Panhandle Music Festival Opens With 750 Contestants
The Panhandle Music Festival in Amarillo opens its three day events with 750 contestants and 300 visitors. Two hundred piano competitors perform Thursday and Friday. Ten bands and five orchestras enter contests culminating in a massed band concert. Banquets and meetings are planned at the Capitol Hotel.
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Panhandle
West Texas
Amarillo
Panhandle Music Teachers Association
Ventura Smith
Oscar Wise
Amarillo and
Plainview
J. W. Wainwright
LaGrange
Ind
Dalhart
Hereford
White Deer
McLean
Clovis
Buchanan School
Amarillo Senior High School
Central Junior High School
Perryton High School
Hereford High School
Amarillo College of Music and
Panhandle Band and Orchestra Leaders Association
Capitol Hotel
First Baptist Church
Beer Is Here What About the Saloon
The piece discusses a looming return of beer and 3.2 wine, warning of bootleggers and crime if laws resist. It questions whether old fashioned saloons will reopen and affect families, highlighting Arthur Brisbane’s commentary and Hearst interests.
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W. R. Hearst
Miami
Lee Pierson Named on Tech's Board
Gov. Miriam A Ferguson submitted numerous appointments to the Senate. Notable picks include R. Bowers to the state board of education, Fred Horton W. R. Dulaney and W. A. Boyett to the prison board, and Lee P. Pierson named to the Texas Tech board of directors. The slate covers regents for state teachers colleges, nurse examiners, accountancy, medical examiners, health, pharmacy, dental examiners, and port pilot commissioners with multiple named officials across cities such as Austin Greenville Houston and Port Arthur.
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J. E. Ulmer
Tyler
T. GC
Andrews
McKinney
State Board of Nurse
Mary Gertrude Giblin
Austin
Lena Baker Thomas
Greenville
State Board of Accountancy
Frank L. Wilcox
Waco
J. von Koenneritz
Robert F. Roberts
Beaumont
W. T Chumney
San Antonio
Victor Edward Buron
Texarkana
Walter Greenwood
Planternville
W. E. Neblitt
Anderson
E. P. Anderson
Brenham
Fred Holle
Washington County
Port of
Sabine Pass
Abe Goldberg
Port Arthur
Walter W. Glass
Floyd H. Pipkin
George T. Adams
R. M. Johnson
Orange
Forest Work Favored Urge Five Day Week
Senate accepts House forest unemployment amendments and sends bill to the White House. Roosevelt expects forest conservation enlistments soon as debates hinge on a Roosevelt relief bill for 600 million dollars. Senate committee backs Black five day week, six hour day plan with a 30 day start and two year limit.
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Washington
Senate
House
White House
Roosevelt
Judiciary Committee
Black
Alabaman
Senate Agriculture Committee
Wallace
House Military Affairs Committee
William Mitchell
Army Air Corps
Mitchell
Land
Nea
Air Forces
United States
Department of National Defense
Army
Navy
Aviation
Jury Law Hit N Negro Case After Attack
In Decatur Alabama March 30 a defense motion to quash the jury venire for Haywood Patterson a 19 year old Chattanooga Negro charged with attacking two girls in the Scottsboro case was filed in Morgan Circuit Court. The motion argues the absence of Negroes from the jury box deprives Patterson of rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. Patterson is the first of nine Negroes indicted two years ago to face trial.
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Decatur
Ala
Haywood Patternson
Chattanooga
Scottsboro
Morgan Circuit Court
Alabama
Jackson County
Patterson
Cemetery Keeper's Wife Found Slain
CORPUS CHRISTI, March 30. Mrs A E Clark wife of the Bayview Cemetery caretaker was found fatally wounded in her home last night. She died in a hospital from three axe wounds in the head. An unidentified man is sought after Clark said a man brushed by him and answered me when asked his identity. Constable Carl Morgan led the inquiry due to the sheriff's deputy death yesterday.
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Corpus Christi
A. E. Clark
Bayview
Clark
Department of
Carl Morgan
Sheriff's Department
J. W. Galbreath
Four Seek Seats In Amarillo School Trustee Race
In Amarillo four men contest two school board seats with incumbents Joe Dooley and Dr. R P Parcells facing challengers Dr T M Montgomery and Rev D D Sumrall. Incumbents led until Sumrall entered, citing gym use and dancing at school events. Supt McIntosh urged a big turnout as budget cuts and policies on married teachers and military training loom. Parcells touts a record of steady school leadership.
