Seaman Urges World Peace at Memorial Way Service
Bishop E. C. Seaman delivered the principal address at Memorial Way services on auditorium grounds. He urged religious and patriotic action to save the sons and daughters of heroes from pain and death. A large crowd attended, with flowers placed on veterans' graves after ceremonies conducted by the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary.
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E. C. Seaman
Episcopal Church
Seaman
Flanders Fields
American Legion and Legion Auxiliary
Blassingame Given 99-Year Term in Texas Bank Robbery
William H. Blassingame pleaded guilty to robbing the First National Bank at Bells on April 8. He posed as a federal inspector to seize about $750 from the Bells bank before fleeing and being captured near Madill, Oklahoma, leading to a Huntsville prison sentence.
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United Press
Sherman
Huntsville
William H. Blassingame
First National Bank
Bells
Pril
Blassingame
Madill
Okla
Slang Faces Obsolescence Says Minnesota Educator
University of Minnesota professor Mar tin B. Rudd predicts slang like baloney and a lotta hooey will be forgotten by next year. He notes most slang dies out though some phrases endure, arguing usage depends on meeting real needs and expressive power.
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International News Service
Minneapolis
Martin B. Rudd
University of Minnesota
Rudd
O. Henry
Income Tax Summons to Nungesser Paris
May 31 report says a notice to pay income tax was mailed to Charles Nungesser the French air ace who died with Coli in the failed East to West Atlantic crossing two years ago. The government demands four francs 21 centimes or face prosecution for the year before his death.
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Nungesser
United Press
Paris
Charles Nungesser
Coli
Atlantic
Pigeon wins 100 mile race by ten minutes
A carrier pigeon delivering a telegram beat its rival from Hinsdale New Hampshire to Sanford Maine by ten minutes in a 100 mile race. The bird covered the distance at a rate of 1414.30 yards per minute marking a close finish in the UP dispatch dated May 31.
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Ens
United Press
Sanford
Hinsdale
N. H
Links Britain and India by record-breaking flight
A Fairey monoplane lands in Karachi after completing a 58 hour 88 minute non-stop flight from London. Squadron Leader A G Jones-Williams led the journey with companion, amid mountain and sea crossings, highlighting postwar aviation progress.
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Great Britain
Karachi
India
A. G. Jones-Williams
London
Jones-Williams
Velazquez Portrait Added To Detroit Art Institute
The Detroit Museum of Art Founders' Society adds Diego Velasquez Portrait of a Man from ca 1695 to its Spanish collection. Director W. R. Valentiner found the piece in New York. its prior owner was Count Koenneritz’s estate. The gift fills gaps but the institute still seeks works by Goya and El Greco.
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International News Service
Detroit
Diego Velasquez
Detroit Museum of Art Founders’ Society
Count Koenneritz
Spain
W. R. Valentiner
Art Institute
New York
Europe
Institute
Velasquez
Ralph H. Booth
Arts Commission of the Art Institute
Booth
Ribera
Zurburan
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Goya
el Greco
Detroit Institute of Arts
Rembrandt
Titian
Bellini
Botticelli
Rubens
van Dyke
Franz
Labor union entertainments highlight season in Carpenters Hall
Notes from the labor unions describe a Carpenters Union event at Carpenters Hall with speeches songs and novelties. The Central Labor Union held a meeting with Harve Oliver as master of ceremonies and several performances by Amarillo artists. The article also notes a Labor Life Insurance plan and a Typographical Union officers election with I G Wilson and Joe Hess in leadership roles.
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Switchmen’s Union
Millers Hall
North Amarillo
Carpenters Union
Carpenters Hall
Central Labor Union
Harve Oliver
Sam Norton
W. W. Finch
Betty Thomerson
Amarillo
Jenny Lind
A. L. Ludden
Annie Laurie
Nadine Randolph
George Mooney
Scheila Wood
S. Peterson
Neal Hermanson
Laura Hamner
Paul Shelvick
George Palmer
Union Labor Life Insurance Company
Typographical Union
I. G. Wilson
Joe D. Hess
E. M. Turner
D. A. Edwards
C. M. Carter
W. E. Camp
Palmer Black
Amarillo Auction Sells Impounded Livestock At City Pound
The City of Amarillo will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the City Pound Gates Fourth and Monroe Streets between 3 and 4 p.m. Saturday June 1. Items include several young horses and a sorrel blaze-face mare colt under the authority of the poundkeeper W. D. Fegett.
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Amarillo
Fourth
Monroe
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BE. O. Leithauser
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W. E. Johnston
Masters
J. C. Collier
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Fort Worth
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Dallas Avenue
Fairview Addition
George T. Enoch
Madison Street
Marion
Kentucky
C. G. Wilson
Carl Cunningham
News-Globe
Willard Grantham
Amarillo Printing Company
Northwest Texas
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Uncle Sam
Congress
Brooklyn, N. Y
Chicago
U.S
Kinloch
France
Washington
United States
John R. Mohler
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Augustus
Caesars
NPEYE
Ferguson
Jersey
Mont
W. D. Fegett, Poundkeeper
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Sugar Institute
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