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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1932
Page
2
A poem excerpt by Edgar A. Guest discusses ownership of the Olive K yacht and the luxurious life aboard. It notes Ket’s ownership under a book of record and describes adventure at sea with a steward and maid aboard.
In Dallas on April 22 a five day court romance ended with the engagement of Oswald Jacoby, renowned New York bridge expert, and Miss Mary Zita McHale, Texas’s top woman tennis player. They plan to marry at Sacred Heart Cathedral exactly one week after meeting on a suburban court. McHale, 20, recently won the National Public Courts women’s singles title in Detroit. Jacoby, also a player, is known for bridge and for partnering Sidney Lenz in a noted bridge contest and now tours lecturing.
Syracuse police report a child resembling Charles A Lindbergh Jr found on a Beverton area farm as investigators pursue a possible hot tip in the Lindbergh kidnapping probe. Col Charles A Lindbergh pauses from a mysterious trip returning to Sourland Hill home amid activity and sightings.
Oklahoma marked the forty third anniversary of the 1889 land rush opening Oklahoma territory to white settlement. At noon on April 22, boomers raced from the Kansas line to stake claims with wagons trains and riders. Guthrie hosted a parade led by Pawnee Bill Gordon W Lillie while Oklahoma City staged a historical pageant with student participants.
A historical commentary discusses deflation's impact on debt and prices led by Irving Fisher ideas. It cites Schwab and Crane on wealth, taxes, and the shrinking value of fortunes. The piece notes Japan's Manchurian risk and the US gold standard stance in foreign trade.
The item mixes a forecast about rain and wind with a stream of local color notes. It notes heavy rain expected in the plains, names Amarillo figures like Arien Campbell and Vir ginia Bruner, and clips with humorous vignettes about daily life and small-town opinions.
Roy Blaine Rosson five years old was struck and killed last night at Sixteenth Avenue and Monroe Street as he darted into the path of a moving car driven by Tom Mott. The mother witnessed the tragedy as she had just parked nearby. The child died en route to a hospital. Funeral services were to be held at Floy dada at 4 this afternoon.
City auditor C. H. Winterhaler notes an $18 988 20 rise in net operating income for the water department over 11 months of the last fiscal year. Operating expenses fell by $15 717 24. Cash and securities totaled $158 911 16 as of March 1 1932. Mayor Ernest O. Thompson cites a $13 857 20 saving on electrical power for the year ending March 31, enough to pay for the new water site.
A sanity hearing was ordered today for 27 year old John G. Harris after a defense conference. The murder trial for Ed Royal, an elderly traveler, on a highway west of Texarkana was postponed indefinitely. Harris was moved to a hospital after head injuries from banging his head against a cell wall and attempts to leap from a third story window.
The treasury will place a redesigned quarter in circulation in three weeks. The new coin bears Washington’s head and replaces the eagle and woman design. Experts say the old quarter wore poorly and the change aims to improve durability.
Daylight saving time will be observed in 15 states this summer with most clocks set forward one hour at 2 A M Sunday. The change is statewide in Massachusetts New Jersey and Rhode Island, while most towns in New York will also observe it.
Budd y and Charley Jenkins two brothers are under investigation in a $38,000 bank messenger robbery. They were remanded to the county jail in default of a $10,000 bond each after a habeas corpus hearing today in Dallas.
In a brief exchange the participants discuss the event’s atmosphere and public interest. One speaker notes enthusiastically that everyone is playing well while another laments the uneven lighting and conditions affecting play.
A customer requested the Oklahoma paper instead of the Amarillo News. The note appears in Bee Tack letters on page 12 seeking guidance on preferred distribution.
Tass dispatch from Peiping reports Harbin and Manchuria police uncovered a store of arms and ammunition in a Chinese restaurant frequented by Russian white guards. A second dispatch says a white guard mob, former Chinese Eastern Railway workers, surrounded Soviet railroad offices on April 18 and 20.
In Mukden April 22 the Manchukuo government warned Earl of Lytton that Wellington Koo would be arrested if he travels with the League of Nations Manchuria commission outside the South Manchuria Railway zone. The note follows Koo’s insistence on staying with the group as a Chinese delegate examining damages from the Japanese campaign. Commissioners prepare to enter Manchuria from Dairen.
