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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1931
Page
2
A column urges residents to contact the Chamber of Commerce to send out skilled workers at union scale for home repairs and gardening as a practical effort to lift a down mood. The piece cites a local family in hardship and recalls neighborhood anecdotes, jokes, and social notes from Amarillo.
Speaker Longworth keeps the relief bill in his pocket delaying action while Senate threats push for a food loan provision. The bill sits on Longworth's desk as conferees may draft an agreed text and a potential clash looms over a $15,000 food loan provision amid distress reports from Arkansas and elsewhere.
New York January 7. Upward of 60000 workers are under the smoke of new or rebuilt factory fires as a New Year contribution to employment. Orders for rails cars locomotives automobiles steamships corn products hardware explosives plumbing and window glass surge while textile stocks dwindle. Idle hands and reemployment in industrial sections show some relief though, alongside plants set to start or restart with unknown job counts.
The Musicians Union No. 532 holds its first annual banquet and dance at the Nat Supper Club tonight at 9. Elbert Roffey urges all musicians to attend and make reservations. Harry Jones and Indiana's Own Sons provide music until 12, followed by 12 local union orchestras.
A message notes Johnson street with a contact number 2-1802 and states Old Tack will pay an additional reward of 2 dollars.
A reader questions why highway officials require license tags to be displayed by January 1 1931 and asks how an appointed official or county judge can enforce tag purchases across counties. The letter warns of potential tax increases and urges officials to use judgment.
The pursuit traced Colquitt Davis and a companion from Hereford to Wichita where a gun battle with officers left Dr. Davis fatally wounded. The duo fled in the Dean Kirk car, moved toward Canyon Texas, then Amarillo, with Colquitt Davis captured after a farmer sighting.
A lighted cigarette is believed to have started a blaze on the back porch of a occupied house at 1919 Monroe Street late Tuesday night. Firemen reported the damage slight and no one was injured. Early Wednesday they responded to a motor car fire at Tenth Avenue and Garfield Street with practically no damage.
Infant girl of Mr and Mrs Solene Byrd 1012 West Thirteenth Avenue died at 8 this morning in a local hospital Funeral services will be conducted.
Frances Ann Walker five years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Walker of Boise City Oklahoma, died at 4:25 AM after a two day illness. She is survived by her parents and a brother, with services held at First Baptist Canyon. burial in Dreamland Cemetery Canyon. Active pallbearers listed. numerous honorary pallbearers named from Amarillo Spearman Plemons and other towns. Body lies in state at N. S. Griggs & Sons Chapel before removing to Canyon for funeral rites.
A 200 musician event at the Roxy in New York presented by L. Rothafel and NBC to aid unemployed players. The Sunday program, first in a series, will be heard coast to coast via WJZ and WABC networks with Toscha Seidel on violin, Ruth Etting, Luella Mellius, and other guests across nine broadcasts ending with a Goldberg interview.
KGRS 6 to 6 30 p m Betty Chadwick contralto assisted by Mrs H W Scott pianist. 6 30 to 7 Milt Taggarts orchestra from the Red Room Amarillo Hotel 8 30 to 9 Warner Brothers program on WDAG
Armour's fortune rose to about 150 million as he backed oil cracking and wartime meat contracts. Postwar downfall followed a glut of high priced meat and insolvency of 1.805 million. After his 1926 death his wife faced creditors over 400 Universal Products shares and a noted estate liquidation. His burial was planned at Liane cemetery with Rev. Robert C. Jones officiating.
A citywide campaign to alleviate unemployment in Amarillo includes an 8 pm mass meeting presided by Mayor Thompson. The event features two bands and speeches from local leaders as organizers plan a rapid job-creation push and a subsequent canvass beginning Thursday.
The employment committee led by Mrs. H. C. Adams outlined a Federation plan where 500 members each assist one nonmember to provide one day of work. Wages would be 35 to 50 cents an hour for short jobs or at least $2.50 per day, with one woman responsible for hiring in neighborhoods.
J C Mystinger of Wichita Falls urges Amarillo to push a jobless relief campaign that ended unemployment and boosted business there. He says 1500 registered jobless were placed, merchants saw higher sales, and the drive continues with a public campaign in Amarillo tonight.
Police say 25 year old Ahlander claimed his wife killed their children then shot herself. He told authorities of the tragedy and was hysterical when officers arrived at the home.
C A Tharp aged 33 an insurance man of Lexington Ky died at 3 o clock this morning in a local hospital. He is survived by his wife. Funeral arrangements will be made after her arrival from Lexington. The body is held at Blackburn Funeral home.
Hogs at 6,500 head with prices steady to higher top $7.45. Cattle and calves around 6,000 head with varied for weight classes. hogs, sows, stock pigs show ranges. Sheep and lambs active with lambs up to 8.25 per 90 pounds and feeders 6.00 to 6.75.
Hogs at Fort Worth steady to 10 cents lower with top rail and truck at 7.90. Cattle numbers about 3,000 with packer demand quiet for butcher stock. slaughter steers 6.00 to 9.25. fat yearlings around 8.00. good cows 5.10. cutters 2.00 to 2.60. calves 7.06 down. In New York, cotton opened steady with a decline of 5 to points, March down to 10.08 and July 10.57 before rallies as covering and trade buying absorbed offerings.
A 1951 Edgar A. Guest poem contemplates wealth, friendship, and success. It contrasts luxury with kindness, notes a dog’s welcome despite neglect, and suggests life’s purpose lies in making friends while acknowledging the mystery of divine plans.
An advertising copy urges mothers to use Castoria for fretful spells feverishness colic or constipation in babies. The text claims Castoria is a pure vegetable preparation safe for frequent use and suitable through babyhood with increasing dose as the child grows. It ends by warning readers to seek the Fletcher’s Castoria signature for authenticity.
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