Panhandle to receive $2 million highway project start
Amarillo reports the federal program will fund a $2,009,000 road plan replacing gaps on highways 5 466 and a 40 mile stretch of 60 west of Hereford with attention to 4 and other routes. Conchas dam near Tucumcari at $9 million has Roosevelt approval and will be built if dams proceed.
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Panhandle
Conchas Dam
Tucumcari
Roosevelt
Amarillo
Carl Hinton
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Federal Bureau of Roads
State Highway Commission
Hinton
Hereford
Mr. Hinton
Plains
Federal Bureau
T. H. McDonald
Cressman Marvin Jones
State Highway Department
Works Progress
Morgenthau schedules levies amid tax debate
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau estimates tax schedules could yield 108 million annually on a narrow base or 901.5 million if higher brackets are taxed. Congress must set rates, while funds aim to cut debt and curb borrowing. In Washington, O’Connor moves to start TVA inquiry hearings with Brewster as first witness.
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Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Congress
Morgenthau
Roosevelt
Treasury
Veterans
Washington
U.P
John J. O'Connor
House Rules Committee
John E. Rankin
Mississippi
Anti-Power Company
Tennessee Valley Authority
House
TVA
Senate
O'Connor
Ralph O. Brewster
Maine
Thomas Corcoran
Brain Truster
RFC
Charles West
White House
Benjamin Cohen
Wheat payments rise in 1935 to at least 33 cents
Washington July 8 The 1935 wheat adjustment payments will be at least 33 cents a bushel on allotments of cooperating farmers, up from 29 cents a bushel in 1934. No change was made in the 30 cent per bushel processing tax rate. FHA Loans. Long-Bell Lbr Co.
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Washington
U.P
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
How To Pronounce Names in the News
The piece guides pronunciation for names including KHABAROVSK with stress on the second syllable and RUTH SLENCZYNSK I with emphasis on the second, along with GRANDES JORASSES in the Alps and HIMALAYA between India and Tibet with specified vowel sounds and stress patterns.
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Khabarovsk
Soviet Russia
Ruth Slenczynsk
Mont Blanc
Grahad
Himalaya
India
Tibet
Am arillo Prepares for Confederate Veterans Convention
The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Amarillo plan events for the veterans past their centennial, inviting last convention participants to join. A key meeting occurs at the Amarillo Hotel Red Room at 8 p.m. led by commander C. S. Makeig to finalize plans for September 3 to 6 gatherings.
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Sons OF Confederate Veterans
Amarillo
Plemons-Shelby
Red
Amarillo Hotel
C. S
Richetti In Death Attempt
Adam Richetti the Ozark gangster and ally of Pretty Boy Floyd attempted suicide in his death row cell in Kansas City Missouri He leaped from a bunk struck his head on bars and injured himself but was restrained and not removed from death row.
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Kansas City
Adam Richetti
Ozark
Charles
Pretty Boy
Floyd
Ohio
Richetti
Union Station
East Liverpool
Search Today for Bad Man McAllen
More than 150 officers on both sides of the Rio Grande pursued Samuel Fortuna a Texas Mexico border suspect in Deputy Sheriff George Dennett’s killing Dennett was ambushed last night at Los Ebanos near the Samfordyce oil field in the Lower Rio Grande Valley Hidalgo County and U S officers joined the hunt
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Mcallen
U.P
Rio Grande
Samuel Fortuna
Texas- Mexico
George Dennett
Dennett
Los Ebanos
Samfordyce
Rio Grande Valley
Hidalgo County
U. S
Seventy-Three Killed in Road Mishaps This Weekend
United Press reports seventy-eight deaths on U S highways across 21 states over the weekend with many injuries. Canada adds four fatalities. Two fatal train automobile wrecks in Indiana and Missouri kill five each. Five die when a car collides with a St Louis San Francisco train at Kennett Missouri.
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United Prove
Canada
Indiana
Missouri
San Francisco
Kennett, Mo
Floods Cause Many Deaths and Massive Damage Across Northeast
United Press reports floods and storms across New York state, New England and Canada killed at least 11 people, caused over 10 million dollars in damage, and evacuated hundreds as cottages, homes, and crops suffered. The disaster stretched from Western New York to Ontario with towns like Ithaca Elmira Binghamton Kingston Bath and Watkins affected.
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New York State
New England
Canada
Chenango Creek
Binghampton
Ithaca
New York
Ontario
Boston
Elmira
Kingston
Bath
Watkins
Glenn
Whitney Point
Binghamton
Wallace Due Here August 3
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace will be in Amarillo on August 5 for an inspection tour of agricultural conditions. Congressman Marvin Jones and Amarillo Chamber of Commerce arranged the visit with Mr Wallace to confer on farm program aspects and his day in Amarillo.
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Henry A Wallace
Amarillo
Vie
Wes
Chamber of Commerce
Cong
Marvin Jones
Washington
Wallace
Jones
Carl Hinton
Hinton
Agricultural Department
Funeral services set for Miss Flray Roberts
Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Miss Flray Roberts 26 a member of a pioneer Abilene family fatally injured Sunday afternoon in a car crash near Van Horn. Her aunt Mrs Henry Sales driver and cousin Hal SalesReporter News staff were injured but not seriously.
