Three Southern States to Vote on Repeal This Week
Alabama Arkansas and Tennessee prepare for repeal votes with repealists claiming confidence in victory across the Deep South. Tennessee votes Thursday with Alabama and Arkansas on Tuesday. Prohibitionists cite party machinery and moral grounds while opponents warn of fraud and a divided public.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Arkansas
Tennessee
Deep South
John F. Baggett
United Prohibition Forces
Charles Rice
Joe Robinson
James A. Farley
Memphis
Roosevelt
Dixie
Youth Indicted for Threat to President Roosevelt
Joseph Doldo 18 of Watertown indicted in federal court for mailing nonmailable material and sending a threatening letter to President Roosevelt. Explosive device intercepted at Washington post office last winter.
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Malone
N. Y
Joseph Doldo
Watertown
Roosevelt
Washington Post Office
Benefit Dance at The Nat Tonight With Earl Burtnett
A 9 oclock performance by Earl Burtnett and his 14 piece orchestra at The Nat. Admission is 1.10 per couple and 55 cents for an additional woman. Proceeds go to the American Legion for charity and to fund a drum corps and exhibits at the state convention in Ichita Falls in August and the national convention in Chicago in October. This is their second Amarillo engagement after a popular June dance at The Nat.
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Earl Burtnett
American Legion
Amarillo
Legion
Ichita Falls
Chicago
Earl Bartnett
Federal rules curb hot oil shipments under Ickes order
Washington reports the federal government issued regulations to halt interstate shipments of oil produced against state restrictions. Secretary Ickes acted under Roosevelt's executive order and the Industrial Recovery Act to curb wasteful production, signaling a new phase in the administration's recovery drive.
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Washington
Ickes
Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
Commerce Department
Sequoia
Potomac River
Johnson
Drought Plans for Four States Focus of Relief Meeting
Gov Murray heads to Guyman for a four state drought relief conference with Colorado Kansas Texas to coordinate immediate aid for farmers. Belated rains arrived but too late to save crops as the drought emergency grows despite new farm act provisions.
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G. H. Scroggin
State Relief Office
Sam Bounds
Colorado
Kansas
Texas
Murrey
Drouth
Four
Commonwealths
Fort Worth Slayings Defendants Face Hearing Tuesday
Trial for C. D. Stevens and three others linked to the February murder of Jack Sturdivant 23 Harry Rutherford 28 and J B Rutherford 30 will be heard Tuesday in Fort Worth A fifth suspect Weldon Routt and Claude Hill are charged in federal court with the February 21 depot robbery where 72000 in currency was stolen.
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Fort Worth
C. D. Stevens
Jack Sturdivant
Harry Rutherford
J. B. Rutherford
M. D. May
M. T. Howard
Pettijohn
M. D
Blackie) Howard
Weldon Routt
Claude Hill
Amarillo to Attend Guymon Four State Conference
Charles Braun of Austin will join Amarillo officials for the four state brouth conference in Guymon Oklahoma. Local delegates from Amarillo include John E Hill Grover B Hill P C Bennett Fred DeCoster and Garfield Wilkinson.
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Charles Braun
Amarillo
Guymon
Okla
Austin
Miriam A. Ferguson
Oklahoma Panhandle
North Plains
John E. Hill
Panhandle Agriculture Association
Grover B. Hill
P. C. Bennett
Fred DeCoster
Emergency Relief Commission
the Panhandle
Garford Wilkinson
The
News Globe
Hutton Sends Funds to Aimee McPherson Hutton
David L. Hutton Jr wired his evangelist wife Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton four hundred dollars to return to the United States from Paris. He says the marital situation has him perplexed and declines to confirm a divorce report. He questions if he married Aimee or the temple and cites contradictory cablegrams from Angelus Temple.
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Los Angeles
David L. Hutton, Jr
Aimee Semple McPherson-Hutton
United States
Paris
Angelus Temple
Hutton
Aimee
Los Angeles Examiner
U S Finale To Soothe Parleyites
Washington insiders consider a final week gesture at the London conference. They envision a Roosevelt statement or late resolutions offering currency and tariff promises to soothe delegates. The plan aims to signal progress without altering American policy, with notes circulating on Wall Street.
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Washington
Roosevelt
London
Cotton Count Continues As Deadline Near
Washington reports farm administrators monitoring contract offers from cotton growers with Wednesday set as the deadline for acceptance. First payments will go out to growers who plow up 25 to 50 percent of their crop. About 9.7 million acres have been offered to plow up, potentially cutting 3.6 million bales if all are accepted.
