Panhandle Crash Toll Rises With Six Dead and Two Missing
A weekend of multi vehicle wrecks across the Panhandle and New Mexico left six dead seven injured and two missing. Authorities pursue the truck driver H R Bain of Dumas and companion while survivors recount a night of mangled vehicles near Happy and Nazareth. Ballistic details indicate the truck may have crossed into the sedan lane as both vehicles sustained heavy damage. Funeral plans begin for Mrs. Adams Gipson Coffey and others, with services in Plainview Canyon and Fletcher Oklahoma.
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Panhandle
New Mexico
Bob King
John Humphries
King
Humphries
Bill Adams
Orton
L. B. Coffey
Plainview
Gipson
Jasper Gipson
Neblett Hospital
Canyon
Jack King
Amarillo
Marie Clift
Oklahoma City
Ed Ramsey
Tucumcart Hospital
Joseph Kohl
Nazareth
Amarillo Tri- State Fair
Buster Crow
Walter Warren
Rosemary Bates
Alvin
Agnes Schumacher
Young Kohl
Arthur Martha Kohl
Adams
Griggs-Thompson
Coffey
Wesley Coffey
Pep
J.T. Parker
Pachuta
Mississippi
Audry M. Legegett
Shubuta
M. W. Coffey
W. B. Coffey
M. J. Temples
J. W. Morrison
Georgia Mae Morrison
Walter Jackson
Rayo
D. W. Hartwell
Fletcher
Oklahoma
Albuquerque
N. M
G. E. Gipson
Kress
BE. R. Patton
Government Weighs Aid to Low Grade West Texas Cotton
Washington September 26 Two branches of government considered ways to aid cotton farmers in a large West Texas area where the crop is low grade and warehousemen refuse to certify it for loan collateral Telegrams from Representatives Marvin Jones Amarillo and George Mahon Colorado requesting special graders be sent to Lamesa Lubbock and Memphis to classify cotton for loan purposes triggered meetings with Vice President John D Goodloe of the CCC Chester F Finch of the BAE and other officials
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Washington
West Texas
Marvin Jones
Amarillo
George Mahon
Colorado
Lamesa
Lubbock
Memphis
John D. Goodloe
Commodity Credit Corporation
Chester F. Finch
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Germany stages largest war maneuvers for Mussolini and Hitler
In Rostock area Germany staged its biggest combined army and naval maneuvers since World War I. Hitler and Mussolini observed a simulated clash with a supposed red invasion force as planes tanks and armored cars attacked. Udet flew a Stork fighter to add drama.
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Rostock
Germany
Europe
Mussolini
Duce
Italy
der Fuehrer
Udet
Hitler
Roosevelt tours Yellowstone then westward to coast
President Roosevelt visits Yellowstone National Park including Old Faithful Geyser and begins a two week look see tour through Idaho Oregon and Washington. He will visit Seattle Victoria and Spokane with dam inspections at Bonneville and Grand Coulee and a curtailed Idaho leg due to road conditions omitting Owyhee dam project.
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Mammoth Hot Springs
Yellowstone Park
Roosevelt
Yellowstone National Park
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
Seattle
Victoria
British Columbia
Spokane
Bonneville
Grand Coulee Dams
Hyde Park
Owyhee Dam
Nampa
Caldwell
Wilder
Parma
Nyssa
Ontario
Mr. Roosevelt
Gruver’s Spirit Built Gruver Strongly In Hansford County
Hansford County tale chronicles Gruver’s rise on community spirit. It notes a $3,000 church, rebuilding the Hansford courthouse, and volunteers from men and women who fed and worked through tumult. It recalls Frank Fleck’s arrival in 1928 and Dan Shrader as mayor, with bricks from Dodge City powering the cherished church and county’s early law house.
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Gruver
Grover
Old Hansford
Spearman
Hansford
Palo Duro
Frank Fleck
Frank P. Wilson
Wilson
Dan Shrader
Dodge City
Hansford County
Joe” Gruver
Army Tests Latest Mobile Division at Fort Sam Houston
A highly mobile anti armored battalion of 300 enlisted men 17 officers and three batteries of 37 mm guns is under test in the new infantry division maneuvers at Fort Sam Houston. Officials say the unit aims to deliver swift shock action and is an improvement over the existing 37 mm gun.
