Amarillo Region Vets To Receive Bonus Payment
The Amarillo region faces a mass World War II veterans bonus payout on June 15. About 2,900,000 holders of 3,500,000 certificates are expected to claim, with payments totaling at least 6 million dollars in bonds and checks mailed to individual veterans.
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Fred Post
Amarillo
Panhandle
New Mexico
Oklahoma
United States
American Legion
Frederick Steiner
Oregon
Congress
George Broome
Indianapolis
Legion
Ray Murphy
Frank T. Hines
Veterans’ Administration
Treasury Department
James Farley
Broome
Amarilloan
Farley
Drenching Rain Breaks Drought Across Panhandle
Amarillo reports 44 inches of rain since Sunday morning with 7.55 inches this month in the city. The Panhandle Plains area records heavy precipitation and reports drought relief with river levels rising and roads flooded in various towns.
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Amarillo
Panhandle Plains
Plains
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
High Plains
H. H. Finnell
The
Soil Conservation Service
Washington
H. T. Coleman
Here
Oklahoma Panhandle
Panhandle
Buchanan Street
Link Cops To Legion Expansion In Michigan Probe
Detroit authorities probe ties between police and the Black Legion amid an official look into executions. State police Marmon orders full review of suspicious deaths while Pontiac officials claim a large local force membership. An execution list, 50 names, and 135 000 members cited, with calls for broader investigation.
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James C. Austin
United Press
Detroit
U.P
Black Legion
Michigan
Wayne County
Charles A. Poole
Ira Marmon
Legion
Pontiac
George J. Eckhardt
Marmon
Amarillo College Seniors Prepare For Commencement
The first graduation events tonight include 56 Amarillo College sophomores gathering at 8 p.m. in the Senior High School auditorium for the commencement address by H L Adkins. Baccalaureate services were held yesterday with Dr R Thomson addressing the Amarillo High School seniors.
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Amarillo College
H. L
Jack) Adkins
R. Thomson
Amarillo High School
Municipal Auditorium
Roy Snodgrass
First Christian Church
R. E. Lucey
Price Memorial College
St. Mary’s Academy
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Price College
St. Mary’s
Arthur Brisbane Favors Trade Over War in Today’s Globe
In his widely read column, Arthur Brisbane argues the world must trade or fight, challenging any buy American policy. Secretary Hull criticizes protectionism while England promotes buy British and aligns with France as German trade actions threaten it.
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Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Hull
England
Germany
France
Mexico
Texas Democrats Aim to Forge Unified Roosevelt Garnet Delegation
Texas Democrats move to end intra party squabbles and hold a harmony session to nominate a Roosevelt Garner slate for the national convention in Philadelphia. Leaders like Al Smith and Governor Eugene Talmadge threaten to walk out as the party aims to back a solid delegation.
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Gordon K. Shearer
San Antonio
Texas
Roosevelt-Garner
Philadelphia
al Smith
Jouett Shouse
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Roosevelt
Garner
Woodrow Wilsom
Baltimore
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Jewish Arab Disorders Grow Worse in Palestine
May 25 dispatch reports wide scale Guer illa warfare across Palestine due to Jewish Arab disorders. Attacks on buses and government forces, telephone line cuts, and a Jewish ship firing on Tel Aviv. Armored cars deployed to guard Nurshams prison as Arab mob tried to free prisoners. Dead include 26 Jews 10 Arabs and two Arab policemen. FHA LOANS.
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Jerusalem
U.P
Palestine
Tel Aviv
Nurshems
Judge E H Small Father of Senator Claimed by Death
Judge Edward H. Small 76, early Collingsworth County pioneer and father of Senator Clint Small of Amarillo, died at his Wellington home from a heart attack. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 3 pm from Shamrock First Methodist Church. Survived by widow, five daughters and three sons, including Clint Small of Amarillo. He helped found Shamrock’s bank and served as county judge for a decade. He rode to Wellington daily during court days and aided cowboys as merchant, postmaster, physician, and druggist.
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Wellington
Edward H. Small
Collingsworth County
Clint C. Small
Amarillo
Judge Small
Panhandle
First Methodist Church
Shamrock
R. Thomson
Central Presbyterian Church
Farmers and Merchants State Bank
Alabama
DeKalb County
Aberdeen
Rocking Chair Ranch
Fred Holmes
Temple Atkins
E. H. Kramer
Cleo Templeton
Walter Mount
Clint Small
Horace Small
Oklahoma City
Hugh Small
Small
Collingsworth
Salt Fork
Red River
Rock Island
Supreme Court voids New Deal 1934 Municipal Bankruptcy Act
The Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 ruling, declares the 1934 Municipal Bankruptcy Act unconstitutional. Bondholders from Cameron County Texas Water Improvement District No 1 challenge the law as violating due process and states rights while lenders claim only 49.8 percent of face value under the plan. See ACT INVALID Page 2.
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Washington
Supreme Court
McReynolds
Cardozo
Hughes
Brandeis and Stone
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Cameron County
Texas
Water Improvement District No. 1
Southern Texas
Smoking Out the Candidates No 1 by Frazier Hunt
A NEA Service and Globe News feature introduces a nine part series. Frazier Hunt presents ten key questions to Republican contenders and records Senator Vandenberg’s direct answers on relief federal funds and old age pensions. The piece compares the candidates as a ball game with ten pitches and notes Vandenberg’s flawless hits.
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Frazier Hunt
NEA Service
The
Globe News
America
Washington, D. C
Topeka
Kas
Landon
Kansas State Capitol
Frank Knox
Chicago
Vandenberg, Borah, Dickinson
Keynater Steiner
Dark Horse Wadsworth
Dr. Townsend
Vandenberg
Vandenberg Answers on Budget Relief and Currency
The former senator backs balancing the budget soon by cutting waste and trimming bureaucracy and by taxes based on ability to pay. He favors returning relief to the states with federal funds and no federal relief bureaucracy. Old age pensions should be joint federal state, and he supports stabilization tied to gold.
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Vandenberg
Dirt roads in Panhandle soaked as rains wash out routes
Traffic favored paved routes with many detours as repeated downpours drenched Panhandle roads. Mrs. W. Amacker urged Pavement routes via Lubbock to Clovis and U.S. 60 through Pampa Lefors and McLean for all weather travel.
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Panhandle
W. Amacker
The
Hereford
Clovis
Oklahoma City
U. S. Highway 60
Pampa
Lefors
McLean
Jericho Gap
New Mexico
Texas Highway Department
Adrian
Amarillo
Dalhart
Dumas
Harteley
Four Corners
Hartley
Channing
Wichita Palls
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John Maynard Lbr. Co
George May
U. S. Weather Bureau
H. L. Adkins
Japan
United Front
GOP
FHA Loans
Long-Bell Lbr. Co
E. H. Small
A. B. Small
Italy
Rocking Chair
London
NEA Service, Inc
Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg
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