Texas counties designated for disaster relief funds
Sixteen Texas counties were designated for expenditure of special drought and hurricane relief funds by Federal Relief Director Harry L. Hopkins. The counties were split into two groups. the first group includes Dallam Hartley Moore Oldham Sherman Potter and Deaf Smith, the second Bailey Hansford Carson Hutchinson Ochiltree Palmer Lipscomb Randall and Roberts. Special relief work in the first group will be directed by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Texas Relief Director Marie Dresden telegraphed county relief officers about the order.
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Austin
U.P
Texas
Harry L. Hopkins
Dallam
Hartley
Moore
Oldham
Sherman
Potter
Deaf Smith
Bailey
Hansford
Carson
Hutchinson
Ochiltree
Palmer
Lipscomb
Randall and Roberts
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Texas Relief
Marie Dresden
Mexican Admits He Slew Ranch Couple Resigned to Death
Antonio Carrasco, 39, told a reporter how he killed ranchers Mr and Mrs Riley R Smith near Van Horn. He described striking Smith in the yard after a gun was fired at him and later killing Mrs Smith during a confrontation. He said a kitchen fire followed an accidental gasoline explosion.
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EL Paso
Antonio Carrasco
Riley R. Smith
van Horn
Carrasco
Smith
Carasco
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Tue Afternoon Thunder Showers Predicted
Forec ig for Amarillo and West Texas warns of partly cloudy skies with possible local thunder showers Tuesday. New Mexico is fair with temperatures in Amarillo yesterday reaching a high near 67 and a low around 10 inches of precipitation reported for the 24 hour period ending yesterday at 5 p.m.
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Amarillo
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Cattle Buying Conference Set for Amarillo
Dr. C. B. Martin of A. & M. will lead a cattle buying conference in Amarillo tomorrow morning at the Amarillo Hotel. County agents and relief authorities from seven Panhandle counties will attend.
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C. B. Martin
Panhandle Drough
AAA
Amarillo
Relief effort set to count available men for road jobs
Miss Dresden reports engineers of the Texas Relief Commission and State Highway Department will meet to estimate volunteers for a relief road program. Telegrams from the U S Department of Agriculture named the counties to be used in the selection.
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Miss Dresden
Texas Relief Commission
State Highway Department
Dresden
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Road relief to begin Friday in Panhandle belt
The Texas Relief Commission announced long delayed road relief will commence Friday in the Panhandle breuth belt. The notice was sent to Potter County relief board chairman Julius Dorenfield Jr. and the program, announced yesterday, covers 16 Panhandle counties.
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Panhandle
Breuth Belt
Texas Relief Commission
Julius Dorenfield, Jr
Potter County
First Gar Of Wheat Sets Market Record In KC
The first carload of wheat from the 1934 crop reached Kansas City on June 4, five days before the previous early date. Originating in Granfield Oklahoma and consigned by Farmers National Grain Corporation of Enid, it graded No 1 with 62 percent moisture and sold at auction to Uhlman Grain Company for $1.01 1/2 per bushel. Last year the first shipment arrived June 9 and set records.
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Kansas City
Granfield
Oklo
Farmers National Grain Corporation
Enid
Okla
Uhlman Grain Company
Roosevelt Hosts Drouth Conference on Relief Plans
President Roosevelt met with Congressional delegates from affected states at the White House to discuss a tentative program costing more than a half billion dollars for relief and rehabilitation. Harry L. Hopkins announced 2.2 million dollars for work relief in the west and midwest, with 50 000 men on relief now and 150 000 more to be hired by week’s end.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Drouth
White House
Harry L. Hopkins
West
Mid-West
Hopkins
Mr. Roosevelt
Rangers May Hunt Dillinger
The United States Department of Justice seeks to recruit Capt. Frank Hamer and M. L. Gault to join the Dillinger search. Texas Adjutant General Henry Hutchins says DOJ has been angling for their services after their role in the Barrow and Parker case. Hamer says he hasn’t communicated with federal authorities. DOJ officials in Dallas say they have no knowledge of such talks.
