Amarillo Declares War on Lubbock in Bridge Feud and Revival
Amarillo newspaper notes a heated bridge rivalry with Lubbock players Mrs Meyers and Mrs Inman dominating in recent wins. It quotes town pride, predicts an intercity championship trip to Lubbock, and reports local fund-raisers and health updates amid a broader mood of renewal after prior economic gloom.
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Amarillo
Ross McWhorter
Eunice Bondurant
Lubbock
Harry Meyers
Gordon Inman
Myers
Inman
Southwest
Meyers
Ingan
Cy Reiger
Stanley Marsh
Walter Caldwell
Mickey Lyvers
Bridge
Burglars active Sunday night in Creekmore and nearby
Police logged one successful burglary and several attempted break ins. Thieves pried a rear door at Creekmore Implement Company 709 East Tenth Avenue and took 16.75 dollars from a office safe. They damaged a Pittsburg Plate Glass safe 720 East Thirteenth Avenue but did not open it. A window was broken at Bell Tailors 612 Polk Street with nothing taken. An attempt to enter Spicer Jewelry 417 Polk Street was reported with skylight evidence. James Hill of the Merchants' Protective Association found the burglars who fled through a rear door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yeggs
Creekmore Implement Company
East Tenth Avenue
Pittsdamage Burgh Plate Glass Company
East Thirteenth Avenue
James Hill
Merchants’ Protective Association
The Queen's Husband at Amarillo Little Theater
Next week the Amarillo Little Theater presents The Queen's Husband a comedy by Robert E Sherwood at the McKinley School auditorium. The play features a 14 member cast and a designed set by Oma Link Rowley depicting the king s private office in a mythical palace.
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Amarillo
Robert E. Sherwood
McKinley School
Sherwood
Life
Rome
Oma Link Rowley
Fire destroys vacant house on Spruce Street
Incendiary fire last night destroyed a vacant six room frame house at 2700 Spruce Street with an estimated loss of 500 dollars. Fire chief Dewey Morris said ownership could not be learned. A second fire damaged a vacant house at 2208 Fillmore Street. officials note slight damage and property owner a Dallas man named Abbott.
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Spruce Street
Dewey Morris
Fillmore Street
Morris
Dallas
Abbott
Treasury Receipts and Expenditures Reported for March 11
Treasury receipts for March 11 totaled 8 593 849 16 dollars while expenditures reached 13 432 459 76 leaving a balance of 281 779 822 60. Customs duties for 11 days in March amounted to 8 776 115 14. A local anecdote notes a student course completion at the University of Missouri and various market tips follow with urged investments in Amarillo property and personal anecdotes.
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Washington
Treasury
What They r Write To Tack DEMANDS REAL ECONOMY
A reader questions Texas citizens on economic sense and urges practical spending as letters discuss fiscal responsibility and voter behavior in a community page. The note appears in a local letter column prompting reader response.
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Tack
Texas
Automobiles and personalities mix in early 20th century news
The piece notes a Hudson Company plan to fit a dictating machine into a backseat, Henry Ford and Walter Chrysler visiting Dearborn with engineers to view a new Plymouth, and a plug for Pearl S Buck’s The Good Earth sequel SONS in Cosmopolitan. It also mentions Al Capone offering to help locate the Lindbergh child and the first baby bonds sold in Chicago promising 2 percent interest.
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Mr. Abbott
The
Hudson Company
William J. McAneeny
Mr. McAneeny
Detroit Times News Department
Walter Chrysler
Detroit
Dearborn
Henry Ford
Chrysler
Mohammed
Mecca
Ziegfel
Will Rogers
China
Pearl S. Buck
Rogers
Wang Lung
Wang
Pearl
Buck
Kipling
India
McGanegal Goes On Trial In Houston Murder Case
Barney McGanegal, gangster and ex convict, faces trial for the murder of John Cherfis whose weighted body was dumped in the Brazos River after a September abduction. Two defense motions to quash indictments were overruled as 950 veniremen awaited testimony. The prosecution leans on Jack Jones, brother of slain C A Jones, who also faces charges in the Cherris case.
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Houston
Barney McGanegal
John Cherfis
Brazos
Here
McGanegal
Jones
Jack Jones
C. A
Reggy) Jones
Cherris
William States Jacobs
First Presbyterian Church
New “Independent Church
Lindbergh Baby Kidnap Case Advances With Fingerprints
Two fingerprint sets found in the Lindbergh nursery suggest amateur involvement. A Tennessee town saw a baby lookalike stir excitement as police from Chicago and New Jersey coordinated arrests of Jerzy Hymnkiwicz and Ruth Hymnkiwicz in Newark.
