Brisbanes Viewpoints on World Power Shifts
Arthur Brisbane discusses global city growth moving west toward the Pacific, noting Los Angeles expanding toward 1.3 million and predictions of Pacific cities rising as New York and Chicago adjust. He comments on Hoover Dawes Owden Coolidge nomination talk and stock market fears, plus critique of British rule in India and a reform idea for parole governance by psychiatrists and criminologists.
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Star Company
Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
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Barstow
Cal
Cajon Pass
Los Angeles
New York
Pacific
Chicago
Mr. Hughes
Smith
New York State
President Coolidge
Wrde
Hoover
Dawes
Owden
Coolidge
Lowden
Patagonia
Mr. Coolidge
Death of Actor Tied to Shared Coffee Can
Los Angeles reports the death of 64 year old actor George D. Bailey after drinking coffee from the same can as three women who fell seriously ill, including his wife and two relatives. An autopsy and chemical analysis are ordered.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
George D. Bailey
Tommy Olivarias
Weather Tonight and Tuesday Cloudy with Little Change
The forecast shows cloudy conditions tonight and Tuesday with only a slight temperature shift. Today's extremes reach 62 degrees with a high near 63 and a low around 18 in a rapid hourly progression from 48 at 7 a.m. to 62 by 1 p.m.
Oklahoma House Meets Outdoors Over Impeachment Charge
Oklahoma City lawmakers move from the capitol to the streets to receive impeachment charges against Governor Henry S. Johnston after guardsmen barred their chamber. A temporary restraining order halts the house’s return and a hearing is set for tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma House of Representatives
Henry
Johnston
T. G. Chambers
Henry S. Johnston
Cement Trust
Johnston Alleged That the “Cement Trust
Oklahoma National Guard Guards Capitol Against Self-Called Session
Oklahoma City Three guard units including a machine gun company stood at the state capitol to prevent a self-called session of the house of representatives. The gathering was slated to begin today with security tightened across the capitol precincts.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
State Capitol
National
House of Representatives
E. P. Hill
House
Oklahoma National Guard
Bank Suspects Held in Van Horn After NM Robbery
Three young men driving a roadster with masks in their possession are held at Van Horn Texas as suspects in the Vaughn New Mexico bank robbery Saturday, a message to the state bankers association secretary said.
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Associated Press
van Horn
Texas
Vaughn
N. M
Margaret Barnes
State Bankers’ Association
Diplomatic problem for Senate over Mexico fund scandal
The U S Senate special committee probes a $1 2 million fund paid to four American senators in a Calles era scandal. They subpoena Arturo Elias Mexican consul general in New York and face a diplomatic clash with Mexico over whether consular officers can be forced to testify. The committee presses for Elias while Mexico argues immunity under international law.
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Associated Press
Washington
Calles
Mexico
Senate
Arturo M. Elias
New York
William Randolph Hearst
Victor Watson
New York Daily Mirror
Watson
Elias
Manuel T. Tellez
Senate Committee
Reed
Republican
Pennsylvania
Efforts Made To Reduce Murder Degree in Case of Girl Hammer Slayer
In Perry Ohio Velma West faces a possible reduction from first degree murder after confessing to killing her husband Edward Poulson with a hammer. The defense argues her mind was unsettled by rural isolation contrasting with Cleveland life. The sensational story portrays Velma as a poised modern killer amid a small town crime.
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Velma West
Edward Francis J. Poulson
Perry
Cleveland
Allene Sumner Perry
Ohio
Velma van Woert West
Ed” West
T. B. West
Maine
California
West Amarillo Christian Church Opens in Amarillo
The first unit of Amarillo’s West Amarillo Christian church was dedicated yesterday afternoon. Dr J Leslie Finnell of Paris Texas, possibly to become pastor, spoke on Let Us Build. He predicted the church would soon rise above the basement unit. Rev George Weems read scripture and offered a greeting.
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Amarillo
West Amarillo
George Weems
The
First Christian Church
KIWANIS PRIZE WINNERS HONORED FOR ATTENDANCE
Kiwanians Joyner Cole P C Bennett J G Gordon H W Clutter Ed Jones T L McDaniel Carrie Nation Louis Smith and Howard Williams won attendance prizes at a luncheon in Amarillo. The event featured selections by the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra including Mrs Emil F Myers Miss Helen Strite Edward Kass and George Burwesser. New members Morton Lambert Albert Jackson and L C Whitney were introduced.
