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AMARILLO DAILY NEWS
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led custody of their four-year-old
Black Hilla country and they are now
MARSHALL TRIAL
The two smallest ones
f the children.
told to take hold of hia shirt. He
THROUGH HEART
war dances and a parade for him.
approaching.
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NEW THEATER OPENING NOW ORDERED TO QUIT
IN SAN JACINTO TODAY TAKING SUBSCRIPTIONS
CHEWS GUM AS TRIAL
FOR MURDER STARTS
THROCKMORTON MAN
BUYS 190 HEAD OF
ANXIETY YEARLINGS
RACEFORU.S.
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STILL UNCONSCIOUS
IN ABILENE HOSPITAL
will
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ed into it himself. It was too small to
hold any more, so he paddled itita
Speciat to The News
AMHEBST, July 28— Amherst
celebrate her fourth anniversary
dead.
"We neized the living ones and swam
to our launeh, where Mr. Corning puli-
TO “LAY BARE’ ALL
MEMBERSHIP DATA
AMHERST WILL
CELEBRATE ITS
ANNIVERSARY
GAS AND ELECTRIC FLANT W
BE RUSHED TO COMPLE-
TION BEFORE FALL
suing the government for $750,000,000
in part payment for them. •
Mr. Coolidge will go by special train
to Rushville, Neb, and will travel from
MOTHER OF AIMEE
M’PHERSON FIGHTS
DAUGHTER'S MOVE
FORMER HIGHWAY
ENGINEER IS BILLED
ON ELEVEN COUNTS
MODERN PLANT
FOR UTILITIE
ANOTHER RANGER
IS ORDERED FOR
FAVORABLE WEATHER IS
CAUSEGOODCONDITION
DIPLOMATS BEUEVE PEACE
NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE AT
GENEVA PARLEY
PAVING ELECTION
FOR LEE HIGHWAY
IN FLOYD COUNTY
COLORADO TO CELEBRATE
ADMISSION TO UNION
war record.
"My nerves are gone and I can carry
on no longer," he wrote in a farewell
note.
COOLIDGE PLANS
TO MEET 10,000
SIOUX INDIANS
PAGE TWO
TWO BOYS HELD IN
CAR THEFT CHARGE
2
NEXT FRIDAY AND SAT-
URDAY
NEVS FROM INTERIOR OF CHINA
TELLS OF 100,000 LOSS
' IN QUAKE
a PASO DOCTOR
SHOOTS HIMSELF
A. B. MARTIN OF PLAINVIEW WILL
BE MEMBER OF CRIMINAL
APPEALS BODY
WICHITA FALI8 MAN
DIES ON WAY TO WELL.
JEFF D. BARTLETT,
CITY MANAGER.
AMARILLO, TEXAS, JULY M, 1927.
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RAPID CITY, S.D. July 28.—Presi-
dent Coolidge win go to the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation, 200 miles from here,
Aug. 17 to meet 10,000 Sioux Indiana in
their native retreat, it waa announced
at the executive officer here today.
BIX NEW CRUISERS TO
BE CONSTRUCTED BY U. S.
(By The Amwocinted Press.)
DALLAS. July 28—Colonel Alvin M.
Owsley of Dallas formally announced
his entry in the race for the United
States senate here Thursday.
Colonel Owsley, former national com-
mander of the American legion. said he
would champion the cause of the young
men of Texas and that he would depend
largely upon them and the women to
elect him to office.
Friends of Governor Dan Moody said
Thursday that the governor would not
enter the senatorial campaign.
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
over and settled, until only its upper
deck remained partly put of water.
Twenty-Two BoaKs Recovered
Early tonight 22 bodies had been re-
covered and at that hour Charles Ken-
nody, deputy-coroner, raid he believed
there were almost that many more in
the vesnel itaelf. He based his statement
iBv United Pre.)
DETROIT, Mich, July 28.—Fcrd Motor
company dealers have been ordered to
discontinue taking subseriptions for the
Dearborn Independent, it was announced
officially today at the Dearborn experi-
mental laboratories of the company.
