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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1934
Page
2
A rambling Amarillo column blends weather forecasts with local notes about civic talks, charity for Shirley Ann Grounds, a proposed 50 year telephone franchise, and community snippets. The piece recounts forecasts of snow, numbers from city officials, and colorful anecdotes from residents and visitors.
Fort Worth report on the murder trial of W. D. May for the Handley slayings. Attorneys for both sides received two hours ten minutes to present arguments. The piece then shifts to social notes about Phillips Petroleum Company events, staff, and a humorous aside about mother in law jokes.
Senate stock market investigating committee released survey results showing 20 large corporations poured over 20 billion dollars into the 1929 boom market, with Standard Oil of New Jersey posting the largest total at 17.67 billion and a single day gain near 97.8 million. Richard Whitney of the NYSE challenged the new uniform accounting and quarterly reporting provisions, while Fletcher Rayburn pressed for broader exchange regulation.
A letter to Tack advises a supposed four remedy for bed bugs using hydrocyanic acid gas formed from sodium cyanide and sulfuric acid. It warns that the gas can paralyze hearts and lungs and urges nonexperts not to fumigate homes.
Advance tickets for the Cattlemen's Benefit Dance, sponsored by the Panhandle Livestock Association, promise a capacity crowd at Nat Mondy Hall. Funds support the Amarillo Fat Stock show, March 5 to 8, with Roy Diven’s Divenities providing music and cowboy novelties arranged for the event. Tickets available from association officers. supper club reservations via 20167.
King Leopold III is proclaimed king at 32 in Brussels as trumpeters announce the accession. Queen Astrid, expecting a child, sits out the procession while Crown Prince Baudouin and Princess Josephine Charlotte accompany their parents to the royal palace. The monarch, a Rotary member, is described as disciplined and outdoorsy, with the ceremony featuring a stark parade through Brussels and a vivid oath scene.
The Texas Senate debated a bill to refund gasoline taxes to cities and towns for public vehicles. The measure passed 22 to 5 amid warnings of lost highway funds and potential fraud, with Holbrook opposing as unconstitutional and favoring strong state needs. Conference committees weighed emergency relief bonds and mortgage foreclosure moratoriums as a special session neared end.
Dr Wynekoop grows weaker in court updates with temperature near normal and pulse unsteady. Defense requests postponement to Monday to allow recovery. Witnesses describe scene in operating room with Rheta covered by sheet. Prosecutor vows to prove prior statements about a shooting and death, conflicting with later remarks to the undertaker.
In Fort Smith Arkansas today two people were killed and a third critically wounded at Mechanics Lumber Company offices. Victims were Jim Center 42 and his wife Edna Center 32 both believed shot by J S Hill Sr 65 a stockholder and former company president who was found shot in the head. coroner noted powder burns at entry.
The drought fund was proposed for nine states in drouth areas with feed for livestock as a prime need. Hopkins outlined plans to carry relief after May 1 when the Civil Works Administration demobilizes its winter staff. He indicated Public Works of Art would shrink to about 1,000 workers. Unemployment rose by about 572,500 as CW A demobilization began, with tens of thousands poised to seek work.
The Touhy trio received prison terms after a six hour federal court verdict for tax law violations. Co defendants included gang figures like Three-Fingered Jack William White and Pat Sammons, with Murray Humphreys a fugitive. A prior St Paul acquittal on kidnaping stands. new trial motion scheduled for Saturday.
Three tall women from Sherman Texas dressed in men's clothes held up Troy Bruton of San Jose California on a highway near Altamont Pass. They beat him with a crank, robbed him, and stole his automobile before driving off. Bruton’s car was later recovered in Reno. The suspects named Jane Furlong 21 Catherine Underwood and Catherine Hudson 20 said they were hitchhiking waitresses.
In New York on February 23 26 year veteran Frank Hoey loses his Central Park flock as the city ousts municipally owned sheep. The herd once drew schoolchildren to witness farm life and now Hoey faces eviction with the animals to be turned into cafe lamb chops.
Cotton opened steady with March contracts seen for delivery, trades up to 9 points, later rising to 12.10 March 12.28 May and 12.48 July. New York stock letters describe post-holiday lethargy with mixed bonds, firm commodities including wheat and cotton, bullion steady, and several names like Liegett & Myers B and Packard active while others drift.
Air mail news covers a crash where Burnett broke his left leg during parachute descent near Cleveland after losing bearings. He was found by farmer Irwin Bowersox and sent to Memorial Hospital. Separately, Army Reserve fliers urged to join regulars in flying air mail, and the House Post Office committee voted to set a fixed rate of about 2 mills per pound mile, ending bidding.
An old advertisement touts E Z Tablets to stimulate liver action and soften bowel contents for relief from constipation. The copy claims gentle daily action, notes no calomel, and lists a 60 count package for 25 cents sold at drug stores.
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