Three Killed as Train Hits Family Truck in Donna Texas
A freight train struck a family truck at a grade crossing near Donna Texas killing Mrs R A Yaws 50, Juanita Yaws 15, and Cleatus Blancet 12 instantly. R A Yaws suffered internal injuries but was expected to survive while another seven year old rode with neighbors in a second car. The truck bed was demolished and debris flew about 400 yards.
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Donna
Tex
Juanita Yaws
Yaws
Cleatus Blancet
R. A. Yaws
Blancet
Two Oklahoma Girls Scale 120 Foot Water Tower in Booker
Two young cousins from near Beaver Oklahoma climbed a 120 foot water tower in Booker. Their father Chalmers Strong briefly left them unattended to fetch machine parts, prompting a rescue by local volunteers. The girls were unharmed and unshaken by the escapade.
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Booker
Oklahoma
Alice Marie Strong
Caroline Joy Strong
Beaver
Oklo
Alice Marie
Chalmers Strong
Mr. Strong
Pampa Area Ships 400 Cars of New Wheat
The Pampa wheat territory shipped about 400 cars of the 1931 grain crop Saturday night from Pampa and nearby towns. Harvest is about half complete as rain and recent showers hinder combines. No grain entered the city Thursday or Friday and only a small amount arrived yesterday. Continued on Page 9.
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Pampa
Kingsmill
Hoover
Heaton
Laketon
Typo Union Plans Coliseum Ticket Purchase
Amarillo Typo graphical Union decided Sunday to buy tickets worth 100 dollars for the opening event at the International Coliseum to be built at the Tri-State Fair grounds. Local officers fully endorsed the financing plan for the structure.
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International Coliseum
Tri-State Fair Grounds
Amarillo Typographical Union
Nation tallies Fourth death toll at Independence Day celebration
The nation marks its 155th Independence Day with 270 lives lost across regions. Mid-Atlantic led with 62 deaths, fireworks fatalities total six, drownings 109 including 17 in Los Angeles, 96 highway crash deaths, and 83 airplane fatalities in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. Oklahoma reports a freight wreck and a shooting as part of the toll.
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Mid-Atlantic States
Mid-Atlantic
Midwest
Southwest
South
New England
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
Mountain States
Increase in Plains farm values shown in census report
Oldham Gray Lynn Floyd counties in the Texas Panhandle show varied changes in farm land values from 1920 to 1930. Oldham up about 3 million overall with 137 farms, Gray up about 1 million, Lynn nearly doubles to 18.7 million, while Floyd declines by about 4 million.
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Washington
Oldham CounTy
Gray County
Lynn
Lynn County
Floyd County
Panhandle
Oil States Committee Head To Arrive For Amarillo Meet
Cicero R. Murray head of the Oil States Advisory Committee will arrive in Amarillo on Tuesday for a committee meeting that day. The first session at 10 am will be at the Chamber of Commerce offices followed by a luncheon. The oil and gas division will host visiting oil men as the 10 state committee discusses industry stabilization.
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Cicero R. Murray
Oklahoma City
Oil States Advisory Committee
Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Oil and Gas Division
Chamber
Texarkana
Washington
St. Louis
Austin
Los Angeles
O. V. Vernon
Murray
Lawrence Hagg
Robins and Jones Await Refueling Plane for Tokyo Flight
Fort Worth aviators L. Robbins and H. S. Jones await confirmation as their refueling plane, flying from Edmonton to Fairbanks, has not reported arrival. They plan a non stop Pacific leg to Tokyo after refueling over Fairbanks, weather permitting. A White Horse message indicated the plane had not reached there as of six P.M. local time.
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Seattle
Reg L. Robbins
H. S. Jones
Fort Worth
Edmonton
Alberta
Fairbanks
Alaska
Tokyo
Cabin
Hazleton
B. C
White Horse
V. T
Robbins
Jones
Siberian
Mayor Basks In City's Fourth Of July Saneness
Mayor Ernest O. Thompson praised the Fourth of July as a model of civic order saying it should be without accidents fires from fireworks and drunkenness arrests. He called it commendable and a record for citizenship in a brief Sunday interview.
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Ernest O. Thompson
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity and Regions
Amarillo and vicinity fair Monday with possible cooler conditions. Oklahoma fair Monday, warmer in the south portion. Tuesday partly cloudy and cooler in the north. East Texas generally fair Monday and Tuesday. Light to moderate southerly winds along the coast. West Texas fair Monday and Tuesday, partly cloudy and somewhat cooler in the Panhandle.
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Amarillo
Oklahoma
East Texas
West Texas
Panhandle
Seek Woman in Houston Slaying
Houston July 5 A statewide search was under way for the woman named as the slayer in the dying statement of R L Urquhart 33 who was shot to death yesterday on a fashionable residential street as funeral services were held. Detectives Langdon and Myers scoured San Antonio for the woman after a tip she left her home for the city.
