East Texans Rally Behind Small in Tyler Campaign Visit
East Texans rally for Clint Small at Bergfield Park with 2000 supporters from Jacksonville Gilmer Mineola Quitman Longview Glacewater Carthage Marshall Kilgore Henderson Athens Panola and Gregg County towns. Small assails oil theft and taunts Attorney General Allred promising proration enforcement and cross state unity.
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Small
Tyler
E. N. Whitehead
Clint Small
East Texas
Bergfield Park
Jacksonville
Gilmer
Mineola
Quitman
Longview
Glacewater
Carthage
Marshall Kil
Gordon Simpson
Philip Long
E. M. Bramlette
Gregg
J. C. Hunter
Tom Grisham
Gladewater
Alfred
Hunter
Oklahoma youth near flight as Mills case looms
Norman Oklahoma July 13 Authorities monitor conflicting reports of University of Oklahoma beauty queen Merian Mills death case as Neal Myers, her student boyfriend, reportedly flees toward Houston San Antonio Mexico or a Gulf freighter. Autopsy due soon. county attorney questions fraternity cook Nazel Brown’s statements. Myers described leaving Norman in a car abandoned in Houston with personal effects seen by a watchman.
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Norman
Okla
Merian Mills
University of Oklahoma
Neal Myers
P. B. Myers
el Reno
Houston
Texas
Neal
San Antonio
Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Paul Updegraff
Nazel Brown
Updegraff
Bay City
Myers
Southern Pacific
Who's Who in Amarillo Want Ad Page
An advertisement encourages readers to use the Want Ad page for services including house and fence repairs lawn mower sharpening watch repair plumbing chiropractor and Hay Fever relief. It promotes business and professional services listed within the section.
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Amarillo
Want Ad
Rabbit Killer Confesses in Elaine Watson Slaying
Police report Albert F. W. Ruske confessed to fatally beating 8 year old Elaine Watson in his basement over a lost pet rabbit planned for stew. He described drugging and strangling her with a whisky bottle after finding the rabbit carcass. The body was found beneath rubbish in the Ruske residence basement.
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San Francisco
Otto Frederick
Albert F. W. Ruske
Elaine Watson
Frederick
Ruske
Potter County Protest Over Panhandle Drouth Relief Cut
Potter County officials condemn an order by State Administrator Adam R. Johnson to reduce drouth relief budgets to an average of 20 dollars a month. The directive reallocates funds from 23 Panhandle counties to 192 for highway and work relief programs, prompting protests from Potter County Relief Board chairman Weymouth who cites breach of relief agreements with the Panhandle and National Administrator Harry Hopkins.
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Panhandle
Adam R. Johnson
Drouth
Potter County
Texas
Johnson
Chansler BE
Weymouth
Potter County Relief Board
13th convict dies of gas execution in Nevada
Joseph Bechner a 36 year old Syrian formerly of St Louis was executed in the Nevada State Prison gas chamber at sunrise. He asked guards not to strap him too tightly and was pronounced dead at 4 45 am. Bechner was the seventh man executed by lethal gas since the method was adopted 13 years ago.
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State Prison
Carson City
Nev
Joseph Becner
St. Louis
Maxine Armstrong
Las Vegas
Bechner
Nevada
Good Roads Boosters Gather in City Today
Panhandle road supporters meet to organize a drive for 12 million dollars in PWA funds allocated to Texas highways. Amarillo leaders Carl Hinton and Wade Brymer organize attendance and delegation for a state highway commission appeal.
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Panhandle
PWA
Texas Highway Department
Herring Hotel
Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce Board
Austin
Penhandle
State Highway Commission
Riots at Cleveland Relief Station End in Bloodshed
In Cleveland on July 13 gunfire erupted at a downtown relief office as demonstrators surged inside the Cuyahoga County relief administration. Two killed and three wounded in about ten minutes, with further disturbances at four other relief stations. Police detained seven. radicals linked to unemployed council cited.
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Cleveland
Council For the Unemployed
Cuyahoga County Relief Administration
East 40Th Street
Thomas Gibbons
Charles Kissling
James Veseley
Veseley
Vesely
Mayor McNair Favors Federal Jobs After Drunk Pleas
In Pittsburgh on July 13 Mayor William McNair, presiding as police magistrate, freed two intoxicated defendants then issued identical notes to each. The notes urged sending the men to Washington to present them to the president for employment, a gesture echoing a prior jab at state liquor policy.
