Wheat boom floods Amarillo rail cars as farmers reap daily grain cash
Amarillo grain traffic hits record pace with 1 368 cars moved, 100 cars daily average and a banner 129 car day. About 125 000 bushels per car flow toward market with $125 000 daily to Panhandle farmers as railways dispatch empty cars back from meets. The Plains crop top 22 million bushels strains storage and rail capacity amid nationwide shortage fears.
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Amarillo Grain Exchange
Amarillo
Plains
Santa Fe
McAdoo Sees Oil Field Boom Towns and Rail Route
W G McAdoo toured Amarillo and Borger amid oil field boom towns while delaying any political talk. He visited with W H Fuqua and a Rock Island party led by H G Clark and C A Morse, inspecting the proposed Rock Island line and praising Amarillo's progress.
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W. G. McAdoo
Amarillo
W. H. Fuqua
Mr. McAdoo
H. G. Clark
Gorman
Rock Island
Kelly
Oklahoma City
McAdoo
Borger
Toney Chisum
Mr. Fuqua
C. T. Herring
A. 8. Stinn
FE. G. Clark
Panhandle oil field to see two mega projects
Lone Star Gas plans an 18 inch Panhandle to Denver gas line and may extend to Dallas and Houston. Kansas City Power Supply announces a $1,250,000 super power plant to be built, with Phillips Petroleum already contracted for power supply. If realized, Panhandle gas could flow to three major directions.
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Denver
Panhandle Oil and Gas
Childress
Lone Star Gas Company
Panhandle
Wichita Falls
Dallas
Houston
FE. H. Conrad
Lone Star Company
Kansas City
Panhandle Fields
Colorado
E. H. Conrad
Executive Board Confirms Duggan Appointees
West Texas Chamber of Commerce officers ratified Duggan of Littlefield and Wade of Stamford confirmed with the board at Abilene. Budget set at 100 425 dollars, expected income about 115 000 dollars, Wade’s salary 7500 dollars. Various bureau staff appointments were confirmed.
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Associated Press
Abilene
Texas
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
A. P. Duggan
Littlefield
Homer D. Wade
Stamford
Wade
Porter A. Whaley
Ray Leeman
Fort Worth
B. F. Bennett
A. S. Pawkett
Traffic Bureau
FE. H. Whitehead
Publicity Bureau
B. M. Whitaker
Agriculture Bureau
Fire Flare at Lake Denmark Munitions Site
Flames surged anew at Lake Denmark as shifting winds threatened unexploded magazines. Seventeen bodies were found, bringing known dead to nineteen. identification proceeds via fingerprints and dental charts at the Brooklyn naval hospital.
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Lake Denmark
Associated Press
Dover
N. J
New Jersey
Wilbur
Naval Reservation
Theodies
Naval Hospital
Brooklyn
Washington
Morris Hardaker
Marines
Harry Christian Brown
No. 7
Market Street
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Frances Feeney
Naval Depot
George W. Botts, Jr
Richmond
First Dirt Breaks On Rock Island Line From Amarillo
The Rock Island railway began grading seven miles out of Amarillo for a new line to Liberal Kansas. Plans call for rails by August one and 42 miles to the Canadian river by November. A $75,000 right of way fund and $3,000,000 total investment aim to open North Plains, with McAdoo touring the site and local financiers signing car quotas.
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Rock Island Railroad
Amarillo
Liberal
Kansas
Great West Mill and Elevator Company
Col. C. T. Herring
Rock Island
Canadian River
A. S. Stinnett
William Gibbs McAdoo
Mr. Stinnett
North Plains
Kans
Three Slain by Drug Fiends in Chicago Suburb
In Cicero, two hours after robbing a cab driver Ludwig Rose was killed. Fred Hein and his fiancée Miss Marie Blang were shot and killed en route home from church during the same incident. Suspect Thomas McWaine, aided by a another man named Eddie who fled, confessed to planning the robbery and narcotic use.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ludwig Rose
Cicero
Fred Hein
Marie Blang
Thomas Mc Waine
Joseph Granito
McWaine
Eddie
Rose
Hein
Miss Blang
MecWaine
Aso
Muskogon
Michigan
The Taxi-Dancer Joins The Globe Regularly
The Taxi Dancer serial will appear regularly in The Globe after its four day run in The News and Globe. Amarillo readers can start home delivery by phone 883, with The News combining for 50 cents a month or $1 for both papers. The Taxi Dancer is touted as the year’s big serial drawing wide reader interest.
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News and Globe
Globe
Amarillo
Slain Kansas City man identified in Illinois roadhouse gun fight
In Herrin Illinois a man killed in a roadhouse gun fight was identified as Boyd Hardin of Kansas City Missouri by a friend at a coroner's inquest. Police search for Edgar Rocassi husband of the proprietor Mildred Rocassi as the investigation continues.
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Presa Herrin
Ill
Boyd Hardin
Kansas City
Cleta Betts
Hardin
Mildred Roccassi
Edgar Rocassi
Amarillo Second in Southern Building Permits in June
Amarillo ranked second among southern cities in June building permits with 2,049,461 dollars, trailing only Miami. The figure boosts Texas prestige, with Amarillo beating Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Dallas and other large cities in the period.
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Amarillo
Miami
Florida
United States
Louisville
Texas
Houston
G. L. Miller and Co., Inc
Atlanta
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Dallas
Birmingham
New Orleans
Memphis
Cees
Tampa
Jacksonville
Lyott Worth
Coral Gables
Richmond
Fort Lauderdale
Wichita Falls
Knoxville
Orlando
Asheville
Greensboro
Charlotte
Miami Beach
Weeks Dies Former Secretary of War Weeks Dies at Home
Former Secretary of War John W. Weeks died Monday morning at his Mount Prospect summer home after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at his West Newton Massachusetts residence, with the body to be placed in a vault before permanent burial in Arlington National Cemetery.
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John W. Weeks
Harding
Coolidge
Mount Prospect
West Newton
Mass
Arlington National Cemetery
Washington
Weeks Funeral Rites Set After War Secretary Dies
John Weeks dies after a long public service as secretary of war and city leader. He collapsed from angina in New Hampshire with family by his side after travels seeking health. A funeral from Sinclair Weeks’s home is planned with possible church attendance, and burial in Arlington National Cemetery after a temporary vault in West Newton.
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Associated Press
Lancaster
John Weeks
White Mountain
Weeks
South America
California
New Hampshire
Mount Prospect
West Newton
Mass
Business and Financing Associates
Legion of Friends
Sinclair Weeks
Arlington National Cemetery
Washington
Oklahoma Man Held on White Slavery Charge
Joseph M. Davis of Cordell Oklahoma was arraigned before U S Commissioner Rollie Seales on a white slavery charge and will waive hearing to return to Oklahoma He is held in Potter County jail Davis is married officials said
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Oklahoma
Joseph M. Davis
Cordell
Okla
U. S
Rollie Seales
Potter County
Davis
Department of Justice
Amarillo Charity Appeals For Destitute Family Aid
Mrs. George McClure appealed for help for a destitute ill family found in a deserted shack north of Amarillo. The relief fund stood at 65 dollars with a 100 dollar goal for medicine. The couple is seriously ill and the four year old girl cried from hunger, sleeping on the floor and cooking on a yard trash fire.
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Amarillo
George McClure
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas Tuesday
Amarillo area and West Texas expect unsettled conditions Tuesday with possible showers in the western portion. New Mexico also shows unsettled weather with similar chances of rain.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Kew
Mexico
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