Long Refuses Seabury Type Investigator in Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury urges resignations of all LSU Board of Supervisors members from James Monroe Smith era. Gov Earl Long declines to name a Seabury type investigator, citing duty, leaving options open to call on three proposed candidates if needed, while retaining J Fair Hardin as special assistant attorney general for the grand jury probe.
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Baton Rouge, la
East Baton Rouge Parish
District Court Today
Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors
James Monroe Smith
Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
Citizens’ Committee
Louisiana
Wood H. Thompson
Monroe
Citizen's Committee
Thompson
Eldon Lazarus
New Orleans
Paul Barron, Sr
J. Fair Hardin
Shreveport
U. S
Henry Ford Credits Health to Lack of Worry
Detroit July 31 Henry Ford 76 celebrated his birthday quietly. He attributed his health to not worrying and not overeating and to his faith that what has happened and what will happen is for the best.
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Henry Ford
Detroit
Ford
Roosevelt Lend-lease Bill Cut Down as Congress Adjourns
Congress moves toward adjournment with the 3.06 billion dollar lending bill reduced to 1.64 billion in committee and on the floor. President Roosevelt to meet leaders as Hatch bill debate looms and party factions clash with the New Deal.
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Lyle C. Wilson
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
White House
Capitol
Frank Murphy
Murphy
House Banking and Currency Committee
House Rules Committee
House
Large police dog kills calf. neighbor defense ends in gunfire
A large police dog attacked a cow and calf in a Lake Street area yard. The calf died, the cow suffered wounds, and neighbor Charles Mayfield returned with a gun to kill the dog. Residents considered sending the dog's head to Austin for rabies testing.
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W. E. Allison
Lake Street
B. M. Britt
Charles Mayfield
Mayfield
Austin
R. V. Norman
Hospital Service Fund Meeting Set
Campaign to raise funds for a regional office of Group Hospital Service, Inc., moves toward a final drive to secure $1,000. The 1:30 PM meeting will be held in the Chamber of Commerce offices, announced by committee members appointed by Jim Florey.
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Group Hospital Service, Inc
Chamber of Commerce
Jim Florey
Healthiest Tree Stull Flourishes in Amarillo Home
Nine years ago a red brick house at 2311 West Sixteenth Avenue welcomed a transplanted black walnut from the city’s Eleventh Avenue and Tyler Street lot. The tree, once thin and forlorn, now dominates the yard with a trunk a foot and a half wide and branches that brush the second story. It bears nuts each year and now holds green fruit set to fall in autumn.
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West Texas
Bivins
West Sxteenth Avenue
Miles Bivins
Amarillo
Temple Robinson
Owens Named Night Jailer Starting Tomorrow
Henry Owens will serve as the new night jailer beginning tomorrow. He has been performing extra guard duty. J. R. Dever remains the day jailer, succeeding Dick Vaughn who is moving to deputy sheriff duties.
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Henry Owens
J. R. Dever
Dick Vaughn
Our Super Navy Keeps Us Safe Says Leahy On Eve of Retirement
Admiral William D. Leahy, retiring chief of naval operations, declares a massive defensive naval buildup as the United States prepares to defend its shores. He will become governor of Puerto Rico, succeeding Blanton Winship, after retirement.
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Super Navy
Leahy
Washington
U.P
William D. Leahy
Naval Operations
United States
Puerto Rico
Blanton Winship
Charles Edison
FHA Interest Rates Cut For New Home Loans
Washington July 31. FHA insured mortgage rates for small homes drop from 5 to 4 1/2 percent and large rental project rates from 4 1/2 to 4 percent. The changes, not affecting already insured loans, aim to pass lower market rates to borrowers. With 10 percent down the owner could pay about 5.81 dollars monthly per thousand.
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Washington
Stewart McDonald
Hunger strikers fed forcibly at Sarafand camp near Tel Aviv
Eighty Zionist Revisionists at a Sarafand concentration camp were fed forcibly today after a six day hunger strike. Seventy Jewish families camped in Bel Aviv synagogues since Saturday as part of hunger strike actions.
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Jerusalem
Sarafand
Tel-Aviv
Bel-Aviv
Drive To Cut Off Hideaway Finances
New York July 31. A grand jury subpoenas more than 50 garment and bakery officials once tied to Louis Lepke Buchalter. The aim is to seize book records to uncover payments to Lepke and map his financial links amid a citywide rackets probe led by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey and Assistant D A Murray Gurfein.
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New York
Louis
Lepke
Buchalter
Thomas E. Dewey
United States
Dewey
Murray I. Gurfein
Rackets Bureau
Explosive Ton Discovered Near Canadian Plant Ruins
Lyndhurst New Jersey residents learn a ton of nitrat ed cotton explosive lies in the 1917 Canadian Car and Foundry Co plant ruins. Police analyzed samples and warn of danger as officials plan removal methods and funding. A police guard stays posted to keep children away.