The order was described as the first
step in Henry Ford's program of reduc-
ing the famous publication to a house
organ for distribution among his em-
ployes and dealers.
Ford's program was revealed recently
in his retraetions of anti-eemetic attaeks
which appeared in the magazine during
the last seven years.
Ford dealers throughout the country
having a joy ride on the “Favorite" and
hia own launch was moored at the pier.
Aa he was thrown into the water he
saw elose to him the struggling forms
swam to a boat nearby and placed them
in It. then swam over to the two other
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AUSTIN, July 28.- Eleven indictments
charging forgery and passing of some
$1,100 ia state highway warrants during
last year were returned late today
against L. J. Nachtrab, former division
highway engineer, by the Travis county
grand jury investigating alleged “pay-
roll paddings” and other activities which
the attorney general’s department
claims cost the state more than 316,000.
Nachtrab is already under bond to an-
swer to five recent indictments charging
forgery of highway warrants. He was
indicted the first time with S. C. Tomp-
kins, tormerly division chief clerk un-
der him, and H. Josehke, allegedly car-
ried as a “dummy ' on the payroll. The
O’Brien. and Warren Corning, president
of the Warren Corning company, he was
on route to Wilmette, a North Shore
suburb.
Mr. Hofnaeur and O’Brien sped their
launch to the scene of the disaster,
stripped and plunged into the lake.
“We took the children first," Mr. Hof-
nauer said, “There seemed to be scores
in the water. It was ghastly. Some
of the babies were eorpnes by the time
we got there "
Mothers were struggling frantically
(rnieP»
WASHINGTON, July 28- Secretary of
the Navy Wilbur announced today that
eontraets have been dgned for eon-
i By The Amocinted Pre l
FORT WORTH, July 28. -Mrs. Briggs
Robertson was awarded $125 a month in
connection with her alimony suit against
Briggs Robertson. member of a wealthy
Lubbock family, here Thursday.
When the defense introduced evidence
tending to prove that he was unable to
pay alimony eon woe i for Mrs. Robertson
produced testimony that Robertson in-
herited a quantity of land from his fath-
er. This the defendant attempted to
prove bad ben deeded back to his moth-
er before his marriage to Mrs. Robert-
.son.
Both Mrs. Robertson and her husband
have filed suits for divorce, the former
in a Fort Worth eourt and the latter in
a court at Labbeck. In a court action
some months ago Mrs. Robertson was
money” whenever they attend this the-
' ater. The music this evening will be
of an especial character, by Coxtelle’a
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LOCKNEY, July 28.4Counties east
and west of Floyd will have their eyes
on Floyd county August 1, aa that is
the day the voters decide whether or
not the Lee highway will be paved in
Floyd county.
Hale, on the west, and all counties
east have already voted bonds to hard-
surface that highway and Floyd ia the
connecting link. .. ,
An advertising eamapign la under way
to instill in the minds of the voters the
need for the bonds to be pasted and
the advantages are being presented both
by newspaper and direct mail advertis-
ing.
The Lee highway enters Floyd at the
southeast romer, traverses the heart of
the shallow water farming belt and
posses out at the central western side
of the county, being a road over a level
plain and through one of the best farm-
ing regions of the south plains.
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APPELLATE COURT
AFFIRMS SENTENCE
IN GIRL’S MURDER
STATE
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department of the Board of City Devel-
opmeat, and J. F. Ford, his essistant,
and Miao Azora Clark, county homedem-
onatration agent, who are at Cohlege
Station this week attending the A. R M.
short course.
Mr. Bennett states that the course this
year is emphasising the importance ef
home and truck gardening, and that
many new and hitherto demonstrative
programs are being introduced to the
students.
Many club delegates and winners in
county-wide contests are attending the
session from the Panhandle seetion.
Among these are: Mrv J. B Patton, San
Jacinto; Mrs, J. E. Ware, River Road,
and Miss Alice Klinke of St. Francia.
Mr. Ware aad hia son, James, are also
attending the short course.
The delegates are expected home in
about ten days.
