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Amarillo Daily News
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VOL. XVIII, NO. 228—- Associated Press Day and Night Leased Wire.
AMARILLO, TEXAS, MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1927.
REGOVER BODY IF YOUTH N PALISADES AKE
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CLARENDON IS HOST TODA Y TO C-G HIGHWA Y CONVENTION
Texhoma Man and Woman Killed in
300 EXPECTED
FOR TWO DAYS
ATROADMEET
Playing in Water
LIMINARIES
PROGRAM IS EXTENSIVE
BEGIN WORK AT
ONCE ON THREE
4k
TECH BUILDINGS
kJ
lving at Goodwell,
thrown several
feet from the car and escaped uninjured
TOLIA PLANS
The Acock youth
Kansas,
He wa» driving the car
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ANNIVERSARY
recovered
CELEBRATION
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The young people
employe nt th*
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Sewell of th* Sewell Drug company.
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CHIEF GAITHER
this place in July,
one being ataged
So that he mght authoritatively carry the firat trans Atlantic aerial mail on 1891, only a few day: before the county
ASKS HEAVIER
SWISHER COUNTY WORK RDSHED
THEFTPENALTY
JOINS OTHERS IN
NEW DAIRY MOVE
er to break up a gang of petty
w ho
stripping aceosnorien
of Dalhart < hamber
FORT WORTH. Jun* 26
Drastie
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individual
representa a theft of
7 30
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ditehes.
drowned today In
•istera
guaranteed’ to exceed
the daughtera of
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Texas Lumber company No 1, is the
rl!lo for many yeass.
sr* expected to recover.
Byrds New York-Paris
Hop-Off Again Delayed
are badly burned
igniting of th*
BOAT TURNS OVER ANO
DROWNS FOUR SISTERS
Byrd Takes the Postal Pledge
counties have entered into a parley by
jointly employing Prof. George P Grout,
professor of dairying at Texan A and M
hia flight across the seas. Commander Richard K. Byrd was sworn in as an air
mail pilot by Postmaster John J Kiely of New York, as pictured here He took
the oath in the shadow of the broad wings of hia monoplane "America" at
Roosevelt field. Long Island
In or
thieves
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Floydada, end the ditching is now being
done all along the line
From all indications it will only be
a few weeks until the company will be
ready to lay the distributing lines in
each of the towns along the two lines,
es rapid progress ia being made on the
mains.
WORKING BETWEEN LOCK-
NEY AND FLOYDADA
Mary Silcox, H
Dora Silicox, 11.
Anna Silleox, »
Th* vietims wer
Liberal,
doubtful
Mr. ana Mr* H ••)•■. in D. Sileox, of
Jnekaonville Heighta, a suburb.
PRESIDENT WIKOFF OF CLAYTON
ARRIVES IN CITY FOR PRE-
water lake near here, when th* boat in
which they were riding wsa overturned.
The dead are
Mr*. Frane*, Norton, ts
Gregu and Dm Be
*■ th* result of
BUILDING PROGRAM AT LUBBOCK
CALLS FOR MORE THAN
A HALF MILLION
• 'tends from Brownsville and Galveston
to Denver, Colo., is recognized ai one of ।
Joe C. Wayburn, 46 years eld, well
known real estate and oil lease dealer
of this city, may die of injuries re-
ceired when hia automobile went lute
the ditch on the River road, about six
miles north of Amarillo, early Saturdey
sight, according to reports from a local
hospital last night.
Bruises and euts about th* head and
face hare resulted in ths ioas of the
SWISHER COUNTY SAT-
URDAY, JULY 16
SHOWN BATTLE GROUNDS OF
BUNKER HILL AND LEXING-
TON YESTERDAY
uommmereasb-
p
HALE AND FLOYD COUNTIES WILL
CO-OPERATE ON PLAINS
INDUSTRY
FRENCH GRIND PRIX
WON BY FITERARI
Adjournment to Country club for bar-
becue, bathing revue, dancing and other
entertainment.
Tuesday Morning. June 28.
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Holcomb, secretary
o’ Commerce.
