Campaign 10 Enroll Trade Trippers for Amarillo Trip
A 24 member committee in Amarillo aims to enroll at least 100 merchants for a Brownwood trip next week. The $45 fare covers all accessories, with lists closing tomorrow afternoon. Trippers depart Monday and return Friday visiting 13 towns including Brownwood for a West Texas Chamber of Commerce convention. Lubbock and Plainview already have merchants signed for large trains.
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Amarillo
Brownwood
Col
E. O. Thompson
Trade Extension Committee
Board of City Development
Colonel Thompson
O. V. Vernon
West Texas
Universal Business Code Before Chamber Session
The universal code of business ethics outlining honesty and fair dealing was discussed at the United States Chamber of Commerce annual convention in Cleveland. The code aims for universal application as the moral foundation of successful enterprises. General sessions begin tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Cleveland, O
United States Chamber of Commerce
Capita National Bank to Merge to Protect Depositors
In St Paul on May 5 the boards of Merchant's National Bank and Capital National Bank voted to merge to safeguard Capitol National Bank depositors. The Capital Trust and Savings Bank in the same building was closed earlier for frozen assets, triggering a run on Capitol National despite no financial link between them.
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St. Paul
Capitol National Bank of St
Capital National
Capital Trust and Savings Bank
State Superintendent of Banks
Capital Trust
Plow Company Manager Found Dead in Beaumont
James M. Green district manager for the J I Case Plow Works and Threshing Machine Co was found dead in a Beaumont hotel room Sunday night. A coroner ruled natural causes as the cause of death and a half written note to his wife was found nearby.
Signer of Texas Constitution Webster Flanagan Found Dead
Henderson Texas May 5 General Webster Flanagan a signer of the Texas Constitution and known in national politics was found dead at his home this morning. He was 93 years old.
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Henderson
Tex
Webster Flanagan
Butler Faces Student Crisis Over Dry Law Attack
New York May 5. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler has received about 10 000 letters and 2 300 telegrams since his speech attacking the eighteenth amendment. Columbia undergraduates divide, with many parents demanding their children leave if he does not retract. Clergymen send favorable and critical notices, while student supporters defend Butler saying most students back his critique of prohibition.
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New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
Dr. Butler
Forces Unite in Rail Bill Fight
Washington May 5 The house moved to discharge the commerce committee from the Barkley bill to abolish the railroad labor board and create four wage adjustment boards. Democrats and Republican insurgents unite to push action as leaders prepare for a floor fight and a test of strength on railroad legislation.
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Washington
House Today
Commerce Committee
Barkley
Railroad Labor Board
Paonen
House
Representative Barkley
Kentucky
Conmerce
Heve
Transit Privileges On Grain Shipment Delayed
A tariff eliminating transit privileges on grain from the Rock Island route in Texas has been suspended until August 80. A Fort Worth hearing is expected within thirty days with the West Texas Chamber of Commerce traffic department likely to participate.
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Texas Industrial Traffic League
Rock Island
Texas
Fort Worth
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Chinese Protest Over Exclusion by Japan
A delegation from the Chinese Association of Tokio met Foreign Minister Matsui in Tokyo on May 5 to present a memorial protesting Japan’s exclusion of Chinese. The group urged Japan to extend the same consideration it seeks from the United States.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Chinese Association of Tokio
Matsui
Japan
United States
England Feels Quake Echoes Derbyshire Fears
London observed seven minutes of shocks with intensity matching the Derbyshire coal field quakes of April 4. The tremors were recorded on the seismograph at the West Bromwich Observatory last night.
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England
London
Derbyshire
West Bromwich Observatory
Former senator dies in Poland Oregon
Frederick William Mulkey a former United States senator from Oregon aged fifty died at his home in Poland Oregon yesterday.
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Poland
Ore
Frederick William Mulkey
United States
Ore Se
Yesteray
Charge Step by Daugherty in Rail Case
Former Attorney General Daugherty allegedly intervened in New England railroad litigation to shield the New Haven line from anti trust law, according to Conrad W. Crocker who represents 2500 Boston and Maine minority stockholders. Also details of Groomes and Ulrich Company dissolution and asset transfer to 130 Chicago citizens were described, with Williams defending legality. Wheeler pressed witnesses but failed to prove knowledge of stock buyers intent.
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Washington
Daugherty
New England
Senate
New Haven
Conrad W. Crocker
Boston
Maine
Department of Justice
Groomes and Ulrich Company
Chicago
Charles A. Williams
Concern
G A R Commander Urges Overriding Coolidge Veto
Gaylord M. Saltzberger, Grand Army of the Republic commander in chief, telegraphed senators to override President Coolidge's veto of the Bursum pension bill. He called the veto cruel and unjust and said veterans who saved the nation are being turned from aid.
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Washington
Coolidge
Gaylord M. Saltzberger
Grand Army of the Republic
McAdoo Wires Thanks for Endorsement in Texas
W H Fuqua, a close Texas friend of William G McAdoo, received a telegram from McAdoo at his Los Angeles home Sunday noon. The message thanked Texans for the strong endorsement at Saturday's precinct primaries and claimed the voters repudiated Gov Pat Neff and his supporters in an unclean campaign.
