Weather and wind linger as dust storm days persist
The column mocks weather forecasts by Old Tack, predicting continued wind and dust with little rain, while noting a brief lull this evening. It reports ongoing drought ahead of next week and mentions funds being raised to test the Thornton Oxnard oil well near Amarillo, plus local notices of births and community efforts.
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Hell
Mr. Oxnard
Amarillo
Mississippi
Dalhart
Tex Thornton
Tex
Wilbur Hawk
Honest Tack
The
News-Globe
Childress Woman dies in Amarillo hospital
Miss Mary C. McCabe 70 of Childress died this morning in a local hospital while visiting her niece in Amarillo. She had been ill about a week and was a member of the Episcopal Church in Childress. Surviving are her brother Robert C. McCabe of New York City and sister Annie D. Davis of Childress. Burial will be in Childress tomorrow. body sent there tonight by N. B. Griggs funeral home.
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Mary C. McCabe
Childress
Smith
Hayden Street
Miss McCabe
Episcopal Church
Robert C. McCabe
New York City
Annie D. Davis
Griggs Funeral Home
Wanted to place dog on farm in good hands
Dear Tack readers seek a Cony Collie or Shepherd who can find a new home on a farm. Call 2 4242 or see George Strickland at 1016 West Seventh Avenue for details. Reader notes a mareed woman seeking ovens?
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Dear Tren
George Strickland
West Seventh Avenue
Denver Postmaster Prepares for Flood of Dime Letters
Denver Postmaster J O Stevie readied for another influx of dime letters as mail volume surged. A record day saw 550 093 letters canceled, with 114 substitute workers kept on amid rising interest in the chain letter craze. The Prosperity Club buzz spread from Kansas City to Sacramento as opponents urged Congress to curb gambling through the mails.
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Denver
J. O. Stevie
Stevie
Kansas City
Prosperity Club
Sacramento
Calif
State Assembly
Congress
Refuse Rehearing On Trust Oil Suit
The Texas Third Court of Civil Appeals refused the state a rehearing in the anti trust case against 15 major oil companies. The court ruled state anti trust statutes invalid due to an improper farm cooperative exemption. Attorney General William McCraw said an appeal would be taken to the Supreme Court.
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Austin
Third Court of Civil Appeals
William Mce- Craw
Supreme Court
Three Killed When Truck Overturns in Oklahoma
A truck carrying Mexican beet field workers overturned near Onapa Oklahoma injuring many. Three persons died and numerous others were hurt including two Mexican women identified as Mrs Joe H Jones and Ramona Vela with the latter unnamed initially. Joe H Jones a Dallas attorney attended federal court here. In a separate note, George W Huntress Jr was ousted from office after a jury found him incompetent following a two year sentence for county fund conversion.
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Muskogee
Okla
San Antonio
Tex
Mt Pleasant
Mich
Onapa
Here
Ramona Vela
Joe H. Jones
Dallas
Joe
Amarillo
Jones
U. S
Pegey Walker
United States District Attorney
George W. Huntress, Jr
Roosevelt Forms Rural Resettlement Division in Works Program
President Roosevelt ordered the creation of a rural resettlement division to administer the 4 billion works relief program. Rexford Tugwell will head the division to move people from unprofitable communities to better living areas. Norris Llewellyn Cooke will set up the rural electrification division as part of the program.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Rexford G Tugwell
Norris Llewellyn Cooke
Philadelphia
Aivision Cooke
Strikes Idle Three GM Plants Across Cincinnati Area
About 2300 workers at Chevrolet and Fisher plants in Cincinnati were idle in a sympathy strike with Toledo workers led by Toléo N Taylor. AFL organizer predicts all GM plants may close by January. Unrest also reported at Butek and Fister plants in Flint with talks ongoing in a two day closed conference.
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Chevrolet
Fisher
Farmers depart Midwest for Alaska homesteads voyage
In San Francisco on May 1, 287 men women and children left by the U S Army transport St Mihiel for a six day sea trip to Alaska. About 69 families take 105 children to 40 acre homesteads with $3000 credits to start self sufficiency. The St Mihiel will return to Seattle in about two weeks to collect another colonist group from Michigan and Wisconsin.
