Weather delay overruns Panhandle Plains with cold snap
The Panhandle Plains faced lingering storm effects with snow and cold precip expected today. Overnight lows fell to 33 in Amarillo after a 60 degree peak, while Dalhart Texline reported 59 and Canadian 24. Across the region towns recorded snow and fog as airlines grounded flights east and west.
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TWA
Los Angeles
Montana
Panhandle Plains
Esterday
Amarill
Dalhart
Texline
Amarillo
Canadian
Waynoka
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Wichita
Kansas City
Dalhart Dalhart
Nevada petition seeks taxes on Steamship Lines vessels
Wa shoe County district attorney and Nevada attorney general filed in district court a petition against United States Steamship Lines to compel payment of 9608 dollars 75 cents in 1934 taxes in Nevada. Leviathan valued at 50000 dollars and nine other ships at 37158 dollars are registered in New York port.
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Reno
Nev
United States Steamship Lines
Nevada
Washoe County
New York
Supreme Court Gold Decision May Be Announced on Monday
The nine justices of the United States Supreme Court met to decide the constitutionality of a key Roosevelt monetary program provision. A final ruling could be announced Monday with a written opinion issued later, or delayed until February if recess restrictions apply.
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Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Supreme Court of the United States
Hughes
Bank Loot In Handley Texas By Two Gunmen
Two bandits armed with submachine guns robbed the Handley Bank of $500 in Handley Texas. One entered the bank and menaced three employees and two customers. They scooped the money and fled toward Grapine as an employee fired at them.
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Handley, Tex
U.P
Handley Bank
Grapene
First White Woman To Settle in Swisher Area Taken by Death
Mrs. T A Gray 74 longtime Swisher County pioneer is dead after months of illness. She and husband settled 1887 near Tule Creek later moving to Tulsa. Surviving are her husband and two children Nate Gray and Mrs Mamie Cochran of Amarillo plus grandchildren. Funeral at Presbyterian Church Sunday 2 30 p m. Rev J Hoytt Boles to officiate. Burial in Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Swisher Area
Tulia
Swisher County
T. A. Gray
Plains
Mr. Gray
Tule Creek
Tulsa
Nate Gray
Mamie Cochran
Amarillo
Presbyterian Church
J. Hoytt Boles
Rose Hill Cemetery
Harold English
Amarillo Airport
N. S. Griggs and Sons Chapel
E. B. Fincher
Elwood Park Presbyterian Church
Bank Robbery Plea Deals Avoid Death Sentences
In Oklahoma City four ex convicts pleaded guilty to the Kingfisher People's National Bank robbery and abduction. Jim Clark Frank Delmar Aubrey Ansell and Ennis Smiddy received long concurrent terms including 99 years on abduction and 25 years plus fines on robbery with Smiddy duplicate sentences for a Sentinel bank case.
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Oklahoma City
Uncle Sam
People’s National Bank of
Ennis Smiddy Clark
Delmar
Ansell
Smiddy
Sentinel
Governor Reverses Hobrecht Furlough in Texas
Austin notes Governor James V. Allred revoked the six months furlough previously granted to Joe Hobrecht of San Antonio by former Governor Miriam A. Ferguson. The action ends Hobrecht's release and returns him to custody.
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Austin
James V. Allred
Joe Hobrecht
San Antonio
Miriam A. Ferguson
Byrd Expedition Prepares Return From Little America
Members of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition move toward home as the Bear of Oakland is due tomorrow and the Jacob Ruppert sails to pick up members and gear. Tunnels storing supplies are being broken down and unless the ice breaks, goods must be hauled six miles to the ships by tractor over thick ice.
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Little America
Antarctica
U.P
Bear
Oakland
Jacob Ruppert
Teachers Must Revise Vision Not Textbooks
Dr H B Bruner of Columbia University told the Panhandle Plains Superintendents Association that education must adapt to a changing world. He argued teachers should study the raw materials of education and broaden their vision from kindergarten to adult classes to avert economic upheaval and potential political upheaval.
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H. B. Bruner
Columbia University
Panhandle Plains
Louisiana
Beaner
Lubbock Boy Hurt in Grade Accident
Lubbock January 19 In an automobile train collision at a crossing off Highway 137 George Thompson a Texas Technological College student was seriously injured Thompson 17 years old was driving a dairy company delivery truck employed by the firm He reportedly stopped to open a gate then drove onto the track without seeing the approaching train He possibly suffered a skull fracture lacerations and body abrasions.
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Lubbock
Highway
Here
George Thompson
Texas Technological College
Thompson
Texas Legislature Opens Busy Week With Emergency Plans
Texas lawmakers adjourned until Monday after two weeks of session. House committees were organized by Speaker Coke Stevenson while Senate committees were ready. The focus aims at emergency legislation backed by Governor Allred, with the only final bill so far funding $250000 for legislative salaries. The Senate sent two bills creating district courts in Smith and Rusk Counties for action next week. Controversy lingers over Miriam Ferguson appointments to the State Board of Education as Ben ONeal's committee weighs confirmation. A tentative hearing is planned next Wednesday on establishing a State planning board for public works.
