Judge Asks Change in Decision in Branson Case
Oklahoma City, Aug 4 A famed former Oklahoma chief justice Fred P Branson appeals a 3000 annual separate maintenance award to his second wife Madeline Braniff Branson. He seeks a new hearing contending bias and cites his 1925 opinion on mutual responsibility in love affairs.
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Oklahoma City
U.P
Fred P. Branson
Oklahoma
John B. Wilson
Madeline Braniff Branson
Wilson
Branson
Braniff
Tarrytown
N. Y
Home Owners Loan Interest Cut
John F. Fahey chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank board announced a reduction in Home Owners Loan Corporation interest rates from 5 to 4 1 2 percent.
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Washington
John F. Fahey
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Violence Flare In Tientsin Attacks British Firm Offices
Anti British violence erupted when a mob attacked the British International Export Corporation offices in the former Russian concession, smashed equipment and threw it into the Hai River. Britons and Chinese employees fled to American Texas Oil Company property as demonstrators moved through Japanese controlled areas.
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Tientsin
British International Export Corporation
Hai River
Texas Oil Company
Chinese Patriotic Youth Association
Chunking
China
U.P
Consulate Road
Amarillo Airmail Climbs Again
Airmail usage in Amarillo rose in July to 3 492 pounds, up 409 pounds from June’s 3 083. The July total also surpassed July 1938 by 826 pounds, per Postmaster W D DeGrassi.
Doxie Motor Boat Vanishes With Over Ten aboard
In Manila on August 4 authorities disclosed that the motor boat Doxie with more than ten people aboard disappeared four days earlier in the open Pacific off Samar Island. It was hoped the vessel had sought shelter in a secluded bay to escape strong currents.
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Manila
Doxie
Samar Island
Early Fall Predicted in Amarillo Area
Amarillo ISD announced a one week later start for the 1939 40 school term with first classes on September 11 and staggered grades on September 7 and 8. Potter County rural schools also set September 5 as opening, with enrollment expected to rise in both districts amid unseasonably cool weather. Rain and storms affected parts of the Panhandle and West Texas with scattered showers and notable totals in adjacent locales.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Independent
Potter County
Carl G. Clifft
Globe-News Want Ads Brim With Furniture and Appliance Listings
A cross section of today's Globe-News want ads highlights prices on bug samples and boat motors, discounts on washing machines, a 1958 Ford Tudor Sedan priced at 295, and paint at 1.40 per gallon. The classified section No 37 overflows with new and used furniture and appliances. Dial 6262 for want ads.
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Globe- News
Globe-News
Exiled Mother Plunges With Children From Hotel
CHICAGO Aug 4 A middle aged mother and her two young sons of a wealthy Czechoslovakian family leapt to death from the 13th floor of the Congress Hotel on Michigan Avenue. The mother Mrs Karl Langer 43 and her sons Karl Tommy 6 and Jan Michael 4 died on the sidewalk. the husband and father a former Prague textile maker was found in the basement apartment. The Langers Jewish, had lost their fortune after Nazi seizure of their business Hynek Marpeles Co. Langer said since arriving in the U S his wife grew despondent and talked of death by her own hand and taking the children with her.
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Chicago
Congress Hotel
Michigan Avenue
William Gonoude
Karl Langer
Karl Tommy
Jan Michael
Prague
Czechoslovakia
West Side
Hermine Weil
Langers
Braniff and TWA Plan English Field Improvements
Braniff Airways operations manager L. H. Luckey says upgrades costing several thousand dollars will be completed within 30 days at English Field. The work, by Braniff and TWA, relocates administration to the ramp and adds rooms and toilets while remoting radio sets.
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English Field
L. H. Luckey
Braniff Airways
Braniff
TWA
Luckey
D. Smith
Thornton Oxnard
Oxnard
Amarillo
Frank Austin
F. B. McLeod
Burglar Steals to Replace With Older Clothes
Roy Houston accuses a man of burglary at the Houston home 4108 Gables. The thief scattered burnt match sticks, searched for cash, swapped a best hat for an old one, and took a pair of shoes a shirt and several pairs of socks. A child’s purse lost 60 cents including two new nickels Margaret Ann five years old’s Washington trip keepsake was among the missing items.
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Roy Houston
Houston
Gables
Margaret
Ann
Houstons
Washington, D. C
Hazlewood Approves Globe-News Model Home Plan
City building inspector Wallace Hazlewood approves the Globe-News seven room brick model home at 1016 Milam Street. Permit issued to Frank Jesse the contractor for an estimated cost of 10000 dollars, boosting Amarillo's yearly building total to 1664307 dollars.
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Wallace Hazlewood
Globe-News
Frank Jesse
Milam Street
Amarillo
Probe Alleged Diversion of WPA Material
O John Rogge assistant United States attorney general in charge of the federal investigation urged Harvey G. Fields district attorney at Shreveport to meet in New Orleans to discuss data on alleged diversion of 450 truckloads of WPA material to private use near New Orleans. Fields said photos drawings and letters were sent to Rogge and that charges have been turned over to federal investigators. Seven operators and nine taxpayers were named in the charges. Fields alleged more than 6000 yards of material were moved to a swamp area for the improvement of property deemed of no value for local residents.
