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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1929
Page
1
The Louisiana Senate Court of Impeachment at Baton Rouge adjourned without hearing testimony against Governor Huey P. Long. The decision followed a caucus of 24 senators after a motion for adjournment gained 15 signatures, enough to avoid conviction.
Radio listings from WABC WHAM KMBC and others announce evening programs including U S Marine Band concert and famous recording artists. Various orchestras and singers perform across stations with times shown plus local advertising for ambulance services and rug cleaning.
Arthur Brisbane surveys market rumors and Mellon’s rumored resignation, urges fiscal realism over prohibition, cites Swiss Canton vote against prohibition, notes drug and prison clipping misuse, and references Ramsay MacDonald and labor politics in Britain.
An explosion dynamited the main water line serving Elizabethton and the American Bemberg and American Glantstaff Rayon plants. Sheriff Moreland named George Crow as the warning source. About 100 picketers were jailed for intimidation as National Guardsmen cordoned the area and transported workers to the Rayon plants amid tense clashes. A driver named Joe Calhoun ferried workers to the Rayon plants before the disruption.
Khiva Temple Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine conducts Spring Ceremonial with about 2,000 Nobles present. Thirty one new Shriners are initiated this afternoon and nearly as many are obligated after Shrine work following recent reunions in Fort Worth and El Paso. List of initiates includes Odos Caraway Clarendon H C Bradford Pampa William Leon Mangum Pampa Ira Honeycutt Tulia Ogle Clinton Todd Lubbock Albert Alexander Olson Stinnett John G McKenzie Amarillo Leslie Willis Guthrie Matador Robert Graham Reid Matador Walter Loring Broomhall Borger Willard Hubbard Gill Amarillo Melton 8S Thacker Roaring Springs Charles Boone Whitten Matador Doyle H Hunter Skellytown John Carr Burleson Matador George Gabriel Roaring Springs Roy Pope Burleson Matador George E McCullough Wellington Joseph Albert Dickson Borger Virgil D Shell Lubbock Frank Noble Robinson Pampa Frank O Bennett Lubbock Graham B Martin Lubbock Thomas Henry Arnold Lubbock James Louis
Dr. T. T. Shields of Toronto chairs the board of trustees and ordered the faculty dismissed triggering a riot by about 150 students. Shields, a fundamentalist leader, demanded professors teach only creationist views. Edith Rebman faced student ire as secretary treasurer amid romance rumors under investigation.
A House committee report denounces J T Robison administration over a $72000 fund linked to a cent an acre levy on state land. It recommends the attorney general study possible suit for an accurate accounting. Robison argued the fund was not public but contributed by purchasers.
Prominent Amarillo attorney Hugh H. Cooper and noted prosecutor Dayton Moses are being recruited as special prosecutors for the R. H. Hamilton case, the slaying of Tom Walton Jr. A fund drive at the National Bank of Commerce seeks several thousand dollars to retain them, with District Attorney Edw W Thomerson coordinating. Moses’ record with the Texas Southwestern Cattle Raisers association is noted, and readers are urged to call for exact funding needs while the legal battle looms as a major state event.
House Republican leaders moved to receive the Senate farm relief bill so it could go to conference but warned the debenture provision intrudes on the House's prerogative to initiate revenue measures. The House Steering Committee weighed whether to accept the Senate version or reject it as improper legislation. The dispute centers on Hoover era fiscal policy and tariff revision amid the special session.
Reports from Lisbon Barcelona and aboard the Graf Zeppelin describe the airship heading toward the United States on its second transatlantic voyage amid ongoing coverage of the American disaster at Cleveland Clinic where a faulty X ray room fire door is blamed for a deadly explosion.
Rescue teams describe the Cleveland clinic disaster as 120 dead by 11 45 am with many others injured from poison fumes and flames. Firemen were gas poisoned during rescue as an official investigation probes the cause and the X ray storage room blamed for the deadly gas release.
The Cleveland Clinic Hospital explosion and fire adds to a century of fatal U S incidents in halls factories and public buildings. Notable past disasters include the Troquois Theater fire 575 dead Chicago 1903 and the Triangle shirtwaist blaze 148 dead New York 1911. The list also recalls the Rhode’s Opera House fire 170 dead Boyertown 1908 and others across the nation.
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