Taft to Lie In State At Capitol Arlington Burial Plans
President Hoover and officials will attend William Howard Taft funeral services at All Souls Unitarian church. Taft's body lies at his Washington home until Tuesday morning before a three hour rotunda viewing and a state funeral procession to Arlington National Cemetery. Son Charles and Robert Taft with Mrs Taft and daughter mourners as flags fly at half mast and tributes pour in from the world.
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Weather Outlook for Amarillo and Surroundings
Amarillo and vicinity report partly cloudy skies with little temperature change. Oklahoma will be partly cloudy and colder Monday through Tuesday while Texas sees increasing clouds and showers in the east Monday afternoon and night, with colder air in the west Monday and Tuesday. Moderate to fresh southerly winds along the coast shift to northwest Monday night. West Texas stays partly cloudy and colder Monday and Tuesday with fair conditions.
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Physicians Debate Jamaica Ginger Link to Oklahoma City Malady
Oklahoma City physicians and chemists pressed to identify a paralysis like illness that struck hundreds. Dr. Walter H. Miles traced cases to Jamaica ginger and argued a single bad shipment caused the outbreak with possible sympathetic cases fading as time passes. No deaths directly attributed. chemists failed to isolate the toxin as tests continued.
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French Flood Death Toll Passes Two Hundred
AP reports in Montauban that the recent flood across the triangle including Agen Moissac and Montauban has claimed well over 200 lives with Moissac totalling 125 and Montauban 43. Officials fear total deaths near 400 as wreckage and destruction spread across 300 square miles. Thousands of homes and crops were ruined and livestock wiped out. Montauban, a 30,000 inhabitant town, lies at the eastern edge of the devastated zone.
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Five Die in Utah Coal Mine Blast Near Castle Gate
Five miners died and two were burned after a Peerless Coal Company explosion near Castle Gate Utah as 14 men prepared to leave the shaft. Gas swept the tunnel. eight escaped, two aiding comrades to safety. Names include Clement Turner Daniel Turner Lester Curtis William Curtis James Jensen.
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Six Die as Train Hits Auto at Florin Crossing
Six persons from Lancaster were killed when a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train struck their automobile at a grade crossing in Florin, about ten miles west of Lancaster. The crash occurred at night. tentative identifications indicate all victims were local residents.
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Seven Billion Dollar Building Program Aid In Employment Crisis
Secretary Lamont urged decisive action on a seven billion dollar nationwide construction program to combat unemployment. He outlined plans for public works funded by federal, state, municipal, and private sectors, with over one billion dollars in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Hearings on unemployment will start midweek, and early enactment of related building and road aid bills is expected. Public utilities are projected to spend three and a half billion dollars on the program.
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Justice Edward Sanford's funeral themes echoed in hometown return
Washington reports detail the body of Justice Edward Terry Sanford headed to Knoxville for brief services before final rites in Tennessee. Attending jurists including Chief Justice Hughes plan to travel tonight, with Benedicts to Taft's later ceremony. A church sermon on the Cross of Christ inspired by Galatians 6:14 concluded with eight souls responding to an invitation.
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Rose Bush Sale Extended to Two Days in Amarilla
Rose bush business remained brisk in Amarillo as hundreds remain from a 4000-bush shipment sent to Old Tack. Tack extended the 1 dollar offer for bundles of five, urging customers to call 315 Van Buren or mail orders to Rose Editor, News-Globe.
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Cowman and Will Rogers confidant dies in Oklahoma
W L Lowry a 72 year old Oklahoma cowman and friend of humorist Will Rogers died Saturday on his ranch east of Lenapah He remained active in ranch management until last fall He is survived by his widow and four sons
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Coalition on Tariff Bill to Resume Amid Shifting Senate
The Associated Press reports the Senate will resume work on the tariff bill this week amid a changing majority. The Democratic and independent Republican bloc seeks to regain ground after last week’s gains by a new majority on sugar and cement. The old guard aims to retain the sugar increase and cement duty, both to be voted again on demand of the coalition. The piece notes attacks on the administration over unemployment delays tied to tariff passage.
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New Mexico Youth Faces Robbery Charge
Special to The News from Roswell New Mexico on March 9 reports Wilbur Eslick a native New Mexico youth is to be taken to Colorado to face robbery charges involving the People's Security Bank of Center Sagauche County. He was captured after a chase across four Rocky Mountain states and was handcuffed and shackled by Sheriff Paul and two deputies before boarding the car.
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Cook Freed From Prison Seeks North Pole Research
Dr Frederick A Cook, freed on parole from Leavenworth prison after nearly five years, vows to devote his immediate future to studying the polar problem. He doubts Roald Amundsen died in the Malia crash and notes Amundsen’s long experience as a northern explorer.
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See Hung Jury Hobrecht Trial
The Associated Press reports a hung jury potential in the Joe Hobrecht murder case. Jurors had been deliberating 26 hours after hearing evidence in the state crime trial of the prohibition agent Charles Stevens case following a distillery raid in Atascosa county. Judge McCrory awaited a report as another night session began.
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Fat Stock Show Crowds Fill Ft Worth on Sunday
Ft Worth Tex March 9 Large crowds attended the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock show on a sunlit Sunday. Delegations of boys and girls studying pure bred livestock arrived with beef cattle dairy cattle and other exhibits. Weather was clear and warm with heavy auto traffic. Matinee rodeo thrills featured Midnight the untamed black horse and several riders were injured or disqualified in the bronc riding event. Dan Utley of Belton was knocked unconscious and removed to the hospital.
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Six Byrd Party Members Reach New Zealand After Antarctic Voyage
Six Byrd Antarctic expedition members arrived by motor from Invercargill, landing at Stewart Island Saturday aboard the Whaler Larson. Ashley McKinley and Joseph Rucker are aerial and motion picture photographers, Russell Owen Times correspondent, Arthur Walden dog team leader, Martin Ronne sailmaker, and Paul Siffle Boy Scout. The group, relieved to be out of the Antarctic voyage, declined to comment beyond praising their commander.
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MacDonald declares five power talks on road to peace
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, broadcasting from Chequers, said the five power naval conference in London is on track to negotiate its differences and move toward universal peace. He praised progress with Briand and other delegates, warning against pessimism and urging full consensus among all five nations.
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Stock Market Collapse Threatens Government Surplus
Washington reports a shrinking revenue surplus as the stock market collapse endangers the 1929 budget. Treasury officials monitor first quarter tax receipts to see if President Roever can avert a deficit, with a 225 million forecast cut by tax reductions and potential farm board funding.
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Parachute Jump Saves Flier On Training Field
A training flight near Love Field ends in a crash from 500 feet when commercial flyer Robert Duel loses control of a bi plane. He escapes death by parachute jump just before impact as the craft plunges. Duel was testing the plane at the time of the incident.
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Trial of Doheny Delayed Over Taft Funeral
Washington March 9 doubt arose whether the trial of Edward L Doheny the California oil operator might be postponed until Wednesday by a possible recess of the District of Columbia supreme court in respect to the late William Howard Taft. The court would decide tomorrow if it would recess until after the funeral. Doheny faces a federal charge of bribing a cabinet officer to secure a lease of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve California.
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