Panhandle Music Festival Opens With Violin Trials
The Panhandle Music Festival begins at the Municipal Auditorium with 7 year old Alma Jean Rogers first in violin trials at 9 30 am. Sixteen performers compete as judges from Chicago rate entries for piano voice ensemble and orchestra events through the week.
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Alma Jean Rogers
Ramon B. Girvin
Girvin Little Symphony Orchestra
Henry Sopkin
Armond Roth
Chicago
Garvin Little Symphony
Tito Schipa
Chicago Opera Company
Senate Proceeds On Bonus Consideration
Washington April 21 The Senate moved ahead with the soldier bonus bill pausing briefly to dispose of minor measures Leaders expect a vote soon on the major insurance and cash components Senator Walsh of Massachusetts released a minority report outlining concerns over a cash and insurance bill Democrats back the majority proposal supported by the American Legion aiming to avoid a presidential veto The finance committee members say the cash and insurance substitute would save about 1 000 000 000 versus the pending bill and be more acceptable to veterans
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Washington
Senate
Walsh
Massachusetts
Finance Committee
American Legion
Rebel Chiefs Already Executed, Says Report
Associated Press dispatch from Mexico City reports rebel generals Manuel M Diegues Christiforo Ocampo and Alfredo Garcia captured near the Guatemala border in Chiapas have been ordered court martialed and may already be executed. Other reports say General Manuel Garcia Virgil of Oaxaca was captured and executed last week.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Manuel M. Diegues
Christiforo Ocampo
Alfredo Garcia
Chiapas
Manuel Garcia Virgil
Oaxaca
Finance Committee of Fair to Meet Tomorrow
The finance committee of the Tri-State Fair will meet at 10 o clock tomorrow morning in the Board of City Development quarters. W O Gatton serves as chairman and will preside.
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Board of City Development
W. O. Gatton
Chemical Society Opens Sixty Seventh Meeting in Washington
The American Chemical Society began preliminary sessions in Washington with more than 2,000 delegates preparing to review hundreds of scientific papers and reports during the sixty seventh meeting.
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Chemical Society
Washington
American Chemical Society
Record Arrest Spike Hits Amarillo Weekend
Forty one arrests were made in Amarillo over the weekend between Saturday morning and Monday morning. Traffic violations accounted for thirty two bookings, seven involved dice games, and two for intoxication. Judge A L Anderson tried nineteen cases in police court, with sixteen fines assessed. Remainder to be tried later.
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Amarillo
A. L. Anderson
Eleven Die In Vehicle and Train Collisions Across Several Cities
Reports from Lewiston Maine St Louis Missouri Norwalk Connecticut and Durham New York describe multiple fatal traffic incidents. Consecutive crashes include a train striking an automobile four dead including a father and two sons and leg injuries, a bridge railing fall leaving two dead another unnamed driver killed, and two more road crashes with fatalities and injuries.
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Associated Press
Lewiston
Adolph, Egide
Eugene Valle
Paul Dube
Leger Valle
St. Louis
Richard Parker
Jacob Ferris
Samuel C. Galbraith
Quarantine Restored at Arizona Yuma Crossing
At Yuma Arizona the quarantine against hoof and mouth disease was reinstated. The last of 800 stranded tourists passed the fumigation station and were allowed to cross the river before National Guard units with machine guns occupied the bridge halting interstate communication.
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United Press
Yuma
Ariz
Colorado River
Arizona
Twenty ill after Easter party in New York
Twenty persons including six children fell seriously ill after eating a large baker's cake at the Harlem home of Vincent Izzo in New York. One child was hospitalized in serious condition. others treated at home for ptomaine poisoning.
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New York
Harlem
Vincent Izzo
Regular luncheon of advertisers called off
The regular meeting of the Associated Advertising and Salesmanship club scheduled for today at the Amarillo hotel was not held out of respect to Lee Williams, club president. Mrs. George Williams, mother of the club president, died yesterday afternoon at 6 o'clock.
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Associated Advertising and Salesmanship Club
Amarillo Hotel
Lee Williams
George Williams
Confiscated liquor details surface at Daugherty hearing
The Senate Daugherty committee heard testimony on dereliction of enforcement of prohibition and anti trust laws. M Boucher said confiscated liquor was sorted at the Justice Department and stored for officials. Alonzo Bunch testified 100 cases of whiskeys were hauled away and delivered to people around town. Houston Thompson of the FTC said it was useless to turn over evidence to Daugherty for criminal prosecutions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Daugherty
Senate
Daugherty Committee
M. Boucher
Department of Justice
Department
Investigation Bureau
Alonzo E. Bunch
Houston Thompson
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Prohibition foes blame Volstead Act for unrest
Washington reports the house judiciary committee opened hearings on beer legality with proponents led by Samuel Gompers and 59 representatives. Stayton of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment ties social unrest to the Volstead Act as hearings proceed this week.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
United States
W. H. Stayton
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Labor Party Doing Its Best Says McDonald
York April 21 Premier MacDonald told the independent Labour party conference that the Labour government was doing its best though not always meeting party expectations. He said he did not know how long the cabinet would stay in office, adding he did not care so long as work remains productive and helps shape a new frame of mind for the world.
