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AMARILLO, TEXAS. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1928.
SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS,
HOME EDITION
AMARILLO BRAKEMAN DIES UNDER TRAIN WHEELS
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BURIAL IN AMARILLO
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stood that the body will be brought
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afternoon that he would ask the con-
louston inter-
with which hla son’s life was
gun
him in deep
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THREE CONVICTS ESCAPE
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FROM STATE PRISON
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HOUSTON CONTINUES
FREIGHT RATE FIGHT
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BIG CARGO OF LIQUOR
RATHER BE DEAD THAN
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MRS. LOU TELLEGEN
IS GRANTED DIVORCE
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refused t
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■ until Bill Norman,
litigation over the I
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ABILENE WOMAN TO
HEAD MUSIC CLUBS
ACCIDENT AT HEREFORD >
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freight train eaboone on whieh he
had attempted to climb while the
train wee la motion. Frank Crawford.
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NEW APPOINTMENTS WILL BE
BROADCAST BY NEWS
SUNDAY NIGHT
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into la 1026 after he
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HEREFORD, Tex., Nov. 22.—Ru
irday at
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PLAINS DISTRICT SERVED
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was an
The Amarillo Jobbers A Manu-
faeturera Asspeiation.
List of appontments of Meth-
odist ministers in the Northwest
Tosas Conference will be brood-
east over station WDAG of Ama-
rilol Sunday night between 8130
and • o’elock, it was announced
last night.
Announcement of the appoint-
ment will be made over the radio
immedistely after the list is rood
at the flaal Mssion of the confer-
ones new la progress at Lubboek.
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DAUGHTER-IN-LAW DECEIVED
HUSBAND WITH CHILD,
TRIAL SHOWS
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FRANK CRAWFORD'S FAMILY
LIVED FERE LAST
Two YEARS
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HI. nnd decreed that he is not en-
titled to benefits of n $3,500,000 trust
fund erested by the multi-millionaire
manufacturer for his son and "grand-
son"
This netion ended almost a year of
Special to The Newa
PANHANDLE. Nov. 22—The jury
was etill out at mldnight tonight
la the $1,000,000 breach of pramtoe
case brought againet i. A. Whitten-
berg, wealthy ell man, by Mra.
Deale Vandever of Electra. The
ease had gone to the veniremen
early ia the evening.
Plemone, got a divorce an4 merry
him. Mrs. Bates testifled.
The suit originally, was filed In
Plemona, Hutchiason county seat, but
was tranaferred to Panhandle man
vonganuquuq’A’ImAHr-
k tsn"Hehs“p“aajaareniut.
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Circuit Judge Arthur W
after a bearing, that De
(By The Amcelated Prea.)
HUNTSVILLE, Tea, Nov. 22.
Three eonviets eseeped the Wynne
state prison form last night by cut-
ting a holo in the floor of the build-
ing where they were housed?Captain
Hoving Men a great streteh of the
noutheast corner of the Panhandle
never before visited except by auto-
mobile, the 105 Amarillo good will
delegntion over the new Fort Worth
nnd Denver railroad xetured home
yesterday nt noon.
The three-day trip carried the
Amarillo business men over the 203
miles of the Fort Worth A Denver's
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pomjuP”neniqnfowamh ne •r
fellow's slews. A Methodist should
to her aad sho bad accepted the pro-
posal ia an Amarillo hotel
TWO HELD IN PADUCAH nUWft
PADCAT; Te^'Mlonii- After
they ailegediy had robbed A stor
bora Monday night and had staged •
gun fight with their pursuers, two
men were la jail bore today having
been esptured in Quansh last night.
Sheriff Payne, who teturned the
men to Peducah, raid charges would
be filed against them.
ATTACHE DBCAPDB IJUIT
washingtonT n^.^* H^
Georges Thenault, Yreneh milltn
attache. eseaped injary here today
when the plane, which he was pilet-
iag eranhed at Bolling Vield. The
plane was a wrist.
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Tito: sets tilt.
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PLANNED TO
"These resolutions were adopted
by the members oftheydelega-
charged with the alaying
Harris, a jury wm dineha
today la Daria* third trial.
(By The two He tte From)
LUBBOCK, Texas, Nov. 22Dr. C.
