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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1928
Page
1
The piece analyzes the Kellogg Peace Pact and the U S Senate’s likely response. It notes European armies exceed 1913 levels with millions under arms and swift mobilization, urging readiness alongside peace efforts. It cites M r W C Durant offering 25 000 for an essay on enforcing prohibition and critiques law based enforcement.
City auditor Thos F Cartwright says readjustment of tax funds lets Amarillo operate on a cash basis without debt for the coming year. The $1.35 levy remains, but 91 cents funds current government and expenses, 4 cents covers warrants and sinking fund interest, 0.40 cents pays bond interest and sinking fund. Last year the general fund got 0.48 and warrants 0.20. An itemized бюджет and the auditor's year end report await commission review.
Governor Smith rests in Albany as he shifts to the Democratic presidential campaign after Labor Day. Herbert Hoover plans a no attacks defense, courting New York support. Senator Robinson outlines a southern and border states tour after a Hot Springs ceremony. Senators Curtis and Borah lead Republican campaign efforts with dates in New England Kennecy and Detroit. A ministerial committee backs Norman Thomas for president with nationwide pastor outreach.
James Windon faced charges of molesting young girls in Elwood park but did not appear in court. He posted a $200 cash bond during grand jury review and remained jailed until noon yesterday while police search for him. He has a wife and child in the area.
The Hollywood couple Jack Dempsey and Estelle Taylor forego palatial homes and private pools to star in David Belasco's The Big Pight in New York. They anticipate earnings of about 12000 weekly for Dempsey and 2000 for Estelle, while missing their California comforts.
A report notes a probe into fraud allegations connected with a real estate purchase. Names listed include Shingies, Paint, Lember, and Service with John Maynard Lor Co ROO W. 5th as referenced entities.
Panhandle residents brace for prairie chicken season as thousands of hunters converge across the Southwest. Amarillo sportsmen chase the birds despite license notices showing closed season in Collingsworth Donley Wheeler and Gray counties until September 1 1929. Analysts warn of danger to birds amid a fast approaching ten day hunt with a five bird daily limit and ten for the season.
Police search for Lewis Arritt the taxi driver and passenger N E B McKeilip in the mountains near Manitou Colorado led by Haramond Taxi manager Orville Benton. Avritt drove a Master Six Buick belonging to the company. rewards total 50 dollars for their return and the car. McKeilip has been linked to Amarillo sightings and mentioned a distant ranch rendezvous in the mountains.
Paris reports Paladium Tire Manufacturing identifies a found airplane wheel as their product. The wheel may have belonged to the Fokker plane carrying Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim and Pilot Lestie Hamilton when they disappeared a year ago on a trans Atlantic flight to Canada.
A regular panel of 20 petit jurors is summoned for Potter County Court with Judge Sam B Motlow on the bench. The court opens September 3 but adjourns for Labor Day and resumes the next morning to hear dockets. A special venire of 129 jurors is summoned to try J L Cheshire for murder in the fatal shooting of W R Dickey on the Panhandle highway north of Amarillo.
Paw Mitchell, 27, was found guilty of murder in the slaying of Pat Murphy last September at Iraan Texas after a trial in Davis County district court. The jury sentenced him to 20 years and he gave notice of appeal. His brother was previously found guilty and given a 15 year term.
Public welfare officials decide Bobbie Quigley age three may continue smoking cigars after a welfare investigator found him hale and lusty and concluded smoking is not harming him. The habit began after his older brother and father smoked and one attempt to induce sickness failed.
Amarillo Panhandle residents are asked to display rare pets at the Tri State fair. Oscar Randal, local druggist, plans a large pet exhibit with monkeys parrots canaries and other animals. Owners are urged to bring entries to Randi Drug No. 1 for application blanks.
The League council reportedly drafted a reply to Costa Rica's request stating it cannot interpret or apply the Monroe doctrine since it concerns only the directly interested states. The decision reflects caution over extraterritorial interpretation by the council.
Mrs. C B Roedel was arrested at Eleventh and North Buchanan streets for driving while intoxicated after a collision with a Ford touring car driven by Nestor Velasquez. Velasquez and his family suffered injuries, with a badly cut baby. Roedel was bound over to the county grand jury after transfer and release on bond.
Moscow dispatch reports Soviet Russia agrees to join the Kellogg Briand renunciation of war pact. Acting Foreign Commissar Litvinoff delivered the note to the French ambassador outlining acceptance while noting the pact is vague but binds nations to public opinion and opens new avenues for disarmament talks among signatories.
District Attorney J Arthur Phelps of Pueblo arrived in Denver Aug 31 amid rumors of new developments in the Amarillo Panhandle Development Co case. He would not reveal his views but reportedly seeks postal evidence to press a federal grand jury investigation into the Amarillo company and related firms. Local officials kept in the dark about the visit, hinting at possible further raids like the prior office seizure of Amarillo company officers and employees.
The article reports Senator Joe T. Robinson during his acceptance of the vice presidential nomination describing the Democratic campaign appeal to the South and dry faction. It frames Governor Smith’s stance on modification of the eighteenth amendment and enforcement as not implying a desire to nullify the law.
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