Wisconsin investigates past campaign spending and practices
Madison reports a legislative inquiry into Wisconsin campaign expenditures over the last five years. The probe aims to enforce the corrupt practices act and modernize enforcement, encompassing Kohler linked campaigns, La Follette era races, Blaine and other progressive victories, with subpoenas issued for key sources and contributors.
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United Press
Madison, Wis
Legislatvg
Wisconsin
Walter J. Kohler
la Follette Progressive
Kohler
Epublican
Robert M. LaFollette
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr
United States Senate
John J. Blaine
United States
Richard H. Lee
New York
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Lynching of Suspected Attacker Takes Place in Alamo
Joe Barkley an 18 year old Black man accused of assaulting a white woman near Alamo Tennessee was seized from the Alamo jail by a mob that forced entry to Sheriff Emmersons home and took the jail key. A rope was found about his neck and no word on his fate hours later as Mrs Emmerson believed he had been lynched.
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Associated Press
Alamo, Tenn
Joe Barkley
Alamo
Carl Emmerson
Trial of Constable Years Ends Today
The Ed Pryor trial in Wichita Falls, charged with robbing an Electra hotel last summer, was expected to conclude today. Pryor denied Henry Shumate’s testimony about planning the robbery with Tom Shook and sharing spoils. Shook remains a fugitive with murder charges. Pryor claimed he was in Childress tending his ill wife. Berlin report notes German police stations to gain radio photo capability for suspect broadcasts.
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Associated Press
Wichita Falls
Ed Pryor
Electra
Pryor
Henry Shumate
Tom Shook
Shumate
Shook
Yellow Daugherty
Childress
Proceedings In Court Of Civil Appeals Seventh District Amarillo
Court of Civil Appeals for the Seventh District at Amarillo itemizes motions overruled and cases submitted or set for June 19 1929 including Minnie Kahn v Rauch Leather Co Eugene Bagley v Charles Pollock and J P Thatcher v A J Tays among others with several cases reversed and remanded or affirmed from Dallas Hardeman Lubbock Potter Bailey Wheeler Swisher Hale Crosby and Crosby counties.
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Court of Civil Appeals For the Seventh District
Amarillo
Minnie Kahn
Rauch Leather Co
FE. M. Rice
State of Texas
Eugene Bagley
Charles Pollock
Affirmed
Tokio Marine & Fire Ins. Co
Rosa L. Aldridge
Dallas
Jesse McCullough
Bertha McCullough
Hardeman
M. H. Thomas & Co
H. H. Fish & Co
Cottle
H. EF. Edwards
Leonard Pearson
Lubbock
Texas Employers Insurance Assn
E. T. Raef
Potter
J. P. Thatcher
A. J. Tays
Bailey
G. H. Orr
L. A. McDaniel
J. H. Jackson
J. B. McMahan
Wheeler
Travis Vaughn
J. B. Johnson
Swisher
Frank D. Howell
H. L. Bartlett
Hale
Eleanor Glenn Ezell
A. A. Fowler
Crosby
Williams Sign Co
J. A. Rodgers
Memorial Day Proclamation Calls Amarillo Citizens to Observe
Mayor Ernest C. Thompson urges all residents to join a 5:30 pm Memorial Day ceremony at the Soldier's Monument on the Municipal Auditorium Grounds. The Amarillo American Legion posts a fitting observance and requests closing stores and offices at 5:00 pm to ensure broad participation in honoring fallen soldiers.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Flanders
America
American Legion Post
Amarillo
Municipal Auditorium
Ernest C. Thompson
Man on Trial for Slaying of Step-Mother
Loyd David Son faces trial in Groesbeck Texas on charges of beating his step mother Ellen Davidson to death near Cooledge. Witnesses describe Davidson as not normal with unusual behavior. defense did not indicate an insanity plea.
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Associated Press
Groesbeck
Tex
Loyd Davidson
Ellen Davidson
Cooledge
Davidson
Dec Lambert
Budapest Sender Reports Century Elephant Kill in Uganda
Eugene Horthy, brother of Austria’s regent, writes from Uganda that he shot the largest elephant in the region in a century. The tusks weighed 450 pounds.
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Budapest
Eugene Horthy
Austria
Uganda
Africa
Man Held in Kidnaping of Austin Girl
Austin May 29 Jack Freith alias Jack Griffith sought since January disappearance of Miss Fennie Lee Minter UT student is in New Bedford Mass and will be returned Sheriff Coley White Governor Moody issued a requisition Freith would waive extradition according to Walter Almond New Bedford chief inspector Minter was last seen January 20 leaving home for class while a kidnapping charge and a grand jury swindle indictment loom over Freith
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Associated Press
Austin
Jack Freith
Jack Griffith
Travis
Fennie Lee Minter
University of Texas
New Bedford
Mass
Coley White
Moody
Massachusetts
Freith
Sheriff White
Walter Almond
Almond
Miss Minter
Travia Dounty Grand
Justice of Peace Court
Britain Profits by U S Meat Embargo
London reports a meat shortage and rising prices as London imports 80 percent of its meat, with Argentine supplies 40 percent of the total. An American lifting of the embargo could raise prices further, benefiting British housewives through continued protection for domestic producers.
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Britain
U.S
International News Service
London
United States
England
America
University Auto Found in Waco Garage
A background line notes that her automobile was located weeks ago in a garage in Waco, marking a development in the university related case and prompting further inquiry into the vehicle's ownership and relevance to ongoing matters.
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University
Waco
Global meat supply shifts shape across continents
England cannot outbid America causing meat prices for the English housewife to sour. England consumes about one million more tons than home-killed production. Australia once seen as a beef source, now questioned. Europe increasingly looks to South America as the future world meat base.
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England
America
Australia
Europe
South America
Bodies of 3 youths found in Dallas lake
United Press reports search at White Rock Lake in Dallas ended with the discovery of three drowning victims within a hundred yards of the capsized boat. The dead are Clifford B. Hall 19 of Wylie Albert McGuire 17 of Clear Lake and Roy Groves 10. Guy Watson 17 survived after being pulled from the water.
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Dallas Lake
Dallas
Texas
White Rock Lake
Here
Clifford B. Hall
Wylie
Collin County
Albert McGuire
Clear Lake
Roy Groves
Guy Watson
Indiana Furniture Factories Source Lumber Far Distances
Indiana furniture factories draw lumber from distant points 1 750 miles away. Readable details show reliance on long supply routes and regional timber sources shaping production and distribution.
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Indiana
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