Montana Crashes Strike State in Two Disasters
Six people died and 17 injured in an airplane crash near Billings and a locomotive explosion on a 75 car freight train near Missoula. The plane, a Northwest Airlines Lockheed Zephyr, crashed after takeoff in rugged terrain. one woman died later from injuries. A bureau of air commerce inspector ordered inquiry. Railroad derailments killed and injured multiple passengers, with service restoration estimated after 24 hours. Additional deaths reported in earlier Montana derailments as investigators reviewed the crashes.
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Missoula
Montana
Hell Gate Canyon
Lark Fork
Mon
Billings
Northwest Airlines
Walter Bullock
Lockheed “Zephyr
Bullock
A. L. Niemeyer
Bureau of Air Commerce
Washington
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific
Custer Creek
Division
N. S. Mackie
Evanston
Til
See
Citizens urged to decorate path of President's car
City residents urged to decorate the route of President Roosevelt's tour with flags from the tenth avenue eastward while homeowners along the rest of the route were asked to display banners. The final chamber of commerce meeting covered sound equipment, crowd control with guards, and employer participation. Major E A Simpson announced guard plans and potential relocation of troops to Lubbock. talks on parade details were scheduled on KGNC.
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Roosevelt
Chamber of Commerce
Fancher Upshaw, Jr
E. A. Simpson
Lubbock
Major Simpson
Adjutant General's Office
Amarillo
Simpson
Julius Dozenfield
KGNC
Secret Service
FDR
Kiss Burglar May Turn Out To Be Negro
Fort Worth police believe Daniel Clemons a 29 year old negro porter may be the so called kiss burglar active in Fort Worth homes. Williams fired at him after a back door noise and Clemons allegedly threatened with a club. A second negro escaped as officers linked Clemons to earlier anti kissing break ins. Three brothers and a tavern employee were injured in a beer parlor shooting nearby.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Daniel Clemons
W. H. Williams
Williams
Clemons
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Summary
Fair tonight and Saturday with partly cloudy afternoon in Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas generally fair tonight and Saturday. Mexico also fair with little temperature change. Temperatures range from a high of 86 to a low of 63. Drapery and Curtain Hardware, Amarillo Shade & Equip. Co.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Mexico
Government buys presses to print currency in seconds
Washington reports a $136,250 purchase of 125 printing presses that can print $136,250 in currency in about 25 seconds. Clark Long of the bureau of engraving and printing says it’s a strong investment. The presses add to the treasury’s 288 currency creators and promise higher production once set up. Trials will cover various denominations. No samples or test bills are handed out.
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Eddy Gilmore
Washington
Treasury
Clark R. Long
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Long
Sam
Sears Official Refuses FOR Sears Official Refuses FOR
President Roosevelt offered Donald M. Nelson Sears Roebuck vice president and ex NRA official the wage hour administrator post. Nelson reportedly cannot accept a permanent role due to business ties, prompting delay in the White House announcement. He would not confirm or deny the offer when contacted in Chicago.
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United Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Donald M. Nelson
Sears, Roebuck & Co
NRA
Nelson
Chicago
White House
Less Cotton Under Cultivation Now
The Agriculture Department announced that 26,904,000 acres were in cotton cultivation as of July 1, 78.0 percent of last year’s area. Last year’s crop yielded a record 18,945,022 bales gin.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
114 Year-Old Menace Banned From Highways
El Paso authorities ordered Nicolas Robes aged 114 to stay off highways after sheriff reports he is partially blind and deaf and walks down the road center north of El Paso. He has nearly caused several accidents according to Sheriff Chris Fox.
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EL Paso
U.P
Nicolas Robes
Chris Fox
Fox
Three killed and seven injured in Segorbe air raid
Three persons died and seven were wounded when nine Insurgent Savoia planes attacked Segorbe, about forty miles northwest of Valencia, at dawn today. The raid occurred early morning.
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Madrid
Savoia
Segorbe
Valencia
Saturday Rally for Thompson Draws All Eyes to Amarillo
Texas politics gather in Amarillo as Ernest Thompson holds a Saturday rally at Municipal Auditorium, with the President visiting Monday. The event marks Thompson's first hometown address in the campaign and signals statewide interest as national coverage converges on the Panhandle town.
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Thompson
Amarillo
Lewis Nordyke
Texas
Panhandle
Downstate
Municipal Auditorium
Ernest Thomp- Min
United States
Ing Bill McCraw
Karl Crowley
Roosevelt
Politics
Sand Springs Story Shows Charles Page Selfless Wealth
Dale Carnegie recounts how Charles Page turned poverty into a lasting charity by founding The Sand Springs Home and Widows Colony. Page built a 200-child, 40-widow community to shelter orphans, adopting whole families and ending with millions endowed. His washboard moment sparked a mission to help generations unborn.
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Sand Springs
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Stevens Point
Wisconsin
Page
Ior
Charles
Pinkerton Agency
Charles Page
McNaught Syndicate
Zeppelin Chief criticizes Ickes on helium refusal
Friedrichshafen July 8 Zeppelins chief Dr Hugo Eckener denounced Interior Secretary Ickes for blocking helium release and called it an election tactic. He warned Germany would eventually obtain helium from the United States and said Roosevelt indicated the matter was not closed, during a celebration of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's 106th birth anniversary.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
Hugo Eckener
Zeppelin
Harold L. Ickes
Eckener
United States
Roosevelt
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Coast Guard Planes Locate Missing River Explorers
U S Coast Guard pilots found a scientific party on the Colorado River near Lees Ferry Arizona. The six explorers with University of Michigan ties were encamped on a small island 20 miles east of Lees Ferry. Messages dropped requested signals for safety and supplies. all members remained safe and did not respond to the food prompt.