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Austin
United States
John Dillinger
Frank Hamer
M. L. Gault
Texas Rangers
Henry Hutchins
Texas
Department of Justice
Clyde Barrow
Bonnie Parker
Southwest
Hamer
Dillinger
Dallas
Department
Gault
Federal building funds eyed for Amarillo and Texas Panhandle
A new Amarillo post office at 635000 is listed among eligible federal building projects under a 65 million dollar appropriation for next year. The plan faces slim chances of approval. alternative 60000 remodeling is possible. Other Panhandle towns Borger Lamesa and Quanah also have eligible projects. The deficiency bill, including 1.178 billion outlay and six billion relief, passed the House amid gag rule protests and moves to the Senate.
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Bascom N. "Timmons
Washington
Amarillo
House of Representatives
Treasury
Post Office
Secretary of Treasury
Texas Panhandle
Borger
Lamesa
Quanah
House
Senate
Work or Lose Jobs Packer Tells Men
Oklahoma City June 4 Striking workers at the Wilson and Company packing plant faced ultimata to return to work by tomorrow or lose their jobs The notice bore signatures of W W Martin manager and L H Frazee plant superintendent Armour and Company declined to say if similar steps would be taken The strikers had walked out Saturday seeking union recognition higher wages and guaranteed hours of work and failed to persuade nonstriking workers to join them
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Oklahoma City
Wilson and Company Packing Plant
W. W. Martin
L. H. Frazee
Armour and Company
Congress Act Cited as Basis for International Decision
A congressional act is cited as the basis for a decision between nations. The article notes the act shapes the dispute’s framework and influences diplomatic steps and expected outcomes.
Britain delays war debt payment prompting US reconsideration
Britain informs Washington it will defer paying the June 15 installment of 261 791 011.68 including Finnish payment in cash of 166 538. Asbr? The note cites the Johnson Act and argues that full payment is impractical, signaling possible upheaval. Finland plans full cash payment in New York on June 15.
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Washington
Great Britain
State Department
United States
L. Astrom
New York
William Phillips
Philip Mainwaring Broadmead
Ronald Lindsay
Wiley Post Plans Altitude Record Flight
Wiley Post announced plans to attempt a world altitude record within weeks. He will fly eight and a half miles high in the Winnie Mae, now being fitted with a supercharged engine and a controllable pitch propeller, with attempts to occur at Oakland, California.
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Newark
WN. J
Wiley Post
Winnie Mae
Oakland
Cal
Kidnaper of Child In 1927 Now May Be Married to Victim
West Virginia state police report a dramatic lead in the 1927 Dorthy Evelyn Bradley case. They suspect a Palestine Texas man identified as William Marvin Roman may have abducted the girl and could be married to her now, with a 13 year old as yet unconfirmed wife. The boy who accompanied Dorthy was left with a neighbor and never seen again.
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Charleston
W. Va
Dorthy Evelyn Bradley
Rupert
Palestine
Tex
William Marvin Roman
Dorthy
Roman
Richard Bradley
Dorthy Evelyn
Little Mountain
Bradley
O. J. Read
P. D. Shingleton
West Virginia
Pollea
Texas
Shingleton
Mail Carrier Robbery Near Wharton
A man armed with a sawed off shotgun robbed Jesse Martin, a mail carrier, between Boling and New Gulf, taking several mail pouches believed to hold about 1500 dollars. The bandit fled in a late model car with yellow wheels. license not known. Passersby alerted the sheriff after the attack as the carrier drove off the Sulphur road.
Kansas Banker Begins Long Penal Sentence
Ronald Finney, central figure in the Kansas bogus bond scandal, started a prison term of 31 to 635 years at the Kansas state prison mines in Lansing after being received last Thursday. He is among 600 convicts beginning work in the mines.
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Lansing
Kan
Ronald Finney
Kansas
Kansas State
Finney
Bus crash leaves man with severed arm in Oklahoma
CHICKASHA Okla June 4 7 A man riding a bus was struck by a car on Highway 62 east of Chickasha last night. P C Rader 55 of Gainesville Texas suffered a severed arm and was reported in serious condition at a local hospital.
