Potter County Aims to Boost Aged With State Pension Plan
Mrs. Cornelia Patton, district relief director, says the State Old Age Assistance Plan will improve relief for Potter County’s aged. 82 of 134 direct relief families may receive pensions starting July, up to 30 dollars monthly, based on family budgets and outside income. Ends June 10 direct relief ends June 30 in Texas. about 450 direct relief cases exist across 20 Panhandle counties.
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Potter County
Cornelia Patton
Pension Commission
Texas
Patton
Amon Carter Praises Canyon But Seeks Faster Development
Fort Worth publisher Amon Carter, during a tour with Senator Clint Small, expressed admiration for Palo Duro Canyon and the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon. He also pledged funds and urged quicker park development while avoiding comment on admission fee controversy.
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Amon Carter
Fort Worth
Palo Duro Canyon
Clint Small
Senator Small
Carter
Panhandle Plains Historical Museum
Canyon
Small
Panhandle
Rites Pending for Mary Emma Merril
Funeral arrangements are pending for Mrs. Mary Emma Merril 81 who died at her daughter Mrs. J A McDonald 515 West Fourth Avenue Wednesday evening. She had been in poor health for several months and Blackburn Shaw Home handles the arrangements.
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Mary Emma Merril
J. A. McDonald
West Fourth
Merril
Blackburn-Shaw — Home
Negroes Meet Tonight To Organize For Citizenship
A mass meeting is called for tonight at 8:30 in Greater Jenkins Chapel Baptist Church North Heights to discuss advancement of good citizenship after Sundays attack by three black men on Police man Floyd Goodrich Law enforcement officers are invited J B Anderson will lead the session
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Floyd Goodrich
Greater Jenkins Chapel Baptist Church
North Heights
J. EB. Anderson
Triplets' Mother Dies After Caesarean Birth in Sedalia
Mrs Sarah Chiles Harned, 35, mother of triplets born by Caesarean section a week ago, died last night in Sedalia Missouri. The three girl babies were reported doing well.
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Sedalia
Sarah Chiles Harned
Lady Solons Don’t Care If Men Keep on Hats
The women lawmakers in Congress stated they do not care if men keep their hats on in elevators. Representative Florence Kahn of California said she would remove her hat if she were a man with hair like Rex Tugwell. Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas said she preferred to interfere as little as possible and that hat choices were a matter for men themselves.
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Washington
Ladies of Congress
Association For the Prevention
Florence Kahn
California
Rex Tugwell
Hattie Caraway
Arkansas
Tulip Contest Prize Winners Announced by Amarillo Club
Prize winners were announced by Mrs. L. P. Herndon as chair of the judging committee. Cash prizes totaled 50 dollars plus 300 Fantasy tulip bulbs from Wayside Gardens for the most attractive beds grown from bulbs distributed last fall by the Amarillo Garden Club. Winners include Amarillo Country Club and numerous residents across streets and churches with multiple 7.50 and 5.00 prize entries.
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Wilburn, Hawk
Amarillo
O. H. Hargett
North Pierce Street
George Baker
Nineteenth Avenue
Seeiciees Beret
Earl Fuqua
Harrison Street
C. J. Wiard
Eleventh Avenue
Ben T. Blackwell
Hayden Street
Edith Johnson
Washington Street
T. M. Chambers
Louisiana Street
First Baptist Church
el Urbe
W. R. Pumphrey
Hughes Street
J. G. McClintock
Ong Street
John Armstrong
B. M. Doss
van Buren Street
Floyd Garwood
Phillips Station
Twenty-second Avenue
Wash
Wholesale Kidnapping Report Shocks Los Angeles
Joe Rangel reports his five children aged 19 months to 14 years abducted and held for ransom of 100 dollars per child. He and his housekeeper found a note on the front door demanding 500 dollars for the children's safety or death. Rangel recently separated from his wife.
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Los Angeles
Sheriff's Office
Joe Rangel
Rangel
Quadruplets invite Garner to Texas Centennial Exposition
Texas is introduced to Vice President John N. Garner by Leola Roberta Mona and Mary Keys four 20 year old sisters from Texas at the Vice President’s desk in Washington. Former Governor Pat Neff calls them the finest girls in the world and Garner agrees.
