Secretaries and wives sail for London arms talks voyage
The American delegation headed by Secretary Stimson sails from Hoboken aboard the George Washington to attend the naval arms limitation conference in London. Also aboard are Secretary Adams and Senator Reed with their wives and secretaries, expressing high hopes for success. The party departs amid goodwill and optimism for the mission.
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Associated Press
Hoboken
N. J
Europe
London
United States
Great Britain
Japan
France
Italy
Henry T. Stimson
Bee
Francis Adams
David A. Reed
Pennsylvania
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Dwight W. Morrow
Mexico
Stimson
George Washington
Noted woman flier killed en route to Miami air derby
Mrs. Neva Finley Paris 36 of Great Neck New York, famed aviatrix, died when her plane crashed into a marsh near Woodbine Georgia while en route to Miami Florida for the national air derby. She finished fifth in last summer’s event and had been flying in short hops from Great Neck.
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Miami
Associated Press
Woodbine
Neva Finley Paris
Great Neck
N. Y
Satilla River
Fla
Paris
Gas Blast in Pennsylvania Kills Two Injures Five
A house explosion in Easton Pennsylvania killed two people injured five and left two missing. Two injured are in serious condition at Easton hospital.
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Pennsylvania
Associated Press
Peer Ons Pa
Easton Hospital
Weather recast for Amarillo and nearby regions
Friday fair in Amarillo with a mix of fair and unsettled conditions in West Texas and New Mexico. West and central portions may see warmer readings while overall Friday remains unsettled and cold. Hourly temperature notes and a 24 hour precipitation total of .22 inches ending yesterday at 4 pm.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Ed Bok, Noted Editor, Dies at Florida Home
Ed ward William Bok, famed editor and philanthropist, died at his Lake Wales Florida mountain lake home after a four day illness from a heart attack. He will be buried tomorrow at the foot of his singing tower in the bird sanctuary near his winter home, in a special crypt he built at the base of the tower.
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Associated Press
Lake Wales
Fla
Edward William Bok
Mountain Lake
Bok
Stork's Gain in 1929 City Population Totals 489
The stork is credited with a net increase of 489 in the city's population during 1929, per the annual report of the city health department. Births filed totaled 949 with 460 deaths. 28 births and 15 deaths were Mexicans, and 26 births and 21 deaths were Negroes. Seven more girls than boys were born, and deaths among men exceeded those for women by 66.
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Health Department
Schwab Urges Youth to Seize Open Opportunities
Charles M Schwab urges ambitious youths to seize leadership chances as America offers more paths to success today than in his youth. He recalls starting from $1 a day and rising to head Bethlehem Steel, highlighting self made ascent and enduring fun of striving.
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Charles M. Schwab
America
Bethlehem Steel Company
Pennsylvania
Slate Crushes Four Men in Kentucky Mine
Hazard Kentucky January 9 three men were instantly killed and one seriously injured when a 10 ton slate slab fell in the Dark Fork Coal Co mine four miles from Hazard. The dead are Leslie Haney age 26 John H Combs age 21 and Curt Blankenship age 21. The men were waiting for a motor to move coal cars when the slate collapsed.
