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AMARILLO. TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 11, IBM.
PRICE FIVE CENT*
HOME EDITION
FOURTEEN PAGES
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FAMOUS WHITE STAR LINER BREAKING UP ON IRISH COAST
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KING’S CONDITION AFTER LONG FIGHT BRINGS NEW ALARM
Fort Worth & Denver Head-On Collision Kills Three
INTO HEAD OF
70-MILE GALES
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, is that there were not more than three deaths. At the extreme loft ean be seen the remains of a baggage coach which burned. Next is a bag-
CROWDS GATHER
men of the passenger and the engineer of the freight, yvo other trainmen were injured.
Cause of Collision
COMMITTEE OF
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HIGHWAY PLANS
PAN-AMERICAN
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LOCAL WOMAN
IS VICTIM OF
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<e< New Mexico this morning with
aren i. eentrat
janitor of the Sheridan High school
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Governor Moody
Ropes First Wild
Cat at Laredo
Boy Beats Teacher to
Death With Rock for
, Slap Three Years Ago
On Denver Undecided;
Third Victim Dead
3 Cheer Check
Items Omitted
IN TUCUMCARI
ON WEDNESDAY
CONFERENCE TO
OFFER SERVICE
ROBERT BLAKE WILL
BE SENTENCED TODAY
TWO UNIVERSITIES
ARE CLOSED AS FLU
.BECOMES MENACING
WHITING NAMED NEW
U.S. COMMERCE HEAD
BE TAKEN UP IN A
LATER SESSION
TO HEAR LATEST
BULLETINS
extengive low
the Canadian
COUPLE CHARGED IN HOTEL
SHOOTING OF ST. LOUIS
TRAVELING MAN
FOUR DOCTORS
ANXIOUS’ FOR
HIS MAJESTY
VESTRIS CREW MEMBERS ON
BOARD GO OVER SIDE
SECOND TIME
ALLEGED OFFENSES ON GIRLS
LAST SATURDAY NIGHT
ARE CHARGED
CHARGE DRUG ADMINISTERED
ON INSTRUCTION OF
COMPANION
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Where two Fort Worth A Denver trains hit1 head-on near Dalhart early Sunday after eonfueing orders. The wonder of the above picture
WILL SEEK TO ARBITRATE
BOLIVIAN-PARAGUAN
DIFFERENCES
/By The Amoelated Prase l
TUCUMCARI, M. M.. Dee.
Official Photo of • OFFICER FIRES
New President
IN COI D W coach rammed underneath the locomotive. The two engines are shown with their noses rammed together. The tender of the freight has
reared up over an oil tank ear which shunted the box car off the track and alongside the freight engine. The dead are the engineer and fire-
waters when a violent gust swung
the reeks with a crash
The first of Helal photograph of
EmiHo Porte, Gil, just inauzuratrd
as provlhlonal pewaMent of Mestre,
le given above: President Porte, GW
is wearing Ua badge of hie •fice
scroM his shirt front.
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which 3108 the ship fearfully. The
sEwXNEE; fenna"bE"io.-The
University of the Booth (Sewanee)
was officially closed today as the
result of an outbreak of influenza.
out the aystem of their royal patient — —
had become localized and that the ......... --I-.-.. ..
king therefore was in a safer post- FINANCING PROBLEM IS
tion. This situation now has been '
reversed. The spread of poison from
cent reduction in registration fees mmmm.anmauaaa.
of all motor cars, except commercial nrAnI W nnIOCAI
vehicles. and that nil registration IIFLIII Y FIIIAIIN
fees be bared on weight, abolishing WLTIWL I I UIUUIU
’the horsepower.
CELTIC DRIVEN
ON ROCKS BY
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(By The Amoeigted Prenay
TOPEKA. Kans., Dec. 10.An epi-
demic of influenza, as yet in the
milder stages, was reported in Kan-
sas by the state board of health to-
day. Revised figures showed 13,
Md cases of inflyenza during the post
week.
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TWO HELD FOR ASSAULT II DALLAS ■ BATTLE
amended in a long day’s discussion
snd argument were adopted today
by Governor Moody’s highway legis-
lation committee of 11 for submission
to the 41st legislature, while the [
question of financing was carried
। over into a night session.
The license and weight fees sub-
committee recommended' a 20 per
(By United Prase.)
STANTON, Mich., Dec. 10. - For
three years Jimmy Deakin, 11 years
old, harbored a grudge against his
teacher, Flossie Carter, n years old,
for slapping him for throwing paper
wads in school. Friday night he "get
even” by inducing her to drive him
into a secluded epot in the country
where he hammered her to death
with a rock, bo said in a eonfesslon
to the merger today.
