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VOL. XX. No. 67,— Associated Press Day and Night Leased Wire.
AMARILLO, TEXAS. TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 22, 1929.
HOME EDITION
HI JOHNSTON SUSPENDED FROM OFFICE
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ASK CONNECTED Special Mayor Vote
FAMOUS PLANE
SENATE’S RUSH
Face Charges of Ten Murders
Deputy Sheriff
FORCED DOWN
MOVE RESULTS
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IN SHORT FIELD
IN 38-5 VOTE
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HEARING SET JAN. 28
WILL WAIT ON PILOT
HEAVY WORK BEGINS
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Two Eleetions Unwine
eleetions," but does not speeify that
A hunch that Detective Sergeant McCarthy had when ha saw them in
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mile hop from Tucson this morning a high dasa hotel in Buffalo, New York, led to the arrest of Fred Mavs,
cave
Further details from Washington
lowing, the eraft, which bears the
He formerly was
jail at Stinnett but escaped as his trial was under way.
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Moody haa sent in a requisition for the men.
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SENATE SENDS
POLICEPRINT
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BELIEVE TRAMPS
3,400SUSPECTS LANDPROBETO
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OF WATCHMAN
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ealling for $119,438.81.
been attaeked and that
harm
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PLANE LANDS ON
SERIOUS INJURIES
hold in *be Pi
wenty yeti.
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WEATHER
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FORT WORTH, Jan. 21--Heaviest
Moderately eold weather ptevail
winia
over the central
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BROKER ARRESTED ON
EMBEZZUNG CHARGE
HEAVY MIST SHROUDS
CITY; HINT OF RAIN
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for state-owned schools and various
departments of government, and a
Governor Johnston.a„
t of the office, ex-
OTHER OFFICES IN
OU. SALE ROW
sumebly had attempted to repair'the
tractor while it was in motion and
Follow
time
letter notifyii
ef his nssumy
him with earth, and he was suffo-
eated. The tractor stopped itself.
and money
makers.
appropriation
The latter
that as a matter of legal protection
en questions arising before the com-
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appropriation maker available $22.15
for each of the 11 judges of the
HOUSE IN BRIEF SESSION
GOES INTO DEFICIENCY
APPROPRIKTIONS
When a blaek-haired, brown-eyed
girl walks up to people in Altus, Ok-
lahoma. and ssys "You are under ar-
rest," they aland up and take notice
—for she ia not joking. Miss Mattye
U a. m.
11am
CAUGHT; JAILS ARE
OVERFLOWING
REPORT IS FAVORABLE ON
MEASURE REPEALING
SCHOOL FUND
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GOVERNOR AND SHERIFF
JOIN EFFORT TO GET
HEDLEY SUTER
PROPOSED RAILROAD FOR
PANHANDLE WOULD CON-
NECT AT GROOM
and kaffir heada, IS anap corn, and
it ears hay.
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BIG GATE IS CLEARED BY
FIVE FEET; EAKER AT
CONTROLS
CAPTAIN RUSHES AWAY TO
MOTHER S RITES AT
EDEN HOME
Jammed with suspects brought in
wagon loads until the early hours of
today.
Three to four days will be needed
to sift the crowd and make necessary
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aver - the Port
month of the year.
Receipts included tt ears wheat,
linss the stand the group will take.
House Acts on School Fund
It its brief nession the house com-
mittee, however, turned attention to-
ward deficiency appropriations and
moved to report favorably on the
measure repealing the $1,500,000 ap-
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Werth grain market for a January
day eat a now record for that month
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James D. Rayford, who was ar-
rested recently on charges of passing
bogus bills of lading amounting to
$25,000, has been released from the
Potter county jail on bonds totaling
$17,500. .
Three charges wire filed against
Rayford. Two of the eounte earried
beads H $6,000 each and the other
$7,300.
Md arete be homa in the inmet, and "o ther de
Roberts is better known in this section ns “Whitey* walker, alleged
•layer in the death of three officers in Hutchinson county and linked with
if you
are looking
for pigs. cows,
horses. ehiekenm, a
reaper, corn, hay, a fam.
auetiom aalea, ennouneemente
er barzaima in household geada.
pan cm fled It through the "Fer
Bale" ads to the Want Adsee-
tiomet this peper daily.
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। emergency bill carrying $125,000 far
construction of a building at the Ter-
rell Eleemosynary school, destroyed
by fire, and snother of $375,000 for
the state high school tuition fund,
also passed.
After hearing requests fer speedy
MICHIGAN U. HEAD QUITS
(By The Aeoeisted Press I
ANN ARBOR, Mich,, Jan. 21~The
would be done by allowing him to
continue in office.
