Southwestern rail rate plan to be reviewed in Oklahoma City
A plan to separate Southwestern railroads from western regions for rate making will be discussed at the Southwestern Industrial Traffic League meeting in Oklahoma City on September 5. F A Leffingwell notes that higher freight rates could follow if Southwestern lines lose visibility when compared with the weak Western district. The advisory board moves its Oklahoma City session to September 4 to align with Chicago Interstate Commerce Commission talks. In New Orleans, a major dry agents raid netted liquor valued over 1 million and 30 wholesale dealers arrested as 200 federal raiders targeted bootleg operations from New Orleans to Biloxi, Mississippi. Union Brewery in New Orleans was seized as a key supply source for “real beer.”
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Associated
Bresa
Dallas
Southwestern
Central
Northwestern
Southwestern Industrial Traffic League
Oklahoma City
Western
F. A. Leffingwell
Wstern
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Southwest Shippers Advisory Board
Associated Press
New Orleans
Dominion
Theyuct
E. c. Yellowley
New Orieung
Biloxi
Miss
A. R. Harris
Union Brewery
Union
Weeks Indicates Resignation May Follow This Fall
Secretary Weeks hinted to President Coolidge that he may not return to Washington in the fall due to health. He left his summer home for the first time since illness and said his return depends on full recovery. Names like Charles D. Hilles and Dwight Davis have been mentioned as possible successors. Coolidge discussed Far East affairs with Charles R. Crane at a luncheon, considering leadership options and the ambassadorial post to Japan. William C. Boyden and William Bullitt are also reported as under consideration for Tokyo.
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Associated Press
Swampscott
Mass
Weeks
Coolidge
Washington
Charles D. Hilles
New York
Dwight Davis
Missouri
Charles R. Crane
China
Japan
Crane
William C. Boyden
Chicago
William Bullitt
Louisville
Tokyo
Government to Appeal Case Dismissal Over Naval Reserve Lease
Aug 11 Washington The Department of Justice announced an appeal of a federal court decision in Southern California which dismissed the government suit to cancel a lease on naval oil reserve lands held by Belidge Oil Company.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Justice
Federal Court For
California
Naval Oil Reserve
Belidge Oil Company
British Sign Opium Agreement For India
Geneva Aug 11 British minister to Switzerland signed on behalf of India the opium agreement adopted at Geneva last February.
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India
Geneva
Switzerland
Weather forecast for Amarillo and region persists
Amarillo and nearby areas expect Wednesday to be partly cloudy while West Texas remains generally fair and Eastern New Mexico sees little temperature change. Pressure patterns show high in southeast and northeast with relatively low in central and western districts. showers have occurred in the middle Rocky Mountain region and Ohio Valley areas with minimal temperature shifts and partly cloudy conditions possible tonight.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Rocky Mountain
Plais States
Ississippi
Ohio
Atlantic Coast
Eteaeie OH
Bennett Seeks Volunteers to Boost West Texas Chamber
West Texas Chamber of Commerce manager B F Bennett urged Amarillo residents firms and professionals to join the organization to ease upcoming committee work. Plans call for a local membership drive with 300 new members targeted this year up from 200 last year. Local leaders Ernest O Thompson J Lindsey Nunn S J Cole and O V Vernon assist in organizing. Information available at Board of City Development or chamber offices. Letters will be mailed detailing benefits and work ahead.
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B. F. Bennett
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Bennett
Amarillo
Printers Head Will Resume Conference With Publishers
Kalamazoo Mich Aug 11 Conferences between H E Thomason president of the newspaper publishers association and James M Lynch chief executive of the International Hyperographical Union will be resumed after the unions 70th annual convention. One hundred fifty local printers unions in the US and Canada have accepted the international arbitration method. Plans by the American Federation of Labor for a nationwide education and publicity campaign were discussed. A motion to place the ITU on record in favor of uniting printing trades was withdrawn.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
H. E. Thomason
Newspaper Publishers Association
James M. Lynch
International Hyprographical Union
United States
Canada
International
Publisher's Association
American Federation of Labor
Lynch
Early Panhandle pioneer J. J. Long dies at 74
Amarillo announces the death of J. J. Long of Mobee tie aged 74. Funeral services were held Sunday with burial. Long served as a government teamster under General Miles and Generals Custer and McKenzie. He helped cut cedar for the Fort Elliott flagpole and recalled an Indian raid on Sept 10 1874 that killed two and wounded several, with many mules killed.
