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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1929
Page
9
United Press reports from Austin Texas on April 26 that Confederate veteran widows face pension reductions from 18 to 12 dollars monthly unless a law change occurs. Comptroller Terrell cites added pensions under the new law and outlines allocations for married and single veterans before widow payments.
Dr I E Gates contrasted two biblical figures from Luke and Hebrews in a First Baptist Church sermon. One man relied on worldly wealth and time, ignoring eternity, and faced an untimely soul demand. The other aligned with a great cause, becoming part of Scripture, honored by God, and promised heaven.
Funeral services for Mrs Fannie Haley 42 who died yesterday afternoon at a local hospital will be held from Polk Street Methodist church today at 3 o clock with Rev Landle y pastor officiating. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery Blackburns Mortuary in charge. She is survived by her parents two daughters Maurine 14 and Fern 12 three brothers and five sisters.
London. Irma Valerie Arkell-Smith known as Colonel Barker is sentenced to nine months at Old Bailey after pleading guilty to perjury for entering a false marriage register. She also faced a second perjury charge over posing as a retired colonel. judge calls her an unprincipled adventuress and accuses her of profaning the house of God.
Directors of the Amarillo Community Chest will meet at 4 20 this afternoon in the Southwestern Public Service office of manager L L Ferree to discuss 1929 drive plans. Ferree is president and will preside. Mrs M F Taylor announced drive plans would be made at least six months before the December campaign.
London April 26. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin hailed American disarmament plans and said Britain favors the same broad cuts to naval vessels as proposed by Ambassador Gibson at Geneva. He pledged cordial cooperation with the United States to seek general acceptance while awaiting concrete form of the suggestions. Lord Cecil of Chellwood, influential in disarmament debates, also endorsed Gibson’s proposals in a London speech, aligning with the American approach.
At the ninth annual reunion dinner of British official missions to the United States Marquis of Reading praises President Hoover for disarmament proposals and envisions a world solution beyond U S and Great Britain relations. He calls the plan tremendously important and urges unreserved acceptance.
In San Angelo Texas on April 26 a blanket federal indictment returns charges of conspiracy to violate the prohibition act against twenty nine men and women. Included in the list are Carroll Bates former San Angelo chief of police and Texas Ranger and A W Brown former city policeman.
Austin April 26. With abolition debates stirring Texas, Matthew Sanders faces electrocution at midnight after admitting the crime. Governor Moody has no commutation request. Sanders, a Black man, declared at Huntsville prison that he did it and has made peace with God. The death sentence came for an attack on a school teacher near Bryan.
An English Royal Air Force aircraft attempts a long distance record flight from England to Calcutta passing over Karachi. The flight departs England for India at 4 p m local time (10 30 a m GMT) with reports of the route and timing in progress.
An attempt to convoke a disarmament conference at Washington in 1930 was deemed very probable today after instructions to the British and Japanese delegations on the preparatory disarmament commission in session at Renci...
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