Gang Leader Tom Dunn Captured After Texas Bank Robbery
The bank heist at First National in Mexico Missouri netted 23775. Tom Dunn, 23, identified by W T Hightower of Fort Worth as the former Texas athlete. Hightower’s son Wilburn was killed during the posse chase. Dunn had claimed to be Tom Davis of Atlanta and was seized January 4 after a hills hunt. He is linked to a Texas education career spanning 31 years.
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Mexico
First National Bank
Tom Dunn
Allas
Texas
W. T. Hightower
Fort Worth
Hightower
Wilburn Hightower
Dunn
Here
Tom Davis
Atlanta
W. Il Holmes
Amarillo
Alaska
Hoover
Hugh Exum
Houston
Texas Republican Organization
Holmes
R. B. Creager
Brownsville
Washington
Exum
Ses
Republican Party
Southwest
Territory
Lindbergh Heads West on Transcontinental Air Route Tour
Col Charles A Lindbergh arrived at Philadelphia airport at 1 02 pm and started a Ford monoplane flight at 2 45 pm for Philadelphia as the first leg of a transcontinental airway inspection tour. He and Casey Jones will review Transcontinental Airlines landing fields and facilities with Columbus Ohio set as eastern terminus.
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Philadelphia
Charles A. Lindbergh
Philadelphia Navy Yard
New York
Lindbergh
Transcontinental Air Transport Company
Casey Jones
Air Mail
Ohio
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas Sunday
Sunday fair and cooler in Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas and Panhandle colder with fair conditions. New Mexico also fair. High pressure trends include above normal readings in the western Rockies and Gulf coast while Lake region runs below normal. Temperatures show yesterday's noon at 56 with a 56 maximum for the day.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Rocky Mountain
West Gulf Coast
Idaho
Texas
Lake
Central Plains
Special plane sent to save life delayed by weather
A special airmail plane carrying oxygen inhalation equipment ordered by Dr A C Scott of Temple for his four year old grandson Sunnie Childers faced delays. Stiff headwinds and no night landing facilities thwarted arrival in Fort Worth, forcing a rail or auto transfer to Temple and risking the child's influenza complications.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
New York
A. C. Scott
Temple
Lunnie Childers
Chicago
Bay
Tex
Sunnie” Childers
Texas State Medical Association
Southern Surgical Society
Scott
Roxbury
Massachusetts
National Air Transport
Toledo
Was
Great Tunnel in Cascade I is Ready for Use
The Great Northern railroad dedicated a long Cascade tunnel near Scenic Washington. It is the western hemisphere’s longest and fifth longest in the world, eight miles through the Cascades, cutting Seattle Spokane travel time. Hoover to speak by radio. ceremonies headlined by Campbell Atterbury and others. Construction took three years at a cost of 15 million dollars, with shaft work 622 feet deep and massive rock trains lowering materials.
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United Press
Scenic
Wash
America
Great Northern Railroad
Cascade Mountains
Hemisphere
Cascades
Seattle
Spokane
Hoover
Johnston B. Campbell
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington, D. C
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
Gramah McNamee
New York
Alps
Denver Boys Drown In Ice Ditch Tragedy
In Denver on January 12 Paul Finnegan and Harold Boehm both five years old drowned after stepping onto thin ditch ice. Boehm died trying to save Finnegan, authorities reported a fatal ice accident in a local ditch.
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Denver
Associated Press
Paul Finnegan
Harold Boehm
Boehm
Finnegan
Denver offers prizes for around world flight and Mars contact
Denver editor F G Bonfils announced a $50,000 cash prize for a non stop airplane trip around the world and $25,000 for establishing contact with a planet. Prizes run to Jan 1 1931 and require the flight to start and end in Denver along the 40th meridian.
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United Press
Denver
F. G. Bonfils
Denver Post
Beacon offers 410000 for round the world flight
Max M. Levand of the Wichita Beacon pledges 41000 toward a fund for a nonstop world flight by Colonel Arthur Gobel in a Wichita built airplane. The proposed route follows the 40th meridian from Lincoln to Denver then across the Atlantic via Lisbon Madrid Naples Smyrna Baku to India and China before crossing the Pacific to San Francisco Salt Lake City and Denver.
