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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1930
Page
3
Secretary of Commerce Lamont told President Hoover that after the present recession, the upward trend in industrial efficiency and production per worker will resume. He noted wage cuts were minimal, part-time work kept earnings down, and living costs fell about 5 percent between November 1929 and June 1930.
George FE Gallagher, cashier of National Life Insurance, apparently drove his car into Lake Michigan from a concrete parking block last night, his vision obscured by snow. He was drowned in Chicago.
Capetown dispatch reports a magistrate ruling that sea prospecting near Namaqualands is legal. W. P. Thom faced charges for staking a claim between high and low tide marks and panning gravel, with the court ruling the area between tides not illegal.
A brief legal note states that Thom was discharged after a dispute over land in a legal sense. The outcome confirms the working of the land did not infringe any claim under the law.
Charles F E Chapin, 72, former Evening World city editor, dies in Sing Sing after 11 years of a 20 year sentence for killing his wife Nellie Beebe Chapin. In his will he requests burial in Glenwood cemetery Washington in the least expensive casket with no service. Sister asks body sent to Washington. guard William Halpin to accompany. He had worked as prison paper editor and gardener and chose death over parole.
J W Long John Collie aged 68 a hotel proprietor remained in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the head while Miss Peggy T Barber 20 was killed in a hotel shooting in Dallas yesterday. Acquaintances said she had lived at the hotel on and off for three years but had recently moved away.
Local fishermen from Astoria protest the construction of a revolving beacon light on the Columbia River bank. They argue the beacon will ruin salmon fishing in the river drift, one of the area's best fishing stretches.
Funeral services were held at 2 PM at Central Presbyterian Church for Peggy Cox age 1? years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J B Cox of 2110 Washington Street. She died Sunday after a short illness. Survived by her parents, a brother Samuel 11, and sister Jane 1. Peggy was born January 4, 1922 in McAlester Oklahoma. The family moved...
In 1925 in the city the girl attended Wolflin school where she was in the third grade. Her grandmother Mrs S L Maxwell and Miss Helen Maxwell, an aunt, arrived Sunday night from Oklahoma City by automobile. Active pallbearers were James A Rush, C T Crowe, Charles Greeg, Dr Hume, J M O'Brien and George McLellan.
Russian and Romanian terrorists captured at Galați confessed a plot to blow up the royal palace and both houses of parliament in Romania. The accused were brought to Bucharest for questioning and indicate premeditated aims.
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