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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1934
Page
9
In Baghdad four Arabs were sentenced in the Ray Fisher case. Ray Fisher, a 23 year old University of Cincinnati graduate, was the target of the serious crime.
ASK FOR and Rudolf May were killed 100 miles south of Baghdad on March 5 while traveling by collapsible canoe toward Indiana. Fisher, died instantly from a head wound. May, struck in the abdomen, died after naming Arab assailants who demanded matches. Police found Fisher’s body in an improvised grave as arrests and a conviction followed. A separate note cites about 18,000 accidental deaths yearly in England, 6,000 on highways.
Pots and pans and machinery form a new museum exhibit announced by Sigird Arne in New York. The article notes a summer tour planned for several national art museums following an inaugural debut.
MilK and cream Museum of Modern Art assembles coils propellers tubes and copper pans as beauties of the machine age. Visitors judge in a beauty contest with Amelia Earhart and professors among the committee. top selections include a steel spring, an outboard propeller and ball bearings.
Field deputies by the County Tax Assessor will canvass Amarillo this week. They are operating in the River Road district. Rural districts will start next week. Assessor Houston Taylor aims to place most property on the rolls to reduce valuations and ease the tax burden.
Potter County council of Home Demonstration clubs will stage a county wide party Saturday night at the Amusement Hall 206 Polk Street starting at 8 30 o clock Mrs Bob J Johnson of the River Road club is chairman of the general arrangements committee All members are urged to attend
C. F. Walker alias John Mc Whethey pleaded guilty to violating state motor carrier laws. He was fined 25 dollars and costs by Justice B. R. Clark after arrest yesterday by deputy constable R. D. Dawson.
Local fire alarms ring across Amarillo as firemen respond to multiple calls over three nights. Police are blamed for triggering the alarms, with fines and jail time stated as penalties.
A 17 member petit jury was empaneled this morning for the new term of the 47th District Court. Jurors named include W. W. Parkinson L. Ellis T. N. Giles Floyd Krabby W. H. Henderson A. P. Hammett M. L. Estes Perry Spencer M. L Huddleston A. J. Lamb F. M. Pitt man J. Phipps W. D. Thompson T. B Likins R. L. Williams Cliff Crump and Guy Creame. Seventy five University of Tennessee Medical College students who act as blood donors are standardizing their price at 50 dollars per pint.
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