Amarillo Bids for 1930 Women’s Meet at Texas Conference
Temple hosts Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs convention with 200 delegates. Election and banquet honor National president Miss L M Phillips of New York. Miss D H Leake of Temple declines re election. Miss M J Higgins of Fort Worth is named as likely successor. Amarillo Brownsville and San Antonio bid to host the next gathering.
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Associated Press
Temple
Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
L. M. Phillips
New York
D. H. Leake
M. J. Higgins
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Brownsville
San Antonio
Private power debate and moral musings on consumption
The article argues for privatized power versus nationalized systems citing Ontario’s stateowned Niagara power profits for citizens. It weaves in economic lessons from France and Moses, remarks on clergymen teaching wise eating, and notes New York’s Hall of Fame busts and current call money rates.
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America
Treleyan
Toronto
Niagara Falls
Ontario
Niagara
Canada
New York
William Cullen Bryant
Henry Clay
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Madison
Francis Parkman
Emma Willards
Panhandle optimism clashes with wheat price woes
A Panhandle Texas columnist notes rain boosts land fever and a coming land boom while wheat prices sink to 85 cents a bushel, predicting more production to profit from volume. He mentions political moves by Senator Clint Small toward Amarillo, Clyde Warwick as a potential successor, and local police chief support amid debate. Public notices of rides to Dallas and Lindbergh commentary appear, plus reflections on hero worship and local curiosities.
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Panhandle
Clint Small
Wellington
Amarillo
Congress
Marvin Jones
Howdy
Clyde Warwick
The
Canyon News
Small
Warwick
House
Senate
Famous Negro Minstrel Show Heads to Amarillo Fair May 20
Tri-State Fair association announced a contract with the Famous Georgia Smart Set Minstrels for a single May 20 performance. The 50 member troupe features Irene Wiley, Jimmie McFarland, the Harmony Quartet, and the Smart Set Blue Demons band, plus a $ comedian lineup and a kid-sketch act Varsity Drag. A noon city parade precedes the show and balcony seating is available for Black patrons.
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Amarillo
Tri-State Fair Association
Georgia Smart Set Minstrels
South
Smart Set
Blue Demons
KTHS
Hot Springs
Ark
Irene Wiley
Okeh
Harmony Quartet
Jimmie McFarland
Weegie Payne
Snookums
Jessie
Wichita Falls
Texas
Tety tere SACK APPRECIATION
Dear Mr. Tack. Members of our division 299 in Amarillo Texas note your column The Tactless Texan referencing an article about Mexican labor linked to new textile mills. They appreciate your comments on union labor and say they are subscribed.
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Tack
Amarillo
Texas
Mrs Orr enters Amarillo Business College course
Mrs Margaret Orr begins a secretarial program at Amarillo Business College. Miss Pearl Finch also enrolls in the secretarial course, signaling a wave of new students.
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Margaret Orr
The
Amarillo Business College
Miss Pearl Finch
Arizona Forest Fire Believed in Control
The Nogales fire, the largest in the region’s history, burned over 15 000 acres for six days before 100 weary men halted it near town. Cowboys drove terrified cattle as miners fled to Henshaw, with buildings and mining equipment lost along a ten mile front after a miner dropped a carbide lamp.
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Associated Press
Nogales
Ariz
Arizona
Henshaw
Mother Seeks Work For Herself And Son In New Town
Mrs Rosalee Hickey from Floydada asks for employment for herself as a saleslady with alteration skills and for her seventeen year old son, a diplomaed mechanic, offering strong references and willingness to relocate for work.
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Floydada
Tack
Rosalee Hickey
G.O. P. Breaks Over Senate Letter on Farm Relief
Senate dispute erupts as Republican whip Fess releases a letter denouncing Senator Borah and other pseudo Republicans for not backing Hoover’s farm relief plan. The disclosure spotlights internal GOP rifts and party cohesion debates.
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Senate
Fess
Borah
Hoover weighs tariff plans on building and sugar
Washington reports President Hoover questions Ways and Means proposals on cement brick shingles and sugar duties. Officials fear free list cement and brick benefit Eastern seaboard and Gulf coast makers while shingles could push roof material control to patent shingle firms. Advisers seek sliding scale sugar duties tied to intense foreign competition and cane beet industries.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
White House
Hoover
Eastern Seaboard
Gulf Coast
Rain Douses Texas Towns Amid Wet Weekend
Breckenridge reports heavy weekend rains easing drought fears. Hale County wheat got 1.12 inches of moisture while Pampa logged about 3.5 inches of rain since Friday. Sherman notes water over bridges halting some bus routes with minor damage.
