Martial law ordered in Cherokee County amid mining strike violence
Governor Alf M Landon ordered National Guard units into Cherokee County reacting to renewed violence in the lead and zinc mining strike area. Martial law covers the county and city of Galena with troops to prevent further disturbances as reports describe shootings and roaming strikers aided by Missouri and Oklahoma miners.
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Topeka
Alf M. Landon
M. R. McLean
National Guard
Wichita
Kansas City
Kansas
Cherokee County
Charles H. Browne
Horton
Galena
McLean
Missouri
Oklahoma
White House letters to Congress spark chores for law suits
Beverly Hills dated note from Franklyn claims the White House sends daily messages to Congress. The writer jokes that the President keeps Congress busy with new tasks, noting a ruling about suing the government and urging Congress to declare that suits cannot proceed without government permission.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Congress
White House
Franklyn
Fifth division West Texas Legionaux convention program set
Two day agenda for Legionnaires and Auxiliary members led by George E. Broome includes registration at Amarillo venues, a 40 and 8 parade, a car tour of business districts or Palo Duro Canyon trip, 40 and 8 wreck initiations, and an Auxiliary tea at RoselandDance Hall, with events continuing to the next page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Texas Legionnaires
Legion
George E. Broome
The
American Legion
Bill Benton
Floyd L. Sloan
Bill Burger
Charles M. Holt
Amarillo
Herring Hotel
Legion Home
Detroit police hunt for William Ferris in attorney Dickinson slaying
A bizarre Detroit murder case centers on William Lee Ferris also known as James Taylor and William Sweitzer. Dickinson, an attorney from New York, was slain after investigating the Hawkey Estate claim. a woman who checked Dickinson sua briefcase at a hotel and a companion of Dickinson are key figures. police widen search to Ohio and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Howard Carter Dickinson
New York
Dickinson
William H. Hawkey
Rouge Park
William Lee Ferris
Andre Smygen
Ferris
Heinrich A Pickert
James Taylor
William Sweitzer
Sweitzer
Fred W. Frahm
Frahm
Ohio
Solons Rebel On Gold Bill
Washington June 28 Tax and gold legislation delay could push adjournment indefinite and allow revolters to push through unwanted measures. Steagall proposed a bill to bar holders of gold clause securities from suing the government over dollar devaluation with hearings to start soon. Representative Fish condemned the plan as robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
House
Steagall
Alabama
House Banking Committee
Representative Fish
New York
Fish
Banking Committee
Two Complete Strips of Paving Across Panhandle
Amarillo officials announce a two million dollar plan to finish all weather pavement on two routes. Highway 66 will cross the Panhandle from Texline to Memphis, including Jericho Gap and the 52 mile segment near Potter County. A second route will run Texline to Memphis, replacing a short stretch on Highway 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Gib Gilchrist
Texas Highway Department
T. H. McDonald
Federal Bureau of Roads
America
Jericho Gap
West Potter County
New Mexico State Line
Texline
Panhandle
Memphis
Dumas
Channing
Amarillo
Hartley
W. J. van London
Marvin Jones
Carl Hinton
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce Highway Committee
Hereford
Farwell
New Mexico
T. E. Johnson
Chamber Highway Committee
Panhandle Plains
Riotation breaks out in Joplin sector at smelter
Rioting erupted again in front of the Galena Smelter of Eagle-Pitcher Mining and Smelting Co on the federal highway. Five persons were slightly injured, among them Dr. G Hogan Jasper County Missouri coroner, as strikers fired on passing cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joplin
Joplin Mo
Galena
Eagle-Pitcher Mining and Smelting Company
G. ,W. Hogan
Jasper County
Missouri
Jones bill to lend 3000 Army cots for veterans reunion
Representative Jones proposes a bill authorizing the War Secretary to loan 3000 army blankets and 3000 canvas cots to the United Confederate Veterans reunion committee for the annual encampment in Amarillo Texas in September 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jones
Texas
Secretary of War
Reunion Committee
The
United Confederate Veterans
Amarillo
Tex
Sheriffs Oppose Fees in Texas Salary Move
Memos from the Texas Sheriffs Association favor abolition of the fee system and the payment of county and district officers on a salary basis. H. C. Ford, Austin, business manager and editor of the association magazine, announced this today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas Sheriffs’ Association
H. C. Ford
Austin
Association
Said
Best Want Ad Season in Five Years
The notice touts a strong want ad season with buyers for homes farms and rentals. It highlights demand for used furniture cars and other sale items and urges readers to place Globe-News Want Ads for quick cash vacation money tax money and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Best Want Ad
Globe-News
Dial
Texas Centennial Fund Authorized for 1936 Celebration
President Roosevelt signed a 3 million dollar appropriation for the Texas Centennial, with approval by the Senate finance committee to be sent to the House. The Texas Centennial commission will be led by a commissioner-general, assisted by four cabinet members and three aides, to administer the fund.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Garner
Hill, Wallace
Roper
Veteran Fielder Richardson, 86, in Dalhart softball
Dalhart’s oldest softball player is J. C. Richardson aged 86, playing right field for the West Texas Utilities Co. club. With a Van Dyke beard and a ten gallon Stetson he is a colorful Panhandle figure who has been in the region since the 1890s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalhart
J. C. Richardson
West Texas Utilities Co
Richardson
Panhandle
Cloudburst floods Washita River and disrupts rail lines
A virtual cloudburst in the Washita River basin sent the stream out of its banks flooding hundreds of acres of bottomland and washing out railway tracks in Roger Mills and Custer counties. The flood crest reached Hammonton with the river about one and a half miles wide at the center of a flood last year that killed 18 people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammon
Okla
Washita River
Roger Mills
Custer
Washita
National Legion Head Arrives for West Texas Convention
Two thousand World War veterans and 14 American delegates converge on Amarillo for the Fifth Division and Eighteenth District meeting. National Commander Frank N. Belgrano Jr. will lead a two day program with entertainment and a focus on veterans affairs. Public invited to Municipal Auditorium at 7 45 p m for the opening session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank N. Belgrano, Jr
San Francisco
American Legion
Amarillo
Municipal Auditorium
West Texas
Americas
Legion
Texas
Texas Department
18Th
Oklahoma Line
del Rio
Dewey Richberg
Pecos
Belgrano
Veterans’ Affairs
Hanson
Bill Burger
West Texas Legionnaires
Bodies of flood victims found in Arkansas backwaters
Two flood victims were recovered today as searchers continued for three others feared drowned in Arkansas backwaters from the latest overflow blamed for 14 deaths. The bodies of Pat Jordan, 48, and Buck Foreman, 20, Conway County tenant farmers, were found three miles southeast of Morriston in the Arkansas River backwaters. Herman Jones, 20, was still missing.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Pat Jordan
Buck Foreman
Conway County
Arkansas River
Morriston
Herman Jones
Dallas Detective Drops Link To New Mexico Suspect In Missing Tourists
Dallas detectives said a New Mexico man, 36, is likely not connected to the Illinois tourists disappearance. Det. Capt. Will Fritz reported the suspect admitted residency in Socorro and will be questioned for Dallas burglaries and Wichita Falls warrants while investigators continue checks.
