Life Saving Badges Awarded To Amarillo Teens
Amarillo life saving program awarded 42 senior and junior badges at Gem Lake Pool in July. Senior honors went to Jack Compston Rae Blossom Gene Flemming Bob Carpenter Fred Brokeshoulder Jimmy Daley Joan Hodges Marvin Chamberlain Box Maxwell Edgar Bigelow Humpy Campbell Tom Armstrong. Senior women Beth Thompson Ingeborg Kilstoffe earned life saver ranks, with five junior boys and two junior girls noted among recipients.
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Red Cross
Amarillo
Rouse
Arthur Ball
Potter County
Gem Lake Pool
Jack Compston
Jackson Street
Rae Blossom
Maryland
Gene Flemming
Taylor
Bob Carpenter
Wong
Fred Brokeshoulder
West
Jimmy Daley
Fillmore
Joan R. Hodges
Bellebyten
Marvin Chamberlain
Box Maxwell
Roberts
Edgar Bigelow
Bryan
Humpy Campbell
Tyler
Tom Armstrong
Beth Thompson
Alabama
Ingeborg Kilstoffe
Lincoln
Jerry Ratcliff
West Ninth
Henry Seaman
Horace Templeton
Taylor Street
Don van Hooser
Edward Nobles
Monroe
Biore Wife Charges Actor With Improper Conduct
Clara Mackin Biore sues for maintenance and alimony after accusing actor Eric Biore of infidelity and drunken behavior. She seeks temporary alimony of 900 dollars a month plus 2500 in lawyer fees and 250 court costs, with later claims to half his earnings for herself and their son Eric. Biore is described as usually played English Butler roles and earning about 650 dollars weekly with a raise due in October.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Eric Biore
Clara Mackin Biore
Eric
Blore
Blind student writes promising songs at Capital University
Floyd Gebhardt, eight years blind, a special student at Capital University music conservatory in Columbus, composes music on a typewriter using a private code. Professor Wilbur Crist calls his work excellent and believes the tunes could succeed if published. Gebhardt supports himself selling peanuts to students and giving occasional piano lessons.
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Columbus
U.P
Floyd Gebhardt
Specia
Capital University Music Conservatory
Gebhardt
Wilbur Crist
The
Music Conservatory
Xcellent
Crist
Floyd
Pharr
Prison Officials Postpone Mooney Gall Bladder Operation
At San Quentin Prison in California on August 6, prison officials postponed a gall bladder operation for Thomas J. Mooney after the prison physician explained there would be a public uproar if he died during surgery. Dr L. L. Stan said the decision to wait was to see if infection would clear while Mooney remained under care and improved.
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San Quentin Prison
Calif
Homas J. Mooney
L. L. Stan
Emilie Dionne Reported Definitely on the Mend
Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets, is said to be on the mend after a mild upper respiratory infection. The Dafoe nursery notes she remains in isolation for a few days under Dr Allan Roy Dafoe care.
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Callander
Emilie
Middleweig
Dafoe Nursery
Allan Roy Dafoe
Police Log Mystery Fish Story on Lexington Avenue
Patrolman William Koster filed a curious blotter report describing an arrest of Frank C Pisher on Lexington Avenue for casting a line into a liquor store through a transom. Pisher supposedly fished out several bottles of rum and whisky from the store with a rope and noose attached to a reel.
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New York
William Koster
Frank C Pisher
Lexington Avenue
Pisher
Pusher
Salt Lake City Debates Utah Sales Tax Names
In Salt Lake City on August 4 opponents of a sales tax call the levy "blood money" and critique the tax as a political reality. The discussion centers on naming tokens after the measure, with Utah Governor Blond weighing in.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
HK. Blond
Councilman Kohl Finds New Home In City Infirmary
Charles Kohl once served two terms on Cleveland's city council and worked at the city light department. At 76 he now resides in the municipal infirmary he helped to build, saying he enjoys a good bed and enough to eat while remaining engaged with local politics. He also once sold a self made dust pan and ran for Congress.
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Cleveland
Charles Kohl
Kohl
City Light Department
Congress
Junked Planes Supply Hospital Bracing Material
San Francisco report notes discarded aircraft scraps from old planes provide high quality metal and tubing for fracture setting devices and other hospital braces. August Kern of UC medical bracing says the market for wreckage mirrors scrap auto and steel trades, solving light yet strong material needs for patient appliances.
