Branson seeks dismissal of stenographer’s suit in romance suit
Former Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Fred P Branson asks to throw out his former stenographer Madeline Braniff Branson s separate maintenance suit after she denies frequent love trysts and seeks 500 monthly plus a claim of their 1930 marriage at Tarrytown New York The court heard five and a half hours of cross examination amid Oklahoma City society on the long romance dating to 1923
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Capitol
Oklahoma County
Fred P. Branson
Madeline Braniff Branson
Tarrytown
N. Y
Branson
Madeline
Judge Cross-Examines Sweetheart Secretary in 1920s Case
The judge questions Madeline about early romance and secretarial ties, noting hideouts near Oklahoma City along the North Canadian River and a Frisco track site. Letters from July 1937 show requests for a Mexico trip and a suggested divorce, as depositions reveal stock transfers to ex-wife as late as June 1938.
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Oklahoma City
Frisco
Madeline
Branson
Mexico
Thomas H. Owen
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Forty four missing after capsized motor launch
Forty four persons were missing today after a motor launch capsized in high seas off Cape Capines.
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Manila
U.P
Cape Capines
Building Social Center Home To Start This Week
The Social Center for Girls will begin construction of a fireproof building this week under Neil Singleton who volunteers his services. J C Berry has drafted plans with his own services. the center has previously used a warehouse at 601 Johnson Street and a frame building at 501 Lincoln Street. The project seeks community cooperation due to limited funds and will use the American Legion Hall first floor as a temporary home across the street.
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Neil Singleton
J. C. Berry
Johnson Street
Lincoln Street
Arthur H. Ware
Floyd Watson
Key Farr
Floyd Cooper
American Legion Hall
Hanson Post
Legion Home
Social Center For Girls
The
Community Chest
Amarillo Gold Sox Change Manager to Margaino
Amarillo owner Bob Seeds replaces Neal Rabe with Phil Margaino as manager for the West Texas New Mexico League team. Margaino, 26, is a New Orleans native and former Gold Sox pitcher, announced by Nona Leeds and comes as Amarillo aims to break from a losing stretch ahead of tonight's game against the Midland Cowboys.
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Nona Leeds
Amarillo Gold Sox
Phil Margaino
Amarillo
Midland Cowboys
Globe
Leeds
Neal Rabe
Robert
The
Gold Sox
Bob
Rabe
Margaine
Cincnnati
Bob Seeds
New York Giants
Bob Leeds
Neal
Margaino
Mar
New Orleans
Nona
South America
Sox
Clovis Pioneers
Bill Altenburg
al Weiland
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. West Texas sees isolated thunder showers in the southwest. New Mexico has widely scattered thundershowers. Temperature extremes 66 to 94 degrees in the 24 hours. Noon reading 84. Rainfall at airport 0.05 inch. city office 0.42 inch.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Mexico
Freud in delicate health not critical says daughter
London August 2 Dr Sigmund Freud aged 83 eminent psychoanalyst has been in delicate health for several years and suffered weakness early this week his daughter reported there is no current anxiety felt about his condition.
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London
Sigmund Freud
Hitlers Magnetic Appeal Noted By Three London Dancers
Three London dancers Marjorie Ascot Rosy Nuth and Mona Baldwin return from Berlin reporting Adolf Hitler praised their tap dancing at the Wintergarten for four minutes and described him as having a magnetic attraction for women.
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Hitler
London
U.R
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Fuehrer
Wintergarten
Marjorie Ascot
Rosy Nuth
Mona Baldwin
Wall Street Rises After House Lead-Spend Setback
New York August 2 stock market moved up after wavering at the open as traders weighed the administration defeat on the lead-spend bill. Some shares recovered early losses gaining over 1. Trading picked up on the upturn. Brokers and business circles debated implications of the setback, with some calling the news bullish for the long run and expecting boosted private spending and investment to offset the loss.
