Canyon Day in Amarillo Prompts Citywide Rally
Amarillo headlines celebrate Canyon Day with speeches by Gaston Foote and a football match featuring West Texas Teachers College at Butler Field against St. Benedict's. Businesses urge employees to attend and honor the event as a Panhandle community moment.
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Canyon
Amarillo
Tar
al Baggett
West Texas Teachers
Butler Field
St.Benedict's
West Texas Teachers’ College
la Panhandle
Hatchet Death Will Be Thoroughly Probed by Grand Jury
Edinburg Hidalgo County authorities plan to outline before a grand jury the 1929 slaying of Claude E. Kelley, son-in-law of County Judge E. C. Couch, as part of a probe sparked by the arrest of George C. Beck. Four charged include Beck, two Mexicans Julian Ybarra and Matio Cuellar, and Wes Jaco street sweeper. Ybarra confessed he sought Couch’s defeat for a $2,000 payoff and described the hatchet attack and mistaken target, tying the case to the 1929 Good Government League political clash.
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Edinburg
Claude E. Kelley
E. C. Couch
George C. Beck
Dallas
Beck
Cam Hill
Hidalgo County
Judge Couch
Good Government League
A. Y. Baker
Julian Ybarra
Mercedes
Matio Cuellar
Wes Jaco
Ybarra
Couch
Cuellar
Wic
Matio
Weill
Dear Tack Open Letter Seeks Work for Children
A reader asks Tack for help in obtaining work to support children, stating the request comes after prior silence. The note signals a plea for assistance and references a letters page for more detail.
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Tack
Britain Aims to Avoid Currency War with U S
London reports Britain seeks to avert a monetary clash with the United States as a large South African gold purchase unsettles markets. Paris echoes that France will not join in any currency contest or oppose Roosevelt's gold buying, signaling cross country caution.
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Britain
London
United States
Paris
UPI
Roosevelt
le Temps
Great Britain
Congressmen Host to Guests at Houston Farm Credit Breakfast
Four Texas congressmen hosted Washington officials and cooperative marketing leaders at a Houston breakfast to discuss establishing a central bank for cooperatives and a production credit corporation under the Farm Credit Administration. The bank would loan up to 300000 for co op facilities and operating capital, aiding gins warehouses creameries elevators and other farm facilities.
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Houston
Texas
Washington
Southwest
Farm Credit Administration
Marvin Jones
Amarike
Wright Patman
Texararkana
Richard Kleberg
Kingsville
J. P. Buchanan
Brenham
Frank Peck
Co-Operative Bank
Houston Bank
Houston Bank of Co-Operatives
Mr. Peck
C. W. E. Bergner
Amarillo
Texas Wheat Growers Association
L. T. Mayhugh
Plainview
National Grain Corporation
Texas Cooperative Council
James A. Smith
Paris
Texas Cotton Cooperative Association
C. O. Moser
New Orleans
American Cotton Cooperative Association
S. M. Garwood
E. 8. Mayer
San Angelo
Lone Star Wool and Mohair Association
W. I. Myers
Homer D. Wade
Dallas
H. E. Harpin
Victoria
Farmers’ Cooperative Supply Company
A. C. Williams
Federal Land Bank
Houston Harte
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
J. M. Caviness
Banker
F. A. Caperton
George M. Brennan
Intermediate Credit Bank
W. Forbes Morgan
B. A. Stufflebeme
Texas Cotton Seed Breeders’ Association
John H. Rugel
W. H. P. Anderson
H. G. Lucas
National Pecan Growers’ Association
Brownwood
Texas employment gains rise over September and 1932
The University of Texas Bureau of Business Research reports Texas employment up 6.8 percent from September and 17.5 percent from October 1932. Data cover 949 establishments and 81,576 workers. Increases of 20 percent or more over last October are shown in Amarillo Austin Fort Worth Houston and Port Arthur.
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Austin
Bureau of Business Research
University of Texas
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Houston
Port Arthur
Texas horse shoeing prices will not hire
Texas horse shoeing prices will not increase under the NRA says Blackman and Baumbach operators of Houston's sole blacksmith shop. Shoes will stay near 1896 prices as blacksmiths avoid trade associations. The business is not dead with daily horses passing through.