Regarded as a "Good Sunday School
boy," Deaeon’s confession omased the
little town of Sheridan, where be aad
Miss Carter lived. Mia father was
Drastic Changes For
Speed Law Advocated
On New Mexico Roads
(Ry The Associated Press)
LAREDO, Doe. I—Dan Moody,
Texas governor, has roped hie first
wildcat, Sheriff Luther Snow of
Raymondville said here today.
The cat. the sheriff said. was
treed by hunting dogs on the R.
8. Sterling ranch near here, and
Governor Moody roped it, dragging
it to the ground.
Sheriff Snow is known for bio
lariat twirling ability. Ha has
caught several mountain lions and
wildeats in that manner.
FORECAST TILL T P. M. TVESDAY
FOR AMARILLO AND ViINIT-
use ley pertiy eloudy.
FOR WRIT TEXAS-Tuesdey unsettled.
FOX NEW MEXICO- Fairfueday.
5 Wenther CraMills,
Me premnure continuem lew over east-
shooting occurred oa the night of;
August 24.
Weman Entered Room
Jnckson testifying at the first pre-|
liminary hearing said that a few ;
moments after the woman had en-
tered their room, that James ap-
peared with a revdiver in his hand.
He Mid James started an argument
and began firing when Schmidt
struck at him. >
Miss Francis told of meeting
James at Oklahoma City and said
they had been traveling on the rood
together ae man and wife for about
three weeks.
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provai of the state health depart- by ppeelal train to.Dublin. en
to Kingstowp and Holyhesd
t'an*
MAY CONNECT PRISONERS
WITH LONG SERIES
OF CRIMES
(Dy Tbs gimlet»4 Prase)
WASHINGTON, Dec. !♦.— The
nomination of William F. Whiting,
of Mamachunetta, to be Secretary of
Commerce sueceeding Herbert Hoov-
er. was approved late today by the
Senate C—merro eomdhittee but
aetiom on U by the SenaWwent aver
unt tomorrow. Chairman Jones of
the oommlttao does pot .export any
AUSTIN, Dec. 10.— Recommenda-
lions of two subeommittees, as
Charged with giving Mrs. Pearl
Hudson. 33, a bichloride of mercury
tablet December t. which is alleged
to have caused her death at a local
hospital yesterday, Henry L. Long,
owner of a restaurant at 114 West
Sixth street, was arrested lata yes:
terday and placed in the county jail.
C. R. Hudson, husband of the wom-
an, was the complaining wltnaae in
a charge issued by W. J. Flesher,
district attorney, after Hudson had
made the complaint to H. L. Gaither,
chief of police, who took him to the
district attorney’s office, where it
was repeated.
Hudson told Chief Gaither he end
his wife bed not been living together
for some time, but that she had him
called to St. Anthony’s hospital,
where eho was a patient three days
before her death, and told him that
Cong gave her a tablet eight days
ago and told her bow to use it. Hud-
son is a shoe repairer at the Shoo
Hospital, 613 Tsylor etreet. Mrs.
STRENGTH IS DIMINISHING
IN THREE WEEKS’
STRUGGLE
the infected lung to other parts of ,
4e system must have an effect
«7 the heart, which already hae un-
dergone the strain of three weeks' 1
serious illness, and concern accord-
ingly was felt.
woempmee
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investigation of the collision of fest
passenger and freight trains on the
Fort Worth and Denver railroad early
Sunday morning continued last night
by a commission of the railroad’s of-
ficials and it was said the cause of
the wreck in which three persons
lost their livep has not yet been de-
termined. .
The disaster is unoffieially attrib-
uted ts misunderstanding of orders.
Loss of blood from s cut on hie
hip and shock were responsible for
the death of Dave Lyach, fireman of
the passeneger train in the Dalhart
hospital early yesterday morning.
Both engineers, D. W. Robinson of
tbs passenger train and T. W. Moles-
worth of the freight, were killed in-
stantly.
Injured Are Recovering.
Three injured remain in the hos-
pital at Dalhart but are expected to
be able to return to their homes in a
few days. They are C. L. Roberta,
Amarillo, freight train brakeman;
Asa H. Suiter, Childress, passenger
train flagman, and L. K. Rose, Ama-
rillo, fright train fireman.