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Washington
A. Cobb
Slain gunman identified after store robbery in Houston
W N Archie identified as the masked robber who earlier held up the Mask Clothes Shop for 250 dollars. He was killed after a pursuit involving Charles Cash and Patrolman Guy Thrash ended with Archie shot during a confrontation and dying at a hospital.
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Houston
W. N. Archie
Archie
Charles Cash
Guy Thrash
Cash
Thrash
Aged Alton Banker Released by Kidnapers
A 77 year old invalid banker August Luer was released by his kidnapers on a country road and returned to his son in Alton Illinois. No ransom was paid and federal state and county officers joined a search for the kidnapers lair including reports of a basement dungeon described by Luer.
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Alton, II
August Luer
Grace Miller
Collinsville
Til
Luer
Call Justice
Alton
Department of Justice
St. Louis
Herman Luer
Iinois
Peter Fitzgerald
Edwardsville
Miller Resort
For Sale Items Include Golf Clubs and Boat
Classified note advertises used goods including a Kodak camera, golf clubs, a boat, bicycle, oil store items, a camp tent, a trailer, a lawn roller, and screens. It promotes low want ad costs and invites buyers to act quickly for several dollars.
Arrest Two In Factor Kidnap Caso
Martin O'Leary and Carl Fontana ex convicts were arrested in Chicago in connection with the John Factor kidnapping. Factor was held 12 days and released after a $50,000 ransom. The suspects were seized at a Cicero hotel and will be questioned by Capt. Dan Gilbert and Melvin Purvis. Police seek other members of the O’Leary Fontana gang including Mangano Rossi Brown and Sankey. A Midwest law enforcement coalition forms to curb the kidnaping racket.
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Martin O'Leary
Carl Fontana
John Factor
Cicero
Capone
Dan Gilbert
State’s Attorney's
Melvin Purvis
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Factor
Pearson
O'léary
Fontana
David Blumenthal
O’leary-Fontana
Lawrence Mangano
Ernest Rossi
Charles
Buster) Brown
St. Louis
Verne Sankey
William Hamm, Jr
St. Paul
Charles Boettcher
Denver
Wiley Post delayed again by weather in world flight
Wiley Post, the landmark globe‑filer, faced a second weather delay after a Berlin to Koenigsberg leg. He had left New York early Saturday and planned six world stops including Novosibirsk and Fairbanks, circling Koenigsberg before landing exhausted and awaiting further refueling and rest.
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Koenigsberg
Germany
Wiley Post
American Globe Filer
New York
Berlin
East Prussia
Amarillo
Novosibirsk
Siberia
Post
Berlin-Novosibirsk Sea
Khabarovsk
Fairbanks
Edmonton
Lithuanian aviators embark on 4900 mile Atlantic flight
Capt. Stephen Darius and Stan Ley Girenas, flying an orange and black monoplane from Floyd Bennett Field, started a 4900 mile journey to Kaunas without government permission. Their last radio contact placed them over eastern Newfoundland at 2 38 PM Saturday.
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New York
Stephen Darius
Stanley Girenas
Floyd Bennett Field
Wiley Post
Newfoundland
Atlantic
Scotland
Scandinavian Peninsula
Baltic Sea
Kaunas
Darius
Girenas
Norway
Sweden
New Tropical Hurricane Northwest of Jamaica Warned
The weather bureau issued a storm warning centering on a tropical disturbance about 150 miles west northwest of Kingston Jamaica moving west northwest at about 17 miles per hour. The report notes the system of flight to moderate intensity and situates it offshore near Jamaica.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Kingston
Jamaica
Prohibition Leader Speaks at First Baptist Church
Special to The News Memphis July 16 Dr. Atticus Webb of Dallas head of the Texas Anti Saloon League spoke on prohibition at the First Baptist Church here Sunday. The city forces of Hall County were organized last Sunday and officers elected. It is the plan of the organization to fight repeal in Hall County.
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Memphis
Atticus Webb
Dallas
Texas Anti-Saloon League
First Baptist Church
Hall County
Hali County
Boswell Rites Held For Wichita Falls Chamber Leader
Final tribute was paid to John Boswell 32 manager of the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce who died after an operation for acute appendicitis. Funeral services were held in Wichita Falls on July 16.
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Boswell
Wichita Falls
John Boswell
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