Montreal. Platform employes helped
them reach the main floor in a baggage
olevattnr and from there they sped to a
waiting tarieab which was off before
MEMPHIS, Texas, July 28— Two boys
going by the name of Ead Johnston,
about 18, and Edwards, about 22. claim-
ing their homes as Hickory, N. C. were
apprehended in Memphis last night about
12 o'clock by City Marshal Bill Hud-
dlesten. They were driving a Chevrolet
coupe, which it is alleged, they had
stolen on the streets of Childress about
9:30 last night, the car belonging to W.
A (Buck) Johnson, of that eity.
After the recovery of the ear and the
arrest of the thieves. Edwards escaped
from Huddleston. but was recaptured
about 8 o'clock this morning by Sheriff
Sid Christian and Deputy Sheriff Jim
May. south of Memphis, in the breaks.
(Br United Prema.)
OLYMPIA, Wash., July 28.—The WB.
vietion of Wallace C. Gaines, found
guilty in Seattle a year ago of the
murder of his daughter, Sylvia, was up-
held by the State Supreme Court in a
decision handed down today.
Gaines appealed to the State Supreme
Court for a new trial, alleging that he
had not been granted a public trial in
Seattle because spectators had been
banned from the courtroom. The state
court refused his appeal.
The death sentence imposed on Gaines
at the time of hia trial waa nullified
by his appeal so he will be taken before
Judge Jones again at an early date and
re-sentenced to death on the gallows,
Sylvia Gaines was found murdered on
the shorea of Green Lake on the mern-
ing of June M, 1026. Her father was
later arrested for the death, tried and
convieted, although he maintained thru-
out that ba was innocent.
there by automobile 30 miles to the 2
reservation, where the Indians will stage he
elx new 10,000-ten
Nd foe by the last
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 28.Favot-
able weather conditions in the southwest
and west recently, presage a good agri:
cultural year, according to Secretary of
Agrieulture William Jardine, who passed
through here en rente to Washington
today.
Jardine recently returned from eon-
ferences with farm leaders at Reno,
Nev., and reported crops are looking
well all over the territory be visited.
The secretary is partiealafly optimis-
tie over the prospeets for a good corn
crop. The grain baa received an ex-
cellent growth, he said, and should re-
suit in an unusually heavy crop.
latter were charged with theft.
Indictments returned today eharvedprompuy as c;w o cocK una an ■><
that Nachtvab used the.namez .. Invited to see this great picture in a
Haven" end "Charles Richard:op on 1 new theater where the environment is
11 warrants cashed at various times. f ideal in every respect. • | NUTt. "FP:. Malin.anring tir
The grand jury recessed until August .. . _ , .............. agents for the magasine during its life
8. Further investigation of highwayamne nAnrn-AAa l.. .» international weekly,
prem- probably " “MRS. ROBERTSON
GIVEN ALIMONY OF
I Br The Assoc laud Press.)
LOS ANGELES, July 28.—Mrs. Minnie
Kennedy, her back to the wall, today
fought the attach to exile her, led by
her daughter, Aimee Semple McPherson,
evangelist, and the committee of An-
gelus Temple, Kennedy-MePherson re-
ligious headquarters. ,
Mother and daughter each made pub-
lic letters which had passed between
them, one paragraph exhaling contri-
tion and sorrw, the next hurling fresh
charges and uttering new recriminat-
ions.
WICHITA FALLA, Joly 88—Marry H.
Kliae, who was seised with illness while
driving to an oil well near Abilene
Thursday morning was subject te heart
attacks. according to friends here. His
wife and small child are in Oklahoma
viaiting relatives. Mr. Kline has lived
la Wichita Falla for the past three years.
motorboat which
RUD AND BRIDE
DODGE PUBLICITY,1
NEW YORK CITY
The Dumas Utilities company, for the
furnishing of gas and eleetricity to the
home owners and business enterpriset
of Dumas, is,in the throes of rushing tJ
completion before cold weather arrives
a plant which will not only provide
these commodities immediately, bun
which contemplates adequate service in
a city several times its present size. I
This announcement has just been
made by W J. Morten, who was id
Amarillo yesterday.
