29 Mar 1933
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1933
Page
1
A dramatic report details intensified Nazi actions against Jewish communities in Germany. Authorities tighten controls as raids and harassment increase, triggering concern among residents and international observers.
Berlin reports reveal a planned nationwide boycott of Jewish business and professionals set to start at 10 A M on April 1. The Nazi leadership stresses a purely defensive motive while promising protections for foreigners and urging government restraint.
President Roosevelt's bill to hire 250 000 unemployed for work in U.S. forests passed the Senate without a roll call and goes to the House for expected approval. The administration also moves to create a 500 million dollar fund for direct state grants as part of broader unemployment relief.
The court martial for Lieutenant Norman Baillie-Stewart of the Seaforth Highlanders found him not guilty on three charges of selling military information to a foreign agent. The judge advocate instructed the summing up and the result was announced in London.
Three masked bandits robbed Bratt State Bank in Siloam Springs Arkansas and abducted the cashier. In a gun battle John Haney a big game hunter shot a flour sack from a robber causing the loot to scatter. Bandits fled toward DecaturArk with remaining loot as a posse closed in.
Fair Wednesday with clouds and possible showers southeast area. West Texas mostly cloudy with chance of rain in the southeast. Partly cloudy in New Mexico. Temperature readings at Amarillo shown by hour from noon to evening with observed highs and lows, including 67 at noon and 74 at 4 p.m. Max and min values for the period appear, with year 1932 as reference.
In Kansas City on March 28 a pink robed Robin fought off a meddling Bluejay in a private neighborhood dispute. Dr H E Sanger reported the robin, trained to the pink, drove the crested jay from the area as a 19 day campaign drew to a brighter, more aggressive conclusion.
Rev. D. D. Sumrall pastor of San Jacinto Baptist Church seeks a seat on the Amarillo Independent School District board. His late entry creates a three candidate race for two trustees positions, with Joe Dooley seeking re election as the third candidate. Election is next Saturday.
Showers spread across the Panhandle last night giving slight moisture after a long dry spell. Amarillo reported .18 inch in 15 minutes, Clovis and Piñon near a quarter inch, Canadian one eighth inch, with brighter prospects fading as night deepened.
The Liverpool tri motor of British Imperial Airways crashed near Essen after a recent stop in Brussels en route from Cologne to Croydon. Fifteen aboard perished, including three crew members, with four passengers found away from the wreckage. No Americans aboard.
Twelve men escaped injury as an explosion and fire wrecked the Standard Gasoline Corp compressor and storage plant in Long Beach California. Officials attributed the blast to a dropped compressor bottom. fire threatened nearby tanks and wells but was controlled, with damage estimated at twenty five thousand dollars.
The Alabama Legislature passed a bill overriding Governor B. M. Miller’s veto to call for a prohibition repeal convention in Alabama in Montgomery.
Governor B. M. Miller vetoes the Mullins bill proposing repeal of prohibition in Alabama. Anti prohibition leaders in the legislature announce plans to seek an override of the veto.
In today’s Globe and News the Want Ad Page features a Complete Rental Directory listing Amarillo’s best rental properties. Wise landlords advertise to show off cream of Amarillo’s rent houses and apartments.
In Clovis New Mexico Carlos Groves sold a 62 pound meteorite for 50 dollars to H H Nininger curator at the Colorado Museum of Natural History Nininger visited Groves farm near Melrose after hearing of another fall in Eastern New Mexico and West Texas He estimated the meteorite to be about 200 years old and said fragments could fetch several dollars per pound for museums and researchers
President Roosevelt plans to ask Congress to enact a general Blue Sky law for securities. The bill gives the Federal Trade Commission authority to enforce full disclosure and curb fraudulent issues, with further stock exchange regulation to follow. The plan, based on his campaign, aims to protect investors and tighten controls on foreign securities.
Trial of Norman Baillie Stewart, Seaforth Highlanders lieutenant, ends with acquittal on three charges of selling military secrets. Remaining charges await verdict. penalty may be delayed with Stewart kept under guard in the Tower of London. Court findings followed a short deliberation.
In a first test vote the Oklahoma House approved tabling a motion to place the 3.2 beer legalization bill on the calendar by 56 to 52. Proceedings occurred in Oklahoma City.
Delegates from the oil industry presented Secretary Ickes with a plan for drastic federal regulation to curb oil overproduction. Ickes called it tentative and noted possible emergency legislation. the group urged a national regulator with wide powers to oversee interstate oil shipments. Co V Terrell and Ernest O Thompson of the Texas Railroad Commission left Washington after attending the conference, expressing aims to test East Texas wells with a 10 000 barrel capacity test soon after returning home.
A six year old girl Barbara Wiles was attacked and strangled with her skipping rope in the basement of her Brooklyn apartment. Within hours a man in his early twenties was arrested as he pushed through crowds near the building and was being questioned at police headquarters. The crime occurred near a police station and close to sites of prior child slayings, with six Brookyln girls under seven attacked in two years. Barbara had tossed the rope into the cellar after play and a neighbor says she kept a half interest in the rope. The father, Harold Wiles, an unemployed mill worker, went to the police station for coal and Barbara was sent to retrieve a baby carriage for her younger sister.
Washington March 26 Senators on the agriculture committee began revising the Roosevelt farm relief bill after days of hearings. The measure may include a cotton option pool and a domestic allotment with price guarantees. Critics warned of potential injustices while supporters urged swift passage and broader relief funding.
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