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Associated Press
Plainview
Hale County
The
Pampa
Sherman
Five Years Suspended On Liquor Charge
John Darnall aged 24 pleaded guilty in district criminal court to violating liquor laws and received a five year suspended sentence. His employer testified he is a good worker with a wife and child to support. it was his first offense. the district attorney’s office urged suspension.
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John Darnall
Darnall
District Attorney’s Office
Hollis Clark
Hereford
Young Clark
C. Yates
Wilson
Yates
Leavenworth
Eli Yarbrough
Yarborough
Big Spring
Dallas
Mable Walker Willebrandt
Mood
Borger
John Armstrong
L. H. Haynes
C. W. “Curley” Smith
Buck Triplett
J. F. Ball
Claude Kirtley
A. G. Cooper
W. C. Boyce
Matt E. Brown
Eight Cases Before Police Court Today
Five plain drunks, a disturber of the peace, and two who ran red lights appeared before Acting Judge A. P. Miller in corporation court this morning and paid fines in Judge Stephen D. Ridings absence.
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A. P. Miller
Corporation Court
Miller
Stephen D. Ridings
May Sale Announced by Junkin Dry Goods
The Junkin Dry Goods Company at 618 Taylor Street announces its annual May Sale starting today and running through Saturday. Mr Junkin says the sale is store wide with extra specials in every department and is rated alongside the store's anniversary event.
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Junkin Dry Goods Company
Taylor Street
Amarillo area liquor busts levy heavy fines
W D McCoy of Childress paid 500 dollars for possession of whiskey. Florence Walton and Clifton Miller of Amarillo were fined 500 dollars each for liquor and beer. A father and son, W S Phillips and George Phillips, faced fines after a raid on a highway filling station and dance hall north of Amarillo. Ethel Ropes, 700 Pierce Street, fined 100 for beer. Jess Willmering and Hollis Clark received fines for small liquor amounts. Nine cases were dismissed due to apprehension issues from boom days in Borger.
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W. D. McCoy
Childress
Florence Walton
Clifton Miller
Amarillo
United States
Mood
East Tenth Street
San Jacinto
W.S. Phillips
George Phillips
Ethel Ropes
Pierce Street
Wife of Late Bishop Stuntz Visits Amarillo
Mrs. Homer C. Stuntz of Omaha Nebraska, widow of the late Bishop Stuntz, visited Amarillo to see her niece Mrs. Tom V Ellzey at 800 Palo Duro street. She spoke to Polk Street Methodist Church young people about mothers in mission lands and noted her and her husband’s missions in India, South America and the Philippines. Also visiting were Mr. and Mrs. C S Parks of Woodward Oklahoma, sisters to Mrs. Stuntz. Ellzey led the Bible lesson and Lawrence Ellzey sang Mother Mine.
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Homer C. Stuntz
Omaha
Nebi
Bishop Stuntz
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Amarillo
Tom V. Ellzey
Palo Duro Street
Young People's Department
Polk Street
Ellzey
Parks
Stuntz
Tom Ellzey
Young People’s Department
Polk Street Methodist Church
Lawrence Elzey
Police recover two rolls of chicken wire stolen in town
Chief H. L. Gaither announces two rolls of chicken wire found and believed stolen. He urges anyone who lost wire to come to the station to identify the items and help locate the thief, asserting they may have captured the culprit.
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H. L. Gaither
Waitress Seeks Work In Amarillo Area
Experienced 22 year old waitress seeks employment after two weeks out of work. She lists A-1 references and willingness to relocate for job. Address provided at Scott Hotel Amarillo.
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Tack
Amarillo
Mr. Tack
Margaret Noraid
Scott Hotel
Taylor Street
Students Rally As Des Moines University Faces Crackdown
On campus the student body gathered amid a faculty mass dismissal by Dr. Shields and Miss Redman. Rioters egged walls and shattered windows, police intervened, Shields was escorted to a Buffalo-bound train, and Redman stayed under guard as new tensions rose over fundamentalist doctrine and campus control.
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Thomas T. Shields
Board of Trustees
Shields
Buffalo
Baptist Bible Union
Des Moines University
Edith M. Redman
Redman
Dr. Shields
Miss Redman
Des Moines
Carl Ganshow
Toronto
George Washington
Miss Rebman
Minor Stevens
Calvary Baptist Church
Gaither Petition Urges Police Chief Retention in Amarillo
Citizens submit petitions to the Mayor and City Manager urging the reappointment of H. L. Gaither as Amarillo Chief of Police. They praise his two-year tenure, honest diligent leadership, and the police force’s harmony with county and state agents.
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Commission
City of
Amarillo
H. L. Gaither
Three jailed on liquor charges here
Dick Jerman and Jack Spencer were arrested after a sheriff raid that seized 12 half gallon jars of whiskey. H. H. Chamberland was arrested by the constable for possession of a still. Bonds were set at 1000 dollars each. The still was found in a double basement in an East Amarillo residence after two hours of searching with hidden passages.
