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Newspaper

Amarillo Globe

Location

Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 04, 1928

Page

2

Central Presbyterian Church Meeting and Banquet Tonight

The Central Presbyterian church hosts its annual banquet and congregation meeting in Fellowship Hall at 6 30 pm. Trustees and other church officers will be elected for the coming year after reports and plans for renewed effort. Tickets cost 50 cents at Killough Davies or the church office. Congregational singing led by J W Hill.

Central Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall Chers Killough & Davies J. W. Hill

Cicero Elects Klenha Aids Capone Backed Victory

Joseph Z. Klenha, Republican, wins a fifth term as Cicero village board president with near two to one support, backed by Al Capone signals. Police dispute poll disturbances as mythical while a South Racine Avenue blast damages a vacant store used for a Chinese laundry, with labor trouble listed as a possible motive.

Associated Press Cicero Joseph Z. Klenha al (Scarface) Capone Chicago Klenda Racine Avenue

Tack's Vision for Amarillo Growth and Development

A historical list outlines Tack's program for Amarillo featuring ambitious aims such as more hotels, housing, offices, a city pool, hospitalities, lower utility rates, new courthouse, airport, and railroad crossing eliminations. It envisions clearer lines for growth including a civic lake access and enhanced infrastructure while advocating stricter penalties and anti crime measures.

Amarillo Bivins Lake San Jacinto Bivins Palo Dure Canyons

Rose bush shipment for unsatisfied Tack sale buyers

The first shipment of rose bushes for customers who missed Old Tack's five plants for $1 sale arrives late Friday or Saturday, covering about half of the 1,000 orders. Remaining bundles can be picked up at The Globe office Saturday morning, with further plants arriving early next week.

Old Tack Globe Office

Commanderies to Celebrate Easter Sunday

Plainview Commandery Knights Templar will join Amarillo Commandery for Easter services at Central Presbyterian church. Reverend Joseph Sherrin past grand prelate will deliver the Easter sermon. Services begin at 2 30 in the afternoon with Sir Knights assembling at 2 o'clock in uniform and marching to the church.

Plainview Commandery Knights Templar Amarillo Commandery Central Presbyterian Church Joseph Sherrin Knights of the Commandery Asylum of Amarillo Commandry Presbyterian Church

Prophecy and Power Politics Hurt Farmers in Potatoes Crash

The piece argues power brokers control energy and profits, while farmers bear the cost. Government forecasts misled farmers about potato yields last fall causing hasty sales, shortages, price hikes, and windfalls for a few, not the growers.

Amarillo Adopts New Building Code and Fire Zone Plan

The Amarillo city commission last night adopted a voluminous new building code and an ordinance creating inner and outer fire zones. Bids for a new city sewerage disposal plant ranged from 121000 to 154200 with award expected this week. Board of City Development directors were partially replaced and several members reappointed. Four bids on 12500 feet of 2 inch water pipe for city extensions were received and will be acted on this week.

Amarillo Earl Calloway Henry Harman Wilbur C. Hawk Board of City Development W. A. Barlow J. G. McKenzie Gene Howe W. W. Adams Lawrence Nobles C. T. Ware W. N. Thompson

Amarillo Officials Plan Courtesy Campaign Talk

Col Harve Haines vice president and general manager of the Board of City Development is scheduled to speak to Amarillo police at 6 PM tonight. The talk ties to a courtesy campaign launched by the police city government and the Board of City Development.

Col Harve H. Haines Board of City Development Amarillo Haines

Funeral Rites for Youth Clarence M Johnson

Funeral services for Clarence Melvin Johnson age 18 of 2001 Buchanan Street will be held tomorrow at 2 30 PM from Griggs Funeral Parlors conducted by Rev L N Stuckey pastor of Polk Street Methodist Church Burial will be in Liano Cemetery.

Clarence Melvin Johnson Frank Johnson Buchanan Street Griggs L. N. Stuckey Polk Street Methodist Church Liano Cemetery

Funeral services for Colleen Casey

Funeral services for one year old Colleen Casey daughter of Mr and Mrs Calvin Casey were to be held at 3 pm today from the Church of Christ with Rev Robert Jones officiating. Burial followed in Liano cemetery under the direction of N 8 Griggs and Sons.

