Rivals claim plans for civil war amid Paris strike orders
The Communist paper accuses the Social Party leader Col. Francois de La Rocque of plotting to seize provincial cities with shock troops and to arm in a Spanish civil war protest. It cites a secret meeting of 30 regional chiefs and urges metal workers in the Paris region to strike for one hour. Premier Leon Blum stood firm on neutrality as demonstrations pressed for aid to Spain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
de la Rocque
la Humanite
Communist Party
Spanish Republic
Leon Blum
Spain
Rebels Driven Back At Madrid And Toledo Fronts
Rebels advancing from the Southwest toward Madrid and Toledo were repelled in fierce fighting at Talavera De La Reina. Loyalist forces captured buildings in Huesca and won on fronts near Almeria, Teveles, Tutellar, and Alledejar. Peasants reportedly rose against rebels in Galicia as government troops rallied with planes, tanks, and armored cars.
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Madrid
Toledo
Lester Ziffren
U.P
Talavera de la Reina
Ministry of War
Huesca
Almeria
Teveles
Granda
Tutellar
Alledejar
Fire destroys six buildings in Cushing town
Sept 7 7 Fire wiped out six buildings including the Wallace Hotel two storey high. Night Watchman Frank Boley spotted the blaze on the first floor and guests fled in nightwear. Two guests jumped to safety injuring Mrs Ida Brailey who suffered a back injury. Firefighters arrived from Nacogdoches after 30 minutes and fully controlled the blaze in three hours. Three restaurants and two bakers shops burned as warehouses and brick buildings were scorched. Josh Brailey survived the jump. Telephone company cables burned crippling light and power. Property loss not yet estimated.
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Cushing
Wallace
Ida Brailey
Frank Boley
Nacogdoches
Husband shoots self after wife refuses to return
In Houston, 28-year-old longshoreman Robert Havelka killed himself after his wife Evelyn Havelka refused to reconcile following a 10 month separation. He visited her home last night and shot himself when she declined. Justice of the Peace Tom Maes ruled death by own action.
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Houston
U.P
Robert Havelka
Evelyn Havelka
Justice of the
Tom Maes
London
Astor
George Kaufman
New York
Kaufman
Colorado votes Tuesday in heated primary races
A Labor Day push ends as Colorado wraps up primary campaigns. Townsendites seek Republican congressional nominations while Democrats clash over senator and governor picks. Polls close at 7 PM Mountain Time tomorrow. Supporters of the Townsend old age pension plan aim at nominations for all four House seats.
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Denver
Colorado
Townsend Old Age Pension Plan
House of Representatives
Loyalist and Rebel Actions Report in Spanish Civil War
Strategic points for an attack on Cordoba are noted alongside a bombing of Cordoba by government planes. The 1200 rebels hold the Alcazar fortress in Toledo as Loyalist forces clash nearby. A minor Montoro engagement reports 100 Fascists killed. Civil guards die in Granda from a Loyalist bombing. Demonstrations express support for the Caballero cabinet. Barcelona militia columns total 60,000. Julio Vasques claims 3,000 to 4,000 workers were executed by rebels in Teutuan and Tetuan where he was held. A Sumatra dog meat market is noted.
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Cordoba
Alcazar
Toledo
Montoro
War Ministry
Granda
Francisco Largo Caballero
Barcelona
Julio Vasques
Spanish Foreign Legion
Teutuan
Spanish Morocco
Tetuan
White haired woman arrives at Washington airport with escort
A slim white haired woman in a navy georgette suit exits a plane at Washington airport with a tall blond escort. A porter whispers to the pilot asking if it is Ruth Bryan Owen, who confirms and jokes about taking a newspaper as a souvenir.
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Washington
Ruth Bryan Owen
Civil Appeals Proceedings in Seventh Supreme Judicial District
Texas Court of Civil Appeals lists motions submitted on September 5 1936 and September 7 1936 with multiple cases. Motions granted over various appeals to dismiss or issue mandates without costs, and several rehearings or submissions noted, including cases involving insurers banks and oil firms. Case Hale County State Bank v W H Bray from Lubbock County submitted September 7 1936.
