Six Missing Soviet Fliers Believed At LaRue Grove Parade
A LaRue Grove event features Will Forbis C D Hammond L T Alexander and Collingsworth County officials. The group discusses old times as a new paved highway dedication is noted with local figures Hunt er Gribble Tennison and Lowry present.
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Will Forbis
C. D. Hammond
Forbis
Wellington
Mr. Hammond
Dodson
L. T. Alexander
Aberdeen
Collingsworth County
Death Car Stolen Ties to Enloe Slaying Revealed
The car used in the shooting death of Charles C. Enloe near Wellington was identified as stolen from Anna Faye Brown of Oklahoma City. James Perry Dehart, arrested in the case, had joined Enloe en route to Amarillo. Enloe’s body was later buried in Roaring Springs.
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Wellington
Charles C. Enloe
Roaring Springs
Highway 4
Here
Anna Faye Brown
Oklahoma City
Enloe
Claude McKinney
M. L. Berry
Neil Arthur
Texas Highway Patrol
Brown
Dehart
Amarillo
Collingsworth Parade Opens Through Highway in Wellington
Collingsworth County showcased its through paved highway with a 30 minute parade in Wellington as crowds gathered. The event featured Two Minutes To Live an open air drama at Rocket Stadium and a fireworks replica of the Battle of Chateau Thierry. The day contrasted with yesterday's Old Settlers meeting and recalled pioneer road building by local leaders and citizen work hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colingsworth County
Lahue Grove
Wellington
Elmore H. Dodson
Nell Marie Watkins
Wellington Hospital
Vincent Lockhart
Collingsworth County
Rocket Stadium
Chateau Thierry
Old Settlers Association
Panhandle
Abilene
Dodge City
Three Charged in Road Hijacking Near Socorro
Two Missouri youths and a 15 year old girl faced jail in Socorro New Mexico on charges of highway robbery after an attempted shootout with CCC guards and local officers. They allegedly hijacked Florida visitors Gladys Fawley Jane Dow dell and Mary Palmer near Datil leaving them stranded. $300 in cash and checks were recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Socorro
N. M
Missouri
CCC
St. Augustine
Socorro County
Gladys Fawley
Jane Dowdell
Mary Palmer
Tallahassee
Fla
Frank Knoblock
Buster McGinnis
St. Louis
Jim Smith
Pilot
Virginia Smith
Florida
Datil
Quemada
Cibola National Forest
WPA Work on Dam Planned at Conchas Dam
Conchas Dam New Mexico plans a shift to WPA labor for the retaining dike project. An appropriation of one million dollars will fund roughly 400 to 800 WPA workers to construct a 6400 foot long by 98 foot high dike. Engineering is complete and rules are to be set in days, with 800 workers anticipated. A conference of New Mexico and Texas WPA officials extended plans.
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Conchas Dam
N. M
WPA
Hans Kramer
Army
Conchas
New Mexico
Texas
Mattern joins search for missing Soviet fliers
Faint radio signals indicate six missing Soviets are safe somewhere near the Arctic as three planes carrying Russian officials depart Fairbanks to aid the hunt. Jimmy Mattern, famed American long distance flyer, joins the search after helping Levaneffsky rescue him in 1933.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Fairbanks
Alaska
Arctic
North Pole
Pole
Jimmy Mattern
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Lindbergh
Levaneffsky
Moscow
Mattern
Siberian
United States
Washington
Los Angeles
Hunt
Alaska “Mercy
Joe Crosson
Walter Hall
FE. Robbins
Clyde Armistead
Murray Stewart
Paul Brewis
Noted Author Dies In England At Forty Nine
Lieut. Col. Cyril McNeile 49 author of Bulldog Drummond died today in Pulborough England. He wrote under the pen name Sapper and was known for wartime adventure thrillers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pulborough
England
Cyril McNeile
Sapper
School board refuses to reinstate instructor charged over evolution claim
Laura Elms Morris, 43, denied teaching evolution but the Waynesburg Pennsylvania board found she abused students with an iron poker and mush ball bat. They ruled she disrupted order and allowed damage to the one room school. Morris invoked the State Teachers Tenure Act to contest dismissal.
