200 BANKERS HANG HATS IN AMARILLO
The Panhandle Bankers association holds its twenty first convention in Amarillo with over 200 bankers and representatives from national banks. Sessions open at 2 PM in the Municipal Auditorium, led by President Farl Puqua, with welcome by Charles Pick and remarks on Panhandle growth, cotton expansion, and the need for more workers to support the region’s financial and agricultural boom.
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Amarillo
Panhandle Bankers Association
Association
American Legion
Farl Pugna
First National Bank
Robert N. MacCallum
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Charley Pick
City of
Tie
Bankers Association
Mission
Deandi
Weather outlook with showers and cooler Tuesday
Tonight and Tuesday may bring showers and cooler air. The excerpt recalls last year’s extremes 103 and 71 in Amarillo with hourly readings peaking at 99 this afternoon and cooling toward the evening and night.
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Amarillo
Woman orders coffin pays undertaker then commits suicide
Paris dispatch reports May Alice Crumpton, reportedly from Chicago, who ordered her coffin paid funeral costs and tipped servants, killed herself in a taxi near Porte Dauphine. Four bullets struck her body and head in the Reis De Bologne area.
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Associated Press
Paris
May Alice Crumpton
Chicago
Reis de Bologne
Porte Dauphine
Prairie Gasser Fire Looms Over Shaw No. 1 Well
Three charges of nitro glycerin failed to stop a blaze at the Prairie Gil company's Shaw No. 1 well in Section 27, Hutchinson county. The fire has burned since Thursday night with flames visible for miles as crews plan more charges to reach the source beneath the casing. Hundreds of spectators observed the efforts yesterday.
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Shaw No. 1
Vex Thornton
U. S. Torpedo Company
Shaw
Hutchison County
Work decries college graduates as criminals at CU address
Secretary of the interior Hubert Work warned the Colorado University crowd that college graduates are becoming criminals due to mental laxity and weak schooling. He urged stricter college admissions and moral stamina while discussing child labor and other social issues during a wide ranging commencement address attributed to the Associated Press.
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Boulder
Colo
University of Colorado
Hubert
Work
Secy
Julius Kruttsehnitt Dies Former Southern Pacific Leader
New York June 15 Julius Kruttsehnitt longtime chairman and directing head of the Southern Pacific company died today at Presbyterian hospital after a heart attack following a minor operation He retired May 31 after over forty eight years with American railroads and was said to be buried in New Orleans left behind a Harriman era legacy in the rail system
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Aspo Ated Bast
New York
Julius Kruttsehnitt
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Presbyterian Hospital
New Orleans
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America
Southern Pacific
Harriman
DePaolo Wins 1925 Auto Racing Title
Altoona June 1 By victory in a 260 mile speedway race Veter DePaolo earned enough points to clinch the 1925 championship. A.A.A. officials could award the title soon before he departs for Vernair Belgium. After a protest by Frank Elliott the standings were revised placing Elliott second and Milton third with Warry Hart a distant fourth.
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Veter de Taolo
American Automobile Association
DePaolo
Vernair
Belgium
Frank Elliott
de Vuolo
Tommy Milton
Milton
Elliott
Warry Harta
State's Surprise Witness Faltered in Shepherd Murder Trial
Chicago June 1 A key state's witness wavered in identifying William D. Shepherd during the trial for murder. Dr Amante Rougetti said the 295 pound defendant did not resemble the slender 110 pound man he earlier described as visiting his hospital. Rougetti also admitted he lied about Shepherd visiting him and warned not to get involved with the case.
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Associated Press
Chicago
William D. Shepherd
William N. McClintock
Shepherd
Amante Rougetti
Rongetti
Man Held on Murder Count Says He Shot At Robed Intruders
Haleyville Alabama June 15 John Jackson 39 is in Franklin County jail Russellville on a murder charge following the killing of Joe Martin 33 late Saturday night Jackson told officers he fired on a band of robed intruders who tried to abduct him from his home around midnight Saturday Martin died about 2 a m Sunday at his home where he had been carried Jackson says a threatening note warned him to quit his way of doing things He could not explain the note and says he lived upright with his wife and mother leaving a widow and four children
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Haleyville
Ale
John Jackson
Franklin County
Russellville
Joe Martin
Jackson
Russelville
Martin
Short Talks to Ad Club on Local Water Problem
At the Ad Club noon meeting in the mobile hotel J G Short opened with a pointed talk on the water project. He urged resignations of Water Board members and pressing the city commission to act before the water site option expires. Harry Schwarze reported Amarillowide talk on the water supply and delays harming publicity.
