Kidnaping Plot Ties Orthwein Family Case to Local Drive
In a tense early report, a private drive near Lindbergh Avenue becomes the scene of a kidnaping attempt. Roy Yowell describes a confrontation with a Negro assailant who forced his way into a car, demanded valuables, and fled toward Orthwein property. Authorities later link the incident to the Orthwein household, with investigations continuing and police conferring with local officials. The motive appears tied to ransom, and no arrests were announced.
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Sthwein
Wis
Orthwein
Huntleigh
Fellour
Roy Yowell
A. Busch
Vrant’s
Adolphus
Cay
Yowell
Ward Lindbes
Ata
Lindbergh
Bub Bey
Betton
Thorspayn
Clara
Orth
terieDl
Todey
de Gribns
Pippen Baby Jessie Beile Likely Amarillo's First 1931 White Birth
The Pippen family reports baby Jessie Beile Pippen born at 12:00 AM on New Year’s Day 1931 in Amarillo with seven and a half pounds. Gifts from local businesses will honor the first white child born in Amarillo for the year, as hospitals confirm this entry along with several other New Year births.
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Ivan W. Lawson
West
Nineteenth Avenue
Northwest Texas Hospital
Amarillo
EFE. Mauldin Dairy
Stork Shop
Edwards Studio
Amarillo Greenhouse
Fox Drug Company
Acme Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co
Mayo
Numerology Lecture Offered by Dr Florence Crane in Amarillo
Dr Florence Crane from Chicago and Denver explains numerology claiming names map to numbers that shape character and destiny. She will lecture on The Magic of Thought Force Monday through Thursday at the Amarillo Hotel Red Room.
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Amarillo
Florence Crane
Chicago
Denver
Crane
Red Room
Amarillo Hotel
Pampa and Amarillo College Grid Clash Promises Battle
Pampa brings 165 pound star Mitchell and eight reserves to face Amarillo with a fast backfield. Joel Hunt leads Amarillo with Scovell Logan Hopkin g Walker for depth as 2000 Pampa and Amarillo fans expected plus Panhandle towns. Officials include Marshal May ref and Bill Honey umpire.
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Amarillo
Pampa
Tun
Joel Hunt
Dorsey
Mills
Alsabrooks
Saufley
Panhandle
Scovell
Logan
West Texas
Hopking
Walker
Pinky Alsabrook
Marshal May
Centenary
Bill Honey
A&m
Bull Lynch
Sweeney Rites Held for Pioneer Amarilloan at Central Church
Services for J. D. Sweeney, pioneer Amarilloan and former Santa Fe railway accountant, were held at Central Presbyterian Church with Dr. R. Thomson officiating. He died in Topeka Kansas hospital. Burial in Llano mausoleum with Masonic rites. Active and honorary pallbearers named. Survivors include daughter Miss Inez Sweeney and two sons Arch M. Sweeney and Paul Sweeney.
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J. D. Sweeney
Amarilloan
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Central Presbyterian Church
R. Thomson
Santa Fe
Topeka
Kansas
Stafa Vo
Griggs and Sons Funeral Chapel
Inez Sweeney
Kentucky Street
Arch M. Sweeney
Detroit
Paul Sweeney
Ozark Mountains
Missouri
Llano Mausoleum
D. G. Hume
D. W. Britain
N. H. Mohler
Kr. O. Feierabend
J. N. Riggs
C. B. Johnson
B. G. Mayberry
Henry Funk
W. Eb, Goodloe
P. M. Montgomery
W. E. Ferguson
M. Benesch
J. W. Stewart
C. F. Locher
A. F. Klopfstein
A. A. Graham
R. Wilson
Earl Mayne
A. M. Hoye
Grant Hale
W. H. Carwile
J. H. Kilgore
C. E. Hand
Fred Hert
E.G Conner
H. O. Wagner
Ira Brown
W. R. Bock
L. GC. White
Bishop K. L. Thompson
F. M. Mullen
David Chalmers
M. Lefforge
W. 3B. Allen
GG. Ordway
R. A. Camiéell
Baylor Now In Line For Huge Gift
Baylor University headed toward a $300000 endowment from the General Education Board of New York after president Dr Henry P Brooks announced the university was debt free. A two year campaign aimed to raise 350000 to retire debts with 100000 endowment contingent on debt retirement by midnight December 1. All but 60000 had been raised by Tuesday and pledges were urged to be redeemed.
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Associated Presa Waco
5. P. Brooks
Baylor University
General Education Board of New York
Brooks
Recovery sought of tax fund and interest in Texas case
Rice Tilley, retiring assistant attorney general, filed suit in Austin asking for 7512.74 plus interest from former comptroller H. Terrell and his bondsmen. The petition cites 6312.74 in gasoline taxes collected from Magnolia Petroleum Co from Aug 1925 to Jan 1926 for gasoline sold to the U S army at San Antonio and 1200 paid by warrants drawn on the stamp fund.
