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VOL. XVIII. No. 165.—Associated Press Day and Night Leased Wire.
AMARILLO, TEXAS, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1927.
HOME EDITION
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PANHANDLE’S NEW $45,000 BAPTIST CHURCH
AND CHILDREN
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Proceeds of last night'n midnight mat-
turned
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the Mh
delta diutriet, urgent
Pastor
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of Panhandle's Most
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theater*
churchen of the city last night.
Loved Pioneers, Dies
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Uncle Felix Dies
Backwater from streams in northern wus taken from the prisoner.
found in
Several empty bottles
will be driven out
flood waters move into
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ards of the Poik Street Methodist church
KGDR, San An-
Panhandle-Plains of Texas,
weeks of suffering from accident.
end came Sunday afternoon at the fam*
4 By The Awocinted Premi
EDINBURG,
April
•everlnf the right
arrested and
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early todey.
Aeeordtmg «• eye witnesses, Mr.
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Channing Gets
Flood Inquiries
From Physicians
Youth Seriously
Stabbed in Back
At Dalhart Show
LOSES LIFE AS
BOAT CAPSIZES
ARRIVED IN STATES
FROM MEXICO SUNDAY
Brownsville,
Okla., 274.8:
MERCEDES MAN
CRACKS SKULL IN
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warnings were Issued to all others
in the wake of the flood in that area
to flee for their lives.
» ears old next June, and had resided
in thia region for half a century.
AMARILLO RADIO
STATION LISTED
COMPANIONS SWIM TO SAFETY.
WIIFN IMPROVISED CRAFT
and others
Arkansas i
Embankment Rammed
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Wife Slays Woman at Center, Texas,
In Searching for Husband's Letters
military affaire would b* under control
of a committee. General Tong Sun Tse,
whose dismisal the mandate ihvolves,
rebelled and ordered an army of five
eolumns to advance on to Konan along
the Hankow-Peking railway to attack
Marshal Chang Tso-Lin's forees.
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TWO WOMEN ARE
KILLED IN PLANE
CRASH; PILOT HORT
Gee was held in the county jail Sunday night, in connection
with the recent robbery of the First National Bank of Hilda.
New Mexico.
The shooting was done by Patrolman Thomas Hush, who had
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COMPANIONS PLAYING NEAR
SHALLOW WATER
tonio, 239.9; DAH, El Paso, 267.7; WRR,
Dallas, 248.8.
Hammond.
When McGee enne to the door of hl*
‘ear or (
Crosby
'to know him was to love him.
DEPORTED BISHOP
LOS ANGELES PASSES
TALLAHASSEE SUNDAY
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about $100 in cucreney, and 1300 more
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taken into eustody pending the out-
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pouring through the gap in the levee at
Junius plantation, forty miles below here,
as state and federal engineers struggled
| to stop the flow today. The break was
. caused by the ramming of the embank
i ment by the molasses tanker Inspector
late yetserday.
State enigneers said this morning that
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saving the levee.
A barge filled with ntone waa towed
to the acenc early thin morning, but it
could not be brought Into the break be-
earn* the engineers were afraid to move
JOE STANLEY
I to which he was to devote his life. In ।
1887 he returned to Weatherford for •
time, serving as a deputy sheriff. On
March 13. 1887, he married Mlaa Fannie
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the officers th*re,
Franklin's old •
Me(ee‘s rooms, and some personal ef
(By The Associated Prena.)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.. April U. The di-
rigible Los Angeles passed over Talia-
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him uh he attempted to escape from a second-story window of
—U... a young man giving his name an Texran Mc-
back came naar
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A young man
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[ Texran McGee Held in Connection With Robbery at Elida, Neu
MANY WOMEN Mexico; Slama Door in Face of Officers at Verdun
Jesus Henriquez V. Karate of Huejutla,
they thought they still had a chance to
AUTOMOBILE LEAP'
nUtUIHUUILL Lunt • moored opponite the break, which waa
. . . ’ sixty-five feet wide thin morning, and
I Hv Th* A-orinted I’rem
More than *.000 aquare anil** ol
fertile land* In Missinaippi and Ar-
kannas have been laid wante by the
great valley rlood.
