Churchill and Brisban Warn on War and Gas Warfare
Arthur Brisbane argues Britain and the United States must stand together to survive. He notes experiments with deadly gases for battlefield use, questions their morality, and ponders possible peaceful applications while warning of the danger of mass slaughter. The piece also recounts the tragedy of Henrietta Schmerler, a Columbia anthropology student killed while researching Apache in Arizona.
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Winston Churchill
Britain
United States
England
Europe
House of Lords
New York
Chicago
Governor threatens Oklahoma oil shutdowns to force $1 oil
Governor Murray issued an ultimatum to Oklahoma oil producers to raise prices to $1 a barrel by Saturday night or face an executive shutdown. He warned production under price pressure is wasteful and could be halted by order, with military authority if needed. He alleges underreporting in the Oklahoma City field and estimates up to five million barrels bootlegged last month.
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Oklahoma City
Murray
Oklahoma
Transatlantic Flight Starts Targeting World Record
Two Bellanca planes lifted off from Floyd Bennett Field to begin globe girdling runs. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr aim for Moscow as Russell Boardman and John Polando head to Istanbul in a concurrent quest to surpass the Post Gatty record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.A
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Turkey
Clyde Pangborn
Hugh Herndon, Jr
Floyd Bennett Field
Mobscow
Russell Boardman
John Polando
Bellanca
Cape Cod
Istanbul
Pangborn
Herndon
Moscow
Dieudonne Coste
Joseph Lebrix
Boardman
Polando
Tex Thornton Plans To Shoot Flaming Well
The No 1 Jones well of the Dana Oil and Gas Co near Dumas, 12 miles northeast, caught fire while being cleaned. Tex Thornton plans to extinguish it by shooting the fire this evening or tomorrow after removing the derrick and drilling gear. A mile of water line laid to the well has delayed operations. The well yields 120 barrels of oil and 15,000,000 feet of gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moore County
Tex Thornton
Jones
Dana Oil and Gas Company
Jim Cloud, Inc
Dumas
Gulf official raps efforts to curb yield in oil fight
July 28 report from Austin shows Gulf Production Company and Gulf Pipe Line Company executives opposing new oil regulations. Nazro accused proposed laws of restricting production under conservation claims while Eddelman charged majors with grabbing market outlets and harming independents. Both groups advocate true conservation and oppose common ownership or forced bargaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Senate
House
Underwood Nazro
Houston
Gulf Production Company
Gulf Pipe Line Company
FE. H. Eddelman
Wichita Falls
Nazro
Dobie Urges Texans to Preserve Longhorn Buffalo
J Frank Dobie spoke to the Texas Legislature criticizing the buffalo hunt planned for Goodnight Ranch. He praised Texas Longhorns as emblematic and urged preservation, calling himself a conservationist and noting Texas lacks a museum unlike New Mexico and Oklahoma.
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Austin
J. Frank Dobie
Texas
Dobie
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Efforts Renewed To Make Palo Duro Canyon State Park
Ray V. Davis and Fred Wortham urged designating Palo Duro Canyon as a state park amid plans to dispose of the Goodnight buffalo herd. They argued the canyon’s resources suit a park and called on West Texas cities to back a special bill to the legislature. The push followed chambers of commerce actions against the herd’s extermination.
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Palo Duro Canyon
Ray V. Davis
Palo Duro Park
Fred &E. Wortham
The
Canyon Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
Goodnight Ranch
Mr. Davis
Chambers of Commerce
Buffalo
Oil output rises in East Texas. Oklahoma Kansan shutdown threat grows
East Texas posted a 96 121 barrel weekly rise to 504 946 barrels as national crude output reached 2 477 261 barrels per day. Oklahoma output fell 38 790 barrels to 481 645 while operators threatened a full shutdown in Oklahoma and Kansas unless crude sells for at least $1 a barrel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Texas
United States
Oil and Gas Journal
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Chambers sentenced in fatal hit run case
Fred Chambers received a 60 day jail term with about $23 in costs after pleading guilty to negligent homicide in the May incident that killed G. W. Callahan on West Sixth Avenue. He was acquitted on failure to stop and render aid and fined $25 for drunken driving.