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Washington
Leola
Roberta
Mona
Mary Keys
Texas
John N. Garner
Dallas
Garner
Pat Neff
Lll
Fort Worth Grand Jury to Open Spring Federal Term
A Fort Worth grand jury will open the spring term of federal district court with 35 names drawn for the petit jury. Notifications have been sent to those selected, but jurors will be notified two days before they are called for duty in June.
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Federal District Court
Port Worth
Dave
Jewish Evacuations Rise After Jerusalem Violence
Jewish residents were evacuated from Jerusalem's Old City following killings and a stabbing incident that increased racial tension in the Holy Land. Two Jews were killed in the Old City yesterday.
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Jerusalem
Old City
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Holy Lands
Olds City
Federal naturalization interview day slated next Wednesday
An examiner will interview about 20 Plains region residents seeking citizenship next Wednesday at 11 AM. In the afternoon those approved by the examiner will appear before Judge James C. Wilson for final citizenship decisions.
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Plains Region
James C. Wilson
Testimony Opens in Murder Trial of Lorensa Martinez
Testimony began in the Forty seventh District Court murder case with first witness Aubrey Giles describing the incident. Police officer Maurice DeAnda died after a fight at a Mexican colony dance hall.
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Forty-seventh District Court
Lorensa Martinez
Maurice DeAnda
Aubrey Giles
DeAnda
Mexican Colony
Commercial aviation growth and new routes in Italy
Rome reports six years of expansion in commercial aviation with 55 airplanes then and present figures. Passenger and postal traffic drive site expansion. New routes between Italy and East Africa colonies will boost service.
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Rome
Thalian
Italy
Grand Jurors Meet in Potter County
Potter County grand jurors met again this morning with little business to transact according to the district attorney’s office. The panel has been hearing cases since the April term opened, with Walter Barlow serving as foreman.
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Potter County
Walter Barlow
Longest royal name linked to King Kamehameha observances
Honolulu May 14 U P officials announced that a direct descendant with the world's longest name will attend the King Kamehameha I bicentennial ceremonies. The heir, Samuel Albert Friedrich Henry William Crowninburg Apalo Kapil kauimoamokuaonalani Kamehameha Amalu, is known in life as Sam Amalu. He is a University of Hawaii freshman and does not stress his lineage. he typically avoids neckties, favors a blue scarf, and sometimes carries a cane.
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U.P
Kamehameha I
Kamehameha
Hawaiian Islands
Samuel Albert Friedrich Henry William Crowninburg
Apalo Kapilkauimoamokuaonalani
Kamehameha Amalu
Hawaii
Sam Amalu
England
Prince of Wales
David Windsor
University of Hawaii
Sam
Starhemberg Disarmed as Austria’s Power Shift Intensifies
Starhemberg’s troops will be disarmed within weeks and he plans to travel to Rome to attend a football match between Italian and Austrian teams. He congratulated Mussolini on fascism, while Schuschnigg and Reither consolidate power and Starhemberg’s future remains uncertain amid the ouster.
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Rome
Mussolini
Austria
Italy
League of Nations
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Reither
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Luciano Surrenders Control of City Racketeering Venture
From the Waldorf Astoria suite, Luciano supervised multiple rackets and in 1933 shifted power to David Betillo known as Little Davy after telling bookers they were through. Prosecutors say Betillo then organized a colossal racket leading associates to quit and surrender funds.
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Waldorf-Astoria
Dewey
Luciano
Vice
Little Davy
Davy
David
Betillo
Amarillo Junior High to Feature Festival of Folk Lore
Finalists from the afternoon program will appear on the night program as 150 rural school children sing cowboy songs. Scouts will perform authentic Indian dances. Sheffy from Canyon College discusses preserving folk lore. Charlotte Allen reads The Cowboy's Christmas Ball. West Texas College sketches early German Plains life. Choirs and groups perform folk and spiritual works. The festival feeds into a Dallas Centennial national festival.