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San Francisco
August Kern
Medical Department
University of California
Kern
University of Heidelberg
Two Fort Worth Seniors Die From Heat Amid High Temperatures
Two 60 year old Fort Worth residents died after ailments aggravated by a heat wave. Mrs. Nona Lawrence collapsed with a heart attack attributed to heat. George Krownse grew ill in a hotel room during Wednesday’s 104 degree heat.
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Fort Worth
Port Worth
Nona Lawrence
George Krownse
Stale Electrocutes Fishy Cannibals in Caddo Lake
Report from Texas recalls electrocution incidents at Caddo Lake where gar fish are killed by submerged power lines. The state game department cites fines as electric devices energize the lake. Hundreds allegedly perished. officials warn of more casualties during spring spawning.
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Caddo Lake
Austin
Texas
Finny
Drunken Driving Weekend Special Sparks Police Call
A group of women at Mrs John Weedside's home asked about weekend specials at a dairy store and were told drunken driving. The caller soon realized she had contacted the police station in Warren Ohio.
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Ohio
Warren
John Weedside
Amarillo Army Units Prepare For Gulf Coast Camp
The 240 Amarillo service members prepare to join Gulf Coast maneuvers at Camp Hulen. Battery B of the 131st Field Artillery travels by motor convoy, while the 142nd Infantry and medical detachment depart by Santa Fe train Saturday. About 8,000 Texas soldiers expected at camp for a two week period. The train will pick up several units along the way and return by the Denver line, arriving Sunday morning August 22.
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National Guard
Gulf Coast
Amarillo
Camp Hulen
131St Field Artillery
142Nd
131St Artillery
Santa Fe Line
Texas
142Nd Infantry
Canyon
131St
Lubbock
Snyder
Sweetwater
San Antonio
Denver
Amarillo High to Add Vocational Courses for Juniors and Seniors
Amarillo High School will launch vocational programs this year announced by Superintendent Charles M. Rogers. Juniors and seniors will work in their chosen fields for half a day and study the other half, with courses including auto mechanics radio servicing retail selling butcher shop refrigeration automobile repainting machine work baking printing banking plumbing and carpentry.
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Amarillo
Charles M. Rogers
Arizona Ruins Of Long Lost Races Found
Two expedition teams from the University of California and New York University led by Prof. Charles Del Norte Winning will survey 2000 square miles of Navajo country in Utah and Arizona this summer. They aim to locate ruins and study Navajo Mountain flora fauna and two San Juan River canyons, with a hazardous 200 mile river passage in small boats.
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Berkeley
Cal
A.P
United States
University of California
New York
Charles del Norte Winning
New York University
Ansen Hall
National Park Service
Utah
Arizona
Navajo Mountain
San Juan River
Colorado
Ralph Beals
Walter R. Buss
Weber College
J. W. Hansom
Roseville
C. C. Clark
Angus M. Woodbury
University of Utah
Pope Accused of Running Spy School Near Russia
Mosow dispatch reports Ivestia accusing the pope of maintaining a spy school and supplying spies in states bordering Russia. It notes ongoing priest espionage trials and indicates death penalties will be imposed.
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Moscow
I2vestia
Russia
Senate votes housing act administration to Eckes
The Senate approved by 40 to 37 an amendment placing administration of the Wagner Housing Act under Secretary Ickes in the Interior Department with general supervision over the housing program The move followed a heated debate and Ickes had requested the provision.
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Washington
Senate
Eckes
Interior Department
Department
Ickes
Claude M Isbell To Be Texas Governor Tomorrow
Texas prepared for a change as Claude M Isbell of Rockwall Tebell becomes acting governor when Lt Gov Walter F Woodul departs for Oklahoma. Isbell, president pro tempore of the Senate, assumes chief executive duties tonight during Woodul’s travel to his youth’s sites.
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Claude M., Isbell
Texas
Austin
Claude M. Isbell
Rockwall
Tebell
Senate
Walter F. Woodul
Oklahoma
Trash Fire Causes Alarm at 808 Polk Street
A trash fire in the alley at 808 Polk Street triggered an alarm around 12 30 this afternoon. Firefighters reported no damage and noted quick response by the crew. A rare atmospheric ring around the moon is linked to ice crystals and an approaching storm not yet evident lower down.
