Trade Party Welcomed on Early Stops
Plainview Texas May 12 Genuine Panhandle hospitality showed as boosters arrived in Canyon and Brownwood on the Sunshine Special. Toney Chisum led the parade with the West Texas Teachers College band, Canyon attorney W J Flesher spoke, and Canyon Mayor O Neil welcomed the party from the courthouse steps. The train paused in Plainview for lunch at 11 35 with a popular college band program.
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Forrest Warren
Amarillo Globe
Plainview
Tex
Panhandle
Boosters
Canyon
Brownwood
Amarillo
West Texas Teachers’ College Band of Thirty Pieces
Toney Chisum
W. J. Flesher
Ernest Thompson
Flesher
Tulsa
O'Neil
Kress
Trippers Display PEP As Train Gets Under Way
Amarillo business leaders boarded a special Santa Fe train at dawn for a trade trip to Brownwood. About eighty dignitaries waved pennants and cheered as the train left, joined later by 35 West Texas Teachers College students in uniforms with band instruments. The group will attend the West Texas Chamber of Commerce convention and aim to bring next year’s gathering to Amarillo, with seven return stops before Friday night arrival.
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Amarillo
Santa Fe
Brownwood
Canyon
West Texas Teachers’ College
Happy
Tulsa
Kress
Plainview
Hale Center
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
J. D. Tinsley
Fair Theater
Amarillo Country Club
Northwest Texas Hospital
P. H. I. T. Club
Bergdoll Claims Buried Gold Still Hidden
Grover Bergdoll, the American draft dodger, asserts he buried 270000 in ten dollar coins during 1917 and says the gold is hidden in the United States. He refuses to reveal exact location and warns it will remain buried unless he retrieves it. He notes the stash is personally valuable and would fund his return to the United States.
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Eberbach
Baden
Grover Bergdoll
United States
States
Fight on Klan to Convention
Washington May 12. Supporters of Sen. Oscar Underwood plan to push the fight against the Ku Klux Klan to the Democratic national convention. Gov. W. W. Brandon of Alabama will present the nomination speech for Underwood and a minority report from the platform committee may be offered if the committee does not adopt a satisfactory plank.
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Washington
Oscar Underwood
Underwood
W. W. Brandon
Alabama
Brandon
Langley Booze Case Hearing Reopens In Covington
Covington Ky May 12 On defense motion the Langley liquor case reopened in court Langley recalled to testify District Attorney asked to call Federal Prohibition Director Collins in rebuttal Langley showed telegrams with Collins from 1921 Collins denied certainty about messages Judge Cochran allowed the move The case closed to resume argument
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Covington
John W. Langley
Langley
Smith
Prohibition
Collins
Cochran
Southern Baptists Begin Advance Meetings in Atlanta
In Atlanta on May 12, hundreds of Baptists from seventeen member states gather for advance conferences before the Southern Baptist convention. Officers and committees of the Woman's Missionary Union meet in preliminary sessions, while the inter-board commission on student activities and a large committee shaping a proposed forward program after the $75,000,000 campaign also convene.
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Atlanta
Southern Baptist Convention
Woman's Missionary Union
Baptist Women of the South
Inter-Board Commission On
Clash After Statue Unveiling in Halle Germany
Berlin reports say fighting erupted after monarchist demonstrations in Halle to unveil the restored Von Moltke monument. General Ludendorff led a fascist march of about 25 000, with many from Bavaria, while eleven communists were said killed in nearby Boelleburg.
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Berlin
Halle
Boelleburg
von Moltke
Ludendorff
Bavaria
Plainview Special to Brownwood Convention Departs
Plainview sends 250 boosters on a five car special at 9:30 a m toward Brownwood. The delegation will reach the convention city by 4 30 p m and will be the first group to arrive. Continued on Page 95.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe
Plainview
Brownwood
Amarillo to Get First Motor Tram System
Frank A. White of Lubbock plans a world first motor tram system in Amarillo with ten one man cars carrying up to ten passengers. Service aims at twenty minutes, cut to ten during rush hours, and a factory for motor bus bodies is to be established.
