Akron Goodyear riot leaderless crowds clash on street
Police and pickets fought for hours in Akron in a riot at the Goodyear plant area injuring at least 100 and gassing hundreds. Officials threatened National Guardsmen as 3 000 were told to stand by and workers returned to their shifts amid mounting tensions.
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Akron
U.P
National
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Market Street
Marx
Martin L. Davey
Little Steel
United Rubber Workers
Goodyear
Cardenas Siesta Disturbed as Cedillo Fleeing Rebel Captured
Mexico under President Cardenas slept on a calm night after the capture of rebel chief Cedillo in San Luis Potosi. Federal forces pursued him after his plane forced down in the Huag teca hills, five aides fled into brush, and 1,100 peasant followers had already surrendered.
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Mexico
la Revolucion
Saturnino Cedillo
San Luis Potosi
Mexico City
Cardenas
Cedillo
Fatanguela
San Luis Potost
Lucas Gonzalez
Radical Mexico
Huagteca
Rubber industry shifts pace from Akron says Seiberling
J P Seiberling president of Seiberling Rubber in Akron warns labor strife will push decentralization of rubber manufacturing to other cities. He cites Houston as favored due to location port power and chemical deposits while noting Goodyear Firestone plants face reduced output amid strikes and labor tensions.
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Houston
J. P. Seiberling
Akron
Ohio
Seiberling
Seiberling Rubber Company of
Roosevelt
United States
Firestone
Goodyear
Junior League Follies of 1938 Tonight at 8:30
The Junior Welfare League Follies stage 31 acts of dancing and comedy tonight at 8 30. Tickets available at the Oliver Eakle Building lobby with many seats left. Cabaret follows the show with tickets 1 each sold in the same lobby.
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Junior Welfare League Follies
Oliver- Eakle
Oliver Eakle
Laughing crowds applaud dancing numbers at show
The audience roared with laughter as the dancing numbers drew loud applause. Director Larry Doyle expressed satisfaction with the overall performance and praised individual acts.
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Larry Doyle
Three Amarillo Firms Back Follies With $100 Each
Phyllis Stansfield, general chairman of the Junior Welfare League Follies, announced last night that three Amarillo firms contributed $100 each to stage the event. The skits include Beautiful Faces Need Beautiful Clothes, At the Shamrock Oil and Gas Station, and The Gay Chrysler Girls, purchased by White and Kirk, Shamrock Oil and Gas, and Toney Chisum.
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Amarillo
Shamrock Oil and Gas
Chrysler
White and
Kirk
Toney Chisum
Phyllis Stansfield
Follies
Deep Oil Test Ordered Near Amarillo by Major Companies
Announcement of an 8,000 foot oil test eight miles northwest of Amarillo marks a major step for Parcamas Oil and Gas Co and Sinclair Prairie Oil and Gas Co, subsidiaries of Consolidated Oil. Three locations are under review with drilling to begin once selected.
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Amarillo
Parcamas Oi and Gas Co
Sinclair Prairie Oil and Gas Co
Consolidated Oil Company
Helium Dome
Bush Estate
Bivins
Fuqua Land and Cattle Co
Cliffside
A. BE. Wertz
Consolidated Gas
Texas
Wertz
Trigg
Stanolind O&g Company
Humble
Gulf
Parcomas Company
Parcomas
Sinclair Prairie
Woman Beaten to Death by Negro Suspect in Chicago
Florence Johnson a 34 year old nurse and fireman’s wife was killed in her apartment while her two children and sister slept nearby. An 18 year old negro with bloodstained clothing was arrested, two hours later a 27 year old negro was taken into custody. Elmer Johnson warned her to keep shades down near the tracks.
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Chicago
U.P
Florence Johnson
Elmer Johnson
Romanian Iron Guard Leader Sentenced to 10 Years
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu leader of Romania's outlawed Iron Guard was sentenced by a military court to ten years of forced labor in Bucharest on May 27.
