Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 313, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 20, 1927 Page: 2 of 16
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CHAPTER 1
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INTRODUCED BY
remain fully clothed in which the fune- dependent schoal district has recently
tion differs from the ordinary evening been completed nt Dimmiek. The build-
HAINES SEES
HELIUM PLANT
and battling for honors. I won’t be fallen
FOR AMARILLO
bristles the wrong way. My assistant,
know him well, as affectations. But the
office had hopelessly fallen down.
eyebrows. Despite the aquiline severity
portance
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Another church for San Jacinto.
■ Contract has been let for the cn-
this ease is going to cause considerable
noise, and there’ll be a lot of jealousy
has let contract for construction of a
small concrete block building at 418 East
docket for this week. Next Monday Lee
Junior who will go to trial for murder
in connection with the fatal shooting of
Irving Odell several months ago.
oMaasmoes.
AM XI-
And I most certainly won't wait eves
five minutes for you to get dressed."
"Why the haste, old dear?" Vanee
asked, yawning. "The chap's dead, don’t
y‘ know; he can’t possibly run away."
"Come, get a move on, you orchid,”
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eral of the newspaper tournaments here.
He also has a brother, "Windy” Nichols
with much local fame in the baseball
and football circles.
Ted plans to be in his new place of
a larger and more substantial church
at a later date.
The cost of the new edifice is said to
be approximately $2,000.
Rev. J. F. Johnston has been named
the pastor and will take charge upon
completion of the structure.
MRS. ADRA GARRISON BUILDING
FILLING STATION AND RESIDENCE
Mrs. Adya Garrison, 807 Van Buren
has lot contract for construction of a
filling station 12 by 10 feet at 010 North
Fillmore and also a five-room frame
dwelling at 510 E. N. Tenth street. .
A. L. Rucker is the contractor, and
started work Saturday.
Argument Over
Klan Blamed For
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BUILDING WHICH IS TO
COST $1,000
J. F. JOHNSTON IS NAMED
PASTOR OF THE NEW
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JURY COMPLETED IN CASE OF 0.
W. WEBB AND TOM MINICK
MONDAY
lag throng of idlers. Another uniformed
patrolman stood in the little vestibule,
N. C FERGUSON LETS CONTRACT
FOR TWO BUILDINGS
N. C. Ferguson, local realtor, ban
awarded contract for the erection of •
two four-room dwellings, one at 1224
and one at 1226 West 9th street.
The houses should be completed not
later than November 10.
NEW BUILDING.
OF PAPER CD.
Humphries Highland addition is uni-
' quely appreciated for the reason that
it furnishes water for all domestic pur-
poses at a flat rate of $1.50 per month.
The Lock Joint Pipe company has
Just recently completed an extensive
plant and commenced operations at 1400
taurmem• nnu
67 West 48th St.
was setting down the eup, when Vanee,
who had been watching him with quizzi-
eal amusement, remarked:
"I say; why this sad preoccupation
over the passing of one Behnon! Ten
weren't, by any chance, the murderer,
what?"
Markham ignored Vance’s levity.
"I'm on my way to Benson's. Do you
care to come along? You naked for the
experience, and I dropped in to keep my
promise.”
/ 1 then recalled that several weeks be-
fore at the Stuyvesant CInb, when the
subject of the prevalent homicides in
Ing covers three thousand square feet
and will be used as an auditorium until
an addition for school room purposes
has been constructed.
Paving has been completed as far as
Twelfth on Grant street.
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“You remember everything, don’t
your Vance replied lezily. "An admir-
able gift, even if an uncomfortable one "
He glanced at the clock on the mantel;
it lacked a few minutes of nine. “But
what an indecent hour! Suppose some-
one should see me."
Markham moved forward impatiently
la his chair.
“Well, if you think the gratification
of your curiosity would compensate you
for the disgrace of being seen in publie
at 0 o’eleek in the morning, yea’ll have
to hurry I certainly won’ take yea in
drensinegown and bed-room slippers.
In the academic principles of psychology,
and all his courses at sollego had either
centered about this subject or been sub-
ordinated to it
. Vance’s mind was basically philosophic
inc me; and rve marked the ones I
want you to buy for me as soon as the
gallery opens this morning."
