Party Leaders Selected For Road Posts
R S Sterling of Houston and Cone Johnson of Tyler will be confirmed unanimously as state highway commissioners, Moody naming ardent supporters to key posts. A West Texas third seat may be sought by lawmakers, with Wade leading the delegation. Sterling is an oil executive and Houston Post director. Johnson is a veteran Texas attorney and former legislator with a long national party record.
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Associated Press
Austin
R. S. Sterling
Houston
Cone Johnson
Tyler
Senate
Dan Moody
Moody
Ferguson Highway Commission
Texas
Highway Commission
West Texas
Homer D. Wade
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Adrian Poey
el Paso
E. S. Cummings
Abilene
A. H. King
Throckmorton
J. C. Hall
Colorado
J. H. Boggs
San Angelo
Victor Gilbert
Baird
Sterling
Johnson
Anahuac
Chambers County
Houston Post Dispatch
Houston Port Commission
Dawsonville
Georgia
Texas House of Representatives
Texas Senate
Joe Bailey
United States
O. B. Colquitt
Baltimore
Woodrow Wilson
State Department
Bryan
Lansing
San Francisco
San Antonio
Colorado wins West Texas Chamber meeting 1928 district vote
Midland Texas January 25 Alesis won the 1928 district convention of the West Texas chamber of commerce beating Seminole by nine votes at the regional gathering. Despite bad weather and poor roads unusual attendance marked the event. The group urged proper legislation on flagmen at grade crossings and discussed adding crossroad safety measures. Navy air service representatives will enter the National elimination bal.
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Associated Press
Midland
Texas
Alesis
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Damages Set For Sandpile Fall At Rock Island Lot
In district court Dewey Boyd by his mother Mary Boyd reached a $1,300 damages settlement for a sandpile fall on a vacant lot at Rock Island tracks and Buchanan street. Underhill Construction had already paid $1,100 for lost time and medical costs. Fuqua bears no costs.
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Dewey Boyd
Mary Boyd
H. W. Underhill Construction Company
W. H. Fuqua
Underhill Construction Company
Fuqua
Rock Island Tracks
Buchanan Street
Fort Worth Minister Norris Acquitted in Chipps Murder
Acquitted Rev Frank Norris, a famed Fort Worth fundamentalist minister, was cleared by an Austin jury of the murder of Dexter Chipps, a wealthy Fort Worth lumberman. Chipps was killed in Norris's study at the First Baptist Church. Norris claimed self defense.
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Frank Norris
Fort Worth
Austin
Dexter Chipps
Chipps
Norris
First Baptist Church
Norris acquitted in Texas church murder case
Dr J Frank Norris, Fort Worth pastor, is found not guilty of murdering Dexter Chipps in his church office. The jury accepts self defense arguments under apparent danger as motive. Chipps Jr., the slain man’s son, tearful, parts from crowd as Norris greets supporters.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
J. Frank Norris
Fort Worth
Travis County
Dexter E. Chipps
Norris
Chipps
H. C. Meacham
S. A. Philquist
Marvin Simpson
Simpson
Dexter E. Chipps, Jr
Aggie Station for Panhandle Sought in Amarillo Plan
Amarillo Board of City Development seeks a 150000 state appropriation to establish an agricultural experiment station at Amarillo led by Representative Lee Satterwhite. The plan aims to aid Panhandle livestock development and attract settlers, with seven land sections proposed and local officials including P. C. Bennett and Judge J. W. Crudgington guiding the effort.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Agricultural Department
Board of City Development
P. C. Bennett
J. W. Crudgington
Protestant Ministers to Form Alliance in Amarillo
An alliance of Protestant ministers in Amarillo is scheduled for Wednesday at 10:30 in the directors' rooms of the American State Bank. Several ministers who met Monday called the session and all Christian pastors are urged to attend. Rev. Louis N. Stuckey is temporary chairman and Rev. John F. Johnston is temporary secretary.
