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VOL. XVII. No. 132.
id Press Day and Night Leased Wire.
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AMARILLO, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1926.
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TWELVE PAGES
PRICE FIVE CENT
VEIL DECLARED RECORD PRODUCE!
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AMARILLO STUDENT FLIER IS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH AT KELLY FIELD
P. B. FUQUA IS
FATALLY HURT
7 AT SAN ANTONIO
BURBANK’S MANTLE FALLS TO YOUTH
* * *
* * *
“I have chosen this lad to carry on my work,” plant wizard tells his
wife. “He is a genius andloves flowers and he will give many useful
plants to the world.”
YOUTH WAS ATTEMPTING TO
■ LAND PLANE AT MARK WHEN
: TAIL SPIN RESULTS.
BODY ARRIVES SUNDAY
Funeral Arrangements to Be An-
i nounced When Relatives Heard .
From: Well Known Here.
(By The Associated Press)
SAN ANTONIO, April 16.——Orash-
; ing several hundred feet while grace
I thing landing his airplane for a
mark this morning. Second Lleuten-
ant P. D. Fuqua, a student to the
1 advanced flytag school at Kellyfteld,
I received injuries which resulted in
. his death.
1 The accident occurred, as M
o’clock, six miles northwest from the
center of the city. The plane landed
in a mesquite thicket, and
BANTA ROSA, Calif., April 16.—A#
twenty-one-year-old youth, chosen by
the great “plant wizard" himself from
among thousands who sought the hon-
or, will “carry on" for Luther Bur-
bank
. The hundreds of new plants Burbank
had planned, the scores of new flow-
ers he was developing when illness
and death overtook him, and even Ms
dream of a human race made perfect
through the-same careful selection and
nursing by. which be developed his
creations—all these are now promised
to the world by William H. Fender-
son, whom Burbank himself chose to
carry on his work when he had gone.
"It was Henderson who was chos-
on by Mr. Burbank to carry on his
work,”, explains tbs plant wizard's
widow.
“He is the only one with whom Mr.
Burirank entrusted the details of his
work, his secrets, his hopes, his
dreams.
b
"During Mr. Burbank’s long life,
— _ — ._______, ___thousands of men and women came
Fuqua lay among the debris for an to him asking only for permission to
Less amath %* ^ %===a L- m—* -work with him. From all of them Mr.
Burbank selected Mr. Henderson, the
! hour until be was found by Edward
1 Garagnon, who had seen him fall.
, Garagnon, a-delivery - man, took
* the filer to hie store and an army
1 ambulance look him to Kelly fleW
J hospital for first aid. Later he was
1 taken to bear hospital at Fort Sam
I Houston, where he died shortly af-
ter moon.
Fuqua’s mother, Mrs. W. A. Stewart,
• lives in Amarillo.
Fuqua was a West Point graduate.
Garagnon and several other persons
who saw the plane crash said it went
into a tall spin at about 500 feet, which
was too low a height for the ship to be
, righted. An inquiry board was appoint-
ed at Kelly field to investigate the mis- ,
to me was able to walk about to
foot with the help of Garagnon, and then
he collapsed. He was cut about the face
and chin and his chest was crushed. His
hands were injured and he evidently
was injured internally.
... body of Lieutenant Fuqua to ...
--pected to arrive in Amarillo Sunday,
funeral announcements to be made fol-
lowing the receipt of messages from a
number of out-of-town relatives, it was
stated last night at the home of the
Olar’s mother, Mrs. W. A. Stewart, 1208
Tyler strset. Amarillo.
Besides his mother, Lieutenant Fuqua
is survived by two brothers. Jack and
Fred Fuqua, and a atster. Mary Lee of
Amarillo.
