Texas Heat Wave Casts Death Toll Up In State
Texas endures its worst heat wave in 20 years as temperatures soar past 100 in many areas and seven people die. Dallas and Waco accounts rise with heat related fatalities while crop damage grows in the Panhandle and across the state. Amarillo records 102 as Graford and San Marcos report extreme heat.
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Texas
Graham
Dallas
Perry Walker
A. J. Orr
Dallas Telegraph Company
P. A. Polineck
Waco
Bastrop
Electra
Wichita Falls
Gainesville
Sherman
Longview
Fort Worth
Uvalde
Garner
Llano
Graford
San Marcos
San Antonio
Groesbeck
Amarillo
Potter County
E. R. Duke
Panhandle
Corsicana
Settlement Near in Astor Child Custody Suit
In Los Angeles attorney Roland Rich Woolley said grounds for a settlement had been reached in the Astor Thorpe custody dispute. Judge Knight held the hearing until 10 A M tomorrow as parties aim to announce terms and avoid a public continuance amid Hollywood pressure and concern over a possible backlash.
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Los Angeles
Roland Rich Woolley
Mary Astor
Franklyn Thorpe
Knight
Woolley
Joseph Anderson
Thorpe
Goodwin J. Knight
Hollywood
Miss Astor
Marylyn
William Anderson
Legion of Decency
Loyalists Drive Fascists Back in Spanish Front
Government air forces bombed rebel lines as Loyalists claimed advances around Cordoba and Madrid. Adamuz fell, Cordoba nears, and Pozoblanco faced heavy bombardment while Jaen Granada and Granada were targeted. U.S. stance: non intervention.
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Madrid
Pozoblanco
Cordoba
Jaen
Granada
Adamuz
Francisco France
Santander
Badajoz
Portugal
War Ministry
Tolosa
San Sebastian
Gels
Pina
Osera
Zaragoza
Guadarrama
Mexico Exiles Fascist Chief in Government Crackdown
Mexico City reports the liberal government banned General Nicolas Rodriguez leader of the Gold Shirts and sent him to the United States. The group was dissolved after weeks of disorder linked to Monterrey unrest in which two people were killed. Rodriguez and aide Antonio Escobar denied sedition as they faced arrest orders.
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U. S. Washington
United States
State Department
Mexico City
Mexico
Nicolas Rodriguez
Gold Shirts
Rodriguez
Monterrey
Escobar
Antonio Escobar
Upshaw Gets Higher Place on Amarillo ISD Board
C. T. Crowe was elected president of the Amarillo Independent School District by board members at Amarillo High School. He succeeds Tom Gallaher who moves to Santa Fe offices in Chicago. Crowe’s term expires April 1, 1938. Walter Barlow was elected a board member, term ending April 1938. Fancher Upshaw named vice president. Other directors include Joe Dooley Dr. R. P. Parcells BE. R. Cox and S. A. L. Morgan.
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C. T. Crowe
Amarillo Independent
Amarillo
Tom Gallaher
Santa Fe
Chicago
Crowe
Gallaher
Walter Barlow
Fancher Upshaw
Mr. Crowe
Joe Dooley
R. P. Parcells
BE. R. Cox
8. A. L. Morgan
Attorneys Prepare for Oil Litigation
Government lawyers ready to prosecute Wisconsin officials of 21 oil companies on anti trust charges. A federal grand jury resumes August 18 in Madison after 61 individuals and 23 companies were indicted July 28 on price fixing. Defendants likely to challenge jurisdiction claiming proper venue is where the conspiracy occurred or gasoline was produced.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Madison
Wis
Explosion Follows Bedbug Campaign
Ivan Evans sprayed gasoline to kill bedbugs in his Salt Lake City home and lit a match to check for survivors. The ensuing blast singed his eyebrows and legs and scorched the bedroom.
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Salt Lake City
Ivan Evans
Robinson Leads Three to One in Idaho Primary
In early returns from Idaho's Democratic primary, Sen. Joe T. Robinson led with 3,971 votes to 463 for J. Rosser Venable and 1,741 for Cleveland Holland from 69 of 2,102 precincts across 20 counties. Governor contenders Bailey Cook McDonald Terral Reed trailed in tabulations.