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Houston
R. L. Urquhart
R. D. Langdon
R. R. Myers
San Antonio
Harding's Ranch Picnic Proceeds to be Checked Today
A check of Saturday's Harding's Ranch celebration proceeds will be conducted today by the Crippled Children's Council. J C Paschall, chairman, thanked contributing firms and Amarillo residents for turnout despite poor weather. more than 2,500 attended.
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Harding
Crippled Children’s Council
J. C. Faschall
Paschall
Record Southern California rip tide tragedy heightens warning
Waves swept the south shore with hundreds of lifeguards receiving frantic calls as a disastrous rip tide alleged to be the worst in a decade claimed seventeen lives or missing along Los Angeles beaches. Clothing of a 15 year old boy was found and several others were reported missing including a girl at Playa Del Rey and a man at Long Beach. Lifeguards from San Pedro to Laguna Beach warned bathers to stay out of the surf as conditions raged near Brighton Beach Terminal Island.
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Los Angeles
California
Brighton Beach
Terminal Island
Playa del Rey
Long Beach
San Pedro
Golf Star and Five Others Die in Plane Crash
George Ritchie of San Francisco and five others perished when a sightseeing plane from Lucerne, California crashed into a mountainside after takeoff. Killed were Jackie Kerrigan Leon Keller Louis M Becker 55 and his fiance Mrs Zigmunda Lax 35 as well as pilot William Hoffmann. The crash occurred when the motor cut out about two miles from Lucerne.
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Lucerne
Calif
George Ritchie
San Francisco
Jackie Kerrigan
Leon Keller
Louis M. Becker
Los Angeles
Zigmunda Lax
Long Beach
William Hoffman
Lake St
Tulsa to Entertain Post and Gatty Soon
Tulsa OK July 5 Hear Wiley Post and Harold Gatty may visit Tulsa July 13 for a world flight celebration. C W Short Jr airport manager says telegram from F C Hall backer confirms likely visit on that date.
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Tulsa
Okla
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
C. W. Short, Jr
F. C. Hall
Plains Wheat Harvest Goes Into Last Lap
Wheat harvest in the Panhandle moves into its final stretch as good weather continues. The local weather bureau expects a brief rainy spell after a four day spell ends. Farmers anticipate finishing fields today with about ten days more work on the North Plains. Amarillo reports a mild 85 degree day and a fair forecast for Monday.
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Panhandle
North Plains
Amarillo
Seek Three Youths In Mystery Attacks
Grady County officers search for three youths suspected of hurling heavy stones at two drivers along the Oklahoma City Chickasha highway near Tuttle. The victims H L Mcalvaney 28 of Oklahoma City and Geborn Jones 26 of Okmulgee suffered serious head injuries and were treated at Tuttle and then Oklahoma City hospitals.
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Chickasha
Okla
Grady County
Oklahoma City
Chickasha Highway
Tuttle
H. L. McAlvaney
Geaborn Jones
Okmulgee
Hoover Seeks Unified American Stand on Debt Moratorium
President Hoover rejected a French plan granting unlimited powers to technical experts in formulating a debt moratorium. A memorandum outlining the American position was cabled to France as Mellon prepared to present it in Paris. Hoover shortened his Rapidan vacation and returned to Washington amid Franco American talks.
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Andrew Mellon
Germany
United States of America
Hoover
Washington
France
Mellon
Paris
State Department
Rapidan
America
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew W. Mellon
Walter E. Edge
Finance
Pierre Flandin
Edge
Normandy
Airplanes Fuel Rapid Growth in Want Ads
Airplanes have sped up Want Ads showing rapid expansion and cash potential. They take off daily before daylight and can be seen at work on Page 8.
Mexico seeks U.S. probe over Ardmore shooting incident
Mexico's foreign office instructs Ambassador Tellez to request a State Department report on the Ardmore Okla shooting of two Mexican students on June 8. President Ortiz Rubio orders his sons to study in Canada as Mexico vows further action beyond the July acquittal of Deputy Sheriff Guess.
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Mexico City
Foreign Office
Manuel Tellez
Washington
State Department
United States
Canada
Tellez
Estrada
Mexico
W. E. Guess
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Capes
Texas
University of Texas
Janet Sheppard
U. S
Morris Sheppard
Sheppard
Typo Union
Coliseum
Durant
Plains
BY Bascom N. Timmons
Oil States Committee
Glenwood
Glenwood School
Amarillo-Potter County
F. P. Miller
C. H. Ray
Indianapolis
C. D. Vinet
Municipal
Pittsburgh
English Field
Vinet
New York and Western Airways
R. B. Morris
L. D. Whiting
Alice Dunlap
A. C. McGraw
McGraw
Nancy Jane
Lambert- St. Louis Field
Here
Robins
Golf Star
Gatty Soon
Associated Press
Liver American Information Today
Ardmore
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