21 Oct 1927
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1927
Page
1
Two bottles and three deaths are noted in a compressed snippet. The fragment references Japan swimming and a Babe Ruth item, suggesting a quirky or misprinted column line. No coherent event details are available to expand into a full report.
The Globe columns present a collage of opinions and curiosities from 1927. Highlights include Japan’s naval swimming formation, Babe Ruth's egg token, Elinor Glyn on fidelity, police crime notes, Senator Borah on parties, and Ford's five day week. Millikan on science, heart disease as leading cause of death, and Basil Stewart predicting a 1928 1936 war.
Italy's Fascist leader Benito Mussolini faces a clash with the Pope after a Fascist manifesto denied the Vatican sovereignty over the Vatican grounds in Rome. Vatican papers implied the Pope seeks control of the small Vatican area as tensions rise following earlier hopes for a settlement.
Tonight and Saturday forecast with temperature highs and lows. Hourly readings shown from early morning to afternoon with values around 58 to 77 degrees and no precipitation. Public notice mentions ambulance and printing service with local business contact details.
Aaron Sapiro says Ford's apology to Jews was not about car sales. In a radio address he argues Ford acted from remorse and wealth shields him from desire for more money.
In Washington in the Teapot Dome conspiracy case prosecutors call on the Geological Survey head and a geologist to rebut the defense claim that Albert B. Fall leased Teapot Dome to prevent drainage by nearby wells. The day opens with defense evidence of Fall La Follette correspondence from 1922.
Joseph S. Minter charged with murdering Colorado State Senator Albert E. Bogdon will tell his version of events at trial. He plans to claim he burst into his wife’s apartment seeking divorce evidence, Bogdon advanced, a first shot, a struggle for the gun, a second shot, and a third discharge when he was crazed. Defense hinges on accident, insanity, unwritten law, and timing between entering and firing.
A Sunship Special from Dallas derailed near Washon Waskom, killing fireman L. E. Patton and a Mexican passenger who rode the baggage car rods. Engineer J. W. Gorman and passenger A. J. Steel were injured but not in serious condition. officials opened an investigation.
Mrs Lillian K Troupe, 56, was found dead from a gunshot to the head and her husband Calvin M Troupe 65, in critical condition from a temple wound after a shooting at their home. He said she grappled with him and that the gun discharged accidentally.
Amarillo Clearing House Association entertains Colorado bankers at a breakfast in the Herring hotel as reports show total deposits reaching 23 million dollars, up one million since ten days ago. The visitors tour local oil fields and gas plants before heading to Houston for the ABA convention.
In Fresno California on October 21 William Gilbert of Los Angeles, a medicinal snake oil agent, was bitten by a rattlesnake last Tuesday. The snake died and Gilbert is recovering.
In Walsenburg Colorado deputies arrested 47 men and seven women from I W W picketing at coal mines. Led by John Shepherd the group sang Solidarity as they were charged with anti picketing violations. Several arrests occurred at Cameron and Ideal mines with schoolgirls found with the pickets not detained.
Fort Worth on October 21 Associated Press reports Judge George E Hosey postponed the Harry Conner flogging case to Monday after alleging tampering with the jury pool. Conner, a former Fort Worth detective, faces charges under the state anti mask law tied to the abduction and flogging of Maurice Strauss.
A V Milliken sentenced to electrocution for murder of Mrs Virginia Petty testifies about jail mistreatment and malnutrition at the county jail. Defense seeks extra guards for trips from jail. Change of venue motion based on Caldwell County prejudice still pending. Judge Jeffrey appoints deputy Sanders to transport Milliken to jail at noon.
Ruth Elder, after a forced Atlantic descent, intends to cross New York to Paris by air next August. She will fly Lisbon to Paris and London, then return by boat to New York and resume preparations. A guard plane will escort the Lima to Lisbon.
Inquiries for six hundred miles of pipe by Roxana Petroleum, a Shell Union Oil subsidiary, point to a main trunk line from West Texas. The order totals about 51,000 tons with an estimated cost of 15 million dollars. The line would carry up to 40,000 barrels daily with potential future expansion. Other majors like Humble Gulf and Magnolia also developing trunk lines.
A Oklahoma City mother walked 100 miles to appeal to the governor for her son Thurmond Beardon, who was jailed for three years on tire theft. After three days outside the governor’s office she gained a parole for him and plans to return with the 17 year old.
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