Negro identified as Black Terror in Dallas attack case
In Dallas a man named Frank Noel, arrested in a Negro settlement, was named as the Black Terror by police. He had been identified by Mrs. Mabel Berry, who is in critical condition after the assault that killed Larry Milstead. Noel, an ex convict, faced a struggling arrest as his brother was also detained and a gun discharged.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Frank Noel
Larry Milstead
Mabel Berry
Berry
Noel
Sherman
Cee
Milstead
Sheriff Pauley Dies After Train Shootings
Coleman May 16 Associated Press Sheriff Dick Pauley, shot yesterday by a Negro while trying to arrest him on a freight train, died at 5:30 p m at Overall Memorial hospital. The shooter was spirited away by officers and taken to Brownwood for transfer. Pauley had been improving before rapidly declining this afternoon. The suspect was corralled two hours after the shooting by bloodhounds.
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Associated Press
Coleman
Dick Pauley
Overall Memorial Hospital
Sheriff Pauley
McWilliams
Ballinger
Fitch
Brownwood
Pauley
Word land water option eyed as city weighs tests
Amarillo eyes extending the option on the Word land as tests of wells drilled two years ago proceed. Mayor Bivins urged reopening of wells to confirm output while the water board and city commission plan immediate tests and an inspection of the Word tract. If exercised, the city would pay about $160,000 to own the land.
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Lee Bivin
Water Board
Word
Bivins
Water Board and Commission
Amarillo
Lubbock Signs Contracts for Fort Worth and Denver Line
Contracts to build a Fort Worth and Denver South Plains railroad from near Childress into Lubbock were signed by over 100 citizens. Frank E. Clarity of the company signed for Fort Worth. The deal includes 175000 dollars in negotiable notes to secure right of way and 82 acres for terminal grounds. The line would be completed 18 months after plans pass by the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington.
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Lubbock
Fort Worth
Denver South Plains Railroad
Childress
Frank E. Clarity
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company
New Mexico
Hockley
Cochran
West Texas
F. E. Clarity
J. H. Barwise
W. D. McCoy
Right of Ways
All
Burlington System
Two Sailors Hurt In Italian Steamer Explosion
In Norfolk Virginia on May 16 two sailors were injured aboard the Italian steam ship Adige anchored off Seawall's Point. One man was in critical condition as physicians feared for his life. The blast, likely from gas buildup in bunkers, was followed by a fire that was later extinguished.
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Associated Press
Norfolk
Seawall’s Point
Senator Selden P Spencer Dies in Saint Louis
Senator Selden P Spencer of St Louis died suddenly at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington at age 63 after an operation for hernia ten days earlier. He had been in good spirits today and his expected recovery was noted before the shock death.
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Selden P. Spencer
Missouri
Walter Reid
St. Louis
Associated Press
Washington
Walter Reid Hospital
Young Woman Killed by Interurban Car in Fort Worth
Fort Worth May 16 Mrs Gladys Phelps Lawson 22 of Edgewood was struck by a Fort Worth borna car as she crossed the track at Edgewood Stop. Death was instantaneous.
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Fort Worth
Gladys Phelps Lawson
Edgewood
American missing in Mexico found dead report says
Unconfirmed reports from Nogalees Sonora indicate American rancher George Jarrl missing since May 7 has been found with a bullet wound to the head. Local authorities have not officially confirmed the discovery.
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Mexico
Nogalees
Sonora
George Jarrl
Daily News and Evening Post Report
The Daily News and Evening Post, identified by the slogan Home Owned Home Edited, present a combined brief on local affairs and community notices highlighting ongoing events, civic updates, and public interest items curated for readers of both papers.
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The
Daily News and Evening Post
Novel wedding marines concert surprise in Tulia
In Tulia on May 16 at a school auditorium a real wedding followed a pupil concert. The finale The Bride Appears drew a genuine ceremony with minister and ring bearer as Lyman Rose of El Paso wed Irene Pierson of Tulsa before about 600 witnesses.
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Tulia
Phil Aufang
Lyman Rose
el Paso
Irene Pierson
Tulsa
Youth Succeeds in Wall Street
The Western Week magazine section highlights Horatio Alger like stories of young men finding success on Wall Street. It notes Broadway teen stars as today’s successes and features Roscoe’s progressive community on the JT and P West. The News-Post recommends reading multiple Western World features for readers.
