Farm commodity prices hit six year peaks in drought driven markets
Prices for wheat corn eggs butter potatoes rye and lard surged to 1936 levels in Chicago and world marts as drought losses cut half of the corn acreage. Wheat reached top prices in Winnipeg and Liverpool with Chicago limits hit in one session.
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United States
Chicago
Kansas City
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
Winnipeg
Liverpool
Panhandle wildlife group forms to push strict conservation
Outdoor sportsmen met at the Herring Hotel forming the Panhandle Wildlife Association with Gene Howe of Amarillo elected president. The group aims to organize county units, establish refuges, build lakes and ponds, and foster land conservation along with wildlife protection. Jack Lamb urged steadfast effort.
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Panhandle
Herring Hotel
Howe
Jack Lamb
Second Victim Dies in Kellerville Oil Blast
Pampa July 30 J A Reed dies as second victim of an oil well cellar dynamite explosion near Kellerville. C A Clark who tamped the explosive into warm sand was killed. Ollie McPherson in critical condition and 17 year old Fay Savage also injured.
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Pampa
J. A. Reed
Kellerville
C. A. Clark
Ollie McPherson
Fay Savage
Bride of six weeks killed in pistol attack in Los Angeles
Mrs. Vanthelia Hippe Mc Candless a 28 year old who wed six weeks earlier was shot twice and killed in her apartment. A man named W McCandless, her husband, disappeared after selling a small cafe nearby. The body was found in the bathroom by an apartment manager. Detectives pursued the missing husband.
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Los Angeles
Vanthelia Hippe McCandless
Hubert J. Wallis
W. McCandless
Texas Highway Commission Announces Low Bidders on 30 County Projects
The Texas Highway Commission named low bidders today for road and bridge work costing $914,114 across 30 counties. Bids on 40 more projects will be considered tomorrow and Saturday as about 40 county delegations seek aid.
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Austin
Texas Highway Commission
Carson—P
Panhandle
Standard Paving Co
Fort Worth
Gray and Donley
Donley County
Wheeler County
Rockledge
Carson County
Coke & Braden, Motley
Dickens County
Matador
White Flat
Floyd County
Pool hall operator sentenced for murder in Fort Stockton
A jury took one hour to convict pool hall operator Thomas J. Elsmore of the slaying of Bynum Shaw, a Sheffield trucking contractor, shot in front of the pool hall on March 17. Elsmore received a 25 year penitentiary term.
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Fort Stockton
Thomas J. Elsmore
Bynum Shaw
Sheffield
Shaw
Actress Dietrich Plans to Never Return to Germany
Marlene Dietrich arrived in London from Paris vowing she will never return to her native Germany. When asked if she liked current Germans she said they don’t like her. The Reich has banned most of her films.
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London
Marlene Dietrich
Paris
Germany
Amarilloan recovers stolen car. gun fails to fire
L. E. McDade of 1602 Washington Street recovered his motor car after a rifle he took for repairs wouldn’t shoot. Robert Staab, who fled, is in county jail facing motor car theft charges following a noon chase near Polley’s gun shop.
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L. E. McDade
Washington Street
Robert Staah
McDade
Polley
East Fifth Avenue
Ama
Rillo National Bank
Carley C. Price
Staab
B. R. Polley
Edger
Taylor Street
Clark Cain
Kansas
Accident Ends 50 Year Accident Free Railroading Record
Clifton N J July 30 A railroad tragedy ends Frank Graves 50 year accident free service as he neared retirement on the Lackawanna Railroad. The East Orange engineer struck Antonio Guamina of Paterson yesterday. Guamina died today, Graves retires tomorrow amid shock.
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Clifton
N. J
Frank Graves
Graves
East Orange
Lackawanna Railroad
Antonio Guamina
Paterson
Guamina
Flagg farmer shot to death in Flagg office
A. Johnson, manager of Herring ranch properties, was free on $5,000 bond after being charged with the slaying of Charles W. Price near Flagg. Price, about 50, was shot in Johnson's office at 5 this afternoon. Johnson surrendered tonight. Price, a former Wheeler County resident, left a son and daughter.
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A. Johnson
Herring Ranch
Charles W. Price
Price
Flagg
Johnson
Wheeler County
F. I. McNabb
Fisherman badly injured in fatal blast near Bethel Oklo
Austin McLaughlin, hospitalized in Texarkana, said a blasting charge hurt him and killed an unidentified man near Bethel, Oklo. He witnessed the other man tamping the explosive to dynamite a creek before the blast. The man died from loss of blood.
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Texarkana
Ark
Austin McLaughlin
Bethel
Oklo
McLaughlin
Britton Sentenced to 30 Years in Bank Robbery Case
Farwell Texas July 30 A Parker County district court jury sentenced J C Britton to 30 years in prison on guilty plea in the Friona State Bank robbery of June 29. Britton and Herbert Stanley were captured in Fort Worth after a gun fight with officers. Stanley had received life imprisonment last week for a similar charge.
