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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1928
Page
1
Arthur Brisbane notes Hoover as likely GOP nominee while endorsing Gov. Smith for nomination. He surveys global politics, crime and prohibition, science claims of revival by Professor Nystroen, and debates over education and civilization amid national temper. He urges adopting metrology and metric systems.
Forecaster notes unsettled conditions tonight and later. Temperatures swing from the lower to mid seventies with a notable range and irregular hourly readings across the period.
Oregon voters faced a quiet but decisive primary with Alfred E. Smith favored to win the Democratic delegation of ten, while Herbert Hoover runs unopposed in the Republican column for a 13 member delegation. Reed emerges as Smith’s main foe among minor candidates amid minimal campaigning.
William Big Bill Haywood founder of the I W W died in Moscow at age sixty six after a long illness. He fled to Russia in 1921 to escape a 20 year U S prison sentence for obstructing the war and had been hospitalized recently before his death. He was born in Salt Lake City and rose to prominence as a labor leader in the western mining and lumber camps.
Circuit Judge David Brothers ruled that a coin flip ending an eight hour deadlock to decide a $15,000 damage award against Checker Cab Company should not be set aside. Mrs. Mary Dibbell received the verdict in Chicago. The jury stood nine to three for $15,000 with one member dissenting for $12,000.
Griggs ambulance service listed with contact phone 4311. Berry for rug cleaning advertised at 5229.
Sheldon Scott Cline 53 longtime managing editor of the Washington Star dies at the paper. He served for many years on its staff and contributed to the paper's editorial and news coverage.
Burglars broke into the Ladies Store at 513 Polk Street using a rope from a skylight and fled with a several thousand dollar haul of silk dresses hosiery underwear and fox fur items The owner W H F uges was notified and rope found dangling from the skylight is the only clue noted The store is a major retailer in Amarillo and this marks the third burglary there in recent months
The Polar Dirigible Italia arrived at Kings Bay Spitzbergen after a 68 hour Arctic crossing. Commander Umberto Nobile said a North Pole start may occur Sunday, as Italians hailed the voyage and noted no land between Spitzbergen and Franz Josef Archipelago.
Mrs. D. M. Bisbee wife of D. M. Bisbee heating engineer for the Santa Fe railroad died early today at the family home in Ocean Park near San Diego California Information reached friends here The Bisbees lived in Amelie from 1918 to 1916 and Mrs Bisbee was widely known in the city Berry's for dyeing Phone 5229.
City detective M M Scott fired at a fleeing suspect who broke away on Polk street scattering clerks and storekeepers. The shot struck a store sign as the man ran toward Fourth Street and was later recorded near Eighth while being escorted to jail for a chicken thief allegation. The scene drew shoppers to the sidewalk and prompted a quick police response.
American Marines pursue insurgents after a jungle engagement near Paso Real, 45 miles northeast of Jinotega. One marine and one Nicaraguan Guardsman were killed. Captain Robert S. Hunter was wounded. Five rebels were killed and five wounded amid reconnaissance and rescue efforts.
Shanghai dispatches report Nationalists nearing Peking with forces along the Peking Hankow railway. Troops from Shansi allied with the Nationalists reach Changsintien while fears rise of civil war spreading toward Manchuria. Marshal Chang Tse-Lin accuses Feng Yu-Hsiang of cooperation with Communists to foment anti foreign sentiment.
Workers and lightermen in Canton joined a strike denying discharge of cargo from Japanese steamers. The action aimed to recruit Chinese crews to join the walkout as authorities reported mass arrests and executions of Reds near Ewatow.
Tokyo instructed north and south China legations to urge both governments to end the present unrest in China. Kenki chi Yoshizawa and S. Yata were sent to deliver memorandums to Marshal Chang Tsol Lin and Huang Yu urging peace. Japan warned it would take steps to preserve Manchuria peace if fighting spreads to Peking or Tientsin. Japan would stay neutral between the contending sides.
Wes Calvs, statistician for Central Life Insurance, collapsed and died during a lecture to company employees in Chicago. Ambulance responded. phone number 5211 on record.
SAN ANTONIO May 18 The 1929 convention of the Texas Association of Realtors will be held at Amarillo. The Association voted unanimously this morning in favor of Amarillo.
A Memphis Texas farmer faces peonage charges as part of a U S district court docket opening next Monday. R C Jones allegedly caused the arrest and return of Russell Jones in December 1927 and held him in peonage for labor. Additional indictments include Hall Massey for converting 1005.94 of postal funds and Allen V Hendricks for five counts under the Banking Act involving about 1200.
Wichita Kansas calls itself the Air Capital and a visiting reporter tours seven airplane factories to explain the claim. He notes Swift Aircraft Cessna Laird and other plants producing a range of planes and hints Amarillo could pursue air industry likewise. The piece mentions delays with a Fokker monoplane and previews continued coverage on page two.
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