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VOL 284 ——Aasociated Prew Day *nd Night Leased Wire
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Upper photo shows last picture of the Pedlar Doran plane taken just before the plane aped out of sight over the
the courage that laughed in the face of Pacfc. It wa taken by an NEA Service photographer from a specially chartered plane. Arrow points to Miss Doran at
view of the aame plane as it waa being prepared for the second start at Oakland
HIT-AND-RUN
Proposed New Railroad
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hi Spirit." they radioed the gay
to friends and the jests of
light heartedly on great adventure.
He was on an advance
dartillery
horses
instrument board went out and
another
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That was the last heard from Erw
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street, was found yesterday near Alan
Another car, a 1925 Star coupe be
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12-yeir jld
of
Morn I is bright for successfully completing a Plains-Gulf railroad.
alright and that Kani
yesterday afternoon following
two
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Police Go to Rescue
unable to mak
itended etate-
had dincovered a
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officiating on
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Department of Justice
Throws Open Files to
Sacco-Vanzetti Defense
of Umpires at Texan
Park; Bottles Thrown
At the same Uma a telegram waa sent
to Governor Fuller requesting a stay of
execution to permit inspection of «ov-
roared away from the
i airport that cheered
sage
going
Police went to the rescue of um-
pires yesterday during the Amarillo
League park, when a shower of pop
bottles was directed by fans at Um-
The nerioun Injury of Private Tom
L. Ewing. Battery D, 13at Field Ar
Hilary, Wichita Falla. on a special
national guard troop train late Sat.
urday night marred the homeward
journey of several hundred guarde-
ce aldn’t
S O S
units
on the
it was
the -
pita Johnson, wh »
the bases.
mes- (
men ,
equipment.
Immediately following the
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WEST HOSPITAL SUFFERING
PAINFUL INJURIES
TWO PLANES HAVE BEEN MISS
ING FIVE DAYS, ONE
TWO DAYS
fared by James D. Dole for the first and
serond planes to cross 2,400 miles of the
LOST EXPLORER
DIGS SELF OUT;
7 DAYS IN GAVE
WICHITA FALLS PRIVATE IS IN-
JURED ON WAY FROM EN.
CAMPMENT
SCORFS OF STEAMSHIPS ASSIST
IN C OMBING OCEAN
EXCITING MANHUNT CONTINUES
NO TRACE AFTER DISARM-
ING OFFICER
LAST PICTURFS OF “MISS DORAN,”
SHOWING MISSING GIRL AT WINDOW
trother and they went home together, made early today, pending word from
He said that he and his brother werethe dead man’s relatives, who are said
(By Th« Aasociated Pren i
SHELL MOUND. Tuna. Aug. 21—
Laawrence H. Ashley, explorer and
geologint, ImI in Niek-a-Jaek ceve
nince l**t Monday, dug himseMf out
eight milea from the main entrance
•t 9:30 o’clock thia morning
Ashley waa In ■ nemi-daze and waa
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time that he would live
Captain Makes Investigation.
( aptain Tharp made an investigation
and declared that it waa the accepted
opinion that Ewing was walking in his
sleep
He is the son of s prominent Wichita
Falla family and had been a member of
the battery for some time.
Ewing was ths third person to be eri-
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Amarillo Units Home
Three Amarillo National Guard units
and several staff officers arrived home
death, flew cut to sea to search the the window Lower photo shows an air vi.c c: itc ______ _________ -=. tu!., p.
waves along the whole route to Hono- field in the Frisco-Honolulu hop. Note the crowd in the circle around the plane,
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WEST TEXAS G. OF
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AMARILLO SUNDAY
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Mrs Junior told the detectives that
wile she was making the sandwiches
cavern even
WAS ASI H P IN BAGGACE CAR the heart. The pistol turned over to officers indicated that
riding with hl* brother’ wife th* night' coma up about,
before and that this afternoon they left*
the victim Sunday after
deputy sheriff, 200 Virginie 1
lory and the prizea of
o’elock and came by the nafe for hi. |
and navy planes spread their wing, over
the water, of Hawaii
What human agencies could do waa
done, will be done.
