Boosters Rally North Plains Tour Through 18 Towns
Amarillo boosters complete a broad drive across 18 towns in the North Plains Central Panhandle and western Oklahoma with a welcome in Pampa. Frank Keim and Scott Bareys greet the delegation as the band performs, and Sr. Clark Buckner delivers the keynote at the parade town hall.
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Henry Ansley Pampa
Amarillo
Super
Boosters
North Plains
Central Panhandle
Oklahoma
Pampa
Oil City
Frank Keim
Chamber of Commerce
Scott Bareys
Clark Buckner
First Christian Church of
Amarillo booster train touts regional prosperity en route
Report from Spearman to Amarillo describes vast wheat potential, cattle numbers, and oilfield growth as boosters tour Hansford and Pampa. They claim 500 000 acres of wheat and 100 000 cattle observed, with carbon black plants and oilfield trucks boosting the scene. Continued on Page 19, Col 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Amarillo
Spearman
Hansford
Pampa
Amarillo and West Texas Weather Forecast Summary
Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer for Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas partly cloudy. New Mexico generally fair with little temperature change. Manitoba high pressure covers the region east of the Rockies with a low over western Utah. Temperature changes have been slight. Yesterday's highs near 75 and lows around 56 with light precipitation reported.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Manitoba
Rockies
North Dakota
Utah
Rocky Mountain
Fort Elliott Celebration Opens in Mobeetie
Fort Elliott celebration begins in Mobeetie June 5 and runs four days. Organizer J W Mayfield said the event commemorates the 1875 army post with a free barbecue, a marking monument effort led by F P Reid and widow Mrs Billy Dixon, daily baseball at the fairgrounds, and S B Williams Shows providing carnival atmosphere.
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Mobeetif
Fort Elliott
J. W. Mayfield
Mobeetie Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce Committee
United States Army
Mobeete Chamber of Commerce
F. P. Reid
Pampa
Reid
Billy Dixon
Miami
Texas
Fair Grounds
Mobeetio
S. B. Williams
Mayfield
Panhandle
Mobeetie
Mr. Mayfield
H. L. Flanagan
Jack Biller
N. M. Hunt
C. W. Elliott
Arrest Soviet Officials Reach Harbin
The Soviet consul general at Mukden N K Kuzentzoff and two Lesser Soviet officials were brought to Harbin under arrest from Manchuria for attempting to cross into Siberia. Another Soviet official en route to Moscow via Vladivostok was arrested at Suifenko and returned as well.
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Associated Press
Harbin
Manchuria
Mukden
N. K
Condition of Anton Hurt in Car Wreck Improved
J F Anton once superintendent of the Slaton division of the Santa Fe whose injuries from an automobile accident brought him to Santa Fe hospital near Clovis N M Showed marked improvement officials said Tonight He was unconscious for hours after the crash and doctors had little hope for recovery at noon today but his condition has steadied and is as well as could be expected given the accident
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Clovis
N. M
J. F. Anton
Slaton
Santa Fe
Santa Fe Hospital
Anton
Southwest
Moody urges strict utility rules and taxes in Texas
Governor Dan Moody called for rigid regulation of public utilities, a state income tax, and a four cent gas tax in a Dallas area speech to the legislature. He urged appointing the state superintendent of public instruction and supported the short ballot with only three elective officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Dan Moody
Dist
Board of Education
Amarillo Names McDowell New Police Chief
W. F. McDowell is Amarillo’s new city police chief after commission selection last night. He rose from night captain to chief, has served five years on the force, and previously worked 13 years as a Fort Worth & Denver railroad car inspector. He urged public cooperation to run the office properly.
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W. R. McDowell
Amarillo
W. FR. McDowell
City Commission
McDowell
Panhandle
Fort Worth
Wiley Pollard
Commission
H. L. Gaither
Jack West
City Airport Lease Bids Opened By City Commission
Three bids were opened for a 20 year lease on the municipal airport with action delayed to 3 pm for a financial check. Amarillo Airport Corp led with 169 800 total, 650 monthly first five years 700 next ten 800 final five. T A T Flying Service and Garland Aircraft Corp offered 150 000 total in 625 monthly installments. Patterson reappointed tax assessor Mec Dowell named police chief. Parking removal on Sixteenth Avenue between Polk and Tyler Streets ordered for paving to clear fire access.
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Amarillo Airport Corporation
T. A. T. Flying Service
Garland Aircraft Corporation
W. R. Patterson
W. R. MecDowell
Sixteenth Avenue
Polk and
Tyler Streets
W. N. Durham
Greatest Dollar Day Prows in Amarillo Merchants Plan
Amarillo merchants stage the greatest Dollar Day yet with dozens of stores cooperating. Advertisements and announcements promise a city-wide bargain event Thursday, aiming for one of the biggest shopping days in Amarillo history.
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Amarillo
Lou Holland Resigns to Join Air School Venture
Lou Holland executive director of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce will resign July 1 to enter the aviation business with Arthur C. Goebel. He will split time between Goebel interests and the Holland Engraving Co which he has led for years. No successor named.
