Murdered Entertainer In Chicago Hotel Beaten To Death
Florence Thompson Castle 26 a divorced entertainer is slain in a near North Side hotel room by a large黑 assailant. The killer looted her purse and scrawled Black Legion Game on a mirror. Her 7-year-old son James witnessed part of the attack and alerted the clerk. Police believe a violent assault occurred after the strangulation, with the killer fleeing via a fire escape.
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Chicago
Florence Thompson Castle
Near North Side
Black Legion
Zioncheck Found Sleeping After Fence Escape
Marion A. Zioncheck, the Democratic congressman, was found peacefully sleeping in his Capitol Hill office after escaping a Baltimore private sanitarium by climbing a seven foot fence. Police noted no active warrant. Maryland authorities may seek his return as the case unfolds.
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Washington
Leslie Garnett
Marion A. Zioncheck
District of Columbia
Baltimore
Capitol Hill
Zioncheck
Capital Police
Maryland
First Texas old age pensions to be handed out
Gov Allred will deliver the first old age assistance warrants this afternoon in Austin. He is to present the $25 grants to Frank Kainer, 103, and Mrs. Kainer, 95, of Weimar. Pension warrants will be mailed Tuesday for Wednesday delivery. Screen doors, John Maynard Lbr. Co.
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Austin
Texas
James V. Allred
Frank Kainer
Kainer
Weimar
Services Set For Constable J Walker Hunter
Funeral services for J Walker Hunter constable of Precinct 1 will be held at Griggs Funeral Chapel at 4 pm Tuesday. Rev E B Fincher will officiate. Survived by wife two daughters Mrs Harold Jones Clovis and Mrs P E Phillips Amarillo, son Neil Hunter Amarillo, brother C E Hunter Oklahoma City, four sisters Mrs Jerry Griffith Fort Worth Mrs R B Corbett Winslow Ariz Mrs John Terry Flagstaff and Mrs Frank Patterson Matador. Hunter lived in Amarillo 10 years and wrote verse with poems published.
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J. Walker Hunter
Precinct 1
Griggs
E. B. Fincher
Hunter
Harold Jones
Clovis
P. E. Phillips
Amarillo
Neil Hunter
C. E. Hunter
Oklahoma City
Jerry Griffith
Fort Worth
R. B. Corbett
Winslow, Ariz
John Terry
Flagstaff
Frank Patterson
Matador
Logan County
Arkansas
Texas
W. O. W. Lodge
Federal Board Sees 29 Percent Rise in Spring Pig Crop
The Federal Crop Reporting Board forecast a 29 percent growth in the 1936 spring pig crop over 1935. The statement was issued from Washington on June 29 by the agency overseeing agricultural statistics.
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Washington
Federal Crop Reporting Board
Palo Duro Development Discussed by Parks Chiefs
Palo Duro Park development plans were discussed at an Amarillo meeting of the Texas State Parks Board and National Park Service officials. Pat M. Neff presided, no definite program announced, as officials prepared to tour the park and nearby Palisades.
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Palo Duro Park
Amarillo
Texas State Parks Board
National Park Service
Pat M. Neff
Baylor University
State Park Board
Herring Hotel
State Park
Palisades
Hereford
F. 4
M. J. McColm
Milo Christiansen
Leo A. McClatchy
Oklahoma City
Everett Townsend
Alpine
Big Bend Park
Baldwin Faces Heated Week in Parliament Over Foreign Policy
London open to a critical week of debates as Prime Minister Baldwin rests at Chequers. MPs question Duff Cooper’s Paris remarks and cabinet alignment while Attlee demands clarity on Germany policy. Ramsay MacDonald fills in, and the Commons weighs Baldwin government stance.
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London
Baldwin
Paris
Alfred Duff Cooper
Duff Cooper
France
Clement R. Attlee
Trans-Pacific flier plans non-stop sub‑stratosphere hop
Clyde Pangborn and Monty G. Mason announced plans for a non-stop sub‑stratosphere flight from Paris or Moscow to Dallas in the winged craft The Texas Sky Ranger. They will depart Dallas in two weeks for New York and then aim for Paris with a return leg sponsored by the Texas Centennial Exposition.
