City Commissioner Calls Halt to Tax Cuts and Budgets
Commissioner Lester Stone argues a tax reduction is impossible after a $91,000 rise in expenses over the prior year. He urges curbing city spending, limiting warrants, and trimming the Board of City Development to $5,000 monthly, while Auditor C. H. Winterhaler reports the year ended with higher costs and no tax relief.
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Lester Stone
Stone
Ernest Thompson
Jim Vernon
C. H. Winterhaler
Stonegald
Board of City Development
Globe News
Today by Arthur Brisbane on mergers and curiosities
Arthur Brisbane surveys big business mergers like Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward and notes sensational gangster alliances. He laments crime, disease and civility while discussing leprosy cures, vitamin D, sunlit butter, and a brutal murder tied to a Baptist auditor.
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Sears Roebuck
Montgomery Ward
Police not sure Taylor case solved as suspect is jailed
Los Angeles police arrest Russo Rinaldo and question a volatile confession in the 1922 murder of William Desmond Taylor. Discrepancies in Rinaldo’s story prompt further checks in California and Tucson records.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Russo Rinaldo
William Desmond Taylor
Rinaldo
Tucson
Ariz
Joseph Taylor
James Bean
Taylor Bungalow
California
Dentist Purnell Paid Ransom and Freed in Mexico
Dr. George Edward Purnell, an American dentist, was kidnapped near Guadalajara and released after his captors received 400 pesos. He reached Guadalajara by dawn and is the third U.S. hostage freed in a month, following J. E. Bristow and Leonard Cassidy.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
George Edward Purnell
Guadalajara
Purnell
J. E. Bristow
Texas
May Seek Cooperation to Enlarge Northwest Texas Hospital
Amarillo city officials may be asked to fund an enlargement of Northwest Texas County Hospital to become a city county institution. Plans would present to the City Commission, aiming to add private rooms to boost private-pay revenue and reduce taxpayer costs for charity patients.
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Amarillo
Texas County Hospital
Wichita Envoys Arrive for Amarillo Welcome
Amarillo welcomes 150 Wichita good will envoys arriving at 9 for a two hour stay. The program includes the Jayhawks American Legion Band and Wichita Chamber of Commerce quartet. Mayor Thompson will give a welcome address as business leaders mingle. The delegation departs at 11 for Sanford, visiting towns to Liberal. The good will train comprises ten cars with literature and souvenirs.
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Jayhawks
American Legion
Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Rock Island
Polk Street
Chamber of Commerce
Fifth and Polk
Ernest O. Thompson
Wichita
Sanford
Liberal
Mason King
City restricts domino parlors hours in Amarillo
Amarillo city commission passed an ordinance closing domino halls to operate only outside midnight to 6 a.m. and on Sundays. The rule excludes private clubs with memberships. Violations carry a fine from 5 to 200 dollars per offense as officials cite night operation as a bad influence on youth and public peace.
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Amarillo
Robber With False Mustache Robs Tenth Avenue Grocery
A lone thief using a false mustache robbed the Leslie H. Bradford Grocery at 1010 East Tenth Avenue of 350 dollars. He entered when no customers were present and forced the occupants to stay still. The gun was tucked inside his shirt as he left, leaving police with no clues.
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East Tenth Avenue
Leslie Bradford
C. 8. Bradford
Mr. Bradford
Bradford
Leviathan sails home with Stimson from London talks
The Leviathan departed Southampton at 7 30 a m carrying Colonel Henry L Stimson and other American delegates from the London naval conference The delay was due to tide conditions before signing of the treaty Congress and Senate favored ratification with cautious praise noting the treaty falls short of aims but expected to be approved by the United States The navy would raise any objections if needed
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England
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Senate
Hoover
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Rush for Seats At News Globe To Passion Play
The News Globe opens ticket sales for the Passion Play on April 29 and 30 after 8000 were turned away in February. Wilbur C. Hawk says demand remains high with hundreds of reservations already. Matinee seats on Wednesday and next week will be set aside for daytime attendance from out of town. Prices: students 60 cents, teachers 75 cents, others 1 to 2 dollars. night shows 1 to 2.50 dollars. Reservations by mail must state performance.
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News-Globe
Wilbur C. Hawk
Townes Appointed Architect for New Potter County Courthouse
William Townes of Johnson building offices was hired by Potter County commissioners to draft courthouse plans. He will consult with Page and Page of Austin and begin work immediately. They may hold a bond election for 400000, with plans public before voters decide.
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Johnson Building
Potter County Commissioners
Page
Man Held On Bass Charge In Osage County
Casper Tillman of Osage County was arrested and confessed to involvement with Dr. Andrew Bass of Columbia in the murder of William Pearman, a Columbia automobile salesman, and in disposing of the body. Tillman is 35, married, with five children.
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Associated Press
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Osage County
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Andrew J. Bass
Columbia
William Pearman
Columbia Automobile
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Tillman
Fire at Ohio prison leaves 93 prisoners gravely ill
Columbus April 28. Gov board resumes inquiry into Monday's penitentiary fire that killed 820 inmates. Ninety three prisoners remained near death from pneumonia caused by burns and exposure. others were in serious condition. Two exploded shells found in blocks G and H may illuminate reports of shooting. guards faced unrest as night wore on.
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United Press
Columbus
Ohio
Governor's Board of Inquiry
State Penitentiary
Inquiry Board
Paley sends $500 to prisoner for prison fire broadcast
William S. Paley of CBS forwarded $500 to prisoner X46812 at the Ohio State Penitentiary for a graphic account of the prison fire. The fire prompted a coast to coast broadcast as guards battled panicked convicts amid overcrowding and continuing threats.
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Associated Press
New York
William 8. Paley
Columbia Broadcasting System
Ohio State Penitentiary
Columbia System
Census count not official say city surveyers
A city survey notes many residents believe they were counted in the fifteenth census but only interact with Chamber of Commerce workers. Chamber reps collect names and addresses of nonrespondents, which are forwarded to the supervisor and then contacted by enumerators before any person is officially counted.
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Chamber of Commerce
Nate Perrine
Mr. Perrine
Mob fatally harms Black man near Rosedale
In Mins. near Rosedal fter an all night search a posse of more than 200 men captured Dave Harris 40 a Black man who was accused of fatally harming Clayton Funderberg 17 a farm boy. Harris died from mob violence as word of the incident spread.
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United Peres
Rosedalf
Mins
Dave Harris
Clayton Funderberg
Mississippi River
City tax deadline urged as unpaid totals reach six figures
City taxes unpaid total 650 230.09 with 267 296.12 paid to date and a May fifteenth deadline urged by City Tax Collector James Bowne. Assessed city taxes amount to 807 526.71 as swamped near due date. In India a police station raid at Feni Bengal left a constable and three others killed.
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James Bowne
United Press
Calcutta
India
Feni
Bengal
Paving and Park Bond Issue Spurs City Plans
The city considered a 175000 bond for paving and parks to fund street and underpass work with 150000 for streets. Officials say the funds would cover about 600000 in paving, leaving a six to eight month window at current pace as contracts await funding and bids. The proposal was trimmed from 275000 to address immediate needs.
Plan suit to kill day law in not distant future
William H. Slayton, chairman of the association against the prohibition amendment, says a suit will be brought soon to strike the eighteenth amendment from the constitution. Senate lobby committee hears charges that the group lobbied the Supreme Court, with letters to Justice Stone and the late Justice Sanford read into the record.
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Associated Press
Washington
William H. Slayton
Association Against the Prohibition
United Press
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