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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1925
Page
1
The piece notes coal dealers raising prices by 50 cents a ton despite no cost rise, signaling looming strikes affecting miners and railroad workers. It cites President Coolidge’s potential actions, crop values at ten billion, improving urban commerce, and various social vignettes including Miss Annie Phillips and Mrs. Elsie Eaton Newton.
ESSE L. LIVERMORE, famed Wall Street speculator, is not gambling in stocks at the moment. Although known for predicting declines, the young financier esteems the current market unfriendly to bears. Wise move to stay out as bears risk heavier losses by venturing out.
The forecast calls for tonight and Friday generally fair. Historical highs and lows show 85 and 60 degrees both today and a year ago. Temperature readings by hour include 82 and 79 degrees in the afternoon with light to moderate conditions.
At Fort Worth on September 5 the Texas American Legion urged Congress to boost army and navy funding and condemned high government officials for anti naval propaganda. Speeches by Senator Earle B. Mayfield Congressman Tom Connally and Legion committee chair C L Bodenheimer framed the resolutions. The auxiliary reported progress in rehabilitation work, caring for 664 soldiers in hospitals and sending Christmas packages to over 900 Texas troops outside the state. A separate parade and veterans’ events dominated September 3 activities with the 20th Infantry Regiment leading a downtown parade and a 7:30 pm division banquet followed by a 9 pm military ball. Morning sessions featured Mayfield Connally and James Casserly as speakers.
McLean farmers are constructing a cooperative cotton gin to manage increased acreage. Organized under a 38th legislature act, this will be McLean’s third gin, aiming to process all local cotton and reduce wait times. It should be ready by October 15.
Amarillo druggist L. O. Thompson and his son Billie were aboard two passenger trains in Mayne Colorado when one train derailed near a widetrack. Thompson was slightly stunned but helped with first aid for seriously injured passengers. His companions Hugh and John Currie were unharmed. An Amarillo woman aboard the train was unhurt.
At Tulan Oklahoma on September 3 delegates to the twenty sixth annual encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution calling for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment to the constitution. The article notes additional topics and a brief caption about Witherspoon in Kansas City Wichita and a movie line about going to the Mission for pictures.
Amarillo Jobbers and Wholesalers Association president Bob Emmett announced the afternoon conference would move from 2 o'clock to the evening due to late-arriving merchants. Banquet time is set for 6 30 at the Amarillo hotel. Out of town registrants by 3 included W. W. Massey King's Mill Texas and others from Groom Hereford Canyon Hedley Canadian Artesia New Mexico.
Amarillo druggists set the West Texas Retail Druggists association convention for September 15 and 16 changing from September 30 31 after a noon meeting at the Amarillo hotel. A finance committee of Roy Pool Ben Ledbetter and L O Thompson was named with hopes of raising at least 1000 for the convention fund. Charley Austin and a committee will head the entertainment program aimed to outdo last year’s showing. A Texas Qualified Druggists league representative spoke.
Rome reports King Boris of Bulgaria is gravely ill after a dessert bite carried tainted typhus bacteria. Court physician in Varna summoned. a cook suspected of poisoning tied to a military league seeking retaliation for executions of several communists.
The damage suit of W F Cobb versus Southwestern Bell Telephone Co is being tried alleging slow service hindered burning rooming house at 201 North Taylor Street. Cobb as first witness testified at 3 PM today.
A fragment notes Tamous for Food at Amarillo hotel and references the Panhandle’s Meeting Place and American Warehouse Co storage facility.
The Shenandoah dirigible broke up in a storm near Caldwell Ohio killing its commander Lieutenant-Commander Zachary Taylor Downe and at least fourteen crew members. The airship was en route from Lakehurst New Jersey to the west at about 3000 feet when a line squall struck it.
Amarillo faces Elitches Garden today at 4 in the Denver Post baseball tournament. Amarillo beat Fitzsimmons Hospital 8 to 4 yesterday. Middleton held two hits. Elitch beat Gardner Motors 4 to 1 with Dave Devenport on the mound.
The Shenandoah disaster toll includes Commander Zachary Landsdowne of Greenville Ohio and a roster of officers and aircrew. Names span Austin Texas St Paul Minnesota Allston Massachusetts Tucker ton New Jersey Savannah Georgia Omaha Nebraska St Louis Missouri Lowell Massachusetts Toms River New Jersey Murray Hill New Jersey Huntville Indiana Bing ham New Jersey Washington D C Freehold New Jersey and Gunner Cole with ranks ranging from executive officer to aviation rigger.
A pilot recalls dodging a line squall and encountering a deadly storm that split their ship into three pieces after dropping from 5500 feet. He clung to a girder as he plummeted, crying out to Commander Lansdowne to beat it and survive the crash.
Five hundred families in South El Paso and three suburbs are homeless after a canal break in the worst flood here since 1897. Damage runs to about 400000 as water floods streets. Fort Bliss infantry and cavalry patrol to shore up dikes while Red Cross offers shelter. Crest passed early today with water expected to stay high.
Dwight Newby sells his interest in the Panhandle Hardware company at 406 Polk Street to Charley Hoppin effective today. The pair have run the business together for three years after buying it from Parks and Williams, with strong trade from hunters and sportsmen. Newby will join Amarillo Lumber, while Hoppin continues the hardware business under the same name and policies.
San Francisco reports continued search for the missing naval seaplane PN No 3 with crew of four after a mid Pacific disappearance. Theories suggest a possible landing near Hawaii then drift or beaching. officials withdrew plans for a non stop PB-1 flight to Honolulu. Captain Spear ordered salvage of the sea plane as Commander Rodgers remains hopeful for survivors.
The Amarillo prize fighter Duff Stanley faced a hung jury in a county court on charges of resisting officers. Three jurors favored acquittal and three for conviction, leading Judge Sam Motlow to dismiss the panel. Defense witnesses said Stanley was arrested July 20 after a confrontation with a policeman, while prosecutors said he resisted arrest and needed force to be subdued.
T. A. Tolson, 25, employee at the Kansas Blackleg Serum plant, suffered multiple facial injuries when a basket of serum being lowered into a pit struck him. The accident, the first at the plant, left Tolson with non life threatening wounds and his wife at his side.
Two Liverpool cotton broker firms, Alfred Foinguines and Company and H. R. Bowler and Company, failed this morning causing great excitement on the cotton exchange. Analysts fear further failures as the market reacts to the collapse. The Amarillo Hotel Coffee Shop advertises as Famous For Food.
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