Mitchell Back in Spotlight as Call for Unified Air Force Grows
The piece tracks Billy Mitchell's return to prominence amid calls for an independent air force. Once sidelined after a wartime clash with air policy, Mitchell now influences policy debates, meets with Roosevelt, and testifies before three congressional committees as supporters push a unified Air Force.
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Rodney Dutcher
Washington
Billy Mitchell
Air Corps
America
Mitchell
Mitchells
Tortured Tot Wife Says Crutchfield Cruelty Told On
Juanita Crutchfield testifies that her husband Frank Crutchfield showed unbalance early in marriage and she lived in fear as the murder trial of Crutchfield for shooting Police Captain Preston Burnam proceeds. The 24 year old wife and J. J Crutchfield the father testify, tears in their eyes during cross examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juanita Crutchfield
Frank Crutchfield
J. J Crutchfield
Crutchfield
Preston Burnam
Byrd Begins Eight Month Isolation in Antarctica Hut
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd hibernates alone for eight months in a snow buried hut on the Ross ice barrier 123 miles from Little America to study meteorological conditions. He carries wireless sets, thermometers, and supplies as 55 camp personnel wait under Dr. Thomas C. Poulter's leadership.
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Little America
Antarctica
U.P
Mackay Radio
Richard E. Byrd
Ross Ice Barrier
Byrd
Thomas C. Poulter
Low Water Rate For Irrigation Is Assured
The city commission adopted an ordinance to renew the irrigation rate plan for residential water customers. Rates run May through September, 2.50 dollars gross for the first 10 000 gallons and 20 cents net for each additional 1 000 gallons. A signed irrigation contract is required and a 250 dollar minimum charge applies with prompt payment discounts.
Steel wage hikes rolling across major firms
Reports confirm a broad 10 percent raise across the steel industry affecting about 400000 workers. National Tube at Lorain 7000, Republic Steel 22000, Youngstown Sheet and Tube 15000, and others push the total to roughly 100000 with promises. Some U S Steel units and Bethlehem Steel held silent while industry executives expect nationwide action.
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Associated Preas
National Tube Company
Lorain
United States Steel Corporation
Republic Steel Corporation
Youngstown
Yougastown Sheet and Tube Company
Carnegie Steel Company
U. S. Steel
Pittsburgh
Great Lakes Steel Corporation
Detroit
Wheeling Steel Corporation
Corrigan- McKinney Steel Company
Cleveland
American Rolling Mills Corporation
Middletown
Bills Weigh Heavily On This Bird's Mind
Frank Buck of Bring Em Back Alive fame filmed in the jungle and chose the Rhinoceros hornbill as the featured bird. The hornbill, nicknamed the Jimmy Durante of the Indian jungle, appears in a studio portrait highlighting its triple billed profile.
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Frank Buck
Fame
The
Jungles
Cole
Jimmy Durante
Indian Jungle
Roosevelt says he was only Kerensky in American revolution
George W. Christians of the Crusaders for Economic Liberty told the U P he warned President elect Roosevelt at Warm Springs on December 1, 1932 that he was “only the Kerensky” of the American revolution. Roosevelt reportedly replied “Well, Oliver Cromwell did it.” Wirt denied Warm Springs or Christians as sources for his charges. House Rules Committee hearings labeled the charges bank and Wall Street propaganda.
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Farley
Walter F Brown
Post Office Department
Army
United Airlines
Paul Henderson
Phil Johnson
George Wheat
Ray Ireland
James Murray
Transcontinental Air Transport
Dan Schaeffer
Jack Maddux
Aller J. Furlow
George Cuthell
United Press
Chattanooga
Tenn
U.P
George W. Christians
Crusaders For Economic Liberty
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Kerensky
Oliver Cromwell
Wirt
Gary
Ind
William A. Wirt
United Press Today
Brain Trust
Wall Street
Washington
Wiliam A. Wirt
House Rules Committee
Alfred L. Bulwinkle
North Carolina
Bulwinkle
Congress
Adolph J. Sabath
Illinois
Rand
Sabath
Weather forecast for Amarillo and surrounding region
Amarillo and West Texas expect fair skies and warmer tonight with above normal lows. Thursday brings partly cloudy skies cooler in Panhandle with warmer southeast portions. New Mexico also fair with little temperature change.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Roosevelt Board of Conciliation Ends Automobile Strike
The piece reports President Roosevelt creating a conciliation board with labor and employer representatives and a neutral. It says the board's decision will be final and binding, implying compulsory arbitration to end the strike and restore wages.