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Associated Press
York
England
MacDonald
Independent Labor Party Conference Today
Labor
Mutiny Aboard British Ship Newton Bay Sparks Rescue Request
Boston April 21 Mutiny aboard the British steamer Newton Bay loaded with alcohol triggered a wireless distress call. The crew, paid $10 a month more, mutinied and held fights below decks as gale winds raged 65 miles off the coast. The 760 ton vessel had been sighted about three months ago and later docked at Yarmouth North Carolina for coal and provisions.
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Boston
Newton Bay
Yarmouth
N. C
Randall Road Grading Work Progresses Between Amarillo and Canyon
Work on the grading of Randall county highway between Amarillo and Canyon is progressing nicely. The entire stretch is expected to be finished this week. Heavy tourist travel over the route requires constant attention.
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Randall County
Amarillo
Canyon
Brothers drown after canoe overturns on Lake Austin
Austin, April 21. Norrell and Choice Platt, brothers aged 18 and 14, drowned when their canoe overturned Sunday afternoon in Lake Austin. Searchers have not recovered the bodies.
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Austin
Tex
Norrell
Choice Platt
Lake Austin
Weather Fair With Cooler Tonight In Official Forecast
Government forecast issued this afternoon notes cooler conditions tonight. Afternoon peak reached 74 degrees with a low of 54 degrees recorded. The record high for this date last year was 72 degrees.
Carter Still Away But Trigg Busy In Pipeline Survey
Dorset Carter head of Pan-Tex Pipe Line Co could not return to Amarillo as planned due to accumulating business in Oklahoma City. Howard Trigg, engaged to run the survey, is buying stakes and arranging materials for the forthcoming survey work starting Wednesday morning. Carter has bought a truck and will hire men to join the survey team.
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Dorset Carter
Pan-Tex Pipe Line Co
Oklahoma City
Amarillo
Howard Trigg
Carter
Trigg
Wheat crop outlook praised by county agent
County agent Harmon Benton says wheat is well along for this time of year and land is in wonderful shape. He expects a successful wheat and green row crop with a good season. An Amarillo resident noted widespread land preparation and excellent wheat condition, with farmers enthusiastic about prospects.
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Harmon Benton
Benton
Amarillo
Coolidge Supporters Confident Amid New Jersey Primaries
Newark New Jersey April 21 Supporters of President Coolidge are confident about tomorrow's New Jersey primaries in which 81 delegates will be chosen for the Republican National Convention. Democrats plan a solid 32 pledged to Governor Silzer as prohibition talks shape delegate selections for Coolidge.
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Newark
N. J
Coolidge
New Jersey
George 8. Silzer
Groesbeck Farmer Held in Murder of His Wife
John Cavanaugh a 32 year old farmer was jailed after the killing of his wife with a razor on a limestone county farm near Ben Hur He bears razor wounds in his neck and told officers he was tired of living and wanted his wife to go with him.
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Groesbeck
Tex
John Cavanaugh
Ben Hur
Limestone County
Cavanaugh
Rep H Knutson Indicted in Virginia Grand Jury
Rep Harold Knutson of Minnesota and Leroy M Hull of Washington were indicted today by an Arlington County Virginia grand jury on serious charges related to an incident on a Virginia road.
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Rep
H. Knutson
Washington
Harold Knutson
Minnesota
Leroy M. Hull
Virginia
Arlington County
Big Pipeline Seen as Boon to Amarillo
Local businessmen see six inch pipe line as gradually boosting oil activity and town optimism in Amarillo. Most warn against overexcitement as real estate and rents may rise, while benefits may take months to materialize. Opinions vary from strong optimism to cautious uncertainty about the pipeline’s impact.
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Amarillo
Dick Seay
Father fatally wounds man who killed his son in Chicago
A father who refused to wait for legal process shot and fatally wounded John Rose, the man who killed his son, outside a county courthouse in Chicago. Several shots echoed through marble corridors as the incident disrupted the county building and the assailant was seized and taken to a police cell.
