Tear Gas Drill Prep For Hunger Marchers At Capitol
Washington police intensify tear gas training and stockpiles as hunger marchers plan to march on the Capitol. About 50 officers drilled in gas barrages while narcotic policy remains secret and officials coordinate with DC authorities and federal agencies. An estimated 3 000 marchers are expected as Congress begins.
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Capitol
Ernest W. Brown
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
Congress
City Budget Shows Slashed Costs and Delinquent Taxes
City officials report operating costs reduced to about 360000 yearly while general fund expenditures fall to 63000 monthly from April 1931 to March 1932. Public hearing set December 13 to discuss budget, with tax rate to be set after the meeting. Taxpayers urged to pay 1931 and prior year taxes within two weeks to avoid penalties.
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Commission
Moe
C. H. Winterhaler
Ross D. Rogers
Bailey denies report on 1934 governor bid
Dallas November 28 congressman at large Joseph Weldon Bailey Jr. emphatically denied he had considered a gubernatorial run in 1934 after a Dallas newspaper reported circulating rumors among Bailey’s friends.
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Bailey
Dallas
U.P
Joseph Weldon Bailey Jr
League refers Lytton report on Manchuria to special assembly
The League of Nations council on Manchuria referred the Lytton report to a special assembly and then dismissed the commission. The action comes amid ongoing probes and international debate over Manchuria and the Geneva situation.
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Manchuria
Geneva
Council of the
League of Nations
Lytton
the League
Creomulsion Promises Quick Relief For Coughs And Colds
For years doctors prescribed creosote for bronchial infections and coughs. Creomulsion combines creosote with six other medicinal elements to stop lingering colds and coughs, claiming safety and easy use. Drugstore guarantee refunds if not relieved and a warning to beware a lingering cough or cold.
Just Folks by Edgar A Guest
Death is described as a dull life without striving or pain yet the living bear debts and misfortunes while the silent dead are free from care. The poem argues that suffering proves life and contrasts the weight of life with the freedom of the dead.
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Just Folks
Edgar A. Guest
Taxi Driver Abandons Cab After Flagging Freight Train
A taxi driver, a former railroad man, flagged an incoming Santa Fe freight train on an unpaved road near Amarillo. He telephoned police from Junior Santa Fe yard, describing the cab. Officers traced a route, found barefoot prints, and believe the cab was commandeered to move illicit cargo to Amarillo.
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Santa Fe
Doyle
A. P. McSwain
Amarillo
Elmer Green
Relcat
W. R. McDowell
Negro Mass Meeting To Be Held Monday Amarillo
A citizenship mass meeting for Amarillo’s black community is set for 8 p.m. Monday at the Colored M E Church on Second Avenue and Polk Street. Sponsored by the Negro Business Club and led by Matthew Hooks the event aims to improve citizenship and relations between about 3,000 local Negro residents and public officials. Speakers include Police Chief W R McDowell Sheriff-elect Bill Adams Justice of the Peace-elect Boy Clerk Meyer Ross Moyers and Norris Ewing representing the News-Globe.
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Meyer Ross Moyers
Norris Ewing
The
News-Globe
William R Hickox Rites Planned After Death in Amarillo
William R. Hickox aged 49 a resident of Amarillo for nine years and an employee of Great West Mill and Elevator Company died at 1 am Monday at his home 504 North Lincoln Street He is survived by his widow Mrs Bertie Hickox his mother Mrs R L Hickox of Gainesville two brothers Walter Hickox of Gainesville and John Hickox of Dallas and two sisters Mrs R L Smith of Fort Worth and Mrs M A Cornet of Era He belonged to the First Christian Church and Modern Women of America Funeral services will be at Griggs Chapel Tuesday at 2 pm with burial in Ulano Cemetery.
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Amarillo
Great West Mill & Elevator Company
North
Lincoln Street
Bertie Hickox
R. L. Hickox
Gainesville
Walter Hickox
John Hickox
Dallas
R. L. Smith
Fort Worth
M. A. Cornet
Era
Hickox
First Christian Church
Modern Women of America
Griggs Chapel
Ulano Cemetery
Santa Claus Robber Strike Hits Dallas Office
In Dallas on November 28, an actor wearing a Santa mask robbed a dairy company, stealing 160 dollars after forcing two workers to open a safe and detaining them for hours until the office manager arrived. The disguise and the thiefs remark about being out of work are noted, but the bandits spared a sick benefit fund sack kept at the station.
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Dallas
Santa Claus
Saint Nicholas
Fairy tale trek across Australia ends in riches for Gwen Sauerbier
Gwen Doline Sauerbier, a 22 year old rancher's daughter, completed a 4000 mile journey through the heart of Australia with a camel and an Aboriginal companion. The trip drew praise from natives who offered gifts, and she returned with gold nuggets and specimens of jasper, rubies and opals.
