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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1934
Page
2
A column reflects on drought by drought in Amarillo with notes on weather, lawns, and yard labor. It ties economic strain to yard maintenance and recalls past life, German cuisine, and a local scene featuring Olin Hinkle and a Pampa editor.
Amarillo College hosts The Keynote a variety show by the Balladors and Balledettes at Municipal Auditorium directed by Alta Potts Turk. The program blends grand opera to vaudeville with guest entertainers and aims to fund trips to the State Federation of Music Clubs in Galveston. Tickets are 35 and 50 cents from students. Proceeds support travel for the groups.
In Reno Oklahoma on April 9 jurors start being chosen for the trial of Virgil Brown World War II veteran charged with beating his wife Marie Elmsley Brown to death. The report mixes local news and community notes from Amarillo with remarks on police salaries and local happenings.
At hearings in Amarillo Colonel Thompson defended the railroad commission, urging action against wastage in the Panhandle gas field while Judge Morgan pressed for cross examination. Lone Star Company official Chase testified on ratable taking, gas pricing, and the impact on producers, royalty owners, and field operations as the session adjourned until Tuesday morning.
A job seek notice from Mrs. Lamar of 310 West Fifth Avenue offers house cleaning at 25 cents per hour and guarantees satisfaction. A farm job ad mentions a need for workers. See Tack Letters Page 12.
A Washington item describes women in Congress and social calling, with a humorous note on a senator’s wife workload and a boy delivering cards. It then recounts Allyn A. Walters of NRA rushing from a restaurant to deliver a speech just in time, arriving at 7:14 after being told it was at 7:15.
In El Paso a confrontation arose as Secretary Heath read Speaker Stevenson’s removal of Holliday from the commission, backed by a 4000-member labor group. Dallas lawyer Chrestman questioned Stevenson’s authority, while Gov Ferguson and others debated legal limits and the Attorney General’s advisory role.
Twelve jurors were called after arraignment to answer questions on religious views. The panel included ten men and two women and explored prejudice related to Bishop James Cannon Jr and Ada Burroughs linked to anti saloon league and Methodists.
Scarcity of apartments and homes prompts cautious construction from Dallas to Miami Beach. El Paso faces undoubling as demand outpaces supply. Kansas City stores only two vacancies in Armour Field. Detroit, St Paul, Minneapolis, and Tennessee Valley areas see rising demand as workers return. New York reports a shortage in better class apartments while Florida hotels spur costly new homes.
Dr. von Graff emphasizes that consulting specialists at first signs of lumps boosts cures. Austria and Vienna are highlighted as medical centers due to post mortem examinations in charity wards, aiding disease knowledge. He notes early treatment by a competent specialist can arrest cancer in many cases. He will address the Panhandle practitioners Wednesday morning as guest speaker for the Potter County Medical Society tonight.
Eureka Springs Arkansas April 9 Officials investigate a tragedy after Warren Davis 58 his wife 19 and two children were found slain in their home with heads crushed and throats cut. Davis reportedly killed the family then slashed his own throat beside a child.
The report details Kansas City grain and cattle prices with declines from Friday, including top cattle bids and veal ranges, plus New Orleans cotton opening weaker amid labor worries, and New York stocks trading in a dull, mixed session with some firming in metals and bonds while autos face strike risk.
An advertisement promotes S.S.S. as a blood and body tonic to raise hemoglobin, improve appetite, skin clarity, and energy. It cites personal testimony of regained strength and clear skin after using the tonic and notes availability at drug stores in two sizes Thes.s.5,Co.
Amarillo police report a weekend surge of burglaries at Harry Hollands Men’s Store 512 Polk Wrather’s Filling Station 10900 East Tenth and J J Newberry 607 Polk. Clothes and shirts stolen from Hollands two inner tubes taken from Wrather’s. Newberry safe attempt failed with tools left behind. No arrests reported noon today. Beef cattle swap offer tied to grazing on water department land with Home Loan Bonds bid 10014 at 100%.
A nostalgic piece extols osteopathy as the supreme spring tonic and general tonic, arguing that modern laxities and auto toxicity from winter living harm the body. It portrays the osteopathic physician as a master mechanic who relieves nerve and vascular pressure, restoring organ function and vitality.
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