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Farwell
Palmer County District Court
J. C. Britton
Friona State Bank
Britton
Herbert Stanley
Fort Worth
Stanley
Second Age Pension Checks Prepared in Austin
Check machines began grinding in the state comptroller office sending out the second old age assistance payments. It is expected 58 500 will receive pensions totaling about 909 000 dollars including federal matching. First payments were made July 1 sending 40 099 checks averaging about 16 dollars per person.
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Austin
U.P
State Comptroller’s Office
Nazis rounded up after Vienna torch arrival riot
Police rounded up all known Nazis today after a disorderly demonstration tied to the Olympic torch arrival in Vienna. At least 600 persons were arrested in the sweep.
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Vienna
Hurricanes Warnings Shield Pensacola Coast
Coastal authorities brace for a tropical storm moving toward the northern Gulf Coast with hurricane warnings extended from Cedar Keys to Mobile. Ships seek shelter, Fort Barrancas and Fort Pickens evacuate and quarters for 200 planes are secured as tides and winds threaten the Alabama and Florida shores.
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Gulf of Mexico
West Florida
Gulf
Florida
Weather Bureau
Gulf Coast
Apalachicola
Fla
Mobile
Ala
Cedar Keys
Pensacola
Florida Gulf Coast
Mississippi River
Tarpon Springs
Naval Air Station
Fort Barrancas
Fort Pickens
Typhoon Sweeps Philippine Isles Drenching Manila
A typhoon with torrential rains inundated roads and disrupted communications in Luzon. The storm centered over the China Sea drenched Manila and caused significant damage as a second typhoon was seen approaching about 450 miles northwest of the island.
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Manila
P. L
U.P
Luzon
China Sea
Father Who Chained Boys Keeps Job by Day
Roy Hamblin, 42, a WPA laborer, was sentenced to 60 days in jail for chaining his two sons to keep them out of trouble. He can keep his ditch digging job but must sleep in jail each night for 60 days. Judge Frank P. Coleman ordered the sentence after Hamblin pleaded guilty to cruelty to children.
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Brighton
Colo
Roy Hamblin
WPA
Hamblin
Frank P. Coleman
Justice Court
Louis Batlard
Jimmy
Wayne
Jimmy Hamblin
Associated Press
Mary Astor Involved In Custody Battle And Affair Allegations
The text reports two separate items. Dr. Franklin Thorpe seeks custody of Marylyn Astor Thorpe while alleging Mary Astor’s affair with a married man led to their divorce. An affidavit quotes Astor expressing devotion to George and risking scandal.
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Los Angeles
Franklin Thorpe
Mary Astor
Thorpe
Hollywood
Miss Astor
Marylyn
Nine Injured In Panhandle Highway Crash
A major collision on the Panhandle highway near the city limits left nine people injured and taken to S J Anthony's Hospital. The Weatherby car, parked after running out of gas, was struck by the Easterday vehicle, demolishing the trailer and sending debris across the road. Families involved include the Weatherbys and Easterdays with multiple children among the injured.
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S J. Anthony's Hospital
Panhandle
N. Weatherby
Wellington
J. F. Yowp
J. F
North Mirror Street
Weatherby
Foreign envoys quit as Madrid delegates powers to parliament leader
Foreign envoys resign while Madrid grants the parliament leader control of wartime powers amid a civil war. Loyalists report heavy casualties and shifting fronts near Zaragoza and Valencia as rebels claim gains and refugees worry about who will govern. Rebels threaten Madrid and bombard in the Strait of Gibraltar as ambassadorships collapse.
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Zaragoza
Valencia
Mediterranean
Barccelona
Burgos
Aragentine
Italy
Germany
Madrid
Gibraltar Straits
Algeciras
Cervantes
Fugitive Bohannon Captured Near Dringerfield Texas
Morris County sheriff Ben B. Garrett led six men to arrest Julius Bohannon, last fugitive from the McAlester Oklahoma prison break, and his companion Manuel Cox on a country lane four miles northwest of Dringerfield. Bohannon offered no resistance. Cox will be charged with aiding a fugitive. The men abducted Bohannon’s wife earlier and roads were blocked to halt the escape.
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Dringerfield
Morris County
Texas
Julius Bohannon
McAlester
Okla
Here
Ben B. Garrett
Bohannon
Pine Woods
Manuel Cox
Garrett
Cox
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Hal ©. Peck
Gray, Donley Counties
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J. A. Johnson
Dimmitt
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Alabama Gulf Coast
Philippine Isles
Franklin
Tex
Joe Jones
Nellie Richardson
George
Dr. Thorpe
Smashup
Easterday
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Republic
Posse
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Yip
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100Th Meridian
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T. Ms
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Vest
Amarillo Res
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