Radio duo replay Amos n Andy trial role play
Correll and Gosden staged a dramatic trial in the Amos n Andy studio. They split roles among six characters with dynamic mic distances and voice shifts to convey two personalities per actor. The piece drew on real trial procedures and even consulted legal specialists before performing for listeners.
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Crawford
Gosden
Brother Crawford
Smith
Collins
Andy
Correll
Amos
Madame Queen
Amos ’N’ Andy
Amos 'N’ Andy
Correll and Gosden
A. L. Ashby
National Broadcasting Co
Chicago
Clarence Darrow
Smith, Cronson
Jury Still Out in Edwards Trial
The Edwards case in criminal district court ended a morning without a verdict. Austin Edwards 22 pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and sought a suspended sentence after testimony from deputies Bebout and Vanderpool and one defense witness. Assistant DA Grady Hazlewood asked for a 50 dollar fine and 15 days in jail.
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Austin Edwards
Criminal District Court
Edwards
Charles Bebout
C. T. Vanderpool
Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo gas contract faults outlined by citizen
In a critical letter, attorney Charles H. Keffer argues the Huber gas deal for Amarillo is flawed. He contends minimum daily deliveries force the city to pay for gas it may not need, while the company faces no reciprocal obligation.
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Huber Company
Huber
Amarillo
Huber Carbon Black Company
Hutchinson County
Huber Petroleum Company
Chas. H. Keffer
Silent Room and Blossoms in Honor of the Dead
A reflective verse describes mourners surrounding the deceased, noting how friends learn who stays by the door, prays beside the bier, brings flowers, and carries on with devoted service after loss. The poem speaks to love enduring duties and quiet, shared remembrance in a serene room.
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Edgar A
News Tip Guidelines for Amarillo Readers
Interesting and unusual items about Amarillo persons and visitors that will be of general interest will be welcome. Tips should be timely accurate and verifiable with names and addresses when possible and avoid anecdotes or prank submissions. Space is limited and tips may be published the next day.
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Chamber of Commerce
Globe
Amarillo
Morse Doctor Rescued From Snowbound Car
In a Morse snowstorm a rescue party saved Dr Williams trapped in a car. Weinberg kept him warm until daylight, then Morse citizens aided by doctors H Sechrist and W Parks moved him to care where he remains unconscious from stroke paralysis and cold exposure.
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Weinberg
Morse
Dr. Williams
W. R. Parks
H. Sechrist
Williams
Arkadelphia
Ark
Booster Week Hampered by Bad Weather
Amarillo’s Booster Week faced a weather setback affecting the schedule. Merchants and firms still push a week of activities with $10 bank checks issued to 25 recipients and promises of cash prizes for students and license-tag displays.
Public hearings on map and zoning ordinance set in Amarillo
The Amarillo planning and zoning commission schedules public hearings on the map and zoning ordinance for April 6 at 10 AM in the city commission chamber. Major Wood will attend all hearings. Hearings continue until all property owners are heard, then the board will submit a final report to the city commission for finance consideration.
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Real Estate Board
Rotary Ub
American Business Club
Miso
Amarillo Globe
Commission
Ty's Planning and Zoning Commison
John s.cKnight
Wood Propty
Amarillo
Planning Board
Pear Tack Letter on Personal Savings Plan
An elderly banker’s savings method advises starting with one sixth of income saved yearly, keeping funds in a bank, then gradually shifting portions to bonds and stocks over six years. The plan emphasizes safety, liquidity, and gradual shift to higher yield investments as years progress.
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Marillo
Texas
Peru
Indiana
Eig
Notorious gunman Burke returns to stand trial in St. Joseph
Burke arrives by armored car from St. Joseph amid a sleet storm to answer for the killing of traffic officer Joseph Skalay. Crowds gather as Chicago authorities seek him for the St. Valentine’s Day massacre and other crimes. Skalay’s father and the officer’s widow view Burke in a strong jail cell as extra guards are posted.
