Senate weighs liberalized disability pay for World War veterans
Washington June 18 Senate takes up house bill to liberalize disability allowances for World War II veterans with hopes of final action tomorrow. Senator Smoot faces Democratic advocates while arguing the measure could award veterans for diseases linked to vicious habits. Debate centers on service origin claims and potential payouts, with pressure on President Hoover.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate
Smoot
Utah
Finance Committee
Shortridge
California
Hoover
Congress
Fields Drying Up Amid 93 Degree Heat
The weather fried fields with a 93 degree day and a dry up breeze for harvest, breaking a week of cloudy dampness. Tuesday reached 86 while last year on the date saw 89. Forecasters warn of partly cloudy conditions Thursday with possible north and west Texas thunderstorms.
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Texas
Song
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity
Amarillo area forecast calls for Thursday fair in the east and west Texas region. Partly cloudy with unsettled pockets in the north and extreme west, little temperature change expected. Hourly temperatures are uncertain, with a high around usual May levels.
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Amarillo
Texas
Protein test shows high wheat protein in panhandle crop
The Amarillo Grain Exchange handled 14 cars of new wheat with protein tests indicating higher than last year. G R Dunning of Panhandle Laboratories noted tests around 11 to 12 percent, some at 15 to 16 percent. Estimates vary by region with Claude and Lark producing lower protein. Wheat arrivals rise as fields dry, with Oklahoma Wheat Growers reporting 150 carloads from South Plains areas.
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Amarillo Grain Exchange
G. R. Dunning
The
Panhandle Laboratories
A. W. Sorelle
J. N. Beasley Grain Company
Claude
Lark
Amarillo
Oklahoma Wheat Growers
South Plains
Conway
Pullman
Vega
Dimmitt
Hale Center
Plainview
Floydada
Lockney
Tulsa
Happy
B. S. McClendon
J. N. Beasley
Claude and
White Deer
Blotz-Henneman Grain Company
Stand ing reward for dead drug store bandits approved
The Texas Pharmaceutical Association at its Houston convention proposed a standing reward of 2000 dollars for dead drug store bandits and a 200 dollar reward for arrest and conviction of robbers burglars and hoodlums who prey on stores. The measure was referred to the resolution committee for action.
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the Associated Press
Houston
Texas Pharmaceutical Association
Association
Bettie Cox, 3, Run Over in City Accident
Bettie Cox, a 3 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs R E Cox of 738 North Cleveland Street, was run over about 7 p m by a car driven by C E Dunlap of 710 East Second Street. The child was crossing North east Eighth Street in the 1000 block and was taken by Griggs ambulance to St Anthony's hospital. Her injuries were not considered serious and no arrests were made. It was deemed an unavoidable accident.
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Bettie Cox
R. E. Cox
Cleveland Street
C. E. Dunlap
East Second Street
Eighth Street
Griggs
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Dallas Bank Clerk, 18, Admits Stealing Funds
Ward Dillard, an 18 year old Dallas bank clerk, confessed to embezzling 17 602 37 dollars from the Republic National Bank and Trust Company in Dallas. Deputies arrested him in Houston after he reportedly traveled to visit his sweetheart carrying 700 dollars.
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United Press
Houston
Tarte
Ward Dillard
Dallas
Republic National Bank and Trust Company
Damenbee
Escorts of Girls Slain in Cold Blood In Queens
Police around Queens mobilize hundreds to trap a homicidal maniac who has killed two men in front of young women in automobiles. Witnesses Catharine May and Elizabeth King, both 19, describe the assailant as a shabby, about 40 year old English speaker. Investigators press for leads as the killer threatens a third murder.
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Associated Press
New York
Mulrooney
Queens
Catharine May
Joseph Mozynski
Queens Grocer
Mozynski
Elizabeth King
Noel Lowley
Wellington voters back highway bond despite late returns
Special to The News from Wellington reports the $420,000 road bond election results were incomplete at a late hour. Wellington city supported the bonds by 784 to 172, while 20 rural boxes withheld final tallies. Collingsworth County has pressed for paving Highway 4 along with Federal Highway 83 designation.
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Wellington
Collingsworth County
Gulf Coast
Canada
Fort Worth Man Sent to Lunacy Court for Treatment
Thomas Bohn a 60 year old advertising man told the lunacy court his brain was slipping and he feared harming others or himself. He disposed of his pistol and shotgun and was found of unsound mind and committed to a state hospital. He wandered at night since April but returned to his lodgings by instinct.
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Fort Worth
Associated Preas
Tank
Thomas Bohn
Bohm
L. F. Rhodes
Fitzhugh
G. T. Oliver accuses grain men of seeking cheap wheat
Amarillo financier G. T. Oliver says grain men press farmers to sell now and lack of storage forces farmers to gamble on markets. He cites a record low harvest as proof and urges farm bins as the solution. He notes his own storage, but worries many farmers have none.
