Inventors and Progress Stir Fort Worth Readers
A letter from J Frank Norris of Fort Worth praises courage in public life while bemoaning job loss from new machinery. The piece muses on linotype automation, cane cutting machines, and a push for inventors to create work, not replace workers, with local anecdotes on prizes and missing items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
J. Frank Norris
First Baptist Church
Fort Worth
Texas
Tack
New York
J. Frank Noris
Texan
J. J. Hales Dies at 77 in Amarillo Home
J J Hales 77 retired farmer died at 7 35 am Monday at his home 1211 Buchanan after a long illness Survived by four daughters Mrs James Gwyn Mrs M B McNeilly Mrs Alva Slay all of Amarillo and Mrs Frank H White San Bernardino California and three sons S R Hales H R Hales and J Rantaal all of Amarillo Funeral arrangements will be announced by a local firm Church member at the time of death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Hales
Buchanan
Mra
James Gwyn
M. B. McNeilly
Alva Slay
Amarillo
Frank H. White
San Bernardino
Calif
R. Hales
H. R. Hales
J. Rantaal
Mir
Hales
Methodist Church
An& Son
Con
Thieves Loot Gas Station Again for Five Tires
Police report that a filling station at Third and Grant was looted for the second time in days. Sunday night the thieves took five tire casings flash lights and other equipment. They also swiped casings from a Swift Company truck and gasoline from the station during the first robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third and
Grant
Swift & Company
Texas and Pacific plan 33 mile northern railway line
J A Somerville announced plans to build a 33 mile line to run north from Big Spring, Texas, operated with the Texas and Pacific. A charter has been granted at Austin and Interstate Commerce Commission permission is sought, likely within 60 to 90 days. The route would serve Lubbock Amarillo Lamesa Hereford Vega and other towns with two years projected for completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Austin
Amarillo
Mr. Lancaster
Ernest Thompson
Earl Fuqua
Bill Lampe
Oo Ameer Big Spring
Tex
J. A. Somerville
Dallas
Texas and Pacific Railway
Texas and Pacific Northern Railway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Lubbock
Lamesa
Brownfield
Nederland
Littlefield
Dimmitt
Hereford
Vega
Somerville
Texas and Pacific
Peru Sees Short Lived Glory as Military Cabinet Formed
Peru's president, cheered by a small crowd including foreign diplomats, ends his brief period of glory as a military cabinet takes over. General Fernando Sarmiento leads as premier with Julio Glocochea war, Col. Roberto Lopez government, Col. German Lopez Yanez finance, Col. Montague justice, Rear Admiral Cesar Bielich marine, and Eugenio Castillo assigned a ministry post awaiting portfolio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bolivia
Venezuela
Ecuador
Chile
Fernando Sarmiento
Julio Glocochea
Roberto Lopez
German Lopez Yanez
Montague Justice
Cesar Bielich
Eugenio Castillo
Health exhibit showcases modern dairies sanitation methods
A health demonstration displays sanitation techniques for dairies with models of sewage disposal fly control equipment and lab demos. Dr J C Anderson state health officer will arrive tonight for the short school. H N Heffernan Louisiana field bacteriologist arrives from Montreal as a featured speaker with other sanitation experts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Anderson
H. N. Heffernan
Difference Between Democrats and Republicans Questioned
A reader asks West Texas readers to explain the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties. The letter expresses uncertainty, notes mixed family political ties, and requests either published explanation or a personal letter from the editor. The writer signs as D A Williams and cites See Tack Letters Page 9.
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Tuck
Bureau of Information
West Texas
Democratic
Republic
Tack
D. A. Williams
Speed Contested Race Leaders and Non Stop Classic
Speed was assured of victory with a lead over Mildred Morgan as the last leg began from Madison. In the Men’s Pacific Derby at St Paul John Blum held a 20 minute edge over Nick Namer. A non stop speed classic from Los Angeles was tentatively set for tomorrow with four ace flyers including Roscoe Turner and Wiley Post, barographs planned.
