Outlaws Suspected In Borger Policeman Slaying
J H Walker and Ed Bailey, charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Coke Buchanan, Borger night policeman, were released on 3500 bond after arraignment but were later re arrested when new evidence was found and taken to Stinnett jail. Descriptions by officer Neal implicate Ray Terrell and Matthew Kimes as possible fugitives in the party.
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Associated Press
Borger
Texas
J. H. Walker
Ed Bailey
Coke Buchanan
Justice of the Peace
M. Spencer
Stinnett
J. O. Cooke
Cooke
University Campaign Towal Set To Launch Tuesday For Road Bonds
Mayor Lee Bivins proclaims College Week and launches a city wide drive to fund the University of Amarillo project. Over 100 salesmen will offer 1000 residence lots near the campus with prices from 750 to 1260 dollars. University headquarters and shop access provided. 25 business men named as captains with 3 assistants each to push the campaign on a business basis.
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Lee Bivins
University of Amarillo
Northwest Texas Methodist Conference
Amarillo
Panhandle Plains
Texas
University Park
W. M Pearce
Amarillo Hotel
Ben Short
Mr. Short
Potter County to vote $500000 road bond for Panhandle route
Potter County commissioners called a session to set a date for a $500000 road bond election to fund a hard surfaced road from Amarillo to the four corners where Potter Hutchinson Moore and Carson counties meet. Petition signed by 126 taxpayers seeks April 23 earliest date. 60 signatures required. No action on J B Walker proposal. bond vote delays other plans. County hospital bonds refunded saving over $12000.
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Potter County
Panhandle of
Fields
Amarillo
Four Corners
Potter
Hutchinson
Moore
Arson
Carson
Deal
J. B. Walker
Walker
Sam BR. Motlow
Borger Police Officer Fatally Wounded in Shootout
Coke Buchanan of the Borger police department was shot six times on Dixon street, falling to the dust with his own pistol. Two men, Hugh Walker and Ed Bailey, are jailed in connection with the shooting, while two others remain at large as officers pursue them across counties. Ray Terrell is linked to the killing as a known bank bandit with rewards posted in multiple states. Believed to have been allied with Terrell, the two have been seen together recently.
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Borger
Dixon Street
Coke Buchanan
Hugh Walker
Ed Bailey
Ray Terrell
Pretty widow jailed for death of broker
In Macon Georgia on March 19 Mrs Eva Tanner a pretty widow was placed in Bibb county jail on a murder warrant. She reportedly accompanied cotton broker E B Hogan when he was shot dead on a lonely road ten miles from Macon Wednesday night.
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Macon
Eva Tanner
Bibb County
Flapper Bandit Faces Arson Trial Tomorrow
Rebecca Bradley Rogers under indictment for December bank robbery in Buda is set for trial Monday in Georgetown on arson charges related to a vacant Round Rock frame building fire the day before the robbery. Her attorney said a continuance may be sought due to her husband Otis Rogers being critically ill.
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Associated Press
Austin
Rebecca Bradley Rogers
Buda Bank
Georgetown
Round Rock
Buda
Amarillo Weather Forecast For Sunday
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for Sunday fair conditions with colder conditions in the southern portion of the region. West Texas may see fair but cooler weather, while New Mexico is partly cloudy. A large high pressure system over the Dakotas influences the eastern Rocky Mountain region and Plains states, with light rain or snow possible in northern Rockies and plains.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Rocky Mountain Region
Dakotas
Rocky Mounfind
Plains States
News-Globe Plans 85 000 Expansion For New Press and Additions
The News-Globe will spend over 85 000 starting next month to expand its equipment and quarters. A one story addition to the building is planned with a new 82 page high speed press and plate glass view to the street. The paper will retain its current press, adding two complete presses for reliability, and install a Playergraph machine to cover world series returns. A United Press full leased wire service contract begins in mid April, joining existing Associated Press wires to give three leased wires.
