Violent Death Toll In Week End Tragedies Across Texas
The Associated Press reports 18 people died violently last weekend across Texas. Drowned: Douglas Pitts 38 entangled in a wire near Hubbard. Mile lard Shaw Jr 80. Blakey 22 Corpus Christi and Doris Crossman Houston drowned from boating accidents. Also killed were Aire W R Conts Corpus Christi stepping from car. Tee F Deville 52 Bay City struck by auto. Willie Lee McDonald 38 Pharr Houston from crash injuries. Charles Bickley 28 Commerce teacher when car overturned on Sulphur Springs Commerce highway. Jerome Perkins killed when auto hit highway bridge near Kilgore. Milton L Wood Jr 17 near Fort Worth drowned in shallow water. George Rumors 32 Houston crushed repairing in plant. Carl Miller 35 Waxahachie killed by gas. L Whitfield and Walter B Holmes shot to death at Brownwood. Randolph Gillespie jury verdict: M G Hughes shot his 17 year old bride and killed himself at Odessa. Fred A Pointer 46 plowed by moonlight near Carrizo Springs. Suspect held in Dimmit county. Milton Wilkins 31 farmer shot in Hempstead beer parlor. Gardner Henson Jr 21 charged with murder.
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J. Jerome Perkins
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Casterberry Community
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George Rumors
Carl Miller
Haoma
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Fred A. Pointer
Carrizo Springs
Dimmit
Milton Whikins
Hempstead
Gardner Henson Jr
Unions Back NLRB Opposition in Los Angeles July
Fifty eight American Federation of Labor unions in Los Angeles area adopted resolutions opposing amendments to the National Labor Relations Act. They assert the act favors workers organized in bona fide unions and oppose change. A congressional committee is to investigate alleged bias at the labor board related to the GI. O.
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Los Angeles
American Federation of Lacrations
Los Angles Brea
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Young Roosevelt Hit by Friar
Detroit report cites Fr Curran accusing Elliott Roosevelt, son of the president, of bartering away his status as an independent and sincere news broadcaster in response to Roosevelt’s criticism of the Royal Oak church group, urging Americans to distrust his broadcast claims.
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Hiab
Elliott Roosevelt
Edward Lodge Curran
Brooklyn
Catholic International Truth Society
Charles 8
Coughiit
Yong Roosevelt
Royal Oak
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Coughlin
Roosevelt
My Wives of America
Quezon hints at reelection under constitutional changes
July 1941 report notes President Manuel Quezon saying he will not seek reelection if the term is shortened by constitutional amendments repealing the non reelection clause. He spoke at Meditation Ceremonies in Tabayas and affirmed retirement to private life, while a party spokesman said he might run if amendments prevailed. Also mentions Gideons event and Hawdin’s third term as head of the Gideons.
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New National Park
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Tabayas
Nacionalista Party
Gideons
Britain Recognizes Japan's Special Needs in China War
London reports Prime Minister Chamberlain formally recognizes Japan's special requirements in China and denies policy shift toward Germany. He cites no alliance with Japan against China and notes discussions with Germany were unofficial. Britain’s stance is seen as granting Japan long-desired belligerent rights in the undeclared conflict.
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China
House of Commits
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R. &. Hudson
Helmut Wotlthab
Jed
Chamberlahy
Great Britain
Mass wedding in Montreal ends with mass fainting
Three hundred spectators at a Montreal baseball park witnessed a mass fainting during a wedding ceremony. Eight remained hospitalized overnight, none seriously hurt, and none of the 460 newlyweds was affected. Victims, mostly girls, were caused by heat, excitement, and fatigue during the event organized by the Young Catholic Workers movement featuring 100 couples in French Canadian unions.
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Montreal
Wight Atd
Amd
Kellogg Pact Marks Ten Years Since its Event
Washington July 26 marks ten years since President Hoover announced the Kellogg pact in the White House East Room to deter war by renouncing it. Secretary of State Silmon and former President Kellogg joined the ceremony with other officials and diplomats from 43 nations as attention shifts to evolving European tensions and the pact’s lingering influence.
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Hoover
White House
Silmsong
Frank B. Kelloge
Goolidge
Europe
Japs Confess In Forceful East Bank Clash Along Mongol Border
Reports from Moscow recount ongoing border warfare between Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia as Japanese and Mongol forces clash along the river. Reinforcements were dispatched by both sides amid artillery and infantry exchanges. Soviet news cited Japanese air incursions and numerous attacks repulsed with heavy losses.
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Tokio
Manchoukue
Khalka Tlyver
Manchonukuo
Outer Mongolia
Moscow
Tats
Chiter Mongolia
Suspect Silent in 7 Extortion Attempt
In Pueblo Colorado on July 24 1917 Alex Haste faces extortion charges after sending threatening letters to Mah Lon Thatcher a wealthy Pueblo banker and mining man and his daughter Katherine Thatcher 21 a Denver University student. Wingren assistant United States district attorney in Denver said the writer demanded up to 25000 under threats of dire consequences.
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Pueblo
Colo
Alex Haste
Thatcher
Katherine E. Thatcher
Denver
Fugitive Ray Ivey Captured by State Police
State police identified Ray Ivey by fingerprints as the escapee from Wynnie prison who fled June 9. Ivey was recaptured after inquiry from the Identification Bureau and held in St. Louis awaiting further disposition.
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Austin
Ray Ivey
St. Louis
Ivey
Wynnie
Cottonseed Plan Urged In Texan Cotton Trade
Washington July 24 A proposal backed by the Association of Southern Commissioners of Agriculture urges Congress to support a cottonseed plan. The idea seeks higher cottonseed prices in Texas and calls for the Agriculture Department to buy large quantities of seed off the market. A telegram from Texas Agriculture Commissioner J E McDonald to Rep Kleberg notes cotton prices declining from 12.60 to 14 per ton as Rio Grande congestion worsens during the hot season.
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UTI
Abropasa
Congress
Texas
Agricultture Department
Association of Southern Commissioners of “Agriculture
J. E. McDonald
Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
Kleberg
Rio Grande
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