Probe recess in utilities case today
National Electric Light Association campaign materials cited by witnesses show Hoover speech distributed in 1925 to oppose federal regulation of utilities. Testimony lists payments to prominent figures and notes the inquiry will resume tomorrow with additional documents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
National Electric Light Association
Herbert Hoover
Federal Trade Commission
Hoover
Harold Phelps Stokes
George F. Oxley
National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners
William Allen White
Kansas
John D. Sherman
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Bruce Barton
Sherman
Barton
James Mavor
Ontario
Canada
Charles A. Lory
Colorado Agriculture College
James T. Williams
Boston Transcript
W. B. D. Ainey
Pennsylvania Public Service Commission
S. Wyzr
English sparrows judged pests in national study
A government bulletin declares the English sparrow largely destructive in Amarillo and across the United States, harming native songbirds, crops, and gardens while offering little conservation value. It notes their aggressive spread, limited insect control, and calls for trapping or poisoning with trapping favored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Amarillo
Panhandle
America
United States
Canada
Bureau of Birds
Utah
Smith campaign train reaches Enid with Oklahoma leaders aboard
AL SMITH TEAMS train stops at Enid where former Oklahoma governors Cruce Walton and Trapp join along with Scott Ferris and other party leaders. Ferris predicts a Smith Robinson victory as Oklahoma trends toward the governor, while Mrs Warner greets supporters and Ferris comments on favorable outlook before election day. A possible overnight fire near the rail line is unconfirmed. Mrs Burl Wheeler attends local training course in Abilene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fl Reno
Oklahoma City
John A. Warner
Smith
Enid
Oklahoma
Cruce
Walton
Trapp
Scott Ferris
Ferris
Smith's
Houston
Burl Wheeler
Abilene
First Methodist Church
Sire
J. J. Walker
Fair Attendance Rising as Preparations Continue
More than 50 000 visitors projected for the Tri-State fair with entries in nearly every department. Domestic Arts entries closed. livestock barns fill. agricultural booths set up. box seat tickets available. Roswell and Panhandle boosters plan trains. many schools to close for the event and multiple towns pledge delegations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. G. Nunn
Agricultural Department
Winter Garden Revue at Fair Features W T T C Colors
The West Texas State Teachers College colors maroon and white will illuminate the Tri-State fair stage for the Winter Garden Revue. Twenty chorus girls from the Madden School of Dancing in St. Louis will perform in red and white costumes with red hats and jackets. Director J H Weber says the chorus stands out as unusually lively and well trained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Texas State Teachers College
Schooley & Collins
Tri-State Fair
J. H. Weber
Weber
Amarillo
Canyon
America
Mr. Weber
Madden School of Dancing
St. Louis
Flamingoes Wiped Out by West Indian Hurricane
The AP reports the West Indian hurricane may have wiped out the last flamingo colony in the West Indies and southern United States. Nature groups fear the birds on Andros Island in the Bahamas could not have survived the latest blow after earlier near extinction from a previous hurricane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
American Nature Association
West Indies
United States
Association
Andros Island
Bahamas
Andros
England
800 Dead in Florida Storm Area
A complete survey of the hurricane struck area around Okeechobee and Miami today placed the death toll at about 800. State adjutant Howard Rowton and a United Press correspondent toured the devastated 65 square mile region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
West Palm Beach
Fla
Okeechobee
Miami Lock
Howard Rowton
American Legion
United Press
de. J. W. Buch
Belleglade
New Menace in Porto Rican Disaster
Angel Ramos reports from San Juan that fires threaten storm wreckage as fallen tinder dry trees ignite. National guard clears streets with commercial trucks due to city truck shortages. over 700000 people homeless. Porto Rico Power Company loses 3 million dollars in two Comerio plants. weeks to restore service. In Aibonito 456 tobacco ranches destroyed and 806 homeless. Red Cross aids town mayors. emergency committees form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angel Ramos
United Press
San Juan
Porto Rico
National Guard
Porto Rico Railway, Light & Power Company
Comerio
Aibonito
Red Cross
Northcott murder farm case shifts to extradition
Southern California officers suspend bone search as Gordon Stuart Northcott and his mother Louise face extradition after arrests in Canada. Riverside DA begins proceedings while authorities confirm the duo as principals in a torturous murder case on the Riverside chicken farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Los Angeles
Northcott
California
Canada