Lieutenant Fuqua last visited at home
In Amarillo Christmas, when he short-
ened his leave of absence in order, to
- LY * longer visit to this city this sum-
He was born In Amarillo, the family
residing In Hertford for several years,
and moving bock in 1919. From the
public school at Hereford he entered-the
New Mexico Military Insitute at Ros.
well, which he attended in the years of
1918 and Die. From that institution he
was appointed to West Point by Con-
greasman Marvin Jones in 1921. After
graduating from that institution he was
instructor last summer la a riding camp
for girts in Vermont. ’
He had just graduated from Brooks
field, going to San Antonio about two
weeks ago.
At West Point he wae captain of the
polo team, a boxer of note, and played
on the football team of that institution
and at Roswell.
Fort Worth Child Run Down.
FORT WORTH, April 16.—Avery Hig-
gins, A was ran over and fatally in-
Jured here this morning by an automo-
bile driven by Miso Lucille Boswell. He
died in an ambulance on the way to e
hospital. The child had found some
small change in a dresser at hie home
and was on his way to a store to buy
candy when he was struck.
Youth Gets 40 Years
HOUSTON, April 16—md Crowder,
self confessed youthful tank bandit,
today was sentenced to eg years in the
penitentiary after pleading guilty to
the daylight robbery of the Citizens
S' State Bank here: March 18. 3
boy who came to him four years ago.
“For three years the lad worked un-
noticed. Perhaps, he thought Mr. Bur-
bank paid no attention to him; per- 44
haps he thought hie hard work, bit
love of flowers, was unnotiead. But
Mr. Burbank was watching him and
one year ago be took the young man
Into his confidence, into his heart, and
permitted him to work by his side
in the gardens.
“‘Watch that young man—he is a
genius,’ Mr. Burbank often told me.
‘It is he whom I have chosen to car-
ry on the work’."
While the master lay inside his
ome-eed and honored, mmons
a youth of twenty-one, was working
busily in the garden outside. The
flowers the two had planted together
were blossoming. The flowers must be
cared for if Burbank’s latest erea-
tions are to be given to the world.
Like Burbank, Henderson is gentle,
modest, retiring, almost shy, unlike
him he is a giant, six feet tall and
with hard muscles. •
"I shall do my best,’ he said, as
he stopped over one of the master’s
latest ereations—the Tritoma ‘tower of
gold."
“I wish I could sit beside him now.
but that la impossible. The flowers he
planted must bs cared for."
The youth, like Burbank, has al-
NEA
Master and pupli—will Burbank's genius Inspire his protego on to genius,
too? William H. Henderson, youth of twenty-one, whom Burbank selected as his
successor, is shown working in the experimental gardens. Impression of Bur-
bank, the master, is insert.
ways loved flowers. While attending
high school in Fresno, California, he
won several prizes for his beautiful
blossoms—cultivated in his spare time
in the back yard.
When he was graduated he went
immediatey to Santa Rosa and by his
Demand For Removal of
General Andrews Being
Considered by League
wasnikeron. Aprils—ant.
■ ffaleon longwe leaders are consider-
ing whether they should demand re-
moval from office of Assistant See-
retary Andrews of the Treasury ang
District Attorney Buckner of New
York City because of their testi-
mony before the senate prohibition
committee.
ONE DEAD, 2 HURT
IN TRAIN
MISSOURI PACIFIC! FAST PASSEN.
Tits DAY IN WASHINGTON.
INDIANS ON DRUNKEN
RAMPAGE ARE QUELLED
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■I (By The Associated Press)
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., April 16.-
Indians on ths Klamath reservation who
have been on a drunken rampage, were
placed within the law of arrest agate
tonight. The United States attorney at
Portland, Ore., sent word to the United
States commissioner here to order the
arrest of all Indiana who have been de-
President Coolidge recovered from
his illness.
Preparation’ of a new British liquor
treaty was announced by the state
department.
Secretary Wilbur asked congress
for $19,177,500 for naval bass con-
struction and improvement......
The drys opened their right against
modification of prohibition with an
array of witnesses at the senate
hearing.