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Bucharest
Corneliu Zelea Codeanu
Rumania
Iron Guard
Police use tear gas at picket line at refinery
Police employed tear gas to assist Pure Oil Refinery night shift workers in breaking a picket line of strikers in Muskogee, Oklahoma, during late May. A travel advertisement and local business notices are included but unrelated to the event.
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Muskogee
Ohila
Pure Oil Company
Surgery Today May Result in Sight for Lad
A two and a half year old boy from Tucumcari will undergo eye surgery at St. Anthony's Hospital at 9 AM. Surgeons will correct eyelash growth toward the eyeball to restore sight after a period of darkness. The operation offers hope for Johnny Houston Dutton and his family despite initial fears.
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St. Anthony's Hospital
Johnny Houston Dutton
Johnny Houston
St. Anthony's
Tucumcari
Johnny
Tax Revision Is Held Defective
President Roosevelt let the new federal tax bill become law without his signature, citing two defects. He warned it may permit tax avoidance and abandons the principle of distributing government costs to those who can pay. He urged a broader tax reform program next session and spoke from Arthurdale West Virginia to graduates at a federal subsistence home.
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Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Congress
Arthurdale
W. Va
War Lord Cedillo Predicts Broad Mexican Revolt
General Saturnino Cedillo, rebel war lord of San Luis Potosi, told newsmen by short wave radio that a revolution spreading through Central Mexico will break out in the northern Republic within a few days. He claimed headquarters are in a southern mountain retreat and accused the government’s publicity department of propagandizing against the revolt.
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Mcallen
U.P
Mexico
Republic
Saturnino Cedillo
San Luis Potosi
Mexican Department of Publicity
America
Jury Acquits Carroll of Murdering Sweetheart
A New York jury acquitted 16 year old Donald Carroll of murdering his 18 year old sweetheart Charlotte Matthiesen. The verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity followed a five day trial in which Carroll testified about the romance and the pregnancy. Judge Downs ordered a sanity hearing to follow.
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New York
Donald Carroll
Charlotte Matthiesen
Thomas Downs
Young Carroll
Jackson Heights
Sodney Rosenthal
Rosenthal
Donald
Charlotte
Lineman Killed By Lightning in Plainview
H R Wood a 27 year old lineman for Texas New Mexico Utilities was killed instantly in Plainview when struck by lightning while fastening boom chains to poles. Fellow worker John Hurley was severely shocked but survived with no medical attention needed. Rescue attempts at a Plainview hospital lasted over an hour. Wood formerly lived in Kress and funeral services are pending.
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Plainview
H. R. Wood
Texas-New Mexico Utilities Company
Mr. Wood
Kress
Puneral
Hoppers Threaten To Strip City Gardens In Amarillo
City and county officials join with Inter-city Civic Club to launch poison campaign against a grasshopper invasion. WPA workers will mix and distribute poison at the Tri-State Fair grounds, with residents urged to apply thin coats to all city lots and vacant land.
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Amarillo
Inter-city
Civic Club Council
Commissioners Court Room
John P. Mathes
Civic Council
C. P. Atwood
N. 8
Griggs
L. M. Grow
Garden Club
Tri-State Fair Grounds
J. Newt Riggs
Resi
Ted Alexander
Potter County
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Alma Jean Rogers
Tom Lumpkin
Jean Fish
Jeanne Howe
J. C. Paul
Billie Morgan
John Currie
J. R. Lemmon
Colby Davies
Rex Galloup
Ida Mae Boyce
Ritz Hoover
Ritz
Currie
Polly Hill
Cardenas Siesta
The
Associated Press
Manuel
West Texas
New Mexico
Fuehrer
Alaska
W. B. Amacker
Panhandle Automobile Club
Herring Hotel
Canadian National & Alaska Steamship Companies
Seattle
Hunsley’s
Carroll
Hunsley
Ellwood Park
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