Flying from Asia and the Frame of a Modern Church
Dr Fosdick's new Riverside Drive church project features a symbolic tympanum with figures including Christ Einstein and other historic sages. The piece argues that machinery creates vast slave-like work at scale, comparing it to ancient slavery and claiming U S industry generates power equal to twelve billion slaves.
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Asia
Riverside Drive
New York
Dr. Fosdick
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Christ
Albert Einstein
Relativity
Butman
Roe
New York University
United States
Earth
Boulder Dam work begins amid western delegation
Government officials and six western states assembled in Las Vegas for the start of the Boulder Dam project worth about 165 million dollars. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur and delegates from California Colorado Utah New Mexico Wyoming joined Nevada for the ceremony seven miles into the desert with a Nevada silver spike. A new era of development was hailed as the tool symbolized the government’s labor and plans to build a 22 mile Union Pacific branch to Summit and a 7.17 mile line to the dam site.
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Associated Press
Las Vegas
Boulder
Colorado River
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Interior
Hoover
California
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
Wyoming
Nevada
Dr. Wilbur
Union Pacific Railroad
Summit
Standard Oil Gains Sinclair Interest in Key Units
In New York on September 17 stockholders of Sinclair Consolidated Oil approved selling their 50 percent stakes in Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company and Sinclair Pipe Line Company to Standard Oil Company of Indiana for 72.5 million dollars.
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Associated P. New York
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company
Sinclair Pipe Line Company
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
May Force Wet-Dry Issue Deepen National Politics
United Press reports that New York Republicans may swing toward repealing prohibition. If Charles H. Tuttle is nominated for governor, a dry faction could lose influence and a wet wing may gain momentum within the party, signaling a major shift in national politics.
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United Press
Washington
New York
Charles H. Tuttle
U. S
Ublican
N. Y
Tuttle
New York Republican
Brinkley License Revoked by Kansas Medical Board
The Kansas Medical Board moved to revoke Dr. J R Brinkley renowned for goat gland rejuvenation and over the air prescriptions. President Dr J F Hassig and other surgeons branded him a quack saying the written order with specific reasons will be issued today to end his state practice.
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United Press
Topera
Kans
J. R. Brinkley
Kansas Medical Board
J. F. Hassig
Brinkley
Watch with Mysterious Past Belongs to Judge Motlow
County Judge Sam B. Motlow owns a watch with inscriptions reading Charles Motlow 1899. The piece came from Ed Lockhart’s body after a fatal shootout with officer Mont Grady, later passing to Lawrence’s daughter and finally to Motlow. The watch is 31 years old, keeps good time, and is valued by the judge.
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Sam B. Motlow
Charles Motlow
Judge Motlow
Ed Lockhart
Oklahoma
Mont Grady
Fred Lawrence
Lawrence
Lockhart
Amarillo Light Rates Offer Before Audit Approval
The Southwestern Public Service Company submitted a new light and power rate schedule for Amarillo. City officials study the proposal to compare its effect on consumer classes and potential savings. The commission had just ordered an audit of electricity rates and will review the offer alongside a needed franchise and contract for street lighting and power.
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Amarillo
Southwestern Public Service Company
Light Company
City Commission
C. 8. Makeig
James O. Gulekie
I. R. Kelso
St. Louis
Briand Plan For European Federation Studied By League
The League of Nations Assembly in Geneva opened a path for the United States to discuss Briand’s European federation idea. It referred Briand’s May 17 memorandum to a special committee of European state representatives and league members for study and a report next year.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Assembly of the
League of Nations
United States
Aristide Briand
Assembly
M. Briand
League
Flat Rate Water Waste Cited By Kansas Expert
Charles F. Linck, superintendent at Leavenworth, told the Southwest Water Works Association convention that flat rates encourage water waste as consumers let water run to sewer without metering. He cited municipal gains from metered systems serving Fort Leavenworth, the penitentiary and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
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Charles F. Linck
Leavenworth
Kans
Southwest Water Works Association
Kanaan
Linck
United States Penitentiary
Fort Leavenworth
National Home
Convention Point
Water
Linek
Tella
Association
Kansas
Charles F. Linck Linck
Kas
Oil Session Here to Follow Pampa Meet
Sen. Clint Small will address the oil meeting at the Amarillo Hotel on a Tonight at 8 o clock. The event hosts executives from the Texas Division of the Independent Petroleum Association of Texas and draws businessmen landowners royalty owners and oil operators from the Panhandle. Tom Cranfill will speak on the national oil situation and Claude Wild on proration and local issues. The prior night in Pampa featured Cranfill who said independents are dissatisfied with major firms and seek import proration and corrective steps by the majors.