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EL Paso
U.P
U. S. Coast Guard
Colorado River
Lee's Ferry
Ariz
R. W. Fendlay
J. L. Riggs
Leut. Perry
Lyons
Lees Ferry
University of Michigan
O. K
Civil War in Prospect for Palestine
In Jerusalem and across Palestine, renewed Jewish Arab violence spurred fears of a three way civil war involving Jews Arabs and British troops. Thirty seven people have died and 115 wounded over three days as British marines landed and ships moved to scene.
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Jerusalem
U.P
Palestine
Great Britain
Holy Land
League of Nations
Haifa
Trans-Jordan
Egypt
London
Swisher County Man Charged in Court
E. L. Yelton of Swisher County was charged in Justice of the Peace H. W. Duke's court today with drunken driving. Yelton was arrested at 3 o'clock this morning at North Fillmore Street and Fourth Avenue by Highway Patrolmen C. S. Wier and J. C. Reese. Bond was set at $1,000.
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E. L. Yelton
Swisher County
Justice of the Peace
H. W. Duke
Yelton
North Fillmore Street
Fourth Avenue
C. S. Wier
J. C. Reese
Potter County Voters Cast Ballots in Democratic Primary
Potter County residents vote in the Democratic primary on July 23. Over 50 have voted absentee and about 75 ballots mailed to voters away from the county until after July 23. Absentee voting continues through July 19, with the county clerk's office handling absentee processes.
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Potter County
Dutch to strip volunteers in Spain of citizenship
The Hague July 8 government announces deprivation of citizenship for Dutch volunteers who fought in Spain while allowing their return home.
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The
Hague
Netherlands
Spain
Duchess of Phaslin Dies in Grenoble at 62
The American-born Duchess of Phaslin, aged 62, died today in Grenoble France. The death was reported by UPI and confirms the duchess’s passing while in France.
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Grenoble
France
Duchess of Phaslin
Amarillo to field 300 musicians for Roosevelt tribute
About 300 Amarilloans will join a massive World’s Biggest Band to honor President Roosevelt. Estimates place total band size at 3,000 to 6,000 with J Gordon Buren named drum major. Musicians meet at 4 PM Monday near Rock Island West of FW&DP stations. Roosevelt visit follows assembly, review at Twelfth and Polk, then Ellwood Park.
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Amarillo
Roosevelt
Oscar Wise
Homer Rice
J. Gordon Buren
Borger
Twelfth
Polk
Ellwood Park
Mr. Rice
Texas
Will Rogers era roundup to honor cowboy ties in Panhandle
A round up of people who worked with or knew Will Rogers in the Panhandle will be part of the Old Southwest Days life of Will Rogers pageant August 15 to 17. The historical committee seeks contact with those who knew Rogers here to form a large final scene titled The Last Roundup.
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Will Rogers
Panhandle
Historical Committee
Frying Pan Ranch
Oldham City
Wildhorse Lake
Old Town
Brown
First Saloon
Santa Fe
Washburn
Old Clarendon
Old Mobeetie
Fort Elliott
First Oil and Gas
Old Dodge Trail
Baldwin
Larry Doyle
Carl Hinton
L. Gough
Laura Hamner
Pat Flynn
John McCarty
Grain Record Likely Shattered By Southwest Wheat
Kansas City reporters track a holiday week of heavy southwest winter wheat shipments. Receipts reach 8,266 cars with 1,633 more today, pegging market value near 8 million dollars in new wealth from 13.3 million bushels. Prices for cash sales run 67 to 78 cents, futures firm amid fast inflow. Public elevator stocks rise by 2.823 million bushels.
Judge Sets July 14 for Leadland’s Death by Electric Chair
Federal Judge John P. Barnes fixed July 14 as the execution date for John Henry Leadland who kidnapped and killed Charles S. Ross, a retired Chicago greeting card manufacturer, last September near Spooner Wisconsin.
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Chicago
John P. Barnes
John Henry Leadland
Charles S. Ross
Ross
Spooner
Wis
War office reports Japanese air losses since start of war
Hankow China July 8 the war office announced that Japan has lost 1 365 airplanes since the Chinese Japanese war began a year ago about 1 100 Japanese aviators killed with the losses noted in official counts from the front line.
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Hankow
China
War Office
Japan
Employment Increases in Most Lines
New York July 8 re hired workers answering calls to return to jobs in mills and factories crossed paths with vacation bound employees as trade and manufacturing centers show scattered gains since business barometers advanced. Indicators point to a possible wider rise by autumn with gains in textiles shoes and building recovering as mills resume operations after July shutdowns. Government housing public works and shipbuilding spending boosts outlook while unemployment stands above 10 million.
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Wall Street
Financial
National Industrial Conference Board
Wheat Receipts Fall in Amarillo Grain Exchange Report
Amarillo Grain Exchange inspection notes 229 carloads of new wheat received today, down from 306 carloads the year prior. Panhandle wheat shows No. 1 dry, hard quality with no rust or smut damage indicated.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Grain Exchange
Panhandle
Fair Weather Forecast Ahead For Tonight And Tomorrow
Mr Collman predicts fair weather tonight and partly cloudy conditions tomorrow afternoon with no weather interference expected for political rallies tomorrow evening. Only Plains point Shamrock reported showers last night totaling 2.2 inches.
Prince Abdul Moneim seeks OK to wed Princess Myzejen
Cairo July 8 Prince Abdul Moneim 39, heir to a $50 million fortune and second cousin to King Farouk, has asked the Egyptian monarch for permission to marry Princess Myzejen 28, sister of King Zog of Albania.
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Cairo
Egypt
Abdul Moneim
Farouk
Myzejen
Zog
Albania
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