Trade Jaunt To Brownwood Convention Starts Tomorrow
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce trade trip will depart at 10 AM aboard a Santa Fe train. The butcher the baker and the candlestick maker lead a delegation of local businesspeople wearing yellow and black and white hats. Stops include Canyon Happy Tulia Kress Plainview Hale Center Abernathy and a six hour Brownwood stay before returning.
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Brownwood
West Texas
Canyon
West Texas State Teachers’ College
Happy
Tulia
Kress
Plainview
Hale Center
Abernathy
Ditto
Lubbock
Helmleigh
Snyder
Justiceburg
Post
Southland
Slaton
Polk Street
Amarillo
Trade trip participants and their roles list
A roster of Amarillo professionals set for a trade trip includes W. M. Adams clothier at 408 Polk, C. M. Humphrys bank cashier at 400 Polk, Emil F. Myers director of Amarillo College of Music at 1003 Polk, J. L. Nunn and David M. Warren newspapermen at 600 Fillmore, P. H. Buthker florist at 419 Polk, Paul Driscoll Amarillo Gas at 301 Taylor, Forrest Warren newspaperman of The Amarillo Globe at 110 East Fifth, B. E. Hardin hardware president at multiple Polk and Tyler addresses, Col. EK Thompson hotel attorney and trade extension chair at 800-10 Polk, and A. H. Ware of Amarillona.
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W. M. Adams
Adams & Parr
Polk Street
Clothiers
M. Humphrys
Amarillo Bank and Trust Company
Polk Street—Bank
Emil F. Myers
Amarillo College of Music
J. L. Nunn
David M. Warren
Amarillo Daily News
Fillmore Street
P. H. Buthker
Amarillo Florists
Paul Driscoll
Amarillo Gas Company
Taylor Street
Forrest Warren
Amarillo Globe
East Fifth Street
BE. W. Hardin
Amarillo Hardware Company
West Fifth Street
Tyler Street
Col. EK. O. Thompson
Amarillo Hotel
Board of City Development Trade Extension Committee
A. H. Ware
Amarillona
Young Millionaire Flees After Auto Crash Charge
Winfield Scott Jr a Fort Worth heir faces a charge of failing to stop after an auto crash in Dallas. He fled on the Texas Special toward St. Louis where police were alerted to arrest him on arrival Sunday morning. A man named W. C. Witt had filed the complaint alleging Scott wrecked Witt’s car following a quarrel over a woman. Scott had tickets for New York City.
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Dallas
Tex
Winfield Scott, Jr
Fort Worth
St. Louis
Scott
New York City
W. C. Witt
Plans for National Boys' Week in Amarillo
Rotary club shapes a National Boys' Week program in Amarillo from May 19 with speakers L L McDonald and J P Fitch. Boys' Day in schools on May 20. sermons urged toward boys for the week. Boys' Day in church, industry, and entertainment on later days. field day finale with open-air games and stunts.
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Amarillo
Rotary Club
L. L. McDonald
Boy Scouts
J. P. Fitch
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Rotary Club Rotary
Tomrrow
Kansas Court Allows Warrantless Liquor Searches
The Kansas Supreme Court upheld searches without warrants in two rulings. Officers may search private premises for liquor, contradicting a U S Supreme Court interpretation. The court said the federal rule applies only to federal cases.
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Topeka
Kansas Supreme Court
United State Supreme Court
Kansas
Legion Meeting Set For Tuesday Night
The Han son post of the American Legion will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday night in the legion home located in the wing of the Municipal Auditorium.
Heiress Millicent Rogers Freed by $100000 Deal
Millicent Rogers gains freedom from Austrian husband after her father Col. H. H. Rogers and an elderly Salm relative arrange a $100000 payment to Count Salm. Millicent and her father sail for the United States aboard La France, traveling as father and daughter with the husband leaving for Vienna.
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Paris
Millicent Rogers
Salm
Col. H. H. Rogers
Vienna
Millicent
United States
Rogers
Champs Elysee Hotel
Lotti
New York
Ludwig Salm von Hoogestraten
le Havre
la France
Unsettled Cloudy Weather Forecast With Cooler Temperatures
The forecast from the government weather bureau says unsettled and somewhat cloudy conditions today. Yesterday was cool with temperatures in the fifties, a contrast to last year when the mercury reached 88 and 64 was the low.
