British May 8 final say on tariff truce fates in Commons
In London Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald signalled Britain will insist safeguards to protect its tariff position before backing the U S proposed tariff truce. Belgium meanwhile formally pledged unqualified support, aiding talks ahead of the world economic conference in London.
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London
America
Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
MacDonald
Britain
Japan
Norman H. Davis
Tsuneo Matsudaira
Washington
Belgium
United States
William Phillips
State Department
Phillips
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Kidnaping Two Harwich Brothers Held on High Bonds
Two Harwich brothers Kenneth Buck and Cyril Buck were ordered held on $100,000 bail each for kidnaping and extortion in the Peggy McMath case. Peggy was recovered unharmed three days after her abduction from Harwich Center School. Ransom of $60,000 was paid and recovered. prosecutors seek a grand jury review before a May 22 hearing.
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Provincetown
Mass
Harwich
Peggy McMath
Robert A. Welsh
Kenneth Buck
Cyril
Peggy
Neil C. McMath
Kenneth
Harwich Center
Pegey
Ernest Bradford
William C. Crossley
Walter Perley Hall
State Superior Court
Barnstable County
French cabinet blocks US debt payment without moratorium
Paris reports the French cabinet united in opposing paying the United States the December interest on the debt without securing a moratorium on the June 15 payment. In Washington, Senate action approved the administration relief bill and a plan to remonetize silver, while debates over code security and railroad reorganization continued.
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Paris
May
United States
Washington
Senate
House
Wheeler
World Economic Conference
Johnson
California
Californian
Oklahoma Lads Due Here for Job Test
Sixty Beckham County boys left Sayre for Amarillo Texas for a reforestation job test. Trucks from Elk City Erick and Sayre carried recruits. They will undergo a physical exam by a U S Army recruiter. Passers go to Fort Sill for a second exam and possible enlistment in the work relief army for Southwest reforestation camps.
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Oklahoma
Sayre
Okla
Beckham County
Amarillo
Texas
Elk City
Erick
U. S. Army
Fort Sill
Oklo
Means and The Fox Go On Trial For Lindbergh Kidnaping Conspiracy
Gas ton B. Means and Norman T. Whitaker known as The Fox faced a trial in the District of Columbia Supreme Court on a conspiracy charge tied to the Lindbergh kidnapping. The case alleges an $35,000 fraud against Evalyn Walsh McLean after Means had previously swindled her out of $104,000 under a claim to recover the Lindbergh child. Means is already serving a lengthy sentence for the prior swindle.
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Washington
Gaston B. Means
Norman T. Whitaker
the Fox
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Lindbergh
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Means
Running Mint Of U. S. Left Up to Women
Washington May 8 U P Nellie Tayloe Ross named director of the United States mint prompts talk on women in government Yet Miss Mary M O Reilly has guided mint affairs for over twenty years and may have run the three mints seven assay offices and two billion dollars in coinage Most action centers on a possible silver coinage program tied to farm relief to reach two hundred million dollars
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Washington
U.P
Nelle Tayloe Ross
United States Mint
Ross
Mint
Mary M. O'Reilly
Gandhi freed as he begins unconditional fast in Poona
Poona India May 8 Mahatma Gandhi released from prison hours after starting a three week unconditional fast. Doctors warned the fast could prove fatal though Gandhi vowed to endure for his anti untouchability protest. He has been jailed since January 4 1932 for civil disobedience against British rule.
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Poona
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Brisbane Column on Dollar, Markets and Censorship
Arthur Brisbane notes stock gains after a cheaper dollar and argues inflationary dollars should be invested. He observes the British pound rising to four dollars amid shifting global sentiment and mentions Hitler’s drive to purge German libraries, with Franz Boas among those barred.
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Stock Exchange
Hitler
Germany
Franz Boas
Columbia University
New York
Arms Envoy Saves Disarmament Talks At Geneva
Hugh L. Wilson, American delegate, averted adjournment of the world disarmament conference in Geneva by stressing County Nathony’s declaration that Germany has not ruled out transforming the Reichswehr into a conscript army. The steering committee debated limiting air material as progress faltered on army size and character.
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Geneva
Hugh L. Wilson
County Nathony
Germany
Reichswehr
Wilson
Five Die As Tornado Hits Tipton County Tennessee
A tornado swept through Tipton County Tennessee injuring 35 and killing five people including Stanley A. Deverell 3 Mattie Cook 45 and Fan Ethel Reed 16 along with two unidentified Black victims in the Charleston area. Aubrey Deverell and his wife were hospitalized with the mother listed in serious condition.
