Solo Time 13. Object: Mattern Aims For Round World Flight
American aviator Jimmy Mattern, flying solo from Beloye Siberia toward Khabarovsk, neared Russia for a potential world circumnavigation. Reports indicate fair weather from Beloye to Khabarovsk, with possible local rain en route as he nears the expected landing in Russia.
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Stanley F. Richardson
Associated Press
Moscow
Jimmy Mattern
Siberia
Khabarovsk
Fief
North American
Wiley Post
Harald Gatty
Globe
Mattern
Beloye
Irkutsk
New Relief Jobs Start Next Week
The Pampa reconstruction finance corporation committee paid 861 to 210 men and women yesterday morning for work done during the week. New jobs will be started during the week and the regular number will be given work again. Building of the children’s park west of the city park on North Cuyler Street was started last week and will be continued. Other jobs will also be started.
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Pampa Reconstruction Ficance Corporation Committee
Cuyler Street
Senate probes broaden to Kuhn Loeb and Dillon Read
Washington reports the senate banking committee shifts from J. P. Morgan to broaden inquiries into private banks Kuhn, Loeb and company and Dillon Read and company as investigations continue. Johnny Corrigan spends the weekend in Wichita Falls.
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Washington
J. P. Morgan and Company
Senate Banking Committee
Kuhn, Loeb and Company
Dillon, Read, and Company
Johnny Corrigan
Wichita Falls
Minister to be advanced at St Matthew's chapel tomorrow
The Rev War wick Aiken will be advanced to the office of presbyter in the Episcopal Church with a 10 30 morning service at St Matthew's chapel led by Bishop E Cecil Seaman of Amarillo. Rev Newton C Smith of Pampa and Rev L L Swanner of Clarendon assist. Aiken began ministerial work in Pampa about four years ago and has trained in Dallas at the Evangelical Theological college while serving in Episcopal congregations there.
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Warwick Aiken
Teneen
St. Matthew's Chapel
Cecil Seaman
Amarillo
Newton C. Smith
Pampa
L. L. Swanner
Clarendon
Mr. Aiken
Texans given foreign posts by Roosevelt
Washington June 10 Reception and confirmation of presidential appointments moved swiftly in the senate today with a batch including William Dodd of Chicago University named ambassador to Berlin and John Cudahy to Poland Lincoln MacVeagh minister to Greece and Texas officials William Gilliland named customs collector at Port Arthur Also Stephen A Clisler of Fort Worth Texas named superintendent of the airmail service N Gray dismissed from Pampa hospital.
Canyon Museum Opens for Visitors This Week
The Canyon Museum invites the public on Tuesdays Thursdays and Sundays from 2 to 6 p m. About 1 000 visitors had registered at the gate as of opening. Paul LeBeuf appeared in knickers and ankle-length socks exposing white calves during the April 1 debut.
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Paul LeBeuf
Canadian Gun Chosen Queen In Water Carnival
Canadian Miss Marjorie Richardson crowned queen of the water carnival at the LaNora theater during the opening of Pampa Municipal swimming pool. Eva Mac Moore, Joe Vera Jackson, and Mildred Marshall won second through fourth places. The event featured beauty pageant, kiddie revue, and water carnival events sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
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Marjorie Richardson
LaNora
Pampa
Junior Chamber of Commerce
W. FP. Richardson
Eva Mac Moore
B. Ll. Moore
Joe Vera Jackson
W. A. Wilson
Clarendon
Mildred Marshall
J. H. Marshall
W. T. Fraser
Chamber of Commerce
Alene Gregory
Jack Gregory
Roswell
Harry Walker
Fraser
Jaysees
la Nova
Thrill Harmony Orchestra
George Limerick
Jack Dunn
Harry EB. Hoare
Kenneth Dodge
Borger
David Whittenberg
Jack White
Bucky Mundy
Roger Townsend
Junior Fafford
Louise Walstad
White Deer Boy Drowns Near Lake West of White Deer
George Sawyer, 12 year old son of the White Deer constable, drowned in a large shallow lake west of White Deer on highway 33. He and companion Bill Easley could not swim and waded into the middle before Sawyer stepped into a seven foot ditch and disappeared. Bodies recovered by Morris White and Tony Anderwell. He leaves parents Mr and Mrs R C Lawyer, three sisters Mildred Jackson Ada and Geneva Lawyer, and a brother Jack. Body at Malone's funeral home awaiting arrangements.
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George Sawyer
White Deer
Highway 33
Bill Easley
George
Morris White
Tony Anderwell
Bob McCoy
R. C. Lawyer
Mildred
Jackson
Ada
Geneva
Jack
Malone
Wheat Reaches Eighty Cents in Grain Pit
Chicago June 10 wheat rose to eighty cents in the grain pit for the first time in over two years as a government crop report pegged the 1933 winter wheat crop as smallest since 1904. December wheat touched 81 cents, oats advanced to seasonal highs, and traders warned later revisions may lower figures due to heat damage.
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Board of Trade
New Dirigible Is Recommended by Congressional Panel
Congressional investigators urged construction of another airship of Akron's class for the navy while ordering the lone surviving officer of the disaster to sea. Lieutenant Commander Herbert V. Wiley was ordered to report June 25 to the light cruiser Cincinnati in the Pacific battle force. R. M. Andrews of Dallas is a Pampa visitor over the weekend.