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Chicago
John Rose
Texas Cattle Embargo Considered Over Arizona Shipments
Fort Worth Texas April 21. Arizona state veterinarian warned J B Boog-Scott chairman of the Texas livestock sanitary commission of a possible embargo on Texas shipments into Arizona due to alleged trans shipment of California fruits and vegetables via Texas to Arizona.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Texas
Arizona
California
J. B. Boog-Scott
Texas Livestock Sanitary Commission
Freight rate revision delayed until August
Washington April 21 New schedules for revision of class and commodity rates from the Atlantic Seaboard and defined territories to Arkansas Kansas Louisiana Oklahoma and Texas on water and rail routes were suspended today to August 1 by the Interstate Commerce Commission. New schedules would bring increases and decreases in commodity rates to the Southwest.
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Washington
Atlantic Seaboard
Arkansas
Kansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southwest
Sinclair Consolidated Earnings Show Decline
New York reports unsettled conditions in the oil industry blamed for a drop of about 17.5 million in net earnings to 13.44 million for 1924 operations. After dividends and reserves, the company shows an 11.83 million deficit versus a 10.23 million surplus in 1923.
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New York
Sinclair Oil Corporation
Pied Piper Called To Rid Swisher County Rabbits
Swisher County farmers launch a rabbit eradication drive after crops suffer. Tulsa chamber of commerce mobilizes a mass posse with shotguns to chase millions of rabbits from fields, with towns Kress and Happy joining the effort and a holiday declared for the hunt.
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Swisher County
Hamlin
Swisher
Chamber of Commerce of
Tulsa
Chamber of Commerce
Pretty Girl Bandit Caught in Florida After NY Escapade
Ce cilia Cooney, a reputed New York bandit linked to seventeen robberies and a murder attempt, was arrested in Jacksonville with husband Edward Cooney. Police recovered pistols during a tense room standoff as the pair confessed to the shooting. The couple's history traces to a newborn death recorded in birth records.
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New York
Florida
Associated Press
Jacksonville
Fla
Cecilia Cooney
Edward Cooney
War Not Possible, Jap Official Warns On Immigration
Tokio reports Admiral Count Gomber Yamamoto, former Japanese premier, said war with the United States is not possible over immigration. He called the senate action against Japanese immigration an affront and warned mob psychology could ignite dangerous consequences. He tied anti Japanese sentiment to Manchuria and Russo Japanese War fallout.
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Associated Press
Tokio
America
United States Senate
Count Gomber Yamamoto
Japan
Congress
Senate
Manihara
Yamamoto
Manchuria
Gillett Denounces Liquor Charges As Outrage
Speaker Gillett dismissed as absolutely false the charges he received a trunk full of liquor seized by the justice department in 1919. He called the testimony before the Daugherty investigating committee by Capt. H L Scaife an outrage, noting Scaife claimed Gillett and others obtained liquor similarly.
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Washington
Gillett
Department of Justic
Daugherty
H. L. Scaife
Justice Department
Scaife
Coroner's Jury Probes Runaway B&O Engine Crash
Chicago April 21 A coroner's jury will determine responsibility for a Baltimore and Ohio freight engine that ran away across grade crossings at nearly fifty miles per hour killing four motorists before a derailment stopped it. A man leaped from the cab as the engine began service. The hustler and three roundhouse workers are held.
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Chicago
Baltimore and Ohio
Man Commits Death by Own Action in Girls Dormitory
Chicago April 21 Walter Krashin 35 a University of Chicago teaching student died by self inflicted throat slash last night his body found in a linen closet police seek a letter Krashin had received from Germany and say the motive remains unknown
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Chicago
Walter Krashin
University of Chicago
Krashin
Germany
Dalhart Woman, 65, Found Slain In Ranch Area
Mrs. M. E. Beddingfield, 65, was murdered late yesterday in Dalhart Texas with a gas pipe blow to the head. Sheriff Reeves suspects a maniac while an inquest is held. evidence includes a bloodstained pipe with hair and fingerprints. The victim had lived with her brother J R Jenkins near Corona New Mexico. a Horton girl found the body and neighbors alerted deputies. More arrests and bloodhound talks follow as investigators seek motive and suspect(s).
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M. E. Beddingfield
Dalhart
Tex
D. A. Reeves
Horton
J. Holt
Holt
Corona Ranch
Wichita Falls
Terrific Blizzard Sweeps Bering Sea
A fierce blizzard is sweeping the Bering Sea for about 1000 miles with 80 mph winds and temperatures 20 degrees below zero. Officials fear the storm will delay progress in the American round the world flight as flyers remain at Unalaska.
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Name
Alaska
Bering Sea
Unalaska
Man and 165 Horses Die in Richmond Stock Yards Fire
A deadly fire at the Southern Stock Yards in Richmond Virginia killed Charles Bernichi and burned 165 horses and mules. The blaze caused an estimated 300000 dollars in damage.
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Richmond
Charles Bernichi
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