Underpass Buchanan Street to Open June 1 in Amarillo
Amarillo will dedicate the Buchanan Street underpass on June 1 with an estimated cost of 400000 funded by the federal public roads bureau. Mayor Ross D. Rogers led a conference with district engineer W J Van London to set the date and plan a nationally broadcast ceremony. The project, larger than the Fillmore Street underpass, nears completion with lighting and finishing work underway.
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Amarillo
Buchanan Street
Ross D. Rogers
W. J. van London
Rogers
Ralph Budd
The
Burlington
John A. Hulen
C. D. Peckenpaugh
Fort Worth
J. D. Farrington
Fort Worth & Denver
Rock Island
Chicago
M. Durham, Jr
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Fillmore Street
Amarillo Officials Debate Relief Funds and Farm Labor
Mayor Rogers cautions against cutting relief funds while noting farm labor shifts. A national committee member cites soil erosion money routed through Amarillo and warns of 1 000 workers released from new industrial jobs. He urges public input to Congress and the President on an $850 million annual relief plan.
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Rogers
National
TWA
Senate
Amarillo
Roosevelt
Polish Jews fear a national wave of anti Semitic violence
In Warsaw on May 14 Polish Jews voiced grave fears of a nationwide anti Semitic surge following a night of rioting in Brarec that destroyed Jewish shops and harmed Jewish merchants. Jewish residents barricaded in homes as local authorities and communities gauge the threat.
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Warsaw
Poland
Brarec
Widow seeks work and cooks job in town
Widow in need of work offers to work for $1 per day or 3) Bata per hour and can perform housework. Contact MRS VER NIF GUY after 3:30 PM. McMasters Bt. WANTS COOKING JOB. A READER seeks a motherhouse or ranch cooking job. Also requests housecleaning by hour or day with references. A READER at 733 NX Van Buren St. HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION. TEAR Tack: young woman with cafe and light office experience seeks work. Continued on page 11.
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Lincoln St
Tack
van Buren St
Barla Club Sues Over Monthly Fees Demand
Court records reveal Barla Club owners pressed a $825 monthly payment to operate on Fourth Avenue, with Judge Nelson dismissing suits as tactics to extract fees. Testimony included statements by Hubert Cole and others about threats and overheard conversations.
Quinn a Veteran Politician Faces Murder Charge
Detectives found Hicks dead with a neck wound near Quinn’s hotel door after an alleged confrontation. Quinn surrendered a .25 caliber pistol and admitted the police when they knocked. Quinn planned to visit Beaumont and his family after the incident. Local officials including Senator Shivers attended the courthouse scene.
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Hicks
Quinn
Otty
N. M. Morris
Court of Justice of the Peace
Paul T. Halt
Solon Quinn
Beaumont
Justice Holt
Allan Shivers
Port Arthur
Rep
Alf Roark
Saratoga
Bridge Bids To Be Talked In Austin
Bridge bids to build a new concrete and steel span over the Canadian River on Highway No. 5 north of here were to be considered today in Austin. The project plans call for a 24 foot roadway. the present 17 foot bridge risks detours if blocked. Also on the Austin agenda were asphalt surfacing for 17 miles on Jericho Gap and another 17 miles elsewhere, plus six miles of surfacing on Highway No. 152 east of Pampa and surfacing on Highway No. 9 from Dumas to the Potter County line.
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Here
Austin
Ste
Commission
Jericho Gap
Slayings and Arrests Roil Dover Plains Case
Slayings Grifthis a Fort Worth tavern keeper on April 28 and Gates on May 5 prompt police descriptions. A youth wore a bloodstained shirt from an Arkansas victim. A couple faced arraignment in Dover Plains for revolver possession as the expectant mother vowed love for Brockelhurst. Brockelhurst, linked to three killings, confessed in Rockford. deputies note his past as a toy pistol bandit linked to parole sponsors.
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Sheriff's
Rockford, Ill
Lester Brockelhurst
Bernice Felton
Dover Plains
N. Y
Pontiac, Tl
Man Killed in Room After Exchange with Gunman
Eyewitnesses recount a confrontation where a man wielding a pistol threatened another in a room. The assailant then fired a small cap pistol, killing Hicks, who lay eating a sandwich moments before. The killer claimed responsibility and remained with the scene.
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Hicks
John L. Clem Drummer Boy Dies in San Antonio
John L. Clem 86, famed as Johnny Clem and holder of a sawed-off musket, died in San Antonio after a long military career. He enlisted in the Civil War at age 10 with the 22nd Michigan Infantry and served through World War I in 1916, beginning as an orphan who stowed away to join the army.
