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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1931
Page
2
A plea to adopt needy local families for Christmas with meals clothing and toys, plus notices of charity events, bridge tournament at The Herring Hotel, a charity ball by the Junior League and Elks, and social notices including a companion request for an elderly lady. Multiple local names and venues referenced.
A letter from Mandy Rieger on behalf of Cy Rieger and Stanley Marsh asks Mr Caldwell to arrange contests with top players, insisting on facing the best ladies to determine worthy opponents. The note promises a meeting to work out details and asserts confidence in their team’s steel and skill.
A plea to readers to adopt a family and donate goods this Christmas. The author urges sharing toys groceries and clothing, notes widespread economic hardship and the noble work of charities, and emphasizes humane citizen action over pride.
After a weekend surge, Amarillo reports few burglaries and robberies. A Wednesday night thief shattered a window at Mary Maxson's Restaurant at 711 East Fourth Avenue and grabbed a few cigarets. Kenyon Grain & Seed Co. at 93 North Polk saw a battered safe but no loot.
Readers discuss dogs and deer tracking in a series of letters. The page notes pathos and reflections on animal stories as readers respond to previous items.
Seasonal warnings from the Panhandle Auto Club urge drivers to maintain wipers brakes and tires, test brakes daily, allow extra stopping margin on wet pavements, carry skid chains, use anti freeze, avoid fog and late day driving, keep headlights on, and never run a car in a closed garage due to deadly carbon monoxide.
A witty stage piece skewers royal intrigue as a baby-faced mistress stirs a power grab. Boyd Irwin leads the strong ensemble as the king with Paul Irving directing and starring in a celebrated production praised as a welcome relief from recent sensational plays.
Mrs. M. C. Hancock was named chair of the Christmas Home Lighting and Decorating Contest committee in Amarillo with Mrs. George Williams Mrs. J. H. Hall and Mrs. T. W. Cotten as members A North Amarillo representative will be named later Entries close at noon Thursday Dec 24 Ten cash prizes will be awarded Judging favors Christmastide spirit over elaborate design Entry by clipping the contest blade in The Globe and The News and mailing to The News Globe office
At Huntsville Texas on December 17 two men sat in the state prison death row awaiting electrocution. Will Fritts a white former Haskell County farmer killed D W Hamilton and his son Earl after the son's testimony in a liquor case. Barney Lee Ross a self styled former circus roustabout from Daingerfield was convicted for attacking a white woman.
New York December 17 British statesman Winston Churchill will be allowed to leave Lenox Hill Hospital within ten days if his steady improvement continues doctors said today He had a quiet restful night Mrs Churchill and their daughter Diana stayed with him until late last night when he went to sleep The pleurisy condition developed after he was struck by a car a week ago is under check by physicians
Clarksbury West Virginia inmate Harry F Powers moved from county jail to Moundsville state penitentiary. He remains under sentence to die on March 18 for killing Mrs Dorothy Pressler Lemke of Northboro Massachusetts.
The travelling Buy Now dollar, on a pre Christmas store tour in Amarillo, was found by Globe-News detectives at White and Kirks after merchants failed to report it. It had visited Ruth's News Stand City Drug Store and Alenius the Florist. The dollar’s tour was organized by Will R Winch manager of the Paramount Publix theaters.
The petition claims Allred warned that three different low prices in the Texas Panhandle and one high price in Kansas and Oklahoma were used to skew the average posted price. It alleges the contract required only prices actually used in Reagan County oil purchases and that the University was undercompensated for high gravity crude.
Texas Attorney General James V. Allred told a Fort Worth delegation he will not withdraw nine suits in Tarrant County charging gasoline stations with selling fuels below the state standard. He said the cases are in court and will be disposed of there. Investigations extended to Wichita Falls and other cities.
Police report only a few shoplifting cases in Amarillo as the Christmas season hits. Stores employ private detectives for the holidays. Thieves described as well dressed with large pockets and coats use distraction while clerks are busy.