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Associated Press
Hazard
Dark Fork Coal Company
Leslie Haney
John H. Combs
Curt Blankenship
Dairyman Dies in Dawn Affray Near Spurger
In Tyler County near Spurger on the Neches River Tom Bower a dairyman died from a gunshot wound after an early morning clash with neighbor John Hooks a farmer who was wounded and taken to Kirby Lumber Company hospital Silsbee Physicians say Hooks cannot recover both men were married with children and lived within 400 yards of each other the incident began with an axe attack by Bower before the fatal shooting
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Associated Press
Beaumont
Texas
Tom Bower
Bowers Ferry
Spurger
Tyler County
Neches River
John Hooks
Kirby Lumber Company
Silsbee
Bower
Hooks
Woodville
Mississippi Valley Faces Rising Waters Amid Rainfall
Rain swells streams across the lower Mississippi valley as flood threats grow. Cairo reports rising river levels with the Ohio possible to push the Mississippi toward flood stage at Cairo. Memphis forecasts around 31 to 35 feet, with Levies under risk as Quachita Black and St Francis rivers flood nearby bottomlands.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi Valley
Cairo
Mississippi
Ohio
New Madrid
Hickman
Arkansas
Black
St. Francis
Apartment house gas blast injures two in Houston
An accumulation of gas in a fashionable Houston apartment building ignited and blew out walls, injuring Mrs. L. L. Hughes and the young son of Mrs. Jd. D. Cammer. The explosion rattled windows for blocks and hurled bricks and splinters over 100 feet. No serious injuries reported. cause not yet determined.
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Associated Press
Houston
Texas
L. L. Hughes
Jd. D. Cammer
Coleman Bradford of Pampa Dies at 70
Coleman W. Bradford, 70, longtime Gray county resident, died today in Pampa. He was known in connection with the case State versus C. W. Bradford et al on appeal, testing the Small land bill validating vacant titles.
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Associated Press
Pampa
Coleman W. Bradford
Gray County
Bradford
State
C. W. Bradford
Diplomatic Corps Changes Announced From White House
Three Senate nominated diplomats are named as ambassadors and ministers to Germany Austria and Czechoslovakia. Sackett is named ambassador to Germany, Stock ton minister to Austria, Rathesky minister to Czechoslovakia. Retirements noted include Albert Henry and Lewis Einstein. Robbins reassigned in Latin America. Dunn to handle protocol work at State Department.
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Associated Press
Washington
Europe
White House
Senate
Frederick M. Sackett
Kentucky
Germany
Jacob Gould Schurmann
Gilbert Stockton
Florida
Austria
Abraham C. Rathesky
Massachusetts
Czechoslovakia
State Department
Albert Henry
Lewis Einstein
New York
Foreign Relations Committee
Warren Delano Robbins
San Salvadore
James C. Dunn
Protocol Division
Dunn
Robbins
Frank B. Kellogg
Dolly Gann
Curtis
Gann
Diplomatic Corps
Grand Jury Reconvenes in Borger Liquor Case
U S grand jury will reconvene here tomorrow at 10 o clock for a session in Borger and Hutchinson County cases. No trials are planned. the session will focus on indictments if any are returned. Prohibition conspiracy charges underpin the probe that began in December.
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Grand Jury
Borger
Hutchinson County
U. S
U. S. District Court
Thirty Injured in Philadelphia Theater Explosions
In Philadelphia four explosions rocked the Globe theater at Market and Juniper causing over 30 injuries, four severe, after a fire in the ruins. A spark dropping into an acetylene tank is suspected. crowds fled as debris shattered windows near City Hall where Mayor Mackey narrowly avoided the blasts.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Globe Theater
Market and
Juniper Streets
City Hall
Harry A. Mackey
Freight embargo hits Laredo gateway for year
Houston January 9. The Missouri Pacific lines and the Texas Mexican railway declared an embargo on all freight business using Laredo as a gateway. It covers shipments to Laredo only. The measure stems from tensions over the threatened arrest of former Mexican President Calles. Officials cannot yet say how long the embargo will last.
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Associated Press
Houston
Missouri Pacific Lines
Texas- Mexican Railway
Laredo
Mixzouri Pacific
Calles
Mexico
John A. Walls
Missouri Pacific
Phillips Petroleum Man 18 Nationally Honored
W B Davis of Phillips Petroleum was elected chairman of the production division of the American Petroleum Institute. William Irish of Atlantic Refining becomes chairman of the refining division and H M Dawes of Pure Oil chairs the marketing division.