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Houston
U.P
NRA
Messrs
Blackman and Baumbach
Blackman
Pastor’s Blood Transfusion Aids Parishioner
In New Britain Connecticut Rev George R La Flash of Emanuel Gospel Church visits parishioner Lucy Juli ano in Hartford Hospital finding her critical. A blood test shows donor blood suitable and a transfusion is performed. Jenny Dolly of the Dolly Sisters auctions jewels once valued at 1 000 000 in Paris November 16 as she recovers from motor accident injuries.
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New Britain
Conn
U.P
George R. LaFlash
Emanuel Gospel Church
Lucy Juliano
Hartford
Jenny Dolly
Paris
Dolly Sisters
Miss Dolly
Belmonte May Return to Bull Ring at 41 in Seville
Juan Belmonte, famed bull fighter, may resume in Seville at age 41 after 18 years away, with Jose Gomez as his main rival Joselito. The note also mentions England's child population rising 40 percent from 1851 to 1931.
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Seville
Spain
Juan Belmonte
Belmonte
Jose Gomez
Joselito
England
Cotton and Livestock Markets Report from New Orleans and Kansas City
The report covers New Orleans cotton opening lower with December at 9.47 and March 9.68, later steadying at higher levels after initial declines. Kansas City hogs and calves show mixed prices with weak to lower hogs and steady to higher cattle. sheep market rises modestly. New York notes a choppy stock market, gold price at 32.12, and investors awaiting policy clarity.
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Liverpool
Kansas City
New York
Wall Street
American Can
International Warvester
Goodyear
Case
National Distillers
American Smelting
U. S
Liggett & Myers
Columbian Carbon
Union Pacific
Comedians Quell Panic As Fire Breaks Out Backstage
In San Diego on October 31 a fire threatened a theater backstage. Comedians Duke Atterbury and Ken Gillum kept 40 patrons amused with quick banter, averting panic. Firefighters arrived as the show ended. theater damage estimated at 30,000 dollars.
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San Diego
Calif
Duke Atterbury
Ken Gillum
Atterbury
Gillum
Halloween Costume Contests Set Across Parks and Ellwood
Halloween events feature girls prizes at local parks with winners advancing to Ellwood Park for a grand prize. Boys compete in a 7 15 p race and multiple age-group events follow from 7 30 to 9 00 including dashes three legged races sack races and potato rolling. Officials from Rotary Lions A B C and BPW join city leaders to judge and present prizes. The note ends with a zoological aside about nudibranchs having no shells.
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Ellwood Park
Old Tack
Rotary, Lions
Business and Professional Women's Club
Kiwanis
Ross D. Rogers
W. A. McIntosh
Earl Brame
Galle
Air Carnival to Be Staged After Tragic Crash
Under permit from Commerce Inspector C A Rowe the remaining members of the flying circus will stage a show at Harding's Ranch next Sunday afternoon. Four crashes claimed the lives of Ezra Wiggamns Arthur Stude Frank Clay and Bill Tullis with two ships colliding over the city. Races are barred but other feats proceed. Wiggamns rites in Hooker Oklahoma this afternoon Stude transported to Woodward for funeral Clay from Morrill Nebraska and Tullis from Liberal Kansas.
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Department of Commerce
C. A. Rowe
Flying Circus
Harding
Ezra Wiggamns
Hooker
Okla
Arthur Stude
Woodward
Oklahoma
Frank Clay
Bill Tullis
Liberal
Kansas
Tullis
Clay
Morrill
Nebraska
Tables Turned On France By Brazil Default
In Rio de Janeiro on Oct 31 Brazil withheld a 9,419,000 franc installment on a pre war loan to French bankers and said no further payments would be made until a French decree on proceeds from Brazilian exports is revoked. The move follows Brazil’s earlier tariff increases in reprisal for French exchange policies.
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Rio DE Janeiro
United States
Brazil
France
Wheat Conference Aims to Resolve County Plantments
Carl H. Robinson state statistician said the Panhandle Plains Board of Wheat Review would work to remove difficulties with wheat filaments in counties. Delegations from Sherman Oldham Hartley Lamb Roberts and Bailey counties gathered with the board at Potter County headquarters as reviews extend to 32 Northwest Texas counties. More than 5,200,000 tons of sugar were consumed in the United States during 1932.
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Floyd
Gray
Swisher
Hale
Northwest Texas
United States
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