Dillinger Hunt Details Rise Of Nelson And Allies
United Press reports July 24 detail the Dillinger hunt and the rise of George Baby Face Nelson as public enemy No. 1. The piece traces Dillinger’s last weeks, two women with him, and the gang’s remaining members including Hamilton Van Meter Floyd and Galatas. It notes Nelson’s raid on Little Bohemia and Hoover’s pursuit while listing other wanted criminals and the Chicago stockyards strike amid heat.
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United Press
Chicago
John Dillinger
Dillinger
Calumet City
Indiana
Rhinelander
Wis
Red
Washington
Underworld
George
Baby Face
Department of Justice
Nelson
W. Carter Baum
Little Bohemia
Baum
John Hamilton
Homer van Meter
Illinois
Joliet
Hamilton
Jesse Larber
Lima
van Meter
Dilliner
The
Livestock Commission Men’s Union
Chicago Union
Austrian Nazis Ousted by Death Sentences in Vienna
The Austrian government under Chancellor Dollfuss imposed death sentences on two Socialists linked to Nazi activities and bombings. Police were on high alert as hundreds of Socialists and Communists faced protective arrests. The convicted men, Joseph Gerl and Rudolph Anzboeck, face execution within hours unless pardoned by President Miklas.
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Vienna
Austria
Engelbert Dollfuss
Joseph Gerl
Rudolph Anzboeck
Danube
Gerl
Miklas
Beaten and branded KKK victim found in San Antonio
David Crockett, a Harlandale painter and campaign worker who vanished Friday, was found bound and gagged on a city street. He told detectives three men kidnapped him and burned him on the back before he escaped to say his captors planned to take him home.
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San Antonio
David Crockett
Harlandale
Cassiano Park
Zarramora Street
Crockett
Byrd Rescue Party To Return to Home Base
Five explorers stranded near Byrd’s hut on Ross Ice Barrier after an abortive attempt to reach him 123 miles south. Blizzard conditions buried their tractor. they retreat 50 miles from base. Byrd remains at Little America with supplies and a reported bad arm.
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Little America
U.P
Ross Ice Barrier
Richard E. Byrd
Byrd
Antarctic
Notify Judges of Change in Bakers Name in Texas
Congressman George B. Terrell urged election judges to tell every ballot recipient that the name George B. Terrell shown on Democratic primary ballots is void. The court reversed allowing Jefferson T. Baker to use Terrell as his name, restoring Bakers former name and invalidating votes cast for George B. Terrell for state treasurer.
Six Hundred Fifty Shell Employers Strike
In Hammond Indiana six hundred fifty Shell Petroleum Company employers announce a strike at 10 A M tomorrow after failing to recognize their union following weeks of negotiation.
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Hammond
Ind
Shell Petroleum Company
East Chicago
Monte Rose Refloated After Grounding Off Thorshavn
The Hamburg South America steamship Monte Rose with 1300 passengers and 300 crew was refloated today after a day on the rocks near Thorshavn Faroe Islands. No lives were lost.
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Thorshavn
Faroe Islands
Hamburg South America
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and Surroundings
Forecast calls for fair conditions in Amarillo tonight and Wednesday with possible fair to partly cloudy skies. West Texas shows generally fair to partly cloudy conditions with unsettled areas in the extreme west. New Mexico expects unsettled tonight and generally fair Wednesday with little temperature change. Temperatures today reach 66 to 83 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Prison Board Opens Probe Into Texas Death House Break
The Texas prison board met in Huntsville for a special session to investigate Sunday’s unprecedented escape from the death house of the state penitentiary. Chairman W A Paddock and another member led the inquiry while fugitives Raymond Hamilton Blackie Thompson and Joe Palmer remain at large. Authorities work to identify two men and a woman who waited outside in two cars to whisk the trio away.
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Huntsville
The
Texas Prison Board
W. A. Paddock
Houston
Raymond Hamilton
President Roosevelt Visits Hawaii Island Cruise Arrival
President Roosevelt sails into Kailaa Bay aboard the cruiser Houston with the USS New Orleans at daybreak. Gov. Joseph Poindexter travels from Honolulu to greet him as Napoopoo village crowds await the first presidential visit to this Hawaiian outpost. Plans for the day hinge on Poindexter’s reception and island activities.