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Amarillo
Sheffy
Canyon
Charlotte Allen
West Texas College
Plains
MacDowell String Quartet
Philharmonic
Constance Ferguson
Panhandle
Dallas
New EEG Findings Report Alcohol Impact On Brain
The electroencephalograph reveals distinct brain patterns for drunkenness and hangover. Harvard medical researchers describe individual electric brain signatures akin to fingerprints, noting normal beats near 10 and 25 cycles per second, with drunken states showing rapid, high amplitude changes and hangovers returning toward normal but faster.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Kansas City
American Medical Association
Harvard Medical School
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William G. Lennox
Hallowell Davis
Erna L. Gibbs
Albert Grass
Bargain hunter seeks Amarillo home cash offer
A Panhandle rancher with twelve thousand dollars in cash arrived at the W TC C convention seeking a well built fully furnished house. Powell Realty says several responses came in as they try to place him before he returns home. A separate Chicago report describes a lurid scene as a brick wearing assailant terrorized nurses at St. Luke's Hospital before police questioned him over a murder in Little Harlem.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Myrtle Powell
Powell Realty Company
News- Globe
Chicago
St. Luke’s Hospital
Lillian Guild
Dancer Under Arrest After Nightclub Fire Tragedy
May 14 San Francisco police booked Betty Blossom a torch dancer on a city ordinance charge for using an open flame without a permit in a crowded nightclub fire that killed four and injured twelve. She was released on twenty five dollar bail while authorities review liability and potential new nightclub safety ordinances.
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San Francisco
I Juerd
Betty Blossom
Steamer North Sea Refloated En Route to Alaska
A radio message reported the steamer North Sea, carrying 140 passengers, refloated after grounding at Point Marsh near Dixon Entrance and proceeding slowly toward Ketchikan. The Seattle to Ketchikan voyage faced a grounding incident with no further details available.
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Northland Transportation Company
North Sea
Ketchikan
Point Marsh
Dixon Entrance
Alaska
Bricks From Great Wall Supposed Used for Japanese Barracks
Chinese press charges bricks from the Great Wall are being taken by Japanese soldiers to construct army barracks at Kupeikow. The report warns the ancient structure may suffer partial disintegration as a result.
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Peiping
China
Great Wall
Kupeikow
Ref
Store owner dies in Dallas blaze. no foul play seen
Frank Harvey aged 22 burned to death in his second hand store in Dallas. Justice E John Baldwin delayed verdict as detectives reported no evidence of foul play. Harvey had testified in a January murder case where the defendant was not indicted.
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Dallas
Frank Harvey
E. John Baldwin
Harvey
WHP?: College Tour and Convention Moves
WICC visited Canyon with transport provided by Dr. Joe Hill college president for a Palo Duro Canyon tour. D A Bandeen WTCC general manager, re-appointed at Amarillo convention, left yesterday for Stamford. Jed Rix convention manager remains in Amarillo finalizing eighteenth annual meeting details.
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Canyon
Joe Hill
Palo Duro Canyon
D. A. Bandeen
WTCC
Amarillo
Stamford
Jed Rix
Sill
Red River Map Prepared by Local Student
Harold Vaughn a sixth grade pupil at Margaret Wills School prepared a map at the request of the Arkansas Centennial through the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce. The map shows where the Red River rises the counties it flows through and where bridges are located. Chamber officials call the map a creditable piece of work.
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Arkansas Centennial
Amarillo
Convict Newton Captured Near Austin After Jail Escape
Calvin Newton, 42, an escapee from Bastrop County jail, was seized at a local tourist camp today. He had been sentenced to six years for automobile theft in Travis County and one year for failure to stop and render aid in Bastrop County. Newton escaped with two others on August 28.
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Austin
Calvin Newton
Bastrop County
Newton
Travis County
Udga Free Trial Promises Quick Stomach Relief
Stomach distress from acidity prompts 54 000 readers to try Udga based on a stomach specialist's prescription. The ad claims fast relief from pains, gas, heartburn and ulcers and offers a free trial package at Fox Drug Stores and City Drug Stores with low cost nationwide availability.
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Fox Drug Stores
City Drug Stores
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