Suspect Admits Slaying Missing Amarilloan Then Denies Story
Gerald B. Gray, 28, an Amarillo photographer who vanished in Eunice New Mexico over two months ago, has renewed attention as a suspect is arrested and a $50 reward posted for finding his body. Sheriff W Kerley says the suspect has been jailed since last week and may be held until the body is found.
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Gerald B. Gray
Amarillo
Eunice
N. M
W. Kerley
Lea County
Gray
Kerley
Parsons Search Is Extended
Authorities continue the hunt for Mrs. Alice Parsons, last seen leaving with two strangers to tour the Sammis estate in Huntington. A ransom note for 25 000 dollars was found in the Parsons automobile, and investigators broadening the search to the terrain around the 11 acre property on the estate. Inspector Earl J. Conelly of the FBI announced the extended search.
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Stony Brook
N. Y
Alice H. Parsons
Parsons
Earl J. Conelly
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mass Slayer Given Life Term in Wisconsin Case
John Waszak 54 a Muskego farmer pleaded guilty to dynamite deaths of his wife and eight children after three alienists ruled him sane. Circuit Judge C M Davison sentenced Waszak to life imprisonment at Waupun state prison.
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Waukesha
Wis
John Waszak
Pole
C. M. Davison
Waszak
Waupun State Prison
Weather forecast for Amarillo and nearby areas
The Amarillo region is expected to see fair conditions on Tuesday with similar fair weather for West Texas west of the 100th meridian. New Mexico forecasts show unsettled Tuesday with possible showers and thunderstorms in eastern and north central areas. Yesterday’s temperatures included a high near 88 and a low around 66, with 1936 readings noted for comparison.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
House targets home bridge games in anti gambling push
In Austin on June 14 the Texas House broadened anti gambling efforts by targeting bridge games played for money at home. A proposed substitute adds home betting to the anti gambling statutes and fines bettors up to 50 dollars regardless of location. The session adjournment date remains uncertain as the Senate and House contest timing. The Senate also blocked a bill to empower mandamus against local officers enforcing gambling laws. The House approved a resolution asking Gov Allred to submit a bill exempting merchant owned trucks from contract carrier rules amid claims railroads dominate highways.
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Austin
House of Representatives
House
Senate
James V. Allred
Senate Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
Supreme Court
Publicity Favored For Tax Evaders
Washington reports after a White House conference Senate Finance Chair Harrison and House Ways and Means Chair Doughton urged full publicity for names of tax evaders from a congressional inquiry. Speaker Bankhead announced a bipartisan 12 member roster including Cullen Vinson Cooper Treadway Crowther to probe tax dodging.
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Senate
House
White House
Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Roosevelt
Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Bankhead
Cullen
New York
Vinson
Kentucky
Cooper
Tennessee
Treadway
Mass
Crowther
Broussard Case Transferred to Jasper County for Trial
The murder indictment against H. Y. P. Broussard was moved from Orange to Jasper County for the July term. A continuance motion failed. Broussard and his nephew Etienne Richard were both trappers. An additional slaying case, Roland Claybar for the 1929 Hay Hall death, was moved to Newton and set for the August term with a $10,000 bond.
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Orange
H. Y. P. Broussard
Jasper County
Broussard
Etienne Richard
Newton
Adams
Roland Claybar
Hay Hall
Claybar
Two Soldiers Flee Fort Sill Hospital Prison
Fort Sill Oklahoma June 14 an extensive search by military police was started today for two soldiers who escaped from the prison ward of the Fort Sill hospital last night after slugging a sentry with a bar of soap in a sack. The soldiers are Private George R. Clevenger serving a one year term for desertion and Private Alan J. Rhame awaiting trial on charges of desertion robbery and embezzlement.
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Fort Sill
Okla
George R. Clevenger
Alan J. Rhame
Electrician Dies by Electrocution at Houston Plant
Pasadena report states W. Blair a 43 year old electrician from Houston was electrocuted while servicing switch boxes at a paper company plant. The incident occurred today in Pasadena with small ad inserted afterward.
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Pasadena
A. W. Blair
Houston
Paper Company
Bitter Adverse Report Given By Committee
The Senate faces a bitter phase in the Roosevelt court reform fight as the judiciary committee delivers an adverse report and warns the bill would undermine judicial independence. Administration aides weigh a long hoped for debate while factions threaten filibusters to block any compromise.
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Senate
Judiciary Committee
Burke
D-Neb
Wheeler
D-Mont
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Hatch D
N. M
Hot Oil Act Extension Is Signed
President Roosevelt signed a bill extending the Connally hot oil act for two years to June 30, 1939. The extension follows House approval and Senate support to make the act permanent, aiming to curb interstate shipments of oil produced above state quotas and reduce overproduction and price wars.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Hail Damages Ripening Grain Across South Plains Region
A severe hailstorm and two inches of rain struck the Plainview area and west and southeast of Plainview causing widespread damage to ripening wheat. The storm moved northward to Tulsa, Happy, Canyon, White Deer, and Amarillo with flooding and power outages reported. Settlement dust storms followed in western Panhandle towns as storms moved northeast.
