Bonus-seekers cleared from White House sidewalk
July 16 in Washington police cleared a crowd of more than a hundred veterans seeking the bonus payment from in front of the White House. Urban Lennox known as Mr. Zero was seized along with others as officers kept the area clear and guards restricted access to the executive grounds. The crowd surged toward the Capitol, was halted by authorities, and leader W W Waters was arrested as Secretary Glassford ordered calm.
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Washington
White House
Urban Lennox
Mr. Zero
Pelham D. Glassford
Pennsylvania Avenue
Secret Service
Lafayette Park
Executive Grounds
Capitol
Congress
W. W. Waters
Waters
Glassford
Army
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Fair Sunday across Amarillo and vicinity with generally fair and warm conditions in West Texas. New Mexico unsettled Sunday with possible thunderstorms in north central and northwest areas. Temperatures ranged from the mid 70s to mid 90s yesterday with highs near 95 and lows around 66 to 80. Weekly outlook calls for fair to partly cloudy conditions with above normal temperatures and possible coastal showers later in the week.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Southern Plains
West Gulf States
Senate Agrees To Consider Day Law Bill In Washington
Senate votes nearly two thirds to take up Glass resolution proposing a substitute for the 18th Amendment. Ballot would repeal prohibition and shift liquor control to states, with the saloon barred. Votes show a party split, and the measure stands unfinished business unless referred to committee.
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Washington
Senate
Glass
Sheppard
Texas
Intruder Theory Hurts Reynolds Slaying Case In North Carolina
In Winston Salem on July 16 authorities pursued a theory that an unidentified motorist who asked directions to Reynolds Reynolds tobacco heir Rudolph Reynolds may have killed Smith Reynolds. Albert Walker, Reynolds friend, visited the sheriff with his attorney supporting a suicide theory. Sheriff Transon Scott said he would question Walker again as investigators keep all clues open.
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Winston-Salem
N. C
Smith Reylds
Transon Scott
Reynolda
Reynolds Ell
Sheriff's Office
Albert Walker
Danciger Loses Plea to Quash Proration Hearing
In Pampa on July 16 Ernest O. Thompson denied Danciger Oil and Gas Company’s request to close the proration hearing. Col. Thompson would present commission testimony. Petitioners from Gray County allege Danciger and offsets drain oil from leases and wells near the Panhandle field.
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Danciger
Sunday News-Globe
Pampa
Danciger Oil and Gas Company
Ernest O. Thompson
Texas Railroad Commission
Col
Thompson
Gray County
Danciger Company
Panhandle
A. L. Morgan
Amarillo
Commission
Attorney General’s Department
Railroad Commission
Texas
Morgan
P. Hamilton
Hollywood Studios Implement Widespread Pay Cuts
Hollywood studios including M G M Paramount First National Warner Brothers and R K O report broad pay reductions affecting most workers with cuts from 5 to 35 percent. Memo from New York cites Nicholas Schenck and Lewis B Mayer. some stars reportedly unaffected without voluntary acceptance of lowered pay.
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Hollywood
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
New York
Nicholas Schenck
M-G-M and
Lowe, Inc
Lewis B. Mayer
M-G-M
Paramount
First National
Warner Brothers
Richard Barthlemess
George Arliss
Girl Charged in Drowning Case at Lake Trammell
Fay Condit was charged as an accessory to murder in the drowning of Mrs. L. M. Parks at Lake Trammell near Sweetwater on July 8. Parks was held in San Angelo after letters Condit wrote to her were intercepted. Extradition waiver noted. preliminary hearing planned. Parks had known Condit in Sweetwater. three life insurance policies totaling $9,000 were taken out in Parks’ name since June 24.
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Sweetwater
Fay Condit
L. M. Parks
Lake Trammell
Parks
San Angelo
Miami
Okla
Condit
Man suffocates in freak auto mishap near Pampa
Lawrence N. Patton aged 40 died of suffocation after his car rolled down an embankment on a highway south of Pampa. He was pinned with his face against the cushion as his wife was slightly injured trying to free him. A passerby aided his wife an hour later.
