Roosevelt urges Court reform while signing limited measure
President Roosevelt renews appeal for Supreme Court reorganization in softer, conciliatory terms after Congress reduces his plan. He signs a narrowly procedural bill, calling it meritorious but inadequate and urging further reforms including retirement incentives and fresh blood for benches. Washington observers note the gentler tone surprised many.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
High Tribunal
Suits Planned Against Parade Gasoline Over New London Blast
Oklahoma City lawyer Howard K. Berry says he will file about 200 damage suits next week on behalf of New London victims' parents. The action targets Parade Gasoline Co. alleging negligence in the gas line feeding the school heating plant. Claims include fluctuating line pressure, water in wet gas, waivers for hookups, and widespread gas use by wells and homes along the line.
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Oklahoma City
Howard K. Berry
New London
Tex
Parade Gasoline Co
Berry
Parade Gasoline Company
Governor Langer Sues Magazine for Defamatory Article
Governor William Langer of North Dakota filed a $1,000,000 suit in superior court against Review of Reviews Corp. The action targets The Digest article titled Latest Langerisms, calling it defamatory libelous scandalous false and malicious and intended to harm.
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Chicago
U.P
Review of Reviews Corp
Superior Court
William Langer
North Dakota
Reviews
Independent Union Secures Wage Increases for SP Shops
The Association of Shop Craft Employes announced pay hikes totaling over 500000 dollars annually for Southern Pacific shop and roundhouse workers in Louisiana and Texas. Negotiations concluded with the company and an agreement signed.
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Houston
U.P
Southern Pacific Shop
Roundhouse
Louisiana
Texas
Association of Shop Craft Employes
Seibel Receives Honorary Doctorate at Texas Tech
C. W. Seibel supervisor of the U S Helium Plant Amarillo was awarded the honorary doctor of science at Texas Technological College summer commencement in Lubbock Dr Radford H Knapp president conferred the degree for research and development in the helium industry Seibel a University of Kansas alumnus earned BS and MS degrees in chemistry
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C. W. Seibel
U. S
Amarillo
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Radford H. Knapp
Anon G. Carter
The
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Seibel
University of Kansas
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Summary
Partly cloudy with a chance of local showers in Amarillo and surrounding West Texas areas. Forecast notes indicate variable cloudiness and possible showers on Thursday with temperatures around daytime highs near 96 and overnight lows near 36.
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Amarillo
West Texas
West 100Th Meridian
Mexico
Naval Blockade Enforces 800 Mile Coastal Ring
Shanghai reports a widening war front as Japan lands reinforcements north and east of the city and imposes a naval blockade along 800 miles of the Chinese coast. The move threatens Shanghai defenses and seeks to halt Chinese shipping, while foreign vessels may profit from reduced competition.
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Shanghai
Japan
China
Woosung
Yangtze River
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Yangtze
Hasegawa
Formosa
South China
Liuho
Yantze
Yangtze Estuary
Pootung
Whangpoo River
Chapei
International Settlement
Kiangwan
Nantao
Tropical Storm Watch Ties to Texas Cotton Harvest Outlook
Texas farmers monitor a developing tropical disturbance off St. Thomas as ginning nears completion in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Counts show tens of thousands of bales ginned across Cameron Hidalgo Starr Nueces and other counties with Houston port stats indicating statewide trends.
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Associated Press
Texas
South Texas
Island
St. Thomas
Florida
Rio Grande Valley
Corpus Christi
Harlingen
Cameron
Wiflacy
Hidalgo
Starr
Nueces
San Patricio
San Antonio
Bell County
Falls
Williamson
Milam
McClennan
Harris County
Houston
Corsicana
Navarro County
Paris
A. L. Edminston
Lamar County
Former Warden Morgan Miller Charged in Impersonation Case
Former Game Warden Morgan Miller posted bond in two cities on charges of impersonating an officer and unlawfully carrying a pistol. He appeared with attorney Lamar Gill before Justices of the Peace in San Perlita and Harlingen, with bonds set and Miller bound over for grand jury action.
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Raymondville
Tex
Morgan Miller
Miller
Lamar Gill
Justice of the Peace
Tom Heath
San Perlita
Gill
Harlingen
Arthur Klein
T. C. Anderson
Blanton
Sheriff Cragg
Louis Lamadrid
Cameron County
Guns stolen at Portales tied to Sonny Lamb case
Portales New Mexico August 25 sheriffs report guns used by Alfred Sonny Lamb in his last raids were taken from Portales Hardware April 30. Burglaries occurred September 30. several rifles and shotguns were stolen. Fingerprint work failed to yield results but serial numbers matched those sent to Hot Springs after Lamb's death.
