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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1932
Page
2
A letter discusses Andrew Mellon and Hoover era policy, arguing Mellon’s honesty but cold heart and missed chances to aid oil workers and devastated communities. It urges broader compassion, cites oil price collapse and Texas Oklahoma production cuts, and announces Amarillo shoe drive led by The News-Globe with donations and volunteer needs.
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce launches its largest drive on January 18 aiming to raise 45 000 toward a 60 000 budget. 61 of 101 towns have met quotas or formed in city committees as others prepare to join the simultaneous effort.
The narrator recalls a chaotic evening as guests in a hotel make playful yet wild antics with wingback collars and coats. An elevator scene erupts when a young man fixes on repeating the number five, shouting and acting frenzied as the party continues.
Dallas January 8 1932 All members of the executive staff of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank have been re elected for another year. Col C C Walsh and S B Perkins were re appointed chairman and deputy chairman. B A McKinney was re elected governor. Managing directors at the El Paso Houston and San Antonio branches are J L Harmann W D Gentry and M Crump. New directors to 1935 include W H Patrick C M Newman E M Hurd R M Farrar J A Wilkins Walter P Napier and Frank M Lewis.
The Texas attorney general's department completed its answer to Red River Bridge Company claims for 165000 dollars. The suit arises from construction of a free bridge across the Red River between Durant Oklahoma and Denison Texas. Trial is set for next Monday in Travis County district court.
A call to donate to hire workers to repair old shoes for children women and men who are barefoot. The appeal asks readers to send contributions to Tack or any News-Globe associate and promises full details in Saturday's issue.
A reader arriving in the plains city asks Tack for help finding employment, noting they have read The Globe News and are seeking guidance in the community. The letter appears in Tack’s page eight correspondence.
Globe-News Publix presents a Saturday 9 am matinee at the Fair Theater featuring Half Shot at Sunrise with Wheeler and Woolsey and Dorothy Lee. The program includes war-themed shorts and a comedic plot about two cronies mucking through military mischief and a comic marriage scheme.
American Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes delivered Secretary Stimson's note to the Japanese foreign office. Tokyo officials downplayed a need for third power intervention, reaffirming Japan's treaty rights and that Manchurian policy would not change.
In Nanking on January 8 officials regarded Secretary Stimson’s note to China and Japan as the first real hope for relief since the League’s failure over Manchuria. Eugene Chen invited American and British ministers to discuss the situation. Chen denied a secret Sino Japanese pact recognizing Japan’s Manchurian gains. Japan hints at possible landing of marines or port blockades in China if anti-Japanese boycott continues.
Japanese troops moved within two miles of Shanhaikwan on the northern Chinese frontier and occupied Wanchiatun two miles north. Guards ring the Peiping Mukden railway outside the Great Wall, marking completion of rail occupation in South Manchuria and restoring regular Mukden train service under treaty provisions post Boxer rebellion.
The Amarillo school system plans a voluntary ten percent salary cut affecting 400 faculty and staff at all district schools and Amarillo College. Supt. W. A. McIntosh will meet 325 teachers tomorrow at the senior high school to discuss the proposal and potential monthly savings of about $6,000.
Steel filing cabinets and shelves from Canton Ohio arrived this morning and were installed in the Potter County clerk's office in the new courthouse. Delays in shipment prevented moving clerks judges and auditors to the new quarters. The sheriff s and constable s departments will be moved January 20.
The directors of the St. Louis San Francisco Railway took no action today on the quarterly dividend due on the 6 per cent preferred stock.
Frederick Strauss of J. and W. Seligman Company testified before the Senate Banking Committee that promoters earned 533 000 in fees for arranging 100 million dollars in Peruvian loans now in default. The firm netted 601 000 after a 5 475 000 gross profit. Juan Segura was among the Peruvians involved. Red Cross to spend one million for miners relief in West Virginia Kentucky Ohio Indiana and Pennsylvania as policy shifts to state aid.
Kansas City offers 150000 dollars to host the Democratic national convention with 100000 paid and 50000 pledged and Jerome Walsh arranging Roosevelt suites. The Democratic Party owes John J. Raskob 345240 dollars of its 787747 debt as of 1931, with total receipts slightly above expenditures.
In Austin on January 8, Senator Tomas Pollard of Tyler predicted the next Texas Legislature would repeal or modify the strict truck laws from the 42nd session. Pollard, once a strong advocate, noted East Texas sentiment has shifted against the regulations as their effects in oil field transporters prove problematic.
Barney Smith, found guilty of drunkenness in Justice J W Minter's court, began serving a 100 day term in Potter County jail for failing to pay a $100 fine. Miles Smith was found not guilty. Officers testified the brothers were arrested January 6 after Barney caused a disturbance and Miles did not take him home.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Hawley, formerly of Amarillo where she lived 25 years, died last week at her home in Dubuque Iowa. She left Amarillo in 1924. Her husband, an engineer for the Fort Worth and Denver railway, was killed in a wreck near Amarillo in 1912.
J. D. McDonald 67 a trusted inmate at Wichita Falls State Hospital for the Insane died when he slipped and fell into a creek near the asylum grounds during a fishing trip on Thursday. He had been committed to the asylum from Howard County.
The civil district court jury was discharged by District Judge W. E. Gee after the minor civil suit was settled out of court. The jury had been excused Monday for appearance this morning.
Poem by Edgar A. Guest explores personal virtue and hypocrisy. It contrasts daydreams of restraint with moments of triumph when in power, noting the speaker’s shameful bias toward fairness and justice depending on personal position.
Police report Lester R. Giles possessed a rifle identified as stolen from Groom meat market after a Wednesday car chase. He is jailed on concealed weapons charges and faces trial, with possible prior liquor and hijacking sentences, plus a burglary tool kit recovered.
Market notes show No. 1 hard Al Kaffir wheat and other grains with quoted prices. Livestock in Kansas City and Chicago includes hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep with varied prices and declines noted across categories.
In Pecos Texas January 8 193? Carl Faubion of Carlsbad New Mexico seriously hurt when his car collided with a concrete bridge killing E O Adams of Cross Plains. The automobile overturned and was demolished. Adams was dragged beneath the vehicle.
Stocks met support after an early reaction as profit taking cooled markets. The Auburn Auto squeeze lifted shares by 5 points while others slipped 1 to 2 points. Major names like Steel, AT&T, American Can, NY Central, Santa Fe and Case advanced. Southern Railway, Rock Island, Cal Coca Cola rose 8 points. Call money rose to 21 percent for the first time since December 18.
A North Carolina pharmacist developed a multi-ingredient blend marketed as B. C. to relieve headaches in about three minutes. The product, sold in 10 and 25 cent packages, is claimed to ease muscular aches, colds, neuralgia, fever, and nervous distress without narcotics or habit forming drugs.
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