10 Apr 1931
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1931
Page
1
Col. Michael Friedsam's status grows urgent as reports from Michigan detail a royal health issue. The story highlights concerns for families and reflects public anxiety over the monarch's condition.
Arthur Brisbane discusses England's king illness and risks, Col. Michael Friedsam's loss to distribution reform, Michigan's abolition of the death penalty, infantile paralysis and hygiene guidance, New York elevator code tweaks, Quaker dress norms, and Kenneth Collins on consumer credit as 1929 mood lingers.
The body of Nicholas Longworth is sent by special train from Aiken to Cincinnati after his death at James Curtis home. Colonel Archibald and Kermit Roosevelt oversee final arrangements with Colonel Hodges while honorary pall bearers from Cincinnati and notable figures are listed.
Police chase a $150000 ransom kidnap plot targeting Fred J Blumer, wealthy brewer of Monroe Wisconsin. The hunt spans Illinois and Wisconsin from Monroe to Chicago with decoy calls and a Freeport Illinois ransom demand. Blumer’s family and Chicago authorities brace for a possible phone call and staged meeting.
In Lisbon the government bands together in a fortress barracks as rebels gain ground in Madeira and Azores. A separatist note from Angra do Heroismo reports Angra do Heroismo and San Miguel severing ties with Lisbon. The cabinet vows to stamp out the revolt while reporting quiet nights amid continued precautions. Washington meanwhile urges oil states to act on conservation plans with federal support.
The Texas State Railroad Commission may drop proration under the conservation law and regulate the field under the Common Purchaser Pipe Line Act. Meetings in Longview and Henderson will aid enforcement while pipelines must pay ratable shares to all producers in a field.
A collection of 30 000 moths and butterflies owned by Prof. E T Owen of Madison Wisconsin is reported to be donated to another institution due to the University of Wisconsin lacking museum facilities.
The Senate investigating committee unanimously cleared the University of Oklahoma of charges by Gov. Murray of immorality and misuse of state funds. The report urged leaving university supervision to the board of regents and president, noting athletics were not overemphasized and officials were honest and competent. Only one isolated morality allegation against a single faculty member was found.
Texas Attorney General James V. Allred ruled the bill to bar railroad control of an intra state bus or truck line is constitutional. Introduced by Rep Terrell of Alto the measure got a minority committee report. Some opponents argued the provision did not belong in the truck regulation bill under consideration.
The Panhandle-Plains Historical Society voted to raise its board to seven at Canyon this morning ahead of the annual sessions. $17,000 is available for a proposed new museum with about $3,000 more anticipated. Membership fees will cover the fiscal year ending March 31. Local attendees included Horace Russell Laura V. Hamner Olive K. Dixon W. W. Wetzel Avery Turner and Canyon’s John Knight couple. Matthew Bones Hooks greeted amid applause.
The Texas Senate shifted from a 2 percent gross gas tax to an intra state tobacco levy with a proposal of 1.50 to 3.60 per thousand on cigars and cigarettes. One half of tobacco tax to school funds and half to general revenues, applied at first sale.
The play The First Year the last of the season for the Little Theater will be given tonight at Municipal Auditorium under aus pices of the Tri State Fair Association. Tickets will remain on sale City Drug Store No 1 until 6 o clock this evening when they will be transferred to the Auditorium. Admission will be a Parquet 50 cents balcony 35 cents. Little Theater members may obtain their tickets by presentation of membership card.
Washington April 10 A group of 22 national commission of women for law enforcement prepared a composite report on prohibition. The six topics include enforcement substitutes and moral gains with contributions from Helen Barrett Catherine Waugh McCulloch Edna Giles Fuller Edna Barrett Mrs Edward Thurman Smith Mrs Gifford Pinchot and Evangeline Booth. The report will be delivered to President Hoover at the White House as an unofficial supplement to the Wickersham report.
The forecast lists fair conditions for Amarillo tonight and Saturday with a slight warming trend. West Texas and New Mexico areas show similar fair weather and rising temperatures with a note of warmer conditions in the southeast. Temperature extremes today are 62 and 39. Do you need a new roof? Call John Mayyfard Lbr. Co. at 800 W. 5th.
Elinor Smith, an 18 year old aviatrix, unofficially raises the women’s altitude record to 33 500 feet at Roosevelt Field. Her crash two weeks earlier and a stuck altimeter at 25 000 feet are noted. She reports no ill effects beyond a frozen mouth from the high altitude oxygen, and she surpasses Ruth Nichols 28 743 feet while men’s marks reach 43 166 by Lieut. Apollo Soucek.
Two youths robbed three businesses in quick succession last night, taking about 27 dollars from City Drug No. 3 and forcing entry at City Drug No. 4 and Gibson Service Station. Police recovered a Hudson car left running with a stolen check and small change inside.
Antioch Wisconsin April 10 Developments in a fight to determine if Clarence Spierling and his family can continue to live in the Hickory Corners Methodist Church moved toward a climax. Trustees worshippers and a pastor plan to enter the church next Sunday to reclaim occupancy after the Spierlings moved in when their home across the street burned. The family asserts ownership rights arguing the church trustees violated provisions that revert the site to the donor if regular services cease. The matter was referred to the court. Spierling was charged with malicious mischief.
The Amarillo Little Theater stages The First Year at 8:15 PM in the Municipal Auditorium. Directed by GC W Batchelder of West Texas State Teachers College Canyon, the cast features trained local actors in a comedy drama about the early married life quarrels. Admission 50 and 35 cents. Lead roles go to Batchelder Boone and Sauer.
The Oklahoma House reconsidered its adjournment and postponed sine die from noon today to noon tomorrow. The Senate was expected to concur as the House aimed to clear more bills and enroll those pushed through at the end. Senators had not decided on joining the adjournment shift.
Thomas H. Haynes, 42, struck his thumb with a hammer at Magnolia Refinery in Beaumont. He fainted from the pain and fell 20 feet from a scaffold, dying two hours later.
A Treasury letter to the State Department defends the coast guard action against the ram ship Josephine K near New York Harbor. Attorney General Mitchell to submit his legal opinion soon. In Austin, debate on Fort Worth Rep Beck’s home rule amendment pauses as quorum issues block a vote.
In Chicago on April 10 a small West Side crowd watched two foot square black and white close ups of local people sent from a transmitting apparatus. Ulysses A. Sanabria hailed the images as the largest and clearest yet shown on television. Harold Hayes called them marvelous and the best in three years of watching television.
Police hunt a hit and run driver after a bicycle collision at 807 West Sixth Avenue at 10 30. Jesse Rowles 18 a Postal Telegraph messenger suffered a severe back cut and knee injury but is not in serious condition. He was taken home to 732 North Johnson Street.
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