"Texas Highway
Nichols, Vernon.
hour.
The
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of the Mississippi and the convention
wli 1 ake plans for the further adver )
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All of the pipe has been laid on the
ground at all points on both the main
line running from Amarillo to Lubbock
and the branch Imo from Plainview to
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After going into the ditch, the car
ran JOO yards or more before jumping
a email branch and drainage eulvert and
plunging into the embankment. Ths car
•aa damaged but not wreeked, it was
said.
Another man in the ear reeeive a
cut above one eye thet required four
stitches. He was uninjuted otherwise,
it was eaid.
Mr. Wayburn Ie a former ranehman
•f ths Panhandle and has been hi Ame
$
32
f
ON GAS LINES,
SOUTH PLAINS
• tvienihe
of whon
midnight, hooks de
°e 7 3,
and completed for the opening of the
1929 session.
beginning « f the 1928 term
however, it
within 15 minutes after the hooka were
put into use, it was said
Loron Francis, 16,
Car Crash on Highway Near Guymon Drowned While
field nine miles from Shamrok, but all left eye, phyalelans stated, and it is
---‘ ' •-- feared thet a piece of glees which
Bernt Balehen. for e takeoff at dawn
today.
Shortly after the rein stopped end the
wind had moderated, Balchen, Neville
and Acosta, who had not been informed
that there would be no take-off today,
appeared at the "America’s" hangar,
prepared for the flight
After neanning the gray. early morn-
ing skies, they expressed the opinion
that if the wind shifted from south to
Soni* time
Amarillo Business Man May Die
From Injuries Received When
Auto Plunges Into Deep Ditch
is in a Hospital at
and hi« recovery I*
| -peed, estimated nt 70 Rile,
1 whr thet car hit a heavy tr
A reseue part of diver* and other
workmen, head'd by Hill Hall, Red Crosa
live uwr, worked throughout the night.
“America" might take the air about T
a. m., or shortly after. A westerly wind
Is a material aid to the "America’s"
take off
The word quickly wpread that the
flight was still a possibility and a scat-
tering of spectators, determined to see
the "America’s" departure despite a long
vigil since du-k last night, reappeared
on the fiald, their hopes renewed that
the wait had not bee in vain. About
C a. m. the southerly wind, blowing
sereas the coure, showed no abatement
The field was dotted with numeroes pud-
dles of water.
friends in the Panhandle are being eg
PRAIRIE COMPANY CREWS ARE tended inritationgtpaatte ndstheudvent
southwest it
posnible that the
PAMPA, June 28. Jack Gr.gg. suf- —- - - ---- ---- ----- ---------
fered a fractured skull when a rig block I labor on odd jobs will be available and
fell on him in th. oil fields near here 1 will be used, it is expected college to devote his entire time to in-
PETTY STRIPPING OF AUTOS
IS ENCOURAGED BY LOW
FINES, HE SAYS
COLORADO-TO-GULF HIGHWAY IS
ONE OF MOST WIDELY TRAV-
, ELED IN SOUTHWEST
I time Three structure, wil! be rushed
I to ccmpletion to be ready for use at
the open.ng of the next fall session, one
Miss I ucile Hodges, < onrad K igle. Jr, the opening of the next tail sesson, one
nd Crorge Acock. Jr . are *l known in ; mnjor building will be conatructed and t
Amarillo, having visited friends here ,, .. ,002 .. .a .
, " mw - .. completed for the 1928 session and an-
frequently. The Kugle youth stas ill *
this city last week, according to Paul other major building will beconatructed
and the body
The body of Loron Francis, 16 years old, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Francis of 60 1 Cleveland street, was recovered
from the chilly waters of Lake Palisades at 4 o’clock Sunday
1 morning, after an all night search by divers and workmen with
drags, hooks and searchlights.
The Francis youth was drowned about 8:30 o'clock Sat-
! urday night. He and another youth were holding onto a boat
in which a party of young people were rowing when it is be-
lieved that his hold gave way. The water where he drowned
was said to be about 20 feet deep, and he could not swim. It
was several minutes before he was missed.
