Calles resigns as Mexico war minister to rest at country
General Plutarco Elias Calles, once president and minister of war, resigns his portfolio and plans retirement to the countryside. He handed his resignation to President Portes Gil, to be followed by the transfer of office to General Joaquin Amaro. Amaro, recovering from an eye injury from a handball game, was slated to assume command as Calles departs for Acapulco, Guerrero, for rest.
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Mexico City
Plutarco Elias Calles
Mexico
General Calles
Portes Gil
Joaquin Amaro
Amaro
Acapulco
Guerrero
Pacific Coast
Flight advances and other opinions from a busy era
A column discusses early aviation ideas and future power with wireless in-flight energy, notes on Lilli Lehmann's Berlin death, and critiques Capone's Philadelphia imprisonment. It covers Wall Street call money spikes, usury fears, and Andrew Carnegie Rockefeller ancestry with reflections on the steel era.
Amarillo’s new city manager praised against traffic woes
Bill Durham takes the helm as city manager amid praise from readers for his prior work in Amarillo. A reader criticizes speeding traffic lights in the downtown district, urging enforcement and a higher speed limit, contrasting with Fort Worth plans. Notes on local life include a 1911 Evening News ad, cake treats from Mrs. Gilvin, and a German carp concern for Palo Duro crick.
Remark on risk and future value in American industry
A reflective quotation contrasts imagined wealth with real value, noting a founder’s warning not to gamble. It recalls a major sale to Morgan, calling the stock bonus ultimately worthless at the time, now worth about 244 dollars per share, and ends with a nod to farming as a possible future payoff.
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Morgan
No Fuss Over Dog With Missing Tooth and Scotch Jest
A column reflects on a letters from Alogious who flunked five studies, defense of Scotch people amid accusations, and jokes about Scotch stereotypes. It touches on wheat prices, drought fears, Canadian crops, and local Amarillo roses with thanks to Mrs. Campbell for a bouquet from Tyler Street.
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North Taylor Street
Alogious
Amarillo
T. C. Campbell
Tyler Street
See Tack Letters spark changed views on candidates
A reader begins by admitting initial support for Smith and Thompson, then credits the experimenting commission with breaking his aloof stance. He signals forthcoming letters on page 13 and invites debate in the opinion column.
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Rassem
Thompson
Kitchen Baby Dies At Home Here Today
Virginia Lee Kitchen infant daughter of Mr and Mrs A B Kitchen of 2202 Front street died at 7 this morning. Funeral services will be held at the residence at 4 this afternoon with Rev Potts of West Side Baptist church officiating. Burial will be in Llano cemetery under direction of N S Griggs & Sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Lee Kitchen
A. B. Kitchen
Front Street
Rev. Potts
West Side Baptist Church
Llano Cemetery
N.S. Griggs & Sons
Lost Lady's Handbag In Amarillo Area
Dear Tack I lost a lady's handbag in your city Sunday afternoon between East Third and Fillmore to Sixteenth Lincoln to 1900 block Please help recover these items Notify O W Morrison Con stable s Office Amarillo found J M W Morrison Clovis New Mexico
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East Third
Fillmore
Sixteenth
Lincoln
O. W. Morrison
Amarillo
J. M. W. Morrison
Clovis
New Mexico
Lindy Nearing New Take Off
United Press reports on May 20 in North Haven Me that two years after his New York to Paris flight Colonel Charles A Lindbergh nears another mission this time a marriage. The Lindberghs are at a summer home with Anne Morrow, Constance and Elizabeth, Josephine Graham and a guest as selectmen discuss lounge guard measures and possible security threats from cranks.