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St. Joseph
Joseph Skalay
Chicago
George “Bugs” Moran
Burke
Skalay
Fred Skalay
Max Moulds
Radio Listings Preview Appomattox On WEAF Tuesday Evening
NUMBER 3 to Grant plans Appomattox for WEAF and Eastern network at 6 30 Tuesday. Since year start one hundred NBC programs launched many sustaining Chicago studio features. CBS reports 176 recent programs originate outside New York. Tonight reads include New Crime Club One Of Us Is a Murderer on WABC at 6 45 Sigrid Onegin Swedish contralto guest on WABC and chain at 7 30 Express premiere with Ohman Arden piano Roy Smeck guitar male trio on WJZ and others at 7 30 Shoescomes Old Place Sherlock Holmes adventure on WEAF chain at 9 00 then 11 00 Pacific Coast Dramatization of James J Hill life Empire Builders on WJZ and others at 9 30 This is a superheterodyne year for radios All Majestic six eight and nine tube superhets Majestic dealers Amarillo Electric Company at 111 East 8th Street showcase new models
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Grant
Appomattox
WEAF
NBC
Chicago
CBS
New York
WABC
Sigrid Onegin
Wabc and Chain
Express
Ohman
Arden
Roy Smeck
WJZ
Pacific Coast
James J. Hill
The
Empire Builders
Majestic
Amarillo Electric Company
East 8Th Street
Seeewenee
Phillips
Seeneereneeeeen
Packard Eee
Plymouth Oil
Weeereere J
Penney Company
Pierce Pet
Soosane
Pennsylvania RR
Tee
Prairie O. & G
Pillsbury Flour Mills
Seeenee
Oak A Public Service of
Nwens
Prairie
Lin Ooce Ocx
Pullman
Aeeae Wee
Radio Corporation
Keith Orpheum
Royal Dutch
Simmons Company Nee
St'd
Southern California
St'd of
Calif Wescetssrene
Standard Brands, Inc
N. Y
Sunray Oil Corp
Studebaker Corporation
Superior Oil
Southern Pacific
Texas Corp A
Southern Rail
Tex Pac Ld & md
Texas Gulf
Tide Water
Trans American
Tex Pac Cl & Oil
Timken Roller Bear
Texan Oil & Land
Texan Oil & Land Aeaee Oh
Union Pacific Caeee
United Aircraft & Transport
Union Oil of Cal
United Corporation
Warner-Quinlan
United Carbon
Ohio Oil
United Gas Improvement
Union Carbide
Us Pipe & Fountry
Jack Fi Clarke
Tev
Yester
Wesgaseene
Allied Chemical & Dye Seeedel Hbx
Allegheny Corporation
Sss
Maracaibo
Allis Chalmers
Eeeens
Am Republics
Wmeeeeenree Amerada
Gulf of Penn
American International
Houston
New
American Power & Light
American Rolling Mills
International Pet
American Smelt & Ref
Mexican Seaboard
American Sugar & Ref Weoee
Borden Company
Brigus Mfg Co
Borg Warner
Bucyrus Erie Ace
Burroughs
Celotex Company
Cerro de Pasco
Calumet & Heclane
Chesapeake Corpora
Chesapeake Ohio
CM & St Prr
Chrysler Corporation
Coca Cola Company
Columbia Gas & Light
Congoleum Nairn
Columbia Grapho
Commonwealth & Southern
Continental Can
Continental Motors
Coast Film Ind
Consolidated Gas
Continental Baking A Ace 195
Caterpillar Tractor
Secees
Coty, Inc
Waeee i Crucible Steel
Weer
Cutler Hammer
Curtiss Wright
Curtiss Wright A
Ory Davison Chemical A
del, Lac & West
den & Rio Grande West
Drugs
Aero Een
Detroit Edigon
Dupont Sens
Enwe
Endicott Johnson
Erie Railroad
Eureka Vacuum
Seater Renee
Marshall Field & Company
Fisk Rubber
Foster Wheeler Inc
Freeport
Texas
Eeeenee
Fox Film Acceseeseeeverere
Frisco
General Electric
Water
General Theater
General Mills
General Motors
Whee
General Railway Signal
Gillette Safety Razor
Glidden Company
Tareeeee
Gold Dust Corporation
Goodrich Tire & Rubber
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Gotham Silk Hose
Graham Paige
Teres Vaee
Granby Consolidated Copper
Grand Silver
Grigsby_ Gruno
Weeee
Great Beet Railway Ptd
Great Western Sugar Sees
Hahn Dept Stores
Eee
Hudson Motors
Esses
Hupp Motors
Sewee
Illinois Central RR
Inspiration Copper
Wee International Nickels
Lig
International Cement
International Harvester
International Tel & Telegaeee
Jewel Tea Co
Johns Manville
Escerseveeee
Kansas City Southern RR
Julius Kayser
Kelvinator Corporation
Kelsey Hayes
Seepeereeres
Kennecott Copper
Kresge & Co
Saeeeneee
Kroger Grocery & Baking
Krueger & Tol Weeeemderenee
Lambert Co
Sessee Ae
Liggett & Myers Baee
Loews
Seseeens Seneee
Fae Neeee Ae
Lorillard Tobacco
Neenee
Louisville Gas & Electric
Seseserore
Mack Trucks
Aerenee
Matheison Alkali
Miami
Missouri Pacific RR
Montgomery Ward
Nash Motors
National Air Transport O
I Ae
National Bellas Hess
National Dairy Producta
National Biscuit Company
National Power & Light
New York Central RR
NH & H RR
Ear Nevada Corporation
Oliver Farm Implement Wu. Oe
Pathe Exchange
Ssesvseses
Bus driver dies braving storm. two children die after rescue
Passengers recount the bus crash as Carl Miller 35 drove through a blizzard to aid others. Arlo 9 and Rosemary Miller 9, his grandchildren, were among those who survived initially but died after rushed to a ranch house. Bryan Untiect, last to exit, recalls restraining frightened children and apologizes for hitting them to keep them moving.
