Dalhart
Texline
Fort Worth
Denver
Rock Island
U. S. Weather Bureau
Pretty Boy Floyd Reported In Paola Cafe Incident
In Paola Kansas on March 8 officers chased a man claiming to be Charles Pretty Boy Floyd after he and a companion brandished revolvers in a cafe. He boasted of being Floyd and warned of an Oklahoma move 75 miles from the Texas line as two women hid and a waitress identified him.
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Paola
Kan
Kansas
Oklahoma
Charles
Pretty Boy
Floyd
Informaon
Pete Thomas
Prank W. Black
Thomas
Bertillon Bureau
Joe Achey
Dr Boaz Fined 625 in Amarillo Assault Case
Dr E H Boaz of Memphis found guilty of aggravated assault in 47th District Court for stabbing James McCaulley of Wichita Falls. Fine set at 625 dollars. costs will be several hundred. Earlier trial fined 250 for assault with intent to murder M L May of Memphis. May and McCaulley were stabbed in a hotel room after a drinking bout.
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E. H. Boaz
Memphis
47Th District Court
James McCaulley
Wichita Falls
Dr. Boaz
M. L. May
Bing
May
McCaulley
Amarillo
Boaz
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