Flower ceremony tops Lake Fete opening at Buffalo Lake
Buffalo Lake hosts a two day celebration with a Sunday dedicatory service dropping flowers by air. Dr H H Bennett of the Soil Conservation Service will speak as Capt E L Hager leads Veterans of Foreign Wars participation.
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Panhandle
Buffalo Lake
E. L. Hager
John B
Soil Conservation Service
Amarillo
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Plains Boat Club
Happy Uncles
Canyon
Sam Houston
Ross Rogers
International Harvester Company
Pat Flynn
National Outboard Association
Tierra Blanca
the Globe News
Sailors Beached in Amarillo on Furlough from Boise
Two U S 5 Boise sailors on furlough from Long Beach were stranded in Amarillo when their leave expired and their hitchhiking failed. After seeking aid, the Red Cross arranged transport to the recruiting office in Wichita Falls per ship command.
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Amarillo
U. S
Red Cross
Wichita Falls
Dangerous Convicts Are Killed in Fight
Two long term negro convicts who escaped during the Cummins prison farm cyclone were killed in a hand to hand clash with two prison trustees in a swamp near the farm. Archie Godwin 33 from Quachita County Ark serving life for assault to kill and burglary. James Patterson 24 from Columbia County Ark serving seven years for burglary and wanted in Natchitoches Parish La on sheriff's order.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Natchitoches Parish
Squalus Sinks Off Portsmouth With 60 Aboard
The U S S Squalus sank in 240 feet of water off Portsmouth New Hampshire. Navy reports indicate a crew of over 60 may be aboard with divers en route from Portsmouth and eight flown from nearby to assist. Commanded by Lieut Oliver F Naquin the submarine is at 12 miles southeast of Portsmouth with rescue operations underway.
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Washington
U.P
Navy Department
Portsmouth
N. H
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Navy
Navy Yard
U. S
Provincetown
Mass
U. S. Coast Guard
Paulding
Sculpin
U. S. S. Falcon
New London
Conn
Oliver F. Naquin
Alexandria
William T. Doyle Jr
Baltimore
Robert N. Robertson
Quanah
Tex
John C. Nichols
Chicago
James H. Patterson
Oklahoma City
White Island
Cactus Jack Garner Driven From Hotel Room by Smoke
Vice President Garner wearing blue and white striped pajamas was led from a Washington Hotel suite by smoke from overheated air-conditioning ducts. Mrs. Garner and their son and daughter-in-law were in the suite. their rooms were unharmed. A small blaze elsewhere in the hotel was quickly extinguished.
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Washington
Garner
Washington Hotel
Special Master Named In Gray-Danciger Patent Case
Robert A. Stone was appointed Special Master by Federal Judge James C. Wilson in Gray Processing Company versus Danciger Oil and Refining Company to determine profits from alleged patent infringement. The court held patents infringed and ordered access to Danciger records to assess gains from the gray process, a move seen as pivotal in petroleum refining history.
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Robert A. Stone
James C. Wilson
Gray Processing Company
Danciger Oil and Refining Company
Danciger Company
Wilson
Stone
Brok T
Gray Company
Gray
Daneiger Oil and Refining Company
News Tip Prize Winners Highlight Explosions and Accidents
The News Tip contest awarded Glenn Cecil Hatfield Jr for detailing a National Nations Company explosion caused by a bottle of explosive fluid ignited by a cigar. Arlie Speer earned second for a freak trailer wreck into a drug store, with Homer Rice third for exposing that all corned beef sold in Amarillo is imported.
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Glenn Cecil Hatfield, Jr
West Tenth Avenue
National Nations Company
Arlie Speer
West Sixth Avenue
Globe
Addrass
Mr. Speer
Homer Rice
Kentucky Street
Amarillo
Ruth Smith
Hughes Street
T. A. Reville
Three Men Released On Bond In Deer Killing Case
Three Canadian residents George Carver Major Johnson and Roy Crim are free on $500 bond each after being charged with federal game law violations. Wardens report four deer a fawn two does and an eight point buck were killed with .22 rifles at the Boggy Creek federal game preserve in Hemphill County. They pleaded not guilty at arraignment before the U S deputy commissioner in Amarillo.