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San Francisco
United States
Alaska
St. Mihiel
Seattle
Michigan
Wisconsin
Palmer Carbon Co. Control to be Acquired by Western Carbon
In May 1947 it was reported that Palmer Carbon Co. of Texas will come under Western Carbon Co. a Columbian Carbon Co. subsidiary. Representatives from both sides were finalizing terms and an official consummation announcement was expected later the same day.
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New York
Palmer Carbon Co
Texas
Western Carbon Co
Columbian Carbon Co
Legislature confronts repeal and gas-use controls
The article reports on Senate criticism of House actions, a conference committee nearing agreement on repeal, and the shift to a Senate plan to regulate utilities. Governor Allred’s signature could curb wasteful natural gas use, with sour gas restrictions starting October 1 1935 and adjustments allowed for 90 days while the state railroad commission implements production limits.
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Woodruff
Senate
House
Ben O'Neal
Wichita Falls
Emmett Morse
Houston
R. H. Montgomery
University of Texas
Allred
Texas
U. S
May Day warning from Soviet leader contrasts armies
The Tag newspaper from Sofia reported a clash at Enino in Kazan district northeastern Bulgaria on Orthodox Easter Day. Three policemen and five Communists were killed as police dispersed a Communist demonstration with firearms. Between 10 and 15 others were seriously wounded.
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Vienna
Tag
Sofit
Enino
Kazan
Bulgaria
Wheat harvest expected near national average this year
The United States is projected to produce about 600 million bushels of wheat, below the long term average of 860.9 million. Rain in the East boosts Indiana to a potentially record wheat crop while the eastern Dakotas show strong yields and Montana's crop is fair though the West Coast lags.
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United States
Indiana
South
North Dakota
Montana
Swain- Gefetse comments during executive session
The report quotes Swain discussing potential action against a foreign nation and notes uncertainty about how investigations would proceed. It mentions clerks in his office and references an executive session of the committee where Caradian herder and Arie are noted in attendance.
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McSwaitt
Arie
den Chares Kiibourne
Sommitres
Easy Money cases dominate Amarillo indictments
A federal grand jury in Amarillo returned 40 indictments as U S District Attorney Clyde Eastus prosecutes over 30 convictions, with narcotics targets leading to guilty pleas from three doctors and a druggist. Indicted youths linked to Chicago car thefts face multiple charges while a Fort Worth rescuer earns a bronze medal for aiding a burning resident in 1934.
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U.S
Clyde O. Eastus
Wilson
Joe H. Jones
Alex Mood
Eastus
George
Chicago
Amarillo
Kostur
Rolicky
Kastus
Frank Novak
Henry Lewanski
Edward Zywczak
Zywczak
Kloesel
Littlefield
Weldon J. Allen
Fort Worth
Amelia L. Williams
Martins handwriting tied to threatening letters
Lindy police linked the threats to Martin after comparing handwriting from the silk mill where he worked. Envelopes showed no return addresses, but ultraviolet tests revealed the mill herd imprint. Martin admitted possible authorship and faced arraignment on a state threat law violation.
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Martin
Night
Panhandle press gathering to honor highway officials
Officials from Channing and Stinnett have made appointments for the Panhandle Press Association meeting to be held in Dalhart. Mr Hines and Mr Gilchrist of the state planning board will attend a Friday luncheon and the newspapermen’s gridiron banquet that night. Sessions run two days with headquarters at the Herring Hotel. The Crystal Ballroom hosts the luncheon and banquet. Gilchrist will speak on Highway Beautification to the Panhandle newspapermen.
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Channing
Stinnett
Hines
Gilchrist
State Planning Board
Panhandle Press Association
Chamber of Commerce
Dalhart
Herring Hotel
Crystal Ballroom
Panhandle
Stoll Targeted in Extortion Plot in Memphis
Berry V. Stoll, a Louisville oil magnate, was named as the intended victim in an extortion scheme to reveal the whereabouts of Nashville kidnapper Thomas H. Robinson Jr. A man, W. O. Cook, 24, was held for questioning by police and postal authorities after arrest at a Memphis hotel.