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Mildred Morgan
Beverly Hills
Calif
Madison
Wis
John Blum
Seattle
Nick Namer
St. Paul
Los Angeles
Roscoe Turner
William 8. Brock
New York
Glider crash mars Dennis Carr demo at air races
Ken Carr of Detroit survived with a possible skull fracture after his glider failed to release from the tow line and nosedived during a demonstration at Curtiss Reynolds Air Port. The event was part of a day featuring women pilots and multiple derbies as Amelia Earhart was slated to arrive. Attendance reached about 105000 over two days.
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Associated Press
Curtiss Reynolds
Chicago
Kenneth Carr
Detroit
Aps
Ypsilanti
Mich
Carr
Franklin
New York
Frank Hawks
Phoebe Dmllo
Memphis
J. Wesley Smith
Philadelphia Air Mail
Hartford
Conn
Art Killips
la Grange
Miami
Fla
Charles 5
Casey) Jones
Lieut
Wilson N. Newhall
Si 108Th Observation Squadron
National Guard Liberty Engine Builders
Charles A. Lindbergh
Grand Jury Impaneled in Heavily Docketed Payne Case
The Amarillo jury panel forms late after 10:30 AM with 3 of 16 qualified. Payne labeled an unusual case to be investigated at once as two other murder cases loom before the grand jury. Seated jurors include Hargett Hardin Smith Cotton Trolinger Beard Armstrong Long Goff Kenyon Pittman Gorin. No habeas action. attorney Callaway seeks access to his client but witnesses are barred. Local officials report visitors denied amid a sparse courtroom crowd and lingering tension. Also noted: Hill reelected county commissioner and the birth of a 10-pound boy to Mr. and Mrs. Northington at St Anthony’s hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Courta
Grand
O. H. Hargett
J. W. Hardin
H. F E. Smith
J. W. Cotton
John Trolinger
Miller Beard
A. D. Armatrong
M. E. Long
J. W. Goff
Kenyon
C.B. Pittman
John H. Gorin
Homer A. Callaway
Sunday
Amarillo
Payne
Callaway
Potter County
Stinnett
City Board of Equalization Finishes Valuation Fixes
The city board of equalization, chaired by Chester Adams with Sam Seay and M. T. O Neill, completed property valuation corrections and recessed Saturday. They will reconvene September 22 in James Bowen’s office to hear protests as several assessments were raised, with the rendition session lasting three weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Equalization
Chester Adams
Sam Seay
M. T. O'Neill
James Bowen
Mystery man Hawkins vanishes after Amarillo stop
Plainview authorities seek any sighting of Mr. Hawkins since he left Amarillo. Hankins funds theft suspected as a check was made payable to him. Hankins family plans to Levelland as relatives fear foul play with blood in car found at Erick.
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Plainview
Nann
Hawkins
Amarillo
Hankins
Erick
Frick
Dalhart
Wayland College
Air Mail Route BIDS Opened For New York To Los Angeles
Bids were opened for a New York to Los Angeles air mail route via Philadelphia Pittsburgh Indianapolis St Louis Kansas City and Amarillo. United Avigation of Pittsburgh bid 64 percent of the maximum rate, signaling a test case against the Watres act night flying ruling which required six months of night operations on a 260 mile route. The merger forming United Avigation includes United States Airways Kansas City Pittsburgh Airways and Ohio Air Transport. The bid signals a challenge to the night flying eligibility rule, as the firm operates non sighted airways and previously competed against the established transcontinental carriers. The route may pass Amarillo and could follow the Western Air Express line or shift south from St Louis into Oklahoma.
