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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1929
Page
2
Emil F Myers of Amarillo College of Music announces the Russian Cossack Chorus will appear Friday night. The ensemble of twelve male voices directed by Sergei Socoloff will sing heroic Russian epics with colorful costumes. Season ticket sales exceed 1000. single tickets go on sale later this week.
In Weatherford Texas R. H. Hamilton denies knowledge of his daughter's marriage as a murder trial unfolds. A Dallas handwriting expert testifies the letters to Hamilton from his wife and daughter show varying pens and inks, while a long distance operator confirms a Dallas call mentioning divorce. The defense clashes with rebuttal witnesses as the case advances toward closing arguments.
Gus Albright nears completion of a 50 hour endurance motorcycle ride. By 8 am he had logged 1,680 miles in 42 hours and plans to push to the 50 hour mark at 4 pm. He ate, refueled, and circled the track 1,890 times, aided by official AMA checkers.
Testimony centers on restoring ink color, letter clipping, and whether expert Weaver, called by Thomerson, understands chemistry. Underwood cross examines birthplace, education, and potential bias, noting Weaver would testify for pay and his lack of college degree while asserting ink line width differences and envelope paper texture may affect shading versus line width.
The piece notes Democratic machine influence around John Garland Pollard in Virginia with Hoover era comparisons and shifts toward doubtful or solid South. It covers Brown Pollard speeches, contested majorities, New York City mayoral race with Walker Laguerdia and others, and state elections in Kentucky Ohio Illinois Pennsylvania plus Virginia statewide offices.
A Hanson Post American Legion and auxiliary session will discuss Armistice Day plans at the legion home in the municipal auditorium tonight at o'clock. The meeting will be the last under the current administration.
One of a series of poultry schools will be held at Brady School house at 8 o'clock tonight. Robert Ricks, president of the Panhandle Poultry Association, and J F Ford, assistant agricultural agent of Potter County, will lead the session on breeding feeding and management.
Angelina Richman and her mother sue Amarillo Bus Company seeking 2500 actual damages and 1000 exemplary damages for injuries alleged on July 1 while a passenger. Richman, a housekeeper, says she suffered permanent injuries and medical costs of 500 plus 2000 in damages, and that she was left unconscious without driver aid until another passenger intervened for medical help.
A group including Attorney General R L Bobbitt state Legion adjutant Hunter Metcalf and several judges and officials traveled from San Antonio to Amarillo to view Palo Duro Canyon amid calls for park improvements and highway development funded by the gasoline tax.
Sheriff C C Moore reports the prisoner tried to throw himself from a moving car as he was being taken toward Oklahoma. District Attorney Clem Calhoun secured a continuance due to lack of material witnesses for the trial of Walker on charges tied to the slaying of two Hutchinson County peace officers in Stinnett. Sheriff Fred Bowles waited with extradition papers. Walker’s attorney Dewitt Bomer had boarded a train home when officers quietly moved him from his cell onboard a vehicle.
A family feud over land division led to a fatal shooting. Bloodhounds followed leads to Miss Maude Hunter and Miss Mary Hunter, cousins of Mrs. Weddle, then to George Hostetter, 41. Hostetter, once charged with murder in Nevada in 1920 and jailed 14 months ago, had been seen with a shotgun and was reportedly engaged to Miss Hunter. He remained a fugitive as officers pursued him through the night and into today.
The column reviews fashion shifts from long to short skirts as trends evolve with moving pictures and three month cycles. It also notes optimism about Wall Street turbulence and calls for less stock gambling. Lord Beaverbrook advocates closer free trade within the British Empire and self sufficiency for Britain and its empire.
Witnesses said the boy stepped into the bus path from near the machine, Stanley could not stop or swerve. He aided the boy and notified the hospital. Insurance efforts target the car and will go to the family. Body lies at N A Griggs Sons. Services set for Wednesday at 10 in Buchanan Street Methodist with burial at Llano Cemetery.
A reader appeals to Col Tack to urge the gas company to install gas street lights along South Harrison Street and remove a hazardous dip near Seventeenth. The letter recalls Tack’s stance on the gas question and urges action for poorer residents.
Police reported Judge Homer A. Callaway failed to arrive as expected after a week away in San Francisco. Federal court judges were in California, and when he resumes, his court will meet in the former detective department room now equipped with a jury box.
A compact portrait of a shabby yet gentle old man who gathers discarded items into a rich treasure trove. The narrator likens his shop to a humane antique, where junk hides dignity and dreams under dust, with the quiet kindness of the seller framing the scene.
Hogs sold lower at Kansas City and Chicago with top bids around 9.05 and 9.45 per hundredweight for midrange hogs. Cattle and calves held uneven, with slaughter steers around 11.75 to 15.75 and cows near 10.25, while Oklahoma City reported lighter gains for light steers and yearlings. Cotton and produce markets drifted lower in New Orleans and Chicago, with futures slipping and notices of hedge and liquidation pressure.
A letter from Mayor Ernest C. Thompson urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to hold its hearing on Santa Fe Railroad’s Amarillo to Las Animas Colorado line in Amarillo. He cited facilities and regional convenience, noting an $8,000,000 project cost and a branch to Spearman from Dumas.
Juanita Charlene Woodruff infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Charley Woodruff of 2203 Harrison Street died at Northwest Texas Hospital. Funeral services at Boxwell Brothers' Funeral Home at 4 this afternoon conducted by Dr Lewis N Stuckey pastor First Methodist Church burial at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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