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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1928
Page
2
Herbert R. Palmer of Cleveland, an electrical inventor, says he discovered the process to send pictures over wires over 20 years ago. He displayed old newspaper clippings from the Spanish American War era praising the invention as marvelous when first used.
City plan outlines extensive growth aims for Amarillo including more hotels rooming houses apartments and office buildings. It calls for lower utility rates more groceries newspapers and new infrastructure such as a municipal swimming pool golf course central bus depot and airport. The program also advocates tougher crime measures clearer rail crossings and a scenic route to Palo Duro with emphasis on livability and industrial attraction.
A chaotic column recounts a young man fined for peeping into bedrooms and leaving town, a columnist venting over public reactions, and a string of small town happenings. It notes social views, health quips, a Pleasant Valley box social, and plans for a River Road schoolhouse appearance.
In a lively public meeting, supporters cheered as speakers promised to raise a child adoption appeal while Judge Gee and Judge Marlow were cited as calling the author a freak. A Melrose New Mexico reader seeks a good farmer for a sharecrop near J. W. Jennings farm.
Lt. Jen Minn reports Gene Shank forced down after a blinding snowstorm while setting a world record for sustained flight in a light airplane. The previous 12 hour 38 minute mark by Harry Brooks ended with Brooks' fatal plane crash at sea.
Police logged three petty thefts overnight. Joe Pace reports a stolen typewriter and handbag from his room at 1008 Fillmore Street. Bonnie Vestress reports missing dresses from 1801 Harrison Street. J R Clark of Bushland says two laundry bundles were stolen from a car near the courthouse, laundry owned by W J Hill and Jim Presinger.
The Pleasant Valley school treasury gained over 150 dollars from a PT A box supper held last evening. Candidates spoke about their platforms, Colonel Erasmus Tack attended, and boxes sold from five cents to 5.50. Proceeds will fund milk for undernourished children and playground equipment.
The Will H. Dilg league hosts an essay and poster contest for Potter County school children on wildlife protection. A free wildlife motion picture show at Municipal Auditorium Monday 8 pm, with oversight by Miss A L McDonald and Miss Laura V Hamner. The event features mallard film from Long Island and Glacier National Park fly fishing footage, with no charge to attendees.
A newspaper puzzle page presents a challenging crossword with three unchecked letters and two 11 letter words. Clues span horizontal and vertical entries including soft mineral powder term, telephone related word, meadow, grain, and border on.
A fragmented set of clues and partial solutions appears, linking items from yesterday’s answer to stray numbers. The text mixes phrases like striped camel hair cloth and to hew branches with misc fragments such as feminine pronoun and to soak flax, forming a puzzling catalog of partial matches rather than a single coherent item.
Reports from Halifax and Nahant describe unconfirmed radio chatter claiming a Bremen sighting near Newfoundland. Officials doubt the message and say no Canadian planes operate in Nova Scotia while ships like the Lituania and Muenchen sail nearby.
Yale’s 1920 junior prom cost 7260.14 but earned a profit of 114.15, the first Yale prom to profit since 1923. Expenses included 124 for police and fire services, 45 for a university eight oared shell decoration, 25 for a wooden spoon, 172 for a private banquet, and 96 for official photographs.
International News Service from London reports that Nancy Price the famed actress spent six months on a drifter hidden as a boy. Trained at sea she cut her hair donned male clothes and worked as a ship's boy on watch at the wheel and in cooking without crew realizing her gender.
The French government, eager for world peace, calls on all nations to join a multilateral treaty renouncing war. It argues such a pact would have a tremendous moral effect and encourage universal adherence. France seeks clarity from Britain Germany Italy Japan and the United States on whether existing commitments allow full participation.
Winnfield Louisiana April 18 The Shreveport plant of the American Creosote company destroyed by fire with an estimated loss of 200000 will be rebuilt immediately officials at New Orleans headquarters announced One welder is reported missing after he was working on a creosoting timber tube when the blaze broke out and swept through the plant.
International News Service reports two new air routes centered in Wichita, one to Omaha and one to Chihuahua Mexico, under De Luxe Airways. Permits have been requested from Washington and service could start by mid May. Stops include Amarillo Alamogorda Hutchinson Salina Beatrice Lincoln and the trip to Omaha will take about 3 1 2 hours and cover 250 miles by air. The first Travel Air monoplane from De Luxe has arrived.
A kitchen tip recommends rubbing the roasting pan with garlic before cooking mutton or cheap beef or lamb to improve flavor and tenderness.
Gov Alfred E Smith of New York vacationing in Asheville wears his signature brown derby as he journeys through North Carolina. Secretary James J. Jar dine endorses Hoover for the Republican nomination and praises agricultural aid. The W C T U warns the party against anti dry planks while Cox argues Smith would secure delegates and broad support at the Democratic National Convention. Sen Walsh attacks GOP over Teapot Dome disclosures.
Edgar A Guest uses a travel metaphor urging youths to follow a safe path and duty. The poem emphasizes guidance from motor clubs, careful driving, honesty, and perseverance to reach a hopeful life, contrasting the dangers of wandering off the proper road.
Kansas City hogs receipts 2 600 head market active with higher bids cattle steady on light offering Oklahoma fed steers avg 1282 lbs 18 75 sheep 2800 head prices mixed Chicago hogs receipts 15 000 top 9 20 cattle steady w 12 00 14 75 vealers 12 50 Oklahoma City hogs receipts 1 800 tops 8 50 New York stocks rally on strong liquidity with major gains led by Adams Express Anaconda and Bethlehem Steel Also taxicab interior visibility rule announced by police demanding rear window access and size.
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