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New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Kansas City
Amarillo
Los Angeles
United Avigation Company of
United Avigation
Post Office Department
United States Airways of
Pittsburgh Airways
Ohio Air Transport
W. A. Letson
Western Air Express
Kanna City
Oklahoma
National Bellas Hess
National Biscuit Co
New York Central RR
Aves Ie
Northern Pacific RR
Oliver Farm Equipment
Pathe Exchange
CG Penney Company
Pennsylvania RR
Public Service of NJ
Jno
F. Clarke
Brow Jane
Ullman Deeee Oer Anes
Radio Kelch Orph
Anit
Stone & Webster
Studebaker Corpor
American Tobacco Borks
Anaconda
Union Pacific
Associated Cry
United Aircraft & ‘Transport
At&s RR
United Corporation
Auburn Auto
United Fruit
Remy Aviation Corp
United
Boby Baltimore & Ohio R
Beat & Company
UB Pipe & Foundry
Bethlehem Steel
Bohn Aluminum
Universal Pipe
Borden Company
Vanadium Corporation
Sory Borg Warner
Ee Oat
Warner Bros Pictures
Briggs Mf. Co. Seve J
Warren Bros
Western Pacific RR
Bucyrus Erie
Aeeeeens
Western Union
Bulova Watch
Eastman Kodak
Eaton Axle
Gbms
Reiter-Foster
My Oly Electric Boat Co
Royal Dutel
Electric Power & Light
Endicott Johnson
Skelly
Fairbanks Morse
Oly Marshall Field & Co
Fisk Rubber
Boyarn Foods Tide Water
General Mills
Union of Calif
General Motors Ee
General Railway
Warner-Quinlan
Gillette Safety Razor
Iodyear Tire & Rubber
Gotham Silg Hose
Lo Graham Paige
Superpower
Granby Consolidated
Tits Ark
Great Northern
Great Western
Marcor
Grigsby Grunow
Sangea Bem
Straza
Ford Motor
International Harvester
Tay Fox Theatre
Internatial Nickel
General Baking
Johns Manville
Goldman Sacha
Kansas Southern RR
Lone Star Gas
Julius Ka
al Kelvinator Corporation
Niagara Mud Pr
Kolster Deferescenee
Pennroad Corp
Kresage & Co
Trans' Air Tra Bly Ie
Kroger Grocery
United Gas
Lambert Company
Let & Pwa
Dggett Myers
DOM
Re ‘A, Inc
Lorillard Tobacco
Betes
Louisville Gas & Electric
Sudlum Steel
Mack Trucks
Mathieson
Oavy Missouri Pac
Montgomery Word
Vacant House Burns In Sunday Fire
A small vacant house at Twenty-Sixth and Mirror burned Sunday night from an undetermined origin. Firemen reported little damage. A second alarm came from 2401 Hughes where a motor car was afire. Frank Foliart recently bought the Jackson Street home and will reside there with Mrs. Morris Knorpp and her daughter Laurel Grayce, who left St Anthonys yesterday.
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Twenty-Sixth
Mirror
E. A. Denny
Hughes
Morris Knorpp
Laurel Grayce
St. Anthony'’s Hospital
Lawrence Knorpp
Groom
Sterling Democrat Ross Sterling Selected in Texas Runoff
Sterling of Houston nominated for governor after beating Miriam Ferguson in a run off. The Ferguson family era, including James E. Ferguson impeached in 1917, is cited as political decline for the trio. By late report, Ferguson remained silent and no congratulatory message to Sterling had appeared, while other races produced thanks to Neff and Allred.
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Texas
Democrats
Ross
Sterling
Houston
Highway Commission
Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson
Ferguson
James E. Ferguson
American Party
United States Senate
Fergusons
Jim
Gered Austin
Hee
Ross Sterling
R. L. Bobbitt
Jimmie Allred
Victor
W. Gregory Hatcher
Pat M. Neff
Republicans Prepare To Wage Campaign In Texas
Republican National Committeeman R. B. Creager said Republicans plan a victorious Texas campaign in the fall and predicted surprising results. He noted a split Democratic party makes it easy for Texans to vote Republican and argued GOP success would benefit Texas and the state's Democrats. Creager and Governor candidate George C. Butler had both forecast a Republican win if Mrs. Ferguson led the Democratic ticket.
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Brownsville
Vaue
R. B. Creager
Texas
Creager
George C. Butte
Austin
Diet of power players and rackets in New York politics
A columnist catalogs a list of 64 influential figures from business and labor, noting no elected officials are named. The piece argues elites shape policy while promising strong union influence fades between elections. It also cites flour and milk price rackets gouging consumers, hinting at broader corruption.