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Memphis, Tenn
Berry V. Stoll
Louisville
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Nashville
Stoll
W. O. Cook
Hitler Urges Unity as Germany Embraces a "New People"
Hitler proclaims Germany has become a new people and calls on citizens to tighten community bonds. He admits Germany lacks raw materials and capital but emphasizes sacrifice, low wages, and high taxes to strengthen the nation, insisting the greatest asset is the German people.
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Hitler
Germany
Reichsfuehrer
Lords Debate German Rearmament Sparks Defense
In London on May 1, peers in the House of Lords defended Germanys re armament amid a lively debate. The Associated Press report notes several peers voiced support for re arming Germany as a bulwark in European security.
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Associated Press
London
Germany
House of Lords
Market Summary of Livestock and Cotton Futures
Kansas City hogs and cattle markets show mixed to steady opening trade with higher hogs at $7.90 to $8.65 for 140-350 lb hogs and cattle mostly steady to higher on killing classes. New Orleans cotton futures wobble in narrow range with July near 11.76 and October 11.22 as trading pauses. April exports report shows 313,675 bales. Stocks list names several industrials and commodity firms in early trading.
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Kansas City
Arizona
New Orleans
Canada
Virginia
Abilene
Unclear fragmented page with scattered company names
Fragmented OCR shows mentions of Westinghouse Woolworth Humble Oil Penn Road and Standard of India with percentages and codes, but no coherent event. The readable items are isolated business names and numbers without a clear narrative or date.
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Bervica
Cuveae
Guit
Humble Oil
Bim
Penn Road
India
Bwitt & Co. Icc
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H. A Pugh
Gene Howe Pugh
Mr. Howe
Mrs. Pugh
Russell Street
Mobeetie
R W. Jarbeaux
Corpus Christi
Tack
Texas Press Association
Jack Dempsey
North Carolina
Dempsey
United States Senate
George Norris
Nebraska
Pennsylvania
New York State
Massachusetts
New Mexico
Alabama
Arkansas
James Buchanan
Ripley
England
Crafts Street
W.H. Fuqua
NRA
Harrison
William E. Borah
Republican
Idaho
Donald R. Richberg
Soviet Union
M Swain
Floyd McKennon
McKennon
Amarilla
Fastus
Potter County
Arthur and
Hayes
Vandervere
Ark
Memphis
Eimerit
Fast Texas
St Louis
Arthur
State Penitentiary
Lindy
FE. A. Pierce
BE. A. Pierce and Co
C.I. T. ‘ - Alesha Juneau
Allis Chalmers
Armour &O
Atchison
Top & S
Auburn Auto R
Barnsdall Oil
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel Borden
Briggs Marine Canada Dry
Dr. Pierce
A. N. A Alston
Maskowes
Bat
Ar Paidster
Westen Union
Westinghouse
Woolworth
Cscs
NEW York Carrs
Feland
Columb Gas
Elec
Sree
Dome Mines
du Pont
E— Eastman Kadek
E— Eastman Kadek Wene Beewe 190% 198 Elee Auto-Lite
Elee
Um Firestone
Foster Wheeler
Gen Foods
Gen Motors
Gillette Razor
Goordiech
Goodyear Sedbereters
Great Northern RR
Great West Sugar Pi
Houston Oil
Kennecott
Kresge
Kroger Grace & Bak
Loew's Inc
Lorillard 20N, Ot Ont Magna Conner 194 12 Mid-Cent Petrol Mo Kan Texan RR
My Aly
Montgomery-Ward
Ant
Nat Distillers
National Steel
Central Ginkape North Amer Aviation
TRAY
North American Co
Northern Pacific
Ohio Oil We Packard Penreene
Ax Penney Co
Paneer
Denne
U S Rubber
Ith
Ni S Steel
U S Steel
Carter
Regent
M.ca
Clinton
Wall Street
Smart New Belloon
Anthony Trini
CW. Ramsey, Jr
7Th Avenue
31St Street
BAD Bonet
Door Dee
Pennsylvania Staton
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