Ideal Woman Portrait Drawn From Many Real Faces
New York July 19 Hayden Hayden famed portrait painter and poster artist says he cannot define beauty but can draw it He sketches a composite ideal combining features from five noted women including Margaret Sullavan Ann Harding Eleanor Holm and Carolyn Edmundson The result emphasizes a balanced full mouth generous features and well set eyes as marks of true beauty
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Mary Margaret McBride
New York
Hayden Hayden
Margaret Sullavan
Ann Harding
Miss Harding
Eleanor Holm
Two Men Identified in Albany Bank Hold Up
Officials identify James Lucas and Jack Hardin as the duo who robbed the First National Bank of $12,000 in cash and traveler’s checks yesterday. They were chased by Sheriff Arch Holmes of Baylor County, Hardin wounded in the leg, and surrendered near Seymour after a gunfight. Lucas, an escaped convict, said they planned the job for five years and had driven from Denver in a stolen car. They also raided Strawn Mercantile for weapons before the bank crime.
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Albany
First National Bank
James Lucas
Jack Hardin
Arch Holmes
Baylor County
Hardin
Seymour
Lucas
Texas
Denver
Colo
Strawn Mercantile Company
Strawn
Five Killed in Collision Near Gridley Illinois
Five people from Chandlerville died when a car crossed a ditch after sideswiping a truck on U S Highway 24. The victims were Ezra Vaughn 56 his wife 56 C M Armstrong 48 his wife 44 and Doris Mae French 14.
Yegg Robs Jewelry Store in Oklahoma City
A bandit robbed a jewelry store for 5000 dollars in diamonds and gems and escaped in heavy early morning traffic. The store lies across an alley behind the police station in the heart of the shopping district.
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Oklahoma City
U.P
Gas Rate Reduction Case Goes to Jury
A Travis County jury begins deliberation on the Texas Railroad Commission order cutting Lone Star Gas rates from 40 to 32 cents per 1 000 cubic feet across 250 cities. The state filed suit asserting the rate is unjust and arbitrary and would not yield adequate return on investment.
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Austin
Travis County District Court
Texas Railroad Commission
Lone Star Gas Company
Langer hands over North Dakota governorship amid rump session
Governor William H. Langer abdicated to Lt. Gov. Ole H. Olson as the legislature met in a rump session to try to keep Langer in office despite a Supreme Court removal order. Troopers surrounded the capitol as Olson supporters entered, while Langer urged impeachment and faced mobbed farmers outside the homes of four justices who ruled against him.
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Bismarck
N. D
William H. Langer
Ole H. Olson
Langer
Supreme Court
Olson
Olsen
Strike Collapse Near As Jails Fill In San Francisco
Police cracked down on Communists linked to strike activities on the Pacific Coast ports. Frances Perkins backed local officials in the broad effort to curb violence. San Francisco’s general strike faltered on its fourth day as vigilante actions and mass arrests increased in San Francisco Portland and Seattle with judges pledging fair trials.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Frances Perkins
Citizen Committees
Old
California
Portland
Seattle
Weather Outlook for Amarillo Area
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday. West Texas will see fair to partly cloudy skies with warmer readings in the extreme southwest tonight. New Mexico should stay fair tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Day’s high and low range from 74 to 95 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Sol
T Callman
Mr. Collman
Army Bombers Rally for Alaska Reconnaissance Flight
Ten U S Army bombers from Bolling Field flew in formation over Washington D C heading to Alaska with a fuel stop in Dayton and a night at Minneapolis. Col Henry Arnold led the flight with Capt Harold M McClelland and Lieutenants Hez McLellan and John S Griffith aboard. Deputy Marshal Bill Lampe began a three day trip to Lubbock and other South Plains towns on official business.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Bolling Field
Alaska
Anacostia River
Capitol Dome
Dayton
Minneapolis
Canada
Fairbanks
Col
Henry Arnold
Harold M. McClelland
Wichite
Kan
Hez McLellan
Baton Rouge
Johns
Griffith
San Antonio
Tex
Von Papen Named Power Center in Germany
New York reports claim Franz von Papen now runs Germany withDeath tolls cited at 2000, triggering commodity liquidations in New York markets. Berlin officials deny wholesale massacres and Nazi collapse, noting Hitler tours south with festivals and rest retreat planned near Berchtesgaden.
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Berlin
U.P
United States
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Nuremberg
Bayreuth
Berchtesgaden
Amarillo Seeks Top Scientists To Combat Tooth Stain
City officials announce plans to recruit leading scientists and doctors to study Amarillo's brown tooth stain linked to fluorine in water. The program would involve Dr. H T Dean and National Research Committee head Dr. Thomas B Hartzell assessing the well analysis showing four and a half parts fluorine per million and proposing reduction to one part per million.
