Tornado ruin prayers amid Parisian gold hoard talk and Balfour visit
Reporters note prayers for strength among tornado survivors and discuss French hoarding of gold and silver coins amid fears for the franc. ARVARD funding aims to boost agriculture study while a Jerusalem opening under Lord Balfour stirs Arab-Jewish tensions and British troop readiness in Egypt.
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Prt
Bank of France
Jerusalem
Balfour
Holy Land
Patriarch of
Lord Balfour
Klan Controls Houston Police in 1922 Abuse Allegation
Mayor Oscar F. Holcombe and city attorney Sewall Myer testified that the Ku Klux Klan controlled Houston police in 1922. The city hired about a dozen West Texas peace officers to shield citizens from further Klan outrages during the Klan Kimbro lawsuit trial.
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Associated Press
Houston
West Texas
Fifty-Fifth District Court
Oscar F. Holcombe
Sewall Myer
Weather outlook and temperatures
The forecast is fair and warmer tonight and tomorrow. Extremes today reached 82 degrees high and 44 low, compared with 60 and 23 a year ago.
Navy fleet fires off Pacific battle line drill
Aboard the California near San Pedro the 11 dreadnoughts staged a six minute force practice with 125 ton salvos. Destroyers launched torpedo runs as smoke screens masked the fleet moving at over twenty mph in a simulated naval engagement. The display showcased the battle line’s 16, 12 and 10 inch guns under the “commence firing” signal.
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Associated P'ress
U. S. S. Concord
San Pedro
Cal
America
Pacific Ocean
Associated Press
Naval Base
Calif
California
Herald
Pacific
County Farm Inspection Highlights Banquet and Inmates
Grand jury officials and two newspapermen toured the county farm. The feast hosted by J W Cantrell featured elaborate old fashioned fare with especially praised biscuits. The farm houses ten Potter county inmates, one Swisher county inmate, and four county prisoners.
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Grand Jury
J. W. Cantrell
J. W. Owen
R. W. Cartwright
J. W. Blair
Francis Popham
J. C. Britain
Chas. Porter
Joe Conner
C. H. Dixon
J. W. Bogard
Body of Girl with Horse and Buggy Found Sunk in Swamp
Newport Vermont reports grappling resumed for Charles Hutchins, believed in a swamp above Lake Memphremagog. The body of Edith M. Young, 24, a former teacher from Orleans and factory worker, was found seated in a buggy with a dead horse in the swamp. Hutchins, a divorce defendant and father of two, vanished with Young four months ago while driving toward Orleans. Uncertainty remains if they drowned or Hutchins survives.
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Associated Press
Newport
Charles 8. Hutchins
Lake Memphremagog
Coventry
Edith M. Young
Orleans
Miss Young and Hutchins
Newport Center
Hutchins
Starnes tells of pistol episode in Miller Hobart murder trial
Arthur Starnes former Amarillo policeman admitted discrepancies in his testimony during the Miller Hobart murder retrial in Floydada revealing he once supplied a Colt pistol to Dusty Miller and later helped hide it while recounting events around July 14 16. Mrs Ruth Hobart and T Miller face retrial on murder charges related to E W Hobart’s death in Amarillo last July.
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Floydada
Miller- Hobart
Arthur Starnes
Amarillo
Starnes
Dusty” Miller
T. Miller
Ruth Hobart
E. W. Hobart
Armarillo
Miller
Tyler Street
Amaillo
Vivian Starnes
Girl Who Slew Mother Faints in Court Again
Doro thy Ellingson a 16 year old stenographer faced court for the murder of her mother Mrs Ellingson The girl confessed she shot her mother during a quarrel over her companions The trial has revived fainting spells as judges remark on the gravity of the offense A jury of nine men and two women sat as jurors and the defendant asked to be tried by elderly evaluators
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San Francisco
Dorothy Ellingson
Miss Ellingson
Canadian Band to Aid Amarillo at West Texas Chamber Meeting
Canadian plans to send a thirty piece band to the West Texas Chamber of Commerce meeting in Mineral Wells. W A Miller Amarillo secretary says a large delegation will accompany the band and Canadian has endorsed Amarillo for the next meeting.
