Camp Kiwanis Scouts Bid Fond Farewell To Camp Kiwanis
Camp Kiwanis wrapped up its third two week session of summer 1939 with 41 Girl Scouts leaving after two weeks. The farewell party featured a frontier costume program, chuck wagon supper, and dances led by Happy. Over six weeks 161 scouts attended, with handicrafts dramatics and outdoor sports highlighted in the expanded program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret McKenzie
Kiwanis
T. W. Gilstrap
Happy
Gilstrap
Stolen Car Chase Ends With Burned Vehicle Found
Buddie Blanton spots a man and woman fleeing in a stolen car loaded with rifles during a hot pursuit. The couple abandons the car and escapes as authorities search near Fourth Avenue and Madison Street. Signs point to a wider theft ring, with a burned car located northeast of Amarillo and ongoing manhunt.
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Buddie Blanton
Sandie
Amarillo
Fourth Avenue
Madison Street
Blanton
Panandle
St.ancis
Chase
Near Riot Breaks Up Wedding of 60 Year-Old Groom and 16 Year-Old Bride
New York July 17 A stone shattered a third floor window interrupting the wedding breakfast of Carmelo Locapira 60 and his 16-year-old bride Rosilla Minichielli. Police and firemen kept 100 protesters from overturning the ceremony outside their apartment. later Locapira’s brother-in-law Joe Banacci sparked a fresh disturbance as 150 neighbors watched a tense scene over the marriage. Locapira refused to discuss plans for a honeymoon amid the crowd.
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New York
Carmelo Locapira
Locapira
Rosilla Minichielli
Joe Banacci
Jan- Lee
Four Panhandle Women Hurt In Electra Bus Wreck
Four women from Amarillo Stratford Happy and Groom suffered minor injuries when a bus leaving the highway near Electra to avoid a collision was damaged but did not overturn. They were treated and released from Electra hospital. Three other Potter County women on the bus escaped injury.
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Panhandle
Rom College Station
Electra
Henry Jones
Amarillo
Ts. W. H. Miles
Stratford
A. Sutton
Happy
J. Bergdorf
Groom
Potter County
Texas A
M. College
91-year-old motorist arrested after backing car at light
In Miami on July 17 a 91-year-old driver, who claimed he could drive safely, moved his car when the light blinked go but the vehicle was found moving backward. An observing policeman arrested him.
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Miami
Fla
Postmaster Nominations Confirmed for Plainview
The Senate confirmed the nomination of John C. Terry as postmaster for Plainview Texas. The action was announced from Washington on July 17.
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Washington
Senate
Texas
Plainview
John C. Terry
Seven Die as Trains Collide Near Warsaw
An excursion train collided head on with a passenger train near Warsaw at Owsin killing seven and injuring about 200. Officials say the crash occurred within a mile or two of the city as rescue units rushed to the scene.
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Warsaw
Owsin
Boots the dog adopts cat's four kittens in domestic tale
Mrs. W. D. Jones of 1012 West 11th Avenue reports her dog Boots, four years old, has taken over four kittens after the mother cat Epenbonodis the Third was introduced. Boots chases the cat away when with the kittens but guards them when she is present. The scene often shows all five sleeping together, with occasional allowances for the mother cat to see her brood.
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Boots
Rat Terrier
W. D. Jones
West 11Th
West 11Th Avenue
Epenbonodis
Epenbonod
Janice
Blood stained Harlan arraignment tests coal mine clash
Machine guns stood outside the Harlan County courthouse as National Guardsmen searched entrants for arms during the arraignment of 246 miners and supporters on charges tied to last week's clash between pickets and militiamen. A peace conference in Knoxville meanwhile sought neutral ground between the operators and the United Mine Workers as contract talks resume after a break on June 9.
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Harlan
Knoxville
Tenn
Harlan Coal Operators Association
United Mine Workers (Cio
UMW
Operators’ Association
Lightning Bolt Triggers Fire Alarm in Amarillo
A lightning bolt last night set off a fire alarm box near First Avenue and Lincoln Street in Amarillo. The thunderstorm was among the season's severest, sending residents rushing outside to investigate the loud explosion.
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Amarillo
Weather note on showers and dog days return
Mr Collman predicts more showers tonight with a rainbow at night possibly influencing storms. Temperatures near 90. Reports of rainfall across Amarillo and panhandle towns, while the dog days begin with St Smithun’s Day and Sirius in the dog star.