A little more than a week ago com-
missioners* court at Dumas granted a
permit to Wright L. Felt of Dallas, id
use the streets and alleys of Dumas for
the instailation of gas, electric and
water distribution systems.
Contracts already have been let to the
Galbreath-Forworth Lumber Co., for the
construction of the plant for furnishing
these commodities, and include plan1]
fo ran office and a dwelling. Work on
1 these structures already is under way
and it is anticipated the electric and
gas plants will be completed within
sixty days.
Great quantities of material already
has been purchased and is arriving every
day at the townsite.
1b Progressive Step.
Erection of the gaa and electric plant
ia one of the most progressive stepe
made in the growth of Dumas, Mr
Morton declares. Due to the fact that
the homes in Dumas are widely scat-
tered a large investment will be re-
quired to serve all the consumers.
Mr. Morton asserts that the eleetric
and ga» plant and the water plant, when
it finally is installed, and the service
to be rendered, will be first class in
every respect. It was largely through
Mr. Morton’s efforts that these public
utilities were secured for Dumas.
Gas from the townsite well will be
used if the gas strata is braden-headed
in time, but if this well should not Be
finished, a line will be built to the
Morton well, nearby. In either ease, a
plentiful and dependable supply is as-
sured before cold weather.
"The growth of any community de-
pends to a very great extent on its
public seryice companies and no city
can ever be any larger than the utilitic-
serving it," Mr. Morton declares. *
(Br The Aewocinted Prewe)
GENEVA, July 28. Rupture of the
tripartite naval conference threatens to-
night as almost a certainty unless de-
velopments which nobody genuinely ex-
pects eome’to save it.
The British delegation presented new
proposals today which were flatly re-
jected by the American delegation. Re-
liable information concerning a secret
seseion of the tri-partite plenipoten-
tiaries indicates that when W. C. Bridge-
man, first lord of the admiralty, pre-
sented the new British plan for the lim-
itation of eruisers, destroyers and sub-
marines, Hugh 8. Gibson, head of the
American delegation, asked whether this
plan was Great Britain's last word. Mr.
Bridgeman said it waa.
A plenary session has been convoked
for Monday next. A Japanese delegate
expressed the opinion to the correspon-
dent that this undoubtedly would be the
last meeting of the conference, as there
' seemed no reasonable chance that the
divergencies between the British and
the Americans would be reconciled.
Mr. Gibson and every member of the
American delegation absolutely refused
to discuss the new British proposals.
EL FAs, July Dr. B. O. Thrasher
a lieutnantoolonel with overseas troops
in the World war, shot hfmself through
the heart hero ‘
today, after brooding
- „i-heaith. His family
lives at Gdinsvinles Texan.
He waa in the medical corps daring
his service and established an envinble
SpikNViEw, July 21.-A. R Mastin
of Plainsview has definitely accepted
Um appointment as • member of the
commission of eriminal appeale of Texas
tendered him several weeks Me by Go!
ernor Dan Moody and will move te ts.
an in September to assume his duties.
He has been appelated for a two-year
term of office and the next nesnion 9
the court opens October 1.
Martin ia a member of the firm of
wimiams aad Martin at Plainview and
has been in that firm since 1918.
He is a well-known criminal aad civil
lawyer of this section and represented
the South Plains in the railread fight
that consumed two years time and '
finally ended with the granting of the
petition of the Fort Worth and Denver
South Flams Railroad company who are
building their aew lines into the South
Plains. Martin appeared before the in-
terstate commerce commission in Wazb-
ington and presented the ease of the
South Plains following the adverse re-
port of Examiner C. E. Boles who con-
ducted the hearing at Plainview in 1926:
He came to this section in 190« and
has practiced law in and near Plain-
view ever since. He has served as a
member cf the board of regents of the
West Texas State Teachers college at
Canyon for a number of years. For
many years he was a resident of Tulin,
moving to Plainview several years ago
and forming a partnership in a law
' firm known as Martin. Kinder. Rusaell
A Zimmerman, which partnership was
dissolved in 1918 when Martin and C. 8.
Williams formed their present partner-
ship in the legal profession.