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News-Globe
Amarillo
United Press
News Globe
Associated Press
Shakeup predicted in state prison board reforms
San Antonio on March 19 Mrs J E King a prison board member predicted a far reaching shakeup in the prison system personnel The medical department will be reorganized four prison farm officials have been dismissed and more dismissals will follow
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San Antonio
J. E. King
Willacy County Peonage Cases See Sentences Accepted
Raymonville Texas March 19 defendants convicted in peonage cases will accept sentence according to former sheriff Raymond Teller who faces 18 months in prison and a 2000 dollar fine.
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Raymondsville
Texas
Willacy County
Raymond Teller
US aerial squadron flies north from Bahia toward Pernambuco
The United States army goodwill aerial squadron continued its flight northward today from Bahia Brazil. It took off at 12 80 p.m. and is scheduled to stop next at Pernambuco over about 40 miles up the Brazilian coast.
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Associated Press
Bahia
Brazil
United States Army
Good Will
Pernambuco
Arkansas twister tally 15 dead in Green Forest area
AP reports 15 killed as tornadoes hit Green Forest in northwest Arkansas with fears of higher totals. Red Cross and National Guard aid the stricken region as Saline county toll rises with 13 confirmed dead and many injured. Damage exceeds 200000 and communications disruptions delayed casualty reports.
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Associated Press
Little Rock Ark
Green Forest
Red Cross
National
Saline County
Benton
Here
Carroll County
Eureka Springs
Missouri
Arkansas Line
Denver
Coin
Announce bids on new South Plains line
The Quanah Acme and Pacific plans 27 mile extension from McBain to Floydada with bids due by April 7 and construction likely to start in May. President Charles H. Sommer of St Louis notes the project costs about 1 250 000 and Interstate Commerce Commission permission granted last December. He also cites Texas approval for consolidating Motley county railway Roaring Springs to Matador, 12 miles, with his line and the ICC permission being sought.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Quanah
Acme and Pacific
McBain
Floydada
Charles H. Sommer
St. Louis
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sommer
Texas
Motley County Railway
Roaring Springs
Matadora
Interstate Commerce Commissions
San Antonio bids for next Republican national convention
San Antonio officials announce a formal invitation to Roy O. West, secretary of the Republican National Committee, as the city seeks to host the upcoming Republican national convention. Porter Whaley, general manager of the chamber of commerce, disclosed the wired invitation today.
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Associated Treas
San Antonio
Porter Whaley
Chamber of Commerce
Roy O. West
Republican National Committee
Mrs Newby’s Condition Is Reported Favorable
Mrs Dwight Newby has rallied after a major operation at Scott-White Hospital in Temple Texas. Doctors are encouraged and her family expresses hope following months of critical illness after the birth of a son. Her husband telegraphed the update to Amarillo. Toney Chisum and Art Arnold drove him to Temple and were due home late tonight.
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Dwight Newby
Amarillo
Temple
Texas
Mrs. Newby
Scott-White
Plans Marriage As Husband Goes To Death Chair
CHICAGO March 19 Mrs Marguerite Scholl 27 declares she plans a new marriage while her husband Walter Scholl faces execution in the electric chair for killing their two children. She spoke from Gary Ind city jail where she is being held for questioning. She would wed a young Chicago attorney after his execution, but she refused to name him.
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Chicago
Marguerite Scholl
Gary
Ind
Walter Scholl
Young
Scholl
Coffeyville on Edge as National Guard Clamps Down
In Coffeyville Kansas military rule ends tomorrow if quiet holds after race rioting last night left four injured and the city hall stoned. National Guard units under Major EK T Patterson enforce 9 pm closures of business houses cafes theaters and other public gathering places as streets are cleared and authorities seek to prevent a recurrence amid white and black clashes following an attempted seizure of a jailed black suspect.
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Coffeyville
Kana
EK. T. Patterson
National Guard
Kans
Iowa man convicted of Oklahoma murder in Pryor court
Ben Sehuh, 34, of Varina Iowa, was convicted of murdering Leonard Greer a Oklahoma merchant in his home last October. Sehuh received a life sentence as Greer’s father Leonard F Greer Sr wept in the courtroom during the verdict.
