Businessmen seek highway route change in Gainesville
Gainesville Texas business leaders urged support for buying right of way to extend State Highway 40 from the new concrete slab to the north city limits along South Grand Avenue. Division engineer E C Woodward cited Highway 5 through the business district and noted Highway 89 will connect Gainesville to Decatur, making Gainesville a terminus for a southwest Texas outlet.
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Gainesville
Tex
E. C. Woodward
Wichita Falls
Texas Highway Department
Codke County
Denton County
Grand Avenue
Woodward
Decatur
New Theatrical Season Highlights Foreign Stars on Broadway
The new season on the Great White Way features prominent foreign talent. Lucienne Boyar leads a European lineup with Vicente Escudero Lydia Chaliapine and De Rora. Yvonne Printemps appears in English as Noel Coward's Conversation Piece. Dublin Abbey players tour with controversial plays. London stars Dame Sybil Thorndike Gertrude Lawrence Elizabeth Bergner appear in major productions. The Great Waltz brings Marie Burke and Danilova to Rockefeller Center.
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Noel Thornton
New York
Europe
London
Paris
Madrid
Vienna
France
Spain
Russia
Lucienne Boyar
Vicente Escudero
Caves of
Sacre Mont
Granada
Lydia Chaliapine
Basso
de Rora
Yvonne Printemps
Noel Coward
Mile
Printemps
Sascha Gultry
Coward
Dublin
Abbey Theater
Erin
Synge
O’casey
Martin Beck Theater
Playbill
Sybil Thorndike
Gertrude Lawrence
Elizabeth Bergner
Margaret Kennedy
Rockefeller Center
Marie Burke
Danilova
America
Broadway
Places To Go And See Tonight In Theaters
A list of Paramount Mission Texaz Rex Rialto and Nat offerings with ratings notes. Pursued 365 Nights in Hollywood Wild Gold The Meanest Gal in Town Shadow Ranch headlines. London Films plans Elstree studio visits. Child stars David Holt Shirley Temple Marguerite Roberts Born With Wings Do Not Ask Me added to The Little Minister score.
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Paramount
Victor Jory
Mission
Hollywood
Alice Faye
Filmusical
Texas
Claire Trevor
REX
aSu Pitts
Rialto
Buck Jones
Dick Small
Victor Recording Orchestra
Alexander Korda
Catherine the Great
London Films
Elstree
England
David Holt
Marguerite Roberts
Katharine Hepburn
Pampan Revival At Pleasant Valley Church Begins Sunday
The Rev. John Mullen of First Christian Church Pampa will lead a revival at Pleasant Valley Christian Church starting Sunday night. Emmett Galloway directs music with the Young People's Orchestra performing. Mullen, a young evangelist, will deliver a live message each evening at 7:30.
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John Mullen
First Christian Church of
Pampa
Pleasant Valley
Landingham Heads Grocers Next Year
W Van Landingham will serve as president of the Amarillo Retail Grocers Association for the ensuing year. He and other new officers were elected at a meeting Wednesday night. New officers include First vice president W D Walsh second vice president C W Parr treasurer Alex C Nabers secretary Carl Ray directors C W Farr Odell Harris H A Daniel Noble Durkee W Van Landingham W D Walsh and Alex C Nabers retiring officers are President W D Walsh vice president Lee McSpadden secretary treasurer C S Hatchett.
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W. van Landingham
Amarillo
Association
W. D. Walsh
Lee McSpadden
C. S. Hatchett
Cotton Official Robert Dancy Dies at 86 in Houston
Robert R. Dancy, 86, former president of R. R. Dancy Cotton Company and Houston resident for 36 years, died yesterday at his family home in Houston, according to reports from here.
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Houston
Robert R. Dancy
R. R. Dancy Cotton Company
Crash Fatal to One Five Injured in Pecos Auto Crash
In a head-on crash fifty miles west of Pecos Texas last night one woman died instantly and five others were seriously injured including four of the dead woman's children. The victims were Mrs Pete Steel of Toyah Texas and her family. Her husband an employee of Ep penauer Drilling Company and their three children sustained serious injuries. Opposing driver Austin Ellis of Kent an employee of Lone Star Construction Company suffered a severe head fracture and a fractured leg. Names and injuries to the Steel family are listed with the likely death of Mrs Steel and grave injuries to Martha seven Nanna five and the infant two months old daughter.
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Pecos
Tex
Herg
Pete Steel
Toyah
Emloyee
Eppenauer Drilling Company
Austin Ellis
Kent
Lone Star Construction Company
Steel
Martha Steel
Nanna Steel
Steel Family in Toyah Faces Critical Condition
The Steel family, recently relocated from McCamey to Toyah, remains in critical condition after the incident. Local authorities are investigating and providing support to relatives and neighbors.
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Toyah
McCamey
Californian Preacher to Speak at Nazarene Church
Rev. Bud Robinson of Pasadena will preach at the First Church of the Nazarene at Lincoln Street and Fourteenth Avenue Sunday evening. The song service starts at 7:45 p.m. Robinson is a well known figure with many friends in Amarillo.
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Bud Robinson
Church of the Nazarene
Pasadena
Calif
Smith elected president of American Airlines
American Airlines announced the election of C. R. Smith as president succeeding Lester D. Seymour, who resigned. Smith previously led the southern division as vice president and has been with the company seven years.
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American Airlines
Chicago
C. R. Smith
Lester D. Seymour
Smith
Expropriation Bill Targets Knights of Columbus in Mexico
In Mexico City a WPA bill proposes expropriating 60 percent of all money and property of the Knights of Columbus and other religious groups, with 50 percent of assets of those who oppose the government seized. Proceeds would fund agrarian farms for peasants. Other measures aim to expel religious orders from civil service, close the press and churches, and melt bells for industry. Archbishop Diaz defended Catholics and urged lawful citizen duties. A major peasant and worker demonstration, 150000 strong, is planned. In Taylor Texas, Ed Dance, 71, longtime city public weigher, was found shot dead near his home, a pistol nearby. coroner's verdict pending.
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Mexico City
Knights of Columbus
Chamber of Deputies
Agrarian Department
Chamber
Senate
Pascual Diaz
Plutarco Elias Calles
Holy See
Ray Hamilton Sought as Kidnapper in Missouri Case
Raymond Hamilton, a youthful Texas desperado, is identified as one of two men who kidnapped Missouri rural mail carrier William Lane after a gun battle with Missouri highway patrol near Buffalo. Lane was later released unharmed near Yahola Oklahoma. Lane’s car with mail sacks was found near Columbus Kansas.
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Kansas City
Raymond Hamilton
Texas
William Lane
Missouri
William J. Baxter
Missouri Highway Patrol
Buffalo
Hamilton
Lane
Yahola
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Parents’ Magazine
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Judith Allen
Lois Wilson
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Church OF Nazarene
Mexico
Bill
Yrlal
Oa Betta de
Oss Buiver
Crisco
Niagara
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Proctor & Gamble
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Ioc
Maxwell HO
Dr. Price's
Schilling 'S Coffee
Hersh Lle
Waverly
Brazil
Skinner's
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Iwder
Lore
OKRA
Young
Franks
Ray Hamilton
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Okla
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Kan
Schilling
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