Strawn Sees Bright Signs For Business After Labor Day
United States Chamber of Commerce president Silas Strawn, in a radio address, urged Americans to focus on opportunity and confidence. He warned against unemployment measures and cited past depressions from 1837 to 1921 as proof prosperity followed downturns.
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Washington
Silas Strawn
United States Chamber of Commerce
America
Great Britain
Germany
Doles
Coast Guard seeks fliers along island coast
Seattle dispatch reports Coast Guard ships patrolling south of the Aleutians hunting missing Transpacific fliers Don Moyle and Cecil A. Allen. Despite warnings of a hopeless search, an anonymous sighting of a large monoplane off a British Columbia coast kept some hope alive. Moyle and Allen left Japan with 47 hours of fuel and were last seen 110 miles from Samushiro, 70 minutes after takeoff. three cutters joined the search as concern grew over their fate. Moyle’s fiancée Frances Bresson pressed hope, while officials recalled Major Martin’s survival after a similar ordeal.
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Seattle
Coast Guard
Aleutian Islands
Fiiers
Don Moyle
Cecil A. Allen
British Columbia
Samushiro Beach
Japan
Samushiro
Martin Case
Northland
Chelan
Taska
Frederick L. Martin
Martin
Alaska
Frances Bresson
Silverside
Calif
Moyle
Cotton holiday versus one third planting plan in Texas Senate
In Austin on Sept 10 the Texas Legislature debated cotton policies with a clash between Huey Long’s proposed 1932 cotton holiday and a Senate plan capping cotton planting at one third of 1931 levels. The Senate committee on agriculture heard rival bills and pledged open hearings as East and West Texas interests signaled a sectional fight.
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Austin
Texas
Huey Long
Senate
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Walter Woodward
Coleman
Oliver Cunningham
Abilene
Clint Small
Wellington
Woodward
Cunningham
Margie Neal
Coxey
W. EB. Thomason
Narcogdoches
Long Plu
Thomason
Small
Chas. Gainer
Bryan
West Texas
East Texas
House
Labor Day Dole Or Jobs Debate From Brisbane Column
Arthur Brisbane discusses unemployment, government spending, and the debate between dole versus jobs. He notes a vast payroll, abundant food and credit, and questions how best to aid hungry families without fostering dependency. He weighs direct cash relief against construction programs.
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
The forecast calls for generally fair and continued warm conditions for Amarillo and surrounding areas tonight and Friday. West Texas remains generally fair and warm with little temperature change. New Mexico sees fair weather with similar mild temperatures tonight and Friday.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Judge Wilkerson rejects Capone probe report in Chicago
In Chicago on September 10, U S District Judge James H Wilkerson refused a federal grand jury report on its probe of prohibition charges against Al Capone. The jury said it had no indictments to report and was discharged. The original indictment alleging a broad conspiracy under the Prohibition Act remains. Capone’s plea was changed to not guilty last Tuesday and no trial date is set.
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Chicago
Scarface
al Capone
U. S
James H. Wilkerson
Wilkerson
John P. Barnes
Capone
Society Women Air WDAG Schedule for Rug Cleaning
Society women are asked to tune in on WDAG at 9 50 each Tuesday Thursday and Saturday morning for Berry s rug cleaning announcements from 905 West 10th.
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WDAG
Berry
Doherty Opens $500000 Fund To Aid Economic Study
Kansas City, Sept. 10. Henry L. Doherty, power magnate and owner of part of the Kansas City Journal-Post, established a $500,000 fund in a Kansas City bank for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to study ways to alleviate present economic conditions. He offered to raise the sum to $5,000,000 if sound ideas for correcting economic problems emerged. The gift followed Dr. Roy V. Wright’s remarks blaming engineers and scientists for the industrial mood due to labor-saving inventions and urging them to fix it.
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Kansas City
U.P
Henry L. Doherty
Kansas City Journal-Post
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Hich Doherty
Roy V. Wright
Engineering Organization
Railway Age
Wright
National Association of Power Engineers
Old Ironsides Returns to New York Harbor
The Constitution sails into the Hudson to cheers from dozens of cutters and naval vessels as a tug and mine sweeper lead the historic frigate. A plane salutes from the air while school children funded the preservation with pennies.
