City Turns 10 Holiday With Full Program
Amarillo observes July Fourth with events at the Tri-State Fair grounds. Crowds enjoy speeches, games, barbecue, auto races offering $1,000 prizes, and a fireworks show. A Metro Park baseball double header drew fans while many remained working and others traveled via excursion rates.
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The
Fair Association
Knights of the Roaring Speedway
Joe Norman
Automobile
Metro
Metro Park
Globe-News
Amarillo
America
Death Toll Soars During Fourth of July Holiday
United Press reports over 100 deaths across a three day Fourth of July period with drownings and motor accidents leading fatalities. One capsizing near Tillamook Oregon left eight missing and possibly ten dead. Feuds and gunplay claim several lives in Kentucky while Atlantic coast drownings rise and rain suppresses Midwestern casualties.
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United Press
Tillamook
Ore
Kentucky
Harlan County
Atlantic
Middlewest
Borah Urged to Lead Prohibition Party National Ticket
Indianapolis July 4 Prohibition party delegates gather for their quadrennial convention seeking Senator Borah to head the ticket over the repeal issue. D Leigh Colvin reports Borah silent while Moody is discussed as a possible vice presidential candidate if Borah declines.
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Indianapolis
Borah
Prohibition Party
D. Leigh Colvin
Idaho
Washington
Colvin
Child Rescued After Fall Into Palo Duro Creek
An eight year old, Arthur Lang of Happy, fell into Palo Duro Creek near Canyon while picnicking. Jack Bolander of Amarillo Baking Company pulled him from the water and gave 20 minutes of artificial respiration, saving his life. Local residents including the Friezes and the Nixes helped until a Canyon physician said he would recover.
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Arthur Lang
Happy
Palo Duro Creek
Canyon
Jack Bolander
Amarillo Baking Company
Lang
Arthur
Bolander
Amarillo
W. L. Fr
PIONEER MOLLIE McDOUGALL DIES IN FORT WORTH
Funeral services are held in Fort Worth for Mollie Daggett McDougall a pioneer Texas woman and widow of Charles W. McDougall a notable Tarrant County figure.
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Tarrant
Fort Worth
Mollie Daggett Mc Dougall
Texas
Charles W. Mc Dougall
Tarrant County
Flood Death Toll Reaches Nine Near San Antonio
Floods sweeping west of San Antonio have claimed nine lives and caused extensive damage. Roads rails and telephone lines were washed away isolating communities. Reports indicate up to 29 inches of rain in 30 hours across the Guadalupe Frio and Nueces river basins.
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San Antonio
Charlie Freeman
Talpa
Mike Odell
Houston
Charles H. Greenleaf
Olivet
Mich
Ida Stieler
Comfort
J. W. Brunson
Austin
Arthur Redman
Crane
Floyd
Jesus Ozuna
Toribio Alvarez
Guadalupe
Frio
Nueces
Kerr County
Texas
Farm Bureau Rally Declares Independence For Farmers
Thousands of farmers and townspeople gathered in Otiumwa Iowa to hear E A O Neal president of the American Farm Bureau Federation condemn political parties for failing to ease the farm crisis. He framed the event as a declaration of independence from economic tyranny and urged a war of ballots against organized selfishness.
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Otiumwa. Ia
American Farm Bureau Federation
E. A. O'Neal
Farm Bureau Organization
George Washington
O'Neal
Six Youths Die in Butte Dynamite Blast
Six Butte youths were instantly killed when dynamite caps exploded this morning. The blast occurred in Butte Montana and is reported as a tragic youth accident with no survivors.
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Butte
Mont
Pirates Win Boosts Lead With 9-6 Victory
Pirates strengthen first place in the National League by defeating Chicago 9 to 6 in the first game of a doubleheader on July 4.
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Pittsburgh
Pirates
Chicago
Rain Delays Bonus Army Independence Day Plans
Rain halted the Bonus Army march on July 4 with a 50 veteran group led by Walter W Waters planning to honor the Unknown Sol at the tomb and weigh a Capitol protest. In Memphis 1200 veterans from California urged to press toward Washington amid calls for immediate bonus payment.
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Bonus Army
Walter W. Waters
Soland
Waters
Capitol
Fedral
Bonus ‘Army
Memphis
Tenn
U.P
California
Roy Ashworth
Los Angeles
Cliff Davis
Will Lee
Fair Grounds
Arthur Brisbane Column Not Reflect Globe Editorial View
1982 copyright notice explains Arthur Brisbane is a celebrated American writer whose syndicated column appears in The Globe. The piece carries his opinions as individual commentary and should not be viewed as The Globe's editorials.
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King Feature Syndicate, Inc
Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Milwaukee Crime Soldiered With Harsh Justice In Wisconsin
Milwaukee presents a city where crime is deterred, with strict sentences of 25 to 30 years for banditry and revolver use. The district attorney leads prosecutions, experts are appointed by judges, and criminals face long imprisonment, while breweries and honest taxpayers are praised. A Holstein cow birth omen adds local color. See TODAY Page 8.
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Milwaukee
Pfister
Lake Front
Irwin Jante
Wisconsin
Hale’s Corner
Alfred E. Smith Silent On Roosevelt Garner Ticket
Alfred E. Smith, back from the Chicago Democratic Convention, refuses to comment on politics saying he has nothing to say. His party accuses William G. McAdoo of breaking a gentleman’s agreement and alleges Garner allied with McAdoo and Hearst to push Smith out of contention.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
Chicago
Smith
William G. McAdoo
California
McAdoo
Texas
John N. Garner
William Randolph Hearst
Garner
Burglars Loot Café on West Sixth Avenue
Burglars entered Jim's Place a cafe on West Sixth Avenue last night and stole a radio and tobacco. The cafe has been burglarized several times in recent months.
