Tiny Folk Put On A Big Show In Amarillo
Entertainment enthusiasts in Amarillo and the Panhandle saw Sinver's Midgets perform a vest pocket revue with vaudeville acts and trained animals on the Auditorium stage. Friday and Saturday shows include matinees and night performances with proceeds aiding Thrift Room and Community Kitchens. Tickets range from 15 to 40 cents with no reserved seats.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Sinver
City Drug Store
Polk Street
Municipal Auditorium
Thrift Room
Elsie Little
Beckie Reeder Arnold
Bank Bill Awaits Roosevelt's Name
President Roosevelt's signature would finalize a bill authorizing state non member banks to borrow from Federal Reserve banks during banking emergencies. Congressional action completed yesterday and Vice President Garner and Speaker Rainey were authorized to sign while Congress is in recess so Roosevelt may act before Monday.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve
Garner
Speaker Rainey
Congress
Meteor bursts across sky seen from Amarillo region
A bright meteor exploded over the southwestern United States early Friday morning, with reports of a dazzling glow seen north of Amarillo at 6:05 and a loud rumble heard by residents. Observers from Colorado to Arizona noted the flame trail, gas cloud, and eventual disintegration near Lloyds New Mexico, with possible fragments seen near Winslow and Albuquerque.
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North Plains
New Mexico
Space
Earth
Here
Bill Coyle
Amarillo
Frank Williams
Albuquerque
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Winslow
Ariz
L. W. Baldwin
English Field
Baldwin
N. M
Aziz
Panhandle
Bank Examiner Shot Dead in Headrick Oklahoma
Headrick bank examiner W C Barnest was killed after asking Oklahoma City bank commissioner W J Barnett to take over Citizens State Bank. Governor witnesses say J C Brock bank president fired, Miss Virginia Doane reported remarks. Investigators dispatched from Oklahoma City and Altus pursued the case.
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Headrick
Okla
W. C. Barnest
W. J. Barnett
Oklahoma City
Citizens State Bank
J. C. Brock
Virginia Doane
Earnest
Brock
Miss Doane
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Altus
W. B. Jones
Frederick
Barnett
Mheadrick Bank
Barnest
Nine Entrants In Commission Lists To Date
Former Amarillo mayor Lon D Marrs enters the city election while John Winters of the School Board files for Commission No 2 joining H A Daniel and incumbent Smith. Petitions require 379 names and Friday night is the filing deadline. Winters says he seeks service on the city commission after two years on the school board.
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Lon D. Marrs
Ross Rogers
Amarillo
H. A. Daniel
John Winters
Marrs
Winters
Wineters
MAYO
H. A. Daniel Lon D. Marre Ross D. Rogers
W. Baynham
Joe Jenkins
M. N. Twaddell
Fred Gaile H. Eb, Smith
Jeff Capehart
North Amarillo
Capehart
Wise Guy Shaw Attacks U.S. Politics and Mooney Case
George Bernard Shaw arrived in America at 77 and dismissed U S voters as romantic about criminals. He urged pardon for Mooney if not fit to live, faulted American courts, and blamed the U S for drinking culture amid labor stress. He warned of political candor and social hypocrisy.
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San Francisco
George Bernard Shaw
America
Tomkey
Mooney
Shaw
United States
Fugitive Dash Ends After Flat Tire In Hillsboro
Raymond Hamilton and two accomplices escape from Hillsboro jail after hijacking a car. A flat tire slows them an hour after the breakout. Hamilton says he ran but did not shoot, others surrender as officers close in.
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Fort Worth
Raymond Hamilton
Hillsboro
Hamilton
David Cates
J. B. Stephens
O. G. Freeman
J. K. Hare
Hillsboro-Plum Road
Cates
Stephens
Puzzle Stops Law in Fort Worth Stills Raid
In Fort Worth on March 24 a liquor-stills raid was halted by a jig saw puzzle titled The Conquerors. Eight federal prohibition investigators two city vice squad members and the U S commissioner spent two hours working the pieces before resuming the search.
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Law Fort Worth
U.P
U. S
Roosevelt Starts War Debt Talks With Britain
Washington March 24 Roosevelt administration opens formal discussions on war debts with Britain via a long State Department talk between Ambassador Lindsay and Secretary Hull.
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Roosevelt
Lindsay
Great Britain
Hull
State Department
Beer Vats Set Aboil as States Rush to Legal 3.2 Sale
Beer vats bubbled nationwide as states prepare for April 7 sale of 3.2 beer. New York urged rationing while ads appeared heralding the first legal beer sales in years. Attorney General Cummings ruled anticipatory ads lawful and set sale start times by locality.
