New Highway Contracts Due Within Month
Texas highway department announcesJuly August meeting contracts raising total to 5.7 to 6.0 million dollars. Projects include 46.9 miles concrete paving 26.9 miles grading and drainage several bridges and maintenance work. Routes span Lubbock Potter Gray counties Amarillo Seymour Refugio to Copano Bay and Madison Crockett Concho and other counties.
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Austin
State Highway Department
Commission
Lubbock County
Lubbock
Lynn County
Chron
Potter Counties
Amarillo
Ane County
Gray County
Shamrock
Potter County
Amarillo Creek
Canadian River
Shelby County
Timpson
Nacogdoches
Baylor County
Seymour
Baylor- Throckmorton
Knox County
Aransas County
Refugio
Copano Bay
Madison County
Town Branch
Caney Creek
Madisonville
Grimes County
Concho County
Hog Creek
Crockett and
Iron Counties
Buckhorn
HiJacker Takes $8 In Cash From Laundry Driver
Two robberies were reported near 9 p.m. Saturday. A tall, slender youth mugged Guy D. Arterburn near 3418 Hayden Street, taking $8 as he fled in a Ford roadster. Arterburn had just turned in $70. The second incident involved a would-be thief at the Badger Inn, who entered through a torn screen and took only food.
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Guy D. Arterburn
American Laundry
Hayden Street
Badger Inn
Municipal Auditorium
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Sunday partly cloudy in Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas expected local thunder showers in the southern portion. New Mexico unsettled with probable local showers and thundershowers in the northern area. Temperatures shown in hours with highs near 90s and 80s, lows around the 60s to 70s.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Mevacoreres
Panhandle
Lubbock
Memphis
Dumas
Clovis
N. M
Littlefield
Levelland
Plainview
Hale County
Tulsa
Floydada
Turkey
Quitaque
Lockney
Dimmitt
Hereford
U. S. Weather Bureau
Political Trade Put Hoover Into Cabinet Writes Albert Fall
Hoover enters cabinet prospects described by Albert B Fall in collaboration with Magner White. Fall recounts Harding’s early discussions at Lodge dinner, naming Hoover and Mellon as pivotal in a political trade. The piece frames how Hoover’s potential cabinet inclusion influenced Mellon’s path, with context on party dynamics and key figures in Washington.
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Hoover
Albert Fall
Herbert Hoover
Hardiner
Henry Cabot Lodge
Mr. Harding
Andrew W. Mellon
Mellon
Penrose
Knox
Pennsylvania
Frank Brandegee
Reed Smoot
John W. Weeks
Harding
Glowing climax as Globe News semi pro tourney narrows
Amarillo fans surge as the sixth annual Globe News semi pro baseball tournament enters its ninth day with three teams still alive. Phillips 66 of Borger fell 7 to 4 to Texola Willow while Amarillo Earle Wyatt edged Lubbock Hubbers 8 to 7. Two key games today at 2 pm determine final placements with first and second on the line and the loser of the first game taking third place money.
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Amarillo
Globe News
Phillips “66
Borger
Texola-Willow
Earle Wyatt
Lubbock Hubbers
Earl Wyatt
Sooners
Oklahomans
Wyatt's
Phillips
Texola- Willow
Unemployed March On Stores In Henryetta Okla
A crowd of about 300 unemployed men and women marched on several downtown stores in Henryetta Oklahoma demanding food supplies after setting up an emergency relief store in city hall. They persuaded stores to provide boxes of food. some individuals entered a store with threats but no one was harmed.
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Henryetta
Okla
Charles Holmes
Dewar
Four youths sentenced to Sunday School service
In Houston on July 18 four youths aged 16 and 17 pleaded guilty to stealing 10 gallons of gas from A. H. Henderson’s car. They were sentenced by Judge Fred Turner to 22 days in Sunday School at the First Christian Church, to attend a class each Sunday until Christmas, as the instructor guides them in righteous ways.
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Houston
Tex
U.P
Corporation Court
First Christian Church
Fred Turner
A. H. Henderson
Henderson
Kilgore Tank Fire Threatens Town Hall
Flames destroyed oil tanks near Kilgore town hall as Earl Remwick, a Pace Petroleum worker, was fatally burned. The blaze spread to a cotton gin and silos, with total damage estimated at ten thousand dollars. Two youths were detained for smoking near the scene.
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Kilgore
Tex
Earl Remwick
Pace Petroleum Company
Pace Petroleum Co
Elder No. 1
Remwick
Mate Leads Spanish Play in Arlington Classic
Mate defeats Twenty Grand in the Arlington Classic before 67 000 spectators at Arlington Park Illinois. Spanish Play finishes second, Twenty Grand third, with Sir Ashley fourth. Mate sets a track record for the mile and a quarter in 2 02 2 5 and pays 10.80 for a two dollar bet, Spanish Play and Twenty Grand also among top finishers.