HEREFORD, July M-The proposi-
tion of Deaf Smith eounty club boys
conditioning some 18 or M baby beeves
for the Fort Worth Fat Stock show
next March will be discussed and con-
si de rvd at the luncheon meeting of the
Hereford chamber of commerce next
Monday. A number of local people want
Speeial to "The News •
DALHART, July 28.-Dr Ewbank, of
this eity. who instituted a “rusty sail
gathering campaign" with the Rotary
club here some four creeks ago, has junt
received a final check op on the res ait
of the campaign. One thousand two
bundred and fifty-throe pounds of rusty
nails were brought Into the City Gro-
cery by 36 children, who received around
*85 for their services. The swimming
pool and candy parlors had a rushing
business from the youngsters who gath-
ered the nails from all the main streets
of the city. More than 6100 has been
saved the tourists and motorists of Dal-
hart by this campaign besides lose of
time for punctured tires to be repaired.
BIRMINGHAM, July 2e—Jame Fe
dale, grand dragon of the Alabama rehlm
of the Ku Klux Klan, and officra of
Birmingham unite of the organisation
will be called before a special Jetferon
county grand jury August 9 to “lay bare
membership records’' and "explain
threats against Solicitor Davis by two
alleged members of the Klan,” the so-
licitor announced today.
The Bioux Indians onee owned the launch “The U. 8. A.,’’ rescued four pursuralw ^Hat it waa
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(By United Prowl
"DENVER, July ts.—Colorado will cele-
brate the fifty-first anniversary of her
admission into the union Monday. The
day will be generally observed. Banks
and business houses will close.
Wreaths will be placed upon pioneer
memoriala and monuments here and in
other parts of the state.
< By The Asnociated Press.)
ABILENE, July 28.—Harry H. Kline,
of Wichita Falls, who was stricken with
a heart attack this afternoon while
I driving his car to an oil well ng north-
I weet of here in Shackleford county, re-
mained unconscious and in a serious
condition at the West Texas Baptist
sanitarium early tonight.
M H. Powell of Dallas, had just been
picked up by Kline and when Kline
turned blind from the attack, Powell
took the steering wheel. In a moment
Kline collapsed and Powell turned, driv-
ing here.
down in a diving ault to explore the
vessel. McDonald said he believed more
than a score of bodies were still in it.
The "Favorite," a two-deck gasoline
boat 64 feet long with a capacity of
IM. left the Lincoln park pier early in
the afternoon for a cruise to the muni-
cipal pier, three miles distant. The boat
was about a mile from the pier and half
a mile offshore when the squall came
up.
Captain Arthur Olean, who was ar-
rested with members of his crew, said
the passengers caused the boat to eap-
size when they became terror stricken
at the storm. Little tots who had never
been in the water fought for their lives
alongside their mothers and a few men
aa the waves, rising with each gust of
wind, swept over the listing boat’s
decks and then partly submerged her.
Oue small lifeboat waa ent loose and
three small boys made shore in it.
Other children and women elung to life-
preservers er to the sides of the boat.
One small boy got a good firm graap
on the smokestack of the “Favorite’’'
and hold on tightly for more than an |
hour while less fortunate fellow-passen-
gers floundered or were rescued.
Rescue Work Hurried
Tke work of rescue was under way al-
most before the boat had settled. The
few men aboard the ship fought heroi-
cally to eave women and children, while
neerby seores of small craft also raced
to their rescue, removing many women
from sides of the boat where they hung
on for their ivies.
By the time the first rescue boats had
reached the shore doctors and nurses
transformed the entire beach into an
emergency hospital, working over some
of the bodies for hours in efforts at re-
suscitation.
Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, eity health
commissioner, rushed hundreds of doc-
tors and nurses to the scene.
The dead were not immediately iden-
tified, as there was no list of passen-
gers and hours after the accident per-
sons whose children or womenfolk had
not returned home clamored at morgues
seeking knowledge of loved ones, whom
they fearfully believed might be dead
or missing.
Several investigations of the tragedy
were under way tonight, while the
search for bodies was in progress.
