Solons Await Board Report On Relief Funds
The Texas House asked Gov. Miriam Ferguson and Adam Johnson to present views on funding relief through April. A bill would issue 9.5 million in bonds, leaving 10.5 million from a 20 million vote. Ferguson warned 35 million may be needed for winter relief beyond bond and federal matching funds. Both Houses adjourned early with no bond bill filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas House of Representatives
Miriam A. Ferguson
Adam Johnson
Texas Relief
Texas Relief Commission
Johnson
Relief Commission
House
Ferguson
Johnson Pay Check Hiked To 15000 In NRA
The salary of Hugh S. Johnson NRA administrator rose from 6000 to 15000 a year by presidential action, effective July 1, with officials saying the increase aligns pay with his worth and rising living costs. Johnson had previously set his salary at 6000. He had suggested leaving the NRA due to financial strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Roosevelt
Johnson
Little Fishies Battle Against Bathysphere
In Hamilton Bermuda on August 28 1930 scientists Dr William Beebe and Otis Barton described new deep sea life seen during dives off the port. Creatures appeared near the bathysphere as tiny fish struck the glass emitting flashes of light during two submersions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Bermuda
William Beebe
Otis Barton
Barton
Legion Commander backs universal wartime service law
Edward A. Hayes national commander of the American Legion urged universal mandatory service in wartime as a guarantee of peace. He spoke to Legionnaires at the 16th annual convention in Mineral Wells Texas, calling for all elements of society to serve without privilege or profit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mineral Wells
Tex
U.P
Edward A. Hayes
American Legion
Legionnaires of Texas
Law of the Land
Science and Faith Watch at Bedside in Alabama
In Fort Payne Alabama an eight year old boy Wallace Doyle Sharp Jr faced a leg infection with a doctor saying he had an even chance after surgeons operated at home with no hospital facilities. The boy's parents joined Holiness cult prayers and chanting delaying the procedure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Payne
Ala
W. T. Miller
Wallace Doyle Sharp, Jr
Wallace
Sharp
Science
Faith
Austrian claims tie Dollfuss killing to Nazi plot from Munich
Chancellor Schuschnigg will present documents to the League of Nations and foreign ministers charging Germany with responsibility for the Dollfuss assassination. Austrian officials say the July 25 putsch and provincial uprising were hatched in Munich by Theodor Habicht, acting with at least Hitler's assent or acquiescence.
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Geneva
U.P
Kurt Schuschnigg
League of Nations Assembly
France
Great Britain
Italy
Engelbert Dollfuss
Germany
Munich
Theodor Habicht
Adolf Hitler
55 Million Dollar Argentine Refinery Burns Many Dead
A National Oil Company refinery in Campana Argentina valued at 55 million dollars burned after a series of explosions. Fourteen believed dead, about 40 injured, and many more missing as a two thirds square mile area was devastated. Firefighters from 6 cities battled the blaze as gas tanks exploded and rails melted under the heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campana
Argentina
U.P
National Oil Company
Standard Oil
Amarillo and West Texas Weather Outlook Tonight and Wednesday
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday for Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas generally fair tonight and Wednesday. New Mexico unsettled with possible showers and thunderstorms in northwest and north central areas. cooler in the southeast.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Gulf Faces New Threat Of Storms
Freeport reports wind and rain abated after hours of danger as the U S Weather Bureau warned the center of the offshore disturbance still lingered about 25 miles south of the coast. Precautions should not be relaxed until further advice. Residents who fled returned to largely untouched homes as the system weakened locally.
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Freeport
United States Weather Bureau
Washington
Gulf Coast
Weather Bureau
Here
Reorganized NRA Draws Up New Administrative Plan
Washington August 28 inside reorganization completed the NRA aims at a new administrative board to be set by Gen Hugh 8 Johnson and President Roosevelt after an Hyde Park conference. Johnsons realignment of codes sorts every known industry into 22 major classifications. A policy to govern operations will be completed by September 10.
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Washington
NRA
Hugh 8. Johnson
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Johnson
Rains Fill Palo Duro Crystal Lake at Park
Maj. E A Kingsley reports Palo Duro State Park dam finished and a rainstorm fills a creek bed to create a crystal blue lake over a mile long. Water 12 feet deep at the dam, extending along the draw. park addition praised as a major enhancement.
