Borger Ouster Trial Jury Dismissed Without Verdict
In Borger the jury in the April election legality case was dismissed by District Judge E J Pickens after failing to reach a verdict. Foreman Owen Pendergraft said deliberations since Friday yielded an 8 to 4 split and no clear verdict. Plaintiffs’ attorney George Finger indicated a second trial would be sought at the September term. The suit sought removal of Mayor John R Miller and Commissioners Henry Knight and C C McClelland.
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Owen Pendergraft
Pickens
George Finger
Borger
John R. Miller
Henry Knight
C. C. McClelland
Livestock Brings New High Prices
Kansas City July 12 Farmers sold two million dollars worth of livestock at the highest prices in seven or eight years. Checks for the total go to growers in Missouri Kansas Colorado Oklahoma Texas and Nebraska. About 1250000 of sales were cattle with the rest calves hogs and sheep. Cattle receipts are estimated at 18000 head the largest of the season and second largest this year. Peak cattle marketing usually comes later in summer.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas
Nebraska
Patman Granted Hearing on Federal Reserve Plan
Representative Patman of Texas announced that the House banking committee granted him a hearing, likely next week, on his bill for government ownership of Federal Reserve banks. He argues the measure would save the government money.
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Washington
Patman
D-Tex
House Banking Committee
Federal Reserve
Powell execution ends Florida murder case
Marcus C. Powell of Jacksonville died in the electric chair at Raiford state prison after being convicted of killing his wife and charged with slaying her mother.
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Raiford, Fla
Marcus C. Powell
Jacksonville
Gilchrist Named Dean at A&M
Gilchrist state highway engineer announced acceptance of the dean post at Texas A and M College and will resign his state job. The resignation is not effective before September 1 and the timing of relinquishing his current role remains undecided after nine years in office. The highway commission gave no successor details, with E P Arneson named as a possible contender. Gilchrist has prior admin service under Governors Moody, Sterling, Ferguson, and Allred.
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San Antonio
Works Progress Administration
Gilchrist
Govs
Dan Moody
Ross S. Sterling
Miriam A. Ferguson
James V. Allred
No Lyin a Lion Is Loose on the Street
In Trenton New Jersey residents saw a real lion trotting down a street causing neighbors to retreat indoors. Animal trainer William C Schultz captured the beast by the mane and returned it to its cage from which it escaped.
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Trenton
N. J
U.e
William C. Schultz
Schultz
Body of Jose Vasquez Recovered After Creek Floodfall
The body of 31 year old Jose Vasquez was recovered from Comanche Creek where he drowned after falling from a bridge during flood waters yesterday. The incident occurred at Fort Stockton on July 12.
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Fort Stockton
Jose Vasquez
Comanche Creek
Vasquez
Heat Wave Toll Rises Across States With Slow Relief
The death toll from extreme temperatures climbs to 346 across 25 states led by New York with 62 and New Jersey with 49 as scattered showers offer brief relief. Western New York cools, Chicago sees rain, and seaboard cities endure 90 to 100 degree heat while outbreaks of flooding affect West Virginia and surrounding areas.
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Associated Press
Weather Bureau
North Central
Great Plains
Seaboard
New York
New Jersey
Chicago
New England
New York State
South Dakota
North Dakota
Washburn
West Virginia
Illinois
Oklahoma
Iowa
Nebraska
Michigan
Colorado
Wyoming
Lake Michigan
Atlantic Seaboard
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Ohio
Wisconsin
Indiana
Rhode Island
Maine
Minnesota
Kansas
Kentucky
Tennessee
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
Georgia
Missouri
South Carolina
Cloudy Skies Over Texas Bring Scattered Showers
Cloudy skies with scattered showers will continue over Texas for the next day. Government meteorologists predicted more cool and partly rainy conditions after a weekend with general showers and cloudy sections where sun returned briefly.
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Texas
Dallas
U. S
Switchman Injured In Fall at Pampa
Herbert K. Dormire of Amarillo Santa Fe switchman suffered severe injuries when he fell from a box car during yard switching near Starkweather Street in Pampa. He was rushed to Worley Hospital and listed resting well later in the day. Dormire was working extra in Pampa.
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Dormire
Pampa
Senate Speakers Denounce Supreme Court Bill As Move To Control Decisions
Senate debate on the court reorganization bill features Senator Bailey calling the measure unconstitutional and an effort to control Supreme Court decisions. Senator O Mahoney accuses administration leaders of gag rules and centralized control over justice. The clash continues as other business stalls pending court bill fallout.
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Senate
Supreme Court
Washington
Bailey
North Carolina
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Robinson
Arkansas
War Department
Wheeler
Montana
Hay Fever Said to Signal High Culture
New York July 12 Dr Reno Paul European allergist says hay fever is more common among cultured people. He notes city residents show greater susceptibility than rural folk and cites possible social transmission of allergies. He discusses histamin as a potential treatment under study.
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New York
U.P
Reno Paul
Traxler Vanishes as Hunt Wanes in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City report says Ray Traxler once a feared desperado led two companions on a wide escape from Huntsville Texas prison farm. A sighting in Verden and a possible break in Oakley triggered a chase across northern Texas and southern Oklahoma. A 19 year old man was arrested in Anadarko on suspected stolen vehicle ties while Traxler’s location remained unsettled.
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Oklahoma City
Ray
Pete” Traxler
Oklahoma
Huntsville
Tex
Priso
Texas
Caddo County
Traxler
Elmer Finley
Anadarko
Oakley
Finley
Eakley
Mountain Climber Rescued Near Mount Index Peak
Joseph G. Halwax, 28, was rescued from a ledge near Mount Index after a night ascent. He and two companions, Scott Osborne and Stanley King, were roped together when Halwax slipped on the north face and faced a 1,600 foot drop. Seventeen climbers aided the rescue, lowering him down the cliff and four miles through timber to an ambulance for transport to Seattle in critical condition.
