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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1927
Page
4
The Amarillo Globe issue dated Thursday March 17 1927 presents its masthead with publishing details and pricing. It notes evening publication except Saturdays and Sunday morning edition with Amarillo News. includes staff roles and Associated Press affiliation.
Mayor Lee Bivins signals a possible bid for re election amid praise for his public duty. The piece lauds his leadership of Amarillo with Charley Fisk and J. H. Harris as they guided rapid growth and multi million expenditures. Fisk is named as non candidate but may reconsider if Bivins and Harris run.
Amarillo discussions loom as Panhandle crude costs fall and a state two cent gas tax alters retail pricing. Dealers claim the tax raises consumer cost while prices hover near last week’s level after a 20 cent sale. Oil costs have halved since last year, yet refiners’ margins remain high. The public questions why pump prices did not drop proportionally with crude costs.
Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraten and Millicent Rogers, long separated, near settlement in New York Supreme Court. Reportedly the countess gains custody of their 83 year old son Peter and he receives between 350000 and 500000 from Henry Rogers Standard Oil wealth. Divorce possibility in Paris also noted.
Amarillo boy scouts will hold a court of honor in the district courtroom next Thursday night according to local scout officials.
After a hard won game the team hides from a crimson crowd and questions a forged letter. The speaker accuses G Burton Anderson of framing the gamblers, recalls old Yale tensions, and muses on leaving football. Celebration clashes with personal sorrow as a late night telephone shocks him awake.
Washington, March 17. The Senate faces a choice between Dr. Dawes and Dr. Norris to treat the filibuster ailment. Dawes favors a aggressive cure while Norris advocates restraint and education, with public sentiment split between the modern, gag-heavy approach and the seasoned, gentle practitioner.
Carson county commissioners and local businessmen discussed a proposed short-cut to Borger from the Potter county line via Hutchinson county. County Judge A. L. Callaghan voiced favorable remarks, while attendees marveled at growth along the corridor. Property owners along the route have endorsed the project.
Chief Stipendiary Magistrate W of Sydney NS argues that doctors, not police, should decide drunkenness. He says action is overdue and examinations should occur immediately upon arrest for charges stemming from liquor effects.
Plans for a general publicity drive to recruit members are to be completed by Saturday, with Dr. J. A. Hill to speak in North Plains towns next week. The Panhandle Foundation seeks to raise 21000 dollars for local Boy Scout work, said Thomas H. Nelson.
Expeditionary party reports a German coal tar compound completely cures malaria in Central America. The chemical was developed in a major German laboratory.
Reddy Fox spots Hooty the Owl perched on a pole and laughs at the idea of snatching hens. He studies the henhouse and yard, listening and watching for traps, then plots a stealthy nighttime raid as the owl keeps watch.
Bryant Satchel, 21, negro, executed in Huntsville for January 1926 murder of T. F. Watson a Waco storekeeper. Satchel died at 12:18 a.m. after electrocution at 12:15 a.m. He faced death calmly and paused to bid farewell to fellow condemned inmate George Hassell who killed his wife and nine children in Farwell, Texas.
United States consul Herndon W. Goforth was stabbed and badly wounded at the Sao Paulo consulate by an American, David Ward, with reports reaching the State Department in Washington.
A playful scene recalls Reddy moving toward a henyard as the narrator imagines a prank that would bring a hen into Hooty’s view. The passage pivots to the next story line “When Hooty Might Have Laughed.”
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