Vance was what many would call a
dllettante. But the designation does
Mas injustice. Ra was a man of unusual
night of the Amarillo Paper company at
its house-warming commemorating the
formal opening of its new plant at 308
Eust First street.
Flowers, the congratulatory gifts el
scores of Amarillo wholesalers, retailers
and professional men, literally were
banked all around the offices and en-
trance to the new building.
Mrs. W. R. Pumphrey, treasurer and
manager of the Amarillo Paper com-
pany, and W. K. Pumphrey, the sales
manager, together with all the employes,
"If you do,” smiled Markham, “he’ll
probably arrest you as a suspicious char-
acter."
We had drawn up abruptly in front of
an old brownstone residence on the up-
per side of Forty-eighth street, near
Sixth avenue. It was a house of the bet-
ter Mass, built on a 25 foot lot in a day
when permanency and beauty were atill
matters of consideration. The design
was conventional, to accord with the oth-
er houses in the block but a touch of
luxury and individuality was to be seen
in its decorative copings and in the stone
There was a luncheon yesterday noon
at the Amarillo hotel, at which Mr. and
Mrs. Pumphrey were hosts to officiate
and employes of the company.
Last night there was dancing at the
new plant, and the visitors were shown
through it. There were souvenirs for
the guests, and "open house" was main-
tained until a late hour -as late, Mes.
Pumphrey said, as anyone cared to stay.
With "Uncle Ben” Hirachland, vice
president of the company, as toastmas-
ter, most of those present at the lunch-
eon responded to toasts in which the
company ite highly complimented and
good wishes voiced for its future.
had expressed a desire to aecmpany the
district attorney on one of his investi-
gations; and that Markham had prom-
ised to taka him on his next important
ease.
belie of eternal justice—had in that
moment been born in Markham’s body.
I was to witness this transformation
many times be tore our association end-
ed. In fact, this very morning, as he
sat pposite to me in Vance’s living room,
there was more than a hint of it in the
aggressive sternness of his expression:
and I knew that he was deeply troubled
over Alvin Benson’s murder.
20, 1927,
“Ebon I” sighed Vance. “The world is
full of Heaths. Beastly nuisances.?
"Don't misunderstand me,” Markham
hastened to assure him. "Heath is a good
man—in fact, as good a man as we’ve
get. The mere fact that he was assigned
to the case shows how seriously the af-
fair is regarded at headquarters. There’ll
bo no unpleasantness about my taking
ebarge, you understand; but I want the
atmosphere to be as hleyon as possible.
Heath’ll resent my bringing along you
two chaps as spectators, anyway; so I
beg of you, Vance, emulate the modest
violet.”
"I prefer the blushing rose, if you
don’t mind," Vanee protested. "However,
I’ll instantly give the hypersensitive
LOS ANOELES, Sept. 19 —Henry
T. Mitchell, wealthy realtor, died
today from genshot wounds received
in a fight which police said waa
preelplated by an argument over the
Ku-Klux Klan.
Following Mitehell’s death the
sherirr’s office organised a man
hunt for A. H. Van de Mark. In
whose home Mitchell won shot. Van
blocks had been arranged in just that and my assistant on duty notified me im- l zoad. facilitiez safe and supreme, is a Novmber. 1te b
the first of
Cool Re
Of these dramas Vance was the central truth is. there waa very little of the
character. By an analytical and interpre- poseur about him. »
tative process which, as far as I know. He was unusually good-looking, al-
has never before been applied to erimi- though his mouth was ascetic and cruel,
nal activities, he succeeded in solving like the mouths on some of the Medlei
many of the important crimes on which portraits; moreover, there was a slight-
both the police and the district attorney’s |y derisive haatecr in the lift of his
successful prosecutor during the four
years of his incumbency was such a re-
markable one that even today it is not
Infrequently referred to in legal and
political discussions.
Markham. was a tall, strongly built
man in the middle forties, with a clean-
shaven. somewhat youthful face which
belied his uniformly gray hair. He was
not handsome according to conventional
standards, but he had an unmistakable
air of distinction, and was possessed of
an amount of social culture rarely found
in our latter-day political office-holders.
When his nature was relieved of the
stress of duty and care, ho was the most
gracious of men. But early in my ac-
quaintance with him I had seen his atti-
door which was about six feet above
the street level at tbd top of a flight of
ten broad stone stairs. Between the en-
trance and the right-hand wall were two
spacious windows covered with heavy
iron grilles.
