Seven-State Steel Strike Nears New Crisis in Warren
In Warren Ohio a CIO led general strike call sparks a mile long parade near Republic Steel guarded by militia with bayonets. Gus Hall claims up to 10000 workers may walk out as National Guardsmen hold line while talks continue with four steel companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Warren
Mahoning Valley
Republic Steel Corporation
CIO
Gus Hall
Hall
National
United States Mail
Youngstown
Federal Steel Mediation Board
Rotary Club of
Citizens Committee
Martin L. Davey
National Guard
John L. Owens
Ohio
Cleveland Auto Workers Council
Richard Reisinger
United Automobile
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Keeps Warm Thursday
The Amarillo region and West Texas expect fair skies and continued warmth on Thursday. New Mexico forecast similarly fair with little temperature change. Hourly readings from Amarillo show highs near 90s and a recent low around the upper 60s to 70s with records listed for 1936.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Eid Res
Ocean
Senate approves War Department bill with rivers and harbor funds
The Senate passed a 663 million dollar War Department appropriation providing 417 million for military uses and 246 million for rivers and harbors. It allocates 33.8 million for new planes with up to 20 million more for contracts, supporting 165000 enlisted personnel and 12653 officers. The measure awaits House conference action after defeating an ROTC funding amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Senate
War Department
House
Lynn J. Frazier
N. D
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Accidental Death Verdict in Drowning Near Vernon
Justice of the Peace F. M. Taylor ruled Ira L. Cox died accidentally by drowning. Cox, 30, entered the Pease River to set a trot line and his body was recovered by neighbors after his wife raised alarm over his absence yesterday near Vernon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon
Justice of the Peace
F. M. Taylor
Ira L. Cox
Pease River
Railroad Brotherhoods Push Members to Vote on Strike
The five operating railroad brotherhoods urged their about 300,000 members to vote within 30 days to back a strike. Officials said the move aims to prompt federal railway board intervention to secure wage increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Federal Railway Board
Amarillo Sees 96 Degree Heat Peak In Summer Heat
Amarillo endured its hottest spell of the summer as temperatures hit 96 degrees at 4 PM, tying the previous record set last Thursday. A Western Union messenger, Alfred J. Brunk, collapsed from heat but recovered within an hour. North Platte led the nation with 104 degrees, while Houston logged 95 and several Texas cities reached the upper 90s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Western Union
Alfred J. Brunk
North Platte, Neb
Ds.llas
U.P
Texas
Houston
Wichita Falls
Palestine
Austin
San Antonio Abilene del Rio
el Paso
Port Arthur
South Texas
Beaumont
Galveston
Richland Farmer George Poteet Dies After Sunstroke
Corsicana June 23 George Poteet aged 55 a Richland farmer died today from a sunstroke suffered while working on his farm Tuesday afternoon Funeral services are planned for tomorrow in the local area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corsicana
George Poteet
Richland
Fort Worth heat claims first victim of season
Jack Pickren 22 assistant manager of a downtown Fort Worth shoe store collapsed at work after saying he felt dizzy. He was rushed to hospital in critical condition.
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Fort Worth
Jack Pickren
Pickren
Merrill and Lambie to Arrive in Amarillo Today
Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie, celebrated Atlantic fliers, will land at English Field around 10 a.m. arriving from San Antonio. They will be greeted by Mayor Ross D. Rogers and local aviation enthusiasts, then proceed to the Amarillo Hotel for a business group reception. A Rotary Club luncheon will follow and Bill Wilson of the News-Globe will host a 15 minute radio interview.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Merrill
Atlantic
Jack Lambie
English Field
San Antonio
Ross D. Rogers
Thornton Oxnard
English Airport
Jay Taylor
Fred Smith
Amarillo
Merrill
Lambie
Rotary Club
Bill Wilson
News- Globe
Plans for island birthplace of the new redeemer revealed
A 17 year old testified that John Wuest Hunt planned to place the future mother in an island birth site tied to Delight Jewett, the Virgin Mary figure of the Father Divine order. She said Hunt claimed the world would condemn her and arranged to register a Packard in her name for the birth base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Redeemer
Los Angeles
U.P
Delight Jewett
John Wuest Hunt
Jesus the Christ
Hunt
Leon Yankwich
Denver
RA creates new office at Dalhart for rural rehabilitation work
The Resettlement Administration opens a district office in Dalhart to direct rural rehabilitation in the Dust Bowl region. Col Sparkman, formerly with the Amarillo office, will run the office with minimal staff and coordinate with county supervisors to aid areas in Texas New Mexico Oklahoma Kansas and Colorado. He is a Texas Tech graduate and former extension agent with farming background.
