I Haven't a Home Writes Amarillo Boy
A 15 year old Amarillo high student writes a confessional piece titled I Have no Home. The boy recalls being taken from his mother and sister by their father and moved to a grandfather’s farm, leaving behind a broken family and the sense of ruin that comes with divorce and separation. The Globe presents his story as true and confides the author’s permission for publication.
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Entries Pour In For Races At Panhandle Meet
Entries for the Southwest Race Meet and Stock Show at Panhandle begin Friday and run three days. George P Grout reports daily horse show entries from Amarillo and Panhandle. Merchants offer free tickets on Opportunity Days. Substantial purses posted and fans plan to attend as Amarillo turf interest grows. The program starts daily at 2 PM.
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Railroads Move To Seek 12 Percent Wage Cut
New York June 14 Dow Jones reports rail roads will push for an additional 12 per cent wage cut. Notices will be sent tomorrow to the four principal railway brotherhoods, reflecting a renewed cost saving measure amid ongoing labor strain.
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Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Forecast calls for fair and warmer conditions tonight and Thursday in Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas and New Mexico regions show varying clarity with warmer conditions in northern and eastern parts, partly cloudy to unsettled areas, and higher temperatures. Today’s temperature extremes reach 57 to 71 degrees by 1 PM.
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U S plea to end world economic woe at conference
Secretary of State Cordell Hull urged a global effort to banish economic nationalism and reduce trade barriers at the world economic conference in London. He offered wholehearted U S cooperation to end economic wars and called for a will and determination to pursue such a course.
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New Deal banking reform hailed by Panhandle bankers
In Amarillo bankers applaud Carter Glass bank reform act as landmark legislation and Roosevelt backing. John F. Owens of Republic National Bank of Dallas cites the new era of economic policy. Conference speakers urge bold actions, defend deposit safety, oppose postal savings and tax check collection methods. 200 plus attendees attend the Panhandle Bankers Association meeting at the Herring Hotel with officers named Spearman to lead.
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Little Boy's Bluff Brings Death in North River
New York report June 14 tells how seven year old Edward Ortega boasted he could swim then was pushed into the North River by older boys. He disappeared and his body was recovered hours later by police.
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Nations Will Pay Part France Out Of World Debt Conference
United States expected to accept about 10 percent of war debt installments due tomorrow from Britain Italy and Czechoslovakia as Washington considers Britain's partial payment. France and Belgium face potential defaults while Prague and Paris notes discuss a debt settlement talk amid deferral vows.
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Opportunity Days Plans Take Form For Big Specials
Amarillo hosts a two day event sponsored by leading merchants with new low prices on clothing furniture groceries and almost all buyable goods Free airplane rides gifts gasoline hotel discounts a Friday night dance and tickets to the Panhandle Horse Show are planned Tractions include giveaways and a dance with shoppers urged to read Thursdays Globe and News for bargain news.
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State pays local schools ten thousand dollars more
The Texas Department of Education, Austin, reports an additional 10 000 dollars of the 16 per pupil state allotment is being paid to school districts. Seven dollars per pupil remains to be paid later. Total unpaid sums near 10 970 239 dollars, with 35 districts withholding due to bonds. Amarillo schools receive about 10 000 dollars.
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Amarillo
Weave Cloth Proposed for West Texas Volunteers
Dr. Bradford Knapp of Texas Technological College urges West Texans to spin and weave their own cloth. Free instruction in spinning and weaving is offered by the textile engineering department. A community hand loom project could produce a yard of cloth per hour for apparel, with minimal cost to start.
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Five Cabinet Members Will Direct Recovery Drive
President Roosevelt forms a five member cabinet strategy board to direct national recovery under the industrial regulation and public works bill. Secretaries Roper Wallace Ickes Perkins and Attorney General Cummings join Gen. Hugh S. Johnson in direct charge of the plan to spread employment and stabilize wages. Bids have been called for projects in the public works program with up to 3.3 billion dollars to be spent.
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Wide Texas Interest Shown in Special Excursion to Fair
Texas residents rush to join Globe News all expense tour to the Century of Progress. Alpine reservations by Mason King and Lois Black with $10 down and balance by June 20. Sponsor Wilbur Hawk arranged full comforts. Price $75 from Amarillo covers transport meals fair admission lake cruises and theater. Free car storage arranged through Toney Chisum.
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States to Aid U S Relief in Joint Governors Meeting
Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins pledged full cooperation with state and local relief agencies at a conference with governors. He urged states to appropriate funds, noting the $500 million relief fund and $400 million from industrial recovery money will flow soon to aid conditions.
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Bremen Sets New Transatlantic Crossing Record
The North German Lloyd liner Bremen arrived from Brooklyn at 8:05 this morning setting a new crossing record. The voyage took four days 17 hours and 43 minutes, shaving 44 minutes off the previous record.
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Ten Borger Men Burned in Gas Line Explosion
Porger June 14 Ten persons were burned today in an explosion at a carbon plant caused when a worker turned a gas line valve the wrong direction. Bruce Stuart plant manager said one employee told him of the incident. Instead of closing the valve the man opened it letting gas seep from a four inch line. Pressure was two ounces but the valve was open two hours before a crew carrying torches approached. As the men stepped between the gas filled building and another there was a blinding flash. The men belonged to a tip cleaning crew. Burns of two were described as extremely painful.
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Honor to Flag Program Honors Flag Day in Amarillo
Honor to the flag of the United States will be paid Wednesday night in Amarillo with a program arranged by the Hanson Post of the American Legion. Maj. B A Simpson will speak on the flag’s significance as the main feature at 8 pm in Municipal Auditorium. The casay contest winner among school children will be announced, with Mrs C M Hall chairing the Legion Auxiliary contest and J F Mead directing the overall program. Leaders from patriotic organizations will be recognized. Represented will be Llano Estacado Regents and Esther McCrory chapter members.
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Two Tire Firms To Hike Their Wages
Akron Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company announced a 10 percent wage increase for 20 000 employees from office boys to executives effective today. General Tire and Rubber Company follows with a 10 percent rise for all workers, effective June 15, per VP C J Jant. Austin Governor Miriam A Ferguson vetoes ad valorem tax limit bill, making 17 cent rate probable for this year, the maximum constitutional limit.
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Ferguson signs extradition papers for two escaped convicts
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson today signed extradition papers to return Bille Woods and Clifford Dopson, escaped convicts from Kansas penitentiary at Lansing, captured by customs officers near Junction, Texas, last Saturday.
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The Flea Spy Who Stole Lee Battle Plans Dies
Jason H. Edgerly known as The Flea, Lincoln era field reporter and supposed theft of Willow Creek Confederate plans, died at 95 in Blue Island following a Midwest heat wave. Born Belknap Court New Hampshire, he later worked in transfer business in Helena Omaha Salt Lake City.
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Who's Benes at the Czechoslovak conference
Texas cattleman and banker Ralph W. Morrison arrives at the international talks in London in a black tail coat and silk hat. He treats diplomacy as practical commerce with tariffs and money as core issues, while a British journalist questions his view of Czechoslovak leader Benes amid European tensions.
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