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Amarillo
Frank A. White
Lubbock
Texas Utilities Company
White
Mr. White
Proposal for Return of Relief Funds Ridiculed
Tokyo officials called a newspaper proposal to return earthquake relief contributions nonsense. The idea aimed to protest the exclusion program in a new U S immigration bill. Officials said it is unthinkable for any responsible statesman to consider such a move.
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Tokio
United States
Smoot Warns Tax Situation Is Serious
Senator Smoot told President Coolidge the government's finances would be dire if the Senate tax bill and pending appropriations become law. He described the situation as serious and gloomy, signaling potential economic strain under the proposed measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Coolidge
Mellon
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Austin policeman sets 31 year Sunday school attendance
James Fariss, night clerk of the Austin police department, has not missed a Sunday school in 31 years and has served 13 years as general secretary. His motto in handling prisoners is Never forget your religion.
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Austin
Tex
James Fariss
Police Department
Agriculture Declared to Be Basic Industry
Washington May 12 The senate adopted a joint resolution declaring agriculture a basic industry and directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to rearrange rates on agricultural products with minimal delay to promote their movement.
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Washington
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bishop Walsh Died in Portland Today
Right Rev. Louis Sebastian Walsh Roman Catholic bishop of Portland died today in Portland Oregon from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 138? The report notes his death in the city and attributes it to a brain bleed.
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Bishop Walsh
Portland
Ore
Louis Sebastian Walsh
Unsettled Tonight With Showers In Forecast
Government forecast says showers tonight probable and partial cloudiness tomorrow. Today’s 1 PM temperature hit 73 degrees with a low of 52. A year ago the day was chilly with highs near 59 and a low of 41.
Virgin Offered Chicago Pulpit Rejected by Amarillo Church
The Rev H W Virgin pastor of First Baptist Amarillo saw his resignation offered yesterday but rejected by a church conference amid applause. He has been called to lead Chicago Ills North Shore Baptist Church in a new $260000 building with about 700 members.
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H. W. Virgin
First Baptist Church of
Amarillo
Virgin
North Shore Baptist Church
Chicago
Ill
Sheridan
Riverroad
A. H. Wilborn
Church In Conference
Italy
Roanoke
Rumor of Count Salm Von Hoogstraeten’s Separation Denied
Paris May 12 Friends of the dashing count Salm Von Hoogstraeten say rumors of his separation from his new countess Millicent Rogers are false. The countess and her father Col H H Rogers sail home on the France while the count remains in Vienna for the Davis Cup tennis event.
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Paris
Salm von Hoogstraeten
Millicent Rogers
New York
Col
H. H. Rogers
France
Vienna
Buncombe
Huge Endowment Fund for Scouts Proposed
St. Louis May 13 Arrangements for a 10,000,000 Boy Scout endowment fund will be made to promote all phases of the Boy Scout program nationwide. A committee of leading bankers, business and professional men led by Clarence H. Howard of St. Louis will conduct the campaign for funds.
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St. Louis
United States
Boy Scouts of America
McAdoo Backers Claim Early NY Convention Lead
David Ladd Rockwell of Chicago, manager for W G McAdoo’s campaign, released a tabulated statement showing McAdoo with 648% of votes in the early New York convention balloting and within 85 votes of the two thirds needed for nomination. He added that seventeen remaining states and territories are known to be favorable to McAdoo.
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Nashville
Tenn
David Ladd Rockwell
Chicago
W. G. McAdoo
McAdoo
New York
Army Flyers Safe Await Next Orders From Alaska Rescue
Maj Frederick L. Martin and Sgt Alva L. Harvey survived ten days missing after their Seattle crashed into a mountain on the Alaska peninsula. They rested at Port Moller awaiting instructions as the coast guard Algonquin headed to Dutch Harbor. The rest of the squadron waits at Attu for favorable weather to press toward Paramushiro.
