Flood Control Talks Set by House and Senate Panels
Sen Robinson says flood relief work will begin at the earliest moment with hearings planned after December reconvenes. He cites a proposed $1,000,000 appropriation to repair levees and build storage dams and spillways along the Mississippi River system.
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Washington
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Senate Commerce Committee
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Arkansas
White House
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Hoover
Ne Neers
Hood
Markets Chicago and East St Louis Livestock Reports
Chicago markets show mixed cattle and hog prices with hogs mostly steady to firm and cattle uneven. California spring lambs lead gains with light demand, while East St Louis reports slow hog trading and steady cattle but lower other classes, with tops around 10.50 for feeders.
Omaba Livestock Market Report May 31
Category receipts 2 566 at Omaba Livestock with mixed prices. Cattle mostly steady with yearlings around 11.85 to 13.00 and cows and heifers near 4.26 to 4.60. Receipts 17 000 with market down 10 to 15 cents. heifer and steer ranges show varied bids. Sheep receipts 3 500 with ewes around 4.00 to 5.00. feeder lambs listed at 0.76 to 0.84 per pound.
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Omaba Livestock Iby United
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Cate
Denver Livestock and Markets Report May 31
Denver cattle, hogs, and sheep receipts and prices show market steady to strong for cattle with cows and calves varied, hogs mostly steady to 10 cents lower, and sheep trading nominally steady with fat lambs around 13 to 14 dollars. Chicago wheat advanced but faded, cotton futures quoted New Orleans, butter eggs, and commodities prices mixed as markets opened with gains in several stocks and firmer foreign exchange.
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Liverpool
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International Nickel
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Jersey Central
A. M. Byers
Westinghouse Airbrake
Detroit Exition
Simmons Company
Marlin Rockwell
Texas and Pacific
Amarillo Laughs and Local Quips From Daily Column
A rambling Amarillo humor column drews readers with golf dream talk, car pratfalls, parking woes and small town anecdotes. The narrator riffs on rivals, daily routines, civic quirks, and a running quip about a street name in the city. Community figures and local situations pepper the piece.
Rabbi Opposes 12-Hour Shifts for Amarillo Police
Rabbi Joshua Sperka urged the Amarillo ministerial association to shorten police shifts from twelve hours daily seven days a week and seek higher pay. He argues long hours harm efficiency and humane treatment while officers earn 110 to 150 dollars monthly with rewards for arrests.
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Amarillo
Joshua Sperka
Rabbi Sperka
Mary Virginia Miller Wins Fox Drug Prize
Mary Virginia Miller wins a 10.06 prize scholarship from Fox Drug Company for the best general average in Buchanan Street police school year. Her average is 96.5 with strong school activity as attendance noted alongside Homer Smith who holds 98.7 and claimed the attendance and grades prize from Russell Sporting Goods.
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Fox Drug Company
Buchanan Street Police
Aftar Mary Virginia
Homer Smith
Russell Sporting Goods House
Homer
Local Firms Sell Bulls for Tulsa Man
The Ansley Land and Cattle Company reports the sale of twenty six head of two year old bulls to parties from Pecos Texas. The bulls were purchased from Sam Dinwiddie of Tullis.
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Pecos
Texas
Sam Dinwiddie
Tullis
Flood Relief Efforts Intensify Across Louisiana Bayous
Relief fleet at Morgan City operates with radio linked boats to move emergency responders up the Atchafalaya basin toward Donaldsonville as floods rise. Refugees evacuate from Avoca Island and Brunswick bay while many residents refuse to leave. Earl Kilpatrick, relief director, dies in a Donaldsonville plane crash. Lower river records only slow declines.
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Thibodeaux
Sugar Bowl
McCrga Crevasse
Earl Kirkpatrick
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Arkansas
Missouri
Memphis
Harry M. Baker
Red Cross
Pickwick Stage Line Sets Amarillo Station
Amarillo becomes a Pickwick Stage Line station as service starts tomorrow between El Paso and Amarillo. The company operates over 4000 miles of road serving 1400 western and southwestern communities and plans eastward expansion to Kansas City St Louis and Chicago from its Amarillo office at 115 117 Fillmore Street.
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Pickwick Stage
el Paso
Mey
San Diego
California
Portland
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United States
Kanzag City
St. Louis
Chicago
Rhodes Acquitted In Theft Charge
T. A. Rhodes was acquitted in county court this morning on a theft charge. The jury was out only a few minutes. Rhodes faced allegations of stealing quilts and blankets from the Hollywood apartments on March 18.
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Rhodes
Hollywood Apartments
Suspended Sentence Given for Auto Theft
B. M. Johnson was found guilty and given a three year suspended sentence in Judge Henry Bishop's court yesterday afternoon on the charge of stealing an automobile. The offense was alleged to have occurred in October of last year and the car belonged to James C. Guleke.
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B. M. Johnson
Henry Bishop
James C. Guleke
Old Tack's Amarillo program for a bigger, better city
The plan promises lower water, gas, and electric rates, cleaner streets, more parks and trees, and cheaper rents. It calls for Bivins lake public use, a municipal golf course, and elimination of railroad crossings. Aimed at sidewalks, buses, safer driving, and attracting new industries.
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Bivins Lake
Amarillo
San Jacinto
Thrift then and now in farming life reflected in old reminiscences
A reader recalls thrift era habits from days when farmers kept hens for eggs and used matches sparingly. Wages were low and compensation included board and home, with hired men earning around 6.50 to 13.50 monthly, while 1926 wages rose to 48.50 without room or meals.
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Washington
Genessee Farmer
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Country Side
Town plat and zoning plea for Amarillo plan
A letter from Guy A. Carlander asks The Globe to add an explicit city plan under the Zoning Enabling Act, urging Amarillo to attract new industries while improving livability and comfort for current residents. It references Mr. Erasmus Tack and a proposed plank in Old Tack's Program.
