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VOL. XX. No. 74.—-Associated Press Day and Night Leased Wire.
AMARILLO. TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1MB.
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FE FREIGHT SERVICE TO ALL SOUTH PLAINS
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BOTH HOUSES VOTE INVESTIGATION HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
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FOUR CHARGES Captain Found Sinking Ship;
COLORADO MAN
Chief Officer Saved Its Men
LISTED AGAINST
FINALLY YIELDS
CONTROLBOARD
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Jacob Tolk, 24, carpenter on the new Santa Fe office
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JOBBERS ARE PLEASED
THIRD PROBE OF YEAR
LEFT EXPLANATIONS
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Frank McClain, W. K. MeCaskiil, C.
W. Cartar, Lee Brown, Wm. Bartlett,
SEATTLE GIRL WHO
MARRIED MAHARAJA AMARILLO STOP
REPORTS DAUGHTER
tabi*. Wednesday, January 30; W.
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AIMEE STATES TEXAS INQUIRY
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JUDGE’S CHECK ONPATRONAGE
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TRUCK DRIVER IS
fthe southwest line byway at New Ross Johnson, nogto. lien serlowly -
WEATHER
CAPTOR OF BANDITS
WITH $19,
inquiry into the Texas bituation to-
DUH IN EASTLAND
of the naw line wore not made pub-
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committee; Lloyd Hill at Fort Worth.
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TEXAS-PACIFIC WILL
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Drunk in Bath
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branch lines pfthb Banta Fa almost
every town an the South Plains new
hoc less than overnight service on
mail, freight and express from Am-
INDICATED CITY TO BE
TRANSFER POINT
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i building, Ninth avenue and Polk street, sustained fatal in-
WILL ASSIST IN DEVELOP- juries at 4:80 o'clock yesterday afternoon when he fell a
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7 a. m..,
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mesa at 10:10 a. m.
The Seagraves band train will leave
Lubbock at till a. m., arriving at
Seagraves at 11:15 a. m.
The Crosbytown band train will
leave Lubbock at 1:10 a. m., arriving
nt Bledsoe at 11:15 a. m.
volop Amarillo’s trade area.
The now achedulea follow:
The Floydada band train will leave
Plainview nt 6:30 a, m. arriving at
Floydada at 7:45 a. m.
TEXAS ENGINEER STATES AN
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MENT OF AMARILLO
TRADE AREA
RELATIVES KNEW OF CASE BUT
DID NOT THINK I IE WAS
SERIOUS
morrow at a hearing to which three '
Texanw have been subpoenned.
Those called are Leonard Withing- '
TAKES OWN LIFE WITH SANK
PISTOL; BOTH SHOT
IN HEAD
TWENTY-TWO OFFENSES ARE
REVEALED FOR MAIN
DIVISION
tors could operate.
This was the first fatal aceident
during the construction of the Sant*
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This, conniatedi o by request.
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United Statea senatot from Texas.
Sho Is pictured above after her re-
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ing aince their honeymoon.
Over the week-end news of the ar-
rival of the prineeas in the Indian-1
American household was confined te'
a few friends of the family, but to-
the jurist and eoneluded her ntate-
meat by saying:
“I told Mrs. Kennedy (the evanee:
list's mother) that I thought it would
was injured. The seeond dieappeared
but wee trailed aeross a field and
found under a lumber pile a short
time later.
All the money wee recovered.
colliding with fits natkeA cers and
crashing into another hacking out of
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wharnthamtorveonWthonan.nleEndaw.WESTERN AIR EXPRESS HAS
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day the birth was registered at the
rity hall of St. Germain. Within a (Special to The News.
BLOOD pools ONLY
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LOS ANGELES. Jan. 28-3The "gift"
of a $2,500 check to Superior Judge
Carlos S. Hardy was a "levo offer-
ing,” Aimee Semple McPherson told
an investigating committee of the
| FLINT, Mich, Jan. 28—The pren-i
! ones of mind of R. F. Kritlow, a truck ,
driver, today brought about the eap-
1 tore of two bandits who robbed the ।
State bank at Mt. Morris, wear here. |
of (ISAM.
ing la the afternoon.
