Senator Small arrives for Amarillo homecoming rally
Senator Small begins a Panhandle campaign swing with a morning arrival from Fort Worth and a day at the Amarillo Hotel. A rally at the Amarillo auditorium tonight will present his gubernatorial platform to supporters from 26 counties, touted as the largest political gathering in the North Panhandle.
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Clint Small
Panhandle
Senator Small
Amarillo
Amarillo Auditorium
North Panhandle
Fort Worth
Amarillo Hotel
Small Takes Lead In Cleburne Straw Poll
Senator Clint C. Small from the Panhandle led early in the Cleburne Times-Review straw poll for governor. The vote began yesterday and will run for several days with C. C. McDonald and James V. Allred following in the first tabulations.
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Cleburne
Clint C. Small
Panhandle
Cleburne Times-Review
Small
C. C. McDonald
James V. Allred
Busy Day for Senator Small in Amarillo Campaign Tour
Panhandle candidate in East and South Texas plans a busy day with open house at the Amarillo Hotel, noon county chairmen meeting, a 6 PM Young Democrats banquet, and an 8 30 PM speech. Delegations from Pampa Hereford Wellington Borger Memphis Clarendon Shamrock will attend. Races at the Tri State Fair add to the day as bands perform and a massed 7 30 PM concert precedes the 9 30 PM address. Loud speakers are installed in the auditorium.
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West Texas
Pampa
Hereford
Wellington
Borger
Memphis
Clarendon
Shamrock
Tri-State Fair Grounds
Senator Small
Garber Concert and Dance Tickets On Sale Today
Tickets for the Jan Garber concert and dance at the Nat Dine and Dance Palace go on sale at 9 am at City Drug Store No. 1. Concert tickets cost 1.40 and 0.35 dollars, with a free lower floor ticket offered for each 1.00 paid. Dance admission is 1.50 per person.
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Jan Garber
City Drug Store No. 1
Nat Dine and Dance Palace
Panhandle Derby Day Race Sets New Tradition
Derby day at the Tri-State Fair track closes a nine day meeting begun June 15 with a record crowd and breaking attendance and pari mutuel totals. Twelve horses entered for the Panhandle Derby with Bozo favored on the mutuel list as field entry Bozo and Bunting Lad combine for betting. Political figures including Sen. Clint Small will attend as candidates for state and county offices roam the grounds.
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Panhandle
Texas
Tri-State Fair Track
Wilbur C. Hawk
The
Fair Association
Clint Small
Amarillo
Bozo
Mutuel Department
W. B. Tiner
Tiner
Bunting Lad
Truck and car crash near Madisonville claims two lives
J L Walker of Teague died instantly and Morris Brand of Centerville fatally injured in a head on collision between a truck and an automobile near Madisonville early Saturday.
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Madisonville
Tex
J. L. Walker
Teague
Morris Brand
Centerville
Potter County Young Democrats Banquet in Amarillo
The Potter County Young Democrats sponsor a banquet and dance in Amarillo to celebrate securing regional and state conventions for the group. Senator Clint Small, Panhandle candidate for governor, will be honored. The event starts at 6 15 p m at the Capitol Hotel followed by a rally and dance at Roseland.
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Amarillo
Potter County
Amarillo's colorful pioneer Dr. E. F. True dies at 85
Dr. Eben F. True, 85, a well known figure in Amarillo's early Panhandle days, died at his home on Pierce Street after years of heart disease. He survived a car accident with Judge James D. Hamlin near Farwell a week earlier and had been fading in health for some time. Funeral services were set for 4 p.m. at Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home.
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Amarillo
FE. F. True
Pierce Street
True
James D. Hamlin
Farwell
Clovis
8S. K. Broyles
Dr. True
Panhandle
Blackburn-Shaw
Eben F. True
Livermore
Maine
Bates and Beal
LX Ranch
Colorado
Boston
Mass
Dr.True
Lamar
Colo
Snell Attacks New Deal Propagandists
Representative Snell charged the Democratic administration with bluffing and spreading political propaganda funded by taxpayers. He criticized President Roosevelt’s Yale address as a political speech and denounced the administration for promoting partisan tools like the NRA and the brain trust.
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Washington
Snell
House
Senatorial-Congressional Committee
Roosevelt
Yale University
Morgenthau
Treasury Department
Parley
Democratic National Committee
Yale
Johnson
NRA
Texas 10 Get Big Slice of New PWA Fund
The Texas region receives a seven million dollar portion of a new PWA fund. Officials say the allocation will support local projects and infrastructure improvements across the state.
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Texas
PWA
Northwest
Texas seeks large share of new public works funds
Washington reports Texas state officials have approved 26 project loan and grant applications totaling over 7 million dollars as part of the 500 million dollar public works fund. The applications are under federal review for financial legal and technical qualification. The wave of Texas proposals eclipses other states in both dollar amount and number of projects led by a 2.228 million loan for a Fort Worth power system and two other high value requests.
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Sportal
Washington
Texas
Public Works Administration
PWA
Lone Star
Fort Worth
Panhandle loses big share in Texas public building funds
Washington announcers reveal the Panhandle receives only a small portion of an $11.26 million Texas public building program. New work includes a Borger post office for $53,900 while held projects in Childress Dalhart and Shamrock resume. Amarillo Lamesa Quanah and Clarendon grants were missing.