Colleen Casey Calvin Casey Church of Christ Robert Jones Liano Cemetery N. 8 Griggs and Sons

Funeral services for Imogene Sanders

Funeral services are set for Thursday at 3 PM for Imogene Sanders one year old daughter of Mr and Mrs J A Sanders of 2510 Northwest Tenth Street. Rev A K Scott of the Nazarene church will conduct the service at the family home with burial at Llano Cemetery in charge of N S Griggs and Sons.

Imogene Sanders J. A. Sanders Northwest Tenth Street A. K. Scott The Nazarene Church Llano N.S. Griggs and Sons

Scottish Rite Plans Maundy Thursday Meet

Maundy Thursday will be celebrated here Thursday evening by Scottish Rite Masons of Amarillo and the Panhandle Plains. C. A. Pierle of West Texas State Teachers College at Canyon will speak. The ritualistic program will be carried out to the letter at 7:30 p.m. at the Masonic Temple Fifth and Fillmore streets.

Maunday Amarillo Panhandle Plains C. A. Pierle West Texas State Teachers College Canyon Masonic Temple Fifth Fillmore Streets

Dair y Show Hailed as Panhandle Dairy Conventions Opens

A four day Panhandle Texas dairy convention draws crowds from Floydada Portales NM Amarillo and other towns. Enthusiasm rises as caravans arrive, signaling a possible record turnout with plans for varied entertainment and a large dairying industry gathering expected to run through Friday.

Panhandle Plains Country Texas Plains New Mexico Floydada Portales N. M Amarillo

Amarillo Firm Wins 1928 Tri-State Fair Catalog Contract

The Amarillo Printing company secured the contract to print the 1928 Tri-State fair catalog. Secretary manager Bob Emmett said the catalog will span over 200 pages and rank among the largest fair catalogs issued locally. Officials praise the advertising section for its value to business firms and distributed to fair participants and regional chambers.

Amarillo Printing Company Bob Emmett

Veterans of Spanish War Meet Tonight

The Guy V. Henry Jr camp of Spanish American War veterans meets at 8 p.m. at the American Legion home in the municipal auditorium. The auxiliary meets at the same venue. Eligible persons for either group are invited.

Guy V. Henry

Court of Civil Appeals in Amarillo Grants Motions and Resubmits

Proceedings list multiple cases with motions granted and overruled. Several rehearings and submissions set with dates and districts including Hall, Palmer, Lamb, Wilbarger, Hardeman, Lubbock, Potter, Yoakum, Crosby, Deat Smith, Collingsworth. Key actions include affirmations, reversals and remands, and set for submission on April 25.

Court of Civil Appeals Amarillo N. M. Stewart Emma Gattis Commercial Printing and Letter Service Company R. W. O'Keefe First National Bank Ollie Alexander Great Plains Oil & Gas Company M. H. Cox J. H. Turner James E. Parker W. F. Davis P. B. Cox O. E. Clem W. W. Fulgham R. H. Clark Ernest Schmocker J. K. French Wilbarger Keller J. Bell W. G. Mulkey Hardeman J. S. Johnson Herzet Lubbock Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Company Harper Kirby G. C

Trans continental runners caravan to pass through city with KGGM radio aid

KGGM owned by Jay Peters and leased to C. C. Pyle will accompany the Los Angeles to New York marathon. W. E. Whitmore broadcasts as four radio party members travel with two Fagee buses weighing 24 000 pounds each. Buses arrive at 9 am and proceed along Sixth Tyler Tenth Polk Third Fillmore to Texan park.

KGGM Jay Peters C. C. Pyle Los Angeles New York Graham W. E. Whitmore Pyle Sixth Street Tyler Tenth Street Polk Street Third Fillmore Texan Park Grange and Pyle

May Peterson Thompson to Give Amarillo Recital with Khiva Temple

Amarillo rhythm and lyric soprano May Peterson Thompson returns to perform in a joint recital with the Khiva Temple chanters on April 17. The program recalls her rise from Oshkosh debut through Paris and New York to the Metropolitan Opera and Paris Opera Comique, highlighting a celebrated early career and French stage prestige.