The veto on a resolution of Sen-
ator Pea! Stewart, Democratic leader,
to notify the wovernor of hie sus-
pension was M to 1. Clark waa the
only Republienn voting ngalnst the
The senate court of mpegehment
was organised soon after the sun-
pension was ordered.
Trial Sot January M. ■
January 28 wee set as the date for
appearance of Governor Johnston be-
fore the court to enter a plea, and
a recess until January th was taken.
The senate tomorrow will turn ta
its own investigation, when A com-
mittee will attempt to determine
whether there was foundation foe
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(By The Anaoeinted Prem
MIDLAND, Texas, Jan. 21-M. B.
Bell, truck driver, was killed, and
Maek Kinsolver and Homer Tindley
scalded when a boiler used to gene-
rate steam for blowing gas from a
tank exploded at the Magnolia tank
fame here today.
Bell, unmarried, lived in Center,
Texae.
finally put up to the house the pro- reduced two measures calling for
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concurrent resolution to include in
the probe the governor's office, the
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in Okiahomn. Hore she is.
and resulted in the payine out to
growers and shippers In Fort Worth
trade territory of about $268,000, also
a new record for any day in the first
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W. J. HOLLOWAY ASSUMES
Fredericksburg pineed before the
house a simple resolution pointing
out “acta* in land office administrn-
lion which he said called fer a probe.
His previous concurrent resolution
last week was not reported to the
floor by the committee on public
lands.
With the senate taking definite
action, the matter, in tir nenate’s
amended resolution," now will come
before the house again.
graduate of the University of Okla-
homa. has just been appointed by
I Sam G. Baaks, Jackson county sher-
AUSTIN, Jm. 21—The senate today I monetary aid, Rep. Wallace today in-
Amarillo’s chief political subject just now is whether
there will be a special election on the mayor’s office.
VORECAST TILL »r. R TUESDAr
KOH AMARTLO AND Vif-
Tuenday partly eloudy. .
FOR WEST TEXAS — Tueday partly
eloudy. nomewhat eooler west one north
portions.
FOR NEW MEXICO-Friday fnir.
Wether onditene
The premsure le olichuy above normal
over the country exeevt Ariuoma sod the
region of Winntpeg. Canada sad with high
eenters over wouthern Maho end alo Vir-
1 propriation at the fortieth legislature
PART INCLUDING to supplement the school fund. An
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attorney general’s department and
the Texas university regents “Inso-
far as their dealings with the land
office are concerned,’* in connection
with the recent controversy concern-
resignation of Dr. Clarence Cook
Little, for three years president of
the University of Miehigan: was
sisepts 4 unanimously tonight by the
board of regents of the univereity.
tus Times-Demoerat and
through convenient receiverships"
amounts to between $200,000,000 and
Harding claimed that «hunaredn
upon hundreds of leading, reputable
end representative eitizens of the
state have repeatedly asserted and
complained of a reign of terror and
orgy of drastic prosecution Md un-
reasonable oppression of many In-
dependent Md pioneer oil men and
no-ealled promoters in Texas during
the past ten years. Instigated at the
(domtfnued On Page 13, Got. 4)
The charter also provides for
Commissioner No. 1 sating as th.
city’s chlef executive in the absence
of the mayor, end that procedure
con be carried out until April. in
his opinion.
“I think it would be unwise to
have two eleetions so doss together," |
he said.
Than Is considerable difference of
opinion among voters, it would seem,
and the commission will diseuns the
question tonight and decide one way
or the other, it was announced yes-
terday.
Most of those opposing a npecial
election say it would be a needless
expense.
Arguments advanced by others are
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In ths wholesale arrests police
hoped to find the solution of many of
the crime mysteries unsolved. Of
the first 600 examined, 235 were
found to have records, and mo, John
Hawhint, long had been sought for
the killing of Betty Chambers, hood:
lum contort whose body was found
about a year ago, in an apartment,
her head plastered over with ad-
hosive tape.
Few of the prisoners were booked
on specifie eharges, and most of
them were hold “open." en auspielon.
At the afternoon show-up, the new
police building was so taxed by the
enormous crowds of prisoners snd
police that Chief of Detectives Egan
ordered outlying stations to stop
sending in prisoners.
One woman oceupied the show-up
stage alone for a moment.
Betty Roceo, IB, wm asked what
she did far a living.
“I steal," she answered somewhat
proudly.