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Crossville
Tenn
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Lindbergh
New Jersey
Homer Mitchell
Richard Young
Pennsylvania
Chicago
U.P
Jerzy Hymnkiwicz
Ruth
Paul Housner
Raymond Boulevard
Newark
N. J
Cap Davis Dies of Sudden Heart Attack in Amarillo
C T Cap Davis 48 prominent Amarillo resident dies from a heart attack at 9:30 am while on a business visit in the Santa Fe Building. A 26 year Amarillo resident, he worked for the Amarillo Laundry and lived at 3622 West Sixth Street. Active in San Jacinto Methodist Church and Woodmen of the World, he is survived by his widow two sons C T Davis Jr Jess Coble Davis and three daughters Mrs H M Miller Martha and Genelle. Body at N B Griggs & Sons pending funeral arrangements.
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C. T
Cap” Davis
Student Stabbed After Auto Crash in Late Night Altercation
Hubert Odom, 17, was stabbed in the chest and shoulder after a collision at Sixth Avenue and Harrison Street. Horace Hunter, 98, was jailed on aggravated assault charges with bond set at $500. Odom received first aid and was released from the hospital.
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Hubert Odom
Buchanan Street
Horace Hunter
Sixth Avenue
Harrison Street
Rhea C. Myers
Odom
Davis to Return From Geneva for Conference
Secretary of State Stimson announced Norman H. Davis, a member of the American delegation to the Geneva General Disarmament Conference, will return to Washington by the end of March for talks with the State Department before heading back to Geneva at year’s end. The notice urges confidence in U S bonds as safe investments backed by the government.
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Washington
U.R
State Stimson
Norman H. Davis
Geneva
State Department
Uncle Sam
Hit-and-run case in justice court ends in jail bond set
County Attorney Rhea C. Myers announced a hit-and-run case in justice court. The defendant, held on a 4750 dollar bond set by Justice J. W. Minter, allegedly told officers he would rather have wrecked and died than this would occur. Police arrested him after an anonymous tip and seized his damaged light coupe. Meanwhile, Hooker and Mrs. Lawrence died from injuries after being hurled into a ditch near St. Anthony's Hospital. Funeral details for Mrs. Lawrence and services for Mr. Hooker are listed, with survivors named and burial arranged at Llano Cemetery.
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Justice Court
Rhea C. Myers
Justice of the Peace
J. W. Minter
Miles
Hooker
Lawrence
St. Anthony's Hospital
Seymour
Boxwell
J. S. Huckabee
Buchanan Street Methodist Church
Raymond
Frances
Alma May
Ruth
Frank Selders
Willard Harris
Edward Selders
T. R. Selders
Amarillo
Guy Shields
Assembly of God Church
Noble
Herbert Bryant
Greenville
Lubbock
Borger Gas Rates Cut 20 Percent for Domestic Use
The Texas Railroad Commission ordered a 20 percent cut in Borger domestic and commercial natural gas rates, lowering the first 1000 cubic feet from 50 cents to 40 cents. Industrial rates stay unchanged. The reduction follows Borger city action and Panhandle Power and Light Company filings. rebates of 20 percent will be applied from last June.
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Austin
Texas Railroad Commission
Borger
Borger City
Panhandle Power and Light Company
Railroad Commission
Deny Petition On Control Of Cotton Belt
The Interstate Commerce Commission denied on March 14 the petition by Missouri Pacific and Texas and Pacific for reconsideration of its order allowing Southern Pacific to acquire control of the Cotton Belt railroad. The commission had authorized in January the Southern Pacific to control St. Louis Southwestern Railway, the Cotton Belt, and fold it into its system. Missouri Pacific and Texas and Pacific opposed the Southern Pacific’s petition and objected to the consolidation.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Missouri Pacific
Texas and Pacific Railroads
Southern Pacific Company
Cotton Belt Railroad
Southern Pacific
St. Louis Southwestern Railway
Cotton Belt
St. Louis
Texarkana
Tex
Southwest
Texas and
Roosevelt Files for 3 State Primaries
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt signed papers to enter the Florida California and West Virginia presidential primaries as announced by Roosevelt headquarters in New York.
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New York
U.P
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Florida
West Virginia
California
Roosevelt
Entertainer Operetta Casts Hope Of Movie Return In Amarillo
Operetta star recalls amateur boxing title in Australia and return plan to films after singing in Italy and the war. George Hassel, jovial British land-owner type, leads a strong cast in Special Train with a large male chorus and Romberg gems headed for Amarillo, per company manager W. S. Brock.
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Australia
Italy
Tye
Vivienne Segal
George Hassel
Amarillo
Jefferys
W. S. Brock
Beauty and innocence in a sunlit sand scene
A fleeting moment captures a three year old girl at play in the sand, her radiant blush and pure beauty standing out as the untarnished image of childhood amid a culture of grace and quiet charm.
Markets Echo Grain and Cotton Shifts Across Stocks and Goods
Amarillo markets show quotes for wheat and barley with bushel prices, Chicago hog and cattle bids slide versus Friday, New Orleans cotton falls on Kreuger death, New York stock market opens weak with Kreuger Toll selling heavy and widespread declines across major rails and industrials.
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Amarillo
Large road tour ends as company scales back plan
The speaker explains that the traveling show with a 20 member orchestra and a 70 person cast is too large for nightly engagements. He doubts the Shubert organization will dispatch such a large company on another road tour.