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Jim
West Sixth Avenue
Snakes On Island At Bronx Zoo To Guard New York
Forty two snakes have been set on a man made island in the Bronx with an 18 inch moat and a tiled wall to prevent escape to sidewalks. Zoo keepers say snakes cannot swim and climb at once, ensuring public safety. Only harmless snakes were placed on the island.
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New York
Wupi
Bronx
Zoo
Fire mechanic escapes flood by river rescue
L. B. Head, 58, Fort Worth city fire department mechanic, was saved from drowning when his car was swept into the Trinity River Clear Fork. The car lodged on an iron post and rescuers pulled him to shore by rope. In the flood, his trousers were washed away but he declined ambulance transport and went home wrapped in a canvas cover.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Trinity River
L. B. Head
Clear Fork
Head
Roosevelt Nearing Albany Plans for Campaign Drive
Buffalo New York July 4 Roosevelt heads to Albany to resume duties and map Democratic presidential bid. The trip follows his Chicago departure and includes discussions with adviser A Mitchell Palmer and Louis Howe about campaign strategy and a late week meeting of party leaders in Albany.
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N. Y
U.P
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Albany
Chicago
Michigan Central
Canada
Detroit
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
U. S
A. Mitchell Palr
New York State
Palmer
Roosevelt
Louis Howe
Hill Country Scenery and Floods Affect Kerr and Surrounding Counties
The Kerr area and six neighboring counties in the hill country feature cedar brakes and rolling open lands with ranches for cattle sheep and goats. Summer camps line the Guadalupe and heavy rains caused dramatic floods raising the Guadalupe 35 feet at Kerrville. Floods reached Gonzales Cuero and Uvalde while livestock losses in level country could run into thousands.
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Kerr
Austin
Mountains
Guadalupe
Kerrville
Gonzales
Cuero
Uvalde
John N. Garner
Firecrackers Muffle Blast Of Store Safe
Police report a Sunday morning safe blast at the Earle Wyatt store 400 East Tenth Avenue. Firecrackers from nearby children muffled the explosion using flour sacks. no money was found in the safe during a thorough check.
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Earle Wyatt
East Tenth Avenue
Yoggs
Clifford Dillard
Earle Wyatt Stores
Tragic Boat Sinking Kills Three Anahuac Children
Anahuac Texas July 4 Clarence Renfroe 17 his sister Mae 15 and brother Grover 12 drowned yesterday when their boat sank in Double Bayou Two other children and Alfred Hughes and Henderson Edmonds were rescued The bodies were recovered
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Anahuac
Texas
Clarence Renfroe
Mae
Grover
Double Bayou
Alfred Hughes
Henderson Edmonds
Germany Accepts Revised Reparations Plan At Lausanne
At Lausanne Germany discussed a compromise linking reparations with U S war debts. The draft includes a French added safeguard and proposes a bond of about 720 million to 1.008 billion dollars, reducing Young Plan payments by roughly 96 percent.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
United States
Germany
Europe
English Beauty Goes To Trial In Shooting
Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney the former actress and noted beauty, stood at the old Bailey and pleaded not guilty to shooting and killing Michael Scott Stephen in her Knightsbridge apartment May 31. Neighbors recalled Stephen’s cry after the shot and Barney’s apologetic reply. Ballistics expert Sir Bernard Spilsbury testified the fatal wound was unlikely a personal safety issue.
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London
Elvira Dolores Barney
England
Old Bailey Criminal Court
Michael Scott Stephen
Stephen
Bernard Spilisbury
Scotland Yard
Sheppard Maintains Prohibition Stand After Convention
Senator Sheppard of Texas, known as the father of the 18th Amendment, issued a statement asserting no change in his firm support for prohibition despite a wet plank adopted by the Democratic convention.
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Washington
U.P
Sheppard
Dem
Texas
Unified third party meets in Kansas City for presidential candidate
In Kansas City delegates from 17 states and seven third parties consider General Coxey Harvey Thomas and Webb as potential presidential nominees. A unity platform seeks soldiers bonus payments production costs guarantees and circulating federal money at service cost. In Houston Alvin Moody urged dry voters in Dallas to defend the eighteenth amendment against anti movement attacks.
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Kansas City
U.P
Jacob
Coxey
Ohio
William H
Coin) Harvey
Arkansas
Norman Thomas
Frank FE. Webb
San Francisco
Farmer-Labor Party
Unity Party
Houston
Alvin
Moody
Texas Belt
Alfred BE. Smith
Texas
Dallas
Anti- Tammany Democratic Association of Texas
Allied Campaigners
Prohibition Board Urges Ballot War in Dry Campaign
Chicago July 4 The National Prohibition Board of Strategy declared unalterable opposition to any repeal or modification proposal and urged friends of the 18th amendment to back dry candidates for Congress and state legislatures.
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Prohibition Board
Chicago
National Prohibition Board of Strategy
Congress
Weather outlook for West Texas unsettled cooler in north
Partly cloudy with possible showers in Southeast Monday. Tuesday turns partly cloudy in the south. The north remains unsettled and cooler.
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Texas
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