Hunters Use Planes Prompt Confiscation Warning
Reports of hunting game from airplanes trigger action by S D Turner game warden and deputies. Planes used illegally may be confiscated under federal law. two antelope were shot from a small monoplane near Vega. Turner alleges an Oklahoma army officer hunted geese from a plane with Amarillo men and will take the case to federal court. Separately, Handel Messiah benefit concert in Amarillo features Rollin Pease and local voices at City Auditorium.
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S. D. Turner
Vega
Army
Turner
Oklahoma
Amarillo
War Department
City Auditorium
Presbyterian Children’s Home
Rollin Pease
Chicago
America
Emil F. Myers
Amarillo College of Music
United States
Myers
Sea Islands and Bloody Marsh Secrets of Georgia Coast
Arthur Brisbane describes St Simons Island and the Bloody Marsh battle near Frederica, noting Fort Oglethorpe ruins and John Wesley church. He recalls live oaks aged three centuries, oyster shell masonry, and local oyster gathering. The piece highlights Detroit and Howard Coffin funding coastal development and Montauk Point efforts with Carl Fisher.
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Georgia
Brunswick
Atlantic
Oglethorpe
Bloody Marsh
Fort Oglethorpe
Frederica
Colonel King
Aaron Burr
Alexandriamilton
Island
Detroit
Howard Coffin
Hudson
Essex
Europe
Carl Fisher
Montauk Point
Long Island
Day in Congress Sparks and Supreme Court Delays
The Senate debates prisons goods law and resumes hearings on the Sinclair royalty oil contract. The Kellogg Briand treaty moves forward in the Foreign Relations Committee while the House advances the treasury and post office bill and Boulder Canyon amendments. Senate confirms and defers nominations as separate arbitration pacts with Austria Lithuania Finland Denmark Poland Czechoslovakia Albania and Sweden are ratified.
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The
Associated Press
Senate
Senate Public Lands Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House
Treasury-Post Office
Roy
West
Austria
Lithuania
Fineland
Denmark
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Albania
Sweden
Weather forecast for West Texas and Oklahoma
Tonight and Thursday fair and somewhat colder across the Panhandle and southeastern portions. Overnight temperatures range from 25 to 27 degrees with daytime highs around 27. Past comparisons show last year’s highs 41 and lows 15. Hourly readings from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. are 25, 23, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.
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West Texas
Panhandle
Oklahoma
Bandit Shot Down After Bold Jewelry Store Hold Up
In Houston on December 19 a masked robber robs a downtown jewelry shop, wounds proprietor Ike Shannock, and is shot by a policeman while fleeing with watches. The bandit, claiming North Texas family ties, dies as officers seize fifteen watches from his pockets.
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Associated Pres
Houston
Tex
Ike Shannock
Stor
North Texas
Shannock
City Votes to Expand Water Supply to Nine Million Gallons
City commission approves approx 9000000 gallon daily water system expansion raising capacity from 6 to 9 million gallons by midsummer. Ray Edinburg cites Amarillo lake wells already at max during peak. Work to add three additional wells and new flow and air lines, with plans by Kiersted and Jones.
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Ray Edinburg
City Water Works
Amarillo Lake
W. Kiersted
H. B. Jones
Borah Moves Postponement Of Kellogg Pact Vote
Senator Borah in charge of the treaty fight decides to delay Senate action on the Kellogg anti war treaty until after the Christmas recess following consultations with party leaders.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Borah
Hoover ends intervention policy in future U S actions
President-Elect Hoover told Argentina's President Irigoyen that the United States will not intervene in other nations' internal affairs in future. El Epoca printed excerpts of Hoover-Irigoyen discussions noting Argentina's stance against protecting American private capital and sovereignty concerns.
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United Prone
Buenos
Aires
United States
Herbert Hoover
Hipolito Ivigoyen
Argentina
el Epoca
Hoover
Irigoyen
Mrs Coolidge Visits Ill Mother in Northampton Mass
Mrs Coolidge left Washington for Northampton Massachusetts to visit her mother Mrs Lemira Goodhue who is ill. She plans to return by the weekend.
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The
Associated Press
Washington
Tremors Felt Across Centers Reports Tell Seismic Activity
A Georgetown University seismograph logged a very heavy earthquake starting at 6 56 am with Director Tondorf estimating the disturbance 9 000 miles from Washington. Regis College in Denver reported a second magnitude quake lasting about 19 minutes, first felt 6 23 am, peaking 6 34 am, ending 6 42 am, likely outside the American continent.
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Associated Press
Washington
Georgetown University
Tondorf
United Press
Denver
Colo
Regis College
A. W. Forstall
American
Father Forstall
Aged Traveler Ends Life in Quiet Room
Aged traveler George Panebaker, 65, hanged himself in a rooming house, leaving a note to friends in New York and Chicago. Neighbors recall him as the son of a German burgomaster, a world traveler and translator of medical and philosophical writings.
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Associated Prean
New York
Chicago
George Panebaker
Mediation Committee Calls In Washington On Boundary Clash
Washington session called for 1 o clock today by Victor Mauriua to consider ways to make the Pan American mediation offer effective for the Bolivian Paraguayan border dispute. In Asuncion Paraguay thirty thousand troops were mobilized before ending as Bolivia accepted the good offices of the conference.
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Washington
Special Committee of Mediation
Victor Mauriua
Peru
Bolivia
Paraguay
United Press
Asuncion
Jose Guggiari
Chaco
Fort Worth Helium Plant to Close January 18
The Fort Worth helium plant will shut down on January 18 after the Federal Bureau of Mines upheld the decision. Officials cited insufficient natural gas flow rendering operations nonviable for war and navy aircraft needs.
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Fort Worth
Associated Press
Washington
Dec
Texas
Federal Bureau of Mines
War and Navy Department
Wink crash kills Judge Beadel in Texas
One killed and three seriously injured when a auto carrying three men collided with a timber truck on a Texas highway near Wink. Judge Allen Beadel 60 died. Garrett Morgan 35 suffered severe injuries. John Kennedy injured. Mrs L H Walker injured but expected to recover.
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Associated Press
Wink
Tex
Here
Allen Beadel
Garrett Morgan
John Kennedy
Wink Butcher
L. H. Walker
Judge Dendel
Arkansas
Luke Village
Brownwood
Dublin
US Prosecution Barred in Vestris Sinking
United States cannot prosecute the sinking of the steamship Vestris off the Virginia Capes with 113 lives lost. Commissioner Janice A. ONeill said the vessel, though British owned, did not hold current British inspection, and US life preserver and lifeboat regulations may apply to such ships as they leave US ports. Captain Henry McConkey and Captain William J. Carey were cited in related findings.
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United Press
New York
United States
Vestris
Virginia Capes
Jancia A. O'Neill
O'Neill
Charles H. Tuttle
Henry McConkey
William J. Carey
Lamport and Holt Company
Liverpool
Great Britain
Wink Texas Feud Spurs Federal Raid Clean Sweep
Federal and state officers led by Texas Rangers raided Wink after a feud between rum runners and hijackers. About 30 resorts were closed and numerous locals held for violations as agents searched for national law breakers. The town, born from West Texas oil discovery, has long faced boomtown violence and intermittent cleanups.
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Associated Prep
Wink
Texas
Texas Rangers
New Town
West
Dyer Act
Dyer Adt
Trained by Quick Draw, Policeman Shot in Thigh
Chicago police officer Thomas Pagni practiced rapid draw and fire. He pulled the trigger before the gun cleared the holster and was hospitalized with a thigh wound.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Thomas Pagni
Pagni
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