US Uses League Steps to Avert Italo Ethiopian Crisis
The United States avoids entanglement in the Italo Ethiopian crisis by urging the League of Nations to continue mediation for a peaceful solution. Secretary Hull notes the Kellogg Briand pact’s sanctity and hopes Italy and Abyssinia will adhere to its provisions while the League seeks a satisfactory outcome for both governments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
League of Nations
Hull
Haile Selassie I
Ethiopia
Italy
Abyssinia
William Perry George
Addis Ababa
League
Campbell Tries Salt Dash at Dry Lake Utah for World Speed Mark
Campbell undertakes a high speed run on the Salt Dry Lake Bed in Utah aiming to set a new world speed record. The attempt focuses on achieving maximum velocity and breaking the existing mark under desert conditions.
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Utah
Malcolm Campbell
Salduro
Campbell
Blue Bird
Daytona Beach
Bonneville Dry Lake
Salt Lake City
Wheat prices tumble as Canadian surplus spooks markets
Prices fell across the board after reports of Canada’s five year effort to sustain a peg. Chicago July wheat closed at 81 cents a bushel with a full five cent limit drop, while Winnipeg hit 80 cents as markets feared surging supplies. Liverpool steadied after yesterday’s big decline amid talk the peg would be scrapped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Winnipeg
Liverpool
Chicago Board of Trade
Canada
Roosevelt signs Wagner labor disputes bill creates new board
President Roosevelt signed the Wagner act establishing a three member National Labor Relations Board and making employer interference with unions an unfair practice. The law allows majority unions to speak for all workers in a plant and can be appealed in the circuit courts. Major industries challenge its reach, arguing manufacturing is not interstate commerce.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
National Labor Relations Board
Labor Board
Circuit Court of Appeals
William Green
American Federation of Labor
New Louisiana Bill Gives Kingfish Rule Over Civil Service
Baton Rouge July 5 The Louisiana legislature backed a bill to place hiring and firing of all non elected workers under the state civil service commission. The measure extends authority from municipal police and fire to every city parish and village employee, removing local job awarding power. The move, pushed by Huey P. Long followers, broadens civil service coverage across state government.
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Louisiana
Kingfish
Baton Rouge
State Civil Service Commission
Sen
Huey P. Long
Long
Civil Service Act
Civil Service Commission
Roal Group Sets Meet for July 15 16 Dallas
Harry Hines, chairman, announced the Roal Group will hold an open hearing in Dallas on July 15 and 16. The hearing by the Texas Highway Commission will discuss any highway project, with written appointments requested.
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Dallas
Harry Hines
Texas Highway Commission
Hines
Commission
Liberty Day Remarks Prompt Caution on Celebrations
A Santa Monica note ridicules Fourth of July speeches. The writer mocks overpoliticized Liberty Day events, claiming only a small share reflects George Washington while most speech content serves speaker aims. The letter ends with a jab about excessive politics and a harsh metaphor.
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Santa Monica
Calif
George Washington
Protest Rally Seeks Federal Aid for Highway 83
Citizens from Wheeler Hemphill and Ochiltree counties gathered to press federal and state officials to add U S Highway 83 to the 2 million dollar highway program this year. S F E Allison Canadian Chamber of Commerce secretary Van W Stewart Perryton secretary chair steering group named W B Lamaster Perryton Judge W O Puett Wheeler Judge W L Helton Canadian.
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Wheeler
Hemphill
Ochiltree
U. S. Highway 83
Shamrock
Mobeetie
Canadian
Perryton
East Panhandle
S. F E. Allison
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
van W. Stewart
W. B. LaMaster
W. O. Puett
W. L. Helton
Bank Robbery Suspect Killed in San Angelo Shootout
Police clash ends in death as Patrolman W H Alexander shoots a swarthy man during arrest attempt after sergeant links him to the Bronte bank heist. The slain suspect, shotguns and pistol found in car, Bank cashier and bookkeeper identify partial matches. A Bangs woman and husband are questioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Angelo
W. H. Alexander
First National Bank of
Alexander
M. E. Ledion
Longview
Franchise urged for Airways base in Manila
Governor General Frank Murphy sent a special message to the Philippine legislature urging a Pan American Airways franchise for a trans Pacific service base in Manila. Quezon supports it and Pan American expects favorable action despite apparent legislative apathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
P. I
Frank Murphy
Pan- American Airways
Manuel Quezon
Senate
Pan American
Bailey County Erosion Fund Approved for Relief Program
Relief commission engineers approve $10,067 for a wind erosion control project in Bailey County as a work relief effort. total funding rises to $11,518 with additional projects. Work would be provided 117.amen.