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United Press
North Haven
New York
Mrs. Morrow
Constance
Elizabeth
Josephine Graham
Anne
Leon B. Stone
Herman Crockett
Board of Selectment
Morrow
Lindbergh
Trial Set for June 13 in Mines Court for Walton and Stallworth
In Potter County Court Tom Walton Jr and Stallworth pleaded not guilty after indictments charging murder in the slaying of Mrs. Morrison were read. The younger woman spoke clearly while the mother-in-law’s voice trembled. Both women remain jailed. bond for the older woman was set at 10000 dollars though paperwork not filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Walton, Jr
Stallworth
Morrison
Potter County
Latin Language Troubles Turkey
Turks resist compulsory Latin use decree of December causing a crisis in education. Yakub Kadri Bey notes no benefit and rising closures. Newspapers shrink 50 percent, many halt publication. provincial papers sell few copies. Publishing interests send a delegation to Angola to plead the case before the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International
Constantinople
Yakub Kadri Bey
Angola
German Autos Pay Highest Tax Rate
Berlin reports 1928 29 motor taxes totaling at least 180 million marks. Germany's high motor tax is blamed for limited car ownership. Officials anticipate about 200 million marks for 1929 30 and long term aims for 400 million as car numbers grow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Berlin
Germany
Ministry of Finance
Laughing Restores Speech for German Man in Theater
In Berlin on May 20 Walter Schutze a 28 year old man who had been mute for years regains speech after laughing at a humorist’s jokes in a theater Doctors say the laughter released the paralysis of his vocal cords and give hope for full recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Walter Schutze
Pershing to Visit Old Home This Summer
Gen John J Pershing plans a return visit to his boyhood home in LaClede Missouri this summer according to Ed Allen ex mayor and friend The secretive approach aims to keep the date private as in past homecomings which drew thousands. The article also notes 82 West Point appointments including two by presidential recommendation through the vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Pershing
Old Home
International News Service
Laclede
John J. Pershing
Ed Allen
U. S. Military Academy
West Point
United States
Durham to take post as city manager at six thousand
Durham, a longtime Amarillo grocery businessman and former school board president, will accept the city manager post and begin work immediately. Former manager Patterson will stay briefly to assist before returning to his district role at Southwestern Bell. Durham’s salary matches Patterson’s at six thousand dollars per year.
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Durham
Amarillo
C. W. Farr and Associates
Patterson
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Panhandle grain meeting highlights farming push and relief talk
Grain men advocate 15 to 20 bushels per acre as a cornerstone of a great wheat section. Beasley praises diversified farming in the Panhandle and the role of cows sows and hens. Charles Quinn of the Grain Dealers National Association discusses farm relief legislation and opposition to government subsidy schemes. Fred G. Smith outlines grain grading as an exact science. S J Cole and local grain dealers report crop conditions. L F Cobb presides in Barnett's absence due to illness.
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Beasley
Panhandle
Charles Quinn
Grain Dealers National Association
Chicago
Congress
Mr. Quinn
Fred G. Smith
Department of Agriculture
S. J. Cole
Board of City Development
International police alliance aims to curb global crime
London May 20 Richard F Enright president of the International Police Conference and former New York police commissioner says crime is now an international problem. He notes fifty nations will attend a Paris conference to review police work, traffic bandits drug traffic and cross border cooperation to raise standards and mobilize civilization against crime.
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London
Richard F. Enright
New York
Paris
League of Nations
Enright
Mrs Mason's Body Forwarded to Kansas
Mrs Josephine Mason 50 died at City Tourist camp early Sunday. Body forwarded to Tyro Kansas at 1 45 pm for burial by JN Griggs Sons. Survived by husband William Mason four daughters one son and her parents Mr and Mrs John Brown Tyro Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Mason
City
Kansas
William Mason
John Brown
Tyro
JN. S. Griggs & Sons
French Girls Soon to Wear U S Stockings
Paris May 20 A European tour by an advertising manager reports that French girls will soon wear American silk stockings. Over sixty distributors operate in Paris to supply the item as trade channels expand across the continent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Paris
Herweale Ta Beamsh Teada
Yankees cleared of blame in stadium trampling tragedy
New York officials exonerated the Yankees after a stadium disaster left Eleanor Price aged 17 and Joseph Carter aged 60 dead and about 63 injured as 63,000 fans sought exit during a rain delay. District Attorney McGeehan found no negligence by club officials. crowding and tunnel jam triggered the fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New York
New York Yankees
John FE. McGeehan
Bronx
Eleanor Price
Joseph Carter
Yankees
Boston Red Sox
Louis Baer
Baer
Stricker
Negro Pleads Guilty to Burglary in District Court
Bensie Shumate, a young Black man, told Judge Henry S. Bishop he would plead guilty to burglary after saying he’d rather not have a lawyer. He admitted prior prison time for a stolen car case in Muskogee Oklahoma. He received the minimum sentence of two years and expressed faith in future justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bensie Shumate
District Criminal Court
Henry S. Bishop
Shumate
Muskogee
Okla
Paving Award to Dallas Firm Is Cancelled
City manager J B Patterson says contracts let by Lacy Paving Company of Dallas in 1927 or 1928 under the old policy of the city paying excavation costs are cancelled with the companys consent The new policy pays 25 percent of total paving costs and property owners would not sign under the old terms The cancelled contracts cover Fifteenth Avenue from Ong to Hayden East Third Avenue from the Santa Fe railroad to Houston and Monroe Street from Nineteenth to Twenty-First Avenues
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Lacy Paving Company
Dallas
J. B. Patterson
Patterson
Fifteenth Avenue
Ong
Hayden Streets
East Third Avenue
Santa Fe Railroad
Houston Street
Monroe Street
Nineteenth
Twenty-First Avenues
Funeral Rites for Mrs Roark Held at Vega
Funeral services for Mrs A L Roark 61 of Vega were held at Vega Baptist Church with Rev Goodwin officiating. Burial followed in Vega Cemetery under Blackburn's Mortuary Amarillo. Survivors include husband two sons Earl Amarillo Herman Vega two daughters Mrs Reeves Vega and Mrs Lacker Lamesa two brothers Minor Wilson Franklin Ky Danial Wilson Detroit Mich and two sisters Mrs Jammie Turner and Miss Ida Wilson Franklin Ky.
