Oklahoma City Nurse Charged With Shooting Attorney
Miss Ruby Renfro and Miss Mary Atkinson former Gainesville Texas nurses face joint charges of shooting with intent to kill Paul Showalter in Oklahoma City. Renfro fled Amarillo before chasing Showalter through downtown. both women held in county jail with no comment. Atkinson allegedly employed Showalter to represent her in a suit against a local newspaper over the death of Mary Jane Bailey.
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Oklahoma City
Ruby Renfro
Mary Atkinson
Gainesville
Texas
Paul Showalter
J. K. Wright
Wtingo Wright
Renfro
Amarillo
Hidel
Ted
OY Tre Ene
Weather forecast for West Texas and Louisiana
Tonight and Saturday partly cloudy with scattered showers near the coast in Texas and partly cloudy conditions in Louisiana. Temperatures range from the upper 60s to mid 70s with a cooler night and a warm Saturday, while the record shows 78 today and 61 tonight.
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Texas
Louisiana
What Kind of Man by Arthur Brisbane
Brisbane surveys Hoover and business leadership, noting Hoover’s engineering and managerial background as favorable for president. Wall Street reacts to draft Coolidge debates, stock moves revive, and public figures like Rosenwald and Farrell are cited while political lines shift toward Hoover's candidacy.
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New York
Lessing Rosenwald
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Department of Commerce
Hoover
Wall Street
Hoover Breaks Through Barriers in Republican Nomination
United Press reports from Kansas City show Herbert Hoover advancing to the convention’s first major hurdle and facing a broader test in November. The shy engineer, seeking his first public office, endures fierce internal and external attacks as twenty two reasons against his nomination are cited.
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Kansas City
Herbert Hoover
White House
Hoover
Bisine
Real Live Donkeys to Be Presented at Houston Convention
Eddie Barnes a Houston theater manager bought 50 donkeys for 3 dollars each and shipped them to Houston for presentation to state delegations at the National Convention. Each state delegation will receive one donkey and the Alaska and Philippine delegations will get the remaining two.
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Houston
Associated Press
Pearsall
Texas
Eddie Barnes
Colorful Parade and Pardoned Negro Highlight Amarillo Day
A large Christian Endeavor parade through Amarillo featured delegates from Austin Beaumont Dallas Valley and Houston. The event concluded with a barbecue at Harding's ranch and a Life Work Recruit banquet at First Christian church. Earlier, Jack Davis was pardoned by Governor Moody after a witness recanted, removing a 15 year penitentiary sentence for robbery with firearms. Davis, who had been shot in the arm at arrest, prepared to leave prison after 18 months more served.
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Jack Davis
Potter County
Davis
Dan Moody
Moody
Pardon Board
Christian Endeavor
Central Presbyterian Church
Amarillo
Austin
Beaumont
Dallas
Valley
Houston
Harding
Palo Duro
Life Work
First Christian Church
Alva Willgus
Fort Worth
KFQB
Willgus
Crusaders
Paul C. Brown
Pacific Coast
International Society
Los Angeles
R. Thomsen
Thomsen
Europe
Orient
Paul
Doris Shelton
Texas Christian University
Miss Shelton
Tibet
Harold Singer
Mid-West
International Christian Endeavor Society
Boston
Galveston
South
Panhandle
Looting and death in Tientsin after Nationalist occupation
A Daily Mail dispatch from Tientsin reports many dead in the streets and river following Nationalist troops' seizure of the city. Armed men were disarmed or killed, and an arsenal near the station was destroyed. About 20,000 troops are advancing from Peking.
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London
Tientsin
Daily Mail
Patch
Peking
Hoover the politician who thrives on peace and power
Herbert Hoover, the Republican presidential nominee, is portrayed as a wartime hero whose peacetime rise expands his power and prestige. The profile notes his quiet, private demeanor, relentless work ethic, late writing sessions, and strong diplomacy, with a brief nod to his family life and personal habits.
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Clinton Coffin
Associated Press
Herbert Hoover
Iowa
America
Hoover
Burma
Australia
Urals
Russia
Washington
White House
Liberal Booster Trip Expands Rural Ties and Travel
Amarillo business leaders plus twelve Stinnett and six Graver citizens depart at 7 A.M. on a two day trek to Liberal Kansas to promote traffic along the Rock Island railway. They dine in Gruver and plan a Liberal banquet, with return route via Hooker Guymon Texhoma Stratford and Dumas.