Although the police said she had
• record ae a shoplifter, as did the
(By The Aanoclated Press*
CHICAGO, Jan. 21—The city’s
lockups bulged Md the police depart-
ment fanned around in a frenzy today
as it questioned, photographed and
finger-printed 3,400 prisoners taken
In Chicago’s greatest hoodlum round-
up. -
Opened Saturday night, the drag-
net was folded up and put away far
the time being only because raiding
squads reported they could find no
more suspects or underworld haunts
Judiciary deficiency
50 to 75 feet above ground.
Capt. Eaker at Controla
Although the ship was rolling
JOINT COMMITTEE MEETS ON FIVE-YEAR ROAD FINANCE PLAN
QUESTION MARK NEAR CRASH IN FOG LANDING AT MIDLAND
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SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Jaa. 21.
—The day ef the automobile air-
plane collision has arrived.
Badly frightened, but nevertheleas
unscathed. eight members of the
family of Frank Tiee ef Baldwin Park
recounted today ho* an airplane
dropping unexpectedly out of the
sky met their nutomobile in a head-
on collision three miles east ef here.
The unusual speetacle occurred on
the National Old Trails yesterday
when Robert Crooks, aviation in-
atructot, attempted to make a forced
landing in n snowstorm.
The attempt failed and tha pro-
peller struck the radiator ef the ante-
mobile. The impart tilted the plane
suffieiently to allow the wing to
clear th* sedan.
record of having remained aloft more utlaw bank robberies in other cities of the Panhandle,
than ISO hours, was skimming from ‘ “ * *T * ... - -*
(By The A semi sled Pree)
CHATTANOOGA, Oklahoma, Jm.
21--The body of Phillip Bohl M, was
found late today in a field near here.
It apparently had been covered with
ascendency In the house, Represen-
tative Harding, Fort Worth, pre-
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along at 90 miles an hour, Captain
Ira Esker, at the controls, was forc-
ed to pick his way slong by swinging
in a progression of circles snd play-
ing a game with the vapor in which
every yard was bitterly contested.
As the cloud masses pressed eloser
snd closer to the ground Cspt. Esker
decided to play safe and utilize a
natural landing field which he saw
througA a rift in the fog and which
he thought waa large enough to land
on safely, with luck.
The ship touched the ground per-
tncMintndinxiakefozwarinehroeoNE MURDER SusPECT Is AMENDS
brakes with all of his might. The ;
plane finally came to rest five feet '
to the left of s tall gate, the top of |
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r which was just eleared by ons wing
of the plans.
Msjor Carl Spats, Captain Eaker
and H. J. Adamson, attached to the
office of assistant Secretary of War
F. Trubes Davison, stepped out of
the cabin and just as they did so
the fog lifted sufficiently to reveal
the hsngsrs of the Midland airport,
the plane's objective less then three
miles to the south.
Had Psssed Over Port
Captain Esker, in one of his fly-
ing circles, had passed over the air-
port, and spectators gathered to, greet
the ship hssrd ths drone of ths mo-
tors and saw the plana dimly through
■ he fog, but the erew members were
• unaware that they were above their
destination.
Spectators saw the plane drop out
of the fog and came from the air-
port to the Crowley ranch in auto-
mobiles. After surveying the field,
Msjor Spats decided that there wae
sufficient room for a take-off and
the Question Mark flew to the Mid-
land airport. The forced landing was
made at 3:05 p. m. and the wheels
sf the plane touched ground at the
Midland airport at «:M p. m.
•'There was nothing to worry
about,” Major Spate said, “thia part
of Texas is an enormous landing
fieid..Wewere rim isiBfk to the
ground to see it most of tbs time
senetces of fog about 90 miles west Aeton.xaneox.banx.roerse."nu.are oiamsq isr ten murosrs in voiorsao,
Joors . j .2 . . . Oklahoma, Toxas, Kansas, Mew Mexico and Utah. Rewards totaling $50,-
ofund and the plsne was forced - ..... .........
lower spa.r wer. Finally, in order to
ev the pipeline which it was fol-
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called. Mr. Johnson advised the commission it was his "
opinion that an election isn't necessary. Commissioner M
J. H. Harris is acting as mayor since the office was made v
vacant by the death of Lee Bivins last Thursday.
and northern Rocky
which may be crowned.
Local police and sherifr’s depart-
ment are working on the ease.
way to low hanging clouds with 1 left, end Clyde Roberts, right, alleged membore of the famous Ace Pen-
— . die ton gang of bank robbers, who are blamed for ton murders in Colorado,
Rewards totaling $260 are being ef.
fe red by Gov. Dan Moody and Sher-
iff W. M. Moneley of Donley eounty
for the arrest ef Jack Webb, sold to
be tbs fourth man connected with
the murder of J, H. Richey, Hedley
night watchman, oa December M.