At leant 1*0 are known to be dead
in the fied area* In neven staten
and nome official* engaged In relief
work aald the minimum entimate of
the dead in the Missiwnippi della
alonr wan 200.
Twenty-three women and children
marooned in a houne at Winterville,
five mile* north of Greenville, Mins.,
were reported droat ned.
With 15,000 already marooned in
(By Th* Amuoweinted Prema >
VANCOUVEK, Wash., April 24. Two ।
woman passengern were killed and Iha
pilot injured neriously when a eommer-
elal plane crashed on th* railroad track*
near Pearson field late toddy.
The dead: Mia* Harriet yranklin and
Mra. Zoola V. Rehau, both of Portland.
Danny, pilot of the plane, was taken
to a Portland hospital with internal ip*
Juris* that may prove fatal.
Mexico, Archbishop Pedro Vera of Pu-
ebla. and Alfredo Freyria, pastor of
the Immaculate Concepeoh cathedral of
Puebla, ordered deported from Mexico
on Friday night, arrived here today.
The bishop had been held a prisoner
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the engineers were afraid to move it for
I fear that the rush of the water into the
24. W ' breach would kill any possible hope of
, room and
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was found inside his shirt. Beyond giv-
ing hi»t name to the officers, the prisoner
refused to talk After being searched at
RIATE PROCEEDS OF MID-
NIGHT SHOW FOR RELIEF
< By The Aanoetated Prem)
SHANGHAI. April 24. The military
eHwaUwa U th* all-important one at
the present moment, finance* and pall-
tic* being relegated t* the background.
After tke issuance ef a mandata by the
ily home. Uncle Felix ha* been in
the fed*, but no money. The 1700 in eur-
LAREDO, Tex., April 24. Bishop Jose
When he »aw that officer* were there he
.lammed the door and dashed aero** the
room to th* window on the went aide.
With one foot on a narrow ledge of thr
hotel building and the other on the one*
atory building about three feet away, he
presented an excellent target for Burh,
after the latter had rushed down the
ataira and nut onto the sidewalk. Bush
made no effort to hit him, but the whis-
tl* of the (hot* near him enused MeGee
ML ationa the Commercial club ha*
I3eted a physician whem they feel
confident will anawer their require-
ments and he is expected to arrive
here Sunday. If any other commu-
nity is in need of a physician the
Commercial Club will be glad to help
hreh by sending them eome of the
applieations they have received.
. out food ui
and all
for 24 hours ur
CENTER, Texas, April 24. — A
quest for letters she alleged her
husband had written to Miss Zola •
Mao Gibson ef Jeaquin broughe Mra.
Ludie May of Center to Jell here
today and resuited la the Neath of
Mise GAbson.
Mrs May. 44, and th* mether ef
five. te eharged with ehooting Mise
GSbeon la the latter’s beano at
। denied having used one. That, except
for a request fur some cigarettes, was
Hankow government
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hansee early this afternoon flying south-
-west toward toward the Golf of Mexico
1 in a good southwest breeze. It waa fly-
ing e a height of about 1,500 feet. The
ahip left the naval air station at Lake-
hurst, N. J., at 8145 o'clock last night
on a 1,200 mile flight to Florida and re-
I turn.
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MILITARY SITUATION IN
CMINA IM ALL-IMPORTANT
Lee Dean of Weatherford,
two later they returned
the several
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Amarillo Daily News
friends.