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New Orleans
O. John Rogge
United States
Louisiana
Harvey G. Fields
Shreveport
Fields
Rogge
Western District of
Garner Receives New Resting Chair for Front Porch Campaign
Vice President John Nance Garner unveiled a wicker chair gifted by the Senate's Two-Hours-for-Lunch Club for use at his Uvalde Texas home. The chair will serve as headquarters for his front porch bid in the 1940 Democratic nomination efforts.
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Washington
John Nance Garner
Uvalde
Tex
Senate
Cactus Jack
Ad Valorem Tax Set At 77 Cents In 1939 Plan
The state automatic tax board met in secret to set the 1939 ad valorem tax rate at 77 cents per dollar of valuation, the constitutional maximum and 28 cents higher than last year. With an estimated total valuation of 3.52 billion dollars, the levy would raise about 9.86 million dollars. Gov W Lee O Daniel chaired the session and barred reporters. Board members included Comptroller George H Sheppard and Treasurer Charley Lockhart.
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Austin
Automatic Tax Board
W. Lee O'Daniel
George H. Sheppard
Charley Lockhart
Light Plane Endurance Fliers Aim to Break Records
Hunter and Humphrey Moody young brothers who set a light plane endurance record of 218 hours 43 minutes three days ago continue circling above Springfield airport. They seek the sustained flying record for all planes, needing another 15 days to beat the heavy plane mark.
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Springfield
Ill
U.P
Hunter
Humphrey Moody
Wins Wife-Calling Contest at Richmond County Picnic
Edward Garland won the wife-calling contest at the Richmond County picnic with a booming shout. The judges, all women, awarded him the top prize for his call of Hey-y-y-y battleaxe.
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Warsaw
Edward Garland
Richmond County
English Prime Minister Warns Britain May Send Fleet East
London Aug 4 Parliament adjourned for two months after Prime Minister Chamberlain warned Japan Britain might need to send a fleet to the Far East in certain circumstances. He stressed the decision would not be a threat but a precaution amid European tensions and Japan’s axis ties.
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London
Chamberlain
Japan
Great Britain
Far East
Italy
Britain
House of Commons
United States
Europe
China
Guardsmen Deploy to Camp Hulen for Two-Week Camp
Amarillo based units of the 142nd Infantry Texas National Guard prepare to depart for Camp Hulen near Palacios Texas for a two week encampment More than 100 Amarillo infantrymen will ride the Santa Fe train at 8 am while Battery B 131st Field Artillery operates by motor convoy The Highway Patrol escorts the move and similar action is planned for the Second Engineers en route from Fort Logan Colorado to Camp Bullis near San Antonio
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Amarillo
142Nd Infantry
Texas National Guard
Camp Hulen
Palacios
Texas
131St Field Artillery
Jim Line
John Nunn
Highway Patrol
Abilene
Panhandle
U. S
Texline
Fort Logan
Colo
Camp Bullis
San Antonio
Diving Desperado Caught in Tree
James O Connell a 33 year old convict who leaped from a moving passenger train and hid in a tree was captured within hours near the railroad at Santa Barbara California Police Chief Fred Holsher and three officers secured him and sent him to a hospital for cuts from a train window He is being taken back to Oakland from El Paso after escaping from San Quentin road camp on three robbery and kidnapping charges
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Santa Barbara
Calif
James O'Connell
Liberty
Fred Holsher
O'Connell
Oakland
Fl Paso
Tex
San Quentin
Neely-Greenhill Agey
Seventeen Criminal Cases Open District Court in Canyon
Seventeen criminal cases involving 27 defendants are on the docket for the Forty-seventh District Court opening in Canyon on Monday. Judge E. Nelson will preside. Cases include drunk driving forgery burglary and theft with one capital case robbery with firearms. A heavy civil docket accompanies the criminal list. Court lasts three weeks. Grand jury to be empaneled Monday and petit jury Wednesday.
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Forty-seventh District Court
Canyon
E. ©. Nelson
Jim Lumpkin
Lumpkin
Gas Blast Near St Pauls Injures Scores in London
A gas explosion inside a building under demolition near St Pauls Cathedral injures 12 seriously and dozens more with shattered windows reported. Workmen were hurled from girders as police searched for possible victims amid a series of related incidents tied to a sabotage campaign.
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London
St. Paul's Cathedral
Preston
Blackburn
Irish Republican Army
King’s Cross
Amarillo Mayor Slides 114000 From City Debt
Mayor Ross D Rogers signed two checks totaling 114000 to retire principal from Amarillo water works and general funds. He praised the city’s debt reduction and said no borrowings are needed for operating costs, noting a strong sinking fund and April 1934–onward tax collections. Freud in London reports slight improvement after grave illness.
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Ross D. Rogers
Amarillo
Water Works
Rogers
Funds Measure Sent to Floor By Committee
The Senate appropriations committee moved the final deficiency bill to the floor, seeking quick action to fund the farm price program and other items. The measure includes about 150 million dollars more than the House, with key additions for the Commodity Credit Corporation and housing credit discussions ongoing with Roosevelt remarks noted.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
House
Adams
Colorado
Appropriations Group
Austin
Vermont
Byrnes
South Carolina
Appropriations Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
Chamber
Roosevelt
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered showers in Rio Grande Valley and thundershowers in New Mexico. Temperatures show little change with a minimum around 60 and noon reading about 84. Rainfall amounts reported: city office .05 inches and airport .07 inches.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Rio Grande Valley
New Mexico
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