L. Barnes, Halo Center dentist, was
released under MM* bond today at
Plainview after the death of Miss
Jeannette Leng, from wounds receiv-
RAPS BIGOTRY, By Size of Whitney’s
FORMPRAYERS Estate Shown in Will
73,3*
at the time Mrs. Van Dever claims
she was engaged to WhittenherE she
had numeroua “dates" with other ,
Mrs. Boss Bates of stinnet tseM
fled that while she was in a hotel
Mrs. Vm Derar told her she had
“tax beaus aad eould get any of
them," but her children, of which she
had elz, wanted her to marry aa
ed la a shooting affray :
Hale Coater. Ho was el
QUma Himii hequesla inelude
the establiehment of tei
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an emotional climax such as is Ml-
■Iran witnessed in a court room.
r Shot Boa In Rage
Falk, In n drunken rage, abet and
over by the rear wheels
prayers and the pervasive spread of
Irrararaaoe, sluguish di
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Mis opposing the application of Gal-
veston City for equalized freight
rates to Interior Texas maintained a
steady fire today on estimates of er-
cossive Houston terminal costs of-
fered ia previous Galveston testi-
mony ns justifying the additional
line bool to Galveston without the
present cost.
The witnesses were railroad offi-
cials and attaches, testifying before
the State Railreed commisslon’s hear-
ing on the application. They were
examined by ouston erase sl.
GALVESTON, Nov. LC‘n. of
the largest liquor seizures la thia
yicinity for many mentha wm made
lack night when coral guards from
the Velaseo atation sbuth of Baa
Laic Pass, feaad aflauneh co tbs
bench with 400 sssm ‘of whiskey aad
Md srass ef raw aleohol. The launch
was brought to Galveston.
One man, on board the launeh
when a sqund of awe took posses-
sira of M, was arrested, aad charges
lust before it crashed.
The Crawford family came to
Amarillo from Booses about two
years ago. They had ne relatives in
this port of the country.
Mra. Crawford and her daughter
left last night for Hereford to make
(By The Amwoclated Presa.»
DETROIT. Nov. 22.-nder a cir-
cuit court decision today B-year-old
Dodo Alfred Beyor no longer is an
heir to the mihons of Joseph A.
Boyer, chairman of the board of the
Burroughs Adding Machine Company,
who until lose than a year ago be-
lieved the child to be hla grand-
Hunt announced thic
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Trlter.
ever ■■tanum entered* this ■eretae.
Th tempereture mo lomer over zhe noser
emsdissuryahwyand northern Rosy,.
F-eeme:
adopted mu of Mrs. Iesra M. Boyer,
daughter-in-law of the adding ma-
chine manufacturer, and that she
falsely represented the child to her
hueband, Myron L. Boyer, sc hle
son.
The court voided the birth certifi-
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(By The Ameetate4 Poma) ..
• MABBHALL. Tex, Nev. 22.—Un-
able to agree la the six-year-old mur-
der ense egeinet Welter Davis,
reeently completed railroad running
west from Ketel line to Plainview,
Lubbock and other South Plains
pointe.
The trip wae made In eonjunetion
with the celebration etaged by the
entire South Plain* a* firet passen-
ger service wae Inaugurated over the
now read, and the Amarillo delega-
tion wae but one of seven apeeial
trains operated ever the line Tues-
day and Wednesday.
Trippers Are Delayed
Completing the formal itinerary
at Lubboek Wednesday night, where
a reception wm tendered the vis-
itors by the chamber of commerce
and eitizenship of Lubbock, tke
Amarilloan, started bark homo over
the route they had previously in-
sperted: The break down of an en-
gine pulling tbs Fort Werth speeial
early Thursday morning delayed the
Amarillo train several hours, with
the Amarillo party arriving home
nt noon Instood of 7 o'clock in the
morning as scheduled.
With the 1M business and profes-
eienal men aboard the Amarillo
speeial were the U member, of the
high sehool bend, which wea the com
pl I monte of the erowde in every city
visited beeaune of Ite poppy musle
end Ite metropolitan appearance.
the establiehment of temporary life
entates in $27,101,347 to Jeon Payne
Whitney and John Hey Whitney,
caped before it burnt into flames.
The plane wm destroyed, and s
passing truck picked them up,
they raid. . .
