Roosevelt Drouth Commission Arrives to Diagnose Plains Iden
The Great Plains drought commission led by Rexford Tugwell arrives in Amarillo for a morning diagnostic briefing. An eight member panel and eight assistants, plus newspapermen, met at the Rock Island arrival with breakfast at the Herring Hotel. Amarillo Chamber of Commerce and local officials plan the program with Congressman Marvin Jones speaking as official Panhandle spokesman.
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Tugwell
Resettlement Administration
Princeton University
Washington
Rock Island
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Commission
Herring Hotel
Guy Saunders
Amarillo
Sooner Says One Percent of Land Damaged
The article reports that Sooners claim one percent of land has suffered damage and forecasts further issues over the next two decades. Officials debate the extent and potential remedies as environmental concerns persist.
Portales Sees Boom in New Homes and College Growth
Building activity surges in Portales with new homes business houses and public structures. The Eastern New Mexico Junior College administration building nears completion at 83 000 three units with classrooms for 500 students. A 50 000 girls dormitory and plans for auditorium gymnasium and a PWA loan await final approvals. A private cafeteria, new homes on campus and a 462 500 Portales post office project are also in progress with completion targeted around December 15.
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Portales
Eastern New Mexico Junior College
PWA
John Clem
J. J. Phillips
Coe Howard
Eastern
New Mexico
Open Verdict Given in Death of Amarillo Woman
Coroner Charles Carder returned an open verdict on Pearl Levin 31 found dying on the Luverne Apartments floor with a bullet wound in the head. Police continued the investigation as relatives note she was married to Max Levin with a son Wilbur Brown from a prior marriage. The body lies in state at N S Griggs and Sons Chapel. Funeral plans pending.
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Charles Carder
Pearl Levin
Luverne
Carder
Max Levin
Amarillo
Wilbur Brown
Weather Outlook for Oklahoma West Texas and New Mexico
Oklahoma and West Texas expect generally fair and warm conditions for Monday and Tuesday. New Mexico sees fair weather in the south and unsettled conditions in the north with likely thunderstorms in the northwest on Monday and Tuesday, temperatures remaining largely steady.
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Oklahoma
West Texas
New Mexico
Coughlin Stricken During Speech at Convention
Rev. Charles E. Coughlin fell ill while denouncing the Roosevelt administration before a 41,000 strong crowd at Cleveland Stadium ending the first National Union for Social Justice convention. He said he was too ill to continue as the session adjourned amid heat and strain.
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Cleveland
Charles E. Coughlin
Roosevelt
National Union For Social Justice
Walter Davis
William Lemke
North Dakota
Union Party
Thomas C. O’brien
Boston
Father Coughlin
Tourists Survive Wreck Near Conway After Car Flips
Four vacationers escape severe harm when their car left Highway 66 three miles east of Conway, overturned three times, and landed past a fence. Mr and Mrs Jack Hill from Minco and Mr and Mrs John Fisher from Shawnee were hospitalized. Mrs Hill suffers head and chest injuries and a possible broken leg.
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Conway
Jack Hill
Minco
Okla
John Fisher
Shawnee
St. Anthony's Hospital
Boxwell Brothers
Prairie fires burn Rowe Ranch acreage near Clarendon
Prairie Burns reports 350 acres of grass destroyed on the Rowe Ranch and adjoining land at the head of McCormick Creek 28 miles northeast of Clarendon. W. J. Lewis loses 200 acres of winter forage and G. P. Folley 150 acres east of Whitefish. Rowe cowboys fought flames with wet sacks. ranchers plan fire guards if rains fail.
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Clarendon
Rowe Ranch
McCormick Creek
W. J. Lewis
Whitefish
G. P. Folley
Rowe
Fiend Slays Young Woman in Chicago Hotel
Mary Trammell 24 was found beaten to death in a Chicago hotel room. A desk clerk and Thomas Trammell her husband saw her nude body with pillows piled on top and a window open. Investigators noted bruises and possible choking while a canvas shoe print was found on the ledge. Police Lieutenant James McCarthy led the inquiry.
