02 Dec 1928
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Newspaper
Amarillo Sunday News Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1928
Page
1
Public anxiety rose over King George's illness as doctors reported the sovereign fatigued with a feverish trend. Official bulletins noted a disturbed sleep and two weeks in bed, with prayers planned across the empire for his recovery.
Dec 1 incomplete county returns show bond issue for $2,004,000 paying bonds defeated. From 10 of 80 boxes reporting, 1,154 voted yes and 1,538 no, with two thirds required for passage. Major polling places yet to report.
Panama City Dec. 1 Congress passes a law requiring all males planning marriage to undergo a medical examination. The act aims to ensure the fitness and health of future spouses under Panama’s new legal framework.
Unsettled Sunday with slight temperature change for Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas to see partly cloudy conditions and possible rain or snow in the northern Panhandle. New Mexico fair Sunday. Low pressures linger over the Rockies and Plains with below normal temperatures continuing in the Panhandle area.■
Carson County to start 24 mile unit of Highway 33 through Panhandle to the Carson county line with bids opened in Austin on December 18. Judge A A Callaghan said contracts could rush the project to finish by early summer, linking Amarillo to Gray county line and St Francis. Additional paving on Highway 66 from Groom to Amarillo is pending routing dispute.
Pecos, Texas. Mrs. E. B. Kiser, wife of Reeves County Sheriff, bagged the season limit of two deer in minutes after starting to hunt. She killed the first buck after sighting it, wounded a second that charged, and finished it with a pistol shot. One buck had nine points and the other ten.
Fort Worth Dec 1 Morrow H Boynton of Ballinger has been appointed assistant United States district attorney to succeed J Forrest McCutcheon who resigned Norman H Dodge United States district attorney announced today
London dispatch reports George Ronald Robinson a Downing College law student said to be American was found dead in his lodgings with a gas jet turned on. His father is believed to live in Paris. This marks the second American student death in England in two days after Robert David Cohen was found dead in Oxford.
Mexico City December 3 The superior court upheld San Angel court sentences on Jose de Leon Toral the killer of President Elect Obregon and Mother Concepcion who inspired the crime Toral was sentenced to death before a firing squad and the nun received twenty years imprisonment
Fort Sam Houston trooper John E K Bradford was attacked by two Mexican men who robbed him and tried to lure him to the army post. He was thrown from a car and lay unconscious in the rain for two hours before staggering to a nearby house.
Marland Oil in Ponca City Oklahoma declares a sweeping policy overhaul in marketing and sales. William Jervis named vice president in charge of traffic and sales after H C Mulroy’s resignation, with NM Kennedy appointed sales manager for the Marland companies.
An army suspect confessed to involvement in a ten part crime linked to a blaze. Authorities report the suspect admitted to multiple stages of the incident, detailing actions around the fire. The case centers on the sequence of events and the role of the individual within the broader criminal activity.
The Chicago Daily Journal reports James Kelley, a San Antonio hospital prisoner, confessed aiding Miss Elfrieda Knaak in burning herself at the Lake Bluff police station to purify love for a married officer, then tried to pull her from the flames as she moaned and waited for a divorce not possible due to four children.
An Amarillo editorial appeals to citizens to volunteer two hours and donate to complete the Community Chest fund of 25 000. It notes two thirds raised, warns against selfish lack of effort, and urges at least two hours of service at Chest headquarters to raise the remaining 8 000.
Fort Myers witness a struggle as a faith colony founded four years ago faces eviction. Beettle Tenlah’s group prepares to depart after a court order to vacate an eighty acre tract. Rick Younger, ex-member and landowner, had argued over access to women’s quarters before the order.
Workers paused as the 120 community drive fell short of the 25 090 goal to fund local charities for another year. At a luncheon, directors urged churches clubs and individuals to recruit volunteers for Monday to finish the Christmas gift and aid distribution effort. Ministers from Amarillo pledged to mobilize congregations and report to the Chest headquarters for assignments starting at 9 am.
President Hoover may seek a new tenant for his 80 acre farm near Graham Missouri after oil was struck on Ward county Texas land owned by his manager. The well produced 136 barrels per day before being shut off as oil men believe a new pool has opened.
Five men perished when a large tri motor airplane owned by H D Ballard and piloted by Matthew Watson crashed six miles north of Spur Texas while en route from San Antonio to Denver. Ballard Watson and three unidentified victims were killed in the fiery wreck.
Santiago reports tentative death lists exceed 100 as a severe earthquake hits southern Chile. Hospitals burn or were hit, a mining camp flood collapses a reservoir torrent, martial law is proclaimed, and relief trains and supplies begin reaching stricken zones including Talca and Constitucion.
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