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Fred Chambers
G. W. Callahan
Potter County
E. C. Nelson, Jr
Chambers
West Sixth Avenue
Grand Jury
Gale Whips Forest Fire Through White Pine in Montana
A northeasterly gale drove fire through virgin white pine in Montana as about 1,000 men fought to stop it. Flames crossed from Idaho into the Yank River area of the Kootenai forest as wildlife fled and fear grew over wildlife losses.
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White Pine
Montana
Missoula
Mont
U.P
Pend Oreill Forest
Idaho
Yank River
Kootenai Forest
Racing Fliers Stop in Amarillo for National Derby Route
The Nations Sweepstakes Handicap Derby will pass through Amarillo on August 26 with about 30 planes in the convoy. Harold English announces lap money of 250 dollars and race financing, as English Field provides timers and officials. Pilots require over 150 hours flying time and the event draws thousands to Amarillo for the arrival at the local field.
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Amarillo
Harold English
English Airport
Chamber of Commerce
Los Angeles
Cleveland
English Field
Well Fire on Edge Of Kilgore Put Out
Kilgore Texas July 28 veteran oil fire fighter B F Delong extinguished Thorpe No 1 Butts well by closing the gate valve after a tank exploded last night. Clyde Erskine 41 was fatally burned when a falling timber pinned him as he fled. His wife saw three escape attempts. Ray Griffin 21 Corsicana and M D Tomlinson 34 severely burned and in serious condition at a Kilgore hospital.
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Kilgore
Tex
B. F. Delong
Clyde Erskine
Ray Griffin
Corsicana
M. D. Tomlinson
Oust Lone Star Gas Charged Over High Rates in Waurika
Allegations of unfair and exorbitant gas rates led to ouster petitions filed in district court against Lone Star Gas Company Guthrie Gas Service Company and Community Natural Gas Company in Waurika Oklahoma Earl Pruett district attorney said the rates of two dollars per thousand cubic feet for the first six hundred feet and seven cents for the next nineteen thousand four hundred feet were declared exorbitant by the petitioner
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waurika
Okla
U.P
Lone Star Gas Company
Earl Pruett
Jefferson County
Lone Star Company
Texas
Pruett
Guthrie Gas Service Company
Community Natural Gas Company
Weather forecast for Amarillo and nearby areas
Fair tonight with increasing clouds on Wednesday. West Texas remains generally fair tonight and Wednesday, unsettled over the Panhandle Wednesday. New Mexico shows generally fair conditions in the south and unsettled in the north with possible thunderstorms tonight and Wednesday. Temperature extremes today at 1 PM ranged from 67 to 87 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Heat Toll Mounts as Imperial Valley Faces Mass Exodus
Heat wave across the Southwest causes 60 deaths with Imperial Valley reporting 40. Residents flee toward coastal areas and mountain resorts as rains hit Southern California. Deaths also reported in Phoenix 14 Needles 6 Taft 2 Las Vegas 1.
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Los Angeles
Imperial Valley
Arizona
Southwest
San Gorgonio Mountain
Great American Desert
Impérial Valley
California
Phoenix
Ariz
Needles
Cal
Taft
Las Vegas
Nevada
Mattress Renovate price ad by Griggs ambulance
Mattress Renovate offered by Griggs ambulance with a price from $2.50. Phone contact listed as 4311 and location presumably Ideal.
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Griggs Ambulance
Villain Promises Happily Ever After In Globe News Ad
The disguised hero threatens Clara Hemingway with capture and boasts about moving them into a furnished apartment advertised in The Globe News Want Ads. The scene mixes mock villainy with a melodramatic escape plot as Clara pleads.
