Police Nab Suspects in Panhandle Theft Ring
Police arrest Charlie Chambers and Frank Morris, alleged masterminds of a crime ring across Panhandle Oklahoma New Mexico. Loot valued at hundreds recovered. Amarillo believed headquar ters hub. Chambers tied to Winslow Dry Goods theft. Morris held for related ruses.
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Charlie Chambers
Snyder
Tex
Frank Morris
Amarillo
Canadian
Panhandle
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Chambers
Clark Cain
H. H. Stickley
Hemphill County
Winslow
Morris
Fred Rogers
Mamie Rogers
Ideal Hotel
First
Polk Streets
Rogers
Fargo
Okla
Midnight Matinee Canceled in Amarillo by Club Women
Amarillo clubwomen requested cancellation of a 12:01 AM showing of Mademoiselle Midnight at the Mission theater. Ross Rogers, manager, halted the midnight matinee despite hundreds spent on advertising after a committee conference cited Sabbath violation concerns.
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May Murray
Amarillo
Ross Rogers
Mission Theater
Mission of
Mademoiselle Midnight
Miss Murray
Big Sam
Woman dies and 27 hurt in interurban collision
An interurban train crash on a sharp Lowell curve kills Mrs. W. A. Wyatt of Baxter Springs and injures 27 passengers, seven fatally. Seriously hurt include motorman Charles Jap of Webb City and several Baxter Springs and Joplin residents among others.
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Score
United Press
Lowell
Kan
W. A. Wyatt
Baxter Springs
Charles Jap
Webb City
Buck
Joplin
Roland Castill
Roland
Pincher
Okla
Mag- Jackson
Colored
Rotary to Stage Boys' Week Here
The Rotary club of Amarillo will sponsor a week of boys activities from May 18 to May 26. The aim is to focus public attention on boys as tomorrow’s citizens, promote cooperation among home, school, church and youth groups, and encourage equal opportunities for all boys regardless of background. Community organizations are urged to cooperate during the coordinated program aligned with the local Boy Scout council meeting.
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Rotary Club of
Amarillo
Boy Scout Council
Crews Fight Missouri River Cut to Save Land
Harmony Missouri May 8 Crews of workmen battled to prevent the Missouri River from cutting a new channel endangering two bridges and farmland valued at about two million dollars. Glasgow could be isolated if the channel forms severing thousands of Saline county acres. Embankments were built and reinforcements discussed as the river receded but the swift current continued eroding improvised dykes.
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Harmony
Glasgow
Saline
German Industrialists Oppose Dawes Young Plan in Poll Drive
Berlin reports that leading German industrialists reject the Dawes Young report as a basis for reparations, despite the league of German industries backing it. Geihmratt Hugenburg campaigns against the plan for the Nationalist party while elections approach. General Eric Ludendorff, recently acquitted, is a noted figure in the campaign.
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Berlin
Dawes- Young
League of German Industries
Geihmratt Hugenburg
Dawes-Young
Marx
Germany
Eric Ludendorff
Munich
Weeks to act on munitions sale to Cuban government
Secretary of War Weeks will act upon a request for munitions and war material to be sold to President Zayas by the American government. Washington awaits developments in the incipient revolt as the state department maintains passive support for the Zayas administration. Secretary Hughes hopes for an early settlement of the difficulties. Havana reports reassurance over the military situation denying rumors of fresh rebel outbreaks in Santa Clara province.
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Washington
Zayas
State Department
Hughes
Havana
Cuba
Santa Clara
Fire damages West Hobomac with cotton cargo in New Orleans
Fire of unknown origin broke out in the hold of the steamship West Hobomac anchored in New Orleans harbor. Damage is estimated at $250,000 to the vessel and its cargo of 1,500 bales of cotton and 18 car loads of lumber.
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New Orleans
West Hobomac
Weather Forecast: Fair Skies With Light Cloudiness
The official forecast notes generally fair today with little cloudiness. Yesterday’s high reached the upper seventy degree range and the low was 46 degrees, with last year at 76/74.
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Government Weather Bureau
Russian Envoy to Germany Departs After Police Raid
Berlin May 3 Russian Ambassador Krestinsky left for Moscow after German police raided the Soviet trade delegation building. He said the action violated international law and diplomatic procedure and ordered the headquarters closed. Over a hundred people were arrested as police pursued a fugitive who slipped inside seeking coffee.
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Germany
Berlin
Krestinsky
Moscow
Foreign Office
Brookhart Moves to Charge Daugherty in Probe
Senate committee chair Brookhart directs a preliminary report and a resolution to urge Attorney General Stone to bring criminal action against former Attorney General Daugherty. The plan follows Daugherty's bid to halt the investigation of the Justice Department.