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Covington
Tenn
Tipton County
Stanley A. Deverell
Mattie Cook
Ethel Reed
Charleston
Aubrey Deverell
Memphis
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Tuesday with cooler temperatures. West Texas areas west of the 160th meridian remain generally fair and cooler, while the north portion Tuesday cools. New Mexico sees fair skies with cooler east and extreme north portions, frost tonight in the north, and highs reaching 53 to 78 this afternoon to 1 PM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
160Th Meridian
New Mexico
Former Ranger Found Shot After Domestic Quarrel
Ted Lewis a 45 year old former State Ranger and Denton County sheriff and night watchman at Continental Bank was found shot to death in a basement washroom. Mrs Lewis said she and Lewis quarreled and she struck him before police were summoned. Justice of the Peace planned to take a statement from Mrs Lewis.
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Fort Worth
Ted Lewis
Denton County
Continental Bank
D. E. Hoblit
Hoblit
Crude Buyers Cut Prices to 25 Cents a Barrel
Tulsa reports several buyers reduced crude oil prices to 25 cents per barrel in line with a flat 25 cent mandate issued last week by Stanolind Sinclair Prairie and other agencies. Leading cuts came from Empire Pipeline El Dorado Refining Midcontinent Petroleum Rock Island Refining Anderson Prichard Champlin Yale Johnson Skelly and others.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Kansas
Stanolind-Sinclair Prairie
Empire Pipeline
el Dorado Refining
Midcontinent Petroleum
Rock Island Refining
Anderson-Prichard Petroleum
Champlin Refining
Yale Refining
Johnson Oil and Refining
Skelly Oil Companies
Quarter Century Lapse in Practice Costs Rider
C. C. Waggoner aged 65 returned to biking after 25 years at a Fort Worth academy near a city park. He rode to a creek where slippery banks toppled him causing a dislocated shoulder and possible fractures. X rays are ongoing.
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Fort Worth
U.P
C. C. Waggoner
Waggoner
Miller Executed in Nevada Gas Chamber for Las Vegas Murder
Carson City report states Ray Elmer Miller became the sixth inmate to be executed in the state's lethal gas chamber. He was put to death for the murder of his wife in Las Vegas five months earlier.
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Carson City
Nev
Nevada
Ray Elmer Miller
Las Vegas
Prison escapee Roland Haley recaptured in Tenaha Texas
Roland Haley who escaped April 19 from a Palestine jail where he was held for Springfield Missouri bank robbery was recaptured today along with two other men at Tenaha Texas after a brief pursuit and surrender by local officers.
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Nab
Tex
Roland Haley
Palestine
Springfield
Tenaha
Texas
Nationalist Leader Ends Life as Hitler Rouses Nazis
In Kiel on May 8 Chancellor Hitler stirred 30,000 storm troopers while nationalist Reichstag floor leader Dr. Ernst Oberfahren killed himself in a separate city area. Oberfahren, allied with Hitler's party, was accused of monarchist plotting as Hitler blamed 1918 traitors for Germany’s war defeat and cited 8 million unemployed.
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Kiel
Germany
Hitler
Ernst Oberfahren
Reichstag
Oberfohren
National Socialists
House HITS AT OIL HEAD PLAN IN TEXAS
The Texas House adopted a resolution urging President Roosevelt to avoid appointing a federal oil dictator, mirroring a Senate action. Rep Gordon Burns charged big oil interests push for control. House defeated sine die adjournment and a home rule charter bill was introduced risking a constitutional amendment.
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Austin
Texas House of Representatives
Senate
Roosevelt
House
Texas
Gordon Burns
Huntsville
Senate committee backs bill criminalizing railroad oil orders
The Texas Senate Criminal Jurisprudence Committee unanimously adopts a favorable report on a House bill making it a criminal offense to violate railroad commission oil production orders. The measure advances to the Senate calendar for final consideration this week. Potential penalties include misdemeanor or felony for overproduction rules and related violations.
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Austin
U.P
Senate Committee On Criminal Jurisprudence
House
Railroad Commission
Senate
Want Ads Spur Quick Results in Local Paper
Classified notices boast success with ads for trade furniture wanted rent and items. Readers are urged to place Want Ads to reach 32 000 people and save with Special 3 day and weekly rates at 6262.
