Gasoline Price Accord Sought By Willard R. Smith
Madison, Wis. Oct. 12 (UP) Prosecutors and defense lawyers pressed to settle privately over winter 1935 1936 gasoline price ranges in a Sherman anti trust trial involving 23 companies. Beroth testified prices in trade journals influenced by weather and shifting markets. Government claims oil firms and independents set higher rates across 10 Midwestern states with journals aiding basic price setting. Settlement urged by Judge Stone. Defense sought to probe Beroth’s records. Evidence included an Interior Department order on tender boards in Texas to curb bootleg oil and limit shipments to ratioed sources.
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Willard R. Smith
Madison
Wis
Carl O. Beroth
Chicago
Winter
Beroth
Patrick T. Stone
William J. Donovan
Sheboygan
Secretary of Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Texas
Donovan
Mrs Roosevelt's Birthday Cake Has 21 Candles
Washington October 12 Twenty one candles decorated Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt's birthday cake at the White House marking her 53rd birth day anniversary The 21 candle limit is a Roosevelt custom The first lady's gift from the President was a waterproof wrist watch.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
North Highway Community Club Meeting Friday at Pleasant Valley
The North Highway Community Club will meet Friday night at eight o'clock at Pleasant Valley School. Important business will be discussed and special entertainment features have been planned, according to chairman H. L. Reitman.
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North Highway Community Club
Pleasant Valley School
H. L. Reitman
Franco British pact talks risk end after sign
European diplomacy continues as Nazi leaders press for a single power security approach and a Belgian stance on neutrality. Belgium may receive a unilateral pledge to inviolability, with no Belgian counterpart expected. Spain shifts ministries from Valencia to Catalonia amid wartime supply concerns. Austria reports unusual tourist levels this year.
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Locarno
Brussels
What They vary Write It Tack
Dear Tack I seek a farm or ranch to keep my wife and three year old child with me I have driven almost every make of tractor and can furnish references D H McCrory Box M44 Piemons Texas Deer Tack Please help me find my cornet Ytip nickel sated trumpet mode and I think it had J W Jenkins Music Company meraved on the Continued on page 1.
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Tack
Almet
D. H. McCrory
Piemons
Texas
J. W. Jenkins Music Company Meraved
Dog Carries Money to Bank Daily in Ohio
AP Feature Service reports in Jefferson, Ohio, a four year old cocker spaniel named Glo-Glo acts as the bank messenger for Harry Sikes. Each morning Glo-Glo carries deposits to the bank, guiding the bank book to tellers with special privileges. The dog has never missed a delivery and has not been robbed.
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Jefferson, Ohio
Harry Sikes
Treasury
Sikes
Glo-Glo
Descendants of Indians Who Welcomed Columbus May Be Hidden
Washington October 12 A museum expert speculates that descendants of the Lucayan Indians who greeted Columbus may hide on Andros Island in the Bahamas. He notes the island’s wilderness and legends of night hunting and possible escapes after the fall of the Lucayans. The account cites the near wiping out of the Lucayans and a few escaping to refuge on Andros. Manitoba reports a sleeping sickness affecting horses, with about 2000 disabled and many deaths. Zinc mining booms in the tri state district Missouri Oklahoma Kansas are cited as the greatest in 10 years, per Arnold Griffith.
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Christopher Columbus
New World
Herbert W. Kreiger
National Museum
Krieger
Museums Division of Ethnology
Andros Island
Bahamas
Florida
Kreiger
San Domingo
Venezuela
Joplin
Mo &H
Tri-State
Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansas
Arnold Griffith
Missouri Mate Inspection Bureau
Mexican Parent-Teacher Meeting Set for Wednesday Night
The Mexican Parent-Teacher Association will meet at Dwight Morrow School at 7 30 tonight with A B Lewis in charge of the program.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Dwight Morrow School
A. B. Lewis’ Room
Farm crop forecasts show record wheat and corn yields
The agriculture department estimates 1927 wheat at 880,895,000 bushels up 1,000,000 from last month and 260,000,000 above last year, while corn could reach 1,936,000,000 bushels, 1,092,000,000 more than last year. The Federal Reporting Board puts 1927 yields at 1119 percent of 1923-32 averages, up from 66.4 percent last year. Bruador cancels road-building contract with an American firm, Ecuadoran engineers to take over work due to financial issues.
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Agriculture Department
Eederal Reporting Board
Civic Music Drive Opens in Amarillo Banquet
The Panhandle Civic Music Association opened its membership drive with a banquet at the Herring Hotel in Amarillo attended by about 100 members and leading musicians. Miss Mary Springstead of NBC spoke on modern concert music and civic plans, noting many groups sell out venues. Amarillo aims to double its 620 members from last season. In a separate note, a Frederikshaven farmer hatched nine eggs by placing them in a bee hive after a hen died during incubation.