Riverside County District Attorney's Office
Gordon Stuart Northcott
Louise Northcott
Riverside
Vernon
B. C
Calgary
Alberta
Sanford Clark
Rex Walsh
Angerman Stands Trial in Theft Case at District Court
A. H. Angerman faces trial in district criminal court at 9 AM for theft of more than 50 dollars in tools alleged stolen from Rhodes Automobile Top Shop on Harrison Street. Jury selection and witness questioning began around 10, with E. T. Dusty Miller for defense and Grady Hazelwood for the state. A verdict was expected that afternoon. Separately, a 75-man special venue was summoned for Ted Harte on a statutory offense to be tried Monday, with Ralph Fessler indicted jointly and awaiting severance. Both youths are about 18. Harte has been jailed without bail, Fessler released on 5,000 dollar bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Angerman
Angerman
Rhodes Automobile
Harrison Street
E. T
Dusty” Miller
Grady Hazelwood
Ted Harte
Ralph Fessler
Harte
Fessler
Reinhardt and Partners Plan Film at Leopoldskron Castle
A film alliance formed at Max Reinhardt's Leopoldskron castle near Salzburg includes Morris Gest Joseph Schenck and Lillian Gish. They will produce Everyman directed by Reinhardt with Gish as Madonna. Reinhardt also plans new Vienna stages and another American tour with his company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Vienna
Max Reinhardt
Leopoldskron
Salzburg
Morris Gest
Joseph Schenck
United Artists Corporation
Lillian Gish
Reinhardt
United Artists
Everyman
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
der Josefstadt
Theater
An de Wein
Stadttheater
New York
Modern Girls in White Collar Jobs Debate Home maker Role
Denver report on Mrs. C. C. Casey addressing the Colorado Federation of Women's clubs warns modern women in white collar roles threaten the American home. She cites divorces per marriages and calls for renewed focus on home making and practical education like domestic science and nursing. Opal Guthrie joins Amarillo Business College for secretarial courses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Denver
C. C. Casey
Colorado Federation of Women's Clubs
Heligoland Rebuffs Prussian Beach Dam Plan
Heligoland residents reject a multi million mark Prussian plan to build a dam to save the island beach, insisting the condition to transfer beach ownership is unacceptable. The island faces economic collapse as tourism would vanish if the beach erodes, while tensions with Prussia trace to postwar governance and tax privileges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International
Hamburg
Heligoland
North Sea
Idea credited to poor stunt flier
Chicago reports credit for launching Americas air mail system to Paul Beck a student flyer and his press agent in 1912 at Coney Island Ohio. The initial four mile mail route carried 560 first class pieces at normal rates over three days. By 1929 air mail serves 102 cities in 35 states with millions of miles flown annually.
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International News Service
Chicago
America
Harold Crary
American Air Transport Association
Paul Beck
Beck
Coney Island
Cincinnati
Postal Department
California
Ohio
Post Office Department
Philadelphia
New York
Rehearsal to Be Held Here for Amarillo Singers
An important rehearsal will be held for Amarillo singers at 8 o'clock tonight in the Polk Street Methodist church. Singers will take part in the Amarillo College of Music program Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening under Emil F. Myers and Rev. C. R. Hooton. Directors hope for a choir of several hundred voices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tri-States
Polk Street Methodist Church
Amarillo Singers
Amarillo College of Music
Emil F. Myers
C. R. Hooton
Junior High Organizes Fire Patrol
Central Junior High School forms a fire patrol led by G Moe the mechanical drawing teacher. Two boys from each homeroom patrol hazard sites during fire drills and receive safety training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Junior High
G. Moe
Local News and Personal Notices from Amarillo Area
Miss Leora May entered the stenographic department at Amarillo Business College. A baby boy was born September 10 to Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Askew of 901 North Taylor. Miss Mamie Wilson of Dalhart began a combined course at the Amarillo Business College. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Waltz returned from a vacation in Chicago and the East. Ted Pinneo joined the stenographic department. Miss Irene McGolden of Waynoka enrolled for a secretarial course at the Amarillo Business College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leora May
Amarillo Business College
Emmett Askew
North Taylor Street
Mamie Wilson
Dalhart
Amarillo
Irene McGolden
Waynoka
The Printer Speaks to a Keyboard in Verse
A poem laments a writer’s device, a keyboard, and imagines the tools writing future legal briefs and medical prose. The narrator contrasts potential doctor and lawyer uses with the keyboard’s fate and wonders what verses and thoughts it will reveal.