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Abilenf
Flray Roberts
van Horn
Miss Roberts
Henry Sales
Hal Sales
California
Amarillo Weather Forecast Warm and Fair Through Tuesday
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for fair skies and continued warm conditions tonight and Tuesday. West Texas shows generally fair weather with possible local showers in the extreme west tonight and Tuesday. New Mexico also remains generally fair with little temperature change. Temperatures reach 73 to 91 degrees by 1 PM today.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
25 LONG MEASURES APPROVED BY ED DESOBRY IN BATON ROUGE
In a whirlwind special session the legislature granted Huey Long near total power, approving 25 measures that place control of elections an army and non elective state and local employees under Long and strengthen budget and civil service powers. The session, under martial law, moved rapidly with minimal opposition and included a move to put teachers under state civil service and budget control over 12,000 instructors.
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ED Desobry
Baton Rouge
Huey Long
State Civil Service Commission
Actio
Long
Washington
State Budget Committee
Foxx Homers for Juniors in All Star Game
The American League leads the National League 3 to 1 after four innings as Jimmie Foxx hits a solo homer to drive in the first two runs in the opening frame. Attendance tops 70,000 at Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Jimmie Foxx
Nationals
Walker
Schumake
Wilson
Fomez
Hemsley
Levelland Farmer Shot After Family Dispute
Levelland Texas July 8 a farmer R D Sinclair about 50 was dead after a dispute at 6 30 P M Sunday at the CW Dean home three miles northwest of Witharral 12 miles north of here A 54 year old neighbor was taken into custody The shooting followed a marriage between a Sinclair son and a Dean daughter The victim died early today in a Littlefield hospital
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Levelland
R. D. Sinclair
Dean
Witharral
Here
Sinclairs
Deans
Sinclair
Littlefield
Southwest Soil Conference Opens In Tyler
The joint convention of the Southwest Soil and Water Conservation Conference and the American Society of Agricultural Engineers opened in Tyler and runs through Wednesday. About 400 delegates from Texas Louisiana Arkansas Oklahoma and New Mexico expected. Gus F. Taylor Tyler Chamber president gave the welcome. H H Bennett of Washington chief of the Bureau of Law Conservation was scheduled to speak.
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Tyler
Southwest Soil and Water Conservation Conference
The
American Society Agricultural Engineers
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Gus F. Taylor
Tyler Chamber of Commerce
H H Bennett
Washington
Bureau of Law Conservation
Mercury Remains Above 90 for Sixth Consecutive Day
The Amarillo forecast shows the temperature staying above 90 for the sixth straight day. At 1 pm the reading climbed from 73 to about 97 expected as the high for today and continued hot conditions were forecast for tomorrow.
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Mercury
Washington off the Record and Road on Levee Notes
Unclear newspaper clippings reference off the record notes in Washington and levee road matters plus a Spicer sale item. Also mentions Ethiopian war sensation and a racing caption for Hes My Husband as first of witness competition.
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Washington
Spicer Sale
Rockefeller enjoying birthday health in Lakewood
John D. Rockefeller Sr marked his 96th birthday in Lakewood with routine activity in the golf house and 25 servants. His son John D. Rockefeller Jr. said he has not felt better in years while a routine dental exam reported 19 natural teeth.
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John D Rockefeller, Jr
Max Goldstein
Arrest Suspect in Strange Auto Case
Alvin July 8 AP report an armed man who leaped onto a running board and pulled the throttle of a car, killing James Thomas Cobb 9, as the vehicle careened into a ditch and overturned. A deputy said bloodhounds tracked a suspect to a railroad siding but officers doubted they had the right man.
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Alvin
James Thomas Cobb
A. A. Savell
Duke Ellington Tonight in Municipal Concert and Nat Club Dance
Duke Ellington and his orchestra perform at the Municipal Auditorium from 8 15 to 10 PM with tickets at 55 cents sold at City Drug Store and 85 cents at the door. A separate Nat Club dance runs from 10 PM to 1 30 AM with 1.60 per person or 3.30 per couple, 2 50 for a stag, and limited balcony seating.
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Duke Ellington
Municipal Auditorium
Fllington
Duke Fllington
Municipal Auoitation
City Drug Store
Polk Street
Municipal Auditoridnt
Wilbur C Hawk
Tri-State Fair Association
Dike Ellington
Nat
Stags
Corner Drug Store
Harrison Street
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Morgenthaus
Ways and Means Committee
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Long-Bell Lbr Co
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Sons OF South
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Cal
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Turner
Husky
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Lower
Arthur Brisbane
King Features Syndicate, Inc
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Partner
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Globe
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Ethiopia
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Badman
United Press
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West
Miss Elray Roberts
Hugh Roberts
John Maynard Lbr, Co
Tive
Foxx
Levelland Farmer
Soil Group
Helen Jacobs
Helen Wills Moody
Wimbledon
Miss Jacobs
Royal Court
Buckingham Palace
London
Court
John D
Lakewood
N. J
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
Rockefeller
Dule Ellington
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