Mortelito death and Lipton bid for cup in Brisbane era column
Arthur Brisbane reflects on Mortelito who hanged himself in Sing Sing after ten years there, questioning civilization and courage. He shifts to Thomas Lipton at 81 planning another cup bid, praising openness to new ideas and noting advances like a metal mast. The column ends with a jokey reference to a medical quip and a business line.
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Thomas Lipton
Europe
United States
Lipton
Harold S. Vanderbilt
Globe-News World Series Party Promises Live Play by Play
Globe-News invites baseball fans to a World Series party featuring a Playograph board that will display every pitch and play in real time. Workmen install the oversized board on the Sixth and Fillmore building as the Cardinals and Athletics open Wednesday at 1 30 Eastern. Streets near the paper will be roped off for the event with a likely record crowd anticipated.
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Globe-News
St. Louis Cardinals
Philadelphia Athletics
Sixth and
Fillmore
Amarillo
Globe News
Convict Escaped Camp Becomes Deputy Then Marries in Chicago
E A Pohl escaped from a Butte County road camp in 1929 and, during eight months at large, served as a sheriff's deputy in Kingman Arizona, married in Chicago, engaged in bootlegging, and toured Los Angeles before being arrested in Kansas City. He claimed threats from other convicts and was found guilty of escaping, sentenced to one to five years.
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Associated Press
San Quentin
Calif
Arizona
Chicago
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Marion County
E. A. Pohl
Butte
Stockton
Modesto
Kingman
Pohl
Albuquerque
Hoe
Caddy Dies After Assault At Oklahoma Country Club
Ben Riddling a 17 year old caddy died in Oklahoma City after being found beaten on the fairway of the Oklahoma Country Club golf course on September 22. He never regained consciousness as authorities renewed efforts to solve the mystery. The youth had been sleeping on the course for several nights with another boy who was cleared after proving he was at home when the attack occurred.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Ben Riddling
Oklahoma Country Club
Riddling
Shooter First War Gun Dies
Brigadier General William P. Burnham, who fired the first American gun in World War I, dies in San Francisco at age 70. He led the 82nd Division overseas, served on the Inter-Allied Military Commission, and was military attaché to Greece. He earned the Croix de Guerre, the Order of the Bath, and the Greek Military Merit Medal. The 1915 shot at the German ship Odenwald occurred before U.S. entry into the war.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
William P. Burnham
82Nd
Scranton
Burnham
Inter-Allied Military Commission
Greece
France
England
America
San Juan
Porto Rico
Writer and poet ends life in toast to girl in Los Angeles
Police report states 35 year old Robert Pew drank poison in a toast to 22 year old Helen Kim, a USC graduate. He warned it would be his last drink with her, attempting to drink again as she tried to stop him. He died at her feet minutes later, notes say he was despondent over recent failures to sell his work.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Robert Pew
Helen Kim
University of Southern California
Pew
Miss Kim
Dam Break Kills Twenty Near Mine in Jugoslavia
Forty lines of oblique dispatch report two tragedies in one day. A dam collapse near a mine in Jugoslavia is feared to have killed about twenty people with details still scarce. In England novelist William Pett Ridge died at Chislehurst on September 29.
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Alex Match
Jugoslavia
Chislehurst
Eng
William Pett Ridge
Roosevelt Demands City Employees Waive Immunity
Governor Roosevelt urges New York City employees to waive immunity before a special grand jury investigating magistrate appointments amid Tammany Hall resistance. Mayor Walker backs the effort while leaders including John F Curry had refused. The grand jury previously indicted ex magistrate George F Ewald and associates over paid appointment schemes.
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Associated Press
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Ity
Walker
Tammany
John F. Curry
George F. Ewald
Healy
Thomas J. Tom
Ewald
Charles H. Tuttle
Shooting trial jury chosen in Potter County case
William Short, owner of a local market, is charged with assault and intent to murder in the May 4 shooting of Mrs. Vera Panick. A jury was impaneled in Judge Bishop's criminal court after Short posted 2500 bond. Short says he shot at a car he believed contained a burglar fleeing his yard after returning from church. Panick, parked under a street light to powder her face, was struck in the arm but not seriously hurt.
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Vera Panick
William Short
Judge Bishop's Criminal Court
Potter County
Grand Jury
Short
Panick
Oil Proration Case Challenging Production Rules
Oklahoma City September 20. Federal court began hearing a proration dispute over oil production in Oklahoma. Champlin Refining Company seeks to break proration orders. attorneys for the state, Mid Continent Oil and Gas Association, and independents present before Judge John H. Coteral and judges R L Williams and F E Kennamer.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Champlin Refining Company
Mid Continent Oil and Gas Association
United States
John H. Cotteral
Circuit Court of Appeals
R. L. Williame
F. E. Kennamer
Winners Urged To Call For Awards At Fair Grounds
Tri State Pair winners urged to call at fair grounds offices Monday or Tuesday to claim prizes and trophies. Wilbur C. Hawk president of the Fair Association will be at the fair office all day Monday and Tuesday to handle the matter promptly.
