Fatal ambulance crash chain leaves nine dead and injured
A Houston area series of related accidents began on Galveston beach when Mrs Hammack’s car collided. Ambulance driver T. Carl Young was killed and eight others injured, including Mrs Hammack, J. E. Hammack, W. D. Lee, J. C. Foard of Beaumont, and hotel clerks Eckhart and Baldwin. The wrecks occurred between League City and Webster and near Genoa as responders transferred victims.
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Houston
Galveston
T. Carl Young
Fogle‘West Company
W. D. Lee
J. E. Hammack
Evelyn Williams
Harvey Monroe
L. H. Baldwin
J. C. Foard
Alvin V. Eckhart
Beaumont
Hammack
League City
Webster
Mr. Hammack
Lee
Goldwin
Miss Williams
Monroe
Prestone Dealers to Meet Tonight in Amarillo
Ax Lowe district sales manager of National Carbon Co and F K Seydler of the automotive engineering staff will conduct an Eveready Prestone dealers meeting at 8 o’clock Monday in the Crystal Ballroom Herring Hotel. Open invitation to service managers and mechanics. Talking films on anti freeze use and merchandising will be shown and discussed. Similar meetings planned across the Southwest with over 200 sessions scheduled. General Auto Supply Motor Supply Amarillo Hardware and Morrow Thomas Hardware sponsor the event.
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Ax Lowe
National Carbon Coming
F. K. Seydler
Eveready Prestone
Crystal Ballroom
Herring Hotel
Southwest
General Auto Supply Company
Motor Supply Company
Amarillo Hardware Company
Morrow-Thomas Hard Ware
Amarillo
Young farmer held in death of instructor
Tom Burleson 23, a farmer, is free on $2,500 bond while awaiting grand jury action on a murder charge in the slaying of J. E. Gann 24, a school teacher, in San Augustine Texas. The men had a prior feud and fought a year earlier near Gann's wife’s relative. A stray bullet also wounded a bystander, Reece Mathews 60, during the crowded sidewalk shooting.
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San Augustine
Texas
Tom Burleson
Farmer
Liberty
J. E. Gann
Burleson
Gann
Reece Mathews
Tot’s Exploring Hand Releases Catch That Hurls Her to Death
In Fort Worth on a Sunday a two year old girl named Carli Mae Ball fell from a second story window of a hotel and died instantly. Her mother Virginia Bai, recovering from illness, had left the child with Ruth Denney, the hotel proprietress’s daughter, who warned her to be careful. Carli Mae had woken early, climbed onto a chair, and drifted her hand along the sill, releasing the latch and tumbling to the sidewalk below.
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Fort Worth
Carli Mae
Virginia Bai
Ruth Denny
G. W. Adams
Mrs. Denney
Sharon Inman and Wife Heed Advice About Going West
Randolph Iowa August reports Sharon Inman a former Cave Springs minister and his wife followed the editor’s counsel to move west with his new partner Eliza Holdridge. The couple left the home after a failed attempt to reconcile, Inman securing work in Colorado and marrying Holdridge to start anew.
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Sharon Inman
Randolph
Iowa
Cave Springs
Inman
Eliza Holdridge
Miss Holdridge
Colorado
Bond fence of bank robbery gangs probed
Oklahoma City Aug 7 Los Angeles police held Elmer Wagoner as a go between robbers and a LA fence authorities say he had made many trips to California and Kansas City recently. Wagoner was arrested with 90576 in stolen bonds after stepping from a plane. California authorities widened their search for four men linked to the loot and possibly Charles Floyd. Federal agents noted no known link to Urschel kidnapping.
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Oklahoma City
Los Angeles
Elmer
Wagoner
Kansas City
California
American Airways
Midwest
Southwest
Charles
Pretty Boy
Fiend Murder Case Solved in Calvert Death Mystery
San Diego Calif Aug 7 A playmate of Calbert Sherman nine-year-old the boy once sought for three weeks appears to have solved the mystery of his death by saying he accidentally drowned in San Diego Bay. Medical experts reexamining the body say the story told by Jackie Confar supports drowning with possible postmortem mutilation by crabs. Sheriff Cooper said Jackie feared telling his parents of Dalbert’s drowning. On July 18 the day Dalbert disappeared the two boys went to the beach where Aposhian fell from a boardwalk used by repair crews.
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San Diego
Calif
Calbert Sherman
Cooper
San Diego Bay
Calbert
Jackie Confar
Dalbert
Jackie
Nine
Aposhian
Whyman Rites Planned After Los Angeles Death
Funeral arrangements for H. O. Whyman, former Amarillo resident, will be announced Tuesday morning. He died Thursday at his Los Angeles home. his body was due to arrive Monday afternoon and will be received by N. S. Griggs & Sons.
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H. O. Whyman
Amarillo
Los Angeles
N.S. Griggs & Sons
Whyman
Los An
Ceta Canyon Hosts Panhandle Baptist Encampment
Leading ministers and church workers from over the Panhandle attend a Baptist encampment at Ceta Canyon opening Monday at 8 pm. Mornings focus on Sunday school and related activities, with sermons. afternoons for recreation and business. Speakers include Dr J W Bruner Chickasha OK, T C Gardner Dallas, Dr Porter M Bailes Tyler, and Rev W M Cloyd Hereford. Encampment closes the following Sunday morning.
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Panhandle
Ceta Canyon
J. W. Bruner
Chickasha
Okla
T. C. Gardner
Dallas
Porter M. Bailes
Tyler
Obituary Notice for Mrs Whyman’s Death
Mrs Whyman died about 20 years ago. Surviving relatives include two sons R H Whyman of Los Angeles and R G Whyman of Dodge City Kansas, and two daughters Mrs B Harvey of Chicago and Mrs J J Sanders of Amarillo.
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Geles
Whyman
Mr. Whyman
R. H. Whyman
Los Angeles
R. G. Whyman
Dodge City
Kan
8. B. Harvey
Chicago
J. J. Sanders
Amarillo
Public works board urges dam upgrades to raise lake levels
The board endorsed a resolution urging construction of dams to raise lake levels. The single sentence stretched nearly 700 words and used 31 commas. Board member Fred Schilplin quipped about adding a fifth grade period for the typewriter as the clerk ran out of breath.
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Paul
Public Works Advisory Board
Fred Schilplin
Reunion of Lone Star School Pupils Held Here
The annual reunion of families of Lone Star School’s first pupils, the Panhandle’s first rural school, was held Sunday at the Tri-State Fairgrounds with more than 100 in attendance.
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Lone Star School
Panhandle
Tri-State Fairgrounds
Death sentence in hammer killing near Lufkin
Charlie Outlaw has been sentenced to death for the hammer slaying of Mrs. Frank McCall near Lufkin on January 24. A jury, after hearing state witnesses, convicted him of murder in under 30 minutes.
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Lufkin
Charlie Outelaw
Frank McCall
Outlaw
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