Roosevelt signs Conchas Dam plans as funds released
President Roosevelt signs the Conchas Dam plans and releases 4.5 million dollars for the first year. U S Army engineers will start construction within 30 days under General Markum with Harry Hopkins reporting 4000 workers. The WPA project secures the 9 million dollar dam program approved last week.
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Roosevelt
Conchas Dam
U. S. Army Engineers
Army Engineers
Markum
Harry Hopkins
WPA
Man Found Dead in Auto Near Plemons Road
Henry Bundenstock 42, a Phillips Petroleum employee, was found dead in his car a mile east of Plemons Road. A .22 rifle was in the vehicle. death ruled as self-inflicted with an inquest set for Tuesday. He lived with his mother near the Phillips refinery. two sisters reside in Jenks. he belonged to the Moose Lodge.
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Borger
Henry Bundenstock
Phillips Petroleum Company
Plemons Road
Jimmy Gardner
Bundenstock
Ina ‘Andensteck
Phillips Refinery
Jenks
Oklo
Army flier killed in fall near Laredo during test flight
Private Otho Flippen, 25, of Hensley Field Dallas, was killed when a American Fagle biplane spun from about 800 feet north of Laredo. Lieutenant S R Stewart, pilot, was injured with a severe head gash and treated at Fort McIntosh post hospital. Stewart previously served at Brooks Field and was an Hensley Field instructor.
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Laredo
Otho Flippen
Hensley Field
Dallas
S. R. Stewart
Here
Flippen
Stewart
Fort McIntosh
Brooks Field
San Antonio
Laska Draws Ten Year Term In Urschel Case
Denver attorney Ben B. Laska was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for accepting part of the ransom in the Urschel kidnapping. He defended Albert Bates in a 1933 trial and faced an appeal over alleged Lindbergh law violations. Witnesses said he helped conceal $90,000 and threatened Bates’ kin.
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Oklahoma City
U.P
Ben B. Laska
Denver
Charles F. Urschel
Laska
Albert Bates
Bates
Vaught
U. S
Edgar S. Vaught
U. S. Circuit Court
Guards assigned as Musey slaying suspect faces trial
In Galveston July 29 authorities prepared for the examining trial of O. J. Windy Goss charged with murdering George Musey a nightclub victim. Justice Randolph will hear the case with extra guards and searches for concealed weapons to protect spectators and the defendant amid fears of reprisal by Musey’s friends.
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Galveston
U.P
George Musey
O. J
Windy) Goss
Randolph
Goss
Musey
Gulf Coast
Fd Lacata
Calles Aides Targeted in Uprising Across Four Mexican States
Four states Nuevo Leon Tabasco Tamaulipas and Sonora witnessed protests against Calles allies as General Plutarco Elias Calles Sr faced growing opposition. Zuazua won Nuevo Leon while Ramos faced oath eligibility questions in Sonora. Labor unions called for Tamau lipas governor Villarreal to resign amid a shifting political landscape.
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Calles
Mexican States
Mexico City
Plutarco Elias Calles
Mexico
Nuevo Leon
Tabasco
Tamaulipas
Sonora
Iron Man
Plutarco Elias, Jr
Neuvo Leon
Fortunato Zuazua
Tampico
Rafael Villarreal
Villarreal
General Calles
Lastra
United States
Man Dies in Dalhart Area Auto Crash
Dalhart July 29 L S Price about 50 of Mountcalm was fatally injured when his automobile overturned on Highway 16 twelve miles northwest of Dalhart at noon today He died soon after arriving at a local hospital Mrs Price Lara Allen and Miss Willie Allen all of Mountcalm were seriously injured but expected to recover The wreck occurred when a tire blew out as the party returned from California
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Dalhart
L. S. Price
Mountcalm
Price
Lara Allen
Willie Allen
Pecos River Dam Row Between Texas and New Mexico
Texas protests Alamogordo Dam plan on the Pecos River citing water rights risk for Red Bluff irrigation. Dr Elwood Mead to meet with New Mexico officials at a conference urged by Secretary Ickes to resolve the dispute.
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Texas
New Mexico
Pecos River Dam
Washington
Pecos River
Alamogordo
Elwood Mead
Red Bluff
Pecos
Ickes
Williams Dies Former Missouri President and Journalist Leader
Dr Walter Williams 71 former president of the University of Missouri and dean emeritus of the first journalism school in Columbia dies at home in Columbia after illness during a world tour and subsequent operations. Born July 2 1864 in Boonville he rose from printer's devil to college leader and journalist educator.