Policeman J. E. Griffin killed an escaped Oklahoma convict Charley Stanley who tried to rob a filling station in Dallas. Griffin was wounded in the chest by a dum dum bullet and a bandit’s shot. Stanley had escaped December 4 from McAlester prison where he served life for robbery with firearms.
The Denver case of Joseph E. Graves assistant district attorney found in a parked car is now attributed to alcoholic heart shock per a coroner report. Glen O. DePuy says Graves was drunk and fell from their car after a dispute over driving. District Attorney Earl Wettengel says DePuy will not be prosecuted. police previously suspected gangland involvement.
In Beeville Texas the jury weighs whether Newton Yarberry killed 18 year old Dorothy Symons on a midnight swimming date. The body was found in a shallow grave near Aransas Pass. The state says they were friendly. Yarberry admits they went together but denies a romantic bond.
Snowfall totaling .67 inches of precipitation draped the region. Eight to ten inches buried towns from Santa Fe to Clovis, with Lubbock reporting six and a half inches by 8 A.M. Amplitudes of frost easing as skies clear. Bus service on several Amarillo routes halted, and rail reassignment used to bypass impassable stretches. Wheat gain from moisture, cotton crews suffer, no livestock losses reported.
Two accidents on Wednesday night connected to Amarillo's snow left Thomas E. Durham Jr. with a broken leg after his sled was struck at Tenth Avenue and Travis. A. B. Keel, Troy Laundry driver of 707 Louisiana Street, was hurt in a crash at Fourth Avenue and Madison Street. Ice covered streets were blamed, and city graders under E. N. Stanley the city engineer continue snow grading work.
Hearing on habeas corpus for Bryan King charged with receiving and concealing stolen property was set before District Judge Henry S Bishop in criminal district court. King, arrested at 2201 South Buchanan Street after a dry goods seizure, waived preliminary trial and remains jailed on a $750 bond awaiting grand jury action.
Santa Monica bulletin from Dr. Leo J. Masden reports Pola Negri, the motion picture star, still suffering but resting some after a night of pain. She was tested with sedatives, temperature 99.7 and pulse 110. It was disclosed she had a blood transfusion after an operation to remove an intestinal obstruction.
George Doty a 78 year old Arizona pioneer who rode the ranges and battled Indians nearly fifty years ago was found shot to death yesterday in his Phoenix residence. County physician Dr J D Mauldin said Doty took his own life.
Mrs Nell Donnelly, head of the Donnelly Garment Company, was reported kidnapped in Kansas City Missouri and held for a $75,000 ransom. The incident involves the notable businesswoman and a major local firm in a high profile crime case.
The giant dirigible Akron on its return flight from southeastern states to its home port at Lakehurst New Jersey passed over Harrisburg at 11 03 A M.
A 1931 Edgar A. Guest poem describes children acting well at Christmas time and imagining a balance between perfect manners and playful freedom. The speaker endorses good conduct yet longs for the occasional relief from constant perfection.
Amarillo markets list grain quotes for wheat millet and barley, Chicago livestock notes hogs and cattle futures with price ranges, Kansas City cattle and sheep bids, New Orleans cotton opens steady but dull with minor gains and declines across contracts.
New York stock market trends lower in quiet trading. American Telephone slides two points to a low not seen since 1922, and a new low for A and Steel pressures markets. Copper holds steady on curtailment talks. Union Pacific American Can Liggett and Myers American Tobacco Western Union rise about two points. Rail shares including Baltimore and Ohio Santa Fe and New York Central fall one to 1 4 points. Call money rises to 2 4 per cent.
Patricia Hathaway former secretary to promoter E J Cox testified as part of a mail fraud trial against Cox and nine others over Universal Oil and Gas Company stock sales authorities say defrauded investors of about one million dollars. J G Walton ex governor is among the defendants.
Amarillo and Potter County now have no diphtheria cases within city limits after the last quarantine was lifted. The health unit reports at most a dozen homes quarantined at any time and steps taken at schools when pupils fell ill. Only nine scarlet fever cases remain under quarantine.
Chicago court records show Mrs. Victoria Biliasis accepting a bathhouse in place of alimony. She told Judge Daniel P. Trude she expects it to earn about 40 dollars weekly.
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