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Pampa
Lawrence N. Patton
Garner Heads Home for Rest and Fishing Trip
Speaker and Mrs. Jack Garner depart from Washington on the "George Washington" train bound for Uvalde to rest and fish. The couple travels from the capitol to a suburban station and will stop next in St. Louis at 4 15 PM tomorrow.
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Washington
Jack Garner
George Washington
Uvalde
Capitol
St. Louis
Wave of Heat Sweeps Nation Leaving Dozens Dead
Heat wave ends after days of 95 to 100 degree temperatures with an estimated 75 deaths nationwide. Chicago reports 16 heat related deaths with drownings at crowded beaches. Crop damage focal in cotton belt as states like Oklahoma and Texas record extreme readings and officials warn of potential return of hotter weather.
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Associated Green
Southwest
C. A. Donnell
Chicago
Midwest
Bartlesville
Okla
Phillipsburg
Kan
Longview
Texas
Kansas
Neodesha
Scott
Independence
Texans Die Amid Heat Wave Enduring Treacherous Day
The year’s hottest weather yesterday caused two Texas deaths. T. P. Adams, an elderly operator, died of heart failure at his home in Texas.
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Associated Press
T. P. Adams
Tech teacher demands quiz charges against college board
Dr. John C. Granbery head of the history department at Texas Technological College accuses the board of maladministration violating academic standards and political partisanship in a letter dated July 15 to Gov. Ross Sterling. He requests an investigation into the charges after learning his contract would not be renewed.
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Lubbock
Texas Technological College
John C. Granbery
Ross Sterling
Granbery
Sterling
Hunter
Highway Department
East Texas
Dan Moody
Fergusons
Senate approves crop loan extension to new activities
The Senate yesterday approved a conference report extending crop production loan provisions to cover planting, summer fallowing, and the dairy and poultry industries. The measure allows advances from the reconstruction corporation's agriculture fund under the agriculture department.
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Washington
Senate
House
Reconstruction Corporation
Agriculture Fund
Agriculture Department
Relief and home loan bills pass in final Congress session
The Sixty-seventh Congress adjourned after shaping relief and home loan bank legislation for presidential signature. The House overruled Senate currency expansion objections by 214 to 114, while debate over prohibition and a Glass amendment dominated the close. President Hoover expected to sign. Garner planned a Texas trip after adjournment.
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Washington
Seventy-Second
Congress
Senate
House
Hoover
Home Loan Bank
Capitol
John N. Garner
Uvalde
Texas
Bingham
Conn
Glass
Tydings
Prohibition
Reconstruction Corporation
Garner
Runners Rest for Last Cash in Vote Derby
Four weeks of campaigning with one week to the first primary. Candidates for state offices plan a final sprint before ballots next Saturday. Governors Sterling and Ferguson/ Ferguson ally Miriam Ferguson feature in dialogues as Hunter and Wolfe spar over treasury, highways, and oil-field policy.
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Austin
Tom F. Hunter
Wichita Falls
M. H. Wolfe
Dallas
San Antonio
Sterling
R. G. Sterling
Texas
James B. Ferguson
Miriam A. Perguson
Yorktown
Wolfe
Hunter
Ferguson
South Plains Celebrates Swisher County Forty-Second Birthday
In Tulia on July 16, about five thousand people joined Swisher County officials for a grand birthday barbecue hosted by the Chamber of Commerce and served by the American Legion. Notables included old timers from the area and residents like Truss Gray and W. G. Conner, while Amarillo chefs Mason King, Bill Baker, Bill Beechler, and Dick German were praised for the feast.
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Henry Ansley Tulia
South Plains
Swisher County
Chamber of Commerce
American Legion
Mason King
Bill Baker
Bill Beechler
Dick German
Amarillo
Tulsa
Truss ,Gray
Will Jowell
W. G. Con
Ner
C. C. Poff
Chester
Ab Hutchison
Dinwiddies
Mr. Poff
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Fort Worth
Ross S. Sterling
Childress
Llew Reynolds
R-K-O Studios
John Granbery
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