Snaky woes and civic jests in Roosevelt era pages
A light collection of anecdotes and brief notes features Mrs. Henry A. Wallace coping with a snakes and fish filled home bath, Chief Justice Hughes teased by a eight year old, and an array of social and diplomatic quips. The Cloak Room Club invites Rep. Greenway to a talk fest, while a hotel guest learns a soda box mistake.
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Sigrid Arne
Associated Press
Henry A. Wallace
Robert
Mrs. Wallace
Fletcher Riley
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Little Miss Riley
Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes
Cloak Room Club
Martin Dies
O. H. Cross
Texas
Isabella Greenway
Arizona
Barbara Brutton to flee Mdivani and seek divorce in U S
Reports say Barbara Brutton American heiress plans to elude Georgian prince Alexis Mdivani and leave for the United States to obtain a divorce when her father arrives in London reliable authority stated today. Miss Laura V Hamner county schools superintendent said the Potter County census is near completion and will likely be sent to Austin tomorrow.
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London
Barbara Brutton
Alexis Mdivani
United States
We Want Blood Imagination Power Government Take All Loaves
Arthur Brisbane discusses the Ohio strike situation where National Guardsmen chase striking workers. Two men killed and many wounded as brick throwing escalates. Soldiers use bayonets, rifles, tear gas amid the deadly clash. Citizens flee the danger zone.
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National
Local Graduation Celebrations Dominate City Calendar
Amarillo College confers diplomas on 44 sophomores at 8 30 pm in the Municipal Auditorium with Judge S A L Morgan delivering Elements of Real Success. St Marys Academy and Shield of Faith School hold commencements with Bishop Lucey and Rev Crump addressing graduates amid a 400 senior turnout.
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Amarillo College
S. A. L. Morgan
St. Mary's Academy
McKinley School
Robert E. Lucey
Rose Bow
Shield of Faith School
Wolflin School
Roy Snodgrass
First Christian Church
Snodgrass
Price Memorial College
Bishop Lucey
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Shield of Faith
E. B. Crump
Electra
Assembly of God Church
Thompson Sits Alone at Probation Hearing
Col. E. O. Thompson returned from Washington to attend a statewide proration hearing as the sole Texas railroad commissioner present. Commissioner C. V. Terrell was ill and Chairman Long A. Smith was out of town. The session prepares the allowable oil production figures for Texas.
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Austin
U.P
Col
E. O. Thompson
Washington
Ickes
Texas Railroad
C. V. Terrell
Long A. Smith
Good Oil Price Listing at 1900 W. Third
A local oil dealer advertises gasoline priced 20 cents to 25 cents per gallon at 1900 West Third Street. The short notice notes a price range and location without additional details.
Five Panhandle Counties Named Stricken Area
Washington D through Agriculture lists five drouth struck counties in Panhandle for relief funds. Amarillo leaders question scope as Hopkins pledges $400,000 monthly for road relief. Texas relief officials push for official drouth district designation and broader coverage notes Sen. Connally in telegrams. Dalhart and others read as the five listed counties face acute breath impact.
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Panhandle
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Kansas City
Harry L. Hopkins
Drouth
Amprillo
Wilbur C. Hawk
Hopkins
Mr. Hawk
Julius Dorenfield
Texas Relief Commission
Amarillo
Harry Hopkins
Agriculuural Department
Dorenfield
Texas Commission
Connally
Tom Connally
Globe News
Drough
West Texas
Marvin Jones
Relief Administration
Austin
French transatlantic plane lands safely at Floyd Bennett Field
The French long distance plane Joseph Le Brix landed at Floyd Bennett Field at 1 58 this afternoon after crossing the Atlantic from the northeast. The crew dumped gasoline during approach and glided to a long stop drawing a crowd of hundreds. Nearby in Paris, two airplanes and the Graf Zeppelin crossed the Atlantic simultaneously signaling a new era in international aviation.
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Brooklyn
Flere
Rotel
Codos
Joseph le Brix
Floyd Bennett Field
Paris
Atlantic
Joseph Lebrix
North Atlantic
United States
Arc-en-elel
South Atlantic
Brazil
Brasil
Five Children Born To Canadian Woman Sets New Record
Mrs. Olvia Dionne of Ontario gave birth to five girls at her home near Callender nine miles south of North Bay. Attending physician Dr. A R Dafoe said all are healthy. Mrs. Dionne, 26, already has six other children, marking a Canadian record if not a world record.
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North Bay
Ont
Olvia Dionne
Callender
Here
A. R. Dafoe
Dionne
Toronto
F. C. Routley
Canadian Medical Association
Canada
Routley
Burden Lifts from NRA Code in Service Industries
In Washington on May 28 a presidential order eases NRA constraints by creating a local self government rule for service industries. The order sets a new Recovery Administration policy and suspends price fixing and other code provisions for selected service sectors such as hotels, restaurants, barber shops, laundries and dyeing plants while preserving hour and wage clauses. Hugh S. Johnson to decide affected industries. Roosevelt confirms Johnson will lead NRA until a definite course is charted. Blue Eagle to continue in effect.
