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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1928
Page
1
Arthur Brisbane's Today column discusses weight loss methods and the dangers of rapid health training, citing Gene Tunney's disciplined approach. It also covers Asia's wind impact on cotton, Japan's China war moves, and the role of branded goods versus chain stores in a changing retail landscape.
Tulsa May 15 United Press reports the Oklahoma Bankers association opens a two day meeting with discussion expected on offering a 5000 dollar reward for slain bank bandits while the group currently posts a 650 dollar reward for arrest and conviction. About 1100 bankers attend and Muskogee and Oklahoma City are named bidders for the 1928 campaign.
Thomas Henry Tibbles known as Old Tom a preacher fighter and former presidential candidate is dead in Omaha Nebraska. He joined the anti slavery cause as a youth in Ohio and escaped a hanging attempt as a teenager. He fought with Quantrill’s band during the Civil War and later became a Methodist minister.
About 75 operators attended a West Texas Oil and Gas Bureau session at the Amarillo Hotel Round-Up room. W. B. Hamilton of Wichita Falls chaired, with R. Keeble of Abilene and W. H. Holmes of Amarillo among the bureau members present. The morning centered on regulation of oil production versus tariff on imports.
Tonight and Wednesday forecast partly to mostly cloudy across West Texas and East Texas with unsettled conditions in the north and east central areas. Louisiana and Oklahoma expect showers and cloudy periods with some clearing in Northwest Texas. Temperature highs around 70 and 68, with a day-earlier high of 81 and low of 48 in the previous year.
At Leadville Colorado May 15 an auto crash involving Mr and Mrs W R Anderson and their year old son returning from Denver where a specialist had said the child was utterly deaf restored the baby's hearing. The impact caused the child to respond to voices while the mother suffered a fractured collar bone and the father multiple broken ribs.
Prairie Oil and Gas president Nelson K. Moody arrived with others to protest granting a new industrial gas franchise in Amarillo. The city commission will hear Jim Whittington and Col. George Montgomery seek rates as low as six cents per cubic foot, while Judge F B McGregor and unnamed clients push for a thorough study before action. Moody said Amarillo has not lost industrial enterprises due to gas rates and requested to be heard.
The Polar Dirigible Italia began its flight from Kings Bay Spitzenbergen at 1:20 PM toward Frans Josefland. A prior attempt toward Lenin's land was abandoned due to dense fog and required weekend repairs to the rear gondolas and engines.
Will Rogers agrees to pay for Muskogee’s town name air sign atop the Hatbox field hangar. He quips about picking the smallest site and covering the bill for the sign's installation. The Muskogee Kiwanis club had asked him to furnish paint for the skyward emblem.
Shamrock residents react to the death of deputy sheriff Sam Crafford during a liquor raid led by Sheriff Williams Deputy Short and the city marshal of Wheeler county Crafford died roughly a day after being shot Short faced a murder charge with bond set at 1500 and waived preliminary hearing Crafford reportedly died after being struck by an axe during the raid and a dying statement disputed by officials The case awaits the next grand jury as investigators pursued the liquor operation and other raid sites.
A dormitory fire at Woodland Hall, Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio, killed 20-year-old Hilda Sipes of Shelby and injured three others. Firefighters fought the blaze from shortly after 2 to 8 30, with many residents awakened by a fraternity serenade. The cause remains unknown.
Col Harve Haines of the Board of City Development says special committees will reach top donors and canvass missing participants this Friday. The campaign seeks 200000 for Amarillo college and has already prompted favorable replies from firms with branch offices and non resident owners. He is confident the drive will succeed in coming days and Amarillo will gain a Class A senior college.
In Louisville on May 15 two elderly women were beaten to death in their Maple Street cottage. A trunk was pried open and officers suspect robbery as the motive. Victims are Mrs Belle Holmes 78 and Miss Bate Satterwhite 32.
In Kansas City Missouri on May 15 Bishop James Cannon Jr spoke at the general conference of the Methodist church. He warned the solid South against nominating a wet Democrat and attacked Al Smith by implication while tying prohibition to party integrity and national policy.
Tokyo and Geneva reports outline two declarations by Japan for “informative purposes” to the League of Nations. One cites force in Shauntung Province, China. the other vows to withdraw such forces when no longer needed. Officials monitor Chinese Nationalist army advances toward Peking and Tientsin amid questions over Chang Tso Lin’s reaction.
FE. R. Jones was found guilty by a jury in Judge Sam B. Motlow's county court for cashing a bad check at a local store. He received a $100 fine and six months in jail.
In Pontiac Michigan two pilots Harry Anderson of Roseville and Clarence Brechett of Detroit fought during a 2000 foot flight. Anderson was attacked with a hammer by Brechett causing a dramatic descent and crash. Anderson suffered a fractured skull and facial injuries while Brechett was also injured. both were hospitalized under guard as investigators conclude Brechett a parachute exhibitionist with possible self destruction intent.
President Coolidge signed the Mississippi river flood control bill authorizing federal funding for levee strengthening floodways and a spillway to divert floodwaters to the Gulf. The plan, drafted by Senate Commerce chairman Jones and House Flood Control chair Reid, places most costs on the federal treasury with partial state share for levee sections.
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