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New York
Constitution
Hudson River
Amarillo Seeks Bids On Thirteen Street Paving Projects
Amarillo city commission asks for bids to pave thirteen streets as part of a revived street improvement program. With $60 000 pledged from the state highway commission and cost sharing with property owners, nearly a quarter million dollars of paving could proceed once funds arrive. Projects include East Twelfth from Fillmore to Johnson and North Wilson from Wichita to North East Eighth Avenue along with several others.
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Amarillo
City Commission
Bill Durham
State Highway Commission
North Fillmore Street
City Asked to Pave Road to Llano Cemetery
The cemetery association asked Seek City to share the cost of paving two blocks leading to Llano Cemetery. Arrangements likely will be made for the city to participate with the county and cemetery association as the road becomes nearly impassable in heavy rains.
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Cemetery Association
Llano Cemetery
City Commission
City orders overpass work on West Eighth Avenue viaduct
The city commission directed immediate construction of the overpass over Rock Island tracks at West Eighth Avenue with Rock Island Railway Company expected to cover half the $10,000 project. A 200-name petition from West Amarillo residents urged action. Rock Island’s J E Gorman cited a prior offer to participate up to $50,000.
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Rock Island Railway Company
West Eighth Avenue
West Amarillo
City Commission
J. E. Gorman
The
Rock Island
Amarillo
Rock Island Railroad
Fritch
Jail Break Halted By Wife Of Jailer
Clarendon Oklahoma September report details Mrs. Guy Pierce wife of the Donley County sheriff stopping a jail escape by holding two men at gunpoint until her husband arrived. A third inmate Belk Brown escaped. Milan Brown and Sleepy McDaniel remained in custody after the failed plot.
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Clarendon
Guy Pierce
Donley County
Belk Brown
Tucumcari
N. M
McDaniel
Pen
Wichita Falls man dies hunting fugitives after assault on woman
A Continental Oil Company manager, J P King aged 43, collapsed and died while leading a posse hunting two unidentified black men who assaulted Miss Vera Smith and shot her escort Ed Nodurft in a parked car. Nodurft remains hospitalized in critical condition. The attack left Miss Smith hysterical yet expected to recover as authorities pursue the assailants.
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Wichita Falls
Texas
J. P. King
Continental Oil Company
Vera Smith
Ed Nodurft
Fort Worth
Nodurft
Continental Company
King
Miss Smith
Skelly Pipe Line Interest Sold In Gas Route
Tulsa report states Skelly Oil Company sold its interest in the completed natural gas pipeline from the Texas Panhandle to Chicago. The Natural Gas Company of America, the operating unit, made the purchase. Phillips Petroleum sold its stake to the Texas Company for about 5.5 million dollars, with the line built by a consortium including Phillips, Skelly, the Texas Company, Columbian Carbon, Insull Interests, Cities Service, and Standard Oil of New Jersey.
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Tulsa
Skelly Oil Company
Texas Panhandle
Chicago
Natural Gas Company of America
Phillips Petroleum Company
Texas Company
Phillips, Skelly, Texas Company
Columbian Carbon Company
Insull Interests
Cities Service Company
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Burgess Requests Fire Hydrant Protection
Burgess petitions the city commission to estimate the cost of installing a fire hydrant near the E. 8. Burgess grain storage property in Old Town. The site, assessed at 11 280, lacks fire protection and was highlighted at a Wednesday night meeting.
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Burgess
Old Town
New Education Must Banish Fear and Develop Courage
Glenn Frank argues in his Globe editorial series that education must banish fear, foster courage, sustain vitality, and deliver a realistic justice. He calls for rescuing sex from sniggering and presents a critique of the modern system with a vision for a new one.
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Glenn Frank
Frank
University of Wisconsin
Globe
Texas oil men seek new laws in Dallas meeting
Texas oil men gathered in Dallas to form two associations for independent operators, with the Oil Producers Sales Agency to be organized first. A. Gulberson was to preside, while Col. J. Lewis Thompson or Dr. W. L. Todd would lead the independents gathering. They discussed a proposed oil and gas commission and possible legislation at the current special legislative session.
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Dallas
Texas Oil
Oil Producers Sales Agency
A. Gulberson
Col. J. Lewis Thompson
W. L. Todd
Oil and Gas Commission
Oil output in East Texas field hits 390,043 barrels
Brig. Gen. Jacob Wolters announced that Monday production from 1831 wells reached 390,043 barrels in the East Texas field. Average daily per-well output was 213 barrels, under a state railroad commission order permitting 225 barrels per well.
