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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1933
Page
1
Malcolm Campbell, 48, prepares the Bluebird on Daytona Beach Florida as he shatters his land speed record with an average of 272.1 mph over a measured mile during a trial run. The rapid test follows his previous record and highlights the car’s performance on hard-packed sand.
Ferdinand Pecora’s hearings reveal National City Company borrowed 15 000 shares on April 23 1929 from Charles E Mitchell chairman of National City Bank and temporarily sold them short during the 1929 boom. Witness Harry F Law of National City Company discloses the borrowing under questioning.
The Texas Senate refused to confirm Gov. Miriam A Ferguson's pick Frank L. Denison of Temple to head the Texas highway commission. It marked a second rejection after an initial failure by one vote. The vote occurred in executive session with no disclosure of results.
Desperate clashes between Chinese forces and Japanese troops near Nanjing, with air bombing and artillery bombardment. Chinese say eight bayonet charges failed to break them, Japanese forces reportedly bombed Chaoyang and advanced toward Peiping. About 3,000 Americans in North China affected by the tension, with Jehol province defenses led by Gen. Tang Yu-Lin and Gen. Sun Ting-Ying. A volunteer general Liu Kusi-Tang is said to have joined Japanese-Manchukuo forces, and a Japanese ultimatum demanded withdrawal from Jehol within 24 hours.
The forecast notes fair conditions tonight and Friday across Amarillo and surrounding West Texas areas. Temperature trends show little change with highs near 65 and lows around 36.
In bright weather chatter the piece notes how residents feel drawn to the soil and lists city nursery firms offering stock to transform dull yards into pleasant spaces. See Want Ad classification No 45.
Former Utah governor George H Dern accepted the post of Secretary of War in the Roosevelt cabinet. Mrs Dern said Roosevelt had offered the position after a morning call from Hyde Park. Dern was sleeping at the time the announcement was made after a night awake.
Treasury receipts for February 20 were $5,482,751.62 and expenditures $30,037,036.68, leaving a balance of $296,810,685.88. Customs duties for 20 days of February totaled $11,835,259.00.
Federal agents view the note accompanying a crude explosive as key to tracing the would be assassin. The package sent to the President elect from Watertown New York included a shotgun shell with J shaped wiring and was found at the city post office Tuesday. Investigators from the Post Office and Justice Department are quietly pursuing the case in Watertown.
Postal inspectors traced a shotgun shell package mailed between 10 and 11 P M Sunday. It was left atop a street mail box opposite the Watertown post office and later retrieved by substitute carrier Logan J Hannay who noted it was addressed to the President-elect. The box could not accommodate the package.
Flames fed by 7 000 barrels of gasoline kerosene and oil destroyed the Panama Refinery in Kilgore Texas burning for six hours. Origin of the blaze undetermined. A F Anding manager said the loss was 15000 dollars. Motor Direct 219 Taylor.
Tickets for the all Negro musical revue Brown Skin Models go on sale at the News Globe office today. The reservation board will relocate to City Drug No. 1 on Polk Street. The show, booked by Wilbur C. Hawk, plays at Municipal Auditorium with Negro dancers singers and Harlem jazz band. Reserved white main floor seats are 1.10 1.85 and 0.55 dollars while the Negro balcony seats will be 0.25 0.35 0.55 and 0.85 dollars.
Prohibitionists and anti-prohibitionists in the South prepare for a clash over repealing the 18th amendment. Militant groups form in Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Georgia as legislatures move toward conventions on ratification or rejection. Leaders say the fight will go to voters, with southern states historically dry or reformed in the early 1900s.
John I Black, 27, of Fort Worth, was acquitted of murdering his father A. E Black near Wellington Texas last July after a two hour jury deliberation. The case hinged on disputed profits and domestic matters while the elder Black was killed while asleep. police recovered a gun from Salt Fork Creek nearby.
Denver, Feb 23. Claude Boettcher, father of Charles Boettcher the kidnapped son, pledges to spend five times the $60,000 ransom or ten times that amount to pursue and bring to justice any who harm him. He stated he believes his son is alive and vowed to track down the kidnappers who ordered a revolver for his firm. Police report stalemate as detectives shadow Boettcher amid the inquiry. P A Tyson and three others are jailed in connection with the case.
Several earthshocks struck Iquique and nearby towns in the nitrate region today, damaging a number of structures and felt across the area.
The Amarillo Philharmonic presents its fourth season concert Friday at the Municipal Auditorium. Tickets are for members and guests only with reserved seats via City Drug Store. Student memberships offer single concert access for two at $1 or 25 cents for one. See page 2.
Kansas City Zoo lion Zimba will be euthanized in a gas chamber at an animal hospital. The faint hearted cub, raised by Russell Voespel, arrived shivering from Illinois and rejected food, companionship, and zoo life. Voespel plans to have him put to sleep after weeks of terror and withdrawal.
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