Denver University student flogged over Lindsey controversy
Ralph Batschelet, leader in Denver university student affairs and vice president of the Thinkers' association, was beaten by five masked men who warned him to cancel a marriage debate between Judge Ben Lindsey and Dr. Burris Jenkins. Police said two other members faced threats. Batschelet was hospitalized for injuries.
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Denver
Ralph Batschelet
Denver University
Thinkers’ Association
Mercy Hospital
Batschelet
Ben Lindsey
Denver Juvenile Court
Burris A. Jenkins
Linwood Boulevard Christian Church
Kansas City
Morris M. Grupp
Margaret Farlow
Batschlet
City Development outlines regular department luncheons
The City Development plan calls for biweekly luncheon meetings by departments. Transportation will meet on alternate Tuesdays, industrial on open Tuesday, convention and publicity on every open Friday, agriculture on the open Friday, and the trades service committee on alternate Wednesdays.
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Industrial Department
Agricultural Department
Trades Service Committee
A Liberal Education and the Bible in School Thought
Prolific Yale English professor Lyon Phelps argues that true education comes from Bible study rather than college alone. He claims the Bible captures human nature more accurately than modern novels or plays and even offers deeper insight than living in New York. The piece references presenting Bible themes in strip form in The Daily News.
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Ely
New York
Orrow
Daily News
Duvets Ask Insurance Aid From Veterans Hearing
About twenty World War veterans gathered at the Hanson Post auditorium in Oklahoma City for a four day hearing on government aid and reinstatement of government insurance. J. W. Sebastian and Dr. W. A. Black of Oklahoma City opened the session, noting the schedule could extend if needed.
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J. W. Sebastian
W. A. Black
Oklahoma City
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Sebastian
Hold Up Men Take $30 From Youth Here Saturday
Harmon Thompson a 17 year old was held at gunpoint by three men near his home late Saturday night they took $30 from him. Thompson described the raid to his father J A Thompson. Police are searching for the suspects.
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J. A. Thompson
Harmon
East Seventh Street
Fair Theater
Lincoln
Seventh Streets
Scout School Reopens at High School
Tom Nelson announced the Boy Scout training school will reopen tonight at the high school. The program resumes after a brief closure as part of local scouting activities.
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Tom Nelson
Borger Scout Killed in Target Practice
James Wilson a 14 year old Borger boy and son of L C Wilson druggist at Stinnett was shot and killed while four companions watched. The accident occurred as he adjusted a tin can on a rock during a late Sunday afternoon target practice. Burial planned in a Boy Scout uniform with a suit sent by Yom Nelson Panhandle scout executive. services expected in Lubbock under local scout troops.
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James Wilson
L. C. Wilson
Stinnett
Wilson
Yom Nelson
American singer Mary McCormic airs views on women and Europe
Mary McCormic, American opera star on tour, criticizes American women as upstage and changeable, praises European women and gigolos, urges men to be stern. She says European women have fewer sentimental ties and that wealth influences choice. The Amarillo born diva returned to the U S after Paris Opera contract and a two month tour.
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Amarillo
Texas
Paris Opera
America
Mary
Europe
States
Water trading awaits mayor
Negotiations between the city and Southwestern Public Service over disposal of local water properties pause until Mayor Bivins returns, with L. L. Ferree saying the board received the city's price offer. The seller and buyer are about $50,000 apart, with the company asking $481,000. An early trade is anticipated by both sides.
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Southwestern Public Service Company
Bivins
L. L. Ferree
Public Service Company
Philadelphia
Water Company
Treasurer Pays $2000 Toward Fair Park Bond Fund
County Treasurer Jim Shea reduced the Tri-State Fair bonds principal by $2000 and paid about $3500 in interest. The payments were sent to National City Bank of New York. The bonds started at $120000, with retirement planned over thirty years and a sinking fund to retire them.
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National City Bank of
New York City
Fuse box fire interrupts power on Taylor and Polk streets
A fuse box at Second and Tayor streets burned out this morning cutting electric light and power on Taylor and the east side of Polk streets for a short time. Southwestern Public Service officials said the accident involved lines under reconstruction.
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Southwestern Public Service Company
Peanut Politics Charged at Austin
Charges of peanut politics and Klan mention shadowed an indecisive push to force a showdown on revoking the amnesty granted former Governor James E Ferguson by the prior legislature. The item also notes a Amarillo hotel slogan and Panhandle meeting context.
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Associated Press
Austin
James FE. Ferguson
Weather forecast for Amarillo area
The forecast calls for Amarillo and vicinity to be partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Temperature extremes today reach up to 55 degrees, with a high of 55 degrees by 1 p.m. and a past extreme of 31 and 50 from a year ago.
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Amarillo
Relocation debate over Clarendon College in Amarillo
Rev O P Clark chairman of the Clarendon College relocation commission urged Amarillo to act now on establishing a college. He warned against delaying until Clarendon is fully established and urged accurate press reporting while refuting links to Abilene or McMurry. An open forum was announced at Polk Street Methodist Church.
