Magnolia Company Opens Third Panhandle Oil Outlet
Magnolia Petroleum completes the third Panhandle crude outlet, routing 10 000 to 12 000 barrels daily through a six inch line to Kings Mill. Thirty three 55 000 barrel tanks rise at Kings Mill with work rushed on more, totaling storage for 1 815 000 barrels as Magnolia plans a southeast pipeline.
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Magnolia Petroleum Company
Magnolia Company
Kings Mill
P. de McNamara
Pantex Company
Plains
Panhandle
Magnolia
Lock Y
Hutchinson County
Stinnett Home From Rail Trip to Washington
Stinnett returns from a rail trip to Washington and expects immediate construction of a road to Liberal Kansas as a key outcome of his visit.
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Stinnett
Washington
Liberal
Kansas
Officials Weigh Rail Permit for Rock Island Amarillo Line
A. S. Stinnett reports from Washington that the Interstate Commerce Commission may grant Rock Island authority within 20 days to build a 147 mile line from Amarillo to Liberal Kansas. Protests could delay. officials expect construction soon with Amarillo connections via a Texas Panhandle Gulf route being debated.
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Rock Island
Amarillo
Liberal
Kansas
A. S. Stinnett
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
North Plains Road
Examiner Mattingly
Bmrnett
Stinnett
Texas
Chiropractor Sentenced in Dietrich Slaying Case
Philadelphia report says David L. Marshall was convicted of second degree serious case for the death and dismemberment of Anna May Dietrich. He faces 10 to 20 years in prison if no new trial is granted. He admitted dismembering the body after she died in his office, claiming poisoning, while prosecutors cited a quarrel over alleged exposure of their relationship. Jury verdict came in under five hours.
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Philadelphia
David L. Marshall
Anna May Dietrich
Miss Dietrich
Commonwealth
Marshall
Suspect Captured Near Brawley After Oklahoma Murder Alert
John Cieloha, alleged to be wanted in Oklahoma for the murder of two state officers, was captured near Brawley at Mount Signal by Imperial County Sheriff Gillette last night. The arrest follows a nationwide manhunt spanning several states.
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Brawley
Calif
John Cieloha
Oklahoma
Mount Signal
Here
Gillett
Imperial County
Day in Washington prompts hectic debate and committee moves
The House debated prohibition and held night sessions for agriculture. The Gooding railroad rate bill failed in the Senate. Immigration patrols on borders were assigned by supervisors. Thomas Walker Page attacked tariff provisions before a Senate committee. Articles of impeachment against Judge George W. English were approved by the Judiciary Committee. An all-American canal project in New York was sidetracked by the Republic House steering committee.
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Washington
House
House Agriculture Committee
Senate
Thomas Walker Page
George W. English
House Judiciary Committee
New York State
Republic House
Mother and son injured when car overturns near Amarillo
Mrs Joe Dunwoodey of Panhandle and her sons Larry Fugene and Joe Jr were riding when their car rear-ended a truck on the Panhandle highway ten miles east of Amarillo. The vehicle overturned twice, with Larry suffering facial and head cuts. Joe Jr unhurt. All were taken to St Anthony's sanitarium. Mrs Dunwoody returning from Panhandle to care for her ill husband at the sanitarium.
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Joe Dunwoodey
Panhandle
Larry Fugene
Joe Jr
Amarillo
Larry Eugene
Blind slayer of Burton girl goes on hunger strike
New York March 24 Harry W Cowan, convicted last night for first degree murder in the December slaying of Edith Burton, began a hunger strike in his prison cell. He faces a Monday sentencing with death in the electric chair the only possible outcome. Cowan, blinded by a self-inflicted head wound, claims Miss Burton killed herself in a pact with him.
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New York
Harry W.cowan
Edith Burton
Cowan
Burton
Fire Threatens Durham Area Amid Water Cutoff
In Durham North Carolina March 24 a water supply failure cut by a break in the city filter system left a section of the city without water. A fire started at 10 15 in a Negro apartment house and by 11 15 four dwellings and two warehouses had burned as firefighters struggled to control the blaze.
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Durham
N. C
Liar dispute erupts as Prohibition clash in House heats
In Washington on March 24 the Prohibition debate escalates with the word liar used on the House floor. Detailing remarks by LaGuardia O Connor Blanton Celler and Wheeler, the session touches enforcement, justice department roles and calls for a dry law modification as lawmakers convene at Hill's home to draft changes.
