Panhandle Grain Dealers predict 5 million bushels wheat output
Reports from the Panhandle and Plains convention project about 5,000,000 bushels of wheat from the region, roughly one fourth of 1926 shipments, with Texas total near 12,000,000 bushels and Oklahoma at 40 to 45 million. Officers were elected and price outlook remains firm amid policy debates.
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John Gould
Panhandle
Plains
Texas
Oklahoma
L. C. McMurty
Pampa
H. C. Adams
Amarillo
E. N. Noble
Plainview
Coolidge
McNary
Haugen Bill
C. N. Johnson
Oklahoma City
Shippers Association
Hereford
Kress
White Deer
Vega
N. M
Wildorado
Floydada
Spearman
Tulsa
Hale Center
Abernathy
Claude
Vernon
Childress
Wichita Falls
Washburn
Texhoma
Phona
Miami
Lockney
Muleshoe
Stratford
Sharkey Gains Shot At Dempsey With Quick Knockout
Jack Sharkey overwhelmed Jim Maloney at Yankee Stadium in five rounds, earning a spot in Tex Rickard's 15 round elimination bout to meet Jack Dempsey. Maloney was knocked down twice and stopped on a technical knockout in round five as 30,000 fans watched.
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Associated Press
Yankee Stadium
New York
Jack Sharkey
Jim Maloney
Tex Rickard
Maloney
Sharkey
Wyoming Warner
Cheyenne
George Berger
Bayonne
N. J
Braddock-Rocco
James J. Braddock
Jersey City
George la Rocco
New Rochelle
Braddock
la Rocco
Jim
Jack
Orrange
Bath Mich Buries 175 After Bath School Disaster
Bath Mich prepared to bury 44 victims of Andrew Kehoe's dynam bombing with over 20 funerals planned across Bath and surrounding townships. Injured totaled 38 in hospitals as state relief agencies organized aid and officials pursued a formal inquiry into the blast.
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Foster Eaton
United Press
Bath
Mich
Andrew Kehoe
Kehoe
T. M. Keyes
Keyes
Kahoe
Lansing
Bath Consolidated
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Agnes Ellen Kehoe
Fred W. Green
State Fire Marshals’ Division
Amarillo Sets Record High Price for City Bonds
The Amarillo city commission sold 1.3 million dollars of bonds to Branch Middlehauf of Wichita at par plus accrued interest. At 1 percent, the sale sets a new high price for local securities as voters prepare May 28 for authorities on storm sewers sewerage extensions parks viaducts and water works projects.
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City Commission
Branch- Middlehauf Company
Wichita
Kan
Harry Taylor
Bond Company
Texas
Amarillo
Prairie takes over West Texas Gas lines for Amarillo field
Prairie Oil and Gas company has acquired the McMahan franchises and plans to pipe gas from the Amarillo field to Lubbock and nearby towns. The 16 inch line will extend toward Plainview Tulsa Canyon and other communities with construction to be rushed. The transfer includes multiple contracts and may include a helium extraction plant in the future.
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Paul S. Hedrick
News-Globe
South Plains
Amarillo
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
West Texas Gas Company
A. J. McMahan
Oklahoma City
McMahan
Amarillo Field
Lubbock
Plainview
Tulsa
Canyon
McMahan Gas
City Commission of
the Prairie
Nelson K. Moody
T. J. Flannery
Victor A. Hays
George R. Broadwell
5. M. Williams
J. W. Moore
The
Prairie
Lee Bivins Ranches
Potter
Moore
Carson
Slaton
Floydada
Kress
Happy
Abernathy
Hale Center
Lockney
Williams Bros. Inc
John W. Moore Construction Company
Panhandle Construction Company
Irick Construction Company
Beaumont Traffic Expert Attends Southwest Shippers Board Meet
Beaumont Chamber of Commerce traffic manager and noted state expert attends the annual Southwest Shippers Advisory Board session. He aims to secure the 1028 meeting for Beaumont and to promote a two thousand dollar panoramic oil painting of Beaumont and the Sabine district displayed at the municipal auditorium.
