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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1925
Page
1
A Havana dispatch reports a suspected white led voodoo cult preparing to sacrifice a three year old girl amid guards closing in. The piece ties this to child labor debates and contrasts justice for a milk thief in a stark class critique. It also riffs on Mussolini and Caesar, Vanderbilt plans, and rising tensions at a Vienna Zionist conference with anti Semite mobs and deaths.
The Amarillo forecast calls for possible showers tonight and tomorrow with cooler temperatures. Daytime highs reach the mid 70s to near 80s while early morning lows dip to the 60s, and records show a yearly high of 95 degrees and low around 71.
San Angelo August 20 Associated Press reports loss of life feared as fire rages through the Landon hotel in San Angelo. Hundreds registered last night. at least fifty believed inside when blaze began. One woman, Mrs. R. F. Senor of San Antonio, evacuated in critical condition. The fire destroyed the three story Landon hotel with sixty five rooms run by McBurnet Hotel Co. a landmark for Southwest cattlemen.
The American Royal and Kansas City stockyards send a large exhibit tent with moving pictures and livestock experts led by A. M. Patterson to the Tri-State fair. Free lunch for herdsmen. Patterson discusses care, disease treatment, and handling of cattle hogs and sheep. The exhibit debuts at other regional fairs and is praised as a major feature for the Panhandle area.
Hereford's Ralph Smith announces the first band concert will be held Thursday evening August 26 at the Magnolia filling station west of the courthouse. About twenty five members, many exHereford players, form the new group which aims for regular rehearsals after organization. A high school band and orchestra will form when school starts this fall.
Donald B. MacMillan, the explorer, said in a radio message received in Portland that he expects to return from Utah Greenland next month. The update was relayed to editor Daniel W. Hogg of the Evening Express.
Paris reports France and Spain have broken off peace negotiations with Abd el Krim the Riffian chief. French and Spanish plenipotentiaries awaiting Riffian emissaries at Melilla have been ordered to return home signaling a setback in the joint Franco Spanish peace effort.
American Gas company of Los Angeles to build three casing-head gas plants in the Panhandle oil field. Refiner Construction of Los Angeles started work. Plants on Texas company Burnett pasture lease and Gulf lease with 16000 gallons daily capacity. George C Wentz and J B Ward worked in the field arranging the project. Plants use a special extraction process, reducing waste gas and boosting field revenue.
A San Quentin prison employee, B. O. Miller, shipping clerk, dies after an escape attempt by six convicts from a waterfront gang. Police, posses, and an airplane pursue the commandeered tug during a bay chase ending with capture near Malate point.
The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey announced another reduction of 1 cent per gallon in tank wagon prices across its territory excluding South Carolina. The new rates list 16 1/2 cents in New Jersey Baltimore and Washington and 17 6/10 cents in Maryland Virginia West Virginia and North Carolina, following prior cuts on August 8 and last Friday. The Gulf Refining company responded to the move.
In Henryetta Oklahoma prayer meetings of striking coal miners resumed today at the A and B mines. A resolution thanked the state criminal court of appeals for its Tuesday decision declaring religious meetings a legal form of picketing. Globe want ads bring results.
The Globe urges open discussion on City Light & Water sale offered at 950000 in Amarillo. It contrasts with Amarillo Daily News and Amarillo Evening Post positions, cites investor ties of J Lindsay Nunn, and notes ongoing appraisal led by Banks Jones as officials seek a fair municipal purchase.
From Moscow advices report Leon Trotzky has been restored to power in Warsaw as chief of the economic council. He is identified as the former war leader. The dispatch is dated August 20 and places Trotzky in a pivotal political post.
The tenth annual Amarillo trade trip completed a 20 city tour of the South Plains with a warm reception in every stop. O. V. Vernon called the mission the most businesslike and wholly successful trip he has experienced. The trippers adopted a unanimous resolution praising the South Plains hospitality, drafted by Horace Russell and the resolutions committee including Lee Satterwhite, C. R. McAfee, and Judge L. Gough.
A Hollywood romance between Rudolph Valentino and Winifred Sheehan Valentino ends in a friendly separation. George Ellman, manager for Mrs. Valentino, says no divorce or alimony, both will continue in film work separately. The couple wed in 1922 in Tia Juana and seek artistic freedom.
Chicago reports Dr John Roach Straton a fundamentalist pastor says Clarence Darrow the agnostic has consented to a public debate on evolution. Straton, Calvary Baptist Church New York City, wired Darrow to take the negative on the question Earth and man come by evolution and seeks a fall date, preferably in Chicago, with Henry Fracter arranging terms.
J Lindsay Nunn acting for Southwestern Public Service buys Panhandle lighting plant from City Light & Water. Agreement dated July 17 lists J L Nunn or assigns. S M Makeig and Howard Williams take charge. transfer to Southwestern not yet formalized. Carl M Eimhart listed as transfer agent.
Details of a proposal to sell Clovis City Light and Water to the Southwestern Public Service group led by J L Nunn of Amarillo. The plan includes a city franchise and new rates, contingent on voter approval. Negotiations followed by officials and local papers, with the proposal filed July 12 and papers on record.
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