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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1927
Page
9
At New Port union high school 52 of 65 students walked out to protest the appointment of Mrs. Daisy Halleck as principal and her old fashioned dress. Leaders demand a male principal, claim dances and athletics are banned, and note a prior promise to hire a man if students returned from an earlier strike.
A 2 500 000 board foot cargo of Russian lumber reached New York with more shipments soon to follow. The National Lumber Manufacturers Association warns this could mark a Soviet push to control U S timber imports, aiming at 100 million board feet annually due to cheap labor and favorable freight.
Logan J Willis 22 of Denver is jailed in Boulder on suspicion of poisoning his stepfather F M Loveall 55 and partner Jack Ludwig 22 at a Ward Colorado camp. Loveall and Ludwig say Willis gave poison pills and a nurse forced eggs as they fell ill. Willis denies speaking to Sheriff Blum who notes family friction over military service.
In Mineola Texas J M Harvey a 45 year old farmer ducked as his shotgun slipped from a tree and swung his arm. The gun discharged tearing off a finger but missing his head by inches. The story ends noting Persimmon suede pull on gloves as a fashion aside.
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his Spirit of St. Louis escaped injury when a wheel hit a rut on landing at Teterboro airport. The nose bent slightly and the propeller was damaged. This marks his first aviation mishap since the Paris departure last May.
Pieces of the Daniel Gugtenheim fund for the promotion of aeronautics appear in the record, detailing contributions and intended use to advance aviation research and education.
In San Springs Okla Dee 6 J C Hivick shot and killed his crippled daughter Pauline 0 his wife and then fatally shot himself. The double murder and suicide were witnessed by Pauline’s sister Mrs Frank Surrett Pauline suffered from a spinal condition and wore a plaster cast.
The rabbit business may grow into a profitable Amarillo industry as local raisers discuss prospects. A meeting of rabbit growers is scheduled for 7:80 tonight in the Board of City Development conference room chaired by James A.
Bush, chairman of the agricultural committee, says $25 million was spent on rabbit furs in the United States last year with only two percent produced domestically. Several large rabbitries exist near Amarillo as organizers plan to form an association tonight. Nation Drug, 404 Polk, Phone 4622.
A vintage health blurb urges restoring appetite by building rich red blood cells using S.8.8. and 8.8.8. It claims this elixir aids energy and vitality, promising renewed hunger and strength. Readers are advised to obtain the product from druggists, noting larger sizes are more economical.
The New York Stock Exchange began in 1701 as brokers met under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street to discuss securities. They later traded in coffee taverns before acquiring permanent quarters in 1817.
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