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Pittsburgh
William McNair
Pinchot
Frank
McNair
Washington
San Francisco Unions Plan Wide General Strike Action
A 600 member general strike committee from 144 unions in San Francisco orders unified action tomorrow to back 27 000 Pacific coast longshoremen and marine workers with warning of possible violence and food disruption as labor boards seek arbitration and the governor appeals for keeping city supplies flowing.
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San Francisco
Longforemen and Marine Workers
Bay
Edward D. Vandeleur
Central Labor Council
Roosevelt
Labor Disputes Board
Vandeleur
Frank F. Merriam
Organized Labor
American Federation of Labor
Strategy Board
Labor Boards Works
Mexico Rift Over Johnson Speech Angers Mexico and Germany
Washington dispatch reports Mexico displeased by General Johnson's Waterloo Town speech. Germany protested, prompting Hull to note Johnson spoke as an individual, not the government. Mexican authorities review references to Villa era amid volatile reaction.
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Mexico
Johnson
Germany
State Department
Waterloo, Town
Foreign Office
Fernando Gonzalez Roa
Charge D'Affaires
Hull
Hughes Presents Old Age Pension Plan In Texas Campaign
Democratic governor candidate Maury Hughes outlined a national style old age pension to end poverty and the poor house. He criticized Texas inaction and accused opponents of being influenced by gamblers bootleggers and track interests while touring East Texas and preparing a Breckenridge stop. James V. Allred countered critics over a $1 000 000 judgment ruling and presented a county clerk certificate to prove his work on a suit filed in 1933.
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Austin
Maury Hughes
Tyler
Hughes
National Democratic Party
Texas
Allred
Slain Bandit Not Identified in Bank Robbery Probes
In Delaware County Oklahoma investigators search for identity of the younger bandit killed after the Bank of Ketchum robbery. Sheriff York and colleagues report the slain man, 28 to 30, with Amarillo letters found on him, while the older bandit, 72 and known as Kaiser Bill, lies in a Vinita funeral home awaiting identification.
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Tulsa
Okla
Delaware County
Ketchum
John York
Vinita
J. M. Sanders
Grover Bishop
Table
Quad
York
Amarillo
John R. Goodman
Kaiser Bill
Cookson Hills
Oklo
Amario
Weather Outlook for West Texas and New Mexico
Forecast shows fair to partly cloudy skies across West Texas west of the 100th meridian and generally fair conditions in New Mexico. Temperatures rise during the day with highs near 100 plus and warm overnight lows. Wind and humidity not heavy, with no major storms expected.
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Mexico
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Amarillo
Vest
Arkansas prison chief resigns amid death probe
A. G. Stedman, superintendent of Arkansas prisons, resigns as the state penal board holds a special session to investigate the killing of Helen Spence Eaton, a 22 year old woman killed by a prison trusty during an escape attempt.
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Helen Spence Eaton
Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
State Farm For Women
Associated Press
A. G. Stedman
Arkansas’ Prison System
State Penal Board
World Heard of Revolution Cause and Outcome
A global report details the emergence of a revolution, tracing its causes and consequences. It highlights the leader who steered events and the broad impact on nations, societies, and political life.
Hitler defends brutal purge and Reichswehr split
Adolf Hitler defended his deadly suppression of a revolt claiming 77 deaths in Germany and asserting orders to shoot mutineers. He praised the Brown Shirts while warning they would dominate streets again and rejected mixing the Reichswehr with political groups. He tied the coup plot to Boehm and von Schleicher and spoke before the Reichstag addressing a global audience.
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Germany
Ernest Boehm
Hitler
Supreme Court
Reichstag
Roehm
Janary
Reichswehr
Storm Troopers
Boehm
Kurt von Schleicher
von Schleicher
Franz von Papen
Fearful search for kidnapped 21 month old Bobby Connor
State troopers, boy scouts and volunteers comb the Weatchester countryside after 21 month old Bobby Connor vanishes in Hartsdale New York. U S Justice agents join the hunt as a suspected drug peddler described as mumbled about chateaux in France. A man fitting the description was detained in Seabright New Jersey for questioning as authorities chase leads.
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Hartsdale
N. Y
Bobby Connor
Weatchester
U. S. Department of Justice
Law
Peddier
France
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