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New York
Wall Street
We're Ready Say Germans So Are We Say British
Berlin proclaims air force stands ready to carry out orders of the fuehrer as Germany marks the 25th anniversary of entering World War I. London reports Britain is ready for any emergency as Chamberlain moves adjournment and naval buildup expands with 180 more ships announced by Geoffrey Shakespeare.
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Berlin
Germany
Fuehrer
Hermann Goering
London
U.P
Great Britain
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Britain
Geoffrey Shakespeare
The
Admiralty
Mother Garden Snake Tries To Save Babies
A mother garden snake attempted to protect her brood of 25 young snakes yesterday afternoon in the Patman backyard. Richard Dawson, 14, cousin of Mrs. Ed Putman of East Ninth Avenue, stepped on the head, killing the mother and causing the 25 offspring to perish shortly after.
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Richard Dawson
Dawson
Ed Putman
East Ninth Avenue
Patman
Richard
Mama
Man Discovers >$1000 in Baggage Trunk After $4 Bid
W H Wilson at an Atlantic railroad auction bought an unclaimed baggage trunk for four dollars. Inside he found bonds and securities he valued at more than one thousand dollars, unseen until the purchase.
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Atlantic
W. H. Wilson
Wilson
Floods Hit China Near Peiping With Heavy Losses
Floods east, south and west of Peiping destroy crops across large areas and show no sign of receding. Reports from here indicate heavy loss of human life amid ongoing flooding in the region.
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China
Peiping
Gambling Ship Rex Surrenders to Police Off Los Angeles
In a dramatic raid off Santa Monica the gambling ship Rex surrendered to a 250 officer force led by Attorney General Earl Warren. Tony Cornero owner and rumored rum runner agreed to stop gambling and comply with a court restraining order while the vessel remained under guard four miles offshore.
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Alan McElwain
Los Angeles
U.P
Rex
Earl Warren
Pacific
Santa Monica
Tony Cornero
Cornero
Warren
Paul D. McCormick
Arthur C. Verge
McCormick
Rates Called Reasonable for Grain Transport from OK-TX
An Interstate Commerce Commission examiner recommended the rates on grain and grain products from Oklahoma and Texas remain not unreasonable. Producers, elevators, and mills in Texas and Oklahoma argued for joint rail ocean rates to replace higher rail rates. The examiner found the general level of challenged rates compares favorably with all-rail or rail-lake rates from Oklahoma and farther states, and that Oklahoma Texas mills appear at least as well off as northern and eastern competitors.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce
Oklahoma
Texas
Irving L. Koch
Commission
Examiner
California Teacher Named Assistant by Roosevelt
Henry F. Grady former dean of UC College of Commerce was nominated by President Roosevelt to be assistant secretary of state in charge of the reciprocal trade agreement section. Grady, then vice chairman of the U S tariff commission, would succeed Francis B Sayre as high commissioner to the Philippines upon Senate confirmation.
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Washington
Henry F. Grady
College of Commerce
University of California
Roosevelt
Grady
Senate
United States Tariff Commission
State Department
Francis B. Sayre
Philippines
Strikes Hit Four States
Strikes stretched across four states with police enforcing quiet after violent clashes. In Cleveland CIO UAW protests a 500-yard strike zone around Fisher Body plant while pickets target workers homes. Detroit sees fresh violence at General Motors plant as 50 officers guard 35 nonstrikers amid brick, gas, and injuries. In Green Mountain Dam area deputized workers return to jobs with guns on hand. In South Barre Massachusetts state troopers patrol after AFL unions strike Barre Wool Co. to avert bloodshed.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Cio-United Auto Workers Union
Fisher Body
Green Mountain Dam
Cole
AFL
Detroit
General Motors
Fisher
South Barre
Mass
Barre Wool Combing Co
Barre
Leverett Saltonstall
Texans See July Liquor Tax Rise in Revenue
THIRSTY TEXANS AUSTIN Aug. 2 Texans evidently were thirsty in July. Revenue from liquor beer and wine taxes for the month was 423 629 an increase of approximately 40 000 over July 1938.