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Chicago
Mary Trammell
James McCarthy
Thomas Trammell
Trammell
Nashville
Tenn
Victor L. Schlaeger
Antis Postpone Meeting Of Texas Democrats
W P Hamblen Houston attorney and temporary chairman of the Constitutional Democrats of Texas announced the anti New Deal Democrats meeting planned for Waco Monday has been postponed indefinitely.
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Dallas
W. P. Hamblen
Houston
Constitutional Democrats of Texas
Waco
Hike in Price of Food Seen
Washington reports army quartermasters forecast a 20 percent rise in CCC food costs by next spring as drought and improved business lift demand for high quality groceries. The CCC ration mirrors regular army provisions, including 39 essential items, with nonperishables under contract.
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Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
Army
Pampa Shows Big Collections Gain
Pampa Texas led a nationwide rise in retail activity in July reports from the National Retail Credit Association. Collections rose about 7.5 percent and credit sales increased 10.7 percent overall, aided by better employment and soldiers bonus funds. Pampa posted the largest July over last year gain at 47.5 percent in collections.
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S&t
Two Dead as Winds Sweep Islands
Distress reports say two deaths and heavy damage from a typhoon sweeping northern Luzon. A British passenger vessel Sunning sent SOS off Junk Bay China coast while Sun ning and other ships are believed affected. Apparent wrecks and collapsed huts threaten crops and food supplies in Aparri and Cabanatuan amid rising famine fears.
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Manila
Luzon
The
Radio Corporation of America
Sunning
Junk Bay
China
St. Louis Boy Wins Soap Box Derby
Herbert B. Muench Jr., 14, of St. Louis won the all-American soap box derby in Akron Ohio before about 100000 spectators. He edged Harold Hansen of White Plains by a length with a 28.4 second run on the 1100 foot track and earned a $2000 college scholarship and a kiss from his mother.
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Akron
Ohio
Herbert BE. Muench
St. Louis
Harold Hansen
White Plains
N. Y
Muench
Fall Sends Jacqueline Piro Into Flower Bed
Denver report notes Jacqueline Piro, at play near an open window, fell three stories into a flower bed. Her mother’s scream preceded the incident, marking a day’s events in the city.
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Denver
Jacqueline Piro
Experts Study Soil Program Details Sealed In Texas
Soil experts from five states draft recommendations for a permanent soil conservation program at a closed Rexford Tugwell commission meeting in Amarillo. Attendees include Deans and extension directors from Manhattan Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Oklahoma. The press was barred from the session. The report will be reviewed by Tugwell's committee before release.
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Resettlement Administration
Amarillo
Drouth
Rexford G. Tugwell
Tugwell
Dean H. Umberger
Manhattan
Kansas Extension Service
G. R. Quesenberry
New Mexico Extension Service
F. A. Anderson
Clorado
Ernest EB. Scholl
Oklahoma Extension Service
R. I. Throckmorton
Kansas State College
L. H. Hauter
The
Parker D. Hanna
College Station
Texas Extension Service
H. H. Finnell
Soil Conservation Service
Sally Inaugurates Braniff Flight Dallas to Corpus Christi
Braniff Airways launched its Dallas to Corpus Christi service with Sally Rand as hostess and Reg Rob bins plus W. H. Ramsey at the controls. The plane departed Dallas at 8:00 AM and reached Corpus Christi at 11:45 AM, returning to Love Field at 4:15 PM. the schedule will be repeated.
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Dallas
Braniff Airways
Corpus Christi
Sally Rand
Reg Robbins
W. H. Ramsey
Texas Ranger
Coroua Christi
Lovefield
Eurasian girl arraigned over narcotics import case
Maria Wendt a 16 year old Eurasian girl arrested in New York was to be arraigned in United States district court on an indictment charging her with bringing 100000 dollars worth of narcotics illegally into the country.
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Los Angeles
Maria Wendt
New York
United States District Court
Spanish Rebels Bomb French Town in Frontier Incident
Spanish rebel aircraft dropped three bombs on Biriatou near the Bidassoa frontier by accident. No injuries reported as rebels aim at government troops near Irun while northern front fighting intensifies with ships and artillery near San Sebastian.
