Jefferson letter sale tops 25000 and cow industry noted
Thomas Jefferson letter sale fetches 25000 as the highest price for a Jefferson letter. The piece highlights the cow as the largest US industry, producing four billion dollars in wealth yearly, per Thomas H. McInnerney. The dialogue notes milk production, dairy products, and broader self reliance themes.
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United States
National Co-operative Milk Producers Federation
Thomas H. McInnerney
McInnerney
National Dairy Products Corporation
Bipne
Dam Break Floods Lake Mathis Area In Texas
No lives lost after Lake Mathis Dam breach. Over a million dollars in damages expected as more than 2 000 homes washed away and crops and livestock destroyed. Villages La Fruita and Bluntzer submerged. water supply from Lake Lovenskiold disrupted. Engineers cite undermining and weak foundations as causes. See FLOODS Page 2.
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Fly United Press
Corpus Christi
Lake Mathis
Nueces
la Fruita
Lovenskiold
Southern Pacific Railroad
Bluntzer
Boys Take Baby Plane On South American Tour
Edward Wingerter of Newark and Joseph L. Jones of Riverside set out from Caldwell in a small two cylinder monoplane bound for South America. They plan to follow the Atlantic coast to Havana and then Cuba to British Guiana, stopping at airports as fuel allows. The eight gallon craft cruises at 65 mph with a 25 foot wingspan as they aim to meet consuls and presidents along the way.
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Associated Press
Caldwell
N. J
Edward Wingerter
Newark
Joseph L. Jones
Riverside
Jones
Baltimore
Supreme Court rules against ten film distributors in Sherman Act case
Justice McReynolds delivers ruling that ten motion picture distributors violated the Sherman Act by enforcing uniform contracts and credit systems in film leasing. Lower courts had split on contract arbitration and purchaser obligations, with the industry boards handling 98 percent of moviemaking rights.
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Associated Crews
Washington
Reading Motion Picture
Supreme Court
Viret National Pictures, Inc
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Universal Film Exchanges, Inc
United Artista Corporation
Fox Film Corporation
Patho Exchange, Inc
F. B. O. Tristures Corporation
Vitagraph Incorporated
Educational Film Rkechanges Incorporated
Justice McReynolds
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Vicinity
Fair and continued cold tonight. Tuesday fair and warmer. West Texas: fair colder southeast portion with frost tonight. Tuesday fair with rising temperatures in Panhandle. New Mexico: fair tonight and Tuesday. Temperature extremes today at 1 oclock 41 and 62. Sunrise Tuesday 7 82 and sunset 5 37.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Amarillo Chest Drive Enters Peak Fundraising Week
Amarillo's Community Chest moves into the second week of its seventh annual drive to raise funds for relief of suffering. Workers resume soliciting contributions toward the $60,000 goal. $32,639.75 had been raised in cash and pledges after five days, with firms like Southwestern Bell and Amarillo General Hospital contributing.
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Amarillo
Community Chest
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Amarillo General Hospital
Workers
Radio Bridge Starts Again In Sixth Season Of Broadcasts
The sixth season of bridge by radio begins at 2:30 PM with a program on WDAG. The first show features contract and auction, directed by Milton Work with other authorities. Self rating questions will let listeners compare their play to experts after each game.
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WDAG
Globe
Milton
Prohibition Modification Beverages Headed For Vote In Congress
Senator Bingham of Connecticut calls for a vote on bills altering prohibition rules. He plans to sponsor a bill to permit 4 per cent beer production and allow physicians to prescribe malt as well as spirits. He argues the measures would promote temperance while increasing grain use.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Bingham
Republican
Connecticut
Ship and crew go down in gale off Elbe
The steamship Luise Leonhardt, 3,500 tons, was wrecked at the mouth of the Elbe in a violent gale. Her crew of 30 went missing as rescue efforts failed. The vessel, owned by the Lonhardt Blumberg firm of Hamburg, lost its rudder and anchor chains and broke in two after being driven ashore.
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Germany
Luise Leonhardt
Elbe
Lonhardt-Blumberg Firm
Gium
Lujne Leonhardt
Leonhardt Blumberg
France
Paris
le Mans
Etretat
Deeuville
Movel
Rhine
Saar
Austria
Brussels
Vienna
Tyrol
Charleroi
Belgium
Sambre
San Francisco Man Arrested Over Spokane Bomb Plot
Henry A. Ilse, watchman at a San Francisco bank, was arrested after a Spokane dynamite bomb traced to a battery number addressed to the Spokane Chronicle and Associated Press offices. Ilse denies knowledge of the latest attack and blames political gangs in Spokane, claiming prior bomb acquittal. He is held without bail en route to Spokane and resists extradition.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Spokane
Wash
Chronicle
Henry A. Ilse
Isle
Spokaneria Review
W. H. Es
Asited Press
Ilse
United States
Spokesman- Review
Cleveland Williams
Williams
Cowles
Death verdict upheld in Pa. highway patrol murder
The state supreme court upheld the death penalty for Irene Schroeder and W. Glenn Dague for the December 1929 murder of Corporal Brady Paul near New Castle Pennsylvania. The verdict followed a trial in which they were convicted of killing the officer who confronted them about a holdup.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
State Supreme Court
Irene Schroeder
W. Glenn Dague
New Castle
Oklahoma City Bank Framing Probe into Osage Robbery
The Daily Oklahoman reports state and Osage County investigators are probing possible framing of the September 15 Bank of Osage attempted robbery. Preston Castleman of Tulsa remains jailed on second degree burglary charges. Sam Going and Posey Mitchell serve six year terms. Mitchell is in serious condition.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Daily
Oklahoman Today
Osage
Bank of
Preston Castleman
Tulsa
Pawhuska
The
Oklahoman
J. P. Devine
Castleman
Devine
Sam Going
Posey Mitchell
Mitchell
Tax Cut May Not Continue
Washington November 24 The one percent tax reduction may not be extended as House Rules Chairman Snell warned of possible tax increases to cover treasury needs. He spoke during analysis of a short session outlook as he urged speed in passing a new round of appropriation bills to avoid a special session of the newly elected Congress.