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W. H. Fuqua
William G. McAdoo
Texas
McAdoo
Mr. McAdoo
Los Angeles
Mr McAdoo
Pat Neff
Oil firms spend millions on pump equipment in Texas
Austin May 5 Oil companies in Texas are spending millions on pump equipment for retail dealers to meet competition in the Texas Gulf Refining case. O H Carlisle assistant sales manager testified Gulf had contracts to install more than 7009 pumps with costs ranging from $255 to $800 each as part of activity under scrutiny in the state antitrust suit.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Gulf Refining Company
O. Hi. Carlisle
Gulf Company
Police Kill Thirty One Dogs at City Pound
The police this morning killed thirty one dogs at the city pound. The animals had been caught last week by the city dog catcher and most had waited seventy two hours for rightful owners to claim them by paying pound and license fees. The usual keeping period is forty eight hours.
Amarillo Forecast Calls for Partly Cloudy Tonight
Tonight and Tuesday will be partly cloudy in Amarillo per the official forecast issued this afternoon. The afternoon high reached 79 degrees with a low of 51 degrees. A year ago the high was 72 and the low 47.
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Amarillo
Democratic Tax Passes Senate
The Democratic income tax schedule was approved in the senate with a 43 to 40 vote. It sets a maximum surtax rate of 40 percent and a 50 percent cut in normal taxes on incomes under 8 000 dollars. Seven Republican insurgents joined 35 Democrats and one Farmer-Labor senator in supporting the substitute. Bruce of Maryland and Edwards of New Jersey voted against it.
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Farmer-Labor
Bruce
Maryland
Edwards
New Jersey
Trapper Reports Plane Believed Martin's Over Behring Sea
On Lake Chignik a trapper saw an aircraft believed to be Maj. Frederick L. Martin's missing plane. A second group of natives departed Chignik toward the Behring Sea and has not returned. Simultaneously planes Chicago New Orleans and Boston at Atka Island prepared to fly to Attu Island, 630 miles away.
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Associated Press
Cordova
Chignik
Frederick L. Martin
American World Flight Squadron
Behring Sea
Coast Guard
Algonquin
Chicago
New Orleans
Boston
Atka Island
Attu Island
Grading of Auditorium Grounds to Start This Week
City manager Jeff Bartlett announced grading of the Municipal auditorium grounds will begin this week as crews dress the city park. Roadways are being graded grass mowed and weeds cleared. Park lights are on for the season and evening strolls are popular.
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Municipa Auditorium
Jeff Bartlett
Women discuss world peace and good will
Washington May 5 Psychological aspects of a new international order were discussed by numerous speakers in today session of the Women s International League for Peace and Freedom. Mrs Anita Augspaugh of Germany Miss Andre J Dave of France Mrs Templeton Johnson United States delivered opening speeches holding universal peace good will and cooperation would fulfill the spirit of Christianity and bring about a moral uplift of mankind. Lady Annesley of England Gertrude Worker of Switzerland and Mrs Edith Walsh Worth of Australia also discussed the subject.
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Washington
Women’s International League For Peace and Freedom
Anita Augspaugh
Germany
Andre J. Dave
France
Templeton-Johnson
Unit States
Annesley
England
Gertrude Worker
Switzerland
Edith Walsh Worth
Australia
Judge L. L. Mott Visits Amarillo On Bank Business
Judge L. L. Mott, director of the Federal Land Bank of Dallas, is in Amarillo today on official bank business.
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L. L. Mott
Federal Land Bank of Dallas
Amarillo
State College to broadcast rattlesnake signals next week
The State College radio station will air a rattlesnake broadcast next Wednesday night. Rattlesnakes will be placed in a wide cage at the W. P. A. B. station to emit their warning signals for listeners.
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State College
Penna
Texans unite against McAdoo in Democratic races
W B Lea Texas maneuverer for Sen Underwood predicts all opposition to McAdoo will cohere at county conventions and the May 27 state gathering. He says McAdoo claims are misleading, noting precinct totals differ from delegates and that many counties remain uninstructed.
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Underwood
Associated Press
Dallas
Texas
William G. McAdoo
W. B. Lea
Oscar Underwood
Lea
McAdoo
Vi Ory
Methodists Would Lift Worldly Amusement Ban
Springfield Mass May 5 The address of the Methodist Episcopal Church bishops to the quadrennial general conference urges lifting the worldly amusements ban as it has not corrected the evils named. Only those amusements that cannot be enjoyed in the name of Jesus Christ should be barred. The bishops note grave worldliness and say prior methods were ineffective and an embarrassment to pastors.
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Springfield
Mass
Methodist Episcopal Church
Board of Bishops
General Conference of the Church
Jesus Christ
Oklahoma Woman and Infant Found Slain
In Durant Oklahoma Mrs Phoine Gravitt and her four month old child were found murdered in their Kenefic home with their heads beaten. A bloody stove poker lay nearby. Authorities arrested Gravitt as he slept in a dry river bed and filed murder charges after a sanity board ruled him harmless.