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Beaumont Chamber of Commerce
Southwest Shippers’ Advisory Board
Bargle
Beaumont
Enid
Okla
Sabine District
Municipal Auditorium
Shippers and Railroad Men Attend 15th Southwest Board Meet
The 15th annual Southwest Shippers Advisory Board convention opens at 9 a.m. in the auditorium to discuss freight dispatch from Texas Oklahoma and Louisiana. Attending railroads include Fort Worth and Denver Rock Island Santa Fe Missouri-Kansas-Texans and Missouri Pacific. Washington officials L M Betts and Elmer Knutson visit with R C Andrews of Dallas. An excursion to Palo Duro Canyon departs from the Herring Hotel at 3 p.m.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Southwest Shippers’ Advisory Board
Panhandle Grain Dealers’ Association
Fort Worth
Youth Drowns in Wolf Creek Near Higgins Texas
M A Leslie 25 son of Marscellus A Leslie prominent farmer drowned in Wolf creek 25 miles northwest of Higgins Texas today. No further details available. Also reported La Grange Texas William Langhorn Jr sentenced to 99 years for criminal assault on Minnie Zapalac after pleading guilty to attempted assault.
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Higgins
Texas
M. A. Leslie
Marscellus A. Leslie
Wolf Creek
Associatiea Press
LA Grange
William Langhorn, Jr
Minnie Zapalac
Governor Requisitions Rendition for Swindling Suspect
Governor Moody served requisition on Michigan’s governor for rendition of Robert C. Marsten under a Neuces county swindling indictment. Marsten is said to be in custody in Dearborn Michigan.
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Austin
Moody
Michigan
Robert C. Marsten
Neuces County
Marsten
Dearborn
Mich
Lindbergh Starts Paris Flight With Early Positive Signs
Charles Lindbergh sparks excitement as his Spirit of St. Louis departs Roosevelt Field for a solo nonstop crossing to Paris. Early reports from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia show a steady course, with weather mixed but improving, while rivals watch anxiously and France prepares to welcome him.
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Associated Press
New York
Charles Lindbergh
France
Lindbergh
Long Island
Richard Byrd
George Neville
Bert Acosta
Fokker
America
Clarence Chamberlin
Lloyd Bertaud
Bellanca
Columbia
Paris
St. Louis
LeBourget
Greenwich
R. L
Halifax
Mass
Meterhan
Nova Scotia
Springfield
Milford
Mulgrave
Strait of Cansco
Cape Race
N. F
Oceania
Ireland
England
Middle-West
Nungesser
Coli
Atlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh
St. Johns
Roosevelt Field
Sinclair jailed and fined for contempt of Senate
Harry Ford Sinclair multimillionaire oil operator was sentenced to three months in a common jail and fined 500 dollars for refusing to answer questions before the Senate Tea Pot Home Committee in 1925. Indicted in 1924 for contempt and convicted in 1926, his appeal process could delay imprisonment for months or years.
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United Press
Washington
Harry Ford Sinclair
Spoksman
Senate Teapot Home Committee
Sinclair
Senate
District of Columbia Supreme Court
William Hitz
Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Amarillo Weather Forecast and Conditions
The forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for Saturday fair weather and partly cloudy skies in West Texas. A Utah low pressure system keeps conditions generally fair, with warmer trends in the central Mississippi valley and light rain in the Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies. Temperature highs reached 95 yesterday with a low of 56.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Rocky Mountain
Utah
Lake Region
Mississippi Valley
North Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountain Region
Central Plains States
West Gulf Coast
Anarillo Yester
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Amarillo Daily News
Dempsey
Bath Town Hall
Amarillo Bonds
MC Mahan
W. Clay Eargle
Harry Sinclair
Congress
White House
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