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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1929
Page
4
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Planning for paving Thirty Sixth Avenue to connect the Canyon highway with Amarillo faces a width dispute. City Engineer E N Stanley secured 50 percent aid for 18 foot concrete paving, with potential 75 percent aid if widened. Delays loom if plans change. emergency to complete the gap now. The Christmas rush looms as 15 shopping days remain and post office workers brace for peak workload. Early shopping and mailing urged to ease burden on postal staff and clerks. The U S Patent Office is five years behind. Patent Commissioner Robertson reports 114,688 applications in fiscal 1929 and recommends adding at least 100 examiners to catch up. A government office should run as businesslike as industry.
Washington Day Book recalls a nightlong tariff clash over a three cent per pound duty on imported tomatoes. Ashurst Bellows at Smoot as Heflin promotes tomato clubs for children. Shortridge quips about California and Florida, while Wheeler and Heflin clash over tactics.
Barbara hosts a lavish house warming with a circus theme and Golden Symphony Eight, while Ray wrestles with envy and a desire to reclaim Barbara. The party delights guests with costumes and live acts until a dangerous structural failure threatens hundreds as a dramatic cliffhanger unfolds.
A family argues about sending Larry to the same school as his older brother. The mother warns that shared schooling invites inevitable comparisons and rivalry, risking personal tension and hampered development. She urges Larry to choose his own path rather than follow in his brother’s footsteps.
The Prince of Wales and his younger brother Prince George plan to devote winter to flying. The heir to the throne has over 200 flight hours and aims for A and B pilot certificates while George has 130 hours and seeks a pilot’s license. The Prince uses a heating outfit powered by exhaust and studies weather forecasts from the Air Ministry.
Diary notes by D O McIntyre recounts Jed Harris, once a Broadway force, living in Europe at 40 with closed offices and gilt lost from his door. The piece chronicles Harris’s meteoric rise with Broadway productions, his aloof attitude, and sudden retreat, plus tangential sketches of Louis Marshall and Irvin Cobb in a bustling New York voice.
Bodies of three Mexicans killed in a wreck near Waxahachie were to be moved to Ennis for burial. The victims, a daughter, son, and granddaughter of Marcos Rodriguez, were in a car with four others when it struck a culvert. Senor Rodriguez and three young children were injured while the group traveled from Oklahoma to Ennis where relatives awaited.
Reddy Fox and Mrs. Reddy stalk turkeys near a farm as dusk falls. Mrs. Reddy draws off the hunting hound by the barn while Reddy steals a heavy turkey from the roost. The farmer misreads the scene, leaving the foxes a chance to hide their prize for later.
Belton Texas December 9 John Bigham Bell County sheriff who traveled over 16000 miles to arrest A B Crouch for forging bills of lading and embezzling more than 150000 dollars from two Texas banks is due to arrive at noon with the prisoner who has eluded capture for 13 years Crouch had been living in Helensville New Zealand as a real estate agent after leaving Bell County in 1916 and was found in San Pedro California Friday
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In Trinity Texas a Saturday night dance at Jess Munson’s home ended in tragedy as Lee Cherry 25 a guest was shot and killed Authorities soon arrested Monk Ramey of Trinity and charged him with murder Funeral services for Cherry were planned at his Onalaska home today
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