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Dalhart
Resettlement Administration
L. H. Hunter
Sparkman
Amarillo
Hartley
Texas
Union County
New Mexico
Cimarron
Oklahoma
Morton, Stanton
Stevens
Kansas
Baca
Las Animas
Colorado
Wallace
Roy I. Kimmel
Dust Bowl
Hayter
Department of Agriculture
Great Plains
Kimmel
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
King and Kent
Lubbock County
Texas Extension Service
Borger Election Trial Opens in Stinnett Eighty-fourth District
Jurors were selected to hear two quo warranto petitions aimed at ousting Borger Mayor John R. Miller and city commissioners. Plaintiffs accuse irregularities in election procedure and poll tax violations, seeking to declare the realtors elected or the April 6 election void.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Hamilton
Owen Pendergraft
J. H. Bell
John R. Miller
Col
Henry Knight
C. C. McClelland
Borger City
George Finger
S. Warne O'Keefe
A. R. Avary
McConnell
Constance Morrow on Her Honeymoon
Constance Morrow aged 21, sister of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, honeymooning at the Morrow summer home with her former brother in law Aubrey Neil Morgan. Morgan, partner in Morgan Ltd of Wales, wed Elisabeth Morrow on December 28, 1932. Constance, youngest daughter of the late Dwight Morrow, returned from England last Thursday with her mother and fiancé.
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North Haven
Constance Morrow
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Morrow Summer
Aubrey Neil Morgan
Morgan
Morgan, Ltd
Wales
Elisabeth Morrow
Pasadena
Constance
Dwight Morrow
England
University Geologist Speaks Here Tonight
Dr. E H Sellards of the University of Texas bureau of economic geology will be the guest speaker at the Panhandle Geological Society meeting tonight at 7 P M at the Amarillo Hotel. He will discuss Certain Phases of the Geologic History of Texas. Guests are welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Sellards
Bureau of Economic Geology
University of Texas
Panhandle Geological Society
Amarillo Hotel
Sellards
Texas
These Modern Children Go On Air Trip
Jack and Jill Whipps ages 12 and 10 left Amarillo by TWA on a summer trip to Columbus Ohio Pittsburgh Chicago and Milwaukee to visit relatives and great grandparents. Their father is a TWA radio dispatcher at English Field.
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Jack
Jill
T. F. Whipps
West Tenth Avenue
Amarillo
TWA
Columbus
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Milwaukee
English Field
UAW CIO Probe Unauthorized Auto Strikes
Detroit June 23 The United Auto Workers and its CIO parent launched an investigation into unauthorized automobile strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
United Automobile Workers of America
The
Committee For Industrial Organization
Five Convicts Caught After Prison Break
Huntsville dispatch reports five of nineteen Eastham prison escapees were captured. George Scott of San Antonio and Jack Foreman of Hunterdon County, both lifers and murderers, were seized near Groveton. Others including Alvin Stockton, Lawrence Williams, and Tom Corbitt were caught near Huntsville after a daylong chase in 110 degree heat. Bybee, leader of the break, and six others evaded initial pursuers in a wood before the captures.
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George Scott
San Antonio
Jack Foreman
Comanche
Groveton
Alvin Stockton
Houston
Lawrence Williams
Houston County
Tom Corbitt
Quitman
W. W. Ward
Huntsville
Williams
Stockton
Corbitt
W. H Bybee
Hunterdon County
Bybee
Carl Bush
R. D. Holliday
Livingston
Scott
Foreman
Texas
W. H. Bybee
Bonnie Parker
Clyde Barrow
Raymond Hamilton
J. J. Rice
Stock Problems Bother Salons
Texas still held 258 jacks and Stallions bought from race track profits for farmer livestock use. Senate amends a plan to let agriculture assign stock to breeders paying 20 percent to the state, but final passage failed. Senate approves Spanish American veterans for service officers. House resolves not to count life insurance surrender values under $750 for pension needs. Residence rule enforcement for temporary absentees loosened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
U.P
Texas
Senate
House
Commissioner of Agriculture
Old Age Assistance Commission
Slain FBI Agent Gave Slayers No Clue
In Topeka, June 28, counsel for Robert Suhay and Glen Applegate argued that FBI agent Wimberly W. Baker gave his alleged killers no chance to realize he was an officer during the attempted arrest in the Topeka post office. Baker was slain April 16 while confronting robbers from Katonah New York at the bank raid.
