San Angelo Next Blair Cherry Calls Flip For Bobcats
Breckenridge suffers 12 to win over Amarillo in bi district action as San Angelo’s Bobcats prepare for a quarter final clash after a 7 to 0 victory over El Paso. The Sandstorm relied on a tough offense and solid defense to overcome a stubborn Buckaroo eleven.
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Jerry Malin
News-Globe
Breckenridge
Amarillo Golden Sandstorm
Breckenridge Bucks
Sandies
Buckaroo
San Angelo
Bobcats
el Paso
Sandie
Amarillo
Christmas Business Rising Across Nation In Holiday Shopping Surge
Holiday shoppers nationwide rushed into stores as merchants predicted a peak Christmas season. Industrial activity reached near record highs since 1930, with the Associated Press index at 86 percent of the 1929-30 average. Consumers bought more, spending per person increased, and demand for quality and luxury goods grew despite uneven regional weather.
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Associated Press
Chiang Kai Shek Named Chief In China
The Central Chinese government elects Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek as chairman of the executive committee and vice chairman of the central political council. He assumes near-dictatorial powers, succeeding Wang Ching Wei after an assassin’s wound.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai- Shek
Chiang
China
Wang Ching Wei
Kuommintang
Nationalist Party
Central Executive Committee
Central Political Council
Military Affairs Commission
Rensuke Isogai
Shanghai
Isogai
North
Highway official refused seat after removal of road commissioners
Ben M. Sawyer chief highway commissioner was refused possession of state highway offices by troops after Governor Olin Johnston had removed or suspended 13 politically hostile road commissioners in Columbia South Carolina on December 7.
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Columbia
S. C
Ben M. Sawyer
Olin Johnston
Planes Drop New Bombs on Desiye War Capital
International Red Cross protests to the League of Nations after a second bombing of Dessye, Haile Selassie’s capital. Italian air raids kill 55 and injure 300, with hospitals and Red Cross ambulances attacked despite clear markings. A Norwegian nurse recalls the merciless strike and hospital destruction.
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Addis Ababa
International Red Cross
League of Nations
Desiye
Haile Selassie
Red Cross
Priday
Dessye
Tafari
Hospi
Kentucky man to die for killing federal agent
George W. Barrett a 50 year old Kentucky mountaineer was found guilty of first degree murder by a federal court jury for killing government agent Nelson B. Klein in College Corner Indiana on August 16. The verdict carries a mandatory death sentence by hanging.
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Indianapolis
George W. Barrett
Kentucky
Walker County Commissioner Jack Horn Dies After Car Crash
Jack Horn, Walker County commissioner for 12 years, died in a Huntsville hospital after his car overturned near Huntsville Wednesday night. He was 12 years in office and sustained injuries in the wreck.
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Huntsville
Jack Horn
Walker County
Winch to Take El Paso Place
Will R. Winch city manager of Texas Consolidated Theaters in Amarillo leaves for El Paso his former home. He will join his former partner Johnnie Paxton to manage the new El Paso theatre and head the show house duties.
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Will R. Winch
Texas Consolidated Theaters, Inc
Amarillo
el Paso
Mr. Winch
Winch
Johnnie Paxton
Texas Consolidated Theaters
Gandhi Placed Under Doctor Care in Bombay
Mahatma Gandhi, examined by two physicians in Bombay, suffers headaches and vertigo. Doctors report his high blood pressure requires absolute physical and mental rest.
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Gandhi
Bombay
Mahatma Gandhi
Negro Sentenced to Die in Electric Chair
District Judge W F Robertson sentences Fred Hill a negro to death in the electric chair on January 10 for the murder of a street car motorman during a holdup in Austin.
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Austin
W. F. Robertson
Fred Hill
County Declares Liquor Tax Fixed After Vote
Potter County commissioners on Saturday declared the local option not to sell package liquor official with 1660 votes for and 1401 against from a total of 3065. County tax for retailers set at 65.61 with state and federal taxes 131.22 and 25. City tax pending. Licenses run to August 1 1936 for package liquor and to December 31 1935 for old beer with new beer licenses effective January 1 1936.
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Potter County
Jewell Davidson
State Board of Liquor Control
Shifting Debate in 1936 Campaign and Party Alignments
The week signals growing disarray in party lines as campaigns prepare to unfold. Leaders weigh liberal versus conservative frames while labor and business criticisms intensify, with potential shifts in support and strategic moves across Democratic and Republican camps. The White House eyes Supreme Court rulings and rapid legislative action ahead of 1936 events.
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Washington
Borah
Idaho
Topeka
Landon
Kansas
AAA
Supreme Court
American Federation of Labor
Second Clipper Takes Off Today in Trans-Pacific Run
The Philippine Clipper, second giant seaplane in the trans-Pacific air mail service, will depart Alameda tomorrow for a 16,000 mile round trip to Manila. It lies alongside its sister ship China Clipper which set the route. The Hawaii Clipper is due to depart Baltimore for Alameda in about a week.
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Alameda
Calif
trans-Pacific Air Mail Service
Manila
Hawaii
French air mobilization plans saved by gunfire
At Bron Airdrome a sergeant of the guard repelled four civilians attempting to break a safe containing France's air mobilization plans. Gunfire drove them off and no one was reported harmed.
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Paris
U.P
Bron
France
Amarillo church marks 25 years of ministry with sermons
Exactly a quarter century after his first sermon in Amarillo Dr R Thomson will join Central Presbyterian Church to hear Dr R L Irving of Fort Davis speak as moderator of the Texas Synod in one of four special ceremonies. A silver anniversary banquet is set for 6 30 tomorrow evening as part of events coordinated by the church and a community affair.