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Arlo
Rosemary Miller
Untiedt
Carl Miller
Bryan Untiect
Delegates voting patterns for 1932 convention revealed
Two thirds to three quarters of 1928 delegates and alternates expected to return as delegates or alternates in 1932. About three fifths of replies came from delegates and two fifths from alternates. Tabulated vote totals include Roosevelt Smith Young Ritchie Baker Reed Cox Hull White Lewis George McAdoo Ely Bulkley Moody Murray Glass and others from New York Maryland Ohio Illinois Georgia Massachusetts Texas Oklahoma Virginia Colorado and Tennessee.
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Roosevelt
New York
Alfred E. Smith
Owen D. Young
Albert C. Ritchie
Maryland
Newton D. Baker
Ohio
James A. Reed
Missouri
James M. Cox
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
George White
James Hamilton Lewis
Ill
Walter F. George
Georgia
William G. McAdoo
California
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
Robert J. Bulkley
Dan Moody
Texas
W. H. Murray
Oklahoma
Carter Glass
Virginia
Huston Thompson
Colorado
Ireland Mourns Another Fighting Son After Disaster
The House of Commons faces heated exchange as Tim Healy and Gladstone address the Mitchellstown disaster. Healy draws praise for his cause while stirring political tension. The nation mourns a brave Irish figure amid the ensuing debate.
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House of Commons
Mitchellstown
Tim Healy
Gladstone
Healy
Spirit of
Ireland
Lawmakers weigh bills as session winds down
Johnson said numerous bills would die on the calendar and that the House should pick out the ones of most importance so no major legislation would fail at the end of the session.
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Ares
Johnson
House
Heavy Snow Strands Traffic Across Oklahoma and Texas
Severe winter weather blankets the region from Bucklin Kansas to Dalhart with 14 inches at Guymon and 12 inches at Bucklin. Snow halts city traffic, blocks highways, and leaves cars abandoned. Santa Fe line reports heavy snow 200 miles east and 100 miles west of Amarillo as drifts rise and conditions worsen.
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Bucklin
Kan
Dalhart
Guymon
Santa Fe Railway
Tucumcari
N. M
Ca!r
Santa Fe
Canadian
Waynoka
Dumas Dumas
Fort Worth
Denver
Childress
Sinches
Amarillo
Rock Island
Shamrock
Sayre
Oklo
Liberal
Railroad Freight Crash Injures Knight Near Amarillo
In a derailment incident about 15 miles north of Amarillo, Number 4 in a T7-car caboose was injured when an air hose broke causing all brakes to apply and Knight to be thrown forward. He alleges loss of use in his right leg and reduced right arm function. He says pain persists and he cannot work.
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Amarillo
Knight
Funeral service for Frank M. Russell observed in Amarillo
Funeral services for 83 year old Frank M. Russell held this afternoon at Griggs Funeral Chapel. He died at the National Military Home for Volunteer Soldiers in Leavenworth Kansas. He is survived by four sisters and two brothers. The American Legion Hanson Post led the service with Father Elmer McFadden delivering the sermon.
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Frank M. Russell
National Military Home
Leavenworth
Kansas
Griggs Funeral Chapel
A. H. Yoder
Las Vegas
N. M
H. C. Koester
Boyer Street
Amarillo
T. A. Culpepper
Houston Street
Ida Menear
Long Beach
Calif
T. F. Russell
San Antonio
W. L. Russell
Portland
Ore
Legion
Howard J. Smith
Clyde Campf
Will M. Benton
J. B. Winkleman
T. M. Montgomery
Roy D. Chase
Four Pre-Easter Revival Services At Polk Street Church
Four services will be held daily this week at Polk Street Methodist Church as part of a pre-Easter revival in progress led by Dr. Ira F. Key. Morning sermons at 10 o clock, plus children at 8 30, young people at 7, and preaching at 7 45. J M Edwards of Ranger will direct music and lead the young people service tonight. Monday evening sermon is The Highest and Best Investment.
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Polk Street Methodist Church
Ira F. Key
J. M. Edwards
Ranger
Death of Father Superior Tierney at Kiencheng Mission
A report notes Father Superior Tierney of the Columban mission died while captive of Chinese Communists during the death march on March 5. Captors demanded ransom of 40,000 dollars in silver, threatening killings if not paid.
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Columban
Father Superior Tierney
Kiencheng
Kansas City Livestock Market Report March 30
Hogs 2,500 with prices 10 to 16 cents higher. top at 8.00, sows 6.25 to 8.85, stock pigs 7.25 to 8.00. Cattle 9,000. calves 1,000. killing classes steady to strong. steers 7.75 to 10.00, heifers 6.75 to 9.00, cows 5.00 to 6.25, vealers 5.50, stocker and feeder steers 6.75. Sheep 13,000. lambs steady. top clipped lambs 7.75, 90 lb lambs and ewes 150 lb down 3.26 to.
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Kansas City
Associated Press
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