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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1931
Page
2
Old Tack awaits a new typewriter from a kind admirer and praises gifts that aid his column. The piece highlights Pinkney Packing Company in Amarillo, its Sun-Ray bacon, and strong Panhandle pride amid national mood concerns and local humor.
Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a resolution urging Congress to embargo oil imports and impose a protective tariff on petroleum and refined products. Democrat David Logan introduced the measure, drawing opposition from James Babb who argued it would raise gasoline prices and unfairly burden citizens.
United Press reports a Texas plan for a state highway bond issue to raise 42 million to 475 million dollars over ten years to complete the road system. The commission seeks 200 million at a time, to reimburse counties and fund construction, labs, and a driver license law with park funding. Amarillo citizens rally to support the drive.
Rep Bob Long of Wichita Falls vows a minority report in reply to the Solon inquiry outcome. He says Hidex will loom at the capitol as he pledges a more complete critique of the committee findings. Ernest Cox, ex American Legion leader, appears as a lobbyist backing new legislation for disabled veterans facilities and liberalized divorce and adoption laws.
Physical examinations of pupils at the Alice Landergin school are being conducted by the Amarillo Potter county health unit. Dr. F P Miller is school physician and Dr C D Ewing will head the dental clinic with a nursing staff. The dental clinic is being established following a Tuesday night dental society meeting.
In Austin Texas Raymond Brooks notes the cost to run the state has risen by 10 450 849 in four years and argues Texans feel heavily taxed and persecuted. The piece appears on the tax letters page.
In Amarillo area between Amarilla and Pampa a spare wheel with an 18x6.00 tire attached disappeared. It is a Reo car wheel with yellow wire spokes and a broken bracket still strapped to it. Reward offered by D. R. T. M Montgomery at 626 Polk Street.
A exhausted man waiting in front of the chamber of commerce to be assigned to work collapsed Friday morning. His head struck the sidewalk, he was carried to the Amarillo Potter County health unit, revived after stating he had no breakfast, and then transported to a hospital. Doctors diagnosed shock.
Unemployed men and women are placed in work through a coordinated drive with bus companies offering free rides to work for those with actual work cards. The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce reports three score placed and hopes a third of jobless will be working within days as skilled labor aligns with unions. An honor roll lists workers across trades at Levine's, Amarillo Oldsmobile, Sterling Hotel, and others, with S. W. Bell Telephone Company supplying eight men.
Burglars took more than $50 in money and checks from Motorite service station at 600 East Tenth Avenue and Buchanan Street after entering by prying a lock. The theft occurred Thursday night after closing at 10. Patrolman McDuffy found the ajar door about 1 hour 20 minutes later. The money was hidden in the bottom of a money drawer along with three checks.
Chamber of Commerce leads Loyalty to Amarillo campaign with 14 men on temporary payroll and many women aiding. Southwest Bell among top investors. 600 club women pledge daily work. Employers report positive results with workers praised for reliability and effort.
After Kian City’s capture the commission restricted executions to official channels. A daily public list named hundreds to be harmed while trials were perfunctory. Learned men and well dressed were deemed enemies of Communism and killed. Torture and mutilation occurred, with many women harmed and rivered bodies. Over 1,000 killed by self or forced action into the Kan Ho.
A long list of names from colleges experiment stations counties and counties agents across Texas appears as the local committee members attend a meeting. Notable figures include Conner Warwick Upchurch Phillips Barnes Childers Duke Martin Bass Hutchinson Slaton Hill Dunkle Shipp Holbrook Smythe Perry Moss Sheets Ratekin Thomas Briggs Rogers Farnsworth and other officials. The local committee includes Earl Fuqua John Hi P C Bennett Chansler Weymouth Jas A Bush and Grover Hill.
A Canadian bank note of $2 and a $1 bill were drawn on a bank, with another deposit interest slip. Authorities report the only disturbance was the money drawer being raided at the service station.
The Mission theater will show Hell's Angels at midnight tonight for a week. Paramount Pub lix theater manager Will R. Winch offers 13 free tickets to the Joan Crawford film Paid for youth essay writers on aviation. Students up to 16 must submit 150 word essays naming five American aviators and three scenes from Hell's Angels.
Amarillo Real Estate Board installs officers for 1931 at its annual banquet in the Capitol Hotel. The program begins at 7:50 with Howard A. Ferguson as principal speaker and John B. Gilvin as toastmaster. Officers to be installed include K. Loving as president, Chester Adams as vice president, and F. Newbold as secretary.
Wilbur Hawk president of the Tri-State Fair Association wires from New Orleans proposing the herd of elephants be turned over to the Fair Association after their work ends in Amarillo. A long list of buyers includes White and Kirk Moore-Poston Sears-Roe Dowie & Co The Ladies Store Herring Furniture Co and many others in Amarillo and region.
Walter S. Gifford, president of the Bell system, says Bell companies will provide an amplifying device to boost incoming voice for use at a nom. A Ohio reader reports the device lets a person hear his children on the Pacific coast for the first time in years.
The Texas Baptist Hour debuts tonight on KRLD Dallas with Dr. W. R. White, general secretary of the Texas Baptist Convention, speaking at 8 45 to 9 o clock. The program will repeat Fridays at the same time, per Dr. J. K. Nunn of Amarillo.
On air tonight R A Muscle Bound leaps from the dirigible mast of the Empire State Building to Chrysler Building spire as weekly hero. Fannie Brice with Chocolateers perform on WJZ at 7, others include A Woman's Greatest Sin on WABC, Jubilee Singers at 8:30, Columbia Male Chorus at 9, and talks by McKellar and Coontz at 10. California Melodies and Lone Star Trio feature late programming plus John Cochran at 11 and the Cactus Club opening at the Herring Hotel.
Anxiety marked congressional debate as lawmakers weighed unemployment relief, with pressure from home districts to act. Senate leaders considered night sessions to move bills, while the house stalled on a $15 million food loan attached to a $45 million fertilizer and seed loan fund, amid ongoing war department supply work.
Mr. Silverthorne receives a traveling bag and each retiring director a fountain pen as tokens of appreciation. Josh Lee of the University of Oklahoma School of Public Speaking delivered a moving address blending humor and pathos. Amarillo delegates included Mason King, W. H. McAdoo, R. B. Wingate, R. T. Westerfield, and B. H. Hayden representing several local firms.
Hogs at Kansas City 5 000 steady to 10 cents lower with top near 7 75. Cattle and calves mixed gains and declines across weight classes. Chicago arrivals: hogs 58 000 steady to 10 cents lower to 8 10, cattle 8 000, calves 1 000 with price losses noted in weaker grades.
A hospital ward tale follows a homeless man living in isolation for two decades. A compassionate nurse brings aid while he reveals his wife left him twenty years ago, yielding a stark confession that kindness now cannot mend his life.
Commodity listings show varied prices for steers heifers cows and calves with ranges from 5.50 to 9.75 per cwt and stocker futures. In Chicago grain and New York cotton markets uneven movement follows weather signals labor news and Liverpool cables prompting early price shifts then partial steadiness.
Cotton opened easier as Liverpool cables warned of mill closings amid labor fears. Private Manchester cables prompted initial losses of 11 points, but a late rally lifted March to 10.22 and May to 10.49 with good buying orders supporting a steady market after the first hour.
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