Governor Moody has posted a re-
ward sf $150 for Webb's delivery to
ths Donley eounty jail within ala
months. Sheriff Moseley has sf-
fered sn additional reward ef $100.
Three men have been arrested in
connection with the laying, which
oceurred during an attempted rob-
bery of a Hedley grocery store.
Oscar J, "Jimmie" Brown. Joe Den.
woody and Bert “Cowboy" Hall were
the trio arrested.
Brown Shot ia Arm.
Brown was shot in ths arm during
the exchange sf shots with Richey.
He is said to be reeovering and has
been removed to the Donley county
jail. Dunwoody nnd Hell are being
thEtnepomicridtifon in the elty was i Ing postponement of oil and gas min-
oral ease BAles.
freight train No. 87, ten minutes be- 1
force It was wreeked 11 miles south
of here Iste Sunday, remained un-
accounted for today, and fear was
expressed that they war* buried in
the wreckage.
Thirty-seven cars left tke track.
E. E. Taylor of Cleburne, dlvislea
superintendent of the Santo Fa,
described the wreck as ths worst ia
his memory. He estimated the lees
at $250,000.
Two wreckers ars at werk and
large numbers of laborers are st
work clearing the tracks. Santa Fe
trains are running over the Katy line
from Gainesville to Fort Worth by
way of Whitesboro today.
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The city commission will decide at its meeting to- (d
night if a special poll is to be ordered, or it the election luA
will be postponed until the regular date, April 2. d
in the opinion of Ray C. Johnson, corporation coun-
sei, the law isn't mandatory that a special election be
^.7“,7m ""MARKET SETS RECORD
Harry E. Parsons, local broker,
was arrested by Constable Allen B.
Johnson yesterday on a eharge ef
embezzlement, and later released
under $2,000 bond.
The charges were filed by Frank
G. Barefield, head of the Barefield
Grain company, who wse recently
charged with passing bogus bills of
lading. Barefield alleges that his
company was embezzled out of $1,710
by Parsons.
FpMAYLEsJonnson,ciyCounsgma
tended to him the privileges and see
of the executive offices during the
period of nuspension. The acting
governor said he would continue to
use the office of lieutenant gover-
nor
Although the governor is a Dams
erat, opposition to his suspennion was
led in ths senate by a Republiean,
W. T. Clark ef Medford. A resolu-
lion which would have pledged the
senate against muspension was intro-
dueed by Clark and Fletcher Johnson,
Democrat of Bristow, before im-
peachment charges reached the sen-
ate.
Clark contended that the personal
integrity of the governor bed not
After the pleasant surprise re-
ceived yesterday when the cold wave
promined for Saaday failed to ma-
terialize, Amarilloans last night
were feeing another streteh of un-
pleasant weather as heavy mhi,
possibly ths forerunner of rainfTo-
day, settled over the city abo 10
o’clock. „
The forecast for today is unsettled,
partly cloudy, with temperature
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"vaeancies shall be filled by speeial Lu
eleetiens," bet dees net speeify that in
the election must be held within eer- | - N
tain dales.
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GAlNES^rT.Xj.n 21. Htt IN DFATH
two trsnipB, known to have boon | JLeU BIV ULn III
aboard the southbound Kania Fe '
FOURTEEN PAGES paICE FIVE CENT!
(Ny The Amociated Press)
AUSTIN, Jm. 21.The House put
in a half day today, devoUng the af-
ternoon to committee consideration
of bills.
Ths Senate held two sessions, but
considered only routine melters snd
bills sf a local nature, after it had
disposed ef the proposal to investi-
gate the land offies.
Tonight a joint and combination
meeting of senate and house commit-
tees on revenue nnd highway legis-
lation was held to hear proponents
of bills designed to finance over a
period of years a “connected and
adequate system af highways."
The appropriations bill of Senator
Pollard of Tyler, calling for to,IM,
578 for the judiciary during the next
biennium struck a snag today in the
form ef a resolution house appropria-
tions committee which held to its
previously announced policy of con-
sidring no “money” measures during
the regular session.
At the behest of Representative
George Ksmbls of Fort Worth, the
committee moved to report that Sena-
ter Pollard’s bill not psss, since it
was not an emergency appropriation.
This action, Representative John F.
Wallace of Teague, chairman of the
appropriations committee, said, out-
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UNLRIIUWIR lUUin yeara eld; » feet • or ■ inches toll:
IS BURIED DY PLowis::
(Mr The Associated Prwl
MIDLAND, Tex., Jan. 21,—The re-
cord breaking army airplane “Ques-
tion Mark" came within fire foot ef
crashing into a fence wkon low hang-
ing fog forced It to land three miles
from the Midland airport this after-
noon on its flight to the Atlantic
coast.