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Kilgore
Texas
Jacob Wolters
East Texas
State Railroad Commission
Pen riot leaders held in solitary confinement
Five convicts remained in solitary as Salt Lake City officials investigated a penitentiary riot that killed one prisoner and injured several guards and inmates. Warden Davis ended the mutiny by standing firm while police and firefighters secured the walls. The warden said six or seven more prisoners were likely involved. The group used knives and pipes to fashion crude bombs, though only one bomb exploded.
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Salt Lake City
State Penitentiary
W. E. Davis
Paroled Dallas convict linked to Henderson grocery holdups
Henderson Texas September 10 paroled Dallas convict Peter Gray was held today in connection with two Henderson grocery store robberies this week. Gray had been sentenced to 25 years in Dallas for involvement in two holdups but was recently released on parole.
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Henderson
Tex
U.P
Peter Gray
Dallas
Gray
Wheat Party Showcases Low Mood Menu at Mary Lou Hotel
A Friday night event titled a low mood party will be held at the Mary Lou Hotel, inviting seventy five guests. Sponsored by Mrs. H. G. Baker, the wheat based menu follows Tack's Globe column receipts and preparations are described as elaborate. R B Galloway of the Hardeman King Feed Co of Amarillo supplies the wheat.
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Mary Lou Hotel
West
Ninth Avenue
H. G. Baker
Proprietress
Tack
Globe
R. B. Galloway
Hardeman-King Feed Company
Amarillo
Pryor Murder Trial Heads to Verdict Today
Special to The Globe reports Pryor's trial over the July 12 shooting of Dr Fer W Guyton near a Shamrock garage ne ar McLean. Plea of self defense cited as jurors near verdict after rebuttal witnesses and four hours on the stand.
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Globe
Wheeler
Clarence Pryor
W. W. Guyton
Pryor
Shamrock
Guyton
F. Pryor
Dr. Guyton
A. A. Ledbetter
McLean
Wenn
Britain’s Emergency Budget Plan to Balance Accounts
In London on September 10, Chancellor Philip Snowden unveiled an emergency budget to bridge Britain’s deep deficits. He detailed schemes to cover about 850 million dollars next year and over 70 million this year, presenting them in the House of Commons amid mixed reactions from Conservatives Liberals and Labor members.
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London
Great Britain
Philip Snowden
House of Commons
Gasoline ingestion fatal to 9 year old in Abilene
In Abilene Texas on September 10 a nine year old girl Peggy Leveta Preslar of Lawn swallowed a small amount of gasoline found in a quart container at her parents home. She began strangling and died minutes after being rushed to a local hospital. Physicians cited gas fumes as the cause of death.
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Abilene
Tex
Peggy Leveta Preslar
Lawn
Huel Preslar
Missouri Pacific official dies at Texas barbecue
The body of A. R. Ponder, 64, a Missouri Pacific railroad executive, was returned to San Antonio after he collapsed and died while rising to speak at an Asherton barbecue. Ponder helped build and co-receive the San Antonio Uvalde and Gulf line and had served as executive assistant since the MP acquisition in 1925.
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San Antonio
A. R. Ponder
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Asherton Texas
Ponder
Missouri Pacific
San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad
South Carolina to enact no-cotton plan in special session
Governor Ibra B. Blackwood has summoned lawmakers to convene in a special session Monday to consider enacting a no cotton tax or cotton holiday policy amid a nationwide surplus. Farmers support the measure and most legislators are thought to back the plan.
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South Carolina
Columbia
D. C
U.P
Ibra B. Blackwood
Blackwood
Directors Omit Dividend For Rock Island Line
New York Sept 10 directors of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway announced that the dividend due on common stock at this time has been omitted. The action affects shareholders awaiting the regular payout.
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R. J
New York
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Rare Serum Rush by Airplane Wins to Duel With Death
A mother with Addison’s disease was saved by a rare gland extract, cortin, rushed from Buffalo by air. Two hundred cubic centimeters were flown to Cleveland then Chicago, reaching the University of Chicago hospital where Dr. Richard Turpin administered it, averting death. The family had faced imminent loss as a nationwide appeal brought the lifesaving serum.
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W. E. Halberg
United Press
Chicago
A.R
Buffalo
N. Y
Andrew Nelson
Addison
Frederick A. Hartman
Cleveland
Municipal Field
Billings Memorial Hospital
University of Chicago
Richard Turpin
Nelson
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Skelly
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