The police and the coroner's office
started separate inquiries, and it ap-
peared likely that the state’s attorney
might also take action.
At first it was reported that several
boats had upset. Later, however, it was
found that the only other casualty was
a small speedboat, the occupants of
which swam to shore.
Boy Rescues Father
Al6-year-old boy rescued his father
and tried in vain to save hie mother,
who was already dead of shock, it de-
deloped when George Homes af Berwyn,
Illi., recovered foom exhaustion at a
hospital.
His mother, Mrs. Fannie Holmes, was
dead and hia father, Charles Holmes, an
insurance broker in Chicago is expected
to live.
“We were all standing on the lower
deck when the terrific rainstorm
started" the boy said." Every body rushed
to the east side of the boat to get out
of the ram. I saw the boat listing to I
ran to the west side.
“Just as I shouted to my parents the
boat went over. I grabbed a life-pre-
server and threw it to my father, who
was the first to come up. Then I threw
another to my mother, but she did not
see it. I believe she was dead then. My
father stayed in the water and I stayed
on the boat and we pulled my mother
onto the side of the boat.”
E. A. Berntt, a Chicagoan, managed to
save his wife and six-year-old child as
his mother died in his arms. He clung
to a rail of the overturned boat, holding
his mother while his wife and daughter
clung to his other arm. His wife suc-
ceeded in hoeping herself and child
above the water. Hia mother was dead
when a relief boat carried them ashore.
After seeing his wife and two chil-
dren depart for the cooling trip up the
lake, L. B. Hendricks, ef Sterling, Ills.,
sat down on the shore and watched the
craft aa it got under way and was still
watching when the squall struck, turn-
ing it aver.
When the first relief boat came
ashore, Hendricks rushed aboard and
collapsed when he saw the bodies of
his wife and children lying on the deck.
Hendricks had brought his family to
Chicago especially to make a lake trip.
Saves Four Children.
Although the forefinger of hia right
hand had been cut off, when he was
pitched through the glass window of a
cabin aa the "Favorite" went down* Leo
Soboth, 45-year-old skipper of thr motor
.use amsmameusOF CATASTROPHE
weather” is the word received her by
F. C. Hannett, head of the agricultural _
When they arrived at the municipal pier
he carried the youngsters to the pul:
motors and after they had been revived
went to a nurse and had his hand
bandaged. V
It was the motorboat- “Dorie", that
contributed largely to the rescue. It
io owned by William A. Hofnaeur,
wenithly president of a Chicago waste
company. With hie secretary, Gilbert
with one exception, and that waa Rear
Admiral Hilary P. Jones, who remarked:
“At today's meeting of the delegates I
informed my fellow-conferees that I
woul say only this to the newspaper
men—’you can draw your own conclu-
siona.’ ”
ed them aboard. We dived to libehte
those imprisoned below deck.
“We loaded the launch until it seem-
ed it would eink. We anet have had
M aboard. Then we headed for the mt-
nicipel pier. It was there that mothers
missed their children and parentlens
babies cried in panic and sorrow."
John Welsmueller, swli
dived for many of the bodies, being a
traeted to the scene from a nearby
beach, where he wee bathing.
। Br The Amsceiated Prem.)
LONDON, July M.-WUt is consid-
ered aa without doubt one of the world’
greatest catastrophes occurred May 83.
last, in ths remote province of Kansu.
China, when towns and cities, were
levelled by a great earthquake with the
casualties placed as high ae 100,000.
The Westminister Casetta's Shanghai
correspondent sends the first detailed
news of the earthquake, which came in
the farm of a letter from Monsignor
Buddenbrock, vicar aposteline of the
Steyi mission at Lanehow, Kansu. No
report of the catastrophe previously had
reached Shanghai, owing to the total
destruction of telegraphic and postal
services .
Monsignor Buddenbrock describes bow
the cities of Sisiang, Langchow and
Kulang were wiped out In the twinkling
■f an eye. At Liangehow alone, he says,
at least 10,800 were billed. The city of
Tumentse was completely wrecked and
buried beneath a moving mountain.
