Potter Home Clubs Begin Meeting in Polk Street Church
Eight Potter County Home Demonstration clubs with ten members compete for top honors at the Polk Street Methodist Church. Demonstrator judging continues with slips to be evaluated after luncheon. state specialist Mrs Dora Barnes and Miss Ruby Mashburn will announce results later. First place earns a trip to College Station for the state contest July 28 to August 2.
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Potter County
Polk Street Methodist Church
Dora Barnes
College Station
Ruby Mashburn
James Walton
Bushland Club
W. H. King
Soncy Club
J. K. Glovier
Brady Club
E. W. Brown
Sunnyside Club
Carl Hill
O. A. Blankenship
P. C. Bennett
Beacon
Sunnyside
Sid Greghorn
Mary Sitton
Hamlin Trial Continuity Hints at Local Hearing
The court discussed moving the case on its own initiative as Simpson urged. The state was accused of delaying a sworn affidavit about a fair Potter County trial. Judge Nelson questioned whether a jury could reach a verdict and sought to avoid a third trial. Milley offered to proceed in the morning if the state agreed, with Hamlin’s insanity plea from the first trial noted.
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Simpson
Potter County
Nelson
Milley
Hamlin
Need Glasses and Help From Readers Tack Letter Exchange
An elderly man asks for glasses costing about 18 dollars and offers to repay. A reader seeks housekeeping work to support a child. A Hedley reader requests clothing for a young family with a three year old, one year old twins, and a new baby.
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Tack
Coli
Rose Bowl Tea Room Opens in New Location
The Rose Bowl Tea Room moves to 404 Polk Street and will open at noon tomorrow. The new quarters feature yellow plaid wallpaper and ivory woodwork. Operated by the Junior Welfare League, proceeds support its free clinic for preschool children. Opening luncheon invitation extended to patrons and the public.
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Rose Bowl
Polk Street
The
Junior Welfare League
Slaying Trial Highlights Sheriff Cato Charged
Testimony recalls Sheriff Cato firing a machine gun as federal officers announced their identity. Kitchen and Stafford's body details disputed by witnesses while drug-addict witnesses linked to staged narcotics and stolen goods trade with Dr. Hartman and Kitchen under court supervision.
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A. Hartman
Tom Morgan
Wilkinson
Kitchen
Cato
Wilkingon
Stafford
Haman
Drowning Incident Near Lake Ends in Body Recovery
Newsom told Sheriff Jones he believed Long could swim and began to swim toward shore, hoping Long followed. After reaching the bank Long was missing. A search began with Sheriff Jones, Harry Rathjen, Fred Tete, C. B. Curnutt, “Dutch” Chandler, Newsom, and Fields. The body was sent to Pampa. funeral arrangements pending. Long is survived by his wife and five children.
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Walter Jones
Long
Jones
Sheriff Jones
Harry Rathjen
Fred Tete
Mid Singleton
Curnutt
Chandler
Fields
Pampa
Court Upholds Limits on Codes Power in New Deal Ruling
Supreme Court, in a landmark decision, ruled Congress had not provided adequate restrictions to guide presidential code approvals. Justice Hughes warned against delegating legislative power to business groups while noting widespread reliance on federal authority amid extraordinary wartime conditions. He rejected broad code making that would bypass constitutional safeguards.
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Hughes
New York
Congress
The
Trade Commission
Long outlines share-the-wealth bid for 1936 ticket
Sen Huey P. Long declared a share-the-wealth party would appear on the 1936 presidential ballot. In an address he promised a fight across 48 states, attacked Roosevelt and Farley, denounced work relief costs, and urged supporters to seize federal funds while criticizing the proposed minimum wage.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Long
Loo
Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Louisiana
Brooks
Berlin to host disarmament talks with German delegation
A Berlin-formed delegation led by Joachim von Ribbentrop with Admiral Schuster and a naval captain will depart June 2 for negotiations. Talks follow Sir John Simon and Anthony Eden’s Berlin visit, delayed by Germanys submarine program and Hitler’s Reichstag address preparations.
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Rechsfuehrer
Hitler
Admiral Schuster
Berlin
John Simon
Anthony Eden
Divorce Petition Filed by G. A. Red Craig
G A Red Craig files for divorce while free on bond amid a Randall County probe into the George Engman slaving case. Corespondent Jack Engman, George Engman’s nephew, is named in the suit for alleged spousal interference.
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G. A
Red
Craig
Liberty
Bond
Randall County
George Engman
Amarillo
Jack Eneman
el Taos
Jack Engman
Wounded man key clue in $72,000 extortion case
In Pasadena California federal agents hunt for the shooter who gasped the name Jack Williams after a critically wounded man became the chief clue in a $72,000 extortion plot against banker Herbert D Ivey. They seek Williams true identity hideout and the ten others named in notes. Williams was shot Saturday night when agents and San Marino police fired on a pursuing car.
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Pasadena
Calif
Herbert D Ivey
California
Jack Williams
Ivey
Williams
San Marino
Roosevelt Proposes Unification Of Federal Transportation Agencies
President Roosevelt begins drafting a message to Congress urging consolidation of all federal agencies handling transport. He works in the White House study and this likely marks his last legislative recommendation this session.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
West Point Increase Passed to Roosevelt for Signature
Congress completed action on the Sheppard Bill to boost the corps at West Point by about 50 percent and sent the measure to the White House for President Roosevelt to sign. May 27.