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Associated Arena
Pryor
Mokle
Ben Sehuh
Varina
Iowa
Leonard ¥. Greer
Spayinaw
Oklahoma
Greer
Leonard F. Greer
Flood waters threaten northern Oklahoma frontier cities
Bartlesville reports the Caney river valley near flood again. The Caney river at Bartlesville stood within a foot of its banks at eight o'clock, up three feet since six. Caney Kansas reports the Big Caney out of its banks and rising about a foot per hour since morning.
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Bartlesville
Okla
Caney River
Caney
Kansas
Amarillo Leads Texas Cities in Building Permits This Week
In Dallas on March 19 the Associated Press reports Amarillo tops Texas cities for building permits with a weekly total of 602,506 dollars. Houston follows at 334,827 dollars and Wichitavalls records 178,285. Fort Worth 154,120 Dallas 161,023 San Antonio 97,400 Waco 13,100 Corpus Christi 11,800.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Mar
Amarillo
Texas
Houston
Wichitavalls
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Waco
Corpus Christ
Former Secret Service Agent Arrested for Embezzlement
William Folick, class of 1883, charged with embezzling four government pistols in a United States commissioner court proceeding. He is held in county jail as J. W. Benson after arrest by local justice agents following telegraphic instructions from New Orleans.
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Associated Press
EL Paso
Mar
William, Folick
United States Commissioner's Court
J. W. Benson
Department of Justice
New Orleans
Silence Breaks on Kentucky Murder Case and Gem
Mary Vickery, sixteen, reappears after years believed dead, saying Conley Dabney was innocent of killing her. Dabney, 88, jailed life for murder he says never occurred, while Marie Jackson, twenty seven, remains in jail. Dabney links his arrest to a chance meeting with Jackson and a past affair. The body found near an abandoned mine was bones, not a definite identification.
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Williamsburg
Mary Vickery
Conley Dabney
Frankfort Reformatory
Marie Jackson
Dabney
Cincinnati
Reformatory
Jackson
Wife
Vickery
Charlie Vickery
Miss Vickery
Harlan
Kentucky
Miss Jackson
George 8. Ward
G. G. Rawlings
Missy Vickery
Empire Officials Announce Rail Lines Under Way
Empire officials announce construction on two major rail lines, one connecting Kansas City and Denver, with work starting immediately. The projects aim to expand freight capacity and improve cross‑region service, signaling a new era for western rail commerce.
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Empire
Kansas City
Denver
Empire plans two long gas lines from Amarillo field
Empire companies move ahead with two large gas pipelines from the Amarillo field toward Kansas City and Denver despite objections. A 22 inch line to Kansas City will tie into central Kansas distributing lines, with construction starting May 1. A 20 inch Denver line is slated, with pipe from Pittsburgh mills and early deliveries for Kansas City.
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Amarillo Real Estate Board
Amarillo
Empire Companies
Kansas City
Denver
Terbert R. Straight
Bartlesville
Oklo
Empire
Tle
Kansas
Straight
Pittsburgh
Kansan City
Fugitive Bank Teller Arrested Near Gasconade Missouri
Robert F. Tucker an 82 year old fugitive teller from the Sheffield Alabama field National Bank was captured by a deputy US marshal near Gasconade Missouri and held in St Louis awaiting return to Alabama Tucker who worked as a road construction laborer admitted his identity but would not discuss the Alabama case Government agents had searched for him in six states over the past year
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Associated Prensa
ST. Louis
Mar
Robert F. Tucker
Sheffield National Bank
Sheffield
Ala
United States
Gasconade
Alabama
Tucker
Proclamation Declares College Week in Amarillo 1927
The mayor designates March 21 to March 27 as College Week to promote a new higher learning institution the Methodist church may locate in Amarillo. Lee Blvins signs the proclamation outlining the expected regional benefits and urging citizen support during the Northwest Texas Conference in March 1927.
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Amarillo
Methodist Church
Northwest
Lee Bivins
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