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Fort Sam Houston
No More Date Nights For Reform Girls
Tecumseh Oklahoma September 26 The state board of affairs has abolished the date night system at the state training school for girls on the recommendation of Mrs Mabel Bassett the state commissioner of charities and corrections Officials say recreational programs will replace the events and no men will be allowed to participate
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Tecumseh
Okla
Oklahoma
State Training School For
State Board of Affairs
Mabel Bassett
State Commissioner of Charities and Corrections
Correctional Institution
Nichols
Storm Warning Issued by Weather Bureau
The Weather Bureau issued an advisory at 9 30 A M noting an Atlantic storm centered near Halifax moving northward with gales over a large area and winds near the center of a whole gale. Warnings extend down the East Maine Coast.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Maine
Crossing Crash Fatal To Seven Persons
A Chesapeake and Ohio freight train struck a truck at a rail road crossing in Hansford killing seven people. Investigators from Montgomery, West Virginia, reported details as the tragedy unfolded with authorities and local agencies responding to the scene.
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Montgomery
W. Va
Chesapeake and Ohio
Hansford
Bar Association Chief Urges Public Backing Against Roosevelt
Frederick H. Stinchfield of the American Bar Association urged nationwide public support for the legal profession to oppose the administration and its alleged plan to dismantle the Supreme Court. He spoke on radio before the bar convention, warning of an unequal struggle with President Roosevelt and his perceived power. He argued lawyers must defend the profession amid policies he says benefit lawyers with employment from radical legislation.
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Kansas City
Frederick H. Stinchfield
American Bar Association
Supreme Court
Minnesota
United States
Stinchfield
Roosevelt
Peru Controls Any Helium Possibility
Washington reports that Peru has nationalized any helium discoveries, prohibiting private exploitation or export. A decree from August 31, 1937, assigns the Bureau of Mines and Petroleum to analyze all gases from mining deposits and requires concessionaires and oil firms to file detailed analyses semi annually.
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Washington
Peru
Julian Greenup
Lima
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Mines and Petroleum
Selling Forces Cause Gotham Market Drop
New York stocks fell for the sixth straight week as selling pressure intensified. The Associated Press 60-stock average ended 4 points lower at 53.7, the lowest since December 1935, with 8.11 million shares traded. Traders blamed foreign selling, potential taxes on funds abroad, and expectations of weaker earnings as reasons for the retreat.
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New York
Associated Press
London
Washington
Chicago businessman reported kidnapped in Franklin Park
Charles C. Ross a 71 year old retired greeting card manufacturer and former assistant chief of police was allegedly forced at gunpoint to exit his car and go with three men in another vehicle. Ross was driven toward Chicago after a car followed him from Sycamore Illinois.
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Chicago
Franklin Park
Charles C. Ross
George Cites
Ross
Florenc Freihaga
Cites
Ill
Death by Own Action Verdict in Dallas
Justice of the Peace Tom King returned a verdict of death by own action in the death of 29 year old Paul V. Norman. Norman was found slumped in his car with a pistol wound in the temple.
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Dallas
Justice of the Peace
Tom King
Paul V. Norman
Missouri Pupil Personal Crisis Ends in Fatal Fraternity Shooting
Albert R. Waters Jr., a University of Missouri sophomore, was found dead from a single .38 caliber gunshot at the Sigma Alpha Upsilon house in Columbia. Police say he spoke of "commune with my maker" after a late talk on religion with Oklahoma City pledge Jack Kilpatrick, who stated the remark may have been a joke before Waters obtained a pistol.
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Columbia
Albert R. Waters, Jr
University of Missouri
Sigma Alpha Upsilon
Orville Pollock
Jack Kilpatrick
Oklahoma City
Waters’ Fraternity
Kilpatrick
Pollock
Waters
Lehman plans to retire to private life
Governor Lehman said at Buffalo that he will retire from public life at the end of his present term. The remark, once lauded by President Roosevelt as his strong right arm, confirms the end of his political career in state service.
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Japan
Buffalo
N. Y
Lehman
Roosevelt
Texas highway death toll projected for rest of 1937
A Texas report forecasts 684 more violent deaths on state highways in 1937 with about 9,784 injuries since January 1. Col H H Carmichael blames speed and careless driving for most crashes, urging stricter lighting and enforcement as lawmakers add patrols to cover 20,000 miles of paved roads.
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Austin
Texas
State Department of Public Safety
Col. H. H. Carmichael
Department
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George S. Messersmith
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C. T. Wang
U. S. State Department
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Wang
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Chinese
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International Red Cross
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