Easterners pledge flood work for South Canadian control
At a Tucumcari luncheon, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas and Kansas officials pledged to manage flood waters from the South Canadian to irrigate about ten thousand acres. Speakers urged an intensive education program and better knowledge of the river’s needs among Texans and Washington officials.
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Associated Press
Tucumcari
N. M
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
James Briscoe
A. S. Stinnett
E. E. Blake
J. A. Freeland
Mr. Stinnett
United States Reclamation Service
Albert B. Fall
Interior
Washington
Great
Panhandle
R. E. Kennedy
Logan
War Department
Amarillo
Navy Seaplanes Prepare for Honolulu Nonstop Flight
San Francisco Aug 28 Navy plans set the stage for a three plane non stop flight to Hawaii. Mine sweeper Gannett will depart for Mare Island with HQ officers aboard while PN planes head to San Pablo Bay for engine installs. The group will be fueled Sunday and take off Monday in a gradual ascent over the Golden Gate with ships’ lanes guiding their path. Navy craft will relay flight data to San Francisco HQ with continuous radio contact.
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San Francisco
Navy
Hawaii
Gannett
San Pablo Bay
Mare Island
San Francisco Bay
Golden Gate
Navy Headquarters
Slaughter Returns to Federal Prison After Escape
Coney Slaughter, a Pueblo bank embezzler who escaped January 31, is back in Leavenworth awaiting isolation and third grade assignment. He faces a six year sentence tied to his Denver arrest after a long eight year manhunt ending at a sanitarium near Philadelphia.
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Associated Press
Leavenworth
Liberty
Coney Slaughter
Pueblo
Colo
Federal
Slaughter
Denver
Philadelphia
Mercantile National Bank
Man Helpless Result of Premature Explosion
Northern prospector Jim Gallagher of Cobalt was badly hurt when a dynamite cap exploded. Alone in his cabin near Larder Lake he subsisted two days on scraps from the table with his mouth before being found and taken to Kirkland Lake for treatment.
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Associated Fress Cobalt
Ontario
Jim Gallagher
Larder Lake
Kirkland Lake
Western Packing Co Hosts Col R Q Lee and Party at Banquet
Hereford backs flood control and cheap power from a proposed Amarillo gas field plant. The article notes irrigation potential for shallow water, with 250,000 acres underlain and only 45 wells active, plus plans for widespread future irrigation if fuel is cheap. Col. R Q Lee and West Texas Chamber tour concluded with a noon luncheon at Western Packing Company, featuring Panhandle meat products and local dairy and mill produce.
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Hereford
Amarillo
United States
Panhandle
Plains Country
Muleshoe
The
Western Packing Company of
Col. R. Q. Lee
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
North Plains
Great Western Packing Institution
Great West Mill and Elevator Company
Mistletoe
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Saturday brings partly cloudy skies from Amarillo westward with unsettled conditions in eastern New Mexico and potential showers in north central areas. High pressure in the northeast and low over the Rockies influence warmer, drier trends except near the low in South Dakota.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Rocky Mountain
South Dakota
Utah
Missouri Valley
Amarillo Yosteray
Ship Master Charged With Negligence In Fatal Boiler Blast
Washington reports charges of negligence filed against George W. H. McVay master of the Mackinac and John A. Grant chief engineer after the August 18 explosion near Newport that killed 52. Hearings in Pawtucket and Providence cited moving the ship from safe mooring and unsafe boilers. Trial set for September 2 before district officials. licenses at stake.
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Associated Press
Washington
George W. H. McVay
Mackinac
John A. Grant
Steam Board Inspection Service Today
Newport
R. L
Pawtucket
Providence
Richard F. Bailey
Robert B. Clark
Steam Boat Service
Providerice
Auto salesman brought to Texas on U.S. charge
Claud Smith, sales manager for an automobile agency in Los Angeles, was ordered removed to Louisville, Texas, by a United States commissioner to stand trial for extortion and impersonating a federal prohibition officer there.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Claud Smith
Louisville
Texas
United States
Satterwhite and Blount to Visit Lubbock Solons
Eugene H. Blount, Nacogdoches representative and appropriations chair, and Lee Satterwhite, Amarillo speaker, travel to Lubbock to meet Senator W. H. Bledsoe and Representatives R. M. Chitwood and J. R. Wester. Blount, returning from Colorado, helped avert an extra legislative session.
