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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1934
Page
2
Twenty men from the Clovis New Mexico Veterans of Foreign Wars will be initiated by the local post at 8 15 tonight at the American Legion Home. Commander C Gibson announced final arrangements for the state convention to be held June 17 to 20 at Fort Worth.
The Senate approved the Taylor grazing bill without a record vote after three days of debate. It limits denial of renewed grazing permits pledged as loan security and places public domain control in the interior department to curb over grazing and desertification across 173 million acres in eleven western states.
Former Governor Bibb Graves leads Frank M. Dixon as 1,127 of 2,191 boxes report in the Alabama Democratic primary. Graves 73,511 votes to Dixon's 61,322. Miles C. Allgood leads Major Joe Starnes in the fifth district race.
Potter County agricultural agent P. C. Bennett is loaned to the American Agricultural Association as assistant to Grover B. Hill, buyer for Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico. Bennett’s station will be in the Amarillo Building. He will aid stockmen and farmers in drouth areas until the relief program ends, then returns to his county agent post with a state extension agent supplied in the interim.
The Seventh Court of Civil Appeals upheld a county court ruling in favor of Amelia Rhodes in the Grand Lodge Colored Knights of the Pythias case. The insured woman received $500 principal, $72.50 penalty and interest, and $150 attorney fees, ruling the insurer liable since Rhodes was never indicted for her husband’s death.
In Austin on June 12 Lone Star Gas begins testimony aiming to adjust rate valuation. State engineers set property value for rate making at 6.25 million dollars while the company claims over 70 million. D A Haley, assistant to the president, testifies challenging the removal of 687 781 dollars attributed to wells. In Lockney the same date reports the warmest day of the year at 102 degrees with hot dry weather speeding wheat ripening.
President Roosevelt revived support for the oil production control measure as Rep. Disney of Oklahoma forecast a House committee vote and near-certain passage. Rayburn signaled a presidential request would trigger action, with Disney claiming broad Democratic and pledged Republican backing and Speaker Rainey’s earlier push for quick enactment.
Los Angeles June 12 A film comedian known as Slim Somerville faces a separate maintenance action in which his wife Gertrude M Somerville seeks 3000 dollars monthly for herself and their young son plus 8000 dollars for legal fees She accuses him of romancing other women and gifts totaling 2000 dollars to an unnamed Hollywood woman Their community property is valued at about 100000 dollars and Somerville is said capable of earning up to 100000 dollars annually They married in 1927 and separated last January
The first car of 1934 wheat sold on the open market in Kansas City brought $1 per bushel, 7 cents above the July futures. It hailed from Woods, Kansas, tested No. 1 dark, 602 pounds per bushel with 16.40 percent protein. It marks the highest protein test recorded here since July 1926.
M Quinn Shaughnessy, attorney for the petroleum administrative board, flew to Dallas to investigate reports of oil code labor violations by well drillers and infractions of the drilling code by oil companies as labor unrest looms.
The Federal Radio Commission conducted hearings on applications to construct two new radio stations in Texas at Temple and Nacogdoches.
Opportunity Days at The Nat feature two festive nights with a floor show by well known artists. Kenneth Carley will present Southern dance creations as a highlight along with other dances and comical acts. Durwood Cline has arranged numerous novelties and musical pieces for the NBC orchestra. Entrance is 40 cents per couple per night, with reservations at 20167.
The American Medical Association wrapped a three hour closed door session with a 10 point guidance statement. Delegates praised the current standard of medical practice as superior to that in any country and urged the Federal Radio Commission to stop medical advertising. They censured the American College of Surgeons for trying to control medical practice and proposed committees to study hospital care for officials and birth control methods.
Miss Rachel Kidd of Amarillo competes for Miss North Plains at the New Paramount theater Borger in a beauty pageant to be hosted by David Dallas with cups awarded to Miss North Plains and Miss Borger after the contest. Local selections Tuesday will pick four contestants to join out of town entrants.
Free trading resumed in the tomato market at Jacksonville Texas and Alto after growers had resisted for two cents per pound for better grades. Some buyers refused the two cent price at market opening, then traders sold at about one and a half cents as sheds eventually declared prices.
Two United Air Lines pilots Bar Rockwood and E. Matucha landed a twin motor airliner on a Kansas City strip with no injury or damage despite missing retractable landing gear. The aircraft bumped on the runway and skid 100 feet before stopping after adjustments to lower the gear.