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Wall Street
Horatio Alger
Roscoe
JT. & P. West T
Southern Baptists Pick Houston For 1926 Meeting
Memphis report details Southern Baptist Convention actions closing its seventieth session. Houston, Texas was chosen for the 1926 gathering. A restructured evangelism department was urged with Len Broughton as chair to appoint a superintendent and oversee evangelism. Memorials on Washington religious liberty near completion. Benefits totaled 126,962 to 1,552 beneficiaries. expected minimum gifts of 400,000 with Rockefeller funds contingent on further raises. Evolution debates surfaced in two resolutions, both failing to set a firm stance beyond the faith declaration.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Department of Evangelism
The
Home Mission Board
Southern Baptist Convention
Houston
Texas
Len’ B. Broughton
Jacksonville
Evangelism
National Baptist Memorial
Religious Liberty
Washington
William Lunsford
Dallas
John D. Rockefeller
Japan completes huge submarine Number 63
Japan completes its largest submarine capable of Pacific crossing and return. Weighing 1700 tons, the underwater dreadnought is named Number 63 and will be delivered to naval authorities late in May.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Japan
Pacific
Weather Forecast Summary for Sunday and Amarillo Area
Sunday forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with possible showers and little temperature change. North winds from the west and northwest may impact the western regions including Mexico and Amarillo area, with scattered showers possible across the day.
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North Po
Mexico
Amarillo Goster
Postmasters of Plains Organize in Meeting Here
The Panhandle Association of Postmasters was organized in the court room of the federal building. Homer Howard of Lockney was elected president, M. A. Crawford of Pampa vice president, and Miss Matilda Akeson secretary treasurer. Howard was chosen to represent the group at the state convention in Galveston May 26 and 27. The group favored putting all postmasters under civil service rules and urged uniform COD tags, standardized address placement on newspapers, removal of receipt returns for money orders to rural patrons, penalties for first class mail short on postage, and mandatory return addresses on letters. Congressman Marvin Jones criticized reliance on Washington for everything and praised President Coolidge’s economy measures. Remarks were offered by Rollie Scales, M. B. Johnson, and W. W. McDonald on clerks’ management and mail dispatch. The next annual meeting dates will be set later by the directors.
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Panhandle
Marvin Jones
Washington
President Coolidge
Rollie Scales
U. S
M. B. Johnson
Post Office
W. W. McDonald
Association
Two Men Held on Murder Charge in Moonshine Case
Fort Worth May 16 Cecil O Neal, 23, and Edwin Burdick, 22, are held on murder charges in the shooting death of Aubrey Moss near a moonshine still twelve miles west of Fort Worth on the White settlement road. Burdick admitted he fell, claiming he and another man scared Moss away, though he insisted he did not shoot.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Cecil O'Neal
Edwin Burdick
Aubrey
Moss
White Settlement
Odneal
Burdick
Mose
Lee Bivins Buys 4000 Cattle From El Paso Ranchmen
El Paso May 16 Four thousand head of Mexican cattle were purchased from the Cananea Cattle Company by Lee Bivins Amarillo mayor and Panhandle pig cattle operator. The cattle will be pastured on Coldwater ranch Sherman and Hansford counties and some have already arrived. The purchase was described as high grade mostly thoroughbred cows.
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Associated Press
Shepherd trial opens in poison case in Chicago
William Darling Shepherd faces a life trial starting Monday before Judge Thomas J. Lynch on a murder charge in the death of his foster-son William Nelson McClintock to gain an estate reported over 1 million dollars. prosecutors expect new evidence and many witnesses, with 66 slated for testimony and both sides planning substantial court activity.
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Associated
Chicago
William Darling Shepherd
Thomas J. Lynch
William Nelson McClintock
Young McClintock
Shepherd
George E. Gorman
Two More Bodies Recovered From Mississippi River
Memphis Tennessee May 16 Bodies of two more victims of the capsizing of the United States steamer Norman at Coahoma Landing Miss eight days ago were taken from the river several miles below the scene of the disaster according to a wireless message received here.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Norman
Coahoma Landing
Miss
26th Annual State Labor Convention Opens in Amarillo
The 28th annual Texas State Federation of Labor will convene at Amarillo municipal auditorium on Monday May 25 at 10 o'clock. Ed Tull and F W Trent announced preparations and entertainments for a week long event expected to attract four to five hundred delegates. The Amarillo Hotel is headquarters with events planned at several venues including Fair Theater and W O W Hall.
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State Federation OF Labor
City
Texas State Federation of Labor
Amarillo
Ed Tull
F. W. Trent
Panhandle
Fair Theater
West Texas
Box Canyon
Mission of Deandi
W. O. W. Hall
Fair Band
Central Labor Union
Flinn
Carpenter
W. Trent
Painter
J. C. Seaman
W. T. Pledge
J. A. Nail
Npr
J. A. Lyons
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