Dempsey Eyes and Four Horsemen in Epoch Notes
Arthur Brisbane surveys diverse topics from boxing star Dempsey going blind to Ibanez’s burial plan in Valencia cited with four horsemen imagery. He weighs denaturants, extreme heat in New York, and future Paris Rio air mail while reflecting on prayers and church matters with feeble humility.
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Ibanez
Star Company
Arthur Brisbane
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Globe
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Bandit tale blamed on theft by bank teller
Chicago police said a kidnapping story created by James Dillon and three other men and two women was a fiction to cover a robbery in which Dillon took part. The Industrial State bank heist yielded $35,000 with $19,000 recovered.
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United Press
Chicago
James Dillon
Dillon
Weather Synopsis For Texas Tonight And Thursday
Weather shows tonight fair and Thursday fair and warmer with highs and hourly readings ranging from the 20s to mid 80s. West Texas expected partly cloudy and warmer in the north Thursday while East Texas stays partly cloudy in the north and south sees likely rain on the coast.
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Walsh questions Sinclair firm treasurer on controversial contract
The Senate investigation into the Continental-Sinclair deal revealed a $400000 contract for Continental Trading that saved Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing $3000000. A. L. Carlson testified he knew nothing of Continental's finances when signing the deal, while Senator Walsh pressed for details.
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Washington
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company
Continental Trading Company
Senate
Continental Concern
Continental
Harry F. Sinclair
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Sinclair Company
A. L. Carlson
Sinclair
Walsh
Montana
Continental Company
Albert B. Fall
Teapot Dome
Carlson
France U S Treaty Bans Future War
Paris reports marked optimism for an early French American treaty of arbitration with a vow never to wage war. Officials anticipate a pact may extend to outlaw war and allow time for broader participation among other nations as proposed by the United States.
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Paris
France
United States
Submarine S-3 Expected to Reach Cuba by Nightfall
The submarine S-3 is expected to reach Guantanamo Bay Cuba by night fall according to a laconic navy message from Admiral Brumby. The full story of its loss and recovery remains undisclosed pending arrival and further details from the force.
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United Press
Washington
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Navy Department
Brumby
Wynnewood Bank Robbery Convict Sentenced Twenty Five Years
Ray Wilson, the third man convicted in the $40,000 Wynnewood national bank holdup, received a 25 year prison term by a district court jury in Pauls Valley Oklahoma. Vivian Calloway, wife of a man already serving life for the hold up, went on trial on the same charge.
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United Press
Pauls Valley
Oklo
First National Bank
Wynnewood
Ray Wilson
Vivian Calloway
W. R. Calloway
Court Allows Warrant Based on Information and Belief
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reverses part of its ruling and says a magistrate may issue a liquor search warrant using information and belief with discretion. The decision affirms a three year sentence for Anton Rosener in Milam County. Officers had examined Rosener's home in 1922 and cited later information as justification for a Feb 25 1927 warrant.
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Austin
Court of Criminal Appeals
O.S. Lattimore
Anton Rosener
Milam County
Morrow
Lattimore
Rosener
Night air mail routes open Chicago to Dallas area
Chicago to Dallas night air mail flights begin guiding planes with gas lights and beacons on a 995 mile path. Southbound arrives Dallas by 8 am, northbound reaches Chicago by 7 am next day, connecting with Houston Galveston and Waco Austin routes.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Chicago-Dallas
Chicago
Dallas
Chicago Mail
Texas
Houston
Galveston
Waco
Austin
San Antonio
National Air Transport, Inc
Couple Accept Life Sentences in Louisiana Murder Case
In Homer Louisiana on February 1 Mrs Essie Jowers 39 and J Elisha Swift 43 withdrew not guilty pleas in the murder of J Frank Jowers and pleaded guilty to life sentences in the penitentiary with no capital punishment.
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Homer
Essie Jowers
J. Elisha Swift
J. Frank Jowers
Air minded St Louis leaders plan city air center program
Air minded civic leaders of St Louis launched an extensive program to promote the city as Americas air center. At a dinner Harold M Bixby president of the chamber outlined details including establishing a college of the air as a Lindbergh memorial and seeking Col Lindbergh as research director.
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Associated Press
Louis
St. Louis
Harold M. Bixby
Chamber of Commerce
College of the Air
Charles A. Lindbergh
Reed Support Grows for Senator Reed in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City February 1 Charles M Howell Reed’s campaign manager outlined steps to mobilize Democratic support for United States Senator James A Reed of Missouri for the presidency. Howell said Reed would speak in Oklahoma City and Tulsa later this month.
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United Press
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
United States
James A. Reed
Missouri
Charles M. Howell
Reed
Howell
Kansas City
Tulsa
Hickman and Hunt Murder Trial Delayed to Feb Twenty
The murder trial of William Edward Hickman and 16 year old Welby Hunt for the killing of C Ivy Thoms in a drug store holdup was continued to February 15 by Superior Judge Carlos Hardy. Defense counsel suggested the Hickman kidnapping case might be finished in ten days. Edward Hickman, whose birth anniversary marks today, was to hear his mother Eva Hickman testify in the effort to avert the gallows.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
William Edward Hickman
Welby Hunt
C. Ivy Thoms
Carlos Hardy
Jerome Walsh
United Press
Edward Hickman
Mre
Eva Hickman
Hoover to be nominated for president on first ballot
John T. Adams, former Republican National committee chairman, predicted that Secretary of Commerce Hoover would win the presidential nomination on the first ballot at the Kansas City convention next June after a conference with President Coolidge. Adams said Hoover would secure at least half of Iowa's delegates, though Hoover supporters have shown little activity there. Friends said Hoover has no plan to leave the cabinet and will stay on the job.