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Australia
Adelaide
Gwendoline Sauerbier
Labor Draws Relief Plans at AFL Convention
In Cincinnati on November 28 President William Green of the American Federation of Labor outlined a two fold unemployment relief program. The short term plan calls for federal and state relief funds, public works, and a five day work week with a six hour day. The long term plan envisions unemployment insurance via state agencies with federal backing and the creation of a national economic council.
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Cincinnati
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
National Economic Council
Grid coach under fire as players visit bedside
Ill will between ers bear toward their coach and some visitors came to his bedside at the Lee Foster residence Sunday. Suspensions were for breaking training rules. Barksdale, ex Baylor football player, has coached Canyon for a year from Floydada. Sheriff says aggravated assault charges may be filed. grand jury possible. The coach rests with leg wounds but must stay quiet to prevent infection.
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Lee Foster
Barksdale
Baylor University
Canyon
Floydada
John Fry
Lettie White Rescued After Fall Into Open Manhole
Lettie White a 280 pound woman in Houston was rescued after she fell into an open manhole. She told rescuers that she stepped off the curb and became wedged in the shaft. She mentioned plans to lose weight last summer and noted she would have been hurt more had she not been reduced.
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Houston
Lettie White
Lettie
Many Discrepancies Found in Election
In Austin the state canvassing board opened presidential returns from Texas counties noting 35 of 254 counties had not sent in results and some totals listed only Democratic votes. Incomplete or missing party tallies may invalidate those county returns. Tabulation began as Mrs. Jane Y. McCallum, secretary of state, warned several days may pass. Members include the governor, secretary of state, and attorney general.
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Austin
Texas
Secretary of State
Jane Y. McCallum
Attocrney
Prison inmates win debate on soldier bonus in Michigan
In Jackson Michigan three state prison inmates failed to prove innocence before circuit judges yet they proved capable debaters. They secured a 2 to 1 verdict in a debate with a Detroit team arguing for immediate payment of the soldier bonus.
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Jackson, Mich
Michigan State
Detroit
Campaign to School 2 Million Children Back to Class
The National Child Labor Committee announced a drive to remove more than 2,000,000 children from employment by sending them back to school. The effort aims to free jobs for about 10 to 11 million adults currently in desperate need of work.
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New York
National Child Labor Committee
Cobb Plans Hunt Trip With Hogg Party Near Texas Coast
Irvin 8 Cobb humorist and writer arrived in Corpus Christi with Mr and Mrs Mike Hogg of Houston to spend several days near Rockport and Aransas Pass on a duck hunting trip. The group plans to travel to Mexico after the Texas coast stay. England operates a fleet of mobile cafes serving its busy highways day and night.
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Cobb
Corpus Christi
Irvin
Mike Hogg
Houston
Rockport
Aransas Pass
Mexico
Mexican Shot Through Head Defends Attacker in Court
BIG SPRING November 28 Pete Correa a Mexican cotton picker survived a bullet to the head and felt no pain returning to work the next day He later appeared at an attorney office asking to represent the man indicted for assault to murder The physician noted the bullet passed between brain lobes entering the forehead and exiting the skull base
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Big Spring
Pete Correa
Fete
Pete
Correa
Cafe Man in Hiding Slays One Robber
FORT WORTH Nov 28 Three men fleeing a failed robbery. John B Burgess 44 lies dead from rifle fire by cafe proprietor Jesse L Hughes. Hughes watched from concealment near his cafe after warning employee Metzger. He fired at robbers in doorway and at a getaway car, one robber wounded and others fleeing.
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Fort Worth
John B. Burgess
Jesse L. Hughes
Hughes
Metzer
Metzger
Ex Police Chief and Wife Slain by Ax in Oklahoma Home
In McAlester Oklahoma today former police chief Joe House age 74 and his wife were found murdered in their bedroom by a double bladed ax. House’s body lay in a bed with a pillow over the head while Mrs House was on the floor in a corner. A blood smeared ax lay outside a shattered window. One man has been arrested for investigation.
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Mcalester
Okla
Joe House
John Meyers
Uinally
House
Picket line at Woodside mine dispersed by tear gas bombs
Springfield news reports that 600 striking workers at Pea body Coal Company's Woodside mine faced tear gas bombs as police used them to break up the picket line. The miners had surrounded the mine to prevent reported return to work for the first time since last spring.
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Springfield
Ill
U.P
Peabody Coal Company
Woodside
John S Baldwin Dies in Dallas After Long Illness
Funeral services are held today for John S Baldwin 57 long-time employee of the Texas Farm and Ranch Publishing Company. Baldwin died yesterday after a prolonged illness, ending more than four decades with the firm.