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Clara Hemingway
Globe News
Railroad chiefs to attend Amarillo subway dedication
Amarillo will host a dedication ceremony for the North Fillmore Street subway at 8 20 p m Thursday night with high ranking railroad officials including J E Gorman president of Rock Island and Gen John A Hulen vice president of Fort Worth Denver invited to attend. City officials say the underpass is nearly finished with only cleanup and final touches left before the opening.
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Amarillo
Fort Worth
Denver
H. E. McMullen
Rock Island
Dalhart
Ernest O. Thompson
E. N. Stanley
Stanley
Governors Conference On Cotton Held In Austin
Gov Ross Sterling announced a meeting of cotton growing state governors in Austin on August 4 to discuss methods to boost cotton use and raise prices of the staple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
U.P
Gov
Ross Sterling
Lindberghs Start Aerial Vacation From Washington
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh leave Washington for North Haven Maine on an aerial vacation trip to Japan. They fuel and test radios before takeoff at 1 20 PM planning to fly overland toward North Haven with possible overnight stop at North Beach New York. They will not reveal departure times.
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Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
North Haven
Maine
Japan
Lindberghs
Potomac
Anacostia Naval Station
Lindbergh
North Beach
New York
Indians Silent in Death Quiz
White River Arizona July 28 AP The silent Apache search for the killer of Columbia University student Henrietta Schmerler who lived with Apaches to study their habits yielded no clues as a thousand Apaches joined the hunt. Her body was found with knife wounds after disappearing on July 18 before a Fort Apache dance.
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White River
Ariz
Henrietta Schmerler
Columbia University
Whit Davidson launches Roosevelt boom in Texas
Former Lieutenant Governor T Whit Davidson issued a call for a state wide gathering of Democratic leaders in Dallas to launch a Roosevelt for president movement. Ernest May of Fort Worth joined the invitation urging like minded Democrats to attend the meeting and plan a Roosevelt day at the Texas state fair in October with an invitation to Franklin D Roosevelt.
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Dallas
U.P
T. Whit
Davidson
Ernest May
Fort Worth
Dan Moody
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Texas
New York
Submarine Nautilus Leaves for Arctic Crossing
The submarine Nautilus sails for Bergen Norway en route to the Arctic where Sir Hubert Wilkins plans to cross the North Pole under the ice. Hundreds of Americans witness the departure as the craft passes the Mauretania and passengers aboard cheer.
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Plymouth
Sir Hubert Wilkins
North Pole
Bergen
Norway
Arctic
Sir Hubert
New York
Carroll trial opens for Palestine bank robbery
Testimony began in Palestine on July 28 in the trial of Joel Carroll 23 Athens on charges of robbing the First State Bank at Frankston last December 10. Four bearded men robbed the bank of 11236 and fled after a gun battle that wounded pursuing officers.
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Carroll
Palestine
Tex
Joel Carroll
Athens
First State
Frankston
Science Battles Insect Plague Across Midwest Farmlands
In July 28 report from Minneapolis Minnesota entomologists meet in Des Moines to plan countermeasures against grasshopper invasions affecting Minnesota Iowa Nebraska North and South Dakota. A $50,000 state appropriation is sought as farmers deploy poisons amid stalled fieldwork and dry heat.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Science
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
Des Moines
Missouri River
A. G. Ruggles
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Churchill
King Feature Syndicate, Inc
Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Columbia College
Tombstone
Borger
Marr
Elston
Bill Elston
Jack Mall
Northwest Texas Hospital
B. R. Murr
Edw. W. Thomerson
Bill Thompson
W. R. McDowell
Murr
Steve Ridings
Sid Harper
Hall
Harper
Young Elston
Berry’s Rug Cleaning
W. 10Th
Gulf
Solons
Kansas
Tulsa
Sinclair Oil and Gag Company
Battle
Lone Star
California Valley
Lindy
Anne
Whit Davidson
Roosevelt
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