Kansas City and Chicago livestock markets mixed on Sept 20
Hogs and cattle across Kansas City Chicago and East St Louis show varied price moves with hogs generally lower, cattle mixed, and calves and sheep active. Reports note top hog prices around 12.36 at KC, and broader shifts in midwestern markets with continued demand for grading stock and stockers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Chicago
Eeeva
ST. Louis
Advertising urged to boost cotton trade against rivals
The piece argues for stronger business advertising in cotton textiles as silk and rayon dominance grows. It notes wage cuts and mill closures are insufficient, references Edward C. Stokes on prohibition, and mentions Aubrey Frier advancing in the Ama Sound course. The column then lists stock movements and prices across many companies, from Packard to GM and Bethlehem Steel, plus numerous railroad and oil firms, reflecting a bustling market snapshot.
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AL Smith
Fair
Tri-State Fair Administration
Fair Park
Polk Street
Business Men's Association
Roswell
Santa Fe Railroad
Portales
Clovis
R. C. Campbell
Moore County
Borger
Dumas
Channing
Claude
McLean
Joe Montgomery
Plainview
Shamrock
Clarendon
Hereford
Memphis
Winter Garden
W.T.T.C
Lake Okeechobee
Horace M. Towner
French West Indies
Guadeloups
Ruth Roberts
U.S
Opal Guthrie
Texline
Prussia
Ambassador von Maltgan
League of Nations
Sansibar
League
Ver
Alease
Edgar A, Guest
Liverpool Cotton iBy
Liverpool
The
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Gere
Tokyo
Montreal
National Power and Light
Montgomery
Wright Aeronautical
American Zinc
General Motors
Vreeport Texas
Briggs
Kroger
Sterling
Byerech
Howe
James E. Bennett
Edward C. Stokes
New Jersey
Aubrey Frier
Lovington
Sound
Atlantic Refining
Gillette Safety Razor
Woolworth
Motors
Packard
Briggs Manufacturing
Baltimore & Ohio
Barnedall Corporatio
Bethlehem Steel
California Petroleum
Cerro de Pasco Copper
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. P
Rock Peanay & P
Chrysler
Coca ‘Cola
Colorado Fuel ‘& Iron Tom
Colorado & Southern
Crucible Steel
Dodge Motors
du Pont de Nemours
Famous Players Fish Rubber
Fleischmann Yeast
Freeport-Texas
General Asphalt
General Electric
Great Western Sugar
Houston Oil
Hudson Motors
Hup Motors
Illinois Central Independent Oil Inspiration Copper
Middle States Oil
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Missouri Pacific
Montgomery Ward & Cos
Moon Motors
Nash Motors National Biscuit
Packard Motor
S-Seece
Pan-American Re
Trans Bell
Pennsylvania
R. Ro
Pere-Marquette Producers & Refiners
Pure Oil
Sears, Roebuck & Co
James E. Bennett & Negis Allied Chemical & Dye
American Locomotive
American Smelting & Big
American Steel & Foundry
American
American Woolen
Anaconda Copper
Atchison, Topeka
Jordan Motors
Kansas City Southern
Kelly-Springfield
Kennecott Copper
Louisiana Oil & Refining
Mack Trucks
Victrola
Radiola
Polk
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