Woman Doctor Admits Slaying Husband in Office Building
In Fort Worth Dr Grace Humphrey Hood admitted shooting her husband Ross Turner 51 in her Medical Arts building office after claiming Turner threatened her with a knife. Turner died at a hospital. The couple had a son named Jack born during their two year marriage.
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Fort Worth
Ross Turner
Grace Humphrey Hood
Medical Arts
Homicide
A. C. Howerton
Turner
Chicago
Dr. Hood
Howerton
Hood
Jack
Drought Committee Probes Water, Herd Restocking Plans
Roosevelt's drouth committee travels through Powder River region in Montana to study livestock water supply and herd rebuilding. They plan reservoirs in recommendations to the President after a 3,000 mile tour ending in Bismarck North Dakota. Restocking of ranches that shipped out during the drought is questioned as within the committee's long range aims.
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Gillette
Wyo
Powder River
Montana
Roosevelt
Drouth Committee
Bismarck
N. B
National Ram Sale At Salt Lake Attracts High Bids
About 2,000 breeding rams were auctioned at the twenty first annual sale of the National Wool Growers Association in Salt Lake City. Buyers paid fancy prices for top western stock during this outdoor stockyards sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
National Wool Growers’ Association
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity
A weather update covers Amarillo and West Texas with partly cloudy conditions on Wednesday and generally fair weather across New Mexico and the region. Temperature data include yesterday’s afternoon readings and hourly projections, noting a high around 102 degrees and a low near 19 hours before midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Eby Moe
Three Die in Car Crash Near Grants New Mexico
A two woman and one man from Hot Springs New Mexico died in a highway 66 crash two miles west of Grants. Dale McCuan of Farwell Texas was critically injured. The accident involved an Oklahoma plated car colliding with a truck driven by Homer Osborn.
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Grants
N. M
Hot Springs
Dale McCuan
Farwell
Tex
Highway 66
Here
Beatrice Stimson
Donna Bell Morris
Bruce
Homer Osborn
Osborn
Miss Morris
Miss Stimson
McCuan
Grover McCuan
Mexican reform leader named NRPM president in cabinet era
Laredo report notes Silvano Barba Gonzalez attorney and Interior Secretary in President Lazaro Cardenas cabinet was named president of the National Revolutionary Party of Mexico. Daniel Duarte of Nuevo Laredo was advised of the development.
Plane crash victim shows improvement in Clarksdale
Edward Wincess of Dallas Texas who was injured when his plane crashed while dusting cotton near Clarksdale Mississippi yesterday was reported to have shown improvement today.
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Clarksdale
Miss
U.P
Edward Wincess
Dallas
Tex
Here
Carter Glass Supports President and Westward Parleys
Senator Carter Glass told reporters he would vote for Franklin Roosevelt’s reelection and defended the President’s policies. Roosevelt planned a westward tour with conferences in Des Moines and Bismarck, meeting sixteen state governors. Glass criticized reports misrepresenting his remarks and reiterated his support.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Carter Glass
Bismarck
N. C
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Des Moines
Iowa
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Missouri
Glass
White House
New Deal
Storm isolates Mercer County town in Pennsylvania
Storms batter Stoneboro Mercer County leaving 1,200 residents cut off without power or communications as wind rain and hail uproot trees damage homes and resorts. A second storm followed as officials surveyed the wreckage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stoneboro
Mercer County
Pendergast Undergoes Operation for Intestinal Blockage
New York report states Missouri Democratic leader Thomas J. Pendergast had an afternoon operation to relieve an intestinal obstruction. Proceeding details are not disclosed, and his condition is not yet released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Thomas J. Pendergast
Missouri
Bombings mystify Amarillo residents late Tuesday night
Explosions and flashes along a five mile east west front disturbed hundreds of Amarilloans as rumors spread from the Country Club area to Humphrey Highlands. Police and radio station KGNC logged dozens of calls while residents speculated about sinister plots or fireworks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
J. A. Kirkman
KGNC
Tex Thornton
Secretary Dern in Critical Condition at Walter Reed Hospital
Washington August 25 Secretary of War George H Dern was reported in critical condition at Walter Reed Hospital He has been ill for weeks and doctors say complications from a spring influenza attack are worsening His age seventy three, he previously served as Utah governor and mining businessman before joining the Roosevelt cabinet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glass
Treasury
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia
Washington
U.P
George H. Dern
Walter Reed Hospital
Dern
Service
New Deal
War Department
Utah
Mr. Roosevelt
Government calls for uprising against Moorish invasion in Madrid
Madrid reports say Moorish legionnaires boosted rebel activity as police gird Getafe Airfield after Sunday bombardment. Premier Pereira vows no mercy, cites executions of rebel officers and a fresh purge of fascist sympathizers.
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Madrid
Getafe
Jose Gira Pereira
Europe
Spain
Jose Fernandez Montana
Popular Front
Ickes Appeal Is Overruled Again
President Roosevelt reaffirmed a wage rule for public works allotments, stating funds must pay relief workers’ wages. He approved between 3 and 5 million dollars for projects meeting the rule, but warned it may hinder the proposed 300 million dollar PWA program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ickes
Roosevelt
Back in Oklahoma Pen Admits His Identity
McAlester Oklahoma August 25 44 W L Birchfield an escaped convict who used the name Joe Lewis admitted his true identity tonight after fingerprint identification by the FBI. He was recaptured at El Paso and sent back to McAlester Penitentiary where he will lose prior work and good conduct credits. Birchfield was sentenced in Grady County in 1921 for robbery to ten years and had been on leave since June 1923.