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Kansas City
Lou Holland
Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
Arthur C. Goebel
Kansas City Journal-Post
Journal-Post
Holland
Goebel
Holland Engraving Company
Chamber Post
Phillips heads of marketing meet in Amarillo
About 50 Phillips Petroleum officials and 200 company representatives from the Amarillo division will attend a three session general sales meeting at the Herring hotel Crystal room. Frank Phillips and Bartlesville executives lead the group as the firm expands its 66 gasoline growth.
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Phillips Petroleum Company
Amarillo
Crystal Room
Herring Hotel
Oklahoma
Panhandle
New Mexico
Bartlesville
Frank Phillips
Clyde Alexander
H. A. Trower
R. C. Jopling
Tank
KE. W. Evans
The
M. W. Welty
Mr. Harrington
Wichita
Iran
Rankin Advertising Agency
A. M. Hughes
Phillipe Petroleum Company
War Veterans Plan Separate Conventions After 1930
Beaumont Texas reports that the joint Veterans of Foreign Wars and United Spanish War Veterans convention closed with decisions to hold separate meetings. The U S W W will meet in Waco in 1930 and the V F W in Amarillo, with a cabaret ball to close the event.
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Associated Press
Beaumont
Tex
C. Webner
Houston
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Maude Heil
San Antonio
John B. Howard
el Paso
United Spanish War Veterans
Sarah F. Fox
Waco
Amarillo
Trial opens in Stallworth case amid eye witness testimony
Four eyewitnesses testified for the state about the slaying of Grace Morrison outside the Moore hotel at Sixth avenue and Pierce street on May 13. Levi Stallworth faces charges of firing the fatal shots as jurors began deliberations after cross examinations revealed differing details.
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Grace Morrison
Moore Hotel
Sixth Avenue
Pierce Street
Levi FP. Stallworth
Vork Street
Morrison
Levi Stallworth
Ethel Roper
Bus collision near Batavia leaves three dead nine hurt
Three killed and nine injured when a Cincinnati Columbus bus skidded into a ditch and overturned after locking wheels with an automobile seven miles from Batavia Ohio. The dead include Edward Treton and his wife of Marathon and a woman believed to be Mia Lucy B Schoyer of Hillsboro.
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United Press
Batavia
Ohio
Cincinnati- Columbus
Edward
Treton
Marathon
Lucy B Schoyer
Hillsboro
Texas Boy's Body Found Under Pier
Corpus Christi Texas June 4 after an all night search the body of Andrew Crawford Mathews eight year old son of Mr and Mrs Sim Mathews of Port Aransas was found under a pier here today. The child was last seen late yesterday while at play on the pier.
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Associated Press
Corpus Christi
Texas
Andrew Crawford Mathews
Sim. Mathews
Port Aransas
Rainfall Reaches 0.4 Inches At Local Station
Rain began late last night at 10 p.m. and had totaled 0.4 inch by early morning, with heavy showers easing after about an hour according to the U S Weather Bureau station here.
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U. & Weather Bureau
Lava Forces Residents to Flee Pompeii Vicinity
Two walls of lava six feet high issued from Vesuvius toward Pompeii as residents evacuated Barre and part of Terzigno. The eruption began yesterday and molten flow moved rapidly, threatening abandoned homes in Barre. The cone fractured, and lava split toward Boscotrecase and towns along the eastern railroad.
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Naples
Vesuvius
Pompeii
Barre
Terzigno
Heel
Gulf
Boscotrecase
Texhoma Trucker Earl Roden Killed In Road Accident
Earl Roden about 24, a well known tractor operator, died when the truck he drove left the highway and overturned four miles east of Texhoma at 7 this morning. His neck was broken and the body was recovered by motorists. Roden was en route to Guymon, Oklahoma, and funeral arrangements are being planned at a local chapel.
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Texhoma
Earl Roden
Here
Beneait
Boden
Guymon
Oklahoma
Tex‘homa
Wheat Prices Rise On Farm Relief Prospects
Washington reports leaders promise a half billion dollars for farm relief once the relief bill passes. Chicago wheat leads gains advancing to 61 1/8 cents per bushel as lenders urge rapid board action to curb surpluses and support crops including cotton and livestock.
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Washington
Congress
Capitol
Chicago
Postal authorities name alleged sender of Morrow letter
Boston authorities identify George E. Long a 50 year old Boston customs guard and former valet to Major General Clarence R Edwards as the author of blackmail letters sent to 15 year old Con stance Morrow daughter of Ambassador Dwight W Morrow Long was named by postal authorities as the sender in the case reported by United Press.
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United Press
Boston
George E. Long
Boston Customs Guard
Clarence R. Edwards
Constance Morrow
Dwight W. Morrow
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Butler Beeen
Stafford
Clinton
Army Post
MOODY
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M'Dowell
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City Airport
Art Goebel
AIR School Enterprise
Phillips
Stallworth
John Jerico
St. Clairaville
Jerico
Lava Forces
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