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Amarillo
American State Bank
Louis N. Stuckey
John F. Johnston
Flamed Blaze Grips Quaker Oats Mill in Cedar Rapids
A major fire at the Quaker Oats cereal mill in Cedar Rapids Iowa killed one worker and left at least two missing after a blast on the fifth floor. Fire spread rapidly as flames consumed the large milling plant, with names of the dead and missing not yet released.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Quaker Oats
Increased Pay Demands Push Panhandle Rig Builders Toward Settlement
Borger area rig builders strike for a $16 to $18 daily wage, up from $14 to $16. By week’s end many workers return to rigs as contractors capitulate, with 82 foot rigs rising from 4600 to 4700 to 5000 dollars and costs to producers increasing. The I W W controversy is denied with claims that harsher gas hazards and dirtier work were overstated.
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Borger
Panhandle
Plains
White House rejects Woods nomination to ICC
The White House announced that Cyrus F. Woods of Pennsylvania will not have his nomination to the Interstate Commerce Commission resubmitted after the Senate rejected it yesterday. In Nicaragua four hundred United States Marines arrived in Corinto from Panama aboard the Argonne to relieve the current detachment.
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Associated Press
Washington
Cyrus FE. Woods
Pennsylvania
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate
White House
Mangua
Nicaragua
United States
Corinto
Panama
Argonne
Solons Advise Coolidge to Arbitrate Mexico Crisis
The senate unanimously urged President Coolidge to arbitrate disputes with Mexico over oil and land laws. All 79 senators present supported the resolution with some expressing reservations about executive autonomy, signaling a return to arbitration as a policy. The action set up continuation on page two.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Today
Coolidge
Mexico
Republic
Farmer-Labor
Robinson
Arkansas
Foreign Relations Committee
Norris Portrayed as Pistol Toter by Prosecutor in Death Penalty Plea
In Austin district court the prosecutor labeled Dr. Frank J. Norris a pistol packing parson while Norris faced a jury seeking the death penalty for murder. The defense portrayed him as a spiritual leader, with spectators filling the courtroom and press areas, many staying through the noon recess.
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Norris
Associated Press
Austin
William McLean
Southwest
Frank J. Norris
McLean
Chipps
Wild Bill
Clara Smith Hamnon
Jake Hannon
Oklahoma
National Republican
Man Found Dead In Pampa Garage
Special to The News. In Pampa Texas on January 25 B. E. Howell 65 was found dead in a shack behind the Schafer Hotel. Death from asphyxia is suspected with the body indicating it had been dead about a week. Sheriff Graves found a small amount of change and a partial liquor bottle on him. Relatives are being sought. Howell was a carpenter at the Schneider hotel and a Mason and Loyal Order of Moose member. His car bears a Colorado license.
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Pampa
Texas
B. E. Howell
Schafer Hotel
Iola Youth Shot and Killed by Brother in Kansas
Raymond Maloney, 15, was shot and killed in Iola Kansas today by his brother Lee Maloney, 20. Police reported the incident occurred in the share of the family residence and are investigating the motive and circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting.
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Iola
Kansas
Raymond Maloney
Lee Maloney
Oldest Texan Ruth Knopp Dies at 77 in Amarillo
Ruth Knopp 77, claimed oldest native Texan, died Tuesday at 4 o clock at the home of her daughter Mrs. Murray Elson 1407 Washington Amarillo. She had lived with her daughter since her husband’s death nine years ago and had been bedbound since May. The body was at Blackburn Funeral Home and to be moved to the Elson home for 4 pm services.
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Ruth Knopp
Murray Elson
Blackburn
Elson
Trial recounts Norris shooting after threats from Chipps
The defense and state witness accounts conflict over whether Norris acted in self defense when Chipps urged murder and threatened friends. Mrs Roxie Parker, 76, testified she arrived at Norris door as Chipps was shot with one eye witness in court. The verdict followed fourteen days of heated argument and testimony.
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Chinps
Norris
Roxie Parker
Tarrant County
Former Amarillo Mayor Lightburne Dies in San Antonio
S Lightburne an early prominent Amarillo citizen and former mayor died in San Antonio Texas He was a longtime dry goods merchant at the corner of Sixth and Polk He moved from Rockport to San Antonio years ago and died there Funeral services for Mr Lightburne were announced
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S. Lightburne
Amarillo
San Antonio
Texas
Robert
Lightburner
Ciny
Sixth and
Polk
Turner
Lightburne
Rockport
Ner
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