10 Sep 1928
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1928
Page
1
Arthur Brisbane discusses small shopkeepers facing chain stores and bankers planning a drug store network. He cites Schulte's cigar stand rise, warns against relying on whining, and notes financiers borrowing on stock exchanges with high interest while New York real estate and mood shift under the shadow of consolidation.
Tonight and Tuesday fair with a slight temperature change. Extremes today 78 and 62, compared with last year 87 and 60. Hourly readings start 7 am at 62, rising to 78 by 1 pm.
Potter county grand jury may probe a sensational attack on District Attorney W. J. Flesher made by Sheriff Wiley Pollard. Pollard blamed lack of cooperation from the district attorney's office in beer joint raids and appeals to Potter county citizens for help. The statement came as Flesher was reported in Terrell Texas and expected back in Amarillo Thursday.
Balloting begins tomorrow for the Tri-State Breezes fair queen with duchess representatives from each school district. The queen will be crowned during the play A Midsummer Night's Dream featuring over 200 children, as Amarillo schools vie for honors. A teen pageant is set for September 22 under Mrs. Vernon Hogan's recreation program.
Charles Dickinson 11 of Chicago prepares for take off at Roosevelt Field Long Island aboard a class B New York to Los Angeles racer. Clyde Cessna and Curtis Quick are shown as another entrant with Mr and Mrs F J Grace aboard a class B ship. John Maynard Ltr Co advertises building services.
Amarillo announces modern school facilities with brick buildings steam heat slate boards and teachers with college diplomas. Yet students fear losing the simple joys of old school life such as outdoor play swimming and chalkboard mischief. The piece argues progress brings sanitation and instruction but robs traditional school experiences.
Five Lamar Colorado citizens named Floyd Jarrett as one of four men who robbed a Lamar bank last May causing four deaths. Sheriff Ewings said Oklahoma authorities seek Jarrett’s extradition to Colorado, with a habeas corpus hearing and governor Johnston presiding. witnesses testified Jarrett was in Ardmore and Carter county the robbery day.
Ten men were killed and five seriously injured in aviation accidents across the United States on Sunday. Not linked to cross country air races, the events included a Navy flier injured in Los Angeles during a race, two Otterbein High School students killed in Indiana, and several other fatal or serious incidents from Sioux Falls to Camp Perry and Des Moines.
Letters pour in from Amarillo area homes with recipes for corn beef and cabbage. Entrants hail from Stinnett Floydada Plainview Canadian Clarendon and nearby towns. Contest ends Tuesday night with prize winners announced later that week. Submit your recipe today.
New Orleans and New York cotton markets fell sharply after weekend selling driven by bearish government crop estimates. October contracts dropped to around 17.5 cents per pound, with December and January near 17.6 cents, marking a steep decline from Saturday closes. Liverpool also weakness reflected widespread selling in early trading.
John B. Golding post Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet at the American Legion home at o clock tomorrow evening. Post commander Fred Woodard says routine business will be discussed.
About 7 400 children head to classes as Amarillo begins the 1928 29 term with expanded facilities. Alice Landergin Margaret Wills and junior high courses added at San Jacinto and Buchanan. Central Junior High expects around 600 students. 26 teachers, refinished science rooms, Daisy Birchfield to lead domestic science and Mrs Ethel Wells science. Nearly 200 children under seven have affidavits filed to attend different schools. High schools register many new out of town students, with around 200 new names from elsewhere. Forest Hill students will attend Buchanan until a new school is built.
District Attorney John Monaghan leads the crackdown on bootlegging in Philadelphia once serving as a judge known as Treat Em Rough John. He is pictured in connection with the crackdown and battles organized crime in the city.
Secretary of State Frank B Kellogg lands in New York aboard the Leviathan after signing the Peace Pact in Paris. He urges that the treaty not become a campaign or Senate issue and notes broad international support. Also promotes a local high school show Here Comes Arabella with 50 and 75 cent admissions.
Karl Rowland of Wichita Kansas arrived at Rockwell Field at 8 35 a m in his Cessna monoplane from Yuma Arizona as the first of the New York Los Angeles air racers to reach the western goal The Fort Worth segment reports Bullough Livingston Wood Wells and other racers reaching Oklahoma City and Fort Worth with scenic weather and fuel stops noted during the Class B transcontinental air race.
Hazel Kash fourteen daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe Kash living near Inman northeast of Hutchinson Kansas was fatally injured when a bull gored her Saturday She had been sent to drive cattle from one pasture to another and was found later in a pasture with the bull standing over her She regained consciousness briefly to relate the attack and died about two hours later.
In Baton Rouge the Louisiana state penitentiary riot left six convicts dead and eight wounded as four teens tried to shoot their way out. The group overpowered guards, seized guns at the ammunition room, and fled by launch on the Mississippi River, with gunfire echoing as authorities closed in. Ward en Amacker led the search for the missing inmates believed to have fled cross country. Owen, held to 14 to 21 years for shooting a New Orleans policeman, is named by officials as the organizer of the escape attempt.
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