U S Opposes Fixed World Wheat Price Pending Crop Cuts
The United States would oppose a fixed world wheat price unless universal evidence of crop limitation exists. Canada is cited as unable to implement an effective acreage reduction, jeopardizing support for price fixing. The International Wheat Advisory Committee meets in Rome on April 5 to decide on the issue.
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Washington
U.S
United States
Department of Agriculture
International Wheat Advisory Committee
Rome
Italy
London
France
International Committee
Canada
Ottawa
Gas Vapor Burns Fatal to Woman
LUBBOCK March 8 Mrs Nettie Holley a 55 year old widow died this morning from burns suffered Wednesday when gasoline vapors ignited in her apartment while she cleaned bathroom fixtures. The vapor blew forward in the three room apartment where a stove was burning. Funeral arrangements had not been made.
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Lubbock
Nettie Holley
Oliver Wendell Holmes Feted On 93rd Birthday
Washington March 8 One of America's grandest old men Oliver Wendell Holmes today celebrated his 93rd birthday The former Supreme Court justice received scores of congratulatory messages though he felt anniversaries come too often to be significant Also mentioned Amarillo delivery of a 1934 Studebaker sedan priced at $869.
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Washington
America
Oliver Wendell Holmes
United States Supreme Court
Witnesses Return from Fort Worth in Tharp Murder Trial
Amarillo witnesses including Miss Jewell Davidson Potter County tex collector and Bob Barnett Randall County sheriff returned from Fort Worth where they had been summoned as witnesses in the Bill Coupe murder trial connected to the Lubbock man. The collectors were to bring automobile records from the car Coupe rode in. Paul Mitchell of Amarillo is under life sentence in the Tharp murder during an attempted holdup.
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Miss Jewell Davidson
Potter County
Bob Barnett
Randall County
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Bill Coupe
Bob Tharp
Lubbock
Coupe
Paul Mitchell
Tharp
Death penalty sought for slaying women
Death yesterday claimed Mrs. Margaret Frances Mendenhall age 79 at the home of her daughter Mrs. J H Black in Canyon. Griggs Funeral Home brought the body to Amarillo and it was sent to Purcell Oklahoma for funeral services likely tomorrow. Mrs. Mendenhall had resided in Canyon for three years.
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Margaret Frances Mendenhall
J. H. Black
Canyon
Amarillo
Griggs Funeral Home
Purcell
Oklo
Mendenhall
Sino-Jap Pact Creates Stir in Canton
In Canton a former Nanking official alleges a Sino-Japanese armistice terms agreement recognized Manchukuo and abolished unequal treaties. The claim, attributed to Lo Wen-Kan, says General Huang Fu signed secrecy without foreign office knowledge, stirring criticism in Southern China over peacetime concessions.
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Hong Kong
China
Canton
Japan
Shanghai
Chow Lu
Southwest Council
Chiang Kai-Shek
Manchukuo
Nanking
Lo Wen-Kan
Huang Fu
Foreign Office
Former Amarilloan To Be Buried Here
The body of W. F. James, former resident of Amarillo, will arrive this afternoon and be received by the Blackburn- Shaw Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements are not yet set. Mr. James died Tuesday night in Albuquerque New Mexico. He was a representative for Schilling Coffee Company.
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W. F. James
Amarillo
Blackburn- Shaw Funeral Home
James
Albuquerque
N. M
Schilling Coffee Company
Overcoat Pawn for Poll Tax in 1934 Election Try
A Harris County resident attempted to pawn his overcoat for the $1.50 poll tax to qualify for voting in the 1934 elections. Elsewhere the article notes 30,000 acres of tung trees in the southern United States thriving for their oil content.
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Harris County
Texas
United States
Refinery Blast Fatal to Two Men at Upshur Tex
A still explosion at Upshur Refinery in Gladewater Texas killed Roy Owens and Percy W. Leeland of Gilmer, and wounded two others A C Grata of New York and E F Stanley, with refinery superintendent C F Lindsley minor burned. The blast caused only a few hundred dollars in damage and cause was not yet determined.
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Gladewater
Tex
March & UP
Upshur
Roy Owens
Percy W. Leeland
Gilmer
A. C. Grata
New York
E. F. Stanley
C. F. Lindsley
South Texas Railway to Abandon 72 Miles in Texas
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorizes the South Texas Railway a 72 mile line abandonment across Hamilton Ereth and Comanche counties Texas. The cut includes 41 miles from Hamilton to Stephenville and 31 miles from Edson to Comanche.
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South Texas Railway
The
St. Louis Southwestern Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hamilton
Ereth
Comanche
Stephenville
Edson
Texas
Get Up Nights 25c Test Promised Relief
An old advertisement touts NU-KETS as a bladder laxative to cleanse impurities and ease irritation. It claims rapid relief after four doses and suggests HU-KETS with buchu leaves and oil as an alternative. City Drug Co and Fox Drug Co endorse BUCKETS from a bent seller.
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Bledder
City Drug Co
Pox Drug Co
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Tom Pendergast
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Hill
NRA
Hugh 8. Johnson
National Recovery Administration
Associated Press
Winter's
Atte
Philco
Europe
South America
Lee T
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Merien
Marvelous
Philcos
Nunn Electric Company
Polk Street
Stephenville North
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Bayer Manufacture
Demandana
Pangburn
Lustrwax
Guerlain
Shalimar Dam
Lucky Tiger
Renaud
Acatone
Santa Fe Bidg
E. 4Th Street
Oliver Eakle Bidg
Tyler Street
10Th and
Pierce Street
CDRUG
Gary ‘Selon
Geka
Ervice Stores
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