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Joe Dooley
R. P. Parcells
T. M. Montgomery
D. D. Sumrall
W. A. McIntosh
Dr. Parcells
Trial details emerge in Conway church case in Indiana
In Muncie Indiana on March 30 Rev Frank Dougherty district superintendent testifies about the church trial of Rev G Lemuel Conway on charges of imprudent conduct and attempted assault against Helen Huffman 18. Dougherty says Conway denied improper advances and offered to resign if charges withdrawn. Huffman testified Conway took her by car to a rural area where the alleged attack occurred.
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Muncie
Ind
Frank Dougherty
Methodist Episcopal Church
G. Lemuel Conway
Conway
Helen Huffman
Miss Huffman
Madison Street
Methodist
Episcopal Church
Dougherty
Rollin Lennington
Pirates Seize Ship Officers Off Manchurian Coast
British gunboats search the Liaotung Gulf for Chinese pirates who boarded the Nanchang to seize four officers W. E. Hargraves A. D. Blue F. L. Pears and Charles Johnson. Two Chinese crew wounded as pirates fled in two junks after ransacking cabins. This marks a second kidnapping of British subjects in recent months.
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James A. Mills
Newchang
Manchuria
Manchurian
Nanchang
Gulf of Liaotung
W. E. Hargraves
A. D. Blue
F. L. Pears
Charles Johnson
Robinson
Mayor Arrested in Burned Miner Home Battle
Zeigler Illinois March 30 mayor Murphy Smith and two city officials were jailed after a fire at the home of Ray Edmundson and John Moulin leaders of the United Mine Workers. Sheriff’s deputies claimed the blaze was part of coal mine strife and they deployed machine guns at city hall and UMW headquarters. Airplane leaflets urged miners to join a Progressive Miners Union strike as authorities shut schools fearing violence. Water Commissioner A C Barr and Fire Chief Walter Kroski were also arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Barr
Walter Kroski
Ray Edmundson
John Moulin
United Mine Workers Union
Progressive Miners Union
Robbers Loot Knox City Bank in $15,000 Thefts
A gang overpowered nightwatchman J. H. Finley at Knox City Citizens State Bank and escaped before dawn with about $15,000 in cash and currency.
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Knox City Bank
Knox City
Knox County
Tex
J. H. Finley
Citizens State Bank
Catch Third Bomb For the President
A crude bomb mailed to President Roosevelt was found in Watertown New York, with postal officials confirming the device was sent yesterday. The incident marks a continuing wave of hostile mail directed at the president during March.
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Watertown
N.Y
U.P
Roosevelt
Weather Outlook for Amarillo West Texas and New Mexico
Forecast calls for fair and cooler tonight with Friday also fair. West Texas from the 100th meridian westward remains fair but colder with frost in the southwest. southeast portion cooler. New Mexico remains unsettled and colder tonight with frost in central and southeast. Friday fair but very cold in extreme southeast. Temperatures today reach 47 to 56 by 1 PM. Oil price guaranteed at 10 cents.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Oil meet firings and Texas views from Thompson
Longview Texas March 30 Texas railroad commissioner E O Thompson said the Washington governors conference favored major producers and ignored independents and consumers He urged against price fixing by law and noted high crude prices raise gasoline prices He and commissioner C V Terrell pressed Secretary of the Interior to curb interstate shipments exceeding lawful allowances to halt violations of state laws
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longview
Tex
E. O. Thompson
Texas
Washington
Texas Passes Insurance Moratorium and Relief Funding Moves
Governor Miriam A Ferguson signs an emergency insurance moratorium bill effective immediately through December 31, 1933, with loan and cash surrender value withdrawal limits set by the State Insurance Commission. The Senate votes 19 to 5 to send Sen. Walter Woodul to Washington for relief funds talks with the RFC.
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Austin
U.P
Miriam A. Ferguson
Texas
State Insurance Commission
Senate
Walter Woodul
Houston
Washington, D. C
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Strongest Settling Quake in California
A powerful settling earthquake shook Southern California today the strongest in ten days. No damage was reported and residents across the quake zone were awakened by the tremor lasting several seconds. Long Beach police said the shock was fairly severe with no damage or injuries.
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Los Angeles
California
Long Beach
Negro Attack Suspect Hunt Ends In Death At Jail Yard
In Conroe Texas three black suspects in a terrorism case were jailed as a slain man lay in the jail yard. Ranger L A Eaves shot Manuel Henry after a resisted arrest. Miss Adele Torain viewed the body and doubted Henry was the killer of William Porch Jr. and assault victim in Houston. A 2,000 strong crowd gathered at the jail before dispersing.
