Election win nears record for Congress
The Democratic victory in Tuesday’s election shows a near three to one House majority with about 300 seats. In the Senate, 59 Democrats, 36 Republicans and one Farmer-Labor are counted as current strength, with two races deciding the lame duck session. Barbour’s New Jersey win and Colorado’s outcome shift balance as losses topple GOP leaders and reshape party control.
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House
Farmer-Labor
Colorado
Karl C. Schuyler
W. Warren Barbour
Percy H. Stewart
Barbour
Dwight W. Morrow
Amarillo Declares Armistice Day Holiday and Parade
Mayor Ross O. Bean proclaims November 11 a city holiday to honor World War I service with a 10 A.M. parade. He urges stores and offices to close and employees to participate, invites business cooperation, and promotes joining the American Legion Hanson Post No. 64 in celebrating the Armistice.
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America
Hanson Post No. 64, Inc
American Legion
Amarillos
Texas
Amarillo
Roosevelt Leads Hoover in Ballot Count as Harmony Gathers
New York report shows Franklin D. Roosevelt with a growing lead of 6,256,921 over Herbert Hoover from 33,633,062 votes tallied. Post election, Hoover and Roosevelt pledge cooperation to ease transition and limit economic disruption while Stimson and Parley urge unity.
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U.P
Roosevelt
Ee Hoover
Hoover
Texas House Fails To Ban Oil Production by Market Demand
In Austin on November 10 the Texas House tabled an amendment to a proposed oil production regulation bill. The motion to table passed 73 to 47, blocking a provision that would limit production to market demand and allowing well potential to guide oil allowables. Rep. W. E. Pope of Corpus Christi offered the amendment. Sponsors say final passage still could succeed.
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House
Texas
State Railroad Commission
W. E. Pope
Corpus Christi
Edward Hall Football Rules Leader Dies at 62
Edward K. Hall, 62, chairman of the college football rules committee, died at his Hanover New Hampshire home after several weeks illness. He was a former vice president of the American Telephone Company and later a lecturer at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College.
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N. H
Edward K. Hall
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American Telephone Company
Amos Tuck School of Business
Dartmouth College
Amarillo Holiday for Armistice Arranged
Arthur Brisbane reports an Amarillo Armistice holiday is arranged for today as part of a national observance. Details of events and participants are outlined, reflecting local and national sentiments on honoring veterans and peace following conflict.
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Amarillo
Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Stores Close Parade and Grid Game Friday Here
Amarillo will close shops Friday Armistice Day to honor those who safeguarded democracy. The town will mark the fourteenth anniversary of the peace treaty with a parade and a grid game event.
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Amarillo
Roosevelt's Victory Reflected in Nation’s Calm Election Night
The city room buzzed with activity as voters surpassed prior totals, Roosevelt’s win seen in Massachusetts and nationwide. Editors note Brisbane’s column voices cautious optimism and flags deep national challenges like depression unemployment bootlegging and organized crime.
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Roosevelt
Massachusetts
Sam
National Forest
Four room duplex at 905-4 Parker for sale
Real estate ad offering a four room duplex at 905-4 Parker. Contact phone numbers 9633 or 452 Ama rillo Hotel for inquiries. Note mentions many people delaying moves until after an election.
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Amarillo Hote
Ex-Service Men Urged to Join Veterans Parade
One thousand veterans are targeted for a city parade planned as Armistice observance. Ex-service men report to the American Legion section at the Legion Home by 10 AM Friday. The mile and a half procession forms on Grant Johnson Lincoln and Buchanan Streets, entering Fifth Avenue at 10 30 AM. A zero hour tribute will line Polk Street at 11 AM. The program includes additional events with Amarillo College and Hillsboro Junior College football teams participating.
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Amarillo College
Hillsboro Junior College
Zamora Accepts Invitation to Visit Mexico
President Niceto Alcala Zamora of Spain will visit Mexico after an official announcement. date of the visit has not been fixed.
Amarillo Area Weather Outlook Tonight And Friday
Partly cloudy and colder tonight with freezing temperatures. Friday to be fair in Amarillo and Far West Texas, with colder conditions north and south portions. Temperature extremes reach 33 to 44 this afternoon into 1 PM. Oil ad noted for 1990 W. 3rd.
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Amarillo
Texas
Roosevelt Returns to Work After Election Victory
Franklin D. Roosevelt, elected president, returns to work in Albany to prepare the 1933 state budget. He plans to visit Hyde Park for the weekend, then Warm Springs Georgia for a week to attend the Warm Springs Foundation trustees meeting before returning to Albany for the new year.
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Albany
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
State of
New York
Hyde Park
Warm Springs
Warm Springs Foundation
Ferguson Builds Texas Lead In Governor Race And Roosevelt Leads
Early returns from 187 of 254 counties show Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson ahead of Orville Bullington by 117 591 votes for Texas governor while Franklin D Roosevelt leads Hoover in the presidential contest with about 398 137 to 52 497. Amendments to the state constitution appear to pass in preliminary counts, while the Texas Centennial legislative support proposal trails.
