Floggings Case Leads to Grand Jury Indictments in Texas
Sheriff Less Whitaker and County Attorney Henry L. Ford face misconduct charges after a two week grand jury inquiry into the August flogging of E. T. McDonald in Amarillo. Additional indictments cite whitecapping and assault with a prohibited weapon against Andy Knox W L Hennicutt T W Stanford and George Gall. Bond set at various amounts, trials likely in district court with potential impact on county civil dockets.
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Henry L. Ford
Potter County
Less Whitaker
EK. T. McDonald
Amarillo
Andy Knox
W. L. Hennicutt
T. W. Stanford
George Gall
Stanford
FE. T. McDonald
Fort Worth & Denver
Whitaker
Ford
Frank Hamer
McDonald
Fishing Town Destroyed by Tidal Wave in Lower California
San Jose de Cabo a small fishing town on the west coast of Lower California was destroyed by a tidal wave yesterday. Most of its 500 inhabitants escaped to higher ground, with the death toll unknown. Relief work to be organized by steamers carrying merchandise to Guaymas and ordered back to the town.
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Associated Press
Mexicali
Lower Calif
San Jose de Cabo
Lower California
Cape San Lucas
Cape Lucas
Guayamas
Cape
State Rested in Yarbrough Riot Trial in Macon
The State rested its case against Dr. C. A. Yarbrough on rioting charges arising from the flogging of B. F. Mills. Three witnesses testified he was among the parties who flogged Mills, after which the defense began presenting evidence.
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Macon
C. A. Yarbrough
B. F. Mills
Yarbrough
Indictments Return Against Waco School Head R L Abbott
McLennan County Grand Jury returns 61 indictments including six against R L Abbott former County Superintendent of Public Education. Three charges allege theft over fifty dollars and three allege swindling over fifty dollars. Abbott is reported in Alpine Texas.
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Associated Press
Waco
McLennan County Grand Jury
R.L. Abbott
Abbott
Alpine
Texan
Crazy Man Tries To Flood County Jail With Water
A man from Pampa held in Gray County on officers orders attempted to flood the Potter County jail by turning on hydrants. He also tried to remove light globes before deputies confined him and kept a guard on him.
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Crazy Man
Pampa
Gray County
Potter County
General rain in Ochiltree aids wheat sowing
Ochiltree county received a general rain last night of one third to one half inch, improving wheat sowing conditions. Fall wheat acreage may shrink due to low current prices, with many farmers diversifying crops. North Panhandle cotton looks good but will open late from cool weather. first season growing cotton could yield a quarter to half bale per acre in some areas.
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Perryton
Ochiltree
North Panhandle
Daily News Will Bulletin Returns Of Dempsey Firpo Fight Friday
The Amarillo Daily News will bulletin the Dempsey Firpo fight returns at 8 o clock tomorrow night with dispatches from the Associated Press Leased Wire. The News will megaphone the updates in front of the building at Sixth and Fillmore, as preliminaries start shortly before 8. News dealers in the Panhandle are urged to order extras to meet expected demand.
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Daily News
Associated Press
Sixth
Fillmore
Panhandle
Fang
Youth Admits Threat Letters To Citizens
Dixon Anderson, 14, admitted writing letters threatening prominent locals in Kansas City. He claimed the act was a joke. Recipients included Walter S. Dickey of the Kansas City Journal and Post, R. A. Long lumberman, and J. E. Long Moor, VP of the Drover's National Bank.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Dixon Anderson
New York
Walter S. Dickey
Kansas City Journal and Post
R. A. Long
J. E. Longmoor
The
Drover's National Bank
Bandit Youth Kills Himself at Marshall
In Marshall Texas a young man, believed by local officers to be the Mooringsport bank robber, shot himself in a lunchroom rear after being cornered by Sheriff Sanders. Charles Morefield, cashier of Mooringsport Bank, positively identified the body. About $11 in cash and a .32 caliber pistol bearing initials T. W. EB. were found. The body was sent to Shreveport at the request of Sheriff Hughes.