Hao Bed Ball Service
For some months the Renta Fe has
been operating a red-ball freight out
of Amarillo each night at 9:30 o’eloek
making it possible to deliver freight
received before 4 o'clock la the after-
shots and two falling forms wee re-
vorted to authorities here M having
occurred shortly before daybreak
Sunday morning. Upon investigation
only five pools of blood eould he
found. The grand jury la Investiga-
ting today. --
A Mexican dance had been in pro-
gross all Saturday night near the
scene of the alleged goa bottle and
it was surmined by officer that the
partieipanta, wounded, If not deed.
• ore emrrled away by friends.
V. Lowrey, swindling, today, t a. m.;
M. A. Crum, Forest Belin. Bill Flem-
ester, swindling. Vebruary 11; Lee
Miller, perjury, February 4 (through
an error this charge appeared in
The News-Globe Sunday as forgery);
Trey Horton, murder, not able to
appear.
Woman in Lquor Charge.
Mrs. Barbre Savill and Billie Guest,
(B, The Amsoclimted Press.,
CURTISS FIELD. M. Y, Jan. 28.-
Miss Elinore Smith. 11, announced
today that she planned W take off at
dawn tomorrow In a biplane to at-
tempt A MW "ndurenee record Tor
taro all South Plains branch line
trains will leave the main line junc-
tion early in the morning’
Amarillo jobbers and manufactur-
ers. banks and business houses as- I
{elates of the dead man. In them be
assumed guilt for murdering his wife
GIRL, 17, PLANS
DAWN TAKEOFF FOR
Mezico and Texas aa the meat feani- , wounded at the Northwest Teana Ma*
ble for all-weather flying. Service pital, as the result of on affray with
on the new eross-country line will | the sheriff of Armstrong county yea-
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jail in Denver, feeing other chores;
Fred Downs, liquor, still at large
after forfeiture of bond; E. T.
Cowan, theft. stil at large after.
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. EABTLAND. Tea, Jan. 28,— A due!
in the moonlight with five pistol
DALLAS. Ten, Jan. 28-A man
who had been drunk in a down-
town turkish bath for twelve days
was sent to a hospital here Sun-
day for a rest after having been
given first aid by doetors.
TM man had gene to the bath
parlor twelve days before and olaee
that time had hept himself well
suppiled with liquor.
When found be was at the point
of exhaustion and, doctors' Mid,
in need of root. Attendants at the
bath parlor said the man's weight
had fallen off more then a pound
each dny.
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terday afternoon.
The negro. It is alleged, was >10 eed
under arrest by the sheriff ne4r
Claude, and while the handcuffs were
being placed on bins he drew away
end made an attempt to grab the re-
volver from the sheriff. The gun a
44 calibre special, waa discharped
and the cartridge penetrated the left
side of the negro passing through
his body end coming out on the right
side.
Johnson has a slight chance for re
cevory.
KANSAS CITY BLIND MAM _____
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Heretofore these trains have been bond forfeited,
operated from the terminal iato tbs •—*—
mainline junction point and return-
and found later that she was Mary (
u, Elizabeth Culberson, M, daughter of
in the late Charles A. Culberson, former
state legislature today.
The evangelist said the ebock was
issued because at radio talks, church -— -----
work and financial advice given by tee, secretary of the Republican state
20-HOUR SANTA >
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Weather Cenditiene
A high aswisrs urea of wreat meeni-
tude to cenirel ever nasthirn Montana and
it attended he antbar cola wenther ever
- the northern Recky masumta rerion ana
northarn Piaima atates this moraine. Lew
pemeura arena are central ever eouth-
ana lira Colorade nod almo Nevada.
TBUN-Rines !:U| eate 6az.
Temperature by hauva el Amarillo »e-
Tolk. All live in Amarillo.
Funeral rites, conducted by ths
Finally, as the beam swung out eo ,
far he lost his balance, he made a
final effort to pull it bach to him. j
| then went head-first from the ledge i
on which he had been standing.
Falls Through Seaffola
At the third floor a light material
seaftold had been erected. The fall-
ing man struek the acaftold, broke
through, and felt the lent IS feet to |
the court formed by the roof above '
the second story. Within five min-
utes a Blackburn-Boswell ambulance ,
• was at the scene and the broken body
of the young workman wss taken to
<By United Preset
BOULDER, Cole, Jan. 28-Tield-
ing to his wife's plsos that be Mil l
her, J. K. Kirkbrjde, 44, former dis-
trict attorney, late today fired a buU I
1st through her left ear and then
shot himself through the right tem-
ple.