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Seattle
Joseph G. Halwax
Index
Halwax
Scott Osborne
Stanley King
Catholic Priest Sentenced for Jewish-Catholic Marriage
Ulrich Kaiser, a 53 year old Catholic priest in Berlin, was sentenced in district court to three years in prison for presiding at the marriage of a Jew to a Catholic woman.
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Berlin
Ulrich Kaiser
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Vicinity
Amarillo and nearby areas face mostly cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms possible on Tuesday. West Texas west of the 100th meridian may see thundershowers, while New Mexico remains unsettled with chances of showers and thunderstorms in the northern portion. Temperature readings show a high around the lower 90s and a low near 60s, with yesterday’s precipitation totaling .34 inch.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Chinese Resume Heavy Fighting With Japanese
Chinese and Japanese troops renewed clashes near Peiping as reinforcements moved toward the North China zone. Tokyo announced a state of emergency in Manchukuo and the Kwantung leased area, with air defense and lighting restrictions at strategic points.
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Tokyo
Manchukuo
Kwantung
China
Port Arthur
Kwantung Peninsula
Gulf of Pohai
Hopeh
Bank of Japan
Yokohama Specie Bank
Tientsin
Nanking
Peiping
North China
Yungting
Tachingtsun
Peiping-Wanpingshien
Tsaishenmiao
Signals Left Turn Ends in Arm Amputation
In St. Louis on July 12 William Schott a carpenter suffered the amputation of his left arm at the elbow after his car was grazed by a truck as he signaled a turn.
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ST. Louis
William Schott
Penalty hearing in Blanton disappearance case proceeds
In Raymondville Texas today a Willacy County judge found Ranger Power Fenner state game warden Morgan Miller county sheriff H T Cragg and jailer Mallie Brown guilty of contempt of court over the arrest of Louis Lamadrid in the Blanton disappearance matter and reserved punishment until tomorrow. Lamadrid who investigated Luther Blanton and his son John disappeared after entering a King Ranch game preserve eight months ago was arrested for carrying a pistol without a permit and later impersonating an officer. The crowded courtroom heard arguments over access to Lamadrid as his habeas corpus writ was pursued and the case heads toward further appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin.
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Raymondville
Tex
Blanton
Willay County
Texas
W. E. MacCharen
Power Fenner
Morgan Miller
H. T. Cragg
Mallie Brownfield
Louis Lama
John
King Ranch
Fenner
Brownsville
Cameron County
A. B. Crane
Lamadrid
Lexington Prepares To Launch Planes In Hunt For Missing Fliers
The aircraft carrier Lexington readies 63 planes and lookouts for a dawn start in a 200000 square mile aerial search around Howland Island for Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan. Admiral Murfin indicates a wide rangelike mop up over previously scanned seas, with Itasca and Swan supporting near Howland.
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Honolulu
Lexington
Amelia Warhart
Howland Island
Miss Earhart
Frederick J. Noonan
O. G. Murfin
Phoenix Islands
Murfin
Gilaie Islands
Howland
Phoenix
Swan
Coast Guard
Itasca
Violent clash at C I O headquarters sparks citywide shutdown
Massillon Ohio July 12 police and national guardsmen closed the C I O offices after a clash with strikers that killed two and injured 15 including three patrolmen. Guards kept watch as tear gas and gunfire drove out C I O adherents amid a strike by the May 26 call for bargaining contracts.
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National
Republic Steel Corp
Republic
Russian Polar Flight Completes Pole Crossing On Arctic Run
Russian fliers led by Mikhail Gromoff crossed the North Pole at 3 14 A M in a snowstorm after a Moscow departure. The crew aimed to prove intercontinental Arctic air links and possibly set a 6 5 day long distance record, planning to fly toward the United States along the 120th meridian as clouds hid the approach.
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Moscow
United States
North Pole
Pole
Arctic
Mikhail Gromoff
Andrei Yumosheff
Sergei Danilin
Rudolph Island
Mihail Gromoff
San Francisco
International Aeronautic Federation
Gromoff
Kremlin
Valeria Chekaloff
Vancouver
Wash
Nine More Pickets Arrested At Shirlee Frocks Plant
Nine additional pickets were arrested at Shirlee Frocks, Inc. in San Antonio for unlawful assembly as they defied a police order against plant picketing. They were booked at police headquarters with no disturbances reported.
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San Antonio
Shirlee Frocks, Inc
Army housing bill approved by House committee
The House military committee approved a bill authorizing a 21 million dollar army housing program. The measure targets projects across the United States.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Aerial Bombers Defeat Repels In Madrid Front
Spanish government forces extend their surge west of Madrid in a seven day drive to lift the siege. Government and insurgent claims differ on casualties as aerial bombardment intensifies with a two hour naval clash near Valenca.
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Madrid
Brancte- Quijorna
Francisco Franco
Villaneuva del Pardillo
Baieares
Valenca
Man Survives Record 109.8 Degree Heat
In New York on July 12 Daniel Long 60 was treated at Bellevue Hospital after collapsing from extreme heat. Doctors cooled him with oxygen ice water to restore his temperature to a normal 98.6 degrees, the highest known to be survived.
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New York
U.P
Daniel Long
Bellevue Hospital
Former Ford Employee Testifies He Ordered Assaults
Joseph Patrick Barnick, a former Ford Motor Company service department worker, testified at a National Labor Relations Board hearing that he was directed to beat up anyone distributing handbills at plant entrances. He spoke at the Wegner Act charges hearing against Ford.
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Detroit
Joseph Patrick Barnick
Ford Motor Company Service Department
National Labor Relations Board
Labor Board
Ford Company
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