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Court of Civil Appeals
Seventh Supreme Judicial District of Texas
L. P. Jeffreys
W. G. McGlamery
I. H. Anderson
Morris Hirsch
el Paso Bithulithic Co
M. M. Coleman
Estelle Moore
G. T. Motley
A. L. Eaves
M. B. Welsh
John Chapman
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co
Neill McDonald
St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co
Jack Burton
G. L. Carruthers
J. F. Dupuy
J. Arthur Edwards
Texas Life Insurance Co
Ethel C. Mueller
The
Travelers Insurance Co
H. Barker
S. H. Barker
W. G. Street
Sarah E. Johnson
Lubbock Oil Refining Co
D. F. Bourn
Gertrude A. Dial
Crosby County
M. G. Poteet
W. T. Waggoner Estate
Kathryn Adcock
National Loan & Investment Co
Hale County State Bank
W. H Bray
Lubbock County
KGNC to Air Edison Inventions Series Tonight
KGNC begins a sequence of 18 fifteen minute programs dramatizing Thomas A. Edison inventions. Produced in New York and transcribed, the broadcasts run nightly at 8 o clock for three weeks except Sundays with the first program on the incandescent light invention. Basilica was the Byzantine empire's legal code published in 887.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KGNC
Thomas A. Edison
New York
Amarillo College of Music Opens 24th Season
The Amarillo College of Music launches its 24th season in Amarillo. It was organized September 1, 1913 by Emil F Myers and Lila Austin Myers, now directors, and accredited in 1930 by the Texas State Department of Education. The faculty of 15 teaches voice piano violin and public school music plus drama dancing and novelty instruments. The two story brick building includes an auditorium and sound proof studios with Saturday theory classes for out-of-town teachers earning credits.
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Amarillo
Myers
Emil F. Myers
Lloyd E. Robinson
Madelyn Robinson
Lila Austin Myers
Evelyn Kennedy Myers
Marella Myers Janak
Mary Holman Dailey
Margaret Cosler Parsons
Edgar Parsons
Helen Strite
Austin Myers
Ina Morris
Josephine Mack
Malcolm Clack
Eight Arabs Die in Fight With British Forces
At least eight Arabs were killed today as three British war planes strafed the Nablus district in machine gun fire. The clash followed an Arab ambush on a military patrol, part of three days of near continuous fighting between British and Arab forces, with Max Murock escaping unharmed when six shots from an assassin's rifle went wild.
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Jerusalem
Palcor
Nablus
Max Murock
Palestine
Reception to honor Mme Sylvia Tell at Academy of Music and Art
Friends and patrons of the Academy of Music and Art are invited to a reception tonight at 8 o'clock to honor Mme Sylvia Tell. A program by faculty members will be presented.
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Mme
Sylvia Tell
The
Academy of Music and Art
Academy
Labor Day Labor Leaders Split Over Union Strategy
Gov. Alf Landon urged unity in organized labor at the Kansas American Legion convention in Wichita. Roosevelt promised immediate relief for farmers and a 2.5 million dollar boost to the labor service. Green and Lewis prepared radio speeches on hours, purchasing power, and industrial unionism as Knox and Lemke planned campaign stops.
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Alf M. Landon
Willam Green
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Landon
Kansas
American Legion
Wichita
Roosevelt
Washington
U. S. Employment Service
Knoxville
Tenn
Green
Labor
Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Committee For Industrial Organization
Col
Frank Knox
Alma
Mich
William Lemke
Chicago
Riverview Park
Aviatrix Katherine Sui Pun Cheung Tours California Chinatowns
Katherine Sui Pun Cheung, a young aviatrix, recently embarked on an air tour visiting multiple California Chinatowns. The mission highlighted Chinese American communities and marked a notable feat in early female aviation.
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Katherine Sui Pun Cheung
California
Woman flier sets out to see New York after crossing Atlantic
English society woman Beryl Markham, first by east to west Atlantic flight, arrives at Floyd Bennett Airport to cheers from 5000 spectators after a crash near Louisville, N S. She departs for a tour of New York in a silk shirt and casual slacks.
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New York
U.P
Atlantic
Beryl Markham
Abingdon
London
Floyd Bennett
Louisburg
N. S
Scene of fatal highway crash details in Hansford County
Reported Sunday night the driver of the third machine fled the scene but Sheriff Hardee called the claim false. Helen Jenkins died when her head was crushed in the 8:30 PM crash. Miss Newcomb was thrown from the car and seriously injured. Merce transported most victims to Spearman, others to North Plains hospital in Borger. The Wilbanks car and a Hansford Perryton sedan suffered heavy damage. Wilbanks, editor of the Potter County News, was en route to Amarillo after visiting relatives. Funeral arrangements for Jenkins pending. brother Joe Wesley Jenkins expected from San Diego Marine base. The family is among Hansford County’s oldest. The note about wise animals ends the fragment.