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Waynesburg
U.P
Laura Elms Morris Plump
Morris
Jones
Eugene
Jack
Golden Anniversary Edition assigns famed writers to historic Amarillo era
The 1938 News-Globe golden anniversary edition will chronicle Amarillo and Potter County’s fiftieth year with contributions from Douglas of the Fort Worth Press and other Scripps Howard papers. He will write about Col. Robert Potter, Texas Navy’s first secretary, with other historians like J Evetts Haley and L F Sheffey offering cooperation and outlines for the edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Globe
Amarillo
Potter County
C. the Douglas
Fort Worth Press
Scripps-Howard
Potter
Douglas
J. Evetts Haley
Canyon
Texas
Charles Goodnight
Panhandle-Plains
L. F. Sheffey
West Texas State College
Panhandle-Plains Historical Society
H. B. Carroll
Eastern New Mexico College
Portales
W. C. Holden
Texas Technological
Nunns Sell Lexington Newspaper Chain
The Lexington Herald and Lexington Leader, morning Democratic and evening Republican papers, are sold from Lindsay Nunn and son Gilmore to John G. Stall of the Lexington Leader. Fred B. Wachs will be general manager. change effective Monday. The two papers are AP members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Lexington Herald
John G. Stall
Lexington Leader
Fred B. Wachs
Herald
Lindsay Nunn
Gilmore
Texas
New Mexico
Leader
Associated Press
Black Approval Predicted For Supreme Court Nominee
Senate Judiciary Committee members forecast a Monday vote to approve Senator Black to the Supreme Court despite protests and demand for delay. The panel shows a 10 to 3 lean toward confirmation with several undecided, while labor groups urge prompt confirmation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Black
Supreme Court
Burke
Senate
Roosevelt
Judiciary Committee
Ashurst
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Senator Black
Labor
Lecals
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Auto accident fatal near Kingfisher injures 5 4-H contestants
An automobile carrying five 4-H roundup contestants and others crashed into a bridge abutment near Kingfisher Oklahoma. Helen Hissel, 13, of Hitchcock, died. Four other youths and a man were injured in the Aug 14 crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingfisher
Okla
Helen Hissel
Hitchcock
Stillwater
Destruction Sweeps Shanghai as War Rages Above City
Shanghai endures brutal air and street combat as Chinese and Japanese planes clash over the international settlement. Bombs kill Americans and Chinese civilians. fires spread through eastern Chapel and northern districts. Notable casualties include Dr. Frank J. Rawlinson, H. Honigsberg, and Dr. Robert K. Reischauer, with others wounded or missing amid the chaos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Whangpoo River
Frank J. Rawlinson
China
Honigsberg
Robert K. Reischauer
Princeton University
Japan
Yangtze River
Hopeh
International
Avenue
Edward VII
Tibet Road
R. R. Rouse
Saco
Montana
Amarillo Congressman Predicts Comprehensive Farm Act Next Session
Rep Marvin Jones of Amarillo, chair of the House Agricultural Committee, told the House that a comprehensive farm act is poised for early action in the next session. He urged careful, long range planning on cotton and farm programs, warning against rushing bills for commodity loans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Jones
Amarilloan
Edward Jamieson
Washington, D. C
Texas
South
Congress
Amarillo
House Agricultural Committee
Jones
Washington
Wallace
Farm Organization
House of Representatives
House
Agriculture Committee
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Collingsworth Old Settlers
LaRue Grove
Collingsworth County Commissioners Court
M. F. Hunter
Luther Gribble
N. C. Tennison
C. L. Lowry
Charlie Dysart
Fort Elliott
Ellis Lahue
C. W. Roberts
8& Club
J. A. Mahan
Mee
Collingsworth
Russell Staty. Co
Letterheada
U. S. Army Signal Corps
Anchorage
West Texas
100Th Meridian
Mexico
Laura Elms Morris
Nunns
Kentucky
Shanghat
ABC
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