Rorn in Parker County
Mr. Franklin was a native Texan. Hr
Felix Franklin, known throughout the I was born m Weatherford in June 1854,
died after the son of Judge and Mrs. John Franki
.. The His father died when he was four |
ram. years old. He spent his boyhood year*
this j in Parker county, but at the age of 19
- . r T .. ... .2 moved to Entacado, Crosby county,
section of iris, tot a hei contury and; , ' '
i where h* found employment on a ranch
| and began learning the cattle business.
county, where Mr. Franklin served sev-
eral terms as sheriff. About 32 years
ago the family moved to Amarillo, where
they have resided since Mr. Franklin
saw Amarillo grow from a very small
community to the city it is today.
la Cattle Badness
He continued in Iha cattle business
after moving to Amarillo, being in
charge of the Jack Hall ranch north-
west of this city for a number of ysars,
and slso engaging in the commission
business; which claimed hie attention
for the latter yeara of his life.
Probably no commisslon man in the
weet had a wider range of aequaintance
and friendship than ha. Not only in
Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, but
in Nebraska and Montana, he waa
known and respected, and recognised
as an exceptionally able man in bls line.
It was not sut of the ordinary for him
to receive buying order* from Individ-
uals who did not even ask to see the
cattle he bought, so profound was their
confidence ia his judgment. It was said
that state.
A< thr work of strengthening the
dykes between New Orleans and Baton
; Rouge proceed, other forces were art ;
.to work to prevent a serious break below
TWELVE YEAR-OLD BOY WITH
of Mr
Southwestern Arkansas has given way,
( causing the inundation of an additional ,
20,000 acres and driving several hun - to trurry bark into the window from
dred from their homes (which he had Just emerged Ks landed
Two mor* breaks in the Mississippi on the floor, ofr hin balanee: and in no
| lavras are threatened, one 30 miles be I position. if he had been in th* mood, to
lew Helena. Ark , and the other eight contest matters with Morris snd Ham.
miles above Vicksburg. mond, whose resolvers covered him. A
People Driven From Homen 38-ealiber Smith & Wesson, full loaded.
that hereafter
having bern excavated there when
I he lakr w as dry.
Mr. Stanley, father of the boy.
was at keyes, Oklahoma. when the
accident occurred. He will arrive
today. It was said.
Funeral arrangements will be an-
nounced today. Griggs Funeral di-
rectors have charge of the body.
rency was found upon searching him.
Con verbal ion Brief.
Officers believe that Me(jee and his
two companions divided up a sum of
money upon their arrival here early Sun-
day, and that the other two immediately
left town. MeGee would make no state- <
merit other than to give his name. He
was naked where his automobile waa, and
or Brenard, a physiclan of
Mild and a brother-n-law of
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02020128720 located the alleged fugitive at the hotel and who had enlisted
. M-382N ONE HUNDRED ARE KNOWN DEAD the aid of Chief Detective Bob Morris and Assistant Chief Dug
' x -648? IN FLOOD STRICKEN
to apply for ths position. 1
After considering th* flood of ap-’ ' for a year in the state prison in Pa-
NEW ORLEANS, April 24. Water was
a huvried trip to the polio* station and
got Hammond and Morris to return with
him.
At th* same time a renewed .ppe.1 I Slama Door in Officers' Fare.
waa made b, Mi.....ippi state authori • Morris knocked at the door of the room
1 tier for mor* hosts to take out th. mu ! and MeGee opened it, revolver in hand
( rooned, many of whom have been with-
over to Mrs. Jessie N. Koss, for the
benefit of the Red Cross, to be used in
relief of the flood sufferers.
Telephonic Instructions to this offset
were received Sunday by Will K. Winch,
local manager, from Louis L. Dent, pten-
ident of the Dent theaters. Mr Deel
said that th* Mme plan would be fol-
lowed at all Dent theaters, and thne
which did not usually hold matinees at
12:01 a. m. on Mondays had been in-
strueted to do so.
The attrnetion at the Fair was “The
Red Mill," starring Marlon Davien. A
large crowd attended.
Announcement of the purpose of the
Sperial to Th* News.
( HANNING, April 24. Channing,
after being for months without th.
services of a resident physician bids
fair now, through the publishing In
the newspapers and broadcasting
over the Amarillo News radio station
of the need of a doctor to locate here,
to be overwhelmed with them.