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Amarillo Get
West Texas
W.A. Miller
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
Arbuckle Marriage Plans Delayed by Paris Divorce Decree
Roscoe Arbuckle and Doris Deane await a tentative wedding around April 8 after an attorney advised that his estranged wife Minta Durfee’s Paris divorce decree must become effective that day. The couple faced delays securing an officiant and a timely license as Parisian law restrictions crossed oceans and altered their plans.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Roscoe Arbuckle
Doris Deane
Miss Deane
San Marino
Minta Durfee
Arbuckle
Wugh J. Crawford
Methodist Conference Rejects North South Church Union
The Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South voted 141 to 137 against unifying the Northern and Southern churches. A separate note mentions the Coffee Shop at the Amarillo Hotel being famous for food.
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Washington
Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Amarillo Hotel
Conductor Welcomes Triplet Births as Two Die
Louis Dorn, a New Orleans street car conductor, hoped for a son to carry his name. Last week his wife bore triplets. two did not survive and the surviving baby, weighing three and a half pounds, remains in an incubator.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Louis Dorn
Prosecutor Advances Case in Frank Collier Murder Trial
Wichita Falls March 25 Five and a half hours of closing arguments concluded with prosecutor Bernard Martin urging a murder verdict against Frank Collier former Wichita Falls mayor in the Robertson killing Defense objections and bills of exceptions followed as counsel pressed the case toward jury deliberation The state contends the murder was proven while the defense argues otherwise and seeks to limit damning testimony about a supposed relationship between Mary Frances Collier and Elzie Robertson The trial could reach a verdict this afternoon
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Associated Preta
Wichita Falls
Frank Collier
Elzie Robertson
Hattie Robertson
Buster
Mary Frances Collier
Robertson
Bernard Martin
Mr. Martin
Bloodhounds on Trail in Far West Texas Shootings
In Abilene Texas a vast posse from Nolan Runnels Coke Taylor and adjacent counties pursues a Mexican suspect Morales for the killings of Sheriff W W Satterwhite and Deputy Sheriff George Reeves and Juan Hernandez near Big Spring. Bloodhounds from Paint Rock and Lubbock join the hunt as dawn patrols sweep rural areas and alerts go out to every homestead. The suspect is accused of multiple killings earlier in the day and remains at large in rough hilly country.
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Associated Press
Abilene
Tex
Nolan, Runnels
Coke
Taylor
W. W. Satterwhite
Howard County
George Reeves
Taylor County
Juan Hernandez
Big Spring
Morales
Paint Rock
Concho County
Lubbock
Nolan County
Dora
Lake Abilene
Smith Ranch
View
Ben
Satterwhite
Reeves
Merkel
$7,000,000 Oil Property Deal Reported in Texas
Mexia March 25 Pure Oil company buys the producing properties and equipment of Humphrey-Boyd Oil in the Wortham field. Announcement by Humphrey president A B Humphrey and Pure president B G Dawes states the deal totals about seven million dollars, partly stock and partly cash. About 180,900 Pure shares will be issued on a share for share basis, with the rest paid in cash.
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Mexia
Tex
Pure Oil Company
Humphrey-Boyd Oil Company
Wortham
Field
Col
A. BE. Humphrey
Humphrey-Boyd Company
B. G. Dawes
Humphrey
Sheriff Found Dead as Prisoners Abscond with Car
J A Sewell deputy sheriff of Tulsa county was found dead by the roadside near Chickasha Oklahoma. Two prisoners he was transporting to Granite state reformatory disappeared with the car as a posse from Sheriff De Arthur Wilson’s office hunts the escapees.
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Chickasha
Okla
J. A. Sewell
Tulsa County
Here
State Reformatory
Granite
de Arthur Wilsons
Five Die in Bordeaux Paris Express Wreck Near Paris
Five persons killed and fifty injured when the Bordeaux-Paris express wrecked near Paris in the early hours. The deceased include Dr Adolphe Pedebidou a senator from the Upper Pyrenees. An American Warehouse company is listed with storage services and phone contact 191.
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Paris
France
Here
Adolphe Pedebidou
Upper Pyrenees
American Warehouse Company
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