Bank Robbery Ends in Fatal Gun Battle Near Grove
In Craig County Oklahoma two bandits who robbed Ketchum Bank were killed along with bank president Ealum Gregory in a noon gunfight south of Grove. A kidnapped cashier Luther Gregory, son of the president, was released unharmed. About $300 loot was recovered from the robbers’ car as posse members pursued them.
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Miami
Okla
Ketchum
Craig County
John York
Vinita
Ealum Gregory
Grove
Adair County
Charlies Cotner
Galena
Kan
Gregory
Luther Gregory
Minnesota Set for Tieup as Truck Drivers Vote Strike
Minneapolis and St Paul truck drivers prepare for a citywide walkout while San Francisco Bay area teams strike in sympathy with West Coast maritime labor stoppage. New actions threaten broader disruption of food and goods shipments across the Pacific Coast and Midwest during a period of escalating labor unrest.
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Associated Press
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Pacific Coast
Federal Labor Disputes Board
Oakland
Calif
West Coast
San Francisco
Portland
Ore
Wehr Steel Company
West Allis
Wis
Amalgamated Association Steel
Warren
Republic Steel Corporation
Corn Products Refining Co
Pekin
Ill
Twin Cities
Minnesota
Generi
Robert Fleming
Frisco
Teamsters
East Bay
Berkeley
Alameda
Movie Industry Expands Clean Up Of Screen Content
The motion picture producers and distributors of America promise further self policing to address public protests over moral concerns. Ten major distributors may cancel exhibitor contracts for any film facing genuine moral objections, with the full board now overseeing releases and director Joseph Breen empowered as umpire.
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Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of
America
Will Hays
Gertie Gorgeous
The
Producers and Distributors of America Organization
Joseph I. Breen
Fliers Plan Round-World Booster Trip
Five American fliers plot a goodwill round the world flight starting Sunday sponsored by business men. Commanded by Lieut. Comdr. Alexander, with Lieut. Comdr. Ise and Major Brooks as co pilots, the route includes Moscow Bermuda Azores Paris and Berlin before a Siberia Alaska Chicago return.
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Chicago
Moscow
Bermuda
Amwes
Paris
Berlin
Wey
Siberia
Alaska
William TH
William Th, Alexander
New York
U. S Navy
Pensacola
Fla
John Wycliffe Ise
William ©. Brooks
Linccoln
Neb
First Lady En Route To Visit Daughter
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt leaves a Transcontinental plane in Sacramento and drives with Miss L A Hickok toward Lake Tahoe to join her daughter Mrs Anna Roosevelt Dall. The trip may lead to a Lake Tahoe summer home or the Arrowhead Desert ranch where Mrs Dall is establishing divorce residence.
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Sacramento
Calif
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lake Tahoe
Ney
Anna Roosevelt Dall
L. A. Hickok
New York
Roosevelt
Texas says drought aid shortchanged by federal relief
Fort Worth July 12 Texas lawmakers deride federal relief agencies for drought aid. Rep Fritz Lanham and Dr Lewis Crabb fault political pressure after Texas to get 750000 compared with 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 for six other states. Colorado receives 1,000,000 despite 81 per cent normal rainfall.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Fritz Lanham
Lewis C. Crabb
State Livestock Sanitary Commission
Crabb
Colorado
Minnesota
Kansas
Checker Expert Cornered by Neighbor Over Lost Truck
Houston July 12 TM M K L Holland a veteran checker expert says he was cornered while explaining a chess style checker system to a former neighbor who promised a truck in exchange for the reveal. Holland sought legal action and district attorneys indicated Civil Court Bullading as the next move.
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Houston
M. KL. Holland
Holland
Civil Courts
Crisis Looms in Austria Germany Tensions Rise
Vienna reports a new crisis in Austro German relations as Chancellor Dollfuss reshuffles his cabinet amid anti Nazi campaigns. A German minister at risk of recall sparks speculation of rupture while bombing attacks in Salzburg and Buers injure five, including a tourist group and a 12 year old girl.
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Vienna
Austria
Germany
Engelbert Dollfuss
Berlin
Stephan Tausenitz
Legation
Dollfuss
Tauschnitz
Salzburg
Dollfusg “Fatherland Front
Buers
Klosterbraen
Salzsburg
Graz
Pastor John E. De Long Found Dead in Libertyville
The Rev. John E. De Long a city leader once involved with Samuel Insull over prohibition was found drowned in his bathroom. Coroner Dr. John L. Taylor said a note indicated ill health prevented him from continuing.
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Libertyville
John E. de Long
Samuel Insull
John L. Taylor
Murray bows out as Oklahoma Democratic leader
Gov. W. H. Murray resigned as head of the Oklahoma Democratic party after a crushing primary setback that ousted his candidate Tom Anglin. Murray said he will not speak or advise during the campaign and will stay in office until January as Rep. E. W. Marland defeated him in the statewide contest.
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Frank McNaughton
Oklahoma City
U.P
W. H
Murray
Oklahoma
E. W. Marland
New Deal
Ticles
Blue Valley Farmer Today
Democratic Party
People
Tom Anglin
Anglin
Judge rules annulment in Baltimore case of Misa Thompson
Judge Eugene Oonvine grants an annulment to Misa Thompson a former color girl at the U S Naval Academy. He states a woman may change her mind about marriage at any time without regard to consequences or responsibility to God law or man.
FDR Enjoying Final Hawaii Voyage On Pacific Cruise
In Balboa C Z July 12 President Roosevelt in a talk with press says he is having a perfectly grand time during the longest leg of his vacation across the Pacific to Hawaii. He notes he has signed few official papers since leaving Washington and defers NRA leadership questions to the future.
