Governor Calls Early Texas Relief Session
Governor Miriam A Ferguson convenes a special Texas session to push relief measures and authorize new unemployment relief bonds. Speaker Coke Stevenson doubts passage of the $14.5 million issue while talks cover foreclosure relief, moratorium challenges, and potential loosened dry law provisions. Lt. Gov. Witt heads to Austin en route to the border address.
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Austin
Coke Stevenson
House of the
Texas
Miriam A. Ferguson
James E. Ferguson
Ferguson
Stevenson
Validity
J. J. Greathouse
Fort Worth
Supreme Court
Edgar E. Witt
Waco
el Paso
Silver Group Edge Narrow Ballot Outcome
A Silver Group vote results in a tight margin with the group barely prevailing as the measure goes into effect. Officials report a close tally and confirm implementation despite a slim majority. Citizens await practical changes linked to the decision and its rollout schedule.
Roosevelt seeks dollar devaluation funding bill approval
The Senate and House leadership edge toward enacting a Roosevelt plan to authorize a 2 billion dollar stabilization fund to protect the foreign value of the dollar. The final passage vote stood 66 to 23 after amendments.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
White House
Robinson
Arkansas
Pittman
Nevada
Borah
Capper
Couzens
Cutting
Frazier
Johnson
LaFollette
Norris
Nye
Vandenberg
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Ashurst
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Bailey
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Darkley
Black
Bone
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Bulkley
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Byrnes
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Copeland
Costigan
Deiterich
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Duffy
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Fletcher
George
Murphy
Harrison
Hatch
Hayden
King
Lewis
Logan
Lonergan
McAdoo
McCarran
McGill
McKellar
Neely
O’mahoney
Overton
Pope
Reynolds
Ark
Russell
Sheppard
Smith
Stephens
Thomas
Utah
Thompson
Trammell
Tydings
Van
Leader Fears For Three Men As Ice Crumbles
A leader reports grave danger as three men are stranded on breaking ice. Rescue teams scramble to reach the victims amid deteriorating conditions and shifting ice in the river.
Welfare Island raid chills Times Square mob
NYC mobsters who haunt Times Square groan after a welfare island prison raid. They blame the correction commissioner for overstepping bounds and disrupting a long tradition of visits, meals, and leisure on the island between Saratoga and Miami.
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Henry McLemore
United Press
New York
U.P
Times Square
Welfare Island
Commissioner of Correction
Broadway
Saratoga
Miami
Hugs Haggie
Bearhugged Warden Suspect Harsher Than Other Prisoners
A man named Hugs with a lengthy police record complains at a popular bar about a prison raid and a lenient warden who allegedly allowed him run of the facility. He recalls social calls to the warden and a watch party in cell block C for a prisoner named Harry the Hood.
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Edgar Allen Poe
Harry the Hood
Indiana Gets Dillinger Mob
Arizona plans extradition of Dillinger gang members to Indiana after governor Moeur said Arizona does not want them. Dillinger chief and three others, plus three women witnesses, are to be transferred to Indianapolis and then to counties with murder convictions, while legal challenges may delay action.
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Tucson
Ariz
Indiana
Phoenix
B. B. Moyer
Paul V. McNutt
Trigger Man
Russell Clark
Charles Makley
Opal Long
Anna Martin
Mary Kinder
Moeur
McNutt
Arizona
Aimee Semple McPherson Lectures On Sale At Auditorium
Tickets for Aimee Semple McPherson lectures at Municipal Auditorium go on sale at News-Globe. Eve ning sermon seats are reserved with 25 40 or 75 cent prices. matinee not reservable. Call Miss Lois Black at 6262 to hold seats. Tri-State Fair sponsor Ted Taylor credits large auditorium capacity.
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Aimee Semple McPherson
Municipal Auditorium
News-Globe
Lois Black
Ted Taylor
Paris Tumult as Royalists Battle Police After Chautemps Resigns
In Paris the center became a riot scene as Royalists attacked police following Premier Camille Chautemps' resignation over a pawnshop scandal. Rioters smashed ranks with chairs, flares lit the square, 9 pm saw four major charges, while firemen and guards aided officers in the chaotic clash.
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Camille Chautemps
Stavisky
Chautemps
Bluecoats
Place de L’opera
Cafe de la Paix
M. Chautemps
Chamber of Deputies
Panhandle highway projects planned for coming year
State highway engineer Gibb Gilchrist announced numerous road improvements in the Panhandle for the coming year. After a three day inspection with W. J. Van London he cited paving of the Jericho gap this summer and paving No. 9 through Swisher County among the goals. Projects around Amarillo tied to the CWA will continue.
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Panhandle
Gibb Gilchrist
Austin
Gilchrist
W. J. van London
Jericho
No. 9
Swisher County
Amarillo
CWA
Relief Commission
Corum McGee Leads Revival at Oak Grove Church
In Cartville Illinois a notorious troublemaker Corum McGee, once blamed for church mischief from shooting a bird to burning the organ, now leads a revival at Oak Grove Church. Eighty have attended nightly as townsfolk recall his past deeds and his unlikely turn to preaching.