Amistont Secretary Andrews
Newer supply sources with the aid of
an additional $3,000,000,
tying civil authorities on the reserva-
tion. The order charges the Indian
service with the duty of arresting and
haling offenders before the commis-
stoner.
The new order is a compromise, to
appease citizens who appealed to Wash.
Ington against a recent decision ofa
federal judge at Portland, which held
that Indians are wards of tbs federal
government and are immune from ar-
rest, under treaty provisions.
GER TRAIN TURNS OVER IN
■ ARKANSAS
LITTLE ROCK, ark, April 11-One
trainman was killed, the fireman, a bag-
gage man and one passenger injured
when an engine and three cars of fast
passenger train No. S on the Missouri
Pacific railway were overturned five
miles south of Arkadelphia today, ac-
cording to a report received at the cf-
rice of the dispatcher here.
W. J. Hobbs of North Little Rock,
engineer, and Albert H. Ward, of Bor-
ing Cross, fireman, were reported buried
In the wreckage. ~
The name of the baggageman was given
as McMullen and the injured passenger
Cox. The latter, a signal man, was on
the train as a passenger. The accident
occurred at Curtis, a hamlet five miles
south of Arkadelphia. 7
MAN HURT IN CAR CRASH.
CHICAGO, April 16,—William Rock,
well, 50, believed to be from Schoolcrest,
Michigan was fatally injured when
struck by * street ear last night. In a
note book, scrawled la pencil, was a
limerick recounting the story of a “Jay
walker” who was knocked down by a
street car while crossing a street.
The house agriculture committee
trusted Chairman Haugen to
# • an reftef MM Minste
Aged Trails Head Dies.
KANSAS CITY, April 16.—Judge 3
M. Lowe, 82, president of the National
Old Trails Road association, died at his
home here today.
Judge Lowe, a pioneer in highway
building, was known all over the coun-
try for his activity for good roads. He
served in the Confederate army.
Wyoming Man’s
Babies Are III;
> Being Sought
.........Lb — -
Hanson Post of the American Le-
gion to seeking Harold Findholt of
Cheyenne, Wyoming, believed to be
working to the Panhandle oil field.
Word has been received by the
Amarillo Legion post that Findhoit’s
two babies as Cheyenne are serious-
ly ill and that his wife has been un-
able to locate him.
If the Legion can be of any assist-
ance to him they ask he get in touch
with the local officials.
GOVERNOR URGED
TO CALL SPECIAL
ROAD DOND TERM
TEXAS OFFICIALS VOTE TO PRE-
SENT MEMORIAL REQUESTING
OFFICIAL CALL.
STATE LOSING DALY
Validation Session at Earliest Possible
Moment Is Urged at Special Meet-
lag at Fort Worth.
ay The Associated Press) /
FORT WORTH. April 10.—After
looking the situation squarely in
the face, representatives of Texas
city, county and State officials at a
special meeting here today voted to
present a memorial to Governor
Miriam A. Ferguson requesting her
to call a special road bond validation
messoin of the legislature at the ear-
Meet possible moment.
Convinced that the state is losing
almost daily on bond issues a sum
equal to the $30,000 it would cost to
hold the special session, state sen-
ators and representatives agreed to
a truce with Governor Ferguson aad
to go into such a session for the sole
purpose of enacting the required
legislation for validation of the
beads.
Afternoon talks were brief and to
the point; that they carried weight
seemed evident. Alden H. Little, St.
Louis, who came here to represent
the American Investment Bankers’
association, told of the enlistment
by No association of the best legal
ability to ths country in an effort
to straighten out the tangle which
has cast a shadow over all Texas
bonds, whether involved in the
Archer county decision or not.
Producer Makes
225 Barrels Hot
Badger Blows
Announcement That Golding Phillips Well Standing 1,200 Feet in
0,1 Follows Closely Upon Heels of Two Big Producers: Badger
and Golding-Phillips Extend Wildest Territory.
