Floods Swell Across Midwest Prompt Evacuations
Rain swollen rivers burst banks from Missouri to Pennsylvania with floods in Ohio Indiana Missouri and Illinois. Hundreds of families fled homes near Hamilton Ohio Poplar Bluff Missouri Williamsville Missouri and Indiana as police and fire units rescued marooned residents. Schools closed as water trapped Portland Indiana and isolated towns in Illinois and Tennessee area.
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Chicago
Middlewest
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Hamilton
Poplar
Bluff
Williamsville
Indianapolis
Dayton
Columbus
Portland
Ind
Herrin
Til
Classified Help Wanted In Texas Weary Families Seek Work
A jumble of letters from various residents near Pampa Texas seeks employment. Applicants request ranch dairy farm or general labor work and offer details about ages family size and skills including farming housekeeping babysitting and cafe work.
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H. M. Cash
G Omeral Delivery
Pampa
Texas
Tam
Otis L. Richardson
General Delivery
Stanley Cox
Buchanan Street
Two Are Killed in Texas Highway Crash
Wichita Falls Texas January 18 two men were killed in a head on collision on the Wichita Falls Fort Worth highway near Bellevue. Two others were injured including C T McMannus of Crapeland Texas in critical condition and Prank Biggers a Dallas salesman seriously hurt. Names on bodies were FB B Wallace and P B Hoffman of Oklahoma City. McMannton said one victim may be Ed Walton of Athena Texas.
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Wichita Fall
Bellevue
C. T. McMannus
Crapeland
Texas
Biggers
Dallas
Bowie Clinic
FB. B. Wallace
P. B. Hoffman
Oklahoma City
McMannton
Ed Walton
Athena
Riggers
Wichita Falls-Fort Worth
Knocks At Deaths Door In Drug Overdose
John W. Cawley lay heavily drugged in a Miami hospital as authorities noted he had taken fifteen times the normal dose. He recorded his first reaction fifteen minutes later noting numbness flushed face slow pulse and dilated pupils while wondering if a large dose would kill him and writing until the drug made his scrawl illegible.
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Miami
Fla
John W. Cawley
Hospitul
Cawley
Tack to Appear on NBC We The People Sunday
Gene Howe known as the Tacklesa Texan will appear on Phillips Lord's We The People program over NBC between 4 and 4 30 Amarillo time. KGNC will carry the broadcast ensuring clear reception for Panhandle listeners. Immediately after the show Tack will discuss via talk back phone at the Paramount theater.
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Gene Howe
Panhandle
Phillips Lord
NBC
Amarillo
Globe News
KGNC
Tack
Paramount Theater
Radio Schedule Fragments and Evacuation Update
A Kansas radio timetable lists KGNC programs from 3.00 to 10.30 pm with music, talks, and hosts including Edward Davies, the Randalls, Mary Small, Rudy Vallee, and Duncan Stewart. A brief dispatch notes Willey R Peck, US embassy counsellor, flying to negotiate evacuation of 27 Americans from Sian, China, amid political turmoil.
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Mary Small
Rudy Valleen
Edwin
Hill
The
Pandoleers
Sparta Review
Xavier Sugars
Duncan Stewart
Lieve Snyder
U. P. News
King's Ceaters
Glen Grey
Orchestra
Rainbow Room
Shanghai
Willey R Peck
Yang Bu-Chen
Shensi c
Sian
Mrs Martha Young Dies At Northwest Texas Hospital
Mrs Martha Gordon Young 66 died last night at 11 30 in Northwest Texas Hospital. A Baptist Church member she lived with sister Mrs Ann Bigger 207 North Buchanan Street the past year. Survived by son Sid Williams with influenza in Colorado and sisters Mrs Ed Aker Alvin Texas and Mrs Rebecca Lodge member, and brother Frank Camplain Dillon Colorado. Funeral at Boxwell Brothers Chapel 10 tomorrow with Rev Foster officiating. burial Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Martha Gordon Young
Northwest Texas Hospital
Young
The
Baptist Church
Ann Bigger
North Buchanan Street
Rebecca Lodge
Eastern Star
Collins County
Texas
Sid Williams
Fair Play
Colorado
Castle Captured in Amarillo with Stolen Car
Richard Caatle, arrested by Amarillo police, is being transported to California by L. A. Welton of the Los Angeles Auto Theft Bureau. He was found with a car later identified as stolen in Los Angeles.
