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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1925
Page
1
Two Amarillo men who died in 1924 are awarded Carnegie medals for bravery. The ceremony honors their acts, preserving their memory within the community and highlighting the enduring significance of Carnegie recognitions.
Glen A. Randall and Schuyler W. Hammer, Amarillo residents, were awarded Carnegie Hero Fund silver medals for risking their lives in a January 13, 1924 ice rescue near Claude Armstrong County. The award also supplies lifelong stipends to their widows, Dewey M. Randall and Carrie Hammer, with monthly payments for their infants.
N. and Davis, assistant general passenger agent for Fort Worth and Denver railway, died in Fort Worth after a pneumonia bout. He was 59, served 35 years, survived by a wife and two sons. funeral planned in Fort Worth. Davis last visited Amarillo Nov. 20 with Shrine Imperial Potentate James E. Chandler.
Special to The News from Canadian Texas Texas cases against Tom Cook and T J Boney moved from Roberts County to Canadian and set for trial today were continued after the defendants protested sickness A bank failure at Miami last year sparked the cases with the Texas defendants seeking delays due to illness certified by physicians
The Texas Senate formed a five member committee to draft a plan of procedure on restoring James Ferguson's political rights. Senators Pierce Ward Lloyd Price J Roy Hardin Gus Russek and Walter Woodward will meet soon to decide legal approaches and whether a constitutional amendment is needed.
The National Child Labor committee says the legislatures adverse vote on a constitutional child labor amendment is not final. It expects six states to reverse action and continue the fight for protections, noting all states already have child labor laws and that ratification may take two years.
Ex governor Jonathan M. Davis of Kansas and former state bank commissioner Carl J. Peterson will be arraigned in Topeka on bribery charges. Warrants were issued on the complaint of Captain W. A. Smith after Attorney General C. B. R. Griffith secured approval from Governor Ben S. Paulen to pursue the investigation.
Hundreds of Amarillo homes save by taking The News and Post combo for 1.00 monthly. The News and Evening Post separately cost 1.30. Readers get two daily newspapers and many exclusive features. The Daily News adds a children's feature and an illustrated poem daily. The papers boast unmatched comics and the Home Owned, Home Edited motto.
Austin January 98 The Texas supreme court upholds the 38th legislature law placing highway maintenance under the state highway commission. The decision, written by Justice William Pierson, declares public roads state property and subject to state control, settling Limestone county’s injunction and facially supporting a plan to secure 4.5 million dollars yearly federal aid. If state control is not achieved by November 1926, federal aid would be withdrawn.
The House criticizes President Coolidge's interstate commerce commission appointment as violating bipartisan selection spirit. In Herrin a coroner's jury nears a non-committal verdict on the death of S. Glenn Young amid Kluxian liquor raider ties. In San Francisco Ariel Fegers is shot and killed after a failed escape attempt from a fugitive warrant. In Austin a two year extension of freight rates for the Kansas City Mexico and Orient railroad to Feb 1957 is granted by the railroad commission.
Amarillo and vicinity Thursday will be partly cloudy and colder. West Texas and Panhandle Thursday mostly cloudy and chilly. Eastern New Mexico fair west unsettled east portion with much colder conditions and a moderate cold wave extreme east. Temperature details appear corrupted in the source text.
In Austin on January 28 women mobilize against the Sheppard-Towner maternity act. The finance committee moves to cut appropriations, while Senator John Davis of Dallas introduces repeal of the act, aligning Texas with the federal law. Women leaders gather to back the state lobby and oppose the proposal.
Mount Vernon Texas January 28 Phillip Leblaw 35 machinist Paris was killed and Ernest Mitchell seriously injured when a fly wheel burst at Gulf Pipe Line Company pumping station. Several other employees had narrow escapes. Cause of accident undetermined.
In Austin on January 28 the attorney general's department prepared a motion to advance the state's appeal on the San Antonio District Court docket. The appeal seeks to overturn a judgment declaring the ranger force unconstitutional and will be filed with the fourth Court of Civil Appeals at San Antonio in a few days, said assistant attorney general C. A. Wheeler.
Washington officials report a Bureau of Mines team believes carbon black can be made from oils via an electrical process. The method faces no clear advantage over existing incomplete combustion routes, while Texas and other states have discouraged production. Louisiana remains the center of U S carbon black output, with shipments traveling long distances to major markets amidst high freight costs.
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