Tanker Caliche Explodes Off Mobile Bay Injuring 12
The tanker Caliche exploded in Mobile Bay just south of Mobile injuring 12 crew members and throwing seamen into flames. Captain Fitzgerald suffered leg fractures. others listed include Anton Anderson Fr B Baker Frank Merrin Arthur Costigan PrP C Pedrid V Bevilla. Vessel owned by Motor Ship Caliche Corp New York was en route to Texas City Texas.
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Mobile
Ala
Mobile Bay
Fitzgerald
Beacon 26
Caliche Corporation of
New York
Texas City
Texas
Marine Hospital
Anton Anderson
Fr. B. Baker
Frank Merrin
Arthur Costigan
Prp. C. Pedrid
V. Bevilla
Baptists Near End of Annual Texas Meeting
SAN ANTONIO November 9 The Baptist General Convention of Texas elected trustees for its institutions and approved numerous committee reports at the closing sessions of its annual meeting The session will feature an address by Dr George W Tuett of Dallas president of the World Baptist Alliance Rev Porter M Bailes of Tyler spoke in the Home Mission Committee report
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Baptist General Convention of Texas
George W. Tuett
Dallas
World Baptist Alliance
South
Bible Belt
Porter M. Bailes
Tyler
Home Mission Committee
Young Pastors Must Refrain From Tobacco Use
FORT WORTH NOV 9 UR There will be no smoking or use of tobacco in any form either in pulpit or at home by young ministers in the Central Methodist Conference Bishop B A Boaz made clear today Some of the old timers may indulge but not the young men just coming into the ministry The question was injected by Rev M K Little What about these young trial preachers using tobacco The church law the bishop replied was unmistakably plain namely that the committee on admission shall require all applicants for admission on trial to agree to abstain from the use of tobacco Many of the older ministers who were admitted before that law was adopted smoke their cigarets and cigars the bishop explained waving the matter aside
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Central Methodist Conference
B. A. Boaz
Central
Buying Mood Sweeps U.S. Says Report
Dun and Bradstreet reports a renewed buying mood across the United States with retailers replenishing stocks. The South and Southwest show 10 to 12 percent week gains and 20 to 30 percent year over year, while the Middle West rises 20 to 30 percent. Pacific Coast remains 15 to 20 percent above last year. Industrial activity has expanded since late August and September, signaling continued recovery and plans for expansion as production restrictions ease.
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Dun & Bradstreet, Inc
Middle West
Pacific Coast
Lpans
Ex Collegiants to Be Honored at Amarillo College Homecoming
The first annual homecoming for former Amarillo College students is announced by President B. E. Masters for tomorrow. Activities include a Badgers versus N. M. M. S. Bronchoes football game at Butlerfield, a college gymnasium dance, and a morning ex-student visit. Kenneth Woodward, ex-students president and Tex line teacher, will attend. Tom Wingate and Charles Bates help sponsor the dance as part of the event. More than 1,200 alumni have registered since the college’s founding, with about half living in Amarillo and nearby areas.
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Charles Bates
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Vicinty
Potter County to name justice of the peace in place 2
The County Commissioners Court will hold its regular meeting Tuesday to name a justice of the peace in place 2 after the Armistice Day holiday. Twenty applications have been filed with County Clerk Ted Blackburn for the vacancy created by J. W. Pottinger’s death.
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Record coast to coast flight by Captain Rickenbacker
Henry McLemore reports on the 12 hour 3 minute 30 second transcontinental flight aboard a Douglas transport, piloted by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker. A six passenger crew details the journey from Los Angeles to New York Newark with multiple city mentions and vivid time cues.
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Atlantic
Kingfish Proposes Nullifying Louisiana Purchase
New Orleans November 9 Senate Huey P Long urged nullifying the Louisiana Purchase and extending his control across a wide US region He claimed Minnesota and Mississippi are already part of Louisiana and called for annexing the rest to form one large unified country
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Roosevelt Hotel
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Louisiana
Mississippi
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Update
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for fair conditions tonight and through Sunday. West Texas and New Mexico portions expect partly cloudy skies with a late temperature rise. Temperature extremes recorded were 48 degrees at 1 o clock and 73 degrees later.
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West Texas
New Mexico
Armistice Day Observance Parade and Football Classic
Amarillo joins national Armistice Day observance with a 10:30 start, a 10:40 parade formation, and over 20 floats through downtown. The highlight is the Badgers versus New Mexico Military Institute Branch at Butler Field at 2:30, followed by banquet and dance at the Herring Hotel. Tickets sell fast.
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Herring Hotel
Floyd L. Sloan
Thine the Prophet's Vision No Man on Horseback
Arthur Brisbane comments on the election turning toward Roosevelt, noting the nation’s mood from Hyde Park to the White House. He jokes that water runs uphill politically as Pennsylvania trends Democratic and Farley’s predictions prove prescient.
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Florida
Roosevelt Residence
Hyde Park
White House
Longfellow
Pennsylvania
Farley
Dust blinds man killed by propeller in plane crash
Plainview reports Grady Arthur a 28 year old farmer died after walking into the propeller while alighting from a sightseeing flight at Hale Center. The plane owned and piloted by Floyd Daniel Lockney. The victim’s skull was crushed and his left arm nearly severed. He died last night.
