Mrs Miller Services Set In Brazos County Tex
The obituary notes Mrs. Miller daughter of a Battle of San Jacinto veteran and wife of Confederate veteran W B Miller. She leaves a son in Texas and another in Claude plus two daughters in Amarillo, 13 grandchildren and five great granchildren. Burial via Griggs and Sons.
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Brazos County
Tex
San Jacinto
W. EB. Miller
Johnson County
W. M. Miller
Claude
Maggie Slay
Ora Trice
Amarillo
Marvin Miller
Lubbock
Marian Miller
West Texas State College
Don Wood
Roger Shook
W. E. Trice
Edna Trice
New Orleans
Harrison Trice
SMU
Olin M. Slay
Joseph
Joe Proctor
Erwin
Alva
Roy Slay
Jackson Street
N. 5S, Griggs and Sons
Relief Bill Advances for WPA Funding in Eight Months
House appropriations subcommittees reported approving President Roosevelt's request to spend 975 million dollars for the WPA and Farm Security Administration in eight months starting July 1. The bill will go to the full committee and then the House is set to begin debate. critics warn it could raise annual relief to 1.5 billion. A funeral service for Mrs. M. J. Miller will be held tomorrow at 2 PM from her son's home. she died at 88 after over 50 years in the Panhandle.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Farm Security Administration
Appropriations Committee
Altrusa Club Welcomes International President in Amarillo
Mrs Dessalee Ryan Dudley, international president of the Altrusa Club, arrives tomorrow afternoon from a Pacific Coast conference en route to New York City. She will attend a 7 o’clock luncheon at Dr Nan Gilkerson’s home 3205 Polk Street and be met by Amarillo club officers. Dudley, a noted educator and general supervisor in New York City Public Schools, has written for education magazines and several children's books. She is a member of multiple national organizations. All Altrusa members are urged to attend.
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Dessalee Ryan Dudley
Altrusa Club
Amarillo
Nan Gilkerson
Polk Street
Dudley
TWA
Pacific Coast
New York City
Amarillo Club
American Association of University Women
League of Women Voters
National Education Association
Association For Childhood Education
The
American Legion Auxiliary
Losses From Sickness and Accidents Among U S Workers
American workers lose about six and a half billion dollars yearly due to sickness and accidents not covered by workers compensation. An average of five million are invalided daily by sickness and half a million by accidents. Life insurance beneficiaries receive about fifty two million dollars annually.
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American Life Convention
C. L. Copeland
The
Southwestern Life Insurance Company
Indictment of Utility Magnate in New York
New York May 9 4 How ard Hopson a founder of the Associated Gas and Electric System was indicted by a federal grand jury for alleged unlawful profits over 20 million dollars in securities. Charged with Hopson are Charles M Travis Garrett A Brownback former system bankers Frederick S Burroughs and system lawyers. Indictment claims mail fraud and conspiracy to defraud the investing public and holders of Associated system subsidiary securities.
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New York
Howard
Hopson
Associated Gas and Electric System
Charles M. Travis
Garrett A. Brownback
System
Frederick S. Burroughs
Associated Company
Associated System
Parsons Returns to Cullum Motor in Amarillo
B C Parsons resumes work with Cullum Motor Company in Amarillo after three years away. He left Cullum in 1936 to run a West Seventh Avenue fish market, then joined Ace Cutlery in San Francisco and toured over 30 states before returning to Lubbock and then rejoining Cullum in Amarillo.
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B. C. Parsons
Amarillo
Cullum Motor Company
Mr. Parsons
Cullum
West Seventh Avenue
Ace Cutlery Company
San Francisco
Lubbock
Defense test to begin in Mexico City with new tanks
The department of national defense announced that eleven days of defense tests will start Saturday to evaluate Mexico City defenses using newly acquired tanks anti tank guns and anti aircraft artillery.
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Mexico City
Department of National Defense
Joe Adonis Surrenders in Brooklyn Kidnapping Case
Joe Adonis, a long-sought gangster, surrendered today in Brooklyn to Special Assistant Attorney General John Harlan Amen. He faces charges of kidnapping extortion and assault as part of District Attorney William O'Dwyer's probe into Murder Incorporated, a homicide syndicate said to have carried out at least 50 killings for as little as one dollar per head.