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Amarillo
R. Thomson
Central Presbyterian Church
R. L. Irving
Fort Davis
Texas Synod
Flood Strands Planes and Floods Hit Houston Area
A 9500 mile southbound rescue flight is delayed after a flood maroons 65 Airline Farms families near Little York and Houston Heights. Volunteers use row boats and skiffs to evacuate residents as White Oak Bayou bursts its banks after 12 hours of heavy rain.
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Houston
Airline Farms
Little York
Shade Acre
Houston Heights
White Oak Bayou
Houston Fire Department
Youth Surrenders in Bank Robbery and Sheriff Killing
Frank Hopson 22, a Claiborne County youth, surrendered to Sheriff Frank Riley and admitted taking part in a bank robbery in New Tazewell Tennessee. He named Gus McCoig 22 and Pete Dean 18 as accomplices and said McCoig shot Sheriff L B Hutchinson of Union County during the escape.
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New Tazewell
Tenn
Frank Riley
Frank Hopson
Claiborne County
L. B. Hutchinson
Union County
Hopson
Gus McCoig
Pete Dean
Tennessee
McCoig
Hutchinson
Coast Lines Sign Dock Agreement
Houston Dec 7 The long strike of the International Longshoremen's Association in Texas and at Lake Charles La ended for coastwise lines when the I L A signed a new contract with coastwise companies M J Dwyer of Galveston district president said members likely will return to work on coastwise vessels Monday after a strike since October 11
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Houston
International Longshoremen's Association
Texas
Lake Charles
I. IL. A
M. J. Dwyer
Galveston
British Destroyers Reach Near Suez Region
Four British destroyers Basilisk Boreas Boadicea and Bulldog arrived unexpectedly at Famagusta Harbor Cyprus this morning. The arrival signals Royal Navy activity near the Suez Canal amid ongoing operations.
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Suez Canal
Limassol
Cyprus
Famagusta Harbor
Basilisk
Boreas
Boadicea
Bulldog
Mrs. F. J. Trigg Dies Long Plains Pioneer
Mrs. F J Trigg a Long Plains resident died at her home 807 Pierce Street after two years of ill health. Born in Litchfield Illinois she moved to Texas as a child in a covered wagon with her family and later settled in Ferris and the Panhandle area. Her death marks the passing of a pioneer mother to Almarillo and the Panhandle community.
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Almarillo
Panhandle
Plains Country
PF. J. Trigg
Trigg
Pierce Street
F. J. Trigg
Litchfield
Illinois
Texas
Dallas County
Dallas
Frank Trigg
Ferris
Pautandie
Worries Driven Ady to Vanish in Colorado Springs
Joseph W. Ady Jr a former mining operator told Colorado Springs police financial worries drove him from his Colorado home last August on a 97 day wandering spree. He was reunited with his wife and offered full aid to tracing kidnap notes seeking 25000 dollars. The notes threatened Ady with death. he was found at a copper mine near High Rolls New Mexico after months of wandering.
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Alamogordo
N. M
Dee
Joseph W. Ady, Jr
Colorado Springs
Colo
Ady
Hugh Harper
Denver
Harper
High Rolls
Indianapolis
Mother and three children die in house fire in Cleveland
A two family house blaze in Cleveland claimed the lives of Mrs Olga Wheaton, 29, and children Edward six Edith three and John one year old. Father Marion Wheaton 39 was revived after being overcome on the stairs and brother Patrolman Albert Wheaton helped remove the bodies.
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Cleveland
Olga Wheaton
Edward
Edith
John
Marion Wheaton
Albert Wheaton
Tom Mooney Near 62 as Birthday Approaches
Thomas J. Mooney, once a wartime labor agitator, is nearly 62 on Sunday while partially bald and heavier after twenty years in prison. He surrendered in 1916 to authorities over the San Francisco Preparedness Day parade bombing investigation.
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San Francisco
Thomas J. Mooney
Tom Mooney
North Side group blocks bond funds for Centennial Stock Show
Fort Worth city council saw limited trouble as a temporary restraining order halted bond money use for construction of the Centennial Stock Show. The action came from a North Side citizen group seeking to pause the project funding.
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Fort Worth
North Side
San Angelo to Meet Amarillo in Quarterfinal Football Clash
San Angelo and Amarillo high schools will play in Amarillo Saturday at 2 30 P M in the interscholastic championship race quarterfinal after a coin flip by coaches Harry Taylor and Blair Cherry. Lubbock had bid to host the game.
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Abilene
San Angelo
Amarillo
Harry Taylor
Blair Cherry
Lubbock
Bucks Struggle With Sandies In First Period Tug
In a tense contest Amarillo drew first on a 24 yard drive after a fourth down pass. Clesson connected with Taylor for the opening touchdown amid a persistent San Diego defense. Smith failed the extra point and the game remained tight as both teams traded control.
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Amarillo
Breck
Clesson
Taylor
Sandie
Smith
Bucks
Sandies
Spud Taylor
Cairo Students Clash With Police at Giza Bridge
Cairo reports show about one thousand Cairo University students fought police for thirty minutes at Giza Bridge before dispersal. In Kansas City a cab driver Robert W. Robinson warned motorists to be careful. a trolley collision injured him and a passenger.
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Cairo
Cairo University
Giza Bridge
Kansas City
Robert W. Robinson
Robinson
Weather Digest for Amarillo and Nearby Regions
Forecaster notes little change in temperatures with Amarillo area showing modest cooling. Early week trend calls for rain in western plains and Gulf states with precipitation shifting from the north to the south by midweek. Temperatures start moderate then dip by Monday night into Tuesday, with the week ending cooler overall.
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Amarillo
Fale Sear
Wott
Texas
100Th Meridian
Southern Plaine
West Gulf
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