Monta Fe railroad, was killed here
almost instantly about 8130 this
afternoon.
Witnesnes decIerod hat Crawford
minsed hie footing in trying to jump
to the step of the caboose. He had
been on the station platform, after .
aignaling the train to go. ahead,
waiting for the last car to go by.
Hle neck wm broken and eao lag
badly mangled by the wheels.
The train wae a westhound extra
freight, with meetly empty ran ea
route for Clovis, it had left Ama-
rille about HiM yesterday mornin
and the grew wguld have rejumad-
the next day after upending the
night at Clevis.
Surviving Mr. Crawford era bin
wif sad i1year-old daughter, who
live at 1804 Lincoln etreet, Amarillo.
The body la being bald at ths E. B
Black funeral ehapel bore pending
definite funoral arrangements.
JLos ANGELES. Nov. H-Mrs.
libbel Tellegen, wife of Lou Tollegos
former husband of Geraldine Farrar,
Ma. granted n divorce here today
after cho produced evidence tending
to show that the aster was unfaith-
Iragging sing-
it was well to have
(By The Aemocinted Press.)
CHICAGO, No*. 22.—A wet-eyed
iury in five minute* today acquit-
ted of murder a father who con-
lessed killing hle son after a “hang-
ing prosecutor" burst into tears and
refused to cohtinue the prosecution.
The judge, the state prosecutor,
the defendant, his daughter, who
was forced to testify against him,
and virtually the entire courtroom
including the jury were in tears as
the trial, less than three hours old,
came to an ending us dramatic as
any ever witnessed in the grim old
criminal courts building, scene of
hundreds of murder trials.
Arthur F. Falk, the defendant, a
former park commissioner, slumped
to the floor in n feint ns the jurors,
"# weeping, brought in a verdict
five minutes after receiving the ease
while the court, state and defense
attorneys and even specattors en-
Heavored to control their tears after
tHrTeAn
AUSTIN, Nov.
MOBILE. Ala.. Nov. it. -The Bleu
ville Blues of the Alabama Natipnat
Guard, stationed in this elty, were
ordered on duty at the eoaaty Jail
tonight as a precaution after the con-
fessions of three negrees to the kill-
ingefC.C. Coffee, retired insuranee
man. Coffee wm dubbed to death
an4,his body thrown to a lake. Tke
hegtoes wer etaken to the lake to-
day to ebow offieere where they bid
the body, but no trara ot it was
foun 2
FBOM THE JOBBEN8
“The members of the Amarillo
delegation on the South Plains
colehration trip wish to extend
to the members of the Amariilo
News-Glebe, Norris Ewing, T. E.
Johnson and Chas. Underwood,
their hearty appreclation nnd
thanks for its wonderful serv-
ice, both in the tranemiasion ok.
A letter which Tellegen pur-
portedly wrote to her, confessing in-
fidelity, wm introduced in court.
The Tellegens were married in Do-
eember 1923 in Ruthertord, N. J. and
separated in March 1924, according to
Mrs. Tellegen'* eomplaint.
been side.
farm revealed into today. One wm
reeaptured today.
The men were A. J. "Blim" And-
rows, given to years from Liberty
•eunty for robbery; Victory Arriola,
serving a life sentence from El Paso
founty for murder; end Augustine
Villenueva, serving four years far
theft in Webb county.
Williams Mid Villanueva wm re-
captured today at Willis, to miles
south of Huntaville.
It wm Mid to have been the eighth
eseape Andrews had made.
In two previous trials, Davis wm
cenvieted, sentenend ia the first to
if years in prison and ht the second
to a 20year term. Both eases were
reversed t 2.
la the third trial, ahe prosecutien
booed Ite ease ea dhe testimeny of
Mra. Harris, who eaM ebe mw Doris
running from a field where her hus
(By The Asmocinted Press.)
PANHANDLE, Texas, Nov. 22.—A
71-year-old oil multi-millionaire, J. A.
Whittenberg, being sued for $1,000,-
000 in a branch of promise suit, in
a courtroom hero today heard a wit.
ness testify that the woman suing
him, Mrs. Denio Van Davor, had said
cho wm going to “put sugar in his
Mr" Md marry him or sue him for
branch of promise.