€ The banner well of the Panhandle oil field in production and
This to the record established yesterday and last night when
the Lennix, the Badger and the Golding-Phillips came popping in
one right on the heels of the other. * -*= "
It is to the Lennix-Pattison No. 1, Smith that the honor goes
for^being the largest producer to date yet uncovered in the local
While the eyes of the local oil fra-w
ternity were fastened on this gusher,
pop gem the Badger to blow Itself in
over four miles east of the proven field,
and according to Bam Seay with a
mighty roar of gaa apray the golden
fluid over the top of the derrick and the
spectators.
Not to be outdone by its larger
brethren, the Golding-Phillips far over
to the northwest and across the river,
groaned a time or two and announces
it is standing 1,200 feet in oll.
Otherwise it was a quiet day in the
Panhandle oll field. The Lennix, See-
tion 11, Block Y, Hutchinson county,
was the first to sound off. Shot last
night with IM quarts of nitro glycerin
It bridged at 1,580 feet, not to be un-
covered until I o'clock this morning.
Then It started to saying “good day."
According to Mrs. Fern Curtis, who pro-
moled the well, it flowed 270 barrels
in the first M minutes. According to
ADJOURNMENT IT
SOLONS OPPOSED
MINNESOTA REPUBLICANS TO
URGE SESSION UNTIL FARM
RELIEH GIVEN,
WASHINGTON, April 16.—Notice
from Minnesota Republicans In the
house that they would oppose adjourn,
ment of congress until farm relief
legislation was enacted brought from
Representative Tilson. The Itepublic-
an loader, a response to day that bn
expected a bill reported by next Wed-
needay and brought up In the house '
the latter part of the week.
Meanwhile, the agriculture commit-
tee, displaying symptoms of swerving
from Secretary Jardine’s plan, em-
bodied in the Tincher bill, instructed
A. R. Loss, an engineer in charge of
the United States bureau of public
roads, stated that ths situation has
caused curtailment by fifty per cent of
road building activities on the Texas ttot well.
roads, with further reductions in view
sincerity, won for himself a position
as gardner for Burbank.
‘‘I came because I knew Mr. Bur-
bank was the greatest living authori-
ty on plants and flowers. I love flowers
and like Mr. Burbank I want to spend
the root of say life with them.”
AMERICAN LEGION
MEETS IN AMARILLO
SEPTEMBER 8 AND 9
, .
AUSTIN, April 16—The 1926 American
Legion convention of the Texas depart-
ment will be held at Amarillo, Septem-
ber 8-10, S. M. Hankins, state adjutant,
announced today. Dates for the con-
vention were selected early In the week
at a San Antonio meeting of a sub-
committee of the executive committee.
“All indications are that the Ams-
rilio convention will far surpass all pre-
vious ones in attendance and in spirit,”
Harkins said.
scout reports later in the day it had pro-
duced 1,750 barrels in the first six hours.
When Mrs. Curtis returned from the----~ — ——. —, -------
field last night she stated ths well was | Chairman Haugen to draft a meas-
jure. This procedure was adopted with-
out a dissenting vote, but did not
commit members to any-form of lexis,
lation.
He is inclined, however, to look with
fsvor on the principle ct the Tincher
Nil of not engaging the government
in the buying or selling of farm pros
ducts. He does not regard the revolve
ing fund proposal of Secretary Jar-
dine, provided for in the Tincher mease ,
ure, as a government subsidy any
more than loans extended through the
war finance corporation, and he be-
lieven that it would provide a credit
for farmers mors direct and eatise
factory than that of the intermediate
banks which, ha believes, are not fune.
tioning, as well as had been expected.
At the meeting of the house agri-
culture committee. Chairman Haugen
indicated that in working out a Nil bo
would use the corn belt measure as
a basis, modifying it in important par-
ticulars so that it would be similar to
ths M. Nary Haugen Nil which failed
to receive congressional approval two
years ago. .
making 225 barrels per hour.
Big Tanks Filled.
"She stated three one-thousand barrel
tanks had been ruled and a 55,900-bar-
rel tank was being rushed to comple-
tion by midnight.
