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VOL XVII. NO. 106—Associated Press Day and Night Leased Wire.
Y NEWS-C
AMARILLO, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1926.
FORTY-FOUR PAGES
IVE CEN
WINNETT WOULD FORCE R. I RAIL DE
Dan Moody Hurls Hat Into Ring to Defeat Fergusons AMARILLOAN TO
GO BEFOREI.C.C.ON
PLAINS EXTENSION
ASSAILS POLICY
OF GOVERNMENT
AND ROAD BODY
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
MAKES FORMAL ANNOUNCE.
MENT FOR GOVERNOR.
IS FOURTH CANDIDATE
Honesty in Office and Economy will be
€ Controlling and Vital Issue in
Office Conduct.
AUSTIN, Mar. 6.—(P)— Excoriat-
.. ing James E. Ferguson, former
7 governor, and husband of Governor
, 4 Miriam A. Ferguson, Attorney Gen-
eral Dan Moody today announced
for governor of Texas, subject to the
. Democratic primary.
g “I assert now that the principal
controlling and vital issue shall be
■ honesty be office and economy in
the administration et our govern-
ment, and that al other issues will
he secondary to this one,” Moody
.. : said. -
( He attacked administration of the
• , state highway department. Gover-
nor Ferguson’s pardon policy, and
■ a book company award of the text
book commission.
Exactly at I o’clock. Moody entered
the capitol press room and laughingly
naked the capital correspondents if
they were ready for him to announce
for governor. His appearance created
something of a sensation, since news-
papermen had been searching for him
much of the day. He explained he had
been closeted several hours writing his
a announcement
This announcement removed a big
question of the past few weeks revolv-
ing about his possible candidacy.
He had only one copy of his an-
nouncement part of which was written
to lovsband. He came-“Ins alone, and
iw-alded in making copies for the corre-
spondents. Even hits ten assistants were
surprised at the announcement coming
at this time.
12 Planks in rialform
His announcement consists of 12
planks. They are briefly, to expose and
bring to justice those responsible for
inroads into the public treasury; to see
that the principle of honesty is recog-
nised in the government; to appoint
clean, high class, honest and capable
men and women to public office; to see
that people get a dollar's value for ev-
ery dollar expended in every depart-
ment; to see that the laws are enforced
to oppose wholesale pardoning; to main-
tain public roads; maintain public
schools, maintain higher institutions of
learning: that the government will
not be run by a political machine; sup-
port reforms in election laws and place
the penitentiary system on a business
/ -basis, and to support judicial reform, af-
wow ---
(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIFTEEN)
ADY FISHER ENDS
THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY
OF FRUIT JUICE CURE
LONDON, Mar. 6.—(.)—Today is the
thirty-seventh day of fasting for Lady
Fisher, wife of Sir Warren Fisher of the
British treasury, who is taking the
much discussed fruit juice cure at a
sanitarium at Tring, Hertfordshire, and
she is neither hungry nor lias she giv-
en up athletic pursuits except that she
to no longer permitted to indulge in
such rigorous exercises as dancing.
Yesterday she celebrated the begin-
- ning of her sixth foodless week by a
dance, however. She is wagering with a
friend. Mrs Trapman. who started fas-
ting at the same time, as to which of
them will fast longest. They have stuck
to the sanitarium’s diet limited to fruit
juices and water in which vegetables
have been boiled, longer than any others
In the camp except a man who has
been on this regime for fifty days.
Lady Fisher said today that she ex-
pects to get hungry almost any day
now, a sign that she has been cured of
auto-Intoxication.
How Do You Feel
About Dry Law?
Say It By Ballot!
Do the people of the United States—the plain, everyday men
and woman who pay the bills, cast the votes and make up the
backbone of the nation—want the prohibition law modified?
During the past few months the argument has grown
unusually heated. Some leaders insist that the people are as
strongly in favor of prohibition now as they were when the
law was passed. Others have asserted that the people are
tired of prohibition.