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Roosevelt
Panhandle oil men seek higher Texas allowables
In Austin Texas oil operators at a statewide hearing urged portions of the 32 800 barrel daily increase in the federal allowable for April and May Railroad commissioners announced Harold Ickes recommended 980 700 barrels daily for Texas Present allowables total 967 000 barrels Panhandle operators asked a 5 000 barrel increase in the field Yates field operators also sought an increase but no specific amount was named from the consumer side.
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Austin
Texas Oil
Texas
Harold Ickes
Panhandle
Yates
Eight Refrigerator Lines To Be Shown At Fair
Elaborateness will be the keynote of the Electrical Refrigeration Dealers Association show at the Southwestern Public Service Company Friday and Saturday. There will be eight lines of refrigerators on display. The local organization is making every effort to ensure the event is a standout, with showings from 8 to 9 o clock both days. Public invited.
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Electrical Refrigeration Dealers Association
Southwestern Public Service Company
Mrs. Amacker Expected Back From Illness
Mrs. W B Amacker secretary of the Panhandle Automobile Club has been seriously ill for two weeks and plans to return to her office tomorrow.
Senate Rows Over Roosevelt Vet Pay Veto Action
Washington March 28 The Roosevelt veto of the Veteran Federal Pay Bill triggered senatorial wrangles delaying a decision on joining the House in voting to override. Roosevelt sails from Jacksonville with his son James aboard Nour Mahal for a week in Florida as national affairs receive a brief pause.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Parley
Newark
Cleveland
Toledo
Moline
Town City
Liew
Moinew
Grant Island
North Pyenne
Denver
Mock Borings
Tole City
Kiko
Meno Sacraments
Ban Vean- Uhitage
Ileeo
Oakland
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Columbus
Indianepetle
Terre Haute
St. Louis
Kanena City
Wichite
Amarillo
Albuquerque
Winslow
Son Angeles
Baltimore
Richmond
Raleigh
Florence
Clare Jestrn
Bavannah
Jacksonville
Miami
Seattle
Terewna
Portland
Sacramento
Roosevelt
House
Fla
Vincent Astor
St. Johns
James
Bloodstained Kansas City election tightens Pendergast control
Kansas City reports a violent ballot with four killings and many beatings as machine politics led by Tom Pendergast won big. Fusionists led by Dr. A. Ross Hill failed to oust the Democratic machine, despite two council gains and a pair of municipal judgeships.
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Kansas City
Big Tom Pendergast
A. Ross Hill
University of Missouri
Little Tammany
Hill
Bryce B. Smith
Frank H. Backstrom
Placy
Insull in Law Hands as Deportation Ties Grow
After a year and a half of legal battles Martin J. Insull is in police hands in Chicago. His brother Samuel is likewise under authorities as to his fate. Immigration officials in Detroit plan deportation to Canada once Chicago charges are resolved.
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Martin J. Insull
Law
Chicago
Samuel
Asia Minor
Malotis
Gamuel Insull
Greece
Dardanelles
Sea of Marmora
Goa
Yemen
Insull
Athena
Ineul
Arabia
London Daily Mail
America
Imam Yahia
Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabia
Hedjaz
Nedj
United States Immigration Service
Detroit
Martin J. Inesull
Ilinois
Insull Utilities
Emepire
Walter R. Brooks
Samuel Insull
Canada
Jones Announces Sugar Bill Agreement
Washington March 28 Marvin Jones chairman of the House Agriculture Committee announced an agreement had been reached on a new sugar bill which he introduced today.
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Washington
Marvin Jones
House Agriculture Committee
English painter says American women imitate Garbo and Dietrich
Kenneth Green, a young English portrait painter, criticizes American women for slavishly imitating film stars Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. He says beauty is being standardized, with unusual faces disappearing and most women unable to move like Garbo. He urges natural, unenhanced features.
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Mary FE
Plummer
New York
Kenneth Green
Garhbos
Green
America
Greta
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McGill University
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