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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1935
Page
3
The Bank of France annual report says price deflation and Roosevelt’s dollar manipulation harmed global recovery. It notes gold reserves rose to 82.12 billion francs, but inflows do not signal improvement. It rebukes artificial meddling and stresses faith in the franc’s solidity despite a deep business slump.
The Texas Highway Commission ordered a start this year on grading and drainage for the Kennedy County Gap on the Hug the Coast Highway. Chairman John Wood said the order starts work but does not guarantee completion within a year or two due to potential ROW and funding issues.
Fort Worth police Lieutenant Ed L Lee was shot in the head by a fleeing youth after catching the robber in the South Side business district. The officer fired back after being struck and believed he wounded the suspect as Biggar the night manager alerted the scene at a local pharmacy.
Post master W. D. DeGrassi reports Amarillo post office receipts for January at $25,514.44, up from $23,527.15 in January 1934, a gain of $1,987.29 year over year.
Potter County records show a sharp drop in marriage licenses for January with 26 issued versus 37 in December. The list includes couples such as Leland Workman with Lemuel Payne, J C Dickens with Nonnie Holcomb, Floyd Cox with Geraldine McDavid, and many others including Willie Hickson with Gertude Wells and Robert Townsend with Mrs Emma Lucas.
Six people died in Amarillo last month from violent causes. Harold English Archie Shamblin and Lee Godfrey perished in car crashes. Mrs. George Hamlin a former Irene Hare was killed with a hammer on January 5. T. J. Donnellan an Oklahoma visitor died by self inflicted bullet injury on January 18. Bobbie Jo Slay aged 3 died from scalding when a bucket of hot water overturned.
Vyacheslaff Molotoff denounces Japanese activity in Manchuria as 2,500 delegates at the All-Union Soviet Congress cheer the Red Army growth from 609,000 to 940,000. He accuses Japan of violating the Portsmouth treaty and notes demilitarization promises for Sakhalin and the frontiers.
J. C. Walker, Kellerville oil field welder, held in Potter County jail on a theft charge with $2,000 bond. Indicted by 47th District Court for the theft of an air compressor owned by E. C. Fritchie of Amarillo. Walker transported from Kellerville to the jail by Deputies Sam Ramsey and O. W. Moore.
Potter County residents registered 201 vehicles in January 1935, a new three year high. The tally included 162 passenger cars and 39 commercial vehicles, 23 more than January 1934 and up from 67 in January 1933.
Rabbi Perry E. Nussbaum will address Temple B Nina Israel on "Palestine: A Dream Coming True" during Friday services. The Temple Sisterhood hosts a reception after the service and the choir tunes up at 8 oclock for the program.
Foreign permits reported include Parade Gasoline Company Inc Delaware with 100 shares and Texas agent Roy Lee of Tyler for manufacturing. Acme Gas and Oil Company Ontario Canada with 5,000,000 shares and Texas agent C S Nelson of Tyler for mineral development.
In Whitehall Michigan John Mahan a Muskegon diver descended through a hole in White Lake wearing helmet and diving suit to retrieve a set of false teeth. An anxious client waited on the ice above as the diver surfaced with the buried item.
The first Panhandle Lincoln Day banquet will be held February 12 in Wichita Falls at the Crystal Ballroom, Herring Hotel. Invitations went to C Bascom Slemp, Orville Bullington, R B Creager, T F Lee, and Henry Zuveifel, with speakers to be announced.
In Debrecen Hungary a witness testified that earth from graves of a 20 year poison victim still carried enough toxin to kill. Nine women stand trial for husband killing linked to Mrs John Nagy age 72. Alleged 1931 poisoning of Nagy’s 13 year old grandson cited. A medical professor described poison quantity in exhumed bodies and superstition seen in heavy iron stove lids over hearts to ward off hauntings.
Friends gathered in Dallas to await the arrival of Jed C. Adams’s body. Adams 59, a member of the United States board of tax appeals, died Tuesday night in Washington. A Dallas Bar Association committee, named by President Connie Renfro, will accompany the body to Kaufman for funeral services led by Dr. George W. Truett at the First Baptist Church.
The note says the event will be the first scheduled in Amarillo. The arrangements committee includes W. T. Bill Pheiffer Wilbur C. Hawk Hugh Exum and E. Fish.
The BBC advisory committee on spoken English releases third edition of Broadcast English with 300 word guidance. Handkerchief becomes hangkerchiff, aerial as airial, beret as berret, omelet as omlet, conduit as condit. A ship rear debate splits seafarers on starn versus star n.
Funeral services for John Ross McIlheran age 50 theater manager who died here late Wednesday night were to be held in Dallas today. He had 30 years in theater work and was Rialto Theater manager when he died. He lived about a year in this city at 510 East Seventh Avenue. Survivors include his widow a daughter four brothers and three sisters.
Three people died and ten were injured in Amarillo during the first month of 1935. Victims include Lee Godfrey of Wellington, Harold English of Eng ish Airport, and Archie Shamblin. Two injuries are serious, prompting a safety drive led by police Sergeant Elmer Green urging careful driving and full obedience to traffic laws.
Mrs H J Pankratz of Pleasant Valley is resting well this morning after undergoing an operation at St Anthony's Hospital on Thursday.
The warming liquid Pento-Rub is marketed to penetrate deep into cold congested muscles. It is described as a sorbent that sends a surge of warm blood to relieve pain and is sold at 25c 50c and $1 per bottle.
Twenty Texas lawmakers signed a resolution urging the University of Texas to hire former Oklahoma Governor William H. Murray known as Alfalfa Bill as a professor of government and constitutional law. Murray spoke on governmental and economic issues yesterday and was en route to Mexico.
Sen Clint Small of Amarillo proposes repeal of the 1933 bank moratorium act. He argues broad powers given to the governor and banking commissioner are no longer necessary as emergency conditions have passed and the act was initially enacted to align state rules with federal emergency restrictions.
Case 18 at George West, Feb, Charles Clark's trial for the Dobbs killings ended in a mistrial as illness kept defense attorney J. F. Taulbee from appearing. Clark's earlier trial on Jan 11 also ended in mistrial when District Attorney Alex F. Cox collapsed in court.
A patent medicine claim promises fast cough relief with Bronchaline fulsion. One dose delivers noticeable easing, a few doses may stop the cough, and half a bottle should work. Money back guarantee offered by City Drug Stores and other druggists.
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