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Kiwanians
Joyner Cole
P. C. Bennett
J. G. Gordon
H. W. Clutter
Ed Jones
T. L. McDaniel
Carrie Nation
Louis Smith
Howard Williams
Amarillo Hotel
Amarillo
Two Men Guilty of Transporting Stolen Car in Interstate Crime
Two men now in Leavenworth federal penitentiary face murder charges in the slaying of Leo J. Laley an Amarillo druggist on September 10 authorities say they admitted to aiding in the killing while transporting the stolen automobile across state lines.
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Federal Penitentiary At
Leavenworth
Leo J. Laley
Amarillo
Chicago girl aids El Paso probe into Amarillo drugstore killing
Mildred Stringer of Chicago told El Paso police she rode with two boys who held up an Amarillo drugstore. The clerk was killed during the robbery and the youths fled after passing a ten dollar bill. Stringer and another Chicago girl were arrested for investigation under Dyer act charges.
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Associated Press
EL Paso
Mildred Stringer
Chicago
Sae
Miss Strifiner
Margaret Mitchell
Mitchell
Stringer
Misa Stringer
Amarillo
Illinois girl tells El Paso of Amarillo killing
Mildred Stringer, 17, says four suspects held up a drug store in Amarillo on September 10. She and another girl and two men were arrested in El Paso with two girls later released and the men sent to Leavenworth. The account aligns with Laley’s death.
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el Paso
Mildred Stringer
Illinois
Amarillo
Laley
Leavenworth
Rebels dead in two Jalisco battles in Mexico
Ninety six rebels were killed in two clashes in Jalisco last week, with seventy three Catholics slain in a large rebel force engagement against federal troops. Among the deceased was priest Jose Cabrales.
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United Press
Mexico
CNLY
Jalisco
Guadalajara
Jose Cabrales
Wildorado hold up thwarted by night watchman
Five robbers attempted a midnight break in at the Wildorado Grain and Mercantile Co. store. A night watchman fired, two bandits wounded, one captured. another, Roy Harmon, is hospitalized with four buckshot wounds and claimed past jail escape with Ray Terrell.
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Wildorado
Panhandle
Ray Terrell
Oklahoma
Wildorado Grain and Mercantile Company
Roy Harmon
Charles City
Iowa
St. Anthony Hospital
Gus Henderson
Borger
Harmon
Amarillo
O. H. Denton
Press Durham
C. Kellog
Kellog
Henderson
Miller
Oldham County
Kimes
Towa
Peaceful Outcome in Republican Conference Ranks
A Republican party conference ratified committee recommendations ensuring peace in the party. Independents secured key assignments with Norbeck for banking and currency, Frazier for Indian affairs, and Nye for public lands and surveys. LaFollette did not receive his requested chairmanship, which went to McLean.
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Washington
Committee On Committees
Norbeck
S. D
Frazier
N. D
Nye
LaFollette
Wis
McLean
Conn
Senate Passes Lindy Medal Bill To Honor Lindbergh
The Senate approved the house bill to award the congressional Medal of Honor to Charles A. Lindbergh, famed trans-oceanic flyer. The vote proceeded quietly as many senators were unaware of the action before it moved to the president for signature.
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Senate
Lindy
United Prensa
Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
House
Husband testifies wife insane in bank robbery trial
Otis Rogers, attorney and husband, told a La Grange jury that Rebecca Bradley Rogers is insane now and acted queer in 1926, asserting she could not distinguish right from wrong in the Farmers National Bank robbery case at Buda last year.
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United Press
LA Grange
Tex
Rebecca Bradley Rogers
Otis Rogers
Farmers’ National Bank
Buda
Federal court opens in Tulsa over Tulsa Pipe & Supply case
An adjourned session led by Judge James C. Wilson hears claims and motions in intervention in the receivership matter Tulsa Pipe & Supply company et al versus Gas Chemicals Corporation. The term may end this afternoon.
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James C. Wilson
Tulsa Pipe & Supply Company Et al
Ve. Gas Chemicals Corporation
Legion Will Not Take Poll on Wet and Dry Issue
National Legion commander Edward K. Spafford said the poll on the wet and dry question will not be taken unless ordered by the national executive committee. He will not present the matter to the committee meeting in January.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
American Legion
Edward Kk. Spafford
Spafford
National Executive Committee
Husband shoots wife and 'the other man' in Chicago
Wallace Allen 82 shot and likely mortally wounded his estranged wife and Ernest Fox in the presence of three children and two women at his mother in law's home on Sunday.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Wallace Allen
Ernest Fox
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