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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1930
Page
1
Arthur Brisbane argues Congress faces a harsh truth on crime linked to bootlegging and bribery. He notes Boston protests against prohibition, Catholic opposition, and calls for drastic action. He praises Italian tunnel projects and urges US public works to match Europe. He warns on Russia’s secularization and social change.
Congress moves to divide Hoover enforcement plan among six committees. Speaker Longworth assigns topics from the law enforcement commission and the Hoover transmittal to expedite action on border patrol, immigration, and other dry law reforms as the EEighteenth Amendment era of prohibition enters a new phase.
Blanche Wilcox Noyes of Cleveland earned her transport pilot license, the twelfth woman in the U.S. and the first in Ohio to achieve this rating. She passed difficult tests including spins, power spirals, power-off landings and stalls, and had placed fourth in the women’s transcontinental air derby from Los Angeles to Cleveland last summer.
United Press report details widespread storms and floods across six states. Mississippi River tributaries flood farmland as rivers rise, thousands displaced, and towns along the Wa bash river and Ohio valley brace for more rainfall and worsening conditions. Disaster prospect grows from Indiana to Western Tennessee.
In Florence a deputy sheriff was shot and another wounded while attempting to stop a fleeing automobile. Authorities say a woman and two men, about 30, abducted Deputy Joe Chapman. Deputy Lee Wright was hit in the abdomen. Wounds were not yet updated as the search continued across three counties.
A man was knocked unconscious during a robbery attempt at Pickwick Garage on Second Avenue and Harrison Street when an explosion blew doors outward and a fire burned 12 cars. A Negro suspect was held by police after the slugging of M A Parker of 1004 Taylor Street. Parker was cleaning gasoline when attacked. The incident occurred about 2 30 this morning. Authorities investigated whether the blaze resulted from arson or accident.
A dispute over using the Venus de Milo as the standard in international beauty contests widens a rift between Galveston and Atlantic City and the world. European crowned belles will go to Rio de Janeiro this year to display beauty rather than to U S cotton or sand belts.
A raid ends with two robbers and a detective killed. Police respond to a burglar alarm at Harry Sucherman’s first floor apartment, as gunfire and tear bombs drive a rogue group into the hallway and a lone robber is captured. Detective Jerry Murphy and Lieut. Edward Conroy are among the wounded. one robber is dead and one prisoner remains in custody. Sergeant Richard O'Malley signals cease-fire after the clash.
In Toledo, Miss Catherine Tierney age 67, a Good Shepherd Church housekeeper, died from psittacosis possibly contracted from a parrot brought from South America by Pastor Rev. George A. Branigan. The same parrot died recently and a bond election in Amarillo reported light turnout with about 200 votes by noon at several polling sites.
Bert Smith of Lelia Lake invokes alibi for Nov 22 bank robbery at Stinnett. Witnesses place him in Clarendon that day while authorities questioned a prior statement made under fear. Smith, a Donley County gunner, says he went to Stinnett next afternoon as a deputy sheriff to meet a former Amarillo officer to pursue a possible reward.
The steamer Gulf Queen en route Port Arthur to Philadelphia was reported aground at Ben Davis Shoal in Delaware Bay. The Maritime Exchange said it was expected to float at high water later today.
The wrecked Fairchild monoplane was found in Amston Connecticut. Pilot Daniel Marra and William Kirkpatrick were found dead beside the burning wreck. They had departed Farmingdale New York for an altitude test last Friday.
An insanity hearing will be held in Lamesa Tex tomorrow for Robert Durham accused of shooting his father December 51 The result will not affect his murder trial slated for April Relatives filed the insanity charge to decide if he belongs in the state asylum until the murder trial and if insanity is pled a new hearing would be needed in district court
Chicago faced potential closure of public elementary schools on February 1 as the city’s budget impasse stalls funding. School board president H. Wallace Caldwell warned funds depend on tax anticipation warrants, which have no market, while the city council and mayor remain gridlocked over municipal finances.
The Globe News announces a cooking school by Mrs. Ida M. Chitwood opening Tuesday at 2 pm in the Municipal Auditorium. Classes attract women of all ages including matrons brides and brides to be with practical demonstrations on modern cookery nutrition and efficient household management.
Assault with a prohibited weapon and disturbing the peace charges were filed in justice court after a dance hall brawl in the smelter district. Bill Johnson was wounded in the hip, Frank Condren also received a hip injury, and G D White admits firing low at Johnson. J B Johnson pleaded guilty to fighting. White remained jailed at noon. Governor Moody mulled clemency for about 200 Texas penitentiary inmates on furloughs and paroles.
Sherman Texas January 14. Pistol wounds received at her home Monday afternoon caused the death of Mrs. Ida Pressley wife of James R Pressley a farmer living near Dorchester. The woman had been in ill health several years.
In Kansas City Missouri last night two sleds collided while coasting down opposite hills. Dan O Roark 20 was in a dangerous condition at a hospital. Nar dine Green 15 Opal Watson 18 were seriously but not critically injured. Pauline Wax 17 and Allen Anderson received bruises.
Washington report says activities of lobbyists were gaining in the Senate as grafts accusations target Chairman Carraway of a Senate lobby committee. Senator Borsh of Idaho warns the domestic sugar industry faces extinction if U S policy allows overseas competition and domestic protection dissolves. Berry's rug cleaning ad at 906 W. 10th.
Paris reports Premier Andre Tardieu announced from the Chamber of Deputies that the German reparations delegation has ceded all points and is ready to accept the Young Plan, after receiving a message from The Hague. The declaration followed a rapid briefing from his office.
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