Small leak delays Friendship transatlantic takeoff
A leak in the Fokker monoplane Friendship delays Wilmer Stultz's proposed transatlantic flight until tomorrow. At Curtiss Field Mabell Bell starts a flight in the Columbia toward Old Orchard Maine, but weather forecasts foretell fog and possible delays as Fat Rasche’s test flights loom.
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Trepassey
N. F
Wilmer Stultz
Europe
Curtiss Field
Mabhel Bell
Atlantic
Miss Bell
Charles Levine
Columbia
Old Orchard
Maine
Oliver le Boutillier
Arthur Argles
Weather Bureau
James H. Kimball
Here
Rasche
Germany
Miss Rasche
Amarillo Records Heat With 95 Degree Thursday
The city of Amarillo rose to 95 degrees Thursday, a new spring-summer high. The 60 degree minimum and 95 degree maximum beat last month’s high by one degree. Weather expert H T Collman says the heat could reach 100 later this month. Local thundershowers are predicted today and again over the weekend.
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Amarillo
H. T. Collman
Mr. Collman
Moody to Speak at Simmons College Graduation
Governor Moody planned to leave Thursday night for Abilene to address the Simmons College graduating class on Friday, according to reports from Austin.
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Abilene
Associated Press
Austin
Moody
Simmons College
Weather forecast and conditions for Amarillo region
Forecast through Friday evening calls for local thundershowers in Amarillo and vicinity and generally fair conditions in West Texas and New Mexico. Sun and storm activity are linked to a high pressure pattern with a dip in the fronts from the Southwest. Temperatures show a slight rise in the central Mississippi valley with warmer conditions in the southeastern Plains.
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Amarillo
New Mexico
Mississippi Valley
Arizona
North Dakota
Plains
Mob Fails To Seize O Donnell Jail As Population Flees
In O Donnell Texas a mob of about 250 attempted to seize jail to free Andrew Porrince a black man charged with attempted assault on a 12 year old girl. The mob faced stones and sticks from officers from three towns and Porrince was moved to Tahoka for detention. By tonight the black population had evacuated the town and fled thirty miles away leaving no further violence expected.
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Lubbock
O'Donnell
Andrew Porrince
Tahoka
Lamesa
Lynn County
CC Officials to Meet in Amarillo on Colonization
The Panhandle Development Association calls a June 11 meeting of chambers of commerce secretaries and home demonstration agents in Amarillo. More than 50 officers are expected. The Board of City Development aims to enlist non-resident Panhandle land owners in the immigration program.
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Panhandle Development Association
Chambers of Commerce
Amarillo
Board of City Development
Panhandle
Thaw Seeks Entry to England Blocked by Aliens Law
Harry K Thaw remains aboard the Aquitania at Southampton after being refused admittance to England under the aliens restriction act of 1920 as an undesirable. E M Pendleton says Thaw and he may go to Cherbourg on Saturday. Pendleton reports no food offices yet and Thaw remains optimistic.
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Associated Press
London
Harry K. Thaw
England
Southampton
E. M. Pendleton
Thaw
Pendleton
Cherbourg
France
Home Secretary
Memphis Gold Medal Band To Play At Tri State Fairgrounds
Music lovers and Democrats attend a two part concert by the Memphis Gold Medal band at the Tri State fairgrounds. Classical and standard band music open, followed by stunt numbers. Admission 50 and 25 cents, no car charge. Official band of the Democratic national convention at Houston. Memphis invited Amarillo to share.
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Tri-State Fairgrounds
Memphis
Southwest
Houston
Fairgrounds
Amarillo
Lake Superior steamer America sinks near Isle Royale
The old passenger steamer America went down in Lake Superior after striking a reef near Washington Harbor on Isle Royale at 3 a.m. The purser reported the sinking, and about 45 crew and passengers were rescued at Isle Royale, with the ship resting 17 fathoms deep.
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Associated Press
Duluth
Minn
America
Lake Superior
Isle Royale
Washington Harbor
Farm relief plank eyed by farm bureau for conventions
The American Farm Bureau Federation drafted a rough farm relief plank to be submitted to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City next week and laid before the Democratic gathering in Houston later this month. The plank supports the McNary Haugen policy of equalization fees and surplus control, favors private Muscle Shoals leases, and calls for a candidate friendly to agriculture, with Lowden and Dawes as favored Republicans.