A considerable crowd of morbid on-
lookers had gathered in front of the
boose; and on the stage lounged several
alert-looking young men whom I took
to be newspaper reporters. The door of
our taxicab was opened by a uniformed _______________
patrolman who saluted Markham with outer door open for us and Minted with
exaggerated respeet and ostentatiounly great dignity.
elenred a passage for us through the gap- (To Bo Cogtinued in Glebe Tomonrow)
Ted Nichols, Amarillo baseball player
ia going in the restaurant business, and
the district attorney's
to clarify my role of narrator in this chronicle. The legal tra-' Vance and 1 had just settled back in hurried breakfast and started for Ben-
dition ia deeply imbedded in my family, and when my prepara- oun chairafo oursecondsupofcoffne ri-tb^Xt Heslived in,West
. V w 4 « * ...44.. and A Cgaret when < urrie, answering ergntn street, and as I passed your
tory-school days Were over, I was sent, almost as a matter Ol an impetuous ringing of the front-door corner I remembered your request, and
course, to Harvard to study law. It was there I met V ance, a re- bell, ushered the district attorney into dropped by to see if you cared to go
plebeian early rising fatigues me, y'
know."
He riffled the pages of the volume,
pausing here and there at a reprodue-
tion
"Thi chap Vollard," he remarked at
length, “has been rather liberal with
our art-fearing country. He has sent
a really goodish collection of his
Cezannes here. I viewed 'em yesterday
with the proper reverence and, I might
unerring poker players 1 have even aeen.
I mention this fact not merely because
it was unusual and significant that a
man of Vanee’s type should have pre-
ferred so democratic a game to bridge or
chess , for instance, but because bia
knowledge of the neience of human
psychology involved in poker had an
intimate bearing on the chronicles I am
about to set down.
Vance's knowledge of psychology was
indeed uneanny. He was gifted with an
instinetively mecurate judgment of peo-
ple. aad his study and roading had eo-
ordinated and rationalised this gift to aa
aasaaiag extent. He was well grounded
The jury waa completed and two of
the state’s witnesses testified in the
trisl opened yesterday of O. W. Webb
and Tom Minnick charged in district
court with robbery with firearms.
The two who testified were Lee
Berry, who it is alleged was robbed of
0500 at the point of a pistol near the
stock yards early last spring and Alfred
Goforth.
The completed jury is T. H. Bean, J.
F. Cunningham, J. W. Colton, W. L.
Darrett, M. P. Fields, Sam J. Orr, H. W.
Knapp, J. S. Ulm, J. A. Warren. Elmo
Vest, G. D. Thompson and J. F. Merritt.
This ia the only case of any im-
The government's proposed helium
plant is practically assured for Amarillo.
This was the declaration yesterday of
Col. Harve H. Haines, vice-president and
general manager of the Board of City
Development, following announcement
President Coolidge had authorised an
appropriation of 1275,000 for the con-
struction of such a plant.
There remains now only the comple-
tion of surveys and the awarding of
contraets before actual construction
work on the plant ia undertaken here,
Colonel Haines believes.
The government has a long time lease
on about fifteen sections of gas-beating
land near Amarillo, and topographical
engineers now are making surveys here
on several sites recommended for erec-
tion of the helium plant
it le the hellef of Eengrezzmen Mer-
vin Jones, Colonel Haines and others
interested in the helium plant, that its
coming will eventually make Amarillo
a government base for air activities in
the southwest
__________________ Heath one of my choicest Regie cigar-
He swelewed hisceffee rapidly, and. A with the rn«e-peta1 t>V«"
(From The Wigwam, official publi-
cation of the Kiwanis club.)
| John Gilvin, loyal Kiwanian, Presi.
I dent of Tri-State Fair, we aalute you,
and take this opportunity to pay tribute.
( We are proud of you. You have been
, active and helpful to Kiwanis, but this
year went into a larger sphere of action,
j You have done yourself, your Kiwanis
Club and your town an honor. You have
Johnson street. This company manu-
factures storm swer pipe, tiling and
such other products of liko nature.