" PARIS, June M. The Grand Prt».
marking the close of th* Paris racing
erazan, today was won by M. P. Mou-
1iF Piterari. Mon Taljstan, unbeaten
three-year-old.towned bn. Martinez dr
Hor of Argentina, was seond, and Fla-
want, owned by Baron de Rothechild,
was third. Ogden Mill*' Lusignan was
fourth.
‘ee weather waa cold and rainy.
J. the basis of a 10-frane bet. the
winner paid 130.60: Mon Talisman, who
' was the favotite, paid 13.60 for place,
MB Famant 17 for third.
tmiT-
Publicity." R
alyned especially for th. purposn, were
made by George W Brewer, « blaek -
amith, living at 200 A’North Harrinon
33,000 per year in thet initial movement
so as to spend his lime equally among
the three counties. Dairying has been
Tragedy Occured at 8:30 Saturday Night; Citizens Drag
Water All Night and Bring Body to Surface Early Sunday
Morning; Funeral To Be Held Thia Afternoon
The body disappeared atout 200 yardn
above the dam, where the waer U deep
। and divers could ■rrnmpliah hut little
Skin on the body was not broken by the
use of hookw, acrodng to Blackburn
OF I uneral director:
1 he youth
dresses by two congressmen.
rhe ( olorado-to-Gulf bighway, which
structing the dairying interests in the
three respective counties. The salary
was not definizely announced at a re-
cent chamber of commerce meeting here.
ti% are already arriving in this
ritv for the fifteenth annual conven-
tion of the ( olorado-to-Guif High-
way association which will be held
her.- Monday and Tuesday.
J Allen Wikoff of Clayton. N. M.
president of the asuociation, arrived
Friday and has been busy with local
committees making arrangements
for the convention.
It is thought that more thin *00
registered delegates will attend. Ad-
vices have already been received
from towna along the route stating
that large delegation* will motor to
thi, city Monday morning. Amarillo
is expected to have at least 30 repre-
sentatives
A ler.did program has been arranged
- the two -day convention, includ ng
Amarillo Baking company. Besides hit
father and mother, ha ts survived by two
brothers ahd four sisters. 2
Funeral service will be held from
the Firat Baptist church this afternoon
at 2 o’clock. with Rev W. t hilton Gar.
rett, pastor of the Second Baptint ehureh
in charge The body will lie in state at
the Blackburn Funeral home until the
tune of the funeral Chi* Afternoon.
Interment will be in the Hane eeme- -
Thi young people were en route to a
ywimming pool at Guymon, and were
said to be traveling at a rapid rate of
Miss Lucille Hodges
and Conrad Kugle, Jr
Victims of Collision
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LO( KNFY June 26 ( rows ar* busy
all along the lines of the Prairie Oil
and Cas company’s south Piains exten-
sion, rushing the work in order to have
the towns supplied with gas in the fall
or before the winter months
A crew is busy with two large weld
ing machines between Lockney and
Floydada, weld in the pipe together,
preparatory to placing the pipe in the
BOSTON, Mass , June 26 Covernor
Moody and the 125 Texans on their good
will tour explored the cradle of revo-
lutionary history today The Texas
party reached its half way point upon
arrival in Boston, turning back Monday
down the Atlantic coast to New York
I and Philadelphia
The boosters arrived in Boston this
afternoon after a 500-mile ride across
Formal recetions will be given tomor-
row but busses today took the delegates
to many points of interest, including
New York state and Massachusetta.
Bunker Hill and the battie ground: at
Lexington and Concord
pierced the forehead is still pressing
against the skull, it wes said. Ho is ap-
parent ly conscious one instant and un-
conscious the next, according to at-
tendants
Kr Wayburn, who lives about two
miles north of the city, was driving to
a farm home farther north on the high-
way. When near the Pleasant Valley
store, he turned out to let another ear
pass and lost control of his machine
when the wheels hit loose dirt at the
edge of the reed. It was said.
"Loc
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Douglas, Clarendon, manager.
9:30 a m Band concert. Convention
called to order at Pastime theater.
Convention singing. Sam Braswell,
leader.