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Washington
Prohibition Enforcement Unit
Department of Justice
LaGuardia
Prohibition Unit
Justice Department
Remus
Atlanta
United States
Congress
O'Connor
Dr. Wilson
Blanton
Texas
Madden
Celler
New York
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Buckner
Wheeler
Representative Hill
Republican
Maryland
House
Senate
Flexible Tariff Laws Attacked by Thomas Walker Page
Thomas Walker Page former chairman of the tariff commission testified before a Senate committee that flexible tariffs threaten business and lack stability. He claimed President Harding sought to influence commission staff selections and reacted angrily when his candidate for secretary was not accepted. He urged fixed rates set by Congress and said the tariff policy creates uncertainty and fear in future operations.
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Thomas Walker Page
Tariff Commission
Senate
Harding
Commission
Congress
Heroic 9 year old Claudie Elliott dies saving sister
Claudie May Elliott, 9, saved her 8 year old sister Margaret from an oncoming car at Sixth and Monroe yesterday noon but was struck and died at Northwest Texas hospital four hours later. The driver To McClain stopped to assist and take the child to the hospital. The girls had crossed the street to buy candy while parents were away.
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Claudie May Elliott
Margaret
Sixth
Monroe
Vexas Hospital
Claudie May
To. McClain
North
Kentucky Street
A. G. Shiott
Monroe Street
Plainview
Oklahoma Aspirant To Governorships Indicted for Libel
John R. Clark a Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Oklahoma City bridge company president was arraigned in Pauls Valley county court on three counts of criminal libel. He requested 24 hours to plead and posted $1,000 bonds per count. Indicted by a grand jury after telegrams criticizing Gov Trapp the county judge the mayor were signed W L Carter but Clark was identified by a telegraph operator Edwin Bottoms. The charges are high misdemeanor not felony. conviction could yield jail and fine.
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Pauls Valley
Okla
John R. Clark
Oklahoma City
Clark
M. BE. Trapp
Grand Jury
R. L. Mitchell
W. L. Carter
Edwin Bottoms
Long-Serving Murderer Escapes Oklahoma Prison
John Cieloha, held for the 1908 murder of David Conway of Muskogee and serving a life sentence, escaped from the Oklahoma penitentiary after being imprisoned since age 18 in November 1908, with the escape dated February 7, 1925, while reports note his capture came in Imperial county, California. Funeral services were held for Joe Hall, 22, in Ixtlan, Nayarit, Mexico, after an encounter with Mexican outlaws, with burial following Mexican law requiring burial within 24 hours.
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M'Alester
Okla
John Cieloha
Imperial County
California
Oklahoma
David Conway
Muskogee
Cieloha
Tepic
Nayarit
Mexico
Joe Hall
Ixtlan
Postoffice Employee Arrested for Lingerie Theft in Dead Letter
Mrs. Clara T. Hessman, 60, longtime employee of the Post Office Department, was arrested by postal inspectors in San Francisco on March 1 for stealing a package of lingerie from the dead letter section where she worked. She had a pension but five years to go before retirement.
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San Francisco
Clara T. Hessman
Postoffice Department
Postoffice
City council backs Santa Claus impersonation ban
Vancouver officials and the Vancouver Retail Merchants' Association supported a resolution from the Payent- Teacher association urging continuation of impersonations of Santa Claus only to avoid children’s disillusionment when promises fail in department stores on Christmas Day. In Washington, Representative Collier of Mississippi challenged claims that the 1926 tax cut differed from Mellon's 1924 plan, explaining the Mellon plan cut large incomes by half and small incomes by a quarter, while the new law reduced large tax rates by 0 percent and small by 0 percent.
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Vancouver
B. C
Vancouver Retail Merchants’ Association
Vancouver Payent- Teacher Association
Santa Claus
Washington
Collier
Mississippi
House
Mellon
Day and Night Sessions Held on Farm Relief
Strenuous effort is being made to get legislation before Congress as lawmakers convene day and night sessions to advance farm relief measures. The push seeks to ease agricultural hardship and secure needed policy changes.
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Congress
Jones urges closing Washington farm relief hearings
The House Agriculture Committee will hold day and night sessions on farm relief hearings to push legislation before adjournment. Representative Jones of Texas urged closing hearings, but members voted to allow all who wish to be heard. Delegations from national and Midwestern farm groups pressed a bill to levy an equalization fee on certain crops to fund surplus marketing, ahead of a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing Monday. The committee also continued cross examining William Hearst of the American Farm Bureau Federation on details of the equalization fee bill.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Jones
Texas
Senate Agriculture Committee
House
Senate Committee
William Hearst
American Farm Bureau Federation
Sniper Bandit Carter Sentenced to Death in Nebraska
Frank Carter known as the sniper bandit was formally sentenced in Omaha to die in the electric chair at the state prison on July 9 for the murder of Dr. A. D. Searles. He was taken to the prison by automobile after Judge Goss imposed the sentence following a jury verdict. An appeal to the state supreme court was signaled by attorney John Baldwin. motions for retrial or life imprisonment were denied.