Nearly one-half block has been covered
with threo and one-half feet diameter
tiling -since the plant began operations
a few days ago.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber com-
pany's new building. Ml Johnson street,
has recently been completed and turned
over in readiness for occupancy by
George Farr, contractor. The building
ia 15,000 square feet in dimension and
the Goodyear people will immediately
move their stock from their present
location at 501 Grant street. These
hopelessly split by the political juggling
of his opponents. He was an indefatig-
able worker, and projected the district
attorney's office into all manner of
criminal and civil investigations. Being
utterly incorruptible, he got only
aroused the fervid admiration of his
constituents, but produced an almost un-
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BENSON, Alvin H.
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New York was being discssed, Vance the windows.
REAL ESTATE AND MANYWSPECT
affairs of your smart set."
“My dear Markham!"—Vance’s tone
was one of melancholy reproof —
"The horrified moralist in your nature
is at work again.” -
Markham was too abstracted to follow
up Vance’s badinage.
“There are one or two things,” he
said soberly, “that I think I'd better
who's there now tells me he thinks the
inspector has put Heath in charge.
Heath's a sergeant in the homicide bu-
reau, and is undoubtedly convinced at
the present moment that I'm taking hold
in order to get the publicity."
“Aren't you his technical superior!"
asked Vance.
"Of course; and that makes the situa-
tion just so much more delicate. .. .1
wish to God the major hadn't called me
HOUSE-WARMING THROUGHOUT
DAY FEATURED BY LUNCH-
EON AND DANCE
Several thousand Amarillo folks, and
a large number from Oklahoma City and
other pointe removed from here, were
guests yesterday afternoon and last
tude of cordiality suddenly displaced by
one of grim authority. It was as if a
eel—that ia. philosophical in tho more ! the other urged. “This affair ia Ao Joke,
general sense. Being singularly free : It’s damned serious; and frem the looks
from the conventional sentimentelitie« of it it’s going to eguse an ungodly
and current superstitions, he could look j scandal What are you going to do?”
beneath the surface of human acta into > "Oor I shali humbly follow the great
Due to my peculiar relations with of his lineaments his face was highly
Vance it happened that not only did sensitive. His forehead was full and
I participate in all the cases with which sloping—it was the artist's, rather than
he was connected, but I was also present . the scholar's, brew. His cold grey eyes
at most of the informal discussions con-1 were widely spaced. His nose was
earning them which took place between straight and slender, and his chin nar-
him and the district attorney; and. be- row but prominent, with an unusually
Ing of methodical temperament, I kept deep cleft. When I saw John Barry-
a fairly complete record of them. In more recently ia Hamlet I was somehow
addition, I noted down (as accurately as reminded of Vance; and once before, In
memory permitted) Vance’s unique a scene of Caesar and Cleopatra flayed
psychological methods of determining by Forbes- Robertson, I received a sim-
served, cynical and caustic freshman who was the bane of his the living room. along." , trial city and other adjacent communi-
professors and the fear of his fellow classmen. Why he should raiaine . nana. Noixockhatonalalmn. najafuingsonsidupts: "hmnrmerord . .min tt
have chosen me, of all the students at the university, for his ex- "New York's leading art connoisseur is polychrome mirror by the door. Then he
tra-scholastic association, I have never been able to understand up and about!" turned to me. “Come, Van. We'll all gze
*AGE TWO '
BNSONQMURDER@CASE
actuating impulses and motives. Moio- zvenger of the common people," returned ! I _UL \
over, he was resolute both in his avoid I Vanee, rising and making an obsequious | T---- ’ : enurpAeeA. enweperr
aaee of any altitude that savored of ow, . enNc nr uAuMro run caw ic LEIS CONTRACT FOR CONCRETE
credulousness, and in his adherence to Ho rang for Currie, and ordered his 9yN- •r nAmmEK ANU SAW 19
cola.Pro-! elepmatronnga Ki, Whieh Mar. Mark- HEARD IN EVERY PART
"Until we ran approach all human ham is holding over a corpse, and Iwant i OF CITY
problems," He once remarked, "with the 1 something rather spiffy. Is it warm I
clinical aloofness and cynical contempt enough for a silf salt!. ...And a lavea-I
of a doctor examining a guinea-pigi der tie by all means.” | Amarillo's building activities are on
strapped to a board, wo have little Vance was now dressing, with Currie’s the ascendency, and she is stending to
(Friday, June 14, 8:30 a. m.) ,
It happened that, on the morning of the momentous June the social animal, and when he went forth experience and one that promised such more and move
fourteenth when the discovery of the murdered body of Alvin into the social world it was generally dramatic possibilities for his alert and each new dar- -
ii. Benson created a sensation which, to this day, not Ineupea k on hhenb-younknmwnAsvin Ben........... “
tirely died away, I had breaklasted with Ehio, Vance in ms night before that memorable June believe," the district attorney stid. "Well struetion and many are of recent comple-
apart ment. It was not unusual for me to share V ance’s lunch- breakfast; otherwise, we would have early thia morning his housekeeper tion.