Just before court wm adjourned to
allox the judge to ptepare big jury
charge, Mra. Van Dever, recalled to
the atand, Mid ahe hoped she would
"drop dead" if she ever made that
or any other statements defense wit-
msms had said she had made.
The old pioneer, who made hia for.
tune which he testified amounts to
$20,000,000, In ell on lnnda.be claimed
in 1898, previously had testified in
his own behalf that his relations with
Mrs. Vnn Dover had been those of
employer Md employe. In his tea
bears on the stand, he answered “I
don’t remember” to fifty-seven ques-
tions.
A Mrs. Lehrer of Electro wm the
witness who introduced the "sugar”
Angle, Mra. Van Dever, she Mid, told
her at the Electra roomlag house
wher they both stayed that she was
“dressing up for the old maa, wm
going to spit sugar ia his oar, got
him to’propone, cm him for broach
of promise or marry him aad cm
Mm for alimony. 1 cm do lots of
things oa what I ran get out of the
DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 22. —
Three New York fliers, who rode
into Dellas on a track, were suf-
fering only from minor bruises
after their airplane, they Mid.
had crashed to a fall from 1,500
feet near Mart, Texas, earlier in
the day.
The mtn, Juair do Creasy, Tim-
othy Pat O’Reily and Huard
Jones, Mid they wore fron. Miteh-
ell Field, New York, and “just fly-
ing."
Their plane went into a tall
spin at 1,500 feet Md dropped like
PAMPA WINS NORTHWEST METHODIST CONFERENCE FOR 1929
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old man.”
Other witnenses, including Mra.
Mazel Bag um of Stiaaatt, ante that
murder.
Dr.-Barnes and B. A. Maddox, em-
ployer of Mias Long, were said to
have been arguing just outside Mad-
dox’s effice whoa Miss Long attempt-
ed to placate them. She stepped be-
tween them just m a shot wm fired.
Dr. Banes wm placed under
bond Immediately after the ehootlag,
but this wm doubled when the wo-
man die4 today
Misa Lone wm tbs duyghter ot
Mra. James A. Long st Levelland,
widow of the late Bev. James A.
Long, Baptist minister. Funeral
gervies will be bold tomorrow st
at the conelusion of the
CHICAGO PROSECUTOR WEEPS FOR MAN WHO MURDERED SON
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OffiCERS OF MARYLAND | BISHOP MOORE 'Wall Street Dazzled
killed his 22-year-old son, Eldred,
three months ago today wbon the
youth upbraided him for coming
homo intoxicated. Offering his
father a shotgun that Falk had given
tho boy last Christmas, Eldred told
his father to fire, adding that he
would rathen be dead than be the
son of a drunkard.
Falk, his brain befuddled by drink,
pulled the trigger nnd his son fell
deed nt his feet. The father, sob-
ered by the shooting, attempted to
reload the gun nnd kill himself, but
had never flrad a gun before nnd1 •
did not know how. Instead he called
the police and made a full confes-
sion. His wife and a 19-year-old
daughter, Vernus, at first turned
against him but a few days ago de-
clared they intended to stand by the
husband nnd fnthor even though he
had killed their son nnd brother.
Such wnc the ease that opened to-
day in the court of Judge Denis
Normoyle when Falk, his face con-
torted with remorse, went on trial
for his life. At his elbow lay too
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Many other “ i wag are *•
be found daily la the “Ee
change Real Estate" col-
umns in today 'r Want Ato
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back to this city for burial.
Mr. Crawford wm a member of tke
Brotherhood of Bailway Trainmen,
although local railroad moa said loot
eight that they did not believe that
he was affiliated with the Amarillo
breach of the organization.
JURYDEADLOCKEDIN
M’DONALD WILL CASE
CHICAGO, Nov. ‘22A ghost
has become a co-respondent ia a
divoree eara and Judge Gemmill
has indicated he will sign the de-
cree.
“Hy wife," Mid Paul Boheim in
petitioning for divorce, “etarted
two years ago in quest of a 'dream
lever.' I stand randy to defend
my home against any human be-
ing, but the dream lover ia some-
thing else agaia."