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Pera
Kan
Robert Suhay
Glen Applegate
Wimberly W. Baker
FBI
Baker
Topeka Post Office
Katonah
N. Y
Tenant and Share Cropper Legislation Moves Up
House leaders moved to debate next week a bill aiding tenants and sharecroppers to acquire farms. A revised bill authorizes three years of liberal loans totaling 85 million dollars, while a prior proposal for five years and 250 million dollars was not approved by the rules committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
De Mille Charged in Tax Case Linked to Family Corporation
Washington June 25 A treasury official testified before a congressional tax committee that Cecil B. De Mille used a family controlled corporation to funnel his income. Helvering described De Mille as directing services through the corporation to save taxes and later invest in film production. The session recessed with no further names disclosed. Congress expanded staff to pursue foreign insurer cases, adding about 700 to 800 agents with a $3 million appropriation to collect roughly $80 million in taxes.
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Washington
Treasury
Congressional Tax Committee
Cecil B. de Mille
Guy T. Helvering
Internal Revenue Bureau
de Mille
Helvering
Congress
Internal Revenue
Vinson
Democrat
Kentucky
Nazis and Italy Withdraw From Sea Control Plan
Germany and Italy jointly pulled out of the international sea control plan to isolate the Spanish civil war. Duce Mussolini ordered Italian patrol vessels from Spanish waters while pledging protection of the Italian flag. Hitler reportedly pressed for independent German sea strength amid a five hour cabinet session. General Pozas said Spanish forces aided a British freighter stopped for search by an Italian warship.
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Associated Press
Germany
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Tr Duce
Germany Sends Graf Spee to Spain Amid Nonintervention Tension
Berlin reports the pocket battleship Graf Spee sailed for Spain to protect German interests. Germany and Italy withdrew ships from the European nonintervention patrol after British and French refusal to sanction a naval display. Officials say the move shows Hitler’s resolve not to weaken Nazi forces in Spanish waters.
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Germany
Spain
Berlin
Graf Spee
Italy
Woman Surrenders in Murder Questioning
Mrs. Ruth Freed surrendered to the state's attorney's police in Chicago after eluding arrest since July 2. She is questioned in the slaying of Audrey Vallette, a blonde party girl, at the La Balle Towers Hotel. Eddy Freed, her husband and tavern owner on North Clark Street, was questioned and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
Ruth Freed
Audrey Vallette
la Balle ‘Towers
Clark Street
Miss Vallette
Eddy
Audrey
Negro Pleads Guilty To Slaying Merchant During Holdup
Willie Turner 24 of Texarkana pleaded guilty in Miller County Circuit Court to the pistol slaying of 61 year old merchant Joseph Hawkes during an attempted holdup in Texarkana.
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Texarkana
Tex
Willie Turner
Texarkana Negro
Miller County
Joseph Hawkes
Federal Jury Probes Insurance Fraud in Southwest
A federal grand jury in Shreveport began examining five insurance companies accused of defrauding policyholders across Louisiana Arkansas Texas New Mexico and Colorado. Prosecutor Harvey G Fields said the groups collected about 1 million in premiums while only 250 000 was paid in settlements and some policies paid as little as 3 93 per 1000 face value. Two officers earned 300 monthly and deposited nearly 190 000 into personal accounts while the bank held 290 in the company. Investigations by federal inspectors began eight months ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
Harvey G. Fields
Fields
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
Court Refuses Writ of Error In Parking Meter Fight
The Texas Supreme Court refused to hear W. R. Harper's appeal to halt Wichita Falls from installing parking meters. The ruling leaves the meter plan in place and Harper’s bid for a temporary injunction denied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Supreme Court
W. R. Harper
Wichita Falls
Noted American Aviator Plans Oakland to Moscow Flight
James Mattern announced a non stop refueling flight from Oakland to Moscow using a new 100000 dollar twin motor monoplane built in Burbank California. The route would require midair refueling likely over Fairbanks Alaska with possible navigator absence. He credits Soviet fliers for saving him in 1933 and will seek cooperation from Ambassador Troyanovsky in Moscow.
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Oakland
Moscow
Calif
James Mattern
Here
Burbank
Mattern
Alexander Troyanovsky
Fairbanks
Alaska
United States
Siberia
Troyanovsky
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Joan Blondell
Warner Brothers
Hollywood
Errol Flynn
Stanley Immerman
H. T. Collman
Weather Bureau
John W. Hunt
Ellis Parker
Trenton
Ellis Parker, SR
Ellis Parker, JR
Eye
Newark
N. J
Ellis H. Parker
Paul H. Wendel
Clark
Borger
Eastham
Cecil de Mille
U.S
Cecil B, DE Mille
Russell State, Co.—Fountain Pens
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