House passes Democratic tariff bill amid party victory
The U S House approved the Democratic tariff bill by 214 to 182. Vice President Curtis cast the decisive no in a 37 to 37 vote on an irrigation lending amendment, after Republicans split and one Farmer-Laborite joined Democrats. The measure now heads to the Senate with veto risk unlikely.
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Washington
House
Thrust
Curtis
Senate
Reconstruction Corporation
Congressional
White House
Farmer-Laborite
Rep
Kvale
Minnesota
Texas business activity rises with 1931 gains
Seaboard Life Insurance reports a six percent increase in business for 1931. Tyler posts a 27.6 percent rise in post office receipts. Houston sees 407 new firms and 7.1 million dollars in expansions. Texas 1931 incorporations total 2116 with 86.006 million capitalization, up 16 percent from 1930. New U.S. construction in Q1 1932 tops 600 million with 260 projects at or above one million. Lake Superior ore shipments from Lake Erie ports reach 174,885 tons in December, up from 137,229 in 1930.
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Houston
H. R. Safford
Chamber of Commerce
New York
United States
F. W. Dodge Corporation
Cleveland
Lake Superior
Lake Erie
Democrats Choose Chicago as 1932 Convention Site
In Washington on January 9 Democrats selected Chicago to host their next convention. The session was smooth as prior clashes over the prohibition issue were referred to the national meeting. June 27 was set as the convention date two weeks after the Republicans meet in the same city.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Washington
Chicago
Raskob
Byrd
Virginia
Hoover Proposes $150 Million Bank Depositor Relief Corps
The bill expands relief for bank depositors beyond the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. A $150 million corporation would advance loans to pay depositors of insolvent banks. Treasury endorsed the plan. President Hoover approved. Introduced in the House by Beedy of Maine and in the Senate by Senator Thomas of Oklahoma.
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Washington
U.P
Hoover
House
Senate
Treasury
Reconstruction Corporation
Congress
House of Representatives
Beedy
Maine
Thomas
Oklahoma
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity
Sunday fair across West Texas and New Mexico with higher temperatures in the southeast. Amarillo hourly readings show warm afternoon, with a maximum near yesterday’s 83 and minimum around the early day.
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Amarillo
Vicuinity
West Texas
New Mexico
Rene
Ebesee
Apple Cart Tickets On Sale At City Auditorium
Tickets for Bernard Shaw comedy The Apple Cart are available for a matinee and evening show at City Auditorium on Saturday January 16. Prices range from 50 cents to 2.50 dollars with matinee and night rates. Reservations may be made via News-Globe office, by phone to Nils Eva Lewis at 6262, or by mail to Wilbur C. Hawk News-Globe Amarillo Texas. A stamped return envelope is requested.
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Bernard Shaw
City Auditorium
News-Globe
Nils Eva Lewis
Wilbur C. Hawk
Amarillo
Texas
Pampa Flier Dies In Hangar Plane Explosion
Pampa Texas January 9 R W Dutch Bartgis 43 a noted flier with 2000 flight hours was killed when a wing gasoline tank exploded while he painted a hangar ship The plane burned and his 17 year old son Raymond rescued him from the fire He had been aviation since 1921 and once toured with an aerial circus He lived with his widow and two children including a daughter in Wichita Kansas survived by his widow son and daughter from Wichita
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Pampa
R. W
Bartgis
Pampa Flier
Raymond
Fort Worth
Borger
Cree-Hoover Drilling Company
Wichita
Kas
Britain Rejects U S Move on Nine Power Pact in Manchuria
Britain declined to invoke the nine power treaty amid the Manchurian crisis. The Foreign Office said no note to Japan was needed as Tokyo pledged to maintain open door policies. In Moscow the emperor’s cabinet, after a failed assassination bid, stayed in office. Kenkichi Yoshizawa, bound for Tokyo, said Japan would not interfere with foreign rights in Manchuria.
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Associated Press
Great Britain
United States
Japan
Stimson
Manchuria
Tokyo
China
Mukden
Kenkichi Yoshizawa
Newspaper Office Robbed by Bandits in Little Rock
In Little Rock Arkansas Gazette auditor James E Chapple 54 was shot by a bandit during a robbery of the newspaper plant office the thief escaped with 5000 in cash then retraced after a locked door Two brothers Don and Charles Pearce were arrested later identified Charles works as a linotype operator at the Gazette.
