Utilities chief Hopson testifies amid rival accusations
Clarence M. Wright reports Hopson denying profits claims as $2.8 million figure is called a distortion while Senate probes pursue subpoenas. Hopson describes his income in earlier years, cites management fees and a 1922 estimate, and avoids private-finance questions as a sand pit tragedy kills one boy and injures another nearby.
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Clarence M. Wright
Washington
H. C. Hopson
Associated Gas and Electric Company
Hopson
House Rules Committee
Senate Lobby Committee
8. C. Ross
New York State
New York Ivestgating Committee
Senate
House
Sabath
Illinois
Associated System
O'Connor
Rules Committee
Henry Ford
No Compromise Said To Be Sought At Tri Power Parley
Lord Robert Cecil urged Britain to threaten force to uphold the League of Nations if Italy pushes toward war over Ethiopia. In Rome, Mussolini reportedly pursued a no compromise line at a tri power conference with Britain and France. In Addis Ababa, women took over jobs as men joined the army. In Texas, Gov Allred sought to shut down horse race bookies via injunction against racing form publishers and information services.
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Associated Press
London
Robert Cecil
Ttaly
England
Associated
Cles
Italy
Mussolini
Paris
Great Britain
France
Ethiopia
Aldo Pellegni
Cairn
Egypt
Luigi Razza
Austin
Allred
Texas
William McCraw
Co. A. Wheeler
Daily Racing Form Publishing Company
Texas News Service
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Open warfare flares again at Shrimp plant clash
Open warfare between union and non union workers erupts at Shrimp canning factories in Bayou La Batre Alabama. Three white men wounded and a black man beaten as Sheriff Holcombe rushes deputies from Mobile to guard a non union plant while armed union demonstrators threaten to seize the facility.
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Bayou LA Batre
Ala
U.P
Robert Holcombe
Mobile
Guffey coal stabilization bill headed to floor action
The House Ways and Means Committee approved the Guffey coal stabilization measure with a 12 to 11 vote and two present votes. Leadership aims to bring it to the floor Thursday and pass it by Friday night to establish a small NRA like framework in the coal industry.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Clemency Refused for Doomed Man in Huntsville Case
Governor Allred refused clemency for John Trapper a Uvalde Black man sentenced to be electrocuted in Huntsville for the murder of J W Havygood one of several officers who tried to arrest him. The report notes the case as part of ongoing enforcement.
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Austin
Allred
John Trapper
Uvalde Negro
Huntsville
J. W. Havygood
More Pews and Page Totals in Daily Budget
A compact staffing and finance note highlights college costs and county and chest budgets. It references pages detailing altar costs, home gardens, and regional budget figures with local implications.
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Home Gardens
Bach
Alaska
KGNC
Bryan Victim of Recall Petition
Charles W. Bryan longtime Lincoln politician faces recall election petition in Lincoln Nebraska. The brother of William Jennings Bryan has long championed initiative referendum and recall in state and municipal elections as his political career spans four decades.
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Lincoln, Neb
Charles W. Bryan
Lincoln
Bryan
Ickes Announces Housing Allotments for Oklahoma Projects
Secretary Ickes announces 2.9 million dollars for a 539 family low cost development in Oklahoma City and 84090 thousand dollars for a 90 family project in Enid Oklahoma. Both ventures focus on affordable housing.
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Washington
Ickes
Oklahoma City
Enid
Okla
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Summary
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for fair tonight and Wednesday with slightly warmer temperatures. West Texas will be partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with a warmer Panhandle. New Mexico expects showers and thunderstorms tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. Temperatures today range from 64 to 82 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
City orders silent rubbish trucks amid noise crackdown
A roundup of quirky Aug 13 dispatches reports New York city authority ordering 20 silent waste collection trucks as part of a noise crackdown. Other items describe a Manchuquo empire brain trust, Alturas police delaying a warrant over an intoxicated man and bulldog, a West Plains police notice on enforcing speed laws, a Chicago shopper finding a One dollar bill with writing on its face.