Missionaries’ estimates place the cas-
ualties as high ae 100,000 and the suf-
fering of the survivors la declared to
have been indseribable.
Monsignor Buddenbrock telle a stir-
ring story of how the quake at Sistang
occurred during the celebration of mass.
Immediately after the conseeration, ter-
rible subterranean rumblings were heard.
Dozens of worshippers, including the
mother-superior, were buried as the
ehureh suddealy collapsed. Priests
worked frantically to rescue the liviag
aad administer the sacrament to the
dying.
In the town arose one long wail of
fright and grief as the magnitude of
the disaster was realised. Not one
building was left intact and there was
j not one house which did not contain
: dead and dying. In placea the earth
apened, emitting bluish-black water.
Special to The News.
HEREFORD, July 28.—Tom Parrot of
Throckmorton, Texas, has just purchased
180 head of yearlings and two-year-old
high class registered Anxiety bred
Herefords from Jones & Dameron- and
Travis Dameron, Deaf Smith county
Hereford breeders. Six ear loads of
these fine Herefords were shipped from
Hereford Tuesday.
This is one of the largest shipments
of registered Hereford cattle that ever
left Hereford at ooe time. Mr. Parrot
also purchased Anxiety Stanway by
Bright Stanway, Jr, and out of a Beau
President dam from the same people for
11,000, and plans to use this line bred
Anxiety 4th bull as a herd sire.
This breeder has purchased founda-
tion Herefords from a number of the
big Hereford breeders of Deaf Smith
county during the last few months, but
this is the largest purchase he has made
in this section.
There has been more interest and
more inquiry for registered females in
the past CO days than has been seen
at any time since the drop in Hereford
cattle prices several years ago, and
Hereford breeders of thia section are
jubilent over the outlook for the future
of the industry.
a gigantic birthday party next Friday
and Saturday, July 28 and 80 with com-
plete carnival attractions, rodeo, base-
ball. prominent speakers, aad a free
barbecue on the last day. This annual
birthday event is looked upon by all
West Texas as one of the outstanding
events each year ea the South Plains.
On Saturday, the last day, 25 baeves
will be slaughtered to feed the large
crowd expected on thio occasion. 10,000
people were present last year and the
same number will be present this year
according to estimations from ths com-
mittees.
Miller-Blackwell rodeo will show dur-
ing both days with several thousand
dollars, of premiums at stake. Brone
riding, horse rucing, eirsingle riding,
goat roping, calf roping, breakaway
roping, steer riding, bull dogging, and
wild mule race will be only a few of the
attractions of the rodeo.
Pecoe Coker, famous trick and clown
rider of Ft. Sumner, New Mexico, has
been secured and will furnish many
thrills for the crowds with his daring
and clown riding.
Amherst fast baseball team will play
Olton on Friday and the Lubbock
Hubbers, pride of the South Plains, will
engage Amherst on the last day.
One of the big features of this oc-
casion will be a big dance each night.
Lubbock orchestra will furnish the
music both nights.
Among the noted speakers for this
occasion is Arthur P. Duggan, of Little-
field, Texas, past preaident of the West
Texas chamber of commerce. Several
other noted speakers will deliver
speeches each day. A 20-piece band of
Tahoka will furnish the music through-
out both days.
Amherst—the town that was founded
on site by lonely windmill four years
ago August. In “this short period of
time has grown to a eity of 1,200 popu-
lation. 20 brick business buildings,
8110,000 school building, four churches,
picture show, modern hotel, 24-hour
electric service, telephone exchange, two
of the largest lumber yards on the
plains, and $60,000 water works system,
are the accomplishments of this city
in the past four years.
NOTICE TO PAVING
ft CONTRACTORS
THE CITY OOMMISSION OF
THE CITY OF AMARILLO, TEXAS,
WILL RECEIVE SEALED BIDS AT
7:30 P. M. ON TUESDAY, AUGUST
2ND, 1927.
FOR PAVING WITH GRAVEL
AND OTHERWISE IMPROVING
WESTERN AVENUE FROM THE
NORTH SIDE OF THE PAVED .
