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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1931
Page
2
An Amarillo reader urges prioritizing home residents in the mayoral employment push. He proposes hiring two skilled local carpenters, a painter, and an unskilled worker for home repairs while resisting outside workers. He defends married women workers and cautions against biased hiring while urging careful, gradual solutions to unemployment.
A fragment from a local column features Tack defending himself against accusations of writing letters to himself and denying a Christmas party prank. The piece shifts to civic pride in Amarillo, noting esteemed citizens Gatton and Meredith, and ends with a humorous query about a Easy washing machine agent and a used mangle.
The Amarillo Traffic Club will meet Wednesday at noon at the Capitol Hotel for its regular semi monthly session. Ed Hardin of Amarillo Hardware Company will discuss traffic in foreign countries versus American traffic and John Armstrong announces a musical treat for attendees.
A reader laments radio appeals to buy goods while jobless since November. He questions the preacher’s influence, claims no work and no dollars, and suggests supporting local home talent instead of big advertisers. He recalls winning fiddling contests and offers a critique of advertising profits.
Community leaders announce a mass meeting on Wednesday at the Auditorium to discuss joblessness and public aid. Organizers urge attendance to hear speakers and request input from residents.
The article recalls varied practices for the elderly, from compassionate care to harsh disposal. It notes progress in old age pensions across several countries and contrasts humane treatment with survival practices such as ice-house confinement and, in harsher cases, killing the aged to avoid waste.
The note confirms Paul Whiteman and his orchestra will broadcast weekly on NBC with the first show set for Tuesday night January 27 at 7 30. Whiteman has been off radio since CBS last spring, aside from Chicago nightclub appearances. Other items announce WEAF voter service resumes at 6 with speakers Bulkley and Jessup, WBAG talk at 6 15, Julia Sanderson and Frank Cramit on WEAF, a WABC move, and a new 8 pm WIZ series featuring Percy Granger and Adolphe Dumont conducting a symphony orchestra.
Milt Taggart leads an evening program from the Red Room of the Amarillo Hotel. WDAG broadcasts from 6:20 to 7 and 9:30 to 10, while the Mayor promotes a Loyalty Program.
A call to utilize oil fields was presented as a solution to industry problems. Governors Holloway and Reed invited leaders from Oklahoma and Kansas to a Washington meeting January 1h to seek relief, with invitations extended to Texas Louisiana Arkansas Colorado Wyoming New Mexico Montana and California.
Gov. Dan Moody asked Tom B. Cranfill president of the Independent Oil Producers Association of Texas to suggest a committee of oil men to represent Texas at a nationwide conference in Washington on January 15. The governors of Oklahoma and Kansas called the conference to consider ways to ease distress in the industry due to large imports. The governor said Cranfill's committee will be appointed.
Senate campaign funds committee hearing reveals Wade H. Cooper of the Republican national committee paid for anti Norris literature circulated against Senator Norris of Nebraska. The probe examined a $50,000 committee account at Commercial National Bank tied to the Lucas loan and called witnesses Joseph Nutt James Reynolds Ralph Johnson and others from the Independent Publishing Company in relation to the printing and distribution of the material.
The Commercial Bowling League resumes after Christmas with Pool Creemery facing Clowe-Cowan, Waples-Platter Grocerymen meeting Helium Plant, and Panhandle Laundry against Southwestern Public Service.
The Texas Oklahoma Colorado Highway Association will hold its annual meeting on January 28 at LaMar Colorado. W W Chilton vice president of the chamber of commerce highway department announced the plans. Officers to be elected and business to be dismissed with emphasis on highway plans across three member states.
Funeral services for N. and Bagwell of Claude were held at 1:30 p.m. at the Claude Baptist Church with Rev. M. T. Tucker officiating. The 71 year old Plains country resident, who once lived in Palo Duro Canyon, is survived by his widow Susan, three daughters J B P Jasper Dye and W H James, five sons Claude Carl Bascom Leon and Frank, one sister Mrs John Kibler, and burial followed at Claude Cemetery under N S Griggs & Sons Funeral Home.
The mayor's Loyalty Committee announced a city meeting at Municipal Auditorium with tonight's radio program featuring Verlon Twadell and other performers. Col. Ernest C. Thompson says Amarillo will lead the way to a “no unemployed” city if residents respond quickly, amid national gloom.
Employers of unemployed men and women are asked to fill in personal report cards for each worker. Failure to do so delays finding a second job. Cards are filed at the welfare office at the Chamber of Commerce to identify those truly seeking work and weed out those not meeting standards. Cooperation is vital to the movement's success.
Amarillo mayor voices support for a Loyalty Campaign seen as driving a big business revival in the city. He notes no prior movement spurred the interest, and two local firms, Amarillo Lumber Company and Panhandle Lumber Company, have joined the industrial roll of honor with offers.
A lone island airfield at St Pauls Rocks serves as a sparse cable landing point. A patrol of fourteen planes from Orbetella started December 17 and split after a Mediterranean storm. Six diverted to the Balearics while the rest continued to Kenitra Villa Cisneros Bolama preparing for the ocean crossing.
The board of stewards meeting at Polk Street Methodist Church, set for Tuesday evening, is postponed to next week to avoid conflict with the ongoing unemployment campaign. Pastor Dr Ira F Key says the church quarterly conference also delayed, while the finance committee will meet Tuesday evening.
Across the nation workers return to plants and shops after shutdowns. Illinois Shoe and Watch companies restart production as Frisco and Rock Island lines recall crews. Harrisburg Allentown factories and Ford plants in Denver St Paul and Albany also resume operations boosting employment by the thousands.
The District of Columbia court of appeals postponed the Teapot Dome related ruling to February 2 to allow Judge D Lawrence Groner to take his seat on the bench. In Youngstown Ohio Judge David G Jenkins denied a new hearing in the Bethlehem Steel Youngstown Sheet & Tube merger injunction, proceeding as a docket entry. Dan Moody Jr celebrated his second birthday with a party at the governor's mansion as Amarillo welfare meeting planned for Wednesday at the Auditorium.
Hogs 7,000 head ready to 10¢ higher top $7.70. packing sows $5.75 to $6.40. stock pigs $7.00 to $7.65. Cattle 7,500 head, calves 1,500, mostly steady. steers 600-900 lb $9.25 to $13.75. 900-1100 lb $9.00 to $9.75. 1100-1300 lb $9.00 to $13.25. 1300-1500 lb $9.00 to $12.75. 600 lb up heifers $5.50 to $9.00. cows $5.25 to $7.50. milk-fed dealers $6.50 to $11.00.
Chicago and Fort Worth livestock markets show hogs and cattle mostly steady to higher with demand active. Cotton in New Orleans and New York opens softer on slumps in Liverpool but recovers to near day highs by late morning.
A poem describes eight year old Janet learning about money and seduction through a mother’s influence. The speaker notes the rapid passage of time and wonders at a girl’s early behavior. Janet stands beside her father and asks for money as she has learned to wheedle.
Mentodene marketed as a fast acting cough remedy claims to stop harsh coughing in seconds. It touts a secret ingredient plus five other components to clear passages and ease chest discomfort with no harmful drugs, available from druggists with a money back guarantee.
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