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Little Rock
Ark
U.P
James E. Chapple
The
Arkansas Gazette
Chapple
Don
Charles Pearce
Charles
the Gazette
Earthquake Shocks Felt Near Georgetown University
A sharp quake was recorded by the Georgetown University seismograph at 5:40 AM with a second shock at 5:46 AM. Scientists place the epicenter about 2,850 miles from Washington but could not determine its direction.
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Washington
Georgetown University
Texans protest gas rates raise burning wood for fuel
State Representative Lon E. Alsup told the State Railroad Commission that landowners producing gas burn pine logs to avoid high gas prices. Alsup, a blind House member from Carthage, announced he would seek re election.
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Austin
Lon E. Alsup
Carthage
State Railroad Commission
Allsup
Governor Dwight Davis Resigns Philippine Post
President Hoover promotes Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico to governor general as Dwight Davis resigns for personal reasons and will sail to Paris. Davis denies plans for a Senate seat or ambassadorship as speculation swirls over his future. Governor Roosevelt assumes duties and the San Juan post awaits a replacement.
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C. P. Williamson
Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Porto Rico
Hoover
America
Dwight ¥. Davis
Philippine Islands
Davis
White House
Hurley
War Department
Philippines
Paris
Alice
Manila
Roosevelt
San Juan
Senate
Great Britain
Charles G. Dawes
Woman Escapes Blazing Gasoline Fire Damages Smedley Home
Mrs. Dorothy Smedley 1613 South Pierce Street was seriously burned while burning gasoline on a stove ignited her clothes. Fire swept through the north side of a duplex owned by Mrs. Smedley’s landlord, destroying bedding and possessions valued around 600 dollars with a 400 dollar insured structure. Neighbors reported the family is out of their home and unemployed.
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Dorothy Smedley
South Pierce Street
Smedley
Della Crittenden
Dickerson
Dewey Morris
Capitalization of New Firms In Texas Rises in 1931
Texas 1931 saw 2,116 new firms incorporated with total capitalization of 86.1 million dollars. This marks a 16 percent increase from 1930, though the number of new corporations was fewer than the previous year, per the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research.
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Austin
U.P
Texas
Bureau of Business Research
University of Texas
Bureau
Wheeler Youth Dead After Gas Explosion
Oval Mahan, 18, died from a gas explosion at Magic City in Wheeler County near Amarillo. Jim Storey, 30, was seriously burned and hospitalized in Wheeler. G B Wiley reported the tragedy. Mahan was a former pupil of Wiley. The blast occurred around midnight when a rubber hose likely detached from a stove igniting accumulated gas.
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Oval Mahan
Magic City
Wheeler County
Amarillo
Jim Storey
Wheeler
G. B. Wiley
Young Mahan
Wiley
Mr. Wiley
Storey
Mahan
Hunter Announces Race for Governor
Tom F. Hunter, attorney and oil producer of Wichita Falls, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor. At a mass meeting weeks earlier petitions signed by 15,000 people supported his bid. He urged leadership in a “battle for the return of state government to the masses.”
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Wichita Falls
Tom F. Hunter
Hunter
Innovations Galore At New York Auto Show Opens
New York January 9 The 2nd National Automobile Show opened at Grand Central Palace with 300 new cars on display. Highlights include free wheeling now standard on most models, bullet-nosed fronts with varied radiator styles, and a seat accessible shock absorber adjustment for driver comfort. The show runs all week except tomorrow.
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New York
Grand Central Palace
Building loan pays dividend for Panhandle association
Panhandle Building and Loan Association paid a 7 percent regular dividend and boosted the reserve threefold the legal requirement. Amarillo reports strong loan collections with about 450 loans totaling 735 250 dollars. Shares pledged amount to 177 104.54 dollars, leaving loans of 558 145.46 dollars and collateral valued near 1 600 000 dollars, with loans averaging about 33 1 3 percent of value.
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Panhandle Building and Loan Association
J. F. Jones
Mr. Jones
Amarillo
the Panhandle
Flooded valley crews rescue aid as carcasses drift
In Glendora Mississippi Jan 97 carcasses of horses mules cows and hogs floated from the Tippo Basin as Red Cross workers paddle the flood to assess relief. Dogs bark from hill crests three feet of water swirl past havens near an 200 foot crevasse on the Eastern Tallahatchie levee. Cotton sheds fall as flats and skiffs are built to reach tenants marooned by the two day old break.