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Washington
Texas Panhandle
Department of Agriculture
Panhandle
Texas
Farley
Childress
Dalhart
Shamrock
Panhandie
Amarillo
Lamesa
Quanah
Clarendon
Pilot Jimmy Weddell Dies In Plane Crash
Beaumont official reports Jimmy Weddell famed flier killed when his plane nose dived into trees near Wedell Williams Airport Patterson Louisiana at 9 45 P M Student flier Frank Swearing of Mobile Alabama critically injured The crash occurred from an altitude of 300 feet Weddell held speed and other records and was VP of Wedell Williams Air Service He lived in New Orleans with his wife He helped build airplanes with Mary Williams and Marguerite Clark at Patterson
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Beaumont
Jimmy Weddell
Wedell- Williams
Patterson
Frank Swearing
Mobile
Ala
Wedell
Wedell- Williams Air Service, Inc
New Orleans
Marry F. Williams
Marguerite Clark
Jim Fame
Rainfall in Clarendon Surpasses Full-Year 1933 Totals
Clarendon records show 14.71 inches of rain for the first five months of 1934 and half of June, surpassing all of 1933's total 12.65 inches. Local weather observer Joe Goldston notes the annual average is about 24 inches, with most rain this year occurring in May and early June.
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Clarendon
Joe Goldston
Four Prisoners in Bold Escape From Lubbock Jail
Four inmates escaped from the Lubbock County jail after slugging a deputy sheriff in broad daylight. Ed Stanton, condemned for a sheriff murder in Swisher County, leads the gang with other felons including William Coupe, Andrew Nelson, and J. B. Stephens, all under various burglary or robbery sentences in Texas counties. Authorities across three states search for the escapees.
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Lubbock
Perchmouth) Stanton
West Texas
Stanton
John C. Mosley
Swisher
Tulsa
State Court of Criminal Appeals
William E. Cbu
Coupe
Paul Mitchell
Robert Tharp
Andrew H. Nelson
Motley
Terry
Stephens
Dickens
Floyd
Nelsonia
The
Meadow
J. B. Stephens
Bedford Carpenter
Ex Colorado solon Charles Thomas dies after long life
Charles Thomas, former United States senator and Colorado governor, dies at 4, after decades of political clashes. A Democrat, he taunted Roosevelt on monetary policy and resisted gold seizures, amassing what he called his hoard of 129 dollars.
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Denver
Charles Thomas
United States
Colorado
Roosevelt
Thomas
Lfe
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wilson
Tech archaeologists to study in Mexico City
An expedition of Texas Technological College archaeologists will depart for Mexico City on January 19 and return August 23. The four week program includes reading lectures and inspection of ruins museums galleries libraries palaces and monuments under Dr. W C Holden who led the Yaqui expedition into Sonora Mexico.
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Meial
Lubbock
Texas
Texas Technological College
Mexico City
Jay
W. C. Holden
Sonora
Mexico
Paris falra tragedy ends with cannon accident
Gaston Richards a 53 year old street performer known as a human projectile was killed when a cannon shot him too far causing him to fall outside a net during a street showcase in Paris on June 24.
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Paris
Gaston Richards
Street Falra
Hostages Released After Jail Break Near Big Spring
Four desperado criminals who escaped from the Lubbock County jail released two officials Walter & Posey vice president of Pirat National Bank of Lubbock and Campbell H Hiking assistant justice of the peace at Lubbock eight miles northeast of Big Spring after a harrowing ride. The banker said the prisoners treated them as nice but they had no food all day.
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Big Spring
Tex
Lubbock
Walter & Posey
Pirat National Bank of
Jailed four escapees assault guard and flee from jail
A group of four inmates attacked Jailer Carpenter during an escape attempt in the jail section housing them. They overpowered him when his arms were pinioned as he tried to draw a gun. The four fled the facility while Posey and Elkins were still reported held. The Army offered air support and a patrol aircraft scouted the border region without locating the fugitives.
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Carpenter
Walter Posey
Fiest National Pank
Lubbock
Campbell H. Fikins
Posey and Elkins
United States Army
Hobbs
N. M
Texas
New Mexico
Car
Jai
M- Mates
Blanton
Coupe
Nelson
Stephens
Outlaw Stanton Freed After Jail Escape From Lubbock
Perchmouth Stanton, a once jailed outlaw and confessed murderer tied to the killing of Sheriff Moseley of Swisher County, escaped from Lubbock County jail today. He had spent three weeks in Potter County jail awaiting a first degree murder trial and was captured near Ramon, New Mexico after a gun battle where an officer was killed.
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Perchmouth
Stanton
Lubbock County
Potter County
Mosely
Swisher County
Gib Landis
Alanton
Ramon, N. M
Cedar Hills
Ramon
Glenn Hunsucker
Tulsa
Moseley
Hunsiucker
Hunsucker
Hunsuckers
Texas
New Mexico
Stone Falls
Roosevelt County
Portales
Texas Sheriff Seeks Custody in Port of Spain
Sheriff A. Anderson of Culbertson County Texas arrived by air in Port of Spain Trinidad seeking to take custody of Robert Jones ships steward held due to resemblance to Arthur C. Wilson the Texas murder suspect. He was joined by District Attorney Roy Jackson and Leo Raptigan a Wilson acquaintance.
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Texas
Spain
Port OF Spain
Trinidad
A. Anderson
Culbertson County
Robert Jones
Arthur C. Wilson
Roy Jackson
el Paso
Leo Raptigan
Cleveland
Wilson
Final Day at Tri-State Racing Gala Ends Meet
Panhandle turf followers bid farewell to the sport as the Tri-State Racing Association wraps its spring meeting at Tri-State Park. Seven races on the program start at 2:30 pm with the Panhandle Derby as the highlight, a mile and one sixteenth event drawing a large field. Bands from West Texas cities will perform and candidates for state and county offices will be introduced.
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Tri-State Racing Association
Tri-State Pair
West Texas
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