Dust Bowl officials tour plains assess drought impact
President's drought commission reached Scott City Kansas amid dust storms and reports of fair wheat along the route. Rexford Tugwell questioned farmers while John Page noted dry farm areas lack irrigation. In Cleveland Secretary Wallace announced $10 million to buy seed for drought regions stored in the Northwest for next spring delivery.
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Plains States
Scott City
eLamar
Colo
John C. Page
Baca County
Colorado
Washington
Commission
Morris L. Cooke
Rexford G. Tugwell
Agriculture
Oklahoma Panhandle
Lamar
Tugwell
Cleveland
Henry A. Wallace
Drouth
Wallace
Northwest
Lemke Says Domestic Market Sold to Foreign Traders
Dewitt Iowa August 19 Rep William Lemke Union Party candidate for president argued the nations domestic market is being sold to international horse traders on the mistaken belief that foreign trade is essential to progress He urged focus on home production and markets.
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Lemke
Dewitt
Iowa
William Lemke
North Dakota
Union Party
Vessel Rescues Exhausted Man Swimming in Gulf
Charles Donato a seaman aboard the S S Vacuum was picked up by the S S Chester Sun after being found swimming at sea sixty miles southeast of Miami. He was exhausted but unhurt and en route to Beaumont Texas. The Vacuum reported he had been off duty two days due to illness.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Charles Donato
S. S. Vacuum
Beaumont
Texas
S. S. Chester Sun
Coast Guard
Donato
Chester Sun
Coast
Rescuers Battle Gas College Ends Summer Team Canyon
West Texas College president J A Hill will deliver the commencement address to 152 seniors at summer exercises in the Administration Building. The program begins 8 15 p m with a concert and includes awards, degrees, and the conferring of degrees by Hill.
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Canyon
J. A. Hill
West Texas College
Hill
J. O. Quattlebaum
President Hill
Assembly
Maurine Newsom
Beulah Phifer
O. T. Craig
Houston Bright
Jury Chosen to Try Negro for Slaying
In Asheville North Carolina a jury of farmers and small tradesmen was selected to try Martin Moore a gangling African American on charges of the brutal murder of Helen Clevenger a New York co ed found slain in her Battery Park Hotel room last month The state seeks the death sentence as the trial opens with guards lining the courtroom walls
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Asheville
N. C
U.P
F. Don Phillips
Martin Moore
Helen Clevenger
New York
Moore
Clev‘enger
Battery Park
Prisoner Columbus Hare Escapes From Texas Farm
Prison officials report Columbus Hare, 40, the first man given a life sentence under Texas habitual criminal statute, escaped from Wynne state farm Monday. He climbed from the laundry area, marking his third escape. Hare has three prior felony convictions.
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Huntsville
Columbus Hare
Texas
Wynne State Farm
Hare
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity
Thursday fair in Amarillo and surrounding area with partly cloudy skies and a chance of local showers in the extreme west. West of the 100th meridian expected cooler, while Panhandle and northwest New Mexico may see a possible thundershower with little temperature change. Temperatures yesterday in Amarillo reached a high near 72 and a low around 60.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
Panhandle
New Mexico
Amarillo Puts Plan For Major Airport Forward
Amarillo moves toward becoming a regional aviation hub as the city, the chamber of commerce, and Transcontinental and Western Air outline improvements. Aimed at federal funds, the project would cost about 1 250 000 dollars, requiring city assistance and a suitable site, with English Airport named as the principal obstacle.
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Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
City of
Transcontinental
Western Air
TWA
Guy Saunders
Carl Hinton
Ross Rogers
Rogers
Saunders
Hinton
Bryan Black Sought Again By Officers
Bryan Black aged 40 from Skidmore, the Round Rock disappearance case figure, was targeted by a search party eight miles south of here after a report he wandered away from his father’s home late last night.
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Breville
Bryan Black
Skidmore
Round Rock
J. B. Arnold
Arnold
Black
Drouth Drives Corn Prices to 16-Year Peak on Wheat Warmer News
Drouth reports push corn prices to the highest since the post war era with quotes near 1.37 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade. Weather officials warn of worsening conditions across the plains and Missouri while cattle movement rises and railroad rate cuts shape federal relief outlook as work rolls grow.
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Chicago
Weather Bureau
Chicago Board of Trade
Plains
Kansas
Oklahoma
Bureau
Weekly Bulletin
Plains States
Missouri
Iowa
Mississippi River
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Texas
Wavuington
UPA
Drouth
Great Plains
Works Progress Administration
American Federation of Labor
Republicans Point to Pay Roll Error
New York August 19 a verbal tempest rose over a report claiming 569 WPA employees were not living at their stated addresses last April. Republicans criticized the payroll issues while WPA officials led by Col. B B Somervell denied any fraud saying no one was paid for work not performed.