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Associated Press
Austin
Rice Tilley
H. Terrell
Terrell
Moore Lynn
Magnolia Petroleum Company
U. S. Army
San Antonio
Robbers Take $7,500 From Houston Office
Robbers obtained about $7,500 last night from the office of a Houston man after drilling a safe. Dr. Hill told officers the money, stored in the inner vault, represented 12 years of savings.
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Houston
Hill
Oil Firms Aim To Buy 14500 Barrels Daily In Midcontinent
A group of oil companies proposed to purchase 14500 barrels of fresh crude daily in the Midcontinent if Prairie Oil and Gas buys a like amount. Prairie officials were presented the plan as Prairie has announced it will purchase no crude oil effective today. The proposal came via a report from purchasers of Midcontinent Oil to E B Reeser, president of the American Petroleum Institute, acting for Interior Secretary Wilbur.
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Associated Presa
Tulsa
Okla
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Prairie
Prairie Oil and Gas
E. B. Reeser
American Petroleum Institute
Wilbur of the Interior
Federal Oil Conservation Board
Reeser
Traffic Officer Moore Released From Hospital
Robert C. Moore of the police traffic squad, injured in a spill on December 23, was moved from St Anthony's hospital to his home at 1313 East Thirteenth Avenue. The attending physician said Moore will not lose his eyesight, easing earlier fears of the loss of his right eye.
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Moore
Robert C. Moore
St. Anthony's Hospital
East Thirteenth Avenue
Texans Build Texas at Dallas TV Club Dinner
Governor-elect Ross Sterling will discuss Texas glories and possibilities at Dallas TV club's first annual dinner. A dozen speakers attend with a Texas menu and topics on Texan progress and unity. Six state officials join including Marrs Gilchrist Williams McDonald Smith and Witt.
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Dallas
Texas
Ross Sterling
TV Club
Sterling
Texans
M. N. Marrs
Gibb Gilchrist
B. F. Williams
Joyful party ends in death of W. P. Brooks
Willis P. Brooks 62, chief engineer of the Great West Mill and Elevator Co., died at his home on Kentucky Street after New Year’s watch party. A resident since 1919, he previously worked with Kemp and Kell Elevator Co. in the Southwest. Survived by two sons Howard R and Willie 8 Brooks of Amarillo, daughters Mrs. J. T. Cagle of Chicago and Mrs. S. W. Stout of Alamogordo, and sister Mrs. G. L. Wade of Fort Worth. Body under care of N. Griggs & Sons awaiting arrangements.
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Willie P. Brooks
Great West Mill & Elevator Company
Kentucky Street
Mr. Brooks
Amarillo
Kemp & Kell Elevator Company
Southwest
Howard R
Willie
State plans to speed up road work
Austin January 1 Gib Gilchrist state highway engineer said the highway department will speed highway construction aided by 5 088 080 in federal funds as a loan to be repaid over five years starting 1993 The extra aid must be used by September 1 1931 and state plans reflect reduced county receipts and bond votes limiting 1981 funding compared with 1980.
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Associated Press
Austin
Gib Gilchrist
Highway Department
Gilchrist
Grand jury urges ongoing probe into bail bond abuses
Cook county bail bond conditions were called indescribably bad by the last 1930 grand jury. It indicted 13 professional bondsmen and urged Chief Justice McGoorty to empanel a special long term grand jury to continue the inquiry into Municipal court bail practices, described as probably the worst in the country.
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United Press
Chicago
Cook County
John P. McGoorty
Dallas Homicide and Traffic Deaths in 1930
Dallas reports 33 violent deaths in 1930 down from 278 in 1929. Traffic fatalities total 87 with 81 from autos. Fort Worth and Tarrant County see 33 homicides and 54 vehicle deaths, five above 1929.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Fort Worth
Tarrant County
Backyard Playhouse Deadly Extortion Plot Ends In Death
In Clintonville Wisconsin on January 1 Gordon Popp 15 is dead and Howard Huntermarkt 17 and Douglas Parfitt 14 are jailed after confessing to an extortion plan aimed at Dr W H Finney. The boys used a shack as their hideout calling it a play house.
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Associated Press
Clintonville
Wis
George Popp
Gordon Popp
Douglas Parfitt
Howard Huntertmark
W.H. Finney
Howard
Douglas
Dr. Finney
Illinois
Gordon
Science and Cruelty Conflicts Highlight War-Era Debate
The piece recalls Marshal Joffre’s fading vigor and quotes Victor Hugo on justice as a beautiful day ending. it notes Dr George Crile presenting artificial life cells to scientists, questions creating a man synthetically, and critiques hunting cruelty including stag drowning and fur trapping. It also mentions Russia’s labor shortage and women entering work.
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Marshal Joffre
Marshal Jofre
Victor Hugo
George W. Crile
Cleveland
Overproduction in Oil and Agriculture Bites Industry
The text discusses industry trends toward centralization and urbanization, with overproduction highlighted in oil and agriculture. It notes the Federal Reserve Bank in this region holds around 16 million in outstanding loans, down from over 40 million a year earlier, reflecting cautious bankers and hesitant borrowers. Grain producers curtailment and removal of future surpluses are mentioned, while livestock overproduction remains less problematic.
