Fourth Given Stay of Death by Governor
Four men sat in bare death cells awaiting execution at the state penitentiary as a fifth, Glenn Warren, received a one day reprieve from Governor James V. Allred. The governor said no further interference would occur, citing Warren's father's death and a need for time to collect himself. Oscar and Mack Brown, Refugio County Negroes, prayed as the minutes ticked by, while Grady Warren hoped for clemency but faced a somber reality. The note of a pending continuation appears on page 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
State Penitentiary
Glenn Warren
James V. Allred
Grady Warren
Glenn
Grady
Oscar
Mack Brown
Allred
Drought Lingers as Rain Fails to End Wheat Rally
Weather across the Midwest and Northeast brings heat records and scattered showers while drought deepens. Warnings include 206 heat fatalities and 106 degrees in Adrian Michigan. North Dakota drought areas receive rainfall but forecasted showers likely won’t relieve the longer dry spell. Government aid and farm relief initiatives continue as losses mount beyond $300 million.
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Chicago
New York
Devils Lake
North Dakota
Washington
Roosevelt Lane
Winnipeg
Western
Prairies
Ontario
Resettlement Administration
Dreath
Aberdeen
Michigan
Seaboard
Adrian
Mich
New York City
Washington, D. C
Philadelphia
Rapid City
Effingham
Ill
Minnesota
Indiana
Iowa
Missouri
Utah
Nebraska
J. R. Lloyd
Weather Bureau
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
Heatwave chronicles drift through Midwestern towns
Mercury flashes hot headlines as sirens echo in Minneapolis and Aberdeen reports mix with funeral heat. A screaming woman on Sixteenth Avenue jokes of a cooler while Doctors in Milwaukeer discharge a four pound newborn Barbara Reaver. In Beemer Plum Creek dries, Chicago notes marriage bureau slows to half.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Sixteenth Avenue
Smith claims Marland out for second in U S Senate race
Gomer Smith, Townsend Club national vice-president, asserts he won second place in the Democratic U S Senate run-off despite unofficial returns showing Gov. Marland ahead by more than 2,800 votes. Smith plans to launch his run-off campaign Sunday as Marland declines to submit the liquor repeal measure at the July 28 primary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Gomer Smith
Townsend Club
U. S. Senate
F E. W. Marland
Marland
Smith
Open Air Bather Freed by Police in Fort Worth
Police freed a 58-year-old man charged with indecent exposure after two women said he bathed naked in the Trinity River near their homes. The incident occurred July 9 as officers responded to complaints about a man using the river as a bath tub.
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Fort Worth
O.R
Karl Howard
Trinity River
Weather Forecast For Amarillo And West Texas
Fair Friday with partial cloudiness across West Texas west of the 100th meridian. Partly cloudy in New Mexico with possible local showers and thunderstorms in the northwest area. Temperatures by hour shown for Amarillo. yesterday’s high 31, low 16, and today’s maximum near 58 with a 4 pm reading noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Seeeees
Babson Reports July Business Peak Since 1929
Babson Park Mass July 9 1937 Daniel Roger W Babson says business for July opens at the highest level since 1929 with earnings about 35 percent above last year and employment rising. He notes record high power consumption steel output retail sales and automobile production with optimism for fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Babson
Roger W. Babson
Babson Park
Mass
Nazi Labor Front claims 25 million members in Germany
Berlin July 9. Naziism announces 25 million men and women are compelled to join the Arbeitsfront, a state run union for workers and employers. It reports nearly a billion marks yearly revenue and positions the front as the party’s main propaganda apparatus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Nazi Labor Front
National Socialist Party
Arbeitsfront
Robert Ley
Labor Front
Cadman Lapses Into Coma in Plattsburgh
Dr S Cadman a renowned radio preacher drifted into unconsciousness and delirium from peritonitis and a ruptured appendix at Champlain Valley Hospital in Plattsburgh New York. Attending surgeon Dr Lyman G Barton Jr said he is unconscious most of the time delirious and much weaker with little hope remaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plattsburgh
N. Y
S. Cadman
Cadman
Champlain Valley Hospital
Lyman G. Barton
Erosion Control Plan Nears Start in Panhandle
A federal state erosion control program for nine Panhandle counties moved toward actual work as a farmers’ executive committee tentatively approved a cooperative plan. The group set county erosion needs and allocated conservationists and equipment and County Judge Noel McDade will submit the plan to district governing bodies for immediate action. A follow up meeting was scheduled for next Wednesday with T L Gaston, soil expert, attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Soil Conservation Service
Noel McDade
Dumas
T. L. Gaston
Britain withdraws part of Mediterranean fleet as navy grows
Britain announced in the Commons the withdrawal of part of the Mediterranean fleet while signaling a larger buildup at home. Sir Samuel Hoare said seven battleships and battle cruisers could sail at once with steam for three more, amid a new defense fund totaling £187.87 million.