What is the truth?
This paper, working in conjunction with NEA Service, one
of the biggest newspaper feature services in the country, is
going to find out.
It is co-operating in a nation-wide referendum vote that
will show, more clearly than anything that has been done since
the law went into effect, whether the sentiment of the people
is for or against any change in the prohibition enactment.
A Nation-Wide Referendum.
During this week, in each of more than 700 daily news-
papers throughout the United States, ballots will be printed
so that the reader can show his preference.
- The poll will be held here late in the week, or probably
next Sunday. The date when the ballot will be submitted to
The News and The Globe readers will be announced later.
Strict supervision by competent tabulators will prevent
“repeat" voting and every effort will be made to obtain a truly
representative vote.
The poll is expected to prove intensely interesting, it
nothing else.
A number of pastors of local churches will make announce-
ment of the referendum from their pulpits this morning, and
urge their congregations to vote.
The votes will be counted at the office of The News-Globe
and then a nation-wide tabulation made at offices of NEA Ser-
vice in Cleveland, Ohio. When the count is completed the
sentiment of a large proportion of citizens in every state in
the union will be discovered.
7 It is the largest vote of its kind ever attempted. The
papers that will co-operate in putting the issue before the
public have more than 40,000,000 readers.
NATIONAL OFFICIALS
AUTO BODY SPEAK IN
AMARILLO MONDAY
POLLARD RELIEVES
ON RIGHT TRACK TO
SOLVE BURGLARIES
YOUTHS HELD
WHEN FORGERY
ATTEMPT FAILS
PRESENTING CHECK AT LOC ‘AI.
STORE, OWNER BEGINS
INVESTIGATION.
NEAR $1,000 INVOLVED
Many Amarillo Merchants Victims
When Goods and Money Obtained
By Boys From Oklahoma.
Forging Ilie name of a Panhandle
pipe line company to checks, throe
young men obtained more than $300
worth of clothes and about $600 in
cash from a number of Amarillo
erchants last night.
Two of them met their downfall
when they tried to pass a check at
the Rubin Clothing Store. Bevern-
lag suspicious of the check offered
Mr. Rubin called up on long distance
the man whose name was signed to
the check for $57,50. He denied
having given such an instrument.
Seeing they were detected the two
men started to run but one of the
clerks blocked the front door. Dur-
ing the excitement Policemen Webb
and Richards passed by and placed
them under arrest. The third boy,
a companion to the other two, was
soon arrested.
Going to their room In a local board-
ing house, officers found two suit cases
of clothing purchased here. Included in
the lot were pants, shirts, socks, hand-
kerchiefs, ties and shoes. All were of
the best quality.
The checks cashed at the various
stores were for $57 50. At most places
they bought $15 or $20 worth of clothes
then took the remainder in cash It
was almost perfect forgery. Dave Rub-
in was the only merchant to detect the
slight difference in handwriting.
So well executed were the checks that
the name of the pipe line company was
printed on them and the amount stamp-
ed by a check protector found in the
boys’ possession. A pistol and a flash
light were among the articles discover-
Mrs.
Poisoner?
Itennette Curs Bussey, 23, to
under arrest at New Orleans charged
with murdering her 6-year-old daugh-
ter, Verdia, by poison, and suspected
of killing her husband and her other
two children in the same way.
VOTERS URGED TO
SUPPORT SCHOOLS
$240,000 ISSUE TO BE VOTED TUES.
DAY: CITY SCHOOLS ARE
CONGESTED.
A plea that voters go to the polls
Tuesday and support the $240,000 school
bond issue for the building of needed
improvements, was mads last night by
Superintendent w. A. Mertoon.
“we shotreroie up an overwhelming
majority for the bonds," said Mr. MeIn-
tosh.
“The public probably doesn't realize
the congestion in the schools today.
Wilson, Tyler, Junior high and other
Prepares Data On Oil Field Activities; Says Delay
Hurting and Will Push Claims For Early
Building of Amarillo-Liberal Trine. *
Armed with statistics showing the heavy oil field activity, A.