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Austin
Connally announces $9.79 million for sewing rooms in Texas
Senator Tom Connally said the President approved an allocation of 9,789,866 dollars for maintenance and operation of sewing rooms across Texas. The announcement was made from Washington on August 24.
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Washington
Tom Connally
Texas
Rainstorm Sparks New Mexico Thunder as Homes Are Hit
Heavy rain from a storm sweeping from Tucumcari to Amarillo dropped up to an inch in San Jacinto and caused two electrical fires in Amarillo when a bolt struck homes at 310 North Prospect and 309 Maryland. A highline transformer was disabled, power to the San Jacinto area was restored after automatic cuts, and Lyric Theater patrons endured a blackout before the feature resumed.
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Tucumcari
Clayton
N. M
Amarillo
San Jacinto
Hoyt Saunders
North
Prospect Street
A. L. Scott
Maryland Street
Saunders
jScene
Lyric Theater
Southwestern Public Service Company
Well-Fed Man Is a Saint Says Paper
A Zion's Herald editorial urges better cooking to aid Christian progress. It warns that poor meals in homes and church events drive people away from church and weaken spiritual life, calling cooks' responsibilities crucial to inner growth.
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Boston
Zion's Herald
Pilots Break Light-Plane Endurance Record In Flight
Springfield report says brothers Hunter Moody and Humphrey Moody of Decatur extended the light-plane endurance record to 219 hours surpassing the previous 218 hour 43 minute mark at 6 43 CST last night. The veterans plan to remain airborne as long as the motor runs and they stay well. Humphrey earned his private license shortly before the July 23 takeoff.
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Springfield
Ill
Filer
Hunter Moody
Humphrey
Decatur
Hatch bill signed by FDR tightens federal employee politics
President Roosevelt signed the Hatch bill regulating political activity of federal employees, calling it a step in the right direction but warning the public it must not become a gag act. He urged Congress to study extending the measure to state and local workers active in federal elections for possible expansion before 1940. The president affirmed protections for public replies to attacks and outlined permissible political actions for federal staff.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Hatch
New Mexico
United States
Burlington Officials Start Inspection Tour Across Texas Lines
Burlington System president Ralph Budd and the top Burlington Texas Lines executives began an inspection trip along the full Texas Lines route. They travel by regular train Denver to Houston, then return by railroad motor car, passing Amarillo late in the week. The delegation includes E. Flynn, F. T. Darrow, H. R. Clarke, Gen. John A Hulen, C. D. Peckenpaugh, and J. W. Mode.
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Burlington Railroad
Burlington Texas Lines
Texas
Denver
Houston
Burlington
Amarillo
Ralph Budd
Burlington System
E. Flynn
F. T. Darrow
H. R. Clarke
Gen
John A Hulen
Texas Lines
C. D. Peckenpaugh
J. W. Mode
WPA Plans To Drop Administrative Staff From WPA
WPA officials told Congress they plan to cut about 11,000 administrative employees in the next two to three months. Dallas Dort testified that staff would fall from 30,500 to about 20,000 by end of September, with state-by-state totals including Texas 340.
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Washington
WPA
Congress
Dallas Dort
House Appropriations
Work Projects Administration
Dort
Texas
Amatuer Electrocution Denounced as Inhuman
A double electrocution in Boston drew criticism as inhuman. The mystery executioner called Mr X required about 40 minutes to kill two youths, Wall ace Green and Walter St Sauveur, for a 1938 hold up slaying. Officials noted substitute Elliott was unavailable and kept Mr X’s name secret.
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Boston
UPI
Mr. X
Robert
Elliott
Massachusetts
Green
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Gavio
Margavio
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John Hulen
William J. Brickley
Suffolk County
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