Nations default on war debt payments prompt major conference
Washington reports show expected collections on the 144 million US war debt installments to fall under 9 percent. France and Belgium default on large sums, Yugoslavia and Estonia also in doubt, while Great Britain and Italy indicate partial payments. A conference between Britain and the United States will review the debt issue for Congress.
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Washington
Great Britain
Italy
Cyrech
Slovakia
Finland
France
Belgium
Regmania
Poland
Lithuania
Yugoslavia
Estonia
Hungary
Latvia
Fetonia
State Department
Rosso
Paris
United States
Congress
Potter County Seeks 180000 Federal Relief Funds
Potter County filed for 180000 of a 200 million federal rehabilitation and relief allotment for an emergency relief program. County Commissioner Frank Luckingham led the Austin submission with surveys completed, data in Washington, and plans for bridges, road resurfacing, a courthouse lawn project, a library addition, a fireproof county farm building, and sprinkling systems. Amarillo also prepared to apply as Mayor Ross D. Rogers was away.
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Potter County
Texas
Austin
Frank Luckingham
Potter
Washington
Ailrplane
Amarillo
Ross D. Rogers
Buckingham
Courthouse Lawn
West Tenth Avenue
Fair Grounds
English Airport
Cox elected chair of monetary committee at world conference
The United States won a hard fought victory as James M. Cox was elected chairman of the monetary committee by the steering committee. The vote was unanimous after a compromise among factions. Guido Jung became vice chair and Georges Bonnet was named reporter. Hendryk Collijn was chosen to head the economic committee.
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London
United States
James M. Cox
Vital Monetary Committee
Georges Bonnet
Bonnet
Cox
Guido Jung
Italy
M. Bonnet
Yakes
Hendryk Colljn
Holland
MacDonald
Great Britain
Assembly
General Assembly
Oil Industry Gathers for U S Control Effort in Chicago
Producers met in Chicago to push toward a federal supervised code of fair competition under the recovery act. New York’s Axtel Byles led the gathering with 24 associations from 11 states attending seeking coordinated industry controls. In Texas Tide Water Oil Co raised crude prices 50 percent to 45 cents a barrel in Conroe. Danciger Gh and Refining Co also boosted Longview crude rates by 10 cents in East Texas.
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Chicago
Axtel Byles
New York
American Petroleum Institute
Houston
Tide Water Oil Company
Conroe
Tide Water
Fort Worth
Danciger Gh and Refining Company
Longview
East Texas
Amarillo Weather Outlook Fair and Warmer Through Friday
Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for fair skies and rising temperatures tonight and Friday. West Texas fair and warmer, north sections warmer tonight and Friday. New Mexico mostly fair south and east, unsettled northwest tonight into Friday. temperatures range to 56 to 78 by 1 PM today.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Nome Watches Sky as Mattern Flight Reaches Nome Route
Nome Alaska June 15 All eyes in Nome turn skyward as Jimmy Mattern the globe girdling aviator remains overdue from Khabarovsk Siberia on a perilous 2500 mile ocean leg. He departed at 1 56 PM Amarillo time yesterday facing fog six mile visibility and winds. No wireless contact reported as he passed north of shipping lanes toward Nome awaiting daylight conditions.
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Nome
Alaska
Bering Sea
Jimmy Mattern
Khabarovsk
Siberia
Siberian
Amarillo
Asiatic
Mattern
St. Paul Island
House Democrats Back Roosevelt Veteran Pay Plan
A June 15 conference of 202 House Democrats voted 171 to 31 to sustain Roosevelt's veteran compensation proposal. The vote represented sentiment, not binding party policy, with Tammany backing the plan. Republicans aim to pass a Steiner amendment for broader veteran payments and may trigger a presidential veto. Burns of Tennessee urged continued support for the President.
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Washington
House Democrats
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
Tammany
Burns
Tennessee
House
Reno Divorce Boom Reopens Amid Celebrity Scene
Reno Nevada bursts back to life as a divorce boom returns with celebrities and socialites, including the President's son El Nott and English lord Cowley. Lawyers report new high fee clients while hotels and ranches fill, and residents eye the new attention after a dull season.
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Herbert A. Yocom
Reno
Nevada
el- Nott
America
Cme
Railroads Announce Total 22 Percent Wage Cut Agenda
On June 15 the Railway Executives Association said a permanent 10 percent deduction would continue and an additional 12 percent cut would be imposed starting November 1, totaling 22 percent below basic wages. It expects union talks in Chicago on July 12 under the National Railway Labor Act, to discuss the plan's terms.
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Chicago
America
Railway Executives Association
National Railway Labor Act
Six Hurt in Canyon Highway Crash at Washington Street
Six persons injured in a traffic crash on Canyon Highway at Washington Street early Thursday. Mary Grady and her mother Peggy Grady were taken to Northwest Texas Hospital with scratches. The Triple A cab carrying the Gradys Bertha Collins M Cook and Martin Angel, driven by Tommy Malone, collided with a sedan driven by A L Walker at 206 West Sixth Avenue.
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Canyon Highway
Washington Street
Mary Grady
Peggy Grady
Northwest Texas Hospital
Gradys
Bertha Collins
M. Cook
Martin Angel
Tommy Malone
A. L. Walker
West Sixth Avenue
Miller Receives 50-Year Sentence for 1982 Texas Murder
Newt Miller was sentenced to 50 years in prison by a district court jury after being convicted of murder in the shooting of N. W. Davis on April 16, 1982.