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Beer Law, Farm Relief, and Roosevelt’s Quick Action
Arthur Brisbane discusses Roosevelt era measures including a beer bill approved by the House, farm relief moving to the Senate, and a push to employ 250000 in national forests. The column notes new brewery construction in New York City and calls for dialogue with Congress and labor groups.
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Oil Proration Shut Down Order Led By Court
In the Fast Texas field federal courts and the Texas Railroad Commission clash over authority as the commission orders about 10 000 wells shut down at 9 o clock next Monday. Federal Judge Randolph Bryant at Beaumont cites commission members to show cause for contempt of court. See oil page 2.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
Oil Administration Agency
Randolph Bryant
Beaumont
Bryant
C. V. Terrell
Lon A. Smith
Ernest O. Thompson
Green Raps Plan For Forest Jobs
William A. Green of the American Federation of Labor denounced the $40 million emergency forest work program as regimentation and a form of fascism. General MacArthur defended the plan noting a month of army supervision. Green objected to army oversight and physical exams revealing workers' disabilities. Burns said the House would try to move reforestation action on Monday.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Joint Congressional Committee
William A. Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
Douglas McArthur
U. S. Army
Douglas
MacArthur
Army
Burns
House
Sheriff and church allies raid Amarillo tin shop stills
Sheriff Bill Adams, aided by a Sunday school pupil and church pastor allies, raided an Amarillo tin shop yielding a 200 gallon all copper still just completed. Horace Wells, arrested on possession of a still, posted $2,500 bond and was released. A prior raid recovered 500 gallons mash 36 gallons whisky and the complete plant with three arrested.
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River Road
Amarillo
Wells
Horace Wells
West Seventh Avenue
Adams
B. R. Clark
Present Grid Sport Too Hard on Body
BALLAS March 24 (U.P) Doctor warns that rigorous football activity shortens undergraduate athletes' lives. Dr Bolver J Lloyd of the Public Health Service in Washington urges modification of collegiate sport at a Pan-American Medical Association congress in Dallas. He says football today strains players beyond safe limits and calls for rules to reduce risk.
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U.P
Bolver J. Lloyd
Public Health Service
Washington
Lloydie
Dallas
Pan-American
Japan Says It is Not a Vassal of Any Nation
Yo suke Matsuoka head of the Japanese delegation to the League of Nations arrived in New York with five colleagues and asserted Japan is not a vassal to the United States or any other nation. He suggested U S Pacific fleet withdrawal could ease tensions and said Japan has no plan to abandon the mandated islands. A Chinese crowd protested outside the Leviathan while police guarded the dock.
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Yosuke Matsuoka
League of Nations
America
Japan
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Leviathan
Matsuoka
Quinn Sentenced to Die in June For Grifth Sisters Murder
Zarl Quinn was denied a new trial by District Judge J. W. Bird and sentenced to die in the electric chair on June 20 for the murder of Jessie Griffith near Tonkawa Oklahoma on December 28 1930. The earlier death sentence was reversed.
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Enid
Okla
Zarl Quinn
Griffith
J. W. Bird
Quinn
Jessie
Zexia Griffith
Tonkawa
Kick from FiveYearOld Horse Lands Man in Hospital
Five years after a horse kick in Fort Worth, L. C. McEntire was hospitalized today as a small abscess formed at the wound site. The pain intensified and he was moved by ambulance to the city hospital for treatment.
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Fort Worth
U.P
L. C. McEntire
Fair and Colder Weather Friday Night in Amarillo
Despite floods in the east and other disasters, Amarillo reported unchanged weather Friday with a high wind and dust obscuring the sky after early morning. The forecast called for fair and colder conditions Friday night and Saturday.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Weather Outlook For Amarillo And West Texas
Forecasts show fair and cooler conditions tonight with Saturday remaining fair. West Texas will be fair and colder with frost potential in the southwest tonight and northeast area mild. New Mexico sees fair conditions with cold nights and frost in the southwest and south central regions. Temperatures swing from 44 to 63 Fahrenheit today and night.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Meridian
New Mexico
Robin Fight Advice Fails to Halt Boxing Robins
Kansas City reports a robin shadow boxing its image for two weeks. Dr. H. E. Sanger reviews reader tips from across the country and finds most advice impractical. Readers suggest methods from window blinds to blanketings but none stop the bird’s persistent bouts.
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U.P
H. E. Sanger
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C. B. Aldrich
San Francisco
Earle C. Derby
Columbus
Ohio
Robin
Audubon Society
Samuel C. Hunt
Chicago
Drs Songer
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