Robbers Kidnap Officials as Prague Bank Robbed
Three men held two Prague National Bank officials and a customer in the vault and kidnapped two more officials. They escaped with about 1500 dollars in a two door sedan, releasing the kidnaped men unharmed about a mile south of town. The robbery occurred before an alarm could be sounded and no shots were fired.
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Prague
Okla
Prague National Bank
Magnolia price cuts and canyon plan headlined in Texas
Magnolia Petroleum cuts oil prices across Texas fields to a flat 25 20 and 23 cent levels while Hunt Production withdraws its petition in a federal court dispute. Meanwhile officials tour Palo Duro Canyon for a proposed 30 mile scenic highway Goodnight Trail and state park plans move forward with right of way efforts and inspections.
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Dallas
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Texas
East Texas
Burkburnett
Archer
Stephens
Henrietta
Electra
Comanche
Olden
Mexia
Wortham
Corsicana Light
Panola County
Panhandle
Carson
Hutchison
West Texas
Winkler
Crane
Upton
Howard
Glasscock
Mitchell
Darat Creek
Miranda
Luling
Corsicana
Lytton Springs
Palo Duro Canyon
D. E H. Colp
Texas State Parks Board
Austin
Colp
John Pritchett
Texas Board of Water Engineers
Highway Department
Palo Duro Committee
Amarillo
Canyon
Claude
Atte
Armstrong County
Goodnight
Colonel Chas
Palo Duro
Harvard Philosopher George Palmer Dies at 91
Cambridge obituary states George Herbert Palmer, Harvard’s oldest faculty member, died at 91. He spent 66 years with the university as student and educator and was famed for his philosophy work and his translation of The Odyssey.
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Cambridge
Mass
U.P
George Herbert Palmer
Harvard
University
Palmer
Chinese oil promoter plans to stay in Shanghai for oil wells
Julian, an oil promoter sought by Oklahoma authorities in a fraud case, said from Shanghai he intends to remain in China to develop oil wells. He voiced no alarm at efforts to extradite him.
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Shanghai
Julian
Oklahoma
China
Mills Raise Wages 10 Percent in Greenwood Area
Five cotton mills in Greenwood South Carolina and nearby announced a ten percent wage hike effective immediately. Several hundred workers nationwide will benefit from the rise as of May 8.
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Greenwood
S. C
Liberal Rail Line Shut and Beaver River Washout
Freight and passenger service on the Rock Island between Amarillo and Liberal Kan has been suspended because of a washout on the Beaver River near Hardesty Okla. Flood waters from the north caused the damage Sunday night and a resume date is not known.
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Rock Island
Amarillo
Liberal
Kan
Beaver River
Hardesty
Oklo
Lindberghs Delay For Better Skies
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh postpone departure from Columbus to Washington due to heavy weather. They will stay until conditions eastward improve after morning inspection of forecasts.
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Lindberghs
Columbus
Washington
Col
Mra
Charles A. Lindbergh
National Capital
Czar's buried treasures to be reclaimed
The London Herald reports treasure worth about £2,000,000 tied to Nicholas I and Russian nobles will be recovered at Sverdlovsk on the Asiatic side of the Urals. After negotiations with the Soviet government, one quarter of the cache may go to the owners’ London agent and representatives.
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London
London Herald
Nicholas I
Sverdlovek
Ural Mountains
Sverdlovsk
Ekaterinaberg
Herald
Russia
Sverdiovsk
Laps Launch Drive With Artillery Show
Japanese forces opened heavy artillery bombardment in Miyunhien sector north of Peiping as they prepared a possible southward thrust toward the city. American and British interests are centered on Peiping and Tientsin amid intensifying frontline actions and potential casualties. In Manchuria a Soviet customs director was arrested at Pogranichnaya with several subordinates amid border guard actions toward Vladivostok.
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Peiping
China
Miyunhsien
Great Wall
Harbin
Manchuria
Pogranichnaya
Manchoukuo
Vladivistok
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W.P
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Globe
Brisbane
Tennessee
Globe-News
Selty
Louisiana
West Fifth Ave
A. C. Bell
M. E. Coleman
C. C. Bush
E. R. Thomas
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Bert
Harris
Associated Press
Barnstable
Margaret McMath
Magnolia
National Reforestation Service
Czar
Peiping and
Tientsin
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