Drouth Relief Speeds Funds in Southwest Region
Machinery for the Resettlement Administration’s drouth relief work is speeding up to place government cash in the hands of farmers facing drought. Over a million dollars already allocated with more expected, grants and emergency loans announced across Texas New Mexico Oklahoma Colorado Kansas and the Panhandle region amid dried conditions and mounting losses.
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George May
Resettlement Administration
Drouth
Amarillo
L. H. Hayter
Hayter
Panhandle
Texas
Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Oklahoma Panhandle
New Mexico
Heat Wave Looms Over Texas With Record Feels Ahead
The 1936 downstate heat wave pushes temperatures toward all time highs as Dallas hits 101 by noon and many Texas cities report Augustlike warmth. Forecaster H. T. Collman warns 103 may be reached today with a few thundershowers possible tomorrow evening. Weather records and city highs from Abilene to Waxahachie are noted.
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H. T. Collman
Collman
Panhandle Plains
Braniff Adds Flights As Demand Rises
Braniff Airways president T. E. Braniff announced new schedules to start August 15, expanding service to Corpus Christi Fort Worth Dallas Houston Galveston Waco Austin San Antonio Amarillo Wichita Falls Oklahoma City Wichita Kansas City and Chicago. Exact times to be released soon.
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Oklahoma City
T. E
Spain Takes German Planes Horse Meat in Europe
A Globe column summarizes a European protest by Paris butchers called hipppophagiques meaning horse eaters. The piece notes editorials and Arthur Brisbane's American commentary on day topics. The protest centers on horse meat issues amid European tensions.
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Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Une Protestation Des Bouchers
Europe
New York
Paris
Widow Mabel Green Named Administratrix of Vast Estate
Mrs. Mabel Green widow of Col. Edward H. R. Green railroad magnate was named permanent administratrix of his estate valued at about 80 million dollars in a brief hearing in Kaufman Texas Judge Ben Brooks presiding The entry notes the estate size and the judge’s status as Texas’ youngest jurist.
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Kaufman
Tex
Mabel 8. Green
Edward H. R. Green
Ben Brooks
Texas
Mystery Over Silk Step-Ins Reported At Royal Yacht Squadron
Officials of the Royal Yacht Squadron investigated the origin of a pair of women's silk step-ins found yesterday fluttering from the club flag staff on the Isle of Wight. It was believed a member hoisted the emblem on a bet.
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London
U.P
Royal Yacht Squadron
Isle of Wight
Lindbergh Angered by Photographers at Scientific Congress
Col Charles A Lindbergh nearly halted the opening session of an International Congress of Experimental Cytology in Copenhagen protesting photographers. Dr Hans Fischer secured a group-shot agreement and Nobel winners Alexis Carrel and August Krogh spoke briefly before delegates adjourned for a demonstration of Lindbergh and Carrel's mechanical heart.
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Copenhagen
Charles A. Lindbergh
Hans Fischer
Danish Biological Institute
Fischer
International Congress of Experimental Cytology
Alexis Carrel
New York
August Krogh
Lindbergh
Carrel
Mechanical heart breakthrough cited by Lindbergh and Carrel
Reports from June 1935 announce the completion of a mechanical heart after years of study. The device is hailed as a medical progress milestone enabling observation of live organs in an artificial chamber.
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Colonel Lindbergh
Dr. Carrel
Dot Babb Pioneer of Texas Panhandle Dies at 84
Dot Babb a longtime Panhandle pioneer and author of In the Bosom of the Comanches died after a lingering illness. He spent about 70 years on the Texas frontier, was captured by Comanches at age 13 and later roamed as a cowboy and rancher near McLean. He published a landmark book in 1912 and last appeared publicly in 1934 at the Tri-State Fair.
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Dot. Babb
Panhandle Plains
Panhandle
Wise County
West Texas Plains
Plains
McLean
Babb
Tri-State
Pardon Arrives Too Late For Potter County Youth
A youth in Potter County received a gubernatorial pardon dated July 8 but not released until August 8 after completing a 68 day jail term for a theft charge. The pardon remit fines and costs but arrived too late to affect his immediate release.
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Amarillo
Potter County
Austin
Gib Landis
James V. Allred
David Haynes
Haynes
Howard Anderson
Potter County Patrol Board
Allred
Russian fliers downed by weather near Bella Bella
Silence gripped famed Russian aviators Sigismund Levanevsky and Victor Levchenko after they landed at Bella Bella on the British Columbia coast. They did not report or answer wireless calls, leaving their representative N A Sokoloff puzzled. He suggested they may have gone ashore to wait for better weather and did not hear the Seattle Arctic radio outreach. The radiophone on their plane is the village’s only link to the outside world.