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San Antonio
Chickamauga
John L. Clem
Johnny Clem
Lincoln
Covington
22Nd Michigan Infantry
Amarilloan To Be Honored in Dallas
FP. and Murrell will attend a Dallas banquet honoring Texas Company employees with 25 years or more of service. Murrell, a 26 year veteran and 12 year Amarillo sales rep, travels from 1218 Crockett Street as the sole Amarillo representative. In India, tuskless elephants may be evolving with Ceylon already showing the trait.
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FP. &. Murrell
Texas Company
Dallas
Murrell
Crockett Street
Amarillo
India
Bombay
U.P
C. Morris
Bombay Natural History Society
Ceylon
Pasadena Law Clash Over Tow Rule Sparks Police Protest
Pasadena officials confront conflicting directives as Chief Kelly urges city directors to stop enforcing a law that makes towing a wrecked car without owner consent a misdemeanor. Police have been towing away damaged vehicles under current practice.
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Pasadena
Calif
U.P
Kelly
Composers in Cleveland Phone Book Attract Many Names
Cleveland’s new telephone directory lists famous composers including nine Bachs eight Mendelssohns seven Schuberts five Handels three Haydns three Mac Dowells two Nevins and a Verdi for Dover Plains New York. An airplane flight early today took him into custody. Cigarette smuggling once valued at fifty million dollars has declined in recent years.
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Cleveland
U.P
Dover Plains
N. Y
Currie to Speak at Amarillo Meeting on Welfare Ties
Edward Currie, director of the Pillsbury Settlement House in Minneapolis, will address a joint meeting in Amarillo at 4 p.m. tomorrow. The gathering includes the social center board, church federation board, and the Girls Social Center volunteer staff at 501 Lincoln. Currie recently returned from Houston where he conducted a month long survey of social groups and will discuss the relationship of the community center to other welfare organizations and civic clubs.
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Edward Currie
Pillsbury Settlement House
Minneapolis
Essex barber shop surprise mouse joke headline
Essex farmer Gus Bergstrom walked into a barber shop and when he lifted his hat a mouse leaped out, delivering a quick comic moment that had patrons roaring. The incident underscores the small town whimsy captured in local life.
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Essex, Ta
Gus Bergstrom
Strangely Deformed Tree on Fremont Farm
Howard and John Stokes report a peculiar tree on their farm in Fremont Ohio a black hickory toppled by a storm over 30 years ago has a trunk arch illusion with another shoot growing from the arch top creating a tree-and-a-half appearance.
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Fremont
Ohio
U.P
Howard
John Stokes
Girls Operate Large Self-Supporting Farm in Australia
Eleven girls run a 3000 square mile farm in the Northern Territory near Darwin. They are the daughters of Bill Sargent who leased the wild bush land about 90 miles from Darwin. Locals doubted white men could live there, yet the group sustains the operation independently.
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Darwin
U.P
Northern Territory
Australia
Bill
Aho
Sargent
Thieves complain on safe in Denver HOLOC office
Burglars bond to crack the Home Owners Loan Corporation safe in Denver. Workers found a typed note on the unopened door reading Next time leave an easier safe to open signed yours, reflecting the burglars difficulty.
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Denver
Home Owners Loan Corporation
J P Morgan Ailing After Heart Attack Improves
J P Morgan recovering in London after a heart ailment that kept him from the coronation, his household reports he is much better and "coming along very nicely" at 5 30 P M local time.
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J. P. Morgan
London
U.P
New York
Morgan
Recruiting Officer Accepts Four for Army Enlistment
Four new enlistments were reported this morning by Sergt. R. B. Jackson recruiting officer. They are James H. Templeton Amarillo to the Second Engineers at Fort Logan Benjamin L. Hanock Tulsa Charlie M. Clark Chattanooga Tenn and John W. Sale Pittsburg Kan signed up to go to Fort Warren Wyoming.
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Sergt
R. B. Jackson
James H. Templeton
Amarillo
Fort Logan
Benjamin L. Hanock
Tulsa
Charlie M. Clark
Chattanooga
Tenn
John W. Sale
Pittsburg
Kan
Fort Warren
Wyoming
Distilleries executives visit Amarillo on business
James D. Webb general advertising manager for American Distilleries joins A G Dunning and Alex Steinburg in Amarillo. The trio are stopping at the Herring Hotel during their visit.
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Amarillo
James D. Webb
New York City
A. G. Dunning
Alex Steinburg
Herring Hotel
Church rummage sale at 613 East Fourth Avenue
The First Christian Church women hold a rummage sale at 613 East Fourth Avenue today and tomorrow to raise funds for church activities.
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First Christian Church
East Fourth Avenue
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French
W. PF. Nix
Chady Fox
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Jimme Morrie
Drever Patrey
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Rockford
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Stillman Valley
Paul Johnson
Bayer Aspirin
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Currie
Burns Oroline
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