20 May 1926
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1926
Page
1
The piece notes Professor Warburg of Berlin’s Biological Institute showing cancers perish when oxygen is scarce in a living rat, thriving again with full oxygen. It cautions the claim won’t cure cancer, but may aid progress.
Hogs on the Kansas City livestock market hit a six year high at 14.50 per hundred pounds today. Prices rose 10 to 15 cents with weekly gains 26 to 50 cents and 75 cents to a dollar higher than May first. Strong demand from limited receipts and lower cold storage stocks plus higher pork consumption due to cool weather driven market strength.
A lone thief struck the Ambassador Hotel on Park Avenue and slugged the auditor's assistant before fleeing with a payroll satchel worth about $5,000. Police search for the suspect, with hotel staff cooperating in the investigation.
Weather in Amarillo Texas tonight and Friday shows fair skies and warmer conditions in the north portion. Temperature extremes today ranged from 64 to 79 degrees, compared with 64 and 100 on the same date last year.
City officials face a deadline as Well Works of Garden City Kansas fails to appear for test wells on a new 1 750 000 dollar water plant contract. Mayor Bivins and the commission threaten bond forfeiture and new bids if the firm does not show up by tomorrow night. W Kiersted Kansas City is drafting plans for the pipeline as summer approaches.
R C Hill to be re tried this term on a charge of attempted burglary with firearms stemming from the Cheshir Filling Station holdup on April 25. Hill pleaded guilty and sought a suspended sentence. the jury disagreed. Leo J Marks or William Leo Sparks served as the defendant’s attorney. W F Nix led the prosecution.
Wes-Tex Oil stockholders await an update on the No. 2 well shot last night by Tex Thornton with 300 quarts of nitroglycerine in Section 18, Block 1, Hutchinson county. J B Beasley notes the shot occurred around 9 pm and darkness prevented a prompt assessment.
Tommy Cochran of Wichita Falls a one up on George Retan of Houston at the turn in the first round of match plays in the Texas Goff championship at River Oaks Country Club. Carlton of Houston as medalist for qualifying was three up on C. L. Campbell of Temple at the turn.
Veterans of the Confederate army gathered for the thirty-sixth annual reunion in Birmingham on May 20. Streets overflowed with cheering crowds as bands played and flags fluttered. Gen W B Freeman sought retirement as commander in chief, drawing the main attention amid a light business agenda aimed at preserving ideals of unity and enrichment.
Col Andrew Verne, resident manager of Churchill Downs, died suddenly at his office at the track in Louisville. The oblique fragment mentions a Panhandles Meeting Place and a reference to Amarillo Hotel but lacks clear context.
Edgar Thompson of Amarillo sues Land Commissioner J. T. Johnson in the Texas Supreme Court contesting the forfeiture of 515 acres in Hutchinson county for non payment of 45.57 and interest. The suit claims the 1925 act altered the 1919 provisions allowing a property owner to recover by paying back interest and reinstating.
The senate approved a civil service retirement bill raising the maximum annuity to 1200 dollars from 1000, aligning with president Coolidge’s stance though the house favored the lower amount. At Amarillo Hotel’s Coffee Shop, captions note the establishment as famous for food.
Capt. Thomas J. Betts of the American army, based in Peking, is reported captive in Yunnan province, in a remote area near Laitowopo. He disappeared May 17 while traveling solo across difficult terrain toward the Yangtze, a trip intended to study language skills.
Edgar Watson Howe known as Ed Howe visits Amarillo for four or five days. He is father to Gene Howe publisher of The News and Globe and travels the world frequently. He comes with Miss Adelaide Howe and Miss Nellie Webb and heads back to Kansas.
Washington May 20 three of the five senators named to the senatorial campaign investigating committee resigned from the panel to Vice-president Dawes. Reed Deneen Bayard quit. Reed cited tariff work and travel plans. Deneen heads Chicago office of the Republican senatorial committee. Bayard treasurer of the Democratic senatorial campaign committee.
A special U S court convened in Fort Worth to hear arguments on the legality of Texas medical practice acts. Judges Angus E. Foster William H. Atwell and James C. Wilson preside as attorneys for chiropractors and the State of Texas present their cases in federal district court.
The national conference of miners' delegates in London rejected Premier Baldwin's settlement plan for the strike. They adopted a resolution stating they cannot recommend acceptance as the proposal does not ensure a decent standard of living.
Judge H B Bell reports Panhandle field now producing about 40 000 barrels daily, with two new wells Canyon and Phillips Currie boosting Texas output. Regan County remains the state’s top producer at about 20 000 barrels daily, while gas waste and drilling limits complicate field operations.
A Daily Express dispatch claims over 500 civilians and about 100 Druse rebels were killed in a 15 hour French bombardment of Damascus Midan quarter. Three hundred houses destroyed as French troops bombarded after giving warning.
Washington May 20 The Watson Parker railway labor act abolishes the railroad labor board and substitutes a new system for handling railway labor disputes. The act was signed today by President Coolidge.
An explosion at a powder mill near Hassioch Bavaria kills between fifteen and twenty people and injures about thirty others. The mill is wrecked and a planned tea at Mrs Will OBrien's home for the Child Welfare club has been postponed indefinitely due to the tragedy.
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