Amarillo pep squad and band travel debate to Dallas
Amarillo High School seeks board approval for moving the pep squad and band to Dallas for the big game. Sleeping-car travel at 9.75 for round trip favored over 3 AM day coaches at 5.55, with officials arguing the longer trip harms students' sleep and performance. The Sandies’ Dallas HQ at the Baker Hotel, and strong local support push for sending them in style.
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News-Globe
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Youth Freed on $1,009 Bond After Assault Near Canyon
Hammell Johnson, one of two men charged with assault with intent to murder in the beating of State Highway Patrolman Boyce Long near Canyon, was released yesterday on a $1,000 bond. Edward Keel remains jailed on charges of assault with intent to kill and driving while intoxicated with bonds totaling $6,500. Long was attacked by three men who dragged him into a car, which Keel admitted driving, and the vehicle crashed into another car injuring Mrs. Hal Bruner of Amarillo.
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Adrift Five Days New Yorkers Saved in Philippines
Four New Yorkers a Law rence T. K. Griswold William H. Harkness Legrand Griswold and B. E. C. Tate were rescued after five days at sea near Tawao Barneo with no water amid an ethnological and photographic tour of the southern Philippines. Their small chartered motor boat was disabled in the Celebes Sea and details of the rescue were not provided in the report.
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Christmas business up sharply with governor elect Curley remark
National reports show a clear Christmas uptick. San Francisco market street railways carried about 65 000 more shoppers downtown than last year. Knoxville sales rose 25 to 59 percent with roughly 1000 additional jobs reported in the past week.
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Romances on Screen Boosts Real Life Courtship Sayings
Hollywood notes from December 26 show Otto Kruger predicting wider romance as films set new courtship styles. The piece cites screen taught tricks for both genders and mentions actors Jimmy Cagney Jane Gaynor Lew Blondell and Warner Baxter among others. It also covers unrelated queries about miscues on the Vanessa set and a brief Roosevelt Christmas remark.
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Youth Enters Wrong Home Fatal Shooting by Friend
Esker Lee Gilpin 19, visiting Montgomery for Christmas, entered a friend O C Wood’s home by mistake and was fatally shot. Wood, a childhood friend, said he mistook Gilpin for a burglar and fired. Police will take no action. both families express no blame.
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Amarillo Police Say Christmas Quiet, Six Jailed
The Amarillo police department reports the quietest Christmas Eve in eight years with only six arrests, five for drunkenness, and most released by Christmas morning. Sergeant Elmer Green notes there was no drunkenness arrest last night due to limited space.
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Potter County Commissioners Court sets next meeting for Monday
The court schedules a Monday 10 am session following a brief Monday meeting that covered only routine business matters.
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Pioneer Leader Cahoon Laid to Rest in Roswell Service
Edward A Cahoon longtime Roswell financier banker and regent of the New Mexico Military Institute lies in state after a career spanning banking building and loan work and Republican politics He was born August 20 1862 in Lyndon Vermont Amherst College football center named to all American team later moved west to work as a cowboy before joining Roswell National Bank and founding the First National Bank He died in Roswell and will be buried in South Park Cemetery following services this afternoon.
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Abyssinia Appeals For League Decision
In Geneva on December 26 the Abyssinia appeal to the League of Nations was anticipated after a Christmas exchange of charges. Italy admitted its plane dropped two bombs on the outskirts of an Abyssinian fort while Abyssinia said Italian soldiers were advancing from Italian Somaliland into its territory.
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Baskets Provide Christmas Aid From Amarillo Union
Units from Amarillo Local No. 441 Culinary Workers and Beverage Dispensers Union delivered 58 food baskets to Amarillo homes on Christmas Day. C. M. Cumby president and M. Hughey secretary thanked members and outsiders for support after a Friday night dance at 507 Van Buren Street.
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MII ONAIRE REMEMBERED WIFE OF JULIA DYCKMAN
In memory of his wife Julia Maria Dyckman who died in 1909 of pneumonia, Mr Andrus left seven children. He began the Andrus fortune with a $650 investment in Singer Sewing Machine stock, never sold it, and by 1928 its value reached about $2,000,000. After the Civil War he started a small chemical factory that grew into the Arlington Chemical Co. of Yonkers, a major plant.
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Ousted LSU Editor Receives Loving Cup in Kentwood
Jesse H. Cutter former editor of LSU Reveille expelled for protesting Huey Long dictatorship today held a foot high sterling loving cup presented by Kentwood citizens. Mayor T G Womack presented the trophy inscribed to a true American citizen and Cutter plans to complete his studies at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
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Hottest Christmas on Record in Houston Since 1909
Records from the Weather Bureau show Houston logged the hottest Christmas since 1909 with a maximum temperature of 78 degrees yesterday afternoon.
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United States Weather Bureau
Grand Jury In Session After Week-Long Break
Potter County grand jury resumes deliberations after a short recess and has returned more than 40 true bills since starting in November. In other data, over 53 percent of urban U S families lived in apartments in 1928.
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United States
Fair Theater Open Through New Year With Varied Attractions
Texas Consolidated Theaters announces the Fair Theater will stay open through Jan. 1. Current film Kentucky Kernels features Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey with Baby Spanky McParland. Upcoming programs include The Silver Streak and We Live Again, plus Romance in Manhattan for New Year’s. The venue cycles stage shows and films biweekly under Will R. Winch.
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Wreck Horror Describes Train Collision Rescue
Eyewitness accounts detail a collision between an excursion train and a second passenger train. A middle aged man’s body is found as crowds assist a frightened girl and Christmas bundles are recovered. Doctors arrive, passengers regroup, and the dead and injured are moved toward Hamilton.
Train Wreck Near Dundas Leaves Passengers Injured
Survivor Doug Mackie described the crash as horrible as a passenger express from London to Toronto collided with a rear car on an excursion train near a Dundas bluff. The open switch caused the impact. a hospital train and ambulances rushed to Hamilton. Eight bodies were reported in one coach as rescuers worked through the wreckage.
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Miss Elizabeth Taylor Visits Sister in Wichita Falls at Christmas
Miss Elizabeth Taylor of 1612 Taylor Street spent Christmas Day in Wichita Falls visiting her sister, Miss Gertrude Taylor.
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Kansas City Livestock Market Report Summary
Kansas City livestock market shows hogs selling unevenly higher by 35 to 40 per head with top hogs around 6 percent. cattle and calves steady to higher with kill classes up 15 to 26, yearling steers and heifers strong, cows and vealers mixed. lambs and ewes higher, indicates firmer demand for best fed lambs. Quotations based on ewes and wethers.
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New Orleans Cotton Opens Easier on Near Month
Cotton markets opened softer on the near month with gains for distant months. January notices reached about 2,400 bales in New Orleans and 17,200 in New York. near months fell 5 to 9 points while distant months held, as traders awaited Liverpool holidays and first notices.
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Hottest Christmas Day in Buenos Aires
Christmas brought a heat record as Buenos Aires sweltered at 95 degrees. The page notes this was the hottest day of the year, with residents cooling indoors and seeking shade.
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