05 Feb 1929
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1929
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR mentions a fire at a structure with late Monday timing and wind conditions but lacks full details on location, casualties, or outcomes. The text remains incomplete and cannot establish a definite incident.
Arthur Brisbane comments on the British system and imperial strength as a long planned advantage in ocean traffic. Max Schmeling rises in prize fighting, stopping Johnny Risko in the first round as German boxing prowess challenges American rivals. The piece blends editorial perspective with world affairs and sporting notes, reflecting era attitudes and economic protectionism debates.
The Associated Press notes Tuesday actions include a House naval supply measure and a Senate cruiser bill. A Senate patronage probe reviews Mississippi postmasterships while hearings on extending the radio commission’s life begin in Interstate Commerce. Jackson Barnett testifies about an arranged marriage during a Senate session. Additional moves address the Madden Muscle Shoals lease, White radio bill, and tariff pleas on jute and hemp.
A black pigeon named Satan perches on Ruth Lester’s window ledge in a January morning scene. The bird peers at Ruth as a flock on the Starbridge Building roof swoops down to the private office of Hand erone Harry Borden to pay court.
Ruth, engaged to Jack Hayward, leans from a Starbridge Building window as pigeons scatter. a black pigeon clings to her finger while Jack, seen as a sun god, teases jealousy and declares affection. The Jan sun coldly highlights the moment.
In a Swift River office Ruth, tired of Ruthless financier Henty P Borden, finally ends her wary stance after slipping a note on a captive pigeon to broker John Carrington Hayward. The scene finds Ruth revealed as engaged to Hayward at the Starbridge Building while Borden remains in the background.
The house and senate conferees failed to agree on the senate amendment to provide 24 million dollars for dry law enforcement. House spokesmen opposed the increase while senate conferees sought a direct house vote. The bill also includes 75 million for tax refunds and 250 thousand for a presidential inquiry into prohibition.
The city commission will review bids to complete Kiersted water works plan with expected $90,000 for connecting three deep wells. Reports and tabulations by Ray Edinburg and H Banks Jones accompany the proposal. Col Ernest C Thompson, a mayoral candidate, protested the award last Tuesday night.
Irish Republican leader Eamon de Valera was arrested at Newry on the Ulster border while attempting to enter Ulster in violation of a long standing order.
This is the second of six Globe articles by W. Izeard on Amarillo's municipal airport and its role in national air travel. It notes 1929 airport spending nationwide and in the Southwest, with Amarillo’s program described as among the most extensive aside from Tulsa and Muskogee.
In Bombay on February 5 a Hindu mob attacked Pathans amid killings and injuries. Police report 12 dead since yesterday and over 50 wounded as mills closed and assassinations continued. Pathans pursued to the railway station where several were killed before boarding.
Charles B. Baughman of Austin announced plans to run for governor in 1951 as an independent. He formerly ran markets and warehouse and campaigned for Hoover forces, pledging to back other Hoover leaders if they seek higher office and urging cross party support against the Democratic machine. His platform calls for allowing voters to pursue public office regardless of party, an elective highway commission, lower automobile tax to two dollars per car, and limits on legislators holding other offices.
City health officials plan to block an emergency ordinance at tonight's city commission meeting to require compulsory rabies vaccination for all dogs and cats before licensing and to prohibit dogs from running loose. The measure, already in effect for chickens, aims to curb stray animals and rabies epidemics amid reports of more than 100 dogs and cats at risk. Three children have been bitten.
Representatives of the Chinese Nationalist government and Japan made today in reaching an agreement on the subject of the disorders at Tsinan-Fu last May. Griggs ambulance, Phone 4311.
David O Allen, 48, a pioneer druggist and one of Amarillo's leading business figures for 22 years, died at Northwest Texas hospital at 5 26 this morning after a weeklong illness. Survived by widow, one brother, and three sisters in Paris Tennessee, he had been with Amarillo Drug Company and City Drug, and for four years owned San Jacinto Drug. He belonged to St Andrew's Episcopal Church.
Interstate Commerce Commission grants a five cent per hundred pound cut on first class freight and related reductions from Chicago to Amarillo and Santa Fe main line routes. Effective March 21, the change covers most merchandise in carload or smaller lots. City Development traffic staff received the order after a September 1928 Chicago hearing featuring A. J. Cole and D. B. Foy.
Clinton S. Carnes, former treasurer of the Southern Baptist Home board, linked to a missing money scandal last summer, pleaded guilty in Atlanta superior court to theft of $40,000 and received a five to seven year sentence. The case followed discoveries of nearly a million dollars in his accounts and his arrest in Canada.
Women delegates from the Women's Christian Temperance Union pack the capitol in Austin to lobby lawmakers. Key actions center on the corselonece will allowing voters to break party pledges for conscience reasons and a sackcloth and ashes bill restricting Democratic primary candidates.
Lindbergh continues the Pan American air mail leg from Belize to Tela Honduras for fuel then on to Managua Nicaragua. He departed Belize yesterday morning after a Miami start and Havana stop, making steady landings and receiving a warm official reception in Tela.
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