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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1929
Page
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Arthur Brisbane urges early holiday mail by air and praises the Stout Air Service milestone. The column reviews Haiti's history with League of Nations critique, the Monroe Doctrine, and U S duty. It blends political opinion with a health tip on alcohol and oxygen effects from a toxicologist.
In Mountain View Arkansas a cabin meeting seeks to settle if Connie Franklin is dead or alive Five men may be endangered by the outcome Prosecutor Hugh Williamson will present Coleman Foster to identify a man claimed as Franklin If Foster confirms the identity charges may be dropped otherwise the state vows full prosecution The defense argues Franklin is alive and present in person as the proceedings begin Foster has returned to this See TORTURE Page 2
In Austin, 674 people attended an international debate where Oxford University debaters argued against University of Texas speakers on the installment buying plan. The audience split 378 to 297 against the plan, favoring the dollar down and a dollar a week approach as a threat to American prosperity.
Former Mexican president Plutarco Elias Calles arrived in New York aboard the Bremen amid fog delays. A Texas warrant charges him with conspiracy in the seven year old murder of Gen Lucian Blanco and Col Aurelio Martinez. Sheriff Condren says Calles faces arrest in Webb County as diplomatic questions loom.
A man and a woman once informers for prohibition agents in Kansas City were found guilty of attempting to extort 5,000 dollars from Frank Demayo, a former bootlegger. Henry Prudhomme and Mrs Ivo Gillespie face up to two years in prison and fines up to 10,000 dollars. they plan to seek a new trial. Demayo testified against them and their arrest followed tracing marked money in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last December.
Edward L. Doheny oil magnate faces a District of Columbia trial on a bribery charge linked to Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve leases. The indictment accuses him of paying former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall $100000. Fall was convicted and fined, with a suspended sentence.
Washington reports show the senate moved a $160,000,000 tax cut resolution without objection. Early passage is likely though opponents may delay later. News notes include Grundy moving into capitol, a House committee favorable on $230,000,000 for federal buildings, and agricultural lawmakers pressing tariff limits.
J. P. Henican president of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange told a senate agriculture subcommittee that pending legislation creates market uncertainty. He cited measures ranging from extra regulation to abolition of trading on exchanges as a disturbing influence likely to persist until Congress resolves them.
About 60 boys from ten towns joined the annual Tri-State Poultry Show judging contest for high school vocational agriculture students. The two day event opened with a strong forenoon turnout, tallying about 800 birds and 112 exhibitors the show’s largest ever. Teams from Conway, Pampa, Groom, Panhandle, White Deer, Goodnight, Claude, McLean, Silverton and Tulsa competed under Prof. T. M. Moore of Canyon’s West Texas State Teachers College, with more teams expected.
Goose Creek Texas December report details a school boy dispute ending in a fatal fall near a train track. Carl Rayner 14 died three hours after the scuffle. Jack Brashiere 15 faces a murder charge as a former friend and classmate at Goose Creek junior high.
Four JA ranch veterans and Col. Charles Goodnight fraternity members will pallbear at the burial of the 93 year old frontier leader in Goodnight, Texas. His body, dying in Tucumcari, N M, travels to the ranch home for a state viewing and burial procession. Joe Horn and other pallbearers are named for the service.
James Clark, 23, believed from Amarillo, was run over and killed by a car on the highway near El Paso. His body is held in El Paso for positive ID. Undertaker notes he is about 23, 140 pounds, blond hair, blue eyes. John Milligan suspects a family link but the kinsman is unlocated. Clark left Badger Ice Company about a month ago en route to Tucumari.
About 600 delegates at a New York Federation of Club Women meeting denounced Paris fashion control over American dress. Short skirts won a majority vote over the long styles as English actress Gertrude Lawrence defended the longer look while Rita Weiman championed American independence and mocked foreign fashion pressures.
The jury in a federal court special session will resume this afternoon to decide Noah P. Taylor of Peasant Valley against the United States for a $10,000 war risk indemnity policy. Testimony closed this morning. the case had resulted in a hung jury in the September term. Taylor claimed total disability from army service at Fort Sam Houston since 1919. the government contends he is not. Mrs. Taylor testified of daily farm and household duties and managing a telephone exchange.
A federal grand jury investigation into the Augustus J. McCloskey Harry M. Wurzbach congressional election of 1928 will be taken up Monday in San Antonio Texas.
In Victoria Texas on December 13 Thomas McGrew a 40 year old African American man was sentenced under the habitual convict law to life imprisonment for his third conviction after stealing a chocolate pie and 40 cents. He had prior burglary convictions.
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce directors decided to take a neutral position on the industrial site issue. A shippers and business leaders committee will petition Rock Island president J. K. Gorman to drop opposition to Santa Fe’s proposed new line from Amarillo into Colorado. The line would open 380 miles of new track, and construction would proceed if the Rock Island opposes it.
Dr Hugo Broeker a middle aged German professor at Rice Institute offered to help investigators in the slaying of Miss Cordelia Gummersheimer Rockford Ill a high school teacher. He recalled meeting her at the University of Wisconsin last summer and described her as splendid and pretty saying he would provide any information he could to aid the case.
Chicago December 18 a 30 year old scientist Dr Isadore 8 Falk of the University of Chicago announces the successful isolation of the influenza germ. Falk professor of hygiene and bacteriology began his search a year ago and isolated it September 30. He and 13 co workers five well as Dr Falk himself were victims of the illness. He hopes vaccine or antitoxin may control influenza and some colds. The germ is said to be a pleomorphic streptococcus forming pearl like chains with rough and smooth clumps. Samples from assistant Ruth A Kinney were used at the start of the experiments revealing many varieties of germs. The germ identified as responsible for the disease is not fatal by itself.
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