More then forty applications have
been received to date and more are
coming in each mall. Doctors from
■ for away aa Wheeling. Went Vir-
$n *. and others from Arkansas and
New Mexico have written that they
saw the story in The News and want
Speci2 t Th* Newa.
naLMART, April 21. Billy B«4
kin, a youth receritly hero from Bor-
ger was seriously stabbed by another
man at a carnival here last night
and small hopes were held- out for
hi* recovery. A deep gash in the
! longer.
With the flood* preading at a rapid
. rate, additional thousands have been
j rendered homeless and the loss of crops,
| livestock and property is steudily
mounting .
Another levee on the Red river in
chuca, Mexico.
Bishop Manriquez T. Sarats said here
I today that he was made a prisoner In
May of last year on a charge of sed-
tion, but was never tried on the charge.
On last Thursday, he seid he was taken
from the Pachuea prison to Mexico City
and thrown into the besement of the
police atetion there with the worst
criminals in the country.
Buren. He would
Fort Stockton,
Sen Benito,
POLICE CAPTURE BANK ROBBERY SUSPECT HERE
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Two Hundred Believed Dead in Flood DistrictOfficers Open Fire
YOUTH DROWNS IN “OLD TOWN” LAKE "honkuin-Armmote
Mrs. Rife, performed an operation in
th* hop* of saving the Max’s Ufa, but
it proved to be la vain.
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not to be angry with hew, there was
a ehot and Mime Gibeon Mbh to the
noor with a HUM through her ab-
ham.
Mra. Map ear** missed to Juntice ‛
ef the Peace James Childrens et
Joaquin and wm relemsed en bend,
but wm rearrested and held with-
out bomd hen it wes leermed that
MI. Ohms had M. The giv
window Bush rushed down th* stairs
alammed th* door and started for th*
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Stanford Rife, aged 40 years, died at
Mercedes nt 5 o'clock Saturday after-
noon a* the result of a fractured skull
sustained when he leaped from an auto-
mobile to escape what appeared to be
an impending automobile wreck. Mr.
Rife, who wan a salesman, was riding
on a truck toward Mercedes and waa
about one mile seat of La Flora when
another automobile started to cross th*
highway. Thinkiag a collision was cer-
tain, he jumped to save his life, and
lost it. The ears did not collide.
Mr. Rife, a safe and novelty sales-
man. had gon* to Harlingen and had
left his automobile there for acme re-
pair* He was returning to Mercedes,
having accepted a rid* an an automo-
bile truck. Tho fatal Jump waa taken
between 10:30 and 11 o’eloek Saturday
forenoon. He lived about olx hours
after the aceident, never regaining con-
seiousness.
the Sunday school roous there will be an assembly hull, la lie*' parlor, storage room, mothers' room, department Sunday,
school offtee, pastor's stud, and other room*. The"auditorim will seat 750 persona. The building will be all brick.'
|F. Reed of Panhandle is tiie contractot. The Rev. A. F. John on is pastor of the church.
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The funeral will 'eke place at 4 The Rev. A F. Johnson ia pastor of i New Orleans where a tank steamer
o'clock thin afternoon from the Polk the First Baptist church of Panhandle. I rammed the lev** near Diamond, is.
Street Methodist church, with burial in which is erecting a new all-brick church Evacuation of refugees to safer place.
Llano cemetery. Blackburn. Funeral J to cost $4r,000. The Rei Johnson e. me continues with precautions to prevent
home will be in charge of arrangements. j tl> Panhandie 1G months ago from the further spread of disease in the con
Active pallbearers will be John < hur - Southern Theolovical Seminary. Fort centration camps,
leas. Fred Inglan, Joe Sneed, F. E Worth. He i. editor of the Panhandle
Phillips. "harien Chenhir. Julian i Baptist, one of the largest church pa
l Bivins, C harles T Ware. E. ( . Brittain, pers in the state. Approximately 200
Honorary pallbearer, will be the .tew (additions have been made to the Pan
---handle Baptist church Bine* th* Kev.
tiwe i Johnson became pasior.
