British Admiralty Hunts Submarine Off Spanish East Coast
A flotilla of eight destroyers and nearby warships chase a submerged submarine off the Spanish east coast after it fired a torpedo at HMS Havock. Havock unleashed a depth charge. results unknown. The Mediterranean fleet conducts maneuvers near Italian and Dalamatian coasts and remains ready for instant duty.
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Admiralty
Mediterranean
H. M. S. Havock
Havock
I Ae
France warns Britain over Italy aid in Spain conflict
France formally protests to Britain over Italian intervention in Spain and hints at joint European action. Paris says Italy’s aid to Franco’s insurgents prompts dissatisfaction while a new plan suggests mobilizing 6 million men and nationalizing railroads. In Shanghai, fires rage as Japan bombards and ships mass on the Yangtze and Whangpoo, with Western navies weighing convoys for refugees.
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Paris
France
Britain
Mediterranean
Great Britain
Italy
Foreign Office
Quai D'Orsay
London
Anthony Eden
Spain
Benito Mussolini
Francisco Franco
United States
San Pedro
Shanghai
No Increases In City Taxes Amarillo Budget Filed
Amarillo city officials expect no rise in the tax rate with a proposed budget hearing set for 10 am Tuesday September 21. The plan keeps the levy at $1.12 per $100, totaling 568889.54 in levies plus 143840 anticipated miscellaneous revenue.
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Amarillo
H. R. Smith
Commission
Search for missing Flying Cadet spans vast air and ground
More than 150 army and private planes and around 400 people scour Texas woods for Flying Cadet Guy W Edgerton who vanished near Grapeland after a routine flight from Shreveport. Officials report a triangular search area between Maydelle Slocum and Fastrill with flares found and ongoing CCC involvement.
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Grapeland
Tex
U.P
Guy W. Edgerton
Edgerton
Henly
N. C
Tionday
CCC
Sheriff's
Robert W. Evans
Maydelle
Slocum
Fastrill
Evans
Maydelle CCC
Ratcliff
Jacksonville
Lufkin
Kennard
Elkhart
Tivans
Army Flier Survives Long Swim After Great Salt Lake Crash
Lieut. Lucien N. Powell army reserve flier reached shore after a nine hour struggle with turbulent waters following a crash two miles from Salt Lake shoreline. He believed his mechanic Harry Pearson was dead. The crash occurred late yesterday.
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Salt Lake
Salt Lake City
Utah
U.P
Great Salt Lake
Lucien N. Powell
Army Reserve
Powell
Harry Pearson
Small Town Father Son Bond In A Barber Shop
A speaker contrasts city fathers who neglect their children with a barber’s son who helps in the shop. He recalls a moment when the boy offered to shave a stranger, and the father urged caution. The anecdote reflects family closeness in small towns versus urban distance.
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Esquire Features, Inc
Ex Footballer Stops Car Thief In Fort Worth Standoff
West Dallas High School legend Charlie Moore, a former football standout and amateur boxer, thwarted a car theft at his breakfast scene. He flung himself into the street, dragged out a 26 year old Palo Pinto County ex convict, then subdued him with a foot on the neck while a second suspect fled. Police arrived to find Moore still restraining one attacker.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Charlie Moore
West Dallas High School
Moore
Palo Pinto County
Potter County Grand Jury Reconvenes Under DA Underwood
District Attorney Bob Underwood announced the Potter County grand jury reconvened today with more than a dozen cases under investigation and a likelihood of several indictments. FHA loans, Long-Bell Lumber Co mentioned in context.
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Potter County
Grand Jury
Bob Underwood
I Found No House Home-Hungry Globe Reporter
Amarillo housing drought described through a Globe reporter narrative. The piece notes scarce vacant homes, long waiting lists, and limited rental ads, with references to local business groups and Dr Rexford Tugwell in a light, observational tone. The column contrasts housing shortages with hopes of finding a place and mentions travels from Houston. Pare 2.
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Globe
Louis Nordyke
Amarillo
Shanghai
Gulf
Atermenis
Carl Hinton
Chamber of Commerce
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Tugwell
Houston
Globe and News
Bankhead’s niece Tallulah weds actor John Emery at home ceremony
In Jasper Alabama Tallulah Bankhead and John Emery secretly married in a civil ceremony at the Bankhead home amid a small gathering. The 35 year old star declared it her first and last marriage and left for a honeymoon after the surprise wedding. Speaker William B Bankhead and his wife hosted the event with Senator John H Bankhead attending for a brief reception.
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Jasper
Ala
U.R
Tallulah Bankhead
William B. Bankhead
John Emery
New York
L. G. Garrison
Birmingham
Bankhead
Alabama
Speaker Bankhead
John H. Bankhead
Dad Flanders Career Closed in Panhandle Railroading Hero
O D Flanders 85 retired railroad man died at his son R E Flanders Amarillo home He was born before the Civil War and spent over 40 years with railroads starting in Vermont He moved west with rails and came to Amarillo in 1917 as Santa Fe machine shop foreman retiring in 1930 at 78 He loved telling early railroad tales and the era of steam and boomers See FLANDERS Page 2
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O. D. Flanders
R. E. Flanders
East Tenth Avenue
Panhandle
Vermont
Amarillo
Santa Fe Lines
Dad
Flanders
Infantile Paralysis Closes Chicago Schools Indefinitely
Chicago schools were ordered closed indefinitely by the board of health to prevent the spread of infantile paralysis among about 600,000 pupils. Public schools will reopen September 7 for the fall term, with parochial schools set for September 8, until it is deemed safe.