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Recovery Administration
NRA
Hugh 8. Johnson
Roosevelt
Johnson
Blue Eagle
Hamilton indicted for murder in Texas crack at electric chair
In Huntsville Texas on May 28 a Walker County grand jury returned a murder indictment against Raymond Hamilton the former partner of Clyde Barrow. The indictment settles the state's third bid in weeks to seek the electric chair for the youthful desperado.
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Huntsville
Texas
Walker County Grand Jury
Raymond Hamilton
Clyde Barrow
Attack on soldiers near Cuban embassy tied to Machadistas
Havana May 28 AP The Cuban government blamed Machadista remnants for a Sunday assault on a squad patrolling near the American embassy in Cuba as part of alleged plots against Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. A private, Francisco Ortega, was wounded. Caffery remained unperturbed and dismissed any personal plot.
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Havana
Gerardo Machado
United States
Jefferson Caffery
Secretary of Treasury
Joaquin Martinez-Saena
Cuba
Jorge Manach
United Press
Francisco Ortega
Jose Pedraza
Caffery
Ortega
Ambassador Caffery
Washington sees no Caffery attack in embassy shooting
State department officials in Washington on May 26 indicated the gunfire near the American embassy in Havana did not appear to be an assassination attempt on Ambassador Jefferson Caffery.
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Washington
Caffery
State Department
Jefferson Caffery
Wheat Prices Soar To High Mark Of Year
Chicago May 24 Wheat prices reached their highest level in months as winter wheat faced extreme heat near 100 degrees. The market opened with a continued bullish trend and frantic trading, driven by widespread demand and strong buying.
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Chicago
Funeral services for J. H. Moore in Fort Worth
Fort Worth mourns the citys second drowning victim of the season as J H Moore a cleaner and presser dies after drowning in the Trinity River during a picnicking party Funeral services are scheduled for tomorrow in Fort Worth.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Puneral
J. H. Moore
Moore
Trinity River
Navy Wins Dramatic Mercy Dash To Save Explorer Robinson
The U S Navy carried writer and explorer William Albert Robinson from the Galapagos Islands to a nearby hospital after an appendicitis attack. A U S Destroyer Hale aided the transfer with air and sea support and doctors expect recovery.
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Balboa
United States Navy
William Albert Robinson
U. S
Hale
Galapagos
Robinson
Army Hospital
Amarillo voters edge toward $147,000 PWA loan
In Amarillo the PWA loan vote drew light early activity but may pass, with polls open until 7 pm. If approved, the city gains a $39,000 outright loan and five months of work for about 250 men on water works.
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PWA
Amarillo
Sailors-Slugging Dash Across Oklahoma Badlands
Three armed prisoners who escaped a Sherman Texas jail slugged a jailer and kidnapped two men in Oklahoma. They hijacked a Dallas man, then took a second car near Guthrie, prompting roadblocks across Central Oklahoma and parts of Kansas. A man identified as Robert Jones aided the escapees before being released after a warning not to report the kidnapping.
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Guthrie
Okla
Grayson County
Sherman
Texas
Oklahoma
Ardmore
Turner Falls
Robert Jones
Dallas
Wynnewood
Jones
Oklahoma Cit
Tulsa
Wichita
Ponca City
Perry
Kansas
Death Claims Chinese Tot in Empire Cafe Colony
Tommie Wing three month old son of Mr and Mrs Jim Wing died last night at the family home. Funeral services are set for this afternoon at 4 oclock in Griggs Funeral Chapel with Dr G L Yates officiating. Honorary pall bearers include Wilbur McDaniel Virgil Beavers Julian Grodjisk and L Salami. Burial will follow in Liano cemetery. The child was one of four offspring of the Empire Cafe Chinese colony in the city.
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Tommie Wing
Jim Wing
Griggs
G. L. Yates
Wilbur McDaniel
Virgil Beavers
Julian Grodjisk
L. Salami
Liano
Empire Cafe
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight with Tuesday’s partly cloudy skies and possible local thundershowers. West Texas shows partly cloudy conditions with chances of thundershowers in the west and warmer north portions tonight and Tuesday. New Mexico generally fair with little temperature change. Temperatures today reach from 61 to 83.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
French Aces Rossi and Codon Land at New England Field
A crowd of about 1,000 greeted French aviators Rossi and Codon as they landed after a 38 hour 28 minute flight from Lea Field Paris. Police and navy officials oversaw repairs and escorted the exhausted pilots to a hangar.
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New England
Roward A. Bracken
John McKenzie
Robert Hickey
Naval Air Base
Roess
Rossi
Codos
Lea Field
Paris
Westcount
Gracey Underwood Pleads Guilty In Prohibition Era Liquor Case
Gracey Underwood enters a federal court plea of guilty to possession of still whiskey and fermenting mash. Judge James C. Wilson sentences her to 30 days in jail with a suspended month. She claims confusion over the law as the government shifts to revenue tax rules. Her husband Bogus Underwood remains hospitalized with a gunshot wound and is also charged, his bond forfeited.
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Gracey Underwood
James C. Wilson
Gracey
Amatillo
Boggus Underwood
Shamrock
Underwood
Shamrock Hospital
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