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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1928
Page
6
Iowa calls an extraordinary session to consider a 100 million dollar bond issue for permanent roads. Gov Hammill backs a November referendum while the push faces claims the plan may violate the primary road fund rules.
Miss Pauline Rogers was named the most popular girl in the Senior High School junior class in a morning election by the class. Bettie Webster won best all around, Marion Philips the cutest, and Margaret Williams the wittiest.
Clyde Stanfill and Everett Darfinn were arrested by Patrolman Clark Cain in Kennett Missouri for alleged Ford coupe theft. Chief Gaither has asked Missouri and Arkansas officers for information. Stanfill bears a bullet wound said to date from about three weeks ago. The car they rode in was reported stolen from Kennett days earlier.
Finklea Electric Company salesmen who market General Electric refrigerators were entertained at a banquet in Amarillo last night. George Pidcoke district sales manager of General Electric spoke on new refrigerator features at the event. The article also includes a stray home tip about breakfast choices and a note on using tomato juice as a morning drink when prices rise.
In New York on March 1, Jack Delaney of Bridgeport and Tom Heeney of New Zealand meet in a 15 round elimination bout at Madison Square Garden with the winner likely earning a shot at Gene Tunney. Critics are undecided, noting Delaney must knockout Heeney by rounds six or seven, while Heeney is known for sustained punishment and a recent draw with Jack Sharkey.
Italy manufactured more than 60 million leather gloves in the previous year, reflecting strong demand and the country’s leather industry capacity.
Senator Reed of Missouri opened a California rally urging Democrats to drop the prohibition fight and focus on an honest administration. In a two hour speech in Los Angeles he attacked the League of Nations and World Court, criticized Coolidge and federal overreach, and warned of a 50 50 split on prohibition while denouncing divisive planks as assisting Republicans.
Berlin reports a mining disaster near Recklinghausen Westfalen Prussia where two cages broke free and fell to the shaft bottom. Thirteen miners were killed and thirty five injured in the accident today.
Mrs. Billy Sunday Jr. denies alienating the affections of George E. Day and the overnigh t stay claim. The suit by Olive Day seeks $50,000. a $10,000 damages order was vacated as Mrs. Sunday filed her answer ending a prior default.
Wong Duck of Oxford Place Boston's Chinatown is 95 years old and remains the only Chinaman in New England to wear a pigtail. He has avoided having his picture taken by newspapers for years while living as a Confucian believer who joined the Masonic order as his sole adaptation to American life.
Rev. F. W. O Malley pastor of the First Christian church was chosen by the Amarillo high school senior class to deliver the baccalaureate sermon at the spring graduating exercises.
Evansville police accuse a man of luring seven year old Virginia Weisel from home after she disappeared from school. A search aided by WGBF led to her being found four hours later walking home from country lanes during a rain hunt. Her mother fears another kidnapping mystery even as she jokes about fairy tales. Stockholm to get its first skyscraper.
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