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George Carver
Major Johnson
Roy Crim
Liberty
Boggy Creek
Hemphill County
U.S
Amarillo
Women Leaders See Rule Cut Short by Graduation in Friendly
Friendly West Virginia faces a conflict as nominating conventions clash with school graduations. Mayor Ella Eddy and her all female administration face a June 6 city election with John Fisher and John Hough as mayoral candidates. Re-elected officials include Recorder-Treasurer Elgie Rustemeyer and Council member Gladys Knowlton. The city ends with a projected bank balance around $200 despite the upheaval.
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Ella Eddy
Ohio River
John Fisher
Community Party
John Hough
Elgie Rustemeyer
Gladys Knowlton
Eddy
Citizens
Mrs. Eddy
Conoco Officials To Be Guests Here
Continental Oil Company officials making a cross country bus tour will be guests of the Herring Hotel tonight. Dan Moran president of Continental Oil Company is among the party with advance men in Amarillo this morning arranging the visit.
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Continental Oil Company
Herring Hotel
Dan Moran
Amarillo
Yankee Clipper Arrives in Southampton to Start Mail Service
The Giant Pan American Airways flying boat Yankee Clipper reached Southampton England from Marseilles France officially inaugurating regular transatlantic air mail service. The event marks a milestone in long distance air travel and postal delivery.
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Southampton
England
Pan American Airways
Marseilles
France
Interior Wallpaper Trends For Amarillo Model Home
The Globe-News outlines wallpaper fashion for the Amarillo model home costing 10 000. Trends favor restrained ladylike prettiness with pastel, powdery colors. Blues with lavender cast, soft pinks, yellows with greenish notes and cafe au lait browns dominate. Large designs may be used for mural effects to enlarge small rooms. For rooms like breakfast areas and nurseries, light cheerful patterns with geraniums or clear colors appear popular. See MODEL HOME Page 9.
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Amarillo
Globe-News
The
Globe News
Curious Inquiry Into Mrs Hull Ancestry Sparks Hearing
Felix M. McWhirter Indiana banker and Republican treasurer told the House un American investigating committee his motive in asking about Mrs Cordell Hull’s Jewish blood was personal information. He also questioned what he knew of Jewish connections of Alfred Landon and William Allen White and dismissed Campbell's reports as fantastic. He avoided joining Dies' view of a plot to overthrow the government, saying he did not care to engage.
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Washington
Felix M. McWhirter
Indianapolis
House UN
Indiana
Republican State Central Committee
James E. Campbell
Owensboro
Hull
Campbell
Alfred M. Landon
William Allen White
Kansas
McWhirter
Dies
Federal Reserve Official Honored at Amarillo Luncheon
M. Szymczak, member of the board of governors, Federal Reserve System, was honored at a noon luncheon by the Amarillo Clearing House Association at the Herring Hotel. He traveled from El Paso with Jay Taylor and is a former Chicago official and professor. Amarillo bankers plan to host the Panhandle Bankers Association annual convention next Tuesday.
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M. ©. Szymczak
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
Jay Taylor
Chicago
First National Finance Corporation
de Paul University
Amarillo
Panhandle Bankers’ Association
Republic Steel sues CIO leaders over Little Steel strike
Republic Steel Corporation files a 7.5 million dollar damage suit in Federal District Court Cleveland against the Congress of Industrial Organizations the Steel Workers Organizing Committee John L Lewis Philip Murray and about 700 strikers and officers in Ohio cities charging unlawful acts of force and obstruction of commerce to compel a collective bargaining contract. The suit notes threefold damages under the Clayton Act with losses totaling 2.5 million and cites precedents and plant blockades during the 1937 strike. In Detroit, Briggs Manufacturing strikes halt Chrysler plants affecting 63 000 workers as CIO auto workers strike halts production across seven Briggs plants citing body shortages and sitdown tactics.