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Durant
Okla
Philean Gravitt
Kenefic
Here
Gravitt
Sanity Board
Fair Board Subscribers Urged to Mail Payments Now
Amarillo readers are reminded that many subscribers to Amarillo fair bonds have not made their second payments. O. V. Vernon, secretary of the Board of City Development, asks subscribers to mail checks immediately to him. Some are delinquent on first payments and urged to settle both payments at once.
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Amarillo Fair
O. V. Vernon
Board of City Development
Vernon
Cole to Address M’lean Chamber on West Texas Work
S. J. Cole, manager of the traffic bureau for the Board of City Development and district manager of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, will speak tonight before the Chamber of Commerce of Mgtean Texa on the work of the West Texas organization.
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S. J. Cole
Board of City Development
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Mgtean Texa
West Texas
Argentine Pension Law Sparks Capital and Labor Strikes
In Buenos Aires on May 5 both capital and labor struck to demand postponement of the pension law. A presidential message to Congress outlined enforcement with amendments: set 30 years as the pension eligibility, pension for incapacitated workers after 15 years, return contributions for leaving workers and married women, reduce rate for wages under 100 pesos, and make contributions optional.
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Buenos Aires
de Alvear
Congress
Seeds and Pigs on Sale List at Municipal Auditorium
Farm sale entries include livestock household goods and farm machinery such as cream separators horse drawn wheel hoe galvanized wagon tank iron bed hogs gates ice cream freezer fresh cow bull oil stove and seeds. Auction tomorrow afternoon with entertainment and farmer topics. expected to be county’s largest sale of its kind.
Senate Moves to Fast Track Farm Relief Legislation
Senate Republicans agree to fast track farm relief after tax and appropriation bills. Night sessions to begin tomorrow to speed the program ahead of adjournment before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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Washington
Senate
Cleveland
Proposed Freight Rate Revision Postponed by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a suspension of a proposed rate revision on iron and steel, meats, packing house products and other commodities in the Southwest until September 2, 1924. The plan, prepared by railroads, would have adjusted rates with some reductions and some increases for Arkansas, Oklahoma, Southern Missouri, Texas and Western Louisiana.
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Washington
Southwest
Interstate Commerce Commission
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Texas
Louisiana
Coolidge and Creager Win Republican Nomination
Dallas May 5 President Calvin Coolidge was endorsed as the Republican nominee for president and R B Creager of Brownsville as the nominee for vice president in the Republican precinct convention held over the state. S Bailey, as rector of the Republican organization announced today. Coolidge and Creager were in honor by every precinct, he said.
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Dallas
Calvin Coolidge
Pesident
R. B. Creager
Brownsville
S. Bailey
Reputican
Coolidge
Creager
Zayas assures on return from rebel zone in Cuba
President Zayas spoke last night to residents in Santa Clara Province after a small affair in the rebel region near Cienfuegos and Trin. He reassured the public as he returned from the affected zone and emphasized order and stability.
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Savannah
Cienfuegos
Trindid
Santa Clara
Zayas
Waco to get 8 delegates from Potter county convention
One hundred three delegates chosen at nine precinct conventions meet in the Potter county Democratic convention at 2 PM to select eight Potter county delegates to the state convention in Waco on May 26. Most are instructed to back William Gibbs McAdoo as Democratic presidential candidate, with only Precinct No 9 and two rural precincts sending uninstructed delegates.
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William Gibbs McAdoo
Potter County
Waco
New York
McAdoo
No. 9
City undertakes annual weed crop fight in Amarillo
A ten man crew began work this morning to clear weeds from city property along roadways and alleys in Amarillo. Officials urge property owners to clear weeds from their land now, with the city focusing on roadways, alleys, and municipal areas to prevent seeding.
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Amarillo
Buchanan Street
Red Cross Officers Elected by Gendarmes in Cracow
In Cracow on May 5 twenty four duels occurred between gendarmes and civilian Red Cross members over the annual officers election. The gendarme regiment entered the hall and elected an all gendarme ticket causing protests. No fatalities occurred.
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Cracow
Poland
Fire Destroys Fifteen Tank Cars at Abney's Switch
In Marshall Texas on May 5 fifteen tanker cars filled with gasoline burned after a derailment at Abney's Switch near Marshall. The blaze halted Texas and Pacific Railway traffic and cut line communications westward. No injuries reported.
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Marshall
Tex
Abney’s Switch
Texas and Pacific Railroad
Wife of Reparations Meet Observer Dies
Beverley Massachusetts May 5 Mrs Kate Whitney Boyden wife of Roland W Boyden who served as unofficial United States observer with the reparations commission died at her home today.
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Beverley
Mass
Kate Whitney
Boyden
Roland W. Boyden
United States
Reparation Commission
Conference Deadlock Looms Over Debt Recognition
London May 5 The Daily Herald labels J J O Neil declaration that the Anglo Russian conference deadlocked over debt recognition as pernicious nonsense. O Neil is a national liberal. The Lancaster Saturday declaration prompted the reaction in press comment.
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London
Daily Herald
Lancaster
J. J. O’neil
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