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Mr. Collman
Collman
Sirius
Hitler
Amarillo Weather Forecast Update
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change. West Texas reports a minimum 64 and maximum 90 degrees. Noon reading 84. Airport rainfall is .09 inches and city bureau recorded .28 inches.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Corrigans Plan Aerial Honeymoon
San Antonio report says aviator Douglas Corrigan and Miss Elizabeth Marvin plan a plane honeymoon after their July 17 wedding at the First Baptist Church. The couple, both 32, were married on the anniversary of Corrigan's famous wrong way flight.
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San Antonio
Douglas Corrigan
Elizabeth Marvin
America
Ireland
Corrigan
First Baptist Church
Marvin
Texans Fly Half Around World To Put Out Blazing Oil Well
Three Texas experts Myron Kinley Cleo Jobe and Charles Hengst flew from Houston to Southern Arabia to combat a wildcat oil well blaze that has raged since July 8. They will travel via Marseilles Egypt and Arabia aboard the Atlantic Clipper with plans to shoot out the fire using explosives. Kinley notes this could be the longest such mission of his career and cites prior work in Greta Texas Romania and South America.
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Newark
N. J
Texas
Arabia
Myron M. Kinley
Cleo ‘Jobe
Charles Hengst
Houston
Marseilles
France
Egypt
Kinley
Greta
San Francisco
Romania
South America
Fuehrer Kuhn Misses Court Appearance On Drunkenness Charges
Fritz Kuhn German American Bund leader failed to appear in Webster Massachusetts court to answer drunkenness and profanity charges. Judge Louis Rieutard adjourned without ruling, after Kuhn and a companion were arrested during a beer hall style incident. Police recount Kuhn's profanity and attempt to drive off, prompting his brief cell stay before bail questions.
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Fuehrer
Kuhn
Webster
Mass
U.p
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Southbridge
Louis Rieutard
Rieutard
Henry Plasse
Plasse
John C. Templeman
John Templeman
Missing Woman Appears in Want Ad Photo
A photograph in today's Want Ad pages shows a young woman on Polk Street wearing a dark dress with white trim and white pumps. Globe News asks the woman to visit their office to identify herself in exchange for an 8x10 tinted enlargement.
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Polk Street
Want
Globe News
Keep Session For Neutrality
Senate leader Barkley after a White House conference with Roosevelt and Hull said Congress might stay in session to act on neutrality legislation. Participants included Garner Bankhead Rayburn and Rayburn. the meeting lasted about an hour and a half.
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Washington
U.S
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
White House
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Congress
Barkley
Hull
John N. Garner
William B. Bankhead
House
Sam Rayburn
No Change Due in The British Policy
London July 17 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stated in the House of Commons that Britain would reject any Japanese demand to reverse its Far East policy as a condition for opening negotiations. He emphasized the government would not act under another power’s demand and had not received such demands from Japan.
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London
W.P
Great Britain
Far East
Tientsin
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Leche Testifies Before Grand Jury in Baton Rouge
Former Louisiana governor Richard W. Leche testified for about thirty minutes before the parish grand jury probing muddled state affairs. The jurors recessed at noon until 1:30 PM after an executive session in which Ellison Sanchez and Hardin remained outside the room.
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Baton Rouge
Richard W. Leche
Leche
David M. Ellison
Dewey Sanchez
J. Fair Hardin
Shreveport
Notorious escapee Jack Russell eludes police in multi state chase
Kansas City dispatch reports Jack Russell, escaped from an Oklahoma prison guard, has abducted four men and killed one, in a nationwide pursuit across Missouri Kansas and Wisconsin. He hijacked a garage attendant and a police car, then fled toward Oklahoma amid renewed manhunt activity and misused vehicle plates.
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Kansas City
U.P
Jack Russell
Oklahoma
Chicago
Russell
Kenosha
Wis
Huron Cox
McAlester
Okla
Hamilton
Texas
Missouri
Man United Car Hit Wall Then Kills Himself in Jealous Crash
In Manchester New Hampshire on July 17 Leonidas Britton loaded a car with two boulders and rammed a cement wall at 80 mph in what police call a death by own action. He survived the crash then killed himself with a rifle in a closet. His wife said she opposed him using her car because his license was revoked.
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Manchester
N. H
Leonidas Britton
Britton
Grasshopper Poison Chain Makes Nashua Man Ill
In Nashua Montana a grasshopper ate poisoned bran the grasshopper was eaten by a fish Heath ate the fish and fell ill He says the fish must have swallowed a poisoned hopper and he recalls similar symptoms from a vegetable contamination last year
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Nashua
Mont
Claude Heath
Heath
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