Day of Reckoning Predicted If Midwestern Delegation Walks
William Hirth of Missouri warned the House Agriculture Committee that the Republican party would face a reckoning if farm relief legislation is not enacted. He cited the 1924 platform promising agricultural parity and urged Democrats to help, warning that a future empty-handed outcome could trigger political consequences.
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Hirth
Washington
House Agriculture Committee
William Hirth
Missouri
Congress
Mr. Coolidge
Des Moines
Youngest Official Malcom Shelton Elected VP of Cattle Raisers
Amarillo cattleman Malcolm Shelton, son of the late John M. Shelton, was unanimously chosen first vice president of the Texas-Southwestern Cattle Raisers association at Fort Worth. As the youngest ever elected to the post, his rise signals a likely promotion to president at the El Paso convention next year, with extensive holdings in the Dalhart country and years of active service in the association.
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Malcolm Shelton
Col John C Coolidge Reported Growing Weaker
Plymouth Vermont March 11 Colonel John C Coolidge was reported by his physician to be in a weakened condition and his health appeared less satisfactory than at any time in the last few days.
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Plymouth
John C. Coolidge
Tme
Man Who Furnished Dope to Wally Reid Ends Life
Los Angeles report says J. Herbert Frank, once charged by New York police with supplying drugs to film stars Wallace Reid and Juanita Hansen, died today in a gas-filled apartment. Investigators call it self-inflicted. He clutched a photo of a young woman. a note addressed to "Harriest 8. Forbes" states you drove me to ag.
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Los Angeles
J. Herbert Frank
New York
Wallace Reid
Juanita Hansen
Forbes
Black man phones friends for sixty day jail term
Ray Miller, a Black man, recently moved into an apartment and found an unremoved telephone. He called friends in Galveston, Fort Worth, Beaumont, Leavenworth, and Detroit, running up a bill of $165 per day. He was sentenced to sixty days in jail on charges arising from his “free” calls.
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Ray Miller
Galveston
Fort Worth
Beaumont
Tex
Leavenworth
Kan
Detroit
Washington Day Briefs Partly Follows Senate Action
The Senate passed the 348 million dollar army supply bill and ordered an inquiry into the tariff commission while the House accepted Senate amendments to the Muscle Shoals resolution. Attorney General Sargent opposed amnesty for Debs as Jardine faced graft accusations. The Senate Judiciary panel rejected Wallace McCamant’s federal circuit judgeship and Boyland introduced a measure to withdraw American recognition from Mexico.
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Washington
France
Senate
Tariff Commission
House
Muscle Shoals
Sargent
Eugene V. Debs
Jardine
Kincheloe
Kentucky
Rabbitt
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wallace McCamant
Oregon
Mexico
Boyland
New York
Shelton Named Cowmen Official
Fort Worth march 11 Tonight closed the golden anniversary convention of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association held at Graham Texas begun February 1877 ER M Kleburg Kingsville elected president El Paso named next meeting place Dayton Moses re elected attorney main action adopted a resolution favoring immediate consummation of a tri national treaty on international shipment between Mexico the United States and Canada
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Fort Worth
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Graham
Texas
ER. M. Kleburg
Kingsville
el Paso
Dayton Moses
Mexico
United States
Canada
Tha She Loses Dearest Friends Robbery Trial Testimony
Edith Simmons, assistant cashier at First National Bank of White Deer, recounts how her friendship with Frank Crutchfield soured after he was accused in the March 16 1925 bank robbery. She identified Crutchfield as the masked gunman who forced her into the vault and stole money, then left by the back exit after disabling some telephone lines.
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Tha
White Deer
Frank Crutchfield
First National Bank of
Edith Simmons
Miss Simmons
Frank
Impending Clash Over Prison Relocation Drags Officials
Mrs. J. King challenges prison labor officials amid looming dispute on moving inmate facilities. The confrontation centers on authority and the plan's potential effects on workers and operations heeding local guidance.
Officials Accused of Pocketing Prison Funds in Texas Debate
In San Antonio on March 11, the Texas conference on social welfare clashed over a proposed prison relocation bill. Mrs. J. E. King charged prison heads with siphoning money, calling them millionaires within the system, while Rep. T. K. Irwin argued the issue hinged on management personnel and abuse of inmates. King urged keeping several prisons in Brazos bottom near Houston for agricultural training and noted the state’s costly land and equipment investments as complicating factors.