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Federal Reserve Bank
Mrs Ida Ball Dies in City at 85
Mrs Ida Ball 85 wife of G E Ball died at 8 45 this morning in a local hospital She is survived by her husband two children Richard 10 and Corrie Marie 6 by her parents Mr and Mrs J C Barnett Canyon by a brother Lee Barnett Seligman Ariz and seven sisters Several sisters live in Lubbock Phoenix Compton Canyon Ona Long Beach and Canyon The body was taken to Canyon this afternoon by Griggs Sons for state at Griggs Thompson Funeral Home pending arrangements
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Ida Ball
G. E. Ball
Richard
Corrie Marie
J. ¢. Barnett
Canyon
Lee Barnett
Seligman
Ariz
Jack Johnson
Lubbock
Jim Arthur
Phoenix
I, N. Dillard
Compton
Calif
Glen Costley
Ona
Katherine Barnett
Mildred Barnett
Long Beach
Ball
Methodist Church
Griggs & Sons
Griggs - Thompson
Fire alarm at Fillmore Street. overall loss minimal
Fire of undetermined origin discovered at 9 o clock Wednesday night caused an alarm at 1709 Fillmore Street. Firemen reported only a pair of overalls lost in the incident.
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Fillmore Street
Reflective Verse on Labor and Time
A short, lyrical meditation urges betterment through labor and deeper thinking. The speaker sighs at unchanged months and years and muses on adjusting days to suit effort and growth.
Radio Schedule Highlights With Political Talk and Music
Radio today features Sen T H Caraway and Sen James E Watson plus Doris Stevens and Mrs Harvey Wiley of the Woman's Party. National Capitol Choir opens at 12 30 pm with other programming on WEAF WABC WJZ and WDAG stations including comedy acts Betsy Ross reminiscence and Melody Moments.
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T. H. Caraway
Arkansas
James E. Watson
Indiana
Doris Stevens
Harvey Wiley
Woman's Party
National Capitol Choir
Brad Browne
al Llewelyn
WABC
Rudy Vallee
Frank Black
WEAF
Betsy Ross
Paul Revere
Gen
Anthony Wayne
Eugene Ormandy
Weaf and Chain
WJZ
B. A. Rolfe
Holy Cross Lutheran Church Choir of
St. Louis
High finance inquiry aims to probe four proposed systems
A Senate committee plans to call heads of four planned systems to assess public advantages. Senators Wheeler and Howell back more information on the proposal as others seek details. In New York, about 75 people were treated for alcoholism after New Year celebrations, with one indirect death from smoke in a bed fire.
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Wheeler
Montana
Howell
Nebraska
Associated Press
New York
Michael Pisko
Drug Delivery Boy Injured in Car Crash
Ernest Bowen delivering for Dickson Drug Company at 606 Polk Street suffers a right arm fracture and possible internal injuries after a motorcycle collision with a truck at Seventh Avenue and Parker Street. Bowen was unconscious at the scene and taken to Northwest Texas Hospital. He previously lived on Johnson Street and recently moved to Mc Masters Street.
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Ernest Bowen
Dickson Drug Company
Polk Street
Texas
Seventh Avenue
Parker Street
Bowen
G. A. Morgan
Johnson Street
McMasters Street
Markets Show Mixed Movement Across Hogs Cattle and Sheep
Kansas City and Chicago reports show hogs firm to higher with top at 8.00 and sow bids around 8.00 to 6.75. Cattle and calves volume mix with steers 600-900 lb around 9.25 to 18.75 and 900-1500 lb near 13.75. Sheep activity strong with fat lambs up to 25 cents and lamb prices near 7.50 to 8.65 for 90 lb class.
Live stock market reports from East St Louis and Fort Worth
East St Louis hogs 9 000 head uneven demand top 8 40 pigs 7 75 8 25 sows 6 35 6 65 cattle 1 800 calves 7 600 vealers up 25c fat mixed yearlings and heifers 2 10 cows 4 00 5 00 low cutters 2 50 3 00 top medium bulls 5 50 vealers 19 50 sheep 750 fat lambs steady to strong packers 3 00 3 25 fat ewes 3 50 down Fort Worth hogs 800 truck hogs steady top 5 00 packing sows 6 50 6 75 butcher pigs 7 00 cattle 2 000 calves 60 all classes unchanged slaughter steers 4 85 7 00 cows up to 5 00 low cutters 2 00 2 50 butcher cows 3 00 range heavy fat calves 7 40 stock steers 5 00 6 00 sheep 1 200 steady fall shorn fat lambs 7 00 fat yearlings 5 59 fat wethers 4 50 fleshy feeder lambs 6 00
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The
Associated Press
Kansas City
Jan
Chicago
Livy
East ST. Louis
Fort Worth
U. S
D. A
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