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Washington
Navy
Herbert V. Wiley
U.S. 8
Cincinnati
Pacific
Billie Woods and Clifford Dopson Captured Near Junction
Billie Woods and Clifford Dopson, two of 11 convicts who escaped from the Kansas Lansing penitentiary, were captured near Junction about 80 miles southwest of San Angelo. Mexican border officers stopped a car containing two men, two women, and a child. Woods was identified, the convicts were rounded up, and the group was taken to jail after a wreck at a barrow pit following a gunfire incident.
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San Angelo
Hillie Woods
Clifford Dopson
Kansas Penitentiary
Lansing
Junction
Kansas
J. A. Tilley
W. M. Kiiborn
Tilley
Woods
Kilborn
Dopson
Rupp Installed As Noble Grand Of Odd Fellows
E. C. Rupp will be installed as Noble grand of the Pampa I O O F lodge Monday night to replace retiring noble grand Bill Bonner. The Clarendon lodge will be guests, with two Clarendon visitors to take first degree work, as several Clarendon members visited last week for officer elections. Refreshments were served.
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E. C. Rupp
Pampa
Bill Bonner
Noble Grand
Rupp
Clarenson Lodge
Clarendon
Global talks open as nations seek dollar and franc stabilit
London June 10 negotiations among U S Great Britain and France on stabilizing the dollar pound and franc were under way as statesmen and financial experts of many nations prepared to lift the curtain Monday on the world economic conference.
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London
United States
Great Britain
France
Eee
President Roosevelt Starts Government Reorganization Plan
President Roosevelt sent executive orders to congress to reorganize the government, aiming to save about 25 million dollars and total annual cuts near 900 million. The plan folds shipping board into commerce, centralizes supply purchases, and consolidates administration of public buildings parks monuments cemeteries under interior, abolishing several commissions. 3,200 disbursing offices move to the treasury.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Shipping Board
Department of Commerce
Department of Interior
Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission
Public Buildings Commission
National Capital
National Memorial Commission
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
House Votes For Vet Compromise- Battle Near End
In Texas a public meeting on gasoline taxes and evasion is set for Tuesday at 8 PM in the Crystal ballroom Herring hotel Panhandle chapter American Petroleum Institute chairman J H Mayer of Pampa invites oilmen business men farmers and car owners to attend. Houston publisher Jack Dionne will present figures on tax history and evasion claiming 6 million dollars is stolen annually from the state’s gasoline tax. The text also notes a separate Capitol debate in Washington where the house accepted a Roosevelt compromise on veterans’ compensation by a 243 to 14 vote and indications point to senate approval.
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Texas
Washington
Juute
House
Roosevelt
Senate
Hau
Congress
Chamber
Higgs elected Texas Press president at Houston
Rufus V. Higgs editor of the Stephenville Empire Tribune was chosen president of the Texas Press Association at the final session of its fifty fourth annual convention in Houston. Herbert D. Clark 29 a Savage community farmer was found dead in a Ralls area cellar with a single barrel shotgun nearby. justice P M Reed ruled death by own action. Miss Sue Vinson visits relatives in Childress for the weekend.
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Miggs
Houston
Rufus V. Higgs
Stephenville Empire-Tribune
Texas Press Association
Ralls
Herbert D. Clark
P.M. Reed
Water record broken in Friday city water draw
A new city water consumption record was logged Friday with 2,143,000 stathos pumped from wells. Supt Andy Crocker and City Manager L Stine were cited, though the full report was not available by last night. Authorities noted a surge after a light stage period, with prior pumps unclear.
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Andy Crocker
L. Stine
Weather and debt report from London
Partly cloudy west Texas Sunday and Monday with cooler spells on Monday. In London the Exchequer's Neville Chamberlain will tell Parliament Tuesday the plan to address the 75,950,000 war debt payment due to the United States on Thursday.
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West Texas
London
Neville Chamberlain
House of Conumons
United States
Congress nears adjournment as tax and public works bills drift
Washington June 10 The White House backs the conference report on the industrial control public works bill leaving Senate action as the last hurdle. Senate debates center on tax program details including net worth and dividend levies, a gasoline tax rise, and funding for a 3.3 billion dollar bond issue. Amendments by LaFollette Borah and Clark shape publicity rules and antitrust codes while preserving certain exemptions and leaving presidential discretion on monopolistic acts.
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Washington
White House
Senate
Clark
Train to the Chicago World's Fair special offers limited seats
Pampa Daily News announces a special "Train to the Chicago World's Fair" with round trip railroad fare in day coach from 25.25 to 82.00, deposits required, and hotel and side trips priced. The trip runs July 15 to July 22, with a connecting club car and no all-expense package due to low demand.
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Pampa Daily News
Isava Pampa
Wea
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Fair Grounds
Pas AB
Duckson Park
Lincoln Park
Fale Park
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Rukhlovo
Great Breain
THES
Aane Aim
Seaman
Key, Warwick
Alken
Berlin
N. Gray
Pampa Hospital
White Deer Boy
R. M. Andrews
Dallas
Billie Woods
Clifford
Pson
Customs Officers
Odd Fellows
John Sneed
Pansy
Wotan
Virginia Rogers
Rogers
Cecil B. Dickson
Weller
Miss Sue Vinson
Childress
Mi Weather
TAK
President
Sev Congress
Chicago Fair
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