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Associated Presse
New York
W. B. Davis
Phillips Petroleum Company
American Petroleum Institute
William Irish
Atlantic Refining Company
H. M. Dawes
Pure Oil
Amarillo booster special to Washington for Panhandle A M College aid
Frank Butler vice president of 6 American State Bank of Amarillo will represent Amarillo and the Chamber of Commerce on the Booster Special leaving Texhoma Oklahoma at 1 46 p m Monday January 18 for Washington. He will travel overland from Texhoma Monday morning to join the special two Pullmans may be needed to handle reservations. The trip aims to secure federal aid for Panhandle A M College at Goodwell Oklahoma and would accelerate college facilities and regional agricultural and livestock development.
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Frank Butler
American State Bank of
Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Texhoma
Oklahoma
Washington
Panhandle
Texas
Oma
Clovis 10 to Build $240000 Spanish Mission Hotel
Clovis New Mexico will host the first of 206 Southwest Hotels in a $240000 Spanish Mission structure. The seven to ten story hotel will include ten shops a dining room and ballroom on the second floor and in room radios and circulating ice water. Construction begins by mid February and other Panhandle cities including Canadian and Quanah may receive hotels.
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Clovis
New Mexico
Southwest Hotels, Inc
Colorado
Gulf
Franklin L. Campbell
Capitol Hotel
Clow
Quanah
Panhandle
Mr. Campbells
Hedley Crash Victim To Be Moved To City Hospital
Lehroy White of 1617 Jackson Street will be transported today from Adair hospital in Clarendon to St Anthony's hospital in this city after a head on collision on highway 5 between Lelia Lake and Hedley. He suffers a dislocated hip, a fractured arm and head injuries. Ralph Moreman of Ledley, driver of the other car, has a broken leg and body bruises.
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Lehroy
White
Jackson Street
Adair Hospital
Clarendon
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Boxwell Brothers
Ralph Moreman
Lledley
Lelia Lake
Hedley
Blizzard Kills Six as Cold Grips Midwest and West
A severe blizzard drives zero temperatures and paralyzes transport across the region. Six deaths are attributed to the cold as light snowfall shifts eastward and southward from the central states. Lubbock reports record cold with temperatures near three degrees above zero and heavy snows blanketing the area.
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Lubbock
Associated Prensa
Tex
Winter Storm Paralyzes Central U S and Northward Reach
A fierce snowstorm blankets Iowa Nebraska Oklahoma Missouri and Texas with sub zero depths in Montana Wyoming and Colorado. Winnipeg records 36 below, the coldest since 1922. The Army mid winter test flight from Selfridge Field to Spokane is postponed a second time amid deaths in Missouri Oklahoma Kansas and Colorado. Miss Maude Adams dies after braving snow drifts on her way to work. Mrs Elgie Brown of Ford aged 24 noted in Kansas City report.
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Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Winnipeg
Canada
Mercury
Army
Selfridge Field
Michigan
Spokane
Wauh
Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansan
Maude Adams
Kanes City
Elgie Brown
Ford
Intervenors Cleared to Join Santa Fe North Rail Project
The Interstate Commerce Commission allowed four organizations to intervene in railway construction applications by Panhandle Santa Fe Elkhart Santa Fe and Dodge City Cimarron Valley. The Denver Union Stock Yard Company Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce Las Animas Chamber of Commerce and La Junta Chamber of Commerce will participate in the Amarillo Texas to Las Animas Colorado connecting line case.
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Associated Press
Washington
Interestate Commerce Commission
Panhandle & Santa Fe
Elkhart & Santa Fe
Dodge City & Cimarron Valley Railways
Amarillo
Texas
Las Animas
Colo
Denver Union Stock Yard Company
Colorado Springs
Wanted Shopper Teaches Quick Cash for Used Clothing
Mrs Wanted Shopper shares a simple method to sell outgrown clothing for cash. She notes paying cash for a new coat and urges readers to call 6262 for help writing an ad that attracts buyers.
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Fred
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