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Dick Jerman
Jack Spencer
Sheriff's Department
H. H. Chamberland
Constable’s Department
Potter County
Allen S. Johnson
Amarillo
How Beauty Grows From Common Ground
A poem celebrates beauty arising from ordinary toil with spade rake and hoe. The speaker links gardens landscapes and countryside as blossoming reflections of grace found in everyday labor.
Master artists seek colors shared by peers
The verse argues greatness comes from using the same colors as others, as true masters rise with life’s strength and shape splendor from ordinary clay, per Edgar A. Guest.
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Edgar A
Livestock Markets Report From Multiple U.S. Cities
Markets cover hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep in Kansas City East St. Louis Chicago Fort Worth and New York cotton. Prices move up and down with gains 10 to 25 cents for hogs and steady to strong cattle. lambs and ewes show mixed results amid regional trading and rainfall news.
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Kansas City
The
Associated Press
East ST. Louis
Chicago
Fort Worth
Fire Victims Reach Amarillo and Oklahoma City Area
The report lists fire victims en route to Amarillo and notes FE J Helms 66 a pioneer from Way side near Canyon to be buried at 2:80 this afternoon. It mentions Peter Kearns missing, Toone youth to be buried in Tulsa tomorrow, Birdie Rhodes injured but recovering, and Co H Welchel from Gainesville, Ga, recovering in St Anthony's hospital with others discharged.
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Grandfield
Okla
Amarillo
FE. J. Helms
Canyon
Griggs Thompson
Peter Kearns
Pine
Colp
Toone
Tulsa
Boxwell Funeral Home
Birdie Rhodes
Northwest Texas Hospital
Co. H. Welchel
Gainesville
St. Anthony's Hospital
Air Features Music Program Scheduling Notes
Radio schedule notes list 8:00 orchestral program with Julia Sanderson and Frank Crumit and 8:30 night club romances. Stations include WADC WKRC WGHP WMAQ WOWO KMOX KMBC KOIL WSPD WHK WFBM and WCCO.
Amomo Class Holds Monthly Meeting at First Baptist Church
The Amomo Class of First Baptist Church met Friday for a monthly business social at Mrs. P. L. McDaniel 719 North Wilson. Mrs. Grey Baker led Group No. 2 hostesses. Mrs. J. A. Jenkins spoke as guest. games and fortune telling followed with refreshments served. Members present include Mrs. Perry Co. Burks Mrs. J. H. Greer Mrs. Terry Baker and others.
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Amomo
First Baptist Church
P. L. McDaniel
North Wilson
Grey Baker
J. A. Jenkins
Perry Co. Burks
J. H. Greer
Terry Baker
Rual Jones
Roy Brown
Tom Weaver
Bryan Weatherby
Edward Hurt
Forest Ansley
J. My Balt~zell
Myrtle Gilvin
Ralph Robertson
Crawford
Tom Hampton
Herman Gish
Brother of Amarillo Man Attends Brother's New York Burial
J. W. Timmons of Amarillo travels to Colorado Springs for the funeral of his brother Judd Timmons a prominent New York City insurance man who died last Wednesday. He will return to Amarillo tonight.
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New York
J. W. Timmons
Amarillo
Colorado Springs
Judd Timmons
New York City
Timmons
Cotton futures drift as rains ease heat impact on prices
July around 18.63 after first half hour, December at 16.82 with later months unchanged. West Texas rain and heat helped cotton weather news despite unfavorable features. July traded near 18.61 and December near 18.80 in mid morning. offerings light and activity quiet by midday.
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West Texas
Open Quiet Yet Steady Cotton Market in New Orleans
New Orleans reports a quiet but steady cotton opening with July up to 18.68 and October at 14.63 before prices eased on rains in West Texas. Liverpool confirms firmer spot but slower futures while Chicago records mixed grain quotes across wheat corn and oats.
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New York
Associated Press
Texas
New Orleans
Chicago
Market Highlights Including Bonds Rates and Stocks
Chicago reports butter steady and eggs higher with mixed prime and storage prices. U S bonds quotes and foreign exchange rates show little uniformity with gains and losses across major markets. New York stock opening features declines in GE and rail stocks, gains in South Porto Rican Sugar and Air Ways Electric, plus high broker loans anticipated.
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Associated Press
General Electric
General Railway Signal
Pan American B
Follawsbee Bros. Radio
Airways Electric
Phillips Jones
United Corporation
United Aircraft
Chesapeake Corporation
American Dan
Chrysler
Montgomery-Ward
International Telephone
Republic Steel
Anaconda
New
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