Funeral services for Engineer Rob-
inson will be held at Clarendon to-
day and lost rites for Engineer
Molesworth will be condueted here at
• o'clock this afternoon. The latter's
m i a. ............ar 4 p. ss...........41 janitor of theisnenann uign ocaoos found a reek at the mm
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•-m yenterday JI st m ineh Weeping, the boy told bow be set in Centiusst oa Page 13,
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A proposal by highway commis-
sioner Cone Johnson for a law pro-
hibiting sals of automobile light
globes of greater power than that
allowed by law was adopted In con-
nection ' with the report of motor
treffic and regulation committee.
The weight fee committee proposed
that in addition to the present regie-
tration, lieenee and weight fees that
the legislature levy excess fees. a
graduated seat tax and each addi-
tional charges, including a tax on
gross receipts, against trucks, buses,
trailers snd similar vehicles using
ths highways, proceeds to go to the
state highway maintenance fund.
To Change Fee Distribution
It was suggested that the legisla-
ture change the distribution of funds
derived from charges for license,
registration and weight taxes, as be-
tween the counties snd state, ss fol-
lows: Counties to retain the first
323,000 or part thereof collected;
60 per eent of the next $75,000, and
M per eent of the remaining amount
collected up to »150,000, the state's
part to go to the highway mainten-
ance fund.
The committee's original recom-
mendation fixing the maximum
am Au nt a county could retain at
$100,000 was amended on motion of
Will B. Marsh of Dallas raising the
limit to $150,000.
The trial ef Urey James of Loe
Angeles aad Mies Helen Franeis of
Norman, Oklahoma, charged with
first and second degree murder res-
peetively for the fatal shobting of
Wendt Sehmidt, salesman of St.
Leals which opens here Wednesday
promises to be tbo moot colorful
trial of the fal terms of the district
courts.
Arrayed against James and Miso
Francis will be J. H Jackson who
was rooming with Schmidt and was
the third witness to the billing.
James and Miss Francis were
registered at the hotel co man and
wife, and during a preliminary hear-
ing Miss Franela testified for the
state that James had forced her to
go to the room of Schmidt and Jaek:
son to frame them so Jernes could
demand money from them. The
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wwper Mimaleaippi viley wensomai nr mbove
> sows tall. are generni this mornim.
The presgure win rime alightly is this
Ieplit favorine portly eloudy westher
V-iay.
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Tonyperator by hours at Amarito
mmammmm wum ■ ■ as those of their attackers.
MURDER TRIAL maurrarwuru,
tured after a gun fight with poliee
< By The Aswoelated Press)
COLUMBIA, Mo., Doe. IS.—Be-
cause of the prevalence of influ-
easa, the University of Missouri
was closed today until January 3.
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Dec. 10.—Palace officials
tonight were said in a semi-official
statement to be disquieted by the
condition of King George. They
took note of the fact reported in the
night bulletin that the general infec-
t on has returned in some measure.
at the end of last week the phy-
Asi were able to report that the
infection which had spread through
RETURN OF INFECTION
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BOB
m.,Tin"
Ke *' Aham
by making a rigid examination neees-
•ary to insure that licensed drivers
are qualified to drive sutemebiles. '
Abolition of the state speed laws
to be subatituted with rigid laws for
reekiess driving is also advocated by
Mr. Cansell. He believes that any-
one who has always observed the
present low on M wiles an bear oa
stale roads la a subject for the "wal-
lory of foriem figures.”
He potato out that tbo state high:
way department to eonatrueting 45
miles en hour corvee and recently
advocated raising the limit "There
to hardly a driver," Mr. Cassell naid.
"who observes the 3-mile an hour
law, and it would seem that a were
o
• Weuld Change Speed Laws
Me belleves that the elties x
not impale the xevenue pesnibi
Amk,c
school day after day and contem-
plated revenge.
On Friday aftemnoon the idea came
to him and he decided, he told Coun-
ty Prosecutor D. Hale Brahe, that
the time wae ripe.
He went to Mise Carter and naked
her if she would drive him down to
look after some traps be had set.
She agreed to accompany him.
Strangles Teacher.
The car went dead as Mims Carter
drove down into she woods in which
tbo traps were set, Deseon said, and
be gripped her by the peek and
strangled her lute uneonsciouaness.
Jimmy eald be got out at the ear,
worst damage was in the engine room
and bow nome of the men there es-
eaped le extraordinary
Tenders brought the passengers
«B>m M Cobb Lnteo they pmeoided
(By The Assoelated Prass I
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.— Faced
with a threat to the peace of the
western hemisphere ip the Bolivian-
Paraguayan boundary dispute, the
Pan-American 'conference on arbitra-
tion and conciliation took steps on
convening today to settle the con-
troversy.
