Miss Bathie Stuart to lecture at Junior League tea room
Miss Bathie Stuart of Newland will lecture on New Zealand Maori customs and perform in a native case at 8 o'clock during a Junior League tea room event in Amarillo. Proceeds from the dinner at 6 will aid the Junior Welfare League charity, with a 75 cent plate or 26 cents for lecture only.
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Gue
Bathie Stuart
Newland
de Childers
Miss Stuart
New Zealand
Amarillo
Stuart
United States
Junior Welfare Llague Charity
Funeral services for Mrs Annie Taylor
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Taylor, who died at a local hospital, are set for 4 p.m. Friday at the Griggs Funeral Chapel. Burial will be at Llano Cemetery. Mrs. Taylor resided at 2011 North West Thirteenth Avenue and is survived by a sister, Mrs. Minnie McCain of Colfax, Louisiana.
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Annie Taylor
Griggs
Llano Cemetery
Taylor
North West Thirteenth Avenue
Minnie McCain
Colfax
Eight American missionaries marooned in Yuanchow China
Anxious reports from Hankow indicate eight American Catholic missionaries and Sisters of Mercy are stranded in Yuanchow after rebels captured the town on June 27. The group includes Rev. Edward McCarty and Rev. Francis Flaherty and several Passionist Sisters of St. Joseph.
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Hankow
Hupeh
Central China
Sisters of Mercy
Yuanchow
Hunan
Edward McCarty
Francis Flaherty
Passionist Order
Union City
N. J
Edward McCarthy
Francis Flaharty
St. Michael's Monastery
Father McCarthy
Dorchester
Mass
Father Flaherty
Cincinnati
Ohio
Tack Letter Offers Housekeeping and Laundry Help
An informal notice from a writer named Tack advertises housekeeping and laundry services. The message promises willingness to perform various related chores and invites readers to see Tack’s letters for more details.
Perseid Speedsters to Hit Earth Tonight
New York reports sighting of the Perseid meteors as Earth passes through the dense portion of their orbit between midnight and dawn. Observers expect twenty to thirty meteors per hour traveling about 40 miles a second, among the solar system's fastest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
New York
Cameraman Jailed in Havana for Restricted Area Photo
American photographer Dave Oliver of a New York news reel company was jailed four hours in Havana after attempting to shoot in a restricted area. Fellow Havana correspondent Leo Reisler of the New York Herald Tribune was also detained but released. Oliver said police leveled rifles, cursed reporters, and warned journalists to stay off the streets as orders to extend his stay arrived from officials in New York, Washington, and Ambassador Sumner Welles.
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Havana
Dave Oliver
New York
Washington
Sumner Welles
Leo J. Reisler
The
New York Herald Tribune
Oliver
Border Guard Rehired After Merger Plan
Labor Department officials said border patrolmen were dismissed and automatically rehired for four months as part of routine procedures in merging the Immigration Bureau with the Naturalization Bureau. The merger, ordered under President Roosevelt's reorganization plan, leaves the number of dismissals undetermined and unaffected by yesterday's steps.
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Washington
Labor Department
Immigration Bureau
Naturalization Bureau
Roosevelt
West Texas Sheriffs Pick El Paso For Meeting Site
Members of the West Texas Sheriffs Association chose El Paso as their next meeting place in their final convention session here. They heard Congressman R. E. Thomason appeal for support of the national administration and a 20 million dollar relief bond issue in Texas. Officers will be elected next February.
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EL Paso Midland
Texas
West Texas Sheriffs’ Association
R. E F. Thomason
el Paso
Maori Natives Focus of New Zealand Lecture and Recital
Miss Bathie Stuart of New Zealand government tours Amarillo sharing Maori history, customs, and language. She notes New Zealand's seasons, dairy and wool industries, and compares climate and agriculture with America. A slide lecture and Maori recital in Rose Bowl benefit the Junior Welfare League. dinner 6 to 8, admission 25 cents, reservations 6103.
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New Zealand
America
Bathie Stuart
Amarillo
Americans
United States
England
Stuart
Rose Bowl
Junior Welfare League
Pacific
One Negro Held in Farm Girl's Death in Texas
Waller County officers held a Houston arrestee as a suspect in the death of 22 year old Elsie Jones whose body was found half submerged in a Brookshire creek. Two suspects in LaGrange were released as posses combed the Brazos River area for Marshall Lang who fled into the woods after a confrontation with a posse.
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Hempstead
Texas
U.P
Waller County
Elsie Jones
Brookshire
Houston
W. F. Jackson
Lagrange
Brazos River
Marshall Lang
Lang
Frail nurse uses nails to foil attacker at L station
Evanston police say miss Sarah M Scott a 110 pound nurse supervisor fought off a 210 pound man as he attempted to seize her at an L station. she scratched and kicked him and he staggered away before police captured paul mcmahon a former reformatory inmate and had him treated at a hospital.
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Evanston, II
Sarah M. Scott
Paul McMahon
NRA Answers Questions On Blue Eagle Rules In Washington
The National Recovery Administration released a Q and A addressing Sunday holidays for work hours. It confirms delivery workers are classified as delivery men and states the Blue Eagle symbol is not permanently removed but cannot be restored once taken away.
