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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1936
Page
11
Classified notice for Ph 8682 Auto Parts offering auto overhaul service with easy payments. Mentions Jack Johnson at 203 Buchanan and a wrecking yard at Seventh and North Fillmore supplying a six speed International truck.
American Auto Wrecking offers guaranteed new and used parts for all cars and trucks with late model motors and tractor bearings. Harley-Davidson bikes appear in stock as 1956 models at $160, with sales and service at 71 motor cycles, see our stock for more details.
Nicola Lee Nelson 29, wife of John R Nelson, Amarillo resident nine years, dies in local hospital. Survived by husband, four sisters, four brothers, and her parents. Funeral at N Griggs and Sons Chapel this afternoon at 2 with Rev H C Smith officiating. Burial Llano Cemetery. pallbearers listed.
Frances Louise Bailey of Quanah died in a local hospital after surgical treatment begun 11 days earlier in Amarillo. She was niece of Rev. Robert C. Jones of Amarillo Church of Christ. Survived by parents two sisters Lorene Bettie Ruth and brother Fidon. Funeral services were held at Quanah Church of Christ with Rev W R Swiney officiating. Burial planned in Llano Cemetery.
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce members were urged to attend a work conference at the Capitol Hotel today noon. Chairman Jack Cunningham leads the discussion to shape the 1936-37 program, with Tom Cotten presiding at the Silver Grill Cafeteria Tuesday.
Wanted automobile capable of pulling through mud axle deep. I live ten miles out and am anxious to reach town to see Fix-Mre Bradford at the Paramount Theatre.
Mrs. B J Tidmore of Amarillo recounted surviving a Santa Fe derailment near Guthrie Oklahoma on a May day. The baggage coach plunged into the Cimarron River killing two clerks while she and others escaped with minor injuries.
Forty four advanced pupils will take parts in the tenth annual Dana Harmon School of Dancing recital at Amarillo High School auditorium tonight at 7:45 o clock. A feature of the 12 act program is the dramatization of Listz Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 by senior students.
Funeral services will be held at 11 o clock today from Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home for John N Sanders of Amarillo an employee of Pinkney Packing Company who died at his home 2909 Wichita Street He is survived by his wife Betty four sons Earl Tford DeWitte all of Amarillo and John Jr in the U S Army at Fort William Warren Wyoming two daughters Lindy and Jamita a brother James R Sanders of Clovis and half brother Carl Evans of Muleshoe The rites will be conducted by Rev T D Sumrall after which the body will be taken to Newlin Texas by Boxwell Brothers for burial
Four people fell into stormy Great Salt Lake during a long distance swim when a boat capsized. Marion Branagan sports writer Adrian Smith and Lynn Madsen from Salt Lake City along with graduate nurse Helen Woodnead were rescued by a county safety launch. Woodnead suffered ill effects from the salt water. others were unharmed. Hazel Cunningham led the swim and was rescued by a convoy boat just before the accident.
A Transcontinental and Western Air flight carrying 15 from New York to Chicago crashed near Municipal Airport, injuring at least five. Pilot W L Smith from Newark and crew members Co-Pilot George House of Columbus and hostess Grace Davidson were aboard. All patients were taken to Holy Cross hospital with identities and injury severities initially unclear.
A jail guard recounts being kidnapped by fugitive Lindsly from a Poat No. 2 truck stop. They fled into the woods along Bayou Sara, traded clothes, used a derrick sighting to approach the highway, and exchanged gunfire at a tool house where guard Drew Fields opened fire. Lindsly was killed. the guard was freed by highway police with hounds.
May 31 report from Haskell Texas states Henry Hartsfield a Haskell farmer and W R Wood a Canadian dry goods clerk died instantly when their cars sideswiped north of Weinert. Hartsfield died near Weinert while harvesting grain. Wood was en route to his father in law's home. Wood will be buried in Canadian. Funeral arrangements for Hartsfield were pending.
Critics call the sequence one of the hardest dance interpretations. Harmon's 17th Amarillo year as a host and 25th as a teacher are noted. Public invited with no admission charge. Soloists include Jean Travis Ruth Coan Alpha Mar Stone Jean Tamberlain Amylee Travis Carleen Finklea Sharon Weatherby Pat McDade.
Captured guard James Hamilton recounts Wilfred Lindaby abducting him during a night shift at the Percy Store area. Two other guards, Charlie McCory and Walker, were wounded. Fluitt killed in the same fire. Hamilton’s account follows a three day ordeal described to the Associated Press.
A three member investigative commission would be created by the House speaker and three more named by the lieutenant governor, chosen from the three Louisiana PSC districts. The panel could elect a chairman, meet within thirty days after adjournment, and members would receive per diem pay.
Washington May 31 Rep Zioncheck of Washington state appears subdued after a stay in jail. The article notes his restrained demeanor and ongoing legal matters surrounding the incident.
After two hours in jail he posted a 25 dollar bond and refused comment on his arrest for disorderly conduct involving bottles a typewriter and a suitcase of his bride’s clothes hurled from his apartment window. Mrs Zioncheck left the apartment for a rest and disappeared for 24 hours as the checks repeatedly ejected Mrs Benjamin Scott Young from the sublet. Mrs Young remained in hospital with bruises nervous shock and an injured hip. Her lawyer Samuel Herrick Jr had not decided on legal action. Zioncheck drove away at noon today after a brief nap, offering no immediate plans.
Police describe 15 year old Theile as the direct descendant of Daniel Webster. Miss Brooke says no ransom demands came. Theile last seen with a family chauffeur at an apartment house in Pelham where he planned to meet tennis friends. Chauffeur returned home reporting Theile was cheerful. Detectives traced a dime and dance hall in upper Manhattan but found nothing. Mother near collapse. father suspects hitchhiking to relatives in the west. Relatives in Detroit Fort Stockton and Los Angeles notified.
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