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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1931
Page
3
Henry Ford told the Alcohol Information Committee that legal beer and whiskey would trigger widespread wage cuts as labor Demoralization follows liquor. He urged employers to enforce prohibition with government oversight, noting prohibition has boosted sobriety and improved conditions for families.
The Hamilton Dam and power house on the Colorado River near Burnet will begin immediately. Fogles Construction Co. Ltd. of Minneapolis has a $3.5 million contract, part of a $5.5 million project owned by Emery Peck and Rockwood Development Co. F. A. Dale of Austin is Texas manager. The dam is the first of six permits held by the company on the Colorado River above Austin.
Antonio Aquila arrived in 1901 seeking work as a stadium custodian at Ohio State University. He failed for citizenship 20 times and answered a history question with a faulty range from 1775 to 1883. He just completed his final attempt.
Funeral services were planned in Wichita Falls for three men killed in an explosion and fire at the Panhandle Refining Cracking Plant. Repair man Jim A. Horn and helper Clarence R. Walker died after hospital admission. Operator R. K. Krull perished two hours later after shutting off the gasoline flow amid flames. Lawrence Worthy, slightly injured, described Krull’s bravery. Officials investigated the incident to prevent future accidents.
Describing a fierce blaze, observers note clothes burned away and a man’s body singed black yet he prevented the fire from reaching storage tanks. Damage was estimated at $30,000.
Alumni and ex students of the University of Texas gather for the second annual Round-Up a three day homecoming in Austin. The program opens with a women’s gymnasium dedication followed by a Waller Creek barbecue and afternoon athletic events and reunions. Tonight the state wide sweethearts revue features nearly a hundred UT beauties led by Beatrice Brown and Althea Klumpp among others.
In Columbia Missouri April 17 a University of Missouri landmark, the historic columns, face water damage from cracks and fire time. An examination seeks to assess the damage while photos of the cracks are sent to alumni and a request calls for six protective caps to keep the column heads dry.
A Texas House resolution to bar military training in schools was offered by Rolland Bradley and others. It asks the Federal Government to push the proposal at the 1932 international disarmament conference and calls for mutual abandonment of military reserve buildup. The measure was sent to the military affairs committee after a failed move to refer it to Federal relations.
E 8 Choc Hembree Choctaw Indian is executed at McAlester Oklahoma for the 1930 attack on Miss Leota Bosley a 23 year old school teacher from Gainesville Florida The condemned man faces the chair with a smile and jokes with fellow death row inmates before Rich Owens fires the switch and J A Munn pronounces him dead The crime was the assault on Miss Bosley near Loco Oklahoma on March 9 1930.
In Texas, a man and his companion Chad Thurman faced threats with guns as a shot aimed at Thurman struck Miss Bosley in the side. She teetered near death for days while the assailant, identified as an Indian, showed no apparent changes in resolve, replying when asked for a last request that he valued the favors shown.
The accused maintains innocence though Miss Bosley and Thurman identify him and his brother Ry as attackers. The brother is free on 25,000 bond pending appeal from a 25 year sentence. Hembree was convicted at Duncan in September.
In Baltimore 24 year old Whure begins with a joke at his mother in law Eva man and ends with a fistfight against Patrolman William Bean.
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