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Associated Press
Wichita
Kan
Max M. Levand
The
Wichita Beacon
Arthur C. Gobel
Ley
40Th Meridian
Lincoln
Nebr
Des Moines
Iowa
Indianapolis
Springfield
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Thenton
Long Island
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Azores
Europe
Lisbon
Madrid
Naples
Smyrna
Baku
Caspian Sea
Turkestan
Samarkand
Angora
India
Tanker Trinidadian Aground Off Florida Shoals
The tanker Trinidadian lies on rocks at Gilbert's Shoals south of Jacksonville with 26 crew aboard. A West Palm Beach tug manned to free the vessel, while two rescue ships the tug Warbler and the coast guard cutter Yamacraw race to the scene. The Trinidadian had just delivered oil at Gulf Refining terminals in St. John's river harbor and had been en route to Port Arthur.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Gilbert’s Shoals
Here
West Palm Beach
Warbler
Coast Guard
Port Arthur
Gulf Refining Company
St. John’s River Harbor
Santa Fe Acts Again in Race for New Line
The South Plains seeks an Interstate Commerce Commission extension from the Texas New Mexico line to Lovington New Mexico to counter Texas and Pacific plans to extend into Winkler County. Texas and Pacific also seeks to reach Lovington from Monahans, Texas, with lines running near the Santa Fe route through Lea County.
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Sunday News Globe
Washington, D. C
South Plains
Santa Fe Railway Company
Texas and Pacific
Winkler County
Texas
Lea County
New Mexico
Interstate Commerce Commission
Texas-New Mexico
Lovington
N. M
The
Texan and Pacific
Prisoners Pray For Ill Warden At Huntsville
In Huntsville Texas prisoners at the state penitentiary gathered in the chapel to pray for ill warden E F Harrell. They presented him a silver loving cup donated by inmates engraved To our friend and warden KE , Harrell From the boy 1929 and joined Chaplain Miller in a prayer for divine providence to spare one who has acted as a friend to prisoners and worked to improve life behind the walls.
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Huntsville
Tex
E. F. Harrell
Harrell
Miller
Robison pleased by oil land law change in Texas
Austin Jan. 12 Land Commissioner J J Robison welcomed repeal of the law blocking sales of leases on Texas university lands He favored committee inquiry into university mineral rights sales and suggested a regular or special investigation if needed He argued the sale was a legal duty despite disagreement with university regents governor and attorney general In the background a hearing on Wednesday could render the injunction against the commissioner unnecessary as Trueheart prepared permanent restraint steps
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas University Oi
J. J. Robison
Robison
Janda
Land Office
Trueheart
Hereford Civic Leader Dies in Heart Attack
Hereford on Jan 72 residents mourn D. F. Ashbrook 66 found dead in his office of heart failure. Auvhbrook a longtime real estate and insurance agent and civic leader, founder of Hereford chamber of commerce, director at First State Bank. Funeral Sunday at Methodist church with ministers officiating. body to be sent to Missouri for burial.
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Sunday News Globe
Hereford
Plains Country
D. F. Ashbrook
Auvhbrook
First State Bank
C. of
Ashbrook
Steigler
Missouri
Hereford Chamber of Commerce
E. Bet Black Funeral
Methodist Church
B. Bowen
W. M. Pearce
Amarillo
M. M. Beavers
Plainview
Army endurance plane to stay at Rockwell Field till Monday
San Diego reports indicate the record breaking army endurance plane will remain at Rockwell Field through the weekend and likely depart Monday for Dallas en route to Washington. The crew reportedly prefers to stay over the weekend despite a possible early departure tomorrow.
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Associated Press
San Diego
Cal
Rockwell Field
Dallas
Texas
Washington
Army Operations Office
Janitor Says No Gasoline In $300,000 Plant
Fort Worth fire probe expands as authorities question janitor and Fort Worth fire chief about cause after a blaze damaging the First Baptist church and a nearby plant worth $300,000. Investigators examine evidence, coordinates, and possible accelerants while residents await updates.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
First Baptist Church
Norris in Austin on anti racing broadcasts and race bill
United Pheer reports Rev J Frank Norris aimed to broadcast anti racing material from Austin via station KTAT while a Texas bill to legalize horse racing was being prepared. The proposal would create a state horseracing commission to oversee meets and restrict betting. A portion of receipts would fund registered stock for farmers in the hosting county.
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United Pheer
Austin
J. Frank Norris Wan
KTAT
Texan
Choral Racing Commission
Fire probes into Sunday school annex blaze
A four story Sunday school annex fire today prompted two investigations. The district attorney and Fire Marshal Ligon each conducted inquiries while Rev J Frank Norris in Austin met with the DA's office. A chemical analysis was ordered of a tub contents and a tub and five gallon gasoline jug were found in the annex.
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J. Frank Norris
Austin
Colorado Boy Loses $20,000 to Hijackers
In Ludlow and Trinidad Colorado, a mail robbery targeting a Victor American Fuel payroll bound for Delagua yielded about $20,000. Three masked assailants forced driver Charles Festi to stop, opened nine mail sacks, and escaped with the payroll while ordering him to flee. Police searched rugged terrain for the bandits, believed to be Mexicans.
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Associated Press
Trinidad
Colo
Here
Charles Festi
Victor-American Fuel Company
Delagua
United Press
Ludlow
Festi
Festi Auto
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