Melbourne air derby leaders push toward final leg
C W A Scott and Campbell Black limped into Port Darwin with one motor after a long Timor Sea crossing, leading the $50,000 Melbourne air derby toward Charleville and the Flemington finish as Parmentier trails.
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Port Darwin
Australia
C. W. A. Scott
Campbell Black
Melbourne
Charleville
Flemington
Melborne
Parmentier
Moll
Scott
Black
K. D. Parmentier
Gunfight sets off hunt for Pretty Boy Floyd in woods
Wellsville search for Charles Floyd known as Pretty Boy widened to wooded districts around Wellsville and Lisbon after he allegedly shot his way out of a police trap. Federal agents plan to move captive Atam Richetti to Kansas City by air as they pursue Floyd’s whereabouts amid reports of wounds and blood evidence.
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Wellsville
Charles
Pretty Boy
Floyd
Lisbon
Richetti
Kansas City
Atam Richetti
Ployd
Union Station
East Liverpool
George Lafferty
Richetts
John Pitts
Melvin Purvis
Pat Richetti
James Warren
Toledo
Pultz
Say Bank Proposal is Untried
Washington October 22 The American Bankers Association convention was warned by Frank P Bennett that a politically dominated central bank would be a wholly new and untried experiment. Developments in the next days should show if the New Deal and bankers have reached better relations. Francis M Law leads the association into Washington for its convention.
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Washington
U.k
American Bankers Association
Frank P. Bennett
Boston Financial
Bennett
Bank of England
Bank of France
Francis M. Law
Association
Law
First National Bank of Houston
Roosevelt
Housing program actions spark Amarillo property owner outreach
Amarillo officials under Tom W. Cotten launch a housing act outreach at 9 am with relief workers canvassing property owners. They will explain National Housing Act credit facilities and offer free booklets while 54 workers distribute guidance on improvement loans from $100 to $2,000 over three years.
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Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Tom W. Cotten
Cotton
Hungary Asked to Seek Assassins in King Alexander Killing
Yugoslavia requested Hungary to search for unnamed Yugoslav citizens alleged by a French arrest suspect to be accomplices in the assassination of King Alexander. Hungarian authorities told the Yugoslav minister they would act immediately.
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Budapest
Hungary
Yugoslavia
France
Alexander
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and Surrounding Areas
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday across Amarillo and West Texas. New Mexico sees fair skies tonight and Tuesday with slightly warmer conditions in the extreme northwest. Daytime highs reach 52 to 77 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Bonus bogey looms large as Legion meets in Miami
At the Sixteenth Annual American Legion convention in Bayfront Park Miami officials and thousands fill the grounds as the bonus payment issue dominates opening session. Delegates hear Florida welcome from Governor Shultz and remarks on arms and peace from Georgetown's Thomas Healy. Ray Murphy withdraws to back Frank Belgrano Jr. with about 70 000 visitors in town.
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Miami
Fla
The
American Legion
Edward A. Hayes
Bayfront Park
Robert J. White
Dave Shultz
Florida
Hayes
Thomas H. Healy
Georgetown University
School For Foreign Service
United States
Healy
Roosevelt
Veterans
Roanoke
Ray Murphy
Ida Grove
Murphy
Frank Belgrano, Jr
San Francisco
Prison sentence for ex Stevens Hotel head reversed by state supreme court
Springfield reports the State Supreme Court reversed a one to ten year embezzlement sentence against Ernest J. Stevens former head of the Stevens Hotel Chicago. He was sentenced in Cook County criminal court.
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Springfield, II
U.P
Ernest J. Stevens
Stevens
Chicago
State Supreme Court
Cook County
Fire destroys brick confectionery in Lockhart
A two story brick building on the public square in Lockhart was destroyed by fire along with stock and fixtures of a confectionery. Fire chief Willie Vogel was injured while fighting the flames.
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Lockhart
Texas
Public Square
Willie Vogel
Oil fight urged by Texas rail commission in urgent telegrams
Texas and Oklahoma officials pressed federal action to stop hot oil shipments and head off a price cut. Texas Commissioner E. O. Thompson warned that crude prices could fall and hurt Texas profits as imports and draw from storage fill demand. A Tulsa meeting tracked progress on possible price controls.
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Austin
Texas Railroad Commission
Tom Connally
Morris Sheppard
Oklahoma
Texas
E. O. Thompson
Tulsa
Connally
Thompson
Texagott
East Texas
Texas Commission
Kidnaping Suspect Nabbed After Spiteful Plot
Harvey Ferguson, 21, former convict, kidnapped Mrs. G Ennis Tittle, wife of the Franklin County sheriff, forcing her into a car near Winfield. He held her for 24 hours,ロ escorted her to the jail floor, stole more than 100 dollars, and threatened a telephone operator before police closed in. Mrs Tittle recovered in fatigued and shock. Ferguson was apprehended after a manhunt spanning Dallas Denton and Hugo Okla with sheriff Tittle noting prior arrests.