Action in this direction wae start-
ed after President Coolidge deliver-
ed the opening address, in which he
urged delegatee to enhance and ren-
der even more secure the policy of
settling all international disputes by
peaceful means. He eald it was the
special boast of the American re-
publics to have first urged and prac-
ticed this policy in international re-
lations.
After this admonition, the con-
ference adopted unanimously a reso-
lution ereating a special committee
which it “chafgod with the duty of
advising the conference with respect
to the eoneiliatory action which, if
necessary. It might reader, cooperat-
ing with the inatrumentalities now
employed in the friendly eolation
of the problem between Bolivia ani
Paraguay.”
Argentina le Absent
All Americeeoropublica but Argen-
tina were represented at the confer-
ence. They gathered under authority
of a resolution adopted at the loot
Pan-Americah congress to agree upon
reducing ae much ne possible their
sbjectiona to having eli International
disputes settled by arbitration.
Tbo resolution itself specified that
in any case these objections should
not go beyond excepting from arbi-
t< ation disputes Involving purely do-
mestic matters, affecting third par-
ties, or touching upon the sovereignty
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HEADED TO OKLAHOMA
(By The Amoeinted Pres)
DALLAS, Dec. 10.-Benny Aid-
redge, one of two men captured by
police after a gun fight here today,
woe identified tonight by Lao Brito
as one of the two men who robbed
Brito end two male companions, and
kidnaped and assaulted three girls
near here Saturday night. . a-
Pietures of Aldredge and lee Boy
Merriman, ruptured with Aldredge,
also were identified by the three girls
(By TI»* Asoeinted Prem)
COBH, Ireland Dec. 10.—The White
Star liner Celtic one time queen of
the ocean tonight toy stricken on a
ledge of rocks at an exposed point
at the entrance of Cork harbor
There woe a huge holo in her bot-
tom and a big rent in her side while
13 feet of water was in some of her
compartments
“rhe 31,000-ton liner which left New
York December 1 and later called at
Boston went on the rocke during a
gala ourly today and after 14 bourn
of frantie efforts to refloat her she
still was elutehed by a group of rocks
know* as the Coy ant Calf gff
Roches point lightheuse
Without paate, without less of life
or even injury, her 353 passengers
were trans-shipped in a rough oan
and brought safely to land In lend-
ers aidd by a British eriner Later
In the dey part of the crew aloe was
taken off end landed
Torps deed la War
Marines who flocked to the outer-
moot points of the shore to see the
atrieken ship tonight were fearful
that the great vessel which had sur-
vived s wartime torpedoeing would be
a wrack High oom were brooking
ever her bow end eho seemed impaled
and immovable
Efforts to haul the Celtic off the
rocke were abandoned tonight but
will be renewed at high tide tomor-
row afternoon. While logs stood by
the work of patching up the breaches
in her bull aad of"pumping out tbo
water within her went on in hopes
of effecting temporary repairs suffi-
ciently strong to withstand the seas
until tomorrow's attempt
Mess sho ean be hauled off with-
in 24 hours the belief prevails that
the giant liner ie doomed
Ono of the drometie features of
the disaster wee the presence of 30
of the crew of the ill-fated Vestris
which suffered disaster just four
weeks ago For a second time within
a month they went over the side of a
stricken vessel
mt by 70-Mile Gale
The Celtic wae carried on the rocks
at 5:40 o’clock this-morning by a
70-mile gate. The storm was so vio-
lent that the pilot woo not able to
get aboard the big ship which woe
calling at tbo first port sloes leav-
lag Boaton
Tbo Celtic's captain seizing a
chance during a lull la tho dark hours
' sf this morning was almost in safe
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Dec. 10.—
(By The Amocisted Prase)
The closing of the University of
Missouri at Columbia today wae tbo
safest method to stop further
spread sf a threatened infuenza
epidemic, Dr. James Stewart, State
hsalth eommisnioner, said today,
adding that the course adopted by
Columbia and university authorl-
iorthwrat. Except is the
today will face charges of eriminal
, nsnault and highway robbery in the
1 abduetlen end assaule of Miran girt*
i held prisoner for several hoove sat-
urday night, police eald tonight.
Other charge, may be filed against
them, as police complete their in-
vestigation of how they came into
ponsession of wetchea and other ar-
tieles found in the nutomobile after
one had been shot when officers
came upon them.