“This ie the first time," Jude*
Gemmill raid, “I have over heard
of a ghost being named n co-re-
spondent, but I guess you deserve
a divorce."
for a Mr; house for an
apartment or aite; two fem
ily for e pioM of businens
' ptoperty; let for a mort-
children of Mr. Whitnes,
■tacke aad beads bold by Mr. Whit-
My. totaled $182,028,278,
in addition to the beneficiaries
named, Mr. Whitney left $2423,057
to Charles B. Payson, a eon-in-law,
of Manhasget, N. Y.; to Bamuel
Adama Clark, an architeet ned na eld
friend, bogMste ameunting to $017,
644, New York real estate worth
$77,500 ead a legacy of $500,000.
Finley Peter Dunne, creator of “Mr.
Dooley," wee forgiven a debt of to,- .
m. He also gut a legacy ot WM,- funeral arrangements.
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NEW Yokk, Nev. M.-The world’*
financial eenter, used to glib talk
about million*, gasped today when it
learned that the late Payne Whitney
bed left a uross estate of $104,28,514
with a hot valuation of $178,803,655.
Thin wm the largest estate in the
history of the trenafer tax buresu.
Filing of the estate’p apprainal re-
vealed that the financier and sporta-
man had bequeathed more then $45-
000,000 to educational aad charitable
inakitutions, including Yale UnIver-
■Ily—M* alma mater—the New York
Hospital, Cornell University medicai
school, the New York public library
end ether*.
. A residuary trust fund ef nrarly
$26,000,000 wm Mt aside for giving
aid to charitable, edueational,/scien-
tifie and literary organizations, at the
diseretion of the trustee*.
Mr. Whitney’s widow, Mrs. Helen
Hay'Whitney, a daughter of John
Hny, n former secretary of etale, get
the largest single share of the es-
tale, n life income from $54,202,604.
To the New York hospital, which is
cooperating with the Cornell medical
school in plans for a huge medical
center here, Mr. Whitney left Ilk,-
632,176,
To the president and follows of
Yate ValversIty Mr. Whitney be-
queathed $2,823,087, a sum over,
shadowed by donations the million-
al re had made to the university dur-
lag his lifetime.
The bequest to the New York li-
brary WM $6,210,726.
The finaneier's preparatory school,
Groton, at Groton, Mavs,, wm be-
queathed 41120222.
ABMEE,xn2"Mohn D.
Turk, Abilene, wm eleeted president
of the gixth district Federation of
Mucic Clubs at the second annual
convention bora today. San Angelo
WM cboseaWeatertain the next eon-
vention. >
Among other officers elected wm
Mra. J. B. Btowart, Sae Angelo, to-
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By HAMILTON WEIGHT
LUBBOCK, Texas, Nev. M.-lm a,
three-cornered fight at the North-
west Texas Methodist conferenee to-
day. Pampa won the IMP annuel meet
of the body. Amarillo wm eliminat-
ed on the firet ballot and Sweetwa-
tor, “dark horse," made it Interesting
for the Penhendie city in the second
trial. Pampa got lit and Sweet-
water 1M votes. The choice was
made unanimous.
Oa the first ballot Sweetwater led.
the results being Sweetwater 84,
Amarillo 55 and Pampa 68 votes.
Blehep John Moore nt the opening
of the conference this morning de-
scribed bigotry, importuned mote fer-
rent and Mil satiafying preaching,
and inveighed against sterotyped
DRAMATIC CASE
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FATHER CAME HOME DRUNK;
KILLED HIS BOY WHEN
YOUTH CENSURED
Otficers of the super-dreadnaught Maryland, on whieh President-
elect Herbert Hoover and party are calling to South American porta,
are shown above. They are: 1—Captain Victor A. Kimberiy, in com-
mand of the battleship; 2- Lieutenant Commander A. W. Brawn,
second in command; »— Leutenant Commander B. F. Brahe, ship's
chaplain; 4-Ehsign W. B. Caruthens ehiet adio operator.
PASIS, Tex., Nov. to—A deadloek-
ed jury in the W. J. McDonald wil
eaM appeared possible here tonight,
the foreman of the jury having sent
word to Judge Noumea Phillips that
the body probably would be unable
to reach an agreement tonight.
Judge Phillips left for his home at
Cooper after having instrueted the
sheriff to call him whoa the jury Ig
reedy to report a verdiet.
The mm ia which relatives ef the
late Paris millionaire are
bl will by which be 1_____
$1,260,000 to the University of Tezas
fer aa observatory, went to the Jery
this morning.