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Portales
N. M
Alfred
Sonny” Lamb
Portales Hardware Company
R. L. Hollis
Lamb
Hot Springs
Ark
County Dads Abolish Their Own Salaries
Cameron County Commissioners abolished their own salaries after axing the 15 cent road and bridge levy. They faced the anomaly that salaries are funded from revenues of that levy and some officials expect 8 cents of the levy to be restored, yielding about $14,000 if fully collected.
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Brownsville
Cameron
Major Railways Refuse 20 Percent Pay Increase
Chicago August 25. The conference between 325000 railroad operating employees and their employers ended with a flat refusal by the major railroads to grant a 20 percent wage rise. The railroads call the demand ruinous and say current pay exceeds the railroad labor board rates. They claim earnings are strong and that unions must remove artificial restrictions to raise wages.
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Chicago
H. A. Enochs
Carriers’ Conference Committee
United States Railroad Labor Board
Sleeping Man Stripped of Trousers
In San Antonio Domingo Alveres received 45 days in county jail for taking a pair of pants from a sleeping man. Deputy Oscar Warnke saw him examining pockets then chased him. the wrapped trousers impeded his escape as they returned to the crime scene where Willie Carmona lay nude from the waist down in a park.
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San Antonio
Domingo Alveres
Alveres
Oscar Warnke
Warnke
Willie Carmona
Cutting Estate Set At Three Millions
The late Senator Bronson M. Cutting who died in 1935 filed an estate appraisal in New York shows a gross estate of 3 912 693 and a net of 3 299 725. As a Santa Fe resident his New York taxable property consisted of real estate interests and personal effects valued at 246 899.
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New York
Bronson M. Cutting
Cutting
Santa Fe
N. M
Two Women Die in Chicago Rooming House Fire
A three story rooming house fire in Chicago left two women dead and more than twenty injured. Dorothy Kelb aged 20 and Marian Maston aged 18 died after being overcome by smoke in their third floor rooms.
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Chicago
Dorothy Kelb
Marian Maston
President Approves Grazing Lease Bill
President Roosevelt signed legislation authorizing the interior secretary to convey to states lands with grazing leases in exchange for land already owned by the states.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Interior
Farley Denies Reprisals Against Roosevelts Critics
Postmaster General Farley said there would be no administrative reprisals against Democrats who opposed the Roosevelt program but warned they would have difficulty explaining to constituents. He declined to comment on Senator Guffey's call for defeats of opponents and said Guffey was expressing his own views, not the administration's.
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Washington
Farley
Roosevelt
Guffey
D-Pa
United States Senate
Hia
Pennsylvania
Suspect in Mattson Case Not Implicated
Wharton August 25 Department of Justice agents said a man held on a vagrancy charge with the name Frank Lozoski resembled the Mattson kidnapper but was not believed connected to the abduction.
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Wharton
U.P
Department of Justice
Mattson
Frank Lozoski
G-men
Lazoski
Man Killed in Train Fall at Dalhart
Dalhart August 25 George Thomas Redman 26 of Colorado Springs Colo died when he fell under a westbound Rock Island freight train while en route to Bisbee Ariz Walter A Lehr stated he and his brother George Victor Lehr both of Colorado Springs were with Redman at the time Redman is survived by his widow two daughters and his mother Mrs Jeanette Redman of Colorado Springs
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Dalhart
George Thomas Redman
Colorado Springs
Colo
Rock Island
Walter A. Lehr
George Victor
Redman
Bisbee
Ariz
Lehr
Jeanette Redman
Teachers Notice Announcements for Fall Term Classes
Teachers of music dancing expression voice whistling and kindergarten classes are urged to announce openings in the August 29 and September 5 issues of the Sunday News Globe. Call or come to the Display Advertising Dept to be included. phone 6262.
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Sunday News Globe
The
News- Globe
Five-State Meet Called For September In Amarillo
WPA plans spend forty million dollars on soil problems in the five state dust bowl area largely for ponds and lakes. The Texas Panhandle share is four million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars with lake-site purchases and submarginal land funds to be spent regionally. A September 8 meeting in Amarillo will hear Carl Hinton report and honor regional lawmakers for dust bowl development.
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WPA
Dust Bowl
Washington
Harry Hopkins
Aubrey Williams
Martvin Jones
Carl Hinton
Amarillo
Resettlement Administration
Jones
Hinton
Marvitt Jones
Panhandle Water Conservation Association
John Meck Carty
Five-State
Marvin Jones
Canyon
Hereford
W. A. Warren
Canyon Chamber of Commerce
Jones and
Water Conservation Association
Boy Saving For Old Age Dies at 18
Henry H. Grob, who found a fortune in old gold coins as a youth, died at 18 in Baltimore. His 87000 share remained in a bank. He had earned 7000 after legal fees from a 20000 treasure found with a friend in a boys club cellar. He hoarded funds while working 16 dollars a week, then died after swimming with a cold, from pneumonia.
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Baltimore
Henry H. Grob
Henry
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