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Seattle
British Columbia
Sigismund Levanevsky
Victor Levchenko
Bella Bella
N. A. Sokoloff
Arctic Circle
Vancouver
B. C
Reich Denies Presence Of Nazis In Ship
Madrid reports a German Junkers 52 with four crew captured by Loyalists at Aznaga north of Seville, amid suspensions of Lufthansa Madrid service. Officials deny any Germans aboard and cite local reasons for the service halt.
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REICH
United Press
Madrid
War Ministry
Lufthansa
Junkers
Barajas
Azuaga
Loyalist miners hurl dynamite at Oviedo barracks
In Hendaye two hundred Loyalist miners launched dynamite from a catapult at the army barracks in Oviedo, held by Spanish rebels for three weeks amid ferocious fighting. France plans to invite the United States to join its proposed non intervention pact in Europe.
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Hendaye
U.P
Oviedo
France
U. S
London
United States
Loyalists report capture of 13 rebel towns in Spain
AP dispatch from Madrid notes Loyalists gaining ground as government predicts a quick end to the rebellion. Wife of Captain Rupert Savile injured when rebel shell killed her husband aboard the yacht Blue Shadow in Gijon harbor. British reaction hints at possible actions over neutral nationals. Lisbon report says Santander area has fallen to insurgents per Teutuan radio in Spanish Morocco.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Rupert Savile
Blue Shadow
Gijon
Savile
London
Deputy LeNevue Improves But Remains Critical
Deputy Sheriff Claude LeNevue, serving under Sheriff Bill Adams on civil work, showed slight improvement this morning after several days of critical illness in a North West Texas Hospital. His condition remains serious, hospital attendants said.
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LE Nevue
Claude LeNevue
Texas
Bill Adams
Amarillo Weather Forecast Sees Warm, Fair Conditions
Forecasts for Amarillo and nearby areas call for fair skies tonight and Tuesday. West Texas is generally fair and warm, with little temperature change. New Mexico also sees fair conditions.Reported temperatures ranged from 73 to 100 in Amarillo by 1 PM.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Texas Heatwave Brings Fatal Heat Collapse In Waco
A heatwave pushed Texas temperatures to 102 degrees causing Earl Marcus Barnes to die of heart failure while tending his wife on their Waco porch. The fatality followed a day when the region tied its all time heat record. A storm near Frankston uprooted trees and damaged structures with two inches of rain. Coastal warnings and a tropical disturbance advisories warned of squalls from Galveston to Corpus Christi.
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Texas
Earl Marcus Barnes
Waco
Frankston
Anderson County
Weather Bureau
Galveston
Corpus Christi
Gulf
Farley Attends Peace Service in Verdun Ceremony
Dispatch from Paris recounts the American Legion joining a world peace ceremony at Verdun's French Cemetery. Ex soldiers from France, Germany, Britain, and the US gathered on the hill above Verdun, near the Trench of Bayonettes, to pledge Eternal Peace before over 100,000 attendees.
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Paris
American Legion
Verdun
France
Hughes on Way Across Nation
Officials at the Transcontinental and Western Airport in Albuquerque said they received a radio message at 9:25 A M Central Standard Time from Howard Hughes piloting a large laboratory plane en route from Los Angeles. He asked about upper air weather conditions and winds as he continued his cross country flight.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Trans-Continental and Western
Howard Hughes
Big “Laboratory
Los Angeles
Sportsman
Five Negroes Held on Burglary Charges in Box Car Theft
Five itinerants, Horace Ransom and his two sons Edward and B F Ransom, Arthur Williams, and 16 year old Ivan Moore, were jailed in Potter County on burglary charges linked to a Rock Island box car robbery. Deputies filed charges, and they await grand jury action with Rock Island Line officers and Amarillo detectives involved.
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Potter County
Rock Island
Bob Francis
Ben Monroe
Clark Cain
Amarillo
Ivy Wilkinson
J. W. Carder
Horace Ransom
Edward
B. F
Arthur Williams
Ivan Moore
Roosevelt Returns to Washington After Northeast Vacation
President Roosevelt arrived in Washington at about 7 30 A M CST from a vacation off the northeast coast and his Hyde Park home in New York.
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Washington
President Roosevelt
Capital
Hyde Park
N. Y
Dog Saves Eight In Fort Worth Fire
Aug 10 Fort Worth report says Snooks a Fox Terrier woke Lious Spears and alerted seven other residents saving eight from a blaze. The fire started in a vacant house next door and both structures were destroyed.
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Fort Worth
Snooks
Carl Clifft Resigns to Become Deputy State Superintendent
Potter County announces the resignation of County Superintendent Carl G. Clifft effective September 1. He will join as deputy state superintendent for the Panhandle district after being notified by State Superintendent L A Woods. A special commission hearing on applications is set for August 24.
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Carl G. Clifft
Potter County Commissioners' Court
Panhandle
Clifft
L. A. Woods
Cliff
River Road
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