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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1938
Page
4
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration announced setup of machinery to distribute 130 million dollars in price adjustment payments to 1937 cotton producers. Eligible growers must certify no overplanting in 1938, with payment rates based on sale date and market prices. A note mentions using goldenrod leaves as a tea substitute.
Texas industry and trade fell in May but at a slower rate than in prior months. Dr. F A Buechel of the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research said indicators pointed to a leveling of the business curve in the next two months and an upturn early in the fall. The May composite index stood at 92.42, down from 99.02 a year earlier and 93.16 in April.
Amarillo firm Townes and Funk announced their award for architectural plans of the new Quay County courthouse in Tucumcari New Mexico. A county bond issue and a Public Works Administration grant of 120000 support the 218000 project with construction to begin by August.
Eighteen men and women including two high officers of the German Air Ministry were indicted by a special federal grand jury in New York in a solemn proceeding approved by the state department. Four remain in this country to face trial.
Defense lawyers in the Harlan coal conspiracy trial sought to tie the United Mine Workers of America to Communism by introducing Russian pamphlets alleged seized at union HQ. Judge Ford allowed jurors to inspect the documents amid chamber battles. The pamphlets tied to the 1931 Evarts violence, with deputies killed and union members jailed.
A 55 year old man, who told Eastland County Sheriff Loss Woods he grew tired of eluding officers, is jailed on a Florida slaying charge claimed in self defense from 13 years ago. Florida indictments and extradition arrangements were noted. suspect arrested near Brad Palo Pinto County.
C G Kropp German consul protested to Mayor Ralph Day on behalf of the German government after Alderman William Croft called the Toronto Zoo so dirty that only Hitler would be placed there. Kropp said Dr Erich Windels had instructed him to demand the offensive remark be withdrawn. The piece ends noting the three blind mice rhyme is over 300 years old.
Kalimpong India June 29 Captain P R Oliver of the British Tilman expedition reported the effort to summit Mount Everest has been abandoned at about 2,000 feet below the peak. The seventh attempt in 20 years has failed to reach the top and no climber has ever done so.
The court decided to pass on a protest by a CIO affiliate against forming a new refinery workers union headquartered in Nederland Jefferson County. C. V. Berlin and other organizers pushed the new union.
Tom Green County won a suit to collect 984 from the estate of J. M. Harper former county treasurer who died May 6, 1934. The court held Harper had received the maximum 1934 salary for the full year despite serving less than half, with the sum paid to his successor George A. Bond.
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