But whether those aought rode the
wevea or whether the wave* of Eternity
rolled over them was not known.
one wor an. hid
coded them. F rom their plane. the ‘‘Dal-
t. -20,
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o dark that Bill
No funeral arrangement* had been
Irving Odell Dies
HURT; WALKS From Shots Fired
OFF OF TRAIN
(By The Asnociated Free* ) $
WASHINTON, Aug. 21.—Announcement by the department
of justice today that its files would be opened to high Massa-
chusetts authorities, should an inspection be requested in con-
nection with the Sacco-Vanzetti case was followed immediate-
ly by an appeal by representatives of the condemned men that
the Lowell committee undertake such an examination.
‘ While Koune in South Dakota, yesterday
after they had discussed the cane with
Attorney General Sargent at hia home
in Varment.
troop train baguage car*. Another man
living *t < oraicana and belonging to
the 182nd Field artillery, was killed en
route to camp when he became wedged
Homer D. Wado, president of the
Weat Texas Chamber of Commerce, who
make* hia headquarters at Stamford,
waa in Amarillo Sunday and tomorrow
will be one of the prinelpal speekera
at the Perryton birthday celebration. He
will speak at a banquet in Shamrock
Wednesday evening and at the Weak
Te> a* Chamber meeting at Wellington
Thursdav,
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back home.
Mr. Junior .aid that .he thought
Pacific and nothing
and Eichwald Erwin, holder of the dis
tinguishe service medal for heroic serv -
ice for hi, country in Fraace during the
war of nations, and Eichwald, the young
heard from
had suffered
broken shoulder.
Two young man, believed to be fugi-
live* from juatice, who held up L. K
Richardeon, traffic offirar, Saturday
afternoon and smashed up hia motor-
cycle engine, are .till at large.
After an exciting man hunt which
reached over the entire Panhandle, the
men are now believed to be definitely
out of the reach of the law in thia »ee
tion.
The 1927 mod*! Hudaon sedan which
waa stolen by the pair from Hid Hedge-
coke, lilt Travis atreet, an hour after
the Dodge roadster in which they warn
eminent recordn. The wire to the Massa-
chusetta executive was signed by Arthur
Garftela Hays of New York, and Franeia
Fisher Kane of Philadelphia, who earlier
in the day had conferred for several
hour* with Aarting Attorney (.eneral
Hay* and Kane likewise made publie
a telegram which they aaid had been
sent President Coolidge at the ammet
Tula* double header
weeks’ encampment at Palacios, Texas,
the home of the 36th division.
The local outfits, headquarters com
pan yof the 142nd infantry, Battery H.
of the 137 St field artillery and the modi
cal department detachment of the 131st
field artillery, rode a special troop
train to Wichita Falls where the five
coaches required for the Amarillo men
about 7 o'clock. He said that he came that she heard their little boy tell her
in from the flying field about 2:30 hunband "Odell was patting mamma."
the house about 2 o'clock, returning1
ment concerning his experience ex-
tending over ala day a in the gruat
ceve. However, he stated that he
THREE DEAD, SEVEN MISSING
$300,000 SPENT FOR $35,000
RBy The Associnted Press )
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 21.- The first
trans-oceanic air raco in hiatory has
taken a high toll in men and money. To
date the record shows three killed, neven
ml.ting and In excesa of $300,000 .pent
to win $35,000 in prizes and fame
The only contribution to the devel-
opment of commercial aviation made by
the flight, according to aviation experte,
i. that . professional aviator starting
on a flight over a 2,400 mile course to
Honolulu ha. the odd., four to one,
ngainst hi. getting there. Originally
there were thirteen starters in the race
Gho htained planen
Pmu«e were killed en route to the
t?alace, one never got far away
rKBEhnome hangar and another was
rul hit before post time
Eine, Smith, the first civilian pilot
to Ay-n aeroplane from the mainland
N2he Hawaiian l.land.. .aid the whole
1%. tie wa “ "big miatako."
