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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1928
Page
3
Tokyo police by the Bureau for the Suppression of the Criminally Inclined focus on the modern girl or flapper as a disruptive social force. The effort targets rouge, obi heightening, and tattooing among young women, with squads enforcing new rules to curb these trends in a bid to protect social traditions.
In Georgetown district court Mauro Guajardo testified through an interpreter about the May 28 fatal shooting of Arthur Bunnell, a Taylor farmer. He said Bunnell knocked him down, then fired at him, and he fired his automatic until it jammed while fleeing in Bunnell’s car.
Raymondsville Texas June 20 Willacy county growers expect about 2 500 000 watermelons this season The second carload has just left for Houston with the first having departed days earlier About 100 carloads daily are projected as the season peaks The county plans 2 500 carloads total and Yturria stands as the state’s largest water melon center with 2000 acres under cultivation in several farms The total county watermelon acreage runs about 5 000 acres
The testimony recounts a deadly confrontation on a farm where a husband was killed by a Mexican worker after a dispute over farm work. The widow rushed to get help, and the assailant fired at her before she fled. She returned with her uncle to find Bunnell dead.
A famed city golfer returning from Colorado claims a 390 yard hole in oneLou he says he played alone and will not be quoted. He cites high altitude air and cool climate as factors and notes golf in Colorado is enjoyable. A Fort Worth and Denver train survey shows 59 of 83 adult passengers carried clubs.
The first bale of the 1928 cotton crop, weighing about 415 pounds and containing roughly 1 550 pounds of lint and seed, left Edinburg after midnight. It was raised on 255 acres by L F B Tinkler J E Matheny Kike Hildreth P F Sisco and H H Lindner and transported toward Houston by A Y Baker Jr. The bale faced delays due to weight and competing shipments from Mission Willacy and nearby towns, with a rival bale in Mission noted for Tuesday morning.
G F Duncan, manager of the Farmer's Gin here, graded the seed cotton at middling and noted the bale was ginned.
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