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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1933
Page
4
The Amarillo Globe notes improving conditions with December gains in business and postal receipts. It highlights a $4,000,000 present from the gasoline tax cut for Texas motorists and comments on the broader relief from the one half cent levy. The piece reflects on national remarks by officials and experts on rest, fatness, and mental health.
In Thornton W. Burgess bedtime tale, Tommy Tit and neighbors suspect a harmless looking stranger near The Old Orchard. Sammy Jay reports a partly eaten sparrow, prompting debate over whether the newcomer killed it. The group debates caution while the stranger remains distant on a pole, feeding unease.
Glenn Frank describes a recurring postwar sequence where prosperity follows wars, then a secondary downturn after about ten years. He traces a wartime boom, inflation, farmer overextension, deflation after war, and a later building boom funded by speculation, culminating in the 1929 crash and a prolonged postwar slump. He notes we may be entering a fifth year of secondary postwar prosperity.
Harlem’s new Daily Citizen glosses life in the Black Belt with tabloid flair. The piece highlights Lenox Avenue crowds, rent parties, numbers gambling, and checkerboard social scenes from Strivers Row to Sugar Hill, with notes on figures like Duke Ellington and Franklin P. Adams.
Curt Tennyson and Paul St. Clair, aided by the Nichols, drive off a band of Klosohee Indians aligned with LeNoir, while Curt plots to uncover Sonya’s true mission and pursue Karakhan. He slips away by canoe and plane, travels toward Vancouver with Smash, exhausted after days of peril and hard travel.
Dr. Fishbein discusses invisible contact eyeglasses worn under the eyelids. Authorities say they won’t replace ordinary spectacles due to higher cost, greater manipulation, and limited adaptability. Contacts rest on the eyeball and use a salt solution to separate from the eye, offering constant correction regardless of eye movement.
Amarillo's NRA Compliance Board will stay in operation through April with the current members led by Roy Cullum as chairman. The Tuesday meeting addressed minor complaints as Rolla Townsend reported from Washington that displaying the Blue Eagle after January 1 could be seen as acceptance of NRA terms extended to April 30. The board was also advised that stays granted for compliance delays have been approved.
Hollywood reports Colleen Moore amid a personal and career revival in 1930s style, noting her renewed sparkle and steady resolve. The piece recalls her Bel-Air mansion, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract, and lingering unhappiness post divorce from John McCormick despite wealth and fame. Colleen’s husband Al Scott splits time in New York.
A federal investigator will arrive in Amarillo to review complaints filed with the Oil and Gas NRA Code for Zone 11. The coordination committee heard reports of retailers posting prices not in accordance with the code. A list of violators will be prepared by the committee. Nellie Kinzie was noted as the first white child born in Chicago.
In Chicago on January 3 a trio robbed the People’s Currency Exchange taking about 1000 dollars. Police pursuing the suspects were distracted by a limping man with a wooden leg. They fired as the robbers fled, only to discover the legged citizen was innocent, while the bandits escaped.
The renowned American newspaperman Don Marquis has fully recovered from a sudden blindness that struck him while working on a play last year. He felt dimness at his desk, mistook it for night, turned on a light, and soon regained sight as rest cured eye strain.
A fragment from a word builder puzzle hints at letters forming each new word with one added letter while letters rearrange. It mentions a man in the Capitol declaring quiet 2 5 and the glasses, and recalls yesterday's line about a red dress and an inbred bride by a fashion expert.
A mixed grid of horizontal and vertical clues references a Canadian theme with names, places, and terms. It lists topics from 12 Marshy waste land to 55 Like, including figures like Dr MacLeod and terms such as spigot and rowan tree, inviting solvers to fill crossings.
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