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J. G. Short
Aimost
Water Board
Harry Schwarze
Oklahoma
Amatillo
Amarillo
Carson County Officials Push Rabbit Bounty Plan
N Fr Tisdale county agent and W C Metcalf county commissioner of Carson county Amarillo today to discuss paying bounties on jack rabbit scalps. Tisdale says one jack rabbit may destroy crops worth $1 to farmers, leaving county profit per bounty from 95 cents to 8.45, not counting rabbit increases. The pair urge other Panhandle counties to adopt similar bounties to aid eradication.
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W.C. Metcalf
Carson County
Amarillo
Dentist accused in wife murder seeks motive and will
Los Angeles prosecutors pursue a motive in the death of Grace Grogan Young, seeking details of a will favoring Dr. Thomas Young. The investigation follows Young's confession to killing his wife and plotting with her son, Patrick Grogan, in sealing her body in a cistern.
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Los Angeles
Thomas Young
Grace Grogan Young
Patrick Grogan
Olive King
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District Attorney's Office
Charles Patrick Grogan
Russian Woman to Die as Chief of Bandit Gang
A Russian woman identified as Madame Marusa Treyxo, wife of a colonel, has been sentenced to death for leading an anti-Soviet gang that terrorized Ukraine for over two years. Several band members were condemned to be shot, and others received prison terms.
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Irese Kiley
Russia
Marusa Treyxo
Sovviet Bandite
Ukraine
Tragic Shootings and Massacre Reported Near Canton
Jane Shanghai reports a sniper attack kills W. Mackenzie and wounds Miss Maury Duncan near the American Columbia country club. Dispatches say over 700 Yun Nanee were slaughtered in Canton by mobs after its capture, with atrocities halted by American and British sailors.
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W. W. Mackenzie
Maury Duncan
American Columbia Country Club
Great Western Road
Chinese protest demands severing relations with Britain
Chinese students merchants shopkeepers and workers staged the largest demonstration of the troubles in Peking. They went to the foreign office demanding the government sever ties with Great Britain and ordered the Judan of Hankow to forcefully seize the British concession there.
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Foreign Office
Great Britain
Haakow
Calles Rebukes Kellogg After Mexico Policy Clash
Mexican President Calles issues a strong reply to Secretary Kellogg’s warning on Mexico policy. Washington officials say no public reply from the U S is planned but formal diplomatic notes may follow. Calles decries foreign interference and defends Mexico’s sovereignty amid concerns over agrarian seizures and debt suspensions.
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Crile
Kelloge
Butt
Yretel
Kellog
Mexico
Calles
Kellogg
Creviston Resigns as Legion National Adjutant
James A Crain announced the resignation of Russell Creviston as national adjutant of the American Legion at a meeting of the Legion's national executive committee. James T F Barton of Port Dodge Iowa was named to succeed Creviston and will assume office August 1.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Russell Creviston
The
American Legion
James A. Crain
Legion
James TF. Barton
Port Dodge
Creviston
Poultry Association To Meet Here Tonight
The Panhandle Poultry association will hold an important meeting at the city hall tonight at six o'clock. All members are urged to attend as matters of importance will be discussed.
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Panhandle Poultry Association
City Hall
Hotel killing leads to murder charge against W J Glasscock
A murder complaint was filed in Wichita Falls against W J Glasscock for the killing of J J Stonkley in a local hotel Saturday night. Stonkley was stabbed during an altercation said to have stemmed from remarks toward Mrs Glasscock.
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Associated Trees
Wichita Falls
W. J. Glasscock
J. J. Stonkley
Stonkley
On to Detroit contest sees strong realtor sales
The On-to-Detroit contest ends Thursday night with top sellers earning a free trip to Detroit. Realtors report gratifying sales with more high price lots sold than in any similar period.
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Detroit
University Entitled to One Eighth of Gasoline Value
The University of Texas is entitled to one eighth of the value of casing head gasoline produced from its land wells. The attorney general’s opinion to President W. M. W. Splawn notes Big Lake Oil Co has an extraction plant in Reagan county and plans to expand the industry. It cites a U.S. Court of Appeals decision that casing head vapors used to extract gasoline are part of the petroleum.
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Austin
University of Texas
Attorney General's Department
W. M. W. Splawn
Big Lake Oil Company
Reagan County
United States Court of Appeals
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