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Amarillo
Jack Wye
Seck U
Dean
W. M. Curl
Dental Society
Thomas B. Hartzell
National Research Committee
American Dental Association
Hartzell
Dr. Dean
Rogers
The Jail Dance and Rent Ad Highlight Small-Town News
In Ferdinand Ida 196 inhabitants hosted a dance to raise funds for a new jail, with couples dancing into and out of the hoosegow. The piece pivots to a note about a repeated novelty in local life and ends with a nearby for rent ad: an unfurnished four room brick duplex near 1608 Polk.
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Ferdinand
Ida
Globe-News
Polk
Negro Vote to Highest Court in Texas Case
Two Jefferson County African American residents seek a writ of mandamus from the Texas Supreme Court to compel election officials to permit Negroes to vote in Democratic primaries. The petition names Gov. Miriam Ferguson Attorney General James Allred and county election officials as defendants over denied absentee ballot access.
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Austin
Applicaon
Texas Supreme Court
Jefferson County
Miriam A. Ferguson
James V. Allred
State
Democratic Executive Committee
W. G. Bell
E. L. Jones, Jr
Four More Bombs Strike Vienna as Terror Threat Tightens
Four additional bombs exploded in Vienna and across Austria in defiance of a government threat to hang all terrorists. A midnight decree prescribes hanging for possession of explosives as authorities intensify security measures.
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Vienna
Austria
Five Injured in Kansas City Blast
Five men were injured in a dynamite explosion at Kansas City’s new municipal auditorium construction site. Two men were expected to die. Authorities called the blast accidental though an inquiry considers possible labor difficulties.
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Kansas City
Municipal Auditorium
Airways Radio Weather Broadcasts Four Times Daily
Weather forecasts are broadcast four times daily by United States Airways Radio station. Frequencies include 236 kilocycles and harmonics visible on dial numbers 70 944 1180 and 1416. Broadcast at 8:31 and 12:31 periods, the brief message covers a 25 mile radius between Kansas City Albuquerque Amarillo Tulsa and Dallas.
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United States Airways
Gordon F. Robinson
Kansas City
Albuquerque
Amarillo
Tulsa
Dallas
Ban Vranctiaco Sees Daily Freedoms Amid Labor Turmoil
Immigration authorities probe alien records for possible deportation as nearly 400 alleged Communists are held in three cities. California Governor Merriam seeks support from Secretary Perkins to act against deportable aliens while San Francisco's strike fights on with mediation and ship rerouting by Matson and Dollar Steamship.
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Department of Labor
California
Frank F. Merriam
Perkins
Marynville
San Francisco
Hugh 8. Johnson
Matson Navigation Company
Dollar Steamship Company
Oakland
Alameda
Berkeley
Hayward
Johnson
Heat waves sweep Texas with deadly toll and crop damage
Sweltering heat gripped Texas with temperatures near 100 degrees or higher causing crop and livestock stress. An 80 year old man died of heat prostration near Taylor and several others, including a 72 year old, collapsed as heat intensified. Dallas hit 101 degrees while Longview reached 107 and Nacogdoches reported high readings as drought worsened.
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Sam Davis
Taylor
J. C. Eaton
Houston
Dallas
Longview
Nacogdoches
East Texans Set Radio Broadcast On Governor Race
East Texas citizens from Houston to Texarkana will radio WBAP from 8 to 8 30 PM to West Texas. Six speakers, each five minutes, will relay East Texas views on Senator Clint Small and the governor race in a first split-state broadcast. Speakers include Wright Morrow Houston former Senator Jim Strong Carthage and R M Kelly Longview.
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East Texas
West Texas
Houston
Texarkana
WBAP
Clint Small
Wright Morrow
Jim Strong
Carthage
R. M. Kelly
Longview
President Roosevelt Keeps Busy Aboard the Houston
President Roosevelt works through a trunkful of reports aboard the cruiser Houston as the floating White House. He stays informed on the San Francisco strike by wireless and plans long range social and economic programs for Congress while continuing inspections of Puerto Rico the Virgin Islands and the Canal Zone. The Houston and its escort head toward Niapoopo Hawaii for a brief stop and fishing before Honolulu. He will study Hawaiian administration and recovery program effects.
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New Orleans
Roosevelt
White House
Houston
San Francisco
Gress
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Canal Zone
Napoopoo
Hawaii
Hilo
Honolulu
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North Dakota
von Papen
New York Evening Post
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Evening Post
Johannes Steel
Franz von Papen
Wall Street
Arthur Brisbane
Jack London
America
Globe
Brisbane
Debs
Lawton
Okla
Fort Sill Military Reservation
Medicine Park National Forest
Babe
Beaumont
Gregory
Ban Vranctiaco
Ban Vrancheo
San Francines
Maybe-Co
Grandaea
Greta Coffey
Chicago
Marcie Forchtsam
Cireta
East Texans
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