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United Press
Washington
Coolidge
John T. Adams
Town
Republican National Committee
Hoover
Kansas City
Adams
Iowa
Friends of
Senators accuse rail and coal firms of conspiracy in coal field suspensions
Senator Johnson claims a conspiracy between railroad companies and coal operators caused halts in bituminous coal fields. The report mentions Potter Co, Lbr Co, Selle Glass Cloth Griggs ambulance. Phone 4311.
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Associated Prone
Washington
Senate
Johnson
California
No room for the Four A's in Amarillo schools
Amarillo schools deny space for the Four A's movement. Superintendent W A McIntosh says an investigation will probe any attempts to enlist local students in the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism. A New York representative reportedly visited Amarillo as a student reports the matter.
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W. A. McIntosh
Atheist Society
Four A's
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National Association
New York
Polk Street
McIntosh
Four A
America
California
Veteran Hero of Diamond Is Dead
Hughey Jennings 57 former Baltimore Orioles captain and Detroit manager known for pennants in 1907 1908 and 1909 died in Scranton Pa after a long health battle He later served as McGraws assistant with the New York Giants and helped win the 1924 NL title He leaves a widow a daughter a sister and two brothers
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Associated Press
Scranton
Hughey Jennings
Baltimore Orioles
Hugh Jennings
Tigers
Jennings
Detroit
Ty Cobb
New York Giants
John J. McGraw
Giants
Hughey
Asheville
N. C
McGraw
Bowlegs Operation Leaves Woman Severely Injured in Chicago
Miss Sadie Holland a 30 year old stenographer underwent a leg straightening operation at a Chicago hospital. The large bone was cut below the knee and gangrene followed, leading to amputation and near death. Her brother Joseph Holland reports the details to state investigators. The family had paid $400 for the procedure.
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Chicago
Sadie Holland
Joseph J. Holland
John W. Follmer
State Department of Registration and Education
Mins Holland
Holland
Amarillo real estate leader laments unity split
J R Gant told the Amarillo Real Estate board he resigns as committee chair for the US Highway 66 fund after protests over factionalism. He argued small town divisions hinder progress and cited the Rock Island fracas as evidence. Officials discussed plans to unify city development and industry efforts. Col Harve Haines signaled a forthcoming unification plan.
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Southwest
J. R. Gant
Rock Island
Col. Harve H. Haines
Board of City Development
C. BP. Atwood
Ben Short
Houston
Walsh resolution backed for utility conduct probe
The senate interstate commerce committee approved the Walsh resolution for an investigation of public utility power corporations with an amendment limiting inquiry to companies engaged in interstate commerce.
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Associated Press
Washington
Walsh
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Russell Park Denied Rehearing on 99-Year Killing Case
The Associated Press reports in Austin on February 1 that Russell Park of Potter County had his rehearing denied after being convicted of killing Donna McGuffin Calvert and sentenced to 99 years. The state's rehearing motion in Bob Barnett’s case from Young County was also overruled.
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Associated Press
Austin
Russell Park
Potter County
Donna McGuffin Calvert
Bob Barnett
Young County
Approve Law for Operation Muscle Shoals
Washington Feb 1 The Nortris resolution for government operation of Muscle Shoals won Senate Agriculture Committee approval by 11 to 2. Noted attorneys A W Norcop of El Paso W F Schenck and Robert H Bean of Lubbock are in Amarillo to argue cases in the seventh district court of civil appeals.
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Associated Press
Washington
Nortris
Muscle Shoals
Senate Agriculture Committee
A. W. Norcop
el Paso
W. F.schenck
Robert H. Bean
Lubbock
Amarillo
Court of Civil Appeals
Turmoil in South Russia Amid Closed Crimean Ports
The Daily News dispatch reports unrest in southern Russia with claimed mobilization of naval forces and closed Crimean ports due to mines. British officials in Constantinople deny messages about Theodosia and any unusual Black Sea situation, while Moscow Kremlin disruption rumors lack confirmation.
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London
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Turkey
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Riga
Latvia
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Moscow
Associated Press
Crimean
Theodosia
Black Sea
South
Mystery 2000 Machine Guns Smuggled Into Hungary
Investigation into the arrival of 2000 machine guns on the Hungarian Austrian frontier prompts notes to the League of Nations from the Little Entente. The arms shipment, allegedly from an Italian firm, violates the treaty of Trianon and stirs European political circles amid Romania’s hesitance to join regional partners Jugoslavia Czechoslovakia and Romania in the protest.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Hungary
Europe
League of Nationa
League
Trianon
Romania
Little Entente
Jugoslavia
Ceechoslovakia
Roumania
Marvin Jones charges farm bloc action on tariff relief
Washington Feb 1 Representative Marvin Jones Democrat Texas charged that leaders of the house farm bloc aided blocking action on the McMaster resolution in farm relief hearings. He accused Dickenson Republican Iowa and others of disloyalty and deserting the ship after threats to force tariff cuts without relief measures.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Farm Bloc
McMaster
Agricultural Committee
Marvin Jones
Texas
Texan
Dickinson
Towa
Farmer Found Dead In Barn At Texas Farm
Celeste Texas February 1 W H Lemons 56 a farmer was found dead in a barn at his farm near Celeste A rifle near the body indicated self inflicted death Lemons is survived by two brothers John Lemons Hugo Oklahoma and George Lemons Amarillo Call Nation Drug 4522 for time
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Celeste
Tex
W. H. Lemons
Lemons
John Lemons
Hugo
Oklahoma
George Lemons
Amarillo
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