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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1931
Page
2
A speaker extols steady salaried jobs and Amarillo real estate as ideal during economic strain. He warns against slick home agents selling cheap silk stockings and urges buying from local merchants while noting Wichita Falls misery and college graduates’ woes.
Amarillo city officials weighed a petition to extend white way lighting on Fillmore Street from Tenth to Sixteenth Avenues. The mayor noted last month’s $2,300 electric bill for lighting and said funding hinges on tax rates, while business leaders urged extension for traffic needs and zoning supports. The commission took the petition under consideration, with past extensions costing about $80,000 overall.
A reader from Perryton Texas writes that hobos and public officials must address worsening employment conditions before winter. He recounts working for a local farmer for 10 days and urges action to prevent growing hardship.
A joint Dallas meeting formed a steering committee of Southwestern and Texas Traffic League members to oppose a 15 percent rate increase. The group will prepare evidence for a Dallas hearing starting August 21. Leaders from Oklahoma to Texas foresee trucking firms absorbing more business if rail rates rise.
B Clayton a pioneer of Amarillo, died at 8 30 this morning at 119 North East Fifth Avenue after a two year illness. Survived by wife Nancy E Clayton two sons Bud of Tucumcari and Luther of Mammoth three daughters Mrs A Wahlberg Mammoth Mrs Coen Childress and Mrs Frank Johnson of Amarillo. Moved to Amarillo early in 1895. Funeral at Griggs Chapel Thursday at 4 with Rev E B Fincher officiating. Pallbearers named Nath Hord Frank King Tom Taylor James Rowe Omer Temple Frank Weatherley. Burial Llano Cemetery.
Funeral services for Morris Nathan Cohen 57 merchant of McLean were held at 11 from Temple B Nai Israel under N S Griggs and Sons He died Tuesday He is survived by his wife two sons Barney Cohen of McLean Isadore Cohen of Amarillo and two daughters Mildred and Rose Cohen of Amarillo Pallbearers were J Blinderman Wolf Herring Charles Berwald Harry Lipshy N Cohen and Lewis Meyer Mrs Jack Figh of Dalhart visits Miss Peggy Arnold at Residence Hotel
Panhandle highways dried rapidly under a sunny spell and traffic returned to near normal. Highway 66 toward Oklahoma City remains very rough while roads to Canadian Dalhart and Colorado show marked improvement and motorists report easy passage to Clovis Hereford and Tucumcari. Amarillo forecasts fair tonight and partly cloudy Thursday.
The Lindberghs and a coast guard cutter Northland in fogbound conditions 24 miles west of Icey Cape on the Arctic coast impede their attempt to reach Point Barrow. The Northland cannot navigate through ice off Blossom Shoals delaying the vacation flight toward the Orient.
Mr and Mrs Malcolma Boone of 1616 Jackson St depart for a three week trip visiting Dallas relatives then Old Mexico. D W Owens of Oklahoma City is Amarillo bound on business. J F Whittington on a week long vacation visits relatives in Spur and Dallas. Mr and Mrs W F Glasgow of 1306 West Thirteenth Ave travel to Colorado and New Mexico for ten days with son in law and daughter S E Bounds of Oklahoma City. Co M Courtman Midland Life Kansas City is in Amarillo for a few days on business. Mr and Mrs J W Dodson and daughter Mary move to 512 B West Tenth Ave. Mr and Mrs C H Jeffers return from vacations in California and Colorado. F W Reeves Friona L T Mayhew Plainview R L Simmons Miami and David Dammelr Amarillo leave for Enid Okla to attend a Wheat Growers board meeting. W E Gwynn and F A Bender Panhandle grain elevator operators spend a day in Amarillo on business. Mr and Mrs C B Rittenberry 3408 West Ninth Ave and Dr and Mrs W L Askew 2402 Tyler St plan about ten days fishing in Creede Colo.
Evangelistic altar meetings resume in Texas at Sec ond and Buchanan near Fort Worth depot. Taft Calif evangelist Rev Ed T Edwards leads the revival with assistance from evening prayer by hiking evangelist H E Bruce and preacher Jack Nevelle delivering sermons from a text chosen by Bruce.
The Forty and Eight of the American Legion will hold a special called meeting Thursday night at o'clock in the Legion hall. Members will finalize business ahead of the state convention and will confer obligations on Mayor Ernest O. Thompson and Vernon Hogan.
Amarillo grain quotes show wheat and milo figures while Kansas City and Chicago livestock prices shift day. Cattle hog and sheep trading patterns noted with top bids and weight ranges. New Orleans cotton opens weak on Germany loan sale, later rally as shorts cover. New York stocks drift lower with American Telephone and other leaders slipping.
A 1931 verse by Edgar A. Guest argues that pursuing fortune and fame creates discontent and misery. The speaker suggests contentment through restraint and a simpler life could lessen fret and sorrow, warning against excessive desires.
A summary of the Wickersham committee's warning on gangster influence over police in major cities and magistrates relating to prohibition and bootlegging. The text critiques political control enabling criminals and suggests government action while endorsing health messaging for Amazone Water.
Sam Rector Mangum deputy sheriff arrived in Amarillo Saturday noon after learning Bliss had come that direction and had been in town since the prior Monday. The Brinkman bank robbery netted $1229 in cash and one $50 Liberty bond. Two young men aided an older man.
Oklahoma Governor Murray accuses Sinclair Consolidated Oil of manipulating oil prices and attempts to use martial law to close all flush wells until crude tops $1 a barrel. Attorneys for oil groups plan federal court challenges as Sinclair defies injunctions.
Tyler Texas August 5 East Texas oil operators are summoned to a Thursday meeting called by Judge Charles G Bradfield to discuss shutting down wells in the field. W E McKinney urges action and says over 30 independent operators have agreed to shut down. A crude oil marketing agency may be discussed.
In a case tied to a 1925 summer robbery, Bliss a former Granite Oklahoma prison guard and two youths faced conviction. Clues point to Bliss’s Amarillo linkage via a stranger who bought a car with cash. The raid included Cooper and others, including Charles Debout and deputies, city officers, and several visitors staying with Mrs. Georgia Ferrett.
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