Their bodies were found side by
side In a bed room of their home {
by two sistera of Kirkbride and his
(ormer secretary. Also found were
six letters in which Kirkbride detail-
, ed his wifs's fears that she was going
insane, and her appeais to him that *
■ he bill her.
Mr, O. M. Gilber, wife of a promi-
| neat Boulder physician. Bad Brs.
> Mary Boyd, both sisters of Kirkbride.
I confirmed the gruesome eontenta of
the letters, saying that they knew
Kirkbride snd his wife often dis-
cussed murder and auicide. He even
had discussed the subject with them.
they recalled. They little dreamed
he actunily would commit the deed,
even though he considered it a merei-
fwl killing, they said.
The letters were addressed to the
sherift, the coroner, and legal aeso*
arino. । !
The new echedule went into the
effect Sunday morning. In the fu-!
and J. L. Vaughn, Lubbock, post-
master.
i Meanwhile the committee prepared
today to have its life extended be-
yond the end of this session, if neces-
nary, Chairman Moses of the poat-
office committee, submitting a reso-
lutiea ashing such nuthority.
However, Benator Brookhart, Be-
publican, lews, chairman of the pat-
ronage committee, later- explained
that title merely wee a precautionary
move and that he hoped to sabmit a
A special venire of IM men will
be summoned for the trial of Hoary
Long, charged with eriminal assault
against a 14-year-old girl, oa Feb-
ruary 21, it wan diselosed yester-
day afterngon when the sass was set
by Judge Henry S. Bishop. 4
— Attorneys for the defendant stated
that a large venire wodd be needed
from which to select a jury, du* to
the newspaper publicity given attend.
' ing eireumstances in whieh Leng was
first charged by complaint with the
murder of the girl's mother, Mrs.
Pearl Hudson, who died December 1*.
The heavy docket of criminal cases
wea called by Judge Bishop, begin-
. ning at 1:30 o'clock yesterday after-
neon. The court will begin work
distance of nearly 120 feet from the top floor to the court
on top of the second story of the structure. He died on
the operating table at a local hospital a few minutes later.
Several workmen and a number of passersby wit*
nessed the accident.
Tolk was said to have been working on the twelfth
floor of the building. He was standing on the outer edge
of the wall, attempting to guide into place a steel beam
NEW SCHEDULE Young Worker Dives Z2|wMRid« Ends
ANNOUNCEDFOR Stories To Death on In Police Patrol
BRANCH LINESNeu>SantaFeBuilding
Rev. L. N. Stuckey, will be held nt 4 .------- — . - ------- gce ,
•'clock from th* Polk Street Method- • driveway, necording to police, who
1st church. Pull bourses will inelude .....*u- ..............
Inside the front door of th* Kirk-
bride home wss • note saying "do
not go upstairs. Call Coroner Howe"
It waa found by the sisters and
Charles Snively, Kirkbride’s seere-
tary while he was district attorney.
Recently Kirkbride failed to be r-
appointed. His wife had submitted
to several examinations at th* Dub.
ver psychopathic hospital. Until very
recently she worked in the office of
th* county clerk.
between California and the East,, via
Dallas, will be tnaugurate4 February
4, by the Tosas and Parifte railway,
Freak Jensen, general passenger
ngent forth* rand anneuneed today. *m eonditien
Mera is th* complete list of
town* sn the South Plains to
which th* Santa F* now offers
overnight service on mail, freight
and express from Amarillo:
Canyon, Happy, Tulia, Finney,,
Kress, Plainview, Ferguson, Halo
maenghgamrytak Jas,,
Posey, Slaton, Houthland, Post,
Justicebure Fullerviile, Aiken,
Lockney, Wilson, Tahoka, O’Bon-
noli, Lamesa, Shallow Water, Lit-
tlefield, Amherst, Sudan, Anton,
Muleshoe, Floydada, Ropes, Mea-
dow, Brownfield, Wellman. Sea-
graves, Smyer, Levelland, White-
face, Lehman, Bledsoe, Idalou,
Lorenzo, Ralls, Crosbyton.
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liquor, February It; M. 8. Boyer,
liquor, two eases, February 4; Earl
-Overtom, keeping a gaming table.
