McKenzie Seeks Commutation From Death to Life
John M. McKenzie, lead man at Texas penitentiary, asks Gov Ferguson to commute his 1927 death sentence for Sam Street murder to life in prison. Judge McCrory backs the request. a sanity hearing may be held if Walker County grand jury indicts for the Rogers killing.
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Huntsville
Tex
John M
Pete” McKenzie
Texas
Miriam A. Ferguson
F. B. Simmons
W. W. McCrory
San Antonio
McKenzie
Sam Street
Ted Rogers
Wichita County
Street
el Paso
Kennett
S. W. Dean
Walker County Grand Jury
Rogers
Nat Plans Masked Ball for Halloween
The Nat Dine and Dance Palace hosts a Halloween costume ball tonight with prizes for the best costumes. Ticket price 25 cents per couple for non-dancers, regular Saturday rates apply for dancers. Dick Small and his Recording Orchestra provide music with novelty numbers.
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Nat Dine
Dance Palace
H. A. Dyer
Nat
Dick Small
Shriners Plan Plainview Dance With Khiva Patrol Stage
Amarillo Khiva Shrine Patrol members and guests will attend a Shrine dance Friday night in the Hilton Hotel ballroom Plainview hosted as the first in a series by Khiva Shrine Temple. James E. King potentate urges attendance while an 11 piece orchestra provides regional music. All Shriners in the area are invited.
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Khiva Shrine
Amarillo
Plainview
Hilton Hotel
Khiva
James E. King
State Park Directors Gather at Palo Duro for Conference
A three day business session of Texas state park directors will meet at Palo Duro State Park starting Thanksgiving Day. Seventy five park superintendents engineers and architects from 72 parks will attend arriving for Thanksgiving dinner with CCC crews. Business sessions run Friday and Saturday with a canyon tour and buffalo barbecue that evening hosted by the State Parks Board.
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Palo Duro State Park
Texas
F. A. Kingsley
Palo Duro Park
CCC
Canyon Park
State Parks’ Board
Mussolini orders broad compulsory military training in Italy
In Rome on October 31 Fascist spokesmen outline Mussolini’s plan to militarize Italy. Every Italian boy aged 8 to 33 will be conscripted into a multistage balilla to avanguardisti program, with summers spent in encampments and years of post service drills, backed by vast air and naval armament spending.
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Ti Duce
Rome
Duce
Italy
Hitler
Reich
Milan
Il Popolo d'Italia
Il Popolo
England
France
Mediterranean
Germany
Balilla
Mussolini
Balilla Musketeers
Mvescotini
Avanguardisti
Fascist Military Academy
Car Crash Kills Ira Groga Near Olney
Ira Groga, 27, died when the car he rode in blew a tire and overturned eight miles southwest of Olney near Padgitt. His neck and both arms were broken and his chest was crushed. Funeral services were planned at Padgitt. Groga formerly lived in Bryan.
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Olney
Tex
Ira Groga
Padgitt
Groga
Bryan
Railroads Lead Safety Drive While Labor Unions Shift
A historic safety emphasis by railroads shows fewer passenger injuries and fewer derailments. Rail companies sign with AFL unions after ousting company unions on Rock Island and other lines amid widespread shop craft organizing drives.
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Rock Island
Standard Shop Craft Labor Organizations
American Federation of Labor
Standard Unions
System Federation
System
National Mediation Board
Northwestern Pacific
Texas and Pacific
Nickel Plate
Pacific and Electric
Spokane
Portland
Seattle
Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroads and towns in the West hold steady tides of change
The article highlights Amarillo lore and railroad talk with quotes about climate and travel. It notes John Watt’s unused Boston ticket refunded after many years. It reports cattle shipments rising in New Mexico and public works loans of 2.27 million dollars funding seven new high speed trains by spring.
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John Watt
Auburndale
Mass
Boston
Baltimore and Ohio
Gulf, Mobile and Northern
New Haven
Bosson Maine
Illinois Central
Hunsleys Plan Local FHA Home Improvement Loans
Hunsleys Inc at 613 Polk Street invites Amarillo property owners to learn of a home improvement loan plan under the Federal Housing Act. Manager Argh Hunsley says the firm will cooperate with the federal government to provide loans for redecoration remodeling and repair with no red tape and free estimates.
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Hunsley’s, Inc
Polk Street
Amarillo
House of Color
Argh Hunsley
Hunsley
FHA
Mr. Hunsley
Rail travel safety and Christmas hope in 1994 report
The report notes 17 percent more railroad accidents in the first seven months of 1994 versus 1993 and a 22 percent rise in railroad employee deaths this year. It contrasts adults seeking Santa Claus with children believing in him during the Christmas season.
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Ermenzie
Shriners
State Park
Palo Duro
G. E
James Steele
Polk
Avanguardiisti
Young Fascists of Combat
Tri-Way Garage
C. C. Blair
Santa Fe
George Tower
J. B. Briscoe
H. O. Wagner
Clinton District
Richard Cole
Wilbur Hawk
R. W. Prentice
Orville Morrison
Benkelman
Neb
The
H. FE. McMullen
William Danver
Charles Moore
Boston and Maine Railway
Ravenwood
Niggerhead
Chandler
Canon City
Sunshine
Maitland
Colorado
Richard Walton Tully
Greater One
King Vippe
Joel McCrea
Priday
Richard Arlen
Ready
Love
Cnarge
Merry Wives OF Reno
Guy Kibbee Hough Herbert
Glenda Farrell
Hoscoe Altes
Comedy & Cartoon Tomorrow Only
Lanny Ross
Mary Boland
Charlie Ruggles
Ann Sothern
Pacific Coast
Depot
Moore
West Texas
W. Haley
Clovis
New Mexico
W. A. Naylor
Cattle Sanitary Board
Our
Ely
Russell Stationery CO
Amarillo, Texas
Transit Grain & Commission Co
Fort Worth, Texas
Sidney Fox
O. F P. Heggie
Santa Claus
Debonair Bechelor
Rosemary Ames
Rochelle Hudson
Gloria Bluart
Roger Prior Rex
Paramount
Midnite
Maree
Moon Stone
Krazy Kat
Dallas
WFAA
Freddy Bergin
Jimmy Joy
Bobby Meeker
Paul Cadieux
Mary Jo Stroud
NAT Dance Palace
Geléeting
Bradbury
Ong. St
Alcoe
Joe.e
Bs Ie
First National
Morton Downey
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