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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1928
Page
20
Police report ten or more city jail inmates facing $100 to $200 vagrancy fines after a morning roundup. J A Wood paid $200 and returned to jail for a knife trick at a railroad station as Chief Gaither praises heavy fines to deter idleness theft and trick games during holidays. Shoplifting has declined and business leaders praise the policy.
Amarillo Boy Scout council officers and directors were elected for the coming year at a hotel meeting. New council heads include President F. M. Butler, Vice Presidents R. F. McMillen and A. A. Meredith, Treasurer Chas. A. Fisk, Scout Commissioner Will M. Benton, Sea Scout Commissioner Sam Sallenberger, and national councilman L. C. White. Directors listed include F. E. DeCoster, C. W. Carson, Dr. D. Roach, Dr. John Vaughn, Norris Ewing, P. L. Bottom, Jim Cook, Cecil O'Brien, Carter Matthews, Walter Barlow, H. M. Russell, J. B. Patterson, Bishop E. C. Seaman, J. N. Riggs, and Jack Edwards.
Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt the assistant United States attorney general told reporters in Los Angeles she cannot say if she will remain in her job after Herbert Hoover takes office. She is visiting her parents in Temple after arriving from Washington, D. C.
Los Angeles December 21. Mrs Marguerite Beery and actor Noah Beery are seeking an out of court property settlement in the divorce action. An alimony hearing was not attended and the case was placed off calendar. The property involved is valued at 300000 dollars.
Francis Lachner 88 a former president of the Chicago Bar association died in Los Angeles yesterday. A Detroit native he was a corporation lawyer in Chicago for 56 years shaping local legal circles and the bar.
The Amarillo Bank and Trust company details vault upgrades featuring a pick proof safety deposit system with double locks and two keys per box. The old bank door was replaced by a nine ton vault door while a state of the art inter com system links departments. The 1906 institution grew from a one story brick building to occupy the Fisk Medical and Professional building, with a capital of 1 million dollars, deposits of 2.25 million, and a 93 thousand dollar surplus.
18 year old Arthur Leonard told police he killed Mrs. Samuel Jones a 63 year old widow in Towanda Pennsylvania to avenge being sent to the reformatory for stealing chickens. Leonard was arrested in Buffalo by railroad police and confessed after five hours of grilling at the Erie county penitentiary.
The article describes a bank’s interior with a stenographic department private conference rooms and a large bronze center table for customers. It highlights a reinforced concrete steel vault in the basement measuring twenty seven and one half inches thick with a 16 inch thick door designed to resist torches and drills.
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