10 Aug 1927
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1927
Page
1
Arthur Brisbane’s Globe column surveys topics from Canada’s St Lawrence canal to Bolshevik religion, aviation schooling, and fat myths. It cites Egypt boll weevil control, Romanian royal sums, mummy diseases, and ponderous contrasts in culture with brisk, opinionated observations.
Mayor Lee Bivins announced at the city commission meeting that the proposed North Amarillo viaduct will not be built this year due to no funds. He urged paving Taylor and Buchanan streets to improve traffic flow and noted the $100,000 bond issue funds are reserved for other street improvements.
Partly cloudy conditions expected in Amarillo and surrounding area. Yesterday's temperature range and hourly readings noted with a 60 to 81 degree progression from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Amarillo hotel coffee shop is billed as Famous for Food.
Amarillo's Board of City Development, led by Col H H Haines, urges the city toward aviation leadership, aiming to position Amarillo as a key aviation center with potential municipal airport acquisition. The report details additional projects in agriculture beautification recreation roads and industrial prospecting.
The Amarillo city commission defers a new railroad crossing in North Amarillo citing costs and owner objections. The piece urges outside traffic experts to select a fair site, arguing homeowners’ rights outweigh individual property claims and delay harms city progress.
A near clash occurred last night when City Detective DeWitt detained Prohibition Enforcement Officer Starnes leaving a restaurant. Starnes had a pistol on the table. no charges were expected, and Police Chief Gaither affirmed harmony with federal agents.
Barney Oldfield driving a Hudson car is en route from Enid Oklahoma toward Amarillo and then to the Pacific coast. A Hudson Motor Car Company message to Panhandle distributor Toney Chisum reports mudded roads east of Amarillo won’t slow him, as he aims to lower the trans continental record from California to New York.
Benjamin F. Levins convicted of the hammer slaying of five members of the Toney Merrill family in Tampa was sentenced to die in the electric chair. The execution date will be set by the governor.
Alberto Guglielmi Rudolph Valentino's brother surfaced after an hour under a plastic surgeon's knife with a revamped nose. The Examiners says the new profile resembles Valentino and could lead him into motion pictures following his brother's footsteps.
Capt. William P. Erwin, forced to return when his gasoline pumps failed, plans to leave at 7 18 p m from Dallas in the monoplane Dallas Spirit for a nonstop flight to San Francisco. He aims to reach Oakland in time to join the Dole air flight to Honolulu and China as the fifth starter on Friday. His wife was disqualified from accompanying him due to age.
Franklin Louisiana August 10 James Beadle Morgan City trapper sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the murder of James J Le Bouef Morgan City utilities man
Fire at 4.4 o clock gutted a two story boarding house owned by Toney Chisum and run by Mrs. Mary Harris. All occupants escaped but many lost clothing and personal effects. Insurance partially covers the loss. Griggs ambulance, Phone 260.
A heavy overnight rain totaled about two inches in Amarillo with half an inch in ten minutes. Basements flooded and cars stalled as viaducts on Sixth Street and Tenth Street flooded. The Fort Worth and Denver railroad bridge at Tascosa was damaged, detouring trains via Rock Island, while rescue crews worked through the night. Reports reached railroad division offices.
A Tremaine monoplane from the Dole San Francisco Honolulu flight crashed on Point Loma near San Diego killing Lieuts George Covell and R W Wagener. A third man may have died. Lieut James Dyer and a passenger were among the crew. The aircraft took off from North Island Naval Air Station at 7 18 am and struck an embankment as it turned back. Firefighters and ambulances rushed to the scene as repairs were being prepared to gasoline lines. Covell piloted the plane drawn 18 in the Honolulu flight. the craft needed over a mile and a half to gain speed for takeoff.
Boston report says Governor Fuller weighs a second respite for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti after seven former Massachusetts attorneys general advised him. Judge Sanderson reserved ruling on a writ of error, with a decision due tomorrow and a potential delay in executions awaiting the court.
The text profiles Nicola Sacco, Italian immigrant, employed in a Stoughton shoe factory, active in radical meetings and literature distribution. It notes his demeanor, atheism, antiwar stance, and flight to Mexico to evade the draft. It covers his courtroom statements, hunger strikes in Dedham jail and a state prison, and his claim of being oppressed by the rich.
An 18-year-old high school girl, described as bright eyed, directs crowds in a Chicago riot as unrest erupts on August 10. Police attempt to contain the gathering while bystanders flee.
Last night a strong storm in Amarillo left a woman nearly drowning at a deep puddle on Seventh street north of the Rock Island. San Jacinto theater owner H C Coffey pulled her from the water and she recovered at Northwest Texas hospital the following morning.
The article outlines Bartolomeo Vanzetti as an Italian immigrant and self described radical leader who fled to Mexico to avoid the 1917 draft. It notes his Plymouth Massachusetts background as a fish peddler writer and orator with a dramatic style. He wrote lengthy defenses after arrest for murder and helped search for Salsedo after his disappearance in New York in 1920.
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