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Mcalester
Okla
W. L. Birchfield
McAlester Penitentiary
Joe Lewis
el Paso
Birchfield
Hot Springs
N. M
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Roy K. Kenny
Kenny
Grady County
Fred Cunningham
Oklahoma City
Pioneers of Armstrong County Honored At Old Settlers Reunion
About 2000 residents gathered in Claude for the ninth Old Settlers Reunion and picnic honoring Armstrong County pioneers and discussing a memorial for Phebe K. Warner. Congressman Marvin Jones gave the main address praising local citizens and the era’s spirit. Local officials and guests from Amarillo and Wichita Falls attended. program highlights included tributes to pioneer women and recollections of historic dust storms.
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Armstrong County
Old Settlers
Claude
Peerless
Phebe K. Warner
Alfred Hamblen
Wayside
Old Settlers Committee
Raef Jones
Ed Rogers
Mal Kight
Charles Stewart
Jones
5. P. Mathews
Ernest T
Wichita Falls
Claude Country
Bullitt Named Ambassador to France Succeeding Straus
President Roosevelt appoints William C. Bullitt to replace Jesse I. Straus as ambassador to France due to Straus ill health. Straus to rest six months per physicians orders. President invites Straus to return if administration extends another four years.
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Bullitt
Straus
France
Washington
William ©. Bullitt
Russia
Roosevelt
Jesse I. Straus
International Petroleum holdings under sale talks deny huge deal
In Dallas officials say negotiations are under way for sale of International Petroleum Corp of Fort Worth properties but no deal is closed. In Washington a Polish currency law case ends with a five week detention. Minnie Galewski, a naturalized American, seeks U.S. aid for expedited trial and release. In Comanche, Justice of the Peace announces an examining trial Friday for Tom and Winfred Lester in the murder of Hubert Huff.
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Dallas
Dallas News
International Petroleum Corporation of
Fort Worth
The
International
C. F. Cornelius
Cornelius
the International
C. F
F. M. Cornelius
Panhandle
Washington
State Department
Yetta Galewski
Minnie Galewski
New York City
Miss Galewski
Warsaw
United States
Frederick Atkinson
Minneapolis
Commanche
U.P
Justice of the Peace
George C. Wetzel
Tom
Winfred Lester
Hubert Huff
Lamkin Farmer
Early California Balloting Light in San Francisco
Early voting was light in California as registrars anticipated a rise before polls closed for the Townsend old-age pension movement test and congressional candidates at the primary. San Francisco reported a fairly heavy forenoon vote with officials predicting about 170000 of 297000 qualified voters by afternoon under sunny skies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ban Francisco
California
Townsend Old-Age Pension Movement
Congress
San Francisco
Trotzky vows revenge over Moscow executions
Trotzky declared it his duty to avenge 16 men executed in Moscow for an anti Stalin conspiracy. He said the Soviet Government blamed him as the absent master of the plot and that the executions were necessary to prevent reprieved defendants from unmasking the GPU.
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Hoenefoss
Norway
Lem Trotzky
Moscow
Trotzky
GPU
Soviet Secret Police
Inside Tip From War Fans On Spanish Front
On August 22 a leading American financier called the Spanish ambassador in Paris to claim the Spanish Civil War would end within a week with rebels victorious. The source trusted the diplomat and informant Richard Waldo editor of The National Whirligig.
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Paris
Spain
Richard Waldo
German Army Conscription Boosts Nazi Military Might
Paris reports French parliamentarians seek ways to face Hitler’s expanded war machine as Germany increases compulsory service to two years. Observers fear Germany could field about 1.2 million troops, roughly double France’s size, under the Locarno era pressures.
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Paris
Germany
France
Labor Survey Is Authorized for Public Works Plan
President Roosevelt allocates 1,590,000 to the re employment service to map relief labor across Texas towns. The survey aims to locate labor shortages and identify nearby relief workers for impending PWA projects, following Texas Planning Board recommendations and a challenge to Drought's Texas labor claims.
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Bascom N. Timmons
Washington
Roosevelt
Texas
Texas Planning Board
PWA
Workers call for John L. Lewis union at Carnegie-Illinois
Five Pittsburgh area workers from Carnegie-Illinois Steel plants in Chicago and Gary declare the current collective bargaining plan useless and company dominated. They say they represent about half of the firm's 80 000 wage earners and demand recognition of the John L. Lewis one big union plan.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
U. & Steel
John L. Lewis
Chicago
Gary
Ind
Carnegie-Illinois
Ickes Foster Son Acquitted of DUI Charge
Woburn Massachusetts August 25 Judge Arthur E Eno of Lowell acquitted Robert H Ickes 22 foster son of Secretary Harold Ickes of driving while under the influence of liquor.
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Woburn
Mass
Arthur E. Eno
Lowell
Robert H. Ickes
Foster
Interior
Harold Ickes
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London
George T. Brokaw
Henry Fonda
Fonda
Associated Press
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Pendergast III
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WM. C. Bullitt
Poland
International Petroleum
Galewski
Sniathyn
Cervantzi
Rumania
War
Nationa
Hitler
CRU
Sade Guise
Lewis
Ickes’ Son
Farmer
Columbus
Otto Miller
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