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Lyndhurst
N. J
Canadian Car and Foundry Co
Police Break Fisher Siege in Cleveland Clash
Four hundred fifty police and 30 firemen faced 3,000 pickets at the Fisher Body plant in Cleveland as tear gas and water volleys were used for more than two hours. At least 35 injured, with 25% of CIO union members treated in a field tent. Police declared the strike zone a riot area and limited access while a truce was reached.
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Cleveland
U.P
Fisher
Tool and the Workers’ Union
CIO
Child Survives After Flying From Car in Memphis Trip
Four year old Katherine Barnes was tossed 20 to 30 feet along a gravel highway shoulder when a door sprang open at 45 miles an hour. She was skinned and scratched but not seriously hurt, according to her father D. W. Barnes of 1007 North Johnson Street. The incident occurred as they returned from the Old Settlers reunion in Memphis.
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Katherine Barnes
D. W. Barnes
North
Johnson Street
Old Settlers
Memphis
70-Year-Old Eccentric Slayer Surrenders in Kentucky
Charles Allen, 70, who shot Police Chief George Dickey and wounded nine others during a night siege, surrendered in Jacksonville, Ky. He claimed he mistook Dickey for a chicken thief and said he wasn’t afraid to return to Cynthiana.
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Kentucky
Cynthiana
U.P
Charles Allen
George M. Dickey
Jacksonville
Roy Fightmaster
Allen
Alvin Allen
Fightmaster
Fayette County
Lexington
Dickey
Weather Outlook Amarillo and West Texas Partly cloudy with scintillating thundershowers
The forecast covers Amarillo area and West Texas New Mexico with partly cloudy nights and Tuesday afternoons. Scattered thunderstorms expected in southwest portions and mountains with little change in temperature. Extremes 61 to 89 degrees. noon reading 85 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
200 WPA Men Stay on Job in Potter County
WPA workers in Potter County will remain employed under the 18 month elimination rule after District WPA Director A. A. Meredith said he has received no orders to drop workers. He noted notices of assignment for 200 waiting-roll workers should be disregarded and that Washington and San Antonio have not directed action. Harrington in Washington halted further eliminations pending Congress action.
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WPA
Potter County
A. A. Meredith
Meredith
H. P. Crouth
Washington
San Antonio
F. C. Harrington
German Says Wife Held in Nazi Camp Dachau Report Cited by U S Embassy
Dr Franz Lem of Germany told the U S embassy that his wife Lily Harrison of New Orleans is held in Dachau concentration camp. Lem said he escaped the camp, crossed into Paris, and plans to reach Switzerland. embassy forwarded the report to Berlin and Washington but cannot verify details locally.
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Paris
U.P
United States
Franz Lem
Germany
Lily Harrison
New Orleans
Dachau
Lem
Berlin
Washington
Switzerland
Once He Was A Big Shot Now-Broke
New York July 31 A police report traces the rise and fall of Peter De Vito once a Capone associate and reputed strikebreaker who built a fortune from 700 trucks and 4000 workers. Convicted on income tax charges in 1931 his notoriety faded as poverty and a hotel of ill repute followed.
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New York
Peter de Vito
al Capone
U. S
Brooklyn
de Vito
Capone
de Vitto
Amarillo Weather Forecast Predicts Mostly Southern Showers
Mr. Collman cautions a cloudy period with possible showers mainly to the south of Amarillo. Temperatures remain near recent levels as the area continues the pattern seen in the past four to five days.
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Mr. Collman
Definition of Indirect Aggression Delays Pact
Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons that defining indirect aggression remains the main obstacle in completing the British French Russian mutual assistance pact. The delay centers on identifying acts that constitute indirect aggression and how they trigger collective action.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Frosty Hamrick of Potter County Auditor and railroad man
H G Hamrick the Potter County auditor and purchasing agent is a longtime railroad man active in the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. He has served since 1921 and chairs budgeting matters while giving callers quick access to county information including the 1939 budget of 657977.18 dollars with 107410.43 in warrants.
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Frosty
H. G. Hamrick
W. E. Gee
168Th District Court
E. C. Nelson
47Th District Court
Hamrick
Texas
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Roswell Lodge 608
Railroad Organization
Mr. Hamrick
Brotherhood
Fort Worth
Dallas
Houston
Dime Box
Cottonwood
County Auditors’ Association of Texas
Austin
Robbers After Payroll Are Repulsed
Train robbers seeking a 56513 payroll for Chanute Field were repulsed on an Illinois Central train at Del Rey. Gunfire wounded a bandit and a mail clerk. three men attempted the heist, two escaped, one was wounded and hospitalized in Champaign.
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Champaign
U.2
Chanute Field
U. S. Army Air Base
Illinois Central
del Rey
First National Bank of Rastert
Chicago Federal Reserve Bank
Chicago
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