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MT. Vernon
Piney Wood
Franklin County
Harvey Ferguson
G. Ennis Tittle
New Hope
U. S. Spending Reaches Two Billion Mark
The treasury reports total federal expenditures for the year ended October 19 at 2.0109 billion dollars, with emergency spending totaling 1.0495 billion and ordinary outgo 961.35 million. Receipts fell short by 860.87 million.
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U. S
Washington
Treasury
Lutherans Propose Drive Against Movie Morals
The United Lutheran Church of America committee urges a crusade against indecent pictures. It calls for millions of Christians to shun indecent films and attend only those with moral merit to uplift the nation’s spirit.
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Bavannah
Committee On Social and Moral Welfare
United Lutheran Church of America
Constable Kidnapped and Forced Ride by Thugs in Texas
Two unidentified men abducted Constable Rice near Traan in Pecos County at about 2 AM and forced him to drive out of town with lights off. They halted on the McCamey outskirts after a flat tire then returned to town taking 155. Rice could not identify them. one was heavyset and short in a gray suit, the other tall in a dark suit. Suspects believed to be escaped convicts.
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Port
Scott
Port Darwin
Timor Sea
Singapore
Roscoe Turner
Turner
John H. Wright
Utica
N. Y
John Polando
Aleppo
Syria
Jim
Amy Mollison
Allahabad
India
Ban Angelo
Texas
Rice
Traan
Yates
Pecos County
McCamey
Upton County
Hear Kidnap Pleas Tuesday in Federal Court
Arraignment of Mrs Frances Robinson on kidnapping charges was postponed until 10 o clock tomorrow. Mrs Alice Stoll recovering in Florida after six days of captivity. Family demands the death penalty for kidnappers as federal agents search the Ohio Indiana Kentucky corridor for Thomas H Robinson Jr and clues to his whereabouts.
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Louisville
Frances Robinson
Alice Bpech Stoll
Robinson
Springfield
State drafts case against Hauptmann in Lindbergh murder
New Jersey officials organized the prosecution for the Lindbergh murder trial. Attorney General David T. Wilentz summoned six assistants in Trenton to assign tasks in building the case. Justice Thomas W. Trenchard will preside, with Defense Counsel James M. Fawcett, for an arraignment likely Friday or Saturday.
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Flemington
N. J
New Jersey
Il Legal
Richard Hauptmann
David T. Wilentz
S ix
Trenton
Thomas W. Trenchard
James M. Fawcett
Political interference hinders city planning
Former mayor William B. Harrison of Louisville Ky says political interference is the main obstacle to city planning in an opening address at a conference. Delegates from 40 states attend the event sponsored by the National Conference on City Planning and the American Civic Association with backing from USDA and Interior.
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Louis
William B. Harrison
Louisville
National Conference On City Planning
The
American Civic Association
United States Department of Agriculture and Interior
Western Washington and Oregon battered by giant Pacific storm
A massive North Pacific storm lashed Western Washington and Oregon with hurricane force winds. At least 17 people were dead or missing as ships wrecked, buildings collapsed, and debris blocked towns from Port Townsend to Tacoma. The Agnes of Ballard sank with five crew lost. two survivors were rescued by the Haida coast guard cutter.
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Beattle
North Pacific
Washington
Oregon
A New Serial by the Author of Asudith Lane Chapter One
Marian Gordon stands in the Morning Dispatch editorial rooms gazing out at a spring night. The view includes tall buildings with yellow window oblongs and the glowing evening sky as the scene opens the new serial.
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Asudith Lane
Marian Gordon
Morning Dispatch
Marian Gordon Seeks Clues In A Street Corner Scene
Marian notices Tony Gazetti's flower stand and Lon Casad as she hovers between dinner plans and an unfinished bribery trial report. A punishing wait for city editor Bowen heightens tension as a newsroom dash collides with a personal moment on a city square.
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Tony Gazetti
Marian
Lon Casad
Casad
Len
William Brown
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J.P
Harold D. Gilman
James Baines
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U. S. Line
King Alexander
Henry Johnson
George Fried
New York
Pal
Texas Senate
House of Representatives
Lon E. Alsup
Carthage
Brazos River Conservation and Reclamation
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House
Alsup
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Brazos
Arthur Brisbane
King Features Syndicate, Inc
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Globe
Federal Commission
Igor Sikorsky
John Maynard Lor. Co
NRA
HOLT
Stoll
NAB
Gaale
Pacific
Griggs Ambulance
Aseanne Bowman
Tony
Miss Gordon
M. E
Tommy
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