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Washington
Daugherty
Sen
Smith W. Brookhart
Senate
Stone
Brookhart
McCormick to Seek Recount in Illinois Senate Vote
Sen Medill Mc Cormick announced a recount request of the Illinois Republican primary results. Official tallies show former governor Charles S Deneen defeating McCormick by 5594 votes.
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Chicago
Medill McCormick
Illinois
Charles S. Deneen
McCormick
Lucerne to Add Ninety Six Suites in New Units
Plans for three new four story units at 1105 Polk Street will add ninety six suites to the Lucerne building. Construction to start once plans are prepared and finish within the year. Dr D Roach owner bought the adjacent 120 foot site from Central Presbyterian church.
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Lucerne
Polk Street
D. Roach
Central Presbyterian Church
Partisan Debate Marks First Action On surtax
Washington May 38 The senate opened the tax bill by debating surtax rates with partisan lines. Democrats push their schedules while Republicans defend Mellon rates. A vote on this section is expected by mid next week. Senator Simmons denounced Secretary Mellon as attempting political favors to business. Senator McLean defended the Mellon rates.
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Washington
Senate
Simmons
North Carolina
Mellon
P& Business
Coolidge Faces First Test Over Vetoed Pension Measure
President Coolidge returns the Bursum pension bill to Congress without approval saying it is an unwarranted expenditure of taxpayers money. The veto sets up the first confrontation with the new session as lawmakers weigh the measure.
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Washington
Coolidge
Congress
Capitol
Buick roadster found burned on highway east of Farwell
Palmer sheriff's office investigates after a Buick roadster with a Kansas license plate is found partially destroyed by fire twelve miles east of Farwell Texas. Authorities pursue leads in the case.
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Farwell
Tex
Sheriff’s Office
Palmer
Here
Kansas
Martin Resolves Into Battle With Elements
Cordova Alaska May 8 United Press reports Maj Frederick Martin missing leader of the around the world flight and his mechanician Segt Alva Harvey have entered a dogged search against arctic wastes. Six expeditions had found no trace while coast guard cutters and a survey ship covered the likely course. Indians spoke of a great winged bird passing near their village as a possible sign and a dog sled party was sent from Chignik to follow the inland path.
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United Press
Cordova
Alaska
Maj
Frederick Martin
Martin
Segt
Alva Harvey
Chignik
Dutch Harbor
Alaskan Peninsula
Coast Guard
Algonquin
Haida
Pioneer
Behring Sea
Lowell Smith
Erik Nelson
Leigh Wade
Nazan
Atka
Chicagoff
Attua
McAdoo Wins Texas Precinct Delegates Amid Split Choices
Texas voters report McAdoo leading the Democratic race with rural precincts backing him and Dallas county counting early returns. Uninstructed delegates and pro McAdoo blocs sweep many county conventions as laborious delegate battles unfold ahead of the May 27 state conventions and the New York national gathering.
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Dallas
Tex
William Gibbs McAdoo
Oscar Underwood
Neff
Coolidge
McAdoo
Houston
Oscar
Wood
Cato Sells
Texas
New York
Underwood
Hearne, Tex
Robertson County
Earle B. Mayfield
Dalhart, Tex
Dalhart
William G. McAdoo
Potter County
Waco
Fast Side School
John Stidger
France Takes Lead in Around World Flights
Paris May 3 France led four nations in long distance air efforts as Lieut Palletier D Oisy reached Agra India in the Breguet plane on a Paris to Tokyo attempt He flew about 800 miles from Karachi to Agra without a stop and plans another leg to Calcutta tomorrow in the ongoing race.
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Paris
France
Palletier D’oisy
Breguet
Tokio
Agra
India
D’oisy
Karachi
Calcutta
Striking Southwestern Miners to Resume Work
Kansas City Missouri May 3 Forty thousand coal miners in the southwest will return to work Monday morning a joint committee of mine union officials and operators announced here tonight Old wage agreements expired April 1 are reported renewed The decision ends three weeks of negotiations fraught with disension
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Kansas City
Southwest
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Moris
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Ain
Lincoln Street
Ernest Hughes
Olice
Fargo Roberies
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Metro Picture Corporation
Rotary
Weeks
Department of Justice
McLean
Connecticut
Finance Committee
Maddo
State
Treasury
Claude
Armstrong County
Willliam G. McAdoo
Lubbock
Lubbock County
Slaton
Gatesville
Coryell County
Court House
Ninth Precinct
Sixteenth Street
Ray Johnson
E. O. Worth
M. W. Cunningham W
B. J. Witt
Perry S. Pearson
J. R. Wrather
John Griffin
Henry Airheart
Howard Trigg
City Hall
J. D. Cazzell
O. V. Vernon
H. G. Hamrick
Grover Hill
A. B. Jones
Alvin M. Owsley
Col
FE. C. Thompson
Medion
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Farle B. Mayfield
Braselton Lumber Yard
Fred Cornelius
United States
Southwestern
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