The clear skies snd high visibility
that had favored the ship on its MO-
railroad linking Amarillo and Fort
Werth, show that the line would eon-
neet with the Rock Island a* Groom,
40 miles east of Amarillo.
The route into Amarillo would be
operated jointly by the Frisco and
Rock Island lines.
Running southeast across Donley,
Hall and Cottle counties the Frisco's
new Hao would extend to Padueah,
and thenea to Seymour and into
Fort Worth ever the Rock Island.
This plan, according to the applica-
tion, will afford an additional
through route between Amarillo and
Vernon, on the one hand, and Fort
Worth, on the other.
In a separate application, also
made public, the Gulf, Texas 4 West-
ern asked authority to extend its
line from Seymour to a point near
Padueah, 71 miles, Md in another ths
St. Louis, San Francisco & Tenas
railway, the Texas subsidiary ef ths
Frisco system, asks authority to ex-
tend its line from Vernon to Sey-
mour, 42 miles, thus connecting the
line of the G. T. A W. with the line
of the Frisco system. The Texas
company else asks authority to ae-
quirs trackage rights over ths Has
of the Chicago, Rock Island A Gulf
Railway between Jacksboro and Fort
Worth, 71.6 miles, and to lease and
operate the line of the G. T. A W,
The application also states that
the C. R. 1. A G. will ask for a certi-
ficate for the const faction of a line
from Groom to Paducah, and for the
acquisition by joint trackage agree-
ment of a iiae between Paducah and
Jacksboro.
“The granting of all these applica-
tions," ths company says, “will bo in
the public interest for the ■ reason
that the territory to be served io in
great need of additional railroad
mileage and the lines thus eonnected
will form important through routes
between Fort Werth and the general
territory in northern and northwest
ern Tenas."
The Frisco would pay $2,300,000 for
the stock and bonds ef the Gulf, Tex-
as A Western.
REINS AS STATE'S CHIEF: g
EXECUTIVE ng$
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. H. --
Sweeping aside comparatively feeble
opposition, the Oklahoma senate late
today suspended from office Gov.
Henry B. Johnston, less than s half
hour after it had received five ar-
ticles of impeachment voted lass
week by the house of representatives.
W. J. Holloway, lieutenant gover-
nor, notified Johnston the* ho wis
assuming the gubernatorinl efflea
during the suspenslon. The senate
resolved itself into a court of fm-
penehment Md organised for the trial
of the governor, and the house in-
TtUj lilting eommittee, wwhieh ze-
turned the chargan, roowBod ito in-
quiry into affairs of state depart-
monte.
Baying that while he felt Ue ms-
penaion had not been serried eat in
a legal manneg, Bo would not resist
it. Governor Johnaton reeelved ths
nsws sf his temporary remova! quiet*
ly. It was his contention that the
senate should ate have received the
impeaehmept chargee uhill after it
had resolved itself into a voort and
that his auspenelon by the senate as
such had ae force. He Mid he
would make ae attempt to retain his
office, however, as it would create
a situation of dual government which
he wished to ovoid.
Johnnton May Koop Office.
Acting Governor Holloway, in the
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records.
Lawyers began to pour into
criminal courts building with pe-
titions for habeas corpus as oom as
tbs doors were opened, but it was
evident their jobs were difficult.
State's Attorney Swanson tequested
judges., before whom petitions were
heard, jo take noaction until police
had time to investigate all those
under arrest.
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Whila the senate was debating and
=?SSk? LOADED AUTO; NO
PAIAAA 111 Al II n 1 City Attorney Johnson believes
LMIVI II WIBIII || that the arrangement run be main
FKEaLau WUULU tained until the regular election
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charter. The charter states that
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sented a resolution asking congress
to investigate alleged federal prose-
eution of independent oil production
enterprises snd independent oil pro-
ducers in Texas.
Descrihes Reign of Terror
The resolution, referred to the fed-
eral relations committee, charged that
it could "be proved by records end
documentary evidence together with
testimony of competent nnd qualified —-___
properties *i -m,. BOILER EXPLOSION ATI RAYFORD IS RELEASED
MIDLAND FATAL TO I ON OONDS OF SIT,500
mountaim reciom snd eentrat snd north-
era Rocky mountmin region nnd omtral
snd northern Pleina Bemtge. tMs mornine
SUN-Riaes 112; sew 6106,
.Temperatur by hour st Amerillo 7e
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