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Lincoln
Neb
Frank Carter
Omaha
A. D. Searles
Carter
Goss
State Supreme Court
John Baldwin
Ponder Resigns as Head of San Antonio Chamber
San Antonio March 24. By a nine to five vote the Chamber of Commerce board accepted the resignation of A. R. Ponder as president. Clegg, second vice-president, is acting president. Reopening of the rail line extension fight from Falfurrias to the valley forced his departure. Ponder, superintendent of the Missouri Pacific properties, said the issue had not been settled when he took the post. The session lasted almost two hours and was stormy.
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San Antonio
Chamber of Comerce Board of
A. R. Ponder
Ee Clegg
San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass
Falfurrias
Ponder
Chamber of Commerce
Missouri Pacific
Sesson
Stockton man shoots self after killing five women and a man
John M. Goins of Stockton Calif avenges a grudge by killing five women and a man then dies by suicide as possemen close in on the automobile he fled in. Years earlier he injured his leg in a train accident seeking damages from the railroad.
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John M. Goins
Stockton
Calif
Goins
Senate Rejects Gooding Measure in Transcontinental Rate Fight
The Senate voted 46 to 33 against the Gooding long and short haul bill, continuing a forty year battle by Intermountain Representatives to curb lower Pacific coast haul rates versus inland points. Opponents cited ICC action denying seven railroads long and short haul freedom, while proponents blamed a railroad lobby. The debate spanned three hours with even divisions on both sides.
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Washington
Senate
Intermountain
House
Interstate Commerce Commission
Trans-Continental
Jury to Try Former Kansas Governor Starts Selection
In Peoria, Kansas, a district court began selecting a jury to try former governor Jonathan M. Davis and his son Russell on charges of selling a pardon to Fred W. Pullman for 1250 dollars. The defense failed to secure a dismissal or postponement.
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Peka
Kan
Mar
Jonathan
M. Davis
Kansas
Russell
Davis
Fred W. Pullman
Texan Paroled After Interim Beatdown Incident
Nobert Downey of Fort Worth Texas earned parole from a municipal farm sentence for intoxicated mishap with a car starter. He intervened in a separate case where Frank Alexander, accused of beating his father, was sentenced. Downey praised the act and struck Alexander before authorities separated them. The judge praised Downey and granted parole, prompting disturbances among other inmates.
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Kansas City
Mar
Nobert Downey
Downey
Fort Worth
Texas
Frank C. Alexander
Alexander
M. J. Kilroy
Former Ku Klux Klan official faces booze charge
George B. Kimbro Jr of Hammenez Texas, a former Ku Klux Klan official, is free on $6,000 bonds after being arrested on two counts of violating prohibition laws. Kimbro and Allen Shepherd waived preliminary exam before U.S. Commissioner H. J. Leigel. Bonds signed by Simeon M. Fuchs. They are charged with possessing and selling forged internal revenue stamp strips and possessing cognac and alcohol.
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New Orleans
George B. Kimbro, Jr
Hammem
Texas
Ku Klux Klan
Liberty Tonight
Kimbro Allen
Shepherd
United States
H. J. Leigel
Simeon M. Fuch
Sul Ross College to Be Inspected by Regents Committee
An inspection of Sul Ross State Teachers' College at Alpine will be conducted by a regents committee to review reports suggesting closure. About 175 students attend the school and per capita costs are high excluding the summer term. Dr. H. H. Harrington will explain the school during budget preparations for the legislature, with no recommendations on the institution's future.
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Austin
Sul Ross State Teachers’ College
Alpine
Board of Regents
Henry Paulos
Yoakum
Texas
San Angelo
H. H. Harrington
Board of Control
Amarillo and Vicinity Thursday Weather Forecast
Amarillo and West Texas expect Thursday fair and colder with a trough of low pressure extending from Texas to the Lake region. Eastern New Mexico faces cloudy skies with southeast portions drier. High pressure to the north and mountains brings colder weather. warming follows southeastwardly. Temperatures show highs around 60 and lows near 45.
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Amarillo
Texas
New
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Representative LaGuardia
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George Remus
Cincinnati
Clarence True Wilson
Methodist Board of Morals
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Jones Urges
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