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Chickasha
Okla
P. C. Rader
Gainesville
Tex
Four Convicts Escape From Harlem Prison Farm
Four desperates escaped from a prison work squad at Harlem State Prison Farm in Fort Bend County Texas. They fled in a guard's automobile toward Houston after guards fired on the car. Capt A N Owens led a posse of guards and Houston police in pursuit. Convicts named are Frank Callan Dallas 26 years for murder Jim Lucas Breckenridge 15 years for robbery Odett McHuches Waco nine years for burglary. Continued on Page 9 Col o
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Harlem State Prison Farm
Fort
Bend County
Tex
Houston
A. N. Owens
Frank Callan
Dallas
Jim Lucas
Breckenridge
Odett McHuches
Waco
George
Hale Pioneer Rufus Irick Funeral Held in Plainview
Funeral services were conducted for Rufus Madison Irick a Hale and Floyd county pioneer who died last night at his Plainview home. Born July 17 1854 in Knoxville Tenn he moved to Texas after the Civil War settling near Bonham. He married Amanda Myers in 1875 and survived by a widow three daughters and a son. He helped organize Floyd County and served as layman in missionary work and in forming Baptist associations. He worked as a freighter stockman and on construction projects for many years.
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Plainview
Rufus Madison Irick
Hale
Floyd Counties
Trick
Knoxville
Tenn
Texas
Bonham
Fanning County
Amanda Caroline Myers
Adeline Thomas
Aberdeen
Wesh
Burt Holly
Ban Gabriel
Calif
Tom Vaughn
Roy Irick
First Baptist Church
Floyd County
Mr. Irick
Irick
Rand Sevangeliatic P Services
Old
Llano
The
Plains
Youth Stabbed Twice in Crosby County Fight
Colyis Witt, 22, of Crosby County was critically stabbed in a morning fight in Crobbytown. Jim Cross Sr. and Jim Cross Jr. were charged with assault with intent to murder in Justice A A Hatchells court. Witt underwent surgery in Spur hospital to remove a knife blade from his back after being stabbed twice in the back and once in the chest near the heart.
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Crobbyton
Colyis Witt
Crosby County
Jim Cross
Jim Cross, Jr
A. A. Hatchell
V. A. Johnston
Witt
S Spur
Johnston
Health Officer Backs School Open as Polio Cases Rise
Dr. J. L. Pomeroy, Los Angeles county health officer, told the board of supervisors that authorities were winning the fight against infantile paralysis and would not recommend closing county schools. He reported 350 cases since the epidemic began.
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Los Angeles
J. L. Pomeroy
Board of Supervisors
Seven killed in oil exploration blast near Norman Oklahoma
A roadside dynamite magazine explosion southeast of Norman killed seven Selamograph oil exploration workers and injured others. Two escaped unharmed as officials described bodies scattered over a 200 yard crater, with a farm home damaged and emergency morgue set up in a Norman storehouse.
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Norman
Okla
Here
Vernon H. Weddel
Chandler
Preston Barnes
Guthrie
Lloyd B. Flood
Don McDonald
San Antonio
Tex
Aingle
David McClellan
Santa Anna
Texas
Herman Voigt
Perry
Ola
Joe Fanning
May
Weddel
Sinclair Prairie Ol Company
Petty Geophysical Explorations Company
Sinclair Concern
Edwards
Petty
Weldon Crawford
Crawford
B. H. Cooley
Foreman
T. A. Maloy
Maloy
Chil
Senator Small Address to Be Broadcast Tonight
Senator Small speaks tonight at 7 30 at Fort Worth as a candidate for governor. The address will be broadcast over Station WBAP letting Texas hear his platform with wide support in the Panhandle and down state. Local supporters urge Panhandle voters to tune in and hear the speech.
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Clint C
Fort Worth
WBAP
Texas
Senator Small
Panhandle
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Hartley County
Channing
Duncan
Dallam County
Dalhart
R. P. Lee
North Plains
R. V. Converse
Spearman
Relief Commission
Vote Federal Building Fund
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Finland
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Hale Pioneer
Rufus M. Irick
Demic
Oklahoma
W. OC. Berry
Ming
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