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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1928
Page
1
The Savannah Bess suggests President Coolidge may visit Sapelo Island off Georgia after Christmas, invited by Howard Coffin to stay on his 26 000 acre holdings. The piece highlights Darien’s past, Bank of Darien, and Sapelo’s forests forts and shrimp fleets as backdrop to a potential presidential trip.
Continuation notes indicate an athletics meet at Maryland with details extending to page two. The fragment mentions an upcoming event and results or schedules to be continued in the next column.
After an alleged quarrel sparked by a joke about paying for whiskey at 25 cents a glass, Charley Chadd of 313 Bryan street faces two assault with intent to murder charges. E J Sullivan was wounded in the face while Detective O H Denton narrowly escaped injury during the confrontation at Chadd’s home. Sullivan, taken to Northwest Texas hospital, is reported in serious but non critical condition.
Martin Jensen president of Deer Creek Creamery in Atchison Kansas visits Amarillo with Mrs Jensen and daughter Audrey on a dairy industry tour. He praises Amarillo's modern dairy plant and notes milk prices around 3.20 per hundred in Amarillo and 2.40 in Kansas while predicting a bright Panhandle dairying future.
Routine sessions outline Senate and House actions including hearings in foreign affairs and Indian affairs, nominations to the interstate commerce commission, and votes on state, interior, and labor appropriations. Notable items include a $12 million appropriation bill, a $1.5 million interior add, building funds for West Point, and a $15 million hurricane relief authorization.
Secretary Jardine endorses the McNary farm marketing bill and urges passage this session to apply to the 1929 crop. He says it would create a farm marketing board with license power for stabilization firms and access to a $300 million revolving loan fund for cooperatives.
Members of the Golden Sandstorm football squad of Amarillo high school were guests of the American Business club at its noon lunch. The program focused on entertainment for the Sandies.
President Coolidge signed a bill establishing a Nashville Tennessee presidents plaza to honor Andrew Jackson James K Polk and Andrew Johnson in the city. The action designates a memorial site and commemorates the three U S presidents with a formal plaza.
J H Goodgion, Canyon public schools janitor, was found dead in the boiler room with his skull crushed after reports of a valve needing repair. He reportedly fell ten feet from the boiler area while working. A daughter lives in Waco and he had two sisters. relatives provide instructions on the body.
President Coolidge signed the Boulder Dam bill authorizing a 165 million dollar Colorado River project in Black Canyon. The act funds construction and repays costs from power sales, pending ratification of the Colorado River compact by Utah or Arizona among the seven basin states.
Marshal Count Luigi Cadorna, who commanded Italy's army in World War I, died today at Bordighera at age 78 from a brain blood clot after a coma. He led Italy during the Caporetto crisis, later blamed by an inquiry and retired from service.
Mamie Roler an 18 year old from Commerce Oklahoma with Frank Taylor two years her senior seeks federal consent to wed Taylor who is serving a six month Mann Act sentence The pair separated for months since custody at Indio California by federal agents met in Oklahoma then drove west by car Griggs ambulance phone 4311
United Press reports that 23,230 Americans submitted plans for the Durant Prohibition Enforcement prize with 1,050 urging government liquor manufacture and sale. Among favored remedies are army and navy enforcement by 1,171 supporters and 679 calling for a spy system.
A Belgian woman claiming her lover, Walter Ringer, led a gang that looted the Leviathan mail sacks abroad says she informed police. Ringer, now a fugitive, allegedly used Antwerp pubs to launder 70 000 francs from the theft and planned retirement abroad as investigators pressed a transnational probe.
United Press dispatches from Buenos Aires report unusual frontier activity on the Argentine Bolivian border. Yacuiba's correspondent notes great military activity in the district while Tartagal, a major oil center, reports many Bolivians crossing into Argentina in numerous automobiles.
Secretary West rejected all government oil bids from Wyoming Salt Creek after the top bidder failed to post bond and supply data requested by the department. The bidder then arranged a private sale with White Eagle Oil and Refining Co and the Texas Company for the oil.
The Joy Ride at the Tri-State fair grounds will open at 4 PM Saturday and operate all day Sunday. It had been closed for weeks due to poor weather. As a promotion, riders may buy two rides and get a third free.
Otia Fleener, once manager of White Deer Motor Supply, was convicted in district court of swindling Amarillo men by using an unowned car as security on a note. Judge Bishop denied a motion for a new trial. sentence set at two years. appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals filed.
The U S 8 Utah carrying President-elect Hoover entered Rio de Janeiro harbor at noon as sirens blared and crowds crowded rooftops to glimpse the visitors. Amitu Obb and his official party greeted the president elect aboard a launch shortly after the Utah dropped anchor.
M Fachot a Paris councillor of the court of appeals and former state attorney was shot today by an unidentified man. Fachot had prosecuted the case against Alsatian autonomists last year. The injury is described as probably fatal.
Seven deaths in the Midwest were linked to cold and blizzards as a December cold snap swept through Illinois Michigan Minnesota and Ohio. Albion College students Norman Campbell Stephen Leighton and Ralph Doolittle died in a snowstorm near Nunica Michigan while en route home for Christmas. St Paul saw two deaths from cold and a pedestrian and a mishap in a blizzard. A Chicago woman Mary Klingenberg suffocated trying to keep warm as a fire broke out in her house. Airmail pilot Leo J McGinn perished when his plane was struck by a blizzard over Huron Ohio. Temperatures were reported at zero or below across several states. Snow and cold disrupted holiday plans and halted travel as authorities noted the year's shortest day and first day of winter.
Henry L. Long, jailed on a murder complaint in the death of Pearl Hudson, was indicted for criminal assault against Hudson's 14 year old daughter. The grand jury returned the indictment after noon yesterday as Long seeks bond.
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