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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1934
Page
3
Dallas Aug 1 Federal funds drive Texas relief worsens as drought hits 239 of 254 counties. August relief need rises to 230000 people with a $2 million increase over last year. Officials warn of $115 million in crop and livestock damage and possible $75 million cotton losses without rain.
Amarillo area Boy Scout executive Marvin J. Paul leaves tomorrow with an advance group to prepare Camp Cima del Mundo near Las Vegas for a three week encampment. Attending with Paul are Arthur Kellner Henry Siemantel Jack Ratcliff Howard Ferguson Jr and James Pinky Hickox. All participants must file medical and physical exam forms at headquarters by 5 PM tomorrow.
Amarilloans John Forkner of the Mc Cormick Company and Harry Montgomery of the Associated Press Bureau are shown inspecting wheat heads in a Field photograph taken in Carson County during a June visit to film good wheat crops. The image, photographed by Paul Odor, appears as the wheat field in the weeks edition of the Saturday Evening Post.
Airline officials announce new schedules for two Transcontinental Western Air planes. The westbound flight now departs at 12 44 PM, previously 2 10 AM, while the eastbound flight previously at 6 06 PM leaves at 1 41 PM.
The drought has severely damaged cotton across Texas with Lubbock forecasting a dire crop and 20 000 bales possible from a typical 80 000 last year. Livestock losses loom as analysts estimate 1 500 000 head could be sold to the government under relief acts. Government programs aim to cushion farmers with large payments from corn hog and cotton reduction efforts and cattle sales projected near 12 million dollars, but many face a brutal winter.
Mrs. Zoan Salome Hickox 78 longtime Claude resident died Sunday in Long Beach California. Her body will arrive in Amarillo Thursday and be taken to Claude for 4 pm funeral services with N S Griggs Sons in charge. Pallbearers chosen include J E Phillips Lloyd Nelson Tony Chaveaux Ray Callahan and J E Weeks. Survivors list three sons L H Hickox J R Hickox Lester Hickox and five daughters.
Three to four hundred Methodists from the Northwest Texas Conference will attend the two day laymen’s conference August 7 and 8 at Polk Street Methodist Church. Principal speaker Dr. C. Q. Smith newly elected president of McMurry College will share the program. Mayor Ross Rogers will welcome visitors at the banquet and Amarillo banker H. D. Vaughn will deliver the August 8 address.
Ronald Colman and Thelma Ray have ended their marriage with a divorce in Hollywood. The couple wed September 18, 1919, and a 1925 property settlement followed a separate maintenance case in which Ray alleged desertion in Florence and denial of access in Los Angeles. The suit was later dismissed.
Fire records at the central station show July alarms averaged over one daily. Of 38 July calls, six were false and several were trash fires. The major loss was the Panhandle confectionery at Fourth Avenue and Fillmore Street, not insured.
The Interior Department under President Roosevelt issued an executive order transferring Puerto Rico from the War Department to a new division of territories and island possessions led by Harold L. Ickes. Alaska Haiti and the Virgin Islands will be administered by the interior division with seven War Department experts reassigned to implement the program.
In Ocala Oklahoma on August 1 an officer arrested John F Graham a special deputy for speeding 50 miles per hour in the business district. He posted a 10 dollar bond and faced charges.
Last rites for Mrs. Mary Carter age 50 were conducted at Griggs Chapel by Rev. Ferrell Fox. Burial followed at Memorial Park Cemetery with pallbearers W. E. Davis C. C. Fountain A. B. Kenyon H. C. Newman Tom C. Sparks and Homer Jacobs. She died Monday morning at 502 Georgia Street.
Senator John H. Bankhead, author of the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, opposes any suspension as agitation grows among noncooperators and Texas shippers. He says exemption certificates are property rights that could be traded and warns a suspension would hurt cooperative spirit and 90 percent of cotton growers.
Midwestern and western states push to ease the tax burden on real and tangible property to spur home building. With a new federal program drawing national focus, the property tax issue is set to feature in fall elections. Opponents warn suspension of cotton controls could extend the emergency into next year.
A survey by local and state real estate boards shows seven states cap property taxes by law or constitution, 21 limit real estate taxes, eight have no state tax, and six have no limits. States from Kansas to Texas push reforms, aiming to curb ad valorem taxes and seek constitutional protections.
The Treasury's July 30 position reports receipts of 89,150,407.48 and expenditures of 10,861,578.77 leaving a balance of 2,430,608,818.12. Customs receipts for the month amount to 18,802,644.40, and fiscal year to date receipts reach 219,449,025.40 with expenditures at 492,763,906.90 including 269,371,251.73 in emergency spending, resulting in an excess of 270,920,941.50. Gold assets stand at 7,927,497,320.74.
In Amarillo last month traffic accidents averaged about one per day. Police reports show 32 accidents with four injuries. A late month crash just outside city limits caused a motorist to die from burns after his car overturned and burned.
Fort Worth and Denver freight train struck a negro man near Channing on Monday night leaving an unidentified body. Train crew found the victim and county officers questioned twenty transients on the train who were released after authorities said no one pushed him off. Mr. and Mrs. Z. W. Smith returned from a 10 day Yellowstone Park trip.
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