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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1927
Page
8
Chicago dispatch reports that a week of joint conference meetings between operators and miners failed to bridge differences over the Jacksonville wage scale. The 75,000 men’s strike began last April, and delegates left the sessions pessimistic about industry prospects amid oil competition and shifting trade.
A 48 hour west coast Mexico storm abated with ships reporting clear skies and near normal seas. No lives were lost among coastwise or fishing craft and reported property damage was minimized. A bees story and a note on 14 million US homes with electric lights follow.
Construction starts in Wichita on a major refinery and compressor complex with a daily output of 24 000 gallons of gasoline. The project includes 21 units and pipelines from Amarillo Texas to Wichita and to Kansas City. The Empire companies unit of Cities Service owns the project with a total cost exceeding one million dollars.
The Royal Windsor monoplane, once backed for a Windsor England flight, departed Harbor Bliss at 5 25 a m for Windsor Ontario. Pilots Wood and Schiller lament safety limits for trans ocean travel and propose a safer hydroplane design to improve survival chances if forced down.
Funeral services for Jack T. Webb 43 who died by his own hand in his fire shop at noon yesterday were to be held at 3 30 this afternoon from Griggs Funeral chapel Rev R Thomson pastor of Central Presbyterian church will officiate Co M Dillon F C Benham Ted H Lokey T H White Earl Bone and William Lampe will be pall bearers Burial will be in Llano cemetery Webb was a member of several Masonic bodies Woodmen of the World and the Baptist church
City commission voted to lay Pierce Street paving from First to Third at once without waiting for storm sewer installation. Paving will leave space for future sewer work.
In Adana, Turkey, replacement workers failed to keep trains on schedule as wives and sweethearts of striking firemen lay on the rails and had to be dragged away. In New York, Moscow student Alexander Kasarinova wins a around the world trip for 25 cents in a rare ticket drawing.
Superintendent W A McIntosh reports a sharp enrollment rise this week with no full figures yet. To cope, San Jacinto, McKinley, North Amarillo, Sanborn and Summit schools double sessions in lower grades awaiting new facilities. Officials expect regular schedules after new units finish, with San Jacinto possibly moving seventh graders to junior high.
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