British and Japanese consulates burned in Shanghai riots
A Shanghai dispatch reports that rioters wrecked or set fire to the British and Japanese consulates at Kiu-Kiang. The British consulate was saved from looters. buildings of Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Butterfield and Swire were burned. Students and workers caused havoc until Chinese troops arrived and dispersed the mob.
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Associated Press
London
Shanghai
Daily Express
Kiu-Kiang
Yan
Program opens at Legion Home Panhandle bankers meet
The Panhandle Bankers Association launched its 21st annual two day session at the American Legion home with Earl Fuqua presiding. Delegates heard talks on banking law and credit bureaus while an evening chicken barbecue at the Country Club drew about 300 attendees. The program labeled Cotton Accounts and Home Spun Economics featured W C Dickey F A Norman and others with Monday sessions at 1 p.m. and a Mission Theatre program beginning at 9:80. The meeting will conclude with selecting the next host city and officer elections chaired by Fuqua and other officers F M Butler C M Carson Jr and 7 C Kinard.
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Panhandle Bankers Association
Earl Fuqua
Country Club
Amarillo Clearing House Association
Fort Worth National
William Z
Motion Filed to Quash Indictment in Scopes Trial
Judge J L Godsey filed a motion to quash the indictment against Professor John T Scopes in the Tennessee anti evolution case. A jury will be drawn from about 80 men for the July 6 trial in Rhea county with preparations at the high school building serving as an emergency hospital and guard details ready. Local officials coordinated traffic and crowd control with Chattanooga officials and potential militia aid offered but not accepted.
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Associated Press
Dayton
Tenn
J. L. Godsey
Defense
Circuit Court
John T. Scopes
Whea County
Scopes
Rhea County Court
John T. Raulston
Will Frazier
Over Herron
Chattanooga
Chicago gun battle leaves two sergeants dead in river clash
In Chicago a riverfront firefight between police and gunmen leaves Sergeants Walsh and Olson dead and Inspector Genna among the wounded. Detective William Sweeney captures the gang, ending a brutal exchange tied to Angelo Genna’s recent death and signaling a renewed police campaign against bootleggers.
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Associated Press
Chicago
John Genna
Genna
Genne
Angelo Genna
Morgan A. Collins
Charles Walsh
Bat
H. Olson
Michael Genna
Michael Conway
Detective Bureau
Olson
Walsh
William Sweeney
Sweeney
Henrietta Man Burned by Wire May Be Fatal
Henry Hester of Henrietta was seriously burned and shocked while moving a house light wire. While on the roof he reached to lift a loose hang wire, touching a cross circuit and was knocked unconscious after being thrown from the structure. He is not expected to recover.
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Henrietta
Associated Press
Henry Hester
Hester
State executioner jailed on liquor charges in Arkansas
Little Rock June 13 The Arkansas state prison warden announced that the official executioner remains jailed for liquor law violations while a flood of applications pours in to perform electrocution of two county prisoners at sunrise June 26. A man from McAlester Oklahoma claimed to be the Oklahoma official and offered to do the job for $100 per execution. The warden said he hopes for a furlough for E T Beck, the jailed executioner, but if not he will carry out the task himself.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Evans
Jack Buster
Fox Flowers
Columbia County
McAlester
Okla
Oklahoma
E. T. Beck
Beck
W. B. Shoe to Resign From Texas Commission
W B Shoe head of the workmen s compensation bureau of the state fire insurance commission resigned effective July 1 announced by J J Timmins of the commission Shoe served two years as an insurance rate expert, previously from Washington His plans and vacancy were not announced or filled
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W. B. Shoe
Austin
Workmen's Compensation Bureau
State Fire Insurance Commission
J. J. Timmins
Shoe
Commission
Washington
Denton Leader Dr Marquis Linked to A and M Presidency
Austin June 13 Dr R Marquis president of North Texas Teachers College in Denton is discussed as a possible successor to Texas A and M president W B Bizzell who moves to Oklahoma University Marquis who previously led the Alpine state normal was elected by the Denton board of regents as head of the college He says he would be honored by A and M but is not a candidate.
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Associated Press
Austin
R . Marquis
North Texas Teachers’ College
Denton
W. B. Bizzell
Texas A. and M. College
Oklahoma University
Marquis
State Normal
Alpine
Board of Regents
A. An M
Tornado Destroys Hayfield Minnesota Village
A tornado struck Hayfield Minnesota at 8 30 p m wiping out most residential sections and the entire business section according to H Walden and Bernie Mayou Rochester men reported none seriously injured though many were cut or bruised by flying glass and timbers
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Associated Press
Rochester
Minn
Hayfield
H. Walden
Bernie Mayou
Stephens Walker Accepts Breckenridge Mayoral Post
Breckenridge Texas June 18 Stephens Walker an oil operator and banker today accepted appointment as mayor after petitions signed by nearly 2000 residents. He will serve without pay and has donated bequests to the city including the Breconridge Sanitarium. He is credited with erecting numerous buildings in Breckenridge.
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Associated Press
Breckenridge
Texas
Stephens Walker
Breconridge Sanitarium
Lubbock Man Injured in Auto Crash
Lubbock, June 18. O. W. Watkins, 40, sustained a broken shoulder with four family members slightly hurt when an automobile they rode in collided, overturned, and pinned occupants beneath it. Two occupants of the other car were uninjured.
