Debs Bow Before Queen Mary, Wales
London crowds missed the annual debutante presentation as palace gates opened early and autos carried debutantes to a secluded inner quadrangle. Nine American women were presented, and King George was replaced by the Prince of Wales due to rheumatism in a shoulder.
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London
Palace
Molly Flagg
Far Hills
N. J
Robert Frazer
Philadelphia
Betty Golson
Richmond
Anne and
Marion Howerd
Hannah Locke
Grace Roberts
Coronado
Calif
Reginald A. F. Williams
Beatrice Candler Cobb
New York
George
Prince of Wales
Queen Mary
Buckingham Palace
Charlotte Lyman
Ronald T. Lyman
Boston
Mollie Flagg
Harold Fowler
Tony van Horn
Virginia Kent
Ardmore
A. Atwater Kent
Associated Press
Federal Spring Crop Loans Renew Monday
Federal spring crop loans closed on April 30 will be reopened Monday for Panhandle Plains producers. Applications run through May 31 and loans supplement the new 300 dollar maximum for summer fallowing. The move follows Panhandle relief efforts and statements by Congressman Jones and Senator Connally that extension would be granted.
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United States
Panhandle Plains
Panhandle
Hill
John E. Hill
The
Panhandle Lumber Company
Panhandle Farm Relief Committee
Owen W. Sherrill
Dallas
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Sherill
Marvin Jones
Tom Connally
Department
Joan Crawford Testifies and Wins Divorce Today
Joan Crawford, the actress, testified in a Los Angeles superior court and won a divorce from Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Judge Minor Moore granted the divorce, with Crawford describing Fairbanks as jealous and suspicious during the proceedings.
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Los Angeles
Joan Crawford
Starmes
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Hollywood
Minor Moore
Extortionist Held After 20 Day Hunt
Philadelphia May 12 A 20 day campaign to extort 75000 from the Pennsylvania Railroad ended with the arrest of James Vanderslice 32 a truck driver. Police say he authored letters threatening to blow up trains and caused a heavy guard over W C Higginbottom eastern region general manager. He confessed the threats were a bluff to raise funds for his hungry family.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
James Van*derslice
W. C. Higginbottom
Vanderslive
Second Bomb Warning Sent By Jap Plane Peiping
Chinese authorities moved swiftly at Peiping after a second Japanese reconnaissance flight dropped handbills threatening further attacks on Peiping and Tientsin unless armed resistance ends. US Marine guards watched over the legation as Chinese air defenses prepared for possible further raids.
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Peiping
Tientsin
United States Marine Guards
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Pao Yu-Lin
Public Safety
Chihsien
Here
Roosevelt urges creditors to abstain from foreclosures
President Roosevelt signed the farm relief currency inflation bill and appealed to mortgage creditors to abstain from foreclosures while the legislation operates. Separately, the House passed a $543,578,936 veterans supply bill 249 to 118, granting the president broader powers to cut government costs.
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B. Francis M. Stephenson
Washington
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Mother's Day events announced for Amarillo
A Sunday afternoon Mother's Day program at the Municipal Auditorium honors Amarillo mothers. Hosted by the Orphans' Birthday Club and arranged by Mrs. P. A. Preisig, the event features special music and the theme My Mother's Rosary. Churches plan tributes May 14 with services and programs across the city.
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Amarillo
Orphans’ Birthday Club
P. A. Preisig
Buchanan Street Methodist Church
J. S. Huckabee
America
First Baptist Church
R. P. Parcells
Felt Hats Go Offical Straw Hat Day in Amarillo
Saturday May 13 is declared official straw hat day in Amarillo. Male shoppers are urged to replace felt hats with straw styles from sailors to Panamas and Milans, with bright bands and light weights in stock. Straw hats appear on the streets as the season opens and well-dressed men visit stores to choose new headgear.