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Clint Small
Amarillo
Claude Wild
Pampa
Mr. Cranfill
Texan
Cranfill
Independent Association
Circus Party Auto Crash Kills 9-Year-Old Fred McPherson Jr
An automobile carrying children home from a Lubbock circus overturned near Plainview causing the death of 9-year-old Fred McPherson Jr. The driver C. L. Smith hosted multiple children in the party. other passengers suffered only minor injuries.
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Associated Pross
Plainview
Lubbock
Fred McPherson, Jr
W. F. McPherson
C. L. Smith
Eleens
North Side to Hold Highway Meet Tonight
The third North Amarillo meeting on routing Highway 66 will be at 4 PM in Buchanan Junior High auditorium. Committees formed last meeting will report findings, and B L Richardson urges all interested Amarillo citizens to attend.
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Amarillo
Buchanan Junior High School
B. L. Michardson
North Side
Aged Confederate Veteran J M Berryman Dies at 72
J M Berryman 2, a late Confederate veteran, died at 6 45 am at his home 1917 Fillmore Street. Survived by brother A J Berryman sister Mrs T J Carver and niece Mrs A H Carter who cared for him. Services at Griggs chapel at 6 pm with Rev Robert Jones officiating. Burial Llano cemetery. Boxwell Bros ambulance. Pb 6211.
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J. M. Berryman
Fillmore Street
A. J. Berryman
Mra. T. J. Carver
Mra
A. H. Carter
Carter
Griggs Chapel
Robert Jones
Church of Christ
Llano Cemetery
Sunday Circus Again Halted in Texas
The Sunday performance of a circus at Falfurrians was stopped without ranger intervention after Brooks County officials advised against the show on Sunday in line with state law. Governor Moody had earlier sent rangers to Shamrock to halt a Sunday circus.
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Associated
Prema Austin
Falfurran
Texas Rangers
Bill Sterling
Brooks County
Sterling
Dan Moody
Shamrock
Bandits raid Lincoln National Bank for cash and securities
Five masked men robbed Lincoln National Bank in Lincoln Nebraska. They forced employees and customers to lie down, stole cash and an unknown amount of securities, and injured President W. F. Barkley and Cashier Phil Hall lightly. An initial claim of 1 million in securities was later denied by cashier J. T. Shields.
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Ling ON
Neb
Lincoln National Bank
Firet
J. T. Shields
Nmall
Securitien
W. F. Barkley
Phil Hall
Barkley
Hall
Coste and Bellonte land in Indianapolis after transatlantic flight
Major Dieudonne Coste and Lieut Maurice Bellonte, French aviators, landed at Mare Hill airport Indianapolis at 11:22 a m after a flight from Cleveland. The landing followed their successful transatlantic trek marking a historic aviation milestone. Separately, Robert H Jones Jr and W M Perry of Lubbock applied to the radio commission for authority to erect a 50 watt station on 1450 kilocycles with unlimited time.
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Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
America
Madame Coste
Madame Bellonte
Coste
Associated Prown
Indianapolis
Lieut
Mare Hill
Cleveland
Lubbock
Washington
Robert H. Jones
W. M. Perry
Lubtork
The
Radio Commission
Great drive on with 6000 cops seeking 26 men
Chicago's crime crackdown moves forward as 6000 police pursue 26 men listed as public enemies by Judge John H. Lyle. Capone and 36 underworld leaders are targeted under the 1874 vagrancy law, with bonds set at 10000 and radio and telegraph alerts issued citywide.
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United Press
Chicago
Army For
Scarface al Capone
Capone
John H. Lyle
Chicago Crime Commission
Lyle
BP. m
Ralph
Bugs’ Moran
George
Bugs” Moran
Maid
Bearface
Tony Volpe
Prank Rio
James Beleastra
Machine 1
Jack McGurn
Lawrence Mangano
Jack Guzik
Chef Charley Renfro Arrested in 1926 Asheville Murder Case
Amarillo chef Charley Renfro was detained on a murder charge in Asheville North Carolina from 1926. A letter he dictated to a stenographer using a fictitious name suggested he warned investigators he was alive. Deputies traced his presence to Amarillo and said he waived extradition to return to Asheville to face the charge.
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Charley Renfro
Amarillo
Anheville
N.C
Renfro
Asheville
Sam Ramacy
Rameey
Pupils to Plant 10000 Park Trees in Amarillo
Amarillo plans to plant ten thousand trees in city section parks, each tree representing a pupil. City officials approved advertising for bids on American elms box elders and silver maples. Mayor Thompson outlined the plan to honor every child by naming each tree after the planter.
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Amarillo
City Section
Ernest C. Thompson
Temple Robinson
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Thompson
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