Roving Correspondent Hops Off In Hurry For Scene Of Conflict
The Globe roving correspondent Hubert Cole travels with Lieut. Robert H. Gray to Kansas City and Chicago for the Tunney Dempsey event. The flight, refueling at Wichita, covers a brisk journey as the party chases news of the boxing showdown.
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Hubert Cole
the Globe
Kansas City
Amarillo
Robert H. Gray
Gordon Palmer
Gray
Gene Tunney
Jack Dempsey
Chicago
George Rickard
Wichita
Four Suspects Freed in Brown County Kidnapping Case
Four men held for kidnapping Sheriff Fred White of Brown County were released after the sheriff failed to identify them. Citizens and officers in Brown and nearby counties continued a search for the four, who abducted the sheriff and whom he escaped from during a gun battle early Tuesday. Suspicious locals were questioned about the incident.
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Associated Press
Brownwood
Texas
Fred White
Brown County
Brown
Unsettled Weather With Warmer Thursday Forecast
The forecast calls for unsettled conditions tonight and Thursday with warmer temperatures expected on Thursday. Temperature readings from today show 52 at 7 am, 59 at noon, and peaking around 65 degrees by 1 pm, with prior hours up to the upper 60s.
West Coast air race opens with non stop flight start
Eddie Stinson flies from Roosevelt Field at 2 p m eastern time to Spokane initiating the National Air Derby non stop triangle race. Three sturdy planes prepare for a 2 500 mile flight aimed to finish in Spokane by tomorrow night with favorable weather reported and moderate winds forecast.
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Roosevelt Field
Eddie Stinson
Detroit
Spokane
Nited
N. Y
New York
John MacReady
Oakley G. Kelly
San Diego
California
Here
Maj
A. C. Davidson
Mitchell Field
James H. Kimball
U. S. Weather Bureau
Lake Amarillo Named by City Commission
The city commission settled on Lake Amarillo as the official name for the large lake in the water supply, replacing competing names such as Lake Bivins. The lake, extending over two miles up the canyon, was affirmed after a Real Estate Board resolution urging the change.
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Lake
Amarillo
Tack
Powers That Be
Lake Bivins
Lake Amarillo
Real Estate Board
Indicted for Assault in 302 West 11th Attack
Henry Steele, identified as a negro, faces an indictment for assault with intent to murder after allegedly striking Mrs. J. C. Bon telle in her home on West 11th with a bear bottle. Steele was arrested August 16 and jailed in a Panhandle county before being moved back to Potter County. The grand jury returned seven more felony indictments, totaling 86 bills at this term.
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Henry Steele
Steele
J. C. Bontell
West 11Th
Panhandle
Potter County
Fourth Rural Route Out of City Approved
Washington approves establishing a fourth rural mail route from Amarillo. Route No. 3 will run from Fillmore north to Fourteenth Street then to Beverly Gardens via Pleasant Valley Hillcrest Acres and surrounding areas before returning to the Panhandle highway and River road. Service starts November 16 and will serve a large number of patrons with involvement from Congressman Marvin Jones.
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Washington
Fillmore
Fourteenth
Beverly Gardens
Pleasant Valley
Hillcrest Acres
Panhandle Highway
River Road
Children’s Home
Amarillo
Quincy Ford
G. H. Tyson
J. E. Ware
Marvin Jones
Nun and 19 Children Die in Saskatchewan Mission Fire
A Beauval Roman Catholic mission in northern Saskatchewan was destroyed by fire on Monday. One nun and nineteen children perished, according to word received from Big River Saskatchewan. The isolated mission site prompted ambulance response and ongoing investigations.
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Prince Albert, Sask
Beauval
Las la Plonge
Big River
Sask
Saskatchewan
Tex Says He Never Seed Anything Like Big Racket
In a 1900s style reminiscence Jimmy Powers recalls a saloon scene in which two men mock a $15,000 boxing offer to Joe Humphries and Terrible Terry McGovern. The piece contrasts the coal town Goldfield Nevada telegrams with an era of bold bets and blunt talk.
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Tex
Jimmy Powers
New York
Goldfield
Nevada
George Rickard
Joe Humphries
Terry McGovern
New National Defense Plan Advocated at Legion Convention
At Paris on September 21 the American Legion urged consolidating all defense branches into one department with separate secretaries for each branch including aviation. The plan sparked a heated debate over immediate implementation versus action “as soon as warranted.” Former General William Mitchell pressed for immediate aviation autonomy under a cabinet secretary, warning of vulnerabilities to European air networks and the potential of a $15,000 plane to threaten ships worth $76,000,000.
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Army
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Davis
Associated Press
Palais DU Trocadero
Paris
Aviation
National Defense Committee of the American Legion
Legion
National Defense
William Mitchell
American Aviation Service
Gilligan
Mitchell
Department of Aviation
Spirit
Europe
United States
Am arillo Tri-State Exposition paid major expenses
John B. Gilvin and Bob Emmett reported the Amarillo real estate board that all major expense items for the Tri-State exposition have been paid in cash. The final audit will show a deficit, but premiums amusements and labor are covered. J. E. Biggs discussed real estate trends and urged Panhandle agriculture, paved highways, and citizen development to boost values.
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Amarillo Tri-State Exposition
John B. Gilvin
Amarillo
Showers
J. E. Biggs
Real Estate Board
Panhandle
Youth Reunited After Seventeen Years with Relatives
John Harold McKibben aged 21 was found by relatives in Joplin Missouri after seventeen years apart. He had lived as the adopted son of a Mexican family since age four and was known as Juan Cravez. His mother died in infancy and his father passed away in California fourteen years ago.
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Joplin, Mo
John Harold McKibben
Juan Cravez
California
Judges condemn Dempsey bond stance in Tunney bout case
In Chicago on September 21 Judge Harry Fisher criticized Dempsey and his lawyers for refusing to post a bond in a suit over alleged contract violations tied to the Tunney Dempsey fight. The ruling followed Indiana decree concerns, with bond set at 45 000 and a warning to honor the order until reversed.
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Perea
Chicago
Gene Tunney
Jack Dempsey
Philadelphia
Indiana
Dempsey
Harry Wills
Harry Fisher
Coliseum
Fisher
Soldiers’ Field
Elmer J. Schnackenberg
South Park
B. KB. Clements
Coliseum Club
Dempseyf Willy
New Postoffice Ice Boxes Installed In City
The post office received 910 new lock boxes yesterday and has installed them. Rentals begin next Tuesday September 27 after boxes are keyed and clerical work completed. The system more than doubles current facilities. Potter County Lumber Company supplies phone 510.
Tunney Faces Rising Backlash as Dempsey Fervor Grows
Chicago reporting notes a public shift against Gene Tunney ahead of a planned bout, with many fans now favoring Jack Dempsey. An arena poll shows 520 to 80 support for Dempsey among Yellow Cab drivers, while critics accuse Tunney of snobbery and detachment from regular fans.
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Yellow Cab Company
Dempsey
Tunney
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