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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1928
Page
9
Governor Smith ends a weekend rest at a seacoast resort and plans to return to New York for further presidential campaign conferences. He will attend non political events in Syracuse this week including a farmers dinner and a state fair, with potential brief remarks on state matters.
Col Harve H. Haines, manager of the Board of City Development, left at noon to attend a highway enthusiasts conference in Pampa this afternoon. The event was postponed from last Thursday because of a conflicting highway meeting at Memphis. Road officials and enthusiasts were invited to join the conference.
The Silay service station at 1026 West Sixth reported the theft of 99 gallons of gasoline from pumps on Saturday night. Police were given descriptions of three men in an old Ford touring car who allegedly tried to short change the attendant late Saturday afternoon and the operator said he was threatened with a holdup.
The Inter national Harvester company and the Ballew Satterfield company provide big International and Reo trucks to transport the twenty piece band playing tonight at the Globe News Auto Style Show. The firms cooperate fully to aid the annual event.
Miss Kay Bigger resumes leadership of the Herring Hotel Beauty Shop after a vacation. Several residents and visitors return from trips to Iowa, Chicago, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and other sites. A boy, Earl Cline, recovers from a broken arm.
Baseball star Rogers Hornsby headlines the season with a career average of 359 and six NL batting championships. Freddy Lindstrom lauds Hornsby as the greatest right handed hitter, noting his perfect timing, calm temperament, and sharp eye.
Bobby Jones shot 35 35 for a new Chicago Golf Club course record of 68 in a practice round ahead of Walker Cup matches. The Atlanta star led a fourball with Captain Eustace Storey and Tony Torrance as Bob Gardner and others followed, despite one minor trouble at the seventh.
Lawrence Rowland Bosley aged three months, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bosley of Belmont Park, died at 8 30 this morning. Funeral services were held at 4 this afternoon at Blackburn Boxwell chapel and burial followed in Liane cemetery.
Louise Renzie was killed instantly and Robert Campbell aged 26 was fatally injured when the automobile they rode in plunged over a deep embankment on the outskirts of Texarkana last night. Campbell died within minutes after reaching a hospital.
Seven persons were injured when a touring car carrying them toward Austin collided with another vehicle eight miles north on the Georgetown road Sunday.
Vienna August 2 United Press reports the Austrian Air Transport Company has operated for five years without an accident causing death or disability to a passenger. Established in 1923 by ex Lieut. Col. Deutelmoser, the airline has carried out flights in all directions.
A Franco-American review in Paris surveys European reactions to American influence. Notables like Regis Michaud and Joseph Delteil clash over whether America reshapes Europe or merely imports material life and modernity, with mixed views on jazz, culture, and progress.
Kansas City August reports Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey’s gold plated bugle, used at Arlington and Wilson funerals, being bid up to fifteen hundred dollars. Once bought from the government for 2.50, Witchey remains non negotiable and the historic horn stays in his possession.
Denver police sergeant E C Young orders hearings to remove Esther 10 and Susie 6 from their mother Beatrice Rael after a jail term for selling liquor to an undercover officer. He argues liquor trafficking endangers children and may corrupt them, with juvenile court to decide custody.
In Carlsbad Cavern, Myrdell Jordan and Thomas Wilson, both of Carlsbad, wed before 776 visitors at 750 feet underground the day before. Rev John H Rentfro of Cle burne officiated. Two hundred guests joined a Paso cavern highway motorcade from Dallas and west Texas for the ceremony. Afterward the party planned a Juarez barbecue hosted by the El Paso chamber of commerce. Miss Martree Bechto returned from Cordell Oklahoma.
The Ministry of Health London inspected one million houses in 1926 and declared 13 260 unfit for human habitation.
A group of 60 Navajo and Apache performers from New Mexico will appear at the fair for a week. They will present street acts and tribal dances such as Snake, Eagle, War, and Days of 69. This marks the first time Indians have been featured at the exposition, highlighting Panhandle attendance and historic Taos tribes.
Sixty more books of hunting and fishing licenses have arrived from Austin and are on sale at downtown hardware stores. District warden S. D. Turner says 25 licenses per location, totaling about 1 509, replace expiring licenses August 1. Licenses available at The Williams Panhandle Amarillo Morrow-Th hardware firms and J J W Minter’s courthouse office. Turner found no violators in a 25-car search.
S. E. Ross of the Draper-Ross Produce company bought the brick residence at 2604 Hayden from J. A. Morgan for 11500. The Powell Realty company handled the sale.
Gasoline at 20 dollars a gallon is the record price paid by motorcycle racers at British dirt track speedways. The exact content of the new gasoline remains a secret.
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