S. Stinnett will leave for Washington Wednesday in an effort to
force immediate action by the Interstate Commerce Commission on
the proposed Rock Island railroad to the North 5382
Mr. Stinnett will appear before the comm
figures to show the imperative need for grant
the Rock Island, TN
in with facts
of the perm
He will go by way of Chicago for a.
conference with Rock Island officials,
expecting to appear before the federal
body Saturday.
He has prepared a report on the
number of wells drilling in the oil field,
the proposed pipelines and other phas-
es of activity which will support his
claim that authority to construct the
North Plains line should be granted
without further delay.
During the past week Mr. Stinnett
received letters from Senator Earle B.
Mayfield and Congressman Marvin
Jones pledging their assistance in ob-
taining a bearing for him before the
“The emmission to swamped with
work, said Mr. Stinnett, but our case
has been delayed long enough. It to now
time for action. That to what I am so-
ing to Washington for; when I come
back we will ba re the permit, or at least
have the case advanced to a point that
a bearing will be held la the near fu-
ture.’’.
FINANCIAL BILL J
TEST FAiui m
274 to:
NM. J. BRYAN’S ESTATE
APPRAISED KM NUM
MIAMI, Fla. March 6.-(PrOfficial
appraisal of the estate of William Jene
nings Bryan filed in Dade county
mosmeez mes.omtettr.dl
lale commoner.
The larger portion of this amount
was in real estate. The present Bryan
PARIS, March €—(
of Aristide Briand has t
other ministerles in less 1
it was wrecked on the ah
ernment’s plan ts bring •-------
clat rehabilitation of France.
In the Chamber of Deputies earl;
day the government made the .
tax provision at its financial bill a q
tion of confidence. It was defeated
vote of 274 to 221 and immediately
terward M. Briaad tendered the <
net’s resignation. During acrimor
debate in a night ions session M. *
.-.."!
A. R. Kroh and H. D. Bullock, repre-
sentatives of the National Automobile
Dealers association, will address auto-
mobile men of the Panhandle at the
Amarillo hotel, Monday at noon.
The meeting will be one of a series
of Sales Congresses being held In the
larger cities of Texas under the auspices
of the National organization.
W. M. McCarty, president of the Ama-
rillo Automotive association, said last
night that Amarillo and the Panhandle
were Indeed fortunate in securing this
meeting.
The speakers are nationally known
and Mr Kroh was in Amarillo two years
sgo representing the Goodyear company.
At that time he came to deliver one ad-
dress but automobile men and others
were so impressed with his talks that
he was persuaded to remain several
days.
Every automobile dealer and sales-
man in the Panhandle has been invited
to attend the luncheon and preparations
are being made to care for more than
one hundred visitors.
"This man Kroh has a message for
everybody connected with the automo-
bile game," said Toney Chisum "I know
that everybody who heard him two years
ago will want to hear him again
"Last fall four similar meetings were
held in Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston
and San Antonio The dealers liked them
so well that they have persuaded the
association to send Kroh and Bullock
back to Texas for another series. We
are mighty lucky to get them "
Sheriff Wiley Pollard believes he is on
the right track toward solving the num
erous recent burglaries.
Alleged stolen goods now in his pos-
session will give a clew to the appre-
bension of the burglars. If this property
can be identified, he believes.
Two suspects were arrested Saturday
by the sheriff’s department and various
articles of clothing and jewelry were
found in their possession.
EXCLUSIVE NIGHT RESORT
RAIDED RY N. Y. POLICE
NEW YORK, Mar 6.-(P) -The En-
tra Nous club, an exclusive night re-
sort In Riverside drive, was raided to-
day by prohibition agents who smashed
the door with sledge hammers. Several
merchant marine officers were In the
place when it was raided.
The manager, doorman, and another
employe were there when the officers
entered.
