Moisture Brings Relief Across Moore and Hartley Counties
Rain spread across the Texas Panhandle Sunday night and today, easing drought concerns. Dumas reported three quarters of an inch with Amarillo and Canyon to Dawn seeing one to 1.5 inches. Moore County towns including Ettr and Four Way Station recorded half an inch, while Hartley and Duncan areas had about half an inch. The showers should improve crop and pasture conditions statewide.
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Panhandle
Dumas
Moore County
Etter
Hartley
Hartley County
Duncan
Fort Worth
Denver
Channing
Hartly
Amarillo
Dalthart
Dalhart
Weather Bureau
Canyon
Marjorie Ruth Jones
Paul A. Jones
St. Anthony's Sanitarium
Jones
Sybil Ruth
Canyon Highway
Ethiopia Appeals for British Aid as Adds Ababa Attacks Continue
Amid fighting in Addis Ababa, Americans in the legation repelled a bandit assault with Sikh guards. Haile Selassie boards the British cruiser Enterprise at Djibouti seeking refuge in Haifa as Italian forces close in, while Geneva debates League of Nations responses.
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London
Foreign Office
Sidney Barton
Addis Ababa
United States Legation
Robert W. Bingham
United States
Sidney
Associated Press
Kingdom
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Mussolini
Raifa
Palestine
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Enterprise
Djibouti
French Somaliland
Capial
Italy
Pietro Badoglio
Badoglio
Riots flare in Madrid convents and churches attacked
A mob in Madrid set fire to five convents in Chamartin and two churches in Cuatro Caminos after rumors that Fascist women poisoned children of workers. No injuries reported in the brief dispatch.
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Madrid
U.P
Chamartin
Cuatro Caminous
Hagood Asking To Be Retired From Army Service
Major General Johnson Hagood, after a day as commander of the Sixth Army Corps Area in Chicago, asked for immediate retirement and planned to return to Charleston to write a book on national defense costs. He had spent seven weeks in military exile following criticism of WPA spending and had been on inactive duty while at Sears Roebuck.
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Lloyd A. Lehreas
Washington
Sixth Army Corps
Chicago
Johnson Hagood
WPA
Charleston
S. C
United States
Eighth Corps
San Antonio
Hagood
Sears, Roebuck & Company
Congress
Stalcup Executed for Sheriff Slaying in Dickens County
Virgil Stalcup, 28, a West Texas desperado with over 200 years of prison sentences, was executed by electric chair at 12 03 AM in Huntsville for killing Sheriff W B Arthur of Dickens County. He refused the last meal and wore shoes to the chair, dying eight minutes after entry.
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Huntsville
Virgil Stalcup
West Texas
W. B. Arthur
Dickens County
Stalcup
Potter County Conventions Set For Tuesday Afternoon
County political conventions are scheduled for Tuesday at 2 PM. Democrats meet in the county court room while Republicans convene in the commissioners court room. Delegates will be chosen to attend the state convention later this month with Chas C. Gibson presiding the Democrats and Judge H. H. Cooper leading the Republicans. Delegates from last Saturday’s precinct meetings will participate.
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Commissioners Court
Chas C. Gibson
H. H. Cooper
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Forecast shows local thunder showers this afternoon or tonight with Tuesday fair skies. West Texas will see cloudy to partly cloudy conditions with possible thunder showers and storms and little temperature change. Amarillo highs near 80s today with readings around 80 and 81. For McMurtry Paints and Varnishes contact John Maynard Lumber Co at 5353.
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Amarillo
West Texas
John Kirby 18 Winner In His Own Precinct
John Henry Kirby 75, an anti Roosevelt Democrat, wins his precinct caucus and elects his slate of delegates to the county convention. He will not attend the county meeting, remaining in Dallas for a lawsuit. other precincts largely backed the New Deal. Kirby entered the caucus wearing a Panama hat and a red carnation, claiming his delegates oppose the New Deal.
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Roy J. Forrest Houston
John Henry Kirby
Southern Committee
Macon
Longview
Dallas
Kirby
Charles Kemp
Kirby Fitzpatrick
East Texans Flock to Houston for 10th Chamber Convention
Hundreds of East Texans arrive in Houston for the opening of the tenth annual East Texas Chamber of Commerce convention with the theme planning for the next 100 years. Delegates came by two special trains and two chartered trains, with thousands more arriving by auto for the first session.
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Houston
U.P
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Suspect Arrested in Emigration Canyon Slaying
Police in Salt Lake City announce the arrest of a long-sought suspect in the brutal attack and death of Ruth Shaw a 20 year old woman whose body was found March 22 in a snowbank in Emigration Canyon historic area.
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Salt Lake City
Ruth Shaw
Emigration Canyon
Senate probes spying charges urged by Senator Bone
In Washington on May 4 a Senate investigation into alleged spying and espionage by undercover men employed by government departments was urged by Senator Bone Democrat of Washington. A line about paraffin oil appears as a catalog note at 1900 W. 3rd.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Today
Bone
Italian Natives Await Main Force Near Addis Ababa
May 4 report from Addis Ababa says Italian natives camp on the capital's outskirts awaiting their main force. White flags flutter along Des sye highway as foreigners shelter in legations and missions amid smouldering fires. Women and children evacuated to the British legation. Mrs. Engert remains. Bandits flee to the hills as streets quiet at dusk and pariah dogs gnaw at corpses.
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Cornelius van H. Engert
State Department
Washington
Legation
Engert
United States Legation
John Spencer
Grinnell
Iowa
Pietro Badoglio
East Africa
Italy
Addis Ababa
Badoglio
Rome
Daggah Bur
Omar Samantar
Ogaden
A. R. Stadin
Loma Linda
Calif
Robert W. Bingham
London
Bingham
Foreign Office
Roosevelt
White House
Ben Mes
United Press
Ethiopia
Dessye
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Paris
Paul Bodard
League
Cation
Lion of Judah
Haifa
Asfa Wosan
Menelik
Lidj Yassu
Zaudita
America
Iater
Sir Sidney Barton
Red Cross
FHA Loans
Long-Bell Lbr. Co
Arthur Brisbane
Hawaii
Globe
Brisbane
Los Angeles
Karpis
Dillinger
Huntsville State Prison
Lee
Potter County
John Maynard Lbr. Co
McMurtry
John Kirby
Doctor Morris Fishbein
the Globe
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