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Washington
West Point
White House
Roosevelt
Graduation ceremonies highlight church and academy services
Yesterday morning at the Assembly of God Church Rev. A. C. Bates delivered the graduation sermon for Shield of Faith as high school seniors and Catholic pupils received diplomas. Price Memorial College and St. Mary's Academy held ceremonies with honor students named and alumnae officers installed.
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A. C. Bates
Clovis, N. M
Shield of Faith
Assembly of God
St. Mary's Academy
Price Memorial College
R. E. Lucey
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Price
Georges Bilgrind
R. G. Bottoms
Joe Wieck
Wilbert Doerfler
Edward Bishop
Hilliard Manley
Frances Smyer
Weldon Oatman
Alumnae Association
Newman Parker
Phyllis McDade
Kathleen Edwards
Donald Honey
Victoria Alonzo
Margaret Jones
Jane Browder
Clementine Drexler
Mildred Heidgreben
Billie Doll Scott
Frances Morrow
Huberta Neddine
Kidnapping Note Reveals Gruesome Ransom Demands
A ransom note in the Seattle case warned the Weyerhaeuser family not to notify police and demanded 200000 in unmarked cash in federal reserve notes. It claimed the note was “business” and hinted at police ineffectiveness while authorities sought the source and watched for copycats.
Hope U S Will Take Step For Stabilization
London May 27 British financial circles express hope that Roosevelt and Hull may initiate a new world currency and trade conference to stabilize exchange. They caution stabilization hinges on U S policy, devaluation risk, debt issues and silver purchases, while noting Chamberlain's May 16 call for stability prospects before stabilization can yield normal conditions.
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London
Roosevelt
Hull
Washington
United States
Neville Chamberlain
Exchequer
Chamberlain
Dust storms and twister damage hit Texas Panhandle
A Panhandle dust storm and a damaging twister caused extensive destruction across Groom and surrounding areas. High winds reached 45 mph with 4 to 6 inches of rain locally, washing out gas lines and damaging homes, schools, and derricks. Floods on the Brazos River affected East Columbia and nearby highways.
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Panhandle Automobile Club
New Mexico
H. T. Collman
Joe Murphy
Borger
White Deer Creek
Hutchinson County
North America Oil and Gas Company
Groom
Panhandle
Skelleytown
Leters
Pampa
Clarendon
East Columbia
Brazos
Texas
West Columbia
Richmond
New Orleans Cotton Markets Hold Narrow Range Amid French Uncertainty
Cotton prices in New Orleans opened within a tight band as traders awaited France’s economic move with the franc and related policy tones. July steady near 11.94, Oct up to 11.80, Dec 11.79, March 11.84, while later intraday shifts kept most positions 3 to 7 points lower. In Kansas City, livestock bids showed mixed to lower tone across hogs cattle and sheep, with cattle and calf prices weakening on liberal supplies and lower killing class indicators.
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Thie
Dee
March
France
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
U. S. Dept. Agr
Arizona
Heir Missing at Sea Found Safe in Fort Lauderdale
William B. Leeds Jr heir to a tin plate fortune was found safe after going missing in a small craft with two companions since last night. Nadine Neely, 8, was shot and wounded seriously at her Alba home when a playmate's shotgun discharged accidentally. She was rushed to a hospital where amputation of her right arm might be needed.
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Fla
William B. Leeds, Jr
Greenville
Texas
Nadine Neely
Alba
Nadine
Irate Father Bites Ear Of Girl's Flame
In Rochester on May 27 Michael Mazza 46 searched for his daughter after she stayed out late. He found her on a street corner talking to Joseph Dagostina 16 and bit off the boy’s right ear. Dagostina was taken to a hospital and Mazza jailed.
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Rochester
N. Y
U.P
Michael Mazza
Joseph Dagostina
Joseph
Michael
Bonus Army Plans Fresh Push After Slow Recruiting
In Angeles on May 27 United Press reports Royal W. Robertson who postponed the Washington march due to only 11 volunteers forming the army. Robertson says he personally signed up 600 and had 900 promises, yet wonders where the rest went. He set up new recruiting quarters hoping to start by Tuesday.
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Angeles
Washington
Royal W. Robertson
Robertson
Brush Fires Near Quintuplets Birthday Farm
Brush fires crackled along a zig zag front toward the Dionne quintuplets’ first birthday tomorrow. Smoke rose from a spruce, birch and poplar stand on Oliva Dionne’s farm, near the little hospital where the famed babies were born a year ago, with flames confined to the opposite side of the road.
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Callander
Ont
Dionne
Oliva Dionne
Little Brown Hospital
Continue Seeking Grocery Burglars
Plainview police continued the hunt for burglars who broke into the Walker-Smith wholesale grocery on Saturday and stole merchandise valued at 400 to 1000 dollars. A truck seen near the building shortly before midnight is being investigated. The thieves cut a hole in the roof to gain entry.
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Plainview
Walker- Smith
Cabinet Defends Franc in Push for Gold Standard
Paris reports the French cabinet will fight for the gold standard with Premier Flandin seeking full powers. Lebrun presides as ministers prepare to formally adopt the program tomorrow. In Washington, treasury data for May 24 shows receipts of 27.6 million and expenditures of 46.9 million with a large year-to-date deficit and total gold assets at 8.76 billion.
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Paris
Pierre- Etienne Flandin
Council of Ministers
Lebrun
Washington
Treasury
Amazing new gas saver promises 66 miles per gallon
A claim from a scientific laboratory in Wheat on Illinois introduces a portable auto device that supposedly increases mileage by 500 percent. It fits all cars and is offered free to try, requiring the recipient to send their address and car name.
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Scientific Laboratory
Wheaton, Ill
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