Texas Centennial Exposition Opens Amid World Broadcasts
The Dallas centennial celebration opens at noon with gates lifted by 15,000 workers as 100,000 embrace the event. Secretary Roper delivers greeting, a worldwide telegraph and radio broadcast follows, and 114,444 attend the first day. Cowboys, flags of six nations, and a mock air battle highlight the ceremonies.
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Dallas
Daniel C. Roper
James V. Allred
Roper
State of Texas
Texas
Exposition Grounds
San Francisco
Shanghai
Moscow
Leningrad
Stockholm
London
New York
Fair Ground
Cotton Bowl Stadium
Spain
France
Mexico
The
Confederacy
Lone Star Republic
United States
Auto Truck Crash Kills Couple Near Stafford Texas
An unemployed farm worker Perley Toms 32 and his step daughter Ona Lee Cantrell 20 were killed when their car collided with a truck near Stafford Texas. The car caught fire and Mrs. Toms was severely burned before being removed from the wreck. The truck driver Frank Cockrell sustained severe burns while aiding Mrs. Toms.
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Houston
Stafford
Texas
Perley
Toms
Ona Lee Cantrell
Hastings resigns as GOP senatorial campaign chief
Senator Hastings of Delaware resigns today as chairman of the Republican senatorial campaign committee. He plans to retire from the Senate at year end and will address his letter to Senator McNary of Oregon, Republican leader in the Senate, noting his criticisms of the New Deal over the past two years.
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Washington
Hastings
Delaware
Senate
McNary
Oregon
Rebels Fight Mexican Plan In Central States War
In six central Mexican states rebels totaling about 1000 fight the government program of Socialist education. Gen Luis Bobadilla says bands lack leadership and many are criminals with price tags on their heads. A raid on Tepetzco Puebla ruins a schoolhouse. Maria Hernandez, a teacher, repels attackers.
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Mexico
City
Luis Bobadilla
Lauro Rocha
Robin Hood
Rocha
Tepetxco
Puebla
Maria Hernadez
Bobadilla
Plutarco Elias Calles
Paris clash as Blum faces deputies in strike crisis
Paris June 6 tumult erupts as pickets clash with guards and students confront police while Leon Blum, premier for two days, seeks to push a social reform program to end strikes. Deputies back Blum 384 to 210 in a confidence vote after a day of rowdy protests and threats amid a planned devaluation stand.
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Paris
Leon Blum
Chamber of Deputies
France
Blum
People’s Front
Moscow
Army
Leader Shot Down in Jerusalem Riot
In Jerusalem on June 6, police at Haifa fired into a crowd of about 2,000 to disperse a demonstration started by Arabian women, killing one and wounding another seriously. A Jewish watchman was badly wounded at Rishon Lezion. A Jew shot the previous day near Jaffa died today. A Beersheba post office bomb failed to injure. Armored cars in northern districts were fired upon.
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Jerusalem
Haifa
Rishon Lezion
Jaffa
Beersheba
U S Treasury Deficit Tops Three Billion in June
The daily treasury statement through June 4 shows a deficit of 3.019 billion since July 1 1935, with expenditures at 6.654 billion and revenues 3.635 billion. President Roosevelts revised budget predicted 3.235 billion gap by June 30, before bonus legislation. Morgenthau warned deficits could reach nearly 5.97 billion if veteran bond payments are issued and processing-tax losses persist. Last year’s shortfall was 3.201 billion.
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Treasury
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Senate Finance Committee
Supreme Court
Buffalo Bill Back in Court Over Dallas Statue
Austin historian C. L. Greenwood obtained a temporary restraining order in district court to block erection of a Buffalo Bill statue at the Texas Centennial Exposition grounds in Dallas. A prior injunction was dissolved by the Court of Civil Appeals. Greenwood alleges statue expenditures would injure him as a taxpayer. he argues Buffalo Bill had little Texas history role beyond Civil War-era conflicts.
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Austin
C. L. Greenwood
Texas
Dallas
Traffic alarms Indianapolis champ Lou Meyer in Chicago drive
Chicago June 6 Lou Meyer, three time 500 winner, says city traffic scares him. He recalls moving to the passenger seat near the city outskirts and confessing the ride isn’t enjoyable despite his speed. He averaged over 109 mph to win last Memorial Day.
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Chicago
Lou Meyer
Stars' Attorney Taken by Death
New York news reports prominent attorney Nathan Burkan has died at age. He represented many famous stage and screen stars and served as counsel for Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt in the custody battle over her young daughter Gloria Laura Van derbilt.
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New York
Nathan Burkan
Burkan
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Vanderbilt
John Polite Fined For Fight in Charleston
In Charleston on June 6 Magistrate J P Stall fined John Polite ten dollars for not living up to his name after a street dispute with William Green. The incident resulted in the monetary penalty and reflects local reform of public conduct.
