What No Cowboys Chicago Newsman Gets Surprise Here
Howard V. O'Brien literary editor of the Chicago Daily News arrived in Amarillo with his wife and two children on a California auto trip. He said he expected the wild west and cowboys but found Amarillo metropolitan and the surrounding country heavily settled by farmers. He noted his eyes were opened to the west’s reality.
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Howard V. O'Brien
Chicago Daily News
Amarillo
Mississippi
O’brien
California
Japan seeks concessions from United States in exchange for naval parity pledge
London March 21 United Press reports a reliable source says Japan seeks immigration law revision recognition of Manchukuo and base abandonment in exchange for maintaining present naval ratios. Negotiations would be led by Koki Hirota and Hirosi Saito with Cordell Hull.
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United Press
London
Japan
Manchoukuo
Cordell Hull
Koki Hirota
Hull
Hirosi Saito
United States
Manchukuo
Pu Yi
Philippines
Great Britain
Pacific
Roosevelt to Confer with Auto Makers on Strike Threat
President Roosevelt arranged a late afternoon meeting with automobile manufacturers to discuss a general strike threat. Senator Couzens relayed that the President has a proposal to settle the dispute as union leaders defer a strike to tomorrow. Francis J. Gorman warned of a southern textile strike unless the Wagner bill passes. Mediators pressed in Albany to avert a Delaware and Hudson rail strike while a New York taxicab strike continued and 700 zinc workers in La Salle, Illinois walked out for a 10 percent raise.
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Roosevelt
Couzens
White House
Senate Labor Committee
Francis J. Gorman
United Textile Workers of America
Albany
N.Y
Delaware and Hudson
New York
la Salle
Railroad labor accepts arbitration in Roosevelt plan clash
Railroad workers rejected Roosevelt's wage proposal but agreed to arbiter Joseph B Eastman. The move came as auto industry talks prompted a White House session to avert a car workers strike. A Whitney letter presented the decision amid NRA and auto leaders pressing for a broader accord with the president.
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Roosevelt
Joseph B. Fastman
Washington
Joseph B. Eastman
President Roosevelt
White House
Whitney
Mr. Roosevelt
A. F. Whitney
Railway Labor Executives Association
Automobile
Hughs. Johnson
NRA
New York
William Collins
National Organ
Mitchell Attacks Air Mail System during Hearing
U S General William Mitchell told the House Post Office Committee that American aviation is hopeless compared with the world and that air mail is controlled by commercial interests. He criticized current equipment, funding, and management and urged consolidation under a single agency.
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Washington
William Mitchell
House Post Office Committee
Mitchell
Army
Fire at Woolworth Store Damages Rear Entrance
Firemen answered a 5:30 am alarm at the PF W Woolworth Company Store at 601 Polk Street and extinguished a rear blaze. The fire destroyed the rear door and facing but caused no stock damage in the storeroom. authorities suspect a lighted cigarette ignited a trash box behind the building.
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PF. W. Woolworth Company
Polk Street
Egypt awaits Insull ship overdue at Port Said vigil
In Port Said Egypt on March 21 observers monitor the horizon for Samuel Insull aboard the Maiotis two and a half hours out. Telescopes and radio checks fail to yield contact as the ship remains unseen and messages to Insull go unanswered.
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Port Said
Egypt
Samuel Insull
Life in Prison Affirmed for Theft of 11 Cents
Frank Pueblo must serve 99 years in the penitentiary for theft of 11 cents and a suit of clothes from a negro. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the Fort Worth second trial verdict after a hung jury at the first trial. The sentence rests on a prior similar offense in Ward County.
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Austin
Frank Pueblo
Court of Criminal Appeals
Fort Worth
Ward
French Police Predict More Spy Revelations
French Secret Police broaden a major spy ring probe alleged to have stolen naval and military secrets from the United States Britain and France. Six arrests followed from disclosures by American prisoners Robert Switz and wife Marjorie. sixteen jailed overall with more arrests likely.
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Paris
United States
England
France
Robert Switz
Marjorie
Andre Benon
Switzes
East Orange
N. J
New York
Benon
Russia
Germany
Jobless Irish Girl Survives 11 Day Atlantic Stowaway Siege
Catherine Teresa Carr, a 24 year old from Ireland, crossed the Atlantic hidden in a freighter lifeboat after buying two loaves of bread in Glasgow. Frostbitten feet and hunger left her weak but alive as she was rescued from the Salaima and taken to an immigration hospital in Halifax. She had hoped to start anew in Canada after being deported from the country a year earlier.
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Arthur Street
M. A. Palmateer
Shirley Pauline
Elma Roberta
George Henry
St. Anthony's Hospital
Joe V. Moore
Palo Duro Hotel
Burt Daniels
East Tenth Street
London
Robert Switz
Paris
Britain
Daily Mail
Switt
East Orange
N. J
New York
Mail
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Catherine Teresa Carr
Canada
Scotland
Donaldson Line
Salaima
Immigration Detention Hospital
Ont
Glasgow
Sun Crosses Equator Signals Spring Arrival
The sun crossed the equator at 1 28 this morning marking the start of spring. The crossing occurred 670 miles southeast of Liberia in the Gulf of Guinea with the Weather Bureau noting the date shifts by up to six hours yearly. Sunshine continues today with a cooler, partly cloudy forecast for tomorrow.