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Hardee
Borger
Wyatt
Berger
Wilbanks
Helen Jenkins
Miss Newcomb
Merce
Miss Becker
Marion Palmer
Spearman
North Plains
Amarillo
E. R. Wilbanks
Potter County
Hansford County
Perryton
Hollie Palmer
Joe Wesley Jenkins
San Diego
Cal
Jenkins
Leonard Dearmond
Communists and Socialists Raise Campaign Funds
The Communist party sets a national campaign fund at 250000 dollars up from 100000 in 1932 while the Socialists expect to raise 100000 dollars, a 76000 dollar rise. Alexander Trachtenberg, manager, said thousands of unemployed and relief recipients including WPA workers have contributed.
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New York
Communist Party
Alexander Trachtenberg
Communist National Election Campaign Committee
WPA
Matshed homes solve China's housing problem
In Nanking, city leaders plan 150000 residents too poor for proper housing will be moved to matsheds costing about eight dollars each. About 37000 families now live in crowded hovels with poor sanitation, to be relocated to designated marshed zones beyond the old city walls.
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Matshed Homes
China
Nanking
Fibrous Glass Fishing Line Promises Stronger Tackle
Owens-Illinois Glass Company unveils a new fibrous glass fishing line praised as tougher than silk or linen and resistant to fungi and mold in water, signaling a potential sea change for fishing gear.
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Toledo
W.P
Owens- Illinois Glass Company
Nanking and Canton Unite to Fight for Hong Kong
Disputing Chinese factions united under the Nanking government by agreement and solidified national unity through a compromise between central and southern administrations. The terms withdraw Nanking troops from Kwangtung and Kwangsi except five divisions to help defend South China, seen as mutually satisfactory and potentially strengthening China against Japan.
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Hong Kong
Nanking
Kwangtung
Kwangsi
South China
Japan
Amarillo Woman's Mother Passes Away
Mrs. Mary F. Brady, mother of Amarillo expression teacher Mrs. Daisy Person, died early today at her Fort Worth home. Mrs. Person traveled to Fort Worth by train today to be with family.
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Mary F. Brady
Daisy Person
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Person
Woman Rescued From Well in Van Alstyne
Mrs. Charlie Edmison was rescued from a well after falling in shortly after dark. Clifford Gilchriest was lowered into the well to aid her until firemen arrived and pulled her to safety.
Pioneer Hord Dies After Sleep Incident in Amarillo
Nate Hord, a Illinois native born April 1 1862, died following a sleep injury. He rode the cattle trails through New Mexico and Texas, later settled in Amarillo after decades in cattle and real estate. Survived by a daughter, a Vega stepdaughter Mora Bell, two sisters in Los Angeles and Iowa, seven grandchildren. Body at Griggs Chapel. funeral arrangements pending.
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Tack
Nate” Hord
Illinois
Comanche Pool
Indian Territory
Hord
Plains of
Texas
New Mexico
Howry Cattle Company
Dodge City
Mr. Herd
Fort Sumner
Billy the Kid
Old Tascosa
Amarillo
Deaf Smith County
Adrian
N. E. Hord Drug Company
Polk Street
Fifth Avenue
Mora Bell
Vega
W. A. Carrington
Los Angeles
Calif
Mary V. Sabins
Atlantic
Iowa
Fred Post
Gladys Hord
Willoram Ivy
Bill Max Merry
Quinn
Clifton
Graham
George Bell
Griggs’ Chapel
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Social” Party
Francois de la Rocque
Croix de Feu Veterans League
Galicia
National Republican Guards
Emilio Mola
Foreign Legionnaires
Talavera
Oviedo
Coe Cooe
Eere Cote
Tack Tam
Tyers
Haranggual
Sumatra
Rep
Everett Dirkson
University of Minnesota
AEF
Congress
Jane
Cleveland
Dirkson
George F. Harding
Ickes
Ilinois
Europe
State Department
Frances Willis
Brussels
Constance Harvey
Milan
Department
Doris Major
Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde
Thomas Edison
Edmond
de Courville
Violet Carew
Associated Press
Amarillo College OF Music
Ff, ¥. Robertson & Company
Accountants and Auditors
Oliver Eakle Bidg
General Electric
Glass Fish
Royal
Costa
Russell Stationery Co
Taylor Street
Canton
Panhandle
John Arnot
Mr. Hord
Schilling Pur Vasilla
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