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Newspaper

Amarillo Globe

Location

Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 12, 1927

Page

2

Demos Planning A Big Time At Jefferson Fete

The New York World reports the Jefferson Day dinner of the National Democratic Club on April 23 aims to mend party divisions after 1924. Governor Smith is expected, with McAdoo supporters among attendees and a Smith boom hoped for, drawing delegates from seven states and many others. About twelve hundred reservations are held, and James W. Gerard will serve as toastmaster.

Associated Press New York New York World National Democratic Club Smith McAdoo James W. Gerard Germany

Chicago Livestock Report Apr 12 Hogs and cattle prices listed

Chicago April 12 Hogs 21,000 head slow market with heavy hogs 19.35 to 10.45, medium 10.46 to 11.30, light 10.85 to 11.50, packing sows 9.15 to 74.90, slaughter pigs 10.50 to 11.35. Cattle 11,000 head dull with feeder and stocker values 5.75 to 11.75 and bulls 7.00 to 7.26.

Chicago Livestock Chicago Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota Burayes Idaho Florida Texas Bliss

Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices From St Louis Eve Market

Hogs 14,000 head, prices down to 11.45 top. packing sows 0.50 to 79.65. pigs 10.75 to 11.25. Cattle 5,000. steers 9.26 to 10.75. heifers 10.75. cows up to 50. vealers 14.25 to 14.50. Sheep 1,500. lambs at 16.25. Multiple regional market notes follow including Chicago grains, New Orleans and New York cotton, butter and eggs, potatoes, poultry, and stock market activity.

ST. Louis New Orleans Boon

Gethsemane Tree Planted in Pershing Square

A cy pres tree from the garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem will be planted in Pershing Square at noon. The event marks a ceremonial transfer linking Jerusalem's sacred site to Los Angeles in a gesture of shared heritage.

U.S The Associated Press Los Angeles Cal Garden of Gethsemane Jerusalem Christ Pershing Square

The Tactless Texan on Local Follies and Water Woes

The column cites a libel threat against The Globe over a jail inmate story, laments prison stereotypes, and critiques motorcycle cops while calling for reform. It rails at water shortages, lawn care excess, and public service glitches from police to phones. The writer jokes about bath humor, ball game plans, and a St Louis murder over radio station tuning.

Pampa Business Men Guests of B C D Thursday

The inter city relations and trades service committee of the Board of City Development plans a Pampa visit Thursday with W G Hill confirming the arrangement. John Cowan will host as visitors are hosted at a luncheon and attend the Western League baseball opener in the afternoon at a local stadium.

Inter-City Relations and Trades Service Committee Board of City Development Pampa W. G. Hill John Cowan

Cantonese factions clash in Shanghai and other cities

Fierce fighting erupts as moderate Cantonese forces attack radical labor unions in Shanghai Hangchow Nanking and Amoy. Twelve killed and 600 laborers arrested including Chen Tsu Shu. General Pei Teung Chi bans mass meetings strikes and demonstrations to curb radicals.

Associated Press Shanghai Hangchow Nanking Amoy Chiang Kai- Shek Nantao Pootung Chen Tsu-Shu Pei Teung-Chi

Chinese Occupy Homes of Foreigners at Chinkiang

A Wireless dispatch from Suanghai reports Chinese troops occupy all foreigners homes and the Standard Oil offices at Chinkiang. Sampans and junks along the Yangtse are being fired on by rifle fire from steam launches. Chinkiang lies on the river’s southern bank about forty miles east of Nanking.

Associated Press Suanghail Standard Oil Company Chinkiang Yangtse River Yangtse Nanking

Debate on Sacco Vanzetti Executions Sparks City Strike

A Massachusetts governor urged creation of a commission to review new evidence, arguing justice must be fearless yet consider protests. The Buenos Aires strike and labor concerns frame a broader call to reexamine executions amid public dissent and radical opposition.

Buenos Aires George Gordon Battle Massachusetts

Buchanan School Easter Egg Hunt Set in East Amarillo

Buchanan Street School plans an Easter egg hunt Friday afternoon from 3:30 to 5 at East Amarillo. Principal announced the event with prizes donated by the East Amarillo company. Children will be bused from the school, and officials seek volunteers with cars to help transport smaller children.

Buchanan Street East Amarillo East

Vega Woman Wins Linen Bridge Set at Oliver Eakle Opening

Mrs. H. G. Green of Vega Texas received the linen bridge set awarded by the Elizabeth Linen Shoppe during the formal opening of the Oliver Eakle building where the shop is housed.

Elizabeth Oliver Eakle H. G. Green Vega Texas

What They Write to Tack The Ambulance Speed Debate

A reader letter from E. M. Blackburn of Blackburn Funeral Home defends ambulance drivers in Amarillo, acknowledges siren speed debates, condemns reckless drivers, and urges cautious criticism while supporting emergency crews including fire trucks. The piece highlights differing views sparked by recent coverage and defends local services.