The well is down 3,000 feet and was
drilled as an offset of the Dixon Creek
No. 2. being MS feet to the south of
Badger Blows In.
The Badger well, located on the Lowis
unless immediate action is taken. The The Badger well, located on the Lowis
reduction naturally cuts Off a large! lease, Section 8, Block 23, Hutchinson
county, was ths next to attract the eyes
of oll spectators. It blew itself in accord.
Ing to Horn Seay yesterday afternoon at
5 o’clock for an unestimated flow.
When the well New in five inch eas-
ing was being set, work having been
stopped for five days after a depth of
2,903 feet had been reached.
He stated the tanks were being rush,
ed to completion and are expected to be
ready sometime this morning. This well
as a producer extends the proven field
four and one-half miles to ths east. RF
stock is owned by Amarillo citizens and
is the first well to be drilled in the 1,400
acres owned by that company.
Golding-Phillips
Not to be outdone the Golding -Phil-
lips No. 1. Hodges, way over across the
river gave a groan and announced that
It was standing 1.200 feet in oil. This
well is located in Section 1-A. Block
M-26 and as a producer would move the
field to the northwest and across ths
amount of federal aid, he said.
State Senator Edgar K. Witt of Waco,
declaring that the situation requires a
special session, evinced entire willing-
ness to ‘‘leave the other governmental
troubles for later consideration,” In the
event a special session is called.
The committee named to draw the
memorial to Governor Ferguson consists
of Clifford B. Jones, Spur; Tucker
Royall, Palestine; S. E. Wellmeyer.
Houston; J. A. Kemp, Wichita Falls;
Leonard Tillotson, Beaty. The general
committee appointed to take over the
situation and call whatever meetings
are required is male up as follows:
Tillotson, chairman; Mayor Holcomb,
Houston; Mayor H. C. Meacham, Fort
Worth; C. Y. Welch, Quanah; J. D.
Rector, Austin; Homer D. Wade, Fort
Worth; R. J. Potts, Waco; Jesse Wright.
Corpus Christi; J. J. Collins, Dallas; C.
C. Walsh, Dallas; Kemp; Judge August
McClosky, Ban Antonio! Oscar C. Dan-
cy, Brownsville; Gillis A. Johnson, Fort
Worth.
(By The Associated Press)
AUSTIN, April 16.—Governor Miriam
A. Ferguson reiterated today that no
special session of the legislature will be
called at this time (seeking the valida-
tion of the district road bonds. She said
Coolidge Recovers.
WASHINGTON, April It.—President
Coolldge, who stayed in hie room port
of yesterday because of a slight illness, _______.___
was up and about the executive offices at Fort Worth had been received but is
as usual today, yet to be considered. __:,
the bill proposed by interested parties
yet to be considered.
Drys Urge More Teeth
in Celebrated Volstead
Act at Senate Hearing
WASHINGTON, April 16.-
square ceal for prohibition was
urged today before the senate
hearing committee by church
leaders of ranny denominations, lay
men and the anti-saloon league.
Opening the counter-offensive of
the drys eguinst the vets, wit;
ness after witness insisted that
congress reject all proposals -or
modification of the Volsteal Act
and adopt in their place measures
putting more tctfh into that ecie
bratea low
"The best way to swer the
challenge that the law cannot be
enforce! 14 for congress to pro-
vide the leral machinery to stop
lawlempess," su’d a stat ment M»
ed with the cemmitte be Warke
B. Wheeler, r« neral counsel of the
anti-saloon engue.
“Give sobriety an equal chance
with drunkenness,” was the pOe
of Dr. S. Tarkes Cadman of New
York, president of the federal conn,
set of churches delivered by Dr.
Charles B. MacFarland, of New
York, secretary of the council.
— ‘The roll of the hour is for
such legal enforcement as will
give the policy of prohibition an
adequate opportunity to demon-
strate its full veins to the nation
and to the world,’’ sold a state-
ment from the administrative
committee of the federal council.