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Austin
Relief Commission
Bailey County
Want Ad Rates In Sunday News Globe
1.20 buys 7 time Want Ad. 3 day ads cost 0.70. Full week minimum 10 words. Additional words charged proportionately. Longer runs boost results as ads reach more readers.
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Sunday News-Globe
Cuban extortion suspect shot by army men in Camaguey
In Camaguey July 5 an alleged extortionist Jorge Garcia and four companions tried to collect 250200 from Manuel Lopez a Camaguey merchant. Army intelligence men shot Garcia and killed him during the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camaguey
Cuba
Jorge Garcia
G- Men
Manuel Lopez
Jurors Selected for Waley Kidnapping Trial
In Tacoma a rapid jury was chosen for the Margaret Waley kidnapping case involving the $200,000 abduction of George Weyerhaeuser. Eleven men and two women were seated, with one alternate, amid mixed opinions and swift selection by the government and defense. The trial proceeds with Waley in court chewing gum as jurors take oaths and await next proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wash
Margaret Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
Veniremen
Harman M. Weley
E. FE. Cushman
Bus Robber Gets 99 Year Sentence in Slaying Case
Tyler July 5 by agreement of attorneys John Conn alleged accomplice of Jimmy Cantrell in a bus holdup where Joe Logan was slain pleaded guilty to murder and received a 99 year term. Cantrell was convicted yesterday and also got 99 years. McA McDaniels charged with Cantrell and Conn awaits trial.
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Tyler
John Conn
Jimmy Cantrell
Joe Logan
Cantrell
McA McDaniels
Conn
Senator seeks $50,000 to define Big Bend Park boundaries
Senator Sheppard of Texas told the Senate appropriations committee he requested a $50,000 addition to the second deficiency bill to fund Secretary Ickes in determining the boundaries of Big Bend National Park in Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sheppard
Texas
Senate Appropriations Committee
Ickes
Big Bend National Park
Amarillo Saturday Forecast With Warm Temperatures
Amarillo and vicinity expect a mainly fair Saturday with partly cloudy skies and continued warm weather. A few showers possible in northwest New Mexico and the surrounding area, with temperatures around 74 degrees in the afternoon and cooler lows expected at night.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
EPIC May Nominate Presidential Bidder in Roosevelt Dispute
Upton Sinclair, former Socialist writer and California gubernatorial candidate, urged the EPIC group to nominate a presidential bidder if President Roosevelt fails to back production for use. Sinclair said he would not accept the nomination himself and spoke before the national administration at Hoquiam, Washington, on July 5.
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Hoquiam
Wash
Roosevelt
Upton Sinclair
California
Marshall Resigns from Petroleum Admin Board
Washington July 5 secretary Ickes said J Howard Marshall has resigned from the Petroleum Administrative Board. He had served since the board's organization.
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Washington
Hectary Ickes
J. Howard Marshall
Petroleum Administrative Board
Boy Killed as Truck Hit by Train in Houston
Edward Karl Bizel age 17 a grocery delivery boy was killed in Houston when his truck was struck by a Missouri Pacific passenger train at a grade crossing. The accident occurred today and the victim was identified by authorities.
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Houston
Edward Karl Bizel
Missouri Pacific
Twenty Cars of New Wheat Are Received By Local Elevators
July 4th toll mounts to 216 as fireworks and related hazards claim lives across the nation. Drownings reach 90 and automobile fatalities total 83 with the Midwest worst affected. The single drowning incident in Kansas City is linked to a torpedo mistaken for candy. The holiday death total nears the six year average of 233.