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San Antonio
Texas
Texas Conference On Social Welfare
J. E. King
Texas Prison System
Elizabeth Speer
Committee For
Texas Prisons and
Mrs. King
T. K. Irwin
Dallas
Brazos
Bexar County
Darington
Brazos Bottom
Houston
President Coolidge’s Mc Camant nomination hits setback in Senate
Washington March 11 The Senate judiciary committee voted 10 to 8 against a favorable report on Wallace Mc Camant of Oregon for confirmation to the ninth circuit. With three members remaining to vote the outcome appeared unlikely to be favorable, as Republicans Cummins Borah and Means opposed on the panel.
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Washington
Coolidge
Senate
Wallace Mc Camant
Oregon
Senate Judiciary Committee
McCamant
Goff
Ernst
Deneen
Cummins
Borah and
Means
Poisoned liquor blamed in Walter Abbott death
A coroner's jury in Tularosa New Mexico ruled that Walter Abbott 95 private secretary to Albert B Fall died from poisoned liquor. The inquest followed the discovery of his body in an automobile two miles north of town early today. Abbott had been employed by Fall for three years.
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Tularosa
N. M
Walter Abbott
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Here
Abbott
Pall
Senate orders inquiry of Commission over influence allegations
The Senate ordered an inquiry into the tariff commission and charges that President Coolidge and others sought to influence it. A five senator committee will conduct the investigation with cross-party membership and support from the Vice President after consults with the Senate leader.
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Senate
Washington
Tariff Commission
Coolidge
Robinson
Arkansas
Commission
Norris
Nebraska
King
Utah
Bingham
Connecticut
Finance Committee
Crouse
Auction sale of old Dallas Cleburne and Southwestern line
In Cleburne Texas on March 11 Sam J McFarland of Dallas bought the former Dallas Cleburne and Southwestern top railway from the M K and T for 20000 dollars. The sale included twelve and a half miles of track and all station buildings. The line had been discontinued about four years earlier and runs from Cleburne to the main M K T line at Egan.
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Cleburne, Tex
Dallas, Cleburne and Southwestern Top Railway
M.K. and T
Sam J. McFarland
Dallas
Cléburne
Egan
Jackson injunc tion petition dismissed for lack of jurisdiction
Fort Worth March 11 Judge James C Wilson dismissed Murray Jacksons petition to restrain a state mandate to incarcerate him for lack of jurisdiction He was sentenced to five years after conviction for assault with a prohibited weapon in the flogging of R H Burleson a traveling salesman in Williamson county
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Fort Worth
Murray Jackson
James C. Wilson
Jackson
R. H. Burleson
Williamson County
Two Young Men Killed by Southern Pacific Train near Rosenberg
In Rosenberg Texas two youths were killed when a train's brake shoe caught clothing as they rode beneath it. One was identified as John A Lancaster with jail records in Beaumont. the other named Horace Hood from Pittsburg Texas said to be heading to California. In Jackson Mississippi Governor Whitfield signed a bill banning certain evolution theories in state schools.
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Rosenberg
Tex
Southern Pacific
Tavener
Here
John A. Lancaster
Beaumont
Lancaster
Horace Hood
Pittsburg
Texas
California
Jackson, Miss
Henry I. Whitfield
Mississippi
League Deadlock Over Permanent League Seats Grows
In Geneva this morning the council of the League of Nations remained deadlocked over permanent seats. Brazil Spain and Japan refused to back Germany for the sole new council seat and Germany insisted on its mandate that only Germany be elected. Briand’s arrival raised hope for a breakthrough. Locarno pacts bind big powers to back Germany, while Japan says it is not obligated.
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Geneva
Council of the
League of Nations
Brazil
Spain
Japan
Germany
Council of the League
Reichs
Aristide Briand
Hand of
Briand
Locarno
Committee to Negotiate Shoals Bid Named by House
Washington March 11 Authorization of a joint congressional committee to negotiate bids for Muscle Shoals is nearing completion. The House agreed to Senate amendments to the authorization with two added provisions. One requires leases to recognize the nitrate and fertilizer manufacturing priority, the other compels the committee to make all bids available for congressional study.
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Washington
Congressional
House
Senate
Joint Committee
Congress
Convicted Woman Confesses to Multiple Poison Murders
Flora Illinois March 11 State's attorney Harold S Williams told the Associated Press that Mrs Elsie Bible Malinsky now serving a life term for murdering her husband former wife has made a confession admitting two additional poison murders and an attempt at a fourth.
