Pension records reveal Townsend group receipts near million
Scott Hershey reports Townsend old age pension organization total receipts since 1934 about 951 964 09 with 771 964 09 from 1934 to 1936 01 and an estimated 180 000 for early 1936. Witness R E Clements testifies to income details including salaries dividends and publishing income.
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Scott Hershey
Washington
Townsend Old Age Pension Organization
R. E. Clements
House
Clements
Townsend
James R. Sullivan
F. EF. ‘Townsend
Townsend Weekly
Prosperity Publishing Company
Sullivan
Airliner missing prompts cross border search near Arizona
United States and Mexican forces search rugged country between Douglas and Tucson for a four seat Cessna plane missing with four aboard. Pilot Paul Odneal 30 is joined by Harold Marks 31 and two others. Mexico and England report 21 air deaths in separate crashes.
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United Preas
Arizona
Mexico
England
Russia
Compania de Mexico
Mexico City
Douglas, Ariz
Here
Tucson
Joventino Espinosa
Sonora
Paul Odneal
Copperclad Airways
Phoenix
Odneal
Marks
Paul C. Swasey
John Powles
Chamber of Commerce
Catalinas
Hoffman Seeks Heprieve Path
Trenton reports an unconfirmed claim that Bruno Hauptmann admitted buying the Lindbergh ransom money. Governor Hoffman, facing pressure, says Hauptmann may not have had a fair trial and weighs a reprieve as prosecutors clash with state and federal officials over new evidence and attic lumber tests.
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Trenton
N. J
U.P
Harold G. Hoffman
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hauptmann
David T. Wilentz
Bruno Richard Hauptman
Wilentz
Anthony M. Hauck
Hunterdon County
Charles A. Lindbergh
Hoffman
Archibald Loney
Department of the Interior
New York
Hauck
Loney
Jacobite march proclaims Prince Rupprecht king in London
In London on March 27 a group of about 150 elderly adherents of the Stuart line marched to Trafalgar Square proclaiming Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria as rightful king of Great Britain. They denounced Edward VIII as an imposter. Police escorted the ceremony, postponed from January 30 after King George V’s death.
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London
U.P
Rafalgar Square
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Great Britain
Edward VIII
Charles
George V
Barrymore and Barrie romance rumors deny in Hollywood
John Barrymore refused to discuss the romance with Elaine Barrie in Hollywood posts. Elaine Barrie and her mother Edna Jacobs left for New York but denied quarrels with Barrymore. Elaine claims he will join her on the East Coast after retakes on a film.
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Hollywood
John Barrymore
Calin
Elaine Barrie
Ariel
New York
Edna Jacobs
Elaine
Royal Jack
John
Texas Planning Board to receive reports Monday in Austin
Reports on Texas Planning Board projects will be presented at the Austin meeting on Monday. E L Kurth will discuss East Texas pulp paper industry prospects and a Padre Island state park proposal will be considered. An education committee report covers a recently started state survey. New members include Tom W Cotten and C E Clark adding to the roster.
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Austin
U.P
Texas Planning Board
East Texas
E. L. Kurth
Padre Island
Tom W. Cotten
Amarilo
Wilbur C. Hawk
Eden’s Speech Divides Views Over Rhineland Crisis
Joachim von Ribbentrop met Foreign Secretary Eden at the Foreign Office seeking clarification of Eden’s Commons speech. Eden urged France to keep an open mind toward Germany while reaffirming Locarno obligations, drawing praise from British parties and concern from Germany ahead of Sunday’s Reichstag election.
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London
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Great Britain
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Rhineland
Eden
Foreign Office
Reich
House of Commons
Germany
France
der Puehrer
Hitler
Britain
League of Nations Council
Belgium
Europe
Cannon, Planes Used In Jop-Soviet Clash
Borders across America today feature a sharp clash of forces with artillery and air power cited in a tense confrontation. The report highlights a regional focus near Jop and Soviet factions, underscoring wartime tensions and strategic deployments.
Soviet reports cite renewed fighting on Russo Manchoukuoan border
Moscow dispatches say Japanese and Manchoukuoan forces pressed along the Far Eastern frontier near Outer Mongolia after a calm period. Artillery and aircraft were used as fighting spread to the boundary areas, with a Mongol frontier post briefly targeted before the attackers withdrew. Negotiations between Mongolia and Manchoukuo over a mixed boundary commission were reportedly advancing.
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Moscow
Far Eastern
Outer Mongolia
Manchoukuo
North Lake
Mongolia
Weather forecast for Amarillo and nearby regions
Forecast calls for a pair tonight and Saturday with warmer temperatures tonight around 40 degrees. West Texas expects warmer conditions in the north with frost in the southwest tonight, then Saturday fair and somewhat warmer. New Mexico should stay generally fair tonight and Saturday with little temperature change.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Vera Stretz Admits Four Shots Killed Dr Gebhardt
Blonde art student Vera Stretz testified in her murder trial that she shot Dr Fritz Gebhardt four times last November 12 after revealing a love affair. Under defense by Samuel Leibowitz she cried and described their early happiness and her burglaries fear that led to possession of a .32 caliber pistol.
