Arkansas Supreme Court Upholds 90-Day Divorce Law
The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed the 90 day residence divorce law by a 5 to 2 vote, denying a referendum sought by the Home Protective Association. Petitions will proceed under the new rule which requires 90 days in state before decree, with cases already pending mainly in Hot Springs.
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Little Rock
Ark
State Supreme Court
Ed. F. McDonald
Home Protective Association
Hot Springs
Pat Mehaffey
Attorney General
Across America Aboard The Rock Island Golden State
Arthur Brisbane notes a transcontinental Rock Island Express journey from Chicago to the Pacific aboard the Golden State. He contrasts Missouri and Kansas City’s past with modern skyscrapers, rail lines, and evolving transport, praising seamless cross‑country travel and the nation’s vast geography and tariff protections.
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Topeka
Kan
Chicago
Pacific
Golden State
Missouri
Kansas City Union Station
Dickey Brothers
St. James Hotel
Lower Main Street
Colonel Coates
Coates
Kansas City
Colonel Nelson
Delaware Avenue
Corrigan
Kansas
Texas State Teachers Convention Arrangements Near Ready
Amarillo prepares for the Texas State Teachers Convention opening Thursday with a 200 member reception committee led by Mrs. G. S. McLelland. Five information bureaus will service attendees across the Municipal Auditorium Amarillo Hotel and Capitol Hotel. All convention halls are set and exhibits organized by national firms and local school groups as officials and delegates arrive.
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Texas State Teachers Convention
G. 8. McLelland
Educational Machinery of Texas
Municipal Auditorium
Buchanan Street
Amarito College
L. Z. Timmons
Johnson Street
Polk Street Methodist
First Baptist
Episcopal
Presbyterian
Amarillo
Oscar Wise
Texas Outlook
State Educational Magazine
Chamber of Commerce
Herring Hotel
Amatillo Hotel
Capitol Hotel
Poles and Lines Fail Under Ice as Panhandle Isolated
Amarillo and the Panhandle emerge from a prolonged sleet storm that paralyzed telephone and telegraph service and disrupted traffic. Telephone poles cracked and wires parted under ice weight, isolating many Plains towns including Pampa. News wires were impaired for hours as efforts to communicate continued.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Pampa
Khiva Shrine Ceremonial Promises Hot Sands for Rites
Dr. R. Parcells leader of Khiva Shrine Temple says the short-form ceremonial at the Masonic Temple Tuesday night will include hot sands for novices to cross. All Khiva members and visiting Shriners are invited with several out-of-town guests expected. Ceremony starts at 5:30 PM with refresh ments and dancing to follow at 10 PM.
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R. Parcells
Khiva Shrine
Masonic Temple
Dr. Parcells
Khiva
Insanity Plea Entered in TX Student Murder Case
In Waco on November 23, 1930, William C. Beck a 19 year old former University of Texas student faced murder charges in the death of O L Jones. Beck sought a continuance and planned an insanity defense claiming to have acted after a concussion from a baseball bat incident four years earlier at Wills Point. He confessed to killing Jones to obtain money but received only $2. Defense cited a witness with typhoid fever and sought time to prepare. The report notes Beck was picked up Sept. 3 at Lancaster and fed at Alvarado.
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Waco
William C. Beck
University of Texas
O. L. Jones
54Th District Court
Beck
Wills Point
Jones
Lancaster
Alvarado
Christmas Parade Educational Event with Band and Float Prizes
Amarillo hosts a December 10 parade led by the Three Wise Men on camels and Santa with 12 reindeer. High School and civic bands from the region compete for prizes totaling 175 dollars for bands and 300 dollars for floats, plus five dollar prizes per float. The event, presented for education by the Amarillo Chamber and the Globe News, features 40 floats and foreign nation depictions.
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Santa Claus
Amarillo
Panhandle
Amarillo Chair of Commerce
The
Globe News
Amarillo hires firm for independent phone property appraisal
Seven engineers from Coats & Burchard report to city hall to appraise Southwestern Bell Telephone Company properties in Amarillo. Work to be completed the week of November 30 with a contract not exceeding 2500 dollars. Mayor Ernest Thompson announced the city seeks an independent estimate amid ongoing rate controversy and pending franchise negotiations.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Amarillo
Coats & Burchard
City Commission
Ernest ©. Thompson
Telephone Company
Chicago
Ohio
Civil Strife in Manchuria Halts Pro-Japanese Plan at Harbin
At Harbin, Manchuria, threats from Chinese Kuomintang leaders delayed the arrival of Chang Ching-Hui to assume post under Japanese protection after General Mah Chan-Shan’s retreat. Japanese authorities report Mah’s remnant army is not being pursued northward while Keelungkiang province remains under Japanese control.
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Manchuria
Harbin
Mah Chan-Shan
Chang Ching-Hui
Jiro Tamon
Chang
Keilungkiang
Vinegar Tree Singer Set for WDAG Radio Broadcast
Margaret Rilling, featured in The Vinegar Tree with Billie Burke, will be guest artist on WDAG at 2 pm tomorrow. She has West Coast musical credits and will debut in New York after her Municipal Auditorium run. Tickets at City Drug Store Polk Street range from 50 cents to 3 dollars with many seats available.
