15 Mar 1925
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1925
Page
1
The piece contrasts early film history and rising costs with sweeping claims about Japan’s aircraft industry. It questions propaganda urging America to ignore aviation, warns of a defenseless United States, and asks who benefits from keeping the nation asleep to air defense.
Forecast for Sunday calls for fair skies and warmer conditions. Saturday’s highs and lows reached 37 and 20 degrees, with recent extremes of 53 and 22 degrees.
Dallas reports extraordinary precautions to guard fruit trees from frost as a killing frost sweeps the state. The weather bureau forecast below freezing temperatures reaching the coast with snow in Northwest Texas and fair skies elsewhere. Smudge pots were used in Dallas and nearby counties as the cold wave moved in with a stiff north wind.
The Miami Chamber of Commerce and The Globe sponsor a luncheon as Amarillo realtors bring over fifty businesspeople to Miami next Friday. Delegations from Panhandle White Deer and Pampa will join the caravan, with a noon Miami luncheon and a public program arranged by O. W. Vernon W. A. Askew and Mrs. Fern Curtis coordinating.
Gov Miriam A Ferguson signed the eminent domain bill giving state railroads authority to condemn private property. The measure passed the house late this week and is opposed by protests from multiple regions across Texas.
Austin report states Senator Woodward introduced a Senate bill asking for 22500 dollars from the general revenue fund to boost maintenance for the state Ranger force. The request accompanies a special appropriation proposal debated March 14.
Amarillo independent school district candidates include Mrs. J I Kendrick and Mrs R L McMeany with past service claims a mayoral. W N Durham Walter Blackbur and U N Olver have announced. B C D Bynum withdrew due to faculty ties. Milholland and McMeans also join race.
In Washington on March 14 a tense Senate session over Warren's nomination sparked a near fist fight as Senator Trust of Kentucky and Senator Glass of Virginia clashed. Trust leapt up to urge applying harsh epithets to a fellow senator during Glass's remarks about the Treasury in the Couzens tax case.
Miriam A ergueen set aside the amnesty bill once favored by her husband the chief beneficiary to focus on other legislation. The amnesty measure will not be signed before Monday, per the governor’s office. The former governor said his wife would not prioritize relief from impeachment disqualifications carried for eight years. The governor left for the executive mansion while the former governor stayed at the capital amid a busy day of visitors and cancelled a news conference.
Hartley March 14 At an enthusiastic meeting here tonight the Hartley County Community club was organized with twenty five paid members at the first meeting The membership is composed of farmers of the county and business men of Hartley Officers elected were C R Gray president R L Clage vice president Roy Cartwright secretary Birtie Powell treasurer J W Smith chairman of the board J S McMillan D J Bryan D S Homar and R G Love board members The club aims to foster closer cooperation between Hartley business men and farmers.
The famed train robber La Trasse, 25, known as a top Midwestern outlaw, was captured with a deputy squad after a brief escape chase. He faced parole violations in Kansas and Chicago, with a past including a Christmas 1910 Missouri Pacific hold up and a 1916 KaneesState Pen escape. He served a parole holiday with his mother in Kansas City and failed to return.
The Coffee Shop at the Amarillo Hotel promotes its food as famous for flavor. A listed price $1,320 and address 708 Taylor appear in the readable fragment.
In Dallas on March 14 a officer named Wofford observed a lone female dancer in moonlight attire. He seized her, wrapped his coat around her, and moved to hastily leave with her, describing her as scantily dressed and dancing in the moonlight. The court was told of the incident with restrained detail.
Chicago health commissioner Dr. Herman Bundesen announced that the respiratory outbreak has shown signs of control. He reported 18 deaths and 80 new cases in the last 24 hours, noting rain and snow helped curb spread and that the disease itself is not fatal but aids pneumonia and influenza vulnerability.
Ex mayoral candidate Collier faces a first degree murder indictment for the February 14 killing of Blale Robertson, 17, who had secretly married Collier’s daughter Mary Frances last June in Walters Oklahoma. If convicted, he could be sentenced to death. Sensational revelations are expected during the trial.
The United States Senate for the first time in years refuses to confirm a cabinet nominee. Charles Beecher Warren of Detroit Michigan is rejected as Attorney General by a 41 to 39 vote. Warren previously served as ambassador to Japan.
Washington March 14 The fight between President Coolidge and the Senate over Charles B Warren rages anew with a recess appointment threat if the nomination fails again. Senate leaders vow to stay in session and vote by 2 30 p m Monday as the White House presses to override the Senate stance and appoint Warren despite rejection. The exchange sharpens as Senator Robinson denounces executive overreach while Coolidge insists no officer shall serve after a rejected nomination.
Paris dispatch claims Charlie Chaplin will perform in a one month sketch at Theater des Champs Elysees with a reported salary of 2700 dollars a day. Chaplin secretary Edward Manson denied the deal saying Chaplin would not abandon a 50 000 dollar weekly film income for stage work.
A J Bell longtime Plainview resident and former sergeant at arms in the Texas House of Representatives died Friday after falling downstairs in a downtown business building. His wife was in Austin and he was in San Antonio at the time of death.
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