eons and dinners, but to have breakfast with him was something conaulted about .the Cezannes th. eve: phoned the localLprecinet station that plocnuand.9 "n omownoinvatorscare
ii _ 1i na i w.. hie hahi +. r. ning before; and Vance groused a good she had found him shot through the revealing faith in Amarillo and her con-
of an occasion. He was a late riser, and it was his habit to re- den about it while Currie was serving head, fany dressed and sitting in his fu- tiguous territory.
main incommunicado until his midday meal. I our strawberries and eggs Benedictine, vorite chab in his living room. The mes- Her fertility of field and farm, her in:
The reason for this early meeting was a matter of business Later on I was to give profound thanks sage, of course, was put through at once vigorating atmosphere, pure water and
—or rather, of aesthetics. On the afternoon of the previous day t_the.God_o Coincidenee that athe totheuteleeraphoureauuathendguarters muDdane.e natures favors with Tai
Vance had attended a preview of Vollard a collection of Cez- pattern; for bad Vanc been slumbering mediately. I was tnpta to let the casetruth being told from coast to coast
anne water-Colors at the Kessler Galleries, and having seen peacefully at 9 o'clock when the district follow the regular police routine. But and from the mountains to the sea.
several pictures he particularly wanted, he had invited me to attorney called, I would probably have half an hour later Major Benson; Alvin's 1 New railwayalines are being throwni
an cariv hreakfast to cive me instructions regarding their pur- missed four of the most interesting and brother phoned me and asked me, as a out in.cen direction to accommodate |
an early breakfast to g1e me instrut lions rtgaruing nenr pur exeiting years of my life; and many of specinl favor to take charge. known Amarillo s expanding area of commeree
chase. New Yorks shrewdest and most de.- the major for twenty years, and I I in suPply ing her neighbors with every
A word concerning my relationship with Vance is necessary perate criminals might still bo at large. couldn't very well refuse. So, I took a | need, and luxury:.
to clarify my role of narrator in this chronicle. The legal tra-' Vance and I had just settied back in hurried breakfast and started for Ben uppummterediithmnewi, strmeures.Kming
2-- i-an :----c-miu -nN when--npenara-lour chairs fox our second cup of coffee son', house. He lived in West Forty- ^ur room brik school hOuse on East
Thirteenth, four blocks off the high-
way in Hemphill Highland auditorium, to
serve the students of Fairview, Indus-
Ineidentally ha
chance of getting at the truth." i assistance, at a rate of speed I had rare- ’ dap upon the threshhold of another con-
Vanee led sn active, but by no means ly seen him display in such matters. Be- l streetion season. ( 1oth Street.
animated, social life- a concession to neath his bantering pose I recognised ‘ The sound of the hammer and the song G• E: Duncan, was given the contract
various family ties. But he was not a the true eagerness of the man for a now of the saw is resounding in Amarillo »[or the new struetiire and work has
..... r- with the dawning of begun. It will be.12 by 30 feet and is
Towering commercial/to. cost approximately 01.000..
Ted ia well known among Amarillo -------t-e —
fans and has be en seen many times in iaternoon and until late in the evening,
action. He starred on the mound in1 welcoming their guests and well-wish-
precedented sense of security in those
who had opposed him on partisan lines.
He had been in office a few months ana naming xor nonors. i won v ve isiien
when one of the newspapers referred to 1 upon and caressed affectionately by the
him as the Watch Dog; and the sobri- ' police for coming in at thia stage of the
quet clung to him until the end of his'game; so be careful not to rub their
administration. Indeed, his record as a bristle
There was a shallow paved areaway
between the street line aad the front
elevation of the house; but this was aa- >
closed in a high iron railing, and the
only entrance was by way of the front
fully. My own liking for Vance wan simply explained: he fasci- "And 1 am suffused with blushes at upon the defunct Benson. I‛m sure some
a . 12a a j__...a . L,;., A the disgrace of it,” Vance replied. of Markham's sleuths will unearth the
nated and interested me, and supplied me with a novel kind of I was evident, however, that the dis- | fact that I detested the bounder and ac-
intellectual diversion. j trict attorney was not in a jovial mood, case me of the crime; and I'll feel safer.