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Amarillo
J. J. Long
Mobeetie
Panhandle
The
Daily News
Western Weekly
Fort Elliott
Johnny Long
Nelson A. Miles
Custer
McKenzie
Mr. Long
Buffalo Wallow
Public Schools Per Capita At $14 In Texas
The Texas state board of education approved a per capita apportionment of 14 dollars based on 1,340,000 students. They also set aside 1,974,841.65 for textbooks for the coming school year from a seven cent tax within the 35 cent school tax. The total text book fund comes from 9,874,228.27, and the fund does not cover contracts totaling 2,073,075. Over 200,000 dollars in school bonds were purchased by the board.
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Associated Press
Austin
State Board of Education
Supreme Court
Aged Negro Surrenders After Killing Sister in Quarrel
Jas per Richie, a gray haired one legged man walking with crutch, went to Miller county jail in Texarkana Ark and handed a 38 caliber gun to a sheriff's relative claiming he killed his sister during a quarrel over their shared cotton share crop. No officers were on duty and he was jailed. The sister had been shot five times.
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Associated Press
Texarkana
Ark
Jasper Richie
Miller County
One Dead and Another Hurt in Mine Powder Blast
McCurtain Oklahoma August 11 a truck load of powder exploded at the McCurtain coal mine entrance killing mine foreman George Hammons and badly burning Albert Williams who was hospitalized in Fort Smith Ark Williams lifted debris from Hammons and helped him to his feet as they staggered to seek aid Hammons died a Fort Smith hospital hours later leaving Williams with serious injuries but alive
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Associated Press
Mccurtain
Okla
George Hammons
Albert Williams
Fort Smith
Ark
Hammons
Williams
Negro Held For Rifling Mail In Corpus Christi
Henry Holt, a black man, was arrested by two postal inspectors in Corpus Christi on a charge of rifling U S mail. He is released on a $500 bond to await the January term of federal court in this city. Holt had a contract with the local post office to haul mail to and from the post.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
Henry Holt
U. S
Molt
Path
Victim Turns Up Alive So Murder Charges Dropped
In Texarkana Arkansas Albert Davis faced a murder preliminary hearing for the death of Bill Stevens. It surfaced that Stevens is alive, having been beaten and hospitalized, causing the case to be dismissed and Davis discharged. Stevens now resides in Midorado Arkansas.
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Associated Press
Texarkana
Ark
Albert Davis
Bill Stevens
Arkansas Municipal Court
Stevens
Signus
Miller County
Belgium Refunding War Debt Proposal Rejected
Washington Aug 11 Belgium’s first proposal to refund its 180 million dollar war debt to the United States was deemed unacceptable by the American commission. The two commissions will reconvene tomorrow to resume talks aiming at terms acceptable to both sides. Cocoanut Grove Fra Aug 11 Mrs William Jennings Bryan denies knowledge of Miss Dioness Bryan Evans and denies approval of Miles Evans plan for a national memorial to the commoner at Clewiston Fla The widow of the fundamentalist told the Associated Press. Miss Evans said the woman known as Mr Bryan’s God daughter had approved the site on Lake Okeechobee’s southwest shore for the monument.
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Associated Press
Washington
Belgium
United States
American Commission
Cocoanut Grove
Fra
William Jennings Bryan
Dioness Bryan Evans
Miles Evans
Clewiston
Fla
Temporary injunction stops dismantling Midland and Northwestern railways
A Texas judge granted a temporary injunction restraining the Texas and Pacific from dismantling the Midland and Northwestern railway. Hearing date not set. writ issued on petition filed ten days prior. A Norfolk explosion and fire at Pig Point ammunition depot destroyed the storage pier, with fire boats aiding and casualties unknown at midnight. grenades believed returned from Germany after the war fueled the blaze.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas and Pacific Railway Company
Midland and Northwestern Railway
George Calhoun
Fifty Third District Court
Norfolk
Pig Point
Portsmouth
Germany
Houston Man Shot Sunday Afternoon
Houston August 11. E T Stewart twenty was shot Sunday by Mrs Virginia Troxell and died this afternoon. Troxell, who Stewart claimed shot him, died almost instantly from a personal safety related wound.
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Houston
Dles
Associated Press
E. T. Stewart
Virginia Troxell
Abundance of Running Water Aids Kingsland Oil Drilling Surge
In South Hutchinson county the Twin-Six operation on the Kingsland and Weatherly ranches reports sustained water flow boosting new wells and locations across Weatherly Whittenburg Smith and Kingsland fields. The Twin-Six well in Section 6 Block Y yields 580 barrels daily, up from 100 on completion last December, as operators push toward supporting fifty to one hundred rigs. Other wells like Middleton No 1 Weatherly and South Hutchinson Oil No 1 Whittenburg expand activity with new offsets and early gas shows, signaling a broad oil pool expansion centered in Block Y.