( all. In Stunt Flying
•■It in stunt fl: ing.” Smith declared,
"and not practical with land plane..
"And now there are el* men end a
pus Christi, business leaders and men of long experience ih * dash to catch their companion when
, railway matters here expressed the belief that the outlook they.realizedsthe.dancerbuttheywere
hetween two cars
detail handling
I plans the building of a railway connection between San An-
gelo and San Antonio, linking there with a lease line to Cor-
without Tulaa putting over tha
three run. which followed
After a disputed decialon at third
a few bottles were hurled at the
umpa from that seetion of the stand,
and when he went acroaa Iha dia-
mond and called an Oiler runner
nafe at firat in another elose play,
and repeated the performance at
necond during the theft of a base,
th* fan* turned loose with ■ regular
•hower of bottle*.
A doren plainclothesmen and offi-
ers in uniform rushed into the first
b«*e aection of the standa to quell
the attack, taking one fan into cus-
tody, hot l.ter releaaing him when a
deaperate howl went ip from the
standa.
Th* officer, .food on guard for
the remaining two inning., and then
encorted the umpirea to the clab-
house and from th* field downtown.
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M Wlson, 750 William:
at home when Odell and Mn Junior
earns in.
The brother declares that Mr. Junior!
asked hia wife to take him back to
work and they left in the car, returning *
about H 30 o’clock and that while he I
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them to am
cue, eager!y extended, but slow to
come
Five days had passed since the
“Golden Hlagle" and the Mis* Doran,"
berng their four courageous men and
that when they returned home that her
husband waa at home and that he told
her hewanted totalktoher; They drov: riding was found •’ the home •< c 0.
around the bloek and Mr Junior asked । Hester
her what ahe meant by going out with *
()deli and that he asked her if she had’--, ” ... .. . -
, . w. reed with the bearing* burned out.
had any improper relation* with him.1 a .. .Z.. «.
She denied that “he had been impro-longing to an Alanreed man, was ntolen
perly intimate with him .nd they enm* . . .. .am. tim. .. „ . "
DRIVER HURTS Promises Much for Many
AMARILLO BOY Panhandle-Plains Cities
------ I SLATON, Aug 21 —Following the announcement from Immedintely following the accident
. Austin that a charter had been granted by the Secretary ofCaptain Tharp ordered extra guard.
GRADY WILSON, 12, 15 IN NORTH -State to the Gulf and West Texas Railway company, which, I placed in rvery bag«age.car although it
according to purposes stated in the application for charter, n.'.? u'kLp'X h’wr
open
The companions of the two men mnade
crushed cheat and face and other inJu
ries. However, it waa believed at the
building he heard several shots fired. I AA• I 0 g"
After the shooting junior went di' nil f|U| L UII l
roily la the ahenffa office HI LHIIII DII
Th* three Ilttl. children, a boy 10 and I ■■ "•) ■
and I.** went after nome ice eream. They
at* th* tee eream and he went to the
kitchen to mak* sandwiches. She than
went to th* bathroom and heard neveral
.hot. Sh* declared that ah* ran into
th* room and that Odell told her h* had
been hijacked.