Nearly 500 cattle were listed for sale in the government emergency buying program in Dalhart as Dr. R. T. Lee reported. The first shipment to the Amarillo canning plant will be sent Wednesday for delivery to FERA authorities. Farmers back Lee’s plan to replace inferior stock with high quality cattle and to establish county cattle grading stations to improve herd quality and returns. Union County, New Mexico, under his guidance, raised superior quality cattle from a largely inferior herd over eight years.
The Texas Highway Commission ordered immediate start of Highway Two through Mays County with grading and drainage on a 4.5 mile stretch from the Travis County line to south of Buda and a Kyle area survey. Estimated costs include 68,227 dollars for grading and drainage and 2,092 dollars for Kyle section engineering, to be supervised by the maintenance division.
Lubbock June 12. William FE (Bill) Coupe convicted of robbery by assault by a 72nd District Court jury and sentenced to 10 years in the state penitentiary. Defense plans a Wednesday motion for a new trial and possible appeal if denied. Paul Mitchell, already serving a life sentence in the same case, involved a store employee slain during a holdup.
John Graves former Potter County deputy sheriff posted a 500 bond after being indicted on aggravated assault for allegedly striking a 12 year old boy with a pistol during a burglary investigation The boy was handed to police and is now in county probation custody as a juvenile delinquent Also noted are Federal Bureau of Navigation vessel records totaling 309000 ships from small motor boats to large liners
The USDA June 1 livestock report notes Texas range conditions vary widely with very good areas and pockets of very poor in the northwest and west. Heavy late May rains relief some districts, but the Trans Pecos remains dry. Overall Texas ranges at 78 percent of normal, cattle at 79 percent, with limited feed and cattle moved to better grazing areas.
Constable Howard Elliott sustained a foot wound last Saturday after stepping on a nail at his home while working on a windmill damaged by high winds. He has been unable to report to his office for most of the past two days due to the injury.
The farm administration announced a tagging system for old cotton on hand to ensure Bankhead tax exemption. About 8,000,000 bales ginned before June 1, 1934, may receive identification tags through county agents, with applications due by June 15. Each bale must bear a tag certifying exemption.
Miss Jewell Davidson, Potter County tax collector, reported to the County Commissioners Court that May tax collections totaled 15339.93 dollars. Delinquent taxes accounted for 8001.56 dollars, and license fee collections reached 7108.53 dollars for the month.
Puff runs down the street and enters a tailor shop run by Lucas J Tow ers seeking a new pair of trousers. The Department of Commerce sets the average air travel cost at 61.10 cents per mile in the continental United States.
A 14 year old Houston boy who pleaded guilty to car theft in Corsicana was sent to a penitentiary as a 17 year old. He spent five days there before revealing his true age. Assistant DA Kamp investigated and the mother provided proof he is juvenile. The DA will seek a pardon and transfer him to juvenile authorities for retrial in juvenile court.
Funeral services for James A Logan, 59, were held at 2 pm in N. 8. Griggs and Sons chapel with Rev. Robert Pryde officiating. Interment followed at Llano Cemetery. Logan, a farmer eight miles west of Amarillo, is survived by wife Della May and four brothers and three sisters.
James B. Cox, 56, died at the family home 808 North Taylor Street early yesterday. A year resident of Amarillo, he is survived by his widow, two daughters and a son. The body rests at N. S. Griggs and Sons chapel pending funeral arrangements.
The City Commission authorized the city manager to advertise for bids on Amarillo water works improvements funded by the PWA. The project includes a $147,000 loan and a $39,000 grant from the agency. Mayor Ross D. Rogers noted an investigation on high tension wire safety for Van Buren and Harris Streets.
Thousands of stomach sufferers report vanishing excess acidity and ulcers after a prescription based therapy. A druggist offers a free sample with a money back guarantee and directs readers to Udga Inc Suite 71 Foot-Schulze Building St Paul Minn Adv City Drug Stores.
Stockmen and farmers must obtain certificates from county agricultural agents to be eligible for the special drouth railway freight rates. County agents serve as special directors in this relief effort. Reduced rates cover cattle shipments out of drouth areas to grass lands and feed shipments into drouthy regions.
County attorney Howard Anderson told the commissioners court Potter County is released from a boundary dispute with Carson and Hutchinson Counties. The suit, joined by Hutchinson County against Carson, was dismissed for Potter after an agreement over boundaries between Potter and Moore Counties. A hearing was held in Childress recently.
Potter County Commissioners Court approved opening a half mile road extending from Highway 5 east of Amarillo south to the Randall County line to link with a road under construction in the county. The project lies in Commissioner Mark Parker's district.
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