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Palo Duro State Park
E. A. Kingsley
Panhandle to organize regional league in Amarillo
Delegations from Panhandle towns meet in Amarillo to form the All Panhandle League aimed at highway needs and regional unity. Attendees include leaders from Friona Pampa Dalhart Clarendon Shamrock Canyon Hereford Quanah Perryton Texhoma plus a party from Tucumcari New Mexico led by Arch Hurley. A banquet follows the session.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Clarendon
Shamrock
Canyon
Hereford
Quanah
Perryton
Texhoma
Tucumcari
N. M
Arch Hurley
Oklahoma Oil Plant Strike Ends in Victory for Workers
Tulsa August 28 report states Phillips Petroleum station employees ended a month long strike. A contract was signed granting about 14 percent wage increases and collective bargaining. Frank Phillips said the company offered to rehire all striking workers, with 13 initially refusing then accepting return to work.
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Tulsa
Okla
Phillips Petroleum Company
Oil Union
Phillips
Ita
Frank Phillips
News Globe
Tulwa
Two fighters of nature end in garage duel
We recall the Black Widow spider and a deadly scorpion in Long Beach California. The two engaged in a fatal struggle while crowds watched. An animal welfare agent intervened and killed both creatures to stop the cruelty.
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Long Beach
Calif
Epider
Scorpion
More Rainfall Predicted for Panhandle Tonight and Tomorrow
Panhandle skies expected to shower tonight and again tomorrow as weatherman H T Collman forecasts scattered showers from sundown today through Wednesday with little rain during the day tomorrow. Reports from rail towns show rains varying from light showers to two inches in Channing and Sterley, with 1 to 2 inches near the North and South Plains.
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Panhandle
H. T. Collman
Channing
Railronda
North Plains
Sterley
South Plains
Clarendon
Silverton
Lockney
Plainview
Turkey
Lubbock
Dalhart
Perryton
Collman
Amarillo
Rockies
Minnesota
Prince Charming May Awaken Beauty
A Chicago request from a mother seeks a medical breakthrough to wake Patricia Maguire who has slept since February 15, 1932. Springfield reports 37 new encephalitis cases in the past week amid rising epidemic numbers and ongoing searches by doctors, laboratories, and specialists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Medical Science
Patricia Maguire
Broadside
Springfield
State Department of Public Health Today
Patricia
Woman dies after Amarillo shooting spree ends
Mrs Frances Elizabeth Cooper 68 dies from a wound received when fd Fitz gerald 37 killed Amarillo policeman Curtis Crays had fatally shot Fitzgerald after he wounded Officer Randy Lee and aimed at Crays. Cooper son Homer Cooper 27 was also wounded but survived. Funeral set for Hedley First Methodist Church. Cooper family details listed.
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Fd Fitzgerald
Amarillo
Frances Elizabeth Cooper
Fitzgerald
Homer Cooper
St. Anthony's Hospital
Cooper
First Methodist Church
Hedley
Boxwell Brothers
Alabama
Ens
T. B. John
Charles
Jack Cooper
Ancho
N. M
J. L. Lamberton
Adrian Davis, Jr
Potter County
Grand Jury
Curtis Crays
Crays
Randy Lee
Lee
Holland Cook dies from spinal injury Sunday
Holland Cook nineteen son of Mr and Mrs J M Cook Amarillo died yesterday in Denver Colo from a spinal injury incurred by diving He attended Amarillo High School in 1931 later at Junior A M College Arlington and College of Marshall Marshall He served in Denver last year his body to be sent to Overton Texas for funeral services Thursday He survived by his parents and a brother William Lloyd Cook
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Holland Cook
J. M. Cook
Amarillo
Denver
Colo
Young Cook
Amarillo High School
Junior A. & M. College
Arlington
College of Marshall
Marshall
Quick Trial Set for Co ed Death Suspect in Alabama
Harold Taylor indicted for the murder of college co ed Miss Faye New. He will face trial in circuit court in Birmingham on September 17, less than a month after Miss New accompanied him on a car ride from which she did not return alive.
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Birmingham
Ala
Harold Taylor
Faye New
Gang Plan Bank Holdups Sparking Within Nelson Crew
A gang of 10 led by George Baby Face Nelson plotted two simultaneous bank heists in Minnesota's iron range. Disagreement caused Homer Van Meter to be placed on the spot by a fellow gang member, a reliable source reported in St. Paul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul
George “Baby Face
Nelson
Minnesota
Iron Range
Homer van Meter
War Trades Bared In Senate Munitions Probe
Washington August 28. Senate munitions investigation reveals evidence of international intrigue graft payments and trading of military secrets among powers. Hearings begin next Tuesday for three weeks tracing links between American interests and foreign munitions makers. Sir Basil Zaharoff, Europe's mystery man, appears in the evidence as a link between American firms and European sales of weapons.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Europe
Basil Zaharoff
Zaharoff
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