"I never at any time beard any argu-
ment going on," Mr*. Junior told th* de-
tectives, “and that never had she heard
any threata med« by her husband
againat Odell. Bhe egein denied that
.ho never hod improper reletion* with
Odell and sald that ahe couldn’t un-
traveling near
Score, of .hip. of the navy continued 1 noon of another hit-and-run driver, and
today to plow the nea in the search for as a result i, surfering painful inju
th. brave eeven The linera parting the [ ries at the Northweat Tv.m hospital
waves between the mainland and Ine I The little fellow 1, not considered *e
inlands maintained their .cenpelen", • riously hurt, but he was hit by a car
Out from the Golden Gate of California going at a high rate Or apcd, knocked
• oared army planes, working w. h th«l the pavement and „ wheel, of the
catapulted from the deck, of the elr- , ar passed over hi, body
plane carrier. Langley and Aroontook, The waN crosning the highway
and, far out in th* Pacific other army and couldn’ tel who wa. tn the car He
• aid he thought it .11 a road.ter. but
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 21 —The
vast Pacific ocean continued today
to hold fast the fate of the seven
who dared to fly over its thousands
of miles of landless water from the
shores of California to the Islands
of Hawaii Not all the resources of
the navy, the army, the scores of
steamships plying the great swelling
eea, nor the hopes and prayers of
relatives, friends and the world that
pays tribute to brave efforts
brought one word to Indicate wheth-
er the ocean hail claimed them or
It was perhaps the mont riciting
clash at Texan park thia eason,
with Tulsa and Amarillo dividing a
double header and scrapping every
minute of the' way from 2 15 to 7
o’clock.
Umpire Johnson, who was behind
the plate in the firat game, but on
the diamond in the second, got the
fan* onto him in the early inninga
The rafting kept getting hotter until
the seventh when he called Tulsa
runners safe at first and second
bases, when they looked like outs to
the fans, and if they had been out
the side would have been Retired
AMARILLO, TEXAS, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1927
HK FIRES THREE BULLETS HID GROCER I BODY
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PACIFIC STILL HOLDS FATELOST FLYERS; SEARCH STILL ON
GUARDSMAN IS
at the jail. The little boy, Lee Jr., said
that hr wus standing near when the
shooting began and hs thought his father
■♦hot four times.
According to the brother, Sam Junior,
when the officers came horns, the boy
told him he hsd seen Mr Odell loving
mamma."
< harges against Junior are held up
pending the outcome of the shooting,
officers said last night
Odell was picked up from the floor
of the grocery store end taken to the
hospital in a Griggs ambulance
Mrs Junior Makes Statement
A statement mads to newspaper re-
porters and City Detectives Lee Miller
and H W Turner by Mrs. Lucy Junior,
wife of the man held in connection with
the slaying was in substance a« follow*
That she in company with Irvin Odell
weni to a farm about 2 o’clock yester-
day afternoon. They took the two lit
tie girls with them and that she told
Sam Junior, her husband’s brother, to
tell Lee where they had gone She said
Down Friday Night.
And then through the 600 miles of air
came their S O S pierring the night ,
that overspread the ocean. It was at I
9 02 p m Friday.
• We went into a tailspin—S. O S We
came out of it, but were sure scared It
waa a close call We thought it was all
over, but we came out of it. The lights
BOSTON, August 21.—Arthur D. Hill,
chief of counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti,
announced here this aftennoon that
United Stales Supreme Court Justice
I Brandeis, having declined today to con-
sider the case, he would apply to Justice
Harlan F Stone of the United States
supreme court at bis summer home.
ously injured as s result of falls from
five bullets had been fired.
Junior would not make a statement to officers last night,
other than that “I think I killed a man and I want to give up.*' |
He was accompanied by a brother. Sam Junior, and hia (Lee
Junior’s) three small children.
The shooting took place in the Odell store room. The Ju- l
nior family was living in the house adjoining the store room.
Junior’s brother said last night that while he didn’t know just
what the cause was, he is of the opinion that domestic trouble’
brought on the trouble.
Sam Junior said that Odell hsd beenw derstand whst tha trouble could have
It is proponed thst, to finish thia con * -
Irving Odell, owner of the Odell Grocery store at 220*
Buchanan street, died at Northwest hospital at 10:45 o’clock
last night from three bullet wounds near the heart.