"The prohibition law la being
better and better enforced and It
should Le given a chance for at
least a generation,” declared Bish-
op Janies Henry Darlington of the
Episcopal church, who has head-
quarters at Harrisburg, Pa.
Dr. Charles H. Pennoyer, die
rector general of the society wel-
fare department of the Universalist
- church, declared that modification
of the dry laws now would prove
nothing: that they should be give
on an opportunity to operate.
Similar declarations were made
(CONTINUED ON PAGE BIGHT)
river,
it is down 2.734 feet.
Issuing a little “‘tweet, tweet" small In
comparison but all Ite own, the Spring
Creek stepped into the limelight to say
that It had a showing of oil at 2,C91,
and is exported to be brought fa deeper.
But that one is betas watched for an-
on hntx well which Hi edfmonsnmg
ths record of the field has ss the next
approach ts its feat the Dixon Creek,
No 2, which In 24 hours produced 2,200
barrels.
This well has been drilled on the (20
acres owned by Mrs. F. A. Dimick, Sec-
tion 11. Block T. and the company is
capitalized st $60,000. Two weeks ago
200 shares were sold at five for one but
yesterday none was to be had. Stock,
holders of the company are:
W. E. Lennix, J. 1. Pattison, Tulsa;
Frank Storm and Mrs. Fern Curtis.
Amarillo.
CHRorEACTOKS LOSE OUT..
NEW ORLEANS, April 10-Chiro-
practors of Texas lost their appeal in
the U S. circuit court of appeals today
when a decision was rendered denying
an injunction sought against Dan
Moody, attorney general and other Tex-
as authorities. The Texas chiropractors
asked for an Injunction to prevent the
attorney general and his assistants from
interfering with them by causing their
arrest.
Two DIE ON GALLOWS
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, April 16—The gallows to-
day claimed Haymond Costello, and
Charter Hobbs, negro, convicted of
murdering women. A crowd of approx-
imately 500 persons saw the traps
sprung at 9.21 o’clock this morning and
heard the doctors pronounce death at
9:28 o’clock.
Winn Granted Stay
CHICAGO, April 16.—John Walton
Winn, convicted with "Grandma" Nus-
baum, of the murder of Albert Nus-
baum, was granted a Mny of execution
today until June 11.
Martin Gets Cut
Glass Fly Swatter
On Good Dog Yarn
R. E. Marita of Memphis wrote
his brother, H. D. Martin, of Ama-
rillo. recently that he would arrive
in Amarillo by automobile on a cere
tain day.
The letter was read aloud In the
presence of Tom Mix, H. D. Mar-
tin’s dog. The recent snow forced
the traveler to change from his car
to the train. He did not notify No
Amarillo brother, but the dog was at
the train to meet him.
Now figure that out.
Upon his arrival the visitor seeing
and recognizing the dog, waited
around the depot for his brother un-
til finally thing he telephoned the
house telling Lis relatives of his ar- —t
rival. -1%.
Tom Mix is a big "shepherd" dog.
but not of boasted or posted lineage.
Believers in mental telepathy are
advancing the theory that the dog
heard the letter read and Mr. Martin
of Memphis had with him his son.
R. E., Jr., who was-longing to see -
the dog, and the two get tuned in on
each other.
The Weather
Forecast Till 7.0b P. M. Saturday
For Amarillo and vicinity: Saturday tain
Por West Texas: Saturday fair. . •
For Hastern. New Mexico: Fair Saturday.
Weather Conditions. ____
No disturbance of importance covers
country this morning. The pressure is
ately low over eastern districts and me
ly high over southern Teas
over the south Atlantic
weather has tete goner
Ths temperatures are S9
over porthern and wesle
Temperature by hours
T a. m.........1
B. a. M.-ee.....ee
D a m........—••5
10 a. m...........4.04
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Highest ted
Highest tod
T2: low
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