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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1928
Page
5
County Clerk E. M. Pittman reports twelve absentee votes cast on the first day and more added. All votes must be cast at the clerk’s office July 17 to 24, with extended hours to 9 p.m. starting Tuesday. Mail-in ballots will arrive and are limited. Primaries are July 28 with expected heavy turnout.
An uptick in petty thefts was reported to police this morning. A hotel lost two Goodyear tires and clothing and other wearables. FE. T. Biggs reported a 15 jewel Elgin watch missing. F. M. Ratcliff reported a 17 jewel Elgin watch with chain and Elk tooth diamond chip valued at 75 dollars. Other smaller thefts noted.
Mr and Mrs R T Bob Emmett and Stanley Hagan are in Los Angeles on vacation per Amarillo Tri State exposition office. Emmett is secretary manager of the fair. He notes fishing is good in New Mexico after two trout catching days. They will depart Los Angeles Sunday for Amarillo via Salt Lake City and Colorado.
Amarillo police seek three 14 year old runaways from Manitou Colorado. Polly Adams Otis Hope and Buck Chadwick are described with Otis wearing glasses and the others bearing scars above their eyes. They are expected to pass through today or tomorrow.
A 1926 Chevrolet roadster owned by C. W. Boyd was stolen last night and found this morning near the smelter without any movable parts except the engine. Reports of similar thefts have increased over the past three months in the area.
Twelve Amarillo realtors who completed a real estate appraisals course received certificates from the National Association of Real Estate Boards during the Amarillo Real Estate board luncheon at the Amarillo Hotel at noon today.
The transportation committee of the Board of City Development met at the Amarillo hotel at noon today to discuss a range of traffic issues.
A whimsical item notes a race from New York to the White House with Frank A. Russo and J. B. Martell acting as muleteer and mahout. Advertising men, a wager accompanies the odd contest while snippets include John D. Rockefeller’s coal wagon ride and a Miami Beach tag dispute involving Jerome Floum.
In 1920s Manhattan Kenny, a wealthy construction magnate, remains the closest ally of Alfred E. Smith. He funded Smith’s candidacy and pledged to use his wealth to aid Smith if nominated. Kenny rejects political power, seeking only Smith’s continued friendship and influence, while recalling their lower East Side days and his Tiger Room atop his firm’s building.
A typhoon struck the coast of French Indo China causing at least fifty deaths. The French steamer Cap Lay sank after a boiler explosion near the Songtambac river mouth with 200+ rescued. A launch capsized on Haiphong river drowning twenty Annamite natives, and many junks and sampans were sunk around Hanoi and Haiphong.
The Kenny family home features a tiger skin on a grand piano, a stage, a dining room, a staffed kitchen, and an upstairs apartment. The Tiger room hosts receptions and teas for Mrs. Kenny and her daughters while Governor Smith and Kenny seek fire memories from boyhood, Kenny holding a New York department honorary post and both sharing four alarm zeal.
The state Democratic executive committee adopted a resolution pledging support for the party ticket from constable to president after a heated discussion. Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy and dry leader, announced his support for the measure.
Walter C. Teagle president of Standard Oil of New Jersey has accepted a place on the advisory board for the second international conference on bituminous coals to be held at the Carnegie Institute in November. The move signals growing oil company interest in coal as a potential motor fuel source. Other advisory board members include Hammond Herr Insull Learnard Mellon Craft Schwab. Robertson returns from a Kansas vacation.
A nine year old Amarillo boy eludes police in a merry chase. He is jailed then to be sent to the county juvenile officer Judge Sam Motlow today. He has a history of petty theft and house entries. Police question psychology claims and await outcomes while the boy dashes away between arrests and relatives.
Paris report says Senorita Consuelo Pani, daughter of the Mexican ambassador, was critically injured in an automobile collision in the Bois de Boulogne on July 18. The accident occurred as she was traveling with companions, with authorities investigating the cause.
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