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Plainview
South Plains
Tulsa
Happy
Canyon
White Deer
Amarillo
Hale County
Panhandle
Hedley
Clarendon
Lubbock
Dalhart
Tucumcari
World famed author Sir James Barrie gravely ill
Sir James Barrie, 77, renowned author and dramatist, lay gravely ill at a London nursing home with relatives and friends taking turns at his bedside as his condition worsened.
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London
U.P
Sir James Barrie
Bilbao Falls Before Rebels As Motorized Patrols Enter City
Nationalist forces enter Bilbao outskirts amid push from Orduna and Plencia with plans to seize the Basque capital. Diplomatic observers confirm rebels nearing the city as President Aguirre vows to die fighting rather than flee. Kane departs for St Jean de Luz in response to Bilbao developments.
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Bilbao
Saint Jean DE Luz
Vitoria
Spain
United Press
Jose Fidel
Solchaga
Zarauz
Orduna
Santander
Ollaran
Jose Antonio Aguirre
Basque Autonomous Republic
Wage and Hour Debate Targets Federal Reach in Oil and Coal
Secretaries and industry leaders testifying before a joint congressional committee urged limits on federal wage and hour proposals. Representative Borena advocates a 40 hour week and a $16 minimum, while oil and coal executives push for industry exemptions and flexibility to protect bargaining.
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Washington
George B
Andler
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Joint
Congressional
South Carolina
Fort Sumter
Boren
Dem
Okla
John D. Battle
National Coal Association
Borena
Oklahoma
Garners To Arrive in City Today
Vice President and Mrs. John A. Garner are due in Amarillo this evening to visit their son Tully Garner and family en route to Uvalde. They left Washington Sunday morning and planned a brief stop in Amarillo before continuing to Texas.
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John A. Garner
Amarillo
Tully Garner
Garners
Washington
Uvalde
Texas
Judge sentences Mitchell Jackson to die in electric chair
In Atlanta on June 14 Judge John D. Humphries sentenced Mitchell Jackson to die in the electric chair on July 9 for the torch killing of Mrs. R. M. Fluker. Jackson pled guilty after the charred body of Mrs. Fluker was found in a kitchen pantry when firefighters responded to a fire call.
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Atlanta
John D. Humphries
Mitchell Jackson
R. M. Fluker
Jury Selected for Slaying Trial in Thornton Case
A jury was chosen to try Tonnie Moore, a Negro from Thornton Texas, for the May 10 killing of Frank Bradfute a local storekeeper and wounding Mrs Bradfute during a home robbery in Thornton.
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Thornton
Groesbeck
Tonnie Moore
Tex
Frank Bradfute
Moore
Bradfute
Italy Defaults Debt Payment
Washington reports Italy failed to meet its semi annual war debt to the United States transmitting a note of polite regret for the inability to pay the obligation. Other European debtors Latvia Yugoslavia have defaulted while Finland plans to pay. Tomorrow's war debt due totals 1.5 billion with 205 million regular and 1.414 billion in arrears.
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Italy
United States
Fulvio Sovich
State Department
Latvia
Yugoslavia
Finland
France
Great Britain
Lemke Says Wheat Insurance Bill Unconstitutional
Representative Lemke believes the administration wheat crop insurance bill already passed by the Senate would be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. He argued the bill grants the secretary of agriculture too broad power to set insurance premiums and indemnities for crop losses.
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Washington
Lemke
R.-N.d
House Agriculture Committee
Senate
Supreme Court
Secretary of Agriculture
Representative Sanders urges Roosevelt to name Hampson Gary
Rep. Morgan G. Sanders of Canton Texas urges President Roosevelt to appoint Hampson Gary of Tyler Texas to the communications commission where Gary currently serves as general counsel.
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Washington
Morgan G. Sanders
Canton
Tex
Roosevelt
Hampson Gary
Tyler
Communications Commission
Gary
Commission
Mines Supplying Strike Plants To Be Closed
In a bold move to choke steel production, 10,131 coal miners called by John L. Lewis left their Pennsylvanian and West Virginia mines. Van A. Bittner of the Chicago CIO threatened a nationwide coal embargo against struck steel plants and warned that any mine shipping coal to those mills would be closed.
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Johnstown
John L. Lewis
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
van A. Bittner
Chicago
C.I.0
Bittner
United Mine Workers of America
Washington
Lewis
U.M.W.A
Bethlehem Steel
Republic Steel
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
U.M.W
Bethlehem
Republicanteel
Republic
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
William Bynes
Fayette County
Cambria
Lebanon
Steelton
Coatesville
Danville
Wilmington
Del
Lackawanna and Blasdell
New York
Sparrows Point
Seattle
Wash
San Francisco and
Vernon
California
Elaine Barrie Barry Battles Film Title Use
Elaine Barrie Barry former wife of John Barrymore is named defendant in a suit to block the title How To Undress in Front of Your Husband for a film she planned to exhibit. Barrymore family objects to using the Barrymore name, while Miss Jacobs appears in abbreviated dress and is described as the ex wife of John Barrymore. John Barrymore did not comment.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Elaine Barrie Barrymore
John Barrymore
Barrymore
Jacobs
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James
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LA Rochelle
Kane
St. Jean de Luz
Louisa A. Johnson
National American Legion
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George H. Dern
Great Cambria
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Point Stadium
Cambria City
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Committee For Industrial Organization
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Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Monroe
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