.The agent who obtained evidence
Puainst the place gained entry several
days age by posing as s “man about
town,” escorting a woman he introduced
as an Austrian countess.
Tariff Probe Proposed.
WASHINGTON, March 6.—(P)—A
’ senate investigation of the tariff com-
mission was proposed today in a resolu-
tion by Senator Robinson of Arkansas
Democratic floor leader.
ed tn their rooms.
Charges of foregery have been lodged
against them at the police station. They
gave their names as George Taylor, ...___... ________-._________
Owen Lackey and Bill Reid. Their This congestion is becoming more pro-
homes are said to be m Oklahoma. A ——- 44
letter from a Ranger girl addressed to
Field was found in one of the suit cases
In searching the suit cases, officers
found some automobile keys. When
they asked the men where the car was
parked they were tolo to "go and find
buildings are badly crowded.
"We are having half-day sessions for
pupils in Wilson and Tyler schools
home in Cocoanut Grove, known as
“Maryment,” was valued at $95,000,
with -other items including life insur-
ance, $12,647.52; household furniture
$2,903.55; cash in bank $6,827.12; stocks
and bonds $49,338.64; royalties,
$1,992.80,
etc
it." They did.
LATE WIRE NEWS
nounced daily.
"Amarillo is a rapidly growing city
and all the improvements planned with
the bond issue will be needed by the
opening of the new term.
A 22-room building at Twenty-first
and Hughes streets, 10 rooms at the
North Amarillo school and 16 rooms for
San Jacinto, are proposed.
Contracts will be let immediately af-
ter the election.
LOVE ACCEPTS PLACE AS
STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER
AUSTIN, Tex. March 6.—A. C. Love
of Beaumont, appointed state highway
committee’s reporter, scored the 1
hors for what, they termed coware
GENevA, sue c-un-m
of Premier Briand, on the eve or un
gotiations for reconstruction of
League of Nations council, caused
immense sensation and some an
here, as be to the permanent Fe
delegate to tbs League under app
ment from the President of France
It to felt that the unexpected m
terial crisis will weaken his han
the pour parlors with the German
British statesmen regarding the e
cU questions.
LONDON, March •—(A)—Sir Austen
Chamberlain left this morning for Gen.
era for the League of Nations meeting.
engineer Friday by the state highway
commission, today accepted the office. _______
Hal Mosely, chairman of the commis- Asked for a statement anent the Frei
slon said The appointment is effective
government’s resignation, he replied:
“The less one says the better,"
PASSENGERS AND CREW OF
DISTRESSED SNIP SAVED
CHICAGO. March 6.—()Police are
pinning their hope on a wholesale ar-
rest campaign to locate the eight or ten
men who staged a spectacular $80,000
payroll robbery at the International
Harvester C mpany tractor plant yes.
terday. One suspect is held and IS others
a combination leather vanity and sought. All have police records and sev-
purse, and a silver vanity case He asks oral partially identified by employes .
anyone having missed such articles from | resembling the band which terrorized to announcement of the tropical radio
their homes to call at his office and seek the office force and escaped with the | company here late today. Last commun-
to identify them. payroll cashbox The robbers w orked | Icat ion with the distressed vessel was at
Late Saturday officers took into custo with such precision that police believe| 3:12
dy a man giving Ids name as C Mitchell I one or two were former employes,
said by Sheriff Pollard to be wanted - __
n Oklahoma in connection with an au- EAY ST. LAV IS, Miss., March 6
to theft. He failed to satisfy the officers (a
with his excuse for having n w oman’s
wrist watch in his possession.
They believe this, too, may furnish a
clew to the local robberies.
Karl Dinsmore, 1400 Johnson street,
was lodged in jail on a charge of posses-
alon of liquor. Earlier in the day his
wife had filed a complaint of wife beat-
ing against him, reports the sheriff.
At his home Sheriff Pollard and his
deputies found a brown worsted overcoat
I', S. Steamer Grounds.