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Flora
Harold S. Williams
Associated Press Tonight
Elsie Bible Malinsky
Leopold Schepp Dies At 85 In New York Residence
Leopold Schepp financier manufacturer and philanthropist died today at his New York residence after a brief illness. He was 85 years old.
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Leopold Schepp
New York
Traffic Men to Meet for Brownsville Shipping Conference
More than 600 railroad and industrial traffic men from five states and Mexico gather in Brownsville for an international shipping conference on March 19 and 20. Principal speakers include Walter Splawn of the University of Texas and officials from the National Railways of Mexico and American Railway Association. Attendees will tour the lower Rio Grande valley by motor car during the South Texas visit.
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Dallas
Southwest
Republic of Mexico
Brownsville
C. Salazar
National Railways of Mexico
R. C. Andrews
American Railway Company
Southwest Shippers Board
R. BR. Stafford
I. G. N.gulf Coast Lines
Houston
L. H. Betts
Washington
American Railway Association
Benor Salazar
Walter Splawn
University of Texas
Rio Grande Valley
South Texas
Eight Held in Huge Swindle Game in New Mexico
East Las Vegas New Mexico March 11 Kenneth Josephs and Lewis Bass two of a group of eight charged with operating a stock swindle game with HQ in Denver and previously active in St. Louis and Chicago police said after questioning the men's wives held in a local hotel Four others are jailed in Denver awaiting trial on swindling charges.
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Las Vegas
N. M
Kenneth Josephs
Lewis Bass
Denver
St. Louis
Chicago
Youthful Slayer of Sweetheart Receives Life Term
WEWOKA Okla March 11 Erman P Higdon found guilty of first degree murder by a four member jury in district court for killing his sweetheart Nita May Gosa on February 14 two hours before their wedding. Sentence to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary to be formalized by Judge Crump Saturday. Higdon appeared relieved as the jury read life.
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Wewoka
Okla
Erman P. Higdon
Nita May Gosa
Crump
N A Price Dies When Santa Fe Hits Automobile
Prominent real estate dealer N A Price was fatally injured near the University of Oklahoma when his car was struck by a Santa Fe train. The accident occurred at a grade crossing near Mill.
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N. A. Price
Santa FE
Ou, Mill
Real estate man killed by train at Plainview
N A Price fifty two prominent Plainview real estate man was struck by a Santa Fe southbound passenger train Thursday morning as he drove from the Plainview Cotton Oil Mill grounds. He died three hours later at the Plainview sanatorium. His car was wrecked.
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Plainview
N. A. Price
Santa Fe
Price
Man Robbed After Stopping To Help On Desert Road
Wright Wilson a drilling contractor was robbed of 14 dollars near St Francis while helping two strangers whose car had broken down. A man from the car jumped on the running board and, with another, searchedWilson then ordered him back into his vehicle and fled. Deputies seek two men matching descriptions tied to recent home burglaries in Amarillo.
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St. Francis
Wright Wilson
Wilson
Amarillo
Panhandle
Police Storm Burlesque Show Arrest Almost Entire Cast
Detectives and police, with female officers, entered the Chelsea Theater on Eighth Avenue in New York and arrested 36 members of the burlesque show Wild Women, including 29 women. The audience protested as prisoners were moved to patrols and later released on bond to return for the evening performance. Some cast members fled as the raid began.
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New York
Chelsea Theater
Eighth Avenue
Confessed Slayer Freed On Five Years Probation
Los Angeles report states Leland T. Harder, who pleaded guilty to murder in a triangle case, was granted five years probation by Superior Judge Charles Burnell. In court, Burnell denounced Mrs. Harder, urging the husband to separate from the woman he held responsible for the life taken, while his three children sat nearby.
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Los Angeles
Leland T. Harder
J. F. Slaughter
Charles Burnell
Harder
Burnell
Mrs. Harder
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
The Panhandle low pressure off the Georgia coast brings rain from Texas to the Atlantic. Eastern New Mexico expects rising temperatures as a Northwest high moves southeast. Amarillo and vicinity report Friday fair with temperature changes and lighter winds.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Reiday
Ceiaa
Snaeias
Cai
Keene
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Wally Reid
Shelton
Cowmen
Texas Southwestern Cattle Raisers
Fort Worth Meeting
W. M.camant
Late Wire News
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Oakland
Calif
Mex
Oklahoma
Tabernacle
Theury
Higdon
Lkewise
W. A. Billingsley
Beminole County
GC. L. Hill
N.Y
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