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Chicago
Board of Health
Marriages exceed divorces by twelve in August
August in Potter County saw thirty nine marriage licenses issued and twenty seven divorces granted. The period shows marriages outpacing divorces by twelve as the county records reflect the trend. Russell Stationery Company L. B. E. 8. Student Lamps.
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Dan Cupid
Potter County
Russell Stationery Company
L. BE
Classification To End Friday
C M Rogers, supervisor of schools, urges high school students to complete classification before school opens for the new curriculum revision. Amarillo adopts a 12 grade plan with classifications across junior high and elementary levels, starting classes at 9 and ending at 4.
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C. M. Rogers
Amarillo
Central
Sam Houston
Buchanan
Potter
Randall Counties
Amarillo High School
Rainfall Brief From Hale County Southeast Report
The Petersburg area in Hale County reported half an inch of rain last night with light showers in Amarillo Goodnight and Claude. No other areas saw moisture and the weather bureau forecast only partly cloudy skies with no rain prospects.
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Hale County
Petersburg
Amarillo
Goodnight
Claude
Weather Bureau
Underpass Largest Factor in 177179 Building Activities
August Amarillo building activity totaled 177,179 dollars with permits showing nine new dwellings started costing 35,223 dollars. Main items include the school improvement at 20,000 dollars and the West Sixth Avenue underpass at 100,000 dollars.
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Amarillo
West Sixth Avenue
Pavement Requests to Be Included in WPA Project
Three petitions were presented to the city commission last night. One for a light at West Ninth Avenue and Hayden Street was granted. The two paving requests will be included in a WPA project application. They cover East Second Avenue from Pierce to Buchanan Streets and the Tyler Harrison alley between Fourteenth and Fifteenth Avenues.
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City Commission
West Ninth Avenue
Hayden Street
East Second Avenue
Pierce
Buchanan Streets
Tyler-Harrison Alley
Fourteenth
Fifteenth Avenues
Woman Hurls Vase to Foil Kidnapper at Home
In San Antonio a mother, Mrs. C. Cristarella, threw a heavy vase at an intruder attempting to kidnap her sleeping 4-year-old daughter. The vase struck the assailant on the head, causing him to release the child as the child cried for her mother in the home.
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San Antonio
De Seversky Flier Injured As Race Monoplane Crashes
Major Alexander P. De Seversky, famed speed and stunt flier, was shaken when his racing monoplane crashed on landing at Floyd Bennett Field. He escaped with injuries as the aircraft burned and suffered significant damage.
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New York
Alexander P. de Seversky
Speed, War and
Aircraft Corporation
Floyd Bennett Field
Deficit May Be Under Predicted
Treasury officials expressed confidence that this year's deficit would be under the predicted 410 million dollars despite a 357.9 million red ink balance for the first two months. They said July August deficit would be offset by economies and increased repayments of federal loans during the year ending next June 30. Outgo was 249 million dollars greater than income in July and 108.539 million higher in August, with the last two days unreported.
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Washington
Treasury
Peace Plan Urged By Little Entente
In Sinaia Romania on September 1 the Little Entente of Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia and Romania urged collaboration with the United States politically and economically for world peace. The foreign ministers’ council said Hull statements on international cooperation were received with sympathy in a two day summer conference ending yesterday.
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Whangpoo
Japan
China
Canton
Yellow River
Tientsin
Peiping
Eesor
Hoover
Kobe
Washington
Shanghai
Sinaia
Rumania
United States
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Permanent Council of the Three Nations
U. S
Cordell Hull
Dust Fight Meeting Urges Amarillo Business Leaders
Amarillo business and professional men were urged to take part in a five state dust fight meeting next Wednesday. Sponsored by the Panhandle Water Conservation Association the gathering honors Congressman Marvin Jones and other lawmakers for dust bowl efforts.
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Amarillo
WPA
Grouth
John McCarty
Weather forecast and loan ads in Amarillo area notice
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. Amarillo temperatures ranged 69 to 88 today. Rainfall 01. Advertisement for 1 to 3 year loans for repairs and modernization with small monthly payments from Bee John Maynard tbr Co.
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Amarillo
New Mexico
Bee John Maynard Tbr. Co
Narcotic Ring Breaks Up With Federal Arrests
Federal agents with city and county officers ended a narcotics operation by arresting nine suspects and seizing about 700 grains of heroin. Named defendants May Hawkins Ot Condron Roy Hailey Horace Gallway Doyle Meeks Earl Blair and others faced federal charges with arraignments set and further trials scheduled for the September term.
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May Hawkins
Ot Condron
Roy Hailey
Horace Gallway
Doyle Meeks
Earl Blair
Gamble
Wheat Exports From Amarillo Reach Foreign Markets
Amarillo wheat mills and elevators move wheat and flour to foreign lands after seven years. Walter Barlow of Great West Mills says U S ports handled millions of bushels in July and August. Prices overseas and domestically near 86 cents, full-capacity operations continue. Amarillo hosts wheat agents and dealers from abroad as export trade revives.
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Amarillo
Poster Peterson Por
United States
Puerto Rico
Walter Bar
Low
Great West Mills
Barlow
Panhandle
Ramon L. Lord Ferrer
the & West Mills
Thene
Galve
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