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Richard Caatle
Amarillo
California
L. A. Welton
Los Angeles
Bears Gobble Food but Leave Dishes Intact
In Fital Park Colorado bears entered the open home of Mrs Oakie Straub while she visited a neighbor. The animals ate cake ice cream peaches and other prepared treats for a company dinner, but did not break or move a single dish even in the basement store room.
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Fital Park
Colo
Panhandle Chamber invites towns to January banquet
Invitations have been sent for the Panhandle Amarillo Chamber of Commerce banquet to be held Friday night January 22. The program aims for simple entertainment with all Panhandle speakers and entertainers and Panhandle products served. Jack Cunningham chairs, Cal Farley is toastmaster.
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Panhandie-Amarillo
Temporary injunction shields Scott Hotel from removal of property
Judge W F E Gee of the 108th Civil District Court granted a temporary injunction preventing Agnes Scott and Ralph D W Scott, operators of the Scott Hotel at 41149 Taylor Street, from removing equipment or furnishings. Mac Blackenhorn and Thomas C Ridgway filed the suit, with the pair posting a $1000 bond pending the injunction hearing.
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Scott Hotel
Taylor Street
W. F E. Gee
108Th Civil District Court
Mac Blackenhorn
Thomas C. Ridg- Way
Agnes Scott
Ralph D. W. Scott
Scarlet fever cases surge in Amarillo
Six scarlet fever cases are reported in Amarillo. Health unit director Dr. B. M. Primer says cases are scattered with no cause for alarm but urges watchfulness. He notes no unusual rise in flu cases.
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Amarillo
B. M. Primer
Dr. Primer
Milwaukee's first commercial iron briquetting plant opens
In Milwaukee a plant converts unused iron borings from local factories into solid briquets for sale to foundries. The process saves transport of the by product to distant steel mills and marks the first U S briquetting venture of its kind.
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Milwaukee
United States
Farmers Collect Moss For Profit In Liberty TX
Farmers along the Trinity River bottoms in Liberty Texas gather moss from low hanging trees using long forked poles. They load the moss into trucks and are paid 2 cents per hundred pounds. The moss is dried baled and sold to furniture manufacturers for sofa stuffing.
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Liberty
Tex
Trinity River
Miner Survives 11-Hour Gold Slide in Kalgoorlie Mine
In Kalgoorlie Australia UP Reuben Stokes, a gold miner, was buried for 11 hours under 500 to 600 tons of gold ore before being rescued alive. Nearby, W Deke of Mercedes Texas found a naval orange 17% inches in circumference on his farm. Rob Miller of McClellansville South Carolina hunts with his cat claiming it retrieves game better than dogs.
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Kalgoorlie
Australia
Reuben Stokes
W. ©. Deke
Mercedes
Texas
Rob Miller
McClellansville, S. C
Hinton to Speak at Dumas Civic Meeting Tonight
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce manager Carl Hinton will be the principal speaker at a Dumas civic organization meeting tonight at 7. Judge Noel McDade and a three member committee extended the invitation.
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Carl Hinton
Amarillo
German Woman Collects Nobel Prize Money in Oslo
An unidentified German woman arrived in Oslo to collect the Nobel Prize money awarded to Carl von Ossietsky. The Nobel Committee handed her 1,000 kronor and transferred the remaining 150,000 kronor to the German Kommerzbank, in a travel incognito statement.
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Oslo
Norway
Carl von Ossietsky
Nobel Committee
Kommerzenbank
Railroads Boost 1937 Budgets in Push to Cut Relief Costs
Financial circles report larger 1937 railroad budgets for improvements. Carriers, after deep slumps, have begun the largest buying campaign since 1929 and 1930, signaling a move to stimulate equipment purchases and ease federal relief expenditures.
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New York
Uncle Sam
Napoleon's Hill Split by Soviet Shovels Near Moscow
Soviet steam shovels cut the hill just west of Moscow where Napoleon watched the city burn, creating two trenches. A military road to the Polish frontier will pass through one cut as part of wartime works.
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Moscow
Napoleon
Amarillo National Bank Officers Reelect All Directors
At the recent annual stockholders meeting Amarillo National Bank re elected all officers and directors. B T Ware serves as president with his sons Charles R C and Arthur Ware as vice presidents S D Vaughan is vice president and cashier Assistants include Jack Farwell E C Lacy Bill Baker and Frank Butler Jim Farwell and C E Robertson are assistant cashiers First National Bank and American National Bank postponed their annual stockholders meetings scheduled Tuesday to later dates.
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The
Amarillo National Bank
Jack Farwell
E. C. Lacy
Bill Baker
Frank Butler
Jim Farwell
C. E. Robertson
Amarillo
First National Bank
American National Bank
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