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Grady Arthur
Hale Center
Floyd Daniel Lockney
Senator Borah Seeks Probe Into Relief Cash Use
Senator Borah called for a White House and Congress inquiry into relief expenditures accusing waste and politicization. He cited cases where administration costs swallowed half the funds and warned relief reach to the needy must improve for taxpayers and decency.
France names new cabinet led by Pierre-Etienne Flandin
Paris reports the swearing in of Pierre-Etienne Flandin as France's new premier after Doumergue's resignation. The cabinet vows to unite amid unrest, pursue a right-leaning political stance, and present a program to parliament next Tuesday while offering a national truce against party divisions. In Oklahoma, Durant police find May Whittington's body with no clue to the killer as investigators question several men.
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Pierre-Etienne Flandin
France
Lebrun
Gaston Doumergue
Flandin
Doumergue
Chest Fund Relief Given by Community Chest Speakers
Mrs. Robert Ricks will speak at 8 05 tonight in a radio address describing school lunches fees and supplies provided for children by agencies in the Community Chest. Tomorrow Mrs 8 H Madden explains care of the aged and sick by agencies. Today at 650 this afternoon Community Chest member outlines the Welfare Association and the Day Nursery. Tomorrow at 430 Bishop R E B Lucey discusses general Community Chest functions. At 1200 and 630 the Salvation Army work is explained.
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Women's Crusade
Community Chest
H. Madden
Welfare Association
R. EB. Lucey
Salvation Army
Chamber seeks NRA views in national referendum
The U S Chamber of Commerce asks members to gauge nationwide business opinion on NRA operations. It urges the government recovery agency to be a president appointed board, enforceable fair competition rules, revised labor clauses, and clear collective bargaining language.
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Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
NRA
Longshoreman given ten year sentence in Beaumont melee
In Beaumont Texas on November 9 the first of several murder assault trials tied to a pistol battle between black dock workers and five white men concluded with Adam Hoxie a black longshoreman receiving a ten year term.
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Tex
Adam Hoxie
Sister Act Scares Bandits Away in Chicago
In Chicago on November 9 the Swanson sisters confronted burglars in their late bungalow. Helen, 26 and fast, blocked the suspects’ car with a gun drawn while Anna telephoned and a police siren neared. The thieves fled on foot. the sisters plan to claim the abandoned car and estimate proceeds at about $406.
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Anna
Havel
Swanson
Arma Akimbo
Gangs Loot Three Banks and Escape
Three bandits robbed the Delay National Bank in Norfolk Nebraska taking about 210,000 and fled in a stolen car. A separate Clyde Missouri Bank of Conception raid reported the culprits exposing a cash haul with no final total. A Cedar Grove New Jersey gang of seven to eight men raided the First National Bank using tear gas to cover their escape, stealing 9 000 to 10 000 dollars.
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Pilot Limps Home From Plane Ride
Lieut Julian Flock of Kelly Field limped home to Mobile Alabama after his plane suffered a motor failure and parted from its ship. He was only lightly injured when he landed using a parachute. The incident occurred yesterday during a training flight in San Antonio.
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U.P
Julian Flock
Kelly Field
Flock
Mobile
Ala
Negro Slayer Alfred Rowan Transferred to Reformatory
Alfred Rowan, a Black man wanted for the slaying of Roy D. Gentry of Altus Oklahoma, was arrested in Wichita Falls yesterday and transferred to the Oklahoma state reformatory at Granite today.
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Alfred Rowan
Roy D. Gentry
Altus
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State Reformatory
Granite
Absentee ballots may decide New Mexico senate race
In Santa Fe on Nov 9, absentees and 689 of 761 precincts show Bronson Cutting leading Dennis Chavez by 1 163 with 69 524 to 68 361 votes. About 3 000 absentee ballots likely remain. In New York two men tied to a poultry racket were shot to death leaving a Lower East Side apartment house.
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N. M
Bronson Cutting
United States Senate
New Mexico
Dennis Chavez
Cutting
Chaves
New York
Dolly Gann Mum On Traffic Ticket Incident
Dolly Gann may have sassed a traffic officer but she remains silent about the matter. Officer Feagan ticketed her chauffeur for a no parking stop and Mrs. Gann refused to discuss it. Her brother Charles Curtis and police wait to see if the ticket is paid by Saturday’s deadline.
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Navy
Dolly Gann
Charles Feagan
City Symphony Opens 1994-95 Season In Amarillo
Amarillo residents tonight at 4 30 p m will see the 1994 95 Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra debut at Municipal Auditorium with 78 musicians led by Asweet Ant Conductor Hall Axtell The guest Belgian cellist Paul Blitz will join for two sets as the orchestra seeks to establish its place in the West with Mr Blitz recently taking over the Texas Tech music school in Lubbock Memberships range 48 to 3 for five concerts with student pricing and single admissions at 1 Tickets and memberships available at City Drug No 1 517 Polk Street
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Panhandie
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Christian Traulow
Hall Axtell
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Mr. Blitz
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City Drug
Polk Street
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