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Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Kansas City
E. A. O'Neal
Montgomery
Ala
Farm Bureau
Sam H. Thompson
Quincy
Ill
Houston
Thompegon
O'Neal
Muscle Shoals
William Hirth
Columbia, Mo
Corn Belt Committee
Frank O. Lowden
Charles G. Dawes
Missing Shamrock School Girls Sought in Amarillo
Velma Coleman and Willie Dee Jones two Shamrock area girls aged 16 disappeared last Tuesday from a local school near Shamrock. They were last seen traveling toward Amarillo from the Lela community, stepfather A W Brown said. Velma is 5 feet 5 inches, 120 pounds with brown hair and eyes. Willie Dee is 4 feet 6 inches, with black hair and dark complexion. Anyone with information should contact the Globe.
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Velma Coleman
Willie Dee Jones
Lela
Shamrock
McLean
Amarillo
A. W. Brown
Velma
Willie Dee
Oklahoma suspect fails to link to Lamar bank robbery
Shawnee Oklahoma June 7 witnesses to the Lamar Colorado bank raid could not identify Charles Holden 38 a former Oklahoma convict arrested on his chicken farm as a suspect. Officers said Holden probably would be released and several Lamar citizens who saw the robbery did not connect him with the case.
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United Press
Shawnee
Okla
First National Bank of
Lamar
Colo
Charles Holden
Oklahoma
Holden
Three Arrested for Drugging Oil Man
Three men are in custody in Dallas, accused in the Fort Worth robbery of Frank H. White, an oil man from Wichita Falls. White says he was drugged at a Fort Worth house and robbed of 1700 cash, a $500 diamond ring, and his car. One suspect was identified by White as the assailant who gave him knock-out drops.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Tex
Fort Worth
Frank H. White
Wichita Falls
White
Farrell Receives Recess Appointment to Inter State Commission
President Coolidge today named Patrick J Farrell of the District of Columbia to the Interstate Commerce Commission via a recess appointment. The action places Farrell on the regulatory body governing rail and transport commerce.
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Washington
Patrick J Farrell
District of Columbia
Inter-State Commission
Coolidge
Former Tulsa Jailor Kills Woman and Self
J. D. McNeal, once Tulsa city jailer, shot Sabra Green in a fashionable district and later died by a self inflicted wound. Police found Green dead earlier, and McNeal left a note saying he died as he had lived alone. The pair had lived together. a quarrel is suspected and the shooting occurred in a taxicab.
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
J. D. McNeal
Sabra Green
McNeal
Movie stars escape blast at Eagle Hotel in Hollywood
Arrests will follow after a fire and explosion at the Eagle hotel wounded eight, with kerosene soaked rags and candle drippings found among ruins as proof of arson. Charlie Chaplin and other stars left the scene just before the blast, avoiding injury. Most injuries were to firemen.
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Hollywood
Cal
Eagle
Sheriff's Office
Charlie Chaplin
Jack Dempsey
Estelle Taylor
Colleen More
Renee Adoree
Marquis de la Falaise
Gloria Swanson
Eso
Radio signals reach from Italia airship on polar expedition
In Spitzbergen on June 7, the Citta Di Milano base ship's radio operator heard two weak signals likely from Biagi, the Italia dirigible radio man, though the signals were too faint to decode.
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Associated Press
Kings Bay
Spitzbergen
Citta di Milano
Umberto Nobile
Biagi
Italia
Pilots Launch Continent Crossing Flight From San Diego
Lee Schoenhair and Harry Tucker departed Rockwell Field at 1 15 p m in a Lockheed monoplane bound for Curtiss Field New York Their goal is an 18 hour nonstop crossing surpassing the 1923 record of 26 hours 50 minutes set by Lieut John A McCready and Oakley G Kelly
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Associated Press
San Diego
Cal
Lee Schoenhair
Harry Tucker
Rockwell Field
Curtiss Field
New York
John A. McCready
Oakley G. Kelly
Accused bootlegger escapes unseen in raid
Fort Worth report from June 7 says officers seek the man who fled during a liquor raid yesterday. Two men were charged with liquor law violations while the third escaped, leaving his clothes on the riverbank.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
The Cheerful Cherub Poem Fragment
A fragmentary verse imagines a cheerful cherub filling a house with dreams that creep at night and greet visitors on the author’s behalf. The text appears as a playful, whimsical expression without a clear narrative or context.
