Tri-State Fair Fund Drive Aims for Seventy-Three Thousand
The financial committee of the Tri State exposition plans to raise 73000 in three days. About 80 to 100 Amarillo visitors will solicit loans for the fair from taxpayers at one percent of assessments. Money will bear 8 percent interest and be repaid if a county bond issue passes to buy land for a county park.
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Tri-State Exposition
Amarillo
The
Fair Association
Board of City Development Room
Royal Amarilolans
Panpando
Wacogo
Dempster Company of
Texas
Association
Plains Presbyterian Orphanage Dedicated in Panhandle
Gladness filled Amarillo as the Panhandle’s first orphanage was opened at the former soldier training school. Mrs. Phebe K. Warner spoke of divine joy and unity, while crowds donated clothing, food, and funds for the home to serve homeless and motherless children from the region.
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Plains Presbyterian Orphanage
Presbyterian Children’s Home
Panhandle
Amarillo
Ladies’ Aid Society
the White Deer
Church Women of
Dumas
Warner
E. W. Hardin
C. E. Griswold
Second Baptist Church
C. T. Herring
Daugherty Probe Ordered by Senate Committee
A special Senate committee will begin an investigation Monday into Attorney General Daugherty and the Department of Justice. Led by Republican insurgent Brookhart, the inquiry was ordered at a 66 to 1 vote after two days of bitter debate, with Elkins the lone dissenter.
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Associated Press
Washington
LaFollette Group
Brookhart
Iowa
Senate
Lgherty
Department of Justice
Wheeler
Montana
Elkins
West Virginia
LafPoilette
Wisconsin
Explosion at Nixon Nitration Works Kills Dozens in New Jersey
An explosion at the Nixon Nitration Works T N T plant in New Brunswick New Jersey killed about forty and injured over a hundred as flames gutted forty nearby cellulose works. Police and rescue teams, aided by state police and emergency crews, fought the blaze, recovered some bodies, and evacuated injured to nearby hospitals. The blast shattered windows ten miles away and drew crowds as investigators searched for more victims.
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Associated Press
New Brunswick
N. J
Nixon Nitration Works
Nixon
Tha Manteae Anasata
Manute Goaipany
Oew York
Hal
Raritan Arsenal
Nixon Company
Arsenal
Doheny Said To Resign From Democratic Body
In San Francisco March 1 the Democratic state central committee adopted a motion removing E. L. Doheny as second vice president and requested his resignation from the committee. The decision followed a tense debate with supporters labeling him a ringleader in the alleged corruption unearthed in Washington. Some members urged allowing Doheny to defend himself before any action.
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Associated Press
Francisco
E. L. Doheny
Democratic State Central Committee
Doheny
Ashington
Weather forecast for Amarillo and nearby area
Forecaster notes Sunday fair and colder tonight in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. Little change in temperature across the region with overnight lows near dawn. Unclear timing and scattered phrases in source. core message points to a dry, cool spell for Amarillo and surrounding locales.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Photographers Meet At Floydada For District Convention
Announcement Saturday that the Panhandle District Association of Photographers would hold its next convention in Floydada March 26 and 27 at the Wilson Studio. Claude A. Gray of Amarillo, secretary-treasurer, mailed notices. J. R. Bartlett of Clarendon is president and Mrs. George Turnbo of Lubbock is vice president. The program lists sessions on portraiture, salesmanship, posing, lighting, and round table discussions, with a banquet planned by Floydada Chamber of Commerce.
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Panhandra
J. BR. Bartlett
Clarendon
Revy
Henson
Floydada
T. B Henry
Mioydada
Homer Mulkey
Clarandon
T. N
T.A. A. Berry
Plainview
L. P. Kramer
Vernon
J. S. Edwards
Amarillo
Iain Shelley
Eastman Kodak Co
Floydada Chamber of Commerce
Woman Held for Killing of Father and Son at Cemetery
Bertha Armour Daugherty, 22, is jailed in Malster Oklahoma amid investigations into the deaths of her ex husband J T Daugherty and their four year old son Leroy at Oak Hill cemetery. An eye witness described seeing the child shot and the body placed at the husband’s feet. Daugherty denies killing them, claiming he shot the child and then killed himself. A disputed account from a relative ties alleged intent to kill all three.