Erasmus Tack News-Globe Amarillo Tack O. W Blackburn Birmingham Alabama Griggs C. W

Amarillo Lions hear call to slow and prosper

Judge B L Morgan urged Amarillo Lions to pause and gain momentum for a new era of prosperity. He noted oil cuts but strong overall business conditions, calling for a self check as the city eyes faster growth. Frank Norfleet spoke, and J N Beasley predicted a good Panhandle wheat crop if moisture arrives in two weeks.

Amarillo B. Lk. Morgan Wichita Falls Lions Club Amarillo Hotel Morgan Frank Norfleet J. N. Beasley Panhandle

Easter Prizes For Work Done In School Here

The Buchanan Street School pupil body nearly 1100 strong looks forward to Easter week. On Friday each room will present programs for parents and three pupils will win Martha Washington Candy Shop prizes for best Easter story presentation and best decorated Master egg.

Buchanan Street School Martha Washington Candy Shop Martha Washington Shop

Amarillo to Send Delegate to Southwest Round Table

Amarillo plans representation at the third annual Recreation Workers Round Table in San Antonio on April 29 and 30. James Z. George, manager of the Board of City Development, says a local recreational program will be announced soon because of work by a committee led by W. M. Adams. The National Recreation Congress meets in Memphis October 3 to 7.

Amarillo Recreation Workers Round Table Southwest San Antonio James Z. George Board of City Development W. M. Adams National Recreation Congress Memphis Tennessee

Permanent Wave Experts Visit Local Salon Figures

Madame Wood and Edward Emory of New York City, famed for permanent wave work, spent the weekend with C. R. Nicholson and Mrs. Nicholson at 811 Carolina Avenue and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Page of 2113 Van Buren Street. The Ruth beauty shop in White & Kirk's balconade praised their equipment as among the best in the state. Madame Wood known as a world famed natural horn hairdresser and Mr. Emory a master of permanent waving.

Madame Wood Edward Emory New York City C. R. Nicholson Nicholson Carolina Avenue San Jacinto Sam Page van Buren Street Mr. Emory

Folding bed traps Missouri woman in wall

Mrs James Moad fifty is recovering after a seventeen hour entrapment inside a folding bed that fell into a wall of her home in Jefferson City. She awakened in danger, was found unconscious by her son, revived, and treated at a hospital. Doctors expect no lasting harm.

Jefferson City James Moad

Tornado Rips Through Mustang And Nearby Areas

A storm centered into a tornado southwest of Oklahoma City caused one death and multiple injuries. Mustang suffered heavy damage with about twenty buildings destroyed and unroofed. Union City, Minico, and Guthrie districts reported destruction, unroofed structures, and railroad track hazards amid torrential rainfall. Residents evacuated lowlands as floods threatened the Cimarron and Cotton Wood rivers.

Seward Cimarron Cotton Wood Guthrie Associated Press Oklahoma City Mustang Union City Mineo Frank New Vaughan New W. Tippering William Williams Minico Whch St. Louis San Francisco

Tornado Leaves Three Dead in Eakley Oklahoma Area

An April twister yesterday killed three residents near Eakley Oklahoma and damaged farms across Alfalfa Union City area. Rescue teams used skiffs to remove people from flooded bottomlands as storm cellars saved others. Several homes were destroyed or badly damaged, churches ruined, and the bank at Muntang remained intact.

Associated Press Anadarko Okla Eakley Here Alfalfa

John Griffin Returns From Brother’s Rites

John E. Griffin returns from Chillicothe where he attended the funeral of his brother Ben F. Griffin aged 62 who died in a Dallas hospital Friday. Ben F. Griffin lived in Amarillo years ago and traveled the Panhandle for a wholesale drug firm. He had run a drug business in Chillicothe for years and is survived by his widow and two children.

John E. Griffin Chillcothe Ben F. Griffin Dallas Mr. Griffin Amarillo Panhandle Chillicothe

John Gould Joins Globe News Editorial Staff

John Gould, a veteran North Texas newspaper man, joins The Globe News editorial staff. He spent ten years with the Wichita Pulls Times, served as managing editor and editorial writer, ran an advertising bureau after leaving The Times two years ago, and recently moved to Amarillo.

John Gould Wichita Pulls Times North Texas Globe-News the Times Gould Amarillo

Carroll Starts For U S Prison

Earl Carroll departs Broadway for Atlanta federal prison after a perjury sentence of one year and a day. He travels with twenty other inmates, unshackled, in a prison special car. Mrs. Carroll plans to join him in Atlanta as he surrenders at the federal building.