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Austin
Texas
Senate
House
Smith and
Rusk
Allred
Walter F. Woodul
Stevenson
Homer Leonard
McAllen
House Appropriations Committee
John Reduitt
Lufkin
Senate Finance Committee
Miriam A. Ferguson
State Board of Education
Ferguson
R. S. Sterling
Ben G. O'Neal
Wichita Falls
Washington
Amarillo Area Weather forecast and unsettled week
Sunday clouds bring probable snow and cooler conditions across Amarillo and western Texas. North New Mexico to see snow or rain with a cold wave. southern parts milder but overall below normal temperatures early this week, turning somewhat warmer later.
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Panhandle
U. S. Weather Bureau
Grand Junction
Colo
Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
English Airport
Amarillo
West Texas
South Meridian
New Mexico
Steckhmen Nerth
Amarilla
Yen
Youth Killed in Car Crash near Rainbow Gardens
Archie Rivers Shamblin 25 dies in a Fifth Avenue and Pierce Street wreck when a black sedan dodges a crossing and a roadster overturns. Buster Cooper 23 and Henry S. Cooper escape with minor injuries. A waiter, Henry Wood, helps lift the overturned car. Shamblin dies before hospital arrival.
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Archie Rivers Shamblin
Tenth Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Pierce Street
Buster Cooper
Fourth Avenue
Henry S. Cooper
Hedley
Shamblin
Buster
Henry Wood
Wood
Archie Shamblin
St. Anthony's Hospital
Coopers
Henry Cooper
Jack Harrison
Square Dealers Form Shock Troop In Baton Rouge
In Baton Rouge Louisiana about 340 residents formed the East Baton Rouge Headquarters Battalion of the Square Deal Association to back repeal of Huey P Long dictatorship. Officers led by Ernest J Bourgeois organized companies and urged manpower roster work rather than drills.
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Shock Troop
Huey
Baton Rouge. la
Jan Ty
East Baton Rouge Parish
Square Deal Association of Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Parish
Square Deal Association
East Baton Rouge
Citizens’ Organization
Five cars pile up in dense fog. Denison youth dead
A dense fog on the Denison Sherman highway caused a five-vehicle crash. Harold Ransom, 19, of Denison, was killed. Eleven others were injured including Gene Legg, Roy Moore, Leonard Nelson, Price Parker, Tom Ferguson, Harold McKinney, Jim Andrews, Glyndon Boothman, Price Carter, David Roach, and M Earl Williams. The carnage halted traffic as two cars initially collided and three more plowed into the wreckage.
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Denison
Tex
Denison-Sherman
Harold Ransom
J. W. Ransom
Gene Legg
Roy Moore
Leonard Nelson
Price Parker
Tom Ferguson
Howe
Texas
Harold McKinney
Sherman
Jim H. Andrews
Glyndon Boothman
Price Carter
David Roach
Flinsville
M. Earl Williams
Williams
Carter
Ferguson
McKinney
Andrews
Boothman
Roach
Parker
Legg
Moore
Nelson
Whiteside Stars In Master Of Ballantrae At Amarillo
Walker Whiteside, famed American actor, presents Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae in Amarillo. The three act drama features a selected cast with tickets sold at City Drug No 1 517 Polk Street. Performances begin at 8 15 with late train connection cited.
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Walker Whiteside
America
Amarillo
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ballantrae
Whiteside
City Drug
Polk Street
Lois Black
News-Globe
Wilbur C. Hawk
Hauptmann Case Hinges on Ladder Evidence
State contends the ladder used by Bruno Hauptmann to descend with the Lindbergh baby is key to the kidnapping case. The ladder, though not yet admitted, is promised as an exhibit before trial, with ladders and letters cited among elements to explain the crime.
Hauptmann Case Papers Ordered Transferred to Defense
The Appellate Division in Brooklyn ruled that former attorney James H. Fawcett must transfer all papers in the Hauptmann case to current counsel Edward J. Reilly. The decision, unanimous, requires immediate handover and allows Fawcett to retain the files as security for $4,221 in fees. Presiding Justice Edward Lazanksy announced the ruling.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
James H. Fawcett
Edward J. Reilly
Hauptmann
Supreme Court
Bronx
Fawcett
Edward Lazansky
Hauptmann Faces Trial Over Lindbergh Case Letters
The state seeks to prove Hans Hauptmann wrote ransom notes after a $50,000 payment to a mystery figure named John. Experts testified Hauptmann authored the letters, linking them to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case. The prisoner sat tonight in his cell as testimony proceeded.
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Mann
Hauptmans
Lucre
Hauptmann
John
John F. Condon
Charles A. Lindbe Condon
Col
Lindbergh
Governor Hoffman Faces Panhandler on Relief Mission
Governor Hoffman of New Jersey, in Washington for relief talks with Hopkins, was approached by a panhandler on Pennsylvania Avenue asking for a nickel for coffee. The governor replied that he was there seeking relief, and the panhandler retorted he could get four bits on that coat.
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Washington
Hoffman
New Jersey
Hopkins
Pennsylvania Avenue
Pension debate on age as source for old age funds
Washington group discusses funding old age pensions with state tax shares. Rep Lewis proposes raising state contributions via income and inheritance taxes. hearings planned for next week as lawmakers seek modifications to Roosevelt plan aiding unemployed over 40 and under 65.
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Washington
Lewis
Maryland
Roosevelt
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