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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1929
Page
3
Washington January 22 Interior Department begins tagging and fingerprinting Navajo men to prove identity as riches from land and livestock division loom. Nomadic population lacks birth certificates, prompting the effort to place both American and Indian names on tribal rolls.
London report says the Kellogg Pact could make the channel tunnel between Britain and France more feasible. Past opposition by military authorities feared enemy seizure and rapid operations to flood or destroy the tunnel. Field Marshal Wolseley warned such attacks assume peace.
The Interior Department outlines a new enrollment plan using metal disks for Navajo and other remote tribes in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Each newborn Indian will be fingerprinted and issued a disk to be worn for life, with the disk returned after death. The program aims to census tribal membership and extend to other tribes.
A $150000 group of Moosehaven buildings funded by Secretary of Labor James J. Davis will be dedicated in Jacksonville during the Mooseheart Legion convention January 24 to 27. Davis, director general of the Moose order, gifts the memorial to his father as about 5000 visitors are expected.
A valuable diamond bracelet found in a railroad station restaurant in Zurich awaits its owner in the police lost and found. Police suspect the bracelet belongs to a tourist, likely an American, though no loss has been reported.
New York report details the pushcart peddler Sam on the Lower East Side facing health department action led by Commissioner Shirley Wynne. Cart dangers include unsanitary, germ filled produce and violations of sanitary codes, yet Sam remains a vivid local character amid cabs and crowded sidewalks.
An advertisement touts a back worn Radio Active Solar Pad with free trial, claiming cures for neuritis rheumatism high blood pressure constipation nervous prostration heart lungs liver kidney and bladder troubles. It cites 160000 sold and invites readers to request free literature from Radium Appliance Co Los Angeles.
Mrs Winifred Brindley 34 was struck crossing a street with her four year old. She threw the infant clear as the fender struck her and died later from a fractured skull in London.
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