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Eugene H. Blount
Nacogdoches
Appropriations Committee
Amarillo
Lee Satterwhite
Satterwhite
Mr. Blount
Lubbock
W. H. Bledsoe
R. M. Chitwood
J. R. Wester
Colorado
Texans Study Centralizing Dairy Plants in Midwest
Fort Worth & Denver party of Texas visitors traveling by auto reviewed dairy regions in the north and midwest on a return trip. In Dell Rapids they were received by Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce and Farm Bureau Agent G. B. Kennard, then visited Sioux City creamery plants drawing butter fat from about a hundred mile radius, marking a shift from farmer controlled coops. The journey traces along the western fringe of the corn belt amid green fields and a prospective harvest.
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C.D. Cates
Lincoln
Nebr
Fort Worth & Denver
Texas
Mid-West
Brookings
8. C
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Sioux Falls
Dell Rapids
Sioux City
Iowa
Commerce
David W. Steward
Harrison Kilborne
South Dakota
Nebraska
No Strike Body Disbands In Anthracite Region
The No Strike committee in the anthracite region formalized its disbanding at a Scranton meeting. They abandon hope of averting a September 1 suspension and state further efforts cannot prevent suspension or renew negotiations. They submit the mine workers and operators statements for public consideration.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Anthracite Operators
Scranton
Anthracite Region Business Men's
Seven Bandits Loot Pay Car in Philadelphia Heist
Seven men held up a Philadelphia rapid transit company pay car and escaped with 9100 after a pistol battle with the crew. The payroll aboard the car totaled 80000.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Veteran Dallas chef Dave Morrison dies at 60
Dave Morrison, a veteran Dallas hotel chef aged sixty, died suddenly at his home. He served 27 years as chef at the Oriental Hotel, catering banquets for presidents and notable figures on multiple occasions. He died in his sleep.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Dave Morrison
Dallas Hotel
Morrison
Old Oriental Hotel
First Shamrock Bale of Cotton Nets Man 269
Shamrock celebrates the first bale of new cotton as J W Wilder receives 269 dollars including seed for a 467 pound bale. Local merchants add 112.20 cash and gifts such as groceries theatre pass haircut and dinner. York Gin co ginned bale free. Chamber of Commerce offers a complimentary membership.
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Shamrock
J. W. Wilder
Chamber of Commerce
Wilder
York Gin Company
Farmer Killed and Three Stabbed in Bernice Altercation
In Bernice Louisiana Jim Green a farmer living five miles away died from a heart stab wound. G B Lindsey a hotel man and merchant from El Dorado and Little Rock sustained a dangerous knife wound. Pete Green son of the dead man and Rowe Thompson brother in law were seriously wounded in the lobby of the Bank of Bernice after a dispute over a $225 debt Lindsey owed Pete Green. A coroner's jury investigated with no report yet. The four men fought over the debt and a knife was found on the floor.
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Bernice
Jim Green
G. BE. Lindsey
el Dorado
Little Rock
Ark
Pete Green
Rowe Thompson
Bank of Bernice
Lindsey
Three Pages of Comics for Amarillo Evening Post
The Evening Post in Amarillo will publish three full pages of comics today. Readers will enjoy Out Our Way, Salesman Sam, and Slim Jim and the Force. Many Amarilloans are subscribing to both The News and The Post to save money, with the News price at 70 cents a month and the combined offer at 1.00 per month. Contact The News-Post circulation department to subscribe.
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Evening Post
Amarillo
Post
Out Our Way
Sam
Slim Jim
the Force
News Daily
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Fred C. Nickel
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Ulysses Forgan
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May Seymour
Deaf Smith County
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