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Columbia, Mo
Walter Williams
University of Missouri
Williams
University
Columbia
St. Louis
Boonville, Mo
Boonville High School
Boonville
Army camp water trick inspires desert exile stories
Beverly Hills reader muses on armies facing water scarcity as Abyssinians divert a stream to cut off Musso’s forces. He recalls Geronimo and past colonial campaigns, noting how natives’ cunning outwits modern troops and suggesting the most civilized foe would be the easiest to beat.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Geronimo
Cortez
Mexico
Senate Downs GOP Move To Adjourn Amid Tax Bill Push
Congress records two key wins for New Deal tax legislation as the Senate tabs an adjournment plan 52 to 10 and the House Ways and Means Committee rejects a GOP bid to strike graduated corporate income taxes 16 to 6. The measure, drafted by Democrats in secret sessions and formally introduced by Chairman Doughton, would tax inheritances gifts estates raise top incomes and impose 13 to 14 percent corporate gains while plans to end the session prompt debate about timing.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Ways and Means Committee
Full House
Doughton
North Carolina
Hastings
Delaware
McNary
Oregon
Robinson
Arkansas
la Follette
House Committee
Labor head says Huey ousted him in barber shop firing
George FE Wallace, second vice president of the Louisiana State Federation of Labor, charged he was dismissed from a local barber shop at Huey P. Long forces' urging. He said the firing came for exercising free speech and criticized Long's leadership in an open letter to FE. H. Williams of Shreveport.
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Alexandria
George FE. Wallace
Louisiana State Federation of Labor
Huey P. Long
Wallace
FE. H. Williams
Shreveport
State Federation
Long
Williams
Organized Labor
Texan Pioneer Cattleman Will T. Womble Dies at 55
Will T. Womble, 55, longtime Panhandle cattleman and Deaf Smith County resident for 45 years, died of a heart attack at his Hereford ranch while working in his garden. He died en route to Hereford Hospital. Womble was a prominent stockman and early breeder in the region.
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Hereford
Will T. Womble
Panhandle
Deaf Smith County
Here
Womble
Giant Condor planes pause in Brownsville on long mass flight
Three giant Condor planes en route from Chicago to Chile paused overnight in Brownsville after a leg from Fort Worth. They will depart for Tampico after customs clearance. The aircraft, bought by National Air Lines of Chile from American Airlines, are used on the Arica to Santiago passenger and mail routes.
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Brownsville
Condor
Chicago
Chile
Fort Worth
National Air Lines of
American Air Lines, Inc
Arica
Santiago
Tampico
Mexico
Garner son of Texas Jack starts production credit talks
Tully Garner, son of Vice President Garner, visited Amarillo on a 2000 mile cattle-raising tour with J M Stensaas to discuss the Amarillo Production Credit unit. He plans a formal report to Houston and Washington on production credit conditions and benefits. He refused interviews but agreed to discuss production credit later.
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Tully Garner
Garner
Texas Jack" Garner
Texas Production Credit Association
Houston
J. M. Stensaas
Amarillo
Stensaas
M. L. Jones
Texas
Production Credit
Washington
Carl Estes Appears Before Committee Over Oil Legislation
Texan Carl Estes, Long View publisher, testifies at a Senate lobby committee hearing on July 29. He denies being paid by Texas Power & Light for an anti-utilities bill speech while the panel exposes profits of 2.8 million dollars to insiders at Associated Gas & Electric and seeks Howard C. Hopson for testimony. Estes says he has expense checks totaling 882 dollars from his Washington trip in opposition to oil measures.
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Washington
Carl Estes
Senate Lobby Committee
Texas Power & Light Company
Associated Gas & Electric Company
Howard C. Hopson
Hopson
Estes
Woman Denies Part in Swamp Slaying in Lineup
Mrs Evelyn Smith, accused in the swamp slaying of Ervin Lang in Chicago, denied in a police lineup that she participated in the murder. Mrs Banche Dunkel of Chicago, Lang’s mother in law, says Smith reported the killing to her, per Chicago district attorney officials.
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New York
Evelyn Smith
Ervin Lang
Chicago
Lang
Banche Dunkel
Hammond
Ind
Amarillo and Vicinity Weather Forecast Notice
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity shows Tuesday partly cloudy with possible showers in the northwest. Texas area: generally fair with some unsettled intervals in the north. New Mexico: generally fair in the south, unsettled in the north. Temperature readings for Amarillo earlier show highs near 70.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Ethiopian Army Marches Toward Eritrean Frontier
Emperor Haile Selassie’s field army from Southern Ethiopia arrives in Addis Ababa with modern arms and a disciplined march toward an unannounced destination, widely believed to be the Eritrean frontier as tension with Italy rises. The capital shows excitement as mobilization remains unofficial and martial activity grows.
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Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Italy
Husband Shot Absolve Wife In Borger Incident
Ben H. Murray a 46 year old tank builder claimed the 410 shotgun wound that critically injured him Saturday night was accidental resulting in his wife Molly being released from Borger city jail She visited his bedside and no charges were filed against her Murray remained in critical condition with internal bleeding suspected Doctors noted the gunman and wife reside near the Borger business district.
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Borger
Ben H. Murray
Molly
Borger City
Murray
Black, Sivall and Bryson Company
Typhoon Devastates Formosa Island Landslide Risk Near Taihoku
The Rengo News Agency reports Taihoku and central Formosa enduring one of the worst typhoons in memory. Severe damage across the island with Shinchiku city battered after earlier earthquakes. This marks the third typhoon this season to strike Formosa.
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Tokyo
Rengo
Taihoku
Formosa
Shinchiku
Law to legalize slot machines halted by petitions
Oklahoma City July 29 filed referendum petitions bearing about 40 000 signatures render the measure to legalize slot machines inoperative before its midnight effective date at the state capitol.
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Oklahoma City
Capitol
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