Ambassador Debuchi of Japan says relations with Soviet Russia are not as strained over Manchuria as some dispatches suggest. He notes limited Russian troop presence, reports continued normal operations on the Chinese Eastern Railway, and asserts neither side seeks war or invasion.
The House Appropriations Committee reversed its move to cut special pay for naval aviation officers. An amendment will restore more than $290,000 for this purpose in the pending appropriations bill.
Deputy Prohibition Administrator Claude Cooper said bond hoped for tonight or tomorrow for agents L. C. Smith and N. D. Heaton charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Marion MacGlothiin two weeks prior in Dallas.
Two men and a woman among forty five suspects held since Monday after a Hobbs New Mexico gunfight were released this morning from Lubbock County jail by Sheriff Wade Hardy without charges.
Fort Worth April 22 AP Delaney 36 was given five years for murder in the slaying of J E Purgason 26. He filed for a new trial after a district court jury returned the verdict Wednesday.
Nobles of Khiva Temple and Amarilloans left at 3 pm by auto for Plainview to join an inter city Shrine celebration. Plainview band will greet the delegation at the city limits and escort them to downtown. Dr. R. P. Parcells will present the Black Mask Players in Broken Dishes after dinner at the Hilton Hotel. Return trip tonight.
Cleveland reports delegates at the National Petroleum Association 29th semi annual meeting say current oil operating losses are unjustified. Leaders claim last year’s losses could have been avoided with actual profit focus not large-volume operations.
A plane carrying California Governor James Rolph Jr and Nevada Governor Fred Balzar left Sacramento at 7 05 A M en route to Richmond Virginia for a governors conference.
Houston April 22 W J Vallette 53 year old accountant died today after 12 hours in coma from being struck by a passenger bus at a street intersection. Survivors include his sister Mrs C V Morse of Greensboro Miss.
A two day storm in Southern California caused heavy grape crop damage and losses to fishing boat owners totaling at least 150000 dollars. Shipping schedules were disrupted as vessels faced delays and port activity slowed.
Montana State University plans to ship about 300000 trees to various states this year. The program aims to support reforestation efforts and expand urban and rural tree cover across multiple regions.
Mrs Henry W Peabody chairwoman of the Women s National Law Enforcement committee after a conference with Walter Newton said Mr Hoover has spoken in favor of the dry law She prepared a pamphlet listing 12 statements by Hoover since 1925 as clear testimony of his support The message will be carried to various sections of the country and she cited her plan to remind the public of his earlier statements
Harvard undergraduates sparked a major disturbance in Cambridge with eight students and four residents arrested and two officers injured. Crowds overturned an automobile and breached Brattle Square police station while bonfires burned in Harvard Square during the chaos sparked by pursuit of a stolen bell clapper.
Representatives of the Amarillo Taxpayers League will travel to Tulsa on Saturday to address Swisher County taxpayers about organizing a similar league. The party includes H. C. Pipkin Fred Bone J. Ray and Willar C. Hawk. The meeting starts at 2 30 p m at the courthouse with delegations from Happy Kress and other Swisher County communities.
April 22 investigation into a robbery at the Malakoff post office found the safe opened and knob broken but initial checks showed no loot taken. Nearby, the University of Michigan museum stores a mouse department needing 1,000 cages for 3,000 field mice. Rice Institute undergraduates hurled snow at professors during a late winter blizzard protest in a cold lecture hall.
Chicago and Kansas City livestock markets report hogs and cattle trading uneven with price shifts for hogs and cattle while sheep show stability. New Orleans cotton opens steady then weakens on rain prospects and stock liquidations. New York stock letter notes market softness amid Washington scrutiny and bank data easing later gains.
Two men Sam Murray and Red Callan were charged with murder for killing King Watson, an employee at a roadside lunch stand in a Dallas area roadhouse. They fled toward Oklahoma after the Sunday shooting and were captured returning to Dallas. Watson’s employer Harry Goodman escaped when he fled the building.
Sixteen University of Missouri students were suspended indefinitely in Columbia on April 22 for their roles in the kidnaping of the St Pat’s queen and the later clash between engineering and law students in which three were shot and wounded.
Detroit Aircraft and Ford Motor Company lead a list of various firms including Goldman Sachs Lone Star Gas and Swift Co in a market snapshot. The notes show fluctuating values with percentages and partial figures for several corporations across sectors such as insurance utilities and manufacturing.
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