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Associated Press
Washington
Snell
House Rules Committee
Treasury
Congress
Supreme Court Allows Separate Reporting of Community Income
The Supreme Court ruled that income from community property in Arizona, Louisiana, Texas and Washington may be reported on separate returns by husband and wife. Justice Roberts noted one half of the income belongs to the wife under state law and the wife may file a separate return for her share. The decision could affect tax returns from Idaho Nevada and New Mexico and follows a similar California case.
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Ty the Ansociated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
Arizona
Louisiana
Texas
Justice Roberts
Tacome
California
Idaho
Nevada
New Mexico
H. G. Seahorn
L B. Koch
William Pfaff
C. W. Bacon
Roberts
Hoover Sends Congratulations To Mayor
President Hoover sends a personal note of praise to Col. Ernest C. Thompson mayor of Ama rillo for handling unemployment relief efforts. The White House letter responds to a telegram about mayors actions to ease joblessness nationwide.
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Hoover
Amarillo
Herbert Hoover
Col
Ernest C. Thompson
White House
DO X ARMED AS FLYING BATTLESHIP DRAWN AT GENEVA
Rene Massigli, French representative, presented a picture of the DO X seaplane armored as a bombing craft to the League of Nations disarmament commission. He argued civil aviation could pose a war menace, citing a crew member’s claim the giant plane could bomb major capitals. Maxim litvinoff left Rome for Milan en route to Moscow amid subversion speculation.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Rene Massigli
Maximinn Litvinoff
Milan
Italy
Rome
Moscow
Disarmament Commission
Spe
Russia
M. Litvinoff
M. Massigli
London
Paris
Arlington watchman killed. bond opposed for suspect
Sam Louder, 36, a Negro, admitted fatally shooting Evans Johnson, 22, Arlington night watchman, at 5 AM Sunday. District Attorney Stuart will oppose bond. grand jury to hear case after recess. J W Johnson, father of a suspect, urged calm from Arlington crowds and warned officers. Louder said he fired believing Johnson was a burglar.
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Associated Premn
Fort Worth
Sam Louder
Evans Johnson
Arlington Night Watchman
Stuart
J. W. Johnson
Arlington City Hall
Johnson
Arlington
Man Slain in Raid Leaves Wife Wounded in Oklahoma
Semiole Oklahoma November 24. B L Blackie Younger is dead his wife is hospitalized with broken left arm and leg and Deputy Sheriff Frank Loftus has 23 stitches after a clash during a liquor raid Saturday night.
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Associated Prove
Seminole, Okla
B. L “Blackie” Younger
Frank Loftus
Country Club School Meet Set For 7 30 PM
A pa rent-teacher group and property owners in Country Club district call a meeting at Margaret Wille school this evening at 7 30 PM instead of 8 PM. The discussion includes redrawing district boundaries after Sem Houston Junior High, sending some Wille pupils to San Jacinto, and options for temporary cafeteria space or completing the building with an auditorium and cafeteria after the next bond issue.
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Margaret Wille
Country Club
Margaret Wills
Sem Houston
San Jacinto
James C. Peters Dies. Last Quantrell Follower in Clay County
James C. Peters aged 85, a participant with Quantrell in the Lawrence raid, Kansas, during the Civil War, died in Smithville Missouri. He was believed to be the last Quantrell follower remaining in Clay County.
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Associated Press
Smithville
James C. Peters
Quantrell
Lawrence
Kans
Clay County
Missouri
State Railroad Commission to enforce oil line act statewide
Austin nov 24 the state railroad commission will enforce the common purchaser act relating to pipeline companies in every section of the state commissioner lon a smith said today the action follows a request from operators last week for rigid enforcement to prevent discrimination by common purchasers between operators in the same oil field or between fields
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Associated Press
Austin
State Railroad Commission
Lon A. Smith
Court Denies Rail Rate Plea in Supreme Court
The southwestern railroads failed in the Supreme Court to overturn an Interstate Commerce Commission order that divided freight rates between western trunk line carriers and their rivals. Justice Butler upheld the rate sharing as valid, rejecting the claim that the ICC exceeded its authority by using group conditions. The Missouri federal court had previously sustained the order.
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Associated Press
Washington
Southwestern Railroads
Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Western Trunk Line
Southwestern
Commission
Con
Missouri
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