Solons Seek Probe Of Road Contracts In Two Counties
Three hundred people homeless as three breaks in Little Rock river levees flood White county land. Railroad tracks under water, Georgetown trestle afloat, livestock loss heavy. Refugees reach Kensett after sand bag efforts fail.
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Arkansas
Associated Press
Rock, Ark
White County
Little Rock River
Cunningham
Enright
Missouri and North Arkansas Railway
Georgetown
Kensett
East Panhandle Rail Line Plans Move Forward
Plans in Childress Texas call for a Wichita Falls meeting to recruit the Chicago Burlington and Quincy system, part of Fort Worth and Denver, to build a 606 mile line from Alliance Nebraska to connect with Denver at Childress. A survey is done and tonnage data compiled. The route would link Houston Dallas Fort Worth with the Panhandle oil field and wheat belt.
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the Associated Press
Childress
Tex
Wichita Falls
Chicago
Burlington and Quincey
Fort Worth
Denver
Alliance
Nebraska
Houston
Dallas
Panhandle
North America
Pardoned convict held for theft of turkeys
In San Angelo Texas R M Stevens a pardoned felon held on theft of seven turkeys charges after turkeys were sold in the city. James White and T C Rutledge deputies said Robert Stevens Bryant Fleming tied to the case. A Minn eola plated car was found near the arrest scene.
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Associated Press
San Angelo
Texas
R. M. Stevens
Ferguson
Taylor County
James White
T. C. Rutledge
Robert Stevens
Bryant Fleming
Mexican Government Pays Debt Installment in 1926
Official notice states Mexico has paid the last installment on its 1926 foreign debt. The sum was handed to the international committee of bankers in New York under the Pan-Latin agreement with the United States, marking a final payment.
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Cciated Presa
Mexico” City
International Committee of Bankers
New York
Mexico
United States
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Surrounding Areas
The forecast indicates Saturday will be fair and warm in Amarillo and nearby regions, with generally fair conditions across West Texas and New Mexico. A high pressure system over the Ohio Valley moves southeast, while a northern Rocky Mountain low shifts, bringing warmer air east of the Rockies and light rain along the Mississippi Valley and Pacific Northwest coasts. Temperature readings for Amarillo today show varying values through the afternoon.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic
Rocky Mountain Region
Rocies
North Pacific Coast
Mississippi Valley
Rocky Montain
Mivk Reese Ise
Erie Navn
P. Pas
Peter An
Bipe Coane Aals
New Straw Hat For English Turn Rain
Englishmen prepare a spring hat made from East Indian grass fiber, claimed as lighter than a feather. Rain shedding, available in eight colors with four designs including Panama Alpine with curled brim and a snap brim for youths. English demand lags behind American popularity due to uncertain weather and preference for felt or bowler.
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Associated Press
London
United States
Panama
Moody seeks two cent gasoline tax hike for highway funds
Governor Dan Moody urged the Texas Legislature to raise the gasoline gallonage tax from one to two cents, with House support already advancing a three cent proposal. He said the two cent rate would add about four million dollars to the highway fund and urged a two year operative term. He also recommended county retention of part of motor vehicle registration tax after June 1, 1927 for county roads.
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Highway Department
Dan Moody
House of the Fortieth
Moody
Senate
House Committee On Revenue and Taxation
Dale
Bonham and
Wallace
Freestone
House
Highway Fund
Bourgeois Cabinet Formed in Germany
President Von Hindenburg backs a right leaning bourgeois coalition as Chancellor Marx names a ministry with four centrists four nationalists two from the German People's Party and one non party member. The coalition holds 248 Reichstag votes against 223 for the opposition with 21 from the economic party neutral.
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Associated Press
Berlin
von Hindenberg
Marx
German People's Party
Bavarian Peoples Party
Reichstag
Economic Party
Probe of Facts Around Awards Set Under Ma's Term
A House concurrent resolution proposes a seven member joint committee to investigate road contracts in Montague and Wise counties after a January 10 letting. Comptroller Terrell says highway warrants are being held up pending AG department inquiry into discrepancies between contract figures and court quotes.
