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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1929
Page
11
The 1920s Paris event selects a Miss Europe who will travel to the United States for the Galveston contest with twenty nations backing the choice. Eliminations in Paris in February will pick a candidate from twenty nations and a bi partisan jury may include a neutral arbiter.
Texas farmers plan a 100 900 fund to hire legal aid for farm relief and to oppose gun regulatory bills at the state legislature. The decision came at the Texas Farm Bureau federation convention opening, with nearly 5 000 raised that day amid opposition to regulatory proposals from 800 farmers. Judge L Gough of Amarillo proposed taking the fight to the courts.
Mau rice Benetaw longtime Rincon resident was killed recently near Miami Arizona while driving to the bedside of his critically ill father. Details of the accident were not learned.
At the theaters a crowded program features Red Hot Speed with Reginald Denny a lively farce with witty subtitles The Barker stars Milton Sills and includes a Young Douglas Fairbanks appearance Vitaphone vaudeville and Movie tone News The Big City with Lon Chaney promises a rare look at the actor Honey Hank Harris and his Honey Girls Marty Young and His Youngsters also appear in the Nat program
Becky Rogers Bradley former University of Texas co ed will seek acquittal on insanity grounds in a new trial after her 14 year robbery sentence was reversed by the court of criminal appeals. The trial is set for April in La Grande with District Attorney Fred Blundell prepared to proceed.
Gil bert Monthey of Schuleneberg was charged with murder after his wife died from an infection linked to a hand injury she received on Christmas night when struck with a tire tool. Authorities say he did not visit her after she grew seriously ill.
The 1928 onion crop in the United States fell about three million bushels below the five year average and over six million below 1927. Despite lower production farmers earned more, with total farm values around 18.059 million dollars, while prices rose over 100 percent from 1927. Massachusetts yields fell due to heavy rainfall, while Idaho and several western states posted good results.
The California health department cautions that religion and jazz harm infants. Dr. Ellen Stadtmuller warns loud services bright lights and excessive music strain a baby’s nervous system and may cause premature, crabby development.
Bootleggers in the Calumet district faced losses after a Chicago gang flooded Indiana Harbor with about 30 000 in forged Inland Steel pay checks. Merchants and bootleggers cashed hundreds to thousands in the bogus paper, prompting scrutiny of inconsistencies such as altered blue bands and mismatched serial numbers.
A gang began payday operations but did not complete them. A large stash of fake checks was found along the railroad between Indiana Harbor and Whiting, suggesting an aborted scheme.
In Belfast half of the city’s school children were sick with influenza. Officials estimate over 8 000 victims in the Derry district leading to school closures as the epidemic spreads across Northern Ireland.
Providence R I January 21 Henry Ford to expand his Dearborn museum collection with an 1884 steam engine. Joseph E Kelly announced securing the antique from the Providence Coal Company plant where it had long served. The price was not disclosed and the engine remains in good working order.
An old horizontal valve steam engine, believed first of its kind, known as the gridiron valve engine, has been dismantled for display. The artifact will join Detroit manufacturer and antique collector collections at the Dearborn museum, alongside thousands of early American engineering specimens.
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