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Washington
National Recovery Administration
NRA
Bus collision near Tucumcari injures seven
Seven people were injured when a Texas New Mexico Company bus crashed into a parked truck on the highway to Albuquerque, a few miles west of Tucumcari New Mexico. The most seriously hurt are Mrs A J Scott of Muleshoe and E W Haynes an NM highway department employee who was under the truck.
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Texas-New Mexico Company
Albuquerque
Tucumcari
N. M
A. J. Scott
E. W. Haynes
New Mexico Highway Department
Scott
Haynes
Community organizers hold Negro meeting at Mount Olive church
A Friday NRA session saw Chester Bordwell preside in Horace Russell’s absence as the council organizes a house-to-house canvass. Speakers Marvin Twaddell and Harry Hardgraves addressed locals while druggists from Amarillo plan a Dallas meeting to discuss code provisions. Florists from Northwest Texas and New Mexico convene here Saturday to discuss their code.
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Robert E. Hill
A. M. James
C. O. Longan
R. E. Nation
R. ©. Nelson, Jr
L. N. Pittman
W. S. Proffitt
H. V. Robertson
R. L. Rogers
P. F. Sapp
Farr Scruggs
H. L. Shafer
E. L. Siker
Will Simpson
H. Lee Smith
Rev. R. Thompson
F. Vestal
Co. C. Williams
Roy Pool
Pool
Dallas
Amarillo
Mr. Pool
Texas
New Mexico
Barbers Union Proposes New Wage Code in Washington
New York August 11 officers of the Journeymen Barbers International Union of America forwarded a code to Washington. If approved the minimum hair cut price would be 50 cents and a shave 25 cents. It calls for a 48 hour six day week and a $25 minimum wage plus 60 percent of hair receipts for a $37 weekly wage.
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Barbers
New York
Washington
Journeymen Barbers International Union of America
Chicago
Santa Fe
Johns Manville
Montgomery Ward
American Locomotive
Baldwin Locomotive
Chesapeake Corp
National Steel Industrial Rayon
Union Pacific
U. S. Industrial Alcohol
American Can
American Telephone
Consolidated Gas
Chrysler
du Pont
General Motors
Western Union
U. S. Steel
Case
National Distillers
Celanese
International Cement
International Nickel
International Harvester
Fly International Shoe
International Ae & On
Kelvinator
Seeee Kennecott Copper
Kresge
Kroger Groc & Baking
Liggett Myers Or
ORM
Loew's Inc
Macy
BAX Mathieson
North American
Northern Pacific RR
Ohio
Pac Gas & Fi
Packard Bl
Penney
J c
Pennsylvania
Keith Orph
Remington Rand
Republic Steel
Royal Dutch
Safeway
Sal St. Louis-San Fran
St. Joseph
Schulte
Ars Roebuck
Jno
F. Clark and Co
Shell Union Oil
Simmons
T. Close
Skelly Oil
Socony-Vacuum
Tree
South Porto Ric
Juneau Gold
South Cal Edison
Allegheny Corp
South Pac RR
Allied Chemical
Allis Chalmers Southern Railway
Standard Brands
Texas Corp
American Tel & Tel
Texas Gulf
Bell
Tex Pac Coal & Oi
All American Water Works
Texas Pac Land American
Union Carbide
Auburn Auto
Union Oi
Baldwin Loco
Tesconse
Beltimore & Ohio
United Aircraft
Bendix Aviation
United Carbon
United Corp UN
United Fruit Bbc
Bethlehem Stee
United Gas Imput
Bohn Aluminum
Ind Alecohol
Briggs Manufact
Rubber Burroughs
Ned U S Smelting
California Packing
U S Steel
Calumet & Heela
Canada Dry
Vanadium Corp Tees
Canadian Pacific
Warner Bros
Cerro de Pan Copper
Warren Bros
Chesapeake and Ohio
Chesapeake Corporation
Woolworth
Staul
NW RR
Tr & Coachhicago Rock
Chrysler Motor
Coca Island A
Pac
Cola
Cola Fuel
Iran
Colum Gas & Elec
Alum Co. of America
Columbian
Ark Nat Gas
Ncc Ees
Commonwealth & South
Ford Motor Co
Consolidated Gas Aus
Curtis Wright
Standard of
United Gasee
Renegeee
al Davis
Chemical Aa
del Lackawanna
Neereeeere Svesucatece
Eastman Kodak
Elec Auto-Lite Veee
Foster Wheeler
Fox Film
Texas Ag
Rene! Electric
General Foods Aine's
General Mille
General Railway
Goodrich Tire
Goodyear Tire
Creat Northern RR
Great West Suzer
Hershey
Appeter
Houston Oil Steves
Kouston
Hudson Motor
Hupp
AQ Minain Central
U S Teacher Wounded in Turkish Shooting Mistake
American Raymond S. White, a Smyrna International College teacher, was shot in the foot by Turkish gendarmes who mistook him for an escaped brigand while driving from Bergama to Smyrna. He and three friends had visited Bergama ruins and were warned by a gendarme trap set for brigand Ghiavour Ati. White received treatment in Smyrna.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Raymond
White
Smyrna International College
Bergama
Smyrna
Bergama- Smyrna
Ghiavour Ati
Judge Sends Patrol For Man In Court No-Show
Hackensack New Jersey August 11 Anthony Nadratowski 24 failing to appear in court claimed lack of warfare as an alibi. Judge Abram Lebson issued a bench warrant and soon after Nadratowski phoned from Jersey City saying he lacked fare to Hackensack. Police traced the call and he was taken to Hackensack in a patrol wagon.
