Ohio Leader Urges Action for Farmers at Democratic Meet
Ohio national committeeman W A Julian pressed farm relief as essential, backing the McNary Haugen bill. Party leaders said farmers denied at Kansas City would be welcomed in Houston to present their case while a Liberty League push seeks to add a prohibition plank via referendums in state party platforms.
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Houston
W. A. Julian
Ohio
Julian
Clem Shaver
National Democratic Executive Committee
Jesse H. Jones
Texas
Kansas City
Louis A. Cuvillier
National Constitutional Liberty League of America
Sam Houston
James A. Reed
Missouri
George R. van Namee
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Earhart and Companions Rest in London Amid Welcome
Miss Earhart and her male companions arrived in London and were officially welcomed. London prepares for a grand reception as Americans gather for the event signaling a major city celebration.
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Miss Earhart
London
Earhart and crew complete first trans Atlantic feat
Amelia Earhart pilot Bill Stultz and mechanic Slip Gordon spent the night in London after reaching Southampton as the first woman crew to fly solo with a plane named Friend ship. They landed Barry Port yesterday then aimed for Southampton. Miss Moll BolL abandons flight plan and will return to New York Thursday to reconsider trans Atlantic aims.
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London
Amelia Earhart
Bill” Stultz
Slip” Gordon
Friendship
Miss Boll
Habor Grace
Mabel Bol'l
Columbia
New York
Stranded men test 10 signals as they pass
Stranded men attempt ten signaling attempts while passing a tested area. Reports note the failure to communicate effectively, with observations of improvised signals and obstacles encountered by the group during the attempt.
Sharkey Gates Title Bout Delayed by Rain
A ten round heavyweight bout between Jack Sharkey and Leo Gates in St. Louis was postponed from tonight to tomorrow night due to rain.
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ST. Louis
Jack Sharkey
Leo Gates
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Surrounding Areas
The forecast predicts partly cloudy conditions for Amarillo and vicinity through Wednesday at 7 PM with unchanged cooler weather across West Texas and New Mexico. A high pressure system moves in from the western states while a broad trough extends from New Mexico toward Wisconsin, keeping above normal temperatures east of the Rockies and cooler air in the Rocky Mountain region.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Rocky Mounin
Wisconsin
Montana
Wyom
Nebraska
Kansas
Atlantic
Rockies
Rocky Mountain
Amarillo City Gears for Airport Vote Debate
The Amarillo city commission postponed action on a municipal airport at last night's meeting. Ed Mayer proposed a quick business community canvass to gauge sentiment and hinted he would back private options if a bond issue is dropped. A tentative $100,000 bond plan and airport location for future air development were discussed.
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Amarillo
Ed Mayer
Board of City Development
Mr. Mayer
Lee Bivins
Mayer
Trans-Continental Lines
Santa Fe
Fog Delays Fraulein Rasche Flight at Curtiss Field
Heavy fog and a soggy field at Curtiss Field L I postponed Fraulein Thea Rasche German flier from starting the first leg of her flight to Europe heading to Old Orchard Maine. The expedition is financed by Mrs James A Stillman and includes a Bellanca monoplane bought from A R Martine.
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United Press
Curtiss Field
L. I
Fraulein Thea Rasche
Old Orchard
Maine
Europe
James A. Stillman
A. R. Martine
President Denies Clemency for Three Slayers
President Coolidge will refuse clemency to Nicholas Lee Eagles John Proctor and Samuel Moreno convicted of first degree murder in Washington DC They were to be executed next Friday after all appeals failed The decision followed review of Justice Department report and defense briefs and was conveyed from Cedar Island lodge to the attorney general June 19 Superior Wisconsin.
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Superior
Wis
Nicholas Lee Eagles
John Proctor
Samuel Moreno
Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Department of Justice
Cedar Island Lodge
Washington
Eagles
Moreno
Proctor
Leo Busch
Supreme Court
President Coolidge
Oklahoma Governor Grants 90 Day Stay For Jose Alvarado
Governor Johnston announced a further 90 day stay of execution for Jose Alvarado former state peace officer and detective sentenced to seven years for a bank robbery. Extradition disputes with Oklahoma over returning Alvarado to Oldham County followed the daylight Wildorado State Bank robbery in which $1000 was taken. The case involved bank cashier Mrs. W E O'Neal who identified the suspect in Oklahoma City. Alvarado had previously worked as an automobile salesman in Amarillo.
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United Press
Oklahoma City
Jose Alvarado
Johnston
Oklahoma
Oldham
Potter Counties
Moody
Oldham County
Wildorado State Bank
W. E. O’neal
Alvarado
Amarillo
Mexico City Bath House Blast Kills Nine
A boiler explosion at a bath house in a suburb of Mexico City kills at least nine people and injures twelve. The building is destroyed and police remove debris to recover more bodies.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Lady Lindbergh and crew reach London after swift Atlantic crossing
After 22 hours 44 minutes from Trepassy Bay to Southampton they concluded their flight with a warm welcome and a fast two hour leg to Barry Port. The trio will receive tributes in London while preparations for festivities begin. A long voyage pause follows in the Pilgrim Fathers’ Fleet era by the Friendship.
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Southampton
Trepassy Bay
South England
Barry Port
London
Britain
America
Miss Earhart
Stultz
Gordon
Lady Lindbergh
Winchester
Protestant Knights Endorse Heflin for Democratic Nomination
The Knights of American Protestantism at their national convention endorses Senator J Thomas Heflin of Alabama for the Democratic presidential nomination. The group, formerly the Independent Klan of America, an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan, gathers about two hundred delegates with Samuel Demenderfer of Muncie as national president and headquarters in Muncie.
