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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1925
Page
2
Market notes list cattle receipts and price ranges for cows heifers calves and stockers. Hog prices show typical ranges for good light packing beasts and other categories. Sheep and goats include lamb and ewe pricing. Grain futures given for wheat maize millet oats with per hundred weight or per bushel rates.
Seer Roosters listed at 0S¢ Ducks 08¢ Geese 08e¢ Hens 16c Leghorn Hens 12¢ Broilers straight 17¢ Broilers leghorn and blacks 12c No 1 Hen and Tom Turkeys Old Tom Turkeys Packing Stock Butter Infertile Bags stamped subject to candling 8.70 EGGsa new cases, worthless out loss charged back vent 5.10 10¢ 1éc ok ae SOR 5c.
Washington reports a sweeping wartime censorship gag rule in the army and navy budget battle with the budget bureau. Officers face secrecy as requests for tentative budgets prompt possible calls for a $20,000,900 reduction, amid White House tensions with President Coolidge over public opinion and appropriations.
Jamel Logan, held with a companion after driving from El Paso, told sheriff's deputies he faces a fifteen year Kansas sentence for grand larceny and burglary. He identified a telegram from Howard Kansas authorities and said I am the man. Bill Tefler, the other detainee, was released after car inquiry.
Funeral services for John Walter Tracy 111 month old son of Mrs Walter Tracy 206 Cleveland Street were held yesterday afternoon at the Blackburn Funeral home. The Rev Gaston Foote associate pastor of Park Street Methodist church officiated. Burial was in Llano cemetery.
The Globe questions the City Light & Water distribution charge of 45 cents per thousand gallons as excessive and suggests 25 cents with a new mains system could be possible. It warns Amarillo could face higher costs if the plant is old, worn, or inefficient and questions accepting the plant as a gift.
Chicago figures say the National Commission on Uniform State Laws will press a uniform law setting 14 as the minimum age for work with strict regulations and stricter enforcement, except for miners in family residences. The Detroit conference, August 25 to 29, will feature leading jurists.
Washington announces a major tax collection push ten days early. Thirty three special investigators are sent to Florida to audit real estate transactions as part of a broader drive. Commissioner Blair will deploy 3,170 revenue collectors across sixty five districts to boost September efforts. Florida tax receipts for the year ending June 30 reached 19 791 970 51 dollars, up over ten million from the prior year.
C W Stowell 75 died yesterday in a local hospital while visiting his Amarillo sons. Funeral at Blackburn Funeral Home at 4 pm conducted by Rev W F Fisher of San Jacinto Methodist. Body to Rifle Colorado for burial Tuesday. Survived by widow and seven sons including EF M Stowell Shreveport W J Stowell Sawtelle Ralph A P Ae TAWW Lv Stowell Amarillo and a daughter Mrs A W Helen Ojai Calif. Also two brothers and three sisters. Pallbearers listed. Also note: Benzol rail motor cars of Australia have doubled their speed.
West Texas chamber officials led by Col. R. Q. Lee start Monday at 3 30 PM from Dalhart for a tour of fourteen Panhandle towns. Stops include Stratford Texhoma Canadian Shamrock and Amarillo with discussions on farming and crop conditions.
The city faces a million dollar investment to bring water to its edge and proposes a distribution fee of 1.80. City controls pumping and distribution in Lubbock, challenging the company’s claim that high costs stem from deep well pumping and arguing many US cities purify and distribute water themselves for lower fees.
Hollywood heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey was restrained by Estelle Taylor when burglars broke into their home. Taylor reportedly kept him from going downstairs to confront the intruders, sparking another noted incident in the boxer's publicized life.
John Hill and Ed Burran of Panhandle Lumber return from D L McDonald farm near Hereford reporting sorghum cane stalks nine feet four inches tall and a field so dense they could barely see the sun. They compare irrigation costs to California and note A Lincoln Fellows says electric power for pumps could drop to about two cents per kilowatt.
Rain ranging from a sprinkle to heavy showers marked the week in Central and South Texas while the western half stayed dry. Dallas saw an eighth of an inch, Houston received heavy rain, and traces fell at Waco and El Paso. Lubbock Amarillo remained hot and clear.
London August 22 Earnest E Benedict 29 said he belonged to the Vanderbilt family of New York and owned a yacht at Southampton. He is sentenced to six months for stealing a watch from Josephine Gordon a modiste. Benedict’s yacht turns out to be a ship where he served as second mate.
Officials forecast a record fair with large entries and faster races than last year. Roy Barton to oversee auto racing, dairy space expansion urged, beef cattle slow but prospects fair, hog market high prices draw hog show interest. Amusement lineup ready for a big carnival with fourteen bands plus three paid bands. Exhibits expanding across counties. space at the hall selling fast. Officials expect a greatly enlarged fair in 1925.
In New York on August 22 bandits shot Policeman David Sheehan during a hold up at the Cunard hotel building in the Bowery. He died after a gun duel with three assailants as a crowd of about six thousand watched. Sheehan was the tenth officer slain in twenty months.
East Las Vegas New Mexico August 22 coroner's jury inquest returns verdict that John B Lassiter was accidentally shot by Albuquerque editor Carl C Magee during a feud with former Judge David J Leahy Magee travels to Albuquerque for arraignment and tension remains high as investigations continue.
The U S will send fifteen man sea planes to fly one hop from California to Hawaii. The piece urges westward Pacific flights for regular links to Hawaii and the Philippines and notes the emerging Asiatic flying boats. The other item reports Cuba's press clampdown after editor Alvarado criticized Machado, with his papers suspended and his subsequent shooting.
Flaming gasoline spurts from a Brooklyn station after three explosions wrecking the building and threatening a dozen people. One person is critically burned in the late night blast.
The Barbadoes authorities will permit individuals to use radio receiving sets. Regulation outlines the conditions for personal receivers and adherence to international broadcasting norms. Authorities emphasize lawful use and avoidance of interference with official communications.
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