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Hackensack
N. J
Anthony Nadratowski
Abram Lebson Quick
Nadratowski
Jersey City
Brooklyn Elm Sick With Deadly Dutch Elm Disease
An elm on Ocean Parkway Brooklyn shows Dutch elm disease spreading from New Jersey into New York. Officials warn rapid containment is needed to prevent northeast-wide spread.
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New York
Brooklyn
East Orange
N. J
Ocean Parkway
Herring Run Pleases Tillamook Bay Anglers
In Rockaway Oregon anglers report a heavy herring run with fish so plentiful they can be scooped from the water. The scene is described as not real fishing but considered fun and yielding satisfactory results. In Dallas Texas the resignation of patrolman J W Chambers after a shooting incident in a Fort Worth hotel is announced by Police Chief Claude W Trammell.
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Rockaway
Ore
U.P
Tillamook Bay
Dallas
J. W. Chambers
Fort Worth
Claude W .Trammell
Kansas City Livestock and New Orleans Cotton Market Roundup
Livestock prices show hogs 140-240 lb at 3.00 to 4.25 with top 4.25 for choice. cattle and calves steady with steers 4.85 to 5.60, cows 2.75 to 3.50, vealers 3.00 to 6.00. New Orleans cotton opens easier with near-term declines then partial rally amid hedge activity and stock shifts. Chicago grain table reports mixed corn and wheat moves with several contract fluctuations.
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Kansas City
D. A
Earling Wethers
Cuba economic plan aims to decentralize farming and debt relief
A Cuban rehabilitation program seeks farmer independence through decentralization and tax cuts with debt restructuring and extended payment periods. Regional sugar agreement backed by London Washington and Havana, plus increased U S import quotas, are intended to balance consumption and production amid cooperation from Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Washington
Havana
Cuba
State Department
United States
Peace Officer Ends His Life in Dallas Park
J P Huddleston a 63 year old peace officer for 35 years fatally shot himself in Keith Park Dallas. He left notes asking his son in law Bryce Twitty to be notified and had been despondent since leaving the Texas Rangers after a new governor took office. He previously served as city marshal and mayor of Farmersville and as a US Marshal and DOJ investigator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
J. P. Huddleston
Keith Park
Huddleston
Bryce JL. Twitty
Baylor
Texas
Farmersville
U. S
Texarkana
Federal Department of Justice
Eastern Star
Fort Worth
Ranger Huddleston Served During Martial Law in Borger
Texas peace officer Ranger Huddleston was sent to Borger in September 1929 during martial law and acted as police chief for a time. He aided investigations into the unsolved death of District Attorney John A. Holmes.
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Borger
Ranger Huddleston
Texas
John A. Holmes
Widows Fight Over Widow Claim At Aviator's Funeral
In Kansas City two women claim widowhood of Capt Edward Deeds World War pilot killed in a China crash. As his body arrived the two women confronted each other in the train shed hurling denouncements and claims of spousal rights. Betty Deeds and Marie Hennessy Shirley Deeds oppose each other at the funeral scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
U.P
Edward Deeds
China
Betty Deeds
Orient
Deeds
Marie Hennessy
Shirley Deeds
False Lindbergh death report spreads worldwide
A false Copenhagen sourced message claimed Colonel and Mrs Charles Lindbergh died in a Greenland plane crash. The hoax reached every continent within hours though the couple were safe in Julianehaab as guests of Colonial Manager Ibsen, after a late night of travel.
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New York
Amarillo
Chr A. Lindbergh
Greenland
Copenhagen
Lindberghs
Ibsen
Julianehaab
Blue Star Ointment Promises Quick Itch Relief
Advertisement claims Blue Star Ointment kills germs that cause itch and rash. It promises fast absorption and effectiveness against eczema ringworm and foot itch with a money back guarantee if it fails.
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Heaven
St. Peter
St.Peter
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Theodore
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy
I. R. Kelso
Judge Kelso
Southwestern Public Service Company
Kelso
News-Globe
Electric Light Group
Dalhart
Rock Island
France
Pampa
Wichita
Tipton
Claude
van Buren Street
John Snider
Girl Scouts
John
Eleventh
Tyler Streets
Fear Mission
Tack
Border Guard
Hugh
Johnson
Judge
New Orleans
Liverpool
To & Pointe
John F. Clark & Co
Mexico
Mate
Lindbergh
Rigo
Rigo Manufacturing Co
Nashville, Teenesses
Tyler
NTL Ag
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