30 Nov 1926
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1926
Page
1
A miscellany of notes on the Army-Navy game crowd in Chicago, Bishop Manning and Catholic annulment debates, remarks on church-state separation, Normandy’s 900th anniversary, William the Conqueror, and a Chicago professor defending expressive English. The piece mocks fashion and profanity while praising reasoned government and global history.
In Somerville New Jersey on November 30 the Hall Mills case heard a state witness testifying that Mrs Jane Gibson’s reputation for truth was not so good. Dr J H Cooper of Milestone called as a state's witness said Mrs Gibson's reputation was about fifty fifty. The court heard handwriting notes from Henry Stevens 1922 diary as part of the testimony.
Fragmentary OCR mentions a car crash and injuries to a wife figure but lacks concrete names places dates or outcomes.
The Associated Press reports two American river gun boats were ordered to Hankow at the request of American Consul General Lockhart as precaution ahead of a December 4 boycott. No violence is reported and State Department advices note no known incidents. British and French sailors have landed at Hankow with US marines to aid efforts amid a broader Sino foreign crisis.
W A Parker aged 26 died from gas poisoning after leaning into a storage tank at Galf Production company site in Horger He had been employed four days and was found on top of the tank by his brother about half an hour later Coroner Malone said death resulted from gas poisoning and Parker left a mother and siblings in Littlefield Tener
In a garbled reminiscence a line mentions the governor of Mississippi and references a severed limb in unclear terms. The passage is fragmented, with numerous nonstandard phrases obscuring concrete details or names.
Arthur R. Gould Republican wins Maine special election to fill the late Bert M. Fernalds term. With 24 precincts missing Gould leads Fulton J. Redman Democrat by about 45,000, vote 79,582 to 31,540. The GOP holds 48 seats to Democrats 47 and farmer labor 1. Redman had challenged Gould over campaign financing.
A chaotic report notes a deficit surpassing 1000 in the sesqui centennial celebration efforts. Calls to reopen the event area were abandoned yesterday amid general unrest and poor planning.
The Clarendon college locating committee, named at the Northwest Texas conference in Childress, has postponed its Amarillo visit for removal negotiations. Illness of Rev. L. N. Stuckey delays response to incentives in Amarillo while the chamber awaits the committee’s attitude. Local sentiment is split between urging Amarillo to bid and opposing any move that could fail to cover building costs of Clarendon property valued at 250000 to 300000 dollars.
Merchants in the business district prepare Friday morning to place Christmas trees in flag sockets along curbs. They will decorate with electric lights and ornaments and keep the trees until after the holidays, aiming for a fully decorated city by Friday night. A newcomer's suggestion spurred the effort and merchants challenge neighbors to outdo each other.
Three state commissioners meet to harness flood waters of the Canadian river for farms in New Mexico and Texas while reducing Oklahoma flood damage. They enter the second day of talks on a pact to be presented to state legislatures, with disputes over water division and impounded basins unresolved.
About twenty witnesses including Mayor Lee Bivins testified before the grand jury as the city investigates police conditions. City Manager Jeff Bartlett defended the force and welcomed scrutiny, while officials denied widespread wrongful arrests and noted a looming police shake up.
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