Wedneuday, January M; O. N. Smith,
, driving while intoxicated, February
11; V. D. Booman, driving while in-
this morning In the case of W. V,
Lowrey, charged with swindling.
Three or four eases have booh set
for Wednesday.
/ Bond Forteitures Today.
sort that the new arrangement will; Judge Bishop nnnouneed yenterday
prove of immense benefit and is one that he would call the scire facias
of the most important things that i docket nt p o’eloek this morning. nt
has happened in the campaign to de-|which time he will pass finally, on
the forfeiture at a dozen er more
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city hall of St. Germain. Within a speciai to jus wows.
za-msaszuse-e-s-
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for jury service; W. B. Tarwatet,
swindling, Febrvary lit Justin Crane,
two cases of faloo entry and one of
BOULDER LAWYER KILLS WIFE WHO FEARED INSANITY
Fa building. J. A. Brannan, in charge I
of eonstraetion, declared it was one
of the first in his company for a I
number at yours.
A singls man, Jacob Tolk wan a son
of the late Nicholas Tolk, prominent
Amarillo contractor who was killed
in an automobile accident between '
this city and Canyon on the night
of September 4, 1025. He lived at I
the family home, 2017 Tayler street.
Surviving him are his mother, Mrs., .........
N. Tolk, three brothers, John, Rsy She d. had • highballe.she onid
and Cornelius Tolk, and two sisters. Then she net out for a bit of auto-
Mrs. Wolter Elder and Miss Elizabeth motive whoopee through the streets
of Washinuton. ----""
ENDURANCE RECORD
be best to give Judge Hardy A love
offering." She denied that the eheek
was given for “legl" advice, the eon-
troversial point on which the com-
mittee has been charged with dez
termining whether or not the jurist
A M subject to impenchment proceed.
1.11:38 Ings for aceeptance at an alleged
......M -foe” while in office
The sewion developed into a series
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H. A. Venable. Burial will be
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with a crew of right volunteers, effected the thrilling night rescue. Mrs.
Anne Manning of New York, mother at the chief officer, is shown nt tho
right, so she read a cable telling of her son’s heroism. Below io on nrtist’s
coneoption at the econo an, one by one, the exhausted crew at the Florida
hauled themselves along a rope to the safety of the lifeboat.
. AA- probably begin withn M days. Presi-
llJUT dent Henshue declared.
Although definite operating plans
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received a name. Those in elose ; Amarillo, Toxas, will be the next acAnA nanaw nuun-
touch with the Maharaja, who >eid unit of a nationwide network of Uno* NFTRNN RAIIIY KHII
that th* baby would be named in | operated by the Western Air Ex- ILUIV DRULI VIIVI
accordance with Indian custom only , press, Harris M. Manehue, president. ... arpnaw aan aan,
when she is 12 days old 'told directors and stockholders of IN AFFRAY WI I U
Ae soon ae the Maharanee ie able to the company in a special meeting IIV R I I H R I f v I I ll
travel, she probably will go to the this morning. anaAAnAAN ran F** aim
Riviera tar several months, stay. | Engineers of ths line have just , AKMS I KUNj SHEKEk
completed • survey of ths outlre #
proposed route end have nelected t
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brads. Two defaulting jurors face
fines of $10 each on this dochet.
Casos called yenterday were set
for trial as follows:
* Ted Kennedy, attempted bribe.
VORECAST TILL ( ML TUESDAY
FOB AMR1L AND ViINIT-
Tu mBSy perily eloudy snd eolder.
FOB WEST TEXS-Fary eloudy m
uuyetuledTamedey: probabl, mmew north
aad rale muebsme portfon: matt eolder
north vortlom Tuenday and Tueedny mlght;
livesteck warnings Met* portom.
FOB NEW MEXICO—VwettM Tew-
tar, cast portion. -
Haro of the epie rescue at th* thirty-two men of th* freighter Florida,
Capt. Georgs Fried, master at the 8. 8. America, is pictured above with th*
radio compass which ho used la locating the sinking vessel. Following
the direction indicated by the compass, Captain Fried came upon the
Florida IM miles northeast at the position it had given. Under the glare
of the America's searchlight, a lifeboat wm lowerod lato the mountainous
sean. It eras commanded by Chief Officer Harry Manning, center, who.