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Dallas
New Mexico
Illinois
Socorro
N.M
Will Fritz
Fritz
Wichita Falls
George W. Lorius
Wellington Farmer Drops Dead at Home
Efton Wilks aged 50 collapsed at his farm home in the Arlie Community eleven miles southeast of here shortly after noon. A Collingsworth County resident for 35 years and son of pioneer G. W. Wilks, he died of a heart attack. Body held at Ellis Funeral Home pending arrangements.
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Wellington
Efton Wilks
Arlie
Here
Collingsworth
G. W. Wilks
Ellis Funeral Home
Seguin Man Killed Crossing Highway. Driver Charged
Seguin Texas reports Melvin Reinhard aged 23 was struck and killed by a truck while crossing the highway. The truck driver A D Tibbs was charged with negligent homicide and released on $500 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seguin
Texas
Melvin Reinhard
A. D. Tibbs
Wheat prices advance limit as rust fears grip trading
Chicago on June 28 reports show black rust threatening wheat fields and damp weather. Wheat futures jumped five cents to 88 cents for December and 857s for September, with July at Minneapolis and gains in Kansas City. Trade advices noted rust spread in Nebraska and Red River Valley.
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Chicago
United States
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Nebraska
Red River Valley
Young American Chef to Dine with Mussolini in Rome
Angelo Sferrazza, a 14 year old from the East Side, who won a Napoli spaghetti contest, sails to Italy with American schoolboys invited by Il Duce for a rare encounter in Rome.
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New York
Mussolini
Angelo Sferrazza
Rome
Angelo
Italy
In Duce
AF of L Urges Industry License Proposal to Roosevelt
The American Federation of Labor urged President Roosevelt to back a federal licensing of industry to uphold NRA principles. The President reserved decision on seeking new permanent NRA legislation at this session.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor Today
Roosevelt
NRA
Pastor Must Serve Penitentiary Term
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed a seven year sentence for Rev. W. D. Welburn Jr., former San Antonio pastor, convicted of perjury in his wife's divorce case. The perjury charge stemmed from his testimony denying a July 25 1933 marriage in Boerne, Texas to Wineta Long.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
U.P
Court of Criminal Appeals
W. D. Welburn, Jr
San Antonio
Winta Long Welburn
Boerne
Texas
Wineta Long
National Beer Drinking Derby Suggested by WCTU
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union mockingly proposed a national beer drinking marathon. A Milwaukee event the day after features three women entrants. The group questions why a government-backed nationwide competition for beer couldn’t help cure deficits and unemployment.
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Chicago
U.P
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Milwaukee
University Gets Bells for Tower
Five carillon bells will be installed in the University of Texas main building and library tower at a cost of 19000 dollars funded by a PWA allotment. The support structure is built to hold 36 bells, with one bell striking the hour and the rest forming a Westminster peal. The largest bell weighs 7500 pounds followed by 5600 2400 1600 and 1200 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
University of Texas
PWA
Son of Lon A. Smith Faces Bribe Charge
Frank A. Smith son of Lon A Smith commissioner of the Texas Railroad Commission is indicted by Gregg County grand jury on bribery and being an accessory to a bribe. The case follows an earlier acquittal on conspiracy to bribe other defendants Harry Goldman and Bill Anderson were convicted and given two year sentences with a motion for a new trial for Anderson overruled.
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Longview
Frank A. Smith
Lon A. Smith
Texas Railroad Commission
Gregg County
Young Smith
Harry Goldman
Bill Anderson
Anderson
Pampa Man Shot Wounding Incident Reported
June 28 Elmer Isa Bell, 28, was shot in the thigh in Pampa. Police arrested a suspect.
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Pampa
Elmer Isabell
Lateral Road Work Outlined by Judges
County judges and commissioners in the Panhandle discussed developing lateral roads under Works Progress Administration rules. Texas has 22 million dollars in federal highway funds for next year with 20 percent likely for lateral roads, plus 7.5 million federal aid and 6 million state funds. Labor may be available at little or no county cost under existing relief, and twenty nine lateral road projects were noted.
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Panhandle
North Panhandle
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Move For Action
U. S
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River
National Head OF Legion
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Il Duce
A. F. OF L. Urges Industry License
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