BRECKKNRIDGE PASTOR DIES
<M*the Aoeerintod Presa)
BRECKENRIDGE, Nev. 22—Te
Bov. B. o. Hood, 7, for to RM a ;
Baptist minister, died here M*
METHODISTS SHOULD SUP- JOBBERS BACK
HOMETHRILL
tion starting ia Childress Monday
night and ending in Lubboek Wed-
nesday night, was strictly informal.
There wm only one pre-arranged
speaking program for the entire two.
day affair, that being the duck ban-
quet at Plainview Tuesday night
when Plninview eras host to mere
than—IHto vieilOro from—Amariua,
.Fort Worth. Dellas, Wichita Falls,
Childress, Memphis, Clarendon Md
dorans of South Hsins pointe. The
entire official staff of the Fort
Worth A Denver railroad wm pres-
ent at the Plainview- banguet.
Sponsors Ara Pratood
Returning to Amarillo Thursday
morning those aboard the special
train were liberal in their praise of
H. E. Westmoreland, W. S. Noland
and John Cowan for the suceves of
tho trip, which wm sponsored and
set him, nitbough he
hla name, bead
ferenee to raise a half million dol-
lars over a period of three years to
pay debts, finish eonstruetion snd
provide on endowment for McMurry
college. Abilene. The New Mexico
eonference has become a patronising
eonferenee of the Vnstitution snd
adopted the dollar a member support
plan
Those who addressed the confer-
enee today were J. L. Lyon, Arizona
conference, on the tubereular sanitar-
ium at Tueson; Dr. J. H. Groeselose,
Old Woman's Home, Delies; W. T.
Gray, Waco orphanage, and Dr. H. E.
Stout, praeideat Texas Woman’s eol-
lego. Fort Worth.
J. T. Weems, O’Donnell, was re-
ferred for the superannuate rela-
tion.
Amarillo Distrie Keporta
The Amarillo dirtriel received dur-
ing the eonfereree year 1411 members
aceording to W. M. Pearce, presiding
older, of whieh Mb were by vowa.
Ninety-four infants were baptised.
Three thousand paid to orphanege,
91,235 to mission special, $2300 dol-
iars oa superannuate endowment
funds, Trianing eredite Ui la Sun-
day sehool, nt Epworth League ere-
dite, sixty-eight services held by lay
men. Total amount paid thia yeat ea
aew ehurches, parsonages $112,140.
Salaries M plu per cent paid and
benevolenees Bl per cent. A aew
$10,000 parsonage.
Claendon distriet, W. M. Morrell,
presiding older, 680 ow profession ef
faith, BM addition. Total emount
rained $146,000,
Labboch dietri rt, D. B. Doak, pre-
aiding older. Built eight ehurehes
Md three aarreaagM. dedicated eiz
ehurehes. Raised over $200,000. Fif-
teen hundred eonverelen aad net
gain fa membership of over 1,000.
Thirty-three eharv ia distrlet.
be wm born the Ma of an unwed
Canadian girl in a Windsor, Ont.,
hotel in November, 1923, given by
bio mother to Mrs. Beyer end smug-
gled into the Hoyer heme here.
On the witnus eland today Mrs.
Bovhr admitted the deeeption.
The suite heard today were brought
by/Myron L. Beyor, whoa he learned
loop then a year ago that the child
waa not hla own.
<Mrs. Boyer aald ahe la satistied
with the Mart’s decision. She plans
to keep the child ead educate him.
bo a steoach follower ef Christ
rather than John wesley.
Elders Give Reports
Presiding elders rendered their of-
ficial reports ' during the forenoon
nnd the charaeters of all tho travel-
ing preachers were passed.
Monorable locations were accorded
D. W. Hawkins, B. A. Moores, item
Billingsley, A. G. Hulme, B .M. Tor-
rail end W. U. Coughran. Hermon
Hookland, Abilene district wm dis-
continued nt his own request. Tele-
graphic greetings of the conference
were ordered wired J. T. Hicks, Mem-
pkis, Toms, founder of tke Heel
ehurch at Lubbock, who broke down
physically two years ago and wm
superannunted.
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Howe, Gene A. Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1928, newspaper, November 23, 1928; Amarillo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1567714/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.