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New York
Hlinking
Manchuquo
Brain Trust
North China
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alturas
Cal
West Plains
Walter Endicott
Lone Bone
Chicago
Substitute oil bill eyed by Congress in reform plan
Washington outlines a three point substitute for oil regulation with congressional ratification of the Dallas compact, presidential power to curb imports, and permanent the Connally hot oil act. President Roosevelt backs interstate compact consent while states debate broader measures.
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Washington
Connally
Texas
Dallas
President and Tariff Commission
Roosevelt
Congress
New Mexico
Kansas
Oklahoma
Ilinois
Colorado
Ofil
Long says he will seek 1936 Democratic nomination
Senator Long of Louisiana told colleagues he plans to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1936 and would run as an independent if Roosevelt is renominated. He predicted carry states including Louisiana Arkansas Texas Mississippi Georgia and Florida and said he would enter primaries to challenge Roosevelt.
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Nathan Robertson
Associated Press
Washington
Senator Long
Louisiana
Senate
Roosevelt
Long
Louisianan
la Follette
Hoover
Arkansas
Texas
Mississippi
Georgia
Florida
Borah
Mystery surrounds post shooting case in rural area
J W Huff a 48 year old farmer shot his son Jack 20 as he exited a car to fix a wire gate. Huff later died and his body was found six miles northwest of town. An inquest heard Huff claimed he mistook his son for an assailant and rode away on horseback before disappearing.
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John Marshall
North East 7Th Ave
Howard
J. W. Huff
Here
Huff
Jack
GH. Nelson
Tohoka
Lubbock Man Jailed After Fracas Here
Loyd Beesinger of Lubbock was jailed in Potter County on aggravated assault charges against his Amarillo wife after a night club incident. He pleaded not guilty at arraignment before County Judge J N Riggs, bond set at 300 dollars. She had filed for divorce in district court, alleging he struck her tore her dress and tried to force her into a car.
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Loyd Beesinger
Lubbock
Potter County
Amarillo
J. N. Riggs
Former Longview Mayor Appointed Colonel on Allred Staff
Gabriel A Dodenheim, former Longview mayor, was appointed colonel on the staff of Governor James V. Allred in Longview on August 13.
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Longview
Gabriel A Dodenheim
James V. Allred
Freeze Me Says He and The Monkey Revival
Dr Ralph B Willard of California claims to freeze small animals and revive them after months. The Globe notes his method is a sensational claim and not an editorial position of the paper.
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Ralph 8. Willard
California
Mercury Low As Rain Cools Texas Heat
Rain and cloudy skies eased the heat across Texas with general rainfall in North Texas and showers in West Texas from San Angelo to Brownfield. Denison reported almost three inches, Amarillo stayed cool, and Sherman recorded 1.43 inches of rain as temperatures dropped from 86 to 75 by midmorning.
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Asancinter Press
Texas
San Angelo
Brownfield
Panhandle
Denison
Sherman
AMA brands Ralph Willard hoax on human icicle revival claim
The American Medical Association warned Ralph Willard of Los Angeles that his plan to revive a “human icicle” is a hoax. The AMA spokesman Dr Morris Fishbein calls the claim pure poppycock. Willard had been previously fined $300 and jailed for practicing medicine without a license in California in 1933.
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Chicago
Alg
The
American Medical Association Today
Ralph
Willard
Los Angeles
Association
Morris Fishbein
Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Association
California
WPA Strike Threatens Relief Program in New York
AFL leaders warned President Roosevelt that protests against WPA wage security could spread nationwide and endanger the $4 billion work relief program. They sought to link $50 million in federal projects to a strike by about 15,000 workers. WPA officials said the New York strike collapsed with fewer than 1,000 participants of 190,000 workers affected.
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American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
New York
Labor Leaders Warn of Wider WPA Strike Wave
President William Green of the AFL says workers nationwide will defy the work or starve order as New York unions dispute WPA relief figures. Green expects building trades to follow recent strikes in New York New Jersey and Philadelphia and calls for settlement within policy constraints. George Meany argues relief hinges on strike outcomes and asserts strikers deserve aid like any citizen in need.
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Green
A. F. of L
New York
AFP. of L
Federa
Building Trades
New Jersey
Philadelphia
George Meany
New York State Federation of Labor
Hugh 8. Johnson
WPA
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Hopkins
Meany
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