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Associated Press
Austin
Montague
Wise
State Highway Commission
House
Tillotson
Sealy
Williamson
San Antonio
Young
Wellington
Stevenson
Victoria
S. H. Terrell
Ferguson Commission
Attorney General's Department
Attorney General’s Department
George P. Robertson
Robertson
Senate
Comptroller’s Department
State Posts Reward for Coleman Slayer
Coleman Texas January 28 Governor Dan Moody issued a proclamation raising the Coleman reward to 1541 dollars for the arrest of a lone robber who shot J. A. Mitchell in his store Thursday night. The extra 250 dollars brings the total reward to be offered for six months. In Tennessee Nashville January 28 the house voted to repeal the blue law forbidding Sunday gasoline sales and auto accessory shops.
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Associated Press
Coleman
Tex
Dan Moody
J. A. Mitchell
Woodward
Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee House of Representatives
Prohibition Raids Sweep New York Area
Federal agents raided 49 sites from Park Avenue to Albany as part of a broad prohibition crackdown. Seizures included liquor valued at $3,000 and three arrests at a Park Avenue club with 100 well dressed patrons. In Greenwich Village a six story loft yielded a large denaturing plant and a warehouse with 175 fifty gallon drums of alcohol.
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Associated Press
New York
Park Avenue
Manhattan
Hudson Valley
Albany
Kingston
John Doe
Grand
Central Terminal
Prohibition
Greenwich Village
Graves Yield Fragmented Body of Woman Slain by Ball Bat
Associated Press report from Platteville Wisconsin recounts how authorities under William N. Coffey recovered parts of his second wife’s body from multiple graves at Riter’s Woods. Coffey claimed to have struck her with a baseball bat during a quarrel. The head was recovered and to be examined for injuries. sister Anna Holdridge of Rockford Illinois was summoned to identify the remains.
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Associated Press
Platteville Wis
William N. Coffey
Madison, Wisconsin
Bond
Riter
Lyall Wright
C. H. Andrew
Coffey
Mississippi
Anna Holdridge
Rockford
Mlinois
Riter’s Woods
Three Killed In Train Wreck Near Little Rock
A woman and her two young daughters died when their car was struck by a Missouri Pacific passenger train near Little Rock Arkansas. The husband was injured but not seriously. The victims were Mrs. Fred Rexer Agnes 13 and a 2 year old daughter. The car reportedly sped past a crossing flagman and narrowly avoided another northbound train before being hit.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
Ark
Missouri Pacific
Fred Rexer
Agnes
Rexer
Seek to Have Government Buy Only American Beef
Salt Lake City Utah January 28 In a set of about 25 resolutions debated at the closing session of the American National Livestock association convention one resolution urged the secretary of war and the secretary of the navy to require army and navy contractors to buy only American grown beef The resolution noted that the navy would be provisioning the fleet near Panama around March 1 with Australian and New Zealand beef to be sent to the Atlantic coast and called for American beef to be supplied at all times with the regular duty of 3 cents a pound paid on foreign beef.
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The
Associated Press
Salt Uke City
Utah
American National Livestock Association
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Army
Navy
United States Navy
Panama
New Zealand
Atlantic
Leahy Trial Opens in Georgetown on Dr Foley Slaying
Attorneys for state and defense shift to the Leahy case in Georgetown tracing a change of venue from Live Oak county. The defendant Harry J. Leahy faces trial for the Dr J A Foley killing after a prior 50 year verdict at George West was overturned and moved to Williamson county.
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Georgetown
Tex
Harry J. Leahy
J. A. Foley
Live Oak County
Ramsey
Mathis
George West
Leahy
Williamson County
Miner Rescued. One Fatality in Scott's Run Mine
Trapped 200 miners were saved from a smoke filled Scott's Run coal mine in Morganton West Virginia. One miner named Harry Sheldon of Fairdale Pennsylvania died in the incident.
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Morganton
W. VA
Scott's Run
Harry Sheldon
Fairdance
Resolution charges Judge Cooper with power usurpation
Washington Jan 28 A House resolution charges Federal Judge Frank Cooper of the Northern New York district with usurpation of power in enforcing the prohibition law and calls for impeachment. The measure was referred to the judiciary committee after Rep La Guardia demanded impeachment and a late tabling motion by Rep Stalker was not voted on.
