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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1934
Page
5
Four masked men robbed the Independence State Bank at opening time and took five bank employees hostage. They knocked guard P. W. White unconscious, forced seven staff to line up by a vault, and emptied a vault while two robbers guarded workers. A second safe remained locked.
A strong quake rattled Mina Nevada injuring no major structures beyond twelve buildings. Thirty shocks were felt in Mina and smaller tremors reached Salt Lake City and Northern California including Sacramento Bakersfield Modesto Placerville Fresno. The major quake hit at 11 24 yesterday with diminishing aftershocks within an hour.
Paris January 31 Socialists attacked President Lebrun for naming Edouard Daladier premier saying the move risks national unity or parliament dissolution. They charged the president acted brutally and unexpectedly while 12 interpellations on the new cabinet were already prepared.
In Ithaca New York Master Tommy, aged 60 days, is recognized as the youngest college instructor. Loaned to the College of Home Economics he teaches girls in the practice house how to become good mothers by acting as the baby’s mother for a week.
Northwest Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico dealers gather in Amarillo for the 26th Panhandle Hardware and Implement Association convention. Jim Leonard of Amarillo Hardware Company leads entertainment across a three day program with golf, gun shoot, banquet, dance, and wife events.
The Senate banking committee moved to draft a bill regulating exchange practices after reports no stock market legislation would come this session. Counsel Ferdinand Pecora was instructed to prepare a bill within ten days to guide hearings, as the committee shifts focus from Detroit and Cleveland bands to the stock exchange inquiry.
E M Lane of Dallas state lecturer for the Socialist party will speak at 8 tonight at Woodman Hall 215 East Eighth Avenue. J C Thomas another Socialist party member will also speak on the program.
Joe Kapelus of the Lucille Shoppe on Polk Street returned yesterday from a two weeks buying trip to the West Coast. He said a spring outlook looks good and the store has purchased more than in several years.
Tracy Richardson, 41, a Fort Worth based defendant in a July 1932 federal indictment, faced capture in Denver after his $1,000 bond was forfeited for failing to appear. The six count charge described a fraudulent Mexican gold mining scheme with a lost mine near Mexico City and riches beneath Mexican waterfalls. Co defendants Samuel Moore and E W Jarman also had bonds forfeited and were later released on new bonds. Richardson will be brought to Fort Worth within a week or ten days.
Austin, Jan. 31. A 1928 attorney general opinion denying voting by those who did not pay a city poll tax is overturned. The 1931 amendment to include both men and women makes city poll tax receipts valid voting prerequisites in cities that levy the tax.
A Texas City man delivered 16 quarts of pennies to City Secretary S. R. Halstead for a tax receipt. The 2,425 pennies had been saved in a business tax box. Also noted is L. J. Redus swapping a tenor banjo for a guitar via the News & Globe Swap Column.
General Senjuro Hayashi is named to succeed General Araki as Minister of War. Japan aims to continue military domination of Imperial policy, with Hayashi vowing to follow his predecessor who led the aggressive nationalist movement.
Funeral services were held for Joe Wren 66 longtime postmaster of Normangee who died Monday of a heart attack. The duplex at 714 Tyler, previously vacant, is now rented after an ad placement in The News & Globe.
Secretary Wallace extended the sign-up deadline for 1934 35 cotton production control contracts to February 15 due to delays in delivering supplies and county organization work. The minimum lint per acre requirement was cut from 100 to 75 pounds enabling signing for farmers who did not meet the earlier base period threshold.
Plans for the first group of Palo Duro Park buildings using native materials have been forwarded to Washington for approval. Federal inspector George Nason, after a three day canyon inspection, recommended the plans. Major John D. Guthrie coordinates CCC activities.
A man contemplates leaving adventure behind while accepting a life with Sonya. He reflects on musk-ox prairies and white-wolf hills as he weighs future journeys against stability and strength in his evolving relationship.
The article notes Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico meeting Nason at the park on his first visit as improvement work proceeds to open the park to the public by four C. C. C. camps. Mrs J A Hill wife of the president of West Texas Teachers College chairs a committee to name park points of interest. Mrs Arthur Lamb rented a bedroom at 2200 Polk Street.
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