Amarillo May Peterson Thompson Khiva Temple Chanters May Peterson United States Oshkosh Frederick Stock Chicago Symphony Orchestra Stock Paris Jean de Reszke Vichy Metropolitan Opera Company Opera Comique France Grand Opera Boulevard Des

Food Condition Here in Good Report March Inspections

The city reports 986 inspections in March with overall very good food conditions and minimal condemnations. Laboratory, barber and beauty, milk and meat sectors show varied activity and notable figures, including gallons of meat condemned and pounds of vegetables seized across multiple facility types.

Jeff PD Bartlett Jack Wyatt Wyatt C.crreevers

Three Wallis Brothers Convicted in Bank Robbery Case

Henry John and Cuppy Wallis were found guilty of robbing the First National Bank of Nara Visa New Mexico, taking about 3300 dollars. Cuppy was arrested in Dalhart with nearly 1400 dollars recovered. the brothers lived northeast of Nara Visa. Sentencing awaits Judge Hutch, with defense lawyers O Ellis and Howard Mays filing a motion for new trial.

Henry John Cappy Wallis First National Bank of Nara Visa N. M W. N. Hutch Cuppy Dalhart Tucumcari Nara Visa Oe O. Ellis Howard Mays Mays and Mays

Crossword Puzzle Clue List and Fragments

Crossword puzzle with numerous horizontal and vertical clues listed. Items include Slips Marks Inn Pasite Fears reverentially Weird Mineral spring Caused to remember Killed Abbreviation for doctor Manner of walking Disfigurement To form stockings To oscillate Rind The spread of an area Fourth note in scale Embryo plant Criterion Headgear To fly Plant from which bitter drug is secured To turn into vinegar Harmonized Type of mollusk Besieges Fragments of shells or china To frown Paragraph in a newspaper Conceived the scheme of as an object of art Deity Stone darker than carnelian To attempt Preposition of place.

China

Dictionary Puzzle Clues Spark Word Match

A jumble of clues lists definitions for verbs nouns and phrases. Entries include to displace document cabbage salad join prepare for publication spike slanderous rumors graceful necked aquatic bird prison guard to box scientifically West Point students public tranquility remain facade scrutinize low couth and more.

West Point

Kansas City and Chicago Livestock Market Reports

Kansas City and Chicago livestock receipts reported strong to higher trading. Hogs top around 4.60 at Chicago and 8.60 at Kansas City, while cattle tops reached about 15.15 at Chicago and 14.25 at Kansas City for fed steers. Spring lambs traded near 19.25 to 20.00, with sheep steady and vealers up to 14.50. Bulls and bulls improved, packing sows near 7.60 to 7.60.

Kansas City Kansas Chicago East ST. Louis Associated Press

Cotton market opens steady with modest advance

The cotton market opened steady to slightly higher as Liverpool cables stayed firm and West Texas rainfall forecasts were unchanged. July reached 19.28 and October 19.08, with 10 to 12 point gains before slight pullbacks. bullish factors outweighed bearish ones in early trading.

Associated Press New York Liverpool Texas

No More Gas In Stomach and Bowels

An advertisement promotes Baalmann's Gas Tablets to relieve stomach gas and related symptoms. It claims relief from bloating nervousness and heart palpitations, improved breathing and circulation, and renewed energy. The ad notes the genuine yellow package and a $1 price, with RANDAL DRUG CO carrying stock.

Baalmann Randal Drug CO

Janet and I and the magic word in fairyland

A playful verse by Edgar A. Guest from 1928 in which Janet and the speaker claim knowledge of the fairies. They describe magical rides on butterfly wings and boats of silver, visits to the fairy Queen, and using a secret word to transform rags into a silk balloon. The poem emphasizes wonder and secrecy around the magic word.