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Mate
Charles W. Dunkley
Associated Press
Arlington Park, II
America
Spanish Play
Sir Ashley
William Woodward
New York
Sun Meadow
Joey Bibb
St. Brideaux
A. C. Bostwick
Philadelphia
Chicago
Louisiana
Latonia
Week's Wheat Loadings Drop in Panhandle
Wheat loading in the Panhandle fell one third in the past week with 6,277 cars shipped by three railroads compared with 9,080 the prior week. Total Panhandle shipments for the 1931 crop reach 24,365 cars, over 35 million bushels. Rail men estimate about 60 percent marketed, with the steepest drop in the last three days and more expected next week. Santa Fe delivered 3,363 cars this week, pushing the season total to 14,328. Fort Worth & Denver load…
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Panhandle
Santa Fe
Fort Worth
Denver
Youth Injured in Auto Crash Near Canyon
Cecil Slaton 17 of Canyon is improving after a head on collision west of Canyon on the Hereford highway that killed Raymond Schmitz 19 of Canyon. Mrs Stoker and Mr Stoker of Umbarger were injured. Schmitz died instantly. Slaton suffered multiple injuries. Funeral services for Schmitz set for 3:30 at St Ann Catholic Church Canyon with burial in Canyon Cemetery. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs William Schmitz and four sisters and a brother.
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Cecil Slaton
Canyon
Hereford
Raymond Schmitz
Leo Stoker
Umbarger
Northwest Texas
Slaton
Schmitz
Stoker
Hero Slaton
Amarillo
Broker
St. Ann's Catholic Church
Hoy
Andrew Quante
Canyon Cemetery
Farm hostess charged in Smithfield murder near Livingston
Lillian Creel a 25 year old farm girl who worked as a hostess at a rural dance hall was charged with murder in the death of Leon Dougherty a 21 year old bridegroom who had been married only a week. The shooting happened late yesterday at Smithfield near Livingston Texas.
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Livingston,tex
Lillian Creel
Leon Dougherty
Smithfield
Here
Woman Charged In Slaying Sander son Trial Set
In Sanderson Texas Mrs Beasie Sharp faces a murder charge for poisoning husband W Telefus Sharp. Trial scheduled for Monday with 209 jurors summoned. Grand jury that indicted her adjourned today.
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Sanderson
Tex
Beasie Sharp
W. Telefus Sharp
Paris to Honor Pershing Name for Boulevard de Verdun
Paris city council decided to rename a new street on the edge of Neuilly near the Bois de Boulogne in honor of General Pershing. The Boulevard de Verdun will bear Pershing’s name as a tribute by the capital.
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Paris
Pershing
General Pershing
Boulevard de Verdun
Neuilly
Boise de Boulogne
Fall Begins Trip to Prison as Sun Sinks
Albert B. Fall former secretary of the interior started his journey to the New Mexico penitentiary at Santa Fe this afternoon. His wife and daughters wept as he was helped into an ambulance at his El Paso home and driven toward Three Rivers before continuing to Santa Fe. A large crowd, reporters, and photographers watched the departure as Fall dressed in pajamas and a green smoking jacket left for confinement.
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Albert B. Fall
Interior
Washington
Magner White
North American Newspaper Alliance
Amarillo News-Globe
EL Paso
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Three Rivers
Fall
Harding
Tres Ritos
J. H. Gambrell
Martha Fall
Three Others Injured In Vehicle Crash In Community
A single-vehicle crash near the town left three others injured as the auto overturned. All victims are prominent long-time residents of the community, while the driver sustained unspecified injuries and is cooperating with investigators.
Fatal crash near Turkey claims Floydada youth
Special to The Sunday News Globe reports 17 year old Floydada resident Winter King was killed and three Floydada youths Rome Nelson Pete Nelson and F W Jenkins were injured as their car hit a barricade on Highway 86 three miles west of Turkey. King died en route to Standifer Sanitarium.
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Sunday News Globe
Turkey
Winter King
Floydada
Highway 86
Here
Rome Nelson
Pete Nelson
F. W. Jenkins
King
Standlfer Sanitarium
City Building Third in State Dallas Report
July figures show Texas cities maintaining construction programs with Houston leading at 639,450 including 514,000 for a post office addition. Port Arthur second at 258,930 with sea wall work. Amarillo third at 91,298. Other totals include Beaumont 48,200 San Antonio 1,571,029 Fort Worth 18,963 Austin 14,180 Galveston 10,835 Corpus Christi 10,000 Corsicana 3,750 Wichita Falls 1,200. Dallas yearly total notes 1,740,721 for utilities construction in late 1930.
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Dallas
Rexas
Houston
Port Arthur
Amarillo
DANAB
Beaumont
San Antonio
Longview
Tyleress
Clarence Mackay Weds Anna Case in Roslyn Church
Clarence H. Mackay chairman of the board of Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation married soprano Anna Case today at St Marys Catholic Church Roslyn New York. Case has been a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company for eight years.
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Clarence MacKay
New York
Clarence H. MacKay
Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation
Anna Case
Metropolitan Opera Company
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Roslyn
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