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Associated Press
Lubbock
O. W. Watkins
Groom Section Expects 600000 Bushels Wheat This Year
O L Ledwig of Farmers Grain and Implement estimates Groom area will yield about 600000 bushels, roughly 425 cars, with 10 to 40 bushels per acre. He cites acreage, rainfall, and cultivation as key factors, noting 850 acres in wheat and summer fallowing for higher yields.
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Groom
Farmers Grain & Implement Manager
O. L. Leedwig
Farmers Grain and Implement € Co
International Harvester Company
Ledwig
BalVard
Bey
Cleveland Manager Proclaims Welcome to Rotary Visitors
City Manager W. C. Hopkins issued a proclamation urging all residents to welcome International Rotary Convention delegates. The event runs from Monday to Thursday, with attendance expected to surpass prior conventions. Hopkins lauds Rotary as a remarkable, admirable organization with members in nearly every civilized country.
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Cleveland
W. C. Hopkins
International Rotary
Rotary
Hopkins
Chicago
Air Pilot Narrowly Escapes Plane Dive in Delaware River
Lieutenant Frank E. White of the Army air forces faced a perilous nose dive while en route from Washington to New York. He remained strapped in his seat and unconscious until four members of the Anchor Yacht Club rescued him in a speedboat near Bristol, Pennsylvania.
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Bristol
Frank E. White
Washington
New York
Delaware River
White
Anchor Yacht Club
West Point 1925 graduates begin three months leave
The United States Military Academy class of 1925 at West Point, New York, graduated on Friday June 12 and will take a three month leave before reporting to duty in September. Cadet Potter B Fuqua from Texas awaits commission in the Air Service and requests San Antonio as first station. Fuqua, from the 18th district Amarillo, has played football polo and boxing and held Cadet Sergeant rank.
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United States Military Academy
West Point
New York
Potter B. Fuqua
Texas
W. A. Stewart
Amarillo
Air Service
San Antonio
Fuqua
Grand Dragon of Colorado Klan in Jail
Dr. John Galen Locke, grand dragon of the Colorado Ku Klux Klan, is jailed for contempt after failing to comply with a court order to produce his financial records for internal revenue examination. Federal judge J. Foster Symes delayed commitment until heute after a second directed production. Records reportedly disappeared as the inquiry into federal income tax payments from 1918 to 1924 continues.
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Associated Press
Denver
Colo
John Galen Locke
Colorado Ku Klux Klan
Internal Revenue
Locke
J. Foster Symes
Find Amundsen First in McMillan Slogan at Arctic Prep
Boston June 13 Commander Donald B McMillan declared find Amundsen first will be the slogan of his coming Arctic expedition after briefing his crew at the Ingram club in Charlestown Navy Yard. He showed 800 feet of film from his last dash north and said the new voyage will use the old route. He named Dr Leo Davidoff of Peter Bent Brigham as medical officer and Rufus Bowell of Wiscasset as steward on the Peary today. He noted the main difficulty is keeping aspiring Arctic explorers away.
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Boston
Donald B. McMillan
Amundsen
Ingram Club
Charleston Navy Yard
Arctic
Leo Davidoff
Peter Bent Brigham
Rufus Bowell
Wiscasset
Jury Discharges in Gienny Murder Case at Henrietta
The jury in the murder trial of B. Gienny at Henrietta was dismissed tonight without reaching a verdict, leaving the case unresolved regarding the death of his son Robert.
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Glenny
Henrietta
B. Gienny
Robert
Weather summary for Amari area with unsettled tone
Cloudy conditions and slight temperature change with expectations of fair weather Sunday in New Mexico. Fragmentary phrases mention Bonita and Amari with unclear local references. Forecast includes partial notes on Sunday and potential wind or light showers, but many words are garbled.
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New
Fox Succeeds Hamer as Ranger Captain
AUSTIN June 13 Captain J Monroe Fox former Corpus Christi police chief arrived to assume ranger captain duties succeeding Frank L Hamer on July 1 Fox previously served as a ranger under Governor Hobby. Church Name Fight On Dallas June 13 a dispute over the use of Westminster in a church name between West minster Presbyterian Church and Westminster Abbey concerns the corporate title Dr T O Perrin said a committee will confer to resolve the issue.
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Dallas
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Westminster Abbey
T. O. Perrin
Gas fire at Prairie No. 1 Shaw well to be quenched at 1 pm
Panhandle oil field burns as Prairie Oil No 1 Shaw gasser in Hutchinson county roars, with 100 million cubic feet daily loss. Tex Thornton of U S Torpedo Co plans nitro charge to extinguish the blaze. Flames visible 40 miles from Amarillo as casing and rig lose integrity and millions in damage mount.
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Panhandle
Tex Thornton
U. S. Torpedo Company
Shaw
Bike
Hutchinson County
Amarillo
Thornton
McSpadden Drilling Company
Prairie Oi and Gas Company
Heat record near San Angelo as temperatures soar
In San Angelo on June 13 the mercury rose to 103 degrees, two degrees shy of the year's high set April 19 at 105. Last year on June 16 the reading reached 110, highlighting an unusually hot period for the city.
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San Angelo
Associated Press
Mercury
Amarillo Sees Clean City Push. 5 Percent Lagsters Targeted
Amarillo’s garbage chief reports about five percent of citizens still neglect cleanup efforts over a two week campaign. City Manager Bartlett says fines will start Monday at ten dollars daily until weeds and rubbish are removed. About 304 wagon loads of trash were hauled away, with a civic and women's club committee set to begin inspections and cash prizes next week.
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Amarillo
J. M. Stidger
Jeff D. Bartlett
Bartlett
Stidger
Civic Ub
Women's Club
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Hamer
Ranger
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