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Polk Street
Christmas tree farming eyed as crop venture in Washington
In Port Angeles Washington 62 000 Douglas fir seedlings are planted on Olympus Peninsula by Civilian Conservation Corpsmen under Ranger M J Mapes. The project tests if growing Christmas trees can become a profitable agricultural enterprise, with costs monitored as trees mature.
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Port Angeles
Wash
U. S. Forest Service
Civilian Conservation
Amarillo News-Globe plans county history edition
A plan for an August 1938 edition of the Amarillo News-Globe to chronicle the history of Potter County and surrounding areas is described. Old Tack leads discussions for the project, aiming for a edition with double regular circulation and a strong editorial quality while inviting reader suggestions.
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Amarillo
News-Globe
Potter County
Canadian River
Berry
LX Ranch
Section
First Dalhart Mayor Dies
Dalhart, Aug. 6 Special David A. Robison 81 retired locomotive engineer died here He was Dalharts first mayor senior engineer on Rock Island tracks from Liberal Kansas to Santa Rosa New Mexico he pulled the first payload over the line in 1902 and led the Golden State Limited until retirement in 1925 Funeral services in Dalhart with Masonic Lodge No 869 in charge He is survived by two stepdaughters Mrs Pearl Robinson Burns and Mrs Neal Draper and a stepson Tom Watson He served 52 years without accident or discipline
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Dalhart
Rock Island
Liberal
Kan
Santa Rosa
N. M
Golden State Limited
Mrs Helen Neff Dies After Chicago Car Crash
Mrs Helen Neff a 63 year old Logansport Indiana resident died yesterday from injuries from a Chicago automobile collision on Tuesday. She was killed in the same crash that claimed Father John J Neff. Memorial services for Father Neff were held yesterday in Amarillo at Sacred Heart Cathedral.
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Helen Neff
Logansport
Ind
Chicago
John J. Neff
Father Neff
Amarillo
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Potter County Origins and Namesake Tied to Navy Secretary Potter
The text details Potter County’s path from attachment to Wheeler and Oldham counties to eventual organization on August 6 1887. It notes Mobeetie as an early seat near Fort Elliott and links the county’s name to Col Robert Potter first secretary of the Texas Navy who helped sign the Texas Declaration of Independence and serve in the Texas Congress.
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Tascosa
Oldham
Potter County
Amarillo
W. B. Plemons
Wheeler County
Mobeetie
Fort Elliott
Virgin Plainsland
Oldham County
Texas
Randall County
High Plains
Texas Navy
Robert Potter
Granville
N. C
Potter
United States Navy
Washington-on-the-Brazos
Davis B. Burnet
Navy
East Texas Storm Claims One Life and Leaves Damage
A capricious windstorm with rain hail and lightning swept across six Texas communities causing one death Roy Hedrick killed in Terrell when an awning collapsed. many buildings and crops damaged. Navarro County reports injuries as a two mile wide wind strip hit Tupelo Corsicana area with fires destroying a barn in Rice Community and another in Dawson.
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Texas
Roy Hedrick
Terrell
Navarro County
Corsicana
Tupelo
Dawson
Hearn Plans Foreign Brigade Amid Neutrality Law Hopes
A report via United Press states William Hearn 35 Camden N J aims to raise an army by letter telegram and phone from major cities to fight in China. Federal neutrality law bars recruitment or arms for foreign campaigns yet offers promise of no specific pay to evade the law. Applications reportedly exceed seven thousand with volunteers offering pay rates from 600 dollars monthly to free service. Hearn would lead the brigade if landed in China and hopes to organize within six weeks unless blocked by authorities.
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lLaw
Hearn
United Press
Trenton
N. J
Boise
Ida
Camden
China
Legal Fight Over Unborn Child's Rights At Birth
The hospital faced a crisis when Dominic Boccansini refused life-saving surgery for his wife in July amid a late-term pregnancy. A Pennsylvania ruling allowed post mortem procedures and questioned the unborn child’s rights, with City Solicitor and Judge Kalodner involved in clarifying legal position as the mother neared death.
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Dominic
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Boccansini
G. Coe Carrier
Common Pleas Court
Harry E. Kalodner
Eight Minutes to Save Unborn Baby in Caesarean Case
In a hospital, Judge Kalodner allows a post mortem Caesarean to save a live baby. The mother dies after a fever and the surgeon, Dr. Corbit, works within an eight minute window to deliver the infant before suffocation. The operation proceeds as the medical team fights to rescue the child.
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Corbit
Dominic
Italy
Mary
Kalodner
Sally Youngman
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