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Glendora
Tippo Basin
Tallahatchie River
Red Cross
Sharkey
Brother of Youngs charged in auto theft case
Paul Young brother of Harry and Jennings Young was charged in Houston before Justice Campbell Overstreet with automobile theft after the brothers died by suicide during a police siege at a local residence Tuesday.
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Houston
Paul Young
Harry
Jennings Young
Campbell Overstreet
Social Leader and Navy Officer Held in Hawaiian Murder
Native police charge a New York matron, her naval lieutenant son in law, and an enlisted man with murdering a Hawaiian attacked on the lieutenant’s bride. They are held aboard the U S S Alton at Pearl Harbor as tensions rise and National Guard is mobilized.
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Dan Campbell
United Press
Honolulu
T. HL
U.P
New York
Leutenant
Pearl Harbor
National Guard
U. S
Alton
Granville Roland Fortescue
Alexander Graham Bell
Major Fortescue
Roosevelt
Boy testifies his dad killed mother in Texas case
Nine year old Rudolph Matthews Jr testified in Justice of the Peace court that his father shot his mother Maude Matthews at the family home Tuesday. Matthews is charged with murder and has been jailed, with a brief hospital observation earlier, as the hearing was requested by the state and opposed by defense.
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San Antonio
Rudolph Matthews, Jr
Justice of the Peace Shock
Maude Matthews
Matthews
San Antonio State Hospital
Amarillo Panhandle brace for more snow Sunday pair forecast
The Amarillo Panhandle eyes a Sunday snow melt pattern with a pair forecast. Saturday reached 44 degrees, the second thaw since Monday’s storm, while Friday hit 45 degrees and Saturday’s low was 25 degrees. H. T. Collman of the U.S. Weather Bureau predicts Sunday will be as warm or warmer than Saturday.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
H. T. Collman
United States Weather Bureau
Teachers Oppose 10 Percent Salary Cut Proposal
More than three hundred faculty members from Amarillo public schools gathered at the High School Auditorium to oppose a 10 per cent salary reduction recommended by the school board. The plan requires voluntary agreement due to one year contracts. discussion shifted to the teachers retirement committee with plans to report to the board at a tentative Tuesday meeting.
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Amarillo
Amarillo College
Bruening Declares Germany Cannot Pay Reparations
Berlin reports Chancellor Heinrich Bruening announced that continuing reparations payments is impossible. He warned attempts to sustain them would cause disaster for Germany and the world. In an interview with Wolff News Agency he said Germany would push to abandon reparations at Lausanne talks.
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Berlin
Heinrich Bruening
Germany
Wolff News Agency
Downtown Day Opens Tomorrow With Free Bus Rides
Amarillo merchants launch a city wide sale with larger stocks and lower prices. Downtown buses will carry riders free to the business district from 8 to 10 a m tomorrow, encouraging shoppers to spend the day downtown and seek big bargains.
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Amarillo
News-Globe
Paramount Theater Set to Open March 18 in Amarillo
The Paramount Theater at Ninth Ave and Polk Street will open March 18 with first show at 6 pm announced by Will R. Winch Paramount Publix Theaters city manager. The Amarillo venue cost about 300000 and will be among the Southwest’s finest. The opening day features a 6 pm show and a second performance, with regular morning shows starting the next day.
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Paramount
Ninth Avenue
Polk Street
Will R. Winch
Paramount Publix Theaters
T. Wilson Erwin
Dallas
Ralph Voorhees
W. Scott Dunne
Winch
Amarillo
Southwest
Ex‑jail escapee Welch captured in Fort Worth
Rus Welch, one of 12 escapees from Van Zandt County jail in Canton, was nabbed today in a Fort Worth apartment. Six others sought by officers remained at large. police believed they probably fled the city.
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Fort Worth
Russell Welch
van Zandt
Canton
Oldest Kaufman County Resident Dies at 103
Mrs J B Gray, 103, longtime resident near Sturry, Kaufman County, died late yesterday at her home. She lived in the county 94 years. Funeral services were planned for this afternoon.
Driller Burned in Gas Well Blast at Crim Home
George Ramsey a oil driller was seriously burned when four boiler exploded at Pace Petroleum No. 1 Crim Reynolds well drilled in the Crim home yard. Three other men suffered lesser injuries.
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Kilgore
George Ramsey
Pace Petroleum Company
Crim- Reynolds
Malcolm Crim
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