Autumn heat breaks hint at season change and football chatter
A reader questions a legacy term wool hat boys and a jockey notes a weighty football claim. Blair Cherry at 46 reflects Texas season outlook with a Sept Austin opener against Texas Tech followed by South Carolina Oklahoma Arkansas and Rice. A lost Chihuahua Rita and a $10 reward for her return are also reported.
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Blair
University of Texas
Austin
Texas Tech
South Carolina
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Rice
Home Run Night Promises Big Rewards For Gold Sox and Lubbock
An Amarillo football player Stanley Mauldin earns around ten thousand dollars yearly with a previous season payout of at least six thousand from the Chicago Cardinals and a steady around four hundred dollars monthly job. Mr Tack offers twenty five dollars for every home run by the Gold Sox tonight with the same offer to the Lubbock team and fifty dollars to Amarillo pitchers if no Lubbock homers are allowed. The note ends with a stray postal card and local city musings about town sightings and rumors.
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Stanley Mauldin
Amarillo
Chicago Cardinals
Chicago
Texas
Gold Sox
Bob
Mr. Tack
News-Globe
Lubbock
Ball Park
Tack
Willie as a feminine name across the South
The text notes that Willie is used as a female name in the South and mentions two women named Willie. It also refers to Charlie as a common female given name in the region and cites Mrs. Ty Cobb as having the first name Charlie. It ends with a sports cheer about home runs and a monetary count per homer.
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Willie
Charlie
Ty Cobb
Pharmacists Honor Thurman Gholston
Thurman Gholston of Amarillo elected vice-president of the West Texas Pharmaceutical Association as the two associations meet in Fort Worth Wynne Collier of Tohoka named president of the West Texas Association to succeed Lester Short Eugene M Caskey became president of the state association Gholston owner of Gholston Drug 612 Taylor serves as a director in the state and was a West Texas director before elevation to vice-presidency
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Thurman Gholston
Amarillo
West Texas Pharmaceutical Association
Wynne Collier
Tohoka
West Texas Association
Lester Short
Midland
Eugene M. Caskey
Gholston
Taylor
Radar to Heal Body Tissues by Heating Living Tissue
A report notes radar technology may be deployed to heal the body by heating living tissues under suitable conditions. Researchers expect future medical applications and improved treatment methods leveraging targeted heating.
Lost Scotties Seek Return with Reward Offer
Two two year old black Scotties missing. One male and one female. License numbers 46-3213 and 47-2954. Reward offered by Kay Nell Hamker. Contact 4107.
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Tack
Kay Nell Hamker
Holding Lost Dog Dear Tack
A resident reports feeding a dog seen in the neighborhood and asks for guidance on its whereabouts and care, as the note continues on page 22.
Odom Begins Global Flight Against Post Record
William P. Odom, 27, former British ferry command officer, launched from Douglas Airport at 12 53 PM Amarillo time in his modified Army bomber Rey Reynolds Bombshell aiming to beat Wiley Post's 1933 solo globe record. He carried chicken sandwiches and produce as he departed toward Gander Newfoundland with a 30 mph tailwind and two thirds fuel.
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Chicago
William P. Odom
Amarillo
Wiley Post
Douglas
Odom
Gander
Newfoundland
Doctor Warns of Tuberculosis Rate Increase
Dr. Esmond R. Long of the Henry Phipps Institute in Philadelphia warned that tuberculosis could rise in the United States over the next five to ten years due to contacts between American soldiers and Germans. He noted German city TB rates were six times higher than those in comparable American cities.
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Frankfurt
Germany
United States
Pennsylvania
Esmond R. Long
Henry Phipps Institute For the
University of Pennsylvania
Sodium Nitrate Cargo Blast Kills Three in Melbourne Harbor
A British freighter Mahia exploded in Melbourne harbor killing at least three and leaving seven missing. The blast follows previous nitrate disasters in Texas City and Brest and prompts Virgin Islands Governor Hastie to bar ammonium nitrate ships from ports.
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Melbourne
Australia
St. Thomas
Virgin Islands
William Henry Hastie
Virgin Island
Texas City
Tex
Brest
France
Amarillo Man Named to Oil Industry Committee
F W Wallace of the Shamrock Oil and Gas Company in Amarillo was elected to membership on the oil industry's Public Relations Advertising Committee formed to coordinate advertising for the industry public relations program. The organizational meeting in Houston drew twenty four advertising executives from Texas New Mexico Louisiana Arkansas Mississippi and Alabama with representatives of the Fred Eldean Organization in attendance. A modified form of gramicidin used like a penicillin substitute has been used to control bacteria on body surfaces.
