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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1925
Page
1
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg took the oath of office as President of Germany in the Reichstag. He pledged to faithfully fulfill duties amid ad hoc protests by communists and amid past inquiries into the submarine warfare policy.
Johnathan M. Davis and Carl J. Peter son former bank commissioner stand trial on charges of accepting bribes tied to pardons for Kansas criminals. Russell Davis, son of the governor, is also charged for receiving 1250 dollars to deliver a pardon to Fred W. Pullman, a bank president convicted of forgery.
Dr George C Butte of Austin named attorney general of Porto Rico, announced at the White House. He defeated Miriam A Ferguson for Texas governor last November. Butte, an international law expert, led the foreign intelligence depart ment in World War I and later served as dean of the University of Texas law school before his gubernatorial bid. The Porto Rico post is effective May 14.
J M Adams owner and publisher of the Plainview News died in France after contracting India fever while on a world tour that began in January. He was returning home after writing weekly dispatches. Survived by a daughter Mrs BE Perry of Plainview. Adams was a longtime West Texas newspaper figure and Panhandle Press Association member.
In Kansas City on May 12 two Black men took $3,000 from the Prudential Insurance Company of America on the second floor. Four young women employees were frightened and a deputy county sheriff fired at them as they fled the scene.
After a closed session with the water board the Amarillo City Commission reported no definite choice on water source or dam plans. A new meeting is planned within days to decide. In open session, attention turned to a 4 bednt fire truck for the county and central station placement, with prior talks to involve county officials. Tennessee Street graving was approved and bids sought, and three street lights authorized for Nortillo areas.
At Kumanjaya, forty miles northwest of Tokyo, a massive fire destroyed more than 8,000 houses and buildings this morning. Casualties have been reported, with damage estimates running high as authorities assess the silk industry hub’s losses.
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A negro patrolman and an unidentified Negro were killed and a white police reserve member was critically wounded after 30 to 40 shots fired at 188th street following a rebuke to the reservist's wife on Lenox Avenue. Patrolman George Godfrew and reservist Gellen Fuller were shot in the chest. both bullets exited their backs.
Paris Texas May 12 Mrs W Luckadoo was shot and killed last night at her mother’s home near Woods town Oklahoma on the Red River banks. The body of her husband Bill Luckadoo was later found on the Texas side with a bullet hole in the head. Miss Clyde Redding sister to Mrs Luckadoo is in a sanitarium here with five bullet wounds from the shooting affray.
Roscoe P. B. Warren was convicted in circuit court of second degree murder for the shooting of John Deskin, a motor car agent, and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary after a jury deliberated nearly eight hours in Kansas City May 12.
A loose OCR fragment notes Wednesday weather with references to water, a warm temperature hint, and a Mexican connection. Details are unclear but indicate a brief regional forecast or diary entry describing mild conditions with water imagery.
The Daily News Evening Post announces Better Homes Week will start tomorrow with nationwide observance and Amarillo merchants backing the campaign. Local firms plan to publicize merchandise aiding home improvement, noting the week began in 1922 and enters its fourth year with broader participation than prior years.
In Brookline Massachusetts on May 12 Miss Amy Lowell sister of Harvard University president A Lawrence Lowell died from a paralytic stroke at her home. She had fallen ill April 11 canceling a planned trip to Europe. Doctors Eastman Porter and the president arrived after the stroke, with officials previously stating no immediate danger.
Austin May 12 An inspection of six highway districts under Joe Burkett highway commissioner will be made next week. He will travel from Del Rio to Amarillo visiting Eastland Coleman San Angelo Del Rio Alpine El Paso Big Spring Amarillo Wichita Falls and Eastland on return.
Supreme Court justice Cottillo authorized exhumations in the East Sixth Street baby farm case involving Mrs Helen Auguste Geisen Volk. Assistant district attorney Ryan aims to obtain evidence for a grand jury homicide indictment. Bodies are Agnes Toohey, 18 months, and William Winters, six months. Witnesses allege excessive cruelty. funeral arrangements and payment to undertaker Jacob Herrich are noted.
Paris authorities warn smokers to hold government made cigarettes at arm length after a string of minor blasts injures about a dozen people. The warning comes as the tobacco monopoly combats incidents linked to smoking products.
Memphis May 12 Three thousand messengers at a pre convention evangelism conference urged the home mission board to re establish and enlarge its department of evangelism They called for new departments on state boards and urged district associations to fund evangelistic campaigns and use radio to spread the message Key speakers linked revival to crime reduction and urged evangelism across church groups and rural areas The Woman's Missionary Union opened its session with a pageant and announced retirement plans for its longtime president with possible successors named.
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