Amarillo Man Shot by Plainview Police Chief in Downtown Incident
O. J. Thompson believed to be from San Jacinto Amarillo was shot during a police attempt to arrest him in Plainview. He was hit in the arm and later evacuated as x rays failed to locate the bullet. Thompson reportedly fled seven miles west. officers then used tire holes to stop his Ford roadster.
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Plainview
O. J. Thompson
San Jacinto
Amarillo
H. H. Murray
Thompson
Plainview Sanitarium
Murray
Here
C. J. Thompson
A. C. Towner
Chief Murray
Southern Cross Flight to Brisbane Under Way From Fiji
The tri motor Southern Cross prepared to depart Naselai beach for Brisbane 1762 miles across the South Pacific. Capt Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm led the four crew toward Sydney with Americans Lyon and Warner to leave at Brisbane. The flight aims for about eighteen hours with a 7800 mile overall journey from Oakland to Sydney.
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Suva
Fiji
Brisbane
Australia
South Pacific
Southern Cross
Naselai Beach
Hawaii
Kingsford Smith
Sydney
Harry W. Lyon
James Warner
Kingsford-Smith
Charles Ulm
Kingsford- Smith
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Pirote
Harry Lyon
Lyon
Oakland
Cal
Warner
Channois
Six Die In Mackinaw Crossing Crash
Six persons were killed when a Big Four passenger train struck a car at Mackinaw. The victims include Ransom Hasty, 46, his three children Teddy Kilby and Lawrence aged three to seven, Mia G Hasty 45, and Harold Watson 47. They were returning from a cemetery memorial.
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Associated Fresh
Peoria
Mackinaw
Ransom Hasty
Teddy
Kilby
Lawrence
Mia. G. Hasty
Harold Watson
Hasty
Florida election inspectors attacked in Tampa incident
In Tampa on June 7 trouble erupted as three masked men opened fire while inspectors Ulmer Hawkins and Henry Airth processed primary ballots. Both officials were wounded but their injuries were not serious and the assailants fled.
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United Press
Tampa
Fla
Ulmer Hawkins
Henry Rabth
Hawkins
Airth
Nine Convicted in Woman's Death in Kentucky Cabin Fire
Nine men accused of murdering Mrs. Kate Browning in the cabin fire near Shepherdsville Kentucky on May fourth were found guilty of first degree murder. Judge Basil Richardson sentenced them to life imprisonment after the jury reported a two day deadlock and reconvened.
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United Preas
Shepherdsville
Kate Browning
Here
Basil Richardson
Glasgow
Mexican Church Truce Discussed With Pope In Rome
In Rome Pope Pius and Cardinal Gasparri review Monsignor Ruiz y Flores report on Mexican church tensions. An hour and a half discussion follows as officials seek clarifications and consider a possible concordat with Mexico. Optimism grows that a settlement may be reached.
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Associated Press
Rome
Monsignor Ruiz Y Flores
Michoacan
Pope Pius
Cardinal Gasparri
Monsignor Bergoncini-Duca
Cof&imunicado
Vatican
Republicans unite to defeat Hoover at national convention
Rival anti Hoover factions join under one command to deny Hoover a first or second ballot victory. Louis L Emerson leads the unified campaign with Ruth Hanna McCormick in charge of publicity as efforts focus on uninstructed delegates. Hoover forces predict victory but both sides hesitate to forecast first ballot results amid key Pennsylvania and New York delegations.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Herbert Hoover
Lowden
Watson
Curtis
Goff
Hoover
Louis L. Emerson
Miineim
Ruth Hanna McCormick
William McKinley
White House
Illinois
Lowdon
Republican National Committee
Hyde
Missouri
James W. Good
Secretary of Commerce
Pennsylvania
New York
Mellon
Keystone State
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Thea Rasche
Ocean
Mabel Boll
Mercury
Catherine Coble
James A. Whittenburg
Miss Coble
W. T. Coble
Mr. Whittenburg
George Whittenburg
Hutchinson County
O’donnell
Fair Grounds
Lamar Bandits
Chaplin
Dempsey
Hear Italias Radio
Garcant
Thee Associated Press
Naselal Beach
Florida
Congregation For Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs
Curia
Holy See
Mexico
Corpus Christi
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