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Carterville
Little Oak Grove
Here
Corum McGee
McGee
Corum
Gorum McGee
Turn Suspect Over for Murder Trial
Hillsboro officials said they would turn H. L. Chili Red Cobb over to Johnson County authorities for trial on murder charges in the slaying of 18 year old T. B. Gullett. Gullett's body was found among embers of a hay barn near Burleson on January 20. Cobb was arrested at his home nearby several days ago.
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Hillsboro
H. L
Chili Red
Five Year Plan Aims 1000 Planes For Army Air Corps
The War Department announced a new five year program for the Army Air Corps to add 1000 new planes 400 regular officers and 6200 enlisted men. The plan outlined aims to expand capacity and manpower as part of broader military modernization.
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Washington
W.P
Army Air Corps
War Department
Silks and Ginghams Rub Elbows At Evening School
Amarillo’s Emergency Education College draws a diverse crowd from 15 to 65, with folks arriving by Packards and Model Ts. The story highlights French and Spanish classes, job oriented courses, and a bustling night schedule from 5 to 10 PM, as 24 teachers get paid for teaching.
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Gene Elo
Amarillo
Grandma
Grandpa
ABC
el Espanol
Ise
U Pro
Roosevelt seeks 950 million for Civil Works and relief
President Roosevelt asks the House for an additional 950 million dollars to fund the Civil Works Administration and Federal relief. He notes funds will exhaust in February 1934 and urges continuation to avoid abrupt termination, expressing confidence Congress supports the relief program.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Civil Works Administration
Rainey
Federal Civil Works Administration
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Congress
Traylor Condition Improves. Roosevelt Sends Get Well Message
The condition of Melvin A. Traylor at the First National Bank improved markedly and doctors expected recovery from pneumonia. President Roosevelt sent a message to Traylor expressing support and hope for good news.
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Chicago
Melvin A. Traylor
Roosevelt
Traylor
First National Bank
Will base murder defense on previous finding of Potter
Frank Crutchfield 27 of White Deer pleads not guilty by reason of insanity to murder of Police Captain Preston Burnam. He refuses to answer when asked his plea, and his lawyer Maj. E A Simpson seeks to block arraignment citing prior insanity finding in Potter County. Crutchfield has a history of charges in Deaf Smith Gray and Potter Counties and bank robbery charges linked to his father. Burnam died after Crutchfield shot him four times at the Western Hotel, prompting a nine week court term and planned depositions at Rochester and Johns Hopkins.
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Frank Crutchfield
White Deer
Henry
Bishop
Preston Burnam
Maj
E. A. Simpson
Crutchfield
Pierce Street
Tenth Avenue
Simpson
Gratchfield
Potter County
State Hospital For the Insane
Wichita Falls
Deaf Smith
Gray Counties
Wichita Park
White Deer Bank
Carson County
Randall County
47Th District Court
Rochester
Johns Hopkins
Grady Hazlewood
Burnam
Western Hotel
Byrd Warns Of Collapse At Antarctic Pressure Camp
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd reports grave danger as the ice shelf near Pressure Camp disintegrates. Forty three men at the camp and four others at Little America face exposure while ice faults threaten the bay front and supply bases. Russell Owen notes greater breakup than in 1930, with 1600 feet of water beneath Little America.
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Mackay
Richard E. Byrd
Little America
Byrd
Russell Owen
South Pols
New York Times
America
Slaton Man Strasser Dies in Home Fire
Slaton resident and Hood & Strasser Lumber Co. member Strasser, one of the town’s oldest citizens, was burned to death in his home on Slaton’s outskirts. The fire is thought to have begun from smoking. He lived alone. a single niece, Ruth Strasser of Winston, Missouri, survives. Interment will be in Slaton.
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Sunday News Globe
Slaton
Ed Strasser
Strasser
Ruth Strasser
Winston, Mo
Weather outlook for week in Southern Plains and West Gulf
The forecast for the week beginning Monday calls for generally fair weather in the Southern Plains and West Gulf states with clouds and possible rain in South Texas later. Temperatures will start colder, rise to moderate levels, and dip again toward week’s end.
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Southern Plains
West Gulf States
Texas
Boyd Found Guilty in Kansas Bond Affair
Topeka Kansas. Tom Boyd former Kansas treasurer was found guilty on charges of illegally removing 260 600 in bonds from the treasury amid the 1 5 million forged bond scandal uncovered last year. Sentencing to follow. The two counts carry a total penalty of four to ten years.
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Topeka
Kan
Tom Boyd
Kansas
Treasury
Bombs and torches in mine strike in Wyoming Valley
Five dynamitings and an incendiary fire marked the coal miners strike in the Wyoming Valley. Three houses were damaged by bombs at Plains and two homes were damaged at Larksville amid rising violence.
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Wilkes-Barre
Wyoming Valley
Plains
Larksville
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