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Amarillo
Gruver
Liberal
Kans
Stinnett
Graver
Liberal Chamber of Commerce
North Plains
Rock Island
Kansas
New Rock Island
Hooker
Guymon
Texhoma
Stratford
Dumas
The
Board of City Development
Girl Fliers Yet Unable to Take Off
Miss Mabel Bell awaiting favorable weather for a flight to Europe in the monoplane Columbia at Harbor Grace N F. She traveled with pilots Oliver Le Boutillier and Arthur Argles and planned to return this afternoon. The Friendship crew near Trepassey N F faced weather uncertainty over the Atlantic with storms between here and the Azores and an unfavorable direct route to Ireland.
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Associated Prews
Harbor Grace
N. F
Mabel Bell
Europe
Columbia
St. John's
Oliver le Boutillier
Arthur Argles
Associated Press
Trepassey
Atlantic
Azores
Ireland
Carranza to Fly U.S. Plane to West Point
Capt Emilio Carranza the Mexican army aviator will fly from New York City to West Point in an army amphibian plane to deliver a photograph of the Mexican Military Academy. The gift comes from the Mexican superintendent to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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Associated Press
Washington
Emilio Carranza
Mexico City
New York City
West Point
New York
United States Military Academy
Farmers Plan to Take Fight to Democrats
Minnesota leader Frank W. Murphy says farmers will push their case to the Democratic convention in Houston after the Republican platform rejected the equalization fee plank. Murphy, a Wheaton delegate, says the farmers speak for the rural vote and demand relief denied by the GOP.
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Associated Frees
Kansas City
Houston
Frank W. Murphy
Wheaton
Rotarians to Visit Scouts at Camp Today
The Amarillo Rotary club plans a visit to the William Warner Boy Scout camp this afternoon. About 60 Amarillo Canadian and Claude boys are in camp, with Rotarians expected to arrive by 6:30 p.m. They will bring ice cream and frozen cookies for the scouts. The trip travels to Claude then south 12 miles to the camp.
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Amarillo
Fathers Day Program by A B C Members
Members of the American Business club in Nexsion observed Fathers Day at noon at the Amarillo hotel. Fathers and sons attended as guests and several members spoke. Ernest Northcutt and Charles Keffer reported on the A B C national convention at Memphis Tennessee.
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American Business Club
Nexsion
Amarillo
Memphis
Tenn
Ernest Northcutt
Charles Keffer
Kansas Senator Named by G O P Al Hoover’s Mate
Republican National convention in Kansas City nominates Charles Curtis of Kansas as vice president joining Herbert Hoover for the 1928 race. Curtis, an anti-Hoover candidate prior, wins on a unanimous viva voce vote to balance the ticket. Hoover and Curtis projected to unite farm and middlewest voters.
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United Press
Kansas City
Republican National Convention Today
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Herbert Hoover
Curtis
Hoover
Herbertf Hoover
California
Iowa
India
Plains of
Alfred K. Smith
Fulton Fish Market
Farm Belt
Middlewest
Prairie Pipeline declares dividend of 3 50 per share
Prairie Pipeline Company, Independence Kansas, declares a dividend of 3.50 dollars per share on all stock of record June 30, payable July 31. The notice cites the June 16 date and lists the company name and payment terms.
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Associated Preas
Independence
Kans
The
Prairie Pipeline Company Tools
Mexican confesses slaying of Denver mine official
Mexican police report Alberto Islan confessed to killing Howard Smith, Denver superintendent of Santa Gertrudis mine, on May 30. Islan said he planned to steal ore, ambushed Smith along the highway, fired as he approached, and killed him after being shot and wounded in the exchange.
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Denver
Associated Press
Mexico City
Pachuca
Alberto Islan
Howard ©. Smith
Santa Gertrudis Ming
Islan
Smith
Storms worsen Nobile crew stranded on Arctic ice
General Umberto Nobile and five Italia survivors drift on an ice floe near Spitzbergen after a heavy southwest gale. Nobile, injured with a broken leg to Cecioni, hopes rescue soon as supplies and equipment are requested from the Citta Di Milano.
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Kings Bay
Spitzenbergen
Arctic
Italia
Umberto Nobile
Citta di Milano
Associated Press
Spitzbergen
Natale Ceccioni
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