Amarillo News Roundup on City Lake and Local Happenings
Local notes cover weather cycles predicting heavy weekend showers and a late summer for row crops. City Lake antics draw attention as the Texas Game and Fish Commission plans a visiting biologist to study crappie stocks and potential removals. Street reports praise community figures such as Mr. Broome and Mr. Moseley while detailing fishing rules and arrests near City Lake with warnings of further crackdowns.
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City Lake
Texas Game and Fish Com
Amarillo
Moseley
Buffalo Lake
Game and Fish Commission
City
French Deputies Clash Over Nonintervention Policy
French deputies fought over Franco era policy with Communist demands to end nonintervention and aid the Spanish government. Rightist Fernand Claudet and Francois Peugeot were injured as guards cleared the chamber.
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France
Fernand Claudet
Francois Peugeot
McCall Faces Death Penalty After Court Verdict
In Amarillo June 16 1938 spectators watched as McCall was sentenced and led from the courtroom by Sheriff D C Coleman and deputies. Defense attorney Jack Kehoe said no appeal to the state supreme court had been mentioned. The doomed man reportedly preferred the electric chair to life imprisonment.
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Eoee
Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
D. C. Coleman
Jack Kehoe
McCall
State Supreme Court
Fred P. Cone
Wheat Receipts Jump at Amarillo Grain Exchange
Wheat receipts in Amarillo rose to 53 carloads at the Inspection Department of the Amarillo Grain Exchange, the highest total this spring. Floydada area begins shipping as Floyd County harvest starts, with further arrivals from the Panhandle Southeast and Amarillo northern districts as harvest nears.
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Amarillo
Gets Jail Term for Painting Rock in Plymouth
Plymouth Mass June 16 A superior court judge upheld a district court ruling sentencing Stanley E Bakewell 46 of Gibsonia Pa to nine months in jail for wilfully and maliciously defacing Plymouth Rock. He was accused of smearing America's birthstone with red paint on May 8.
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Plymouth
Mass
Stanley E. Bakewell
Gisbonia
Plymouth Rock
America
Officers Seek Man Who Attacked College Co ed
Police in Reno County and state patrols from Kansas Colorado and Nebraska search for a man who abducted Rosanna Sandberg a 21 year old Kansas State College student from her escort Marcus Cain 21 Lyons Kans tied Cain to a tree and abducted Sandberg to a wheat field where she was assaulted and left unconscious for nearly two hours
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Hutchinson
Kans
Reno
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Rosanna Sandberg
Kansas State College
Miss Sandberg
Marcus Cain
Lyons
Cain
Wilson Funeral Rites To Be Held Friday
Funeral services for Edward Samuel Wilson 43 year old farmer of Lamar Cole tornado victim will be held at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Chapel Friday at 4 oclock Pallbearers include T EF Brown L 8 Gill R 8 Burkham J D Dosse A M Spearman and T A Reville Sr Survivors include wife two daughters two sisters Mrs Lawrence W Larson Amarillo and Mrs Nettie Jones Trinidad Colo and four brothers J W Bert Tom D Amarillo Milton F Wilson Waco
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Edward Samuel Wilson
Farmer
Lamar
Cole
Blackburn-Shaw
Brown
Gill
Burkham
J. D. Dosse
A. M. Spearman
T. A. Reville
Lawrence W. Larson
Amarillo
Nettie Jones
Trinidad, Colo
J. W., Bert
Tom D. Wilson
Milton F. Wilson
Waco
Sixtieth Texas Peace Officers Convention to Meet in Amarillo
Henry J. Hawkwett and W S Neely announced the sixtieth annual Texas peace officers convention to be held in Amarillo from August 31 to September 12. The official publication is being prepared for the event. Last year's gathering at New Braunfels drew 1,500 delegates.
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Texas
Amarillo
Henry J. Hawkwett
W. 5. Neely
Sheriffs Association of Texas Magazine, Inc
New Braunfels
Fears Rise Over Flooded Central China As War Aims Rise
Reports from both sides describe expanding floods in Central China caused by weather and Japanese artillery weakening dykes. Chinese dispatches accuse Japanese forces of exacerbating the waters while British scientists seek wartime bread formulas with bran and dilutions to stretch flour.
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Yellow River
China
Yangtze River
Knapp Successor Selection to Be Deliberate
Mexia Texas June 16 L L Steele member of the Texas Technological College board of regents said the board will act slowly in choosing a successor to the late Dr Bradford Knapp president of the school. The board will take time to ensure the best interests of the college.
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MEXIA
U.P
L. L. Steele
Board of Regents of
Texas Technological College
Bradford Knapp
Fish Dutifully Returns Lost False Teeth
The New Bedford dragger IT docked at the fish pier after Captain Fred Surrette spoke for the crew. Seaman William Mayo 50 dropped his false teeth while dragging groundfish 50 miles off Cape Cod. The teeth were recovered in a 10 pound cod during net cleaning Tuesday.
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Boston
U.P
New Bedford
Fred Surrette
Cape Cod
William Mayo
American Hermitage Planned For Buddhists in Colombo
An American heritage will be established for Buddhists at Almora on the slopes of the Himalayas. Dr. W. Y. Evans Wentz, California Oriental scholar and traveler, seeks cooperation of the Rev. P. Vajiranana of the Colombo Oriental college to found it.
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Colombo
Almora
Himalayas
W. Y. Evans-Wentz
California
P. Vajiranana
Colombo Oriental College
Poore Girl Will Become Rich Girl by Marriage
Lucille L Poore of Fort Worth and Cecil W Rich were granted a marriage license in Fort Worth and planned to wed tomorrow. She quipped I am Poore today but I will be Rich tomorrow as they prepared for their wedding.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Robbery and assault chase ends with suspect captured
In 1936 Mr. King was forced at gunpoint into his car by youth Fogg who ordered him to drive across the city toward Llano Cemetery. King fought back, the gun failed to fire, and Fogg fled after beating him. Fogg was later captured in Liberal, Kansas, with King’s watch money and valuables taken.
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Mr. King
West Tenth Street
Fogg
King
Liberal
Kansas
Two-Gun Surrenders After Standoff in Texas
Two-Gun phoned police to report the youth's actions arousing suspicion. Fogg surrendered meekly after a year in reform school. He had claimed toughness a year and a half earlier but said he lacked guts to use his pistol. Parole efforts failed. officials urged release but the court did not recommend. Convicted in 1937 in Can yon 47th district court. Officials had sought him in a prior escape and noted clothing purchases in Amarillo.
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Fogg
Mr. King
Texas
Reform School
King
47Th District Court
Canyon
Randall County
Amarillo
Kidnaper Atkinson Sentenced Under Heavy Guard
The court at 10 A M saw Kidnaper Atkinson, escorted by guards, stand mute as the judge warned spectators to refrain from applause or disapproval. The death sentence was pronounced amid solemn proceedings.
Vacation in the cool North Woods beckons travelers
Sparkling lakes and fragrant forests lure visitors to Northern Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and Minnesota with thousands of resorts. Enjoy easy travel from Chicago with excellent afternoon and overnight service. For a colored map folder and complete information write G 8 Donaldson at G A C N W Ry Tulsa Okla adv.
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North Woods
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
Minnesota
Chicago
Donaldson
N. W. Ry
Cosden Bidg
Tulsa
Okla
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