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Tri- State
Fair Grounds
Wilbur C. Hawk
The
Fair Association
Atiis
Lays Distress At G O P Door
Senator Wagner assails the Hoover administration at the Democratic state convention in Syracuse charging disillusionment and economic crisis. He says Washington is leaderless and the party failed to solve problems, with breadlines and apathy growing in 1930. Garner links GOP campaign funds to large tax refunds, naming donors who benefited from liberal refunds policy.
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Thomas G. Ford
United Press
Syracuse
N. Y
Republican Party
Herbert Hoover
Robert F. Wagner
Washington
Hoover
Wagner
Tpy
Associated Press
Representative Garner
Texas
Treasury
Republican Chest
Garner
Call for Bank Statements Issued by Currency Comptroller
The comptroller of the currency issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of the close of business Wednesday, September 24. The notice appears in The Anece in Washington dated September 20.
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Anece
Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
Vernon to Attend Meet at Dallas
Manager C V Vernon of the Chamber of Commerce will attend the annual convention of Texas Commercial Secretaries and Directors in Dallas on October 17. Delegates to the convention will be guests of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce and it is planned visitors spend a day at the State Fair.
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C. V. Vernon
Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Dallas
Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Hoover to Speak in Cleveland Boston and Kings Mountain
President Hoover plans a three city series October 2 6 and 10 to outline administration goals and problems for 1929 30 He will avoid prohibition in remarks and stress economic issues while sidestepping New York state politics He is expected to address labor at the American Federation of Labor meeting in Boston and to present an optimistic outlook for economic recovery.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hoover
Prohibition
Cleveland
Boston
Kings Mountain
N. C
New York
Shas Didate
Mr. Hoover
New York State
American Federation of Labor
Hearst Denies Treaty Charge Amid Counterpoints
Hearst on national radio denies secret Anglo-French treaty was stolen or bribed and argues he aimed no harm to France. He cites acquittals of two French couriers and questions US officials’ role in protecting citizens abroad. Also notes Southwestern Public Service audit shows $1.5 million in 1920 improvements as Amarillo weighs rate changes.
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New York
William Randolph Hearst
France
Washington
Hearst
Southwestern Public Service Company
City Commission
Amarillo
Power Company
Burglar Cracks Church Lock Steals Offering and Wine
A burglar picked a lock in the rector of fice at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Amarillo late Sunday night or Monday morning. The thief escaped with $7 from Sunday school offerings and a bottle of sacramental wine, drinking a small amount in the sacristy. Police were told by secretary Mina Mary Scott, with the rector Rev. F P A Fonter noting the office door remained locked when found.
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St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Ninth
Fillmore
Amarillo
Mina Mary Scott
FP. A. Fonter
Misa Scott
Wald
Guggenheim Rites Tuesday
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Daniel Guggenheim philanthropist who died yesterday at age 74 in Port Washington. His fortune came from major industries led by American Smelting and Refining Company and he funded the Guggenheim fund promoting sermautics supporting Lindbergh goodwill flight and a $160,000 prize for a fool proof plane. He also backed airman search efforts and astronaut promotion with large gifts despite recent poor health.
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Bn United Preas
New York
Daniel Guggenheim
Port Washington, D. 1
Home Guggenheim
American Smelting and Refining Company
Paria
Nungesser
Coll
Guggenheimer
Atronauters
Philanthr
M Guggenheim
Chicago fights crime as gangsters plan payoff to officials
Chicago police moved to disrupt organized crime with transfers of detectives and arrests of gang leaders including Terry Druggan and Mike Meitl er. Police surrounded homes of Capone associates while reporting a "notice" offering bonuses to corrupt officials. The drive targets the East Chicago Avenue area in a broad crackdown on public enemies.
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Associated Press
Chicago
al Capone
Terry Druggan
Mike de Pike
Heltler
Hospitale
Druggan
Meitler
Herald Examiner
Chicago Avenue
Ene Miley
T Syndicate
Fire Prevention Week Observed In Amarillo
Amarillo prepares for Fire Prevention Week from October 9 through 11 with education efforts. Fire Chief G B Cooper stresses prevention over firefighting and urges school cooperation to fight the danger of fires, referencing the Chicago blaze started by Mrs O Learys cow. Plans were announced at Fire Station No 1 in City Hall.
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O’leary
Amarillo
O'Leary
Chicago
G. B. Cooper
Cooper
Hasarde
Ce 1
Tri-State Exposition Posts Best Year Despite Slump
The Tri-State Exposition closed with its best year yet though attendance dipped. Estimates ranged from 350000 to 330000 as weather and a circus a week before the fair reduced revenue by about 35000. Despite a 10000 surplus, organizers say the circus cut into profits by around 5000, yet visitors came from more distant cities and more locales than before due to superior exhibits and broadcasted programs from Amarillo.
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South
Bouthweet
Tri-State Exposition
Wilburn
Fair Association
Hawk
Vinitora
Amarilla
Accuse Wife in Car Blast Death in Akron
Akron authorities say 37 year old Mrs. Barnes and 48 year old Marshall W. Corneil plotted the dynamite blast that killed Clarence R. Barnes, a roofing salesman, to obtain his $2,000 life insurance. They were to be arraigned on first degree murder charges amid claims Corneil lent a car for the fatal explosion.
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Associated Prensa
Akron
Clarence R. Barnes
Summit County
Barnes
Marshall W. Corneil
Ed McDonnell
Cornell
McDonnell
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