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New Orleans
Roosevelt
Kailaa Bay
Hawaii
Houston
Hawaii Island
Joseph Poindexter
Honolulu
Napoopoo
Coast Guard
Governor Poindexter
Panama
Tree Belt Project Sets Nurseries Across Ten Texas Counties
The forest service outlines a $75 million windbreak plan creating a chain of nurseries in 13 locations to seed and plant a shelter belt spanning 100 miles by 1 000 long from the Canadian border through the Dakotas Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma to the Texas Panhandle. Key Texas counties include Ochiltree Lipscomb Roberts Hemphill Gray Wheeler Donley Collingsworth Childress and Fall with one nursery in Texas and Oklahoma each and planting to start this year with large scale operations by 1936. President Roosevelt has earmarked $15 million with $10 million available immediately.
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Pacific
Roosevelt
Drouth
Canadian
Texas Panhandle
Washington
U.P
Forest Service
Dakotas
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Ochiltree
Lipscomb
Roberts
Hemphill
Gray, Wheeler
Donley
Collingsworth
Childress
Fall
Heat wave eases Panhandle as storms bring relief
The Panhandle cools from a 100-degree peak with scattered rains lowering the low to 66. Tascosa reported two inches in under 40 minutes while Amarillo and other towns logged varying showers. St. Louis records add 135 heat deaths as conditions worsen nationwide. Water usage in Amarillo drops to 5.3 million gallons. In Houston a four-year-old girl, Dortha Stuart, is found dead in Cypress Creek after being abducted from a car. authorities investigate the apparent homicide.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Hereford
Vicinity
ST. Louis
Houston
Dortha Stuart
Houston-Conroe Highway
Cypress Creek
FE. H. Stuart
Dortha
J. Kremmel
Kremmel
Henryetta
Okla
Kern Stuart
Bandits Rob Bank in Oxford with Hostages
Four armed bandits robbed Oxford bank this morning stealing about 5000 dollars and took five hostages. Vigilantes wounded one bandit and a lumber company manager Merion Carson while a bandit was shot in the cheek. Hostages released shortly after. Donley the assistant cashier was last to be freed unharmed.
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Oxford
Kan
Merion Carson
Carson
Harold Littler
Ted Donley
Arkansas City
Jester
Daisy Bay
Donley
J. E. Campbell
Heat Strangles Nation With Record Temperatures Across States
The death toll rose to 535 as extreme heat continued to scorch the nation. Across the Midwest the oppressive blanket showed no relief with Muscatine Iowa reporting an unofficial 120 degree temperature and many areas above 100 degrees.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Muscatine
Dean of Episcopal Bishop Board Dies
Bishop John William Hamilton aged 89, head of the board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in a Washington hospital after a brief illness. He previously served as dean in the church leadership and was reported from Boston.
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Episcopal Bishop Board
Boston
John William Hamilton
Washington, D. C
Board of Bishops
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Harry Cooper Takes Lead in Golf Meet
Light Horse Harry Cooper of Chicago shot 63 four under par at the Park Club course to move into the halfway lead in the 36 hole qualifying round for the Professional Golfer’s Association championship at Buffalo.
Candidates on Air Broadcasts Highlight Gubernatorial Race
State candidates make radio appearances across Texas and Oklahoma tonight. James V. Allred speaks in San Antonio at 8 16 over KTSA KTAT and KRLD with R L Bobbitt assisting on WOAI. Clint Small broadcasts from Fort Worth on WBAP at 8. C G Gibson in Amarillo 8 15 to 8 30 for Joseph Batley. An Allred endorsement airs on WDAG 8 30 to 9 with E A Simpson.
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James V. Allred
San Antonio
KTSA
KTAT
Port Worth
KRLD
Dallas
R. L. Bobbitt
Mr. Allred
WOAI
Fort Worth
Gold-Laden Vessel Dragged Shoreward
In Juneau Alaska salvors say the Islander a 1600 ton Canadian Pacific ship sunk in Blevins Passage will be dragged ashore on August 1 33 years after the 1991 crash divers will enter the battered hull and seek the rumored 3 million in Klondike gold dust and nuggets lost with the ship as questions linger about the safes and the fate of passengers and purser during the iceberg collision
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Juneau
Alaska
Pride of
Canadian Pacific Fleet
Blevens Passage
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