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Conroe
Texas
Manuel Henry
Wigginsville
William W. Porch Jr
Houston
Monay
Adele Torain
Henry
L. A. Eaves
Huntsville
Willis
Miss Torain
Miss Torian
Birds Trapping and Dyeing Case Ended by Judge
In Little Rock on March 30 Tom Redman kept canaries and Mexican finches, trapping sparrows nearby and selling bright birds. Police followed him as customers, found cages and dye materials, and he admitted selling birds for a dollar each or more in pairs. Municipal Judge Harb dismissed the case for lack of misrepresentation evidence.
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Little Rock
Ark
Tom Redman
Redman
Harb
Brui sed Fli er Pair Rescued From Jungle
Puerto Cabezas Nicaragua March 30 two flyers from Dallas and New Orleans were rescued by a United States army amphibian plane after a forced landing in jungle due to engine trouble. They were uninjured but cut, bitten by insects, and weak from lack of food and water. They had been sighted on the Cuculaya River and were paddled to safety with aid from local Indians who supplied a canoe and food.
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Puerto Cabezas
Nicaragua
W. A. Flowers
Dallas
Harry Scott
New Orleans
Managua
United States Army
Cuculaya River
Whitehead
Waunta Lagoon
Flowers
Cuvalaya River
Woodin Joins Senate Banking Panel Urgently Invited
William H. Woodin, newly confirmed secretary of the treasury, arrived for a Senate banking committee meeting. An aide stopped him at the door as reporters noted the scene. Woodin laughed and remained in the doorway before entering the executive session.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
William H. Woodin
the Treasury
Woodin
Hitler hears plea of Jews as boycott looms
Berlin reports Jews appeal to Hitler and President von Hindenburg to halt a nationwide anti Jewish boycott set for Saturday. Outbreaks cause damage to Jewish businesses while the Nazi party condemns vandalism and the radical faction shows strength. In Paris French Jews protest anti German actions with boycotts signs and mass meetings.
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Berlin
Germany
Hitler
von Hindenburg
National Socialist Party
Ile
Naz Party
Wilhelm Frick
Hermann Goering
Joseph Goebbels
Paris
A L Ridings Seriously Ill at Son's Home Here
A L Ridings, an early Panhandle settler, is seriously ill at his son Steve Ridings home 516 Monroe Street. Ill for a week, he was not expected to live early Thursday morning but improved briefly before noon.
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A. L. Rid‘zus
Panhandle
Steve Ridings
Monroe Street
Mr. Ridings
Rescued Miner Dies After 100 Hours Entombed
John Cheelock Jr., 27, was trapped in an abandoned Mt Carmel mine for over a day and a half. He died early today, twelve hours after rescuers brought him to the surface.
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MT. Carmel
U.P
John Cheelock, Jr
Here
Attractive Rent Ad Offers Quick Occupancy
Advertisement urges landlords to rent out a house by highlighting added conveniences. It promotes placing the ad for 3 or 7 days at a special rate to turn vacancy into occupancy and solve rent problems.
Wanderers Seek Shelter As Amarillo Hotels Struggle
Women and children join the ranks of night wanderers in Amarillo using the city free hotel. An average of 50 to 75 guests nightly is reported as a man and wife seek sleep, and a Los Angeles girl hitchhiking to Denver rests in the city hall court room. She recalls witnessing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s assassination attempt and describes the mob's roar. A whole family and others are trekking across the continent seeking work or relatives. Three men were injured attempting to board trains for tree rides, including Clyde Meadows, 24, of Livingston Tennessee, treated at Northwest Texas Hospital.
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Amarillo
Florida
Denver
Corporation
Corporation Court Room At the City Hall
Los Angeles
Clyde Meadows
Livingston
Tenn
Pirst Avenue
Tyler Street
Northwest Texas Hospital
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Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
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Lee Pierson
TECH
Ferguson
School Board
New Norge
Chuck Collins
Mary-Margaret Cafeteria
Thompson
Lonnie Alsup
Carthage
Coke Stevenson
Hunt
Mr. Throttlebottom
Mr. Wood
Mile
Galina Lazarino
Europe
Italy
Austria
Hungary
France
A. L. Ridings
Son
N. Taylor
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Zangara
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