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Amarillo
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My Amarillo Queen of the Plains Ballad and Letter
A letter from Erasmus Tack, long titled mediator for patrolmen salary, includes a self-composed ballad praising Amarillo. He recalls first arriving in 1899, returning in 1910, and predicts rapid growth, urging promotional materials and pavement expansion to boost the city’s population and extend patrol hours.
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Potter County
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America
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Florida
Oklahoma City
Cairo Cabinet May Resign On British Note
Cairo reports say the Egyptian cabinet and Parliament might resign after a British note delivered by Lord Lloyd. London announced warships would sail to Cairo to protect foreign lives amid tensions over Egyptian army control led by a British commander.
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England
Highway bill favorable, Senate split over highway policy
The administration highway bill, aligned with governor's views, was reported favorably by the highway committee. Senators hailey and Wood clashed as the Stuart bill creating a nine member highway commission moved through committees. The bill sets up to 5000 miles of primary highways for priority aid.
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Austin
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Stuart
Highway Committee
Highway Commission
State Affairs Committee
John Hailey
A. E. Wood
Highway Department
Youth faces charge change in Ford roadster theft case
Jack Cowan eighteen arrested after a Ford roadster was stolen and abandoned while running and crashed into the Sparks home. The county attorney says the charge may shift to illegal use of a motor vehicle with potential penalties of two to five years in the penitentiary for car theft or one year in county jail and a $1000 fine for the other. Mrs Sparks is recovering after the crash and the home has been rebuilt.
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David A. Sparks
Cowan
Mike Brennan
Sparks
Leo Sparks
Pioneer Abraham Rapp dies in Santa Monica at 78
Abraham Rapp, a pioneer western mining man who moved to Southern California in 1915 after mining in Colorado and Mexico, died in Santa Monica at age 78. He formerly lived in Denver for many years.
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Abraham Rapp
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Mexico
Denver
Amarillo Fire Department Praised by Instructor
Deputy Chief J. J. Lynn of the Oklahoma City department praised Amarillo firefighters saying the city has a real fire department. He has instructed the local men for a month, noting their eagerness to learn and public interest in daily drills. New tools, including door openers and roof axes, were added under his direction.
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Oksaid
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Delayed effort to extinguish Milroy fire continues near Borger
Borger reports from May describe McIlroy Oil Company delaying extinguishment of a fire at their well six miles west, with only seven boilers installed and steam-suppressing attempts postponed. Tex Thornton heads the Torpedo Company crew with no progress news. a planned slush-pit drain and earlier TNT shot were shelved due to risk of ignition of storage tanks and nearby wells.
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Mcllroy Oi Company
Here
Torpedo Company
Tex Thornton
Thornton
Lindbergh Parade Honeymooned by British Front
Lindbergh rode past Buckingham Palace with 1 000 guards including Welsh Scottish Irish and Grenadier detachments during a color rehearsal. The king and Duke of Connaught observed as crowds cheered the American aviator before a possible return to the United States by warship or liner.
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Denver editor Harley West dies after appendix operation
United Press reports Harley Deane West, 47, editor of the Golden Transcript, died in a Denver hospital following an appendectomy operation.
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Thief Steals Watches and Fur Coat From Chisum Home
Amarillo reports a night intrusion as a lone thief targets the Chisum residence at 2022 Inirivey Street. Police note a string of similar residential robberies over two months, with several thousand dollars in property stolen including a $600 fur coat and $200 tool set from Ira Jones’s home.
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Lark Man Dies After Windmill-Tower Injury
Charles M. Southard aged 62 died at a local hospital at 2 a.m. after injuries from a windmill tower at his Lark Texas home Saturday noon. He had a broken right leg and right arm and internal injuries. Survived by widow and four daughters plus a son-in-law. funeral 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Griggs Funeral Chapel with Rev. W. Silbey. Burial in Llano Cemetery.
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Lark
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Monroe
J. C. Southard
Ralph MiMervet Amarillo
M. BE. Kirk
Claude
Cora Catherine
Jewell
Griggs
Rev
W. &. Silbey
Washburn Baptist Church
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Geo. Hawkins
J. B. Robinson
J. A. Carrol
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D. A. Harrell
J. H. Kuykendall
W. J. Conway
B. Kirk
Jim Kirk
Less Chrdal
W. C. Cravey
Llano Cemetery
Scouts Urge Cars to Transport Boys to Camp
Scout heads in Amarillo appeal for urgent vehicle support to transport 150 to 200 Scouts to a Panhandle Scout Camp 42 miles away near Claude. At least ten more cars are needed as most applicants aged boys passed physicals with only two minor handicaps.
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Claude
Scout
Panhandle
Missing San Angelo Couple Return Safe After Trip
Mirre Edna Williams and Inez Fondren, both 17, returned home Monday night after a weekend automobile trip with Tom Freeze and Luther Anderson. Freeze and Anderson remained missing briefly but then reported they were safe at Christoval. The party had planned to explore the J. D. Sage estate near Iron County. a search near a cavern followed delayed reports.
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Mirre
Edna Williams
Inez Fondren
Tom Freeze
Luther Ae
Abilene
Browwood
Christoval
Freeze
Anderson
Here
J. D. Sage
Iron County
San Angel
Mertzon
Man kills sweetheart then takes life in Denver rooming house
In Denver on May 31 Joe Charke aged 88 shot dead his sweetheart Lillian Rantamay 83 in a rooming house then killed himself with the same revolver. Police attribute jealousy as the motive in the double tragedy fed by the rooming house proprietor.
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Denver
Lillian Rantamay
Joe Charke
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