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Panhandle
R. W. Adams
Guy Carlander
Amarillo
Wes Izzard
KGNC
R. Thomson
Central Presbyterian Church
Beckie Reeder Arnold
C. M. Rogers
Mary Springstead
Civic Music Division
National Broadcasting Company
America
Miss Springstead
United States
Dallas Association
Frederikshaven
Germany
Price of Fish Is Going Up
Mr and Mrs Vernon Gunn returned from Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they visited relatives. Gunn, a TWA district traffic agent, fished at Lake Spavinaw on a three day trip with costs totaling fishing license 2 25 lake permit 0 50 per day boat rental 3 60 per day and miscellaneous expenses. He noted Oklahoma law allows keeping bass only over 12 inches and that they released five times as many as kept. He said the trip was fun but fish prices are rising.
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Vernon Gunn
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Gunn
TWA
Dining Car Heads Have Hands Full
Washington dispatch reports railroad dining car superintendents at their annual convention noting regional tastes and pricing quirks. Southerners prefer marmalade sweet, northerners dryly tart, and Arizona diners may pay double sales tax if they quit before California. Liquor must be sealed in dry states.
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Washington
Arizona
California
Mrs. T. S. Petty Dies at 59 in Local Hospital
Minie Myrtle Petty aged 59 died at 3 30 this morning after a four month illness in a local hospital. Survivors include widower T. S. Petty of Borger, daughter-in-law and several children, stepchildren, siblings, and grandchildren. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 2 30 PM at Assembly of God Church, Rev. FE R. Foster officiating. Burial will follow at Llano Cemetery with Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home in charge.
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Minie Myrtle Petty
T. S Petty
Borger
Herman Huffmaster
Artesia
N. M
Fred Ford
Amarillo
T. P. Shilbknight
Susie King
Binger
Okla
R. H. Petty
D. M. Petty
Jerome, Ariz
T. M. Petty
McAlester
Arminda Hart
India
Calif
Lelia Brotherton
Los Angeles
Richard Blankenship
Mount Vernon
Texas
Joe Blankenship
Appleton
Ark
Sadie McIlroy
Shirley, Ark
Annie Massey
Alton, Ark
Lou Sanders
Russellville
Assembly of God Church
FE. R. Foster
Llano Cemetery
Blackburn- Shaw Funeral Home
Negro Cannot Make Bond In Gambling Charge Jail
Isaac Willis, a black man, is in the county jail on a gambling house charge. He was sent to jail by Justice of the Peace C. W. Carder after failing to make a $500 bond.
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Isaac Willis
Justice of the Peace
C. W. Carder
Four Alarm Crash In Boston Involves Conrad N Beaudat
A collision between Beaudat and another car caused Beaudat’s vehicle to hit a fire alarm box and gas lamp, snapping the pole and triggering a four alarm response. Fire units and an emergency gas truck arrived to shut off gas, an ambulance carried a woman to hospital, and police opened an investigation.
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Boston
Conrad N
Beaudat
Omnibus Tax Bill Faces Sulphur Levy Setback
In Austin the House reduced the sulfur tax to 1.28 per ton from 1.50 as part of an omnibus tax bill. The move signals a preferred lower rate amid a larger 46 percent overall hike expected to raise almost ten million dollars yearly for social security and deficit relief. Debate focused on how much money is needed and where to obtain it with further oil tax changes on deck.
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Austin
U.P
House
John J. Bell
Cuero
Jeff Stinson
Dallas
Gaston Palmer
Normangee
Japanese plan nationwide drive to back China war
Tokyo reports leaders will launch a campaign tomorrow to mobilize the entire nation behind the Chinese war. The move coincides with the privy council and Emperor Hirohito approving a supreme advisory council with extraordinary wartime powers to rally all citizens across parties in support of ongoing action in China.
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Tokyo
Privy Council
Hirohito
China
Feature Tub Without Slip Feature Tub Without Slip
Kansas City report notes non skid bath tubs in the National Safety Congress exhibit. Rosamond Losh emphasizes home hazards beyond roads and urges safety measures across parlor, bedroom and bath. Ideas include a poison pill box of pins, a bell tied to poison, a sand filled coffee can, and a piggy bank can for razor blades.
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Kansas City
U.P
Home Safety Division
National Safety Congress
Rosamond Losh
The
Safety Council
Presbyterians Open 3 Day Session at Plainview
Presbyterians from 13 Texas and Louisiana presbyteries opened a three day session of the Synod of Texas, Presbyterian Church U S A, in Plainview. Eighty three year old J A Hornbeck of Hereford, the state’s oldest Presbyterian minister by service, presided. Mission work will be the theme and the centennial year of the Presbyterian foreign mission board will be commemorated.
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Plainview
Texas
Louisiana
Synod of Texas, Presbyterian Church
U.S. A
J. A. Hornbeck
Hereford
Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board
Dental Society Dinner To Be Tonight at Herring Hotel
Members of the local dental society will hold a round table dinner tonight at 6:15 oclock in the Herring Hotel. The meeting was announced by Dr. W. M. Curl, chairman of the arrangements committee. Dr. W. R. Moody is president of the local organization. Rice grown by irrigation in Java this year will weigh more than 149000000000 pounds.
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Dental Society
Herring Hotel
W. M. Curl
W. R. Moody
Java
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