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Associated Press
Muncie
Ind
The
Knights of American Protestantism
J. Thomas Heflin
Alabama
Independent Klan of America
Ku Klux Klan
Samuel Demenderfer
New York shopkeeper buys war medals for charity
In a East Side shop 1500 medals are sold for 1 to 3 dollars each. Joseph Wittenberg says he pays 1 for modest cases and 3 for the worst, explaining he once paid 8 for a dying man’s Croix de Guerre. He won’t resell medals and keeps them stored dustily. few redeem them.
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New York
Dy United Press
Joseph Wittenberg
West Texas chamber to choose 1929 meet city at Fort Worth
Fort Worth hosts the West Texas chamber of commerce tenth annual session as officials discuss 1929 convention city and election of officers. Delegations from El Paso Waco and towns like Childress Vernon Abilene Cleburne Graham and Greenville arrive as educational and good roads day unfolds with speeches and committee reports.
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Fort Worth
West Texas Chamber of
John ©. Perkins
Alpine
Dr. Co. P
Coleman
Colorado
Andy Bourland
Vernon
C. C. Small
Wellington
el Paso
Waco
Childress
Abilene
Cleburne
Graham
Chillicothe
Greenville
Denton
Dallas
Big Spring
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
W. M. Blanton
East Texas Chamber
B. F. Johnson
Chamber of Commerce
Longview
J. D. Middleton
J. F. Nichols
E. H. Eckel
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Thos. Etheridge
San Antonio
Jas. W. Gerard
Germany
West Texas
Agricultural and Livestock Group
Court House
Col. C. C. French
G. R. Warrren
Courthouse Move Confirmed for Pampa Texas
Pampa Texas June 19 contract for construction of a court house will be let immediately after Gray County votes to move the county seat from LeFors to Pampa. Judge Newton P Willis denied a petition to set aside the March 9 election and refused an injunction to stop moving county records to Pampa.
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Pampa
Tex
Gray County
LeFors
Newton P. Willis
Willis
Bremen Flight Trio Given Triumphal Bremen Welcome
Captain Herman Koehl Baron von Huenefeld and Major James Fitzmaurice received a rousing welcome in Bremen for the transatlantic flight that depended on local support. They were cheered at the city hall as flowers showered down, and von Huenefeld honored Floyd Bennett who died aiding their mission.
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Bremen
Germany
Herman Koehl
Baron von Huenefeld
James Fitzmaurice
Floyd Bennett
Greenly Island
Lightning kills four under tree at Indiana University field
Four Bloomington men were struck and killed by lightning while standing under a tree on the new athletic practice field at Indiana University. A fifth man, Harry Hobbs, was shocked. The victims were Otto Hacker 48, his brother Thomas 52, James Holt 27, all of Bloomington, and Kenneth Dec kard 36 of Sullivan.
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Associated Press
Bloomington
Ind
Harry Hobbs
Otto Hacker
Thomas
James Holt
Kenneth Deckard
Sullivan
Indiana University
Four crippled children left behind as nurse takes others to Oklahoma
Miss Medora Duncan, special nurse for crippled children, has sent sixteen of twenty children to Oklahoma City for surgery due to lack of funds. Names include James Spencer Borger 17 hip operation, Bob Qualls Borger 19 hip operation, RK Lee Mara Borger 8, Sybil Irene Seale Borger 8, Olan Craig Amarillo 17 with limb corrections, John Russell Graham Happy 5 for limb operation.
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Oklahoma City
Miss Duncan
James Spencer
Borger
Bob Qualls
Lee Mara
Sybil Irene Seale
Olan Craig
Amarillo
John Russell Graham
Happy
Stranded Italia crew report three dim signals from Arctic skies
General Umberto Nobile and his companions aboard the Italia have twice seen faint signs of aid in the Arctic gray, though observers in the air and on the ice have failed to identify the signals. The three days of effort yielded only distant glimpses and no rescue.
Rescue Fliers Report from Kings Bay Mission
RESCUE FLIERS MISSING ROME June 19 Stefani News Agency dispatches from Kings Bay say that the Swedish seaplane Up land and the Italian Major Penzo in his Dornier War plane arrived there today from Tromsoe Norway There was no mention of Roald Amundsen and Rene Guilbaud who left Tromsoe Sunday for Spitzbergen and have not since been heard from Kings Bay Spitsbergen June 19 There has been no news here tonight of Roald Amundsen and Rene Guilbaud who left Tromsoe Norway yesterday in a French sea plane to aid in the search for General Nobile and his crew The trip 606 miles normally would take seven to eight hours.
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Rome
Stefani
Kings Bay
Upland
Penzo
Tromsoe
Norway
Roald Amundsen
Rene Guilbaud
Spitzbergen
Spitsbergen
General Nobile
Rescue plane sighted near stranded group amid Arctic search
Major Maddalena returns with the Savoia Marchetti 55 to Kings Bay after a six hour flight crisscrossing the suspected area north of Northeast Land. General Nobile reports seeing the rescuers' plane but cannot attract its attention. No trace of the dirigible wrecked Italians is found.
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Maddalena
Kings Bay
Nobile
General Nobile
Eas
Mixed cattle in year high mark on Kansas City market
Twenty two shorthorn yearlings and heifers averaging 996 pounds sold for 15 dollars per hundred pounds, a year high for mixed grades. The lot was shipped by H. C. Yelkin of Auburn Nebraska to Joseph Baum Packing company, marking the strongest cattle prices since mid April.
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Associated Presa
Kansas City
H. C. Yelkin
Auburn
Neb
Joseph Baum Packing Company
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