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Hendaye
France
Biriatou
Irun
Bidassoa
Bilbao
San Sebastian
Almirante Cerveras
Cerveras
Badajoz
Iran
Behobia
Isius
Rail road Commission to hear Texas oil field reports
The Railroad Commission will review conditions in Texas oil and gas fields at its monthly proration hearing to guide September production schedules. East Texas gas pressure data by engineer K. E. Cottingham informs recommendations, with current East Texas daily allowance at 2.32 percent of hourly potential. Statewide August 1 allowance stood at 1,157,941 barrels daily, modestly above July’s basic level and below federal demand estimates. Political tensions mark the session as Lon A. Smith opposes Ernest O. Thompson’s re-election, backing Frank Morris while C. V. Terrell supports Thompson.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Texas Oil and Gas
KE. V. Cottingham
Commission
East Texas
East
Texas
Federal Bureau of Mines
Lon A. Smith
Ernest. O. Thompson
Smith
Frank
Convict Confesses Slaying of Woman in 1928
Jefferson City Missouri Aug 16 Warden J M Fanders announced Charles Bunch a Missouri penitentiary inmate confessed to the 1928 slaying of Mrs O O Netherton of Olathe Kansas. The husband is serving a life term. Bunch says he acted to vindicate Dr Netherton and return him home. He was imprisoned March 3 1929 for a Bates County farm robbery.
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Jefferson City
J. M. Fanders
Charles Bunch
Missouri Penitentiary
Bunch
Missouri
Bates County
Netherton
Governors invited to regional conference on Spanish Trail highway
Jackson Mississippi August 16 Gov Hugh White was invited to a conference of the governors of Texas Florida Alabama Georgia and Louisiana at Beaumont Texas October 18 to promote national interest in the old Spanish Trail and the international highway to Mexico.
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Jackson
Miss
Hugh White
Texas
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Beaumont
Mexico
Montana urges grass to curb plains population surge
Migration of 59 000 families from drouth damaged Great Plains farms is advised in a population survey. Dr C W Thornthwaite, former Oklahoma climatologist, says wind erosion hit 65 percent of the Plains area from the Canadian border to the Texas Panhandle. A long range plan calls for returning wheat lands to native soil.
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Washington
Great Plains
C. W. Thornthwaite
University of Oklahoma
Plains
Canadian
Texas Panhandle
Not With Government Dr Thornton Walt Report Ties Probed
The News via the Associated Press tried Sunday night to learn Dr Thornthewalt's current affiliations. The AP Washington bureau said he is not part of any federal agency and that the pamphlet publishing his report came from the University of Pennsylvania. Officials could not connect with anyone at the university who knew the professor.
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Thornthewalt
Washington
Associated Press
University of Pennsylvania
Great Plains Dust Storms and Population Shifts
Thornthwaite warned of pro longed droughts possibly lasting 20 years or more. Tree rings and lake records support a 40 year drought since 1825 with rare wet years. He estimated 12,610 Montana families must move, 12,200 from Texas and 7,360 from North Dakota, with removals from neighboring states. School censuses show 36,000 Great Plains families have left since 1930.
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Plains
Thornthwaite
Montana
Texas
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Colorado
Great Plains
Great
Girl Becomes Boy In Odd Operation
In Dallas a 15 year old girl Theresa underwent sex change surgery and now presents as a boy named Tony. The operation was performed months ago at a Dallas hospital. Dr A E Hill assistant county health officer stated the patient can be modified to resemble a boy and noted similar procedures in England and Czechoslovakia.
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Dallas
Theresa
A. E. Hill
Tony
Hill
England
Czechoslovakia
Merchants Hold Biggest Dollar Day Today
Ama rillo shoppers flood the town for a city wide Dollar Day sale with low prices on clearance items and new fall stock. Merchants advertise startling values and urge readers to visit early to grab top bargains.
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Amarillo
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