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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1928
Page
2
Labor union notes discuss country living’s appeal versus city life and mention K. M. Watson of the Carpenters union returning to Amarillo for holidays. The piece references patents, a gas building crew in Borger, Christmas travels, suspensions of unions, and various local workers’ activities with scattered names and places.
Christmas charity flowed from the First Baptist and several other churches along with unions and civic groups. Salvation Army gave 126 of the 150 total contributions and oil men funded a free dinner for unemployed people at the city. The Children’s Home will host a 3 PM program by the Orphan’s Birthday Club as businesses closed for the day.
Two men were killed in Southern West Virginia during Christmas. Robin Whipple was shot in an argument over a dog. Everett Stanley, a Ritter Lumber Camp boss, was killed in a Barrett brawl. Hiram Walker was jailed for the crime and Walker Sutherland arrested in connection.
Virginia launches a statewide aviation push under the highway commission to build and expand air fields for commercial flight and pilot training. Eight fields are active, several more near completion, and negotiations continue for additional sites across the state with Governor Byrd backing the program.
Paris dispatch reports Minister of Aeronautics M Laurent-Eynac rejecting a proposed Legion of Honor for Lieutenant Laurent-Eynaec of the reserve corps. He notes his Croix de Guerre from the war suffices his honors and privately recalls a preannounced banquet by well-wishers.
The construction of a cage bridge from the mainland to the beach alters sea gull behavior in Bogue sound. Gulls now dive to the bridge to drop and crack shellfish on the span, occasionally dropping shells on passing cars.
The article remarks that Europe desires US loans to fund Germany’s payments to the Allies while claiming the US has the money and that banks grow, post office work shines under government ownership, and aviation and air mail plans advance. It also critiques British education, German wartime attitudes, and warns war remains unprofitable.
The dream car of Frank Lockhart, the speed record contender who died at Daytona Beach, has been fully disassembled and parts sold for use in other speed cars. Interchangeable axles and motors were acquired by enthusiasts as the unique vehicle is not to be rebuilt. Ray Keech, holder of the world straightaway record, had hoped to drive it, but the decision stood to leave it as a nonfunctional relic.
Uncle Alec the Jamaican who served General Leonard Wood as bodyguard and factotum won a big lottery prize. He bought a hotel partnership at Caimanera near Guantanamo, to be run in his name, while he retires to a rocking porch by the sea. The lucky man, age worn yet spry, leaves active life.
Lubbock's Montgomery Ward two store chain has led Texas sales since its opening last May, with Fort Worth's big store the only exception. C. J. Myers, manager in Lubbock, says the record proves South Plains towns are on par with and often better than the state’s average.
Amarillo police and fire departments sponsored the Community Christmas tree as 2470 presents were distributed to poor children this Christmas season. Patrolman Tom Bush oversaw the effort with hundreds more packages handed out to those missed yesterday, including Whites, Negroes and Mexicans. Nuts candy fruit and doughnuts filled most bags as volunteers thanked local business people for support.
President-elect Herbert Hoover and Mrs. Hoover spent a quiet Christmas in Rio de Janeiro. The pair joined an official party for church services and exchanged gifts in the admiral's suite as they read radio messages from friends, relatives, and government officials.
About 500 underprivileged children attended a morning matinee at the Deandi theater provided by Dent Theaters Inc as part of the Policeman Fireman Community Christmas. The feature was The Slaves by James Oliver Curwood and each child received candy. The event is planned to become an annual Christmas Matinee per manager Will Winch.
Morocco's Rabat reports Captain Qodinot, a French excavator, claims inscriptions found 22 miles south of Fez date to about 600 BCE. The carvings, resembling Babylonian Ur and Chaldea scripts, suggest Moorish ancestors of Abd El Krim were Assyrians Medes or Persians, challenging prior Berber-origin assumptions.
Washington dispatch reports Chief Moran of the Secret Service noting prohibition agents enjoy use of seized bootleggers cars. Counterfeiters’ machines outrun government cars, which receive only fuel and tire costs. Moran urged regional pools to extend seized vehicles to all agencies under the law.
American Legion plans to push state legislatures to create scholarships for war orphans at state colleges and universities. Maj. Gen. P. C. Harris said the federal government pays 120 dollars yearly for eligible orphans, and states would be asked to match that amount.
A teen in Hazard area sparked a firecracker in powder used for coal firing and ignited a mine camp blaze. Four Stacy children died, a 17 year old saved a infant, mother burned. Christmas chaos spreads to Georgia and Texas with multiple deaths and injuries.
At the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's gifts from admirers are held for his inspection rather than shown in Jefferson Memorial. Items include a gray suit with trousers, white and patchwork knickers, embroidered overalls, pajamas, sweaters, underwear, socks, ties, gloves, suspenders, wash cloths, a shaving set, 14 cans of soap, cordial, a rubber boat, and a portable typewriter.
Frank Kerner of El Paso has signed a contract with Southwestern Portland Cement to develop and operate gypsum quarries near Anthony New Mexico. A loading platform at Anthony Santa Fe yards and a quarry chute are being built to ship seven to ten carloads weekly to the cement plant for cement production and fertilizer use.
This week at the Fair bill headliners Lasses White and his trio present an aviator and two companions in a polar land skit titled The Jelly Roll Blues. W. H W. Groh and his Piano Hounds return with comedy and balancing from the dogs, while Cameo Capers closes with lively dance and an Apache number. A solo performer sings the Reduction Blues on ukulele.
The article reports slow improvement in the King whose condition keeps Christmas at Catherine Palace private. Queen Mary and Princess Mary nurse while the sons visit daily and the grandchildren play apart. The Prince of Wales plans a radio appeal to aid miners affected by job losses.
The French government will disburse about 200000000 francs in pensions next year to 5 130 000 ex service men orphans and dependents. Sixteen percent of applications are rejected totaling 855 000 cases. Payments range from 69 percent francs to 19 125 francs yearly.
A devotional poem reflects on the season's peace and the contrast between innocent delight in Christmas decorations and the deeper love of God. It contrasts bright tinsel and fragile lights with the missing awareness of divine love guiding the gifts and joys of life.
An older man, about 35, is believed to be Karlee. The bodies were taken to Stone Undertaking parlors at Pan Handle after a truck overturned in a shallow old lake bed, pinning the men beneath the vehicle.
A fragment notes house spiders lay as many as zero eggs at a time, each egg enclosed in a silk bag. The statement highlights reproduction details but lacks full context or species identification.
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