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। the police tation, MrO* was taken to
I th* county jail and locked up.
Patrolman Bush learned early Sunday
1 morning that three mien had reached I
1 Amarillo on the Sunta F* early Sunday,
anti that two of them had left town later.
The third, he waa told, was in room 37
of the Verdun hotel. Bush surveyed the
situation at the hotel, and learned that
the man waa covering all visitors to hin
room wth a revolver aa he opened the
door, and admitting no one until he
learned who they were. Bush then made
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| The above is the urchitect’s drawing of the new home of the First Baptist chinch of Panhandle, which is to be opened
in August hxenvation of the basement was completed Satu day. The edifice will have 82 Sunday school rooms. Besides
IN U. S. PERMITS
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WASIINGTON, April 28. A list of1
more than two hundred broadcastingi
stations which have received temporary (
permits to maintain gervice, after April
24, was announced today by the federal !
radio commission.
Stations receiving permits with call :
letters and wave length assignment in
metera, include
KHR. Denver, 243.8; KFUM, Colo-
rado Springs, 239.9; WNAD, Norman.
Okla.. 254.1; KWKC. Kansas City. M>„
236.1; KTAP. San Antonio, 236; K PRC.
Houston, 206.9; FTL, Dublin, Texas.
252: kFJF, Oklahoma City, 260.7; KGFG,
Oklahoma City, 234.1; WBAC, Fort
Worth, 475.9, KFQB, Fort Worth. 508 2:
woQ. Kansas City, Mo., 277.6; KOCW;
Chickasha, Okla., 270.1; WDAG, Ama-
rillo, Texas, 263; KFHU Oskaloosa.
Okla , 239.9; KFH, Wichita, Kan., 287.7,
Louisiana is beginning to drive people I
{ from their homes in Concordia parish:
DENT THEATERS
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gdf t )2 and into a narrow puswuge between the
HBc SEVEN STATES ARE HIT o'.’moT
jK*< >■ > this pawsage way, faunu north. Hush at
i {92ECE onee opened fire, the nhota driving Me
lzbm, • I.’ I I.* T f. I N -LIAIIKANN APE I (ee back into the room he had just va
PEM*N a 1 11 -n1-A. Amrcated. There Hammond and Morns rav in | mmg 1IIATI11A
iii-’is"" m-""'"FLOOD VICTIMS
A search of McGee’s clothing revealed ______
May, armed with a plstol and ne-
eompanled by her two eona, H end
it, went to Mise Gibnen’s home an
demanded lettera sb* eharged Mim
Gibaon bat recelved from her hus-
band.
She te mM to have ordered her .
MM to loek the deors and then de-
manded that the gir hand over the
letters.
When the girl deelared ehe had ne
lettera and pleaded with Mra. May
The end of the trail came Kunday
afternoon for one of the Panhaw*
dlr*M real pioneer cattlemen, Felix
N. Franklin, known throughout the
cattle country as "( ncle Felix."
Mr. Franklin's death was due in
part to an injury he sustained early
in January, when he fell on the icy
nidewalk near the postoffice, break*
ing his hip. He had shown much
improvement since that accident,
and had been able to visit his of*
fice, but complication* appeared,
and th* end came at 4:30 Kunda>
afternoon at his residence, 1104 Van
7232.0
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Joseph A.jStaniey, 12-) ear-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stanley,
700 Missisnipvi street, San Jacinto,
was drowned about 3 o'clock yester-
day afternoon is the old town lake,
immediately north of the Denver
tracku in what is known as “old
town," when an improvised boat. in
which he and two companions were
rowing, capsized.
The body was recox ered about
6:30 o'clock by members of the po-
lice and fire departments. ( ompan-
jon- of the youth swam to safety.
Thr boys were playing near the
old lake when they conceived the
idea of rowing out in an impre-
Hised boat The lake, as a whole, la
not deep, but at the place where the
boat capsiied the water was about
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