Upon graduation I entered my father’s law firm--Van Dine His face suddenly sobered, don't y‛ know, with legal talent at hand
second Van Dine of V an Dine, Davis and V an Dinp, which of- The fact is, Alvin Benson has been mur- not had me along. But I was too deeply
fires at 20 Broadway. At about the time my name first appear- dered." interested in the affair to offer any cere-
rd on the letter-heads of the firm. Vance returned from Europe,: Ypue lifted his ezebrows, languidly, monioun objections, and I followed Vance
where he had been living during my legal novitiate, and, an ut he"n doubt "dewetdea it in anAs"wrkoa dp tnwt Markham appear-
aunt of his having died and made him her principal beneficiary, any event, that's no reason why you ed preoccupfea and gloomy. No word had
I was called upon to discharge the technical obligations involv- should repine. Take • chair and have a been spoken since we left the apartment:
ed in putting him in possession of his inherited property. : 7* ef,Curries,incomp‛rable coffen." but as we turned west into Forty-eighth
. .72 ", _. —2 > _ ..1 a __t And before ths other could •protest he street Vance asked:
This work was the beginning of a new and somewhat unusual rose and pushed a ben-button. "Wh.» is the social etiquette of these
relationship between us. Vance had a strong distaste for any Markham hesitated a second or two. early-morning curder functions, aside
<iad of business transaction and in time ----------------------........... —. I “Ob, well. A couple of minutes won't from removing one's hat in the presence
I became the custodian of all his mone;s everely aloor from the common world make,. But only “ gulp." I of the body"" - - - - -
tary.ntere.ts and his agent at large. I of men. In his manner there was an And he sank into a chair facing us.
found that hie affaire were yariouz, indefinable contempt for inferiority of
enough to occupy as much of my time a! all kinds. The majority of those
I cared to give to legal matters and a. with Whom he in contaet regarded
Vance was able to induige the luxury of him as a snob. Yet there was in his
having a personal legal factotum, so to
•peak. I permanently closed my desk at
the office, and devoted myself exelusive-
ly to his needs and whims.
de Mark disappeared after the
shooting.
warn you about. From the looks of it,
guilt, ss be explained them from time * iter impression.
to time. | Vance was slightly under six feet.
The first case to draw Vance into graceful, and giving the impression of
its ramifications was that of Alvin Ben- sinewy strength and nervous endurance,
son’s murder. The case intruded upon He was an expert fencer, and had been
Vance’s life suddenly and unexpectedly, the captain of the univer.ity'a fencing
although he himselthad, by a casual re- team. He was mildly fond of outdoor
quest made to the district attorney ever , ports, and had e knack of doing things
month before, be— the l■Tal—0gry t wel without any extensive practice. His
agent of this destruetion of NiE normat ’ golr handicap waa only three; and one
routine. The thing, in fact, burst upon season he hod played on ear champion -
us before we had quite finished our ship polo team against England. Never-
breakfast on that mid-June morninK. theless, he had a positive antipathy to
. AsIwas ushered into the living room walkinE. and would not . hundred
by Currie, a rare oldI. English servant i yarda on foot if there was any possible
who eeted as Vance a butler, valet, ma- i mean ot riding.
jordomo and, on. occasionn, specialty ■ In his dres he was always fashion-
cook. Van ce was sitting in a larze arm- able-scrupulously correct to the smail-
chair, attired in a.surah silk dressing est detail yet unobtrusive. He spent
cown andzrey suede .Uppers, with Vol -jeonsiderable time at his elgbs; his fe-
terd . book on Cezanne open across his vorite was the Stuyvesant, because, as
. __. ... _ „ . I be explained to me, its membership was
Forzive my not xsinE. Van. . he drawn largely from the politleal end
Ereeted me.casually. ’ havesthe "hole ' eommereiai ranks, and he waa never
weight of the modern evolution in art drawn into a discussion which required
rooting on my lee" Furthermore, this any mental effort. He went oecasionany
to the more modern operas, and waa a
regular vubheriber to the symphony con-
certs end chamber-mueie recitals.
