Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 68, Ed. 2 Saturday, January 1, 1927 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL- XVIII. No. 68.—Associated Press Day and Night Leased Wire.
AMARILLO, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1927.
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PRICE, FIVE CENT
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DITII DATA TAD VP ID TO AUDD 01/00
BUILDING FOR YEAR IS OVER $16,00
CITY SETS FAST
PACE LAST YEAR
INCONSTRUCTION
Well Say It Does, Tool
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LOOKS
UKE A
HAPPY
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GAIN OF OVER 11 MILLION DOL-
LARS SHOWN IN YEAR’S
DEVELOPMENT
FW
GITY TO RANK SECOND
PROJECTS ALREADY ANNOUNCED
INDICATE 1927 WILL BE REC-
ORD BUILDING YEAR
AMAR
RAILROAD
SHOPS
CATTLE
HASSELL NHL
TELL MORE 01
PAST AT TRIAL RIG
CONFESSED FARWELL BUYER
REITERATES HE WILL REVEAL
WHOLE LIFE STORT
USSEL
1 Building permits for the year 1926
a Amarillo totaled $16,417,079 at the
"Sose of business last eight, setting a
record for building activities in Ama-[
rillo. The figure is la comparison with
$3,430,008 for the year 1925.. A total
of 2,934 permits were issued. %
The permits for the month of De-
cember were $707,075.
Indications are that Amarillo will be
the second city in the leading cities of
the state.
Ground has been broken for the mil-
lion dollar, ten-story Medical Arts build-
ing at Eighth and Polk streets, but the
permit will not be taken out for a few
days. With the recent announcement of
a two-million dollar 16-story 5Baker be-
tel, aa eight-story department store
building, a modern theater and other
large projects, 1927 will start off with
much building activity.
IORE
Special te The News.
PLAINVIEW, Tex., Dec. 31. — George
Hassell, confessed slayer of 11 people,
who was brought from Farwell to Plain-
view Tuesday night after threats of mob
violence, broke his silence Friday which
he haa held since arriving in the Plain-
view jail. He is greatly improved from
the self-inflicted wounds from which he
is suffering and was able Friday to re-
eline in bed and smoke. . -
“I want to be in shape to go to the
electric chair when my time comes, that
la why I do not want a long jail sen-
tence, nor do I went to full into the
hand* of a mob," Hassell told Dr. C. A.
Cantrell, who has been attending him
since hi* incarceration in the Plainview
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DIAL RANCH IS
INVOLVED IN
NEWLITIGATIOI
Building Heavy at San Angelo.
. SAN ANGELO, De.’31.2 Building in
. San Angelo during 1926 eclipsed all pre-
vious records, reaching $3,096,658, com-
pared with $1,651,577 in 1925. The
largest permits were for an eight-story
bank and office building, two hotels, one
of six stories, and a 100-room addition
to another, expansion of the public
schools, a $300,000 sewer system and
much Min "'
Abilene Sets Record.
ABILKNE, Dec. #».—December, with
permits totaling $670,244, set a new ree-
ord for one month's building here and
carried the year’s total to $4,602,602. The
year's aggregate is mere than double the
previous record set in 1925, when per-
mits had a value of $2,121,000. Ths
largest project listed this year is a nine-
story, 230-room hotel, costing $496,000,
which ia under construction.
Over $2,000,000 at Corpus Christi.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Dec. 31. — The
amount of building permits issued ia
Corpus Christi during 1926 totaled
$2,084,239. This is the greatest amount
of permits issued la the city's history. 1
Heretofore the total amount had not
reached $1,000,000 in any one year. This
is an increase of 146 per cent over the
amiunt of permits issued in 1925.
FALL IS RECOVERING
FROM PNEUMONIA ATTACK
(n. The Amoclated Prem)
EL PASO, Dec. 11.—Physicians at ths
bedside of Albert B. Fall, former see.
retary of the interior, who to suffering
from Pneumonia issued but one bulle-
tin today, at 11:30 this morning. It stat-
.ad that Fall's condition was Psatisfae-
tory. At 3:30 p. m. today it was reported
at the heme that Mr. Fall had been
sleeping this afternoon and his condi-
action seemed slightly improved.
Town Hit by Fire.