Janet Edgar A. Guest

Weather Market Notes with Mixed Crop and Livestock Data

The report covers unsettled July and October outlooks with showers in the eastern belt. It lists livestock results from East St. Louis with receipts of 14,000 hogs and 2,200 cattle, noting price ranges and tops. Cotton markets in Liverpool and New Orleans show initial gains eroding on storm warnings, with ongoing price moves and weather impacts. Wheat and dairy quotes from Chicago are included, along with potato price observations across regions.

Weather Bureau

Stock Prices Rise As Strong Demand Lifts Rail, Oil Shares

New York April 4 The market opened with selling pressure from big loan expansion but quickly reversed. Leading gains appeared in Wright Aeronautical National Tea and Pittsburgh & West Virginia while multiple industrials and rail names advanced amid brisk demand for rails oils and utilities.

Ater Rvers New York Stock Exchange American Smelting American Linseed Chrysler Kennecott General Motors General Electric Packard International Nickel New York Central Radio Wright Aeronautical National Tea Century Ribbon Pitteburgh & West Virginia Chesapeake & Ohio Nickel Plate Atchison and St. Louis Southwestern

Market Report Shows Mixed Metals and Oil News

The article notes firmer foreign exchange with sterling around 4.88 percent and outlines shifts in freight loadings, renewed gold exports to France, higher crude oil output, and the planned removal of British rubber export restrictions next November. It lists a dense roster of New York Stocks with many major names quoted by James E. Bennett & Co. including Allied Chemical, American Can, American Locomotive, General Electric, U.S. Steel, Texaco, and others in a snapshot of market activity.

France Sterling Cables New York James E. Bennett & Co Atipm Allin Chalmers Sceccceessens Allied Chemical & Dye American Can American Locomotive American Smelting American Sugar Refining American Steel & Foundry American Tele Teleg Dupont de Nemours Eastman Kodak Fleischmann Yeast Freeport-Texas Po American Tobacco American Woolen Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Barnsdal! Corporation Chicago & Alton Consolidated Cigars General Motors Hupp Motors International Nickel Jordan Motors Kelly-Springfield Mack Trucks Middle States Oil Montgomery, Ward & Co We National Biscuit Packard Motor Pere Marquette Pure Bethlehem Steel California Petroleum Cerro de Pasco Copper Chicago Northwestern Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rock Island & Pacific Chrysler Coca-Cola Colorado Fu Colorado & Southern Corn Producta Crucible Steel Dodge Motors A General Electric Great Western Sugar Houston Oil Hudson Motors Mlinoia Central Independent Oil & Gas Inspiration Copper International Harvester International Paper , International Tele Kaneas City Kennecott Louisiana Oil & Refinings Marland Oil Mexican Seaboard Oil Mid-Continent Missouri, Kansas & Texas Missouri Pacific Moon Motors Nash Motors National Distillers Pan-American Pet. & Trans Pennsylvania Phillips Petroleum Producers & Refiners Radio Corp. of America Republic Iron & Steel Shell Union Oil Sinclair Cons Skelly of Southern Railway Seran Warner Gulf Sulphur Texas Corporation Texas Pacific Coal & Air Sane Timken U. 5 Rubbe United States Steel Willys-Overland Woolworth Dagesteat Tea

Airline Route Boston to New Orleans Planned

The post office department announced a through air mail route from Boston to New Orleans to begin by May 1, extending service to improve national mail delivery.

Boston New Orleans United Press Washington Air Mail Service Post Office Department Today

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Tack F. M. Hunt N. Fillmore Dreamland Cottage Camp Cottage Plainview Casey Scottish Rite Affirmed Western Union Telegraph Company C. N. Rutledge Hall County Mutual Life Insurance Association of Texas Carrie A. Lillard Palmer B. B. Cochran C. O. Crow Et al Lamb Ek Gom Porta Starik Italiens Comique Irs Osnanee Chicago Livestock von Bee Oklahoma Ocialeg Press Florida NEW York Stock Letter James FE. Bennett & Co Chic Robinson
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