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Government Weather Bureau
Mercury
Methodist Church Moves to Ban Cigarettes
Springfield Mass May 10 Action to stop sale and use of cigarettes in the United States will be started soon by the Methodist Episcopal church if a resolution adopted by the general conference here is approved. The resolution asks for legislation to abate the cigarette nuisance and protests hiring smokers on church faculties.
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Springfield
Mass
United States
Methodist Episcopal Church
General Conference
Committee On
Temperance
Methodist Church
Federal Jobs BURNS Calls Rotten in Resignation
William J. Burns retired director of the FBI denounces federal employment as the worst, saying he is done and that government work leaves him damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. He gestures at newspapers that mock his resignation.
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William J. Burns
Washington
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justce
Girl Killed as Car Upsets Near Kansas City Highway
Pauline Ruby, 19, of Kansas City was killed and two others injured when a car driven by Ruby turned turtle on the Kansas City Excelsior Springs highway. The injured are William H. Duvall and Harold Beacon, both of Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Pauline Ruby
Ruby
Kansas City-Excelsior Springs
William H. Duvall
Harold Beacon
Student Emmett Cotte kills self in Kirksville
Emmett Cotte a vocational student at the American School of Osteopathy Kirksville shot himself late today authorities said he was despondent after his wife left him.
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Kirksville, Mo
Emmett Cotte
American School of Osteopathy
Cotte
Mayfield plans to take stand in election probe
Senator Earle B. Mayfield of Texas will testify to refute both R L Henry and Mike McNamara before the senate committee investigating his election. Henry claimed a Texas Klan double cross and big campaign funds. McNamara cited an eighty thousand dollar spend. A subpoena to J E McQuinn was issued to bring Klan accounts. Report notes growing spectator interest as hearings draw crowds in Washington.
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Washington
Earle B. Mayfield
Texas
Senate
R. L. Henry
Houston
Erwin J. Clark
Mayfield
Henry
McNamara
J. E. McQuinn
Imperial Palace of the Klan
Atlanta Ga
George E. B. Peddy
Mothers Honor All Nation Day Observed in Amarillo
In Amarillo and worldwide Mother's Day is celebrated with sermons prayers songs and poems. The Baraca class program for Hanson post at the Mission theater begins at 9:80 this morning, while window displays and a Friday luncheon by the American Business club mark the observance.
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Mother
Amarillo
Congress
Baraca
Baptist Church
Hanson Post
American Legion
Mission Theater
American Business Club
Navy ratio falls behind Britain under arms treaty
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt told the house naval committee that the U S fleet stands at about four to five against Britain under the naval limitation treaty. He noted that base locations and equipment offset this ratio, and Japan’s strength remains a factor.
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Washington
House Naval Committee
Roosevelt
Great Brittain
Japan
United States
Runaway Memphis Lad Held By Local Police
A 15 year old boy named Howard Hanna from Memphis Texas wandered about along Polk street before a patrolman stopped him and took him to the police station. Juvenile officer Mrs Jessie N Ross notified his foster parents to arrange transportation home.
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Howard Hanna
Memphis
Tex
Howard
Polk Street
Jessie N. Ross
Three A and M students plead not guilty in Hodges slaying
In Stillwater Oklahoma on May 10 three Oklahoma A and M College students pleaded not guilty to murder and riot charges after a grand jury indictment regarding the February slaying of Mrs Mathilda Hodges. A stray bullet from their target practice rifle caused the death.
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Stillwater
Okla
A. & M. College
Mathilda Hodges
Legion Officials Urge Bible Class Attendance
J. C. Sebastain, commander, and H. V. Elkins, adjutant, of the Hanson post of the American Legion, urged post members to accept the Baraca class invitation to the special Mother's day exercises at 9:30 this morning at the Mission theater.
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J. C. Sebastain
H. V. Elkins
Hanson
American Legion
Baraca
Baptist Church
Mission Theater
Underworld hunted after Chicago mail truck robbery
Chicago May 10. A house to house search of Chicago’s underworld is under way to find three bandits who fled with four sacks of registered mail containing 35000 dollars from the Indiana Harbor Ind post office. Postoffice inspector A E Germer says the raiders may be tied to a recent 100000 dollar bank robbery in socrete Ill. Harry Pierson a truck driver and four postal clerks were about to move the mail when the trio drove up drew revolvers took the sacks and headed toward Chicago.