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London
Britain
Admiralty
Commons
Mediterranean
Samuel Hoare
Army
Navy
Royal Airforce
Evening Standard
Mexican troops kill five rebels in Jalisco clash
Federal forces clashed with rebels in Lavaquera Jalisco today killing five rebels and arresting three. Rebel leader Estanislaw Vazquez was captured, according to dispatches from Mexico City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Lavaquera
Jalisco
Estanislaw Vazquez
Read This If You Are 50 or Over
Mr. T. Nicholson, a Shamrock banker, earned Amarillo and Panhandle residents 50 or older praise by promoting friendship and fellowship. The lead editorial discusses Nicholson and a group of men aged 50 plus seeking happiness at home, urging readers to visit the editorial page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Nicholson
Shamrock Banker
Amarillo
Panhandle
Nicholson
Five meals a day urged to fuel morning energy
Santa Barbara report quotes Dr William D Sansum, a national authority on dietetics, arguing five meals daily boost energy and mental function. He says blood sugar, the body's fuel, drops by midmorning if breakfast is skipped, hampering work performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Barbara
Calif
William D. Sansum
Dietetics Authority
America
Dr. Sansum
It’s a Boy at Dionne Farm Eight Pound Son Born
Callander Ontario reports a single new Dionne baby born at 3 25 A M weighing eight pounds. Elzire and Oliva Dionne welcomed the living eighth son among the famous quints noting it was a third boy and no name had yet been chosen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Callander
Ont
Dionne’s
Papa Oliva Dionne
Elzire
North Country
Dionne
Denied Clemency and Facing Dawn Firing Squad
In Miami Florida July 9 a jury awarded Kathryn Crawford $35,000 in heart balm damages against Lewis F Mallory third after he seduced her from her former husband James Edgar Jr The verdict came at 10 48 PM in a vir tual silence as Judge Worth W Trammell warned against demonstrations In East Lake City Utah triple slayer Delbert Green abandoned all hope of a dawn firing and wrote to Governor Henry H Blood seeking a stay The governor declined and Green faced execution at 5 AM The Chicago bureau reported Alfred H Kirchhofer named publicity director for the Republican campaign
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Lewis F. Mallory
Kathryn Crawford
James Edgar, Jr
Edgar
Worth W. Trammell
Detroit
Mallory
Miss Crawford
East Lake City
Delbert Green
Utah
Henry H. Blood
Utah State Penitentiary
Green
Philo T. Farnsworth
Joseph I. Holbrook
Dill Wins Divorce Battle With Wife
In Spokane on July 9 former Senator Clarence C Dill won a divorce case against Rosalie Jones Dill. The court found his charges of slovenly, penurious behavior and political liability incompetent. Judge W A Huneke ruled Dill not required to repay the $40000 given by Mrs Dill during their nine years of marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Clarence C. Dill
Rosalie Jones Dill
W. A. Huneke
Dill
Airways Aim at Transatlantic Route Start Within Six Weeks
Washington July 9 First flights on a Trans Atlantic air route operated jointly by Pan American Airways and British Imperial Airways may begin within six weeks following official approval of the agreement between the two companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Pan-American Airways
British Imperial Airways
Railroad official hurt in crossing crash near Guymon
W B Norris Rock Island roadmaster was seriously injured when a motor car struck a road grader crossing the tracks one mile north of Guymon Oklahoma He suffered dangerous facial lacerations and was moved to Liberal Hospital by Fred H Madison of Amarillo Norris oversees Rock Island operations at Liberal Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newa Guymon
Okla
W. B. Norris
Rock Island
Here
Norris
Guymon
Fred H. Madison
Amarillo
Liberal
Kan
Two Thousand Cheer Thompson and Small at Panhandle Barbecue
Two Panhandle statesmen Col Ernest O Thompson and Clint C Small were guests of honor at a 2000 turnout barbecue and political rally north east of McLean. Smith Brothers sponsored the event to boost reelection bids as they recounted railroad commission actions and Panhandle gains in oil, gasoline funds, road bonds and soil conservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M'Lean
Panhandle
Smith Brothers
Gray and Wheeler Counties
Shady Grove
McLean
Keller
Col
Ernest O. Thompson
Texas Railroad Commission
Clint C. Small
Col. Thompson
Railroad Commission Jin
East Texas
Senator Small
Farmers Toil By Moonlight In Irrigation Of Crippling Pests
In Red Oak Iowa on July 9 farm crews labor under the sun and by moonlight to apply poisoned flakes to grasshoppers and chinch bugs ravaging fields. Cream prices surge to 40 cents in Page County while many farmers lack cream to sell. The heat withers grain stalks and late corn faces ruin unless rain arrives. local farmers report torn fields and economic stress across Adams Montgomery and Taylor Counties.
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Jersey
Adams County
A. W. Gibson
Stanton
Montgomery
Adams
Page
Taylor
Missouri River
Shenandoah
Page County
Villisca
Carl Levine
Red Oak
Don Griswold
Pampa Men Injured in Oklahoma Crash
Oklahoma City July 9. IL C Mills 37 and Frank Wilson 53, both of Pampa Texas, were treated here for injuries from a car collision Tuesday night at Arcadia Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma City
IL. C. Mills
Frank Wilson
Pampa
Texas
Arcadia
Okla
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Townsendite
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Senate
DR. Cadman
John Drotar
Betty Drotar
Drotar
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Empire
Rome
Sir Samuel
Europe
Mama Elzire
Papa Oliva
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