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Associated Press
Marshall
Texas
Sanders
Bank
Mooringsport
Charles Morefield
Bank of
T. W. EB
Shreveport
Hughes
Railway Clerks Withdraw Wage Increase Petition
Missouri Pacific clerks have withdrawn their petition for a wage boost from the U S railroad labor board under a pact to continue negotiations with the railroad. Negotiations are ongoing with company officials, it was announced.
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Associated Press
ST Louis
Missouri Pacific
United States Railroad Labor Board
Sick Pay Empties Factories In Orizaba Mexico
Orizaba Mexico Sept 12 workers flocked to sick lists after the new workmen compensation law took effect. Five hundred employees called in sick, up from six the day before, as factories faced gaps in production due to the policy.
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Associated Real
Tom Ross testifies in his own defense in Abilene trial
Tom Ross took the stand in his own defense in the slaying trial of cattle inspector H L Roberson in Seminole last April. He described threats against his life allegedly made by Roberson and recalled the hotel lobby scene and Roberson moving toward his coat pocket before the shooting. Mrs Ross followed on the witness stand.
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Associated Press
Abilene
Tom Ross
H. L. Roberson
Seminole
Roberson
Ross
Picture Used in Street Car Causes of Suit
Alleging a photo of their minor daughter Miss Margaret Warner was used for advertising in street cars and on a sign board without permission the parents 8 D Warner and wife sue Browne and Browne photographers in district court for 5000 dollars. They claim the use of the picture near signs for liniment ketchup canned fruit and vegetables degraded their daughter's social standing.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Margaret Warner
D. Warner
Browne
Warner
Johnson Named Head of Blue Sky Division
Austin September 12 F E Johnson attorney of Cleburne today was appointed by the secretary of state as head of the blue sky division of the state department He will enforce the new law against sale of fraudulent stocks and bonds and has assumed his duties.
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Associated Press
Austin
F. E. Johnson
Cleburne
Secretary of State
Staplea
State Department
Greek Government seeks arrest over Tellini murder
A Corriere TV Italia dispatch says Greece sent four communications to Albania demanding arrest of the Albanian government recognizes assassins of the Italian boundary mission led by General Tellini. Albania counters that the killers were Greeks and offers to cross the frontier to arrest them if Greece cannot.
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Rome
Corriere TV Italia
Santi Quaranta
Tellini
Greece
Gypsy Oil cuts twenty cents a barrel in crude pricing
Houston dispatch reports Gypsy Oil Company a Gulf Oil subsidiary cuts crude prices by 0 cents a barrel in Oklahoma and Kansas with bids from 90 cents to 2 dollars. Gulf pipeline follows with similar reductions in north Texas light oils. Magnolia had led with comparable cuts last week. Magnolia abolished 41 degrees and above grades, while Gulf maintains them with a 2.20 dollar to 2 dollar range.
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Houston
Gypsy Oi Company
Gulf Oil Corporation
Oklahoma
Kansas
Gulf Pipeline Company
North Texas
Gulf
Magnolia
Humble
Texas Company
Walton Urges Tulsa Officials Resignations
Governor J C Walton pressed Tulsa business leaders to accept resignations of Sheriff Sanford Police Commissioner Kiskaddon and three County Jury Commission members amid claims of Klan influence. Sanford and Kiskaddon refused, while Holland Owen and Robinson also stood firm against resigning as a committee geared to assess compliance was to be named.
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
J. C. Walton
Tulsa County
Bob Sanford
Harry W. Kiskaddon
Cicero L. Holland
J. W. Owen
Collinsville
O. E. Robinson
Skintook
H. O. McClure
Tulsa Chamber of Commerce
Sheriff Sanford
Kiskaddon
Sanford
Holland
Oil Men Charged in Fort Worth Court
Fort Worth Sept 12 J D and W G Schimml all men were charged with operating a business under an assumed title without registering it at the county clerk s office in two cases filed today in county court at law.
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Fort Worth
Associated Press
J. D
W. G. Schimml
Night of riotous rats and ants near San Antonio
In a bizarre spree near San Antonio the dry agents poured five thousand dollars worth of liquor into animal burrows. Eighteen millipedes appeared in various stages of intoxication while rabbits and a snake with a horned toad disrupted police. An owl finally ended the scene as agents retreated.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Belshazzar
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