25 Oct 1925
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1925
Page
1
In a bankruptcy hearing Mrs. Leathe testified her assets have fallen from five million to only six hundred dollars, including a three hundred dollar wristwatch. She notes that widows of rich men often endure long, costly losses and urges trusts or insurance to protect income. The piece also surveys Henry Ford's aircraft plans, church reforms, international attitudes, stock-market excesses, and Florida land promos.
James Ferguson, husband of Texas governor, accuses Attorney General Moody of hiding the terms of a 486000 dollar contract with the American Road Co. He demands release of the contract and questions why funds were deposited in a Dallas bank. He assesses state finances and notes cattle losses from a foot and mouth outbreak and a 350900 loan.
The forecast calls for warmer conditions today following a day with temperatures ranging from 43 to 49 degrees. An earlier note compares yesterday to last year with 62 and 35 degrees, reflecting regional temperature swings.
Paso Oct 24 Eight hours after filing her third divorce Mrs W B Winzinreal 18 was remarried for the fourth time to E L Page Fort Bliss soldier The couple crossed into Mexico for the ceremony Her record chasing marriage spree has spanned three years four months and nine days from first marriage to third divorce and she claimed she was through with marriage in court yesterday
Representative Reid argues Colonel Billy Mitchell can invoke the first amendment in his defense against military misconduct charges. He says the constitution protects free speech from congressional abridgment and condemns the War Department for targeting Mitchell over his San Antonio remarks. Reid praises Mitchell for challenging aeronautical policy and warns against subverting constitutional limits.
London reports Greece ignores Briand request to withdraw troops from the Macedonian frontier. Athens announces Greece will stay in Bulgarian territory until the council decides. Paris hints the council may delay direct action and study the GrecoBulgarian hostilities first.
Best Texas residents numbered 200 jailed after a Reagan Pecos county grand jury indictment following liquor raids ten days earlier. Raids closed twenty saloons and dance halls near Best and Big Lake with thousands of gallons seized. Jail space overflow forced prisoners into garages hotels barns and rooming houses as lawmen disrupted post prohibition commerce.
The Globe argues against spending a million dollars to secure water for Amarillo and then handing distribution to a private water company. It cites voter bonds of 1,750,000 for a city owned system and urges residents to back a municipal plant to assure cheap water and prevent taxpayer exploitation.
Dave Brown a 29 year old church janitor was struck at midnight behind Lucy Polk street and died twenty minutes later. Police seek Jack Snyder in connection with the shooting over a gambling game. Brown leaves a widow and brother as investigators pursue leads.
Karachi reports say a cyclone, possibly the worst in the Persian Gulf, sank boats of Bahrain pearl fishers. More than 1,000 lives lost as vessels vanished and chaos followed the storm. Many bodies were seen floating after the gale eased.
Judge I Kelso head of Texas and New Mexico Utilities will lead Eastern capitalists on a three day visit to Panhandle and New Mexico towns. The group will stop at Slaton Lubbock Idalou Ralls Crosbyton Floodada Lockney Plainview Canyon Hereford Clovis Farwell Muleshoe Sudan Amherst Littlefield Portales with a banquet in Hereford to open a new Highland Ice plant and part of the journey by special train.
Three people Mrs. W. H. Dawson T. K. Winters and C. D. Rocha were arrested by city Inspector C. G. Spencer for selling milk without a permit and will appear before the corporation judge at the police station Monday. The report also covers support for the city charter amendments by Ray C. Johnson at a luncheon urging a large vote.
Edwin J. Clapp praised Amarillo and the Panhandle at a noon banquet in the Amarillo hotel with 178 business leaders present. He lauded land profits and farm yields, noting a farm can often be paid for in a single crop. Clapp cited Spur farming, Panhandle wheat growth, and Amarillo as a growing financial hub with expanding bank activity and youth opportunities.
Potter County Sheriff Wiley Pollard will send sixty gallons of bonded high proof whisky seized in recent months to the state board of control in Austin next Thursday. Judge Henry Bishop says the liquor will be used in state hospitals, with bootleg stock not meeting the high proof standard poured into the sewer.
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