Lao Roy Merrimac. 23, formerly of
Caddo, Okla., woe shot by Detective
Leonard Pack when he reached for
a shotgun in the bach seat of his
automobile. The other mon, over-
powered by another officer, gave bls
name ae Benny Aldredge, 34, of Dot-
lee.
Girls Bobbed, Assnulted.
Three young men with their girl
companions, were held up a few miler
south of Dallas Saturday night, rob
bed, and after their automobile had
been disabled, told to move on. The
giris were compelled to enter the
highwaymen’s meter ear. After driv-
ing a abort distance they wore made
to alight, and after being mistreat-
ed, were liberated several hours lat-
er ia the edge of tbo city. Aa over
eoat taken from one of the men
was identified ae part of the loot
found in the two mea's machine to-
(Br The A SI. timed Prm)
SANTA FK, N. M,, Dec. 10.-
Sweeping changes in the motor ve-
hicle code to provide for an examina:
tion of driven prior to fasuance of
drivers’ licenses and to require
periodical tests of lights, brakes and
steering goer and other vital ports,
ore planned la amendments which
James C. Cassell, Santa Fe dealer
hopes to have placed before the state
legislature.
la Beata Fo aad other places, Mr.
Cassell cold, drivers licenses are now
issued bat the licemses an dexigned
for revenue only end the examine-
tion ie hardly more shan a pratense.
Th* Cheer Check items in the
display advertigementa of three
merchant, were unintentlonally
emitted from their ad mppearing
in last Sunday's News-Globe.
The proper item for Killough
end Davies woe "Bill Folds" the
item for Jackmoa's was “Hosiery";
the item for the Peacock Beauty
Shop woe "Permanent Wave." The I
Globe-News regrets that in the
rush of business these items were
omitted.-------------:____ ’’j”
' The last of the Cheersems ap-
peared la the various merchant"
ads yesterday. It will apt be
necessary for contestants to
senreh ths ads in the week-day
insues of the Globe and the News
throughout this week for no eon-
tort items will appear.
Alt eontestahts meet bare their
pagee in the Glebe-News offiee by
midnight Tuesday, December 182
No answers received after thin
hour will be eonsidered. I
A committee of prominent eitit I
sene of Amarillo will oct ao
Judges of the contest. The declo-
lon will lie entirely in their hande
and judgment will be accepted «a
find. The Globe-New» will no’ |
be represented on the judge's com: I
mittee. It will be componed Mi
men who are entirely disinterestadd
in the outeome of the contest.
The awards will be announced I
from the stage of the Fair Thea-
ter oa the night of Decmber I
The complete list of winners will
be pubfished in both tbo Name aad
ths Globe of December 22. Chetka 2
will be mode out to tbo order gt
the winners end delivered fm
the Globe-New» office Decembe
tl or anytime railed for shett
after, d
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TULIA, Dee. 10.—Formal sentence
wilt bo passed today in district court
here upon Robert Blake, former high
school student of Amarillo, who was
found guilty Mveral months ago of
hilling Fred Conner, Tulia automobile
dealer.
Blake was given the death penalty.
He will be sentenced at 1 o'clock tkls
afternoon. -
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BIG PASSENGER LIST, CREW
RESCUED AFTER HUGE
HOLE IS RIPPED
L (By Ths Associated Press)
TLONDON, Dee. 10— A feeling akin
t the alarm which prevailed a week
ago over the condition of King George
was renewed today, though appre-
hension was lessened somewhat by
the nature of tonight’s medical bul-
letin.
It wm felt that the phrate "anxiety
must continue” In the morning bul-
letin would not have found place in
the report of the physicians, but for
some unusual fears on account of his
majesty's diminishing strength after
u three-week struggle against a ser-
ious malady.
The Evening Bulletin was rather
more informative and still dwelt upon
the etrain, which prolongation of the
infection le placing on the heart. It
read:
All Physicians Called.
“His majeety had a quiet day. The
signs In the lung have improved. The
fever petsists, although It le not so
high as last evening and ie due to
some return of the general Infection
which necessarily affects the condi-
tion of the heart.”
All Physicians Called.
Another fact tending to accentuate
public anxiety was the fact that four
physicians again were called Into
consultation. The above bulletin was
signed by Sir Stanley Hewett. Sir
, E Farquhar Buzzard, Sir Humphrey
Rolleston and Lord Dawson of Fenn
. The "anxiety" reported in the morn-
ing bulletin wae explained tonight as
being due to the action of the heart
of come return of the general infec-
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