"Golf Vs Highways," Sam Pigman,
Dalhart
AdAre,, Hon. Marvin Jones. Amarillo.
Report of committees.
12 noon -Three model luncheons. in
charge of H. Mulkey, Clarendon.
Afternoon.
. ’ Addreas, Hon John Morrow. Raton,
N M.
“The Colorado to-Gulf Highway Tour
1st Bureau," E. D. McCrea, Fort Worth.
"The Hotel and the Highways," Col.
Ernest Thompson, Amarillo.
Round-table discuanion, Fred A Young,
Bowie, chairman.
Miscellaneous business.
< Awarding of prizes.
Election of officers.
Selection of nett meeting place.
2.30 p. m
Convention singing. Sam Braswell,
leader
"Texas Highways," Hon. Lee Satter-
white, Amarillo
"Future Highway Development," A. T.
from automobiles in this eUy, the heav-
iest penalty should be inflicted, Is'the
opinion of Chief H L. Gaither, nt the
police department.
"Hundreds of these theft« ere being
coAmitted," Chief Gaither aeld. “No
S,-e ..I 1- Te N.-ws
TULIA, Jun* 26 Swisher county citi-
vens will hold their annual anniversary
celebration .Saturday, July 16, which will
I be characterized throughout as an old-
timne picnic on the courthouse lawn at
Tulia. This will be the thirty sixth an
nuni celebrat on of the county, th* firat I
THIRTY SIXTH BIRTHDAY
Bo • ini to The New a
CLARENDON, June 26.- Delega-
plant of the college Great care in
drafting of the plans is being Uken to
prevent a mistake in the buildings.
The home economics practice house
will be built in a residence style with
the Spanish design similar to the homa
of Dr. Paul W Horn. It will be two
storics in height tnd will have 15 rooms.
| The hous will cost 120,000 and will
have 12,600 worth of equipment in it
when completed. The students will gain
actual experience in the home It is
likely that the senior students of home
economics will be alloted a short time
each year to live in the model home
The agricultural building, although a
temporary structure which will ba later
used as a small unit of the general
agricultural building, will be erected
along the Spanish lines similar to other
buildings on the campus it is to con-
tain offices of the instructors of the
schoo and laboratories with three large
sized class rooms
The green house will be built as a
first unit of the plant. It will contain
a complete healing plant and green
house equipment.
The engineering building will be
started and completed for use st the
Special to Th-* News
TULIA, June 26 In order to stimulate
and encourage the most rapid growing
industry in the Panhandle country,
darying: Swisher, Hale and Floyd
tae most widely traveled highways west
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mSBad.uls”
(Ry The Aseoc eled Frees •
ROOSEVELT FIELD, NEW YORK.
June 26.—The three-motored monoplane
"America," in which ( ommander Richard
E. Byrd and three companions propone
to fly to Paris, will be unable to take off
tomorrow and may remain landlocked
for a “day or two” because of adverse
weather conditions between here and
Newfoundland the United States
weather bureau in New York informed
Commander Byrd today
The bureau announced that a detailed
report would be completed late tonight,
but that this report wa* not expected to
change the present outlook for a get
away before Tuesddy at the earliest,
and perhaps later.
The present squalla, which are spread-
ing up the coaat, struck Roosevelt Field
last night In a sudden fury that de-
stroyed the hopes of Commander Byrd
and hia flight companions. Flint- Bert
Aeosta, Meut. George C. Neville and
was officially organired The anniver-
sary date, being July 17, wa* changed
this year to July HI on account of that
date being Sunday
At a meeting held in the courthouse
Friday night all the committers were
appointed to have charge of the various
events. Dr. Jame, A Stevens was
half million dollar mark and those
familiar with thr business say it will
be much greater this year. Many
farmer* have become thoroughly sold
•n the business and are initating the
use of it into their general farming
program
Prof Grout has purchased 320 acres
near Tulia which he expecta to convert
into an ideal dairy farm and baa ar-
ranged to ahlp several head of choice
stock here soon before starting perman-
ent improvements and he expoets to
locate permanently in one of the three
counties. He is well known, throughout
the breeding cireles in the'north, cen-
tral and eouthwestern states,ns an ex-
port on dairy stock and has travelled to
a number of foreign countries as a
judge on premium winning stock and
studying marketing problems
Bperiai ro The Newa.
