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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1927
Page
6
The entry lists the Amarillo Globe, founded February 20, 1924, with publishing staff including Gene Howf as Publisher and Editor and Wilbur C. Hawk as General Manager. It notes Associated Press affiliation and shows subscription rates and dates for Monday December 5, 1927.
Amarillo fans praised a strong high school football campaign that fell short of a state title but drew record crowds and showed the town’s full support. Coach Butler started a promising era, with trips to away games and a base for future championship teams. Also noted is a surge in church construction in Amarillo, signaling civic progress and long term growth. A second item comments on President Coolidge’s temper, sparked by a chamber of commerce tax cut feud, revealing a human side to the presidency.
F Trubee Davidson the assistant secretary of the navy urges banning unlicensed pilots and strict aircraft inspections to halt diploma mills in aviation. The piece notes widespread risky flyers at resorts and fields and calls for field level enforcement to protect air progress.
Flashes of Life reports from Faenza with forecasts of a week of earthquakes starting tonight about 200 from Faenza and then across the northeastern Asia centered observatories will monitor shocks along the Pacific coast. Ignacio Espi, a locomotive engineer in Cordoba, heroically coupled his engine to explosives and detached before a blast. In Linden New Jersey, ex jail inmate Harry Krohne drums for the Salvation Army on Saturdays after preaching at Sing Sing. Miss May Vaughan, formerly at Jarett Fashion, has married a Hedley man and moved home.
Howard Warrington, a young bond salesman, becomes a paying guest in Mrs Bayne's house where Holly and Margaret suffer under social pressures. Warrington uncovers a planned bond sale tied to a looted bank and contemplates a risky exit strategy to protect Holly while postponing a bank inquiry.
Diary entries describe Broadway robbery patterns, noting three-man teams outside, gun threats, and cashiers prompted to leave drawers open. Also mentions crime slang, street life observations, and a 1927 copyright by the McNaught Syndicate.
County juvenile officer Mrs. Nellie Ross escorted eight Amarillo dependent children to new placements last week. Two boys aged nine and eleven admitted stealing automobiles and were sent to Gatesville reformatory while two others were sent to Dallas and two to Oklahoma City. The Gatesville boys could not be placed at Waco Home of Dependent and Neglected Children due to full capacity. They are among the youngest ever placed in the reformatory.
Hollywood dispatch reports 13 year old Mary Rogers daughter of Will Rogers suffers a fractured wrist when her horse shies at a movie camera. She watched President Calles in a Mexican bull ring during the ride. In New York Joseph Henninger, 21, from Indianapolis with 1.14 dollars, wins a four year art scholarship in Europe funded by Mrs. Louise Thomas of New Orleans. He will study while supporting himself as a theater doorman and usher.
Dr. John H. Vaughan, radium expert, traveled to Lubbock this afternoon to address Tech college pre medical students this evening. Mrs. J A Bromert returns to Carroll Iowa after a month with her son Dr Bromert.
In a Burgess tale set in winter, Peter Rabbit worries about distant friends like Welcome Robin and Song Sparrow while Mrs. Peter urges him to stay busy. Reddy Fox heads toward the Green Forest as Peter contemplates leaving the Briarpatch.
A visiting Scot admires Britain's grand golf courses and, at a perfect round, discovers a pocket bulge containing expensive cigars. He questions the caddy if he smokes, only to decide the cigars must stay hidden in his pocket, returning them to their original place.
Congress faces a single major probe this session the Walsh led inquiry into power trusts. The effort aims to smash the power lobby and push federal regulation of utilities while tying to Boulder Dam and Muscle Shoals. Progressives back the inquiry and Norris accuses interlinked utilities of private greed.
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