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Charleston
8. C
John Polite
J. P. Stall
Polite
William Green
China Strives to Regain Former Vigor in Crisis
In a period of rising nationalism China, led by Sun Yat Sen's Kuomintang principles, moves to resist foreign dominance. The government builds a military posture as Japan expands in North China, while Chiang Kai-shek strengthens defenses amid internal rivalries and external pressure.
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China
The
Associated Press
Nanking
Sun Yat-Sen
Chinese Republic
Peoples’ Party
Japan
Dr. Sun
Kuomintang
Peoples Party
Issimochiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Vandenberg Declines Hinted Nomination For Vice-President
Cleveland June 6 Republicans enter a heated pre convention week end as Vandenberg Michigan senator declines a second place on the ticket. London drive and platform battles intensify with Landon boosters claiming delegate strength and talk of liberalized platform proposals and a constitutional wage amendment.
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Cleveland
London
Vandenberg
Michigan
Landon
Kansan
William Allen White
Emporia Kan
Sacasa resigns and goes into exile in Nicaragua
President Juan B. Sacasa resigned under guard pressure and fled to exile after a military revolt. Government minister Julian Irias assumed charge and asked ill vice president Rodolfo Espinosa to take over per the constitution. Sacasa left by train to Corinto and boarded the cargo liner Grace Line, destination La Libertad, El Salvador.
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Nicaragua
Juan B. Sacasa
National Guard
Julian Irias
Rodolfo Easpinosa
Legation
Sacasa
Tiscapa Hill
Corinto
Grace Line
la Libertad
el Salvador
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Fair Sunday across Amarillo and West Texas with generally fair conditions. New Mexico mostly fair south with unsettled north part Sunday. temperatures near normal. Week outlook calls for mostly fair weather across the Southern Plains and West Gulf states with localized showers east late in the work week.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Reece
Southern Plains
Weat Gulf
Staten
Death linked to Black Legion case sparks arrests in Detroit area
In Wyandotte police said arrests were near in the Roy Pidcock death tied to the Black Legion after Pidcock disappeared May 13 and was found hanged on Fighting Island. Poole’s murder also linked. a group punishing Poole splintered at a drawbridge. Three men, including an admitted Black Legion brigadier general, were arraigned on kidnapping and assault charges related to a flogging.
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Roy Pidcock
Charlies A. Poole
The
Black
Pidcock
Fighting Island
Detroit River
Poole
Black Legion
William R. Rutledge
War Here
N. Ray Markland
Highland Park
Markland
Clyde Markland
James E. Chenot
Marklands
Robert Penlan
Charles King
Ecorse
Howard Lawrence
Wilbur Robinson
Troit Street Railways
Leaders Meet On New Crisis In Europe
Leaders of the little Entente Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia and Roumania gathered in Bucharest to set policy for 48 million people amid fears of a European crisis. Reports from Paris Vienna and Budapest suggested a possible coup by Otto von Habsburg to claim the Austrian throne and a Hungarian denunciation of the Trianon Treaty. The Entente warned that Habsburg's accession would trigger mobilization. Otto was reported to consider leaving exile.
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Roumania
U.P
Jugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Paris
Vienna
Budapest
Otto von Hapsburg
Hungary
Little Entente
Hapsburg
Austria
Otto
Police Siren Fails To Aid Bootleggers
In Atlanta on June 6 a rum-running car eluded a pursuing squad despite a police type siren that wailed during a long chase. The auto went into a ditch after officers closed in and the two occupants fled on foot, leaving 95 gallons of whiskey behind.
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Atlanta
Nine Die in Storms Across Oklahoma and Kansas
A 48 hour series of tornadoes rain storms and floods in Oklahoma and Kansas killed nine people and damaged numerous homes and businesses. Lightning struck a Kansas and an Oklahoma farmer, another fell into a rain filled pit. A Waurika hospital roof was torn off and replaced. nurses saved two patients. A Hastings farmer's wife died amid a windstorm that toppled buildings and wrecked homes. The infant son of Uneas Oklahoma farmers died when their home collapsed. The report notes continued danger with details carried to page 2.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Kansas
Waurika, Okla
Hastings
J. F. Brewer
Okla
Lester R. Henry
Pontotoc County
Floyd Anson
Uneas
Anson
Elizabeth Johnston
Ada
Family Feud Guns Take Three Lives in Pike County
In a remote Kentucky mountain community, a Mounts family feud left three dead and a fourth wounded. Turner Butch Mounts, a nephew, allegedly shot Mrs. Charley Mounts, 60, Mrs. Oscar Mounts, 25, and James D. Mounts, 70, as three Mounts family members were jailed on murder charges. James Mounts was Turner's father.
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Pikeville
Barren-Shea
Mounts
Pike County
Squirrel
Charley Mounts
Oscar Mounts
James D. Mounts
Turner
Butch” Mounts
James Mounts
Wheat loan program opens Monday in Panhandle Plains
Emergency wheat loans will be available to farmers in the Panhandle Plains region starting Monday. Farmers should contact county representatives of the Emergency Crop Loan section immediately. No loan period limit date was announced. applications are urged at the largest period possible.
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Panhandle Plains
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