HIGHWAY TO THE NORTH LINE
OF THE SAN JACINTO ADDITION
AND FOR paving with GRAVEL
and OTHERWISE IMPROVING
FIFTH STREET FROM WESTERN
AVENUE TO THE EAST LINE OF
FORREST AVENUE.
PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS
ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE
CITY ENGINEER.
A CERTIFIED CHECK FOR 5%
OF THE AMOUNT OF EACH BID
WILL BE REQUIRED WITH EACH
RID.
THE CITY RESERVES THE
giant fisherman, ea trial for the mur-
der ef Looney Merrill, a carpenter,
salmly chewed gum in court here today
while hia attorney pleaded for a ver-
diet of second degree murder.
The state rested it eaaa against Le-
vins late yesterday after reading his
confession. In Ute signed statement:
Levins admitted entering- the Merrill
heme one night la May aad killing the
carpenter, hia wife and three children.
after a very exciting chase.
In the car wa. found aeveral pairs ef ____
pants and two’ar-three salts, which.jt.aqrardi
it alleged, the boys stole pat ef a tailofeht,
shop in Childress. Johnston was car- , .
eiirx” DEFENDANT CALMLY
Johnson, owner of the stolen car, and
Edwar» le in tbe RUI county jail.
gyunp. KLAN OFFICIALS
TAMPA, Fla., July 28—Ben Levins,
eounty exhibited by the etub members.
Speakers will present the proposition
at the Monday luneheon, and something
definite will be decided just aa soon aa
County Agent R. O. Dunkle returns to
Hereford. The Hereford country is
known far and wide for its good Here
ford cattle, and with the quality staff
loeal elab boys could furnish some real
eompetition with the right care and
attention for their calve,.
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(By United Prew.)
NEW YORK, July 28.—Dodging pub-1
licity in much the same fashion asl
photographers dodged crockery at
Grande Anse, Bud and Lena Stillman,
happy moneymooners, arrived today at
Grand Central station and were taken
to an unknown address.
A few hours after the couple reached!
their hiding place, James A. Stillman,
father of the bridegroom, stood at the!
doorway of his lavish Park avenue
apartment and told the United Press
correspondent.
"I won't say where they are. Maybe
I dont know. That’s for you to find!
out. . But you'd better leave them
alone hadn't you?"
Stillman Pere was in a jocial mood.
He defended the plate-hurling exhibi-
tion of his wife which featured the
post-nuptial ceremonies at Grande Ansel
Tuesday.
A photographer approached the apart-
ment and asked the multi-millionaire to
pose { Still refused and the camerman
took> tke picture anyway.
"That's just typical of the way things
were at the camp,” he exclaimed, al-
though there waa little trace of anger
in his voice. “My wife ashed the
photographers to forget their cameras
during the ceremony but they broke
their promise and that’, why they got
theirs.”
Stillman said that hia, son and
daughter-in-law were not in his apart-
ment, although he admitted that the
exquisite wedding trousseau of the
bride, who now possesses such finery
as seldom has graced a girl of the
Canadian north woods, was there.
The young couple will sail at mid-
night Sunday on the White Star liner
Olympic, Stillman said.
It waa that same vessel on whicif
Bud's father and mother engaged
passage when they became reconciled
after years of stormy litigation.
The hoheymooners escaped an im-
promptu,reception committee at Grand
Central station when they arrived froay
Opening this evening at 7:00 o’clock,
the new Texan theater, San Jacinto, will
present Ceeil DeMille's new favorite
production, “Veiga Boatman.”
Owner of the new theater, Earl Meggs,
states that the new building and equip-
ment are in ship-shape and that theater
fans will be given “a run for their
IB, The Amocinted Prere)
i AUSTIN, July The attorney «en-
j oral's degartment today requested that
- another laager be eent to Marshall to
aid Ranger C. M Ezzell in protecting
state witnesses in the Harrison county
flogging eases, transferred to Smith and
Upshur connties for trial.
Adjutant General R. L Robertson, to
whom the request was made by Assistant
. Attorney General Galloway Calhoun,
promised to send sn other ranger
promptly if one can be spared.
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