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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1933
Page
5
Kansas City police hunt a gunman after Patrolman Leroy Van Meter 34 a married father of a 22 month old child was shot in the head during a shoe store robbery. Detectives say he reached for his gun before the robber fired and six suspects were detained for questioning.
London reports indicate Premier MacDonald will head Britain’s delegation to Washington for Anglo American debt talks with Roosevelt reserving final authority for himself. Neville Chamberlain and Walter Runciman expected to accompany him.
James M. Sorrells and Kent Wood, Texans who died in a Nevada blizzard, once lived in Amarillo. Sorrells, 26, nephew of Mrs. J. G. Short, worked for Agee Screen Co. here in 1926 27. Wood, 22, brother in law, studied locally. Both later moved to Fort Worth, Sorrells to T C U and Wood to Oklahoma University. They were miners at Goldfield Nev.. services expected in San Francisco per Mrs. Short.
Courthouse records note several property transfers including Chas F Farrell et ux to Woodson Leeper Tr 7 Carr Sub for 2500, Minnie Tolley et vir to Chas Farrell Tr 7 Carr Sub for 10, W R Moody et ux to P W Armstrong Tr 4 B 212 SJHts for 500, Moody et ux to Pearl Miller Tr 4 P 201 SJHts for 1000, Armstrong et ux to Margaret Moody Tr 3 B 12 CC Dist for 5000, and J E Wetherell to H W St John L 11 12 13 14 15 12 17 18 19 Blk 494 Mirror Add for 81.
In Nebraska near Shelby Henry McGimpsey’s farm mortgaged for 4100 is sold at foreclosure as his brother bids in for 49.50 and buys plows and livestock at low prices. Farmers express anger while urging Governor Olson to cut state taxes. Professor Herbert S. Jennings of Johns Hopkins argues biology does not imply life after death.
The passage argues life, spirit, and consciousness may continue after physical death in new forms or through continuing processes. It compares natural cycles and human progress, noting matter and force persist even as individual identities change, and cites a German thought on annihilation versus transformation. It also wryly notes how tame wild beasts revert to gentleness when spared, linking to critiques of modern industry and technocracy.
The Vatican paper OSSERVATORE ROMANO questions whether matter and energy define reality and asks how modern systems value spiritual values. It contrasts nascent Technocracy with French skepticism, deeming it a fanciful American doctrine akin to Prohibition.
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