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Chicago
L. J. Stafford
Kansas City
Midwest
New England
Mountain States
mid-Atlantic
South
Southwest
Pacific Coast
Panhandle wheat harvest begins amid record small crop
Twenty cars of new wheat arrived at Amarillo elevators as winter harvest starts. The Panhandle yield is about 4,000,000 bushels about one tenth of normal, with half kept for seed. Farmers wait for a better market as Canadian stock liquidation boosts prices. Harvesting has started slowly and will pick up by mid next week.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Walter A. Barlow
Great West Mill and Elevator Company
Panhandle Plains
Seventeenth Child Born to Dallam County Couple
Dalhart July 5 The Frazier family welcoming Louis a nine pound son and seventeenth child born to Mr and Mrs Robert Frazier farm residents near here. They have eleven boys and three girls living and two boys and a girl have died. Frazier is 42 and his wife 37. They have had two sets of twins.
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Dalhart
Robert Frazier
Louis
Frazier
Plane crash in Britz Berlin kills eight
A technical experimental plane crashed into a dwelling in the Berlin suburb of Britz killing six occupants and two residents of the house. Several other people were injured and the house was set afire.
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Berlin
U.P
Britz
Third Party Platform Timber Being Chosen
Chicago hosts exploratory gatherings as 200 invitees from 30 states attend a rally for a proposed national third party. Prof. Paul H. Douglas is named permanent chairman and Alfred Bingham serves as secretary as delegates plan a declaration of principles and a fall national convention.
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Chicago
Paul H. Douglas
University of Chicago
Alfred Bingham
New York
Hiram Bingham
Hauptmann Jurors Receive July Pay and Expenses
The Hauptmann jurors in Trenton New Jersey are paid $6 daily for 43 days after a weeks long delay. A $75,000 special appropriation is covering trial costs with $258 issued to each of 12 jurors and additional expenses processed by the comptroller. The total state cost reached about $125,000.
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Trenton
N. J
Hauptmann
Comptroller's
John H. Curtiss
Hunterdon County
Hijacker Given 20 Year Sentence in Robbery Case
Kansas City dispatch reports Robert A. Pritchard 29, returned from Glasgow Montana to face robbery charges tied to two holdups at the Newman Theater and the Kelly Clothing Company. His twin partner H Paul Stroud received a similar 20 year term. Stroud's wife, whose car aided the arrest, was sentenced to five years on a single charge.
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Kansas City
Robert, A. Pritchard
Glasgow
Mont
H. Paul Stroud
Pritchard
Newman Theater
Kelly Clothing Company
Stroud
Continued injunction in tobacco tax case at Fort Worth
Federal Judge James G. C. Wilson extended a temporary injunction blocking State Comptroller George Sheppard from interfering with the interstate cigarette business of Glenn W. Musser, owner of the Texas Tobacco Company, in Fort Worth.
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Fort Worth
James GC. Wilson
George Sheppard
Glenn W. Musser
Texas Tobacco Company
Roosevelt Tax Plan Stirs House Drafters For Guidance
Washington July 5. House Ways and Means members remain puzzled by White House guidance on wealth tax rates. After 2 1/2 hours with the President no two officials agreed on rates. Treasury experts will supply tables, while debate continues on which brackets to tax and how low rates should go.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
House Ways and Means
Morgenthau
Lawyer in Michigan Agrees to Return for Texas Slay Case
Robert J. Moreau, 58, held in Grand Rapids over the 1916 double slaying of his in laws, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Goodnight, at Wills Point Texas, waived extradition then changed stance and left with Sheriff Ike Allred for Van Zandt County. He previously said he would return voluntarily but chose to contest extradition today.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Robert J. Moreau
H. F. Goodnight
Wills Point
Tex
van Zandt County
Texas
Ike Allred
Moreau
Allred
Fitzgerald
Duke Ellington Tickets On Sale At City Drug
Tickets for the Duke Ellington concert at the Municipal Auditorium go on sale at City Drug Store No. One 617 Polk Street from morning hours. Advance tickets cost 55 cents and are limited to Monday evening. tickets at the door 85 cents. Balcony seating reserved for colored patrons. Dance after the concert at the Nat runs 10 30 to 1 30. Admission 1 66 per person, 3 30 per couple, 2 50 for slags.
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Duke Ellington
Municipal Auditorium
City Drug Store
Polk Street
Harrison Street
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