Panhandle Rain and Snow Brighten Wheat Prospects
The Panhandle reports rain and snow with Vega seeing up to five inches, aiding wheat and pastures. Amarillo measured a quarter inch of rain, while officials forecast warmer weather Sunday. The system stretched through Lubbock, Petersburg, Sterling, Silverton, Plainview, and nearby towns as moisture improves spring planting prospects.
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Panhandle
Vega
Amarillo
Frank Ford
Potter County
H. T. Collman
United States Weather Bureau
Collman
Lubbock
Petersburg
Sterling
Silverton
Plainview
Hart
Dimmitt
Quitaque
Turkey
South Plains
Fort Worth
Denver
A. A
Flying High Musical Revue Set for Amarillo January 26
George White's Flying High musical revue will perform at the Amarillo Municipal Auditorium on January 26. W C Hawk, head of the Tri-State Yair association, secured the booking after earlier cancellation due to Oklahoma City train connections. Tickets will be announced soon.
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George White
Amarillo
W. C. Hawk
Tri-State
Yair Association
Municipal Auditorium
Flying High
Oklahoma City
Mr. Hawk
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity and West Texas
Sunday fair in Amarillo area and surrounding region with partly cloudy skies in West Texas. Rain likely in southeast portions with cooler conditions in western areas. New Mexico expected fair with slight warmth in the eastern part. Yesterday’s temperatures reached a high around 85 and a low near 35. 0.24 inches of precipitation recorded in the 24 hours ending 4 pm yesterday.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Hundreds Die as China Storm Ravages North Areas
A massive blizzard and sand storm sweeping from Mongolia into North China killed hundreds. Temperatures plummeted as low as 15 below zero. Peiping police found 190 corpses in 24 hours. 18 more in unheated shacks. twenty died in Tientsin. Salvation Army and Chinese groups provided gruel kitchens and shelters.
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Associated Press
Smianghat
Mongolia
China
Yangtse
Peiping
Tientsin
Salvation Army
Italian widow charged in hire of killer for husband
A woman in her thirties, mother of four, was charged with paying two men 500 to murder her husband Giovannia Volpi, a New York restaurateur, after he allegedly beat her for 20 years. The shooting in Mamaroneck left Volpi dead with five wounds as accomplices were arrested at a nearby station.
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Associated Press
White Plains
N. Y
Mamaroneck
Giovannia Volpi
New York
Alphonse Corrato
Joseph Covercori
Brooklyn
Rosina Volpi
White Mule in Lap Not So Good
Two Kansas tourists believed they had found the old gray mare but a white mule leaped through a windshield near Tucumcari. B Hawkins of Medicine Lodge and M Oliver were in the vehicle. Oliver escaped injury as the mule rammed headfirst into the windshield.
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Kansas
Sunday News Globe
B. Hawkins
Medicine Lodge
M. Oliver
Hawkins
Men Buried by Landslide Near Huigra Ecuador
In Ecuador near Huigra 73 miles from Guayaquil, 170 track workers were buried by a landslide while removing debris after a previous slide. Rescue teams found no signs of life as heavy rains flood the region and the Chanchan river turns torrential.
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Associated Press
Guayaquil
Eecquador
Huigra
Payload Plane Sets Record Jump Toward Azores
Mrs. Bery Hart and Lieut. William S. MacLaren flew from Bermuda in a Bellanca monoplane on the second leg of a commercial flight to Paris carrying over three tons of cargo including 300 gallons of gasoline and 250 pounds of goods in an ocean jump. The two aviators expected a 21 hour flight to the Azores with favorable conditions and crowds on the harbor quays watching as they lifted off.
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Associated Press
Hamilton
Bermuda
Bery] Hart
William S. MacLaren
Azores
Paris
San Angelo Mayor A. A. Glover Dies by Suicide
San Angelo Mayor A A Glover 52 jumped from the sixth floor of a local bank building at 8 am. Justice of the Peace ruled death by own action. Glover, a longtime civic figure and vice president of Martin Glover Wholesale, faced months of ill health and financial reverses. He left a widow and three children including two UT students. Funeral plans pending.
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Associated Press
San Angelo
A. A. Glover
Justice of Peace
B. E. Gray
Glover
Martin-Glover Wholesale Company
Eldon G
C. A. Meek
W. P. Martin
The
Furniture Company
Five Convicts Escape New Mexico Prison
Five inmates escaped from the Santa Fe state penitentiary via a 70 foot tunnel under the walls after ten months of construction. Bloodhounds trailed briefly before losing the scent, and two guards were suspended as officials investigated the break.
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United Press
Santa FE
N. M
Elephants March Through Pages of Amarillo News
The Amarillo News-Globe features a parade of elephants carrying optimistic messages from local business leaders. They announce lower prices on quality merchandise and urge readers to support city merchants throughout 1931.
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News-Globe
Amarillo
The
Merchants Committee
M. W. Jure
Dean Kirk
J. T. Moore
Bank Robbery at Canyon Targets First National Bank
Daylight raid by two masked bandits freed six captives including Sheriff John Fry of Randall County and bank staff. They looted about 18,378 dollars in currency and silver before fleeing in a Chevrolet coupe toward Amarillo Canyon highway.
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First National Bank of
Canyon
Levi Cole
Mr. Cole
Christine Upchurch
James Cole
John Fry
W. C. Black
Bank
Fry
Black
Canyon News
Randall County
Amarillo Canyon
First National Bank
Amarillo
J. W. Reed
Seventh Avenue
Cole
Miss Upchurch
Mr. Black
A. C. Donnell
Bank Robbery Suspects Nabbed in Borger
Art Farmer and Jack Burgess were arrested in Borger as suspects in the First National Bank of Canyon robbery, which yielded over 13 000 dollars. Farmer is held in Potter County jail, Burgess in Canyon, with the escape vehicle traced to Farmer via license records.
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Art Farmer
Jack Burgess
Borger
First National Bank of
Canyon
Farmer
Potter County
Burgess
Abilene Man Injured In Canyon Highway Crash
Jim McLaran of Abilene, a law firm representative, was seriously injured in a collision six miles from Amarillo on the Canyon highway Saturday night. He suffered two scalp wounds and a severe cut above the eye and was taken to Northwest Texas hospital. A truck in the ditch and a Ford sedan crash are described, with Leslie Neal of Amarillo involved in a preceding collision.
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Jim McLaran
Abilene
Amarillo
Canyon Highway
McLaran
Northwest Texas Hospital
Maud Dunaway
Canyon
Franklin-Amarillo Company
Dunaway
James Shows
Tulsa
Leslie Neal
van Buren Street
Neal
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Canyon Bank
Tascosa
Channing, Texline
Ernest O. Thompson
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