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Colorado
Tex
Newt Miller
N. W. Davis
Three Gunmen Sought After Sheriff Slain in Missouri
National Guardsmen aviators and volunteers aided a statewide search in Central Missouri for three gunmen who killed Sheriff Roger Wilson and Highway Patrol sergeant Ben Booth after a bank robbery in Mexico. Reports and sightings prompted patrols along U S Highways 40 and 50 and nearby towns.
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Columbia
U.P
Missouri
Guy B. Park
Missouri National Guard
D. I. Lawrence
U. S
Roger Wilson
Ben Booth
Highway Patrol
Mexico
Englewood
Here
Jefferson City
Marvin Casteel
Casteel
Adequate Farm Relief Talks for Panhandle Farmers
More than 150 county relief committeemen bankers and agriculturalists from Texas northern counties met in Amarillo to discuss how to obtain adequate relief under new federal emergency relief laws. They charged Panhandle land appraisals undervalue productive land leading to insufficient loans. John Hill chaired the session as panel members sought potential action before adjournment.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Texas
John §. Hill
Panhandle Farm Relief Committee
Drought Aid for Southwest Farmers via Feed Loans
Special feed loans announced by Henry Morgenthau Jr to help farmers in 30 counties across southwestern Kansas southeastern Colorado Oklahoma Panhandle North Texas Panhandle and northeastern New Mexico. Loans drawn from a $1,000,000 feed loan fund with up to 250 per person and rates of 3.50 per head monthly for mature cattle and horses 20 cents per head for sheep and 1 per head for brood sows.
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Washington
Southwest
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Farm Credit Administration
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma Panhandle
North Texas Panhandle
New Mexico
Morgenthau
U.S. markets debated as London talks shape tariff policy
Arthur Brisbane notes at a London economic conference Britain and France push a united debt move against the United States while talks consider stabilizing the dollar to near the British pound. The conference concentrates on protecting American workers and manufacturers from foreign competition, amid currency value shifts.
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George
London
Britain
France
United States
Potter County Sees New Month Record In Car Registrations
Motor car sales continue to mount in Potter County with another monthly record of new car registrations assured. A total of 96 licenses, including nine commercial vehicles, were issued by the county tax collector Wednesday night for June. Last month's total was 114.
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Potter County
Third confession in McMath kidnap case admitted in court
Kenneth Buck and his brother Cyril Buck on trial for kidnapping Peggy McMath. Judge Hanify admitted a purported third confession as evidence. The girl, confined in a shack near a Cranberry bog in Harwichport, believed an accomplice shielded her from the real kidnappers until returned to her parents.
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Barnstable
Mass
Kenneth Buck
Cyril
Peggy McMath
Edward F. Hanify
Harwichport
Auto Maker Gets Threat Of Kidnaping
Horace R. Dodge, Detroit manufacturer, says his two young children were threatened with kidnapping while returning to Europe. Detectors guard their Detroit home. skip photos of the children David E. 3 and Diana 1.
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Auto Maker
New York
U.S
Horace RF. Dodge
Detroit
Europe
Dodge
David E
Diana
Brooklyn
Dodges
Car Theft and DWI Cases Proceed in County Court
Two felony cases were moved by County Attorney Howard Anderson. Joe Deason faces driving while intoxicated charges while Frank Lamar is charged with theft of an automobile from W. L. Parnell Jr. Lamar’s bond was forfeited earlier in county court and he remains in the county jail.
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England
Lord Cowley
Miriam V. Hostetter Young
Hostetter
Charles Fuller Young
Pittsburgh
New York
Eugene A. Bowen
Young
Elliott
Lake Tate
Reno
Roosevelt
Elizabeth Donner
Philadelphia
Wiliam K. Dick
John Jacob Astor
Howard Anderson
Joe Deason
Frank Lamar
W. L. Parnell, Jr
Howard Elliott
Lamar
Wets Rally in Repeal Drive in Thirty-First District
A meeting at the Herring Hotel gathered supporters across 26 counties for a repeal and legal beer campaign in the Thirty-first Senatorial district. Major A Simpson of the Texas Liberal Legion directed the effort urging a dignified, personality-free drive.
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Herring Hotel
Thirty-first Senatorial District
A. Simpson
Texas Liberal Legion
Simpson
Two Borgans Die of Burns in Gas Blast Near Borger
Borger region report says Andrew R. Horton 30 and Leonard Me¢ Trout 26 died overnight after a gas explosion that injured ten men. Clarence Lybarger, also burned, was recovering. three others were seriously hurt.
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Borger
Andrew R. Horton
Leonard Me¢Trout
Clarence Lybarger
Petition drives seek five member Amarillo city commission
Petitions circulating in Amarillo aim to expand the city commission to five members through three charter changes. The proposals call for a two year term special election of two additional commissioners, division of the city into four precincts, and election of one commissioner from each precinct plus a mayor at large at the next regular city election. Signatures of about ten percent of qualified voters are needed to make the petitions effective. If met, the city commission would be required to call a special election.
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Amarillo
Opportunity Days in Amarillo Spotlight Big Sales Event
The Retail Merchant Association announces Opportunity Days with two days of major discounts in Amarillo. Entertainment prizes, free downtown bus service, free parking, and rebates for out of town shoppers accompany reduced hotel rates. Balloons with prize coupons drop at dusk from key buildings each evening.
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Amarillo
Retail Merchant Association
Opportunity
Venience
Paramount
Amarillo Proclaims June Trade Days Across City
Mayor Ross D. Rogers declares Friday and Saturday June 16 and 17 as Opportunity Days in Amarillo. Merchants promote rebates on gas, free air travel, free parking, hotel rates, bus fares, traffic leniency, rest rooms and 800 prizes with store specials to attract shoppers in the trade territory.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Ross D. Rogers
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