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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1927
Page
6
The Amarillo Globe urges reading William S. Duttons January article on orphans and compares life paths for safeguarded children. It also champions a local irrigation proposal near Amarillo and notes the broader Canadian River valley project as a learning step for the larger irrigation system.
A Illinois youth planted dynamite to blow up his schoolteacher and classroom, wounding many. The district attorney says he will not be prosecuted if the victim recovers and declines to press charges, while irate fathers demand full prosecution for the crime.
Warrington is booked as a suspicious character and held in a cement‑floored city hall cell where claustrophobia and memories of betrayal haunt him. James Cox and other prisoners drift through the damp corridor as Warrington faces district attorney Phelps who hints at a potential confession after Mrs. Bayne’s death.
Tax collector J. W. Collins reports slow auto license and poll tax payments. Only about 1 000 of 8 000 poll taxes have been paid, while 1 200 auto plates and 100 truck licenses have been sold. Eight days remain to reach required 13 000 plates.
International News Service reports American films are losing audience in Austria while American plays fill Viennese stages. Austrian film production rose in 1927 and a new quota limits imports to ten foreign films per domestic film, down from twenty to one, with Austria importing about 400 films annually and Americans previously supplied about three quarters of them.
Max Reinhardt's Salzburg Musical Festival reports a net profit of ninety dollars after its most popular season. Attendance reached 68,000 this year, 40,000 more than in 1926, with gross income noted as substantial.
A 1927 McNaught Syndicate report describes buyer baiters, beautiful Indies who entertain visiting buyers for a price. They arrange cocktails and flirtation to influence purchases, often paid by salesmen or mercantile firms, with clubs, private rooms, and social networks aiding the scheme. Texas Guinan and Night Queen figures are noted for their lounges and legal battles.
In Mexico City red noses plague the American colony as Lindbergh photos blaze in the sun. In Monmouthshire a 136 year old priest dies after a fall in a cold wave. In England Miss Abella Rittenhouse recalls humorless officials after deportation. In Chicago a Rockford man faces arrest for speeding in a new Ford at 55 mph.
Reinhard's agents say next year's Festivals depend on a state subsidy or wealthy benefactor. The report notes the English greyhound craze inflates prices with dogs selling up to 125 dollars each.
In Old Orchard and Farmer Brown's yard Tommy Tit the Chickadee calls for mercy after Terror the Goshawk is caged. Sammy Jay UpDowny and Yank Yank debate the turn of events while Tommy Tit admits sympathy for Terror, noting his need for freedom.
Tommy Tit explains to Terror that even meat eaters like him survive by hunting prey and that nemesis of the feathered folk is hunger. He forgives Terror and flies to tell him so in a gentle, nature themed moment from Burgess's tale. The next story is Peace in the Green Forest.
In a family quarrel over history Benny asks how wars start. His father and mother argue over causes from Russia and Germany to Austria Hungary, then Benny declares he now knows how wars begin despite the adults’ disagreement.
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