Fe DALLAS, Dec. 31.—Klondike, A small
town in Delta county, suffered a fire
loss of $25,000 today, * special dispatch
to the Dallas Times Herald from Com-
mores said. The fire started la the
Allard Trotman drug store, and burned
through three brick structures.
* Save for the glorious privilege of be-
lag independent. Panhandle Building A
Loan Association.
Colorful Scenes Mark Formal
Opening of Herring Hotel Here
PAN-AMERICAN FLIERS
FINISH ANOTHER LAP
T “WHEREAS: With profound gratitude
Amarillo bows in humble acknowledgement of
the gifts that nature has so lavishly bestowed
upon her: —
"And as the old year pnsnce, taking with
it its sorrows, trials and disappointments, it is
our sincere wish that the dawning of this
New Year will bring you Health and Pros-
perity.",
eg (By The A-eocisted Press:
PUERTO MEXICO, Dec. 31.—The Pan-
American filer* have completed another
lap of their 20,000-mile flight, landing And with thia New Year wish on the
part of the management, the new million
near Puerto Mexico at 10:35 o'clock this
morning from Vera Cruz. They flew
over Puerto Mexico and then proceeded
to their landing place at Minatitian,
about 14 mile* up the Coatzaconicos
river from Puerto Mexico.
The next part of their journey will
take them to Salina Crud, nearly too
mile* to the south of Puerto Mexico on
the Gulf of Tehuantepec.
dollar Herring Hotel in all It* grandeur
was formally dedicated to the public last
night aa the new year 1927 was ushered
into being, with ceremony.
Covers for more then a thor.aand per-
sons were laid and following an hour of
social reception, the guests enjoyed an
elaborate menu In the Crystal room, just
off the mezzanine floor.
Hoover Predicts Prosperity
Era to Reign During 1927
(By The Amoclated Preset only be based upon the economic cur-
WASHINGTON, Dee. Ji.—The new year rents already born of the old year,” the
brings A promise e a Job for nearly commerce secretary said in • formal,
every American, Secretary Hoover said I " -
today, and a business outlook that is st
least free from fear of a violent com-
mercial or financial cataclysm. Despite
agricultural conditions sad some recent
recessions in production and consump-
tion, the nation, ia his opinion, esa leoh
forward hopefully to continuation of its
economic progress.
On the haste of a survey of employ-
ment prospects made in every state, Di-
rector General Francis Jones of the fed-
eral employment service also predicted
a satisfactory condition for workers dur-
ing 1927
“A reply to requests for opinion on
the new year’s economic prospects can
statement. “New and unknown currents
will enter in the now year, so there la
no such thing •• assured economic
prophecy.
MRS. DIAL ASKS HALF INTEREST
IN WEALTHY OIL PROP-
ERTIES
Mrs. Fred W. Calvert, 26, is dead, and her
husband Fred W. Calvert * mechanic, is near
death at St. Anthony’s sanitorium following a
double shooting early this afternoon in the annex
of the St. Charles apartments, 700 Taylor Street.
Russell Parks, rig builder waived preliminary
hearing and has not yet made bond on a charge
of murder filed with County Attorney Leo
Sparks. He is being held in jail.
Mrs. Calvert died almost instantly after four
bullets from a 32-calibre automatic were fired
into her body. She was shot twice through the
heart and twice in the left leg, one ballot striking
below the knee and one in the thigh. Her hus-
band was shot twice, once in the abdomen and
once in the shoulder.
Parks is silent concerning the shooting since
his arrest, and no definite motive for the killing
BUGLES USHER
INNEW YEAR AT
FRAUD IS CHARGED
COLLUSION IS CHARGED IN SET-
TLEMENT EFFECTED AFTER
WASHINGTON
UNIQUE CEREMONY IS PERFORM-
ED FROM ROOF OF WHITE
HOUSE
PANIC IN LONDON.
(By The Armelated Press) w
LONDON, Jan. I—A panic la
- which several persons were injured
and many women fainted, ended the
New Year’s revel to front of St.
Paul’s cathedral early this morn-
Ins. -
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. — President
and Mrs. Coolidge lent a hand tonight in
the nation’s farewell to the old yaar
and It* greeting to the new one.
Quietly in the seculsion of the white
house they awaited midnight to offer a
solemn impressive touch to the noisy
New Year'* eve celebration which had
boon gathering momentum here through-
out the evening.-----
1926 a Banner Year.