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Gerard
New York
Atorney
Negro Woman Free on $2,000 Robbery Bond
Dorothy Cox, a Negro woman, is at liberty on a $2,000 bond pending a hearing on a robbery with firearms charge. Police said W. D. Rowell, a guest at the Capitol hotel, was robbed at gunpoint while fixing his car on Twelfth Avenue between Polk and Tyler. He reported $50 taken and identified the woman when seen on the street Saturday night.
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Dorothy Cox
Liberty
W. D. Rowell
Capitol Hotel
Twelfth Avenue
Polk and
Tyler
Rowell
Negro porter stabbed by wife in Northwest Texas hospital
George Fields, a negro porter for the Laffey First Bus Company, is in critical condition at Northwest Texas hospital with a stab wound to the chest. He was brought in by a Griggs ambulance Sunday night. Attendants reported him as better Monday, but the physician warned pneumonia could endanger him. Authorities were searching for Mrs. Fields.
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George Fields
Laffey First Bus Company
Northwest Texas Hospital
Fields
Griggs
Road Conditions From Amarillo to Fort Worth and Nearby Routes
Panhandle Auto Club reports road status across Amarillo routes with mud or fair conditions on several highways including U S 370 to Wichita Falls and U S 66 to Oklahoma City. Also notes good roads to Roswell and Tucumseh, and a paved U S 385 to Lubbock. Mentions slippery stretch between Plainview and Tul lin, club HQ in chamber of commerce. Also brief personal items: Emma E Barth receiving treatment in Topeka hospital. James A Kapp noted as Marion fire chief’s grandson and Revolutionary War soldier descendant.
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Amarillo
Fort Worth
Wichita Falls
U. S
Clarendon
Memphis
Oklahoma City
Roswell
Tucumesh
Higgins
Clayton
N. M
Borger
Lubbock
Plainview
Tulin
James A. Kapp
Marion, O
Markets show mixed livestock, grain in Kansas City and Fort Worth
Kansas City and Fort Worth livestock markets report higher hog prices and active cattle trade, with hogs 6,000 head steady to higher and cattle 7,000 head broadly steady to higher. lambs varied. Chicago and New York futures edge lower on wheat corn and cotton after rains and global production notes.
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Kansas City
Associated Press
Idaho
Port Worth
Associated Pres
In Terms of Memory by Edgar A. Guest
A reflective poem in memory of a friend lost to death. The speaker recalls the deceased’s lingering presence in memory, hear his footsteps, see his smiling face, and feel his nearness despite the final parting. The piece contrasts living companionship with mourning and ends noting the dead are nearer in memory.
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Edgar A
Market swings lift prices after early session dip
The Southwest market showed a 25 point gain on Saturday, while December contracts rose to 11.10 after easing to 1.00 under initial pressure. The overall market advanced about 5 to 30 points from the session low within the first half hour.
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Globe
Printers’ Union
Linotype
Shab
Mrs. Tack
Sherm Williams
Popular Springs
Missouri
Panhandle
Ellwood Park
W. M. Campbell
Buchanan Street
White Deer Road
van Buren Street
Palo Duro
Jackie Williams
Herring
Sweden
Peru
Speed
Carl Hill
Aeing
Geo. A. Northington
St. Anthony's Hospital
Noam Nhe
Jackson Street
Frank Foliart
Tom and
Bob Babb
Cotten-Bruner-Atwood Real Estate Company
Mr. Foliart
Convent
Mr. Gerard
Germany
United States
Mitchell
Electric Bond and Share Company
Walter Edwin Frew
Corn Exchange Bank and Trust Company
Amideo P. Giannini
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Matthew Woll
the Panhandle Auto Club, Inc
Chamber of Commerce
Emma E. Barth
Security Benefit
Topeka
Kan
Liverpool
Atlantic
Torney
Steinway Standard
J. W. Jenkins Sons’ Music Co
St Texas, Inc
Ong Street
The
Rose Bowl Tea Room
10Th and
Jackson St
Junior Welfare League
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