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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1932
Page
3
Tonight multiple groups host regular meetings at venues including Masonic Temple Amarillo Hotel and churches. Events cover Eastern Star W M S circles, YW A West Amarillo Baptists, Unity Study Club, Catholic Daughters, Jus Fu Fun Club, radio book reviews, and Circle gatherings with addresses and times listed.
Mrs. Cobb hosted a Monday evening gathering at 507 East Thirteenth Avenue to celebrate Elwood Cobb and Jack Mitchell. Bridge games entertained guests including Mrs. F. B. Abernathy and Ray Pardo as two decorated cakes were cut and served to the invited couple and several friends.
Mr and Mrs R D Wakefield who have been visiting here returned to their home in Clovis New Mexico yesterday.
Mrs H H Nye hosts Circle No 3 of Central Presbyterian Church for a lawn breakfast at 1310 Madison Street on Wednesday at 8 30 AM. Each member may bring a guest.
Anne Adams presents pattern 2376 for a feminine dress with contrasting pleated capelet sleeves and a bodice closure. The skirt flares from pointed seaming, workable in flat crepe dimity lawn dotted swiss and other sheer cottons. Sizes 16 to 20 and 34 to 42. fabric and catalog details priced in stamps from Amarillo Globe Pattern Dept New York City.
Patricia Maguire, 27, remains in a coma since February 15 as researchers test a new serum. Nourishment is given via nostrils every three hours and muscle atrophy is being prevented by massaging. Dr Morris Fishbein cautions against drawing hopes from a single patient.
The Polk Street Methodist Church Young People department held its monthly meeting Monday evening with W. E. Trice presiding. Attendees included Jimmie Reeves Donald Weinweger Miss Bess Williams Miss Elizabeth Derrick Miss Clorine Norton Miss Marian Stewart Roy Farnsworth Miss Ruth Price Miss Maurine Stewart Dr S W Browning Jimmie Farwell Howard Pester Mrs W B Burkhalter Kathaleene Bragg Caroline Pester and Marion Fields. Circle No 2 of West Amarillo Christian Church called a meeting for Wednesday at 2 30 PM at Mrs W L Barnes 907 B Carolina Street.
The body of Miss Bernice Foy society editor of the Fort Worth Star Telegram will be taken to Baird her former home today for burial. Miss Foy died last night after a four week illness.
The Merry Mix-Up Club will meet with Mrs. Jennie Lindbloom at 608 Fillmore Street to discuss upcoming activities and share plans for the season.
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt faced rough Long Island Sound conditions as his yawl needed to be towed from Morris Grove Connecticut on July 12. Weather likely forced an earlier stop than planned with West Watch Hill Rhode Island suggested as a second night haven en route to Newport May by nightfall.
In Tulare County California an experimental test acre produced one ton of peanuts and three thousand pounds of hay, reflecting potential gains from the growing season and agricultural methods tested.
Former Governor Moody urged continued responsible government at a Dallas rally while Governor Sterling promoted tax relief measures. Sterling backed waiving penalties and interest on taxes due next January, and Hunter called for reducing state costs, eliminating the ad valorem tax, and folding over 120 departments to cut expenses.
Relief workers with food, beds and clothing moved through flood wrecked valleys of Paint and Armstrong Creeks as state police hunted for the dead. Authorities believed 18 killed with 25 missing and 159 homes ruined yesterday. Red Cross revised homeless count to at least 1,000 as survivors sheltered in hills and tents.
Three men and two women were held in connection with a $2,000 robbery of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank in Grapeland yesterday. Coats found in the women’s car were identified as worn by the holdup men, and the initial getaway car was found east of Grapeland bearing a stolen license. Police linked the suspects to other recent robberies in the area.
In St Louis police banned public Communist gatherings after a riot at city hall. About 3 000 unemployed men tried to storm the hall seeking relief. Police used tear gas and revolvers, four wounded by police bullets and seven policemen injured. Thirty two arrested including seven women.
After five weeks a North Amarillo man locates his daughter Elsie Henslee 14 and friend Ruth Bearts 15 in Seattle Washington. The two girls disappeared on a Sunday and relatives feared abduction. They said they were seeking Ruth's father and were placed in Seattle juvenile detention awaiting arrival of Bill Henslee who then left Seattle for Amarillo.
Austin July 12 petroleum engineer F Knode testified on Southwest Texas oil production proposing 100 to 150 barrels per well daily as a thirty day limit for government wells in Duval County with a 40 barrel per well flat allowance and rest by acreage. He urged overproduction reporting across all fields and discussed a possible 2000 barrel daily cut in Durst Creek. Sealy of Texas Company backed tests for wells in the new southwest extension.
In Lubbock Rev. R F Campbell faced questions about including Dr J C Granberg in his atheist charges against Texas Tech faculty. Granberg calls his firing militant religious fanaticism and says the board will decide. In Austin Dr A P Brogan proposes an external inquiry into the Texas Tech Granberg dispute.
In Dallas on July 12 Police Sergeant W. D. Williams refused a motorist’s pennies to pay a $5 fine. He counted the coins for half an hour and found a 13 cent shortage. The motorist then spent an hour calling friends to cover the remaining amount.
Four hundred union coal miners protested a proposed five dollar daily wage scale at the Illinois Tinolls District Union offices. They demanded recall of ballots and a miners conference to reconsider its ratification of the wage agreement.
Brownwood July 12 Chairman W R Ely of the State Highway Commission dismissed claims by James E Ferguson that highway funds are 100000000 short. Ely told an audience supporting Governor R S Sterling for re election that no honest voter would believe the statement.
Ely declared the highway commission never handles department funds and pays by certificates. He said the Texas highway department is a model for the entire country.
Fort Worth police say a suspect in a Hamlet Nebraska bank robbery admitted his name is Elmer Moss but denied involvement. He is held pending Nebraska authorities due Thursday.
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