Conservation session eyed to curb Texas natural resources waste
Governor Ross Sterling announced a two week special legislative session to consider stronger conservation laws for oil and gas. He declined to submit a conservation bill himself, warned lawmakers to start with conservation, and left open the option to address redistricting and other subjects if needed.
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Austin
U.P
Ross Sterling
Sterling
Texas
Amarillo
Dan Moody
Pat M. Neff
Stalin's Learning Curve and Megallan Giants
Brisbane discusses Stalin's adaptability and the idea that wealth and skill drive cohesion, contrasting Soviet progress with Western views. He cites a Harvard discovery of a super-giant variable in the Megellan cloud and notes economic debates, ending with a nod to Russia's potential global impact and financiers' perspectives.
Wheat congestion unlikely, grain traders report Fort Worth
Fort Worth July 9 grain men said no congestion risk before July 15 as gulf port movement peaks and 3 000 000 to 4 000 000 bushels storage remain available. Rail lines report heavy movement with Fort Worth and Denver City handling 300 cars daily and Rick Island about seventy. In Galveston new elevator capacity leaves 10 million bushels storage with 7 million in port and shiploads rising. Number one wheat sold at 55 cents per bushel F.O.B. ship, the lowest on record.
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Gulf Ports
Fort Worth
Denver City
Amarillo
South Plains
Childress
Rick Island Railway
Galveston
Fight Lottery Ticket Sales Probe Reaches Amarillo
Amarillo police and the County Attorney are probing foreign lottery sales tied to a Canadian charity. Investigators say both sellers and buyers, including a broker’s concern about a man trying to pawn a rug, are implicated as a race's lottery plan is linked to a fall event.
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Amarillo
Rhea Meyers
Youths 14 and under loot cars in Amarillo theft spree
Three Amarillo boys, none older than 14, loot from parked autos near Municipal Auditorium. Police found stolen items including cigars lighters a typewriter and tools valued over 300 dollars. No charges filed yet as officers await county authorities and a typewriter remains unidentified.
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Amarillo
Municipal Auditorium
Howard J. Wisehaupt
W. E. Taylor
Fillmore Street
Taylor
Fort Worth forced down in Alaska during flight from Seattle
Reg L. Robbins and H. B. Jones flying the Fort Worth were forced to land at Solomon Alaska after failing the second contact with the refueling plane during a Seattle to Tokyo non stop. First contact had been made at Fairbanks.
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Nome
Alaska
U.P
Re Robbins
Harold Jones
Japan
Seattle
Fort Worth
Solomon
Here
Robbins
Jones
Tokyo
Bolomon
Worth
Siberia
Fairbanks
Reg. L. Robbins
H. 8. Jones
Reg L. Robbins
Mexican protest over consul Adolfo Dominguez arrest in Chicago
A note from Mexico demanding unconditional release of Adolfo Dominguez acting Mexican consul in Chicago was sent to the U S state department after Judge Thomas Green jailed him for contempt of court. Mexico fears strained ties amid editorials accusing the United States of imperialism and racism.
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Washington
U.P
Tellez
Mexico
State Department
Chicago
Adolfo Dominguez
Dominguez
Thomas Green
Mexico City
United States
Genardo Estrada
United Press
Estrada
U. 8
Ardmore
Oklahoma
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
la Prensa
China
Former Solon Found Shot in Texas
Former Congressman R. L. Henry, 67, was found shot in the head at his Houston home. A pistol lay nearby and doctors ruled the incident accidental. Henry, a former Eleventh District congressman centered around Waco, had run unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate and was active in Texas politics and law earlier in his career.
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Houston
R. L. Henry
Henry
United States Senate
Waco
Congress
Tom Connally
Marlin
United States
Texas
Alfred E. Smith
Culberson
Korea Mob Attacks Chinese Consulate
A mob in Seoul attacked the Chinese consulate injuring at least 500 Chinese refugees inside the premises. The incident occurred in July in Peiping's report from the time.
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Korea
Peiping
China
Seoul
Weather forecast for Amarillo and surrounding area
Unsettled tonight with Friday partly cloudy conditions. West Texas expected to be partly cloudy with local thundershowers this afternoon or tonight in the Rio Grande valley. Friday remains partly cloudy and unsettled in the west. New Mexico forecast shows generally fair conditions with little temperature change. Temperature extremes noted at 1 o clock: high 728 and low 63.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Rio Grande Valley
West Portion
New Mexico
Farm Board Plans Stand on Cotton Policy
Washington July 9 The Farm Board may issue a statement before July 31 outlining a definite policy for handling stabilization supplies of cotton during the coming crop season. Griggs ambulance Phone 4311.