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New York
U.P
Vera Stretz
Fritz Gebhardt
Samuel Leibowitz
Gebhardt
Leibowitz
Frank Stretz
Washington Square College
Florida
Astaire Back at Work After RKO Picture Pace Cut
Fred Astaire returns to work in Hollywood after RKO-Radio Studios allows him to make no more than two pictures a year. His break was to protect his popularity from overexposure, ending after executives conceded the limit.
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Hollywood
Calif
U.P
Fred Astaire
Rko-Radio Studios
Film Colony
Postal Clerk Charged Here In Mail Embezzlement Case
Earl McCurdy a 41 year old Postal employee was arraigned before the U S Commissioner on charges of embezzling contents of a letter from the mails. He was removed from his job as city distributor at the Amarillo Post Office Thursday night by Postal Inspectors A O Curry and Olaf Baldwin. Curry signed the complaint and the case referred to on page 9.
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Lindbergh
Hoffman
Earl McCurdy
United States
U. S
Amarillo
A. O. Curry
Olaf Baldwin
Curry
Four Die as Airliner Crashes in Hampshire Forest
Four men and one woman were killed when an airliner on army co operation work crashed in the Stony Cross forest in Lyndhurst Hampshire. Authorities linked the crash indirectly to Britain defence resource coordination and said it likely resulted from static disturbances during night flying practice with searchlight units.
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Lyndhurst
Hampshire
Eng
Great Britain
Stony Cross
Amarillo Get New State Highway Patrol Inspector
M. L. Berry, a captain in the state highway patrol, arrives in Amarillo to assume duties as inspector of a district enlarged to cover all areas north of the line between Childress and Farwell. Office space in the courthouse will likely serve as Amarillo division headquarters as the district patrol force is expanded.
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M. L. Berry
Amarillo
Childress
Farwell
Court House
Amarillo Chamber Elects Directors Invited to Meeting
Newly elected Amarillo Chamber of Commerce directors were invited by Roy Cullum to attend next Wednesday's meeting. The directorate will hear a report from Carl Hinton, secretary manager, with directors chosen last Saturday from 25 candidates.
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Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Roy Cullum
Carl Hinton
Spring Fashion Show Brightens Amarillo Night
Echoing fashion and fund news, Amarillo hosts an East Easter season style show tonight with live models and window displays. The event precedes a Paramount film run, while Texas wind erosion funds of up to 500000 dollars may soon aid 23 of 26 counties.
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College Station
Texas
H. H. Williamson
Extension Service
Erosion Control Committee
Amarillo
Paramount
Mussolini Invites Madariaga to Rome for Peace Talks
Premier Mussolini informally invites Salvador de Madariaga, League negotiator on the Italo Ethiopian crisis, to Rome to discuss preliminary peace terms. Dino Grandi in London lacks negotiating power. Sources say Madariaga may decline to avoid a long trip to Addis Ababa.
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Rome
Mussolini
Salvador de Madariaga
Spain
League of Nations
Dino Grandi
London
Madariaga
League of Nations Council
Addis Ababa
To Irrigate the Plains Report Sees Big Acreage Gains
The National Resources Committee proposed expanding irrigation across North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas to boost yields in dry years. It projects Kansas could rise from 71,290 to 1,333,000 acres, Oklahoma from 1,573 to 127,400, and Texas from 798,917 to 2,307,400 acres, with a total 130,000,000 acres of land reclaimable through drainage and irrigation.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Texas
DenverAttorney Ben B. Laska Conviction Affirmed
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of Denver attorney Ben B. Laska. He was found guilty of conspiracy in the kidnapping and ransom of Charles Urschel, the Oklahoma City millionaire.
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Denver
Colo
Ben B. Laska
Charles Urschel
Oklahoma City
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Hitler claims 5 million men back to work in Germany
Adolf Hitler spoke from a locomotive platform at Krupp works to about 870000 voters. He said in three years he had put 5000000 men back to work and called the Reich stage a smith of weapons of war and peace. Sirens and whistles accompanied the speech as rail and highway traffic paused. Two Zeppelins saluted former President Hindenburg’s tomb at Tannenberg in East Prussia.
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Louis P. Lochner
Essen
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Krupp
Reichsfuehrer
Hitler
Reich
der Puehrer
von Hindenburg
Paul von Hindenburg
Tannengers
East Prussia
German Republic
Flood Fears Rise Across Kentucky Minnesota and Wisconsin
A.P. report from Chicago on March 27 notes rain and melting snow intensifying flood threats in Kentucky Minnesota and Southwestern Wisconsin. Ohio River levels near danger in Kentucky as Louisville weather officials warn conditions worsen and alert residents.
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Chicago
Kentucky
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Louisville
Cincinnati
Ohio River
Danger Point
Ther Bureau
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Harold A. Marks
National Junior Chamber of Commerce
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Mark O. Kimberling
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Kimberling
Charles R. Mitchell
Mercer County
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Arthur Koehler
Madison
Wis
Columbia University
Koehler
Department of Agriculture
Court of Pardons
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Barrymore
Brownsville
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San Antonio
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Charles P. Nutter
Commons
Arthur Brisbane
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Long-Bell Lbr. Co
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John Maynard Lor. Co
W. 5Th
Tallulah Bankhead
Dr. Gebhardt
West Indies
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Stretz
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Astaire
Earl M'Curdy
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