LOVEOFFERING SETFOR TODAY
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(By The Associated From)
AUSTIN, Jun. Investigation of
the state highway department and the
board of control was voted by both
houses .of the legislature todsy. A
committee* at four from the house
and three from the senate to Inquire
into 22 charges against the highway
department and four against ths con-
trol board will be appointed.
The charges wore preferred by
Representative Elwin Gerron, Waxa-
hachie, in a concurrent resolution.
The house voted it 105 to 24 end the
senate 19 to Co
Thie is the third investigation
suthorized by this session of tho
legislature. A committee already is
Inquiring late administrative acts of
the land office and the governor, at-
torney general's department Md Tex-
as University regents with rbspeet to
b the manner in which the oil and gas
V leases on university lands were ad-
vertised for sale. The awarding of
contracts for free textbooks also is
being looked into.
House Is Locked hl
When the resolution came up in
the house, rules were suspended on
motion at Purl of Dallas to permit
a the immediate dispoMl of “this Im-
" portent matter once and tor all."
Call of the house was ordered until
the vote wm taken, the sergeant nt
arms instructed to lock the doors and
bring in all absentees.
A letter was read from Roy Ten-
nant, member of the board of con-
trol, inviting the investigation, and
Wallace of Teague told the house he
Juel had received a telephone mes-
sage from Gibb Gilehrist, state high-
way engineer, in which he stated he
welcomed the inquiry.
"I cannot only prove the charges
set out in thie resolution, but many
more," Gerron asserted.
Declaring that he meant no re-
flection upon the governor who had
appointed the highwey commission-
ers, ho raid. "I am not one of those
who came down here to vote for
everything the governor stands for.
Potsch of Fredericksburg said he
was In favor of the investigation in
speaking of his motion Inter voted
down, to have the house membership
on the committee composed of the
author of the resolutions and others
who are unfriendly to the highwey
commission.
"I would put members on the com-
mittee whe uro unfriendly to the
highwey department to forestall any
complaints of politicians who are ad-
vocating it that such investigation, if
one is unauthorized, was unfair," he
eaid. "I want a committee whose re-
Bert cannot be questioned by the op-
position. I mean no reflection on the
speaker at the house in proposing
this amendment."
He praised the present commission
as efficient and said the investiga-
tion should bo authorized to exoner-
st* it of the charges mado against it
"Bp Mid dawn tha 01010.”
Gerron asked Potsch if his disap-
pointment in not getting appointed,
m author of the reselution, on the
The Lamesa bond train will leave ___ _____..
Slaton et 1:48 a. m., arriving *tt*- February 11; ' Sam Boswell, sr.,
liquor, February 11| Boy Edsns,
liquor, passed when defense eounsel
announced that defendant wss in
47 TOWNS OFFERED OVER- about which he would have built a wooden framework into
NIGHTMAIL-EXPRESSAND wmnrr-NN"Mehwopounasoneretm; aa
FREIGHT SERVICE MLNIWL |1L 1HII Tolk had leaned periously out from
___ WLIEEAE. UI IvU ,h* building several time., support
IS ASKED FOR
COLD WAVE AGAIN
.ON COAST AIR PREDICTED HERE;
Fari overton, th If P MAY DROP TO 14
Seattle, end th* little Indian prineess KI || | If III R l- .
horn to he r,Saturday nizhtarehotl IIW IL IV lie Vu Once more a eol4 n ia pradieted
doing we Il.Thia.hewswzannouneed A tor Amarillo rad the Panhandle, Loot
today issusd et the < hateau. here, ' . 1 night weather bureau otficiais for-
I east that West Texas would awake
this meaning to fled the temptrature
at least 14 degrees or lower, with the
weather unsettled.
Snow was thought probable elthee
lots last night or early this morning
snd livestock warnings were issued
INSTALL AIR SERVICE
He foDowod in his truck and three - .
bloeka. away forced the robbers' ear (By T, Aanqelateg.Prp
into the ditch. DALLAS, Jen. M—The Transeon-
in the erash one of the robbers tinental Bal l-Air passenger service
KANSAS CITY. Jsn. E"wuuma
Moore, M, blind, was aophyxiated to:
day by fumes from a AM heater and
his wife, alee blind, WM in • dengep
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