Size and Variety 1938 Fair Promises Record Attendance
The fair opens Monday for a week with top livestock breeders bringing herds and a vast midway carnival planned as the fourth largest in the nation. Hollywood stars including Movita will appear during the Cavalcade of Hits while Beutler Brothers Rodeo showcases champions each afternoon. General admission is five cents per person or $1.25 for a pair, with deadlines looming for entries in domestic art and science. Continued on page 11.
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Beutler Brothers
Tri-State Fair
National Turtle Association
United States
Fair Association
George Tucker
Paramount
Hollywood Studios
Movita
Sam Houston Band
Col. l
Roosevelt Takes Personal Charge
President Roosevelt moves by train toward Washington to assume direct control of U S foreign policy amid a tense European situation. He left Rochester Minnesota after a morning departure and planned to reach the capital by tomorrow evening. He consulted with doctors about his son James who is recovering from a gastric ulcer operation and spoke with Secretary Hull by phone before the trip.
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Velt
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Washington
Rochester
Minn
James
Hull
Americans Urged to Leave Berlin Amid Tense European Watch
The American consulate advised travelers to depart Berlin as nerves rose over Hitler’s Sudeten pledge and Czechoslovakia. Spanning warnings about spies gas masks and air raid drills, the situation continued to grow uncertain while officials noted no immediate evacuation of Berlin residents.
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Berlin
Anii
Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Munich
Fuehrer
Germany
Czechoslovakia
France
United States
Nurnberg
Roof Collapse Injures 38 at Clarkdale High School
In Clarkdale Arizona a roof collapsed over a two story study auditorium injuring 38 students. Twelve were hospitalized and 26 sustained cuts and bruises. a girl leapt from a window and was critically hurt as others remained trapped.
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Clarkdale
Ariz
Clarkdale High School
Roof Collapse Injures 38 At Arizona School
A ceiling and roof buckled at a Jerome high school trapping over twenty students. Many were freed by classmates and teachers as ambulances raced to Jerome Hospital. Candalaria Avillar suffered the most serious injuries.
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Arizona
Jerome
Talmadge Leads Georgia Democratic Senate Race Battle
Georgia returns show Senator Walter F. George gaining ground on Eugene Talmadge with Lawrence S. Camp third as incomplete results from 152 of 159 counties shape county unit votes. Rivers leads in governor race with Rivers praised by Roosevelt. Talmadge backed by Roosevelts critics.
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Atlanta
Walter F. George
Roosevelt
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Lawrence S. Camp
Talmadge
Camp
George
E. D. Rivers
Hugh Howell
Democratic Executive Committee
J. J. Mangham
State Highway Board
Robert Wood
Athens
Talmaddge
Weather Summary Amarillo And Vicinity Thursday
Weather summary notes partly cloudy conditions for Texas and New Mexico. Temperatures show little change with hour by hour readings around Amarillo. yesterday’s maximum near 80 degrees and minimum around 63.
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Amarillo
Texas
Thursay
New Mexico
Ieee Os
Meev Seeev
Odds Favor Mules In Kiwanis Rotary Donkey Baseball Clash
Umpires fan the odds as Kiwanis and Rotary prepare for a donkey baseball game at Jaycee Park at 8 tonight. A workout drew railbirds and seven Kiwanians plus three donkeys needed first aid after slips and crashes. Continuation on page 11.
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Kiwanis - Rotary
Jaycee Park
Canyon Highway
Gilstrap
Kiwanis
Herb Budke
John Boyce
Roy Cullum
L. M. Fischer
Wade Holman
Guy McSwain
Mason King
Floyd Studer
Homer Rice
Phil Reppert
Unimpressive 10 Lads After European Tour
Amarillo youths Billy Stevenson and William Klingensmith aged 17 traveled 75 days across Europe visiting Germany France Italy England and Scotland. They describe German hospitality praise Hitler and note wartime mood in Prague and Luxembourg. They toured Nurnberg Munich Paris Naples Rome and London staying in youth hostels and collecting memories.
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Billy Stevenson
William Klingensmith
Amarillo
Europe
America
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Billy
Nurnberg
Hitler
Hitler Billy
Hiemgartenweg
Rhine
Munich
Hedelberg
Mainz
France
Italy
William
Naples
Capro
Rome
England
Scotland
Death of Shrimp Boatman Probed in Texas Inquest
In Aransas Pass on September 14 coroner N D Sanford planned to continue the inquest into the fatal shooting of James T Cole a 56 year old shrimp boatman at Rice Brothers cannery and injuries to others amid a clash between boatmen and striking peelers. Christopher Clarisch president of United Gannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers Local 154 is jailed in Corpus Christi hospital on murder charges. The dispute stems from CIO affiliated shrimp workers demanding 15 cents per bucket for hulls versus 10 cents now. strikers numbered about 225.
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Aransas Pass
N. D. Sanford
James T. Cole
Rice Brothers Shrimp Cannery
Bert Potter
San Patricio County
Frank Hunt
Linton
Christopher Clarisch
United Gannery, Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers
F America
Corpus Christi
Cole
Clarisch
J. B. Music
CIO
Sudeten Revolt In Full Swing Across Border Clashes
Thousands of Sudeten Germans armed with grenades rifles and machine guns battled Czech gendarmerie in northwest Bohemia near the German border. At least 23 killed and 75 wounded as Schwaderbach front near Sachsenberg saw Sudetens seize a gendarmerie station before Czech troops regained control. Reports say 40 Czech gendarmes were kidnapped into Germany amid cross border tensions.
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Prague
Sudetenland
Bohemia
Schwaderbach
Germany
Sachsenberg
Hitler
Nurnberg
Chamberlain to Meet Hitler in Bid to Avert War
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proposed a meeting with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden amid escalating Sudeten German crises in Czechoslovakia. The Cabinet backed the move as Paris and London coordinate, while Germany readies large mobilization plans if needed.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Fuehrer
Great Britain
Czechoslovakia
Chamberlain
Europe
No. 10 Downing Street
France
Britain
Paris
Foreign Office
Geneva
League of Nations
Empire
Scientist Discusses Present Dark Ages And Future Technologies
Dr. Gerald Wendt, Amarillo Knife and Fork Club speaker, predicts the next generation will wonder how we lived in the dark ages of the mid 1900s. He notes synthetic age advances like glass skyscrapers and synthetic foods, and says war weapons may become obsolete.
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Gerald Wendt
Wendt
Amarillo Knife and Fork Club
Dr. Wendt
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Leoe
Tri-State
Inspec
President Roose
East Prussia
Marvin Winces
Lester Windes
Carl Hickerson
Candalaria Avillar
FDR
Bill Gilstrap
Cal Farley
Kiwanians
Rotarians
Farley
Frieden
Russell's
The
By Margaret McKenzie
Sudeten
Milan
Mussolini
Viscount Runciman
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