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Associated Press
False Pass
Alaska
Frederick L. Martin
Alaska Peninsula
Port Moller
United States
Cordova
Army Globe Encircling Air Squadron
Alva L. Harvey
Chignik
Pacific-American Fisheries Company
Coast Guard
Algonquin
Unalaska
Dutch Harbor
Seattle
Attu Island
Bering Sea
Paramashiro Island
Kuriles
Major and Mechanic to Go Directly to Capital
Washington dispatch says Maj Frederick L. Martin and his mechanic Sgt Alva L Harvey will be ordered to Washington direct from Port Moller Alaska after their airship wreck and eleven days missing. They will be assigned temporarily to Army Air Service Headquarters while the world flight team continues under Lieut Lowell H Smith.
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Washington
Frederick L. Martin
Alva L. Harvey
Port Moler
Alaska
Wilds
Army Air Service Headquarters
Lowell H. Smith
Hundreds Homeless as Potomac Floods Again
Cumberland Maryland reports the Potomac and its tributaries at flood stage for a second time in two months. Mechanics street saw water 18 inches deep as floods forced hundreds to flee in Keyser and Piedmont West Virginia. No deaths reported.
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Cumberland
Mechanics Street
Potomac River
Keyser
Piedmont
W. Va
Rum Runner May Surrender After Bay Pursuit
New York May 12 The fastest rum runner on the Atlantic seaboard the May armed with four Liberty airplane engines lies tied up at a police pier after a running battle with four police boats through New York bay and the Fast river. Four men aboard one with a fractured leg. Dozens of wooden boxes were thrown overboard during the chase.
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New York
Atlantic Seaboard
New York Bay
Fast River
Federal Roe
Texans on Stand in Senate Probe
The Senate committees investigating George H. B. Peddy’s Texas senatorial contest heard testimony on excessive campaign expenditures by Mayfield supporters. Witnesses described campaign contributions, oil permit dealings, and alleged influence over railroad commission decisions during Mayfield’s 1922 race.
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Senate
Mayfield
Texas Railroad
Trinity-Brazos Valley Railroad Company
Nickels
Hunter
Senator Neely
West Virginia
Danzigar Brothers
Texas Railroad Commission
Senator Mayfield
Railroad Commission
Allison Mayfield
Mayfields
Panhandle Hardware Dealers Conclave Opens With Large Local Turnout
The fifteenth Panhandle Hardware and Implement Dealers convention opened in Amarillo with 100 plus delegates registered by noon. H B Thompson summarized achievements and prospects, a question box was formed, displays and entertainment lined up, and local merchants showcased bargains.
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Panhandle Hardware and Implement Dealers
H. B. Thompson, Dalhart
Thompson
Panhandle Association
National Retail Hardware Association
W. F. Witt
Roswell
N. M
C. L. Thompson
Canyon
Hanson Post
American Legion
Amarillo Hotel
Board of City Development
Resignations Probable Over Tariff Questions
Washington May 12 A tariff commission controversy over investigations into sugar, vegetable oils, and logs led to talk that President Coolidge may intervene and resignations could occur before the summer vacation adjournment.
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Washington
Tariff Commission
Coolidge
Mother and Four Children Die in Maine Home Fire
Milinocket Maine May 12 Mrs John Bragan and four of her six children were burned to death when their home burned today.
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Milinocket
Maine
John Bragan
Anti German Parades Staged Across Russia
Moscow reports anti German demonstrations across Russia with workmen students and government employees marching with banners denouncing Germany. Demonstrators moved toward the German embassy in Moscow singing revolutionary songs and protesting the Berlin raid on the Soviet trade mission while troops kept them at a distance.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Russia
Berlin
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Bergdoll
Southern Baptists IN Convention
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Lubbock Man
Count
M’adoo
Rockwell
Martin
The
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Ferdinand Schulz
Rossillon
Pelletier Doisy
Saigon
Cochin- China
Bangkok
Siam
Potomac
Daily Globe
Pep Eacie
Ranner
Luther Nickels
Peddy
Boone
Hardware
H. B. Thompson
Dalhart
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