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Cleveland
Warren
Niles
Canton
Massillon
Ohio
Philadelphia
Federal District Court
Apex Hosiery Company
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Circuit Court of Appeals
Republic Steel Corporation
Planta
Youngstown
Warren, Niles
Canton Planta
Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Chryser Corporation
Chrysler
de Soto
Plymouth
Dodge
United Automobile Workers Union
CIO
Briggs
Chrysler Corporation
Premonition Sky Poem Prompts Shock at Mount Hamilton
Miss Babe Scott offers her brother William Scott's poem to the San Francisco city editor. The piece envisions a final flight and heavenward pilots. An hour later Scott, a 25 year old air corps private stationed in Riverside, Cal, dies in a mountaintop plane crash.
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San Francisco
Babe Scott
William Scott
Army Air Corps
Riverside
Cal
Almight
Heaven's Airways
Orion
Cross
Miss Scott
Mount Hamilton
Heat Drives Amarillo Water Use Toward Record
Unseasonable heat pushes Amarillo water consumption toward the all time high as 9,000,000 gallons flowed through meters. City manager H. R. Smith notes reservoir levels remain steady and forecasts a potential exceedance of ten million gallons amid new lawns increasing demand. Twin reservoirs hold 10,000,000 gallons.
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Amarillo
H. R. Smith
Goose Takes Nest in Wyoming Hawk Nests
In Kemmerer Wyoming a mother goose seized a hawk nest in a tree and hatched seven young. She swam away with four, and CCC enrollers are caring for the orphans.
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Kemmerer
Wyo
CCC
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast
Fair and cooler tonight with Wednesday turning fair in West Texas and the Panhandle. Tonight and Wednesday expect partly cloudy skies in New Mexico with little temperature change. Temperatures range from a high of 69 to a low near 44.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Largest Amarillo family to ride to Dumas rodeo
Amarillo prepares a festive caravan to the Dumas rodeo and reunion led by Mark Taylor of Phillips Petroleum. The Chamber of Commerce seeks the largest families to register by phone 5238 and promises a bouquet for the best costume from Cunningham Floral. Trail bosses report 12 to 16 cars already pledged, with at least 500 people expected to join, including the Sam Houston High band and Sons of the Legion drum corps.
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Clay Thornton
Chamber of Commerce Good Will
Moore County
Cunningham Floral Company
Milton Cox
Tri-State
Buckaroos
Dumas
Charlie Pryor
George Autry
Tex Thornton
Bill Adams
Guy McSwain
Ed Tull
Ed Caskey
Mr. Cox
Bruce Autry
Dalhart
Ray Minner
Chamber of Comerce
Sam Houston High Band
Sons of the Legion Drum and Bugle Corps
Hanson Post
Legion
The
Plains Boat Club
Charlie Chatfield
Seek Identification of Amarillo Youth Killed in Wreck
A 21 year old hitchhiker from near Amarillo was killed in a Yukon Oklahoma crash after a truck pickup. He had light hair and a 169 pound frame and carried a dark suitcase bearing the laundry mark M. A Berry Mayberry or Mabbary. Identifications efforts were underway.
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Amarillo
Yukon
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
M. A. Berry
Mayberry
Queen Mary Hurt in Automobile Accident
London May 23 Queen Mary officially announced to be suffering from bruising and shock after an automobile accident this afternoon. She has been ordered some days of complete rest. The bulletin from Marlborough House states her car overturned and caused bruising and shock.
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London
Queen Mary
Marlborough House
Texas House passes omnibus tax bill to fund social security
The Texas House approved by 108 to 30 an omnibus tax bill targeting about 15 million dollars yearly for social security. Amendments set sulfur tax at 1.25 per long ton, revised cigarette tax plans failed, and debate cited impacts on tobacco farmers and consumers.
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Austin
U.P
Texas House of Representatives
Senate
House
Clinton Kersey
Bridgeport
Kersey
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