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Washington
Farm Board
Duce Vatica n Breach Widens
Mussolini bans Fascist membership in Catholic Action groups expanding the breach with the Vatican. The ban raises questions about the Concordat and Lateran Treaty linkage and whether government action revokes agency for Catholic bodies.
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Rome
Mussolini
Catholic Action Organizations
Vatican
Girl Faces Murder Trial Next Monday
Mrs. Bessie Sharp twenty is accused with her cowboy lover in the poison death of her husband Telephus Sharp. She will be moved from the San Antonio state asylum to Terrell County jail and will stand trial Monday in district court on a murder charge.
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Sanderson
Tex
U.P
Bessie Sharp
Telephus Sharp
San Antonio
Terrell County
Jury Deliberates in $50,000 Breach Suit in Abilene
After more than two hours of deliberation the district court jury had not reached a verdict in Miss Margaret Roberts's breach of promise suit against J Louis Keel a Roswell New Mexico cowboy. Court officials and spectators filled the Abilene courtroom awaiting a verdict after the panel was given the case at 9 50 A M following closing arguments.
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Abilene
Texas
U.P
District Court
Margaret Roberts
J. Louis Keel
Roswell
N. M
Miss Roberts
Gibson Named as Debt Envoy
President Hoover designates Hugh B. Gibson ambassador to Belgium as American observer on the experts committee to shape the intergovernmental debt moratorium. Frederick Livesey will aid Gibson in London. Germany agrees not to use moratorium savings for arms. Stimson visit preparations set for July 15.
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Washington
Hoover
Hugh 8. Gibson
Belgium
Castle
State Department
Frederick Livesey
London
Gibson
Germany
United States
Paris
France
von Hoesch
Laval
Bruening
Stimson
Foreign Office
Texas Weather Douses Heat With Wind and Rain
The Associated Press reports a weather front sweeping through Texas bringing rain and sand storms that cut temperatures by 35 to 40 degrees in an hour in places like Dallas and Fort Worth. Eleven locations reported rain with 60 mph winds and light rain followed in Fort Worth. Windstorms caused notable disruption across the state.
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Associaed
Texas
Mercury
Dallas
Fort Worth
Wisehaupt To Talk Tonight At Municipal Auditorium
Howard J. Wisehaupt, noted business analyst, told 2,000 at Municipal Auditorium that competition is slack as quitters quit, and that opportunities are greater now than since the war. He heads to lecture again at 8:15 tonight on Personality. Lectures are free.
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Howard J. Wisehaupt
Municipal Auditorium
Wisthaupt
Clemency for Fall Sought in DC Court
Albert B. Fall's attorney Frank Hogan asked the DC Supreme Court to suspend his one year jail term citing serious health declines. Army physicians reported hardening of the arteries heart trouble arthritis tuberculosis and pleurisy making imprisonment dangerous to Fall's life.
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Washington
Frank Hogan
Albert B. Fall
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Fall
Aliee Pomerene
Oll
Bailey
Secretary of the Interior
Hogan
Texas
Frank Leech
Thomas J. Claytor
W. D. Tewksbury
Murray Chosen Head of Texas Cotton Group
R J Bob Murray of Lubbock, a West Texas farmer and Santa Fe land agent, was chosen general manager of the Texas Cotton Cooperative Association. He will assume duties in a few weeks. Murray farms about 3,300 acres through tenants in Deaf Smith, Dickens, Garza, Lubbock and Cochran Counties and has led the Slaton and Lubbock chambers of commerce along with roles at Slaton State Bank.
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Dallas
Tex
R. J
Bob” Murray
Lubbock
West Texas
Santa Fe Railway
Texas Cotton Co-operative Association
Murray
Deaf Smith
Dickens
Garza
Cochran
Slaton and
U S Sailor Killed In Motor Wreck Near Tucumcari
O I Kidder 30 sailor on U S 8 Saratoga died when his car overturned on Highway 66 fourteen miles east of Tucumcari New Mexico Wednesday night He had a 40 day furlough to visit his mother at Galesburg Illinois and was driving at high speed Blalock another Saratoga sailor was uninjured The fork in the road led to the fatal swerve and crash
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Tucumcari
N. Mex
O. I. Kidder
U. S
Saratoga
Galesburg
Illinois
Highway 66
Here
H. L. Blalock
Blalock
Kidder
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Globe
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Harvard University
Milky Way
Megellan
Max Schmeling
Trotzky
Russia
Europe
Asia
Griggs Ambulance
Berry’s Rug Cleaning
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M. L. Graves
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Texas Cotton Group
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