05 Jan 1928
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1928
Page
1
A column prompts readers to weigh ambition and achievement in the era of opportunity. It reflects on leadership, innovation, and the enduring question of who will match Lindbergh in daring and progress.
Arthur Brisbane surveys the year past and year ahead noting Lindbergh’s Paris flight, Coolidge’s politics, and a nationwide boom. He urges youth to work, cites Du Pont and Ford as exemplars, and calls for big waterways, water power, and a larger air fleet to defend coastlines amid industrial growth.
Tonight and Friday will be fair with a drop in temperatures. Today's extremes reach 58 degrees, down from 83 a year ago and 42 at a similar time. Hourly readings: 7 am 30, 8 am 32, 9 am 36, 10 am 41, 11 am 47, noon 54, 1 pm 58.
Major General Lejeune labels Sandino a brave but shady leader with a checkered past including service with Pancho Villa in Mexico and a conviction in Malaya. The Marine Corps notes Sandino’s self description as Augusta Caesar Sandino and details his weaponry and raiding history.
Charles Smith filed a name change request with Judge W W Cowen in Lansing Ohio seeking to adopt his mother's maiden name Charles Burdette. He cites his father’s refusal to speak or assist in his education as motivation for the action.
Leo Kurtz, on top of a derrick during a Pantex Oil well burst near Whittenberg, slid down a guy wire to escape the flames. C W Johnson and D F Nichols suffered minor burns, others prepared to fight the blaze as officials call the escape miraculous.
In Charlestown Navy Yard Boston six men trapped in the S-4 torpedo room lived about 62 hours. A 45 mile wind at Provincetown forced salvage divers to halt diving today as bodies of three crewmen were recovered. Fingerprint experts identified three men Lieutenant Commander R K Jones Lieutenant Joseph McGinley and Chief Machinists Mate Aaron Albers Hodges.
Three bodies from the submarine S-4 sinking were found and taken to Chelsea for identification and burial. The incident occurred off the Massachusetts coast near Boston and prompted rescue and recovery operations by authorities.
Fort Worth January 5. The Texas Air Transport company announces air mail service will start February 1 from Fort Worth and Dallas to Waco Austin San Antonio Houston and Galveston. One plane daily on the new route with South Texas planes linking in Dallas to night planes for Chicago. Service from San Antonio to Laredo is contemplated.
Floyd Hewitt, 17, is to be executed in Ohio’s electric chair for the murder of Mrs. Fred Brown and her 5-year-old son at Conneaut. The state clemency board and Governor Vic Donahey refused commutation after Hewitt confessed to beating Mrs. Brown to death in an attempted assault and killing the child.
Chicago January 5 conservative gangsters reacted to an unprecedented move by Joe Saltis who filed a $100,000 damage suit against Michael Hughes now commissioner of police and fifteen other police officials. Saltis says he was arrested without cause.
J. W. Sebastian of Oklahoma City arrived to set up a Veterans Bureau Regional Office for the Panhandle in Amarillo. Miss Avice Haggard will begin as secretary. Dr. M. L. Fuller will complete the local staff. headquarters will be in the Municipal auditorium.
Hobart Okla Jan 5 L J Hunt a prosperous farmer shot and killed Raymona Jongs 20 a department store window trimmer five times then surrendered at the sheriff's office He is about 45 years old and father of several young daughters one of whom lives in Hobart The name Raymond Jones is given by the clerk and customers as the slain youth
Community notice for Griggs ambulance with contact number 4311 and an advertisement for Pott Ytter and Lbr Co selling glass cloth products.
Los Angeles grand jury likely to return a second murder indictment against William Edward Hickman for the Ivy Thoms killing while Welby Hunt, 16, is named as an accomplice. Hickman pleads not guilty by reason of insanity to Marian Parker murder as Jerome Walsh prepares his defense.
Amarillo aims to host the 1928 Texas State Teachers association meeting and will present its case before the executive committee in Fort Worth on Saturday morning. Col Harve H. Haines, W A McIntosh, J A Hill, Paul W Horn, and Laura V Hamner will attend, backed by Panhandle towns and educators urging Amarillo’s bid.
Firemen searched the ruins of a five story sausage factory in central Berlin after a heavy explosion. Eleven people were believed killed, twenty seriously injured, and several missing.
In Indianapolis on January 5, Mrs. Lett Irwin, 67, drowned her two grandchildren in a bathtub late yesterday and then killed herself by submerging her head in the water.
Paris reports the French cabinet is studying Kellogg's proposed anti war treaty text. Briand informs colleagues of negotiations while officials say the pact will not affect France’s League of Nations obligations. A preamble to an arbitration treaty may carry the anti war resolution. Similar pacts may follow with other nations.
Berlin reports indicate unofficially that Germany would be willing to participate in Kellogg's treaty proposal to outlaw war but has not yet been invited to join a multi lateral pact. German diplomats see the move as a step toward world peace.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh departed Tegucigalpa at 11 36 a m aboard the Spirit of St Louis heading to Managua Nicaragua. He planned a westward deviation to avoid rebel snipers as U S Marines battle General Sandino’s forces nearby.
In Omaha on January 5 police held Jacqueline Moret and Pearl McDonnell for investigation after they registered as Mr and Mrs Fred McDonnell. Miss Moret weighing 185 pounds and Miss McDonnell under 100 pounds were living in a downtown hotel posing as spouses. Inspector Danabaum pursued the case to determine if the act violated Nebraska law.
Lawyers argued for clemency for Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray as they await Governor Smith's decision next Monday. Snyder and Gray remained in Sing Sing, while Snyder had just made a will leaving assets to her mother and daughter Lorraine.
Ruth Elder, the Florida flyer, blames small town gossip for her Atlanta arrest on charges of undue conduct with Rev. Hubert Jenkins. She remains under $500 bond as her vaudeville tour continues, calling the case a malicious lie and noting the long delay in action supports the injustice claim.
Miss Ruth Nichols, society girl and licensed pilot, lands in Biscayne Bay with Harry Rogers and Major M K Lee after a New York to Florida flight. The trip covered 1300 miles in 12 hours 15 minutes setting groundwork for a regular weekend service for busy businessmen seeking a short vacation.
The Senate Privileges and Elections Committee issued subpoenas to remove the remaining 1926 Vare-Wilson ballots from Pennsylvania to Washington. The action seeks to resolve the long running senatorial contest and its disputed election materials.
W G Dendy a railroad shop worker was jailed on arson suspicion as a coroner probed the deaths of five of his children whose charred remains were found at the Dendy farm near Little Rock Arkansas. Prosector Boyd Cypert ordered the arrest after coroner Samuel Boyes reported the bodies were found in one room.
New York stocks took a sharp downward turn with heavy selling on the New York Stock Exchange. Prices fell as the market reacted to a large increase in stock exchange member tonnage, now nearing four and a half billion dollars. Greene Cananea copper slid from 154 1/2 to 139, and Midland Steel Products preferred dropped 12 points to 268.
The first shipment of dictionaries arrived at The Globe News office and is available to readers for 98 cents with three coupons from the paper. The retail price is four dollars, and the policy is first come, first served.
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