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Associated Press
Washington
Frank Cooper
New York
House Today
Judiciary Committee
la Guardia
House
Stalker
Longworth
University Leader Opposes West Texas Land Tax
President W M W Splawn of Texas university objects to a San Angelo bill by Rep Boggs to tax 2 320 000 acres of university lands across 17 West Texas counties. He warns the move would cut the university endowment income used for campus building construction.
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Associated Press
Austin
W. M. W. Splawn
Texas University
Representative Boggs
San Angelo
West Texas
Boggs
Ambulance Driver Hurt While Transporting Shooting Victim
Bert Davis 22 ambulance driver was seriously injured when his vehicle collided with a street car while taking Joe Barbarosa 25 who had been shot to a hospital. Barbarosa likely will recover. Joe Lopez 22 a tailor was charged with the shooting.
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Associated Press
Houston
Bert Davis
Joe Barbarosa
Barbarosa
Joe Lopez
Bandits Take $109000 In Daring Jewel HoldUp
Sam Newman, a New York jewelry salesman, told police he was held up in Louisville on January 28 by two men. One struck him with a pistol and robbed him of $100,000 worth of unset diamonds from his clothing.
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Louisville
Sam Newman
New York
What Reed Said and What Coolidge Did
Senator Jim Reed of Missouri challenged the White House spokesman role claiming closer access to the president’s mind. He cited Coolidge’s promise of $300 million in taxpayer refunds and urged dropping the childish view of the president as sole mouthpiece. Coolidge also moved to improve the Senate health by asking Congress for 185 000 to install ventilation and dehumidification in the chamber.
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Washington
White House
Senate
Jim Reed
Missouri
Coolidge
Missourian
Reed
House Appropriations Committee
Six Teachers to Join Amarillo ISD Next Semester
Six new teachers have been authorized for the Amarillo Independent School District for the second semester. They will staff North Amarillo East Ward San Jacinto and the Junior High, with Pleasant Valley ready by March 1. Names are not yet released as positions are not filled. Enrollment for the second semester begins next week and McIntosh expects totals similar to the first half.
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Amarillo Independent
W. A. McIntosh
Pleasant Valley
McIntosh
North Amarillo
East Ward
San Jacinto
Noted swindler faces bankruptcy petition
Texarkana January 28 W A Hite former Texarkanan swindler was petitioned into bankruptcy by city attorney William V Brown for five Texarkana creditors before Judge W L Estes in the eastern district of Texas Hite is jailed in Arkansas and recently sentenced in Little Rock to three years and a $1000 fine for swindling His bankruptcy petition cites an act of bankruptcy by turning over to Arkansas National Bank of Hot Springs his entire estate including 3200 in cash and about 65000 in other property
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Associated Press
Texarkana
W. A. Hite
Texarkanan
William V. Brown
W. L. Estes
United States District Court
Texas
Hite
Pulaski County
Arkansas
Little Rock
Arkansas National Bank of Hot Springs
Irate Husband Tracked Down by Postmaster in Amarillo
A gray haired husband demanded his wife's address at the Amarillo post office. The wife had forbidden disclosure, and the postmaster used a special delivery letter to locate the address. The man traced a clerk, the letter was delivered, and the wife had moved two weeks earlier to a new residence with a young age.
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W. C. Kenyon
Amarillo
Mr. Kenyon
Eight killed in Scotland by high wind
Eight people died and about a hundred were injured in Glasgow as a south wind hurricane swept Britain from Land's End to John O'Groats. The storm caused overturned streetcars damaged rail lines and buildings, with 102 mph gusts at Renfrew and widespread disruption across England and Ireland.
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Scotland
Associated Press
Glasgow
Great Britain
Land’s End
England
John O’groat
Edinburgh
All Ireland
Cilly Isles
London
Renfrew
Anhout
Coolidge Faces Senate Clash Over Cruiser Project
The article reports President Coolidge likely loses a fight with the Senate over immediate construction of three scout cruisers. Leaders from both parties back the cruiser amendment to the naval supply bill. House opposition exists but supporters expect the House to accept the Senate plan. If vetoed, a special session may be needed.
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Washington
Coolidge
Senate
Chamber
Clusier
Hale
Naval Committee
House
Congress
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