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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1928
Page
1
Arthur Brisbane surveys Wall Street booms and billionaires, critiques social trends, and notes Emil Ludwig's plans to write Lincoln’s life. He recalls Hoover and Smith, laments shipping inefficiencies, and warns on gasoline waste and Mexico’s alien land law impacting American oil lands.
Tonight unsettled with patchy rains in East Texas and Louisiana. West Texas sees partly cloudy skies then cooler Thursday while Arkansas Oklahoma and east portions expect scattered rain and colder conditions.
St Johns Newfoundland reports Captain Walter Hinchcliffe and Miss Elsie Mackay overdue after leaving England to fly the Atlantic. The route lengthen to about 2500 miles with a northward deviation. hopeful signals vanish as ships and observers await a radio flash of the marked plane.
London reports Captain Walter Hinchcliffe faces further mystery as Captain Gordon Sinclair, named as possible co pilot, is missing along with the honorable Elsie Mackay in the ongoing trans Atlantic flight saga.
Experts deem westward Atlantic flight next to impossible under current conditions as multiple aircraft turn back. Nungesser and Colt in the White Bird vanished after departure from Ireland. St Raphael with British and Princess Anne aboard also failed to reach land. Four pilots, including Miss Mackay, attempt the dash as Harbor Grace crews await possible landing of the Endeavour. Weather remains favorable with light NW to SW winds and good visibility.
Relief workers posted a list showing 248 bodies recovered in the San Francisquito flood area, with Oxnard 4 Ventura 9 Fillmore 47 Newhall 46 Piru 61 Santa Paula 36 Santicoy 5 Moorpark 40. Officials warned totals not exact due to chaos and possible duplications.
A British pilot who departed London yesterday bound for America is long overdue over Nova Scotia. He reportedly carried a mysterious passenger believed to be Miss Elsie MacKay, daughter of an English peer, fueling a fading hope for his safety.
A post office notice announces a new sub station to be established at the corner of Fifth and Alabama streets in San Jacinto. W C Kenyon, postmaster, says it will be in the Den Tex building and ready for occupancy about May 1. Specials each week listed under City Drug Store Rexal Stores.
Senator Shortridge says President Coolidge is prepared to provide federal relief to the stricken San Francisquito canyon district. Government action will hinge on relief urgency and a report from the devastated area.
A Newhall pool room and dance hall was turned into a morgue after a disaster. Forty six bodies were laid along walls as investigators began a mass search of the valley. Wreaths and a Christmas welcome sign remained amid the grim scene.
In Newhall California on March 14 an elderly rancher E. K. Eaton 77 and his wife saved six oil workers by driving through ditches to warn them of the St Francis dam flood. They found the men asleep and rushed them to safety before a wall of water engulfed the derricks. One man George McIntyre notes his brother and father are missing.
The Amarillo city commission backed establishing a designated municipal airport and urged forming an aviation experts committee to advise on a suitable site and immediate improvements. The City owns a preferred site but will defer final choice to experts. The Globe will arrange for an aviation department expert from Wichita to survey available airports at its expense.
Three dead and several injured after Santa Fe No. 10 passenger scout derails near Yampai Arizona. Victims include engineer Tom Cole and fireman Bailey of Needles California and mail clerk Daugherty. Train was en route from Los Angeles to Chicago with a tour car contingent.
Joseph M. Thralls aged 79, former Wellington mayor, early day deputy U S marshal and pioneer sheriff, died in Wellington Kansas on March 14.
Larry Semon, the film comedian famous for onscreen escapades, filed for voluntary bankruptcy in Los Angeles reporting total debt of 454,639.47 dollars. He listed secured claims of 40,000 dollars and unsecured claims of 277,639.47 dollars plus 97,000 dollars in accommodation papers, with over 2,000 dollars in court judgments and other debts to attorneys and doctors.
The Tri-State Fair association plans two high class carnivals this spring and summer to pay off about $14,000 of debt before the 1928 exposition. The first unnamed carnival will arrive in April or May, followed by a second in June, as announced by secretary-manager Bob Emmett.
Special to The Glr the Vega March 14 A jury hears evidence and attorney arguments in the Salmon Tate robbery case tied to the Wildorado State bank holdup. Tate faces charges linked to the latest Wildorado bank robbery with bank president used as a shield during the getaway. Lawrence Gugler and Gus Johnson are also slated for trials on related charges, with Johnson in a Borger hospital after an appendectomy while facing a separate robbery count.
In Amarillo the trial of Nicholas Troetter and Ellery Roberts for the fatal shooting of Leo J. Laley began with 150 jurors summoned. The case, tied to Leavenworth prison terms for Dyer Act violations, may last three days as witnesses for both sides appear and the jury is formed for Thursday morning testimony.
Seattle Washington March 14 Mrs Bertha K Landes mayor of Seattle for two years was defeated for re election here yesterday by Frank Edwards, theater owner.
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