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Houston
F. W. Wallace
Shamrock Oil & Gas Company
Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Houston Club
Fred Eldean Organization, Inc
New York
Hughes Browbeat Allegation Alleges Senate Inquiry Probe
Hughes charges the senator offered to call off the inquiry into Hughes plane contracts. He questions if Senator Brewster would make the proposition publicly. Ferguson vows the hearing will no longer be courteous and will proceed. Brewster admits eating three breakfasts at a Pan Am guest center in recent months.
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Hughes
Brewster
Ferguson
Pan- American Airways
Maine
Sleep Rides In With a Cooling Rain
Amarillo avoided a record hot night as a local shower cooled temperatures from 98 to 72 by midnight. The 0.03 inch rain spared parched greenery while two Panhandle towns reported moisture. Forecasters expect a clear night and Friday to stay dry amid a nationwide heat wave with deadly tolls.
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Amarillo
H. C. Winburn
Panhandle
Adrian
Pampa
Winburn
United Press
Federal Agents Find Man Wanted Here
Jack William Berry aged 25 is arrested in Kansas City on bond forfeiture and Dyer Act charges. He failed to appear for trial on transporting a stolen motor vehicle across state lines. His address is listed as Boise Idaho.
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Jack William Berry
Kansas City
Berry
Boise
Idaho
Roosevelt Jr. Named Upholsterers' Counsel in AFL Case
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. is appointed attorney for the Upholstered International Union of North America. He will first appear Aug. 25 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in a dispute over arbitration of the discharge of Mack Reynolds from Gettysburg Furniture Co.
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Philadelphia
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
International Union of North America
AFL
Sal D. Hoffmann
Hoffman
Roosevelt
Gettysburg
Mack Reynolds
Gettysburg Furniture Co
Civil War Still Splits a Family in Kentucky Race
In Dallas on August 7, Democrat Bert Dummit expresses hope his Republican brother Elden wins Kentucky governor on the GOP ticket. He blames the Civil War for the family split, noting their maternal grandfather fought for Lee while their paternal grandfather served under Grant.
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Dallas
Bert Dummit
Kentucky
Elden Dummit
Blue Grass
Dummit
Robert E. Lee
U. S. Grant
Bert
Eldon
Plunge to Fiery Death in Beacon Oil Plant Crash
In Everett Massachusetts a chartered plane crashed into a gas fume chimney at the Beacon Oil Plant. Thomas Mandell 46 and his two daughters Anne 22 and Harriet 19 perished along with pilot Nelson Pell. Debris and battered bodies found at the base. Witnesses heard blasts from gasoline igniting after the impact.
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Everett
Mass
Thomas Mandell
Carrier-Mandell Air Conditioning Corporation
Beacon Oil Plant
Mandell
George S. Mandell
Disciples of Christ to Hold World Convention in Melbourne
The World Convention of the Disciples of Christ will meet in Melbourne Australia with Reginald Ennis elected president. Mrs. Robert Dean of Indianapolis, vice president of the United Christian Missionary Society, spoke at the close of the convention. She described Christianity guiding Japan toward a spiritual peace drive uniting Christians with Buddhists and Shintoists.
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Buffalo
Disciples of Christ
Melbourne
Australia
Reginald Ennis
Robert Dean
Indianapolis
United Christian Misionary Society
Japan
Brewster Defends Pan American Ties At Hearings
The article details Brewster denying threats over a merger and noting ties to Pan American leaders like Sam Pryor. He recalls vacations at Pryor’s Florida home and free transport on Pan American airliners while meeting Senator Bailey about aviation legislation. An uproar follows as Hughes questions him and a student speaker pledges audience decorum.
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Sam Pryor
Pan American
Connecticut Republican
Pryor
Hobe Sound
Fla
Brewster
Washington
Raleigh
Senator Bailey
Bailey
Hughes
Guyett in Fair Condition After Auto Crash
Earl Guyett of 3818 Ong is listed in fairly good condition at Northwest Texas Hospital after being struck by a car driven by Virgil B. Adams of Clarendon on Highway 287 near the Star Night Club. He suffered a back injury and shock and was transported by Griggs ambulance.
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Earl Guyett
Northwest Texas
Guyett
Virgil B. Adams
Clarendon
Highway 287
Star Night Club
Griggs Ambulance
Germans in Allied zones receive 488500 tons of US relief
The US military government announced that in July Germans in the Anglo American occupation zones received 488,500 tons of foodstuffs valued at more than 61.5 million dollars. The report also notes that Mexico supplies gold silver cattle and oil as important products.
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Berlin
United States
Mexico
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Actey
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Stanley Hicks
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West Second
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Baker Hotel
Darling
The
Janet Holmes
Mary Evelyn Holmes
Harrison
Pearl Gould
Alma Speaks
West
James Holmes
Denver
Colo
Pharmacists
Global Flight
Oil Industry Committee
Federal
TWA
Senate
Leonard Small
Brooklyn
George Washington University
Small
Blackhuma
Pierce
Siuneral
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