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International
Barvice
Daugherty
Ls J
Panhandle Livestock Meet Draws Hundreds to Amarillo
Amarillo hosts the eighth annual Panhandle Livestock Producers Association convention with hundreds of cattlemen and bankers from Texas Oklahoma Kansas Missouri Illinois Nebraska Michigan and other states. Sessions at Masiton theater banquets at Amarillo Hotel and athletic show finale Wednesday night promise a record turnout.
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Amarillo
Panhandle Livestock Producers Association
W. T. Coble
Henry C. Harding
Harding
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Illinoia
Nebraska
Michigan
Phoebe Warner
Claude
W. K. Shoroyer
Miltonvale
Kansas City
Sam H. Cowan
Fort Worth
C. C. Small
Shamrock
Misaton Theater
Association
Panhandle Hoerefort Broeders Association
Michigan Governor Groesbeck Considered for Navy Secretary
Associated press reports that Michigan Governor Groesbeck is among those considered by President Coolidge to replace Edwin Denby as Secretary of the Navy as Denby retires March 10. Also named were Rep Solie and other Michigan men in the running.
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Prem Washington
Groesbeck
Michigan
President Coolidge
Secretary of the Navy
Edwin Danby
Grosabeck
Perm
Soldier Bonus Legislation Moves Through House
The House Ways and Means committee began consideration of soldier bonus legislation with three days of hearings set to start Monday. Chairman Green aims to report a bill to the house by next Saturday, amid several bonus proposals including the McKenzie measure and plans for cash payments under $50.
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Associated Prews
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Green
McKenzie
Harding
Fish
New York
Andrew
Massachusetts
Williams sentenced to death in Lufkin murder case
Booker T. Williams, a negro, was convicted of the murder of Andy Sulser, the sawmill commissary manager near Lufkin, by a jury after 13 minutes of deliberation. He received the death penalty and will be taken to Huntsville state penitentiary tonight. execution is set for April 4. Williams did not appeal.
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Associated Prosa Lufkin
Tex
Booker T. Williams
Andy Sulser
Here
Williams
Huntsville
Guinn
Sulser
Nacogdoches
Hunteville
Mexican embassy names Aaron Saenz to Obregon cabinet
Washington March 1 announced appointment of Aaron Saenz as secretary of foreign affairs in President Obregon's cabinet. Saenz previously held unclear posts and replaces departing official as Mexico reshapes its foreign affairs team.
Mary Cipher Messages Tie Oil Inquiry to Justice Dept
Washington dispatch says a cipher message signed "Mary" found among McLean telegrams draws the oil inquiry into the Justice Department. It reports special agent Mrs. Mary Duckstein and others seeking truth about Edward B. McLean and possible department ties. The committee questions whether the coded notes and McLean associates used the bureau code, and whether Burns directed the dispatch.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Justice
Mary
McLean
Oil Committee
Wiliam J. Burns
Department
Bureau of Investigation
Mary Puckstein
Edward B. McLean
Washington Post
Burns
Duckstein
Justice Department
W. O Duckstein
Palm Beach
Fila
Special Agents of Justice
Forbes Denounces Jury Witnesses In Frameup Claim
Charles B R Forbes, indicted for conspiracy and bribery over veteran bureau management, denounces witnesses as framing him. He plans to name a high official unofficially connected with the government who allegedly laid the plot, after talks with attorney James Masley-Smith.
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Washington
Chicasgo Grand Jury
Veteran Bureau
Charles BR. Forbes
Attornney
James 8. Masley-Smith
Forbes
M Caroline Votan
Slater
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Wellington
Earl Shelley
Mra
Yoder Cheek
Mangum
Okla
O. M. Briggs
Elk City
Olea
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Geo. Turnbo
Lubbonk
Sida
W. D. Orr
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Aitus
Denby
Frank McTiowell
St. Petersburg
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Fordyce
McDowell
Marton
Lufkin
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