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Amarillo
Great Tumbers
Texas Bill Lets Girl Marry Stepdad If Governor Signs
A Texas law change would allow a girl to marry her stepfather if the Governor approves. The Senate passed the bill without debate and the House had already endorsed it. Introduced by Rep Emmett Morse of Houston, the measure stemmed from a Houston case where a man married a widow who adopted a baby and asked her daughter to marry him to help raise the child. The stepdaughter was five years younger than the man.
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Austin
Texas
Senate
House
Emmett Morse
Houston
Nations Adopt Tariff Truce At World Economic Meet
The eight nations on the organizing committee of the world economic conference unanimously adopted an international tariff truce after more than three hours of session. Norman H. Davis, Roosevelt's negotiator, announced with a smile that the accord is good news and will be effective immediately.
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London
Norman H. Davis
Prsident Roosevelt
Foreign Office
German official signals world tariff truce proceed with reservations
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, representing the Hitler government, said Germany would accept a world tariff truce with minor reservations as he began final talks with Secretary Hull at the State Department and with President Roosevelt at the White House in Washington on May 12.
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Washington
Hjalmar Schacht
Hitler
Hull
State Department
President Roosevelt
White House
Officials Move to Avert Farm Strike Tie Up
Chicago May 12 officials acted to prevent a farm strike from disrupting food marketing. The Farmers Holiday Association planned a strike starting tomorrow. Wisconsin Governor Schmedeman warned sheriffs and district attorneys of accountability for disorders from picketing. Oklahoma Governor Murray pledged protection for selling rights.
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Chicago
Farmers’ Holiday Association
Wisconsin
A. G. Schmedeman
Oklahoma
W. H. Murray
Illinois
Pure Milk Association
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Shows Clear Skies
Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas calls for fair conditions tonight and Saturday with partly cloudy skies west of the 100th meridian. New Mexico likewise expects fair weather, cooler southeast tonight, frost likely in the north portion.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Names Beer Runners As Lindy Kidnapers Names Beer Runners As Lindy Kidnapers
Washington May 12 A pretrial narrative links New Jersey rum runners to the Lindbergh kidnapping in Gaston Means testimony. He says Max Hassel and Max Greenberg were the alleged kidnappers, slain April 12 at the Elizabeth Cartaret Hotel amid a beer racketeering case connected to Mrs Evelyn Walsh McLean.
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Washington
New Jersey
Gaston B. Means
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Norman T. Whitaker
Elizabeth
N. J
Max Hassel
Max Greenberg
Gaston Means
Elizabeth Cartaret
Evelyn Walsh McLean
Washington Post
Irving Fenton
Fenton
Means
Hassel and Greenberg
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Concord
N. C
Relief Bond Issue Plan Passes House
The Texas House approved a $20,000,000 unemployment relief bond issue by a 114 to 32 vote. The plan, amended in minor ways, would require sale at par plus accrued interest, fund interest and redemption from non real estate taxes, and ensure no property lien. The measure goes back to the Senate for concurrence.
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Austin
U.P
House of the
Texas
Senate
House
Lawrence Westbrook
Waco
Fort Worth & Denver City Railway names eight officers
Fort Worth and Denver City Railway announces re election of eight officers led by Ralph Budd as president and J. D. Farrington as general manager. Fort Worth born executives Hulen Holcomb Flynn Hamilton Barwise Logan also named to senior posts. Directors elected include E. G. Ball for Port Worth & Denver South Plains and M. K. Brown Mel B. Davis for related lines.
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Fort Worth
U.P
J. D. Farrington
E. G. Ball
Port Worth
Senior Play on Tap Tonight at High School Auditorium
An unusual comedy The Four Flusher debuts Friday at 8 15 in the high school auditorium. Andy Whittaker a shoe salesman pursues fortune from an arch preserver but a dead uncle and wealth woes complicate the plot. Tol Avery and June Gristy star with a cast of students. proceeds benefit the graduating class gift to the school.