---- I people show faith in Amarillo's future
----------- “You keep your hot on,” growled Merk- | by having taken a long-time lease on
“Eriday. June 14, 0 a. m.) I ham. "the building. Their products will be
John FoX Markham, as you remem- “My word! Most int’restin"! Perhaps I carried locally by Atkinson and Gunn.
ber had been elected district attorney one takes off one's shoes so as not to : who are alno having new quarters erected
of New York county on the Indepen- confuse the footprints.” at the corner of Seventh and Harrison.
condescension and dindain no trace of dent Reform Ticket during one the "No," Markham told him. “The guests, A new one-story building for the In-
spriousness. His snobbishness ... in- * periodical reaetions against Tam------ -‛h- - -hth --- ' • a-t-- “------*-
telleetual as well as social. He detested j many, Hal H* served his four years,
. „ stupidity even more, I believe, than be ' and "ould probably have boon elected
If, up to the time when Vanee sum- did vulgarity or bad taste to * second term had not the ticket boon
moned me to discuss the purchase of the j vanee was frankly a cynie, but he was
Cezannes, I had harbored any secret rarely bitter; his was a flippant. Juven-
sr repressed regrets for having deprived alian cynicism. Perhaps he may best
the firm of Van Dine, Daviz and Van be described as a bored and supercilious.
Pine of my modest legal talents, they but highly conscious and penetrating,
were permanently banished on that spectator at life. He was keenly inter-
eventful morning: for, beginning with ested in all human reactions; but it was
the notorious Benson murder, and ex- the interest of the scientiat, not the hu-
tending over a period of nearly fourtmanitarian. Withal be waa a man of
years, it was my privilege to be a specta- rare personal charm. Even people who
tor sf what I behave was the most a max- found it difficult to admire him, found
ing series of eriminal rase, that ever it equally difficult not to like him. Hia
passed before the eye. of a young tew- somewhat quixotic mannerisms and bin
yer Indeed, the grim dramas I witnessed slightly English accent and inflection--
during that period constitute one of the a heritage of his post-graduate days at
most astonishing secret documents in Oxford -impressed those who did not
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Present were: Mr. and Mrs. Pam- -
CHURCH INS. JjBWSi
all of Amarillo; A. T. Powell of Dallas,
. C. J. Duckworth of Oklahoma City, Mr.
AS and Mrs. A. N. Jochem of Tulsa, Earl
Craver of El Paso, W. H. Toben of St.
Joseph, Mo., Paul Graves of Holyoke,
Mass., W. L. Earnest of Oklahoma City,
L. P. Lawrence of Lubbock, M. H. Wal-
ler of Waterville, Me, Russell Boyer of
Kansas City, Al Fennell of Green Bay,
| Wis„ Harry Herman of Oklahoma City,
■truetion af a frame Baptist church and ' J. T. Frisby of Port Edwards, Wia,
Sunday school building at 504 Carolina. Seorxe, Lipscomb of Middletown, Ohio,
and work is to start at once. Dr and Mrs. J. H- Thurman ot-Ada-
Th. structure will be 36 by 108 and homa City, Ben Hirschland of Oklahyna
according to the present plans, will be -ity-
"""-"KIWANIS PRAISE ,
GILVIN’S FAIR WORK
------- Wirt.ri Shot through h«U »llh______
_________45 Colt autoaatlc. Body discovered. _
_________7 >.■■ By Anna flats.
taCa.su Komicide Bureau and District Attorney,
J. F. KING BUYS LOT
IN WOLFLWN PLACE
J. F. King has purchased a residential
lot at 2027 Ong street, Wolflin Place
from O. M. Jordan, and expects to erect
a fine dwelling on the lot in the neat
future.
The sate waa arranged by Will A.
Miller and Sona, local realtor)
the high school baseball team sevgal *'*•
years ago and also has played in *v-
The cheerio drink for sum-
mer days—all the pep
in the world in».
a glass of
written your name large, nt in idle
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Howe, Gene A. Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 313, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 20, 1927, newspaper, September 20, 1927; Amarillo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1569167/m1/2/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.