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Clarendon College
Clarendon
O. P. Clark
Vernon District
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Clarendon College Relocating Commission
Northwest Texas
Polk Street Methodist Church
Clark
Abilene
Texas
J. W. Hurt
McMurry College
Polk Street
Trainmen Scalded in Arizona Derailment Near Congress Station
Fireman D Ek. McMurtry was fatally scalded and Engineer Ei. Landen was less seriously scalded when Santa Fe train No. 49 from Ask Fork to Phoenix derailed near Congress station sixty miles north of Phoenix. The engine overturned though four coaches remained partially upright and no passengers were injured.
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D Ek. McMurtry
Ei. Landen
Santa Fe
Ask Fork
Congress Station
County Court Filing Deadline Set for February Term
County court filing must be completed by Thursday February 17 as the February term opens February 23 with Judge Sam B Motlow presiding. Ten day limit applies for suits to be adjudicated in the February term. docket load described as exceptionally heavy for civil and criminal cases.
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John A. Stalcup
Sam B. Motlow
Two Davenport Youths Die in Disturbing Crises
Davenport report details George W. Cannon Jr a 17 year old high school student who died in a gas filled room after writing a surrendering note and a haunting line about death. Alvin Bradham 19 also died by hanging after a nervous breakdown linked to troubling questions to his father a dairy farmer.
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Davenport
George W. Cannon, Jr
Young Cannon
Alvin
Hradham
Here
Noted Liberal Minister Dead
Mount Kisco New York February 1 The Rev Dr Percy Stickney Grant 66 liberal Protestant Episcopal minister died in a hospital yesterday after an appendicitis operation his health had weakened by uremic poisoning He resigned as rector of the Church of the Ascension in June 1924 Grant was unmarried his engagement to Rita de Acosta Lydig twice divorced was announced in August 1921 but broken in May 1924 Bishop Manning forbade ministers in his diocese from marrying divorced persons unless special cases.
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N. Y
Percy Stickney Grant
Church of the Ascension
Grant
Rita de Acosta Lydig
Manning
New York
Funeral for Mrs Hutchens Held at San Jacinto Church
Mrs N Hutchens of Wildorado died last Monday at a local hospital. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o clock at the San Jacinto Methodist church with Rev Virgil Fisher officiating. Burial services were directed by the Modern Woodmen of the World. Survived by her husband and three small children in Wildorado. Funeral arrangements were handled by N B Griggs and Son.
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Wildorado
San Jacinto Methodist Church
Virgil Fisher
Hutchensie
Griggs and Sone
State Highway Commission Sees No Aid for New Projects
At its first hearing the Texas State Highway Commission announced that in the fiscal year ending August 31, 1927, no state aid will be available for new projects unless the legislature increases gasoline tax revenues. The report comes from Austin via The Associated Press dated February 14.
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Provy
Austin
State Highway Commission
Walter Bartruff’s Mother Dies in Greencastle
Telegraphic advices from Greencastle Missouri report Mrs W F Bartruff mother of Walter F Bartruff of Amarillo died at her Green castle home Sunday morning. Bartruff manager of J J Case Machinery Company was at her bedside. Funeral set for Mountayr Ohio on Wednesday.
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Greencastle
Missouri
Globe Today
W. F. Bartruff
Walter F. Bartruff
Amarillo
Bartruff
J. J. Case Machinery Company
Mountayr
Ohio
Cotton consumed in January totals 659,693 bales lint and linters
The Census Bureau reports January consumption of 604,544 bales of lint and 55,149 linters, down from December 605,217 lint and 64,016 linters and above January last year’s 582,415 lint and 62,286 linters. The Amarillo Hotel Coffee Shop advertises as famous for food.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Mattress Fire Claims Amarillo Foreman's Life
W. E. Reed, a structural steel foreman dismantling the Amarillo Gas plant, was found dead from burns and smoke in his bed at 310 North Polk at 6:30 AM. An early morning cigarette is suspected to have started the fire. investigators note the alarm clock stopped at 6:20. Reed had lived in Amarillo six months. The coroner may rule accidental death. the body was moved to Griggs and Sons funeral chapel pending relatives.
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Structural
North
Polk Street
E. McDaniel
Reed
Amarillo
Structural Steel
Amarillo Gas Company
Slia
J. W. Minter
Cory Oner
Jd. W. Minter
N S, Grigze and Sons
Services for Phillip Flamm Held Tomorrow in Plainview
Funeral services for Phillip Flamm 79 father of Dr. Willis H. Flamm of Amarillo will be in Plainview Tomorrow at 2 p.m. Burial will follow in Plainview Cemetery. Flamm died Friday night at Blessing after a brief illness. A native of Pennsylvania he homesteaded in Eastern Nebraska 65 years ago and moved to Plainview in 1919 where he remained active in business and civic affairs. He is survived by his widow Mary Ellen Flamm and by one son.
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W. H. Flamm
Amarillo
Plainview
Flamm
Pennsylvania
Nebraska
Mary Ellen Flamm
Willis H. Flamm
Plainview Cemetery
Trusties Escape Houston Prison
Spencer Walden and Edwin Capps, both trusties at Blue Ridge state prison farm, escaped shortly before daylight Monday. Capt. Dan J. Henderson in charge used blood hounds in an earnest effort to trace the fugitives.
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Houston
Spencer Walden
Edwin Capps
Blue Ridge State Prison
Dan J. Henderson
Congress in session with bank and farm relief actions
Congress meets at noon as the Senate weighs branch banking bills and the House debates a farm relief measure. Ford tax recovery suit resumes in court today.
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