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A. L. Roark
Vega
Earl
Roberts Street
Vega Baptist Church
Goodwin
Vega Cemetery
Blackburn
Amarillo
Herman
W. E. Reeves
M. Lacker
Peacox Indicted for Wife Murder in Westchester
White Plains, N Y May 20 The Westchester county grand jury returned an indictment charging Earl F P Peacox with first degree murder in the slaying of his wife Dorothy whose burned body was found in a thicket near here after two hours of witness testimony it was reported by The Associated Press
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Associated Press
White Plains
N. Y
Westchester County Grand Jury
Earl FP. Peacox
Dorothy
Here
Markets by The Associated Press Kansas City May 20 194? Livestock and commodities
Hogs 14 000 at Kansas City down to 10 cents, cattle 10 000, calves 1 600 steady to 250 lower, hogs near 10.80 top. Chicago and East St Louis markets listed with bids on hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep. Cotton futures firm then eased with July near 18.95, December 19.03. grain mixed with wheat up early, corn oats firmer. Bonds mixed. poultry butter eggs steady to higher. New York stocks open irregular amid credit concerns.
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Kansas City
Associated Preas
Ewes
Chicago
EAST
Fort Worth
Associated Press
New Orleans
Liverpool
New York
Mississippi Valley
Anated
Transcontinental Oil
General Asphalt
Allied Chemical
Liquid Carbonic
Advance Rumely
General Electric
Anaconda
Radio
Mathieson
Federal Reserve
Sparka
R. H. Macy
Sears Roebuck
First National
Standard
American Can
American Telephone
du Pont
Liggett & Myers
Stewart-Warner
American Water Works
International Cement
He Ociated Press
Harper Seeks Finish Fight On Evolution Textbook Ban
Austin May 20 United Press reports Rep J W Harper Mt Pleasant vows a final push to keep the anti evolution amendment on the Board of Education bill. He charges the free conference committee did not discuss the amendment and says it can only be removed by a house majority vote. The panel will reconvene to resolve superintendent selection method, with action pending both chambers.
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United Preas
Harper
House
Senate
High School Band Fundraiser Tonight in Amarillo
The High School band seeks public subscriptions after tonight’s concert at 8 p.m. in the city auditorium. Admission is 26 and 35 cents, with Mayor Ernest Thompson urging strong attendance to support the band’s trip to Denver and to showcase Amarillo and the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Ernest Thompson
Amarillo
Smart Set Drug Store Minstrel Show Tonight
A minstrel program led by the Blue Demon band with famed southern stars appears tonight under Tri-State air Association sponsorship. Doors open after a Saturday sale of parquet logos and boxes with seats reserved for negroes. Tickets cost 1 and 75 cents as the group, after a Dallas run, aims to fill the house with entertainment and popular pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Demon Band
Dallas
South
Tri-State Air Association
Traffic speeds and signal changes anger drivers downtown
The city has kept the 15 mile per hour limit downtown and 20 miles elsewhere while new signal timing shifts were ordered by the commission last week. Lights now cycle every 20 seconds instead of 30, and motorists say it is nearly impossible to hit two green lights within 20 seconds at 15 mph.
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Mr. Durham
Third
Polk Street
Tenth Street
Bill
Kernel Erasmus Tack
Fort Worth
Amarillo
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Lilli Lehmann
Scarface
al Capone
Philadelphia
Happy Hunting Ground
Mr. Capone
Wall Street
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie Rockfeller
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Carnegie
Bill Durham
Bell Telephone Company
Jeff Bartlett
City Commission
Rex Rogers
Tulsa Way
W. C. Keys
J. L. Caldwell
W. D. Neiles
J. O. Risley
Naomi Runyon
John Gilvin
Old Tack
Smith
O. W
Mister Hoover
Washington
Southwest
Europe
Canada
Lindy
Turkey
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Mrs. Roark
Peacox
Liberty
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Panhandle Music Company
Polk
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