Sing Sing Warden doubts Texas mutilation reports
Warden Lewis E. Lawes said convicts maiming themselves at a Texas prison farm to avoid work is unlikely without full testimony. He noted factors in the case while replying to Houston press inquiries about alleged brutalities at the Texas prison farm.
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Houston
Lewis E. Lawes
Sing Sing
Lee Simmons
Texas Vison
Retrieve Farm
Lawes
Texas
Sing Sing Prison
England
All-Expense Mexico Train Appeal Promises Scenic Rail Trek
A promotional railroad feature details an elaborate Santa Fe route from Amarillo to Mexico with deluxe cars and sightseeing stops at Austin San Antonio Nuevo Laredo Monterrey and more. It highlights Mexico’s attractions and favorable dollar peso exchange while noting safety and comfort aboard the railcars.
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Mexico City
Amarillo
Globe- News
Rotary Club
Santa Fe
Delux
Fred Harvey
Amarilla
Austin
San Antonio Nuevo Laredo
Monterrey
Aguas Calientes
Zacatecas
Ciudad Juarez
Albuquerque
Mexico
Chihuahua
United States
Germany
Italy
France
Tom Gallaher
Santa Fe General
Gallaher
National Railways System of
U. S
Mason King
Mason
Way Cleared for Approval of Big Batch of Recovery Program Jobs
President Roosevelt orders the start of a large action plan to select about four billion dollars in relief projects. Harry Hopkins gains power to supervise progress, with Gravis leading checks on past PWA spending and Ickes coordinating a broad job creation effort.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Ickes
Progress Division
Work Relief Organization
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Louis R. Gravis
PWA
Louder Please closes successful season for Little Theater group
The Little Theater closes its eighth season with the final performance of Louder, Please at the Municipal Auditorium. About 200 participants contributed across four main plays Herod Growing Pains Little Women and The Whole Towns Talking plus the season finale Louder Please. Tol Avery heads the cast with Oma Link Rowley as set designer and Eloise Gipson as director.
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Little Theater Group
Herod
Growing Pains
Eloise Gipson
Oma Link Rowley
College Here Plans to Have Engineers Day
Amarillo College will stage its first annual Engineers Day on Thursday with moving pictures and demonstrations across electrical, chemical, physical, and mathematical topics. Highlights include a giant Tesla coil with over 1,000,000 volt arcs powering a motor of one-thousandth horsepower, directed by E. Milton Boone and assisted by Lloyd Farnsworth and Victor Glenn.
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Amarillo College Engineering
Lloyd Farnsworth
Victor Glenn
Junior College Engineering Society
Eldridge J Harris Rites Held at Canyon Farm Home
Final tribute to Eldridge J Harris 21 was paid at 2 pm services held at the family farm home eight miles southwest of Canyon. Christian Science rites were conducted with burial planned at Dreamland Cemetery under Griggs-Thompson Funeral Home. He was found dead in his bed yesterday morning and is survived by his parents Mr and Mrs J A Harris a brother Thomas and a sister Pauline.
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Eldridge J. Harris
Canyon
Christian Scientist
Dreamland Cemetery
Griggs-Thompson Funeral Home
Young Harris
J. A. Harris
Amarillo
Thomas Harris
Pauline Harris
Panhandle Bankers Convene in Amarillo June 18
The thirty first annual Panhandle Bankers Association convention will be held in Amarillo on June 18. The executive committee announced the event and includes F A Paul president DeLea Vicars vice president J Ross Noland secretary Alvin Hill treasurer and C A Gibner past president.
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the Panhandle Bankers Association
Amarillo
F. A. Paul
DeLea Vicars
J. Ross Noland
Alvin Hill
C. A. Gibner
Railroad Co ordinator Fastman Call for Free Rails or Regulation
Free railroads or regulate competitors, says RFC coordinator Fastman. RFC Chairman Jesse Jones urges regulating trucks and buses to aid railroad earnings and provide a more hopeful outlook.
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Fastman
RFC
Jesse Jones
Positive Relief For Itchy Skin Ointment Advertisement
Cooling blue Star Ointment melts on skin delivering medicines into pores to kill itch tetter rash eczema foot itch ringworm. Money back if first jar fails.
President orders rules for new program from key divisions
The progress division the applications division led by Frank Walker and the allotment division headed by Secretary Ickes were ordered by the President to submit for his approval all rules needed to implement the program.
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Frank ©. Walker
Ickes
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