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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1927
Page
7
Washington reports that alien property owners up to April 30 received 342 million dollars in cash and property from the Alien Property Custodian. Four months of 1927 added 7.23 million, with over 80,000 claimants affected. Earnings on remaining holdings exceed 650 thousand dollars monthly, about 3 percent annually on roughly 250 million dollars in assets.
Khiva Shrine Temple plans a May 26 wrestling show featuring a live bear. A reward awaits any novice who lasts ten minutes with the bear in the ring. The bear was secured by C. C. Davis and George Humphries. Several novices attending ceremonial sessions seek to try the bear, promising a big time.
Mrs Evangeline Lindbergh credits Theodore Roosevelts example as shaping her son Charles Lindbergh. She recalls Teddy as a model during Charlies boyhood summers on his fathers Minnesota farm and notes Lindberghs early interest in outdoors, riding, broncho busting, and a prized ROTC pistol. She also mentions Charlies call to flight and the families busy days awaiting his return.
International News Service reports the French Riviera as a premier retreat for writers. Kipling visits Cannes and Roquebrune while Hanotaux writes on provincial painting. Ibanez tours Menton. Maeterlinck and Colette frequent Nice. Wells, Bourget, Bordeaux, Bertrand, Brousson, Anatole France, Cocteau, Maugham and others maintain homes or frequent sites at Antibes Hyeres Villefranche Saint-Jean Cap Verre.
A ceremonial patrol event will showcase new and novel stunts. A silk company reports daily use of three million cocoons in production, highlighting the scale of the textile operation.
Seventeen story Davidson hotel contracts have been awarded totaling over 1 million dollars. Amarillo contractor H G Persons won the heating and HVAC package worth about 350000 after competing with 35 bidders. Hughes O Rourke Construction company awarded the jobs and all work must be finished in twelve months. Construction progresses on the double basement at Seventh and Tyler streets, the largest city building upon completion.
Assistant Secretary Andrews announced the treasury will soon authorize manufacture of three million gallons of whisky for medicinal purposes. Decisions setting up authority and machinery for permits are awaiting signature, with the plan to have the project run by private groups. Wayne Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League protests, saying medical whisky supply is adequate and authority is lacking.
Amarillo children are asked by the Childhood League to save pennies for Children's Day on June 18 to aid Mississippi River area refugees. Miss Emily Marx says with three cents per child from 33 million kids, a million dollars could be raised. She notes candy consumption and urges donations via schools or local groups to Red Cross chapters.
A legislative committee investigating the Kansas Public Service Commission voted to recommend to Governor Paulson that J. T. Hussey resign as chairman. Four of five members supported the motion led by Rep Walter F. Jones. Sen Fred G. Apt was absent. The note adds a historical line about the first savings bank founded in 1810.
Commander Richard Byrd and Grover Whalen reaffirmed their plans to fly the tri motored Fokker monoplane America to Paris. They said the flight remains for scientific purposes and follows Lindbergh's achievement, preserving the need for trans Atlantic data.
Two members of the Rum Runner crew drowned after leaping overboard as the boat was towed into Barcelona harbor following capture by state and local police on Lake Erie near West Field, N. PP. The accident occurred May 24.
Amarillo Real Estate Board meets at the Amarillo hotel at noon Wednesday with W. W. Lynch of Amarillo Improvement company explaining the first offering of San Jacinto Heights lots and subsequent development. Edward Biggs notes no real surprises for tomorrow.
Potter county juvenile rural club members will learn caponizing chickens at community meetings this week under the Agricultural department of the Board of City Development. The first session is at River Road on Wednesday and each member must caponize his own birds under expert guidance. Capons are noted as highly profitable and sold in February. An Italian law bans the export of genuine antiques with dealers passing off fakes to dodge customs.
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