Drought Committee Plans West Relief Tour From Amarillo
President Roosevelt's Great Plains Drought Committee gathered in Amarillo to draft a relief plan. The group, led by Morris L. Cooke, includes Rexford Tugwell and H. H. Bennett and will tour the Middle West on a 3000 mile mission to coordinate federal relief efforts. Guests at breakfast were Amarillo Chamber of Commerce officials at the Herring Hotel.
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Roosevelt
Great Plains
Middle-West
Morris L. Cooke
Rexford Tugwell
Resettlement Administration
H. H. Bennett
Soil Conservation Service
Frederick M. Fowler
Richard C. Moore
Missouri River Division
John C. Page
Bureau of Reclamation
F. C. Harrington
WPA
Amarillo
McCormick Co
F. C. Harrinston
Army
Drought conference in Washington cools under heat
Rexford Tugwell attends drought committee meeting with Amarillo chairman John Hill as 50 to 60 officials endure noon heat. Tugwell jokes about the breath at hand while the room laughs and the temperature sits at 92 degrees.
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Associated “Vees
Rexford G. Tugwell
Agriculture
Drouth
Washington
John FE. Hill
Amarillo
Tugwell
Drought Relief Committee Reports On Farm Aid
The Panhandle committee rep of the county judges association submitted a farm aid program. John Hill spoke, then Congressman Marvin Jones urged continued soil conservation and resettlement work. Panhandle residents oppose relocation and want long range relief. President Roosevelt backs a first-hand drought study.
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County Judges Association of the
Cooke
Roosevelt weighs drouth trip and Mississippi visit
President Roosevelt began shaping plans for a drought belt tour and possible Mississippi River journey. Hannibal Missouri and other cities invited him to events, but decisions were not made for several days as his team prepared the Midwest inspection trip set to begin August 25.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Hannibal
Great Plains to Move 59000 Families Debates Depopulation
Committee members question reports that Dr. C. W. Thornthwaite urged relocating 59,000 families from drought damaged Great Plains farms. They push for a permanent country despite voices worried over residents leaving.
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Dreath
C. W. Thornthwaite
University of Oklahoma
Washington
Drough
Great Plains
Tugwell Says RA Never Has Planned to Evict
Rexford G. Tugwell asserts the Resettlement Administration aims to rehabilitate destitute farmers in the Great Plains and will not evict residents. He notes continued cooperation with the Soil Conservation Service and federal agencies, while declining specifics for the Amarillo-centered five-state region.
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Tugwell
Great Plains
Rexford G. Tugwell
Hayter
Soil Conservation Service
Cooke Explains Trip Purpose In Great Plains Study
Morris L. Cooke, chairman, outlines the Great Plains Commission plan to map a 20 to 25 year national agricultural program. Emphasizing water and soil conservation, he envisions rural electrification and widespread irrigation, with a long-range, nonemergency focus and broad agency representation.
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Great Plains
Ghost Walks in West Texas Wheat Payments From AAA
The phantom of the AAA returns as about two million dollars flows to West Texas wheat growers. Following the Supreme Court ruling, Congress funded a March payment to satisfy the 1936 wheat program. John R. Edmonds leads the Texas wheat office in Amarillo with seven staffers checking compliance papers.
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Plains
West Texas
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Congress
Texas Wheat Office
Amarillo
John R. Edmonds
Potter County
Army to pay higher prices for foods in drought era
Agriculture officials forecast higher prices as drought stretches into fall and winter. Secretary Wallace weighs a 10 million dollar seed purchase to ensure next year's planting while army quartermasters project up to 20 percent increases in basic foods for the Civilian Conservation Corps and the army. Improved business and drought are said to lift 39 food items in the balanced diet.
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Washington
Army
Drouth
Wallace
Civilian Conservation Corps
Pleurisy Keeps Landon At Vacation House
Gov Alf Landon remains indoors at his Estes Park ranch due to muscular pleurisy while vacationing with family before his East campaign tour. Aides report his cold improving but no fishing or horse riding is planned as he works on three speeches and considers changing topics. vote for Herman Wright for State Representative.
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Estes Park
Colo
Alf. M. Landon
Topeka
Rebels Execute Prisoners as Frontline Battles Rage
Government forces shelling Iran and San Sebastian prompt swift executions of held people by rebel and government troops. About 1,200 prisoners in Iran and 700 in San Sebastian faced firing squads as front-line clashes along the Bay of Biscay intensified. Franco travels to Burgos amid renewed war plans and reports of rebel victories near Zaragoza.
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Associated Press
Iran
San Sebastian
Bay of Biscay
Francisco Franco
Spain
Burgos
Badajoz
Madrid
Zaragoza
Mallorca
Martin Moore Indicted for Death of Helen Clevenger
Buncombe County grand jury indicts Martin Moore for murder and first degree burglary in the death of Helen Clevenger at the Battery Park Hotel Asheville. Both charges are capital offenses. Officials expect arraignment this afternoon after a confession reported by Sheriff Lawrence Brown.