CORDOVA, Alaska. March 6 - (.P)
The steame r Boxer, of the United States
NEW ORLEANS, March 6.—-All pas-
sengers and most of the crew of the
Honduras steamship Yuma, New Or-
leans to Vera Cruz, had abandoned the
ship at s p. m today and she was ex-
pected to sink momentarily, according
r. m. when, the company reported
the wireless operator was still aboard.
The Yuma at that time was eight miles 1
off southwest pass at the mouth of the
Taking of testimony was begun Mississippi river
today in the trial of Jenre Favre in The wireless operator left the Yuma
which Judge Walter A W White has news-at 4 p. m when the boat listed badly
papers circulating in Hancock county to the starboard side.
March 15.
Mosely said he would answer Attorney
General Dan Moody's attack on the
highway commission's advertising for
bids on Monday, 416 miles of surfacing
work In sections one, two and three, the
bids of which were opened Friday, will
be let at the regular meeting Monday
and Tuesday.
Mosely said he had considered bitum-
inous asphalt as a surface for gravel
roads as an economical topping. Moody
assailed bituminous asphalt as unsatis-
factory in Texas.
HAUGEN RAPS NEW FARM
RELIEF PLAN SUBMITTED
W ASHINGTON, Mar. 6.—(A) The
to refrain from publishing testimony, or
Two tugs, the Underwriter and the
new plan of farm relief presented by
the Middle Western delegation, appoint-
ed at the Des Moines agricultural con-
Bureau of Education was reported oulmore L..-----
liams Mingee, both federal entemolo-
gists near Iieasune. Miss. Feb. 16.
the rocks near here today in a snow
storm, and listing badly.
Miles Minister Dics.
TEMPLE, TeX, March 6 (PP) The
Rev. J. T. Tracy. C." pastor of the First
Methodist church of Miles, died in a lo-
cal hospital at 6 o’cloc k this morning.
Pola Negri and "Rudy"
Plan "Love Test"; Will
Wed A Iter Four Months
anything purporting to le the tarts, in I Delemar and the Spanish steamship Ca.
the case Favre was indicted on a.diz were rushing from Pilot town to
charge of the murder of .1 A. M lee prick up the passenger and crew of the Haugen of the house agriculture com-
Mr McLemore was slain with Wile sinking ve s, 1, mittee as not worth the paper ft wn.s
writte a on because It ignored the pro-
tilths tor/f
William Hirth of Columbia, Missouri,
chairman of the farmers committee, w ho
was testify ing before the committee, as-
sured Mr. Haugen that there was no
intention to ignore the tariff. It has not
been mentioned in the legislative out-
line presented, he said, because it had
been taken for granted since existing
laws were considered adequate.
ference, was characterized by Chairman
The Yuma carried only five pasten
gets and a crew of 23 men!.
HOUSTON
March 6
A)-.’
million dollar plant for the manufac-
ture of leather products was announced
here t dny by George Diamant, indus.
Schooner Goes on Rocks.
ST JOHNS, N. F. March 6.—(P)-
The Union Trading company schooner
Elsie went on the rocks In Golden Bay,
trial engineer, representing Hlosten andithe lighthousekeeper at Cape 8. Mary
Houston interests. The plant will be on reported today. Waves were breaking
the Wallisville road near the ship chan-over the vessel and there was no sign of
nel on n twenty acre tract
from I. E White of N
company will be known
Tannery and Leather
pany.
purchasco the crew.
rw York The
as the Houston
P’roduc
mn-
WASHINGTON, March
Rear Admiral Ila 1
tired navy veteran
navy l.ouptal here
and is not < xpecte
executive officer
V
ard Wainwright, re-
critically
to recov
• f the
the
BERLIN, March 6.—-(.P)—The Brig
cabinet defeat caused intense surprise
government and diplomatic circles 1M
In the absence of Chancellor Lut
and Foreign Minister Stresemann, to
of whom are in Geneva, no official co
ment was forthcoming.