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G. T. Oliver
Amarillo
Mr. Oliver
Stock Exchange
Oliver
Youth Admits Cutting Line Into Residence
W H Barth 33 of Texline signed a statement to District Attorney Edw W Thomerson admitting a plot to cut telephone wires into a home on East Third Avenue. He said Edis Putman arranged to meet his ex wife and offered to cancel a debt if Barth would cut the wires, while Melvin Gray aided by watching the house and cutting the lines with a knife supplied by Putman. Gray remained at large. potential penalties range from two to five years in prison or a $100 to $2,000 fine.
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East Third Avenue
W. H. Barth
Texline
Edw. W. Thomerson
Edis Putman
Barth
Putnam
Melvin Gray
Amarillo
Putman
Gray
Drowning of Two Children Near Galveston Channel
Two children Walter Robie Jr age six and Irene Robie aged four were drowned five miles east of Galveston in the ship channel about 12 feet deep. They wandered from shore into the 10 foot dredged channel as their mother fished nearby. City life guards recovered the bodies after over an hour of efforts.
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Associated Press
Galveston
Walter Robie, Jr
Irene Robie
Here
Wheat hits new bottom then recovers part of loss
Chicago trading floor saw July wheat plunge to 4 4 1/4 cents a bushel, the lowest in 16 years, amid fears of tariff reprisals and farm board politics. It later rallied to around 9 41/4 cents, with September and December futures also sliding before closing modestly higher than the session lows. Corn and rye followed wheat lower on the day.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Alexander Legge
Federal Farm Board
United States
Senate debates Rivers and Harbors bill continues
The Senate pressed ahead with discussion of the Rivers and Harbors bill while Treasury data suggested the income tax cut unlikely to extend into next year. The House judiciary committee approved one Wagner unemployment relief measure as the Federal Reserve reported wholesale commodity prices.
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Senate
Treasury
House
Judiciary Committee
Federal Reserve Board
Morrow Wins New Jersey Senate Nomination On Prohibition Bent
Senate victor Dwight Morrow, allied with J. P. Morgan & Co., gains the New Jersey U.S. Senate nomination by a large majority on a platform of repeal. He draws praise for work in Mexico and the Naval Treaty delegation. His chief rival was Representative Fort, a dry candidate.
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Dwight Morrow
J. P. Morgan & Co
New Jersey
U. S. Senate
Morrow
Mexico
Inter
Senate
Representative Fort
Texas 66 Highway Association Formed in Panhandle
Panhandle Texas forms the Texas 66 Highway Association at a called meeting in Shamrock to push U S Highway 66 through the Panhandle. J W Knorpp of Groom named president. W W Chilton elected secretary manager. Amarillo chosen as convention city for June 27 session to finalize organization and align with the L 66 Highway Association.
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Stafe
Shamrock
Panhandle of Texas
Texas
Texas 66 Highway Association
J. W. Knorpp
Groom
W. W. Chilton
Amarillo
Knorpp
Panhandle Strip
Federal Association
Tucumcari
N. M
Bryan Texas man found shot dead after assault attempt
Unknown assailants killed a black man suspected of attacking a white woman near Bryan. His body was found five miles north of Bryan near Mrs. Henry Bowman’s home, riddled by buckshot. Deputies reported failure to identify the killer and said the case would not be pressed. A large posse had searched 36 hours after the Monday incident at the Bowman residence.
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Bryan
Texas
Here
Henry Bowman
L. Baker
Bill Boap
Pegraw
Family blown apart in field blast near Huntsville
A dynamite explosion at a Texas Company site near Huntsville killed Claudia Cadenakii 21 Ruby Cadenski 14 Jack Cadenaki 12 and wounded their father who escaped unhurt. The search for body parts continued as Justice officials investigated the accident involving Walker County farmer Cadenski and his children while en route home for dinner.
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Huntsville
Here
Texas Company
Claudia Cadenakii
Ruby Cadenski
Jack Cadenaki
Jim Cadenaki
Walker County
Florda
Cadenski
Justice of the Peace
R. J. Camp
Kt. T. Burns
Jury panels fail to reach verdict in Trimble case
The jury in Robert Trimble's hijacking trial of a West Sixth Street paint shop owner deadlocked seven to five, prompting discharge at noon. A similar seven to five deadlock occurred in the Neal Cobb liquor cage case earlier in the week. Emmett Roberts, 23, Stratford, received a two year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to forging his father's name on a $10 check. The panel was dismissed for the week with no other cases on the docket.
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Robert Trimble
West Sixth Street
Neal Cobb
Emmett Roberts
Stratford
Copeland Found Juvenile in Smallpox Case Transfer
Wil lie Copeland, a Black juvenile charged with a serious case after a smallpox incident in court, was moved to Sam B. Motlow jurisdiction. The earlier confrontation involved Copeland injuring another Black person with a sharp object during a dispute.
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District Criminal Court
Willie Copeland
Sam B. Motlow
Copeland
A Clever Little Home For Sale In Globe News Ads
A Clever Little Home is described as beautifully landscaped and ready to live in. The Globe News real estate want ads list a big selection of houses for sale including big or small homes in the city or suburbs, brick frame or stucco, with summer seen as the time for a real buy.
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Globe News
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