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Chicago
Indiana Harbor
Ind
Postoffice
A. E. Germer
Socrete
Harry Pierson
Old Germany to Reign at Unveiling of Statue
Halle Germany May 10 The old Germany marchers monarchists fascists and nationalists converge on Halle for the dedication of the Von Moltke statue. Police guard the city as field marshal von Hindenburg and generals Ludendorff arrive joining the imperial army leaders in the 1914 search for Der Tag.
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United Press
Halle
Germany
General von Moltke
von Moltke
von Hindenburg
Ludendorff
der Tag
Oklahoman Town Ravaged by Fire Destroys Main Business District
Quay Oklahoma residents report nearly all business district buildings burned as a major fire destroyed a dozen structures. Origin undetermined, blaze began in an upper floor of a vacant building, with property damage estimated between 25000 and 40000 dollars.
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Quay
Okla
Action on Farmer Relief Assured By Congress Leaders
Washington May 10 Farm relief legislation was guaranteed this session as House and Senate leaders agreed to give the McNary-Haugen bill full consideration in both houses before adjournment It will be the next bill on the program The measure calls for a 200000000 drain on the treasury to finance a marketing corporation but passage is not assured in its present form
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Washington
House
Senate
Treasury
Police Begin War on City Loafers
Police and sheriff's deputies met to crack down on habitual loafers with no visible means of support. They ordered several to find work within a few days or face removal from town or vagrancy charges. Eighteen attendees included police, deputies, and officers.
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Sheriff's Force
Clark Cain
Cain
Les Whittaker
Crowd mob attacks agents during liquor raid scene
In Thornton Illinois a crowd of about 500 mobbed 20 federal dry agents late today to stop liquor destruction from a road house raid. Agents fought back with guns drawn while others dumped whiskey and beer into the street amid the confrontation.
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Chicago
Thornton
Ils
Here
Chickens Prohibited From Running at Large in City
Judge A. L. Anderson levied a $5 fine on a local chicken owner after neighbors complained several fowls roamed their premises. Police warn that permitting chickens to run at large is an offense within city limits and subject to punishment.
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Sean
Spring Gardens
A. L. Anderson
Two Suspects Held in Slaying of Daisy Ashby
In Keyetesville Missouri warrants charge Fred Hager and William Dewitt with first degree murder in the death of 14 year old Daisy Ashby. James Donaldson testified he saw Hagar with the girl the night she disappeared. Dewitt's link to Hagar noted. both claim innocence and avoid February 2 whereabouts.
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Keyetesville
Fred Hager
William Dewitt
Daisy Ashby
James Donaldson
Hagar
Dewitt
Senate Approves 490 Million Dollar Tax Reduction Bill
The senate adopted a tax bill to cut the nation's levy by 490 million dollars next year. It would give a 25 percent income tax cut on 1923 incomes, with a 2 4 6 tax schedule and exemptions of 1000 for single and 2500 for married filers. The measure faces White House action, with supporters arguing the president will sign.
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Washington
Senate
Mah Jong
Crisis on Exclusion Sparks U S Japan Policy Debate
Washington May 10 A real crisis over American future relations with Japan and possibly Secretary of State Hughes arises from the Japanese immigration exclusion controversy. Officials close to President Coolidge fear the exclusion measure may be set to apply July 1 after swift senate and house conferees agree on the date.
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Washington
America
Japan
Hughes
Coolidge
Congress
Senate
House
Youth in Palestine Held on Fatal Child Attack Charge
May 10 reporting that 7 year old Robert Lee Kelly, a Black boy, is held by Palestine authorities on a serious charge involving a 2 year old Black girl. Police say the boy struck the infant while she slept with a double barreled public safety item.
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Palestine
Tex
Robert Lee Kelly
La Follette Endorsed by Oklahoma Farmer Labor Convention
Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin received the presidential endorsement from Oklahoma’s state farmer labor convention which closed a two day session in Oklahoma City. The gathering announced its support for LaFollette.
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Oklahoma City
Robert M. LaFollette
Wisconsin
Farmer-Labor Convention
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