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Texas
U.P
Texas Election Bureau
Hoover
Roosevelt
Armstrong
Ferguson
Miriam A. Ferguson
Orville Bullington
Bullington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Hoover Plans Rest After Political Strain
President Hoover, relieved by a Democratic victory, favors a light schedule at home in Palo Alto. He says he will hand over affairs to President-Elect Roosevelt next spring and seeks rest, noting his calendars are clear aside from telegrams and routine duties. He hints at a mountain drive and replies with a light remark to a reporter.
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Palo Alto
Cal
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington
Mr. Hoover
Particular Bandit Demands $4.40 at Sam's Cafe
A bandit demanded $4.40 from Carl Eliott at Sam's Cafe on Taylor Street in Amarillo early Thursday. After obtaining the money the man left with a cigarette pack, then returned to ask for cigarets before exiting. Police were given a description of the suspect.
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Amarillo
Carl Eliott
Taylor Street
Elliott
Sam’s
Eliott
Galsworthy Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to British novelist John Galsworthy for The Forsyte Saga. Predictions had widely named him as the likely recipient before the announcement in Stockholm on November 10.
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Stockholm
Sweden
John Galsworthy
Nine held in daylight Army & Navy Store robbery case
Evidence against three men and two women arrested in the daylight robbery at the Army and Navy Store on Fourth Avenue and Taylor Street will go to the grand jury on Thursday. Police say one suspect wore a stolen watch and that another has links to a prior West Nineteenth Avenue grocer holdup. A suspect gave a long statement clarifying several recent robberies.
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Fourth Avenue
Taylor Street
Grand Jury
W. R. McDowell
McDowell
Louis Feferman
Army& Navy
E. R. Read
West Nineteenth Avenue
Raymondville Football Brothers Face Tragedy as One Dies
In Raymondville Texas Glenn Lawrence a Raymondville High School end who was injured in a scrimmage that killed his brother Blondy Lawrence a Raymondville fullback shot and killed himself Glenn died in Harlem g and schools and businesses closed for his services classmates attended in a body
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Tex
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Blondy” Lawrence
Blondy
Harlingen
Beer Legalization Fights Set for Early Next Congress
Dry leaders warn a short session battle to defeat beer legislation as the 1935 Congress nears. Democratic leaders promise action to legalize beer in line with the party platform, while containment of the Volstead Act remains debated among factions. Illinois Republican Fred A. Britten plans to seek a December vote to legalize beer and to propose a manufacturers tax.
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U.P
Congress
House
Senate
Britten
Chicago
Fred A. Britten
Illinois
Oklahoma Returns Show Big Democratic Pluralities
Oklahoma City November 10 The remaining statewide issues from Tuesday's election were the size of Democratic pluralities and the margin for Gov. Murray's income tax measure. Returns favored Murray candidates but speculation grew about an independent group potentially balancing power in the House.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
William H. Murray
Chemnitz clash injures thirty as police intervene
In Chemnitz Germany today a street encounter left thirty people injured with six in serious condition. Police intervened to separate rival groups as the clashes erupted in the city center during a public gathering.
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Chemnitz
Germany
Tribute to Ministers Opens Northwest Texas Methodist Conference
Clarendon hosts the 23rd annual Northwest Texas Methodist Conference session with Plainview and Abilene bidding to host next. Bishop Hiram A. Boaz presides as leaders and local officials welcome preachers and delegates in a ceremony that honors ministers, notes transfer of Dr Ira F Key, and praises rugged faith amid economic hardship.
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Clarendon
Northwest Texas Methodist Conference
Plainview
Abilene
Hamilton Wright
Ross D. Rogers
G. L. Yates
First Baptist Church
Biahon Hiram A. Boas
Polk Street
Key
Yates
Ira F. Key
Methodist Church
Boaz
Methodist
Landon Maintains Lead In Kansas Governor Race
In Kansas the governor's contest shows Alfred M. Landon leading Harry H. Woodring by 3,785 votes with 2,523 of 2,676 precincts reporting. Landon 263,718 Woodring 259,933 Brinkley 232,213. 153 precincts unreported. Woodring narrowed the margin by 821 votes since the last tally.
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Topeka
Kans
Alfred M. Landon
Harry H. Woodring
Landon
Woodring
Brinkley
Saline County
First Snowfalls Hit Oklahoma Panhandle and Oklahoma City
Snow covered ground from Boise City to Stratford with smaller flurries from Texline to Denver while Amarillo saw a mix of sun and snow. Forecaster H T Collman predicted continued cold with freezing lows near 27 and possible light flurries north of the Canadian River. In Oklahoma City, the season’s first snow fell in melting flakes as temps hovered around 40.
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North Plains
Boise City
Okla
Stratford
White Deer
Miami
Texline
Denver
Colo
H. T. Collman
Canadian River
Colorado
Panhandle
New Mexico
Panhandle Auto Club
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Socialist Clash in Geneva Leaves 12 Dead, 70 Injured
In Geneva a riot over weeks of Socialist rivalry ended in a burst of machine gun fire by troops. Eleven or twelve civilians were killed and about seventy wounded as the crowd clashed with police after doors were barred at Community Hall. One soldier died later.
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Lausanne
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