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Little Rock
Ark
Joe T. Robinson
Amarillo
Robinson
J. Rosser Venable
Cleveland Holland
Carl F. Bailey
Ed F. McDonald
Pulaski County
R. A. Cook
Tom J. Terral
Howard Reed
Bailey
Cook
McDonald
Terral
Reed
Boise
Idaho
William E. Borah
Byron Defenbach
Borah
Defenbach
U. S
John Carver
C. Ben Ross Carver
Ross
Prisoners Drink Evidence Snafu At Huntsville Jail
Officers found 100 empty home brew bottles after a fight in progress. Evidence showed a group of young men had smuggled non tax paid beer through the jail door with a hoe. A negro was singled out as holder of the beer.
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Huntsville
Wallace Sees Technology Threat to Small Farms in Peasantry Rise
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace warned at the Centennial celebration that technology and absentee landlords threaten the family farm. He cited 40 to 50 percent tenancy in several states and 10 percent farm ownership by corporations, urging control of mechanization to prevent consolidation into large units financed by city capital. He also notes a midnight deadline for protests on official Democratic primary returns and reports a close race between Bob Underwood and Judge Henry S. Bishop for district attorney with results showing Underwood 5387 to Bishop 5377 in Potter Randall and Armstrong counties.
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Council Bluffs
United States
Henry A. Wallace
Republic
Wallace
Iowa
Nebraska
Illinois
Kansas
South Dakota
Grady Hazelwood
Bob Underwood
Henry
Bishop
Ben Smith
Potter
Randall and
Armstrong
Underwood
Soviet airmen land at Juneau Alaska in flight to Siberia
Russian flyers Sigismund Levanevsky and Victor Levchenko arrived from Juneau at 3 10 P M local time and landed on Harding Lake en route to Siberia marking a notable trans Alaska leg reported from Fairbanks Alaska.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Sigismund Levanevsky
Victor Levchenko
Siberia
Juneau
Amarillo
Harding Lake
Stratford Celebrates Fourth Annual Birthday Party
Stratford marked its fourth annual birthday celebration as temperatures soared to 107 degrees. The day featured parades, band concerts, a rodeo, polo and baseball games, with Main Street closing for a free dance by a girls' orchestra. A morning parade opened the festivities with cowboys, cowgirls, riders on ponies, bicycles and decorated motor floats.
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Vance Johnson
Stratford
New Today
Mercury
Lindbergh and Carrel Demonstrate Mechanical Heart
At the International Congress of Experimental Cytology in Copenhagen Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Dr. Alexis Carrel presented a mechanical heart device. Attendees watched as pumps circulated blood serum through the heart and life support was maintained, with questions from the crowd as the apparatus operated. A thyroidless cat was used to power the demonstration.
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Copenhagen
Charles A. Lindbergh
Alexis Carrel
International Congress of Experimental Cytology
Carrel
Colonel Lindbergh
Russia Lowers Conscription Age to Nineteen
Moscow aug 11 conscription age for the Soviet Army dropped from 21 to 19 expanding the pool of potential draftees. The adjustment increases the size of the Red Army and accelerates manpower mobilization for national defense.
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Moscow
U.P
Red Army
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Keeps Fair, Slightly Cooler
The Amarillo region forecast calls for Wednesday to be fair and cooler with clear skies. West Texas west of the 190th meridian also sees fair conditions and cooler air, with lighter winds and no precipitation expected.
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Amarillo
Viscinity
West Texas
Panhandle Officials Push Local Plan To Conserve Water
Panhandle judges and agricultural agents from 31 counties endorsed continuing federal drought programs and adding Texas to drouth stricken states. They backed a long range water plan with small lakes and farmer built dams, opposing large dams and Army control, and urged President Roosevelt to invite Gov Allred to the governors conference.
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Panhandle
Texas
Capitol Hotel
Amarillo
Drouth
Roosevelt
James V. Allred
Morris L. Cooke
Drouth Committee
Army
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