Explosion Fatal for Mrs Payne and Severe Injury to Son
In Stephenville Texas a blast wrecked the Payne car injuring 12 year old A D Payne Jr and killing Mrs Exa Payne wife of A D Payne both from Amarillo. Police investigated possible planted bomb as cause with clues including dry cell batteries found near the wreckage.
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Trouble grows as Chihuahua conflict flares up
AP dispatches report Governor Francisco Almada and provisional head Manuel Estrada contesting control from the Chihuahua City palace. Agrarian factions show mixed support while federal troops maintain presence amid mounting street agitation and parades by rival sympathizers.
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Villa Cuautemoc
Pope Pius health concerns loom over Vatican
Globe readers note Arthur Brisbane columns while Pope Pius, age 73, shows signs of strain after a canonization address before 50 000 in St Peter's. The piece recalls his role as the conciliator between Vatican and Italy and hopes for a swift recovery amid hot weather. Also referenced are political and market snippets including Dwight W Morrows influence in New Jersey politics and fleeting Wall Street optimism contrasted with recent bankruptcy events.
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Fere Hour for Sweeping Liquor Drive
Treasury to relinquish enforcement to Justice on July 1 as Hoover retools prohibition policy. Mitchell urges state and local cooperation. emphasis on Eighteenth Amendment binding on both levels.
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Fourth of July Fire Safety Plea From Amarillo Chief
Fire Chief Cooper appeals for a safe and sane Independence Day, urging parents to guard children from fire injuries and to protect life and property from fire hazards caused by fireworks. He urges cleaning premises, keeping a garden hose ready, knowing the nearest firebox, and promptly reporting fires. He calls on parents teachers and business people to cooperate to prevent accidents and losses.
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Amarillo
Trains Derailin Capreol Flood Fatalities Toll Surges
Eleven people die as three Canadian National trains derail near Capreol Ontario after washouts from floods. Two passenger trains and a freight derailed. four children drown when a coach plunges into Vermilion River floodwaters. Westbound train derailed with no injuries.
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Police Avert Lynch Mob in Port Arthur
A mob of about 200 attempted to seize Rainey Williams 38 who has confessed to eight attacks on white women in the past month. Police Chief M B Ward and officers fought the crowd at City Hall until Williams was placed in Fire Chief Enright's speedster for transport.
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Rainey Williams
City Hall
M. B. Ward
Enright
Judge Cannot Distinguish Beer From Near Beer
SPRINGFIELD IL June 27 Federal Judge Fitzhenry cannot tell beer from near beer, freeing William Musselman who said he previously tasted lawful beer and near beer and could not discern any difference. He refused to punish the defendant because another person guessed his beer had illegal alcohol.
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Associated Press
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William Musselmann
Maniac shoots two at Metis Beach resort
A gardener at the fashionable Metis Beach resort in Quebec, Canada, went insane and killed a man and seriously injured a woman before returning to a barn to sleep. Police found him there. Contractor Burke was killed and Mrs. R. J. Dawes of Montreal was badly hurt.
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New Parley on Paving Rapped
Amarillo city manager W N Durham says a second hearing on the Randall county paving project on South Thirty Sixth Street is unlikely but could occur if demanded. Contractors Willmering & Mullen await a state highway commission working order before work begins, with timing uncertain and a hoped start six to seven weeks after order.
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Randall County
Thirty-Sixth
W. N. Durham
State Highway Commission
Willmering & Mullen
Durham
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Mullen
House Leader Porter Dies in East at Allegheny General
Stephen G. Porter, esteemed chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a leading figure in drug policy, died early today at Allegheny General Hospital. Messages of sympathy flooded in as his family stood by his bedside. Porter was a long-serving Pennsylvania congressman and a pivotal voice in national affairs.
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Mooney May Be Freed Within Month
San Francisco reports indicate Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings may gain freedom within a month. Both men have spent thirteen years in prison over the July 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco that killed six outright and three later, with forty wounded. The State Supreme Court acts as a board of review in Billings’s case.
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Tom Mooney
Warren K. Billings
United Press
C. Young
Mooney
Billings
State Supreme Court
Dynamite Blast Blamed for 30 Deaths in Brockville
An explosion blamed on a bolt of lightning tore apart the drill boat J. B. King, killing 30 of 42 crew members near Brockville narrows. Twelve survivors were rescued by the U S Coast Guard Cutter 211, with several severely injured. The J P Porter and Sons of St Catharines owned vessel was drilling dynamite charges for a river channel when an electrical storm struck this afternoon. Griggs ambulance and local hospitals treated the injured.
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Chicago plane in air fifteen days over Sky Harbor
The Hunter brothers aim to extend the City of Chicago’s nonstop flight to surpass the record of about 420 hours. At 4:40 am CDT they reached the 72nd hour of circling in an attempt to fuel and prolong the endurance flight.
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Storms Kill Scores Across Northeastern States and Canada
Storms lashed the northeast, Ontario and Newfoundland, killing and injuring many. In Brockville Ontario a drill boat was struck by lightning causing explosives to detonate, with 30 dead. In Capreol Ontario a passenger coach plunged into Vermillion river amid floods, death toll uncertain. Sanbury Ontario saw trains stalled and motorists stranded by landslides. In Lumsden Newfoundland three fishermen drowned as hail sunk 30 boats. Upper New York two drowned at Buffalo when a gale flipped a boat. A 35000 gallon oil tank burned at Olean Pennsylvania as winds toppled buildings and knocked down poles. A farmer near Carlisle was killed by lightning.
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Wealthy loans figure in Jake Lingle murder probe
Chicago June 27 law enforcement sought help from the public in solving reporter Jake Lingle crime. Investigators noted large loans to Lingle from gambling housekeepers and from Maj Carlos Ames Bert Cronson and Samuel Ettelson. A $500 check Lingle cashed through Police Captain Dan Gilbert may be repayment.
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Chicago
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Tribune
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Theatore
Carlos Ames
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Republican Nomines
Bert Cronson
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Dan Gilbert
Central Police
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Grand Jury
Springtown Man Killed in Accident
Springtown Tex June 27 Davis 23 son of Mr and Mrs C Davis of Springtown killed last night when the truck he rode in overturned on the Springtown Weatherford road. Three companions were slightly injured.
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Associated Press
Springtown
Tex
Tor Davis
C. Davis
Weatherford
Girls Confess To Chewing Gum In Zion City
Zion City June 27. Three young women employed by Zion industries confessed to chewing gum after a report to Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva. They admitted the act and were discharged, as chewing gum is eschewed in Zion industries under church order.
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Zion Industries
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Mary Baker
Poliva
Shield Given Death For Wife Slaying Case
Brownwood Texas June 27 A jury sentenced Joe Shield 35 oil field worker to death in the electric chair for the murder of his wife Opal May Shield on May 16. Shield is also under indictment for allegedly ordering the deaths of his wife’s parents Mr and Mrs J B Shields who were shot in the same triple killing near Brownwood.
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