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Equator
Liberia
Africa
Gulf of Guinea
South Atlantic
H. T. Collman
U. S. Weather Bureau
Complete Argument In Mexicans Trial Draws Near Verdict
In San Marcos Texas March 21 lawyers completed 7 percent of closing arguments in the murder trial of Marto Quellar and Julian Ybarra Mexicans charged in the political feud death of Claude E Kelley of Weslaco Judge M C Jeffrey gave the charge to the jury and jurors were told to disregard confessions if obtained under duress or threats or if voluntary statements are in doubt.
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San Marcos
Tex
Marto Quellar
Julian Ybarra
Claude E. Kelley
Weslaco
M. C. Jeffrey
Kidnap Threat Reported Against E. L. Cord Family
Beverly Hills guards protected the home of E. L. Cord, automobile magnate, after threats to kidnap his two sons. The boys Charles and William arrived from the East for Easter vacation and were escorted by a guard and two Pasadena motorcycle police when they disembarked from a train.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
E. L. Cord
Charles
William
Pasadena
Amarillo Police Sell Tickets for Ball Benefit
Amarillo police announce tickets for a Roseland Ballroom benefit to aid the Shirley Ann Grounds Educational Fund. Proceeds from gate sales go to the fund with tickets at 50 cents each from peace officers or The News-Globe. The event features Joe Norman and his Non-Recording Orchestra starting at 9 p.m.
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Joe Norman
Sixth Juror Accepted In Frank Crutchfield Trial
The sixth juror Joseph Jenkins was accepted at noon in the Crutchfield murder trial after clashes between defense head E A Simpson and Judge Bishop. Jenkins, No 219 on the Special Centre list, joins five already seated as jury selection continues amid challenges and debate over potential jurors.
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Joe Jenkins
Frank Crutchfield
E. A. Simpson
Henry
Bishop
Jenkins
Brank
Petersen
City Water Department
World War Air Corps
Boston University
Harvard
McKinney
Simpson
Crutchfield
Preston Burnam
Amarillo Weather Tonight and Thursday Forecast
Forecast for Amarillo and nearby areas calls for fair and colder tonight with Thursday partly cloudy and cooler. West Texas portions show partly cloudy and colder in north and east areas. New Mexico expected fair tonight and Thursday with extreme east colder. Temperature extremes up to 54 to 70.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Roosevelt backs Norris amendment on home loan agency
President Roosevelt told Congress he favored the Norris amendment to bar political appointments to the Home Loan Corporation. The Senate adopted the amendment while approving the 2 billion dollar Home Loans Bonds, but a House committee struck the measure out. He also urged banning politics in appointments to other relief agencies including the NRA and CWA.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Home Loan Corporation
Senate
House
Stephen T. Early
NRA
Civil Works Administration
Farm Credit Administration
Philippines
Tom K. Smith
Treasury
National Oil Allowable Up In April And May
Washington announced the national allowable crude oil production for April and May at 2,346,200 barrels daily, up 83,400 from March. Increases favored all 14 producing states, led by Texas with 32,800 and Oklahoma with 20,000, with detailed state by state rises and new daily averages. Lonnie Lee Austin granted a new trial after 99 years for murder in San Jacinto County.
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Washington
Ickes
Texas
Oklahoma
Indiana
New York
Kentucky
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Arkansas
California
Kansas
Louisiana
Michigan
New Mexico
Colorado
Montana
Wyoming
States
Colona Pices
Lonnie Lee Austin
Lonnie Lee
San Jacinto County
Amon Copeland
Court of ‘Criminal Appeals
Paperhangers Install Insull Gold on Wall at Union League Club
In Chicago on March 21 a million dollars in stocks bonds mortgages and minor securities were pasted on the Union League Club wall in the million-dollar room a satire on the 1929 boom. A paperhanger declared the green Insull paper would wear. He clipped two coupons that wouldn’t fit the pattern and mused on wealth.
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Chicago
Union League Club
Rescuers' Get Mixed As Bhyrd Giro Falters
Little America Antarctica March 21 rescue parties seek Bowlin Bailey and Poulter Blackburn with McCormick Byrd in autogiro. Dog sled teams advance to aid the stranded aviators as repair needs delay the autogiro effort.
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Bhyrd
Little America
Antarctica
Mackay
Ross Ice Barrier
Wiliam C. Bowlin
Clay Bailey
Richard FE. Byrd
William McCormick
Byrd
McCormick
Bowlin
Beiley
Bailey
Thomas C. Poulter
Quin Blackburn
Poulter
Blackburn
Lieut. Comdr
Isaac Schlossbeck
Paul Swan
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U. S
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George Henry Palmateer
Thur Street
Frank Abrahamson
Tota
Thomisson
Arthur
Moore
Waxahachie
Baylor University
Waco
West Texas State Teachers College
Sherman
Palmateer
Plavia Lubricating Company
Daniels
Andes
Santiago
Chile
Laura Ingalls
Andes Mountains
Buenos Aires
Woolworth
Insull
RING
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Wagner
John J. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Sen
James J. Davis
Center
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
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