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New York
Joe Adonis
John Harlan Amen
Brooklyn
William O’dwyer
Murder, Incorporated
French Report Patrols Repulsed East of Moselle
Paris dispatch reports May 9 that enemy patrols east of the Moselle were repulsed by French infantry and artillery fire in the region.
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Paris
Moselles
Four Thoroughbreds Die in Farm Fire at Timber Lawn Farm
Four thoroughbred stallions named Flying Heels Kiev Ane roid and Set. Byrne died in a barn fire at FE. K. Thomas Timber lawn farm near Paris Kentucky. Fire swept the barn trapping the horses and sources estimate losses may exceed 100000 dollars.
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Paris
Kentucky
Blue Grass
FE. K. Thomas’ Timber
Lawn Farm
Flying Heels
Kiev
Set
Byrne
George Turner Returns to Amarillo From California
George Turner owner of the Star Barber Shop at 113 West Seventh Avenue has returned from California after two years running a tourist camp in Santa Barbara. He plans to stay in Amarillo and has bought a home at 3704 Van Buren Street. He is resuming golf on local courses and notes the new Ross Rogers course is tougher.
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George Turner
Star
West Seventh Avenue
California
Santa Barbara
Amarillo
van Buren Street
George
Ross Rogers
Santa Anita
Pro and Anti Hitler Fights Break Out on Broadway
Pro and anti Hitler sentiment caused clashes at two Broadway spots in New York. At Columbus Circle a soap box speaker praised Hitler, a woman objected, a man spectator kicked her, and all three were arrested after about 200 spectators joined the melee. At the Newsreel Theater two Swedish men booed Hitler, drawing objections from a lawyer and a salesman. about 20 others joined in the disorderly conduct arrests.
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New York
Broadway
Columbus Circle
Hitler
Hearing Restored by Loud Speech in House Debate
Rep. Leonard W. Schuetz, Democrat Illinois, says a sudden blast of Rep. John Taber's voice during wage and hour debate restored hearing in his deaf left ear. He reports dizziness but credits the dramatic sound for the recovery after years of failed treatment.
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Washington
John Taber
New York
Leonard W. Schuetz
Illinois
Schuetz
Taber
Son of Pilot Delighted Believing Train Appears
Otis Bryan Jr five shouted there is a train as Capt Otis Bryan Jr stepped from the first stratoliner landing at Kansas City municipal airport. The boy ran toward a whistle while his father piloted the famed plane.
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Kansas City
Otis Bryan, Jr
Capt
Otis Bryan
Bryan
Junior
Chinese Claim Defeat of Jap Advance Troops
Chinese reports say Japanese troops advancing in northern Hupeh and southern Henan were intercepted and beaten back. The Chinese claimed use of tanks and planes by the Japanese campaigners.
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Hongkong
Hupeh
Henan
Lewis to Run Open 24 Hour Gas Station in Texas
Lewis will oversee a downtown gas station with five employees and no front door lock to ensure 24 hour public access. He is a Dixie Products wholesaler and retailer, also running the Lewis Gas Mart at Third Avenue and Johnson Street. The station serves numerous buses and trucks and is among Texas largest by gallonage, dispensing thousands of gallons daily.
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Mr. le
Warthey in Versailles Treaty and British leadership debate
Richard K. Law urged new leadership before recess comparing Chamberlain to Asquith as a part time wartime premier. A new registration affects 19 year olds and 27 to 36 year olds, raising those liable to 4.5 million. The government plans stringent actions against espionage sabotage and fifth column activity, including death penalty in a bill for Parliament consideration.
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Richard K. Law
Bonar Law
Chamberlain
H. H. Asquish
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M. J. Miller
Panhandle
BE. T
Dusty” Miller
C. ©. Grimes
Polk Street Methodist Church
Ben Stone
Gib Landis
Ed Watson
Liano Cemetery
Miller
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