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Twin-Six Oi Company
Kingsland Ranch
Weatherly
Whittenburg, Smith and
Kingsland
New South
Hutchinson County
Section 6
Block Y
Amarillo
J. D. Ward
H. E. Smith
Walter Kingsland
Middleton
J. H. Middleton
J. R. Phillips
Tulsa
South Hutchinson Oil Company
Whittenburg
Twin-Six
Wichita Falls
American Refining Company
Roxana
Smith
Phillips No
Rich Texan D. Sugg Dies in Chickasha Oklahoma
Special to The News from San Angelo Oklahoma reports J D Sugg a 74 year old millionaire ranchman banker and investor died in Chickasha after an extended illness. He owned thousands of acres in Texas and New Mexico holdings in San Angelo Gainesville Ranger and Santa Rosa and served as president of the First National Bank of Chickasha.
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San Angelo
D. Suge
Chickasha
Okla
Gainsville
Texas
Sugg
Irion
Reagan
Sterling
Tom Green
Central National Bank
First National Bank and
Central Storage Company
Sage
First National Bank
J. D. Sugg
First National Bank of
Ranger
Mississippi
Oklo
Baptists Reelect Fuqua and Nunn Officers at Claude Meeting
At Claude the Palo Duro Baptist Association held its 34th annual meeting with reelection of W. H. Fuqua as moderator and Dr. J. E. Nunn as treasurer. Amarillo’s Rev. Robert Pryde named clerk and Claude’s Rev. C. E. Griswold as corresponding secretary.
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Claude
W. H. Fuqua
J. E. Nunn
Amarillo
Palo Duro Baptist Association
Robert Pryde
C. E. Griswold
F. 8. Groner
Dallas
J. C. Sizemore
Tabernacle Baptist Church of
Man who saved life of Taft to be taken from potter field
James Rodgers of Canandaigua New York left for Harrisburg to claim the body of his brother John Rodgers who reportedly saved former President Taft from death when Taft was governor general of the Philippine Islands. John was drowned in the Susquehanna River and buried in the almshouse cemetery after the incident.
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Taft
Potter Field
Pregg
Mr. Tatt
Texas Commission Notified Of Rock Island New Line
The Interstate Commerce Commission granted the right of McAllen and Edinburgh to intervene in the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass Railway extension in the Rio Grande Valley and protest against the St. Louis Brownsville and Mexico Railway. The Texas Railroad Commission was notified and learned that Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway seeks to extend its line from Liberal Kansas to Amarillo Texas.
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Austin
McAllen
Edinburgh
Texas
San Antonio
Arkansas Pass Railway
Company
Rio Grande Valley
St. Louis, Brownsville
Mexico
Interstate Commerce Commission
Texas Railroad Commission
Texas Commission
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company
Liberal
Kans
Amarillo
Louisiana Man Slain as Fiancee Looks On
Walter Myers twenty two was stabbed to death at the St. Maurice settlement Winn Parish while his fiancee who he was to marry Thursday watched. J W Snelling fifty one is jailed in Winnfield charged with murder. No motive given. Myers and Snelling were farmers near St Maurice. the killing occurred at Snelling's home during a dance.
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Associated
Shreveport
Walter Myers
St. Maurice
Winn Parish
J. W. Snelling
Winnfield
Migs Wright
Myers
Snelling
King Myers
Siven
Noted Teacher Weds Austin Man
Miss Myra Winkler-El Paso educator and former county superintendent marries Andrew Jackson Zilker of Austin in El Paso. She led El Paso schools for ten years and taught history at the University of Texas. The couple plans to reside in Austin after departing El Paso.
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Associated Progrsi
Paso
Myra Winkler
el Paso
Andrew Jackson
Zilker
Austin
Myra C. Winkler
Adoption nullified in Browning Spas case at Queens Surrogate
Marysie Spas, selected from 12 000 applicants, had adoption annulled by Edward W Browning in Queens Surrogate Court ending a week long romance. The girl waived any claim to Browning fortune and her relatives agreed to no further legal action. She left with her parents in a taxi after the hearing, showing little sign of affection in public.
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Associated Press
New York
Marysie Spas
Edward W. Browning
Queens County
Browning
Arl
Arly
Mary
Mary Louise
Wickfort
Clariate
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Charles Tally
Southwestern University
Beaumont, Tex
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the News-Post
D. Sugg
Baptists
Fuqua and Nunn
Rock Island
Herbert Waterbury
May
May Seymour
Louisiana
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