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Andy Whittaker
Andy
Avery
Four Flusher
Tol Avery
June Gristy
Nell Dean Rogers
Guy LeMond
Margaret Hanley
Sallie Morgan
Harriet Anni Collard
Harry Wheeler
Jess Lawson
J. R. T. Bassett
Roy Bradburn
Clifton Oliver
Bob Brummett
Lloyd Fletcher
Southwest Foreign Trade Conference Opens in Galveston
The fifth annual Southwest Foreign Trade Conference opened in Galveston with two days of programs on regional trade issues. About 300 delegates attended, most from Arkansas Kansas Louisiana Missouri Oklahoma and Texas and strong contingents came from Puerto Rico Mexico and other Latin American nations.
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Galveston
Southwest Foreign Trade Conference
Arkansas
Kansas
Louisiana
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Puerto Rico
Mexico
Row Over Murals May Cost Rivera World’s Fair Job
Diego Rivera faced loss of a second major commission after Rockefeller Center murals triggered a fallout. Albert Kahn telegramed GM executives to discontinue the Chicago mural for the 1933 World's Fair, citing notoriety from the Radio City incident.
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New York
Diego Rivera
Nicholas Lenin
RCA
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller
General Motors
Albert Kahn
General Motors Corporation
Chicago
Radio City
West Texas Chamber of Commerce opens with Ferguson absence
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce convention begins in Big Spring as Gov. Miriam Ferguson’s husband James Ferguson remains in Austin and Charles Coombes substitutes for the keynote. Attendees arrive by car caravans and special trains, with a massed band concert planned and officials citing economic issues and state finances.
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Wilbur
Hawk
West Texas Chamber of Commerce Convention
Associated Press
Big Spring
James B. Ferguson
Miriam A. Ferguson
Austin
Assembly of
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
James V. Allred
General Assembly
Fort Worth
Charles E. Coombes
Stamford
Chamber
Ferguson
Wilbur C. Hawk
Abilene
San Angelo
Midland
Plainview
Mossah Temple
Brownwood
Mineral Wells
Chamber of Commerce
Gandhi’s Doctor Seeks Quick End to Fast
Poona May 12 Dr Ansari Gandhi physician says hopes to persuade the Mahatma to quit his 21 day fast of purification. Gandhi enters the fifth day at noon. He believes a medical consensus on danger to life will aid persuasion.
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Poona
India
Dr. Ansari
Mahatma M. K. Gandhi
United Press
Farm Bill Creates New Administrator For Agricultural Aid
The president appoints George N. Peek of Moline Illinois as administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Act to execute measures lifting farm prices and extending mortgage relief. He will oversee financing plans and urge creditors to delay foreclosures while the program takes effect.
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Capitol Hill
Wallace
George N. Peek
Moline
Ill
Peek
Alfred E. Smith
Morgenthau Hails Sixteenfold Farm Credit Drive
Chairman Morgenthau of the Farm Board praised the new farm law's credit system as the start of an eight pronged attack on farmer debt oppression. He spoke during a Washington address noting the program's broad reach across agricultural finance.
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Washington
Wpi
Morgenthau
Farm Board
Agricultural Credit System
Ohioan Named U S Treasurer By Roosevelt
President Roosevelt named William A. Julian of Ohio as treasurer of the United States. J Walter Doyle of Hawaii was chosen as collector of customs at Honolulu and Norman D. Godbold as first judge in the first circuit court of Hawaii. Rep Heartsill Ragon of Arkansas was named federal judge for the western district of Arkansas.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William A. Julian
Ohio
United States
J. Walter Doyle
Hawaii
Honolulu
Norman D. Godbold
First Circuit Court of
Heartsill Ragon
Arkansas
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Arthur Brisbane
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Harvard
King Feature Syndicate, Inc
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FELTS
Germany
A. E. Krause
National Farm Holiday Association
Carey Thompson
Potter County
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Ward
Lindy
Baby
Meéang
F. W
D.C
Jim
Harry Montgomery
W. T
Gandhi
Ers
Ohioan
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