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Roosevelt
Canal Zone
Hawaii
Pacific
Hugh Johnson
NRA
Johnson
Colorado
Icebergs on Ocean Crossing and Local Loan Tale
Capt W A Hawkes of the Cunarder Scythia reports sighting 15 icebergs on a recent crossing. A Amarillo resident claims to have met 150 icebergs within city limits while seeking a $15 loan. Also listed: five room well furnished home west of town for $25 a month, phone 4644.
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W. A. Hawkes
Scythia
Apple
Amarillo
Special Oil Body To Meet Governor
Congressional committee men investigating oil industry conditions meet with Texas railroad commissioners in Austin to review records and regulations. Chairman William P. Cole Jr. notes no formal testimony. officials Thompson and Terrell explain Texas oil rules. The group is to confer with Governor Ferguson at 2 p.m.
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Austin
Wth
Texas Railroad Commissioners
Commissions
Capitol
William P. Cole, Jr
Maryland
F. O. Thompson
C. V. Terrell
National
Governors Ferguson
Weather outlook for Amarillo and surrounding area
Pair tonight and Friday for West Texas and New Mexico. Generally fair and warm with unsettled spells in extreme southeast Texas and showers or thunderstorms in the northwest portion of New Mexico. Temperature extremes reach 74 to 97.
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Porecast
Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma campus mystery widens in death case
Norman authorities demand a new statement from Hazel Brown, 30, a University of Oklahoma fraternity house cook, as they probe Marian Mills’s death after Mills collapsed at Brown’s duplex. Missing Neal Myers, a pharmacy junior, and Bernard Doud, Mills’s former fiancé, are focal points.
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Norman
Okla
Hazel Brown
University of Oklahoma
Paul Updegraff
Marian Mills
Miss Mills
Updegraff
Bernard Doud
Shreveport
Deaf Smith County Will Get CCC Camp
The Civilian Conservation Corps announced four new park camps in Texas with a fifth planned soon. Camps open at Big Bend State Park in Brewster County, Big Spring Park in Howard County, Hereford Park in Deaf Smith County, and Balmorhea Park in Reeves County, with a site for the fifth undetermined. About 2,758 Texans will be enrolled from drought areas as part of relief efforts. 173 camps total will be established nationwide.
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Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
Texas
Big Bend State Park
Brewster County
Big Spring Park
Howard County
Hereford Park
Deaf Smith County
Balmorhea Park
Reeves County
Drouth
Dreuth
Black Cat to Fly in Record Parade Friday at Kelly Field
Private Ralph Watson of Kelly Field will parachute from a plane with a solid black cat named Battle Bones on Friday July 13. The stunt aims to break superstition about black cats by making an epoch making jump during a 13th parachute descent.
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San Antonio
Battle Bones
Ralph Watson
Kelly Field
Watson
Deny Negroes Primary Vote Sparks Texas Debate
Attorney General James V. Allred ruled that negroes are not entitled to vote in coming Democratic primaries. The opinion, sent to Williamson County attorney D. B Wood, cites a May 24 1992 Houston state convention resolution Whites Only. The policybars black voters from party primary participation.
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Dallas
James V. Allred
D. B Wood
Williamson County
Allred
Houston
State of
Texas
Democratic Party
Fall from curb kills Corsicana boy at post office
Corsicana Texas July 12 Johnny Stubbs about 9 was killed today when he fell ten feet from a curb in front of the Corsicana post office to the basement floor. The boy playing with other children suffered a fractured skull and a broken neck.
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Corsicana
Tex
Johnny Stubbs
Bailey on Air airs tonight from Dallas station WFAA
United States Senate candidate Joseph W. Bailey plans a radio address to Texas voters tonight starting at 8:30. His Amarillo campaign headquarters were advised this morning, and the speech will be carried by station WFAA in Dallas.
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Joseph W. Bailey
United States
Texas
Amarillo
Mr. Bailey
WFAA
Dallas
Queer death of woman being probed in Dallas
Lena Mas Stewart 32, wife of Jack Stewart member of the Dago Seay gang, died in Dallas under mysterious circumstances. She arrived at Parkland Hospital in a private car with sister Rosa Lee Barnes. An autopsy was to determine the exact cause as she had been dead about 10 minutes before arrival.
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Dallas
Lena Mas Stewart
Jack Stewart
Texas
Local Women Escape Injury in Santa Fe Road Crash
Mrs C B Hancher and Miss Leah Hatley escaped serious injury after the car overturned on a soft road about 18 miles west of Tucumcari on return from Santa Fe New Mexico. The vehicle rolled onto its side into a ditch and caught fire with Hatley aiding Hancher from beneath the steering wheel before both received help from bystanders.
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C. B. Hancher
Mias
Leah Hatley
Santa Fe
N. M
Senator Dill, Washington Senator, Announces Retirement
Senator C. Dill, Democrat and Washington's senior senator, says he will retire from the Senate. He notes only a pressing state issue could persuade him to run again. Elected in 1922, his current term ends in 1935.
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Dill
Bpokane
Wash
C. ©. Dill
Washington
Congress
Senate
Johnson Boosts NRA Impact in Iowa Speech
In Waterloo on his western tour, Hugh S. Johnson, Blue Eagle organizer, praised the NRA saying it created 3,000,000 city jobs and added $3,000,000,000 in buying power. He attacked Borah and praised Hoover, calling for a new faith in the New Deal and warning of political sniping at the Nationals.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Hugh
Johnson
Blue Eagle
NRA
Senator Borah
Idaho
Borah
NBA
Hiram Johnson
League of Nations
Minneapolis
St. Paul
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