Lee Junior, a cook at the Kansas City Waffle House, is in • j
jail pending the filing of charges in connection with the J
shooting, which occurred at 8:30 o'clock last night.
Three bullets from a 38-automatic pistol took effect near
Pilot Jack Frost snd Navigator Cordon
Scott f Los Angles, of the "Golden
Eagl," nor from Miss Mildren Doran,
the beautiful yung school teacher, who
IFavely shared the dangers of Auggy"
Pedlar and Lieut. V. R Knope, who pt
loted and navigated the plane named in
her honor
Two lays had gone by since ( apt Wil
Lam P Irwin of Dallas, Texas, and Al-
vtr If Eichwald of Alameda, ( al . with
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navigator, whone hand on the telegraph
key sent the mesnnges that will show
others how to die to aid their fellow*. 1
Liners Look for Trace. ■ inguda.
nection, the line would be extended from I
San Angelo over the Santa F*’a branch!
to Sterling (ity, and from the latter
(mint * railway project involving the
conntruction of only 70 milea, approx-
mately, would tap th* Santa F*'» branch
line out of Slaton at Lames, thus form
ing the final contact with th* Plain* via
Slaton, where the main linn of the
Sant* Fe would be reached.
The Plein* to Gulf Railway Develop
ment asnociation, recently formed at Ta-
was abandoned It I* the belief of offi-
cer. here that the Star waa taken by tae •
suspeeta.
Richardson Saturday afternoon or-
dared a Dodge roadster to the curb o•
Taylor atreet, believing the car and ita
occupants to fit the deseription of two
men wanted for a $2,000 robbery la
Oklahoma City. Ha was covered by one
of the men in the car while another
took the officer’* run and amashed the
• park pluga on hit motorcycle engine. 1
They then made their way through the
traffic until lo*t from sight. I
Two airplane* were uned in the sesreh 1
for the men, but no trace of them waa
found.
An amazing incident in connection
with the chase occurred to two wall
known Canyon men, Bill Black, former I
sherirf of Randall ounty. and Joe
Gamble, pioneer Canyon raneher near I
Tucumcari, N.,M.
The Tueumari oheriff bed been
warned that the nuspeeta were coming a
that wayend barracadine • btidege with -I
one of hie ear* and with another fell
ing in behind the cer in which thu $w•
Canyon men were riding. I
“Get out of thet cer and come with
your hand* up," said the Tucumcari
sheriff.
Shocked end surprised neither of the
two Canyon men moved.
"If you don't Feme out of there I am
going to begin shooting." yelled the
sheriff. I
Blech and Gamble literally fell out I
of the eer but were able to explaie
their minsion end established thair ;
identity within a few minutes. Bleek
has bed years of experience as a penee
officer. The two were ea route to Tu
cumceri to buy come eattle and were
driving a Hudson ear. Black in tall
and lanky while Gamble ie short and i
heavy set. This general deserption led k
the New Medco officer* to auspect the
Continued effort* to capture the pair |
are to be made by local officiate aad
also Oklahoma City ofticers who believe |
the men they want are the two that I
were involved in the effete here, I
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Ennis. Texan, when the accident oc-
curred
Ewing, a memher of kitchen detnil,
had been asleep on some barracke
baga in the haggage rar with two
companiona and waa seen by them to
arine from hia bed, grope in Iha
darkness and then walk into space
through the open rar door.
The train was traveling about 56 miles
an hour and before his companions.
Private Eugene Farrell, Third Battalion
H eadquar tera company, 1 42nd Infantry,
and Private Frank Stanfield, flattery D,
131st Field Artillery, Wichita Falls,
could negotiate the long distance from
their baggage car to reach train offi-
cials and the train commander, Capt
Blucher 8. I harp of Amarillo, the train
had gone seven miles
A. T Rollins, Southern Pacific train
master, took chargo of another train to
go in search of the youth and found
him ais milea from Ennis. He was taken
to a hospital at Ennia, where, after a
hasty examination. It was found that he
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