1
NEW FEDERAL COURT
ON TEXAS PLAINSIS
PROPOSED RY JONES
WASHINGTON, Mar. 6.—()—A
bill to create a new division of the ted-
eral district court for the northern Tex-
as district was introduced-today
Representative Jones, Democrat, of that
state.
The measure would create, in__
tion to existing districts, a new division -
which, after next July, would embrace :
the following counties: Halley, Lamb,
Floyd, Motley, Dickens, Crosby, Lub-
bock. Scurry. Haskell, Cochran, Yoak-
um. Terry Lynn, Garza, Dawson and
Gaines.
The proposed district would be known . 1
as the Lubbock division.
Aged Newspaper Reporter Dien.
Los Angeles,. March, 6.—(P)—
Pola Negri today announced a “trial
betrothal" to Rudolph Valentino and
months' test if their love remains
the same" the Los Angeles Times
says.
‘‘I say he is the supreme man,"
the actress said "Relieve me. I have
had experience enough with men.
I am really a connoiseur of men.
but this to my great love affair. I
am so eager to test It by separation,
the supreme test."
Miss Negri declined to call the ar.
rangement an engagement.
******************-**»**
"Engaged" 1 do not like that
word," she declared. "It sounds like
a business agreement."
"I love 1 tn very deeply," she
said "He is the supreme man—he
is perfection But I take marriage
very seriously, very seriously. If I
am ever mat ried I am sure it w t'l be
for all time,"
She said that In the event of mar-
riage neither she nor Vaientino
planned to forsake their screen ca-
reers. Only the arrival of children
would cause her to leave motion
pictures, she added.
Maine, when It
vana harbor in
gunboat Glouces
was Llow 1
it nilment
et. He was
battleship
up in Ha-
1831, c ommanited the
ter in the engagement
with Spanish destroyers when Admiral
Cevera’s ficet dashed from Santiago j
harbor against the American blockade
and was advanced ten numbers in rank ,
for valor displayed In that action.
TORT WORTH. March « (P)-a.
FI Herndon, who • hanged his name to
Fred Enoch, December 22, 1925, when
his wife, granted a divorce at that time,
retained his own name, has taken both
name and wife back
Ministered to after an accident by
Mia Anna Herndon, the diverced.
Baby Daughter Slain By
Foster Mother Is Buried
in Cesspool, State Says
WASHINGTON, March 6.-(P)-
---Frances Asbury Richardson, for many
years Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, died here today aged 89.
Mr. Richardson was born in Baltimore
and at the outbreak of the war between
the states aligned himself with the
southern cause.
The WEATHER
SicHlCIcb Cur, March 6 -
(TA tery t ring Mrs Louisa Za-
mora charge, with the murder of
it four year od foster daughter,
Lenora Age a.r. was completed to-
day and Itaymond Zacharlas, •
year o t star witness for ths prose-
cution was the first io be placed
on the witness stand
The boy, referring to Mrs. Za-
mora as "Cooka," told how the
Agrullar girl had been whipped, tied
to the knob of the door, and af
being dro ned the following morn-
tag. by Mrs. Zamora in a pail of
water which he had been directed
to fill.
In his opening statement to the
Jury District Attorney Edward
Van Vranken said he proposed to
show that after the death of the
child, Doula Zamora, husband of
the defendant, who still is at large,
constructed a rude pine box and
buried the body is an abandoned
cesspool in the back yard and that
it was found nine months later.
Forecast .
For Amarillo and vicinity: Sunday, fat
For West Texas: Sunday fair, colder south-
east portion: livestock warnings.
For Eastern New Mexico: Sunday fair, rising
temperature north and extreme east portions.
Weather Conditions
The Rocky Mountain low pressure area
moved southeastward and is central over the
southern Plains States this morning. It SLA
tended by rain over the region from souther,
Texas northeastward to eastern K-P
Missourt. Illas pressure attended S
and light snow covers the
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