Five Senators Walk Out as Chavez Is Sworn In
In Washington on May 20, five liberal senators walked out during Dennis Chavez's oath as successor to the late Bronson Cutting. They returned after Vice President Garner swore Chavez in. The protest, viewed as opposition to Chavez and Cutting's contest, followed Cutting's recent death in a Macon Missouri airliner crash en route to vote on the bonus.
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Washington
Senate
Liberal Bloc
Chamber
Dennis Chaves
New Mexico
Chavez
Cutting
Macon
Presidents Veto and Patman Bill Focus of Appeal
The American Legion urged 12 senators to override President Roosevelt's veto of the Patman Bonus Bill. Democratic targets included Clark, Coolidge, Dieterich, Gore, Murphy, Pittman, Pope, and Republican targets included Austin, Davis, McNary, Townsend, and White. Roosevelt planned to address Congress from the House chamber to explain his veto.
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White House
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Legion
American Legion
Senate
Clark
Coolidge
Mass
Dieterich
Itil
Gore
Okla
Murphy
Pittman
Pope
Ida
Austin
Davis
Penn
McNary
Ore
Townsend
Del
White
Patman
Washington
Congress
House
Kenneth Romney
Rain Delays and Traffic Detours Across Panhandle Roads
Rain continued to affect travel with rail and highway traffic resuming in places. Amarillo highways were passable though the Vega Adrian detour and the Bo vina Farwell stretch remained difficult. A washed out bridge between Pampa and McLean was replaced and service resumed while bridges between Chillicothe and Vernon remained out. Fort Worth and Denver trains served Chillicothe with bus transfers to Vernon. Santa Fe and Rock Island schedules returned to normal.
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Amarillo
W. B. Amacker
The
Panhandle Auto Association
Vega
Adrian
Bovina
Farwell
Pampa
McLean
Chillicothe
Vernon
Fort Worth
Denver
Wichita Falls
Santa Fe
Rock Island
Richberg Urges Code Enforcement to Halt Chiseler Undermining
Richberg calls for personnel to work out code administration problems, strengthen enforcement, and prevent a breakdown of labor and fair trade provisions as chiseling undermines fair competition standards.
Missing light brown corduroy jacket reported
A jacket disappeared Tuesday afternoon between Tyler School and 311 West Pour Teench or on the playground at school. The coat was light brown corduroy with orange lining and a front zipper, per TACK LETTERS.
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Tack
Tyler School
311 West Pourteench
Hearings Set On Centennial Aid For Texas
Rep Lanham of Texas said hearings will be held Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on a 3 million dollar federal appropriation for the Texas Centennial in 1936. Cullen F. Thomas of Dallas and several House members will witness. Senator Connally plans Senate Library Committee hearings on a similar bill. The proposal earmarks 3 million dollars to a commission of Secretaries Wallace Hull and Roper to distribute via a commissioner general of the centennial.
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Washington
Lanham
Texas
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Cullen F. Thomas
Dallas
Texas Centennial Commission
House
Connally
Senate Library Committee
Wallace, Hull
Roper
Flood Devastation Spreads Across Texas and Oklahoma
Disaster relief director reports Midwest flood and twister damage across Freestone Robertson Leon Houston Rusk and Shelby counties. Flood waters rise on Trinity and Brazos rivers injuring and displacing residents with crops livestock losses and hundreds ordered from homes.
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St. Louis
Freestone
Robertson
Leon
Houston
Rusk
Shelby
Houston County
Trinity
Gainesville
Dewitt County
Guadalupe
Cuero
J. A. Oswalt
Brazos
Liberty
Long Lake
Chapel Hill
Red River
Paris
Oklahoma
Free Bridge
Flectra
Yarbrough's Service Today
Jim J. Yarbrough, 61, will be laid to rest in Llano Cemetery after 4:30 p.m. services at Boxwell Brothers Chapel. Rev. F. B. Fincher will conduct burial rites. He was a Texas native and longtime Potter County rancher who died at his River Road home seven miles north of Amarillo. Surviving spouse Della. five sons, three daughters. seven sisters and a brother. Practicing pallbearers listed.