Associated Press New York Earl Carroll Atlanta Joyce Hawley Washington United States William Hecht Snooks Carroll Caroll

Local social notes from Amarillo update events

Mrs P J Smith is improving after illness while J W Dodson remains ill at 110342 Harrison Street. Mr and Mrs Herman Dietman return from Galveston honeymoon. Mrs Rietman formerly Elizabeth Pavillard. Jerry Stewman, ex Crawford Outdoor, now in San Antonio for a similar post. Mrs J A Rietman and children visit Amarillo from Tascoma. Sam Vaughn joins wife and her parents at Mineral Wells. D E McCoy recently joined R G Dun as city reporter. James Russell Scott, architect, discharged from St Anthony's Hospital after a dislocated shoulder. Rainey Bartley, daughter of Mrs Bartley, to visit Amarillo later this week.

P. J. Smith J. W. Dodson Harrison Street Herman Dietman Galveston Rietman Elizabeth Pavillard Jerry Stewman Crawford Outdoor San Antonio J. A. Rietman Tascosa Amarillo H. Rietman Sam Vaughn B. T. Ware Mineral Wells D. E. McCoy Shreveport Louisiana R. G. Dun Company James Russell Scott St. Anthony’s Hospital Rainey Bartley Bartley

Norfleet traces five swindlers across nations for charity lecture

Norfolk man follows a nationwide trail through Canada Mexico and Cuba to capture five swindlers who deceived him. He recalls jail and a punch of robberies as 65 others are jailed. Proceeds from his Presbyterian Children’s Home lecture will aid the charity.

Union Canada Mexico Cuba United States Montreal

Medical Meet Obstretrics and Visiting Doctors Attends

The medical meet gathered obstetricians with Dr E H Morris as surgery chair. Out-of-town attendees listed include Lubbock physicians F B Lattimore and William L Baugh, Memphis doctors D C Hyder and J M Ballew, and Fort Worth expert Dr John Potts. Potts clinic at Potter County Library and lecture at Polk Street Methodist highlighted tuberculosis care, aided by nurse Miss Jean Campbell under Texas Health Association auspices.

E. H. Morris Dr. W. Wilson Association F. B. Lattimore Lubbock F. B. Malone D. C. Hyder Memphis H. L. Wilder Clarendon J. M. Ballew Oscar L. Jenkins R. Emmett Clark Polk Street Methodist Church Potts Jean Campbell Campbell Texas Health Association

Girl mother poisons baby near Lake City Minnesota

WABASH April 12 County boy ties announced Mrs Joon Cooper age 19 of Lake City Minnesota near here confessed by her 6 weeks old son found yesterday in a vacant lot. Mrs Cooper first said the infant was choked by George Cooper her 72 year old father in law then said he found her tied to a chair last Wednesday and that she had told him the baby had been named.

Associated Wabash Joon Cooper Lake City Minnesota

Flashes of Life highlights on sports and society figures

The item surveys various notices from London Wimbledon plans to Pan-American film gossip. It notes Miss Wills at Wimbledon in June, Lenglen to earn $15000 in July London exhibitions, a quip about acting vs flying, and a light local slice on education, debt debate, and a Princeton student building a homemade diving rig for coral hunting with a self-made camera.

Associated Press London Helen Gory Suzanne Wills Wimbledon Mile Lenglen Princeton N. J Carl Beedher Bermuda

Opening of New Office Building At Polk Street

Hundreds visited the Oliver Eakle ten story office building at Sixth and Polk for its formal opening last night. The structure is praised as modern and substantial, with Mrs. M D Oliver Eakle greeting many guests and gifts distributed to attendees.

Oliver Eakle Sixth Polk M. D. Oliver Eakle

Check Not Legal Payment For State Tax

In Austin on April 12 the attorney general's department issued an opinion to State Comptroller S. H. Terrell stating only current money is acceptable for tax payments. A taxpayer who tried to pay Oklahoma taxes by check in Cooke County cannot be sued by the tax collector, as the check is not legal tender and the state cannot accept it.

Associated Press Austin S. H. Terrell Terrell Oklahoma Cooke County

Also Mentioned on This Page

Demos Jefferson Fete National Club Amarillo Grain Seale Kansas Liverpool Poultry Poultry Alive du Pont General Motors American Water Works Hudson Baltimore Freeport Texas and Pacific Globe Barnett Simp Jackson Kangaroo Court Globe and the News Biving Central Texans Tam Huber Cae Vu. W China Weihaiwei Shantung Buchanan School Ega Womans Prison Son Harvey Morgan Walter Pickering Bill Jeffers C. C. Smith Will Clark J. W. Bowler Bank of Muntang John Griffin U. S. Prison Norfleet Signor de Pinedo Hollywood Signor Ruth R&a. M. West University of Minnesota American Association of College Registrars Edwin R. A. Seligman Columbia Samis Hamilton Fish Rochester N. Y Raymond Kngiht Philadelphia Rose Borden Weam Margaret Hoffman Herbert Stanley Lord Beaverbrook White House Newton B. Baker Woodrow Wilson Democratic Women’s Club Reliable Printing Service Wright Printing Co Taylor
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