19 Dec 1933
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1933
Page
1
Amarillo College Badgers and Marshall College near a Christmas Day junior college gridiron title clash on Butler Field. Approval rests on Marshall board chair H Keys and Amarillo president B E Masters confirming a $700 guarantee underwritten locally.
Gov. Hill McAlister posted a reward of 1000 dollars for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for fatally harming Corb Cheek a Black youth in Nashville on Friday as a mob attack investigation continues.
A newborn girl, so small her birth seemed unlikely, lies in a basket by a coal stove in Findlay. Weighing 20 ounces at birth, she receives a milk feed every thirty minutes. Her parents Charles Carmen and his wife, both 19, report blond hair and blue eyes, while the infant is described as a doll like 14 inches long.
ARelated winter moved into Texas bringing snow flurries sleet and misty rain across the northern counties. In Wichita Falls the day saw rain sleet and snow with a 30 degree low and a top near 34 as ice coated trees. Olney also reported a 12 hour spell of snow and grizzling rain with heavy snowfall at times.
Two Texas drivers James Querner and Wil liar Querner reported hijackers forced them to roadside near Joliet and unloaded 14,000 pounds of pecans at a warehouse before releasing them. Police recovered the truck nearby.
In Laredo a legislative committee probing state job selling heard two witnesses report attempts to obtain money for public posts. J H Breeding said he knew of an attempted payment for jobs, while Justo Penn testified that Red Downs was asked to pay 75 dollars. Roe Oliver testified about life insurance policies linked to John Callan and Leo Callan.
New York authorities report author Louis Joseph Vance died accidentally. Dr. Charles Norris says Vance was intoxicated at death. Body found amid charred chair remains. a benzine can tied to adhesive tape on an infected jaw was noted.
Approximately forty thousand dollars in relief funds were distributed last week in Potter County by the Civil Works Administration. Of that amount about twenty six thousand in wages went to two thousand six hundred fifty workers, with twenty two thousand seven hundred sixty six dollars paid as federal pay.
Potter County wheat allotment payments totaling $43,286.40 are due today for growers who agreed to cut next year’s acreage. The checks were airmailed from Washington to arrive this morning and will be distributed at the county agent’s office in City Hall. The total payment for Potter County is split with $60,800.96 to be paid in April. Other Panhandle counties follow this week. Wheeler County issued $9,159.80 Saturday.
In Montevideo on December 18, Bolivia and Paraguay agreed to arbitration of their entire Gran Chaco dispute. It remains unclear whether fighting will pause before or after the arbitration pact is signed. The two-year war has cost over 12,000 lives.
Secretary Ickes reports a net movement of urban workers and farm families toward the countryside due to widespread unemployment. The note highlights a $25,000,000 subsistence homestead program starting with West Virginia coal miners and discusses continuing rural population drift.
Charles and Anne Lindbergh made an unexpected stop at the Charleston Navy Yard during their Miami to New York flight. They landed at 2:45 PM after sighting Fort Moultrie, remaining overnight with Rear Admiral James J. Raby. Navy yard staff were unaware of the stop in advance.
Oklahoma City December 18 Governor William H Murray backs Tom Anglin speaker of the Oklahoma house as his heir apparent in the governor race Anglin is portrayed as the opposite of the fiery Alfalfa Bill Murray whose clothes and style differ markedly from the governor.
Washington reports earnest study on direct government loans as a remedy for credit drought. Jesse H. Jones signals possible RFC act amendment to allow direct loans, aiming to aid small industrials and NRA code subscribers stalled by bank credit shortages.
Acting Secretary Morgenthau said the coast guard would use full force against a 173-ship rum running fleet. 165 ships fly British colors as enforcement tightens on smuggling before a pending Supreme Court liquor case decision and broader enforcement actions unfold.
Bankers and lawyers who sat with Samuel Insull as his empire fell into receivership testified he helped choose receivers and creditors who signaled the failure. The witnesses before Judge Evan A. Evans described Insull lawyers drafting bills for the complaint companies petitioning Middle West Utilities and Insull Utility Investments, Inc.
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce executive board sent a telegram to Lawrence Westbrook and Harry Hopkins urging faster expenditure of 8.9 million dollars for highway work in 27 Texas counties. five million was earmarked for the Panhandle with two million for other West Texas counties and the rest to the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Directors adjourned without scheduling the 1934 San Angelo convention due to absent San Angelo delegates.
A grand jury indicts W. D. Jones 17, once linked to Clyde Barrow, for murder in the January case killing Deputy Sheriff Malcolm Davis of Tarrant County in West Dallas during a raid on gunmen. Jones admits he joined Barrow’s gang for months in Missouri and the Midwest.
Carl Phillips, 22, was jailed on a criminal assault charge after a 13 year old girl identified him as her attacker. Officer Randy Lee arrested him at the Potter County Transient Bureau on Johnson Street. Phillips said he is innocent and noted he was discharged from the Army last April and gave his father's Detroit address. Police were notified at 9 55.
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