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Oklahoma City
M. Mosier
Mosier
Altus
Joy McAlpine
Turkey Creek
Alfred Reid
McAlpine
Jim J. Yarbrough
Llano
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
F. B. Fincher
Ellwood Park Presbyterian Church
Mr. Yarbrough
Yarbrough
Texas
Fannin County
Potter County
River Road
Amarillo
Loyal Pitt
Thomas Pitt
Otto Pitt
Elzia Reynolds
Cecil Smith
Herman Smith
Della Yarbrough
Ishmael
Claucie
Noyal
W. Hoard
Memphis
Willie Joe
Lela Yarbrough
Buck Yarbrough
Laramie
Wyo
T. H. Rowan
O. A. Pitt
W. W. Smith
Clayton Reynolds
Pampa Leader Fred Hobart Remembered as Rancher and Civic Pillar
Fred Hobart of Canadian and Pampa West Texas was a longtime cattleman, land executive, and civic leader. Born October 6 1855 in Berlin Vermont he moved to Texas at 27 and shaped land sales and ranch management across the Panhandle and West Texas. He served as president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association and led the Panhandle Plains Historical Society while guiding the White Deer lands and JL Ranch holdings. He married Minnie Warren Herlin in 1888 and raised three children in a career noted for calm counsel and historical interest.
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Fred Hobart
Clyde F. Fatheree
Pampa
Guy Hutchinson
Arkansas City
Kan
T. D. Hobart
Berlin
Washinton County
Vermont
Texas
Panhandle
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Panhandle-Plains
Hobart
West Texas
White Deer
New York
United States
Washita
Cornelia Adair
Henry C. Coke
Dallas
Armstrong
Briscoe
Donley
Hall
Presbyterian Church
New City Drug Store Set to Open Tuesday
City Drug Store No. 2 at 500 N Fillmore Street will celebrate its formal opening tomorrow. Earl Barnt, president and GM, says it is one of four stores in the firm. Gifts include Cara Nome powder with $2+ purchases and Cara Nome perfume with 50 cent buys. Bleffen’s ice cream bars to children with parents. The seventh anniversary of the jumbo soda will be marked. Weldon Hall manages, Orville Donnell assists.
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City Drug Store
N. Fillmore Street
Earl Barnt
Bleffen
Weldon Hall
Orville Donnell
Amarillo Clean-Up Drive Urges Citizen Support
Mayor Rees D. Rogers urged the American Business Club to lead a city wide clean up campaign aligned with fire prevention week. Fire inspectors will visit homes and businesses to remove hazards as Amarillo vows to extend efforts indoors and out after recent dust storms and rains.
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Rees D. Rogers
American Business Club
Pats
Rogers
Amarillo
Doctors day indictment in federal murder case and past trials
An indictment charges a murder tied to the 1934 federal law on killing a government agent. The case parallels the Chase Nelson affair. in Chicago, March 25, he was convicted for slaying Inspector Samuel Cowley and DOJ official Daniel McGrath aid. Sheriff Cato faces conspiracy charges under the Harrison narcotics act.
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Specer Staford
John Paul Chase
Nelson
Chicago
Samuel P. Cowley
Department of Justice
Daniel F. McGrath
Washington
Philharmonic to Stage Kubelik Concert in Amarillo
The Philharmonic Association plans two events. Tonight a 6 15 pm annual meeting and dinner at Central Presbyterian Fellowship Hall with reservations. Thursday a Kubelik violin concert at Municipal Auditorium with tickets 1.50 0 50 and 25 cents. proceeds benefit the association.
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The
Philharmone Orchestral Association
Fellowship Hall
Central Presbyterian Church
B. V. Blackwell
S. E. Fish
Jan Kubeki
Municipal Auditorium
Kubelik
Kings and Queens
Europe
United States
City Drug No
Polk Street
Amarillo
Christian Thaulow
Grain Men Debate AAA Powers and Export Dangers
The Grain Men continued discussions on farm programs criticizing potential executive authority to seize grain for exports or other uses. They warned restricted acreage harms exports as U S wheat imports rise while domestic demand grows. More than 100 grain dealers registered for the convention with sessions and a golf tournament planned.
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Theis
United States
Canada
Rex Tugwell
Great Plains
Middle West
Herring
John E. Hill
H. H. Finnell
C. D. Morris
Walter A. Barlow
Trouper Killed as Truck Upsets Near FATON
Amie Allaire, 53, vaudeville troupe member, died when a truck overturned near FATON on May 20. Fellow travelers Wilbur Hickerson of Hutchinson Kansas and Joe Cooper of Amarillo Texas survived uninjured while en route from Richmond Indiana to Parkerburg West Virginia. Cooper's Amarillo identity could not be confirmed at dawn.
