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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1928
Page
1
Arthur Brisbane debates Harvard graduation, birth control, and population. He critiques race attitudes, education, and the merit of ambition. He cites Brush funding to curb excess population, notes changes in China and plagues, and foresees bigger screens and talking pictures reshaping cinema.
Tonight and Saturday partly cloudy with possible local showers in the Panhandle. East Texas expects generally fair and warm conditions with partly cloudy to unsettled areas near the coast. Oklahoma sees partly cloudy tonight and Saturday, with local thunder showers and cooler air in the west and panhandle regions.
Governor Smith returns to Albany before meeting Senator Key Pittman to discuss accepting the Democratic presidential nomination. Republican leaders in Washington map Hoover Curtis campaign with Dr Hubert Work and party officials. Senator Reed speaks against prohibition amendment and urges enforcement. Norris calls for progressive congressmen. Heflin funds Klan publication support. Reverend Robinson mobilizes Afro-American Democrats for Smith.
Mrs. Clem L. Shaver wife of the Democratic national chairman charged that Governor Smith has stamped himself as a charlatan and a fakir and said Democratic women will not support the wet ticket and joke platform named by the Tammany delegates at the Houston convention.
National and state officials praised the local post office for handling the two day annual convention of clerks and letter carriers. Resolutions for better working conditions were passed and leaders announced future plans for the Panhandle region.
Major Arturo Ferrarin and Major Carlo Del Prete of the Royal Italian Air Force arrived at Natal after a record long distance flight from Rome to the Touros beach, 45 miles north of Natal. Their Savona Marchetti 64 monoplane covered 4821 miles despite storms and fog. The craft was found by Pilot Andre De Pecker after a search along the coast.
W. T. Moyers a Amarillo businessman and his son were sightseeing on Pike's Peak when a blinding snow storm trapped them for four days. Their car was stuck four feet deep and the party fell ill but endured the ordeal with relief arriving after four days. Moyers noted he would rather not complain about the heat back home.
Paris Le Bourget July 6 experts tested a Fokker similar to Lowenstein and concluded a single person cannot open the cabin door when the plane is flying. The tests challenge theories that he stepped or walked through the door during flight, suggesting he may not have exited in flight at all.
In Dallas, Rev Earl Anderson of a Fundamentalist church sits in the county jail after a judge found him in contempt for defying a temporary injunction. The injunction barred work on a tabernacle amid resident protests over building ordinances and noise.
Oklahoma News reports Chief Justice Fred P. Branson threatened to kill editor Carl Magee in his capitol office. The News cites witnesses including a bar member and a young businessman and notes Branson denied the claim as lies.
P R W Castle theater owner of Tulsa Oklahoma fell to his death from the roof of the Ambassador Hotel in Kansas City as he eluded a nurse and climbed to the roof. Night engineer E M Wheland said Castle dived over a four foot railing after being found on the roof. Castle 35 years old owned two Tulsa theaters.
William Edward Hickman, convicted of Marion Parker’s murder, faces a fall execution after the California Supreme Court denied a new trial. Att torney Richard Cantillon will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, with a potential commutation to life imprisonment possible from Governor Young if the appeal fails. A new date will be set in Los Angeles, with August as a likely period for the sentence and a hanging in November.
Four inmates escaped Union County jail in Union City Tennessee by cutting a 20 inch hole in the wall. A fifth prisoner was captured while crawling through the gap. Deputy sheriffs and a citizen posse searched for Vaughan and the others. Lexie Vaughan, brother of the condemned killer John Vaughan, was held for questioning.
Mrs. Ruby Robinson of the Amarillo Day Nursery praises Miss Medora Duncan for her constant care of a crippled child and the work she does. Robinson returned from Wichita Falls and Oklahoma City where she visited her daughter Marietta.
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