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John
Baldwin
Dallas
S. Baldwin
Texas Farm & Ranch Publishing Company
Warfield Decides To Quit at Top of His Theatrical Career
New York November 28 The famed actor David Warfield announces retirement at 66 saying he has enough to live on and deserves rest He cites past peers Bernhardt and Terry and laments current theater trends preferring to be remembered at his best and urging public sentiment over cynicism
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New York
David Warfield
Bernhardt
Ellen Terry
Debts crisis in Europe under Hoover planfloat
War debts and U P Czechoslovakia challenge presidential authority to extend moratorium while seeking a debt agency. London markets slump as Britain weighs the December 15 war debt payment of 95.5 million dollars. pound sinks to record lows around 3.19 dollars amid currency pressure and historical comparisons.
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Congress
Mr. Hoover
London
U.P
United States
New York
Party purging hinted in demo called session
Dallas, Nov 28. The state Democratic executive committee will meet in Austin at 10 o clock Saturday morning. Maury Hughes, Dallas, state Democratic chairman, issued the call and hinted that several Democratic chairmen are due for a spanking and possible ousting. He said some members seek disciplinary measures to purge disloyal elements. Observers see the statement as aimed at county chairmen who did not vote the ticket straight in the governor race. The legislative subcommittee will be asked to report. it has sought means to increase party machine powers.
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Dallas
Democratic Executive Committee
Austin
Maury Hughes
State
Democratic Committee
Hughes
Hold Negro Here On Murder Charge
Bert Hamilton a negro held in Potter County jail on two robbery with firearms counts may be sent to Oklahoma City on a murder charge for the slaying of Jack Denmark a pawnbroker in Oklahoma City identified Sunday. He was arrested after a service station robbery and a garage attendant kidnapping.
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Bert Hamilton
Oklahoma City
Hamilton
Potter County
Jack Denmark
Plainview Man Robbed on Highway by Yeggs
Amarillo police were told by the Plainview sheriff that P. T. Wallace was robbed Sunday night of 187 dollars by two men on the highway near the Plains Hale Center switch. Wallace said the men fled in a 1929 Ford after taking his billfold.
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Amarillo
Plainview
P. T. Wallace
Plains
Hale Center
Wallace
Medical men meet in Houston for postgraduate assembly
Three thousand physicians and surgeons from five southwestern states gathered in Houston for the opening session of the post graduate medical assembly of South Texas. Attendees hailed from Texas Oklahoma Louisiana New Mexico and Arizona for the meeting.
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Houston
U.P
Medical Assembly
South Texas
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
New Mexico
Arizona
B. C. Relieves Headaches and Quiet Nerves
A North Carolina pharmacist developed a blend of several ingredients under the name B. C. to relieve most headaches in minutes. The product, sold in 10¢ and 25¢ packages, claims quick relief for muscular aches, colds, neuraglia, fever reduction, and calming a distressed nervous system without opiates or habit forming drugs.
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North Carolina
B. C
Heart patient dies after knife wound operation
Abilene reports Willie Fitzgerald a 15 year old black boy died in a hospital after pneumonia developed following surgery to close a knife wound. Doctors said the heart wound was not the cause of death. He had withstood five stitches in the heart during the operation. The pneumonia onset occurred on the day he was to leave the hospital last Friday.
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Abilene
Willie Fitzgerald
Markets Signal Mixed Livestock Trade and Cotton Opening
Kansas City livestock prices show averages down slightly with hogs and cattle volumes noted, while New Orleans cotton opens quiet and easy as traders await Congress crop estimates. January cotton slides to about 5.68, with March and May futures lower before a late rally on short-covering.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
Congress Mae
Market Minute Notes on Stock Movements and War Debt
Virtually recovered. Allied Chemical more than regained a 1 point loss with National Biscuit soft, off 1% points not recovered. Westinghouse rose a fraction, Coca Cola showed signs of short covering with a 2 point rise. U.S. Steel recovered fractions after a dip. Weekend trade reviews say business follows the usual seasonal pattern. Standard Statistics Co notes recession and war debt issues shaping expectations as Congress approaches, with activity normal but caution urged.
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Allied Chemical
National Biscuit
Westinghouse
Coca Cola
U.S. Steel
Standard Statistics Co
Congress
Wall Street
New York Stock Letter Sees Steady Start Despite Sterling Slump
The New York stock market opened with a watchful mood as sterling exchange slumped, yet a modest improvement from Saturday lingered. Early trading saw narrow moves with some shares down about a point, later mostly recovering and leaders nudging higher. American Telephone, American Can, and Case led early losses of roughly a point.
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Sterling Exchange
American Telephone
American Can
Case
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