TEXHOMA, Okia , Jun* 26 Mm Lu
cle Hodges, Ill-year old school teacher,
and (onrad Kuge, Jr., 21 years old,
were instantly killed, and George Acock,
Jr., 19, was seriously injured when the
< ar in which they were riding hit a
truck on the highway near Guymon,
Okla, about 11 o’clock Saturday night
The young people were alt residents of
this city.
A fourth occupant of the car, a girl
I Hr l Ite Associnted Press •
JA( KSONVILLE, He. June 26 Four
ood» of the dead g rl was mangled in
the wreck and the Kugle youth la said
I to have died of internal injuries
1 prominent families, all
i pioneer 3 of thi» section
TEXAS BOOSTERS -.
I the home economics school, and a tem-
EXPLORE BOSTON -m
A $210,000 engineering building will
•AIM AWV* AIAIITA 1e completed for the session of 1923-29.
AMII \LL \|| Ul\ A $220,000 science building will be
HIVA • [ n aIUIII I • 1 ' fueled for
------ Spanish Architecture
All the structures will be constructed
on Spanish design and w.ll be located
according to the original landscape
t vug and promotion of the road.
PROGR AM.
o Monday Morning. June 27.
4 1 m Registration, in charge of
< ( Powell and F. L. Stallings.
3 a m Parade of bands. Convention
called to order at Pastime theater.
Invocation. Rev. A B Crocker, t laren-
don.
"America," Sam Braswell, Clarendon,
1-sder
Welcome to ( larendon, J. T. Patman,
president of chamber of commerce.
Presentation of keys of city. Mayor
H W Taylor.
kusponne, < . W . Eich, Quanah.
Tesponse, Hugo Seaburg. Rston. N M
Music selected
"The Colorado to Gulf Highway," J
Allen Wikoff, president.
thambers of Commerce end Their
1 tyons to Highway Association*,“
i e A Sager, secretary of Memphis
I haber of Commerce.
Appointment of committees
Address, Judge J Paul Donald, Bonie.
A ournment
Afternoon.
property4 valued above $oo, hence a peni-
tentiary nentenee can not ba panned.
But any theft le subjeet to a fine and
a jail sentence, and I believe that the
limit will aveist In breaking up such
activity."
Arrests have been made for such
crimes within the past few days. Chief
Gaither said, and the allaged thieves
have pa d fines of 312.75 each, he said.
"As long as such low fines are am * I
nesood, we can not hope to accom plinb
much toward breaking up euch oftenses,"
Chief Gaither sold. I believe that
•Il thefi- hould result in the heavezt J
fines possible and a jail sentence," he
continued.
Chief Gaither did not place the blame I
for tew fines upon anyone, but he j
stated that elouer cooperation we* n**^ . 4
ed in enforcing the law. A
MY/A
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w ray »a increasing in such strides here recently
by Bad Weather Report
TWELVE PAGES PRICE, FIVE CENTS
m.—Golf tournament Clyde ।
means of checking up and punishing
criminal! were proposed in resolutions
drawn up for presentation to th* Texas
marshal and police chiefa in conven
tton here
CHKLDRESS, June N -- W. H Bal-
linger Ie Shamrock hosiptal and J. W.
year but as a pioneer picnic instead, all
the farmers bringing in well-filled bas-
kets, and the people of the city will
match them with providing good eats
and noft drink! A full day of attrac-
tive entertainment i» being arranged by
th# committees
elected to have charge of all commit
too* and rule a supreme hand during the
event Henry L. Jordan, county attor-
ney, has charge of all concessions T A.
Gray, pioneer stockman, was at the
meeting and boasted of probably being
the only man who hne attended every
one of the 35 annuel event! since th*
county was organized
Every farmer in the county and their
LU’BBOf K, June 26. Construction on
■ additional buildings for the Texas Tech-
I nolog.cal college wi!l begin in a short
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