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New York
WPA
Col. B. B. Somervell
Surgeons Freed On Mayhem Charge Of Sterilizing Heiress
In San Francisco on August 19 Judge Raglan Attle dismissed conspiracy charges against Dr Tilton Tillman and Dr Assistant District Attorney August Fournier regarding the sterilization of heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt. The court found the state failed to prove a case and left room for a prosecutor to pursue an appeal or further action. The defense argued the ruling ends criminal proceedings unless an appeal by Fournier succeeds.
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San Francisco
Raglan Attle
Ann Cooper Hewitt
Mem Luriner
T Clans
Tilton T. Tillman
August Fournier
Tuttle
J. M. Golden
Samuel G. Boyd
Fournier
Maryon
Farley Seeks Marvin Jones Aid for National Campaign
National Chairman James Farley invites Marvin Jones to lead farm state outreach starting September in Chicago headquarters. Jones is to direct campaign strategy with a western farm coalition and radio support planned as crucial to victory in central western states.
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James Farley
Marvin Jones
Democratic Party
Chicago
Mr. Jones
Jones
Western Committee
Pistol Caps Shoot But in Wrong Place
In Yoakum Texas a boy burning his hip and pants after sat on a pocketful of toy pistol caps. Heinie Rheminschneider sympathizes with the boy in the incident.
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Yoakum
Texas
Heinie Rheminschneider
Heinie
Navy Opens Bids for Destroyers and Submarines
The Navy Department opened bids from private shipyards today for six destroyers and three submarines as the first step in the 1937 building program. The action occurred in Washington on August 19.
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NAVY
Washington
Navy Department
Centennial greets 3,000,000th patron at exposition
In Dallas on August 19 9 year old Mary Twitty became the 3,000,000th visitor to the Texas Centennial Exposition. She was greeted by exposition president Fred F Florence and general manager Harry Olmsted, given a photo with the big horse Texas. She then toured the grounds amid honors and presents from concessions.
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Dallas
U.P
Mary Twitty
Bryce Twitty
Baylor Hospital
Fred F. Florence
Harry Olmsted
Texas
Leonard Pack
Exposition
Mary
Ethiopians Routed in Railway Clash Near Addis Djibouti Line
Italian native Askaris routed Ethiopian insurgents as they attempted to cut the Addis Djibouti Railway near Diredawa. Casualties were reported heavy on the Ethiopian side with the Italians claiming success in the clash reported today.
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Rome
Askaris
Addis-Djibouti
Diredawa
Old-Timers of Four Counties Attend Memphis Holiday
More than 1,100 residents from Hall Collingsworth Donley and Childress Counties aged 25 years or more joined a downtown barbecue in Memphis. Judge L Gough Amarillo delivered the keynote on the vanishing frontier and pioneers, contrasting cowmen with home builders and noting shifts from rangeland to farming.
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Memphis
Vance Johnson
Hall County
Hall
Collingsworth
Donley and Childress
L. Gough
Amarillo
Panhandle
Judge Gough
Europe awaits Spain’s fate as fascists seek neutral lines
Reports from Lisbon and London on August 19 indicate Mussolini’s Italy ready to join fascist rebellion if Madrid falls while Britain imposes an export ban on planes to both sides. UPI notes estimates of Spanish dead around 40,000 with fierce fighting in Teruel and other fronts. The piece links Francoist sympathies with Rome and Paris’s neutrality debates, urging non intervention and suggesting the U.S. as potential mediator.
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Lisbon
UPI
Hadajon
Merida
Teruel
Spain
Tr Duce
France
Popular Front
Madrid
Rome
Italy
Mussolini
London
Great Britain
United States
Britain
Whitehall
Canyon bids for library
J D Hall budget director said biennial budget hearings should finish in about two weeks and budgets sent to printer by December 1. The legislature uses the board figures for appropriations. West Texas College Canyon requests 20000 for land 15000 for a home demonstration cottage and 160000 for a library in the second year.
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Austin
J. D. Hall
State Board of Control
Hall
West Texas College
Canyon
Land
Olton Man Held on Murder Charge
Olton, Aug. 194%- Sheriff P F A Lloyd said A M Johnston has been arrested on a warrant charging murder in the shooting death of neighbor A E Ace Russ four years ago. The widow swore out the complaint. Johnston is held secretly. Russ was shot through the door of his home in July 1932 when he looked for a prowler according to Mrs Russ.
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Olton
PF. A. Lloyd
A. M. Johnston
A. E
Ace) Russ
Loyd
Johnston
Russ
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