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Dallas
Clyde Pangborn
Trans-Pacific Flier
Monty G. Mason
Paris
Moscow
Mason
California
Texas Sky Ranger
Mason and
Palgborn
New York
Strikes Turn Violent in Toulouse as France Seethes
Prolonged general strikes across France intensify with violence in Toulouse where royalist editor Edward de Carol was among the injured as police clamp down. Moselle Valley reports 180000 on strike. Marseilles dock workers threaten action, while Paris and cities like Annecy, Grenoble, Metz see mixed activity. Riviera tourism stalls as many hotels lock.
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Toulouse
Edward de Carol
Popular Front
Leon Blum
Moselle
Marseiles
Paris
Annecy
Grenoble
Metz
Bordeaux
Sete
Lyons
Montpelier
France
Riviera
Jury Selection Slow in Monte Bridges Murder Case
In Borger June 29 a jury was being selected to try Monte Bridges for murder in the February 1 death of Fred English, Borger hotel proprietor. Only one juror was accepted before noon as attorneys questioned a special 290 venue. J A Alexander of Lubbock, under parole for a federal liquor violation, was in the courtroom ready to testify. Two young women witnessed the shooting during a dispute over a bill.
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English
Amarillo Weather Forecast Lights Up Southeast Texas Details
Weather outlook for Amarillo and vicinity calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Tuesday. West Texas expects continued partly cloudy conditions with possible local thundershowers in the extreme southeast, slightly higher temps in the southeast tonight. New Mexico fair in the south with unsettled north tonight and Tuesday, temperatures little changed. Amarillo’s temperature extremes reached 70 and 9 degrees today, with Sunday evening precipitation measured at eight hundredths of an inch.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Trammell Seen Near Floydada In Stolen Auto
Police narrow search for Luke Trammell, fugitive who escaped from Retrieve Prison ten days ago, after a gun battle in Dickens. He fled in a stolen car, last seen near Lake Sweetwater with accomplice Forrest Gibson, as officers chase across West Texas.
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Trammell
Floydada
Dougherty
Roaring Springs
Luke Trammell
Retrieve
Tien
Raymond Jameson
Dickens
Jameson
John H. Koonsman
Martin Koonsman
Koonsman
Sweetwater
Jack Fomby
Texas
Fomby
Lake Sweetwater
Forrest Gibson
Gibson
West Texas
South Texas
Groesbeck
Rockdale
Mills to War with Unions New York June 29
Steel companies employing 500000 workers and capitalized at 5 billion dollars proclaimed war on unionization. Through the American Iron and Steel Institute they vow to withstand strikes and riots and to protect employees from intimidation while maintaining independent collective bargaining against the CIO led by John L. Lewis.
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New York
U.P
American Iron and Steel Institute
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Three Men Try To Carry Away County Bridge
Corsicana witnesses report three men attempted to steal a county bridge from the Providence Cemetery entrance area. They fled after being chased from a truck loaded with timbers, abandoning the vehicle in darkness. County Commissioner Jack Mekarity plans to relocate the bridge to its site during daylight.
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Corsicana
Pie County
Providence
Jack Me Karity
Rudy Vallee to Perform in Amarillo Tonight
Amarillo and the Panhandle expect Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees to perform tonight at Municipal Auditorium with Red Stanley Texan and a full band. The concert starts at 8 30 and a dance follows at The Nat two hours later. Reserved seating was claimed at City Drug No 1 on Polk Street and box office sales begin after 6 PM.
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Amarillo
the Panhandle
Rudy Vallee
Connecticut Yankees
Red” Stanley
Texan
Municipal Auditorium
City Drug No
Polk Street
Pastor warns of red menace in United States
Kansas City reports Rev. L M Birkhead Unitarian minister and Civil Liberties Union official warned of a looming militant network he calls White Shirt crusaders. He asked President Roosevelt to investigate proof of plans to seize local and state governments and march on Washington by over a hundred organizations led by a Chattanooga group. He cited a letter from George W Christians as proof and tied the matter to Sinclair Lewis and his novel It Cant Happen Here.
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Kansas City
L. M. Birkhead
Unitarian
Civil Liberties Union
Birkhead
Roosevelt
White Shirt Crusaders
Chattanooga
Tenn
Hirkhead
Sinclair Lewis
Lewis
Elmer Gantry
George W. Christians
The
Crusaders
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John Maynard Lbr. Co
Federal Reporting Board
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Long-Bell Lbr. Co
Palo Duro Development
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UPI
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Arthur Hornblow, Jr
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Juliette Crosby
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