Mayor Signals and Traffic Plan Discussed in Amarillo
City commissioners informally considered traffic signal options including a 15 standard light system estimated at 7125 dollars with maintenance costs. A committee urged middle street lights and the board planned chlorination for the incinerator area while funding for railroad development and street work was adjusted.
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Mayer Bivins
Board of City Development
John B
Harry Kearns
Bartlett
City Light & Water Company
Tenth Street
Santa Fe Railway Company
C. B. Willmering
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Lincoln
Tennessee
Joslin Street
Glenwood
Orange
Air mail lines proposed to Kansas City from southwest
Kansas City officials will ask post office department leaders during the tri state convention for two air mail routes. One route would run El Paso to Amarillo and Wichita Kansas. The other would run San Antonio to Waco Fort Worth Dallas Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Post Office Department
Harrys. New
John P. Bartlett
Paul Henderson
Trial of former Kansas governor nears end
In Topeka Kansas on May 19 the trial of former Governor Jonathan M Davis on charges of soliciting a 2500 bribe nears its close. Evidence is finished and the case heads to a jury tomorrow with Judge James A Mc Clure set to charge them at 9 am. If convicted Davis faces 1 to 5 years hard labor or up to one year plus a 1000 dollar fine. The Oswald case and a separate pardon charge against Davis and son Russell linger.
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Associated Press
Topeka
Kans
Jonathan M. Davis
Kansas
James A. McClure
Charles B. Griffith
McClure
Davis
Oswald
Walter Grundy
Hutchinson
Russell
Fred W. Pullman
Carl J. Peterson
Indianapolis
Ind
D. C. Stephenson
Ku Klux Klan
Hiram W. Evans
Robert G. Baltzell
Stephenson
Evans
Romar II
Toledo
Madge Oberholtzer
Open Door Principle Stands At Armaments Talks
In Geneva on May 19 the United States urged preservation of the open door doctrine at the international conference on armaments. Theodore F. Burton, head of the American delegation, argued that any exemption for arms exports undermines open trade. The issue, involving Dutch proposals, was referred to jurists for ruling.
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Associated Press
Geneva
United States
Theodore F. Burton
Jurists
Explosion wrecks Liberty Fire Works plant at Franklin Park
A large explosion wrecked a Franklin Park fire works plant near Chicago. The Liberty Fire Works Company plant was destroyed and a score or more workers were injured with some possibly fatally trapped. Nearby houses and several farm houses were damaged as fire crews and police rushed to the scene.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Franklin Park
Liberty Fire Works Company
Dallas chiefs note record turnout for Confederate veteran reunion
In Dallas on May 19, a 35th annual Confederate veterans reunion opened with an estimated attendance exceeding 4,000 veterans and thousands of relatives. About 3,000 are encamped at State Fair Park with 3,500 at dinner. The camp is a city of cots kitchens and a hospital. Fiddlers performed as veterans recalled the “mighty had been” era while a Black minister preached to white soldiers.
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Dallas
Associated Press
Dallas Tonight
Secre
George Waverly Briggs
State Fair Park
Heart of
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Billy
William Slaughter
Culpepper
Military Funeral For General Miles At Arlington
Long’s funeral honors marked General Nelson A. Miles’s burial at Arlington National Cemetery. President and government officials attended as army, navy, and Marine Corps escort carried the flag draped casket to a brief committal. A rifle squad fired and taps sounded at the final farewell to the veteran leader.
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Nelson A. Miles
Arlington Cemetery
Associated Press
Washington
Arlington National Cemetery
Old Fort Myer
Virginia Hills
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
St. John’s Church
White House
Miles
Feared Outbreak At Coleman Sparks Ranger Sendoff
State rangers are ordered to depart Austin on Thursday to quell unrest tied to the murder trial of a Sheriff. Hearing set for Friday. The move follows a request by District Judge J O Woodward and District Attorney Walter U Early.
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Associated Press
Austin
Dick Pauley
J. O. Woodward
Walter U. Early
Texas journalism students to have university course
In Galveston on May 19 the Texas board of regents created the office of associate professor of business administration to join with journalism for advanced students. They will not accept new journalism students this term, and the school of music will be eliminated next term with a $10,000 appropriation vetoed.
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Associated Press
Galveston
University of Texas
Board of Regents
P. J. Thompson
School of Journalism
French Finance Ministers Review Debt Situation in Paris
Paris May 19 Premier Painleve foreign minister Briand and finance minister Caillaux met to review France finances with focus on debt. After the conference the Quai d Orsay spokesman briefed reporters on the results.
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Associated Press
Paris
Painleve
M. Briand
M. Caillaux
Quai D’orsay
Are Amarillo Businessmen Jealous of Their Stenographers
Amarillo Daily News offers a $3 prize for an essay on the question Are Amarillo business men jealous of their husbands stenographers The prompt notes no names will be published and essays of 300 to 500 words should be at the paper office by noon Saturday Gloria Gregory inflates the theme linking The Flapper Wife to the discussion The News Post proclaims the paper is home owned and edited.
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Daily News
Gloria Gregory
Amarillo
Four Die in Pistol Battle Over Election Quarrel
Four men were killed and several others wounded in a pistol battle at Kermit, Mingo County, Huntington reports say. The gunfight is described as arising from an election quarrel.
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Associated Press
Huntington
W. Va
Kermit
Mingo County
Mystery surrounds Ardmore youth death near Quanah
May 19. Jimmie Spell of Ardmore Oklahoma was found drowned in seven feet of water at Lake Pauline seven miles from Quanah. The body showed severe bruising and police investigate possible foul play.
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Associated Press
Quanarl
Jimmie Spell
Ardmore
Okla
Lake Pauline
Quanah
Naming of Jury to Try Shepherd Moves Slowly
Chicago May 1 William Darling Shepherd faces delay as jury selection progresses with three tentative jurors in, replacing three excused. Thirty six veniremen examined. 17 for cause, 13 excused by agreement, two state peremptory, one defense peremptory. Court adjourns until 2 p m to attend the funeral of J A Bidwell, former circuit court clerk.
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Chicago
William Darling Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
Thomas J. Lynch
Lynch
J. A. Bidwell
Circcuit
Woman and daughter killed as train hits car
Mrs August Stelzer, 40, and daughter Evelyn, 15, were fatally injured when their car was struck by an eastbound M. E. T. railway train near Muenster. Seven year old Anna Margaret Stelzer was seriously hurt. Evelyn died instantly. Mrs Stelzer died at a sanitarium after being brought aboard. A string of box cars on a siding blocked the driver's view of the train which does not stop at Muenster.
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Associated Preas
Gainesville
August Stelzer
Evelyn
Muenster
Anna Margaret Stelzer
Stelzer
Subway Panic After Train Fire In Smoke Filled Tube
About 100 people were injured when an electrical short and resulting fire trapped passengers in a six car east side subway train near Grand Central Terminal. Most treated at first aid stations in nearby hotels or hospitals. one woman suffered broken legs in a stampede. The train carried roughly 1,000 riders from Bronx Park, many heading to Manhattan offices. The blaze started between the fifth and sixth cars after jumpers connected to the cars shorted. conductor halted the train and the crowd fled through smoke to exits several blocks away.
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Grand Central Terminal
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St. Vincent’s Hospital
Bronx
Lower Manhattan
Forty-first Street
Grand Central Terminal Station
Harry Post
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