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Shuberts
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Mrs. Inman
News-Globe
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Polk Street
W. H. Holmes
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al Jolson
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Smyrna
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University of Missouri
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Charley Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Lee Humphreys
Humphreys
Amarillo National
Alphonse Capone
Capone
Thomas Callaghan
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M'Ganegal
Colonel Lindbergh
United Press
Davis
Edgar A. Guest
Chicago Livestock
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Census Bureau
Kreuger & Toll
International Match Preferred
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American Telephone
American Can
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van Hindenburg
Wall Street
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Lone Star Gas
S.secerere
Util
Eoeeer
Mo Kas Pipeline
Ssereeres
Nat Field Gas
Niagara Hud
Pennroad Corp
Cseesserrerace
St. Regis
Swift
Srrreves Woolworth Ltd
Eseere
Glidden Co
Gold Dust_Corp
Goodrich T & RB
Goodyear T&r
Graham Paige
Grand Silver St
Grand Union Co
Northy
West Sugar
Hahn Dept Stores
Hershey Choc
Cessseeenere
Hudson Motors
Seseecese
Hupp Motors
Ssesesees
TL Gentral
Indus Rayon
Inter Cement
Sss
Internat Hary
Internat
Mickel
Internat Shoe
T & T Vvcedes
Johns Manville
Avees
Kelvinator Corp
Kennecott Copper
Kresge (Ss) & Co
Kroger Gro & Bak
Seperreeees
Keith Orpheum
Remington Rand
Esceesers
Trans American
Vanadium Corp
Sso
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Rep Iron & St
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Reynolds Tob
San Francis
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Simmons Company
Eeees OM
Southern Poto Rico
Cal Edison
Southern RR
Standard Brands Inc
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Studebaker Corp
Tex Gas
Seceesee
Tex Pac Land
Warren Bros Company
Wes Maryland RR
Western Union
West’'House
Eloc Cscetee
Willys Overland
Woolworth (Fw) Co
Worthington Pp
Steinway Standard
Ong St
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Am Republics
Yeeeaneereeere Aire Ter
Atlantic Refg
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Mid-Continent
Socony Vacuum
Petroleum Corp Oe
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Wee
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Pure Oil
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Rio Grande
Royal Dutch Ae
Shell Union
Simms
Aee
Sinclair
Ene
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Penn Oil
Aeee
Standard
Calif
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Tex Pac Ld & Trt
Tex Pac Cl & Oil
Union Oil of
Calneers
Ohio Oil
Alum_ Co
Am Gas & Electric
Ark Nat Gas “A
Asso Gas & Elec
Tee Commonwealth & South
Eeee Neem Eernee ‘Deere & Co
Elec
Ford Motor Ltd
Ford of Canada
Fox Theatre
Wat Veener
Goldman Samm
Gen Blec Ltd
Hud Bay Min & Salt Sevessee
F. Clark Brokerage Co
Albeny Corp
Am I
Alaskan Juneau
Allied Chemicals
Allis Chalmers
Ameralda Corp
American Can Am Car & Fay
Chicle
Seeee
Rad & SS Mfg
Rolling Mills
Smite & Ref
Steel Foundry
Sug & See
Tobacco Aeeee Soosee Bam
Wks & E Pw
Am Woolen Co
At & 8
FAR
Auburn Autodoeeenee Aviation Corp
Baldwin Paseseanee Userea
Balt & Ohio RR
Bendix Aviation
Best & Co
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Bohn Alum & Brass Od
Borden Co
Borg-Warner Eaencret
Brooklyn-Manhat Trans
Brunswick Tem & Y Pr
Burroughs
Chesapeake Corp Che M St P & Pac RR
Cerns
RI & Pac
Chrysler Corp
Cluett Peabody & Co
Coca Cola Co
Sceerenuse Bees My
Ts Cola Fuel & Iron
Columbia G&l
Columbian Carbon
Comm Credit Co
Comm Investments
Comwith & Stern Congoleum-Nairn
Ptepeseee
Rly Crucible Steel O
Curtiss Wright
Au Davidson Chemseater
del Lac & West RE
Eee
Dome Mines
One Tee
Dupont Sett
Eastman Kodak Ve
Eaton Axle & Spr
Snee
Elec Auto Lite Bt
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Elec Stag Battery
Erie RR Saree Eureka Vacuum One Field
Marshall
Nat
Fos Wheeler, Inc
Fox Film
Freeport
Baking Co
Mills O
Macy (Rh) & Co
Ween Mathieson Alkali
Missouri Kas & Tex
Seeee Missouri Pac RR
Montgomery Ward & A A
Nat'l Biscuit
Nat'l Cash
Nat'l Dairy
Nat'l Distillers Pr
Nat'l Pow & Lt
Paramount Publix
Pathe Exchange
Rustol
Mistol
the Panhandle Automobile Club
Sie
Tyler
Deliv
Aberry’s
Csac LM
Astana
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