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Asheville
N. C
Buncombe County
Martin Moore
Helen Clevenger
Zeb V. Nettles
Lawrence Brown
New York University
Fashionable
Battery Park Hotel
Nation Swelters Under Historic Heat Wave
Heat plagued the nation from the western plains to the Atlantic seaboard with a Sunday peak of 113 in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri. Forecasters warned the heat would spread to the Midwest and Great Lakes while eastern districts cooled with scattered showers. Heat deaths were reported in Missouri and Kansas, with drownings in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island and Maine as crowds sought beach relief.
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Atlantic
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Missouri
Midwest
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Appalachians
Middle Atlantic
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
Rhode Island
Maine
Petition Seeks Ellwood Park Tennis Court Improvements
A 160-signature petition filed with the Amarillo City Secretary calls for Ellwood Park tennis court repairs. Voters request back stops fixed four courts resurfaced and one new court added. City Commission likely to discuss at tomorrow evening meeting per Le Verne Calhoun.
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Amarillo
Ellwood Park
Gey
LeVerne Calhoun
City Commission
No More Bonds Cashed At Amarillo Office
Amarillo post office stops cashing veterans bonus bonds. Bonds presented here will be sent to Dallas for cashing with receipts issued locally and checks issued from Dallas. About 70 percent of Amarillo bonds have already been cashed, says Postmaster W D DeGrassi.
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Amarillo
Dallas
W. D. DeGrassi
Richman Plans New York London Flight Start
Los Angeles August 17 Harry Richman singer and pilot Mick Merrill set to depart for New York today in a new 100000 dollar airplane as the first leg of a proposed New York London round trip.
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Los Angeles
Harry Richman
Singer
Mick Merrill
New York
Milwaukee Girl’s Body Found in Wind Lake
The body of May Gaulke a 15 year old Milwaukee girl was found today in Wind Lake where she disappeared Saturday while swimming with her fiance.
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Racine
Wis
May Gaulke
Milwaukee
Wind Lake
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Vicinity Tonight and Tuesday
Amarillo and vicinity expect generally fair weather tonight and Tuesday. Showers likely in the extreme south portion on Tuesday in New Mexico. South areas fair while the north remains occasionally unsettled with little temperature change. Extreme temperatures reached 71 to 94 degrees by 1 o'clock today.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Judge asked to arrest Townsend and Young in pension case
Ben Sacharow, attorney for Rev. Alfred J. Wright, sought a Common Pleas order to arrest Dr. Francis E. Townsend and Gilmour Young for failing to appear at a deposition in Wrights receivership suit against the Townsend old age pension organization. The hearing was tied to Townsend and Young testifying.
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Cleveland
Ben Sacharow
Alfred J. Wright
Townsend Old-Age Pension Organization
Common Pleas
George W. Kerr
Francis E. Townsend
The
Pension Plan
Gilmour Young
Hliness Is Fatal To Claude LeNeveu
Potter County deputy sheriff Claude LeNeveu dies at eight this morning after ten days of critical congestion in the lungs. A native of England who settled in Quanah and Amarillo, he served as deputy since 1933 and was a lifelong farmer and rancher. Funeral services set for 10:30 tomorrow at Blackburn-Shaw with Masonic burial in Llano Cemetery. pallbearers from the sheriff force and local Masonic and Elk lodges. Survived by wife Martha Ellen and four children with two grandchildren.
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Claude LeNeveu
Potter County
England
LeNeveu
West Texas
Quanah
W. M. Adams
Amarillo
Jackson Street
Blackburn-Shaw Chapel
Cc. C. Grimes
Polk Street
Odist Church
J. Howard Williams
First Baptist Church
Llano
Masonic and Elk Lodges
Martha Ellen LeNeveu
J. P. LeNeveu
Eugene LeNeveu
Jacksonville
Maurine LeNeveu
Amarto
Louise Rand
Bannister Victim of Plot Three Guilty
Three men Jerome A. Jacobs Raymond Derringer and Harry Hechheimer were found guilty of extorting 1800 dollars from Harry Bannister former husband of actress Ann Harding in a custody fight His attackers allegedly threatened to cast him as immoral to influence custody proceedings in November 1934 in New York City and Concord New Hampshire.
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New York
Harry L. Bannister
Ann Harding
Jerome A. Jacobs
Raymond Derringer
Harry Hechheimer
Concord
N. H
Court of General Sessions
Bannister
Low voter interest in Saturday runoff elections
After a quiet lead up, the second primary will be decided on Saturday with run off races for state county district and precinct offices. Voters who moved since January 1 must update poll tax or exemption certificates by 5 30 this afternoon at the county tax office. Tomorrow is the final day for absentee ballots with mail or county clerk voting options. About 350 absentee ballots had been sent or voted by noon today.
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