Hart Drowning Victim Rites Are Conducted
Funeral services for 16 month old Vener Doyle Leavelle were held at Hart Methodist Church after he died when he toppled into a tank at the farm home of his parents Mr and Mrs Lloyd R Leavelle near Hart on Sunday. Rev W M Petticolas officiated and interment was in Olton Cemetery with Roy G Wood Funeral Home in charge. Uncles served as pallbearers. The child’s parents two brothers and a sister survive.
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Plainview
Vener Doyle Leavelle
Lloyd R. Leavelle
Hart
Hart Methodist Church
W. M. Petticolas
Hart Baptist
Olton
Roy G. Wood
Texas Senate Campaign Draws National Attention
A national report outlines Texas senatorial race dynamics amid three weeks left in campaigning. The piece highlights key players, voters' concerns, and media framing shaping views of the Texas contest.
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Texas
United States
Texas Police Association elects leaders at Fort Worth meeting
Police Chief K N Howard of Fort Worth was elected president of the Texas Police Association. Col Homer Garrison Jr was named first vice president and Dallas Police Chief J M Welch became second vice president. Sid Harper Amarillo was third vice president and Stamford Chief Flour noy sergeant at arms. The 500 delegates authorized selecting the 1942 meeting city and urged a law restricting police radio use to police cars and asked for more federal frequencies for police radio nationwide.
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Houston
U.P
K. N. Howard
Fort Worth
Texas Police Association
T. A. Hackney
Abilene
Col
Homer Garrison, Jr
Texas Public Safety
J. M. Welch
Dallas
Sid Harper
Amarillo
B. B. Smith
George Flournoy
Stamford
Conscience Clears Don Hurry After Eight Years
Donald Hurry, 28, paroled in 1933 for attempted robbery and missing parole, told Parole Commissioner Sanford Bates of his silence. Bates released him, sending him home to Texas where he built a steady life after a eight year period. The case ends with Hurry returning home to resume lawful life.
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Hurry
Texas
Sanford Bates
Bates
New York
Donald Hurry
New York State
Flags to grace Pampa Fiesta with largest state banner
The Tenth Top O' Texas Fiesta will feature a 16 by 8 foot navy flag from Kentucky on a high pole. Governor Keen Johnson sent the flag to the Pampa Junior Chamber of Commerce. It was once atop the Kentucky state capitol and bears the motto United we stand divided we fall.
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Pampa
Kentucky
Texas Primary Faces Stirring Campaign Notes
A sprawling Texas primary narrative shows Attorney General Gerald B. Mann, 34, rising as a dark horse while Lyndon Johnson’s New Deal ties pull strong among federal appointees. Campaigns feature Dies style blasts against communists and fascists, with debates over defense and Roosevelt’s influence shaping a busy field of candidates.
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Amarillo
Texas
Gerald B. Mann
Johnson
Methodist University
Virgil E. Arnold
Sheppard
Ma” Fer
O'Daniel
Britain
Dies
Congress
University of Texas
Homer P. Rainey
Senate
New Deal
Lyndon Johnson
Roosevelt
House
Sam Rayburn
Democratic National Committee
Texans in National Spotlight in Senate Campaign
In Austin a fierce Texas primary for the U S Senate unfolds as 18 to 80 Texans vie to succeed the late Morris Sheppard. Governor Wilbert Lee O Daniel leads with a strong patriotic image while Congressmen Martin Dies and Lyndon B Johnson enter a field marked by rivalries, headlines, and a national stage.
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Texas
Wilbert Lee
Pass the Biscuits
Pappy
O’daniel
Mike
Molly
Pat
Rep
Martin Dies
Orange
United States
Senate
Morris Sheppard
Amarillo
James E. Herbert Austin
NEA
Huey Long
U. S. Senate
Bition
Solons
Santa Ana
Mexico
Wilbert Lee O'Daniel
Lone Star
O'Daniel
Sam Houston
Courtesy Pays Railroad In Dealing With Bums
Kansas City report says kindness and courtesy from railroad private police reduce trespass by bums. Chief special agent W G Fetzner says warning cards inform riders riding the rods is illegal and urge safety to deter 9000 yearly fatalities.
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Kansas City
U.P
W. G. Fetaner
Chicago & Illinois Railroad
CG & I
Fetzner
Japanese Film on Ganjiro Nakamura Life to Star His Son
A motion picture in Tokyo adapts the life of the late Ganjiro Nakamura. The film will portray Nakamura by his son, highlighting the career of one of modern Japan's most gifted actors.
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Tokyo
Ganjiro Nakamura
Japan
Nakamura
Rites for Muleshoe Lake Victim Held
Funeral services were held for Walter Andrew Wright 17 son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Wright seven miles north of Muleshoe. He drowned Sunday morning when he and a companion were shaken from a horse they rode across the lake. Wright could not swim. his companion swam to safety as searchers with motor boats a pole and a hay rake recovered his body seven hours later.
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F Priana
Walter Andrew Wright
Ernest Wright
Wright
Wright Wa
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Elenor Harper
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U.S. Senate
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Martin
Lyndon B. Johnson
Coca-Cola Company
Alias —Y
Lincoln Street
Amarillo Coca-Cola Bottling Coo
Muleshoe Lake
Globe News
Cidaid
Samme Denes
Somerset Importers, Ltd
Chicago
Sam Frankisco
Fisher
Louvreur
Penn
Eas
4Th Street
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