"No one will deny that 1926 has anown
the highest total production and con-
sumption of industrial commodities of
any year in the history of the United
States. Except in the textile industry
and parts of the coal industry. it has
been a ye ar of high degree of employ-
ment, which has been accompanied by
the highest peak in real wages, because
wage income for the country as a whole
SUIT LAST JUNE
Suit for recovery of title to one-
half interest to the famous Dial
ranch, in the heart of the North
Hutchinson county oil field, and
involving properties with an esti-
mated value of $50 000,000 has been
filed la district court at Stinnett
by Mrs. Gertrude A. Dial, widow of
the late J. C. Dial.
Mra. Dial asks for restoration of one-
half interest to the property and pay.
ment la caah of one-half the oil and gas
resources that have been produced.
The suit, filed by retiring District
Attorney Lloyd Fletcher and H. D. Bish-
np of Amarillo and Bert Martin of
Pampa, charge* fraud, misrepresents,
tion and collusion in sale of the prop
erty in 1922 to Perkins, Martin and
other*, who also own the mineral rights
and are now producing upwards of
35,000 barrels daily from the land.
TWO YOUTHS EXECUTED
FOR TRIPLE MURDER
CHICAGO, Dec. 31.- One shocless and
unshaven, the other smiling wanly with
a boyish curiosity at the hangman’s
preparations, James Gricius and Thom-
aa MeWane were executed today for the
murder of three persons whom they
killed to rob in Cicero last July.
They had enlisted the aid of five ma-
rines—a trumpeter and four trombone __
players—in working out an innovation- fused shoes for the death march, de-
music from the roof of the white house elined to say farewell to hi* family, and
at the stroke of twelve.
Grieius, swaying on his bare feet, re-
resisted efforts of priests to administer
the loot sacrament. MeWane, his 20-
year-old colleague, followed almost with
fascination the movements of guards
FRENCH CASINGS LEAD
Franco continue to lead the world aa_________—-------- .—-
exporter of automobile caning*, with the aa they tightened the cords that held
United States second and the United hie wrists and ankles. A request, mut
Kingdom third, the rubber division of tered to a broken whisper, that he be
the department of commerce announces, allowed to speak went unheeded.
has been advanced.
Parks was immediately arrested by Patrol-
men Heffner, DeWitt, Roberson and Vest.
The tragedy is said to be followed an argu-
ment in which Calvert, his wife and Parks were
engaged. \
Records of the hotel show that Mr. and Mrs.
Calvert registered at he establishment on Octo-
ber 21 of last year and that on December 5 Parks
registered for the first time at the hotel and had
a room adjoining that of the Calverts.
J. L. Vincent, proprietor of the hotel in which the shooting
occurred gave the following eye-witness account of the affair:
‘‘I was standing out in front of the hotel and had just
started to go over to the drug store after a drink when I heard
two loud reports which I took to be firecrackers which some-
one had set off in the house. I immediately ran in to tell the
roomers not to do that and just as lentered the front door of the
lobby I saw Mrs. Calvert dart out of her room and at the same
time I heard two more reports.
“Mrs. Calvert took about two steps in the direction of the
back of the house and collapsed on the hallway floor. I ran in
her assistance and saw that she was bleeding about the mouth.
I think she died just as she fell. I did not know that Mr. Cal-
vert had been shot until Isaw H. W. Davenport and heard him
jump through the window of his room. Then I saw Mr. Calvert
lying on the bed in Mr. Davenport’s room, where he was bleed-
* “Upto this time I had not seen Mr. Parks. Mr. Parks had
been here since the Sth of December and said that he was a rig ,
builder working out of Borger. I had understood from him
that he knew Mrs. Calvert before coming here. He and Mr. s
Calvert seemed to be very good friends.
“I can give no reason for this terrible thing to hap
Interviewed at the hotel immediately after the al
H. W.-Davenport, an occupant of the hotel who h
joining those of Mr. and Mrs. Calvert, said:‘Fri
to Calvert), had been talking to me in my room
stepped up to his room after something when IN
of cracks that sounded like someone beating on s
stick. The next I knew was when Fred came
with his head anloverd-Motend mage
sans sickened aat‘1 jumped o the-E
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Howe, Gene A. Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 68, Ed. 2 Saturday, January 1, 1927, newspaper, January 1, 1927; Amarillo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1663289/m1/1/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.