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Margaret Rilling
Billie Burke
Municipal Auditorium
WDAG
Miss Rilling
New York
Polk Street
Architect’s Drawing of New Supreme Court Edifice
An architect’s drawing shows the future United States Supreme Court building as completed. The contract was awarded to a Washington firm for 8 383 000 dollars.
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Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Train Wreck Victims Identified in Dual Disasters
Rescue crews search debris for bodies of three gangland victims in New York after Harlem speakeasy killings. In Missouri, wreckage of 24 freight cars kills four show horse handlers. two identities confirmed and a fourth tentatively named.
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Wellington
Kansas City
Chicago
Missouri-Pacific Railroad
Alvie Babb
Kansas
Jacob Krider
Delaware
Ohio
Bill Fetch
Fetch
Sunset Farm
Mary C. Llewellyn
McKinley's sister dies in Cleveland
Mrs. Sarah McKinley Duncan 1 sister of the late President McKinley died in Cleveland last night. With her death all of McKinley’s brothers and sisters are now dead.
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McKinley
Cleveland
Sarah McKinley Duncan
Rebellion of a DVD Look Too Pure in Venice
Laidy contemplates her dreary social life before a Goodbys party. She feels hollow, unable to become the flirt she suspects others expect. Self-analysis reveals a fragile, pale face and copper hair as she confronts her isolation and longing for connection.
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Venice
Noth
Rossetti
DNC to Convene January 9 in Washington for Convention Plans
The Democratic National Committee is called to meet January 9 in Washington to decide time and place of the June party convention. John J. Raskob, national chairman, sent the call by mail. The Mayflower Hotel will host the gathering, echoing last year’s stormy session over leadership challenges from southern attendees.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
John J. Raskob
Mayflower Hotel
Raskob
Jury Chosen for Barr Retrial in Fort Worth
A special venue of 250 is reported for the retrial of E. Q. Barr on murder charges in the 1929 death of R. R. Brock. Barr, then sentenced to seven years, had his first trial overturned due to an error in the judge’s charge. Brock was slain at a South Adams Street residence during an inquiry Barr allegedly made regarding Mrs. Barr.
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Fort Worth
Navy
U.P
E. Q. Barr
R. R. Brock
Barr
Houston
Brock
South Adams‘ Street
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas area
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. West Texas partly cloudy, colder in south and central portions with freezing conditions tonight. Panhandle not as cold. New Mexico fair tonight, much colder in the south. Tuesday fair with temperature extremes up to 36 and 22. Griggs ambulance. Phone 4311.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Last Week to Divide Taxes Urges Amarillo Citizens
Amarillo school board business manager George M. Waddill urged residents to use the split tax option to pay half now and the rest later without penalties. About $60,000 must be raised by November 30 to cover payrolls, with November payroll hoping to be met and possible balance to January 31.
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Amarillo
George M. Waddill
Amarillo School
Waddill
30 Pound Turkey Sent to White House in Thanksgiving Move
Washington November 23 A 30 pound turkey was sent to the White House for Thanksgiving. The gift came from the Berkeley County West Virginia Turkey Growers Association and was presented by Mrs. E. C. Taft and Thomas L. Himetright of Martinsburg.
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Washington
White House
Berkeley County
West Virginia
Turkey Growers Association
E. C. Taft
Thomas L. Himetright
Martinsburg
Unusual storm line divides nation with western snow
A sharp demarcation cut the country, with heavy snow in the Rockies and plains west of a line from Duluth to Abilene. The east stayed mild as a high pressure system over Virginia and the Carolinas blocked cold air. Denver and northwestern Colorado saw heavy snowfall, while Lander, Wyoming reported twelve below zero. Santa Fe recorded five inches, and a Texas Panhandle sheet storm knocked down wires.
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Rocky Mountain
Duluth
Minn
St. Paul
Omaha
Neb
St. Joseph
Wichita
Kan
Oklahoma City
Abilene
Tex
Weather Bureau
Virginia
Carolinas
Denver
Colorado
Wyoming
Lander
Wye
Santa Fe
N. M
Texas Panhandle
Pampa Through a Murky Morning Turned Sunny
A Pampa morning opened with fog and slate skies. Temperatures rose quickly as bright sun broke through before noon, revealing a day that shifted from gloom to clear light.
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Pampa
Sleet Storm Delays Globe Wire News in Panhandle
The Globe reports sketchy wire news as sleet weighs down poles causing outages across the Panhandle. AP linked to Oklahoma City for two hours, UP struggled to Amarillo from Dallas until afternoon. Normal service to resume by evening with full report expected in the morning.
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Globe
The
Panhandle
Associated Press
Oklahoma City
United Press
Amarillo
Dallas
Sack Frost Decorates Amarillo With Ice Pranks
Frigid visitor Jack Frost glazed the city from late Saturday night through Sunday, coating trees shrubs lawns and vehicles with a nearly inch of ice. By Monday morning sunlight broke through, catching the ice crystals and adding a dazzle to the wintry scene in Amarillo.
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Jack Frost
Amarillo
Mr. Frost
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