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Faton
Amie Allaire
Wilbur Hickerson
Hutchinson
Kan
Joe Cooper
Amarillo
Texas
Richmond
Ind
Parkerburg
W. Va
Hickerson
Cooper
Cotton and cattle markets mixed in New Orleans and Kansas City
Cotton futures opened steady to slightly lower with July at 12.01 and other months near 11.8 as rains in Texas belt areas offered mixed impact on farming. In Kansas City livestock, hogs and cattle traded with mostly higher prices for select cuts, while vealers eased and lambs showed a range of gains and losses across various weights.
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New Orleans
Texas
Kansas City
Arizonas
Tanker Denali Grounded Off Zayas Island After Reef Collision
A Alaska Steamship Company tanker named Denali lies at the Pacific bottom near Zayas Island B C after breaking in two and sinking. Coast guard saved seven passengers eight officers twenty three crew members and four stowaways to Ketchikan Alaska. Vessel valued at two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand dollars with cargo including dynamite coal and machinery worth similar. Denali had served the Alaska run about eight years.
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Seattle
Denali
Alaska Steamship Company
Zayas Island
B. C
Coast Guard
Cyane
Ketchikan
Alaska
Freed of Murder Back to College in Tulane Plans
JENA La May 20 Louis Hamilton 20 was freed of murder charges along with Harmon Sheppard and Floyd Miller in the death of his father Dr Fred Hamilton Lasalle Parish coroner Two years after the fire at the doctor city office residence June 10 1933 the state failed to prove the trio set the blaze for insurance The Lasalle jury acquitted them after a trial ending 44 minutes after Judge Wiley R Jones finished his charge They plan to resume studies in the medical division of Tulane University New Orleans
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Jena
Louis Hamilton
Tulane University
New Orleans
Hamilton
Fred Hamilton
Lasalle Parish
Lasalle
Wiley R. Jones
Harmon Sheppard
Floyd Miller
Dr. Hamilton
Roosevelt Relative to Become Club Singer in New York
Mrs. Francis L. Robbins Jr., wife of a Roosevelt cousin, will debut as a supper club singer on the Hotel Pierre roof. She will perform pro bono with earnings donated to Ethel Barrett, a professional singer mentored by Robbins.
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New York
Francis L. Robbins, Jr
Roosevelt
Bookkeeper Freed Of Murder Charge
Frederick Gross, a 49 year old Brooklyn bookkeeper, is discharged from homicide court after being charged with murder in the poisoning deaths of his wife and four children. Magistrate John D. Mason released him on the district attorney's motion. Gross, expressionless, murmured thanks as he left jail.
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Brooklyn
U.P
Frederick Gross
John D. Mason
William F. X. Geoghan
Gross
The Unknown Condition in Hay-Fever
A local appeal offers relief from hay fever symptoms. Mr. R. O. Murphy of Box 408 Stillwater Minnesota invites readers to write for a free explanation and guidance on treating and preventing hay fever during this season.
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R. O. Murphy
Stillwater
Minn
Adv
Prison escape artist sentenced in Lindbergh kidnap case
Guthrie Oklahoma May 5 1920 Ted Cole age 23 pleaded guilty before Judge Edgar S Vaught to a violation of the Lindbergh kidnapping law and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Hold Last Rites for Amarilloans Mother Lula Means
Funeral services were held in Binghampton New York for Lula Means mother of F B and R A Means of Amarillo. R A Means attended the service. Surviving are daughter Mrs Arthur Ghent son Stanley Means and two granddaughters Thelma and Elizabeth Means. Mrs Means visited Amarillo in 1933 34 and won Old Tack's Mother in Law Day prize for being from the farthest distance. The Means brothers operate Brown Candy and Cracker Company at 2000 Harrison Street.
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Lula Means
F. B
R. A. Means
Amarillo
Binghampton
N. Y
Old Tack
Harrison Street
Brown Candy & Cracker Company
Arthur Ghent
Stanley Means
Thelma
Elizabeth Means
Hamilton Rites Set From Funeral Home
Last rites for Martin Hamilton, 39, will be conducted at 10:30 tomorrow by Rev. Powell A. Smith of the West Amarillo Christian Church from Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home. Burial at Liano Cemetery with pallbearers A. M. Jones Ira Foster Percy Gibbs W. A. Lee J. C. Sullivan J. G. Fowler. Hamilton lived in Amarillo 14 years and died Saturday at his home 504 North Taylor Street. He was a disabled World War veteran and a member of the Disabled Veterans of America.
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Martin Hamilton
Powell A. Smith
West Amarillo
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