Athletics Clinch World Series In Sixth Game
The Philadelphia Athletics defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 7 to 1 to win the World Series in six games behind George Earnshaw’s stellar pitching. The A’s pounded Hallahan and his successors for seven hits and built an early lead to seal the championship.
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Jim Lindsey
The President's Speech and Foreign Outlook 1930s
Arthur Brisbane surveys optimism about US prosperity, predicting a 27 dollar day by 1950 and universal five day weeks, with Ford’s wage forecast and growing consumption. He critiqued hoarding, highlighted shale oil corruption concerns, and noted Mussolini’s paradoxical war avoidance stance amid global recovery.
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Gil Resigns Mexicao National Revolutionary Party Leader
Emilio Portes Gil, former Mexico president, resigns as head of the National Revolutionary party in a letter to the executive committee. He cites ill health and plans to practice law in Tampico, his former home.
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United Press
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Emilio Portes Gil
Mexico
National Revolutionary Party
Portes Gil
Tampico
Death sentence for Luther Berwick overturned for new trial
Luther Berwick, sentenced by the Jefferson county district court to death in the electric chair for the murder of Miss Belle Crow and William A. Bird, was granted a new trial by the court of criminal appeals today.
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Railroad seeks conference with ICC on grain rate cuts denied
Washington Oct 8 The Interstate Commerce Commission denied Western Railroad president's request for a meeting to discuss the recently ordered grain and grain products rate reductions and the western trunk line class rates.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Western Trunk Line
Hoover Returns to Washington After Broad Southland Tour
President Hoover arrived in Washington tired but satisfied with the receptions in the South after a strenuous speaking tour. He and Mrs. Hoover stopped at Charlotte Annapolis Salisbury High Point and Greensboro and heard a textile worker in Danville Virginia describe industrial troubles which the president said must be settled peacefully.
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Griggs Ambulance and John Maynard Lumber ad
Classified note lists Griggs ambulance with phone 4311 and a contact John about building. Also lists John Maynard Lumber Company at 800 West Fifth with phone 5285.
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Griggs Ambulance
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John Maynard Lbr. Co
Weather Forecast For Amarillo And Vicinity
Fair and warm conditions continue tonight and Thursday. West Texas and Panhandle should see little change with highs near 80 and lows around 54 today. New Mexico areas also stay fair with similar temperatures.
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New Mexico
Amarillo joins nation’s air maps as new aviation hub
The Transcontinental Air Transport announced a cut off route to serve the Southwest and a new Tulsa Oklahoma air base to inaugurate October 15. Waynoka Oklahoma remains a station on the Oklahoma to Kansas City leg and Amarillo will host an extensive base for the expansion.
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Amarillo
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Oklahoma
Kansas City
Western Air Express
Crime wave blamed on robber barons and vice rings
Col. Robert I. Randolph of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce said Prohibition and racketeering drive the national crime surge. He claimed New York is a crime entry port and Chicago a major distribution center with illegal liquor worth millions weekly. He urged enforcement, accusing agencies of incompetence or corruption where violations occur.
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United Press
New York
Robert I. Randolph
Chicago Association of Commerce
New York Board of Trade
Chicago
Brazil Navy Holds Control Amid Revolutionary Campaign
The government in Rio de Janeiro asserts control of federal naval forces as crucial to its campaign against southern rebels. Federal cruisers attack insurgent bases along the Rio Grande do Sul coast while rebels claim defections and a destroyer pursues governors. Government forces mobilize reserves totaling 420,000 to be on duty by October 15.
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Cardinals Edge A's In Slow Playoff Series Contest
At Shibe Park Philadelphia the Cardinals beat the Athletics 4 to 3 as Douthit and Cochrane spark two run innings. Key moments include Dykes and Cochrane drives, Foxx and Frisch defensive plays, and Hafey two base hits powering the Cardinals.
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U S Communist Probe Moves to Los Angeles
The congressional committee led by Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. moved its hearings to Los Angeles after records showed communist organizers active in citizens military training camps national guard encampments and even among boy scouts in the district. Colonel Frederick L. Dengler provided photographs as part of the proceedings.
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Seward Named New Resident Engineer for Potter County
Oscar A. Seward, former Potter County engineer from 1921 to 1925, appointed by the state highway department as resident engineer to direct Potter County highway work in Amarillo. He and his family arrived today and will start immediately, with paving planned on State Highway 56 from Amarillo Creek to the county line and work on oil field highway and U S 66 routing into the city.
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Amarillo Creek
Panhandle Boys Over Top Twelve Years Ago Today
In 1918 near St Etienne France the 142nd Infantry of the American Army, including Panhandle men of Company G and H led by Capt Tom Barton and Capt E A Simpson, went over the top at 5 15 am. After five hours of battle they returned to trenches at 10 30 am with heavy losses. The unit endured 23 days under fire in World War I.
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Jail 16 After Halting Train Near Ada
Police jailed 11 white men and five Mexicans in Potter County on vagrancy and trespass charges after spikes were found on the Denver tracks near Ada. An incoming freight discovered the spikes and avoided a wreck. Three men boarded the halted train before police intervened. most pleaded guilty to vagrancy and await fines. Maxwell Bros. ambulance listed.
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Amarillo
Republicans Open Spirited Texas Campaign for Talbot
Republicans have launched an intensive drive for governor candidate Colonel W. E. Talbot of Houston. Captain J. F. Lucey of Dallas says Talbot will speak at 7 50 p m over WDAG in Amarillo tonight and again next Tuesday in Amarillo. Talbot opened his campaign yesterday in Denison and plans a 42 city tour praising development and constructive elements of the party platform.
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Amarillo
J. F. Lucey
Dallas
Talbot
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Lucey
Denison
Vandals Fail on School Job
Glass cutters damaged a basement door at San Jacinto school in an attempted break in. Police reported the cut space was about a foot square near the door jock but no entry or theft occurred as no money was kept in the building.
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San Jacinto School
Life term for Greer affirmed by court of criminal appeals
The court of criminal appeals affirmed Abraham Lincoln Greer's murder conviction for the May 8 1927 death of Nathan Newman in Jefferson county. Greer received a 98 year sentence, accused of killing Newman with a hammer in a junk shop, with an appeal challenging the dentist testimony about Greer's age.
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Abraham Lincoln Greer
Nathan Newman
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Newman
Three Miners Trapped After Dalton Mine Fire
Three men trapped in a Dalton coal mine as a fire destroyed shaft buildings and smoke filled the interior Rescue workers used gas masks and entered the mine but held little hope of escape The trapped miners are Robert Douglas 50 engineer Russell Shanklin and Harry Sword 50 Miss Orval Largent city registrar of vital statistics left for a two week vacation in Shattuck Oklahoma
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Harry Sword
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