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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1930
Page
5
Maude Lowther a 22 year old domestic confessed to police in Ashtabula to shooting Mrs. Clara Smith 28 from ambush near the city last night. T L Smith contractor admitted arranging the plot to kill Mrs Smith so they could run away together and the gun used was purchased days earlier.
Concrete pouring on the north retaining wall of the east third avenue underpass west section finished yesterday. Footing for the south wall to be poured tomorrow. Excavation on the west tracks over half done. Ditcher to move to east side today to start operations. Retaining walls on the east side must be twice as high due to parallel surface drives. City Engineer E N Stanley expects finish three to four days ahead of schedule weather permitting.
City reports indicate plans for the Fillmore Street underpass remain with Rock Island engineers in Chicago. No timetable or railroad action is known. The proposal would modify the northern spur of the Rock Island, ending it on Fillmore Street and extending it west to join the main tracks.
About 50 of more than 300 Chinese Elms in City Section Park north town are dormant. Forester Temple Robinson says they need rain and three cloudy days to leaf out. Most maples are healthy and show signs of outgrowing danger this summer. Also noted is a 1928 LA harbor tonnage ranking second to New York for foreign exports.
The passage recalls Memorial Day values and honors fallen soldiers. It notes Morse to Dalhart rail work on the Rock Island line, with finishing joint due late June. Santa Fe provided four Pullman cars for cadets at Roswell, about 200 students headed home. A Corpus Christi San Angelo and Roswell Railway charter was approved, linking 335 miles. The Texas and New Mexico Railway, under construction, should finish about July 1 from Hobbs to Lovington serving oil fields. the excerpt ends with In Flanders Field reference.
Memorial Day grows from Civil War origins to honor fallen soldiers from all conflicts. The flower bedecked graves symbolize peace and a hope that future generations avoid war, as new ideas strive to end armed conflict and bind nations in harmony.
The passage laments injured veterans in Flanders fields and notes they now sell paper poppies to aid the troubled youth. It then reports the Gulf and West Texas Railroad seeking ICC approval to begin construction from July 1 to October 1 under authorized timing.
Projections show the San Antonio to San Angelo route awaiting subscrip tions as rain delays push work. O. P. Van Sweringen of Cleveland, head of the magnate group, has been elected president of the Missouri Pacific system and may pursue control of the Denver and Rio Grande Western and the Western Pacific to form a trans continental line.
In Grosetta Italy Mussolini who had been dieting regained his appetite in the sea air dining on rice boiled fish roast pigeon strawberries and coffee during a recent visit.
Services for Mrs G E B Lehman of 1018 Taylor Street will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church Saturday at 10 a.m. Rev John Stein to officiate. The body remains in state at Bagwell Brothers chapel until the service. Survived by husband two children Son of Fort Worth and Margrette of Amarillo one brother Will Terrell of Monaham Texas and sister Mary Baines Winters Texas.
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