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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1934
Page
2
SBS Ames reports Colorado streams remain open to fishing despite drought rumors while Pearl Lakes draw Panhandle anglers near Creede. The piece notes Gov race talk around Clint Small, saloon and gambling opposition, and local water purity plans in Amarillo with Dr Pierle and Olin Hinkle involvement.
The Farm Credit Administration added 230 counties to the emergency loan list for drought relief, including 141 counties across Colorado Kansas Missouri New Mexico Oklahoma and Texas for feed and seed purchases. An additional 89 counties in California Colorado Kansas Missouri Nebraska New Mexico Texas and Wyoming qualify for livestock feed and forage loans from the $525 million drought relief fund. Texas counties extended include Anderson Bee Bell Bosque Briscoe Brown Castro Cherokee Comanche Coryell Duval Falls Goldad Grimes Hale Harris Jim Hogs Houston Jones Lamb Lampasas Lavaca Leon Madison Mills Montgomery Nacogdoches Navarro Shackleford Starr Stonewall Swisher Trinity Walker Waller Washington Zapata and more.
Treasury circles consider converting maturing 1.2 billion of fourth Liberty loan bonds from 4 percent to lower interest bearing securities. Bonds slated for redemption October 15. treasury may offer new issue around September 15 rather than cashing maturity. Acting Secretary Thomas Jefferson Coolidge declined to specify forthcoming banking legislation.
Dallas health official Horace E. Duncan said Fort Worth packing houses and plants along a Trinity tributary dump untreated sewage into the stream and discharge 2.5 million gallons daily after only settling. He cited coordination with Fort Worth and Tarrant County officers during his visit.
Dallas attorney J C Muse Jr will act as special chief justice of the Fifth Court of Civil Appeals. The mandamus suit seeks to compel election officials to allow African American voters to participate in the July 28 Democratic primary after Attorney General Allred ruled blacks were not entitled to vote.
In Hartsdale New York Frank Fay chief of the Justice Department agents says the boy Bobby Connor was lost not kidnapped though Greenburgh police chief McQuilland and District Attorney Coyne keep the case open. Separately oyster beds were planted at Webster Cove Alaska to start an industry.
Letter to Tack notes a decade of study on Amarillo trees. Writer reports trees and shrubs badly affected by borers and scale aphids and asks Tack for guidance and further discussion on the issue.
The article notes American city debts reaching about 18 billion dollars with six months of 1934 municipal borrowing surpassing 500 million. Banks have shifted to bond disposal after the Securities Act, and PWA bonds show resale profits while RC C prepared to lend up to 250 million, though full use is uncertain.
Kilgore Texas July 19 The Congressional oil committee concluded its hearing and will not return until a formal fall investigation of East Texas oil fields. Chairman W P Cole noted the panel’s strong impression of the oil situation, while testimony described hot oil and income from overcharges. A 24 year old youth, his mother, and a lease operator testified about hot oil and earnings.
Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald arrives in Quebec aboard the Duchess of Athol with his daughter Ishbel. He plans a three month stay in Canada to recuperate from an ailment.
Paris. Premier Gaston Doumergue forestalled a cabinet crisis by directing a narrow response to Serge Stavisky charges. He told former Premiers Tardieu and Chautemps and radical leaders to confine the dispute to Tardieu versus Chautemps, preserving the truce that formed the government. He holds dissolution threat as leverage, keeping the coalition intact.
In Jones County near Leeders a car collided with a truck killing Roy Woods 33 a Abilene refreshment stand operator and critically injuring his companion Miss Ethel Duff both Abilene residents. Three Albany men in the truck were bruised Woods was married and father of six. Funeral set for Friday.
Federal Trade Commission hearings link R. B. Creager Republican National Committeeman from Texas to Insull’s Central Power and Light Co. Creager’s law firm received more than 13000 of 35000 dollars spent 1926 to 1928 to try to buy Brownsville’s municipal electric plant.
Acting Postmaster General W. W. Howes announces acting postmasters including Carolyn A. Moreman for Hale Center Texas, part of a list released on July 19. The order names Moreman as postmaster at Hale Center and follows other Texas appointments.
Readings from Corsicana to Wichita Falls show temperatures near or above 100 as drought pressure grows. Fort Worth and Paris post records, while Galveston pockets benefit from a gulf breeze. Farmers face feed and water shortages and a prayer meeting for rain is called in Lubbock County.
Langer was convicted by a federal jury on June 17 and later nominated in the Republican primary with a large majority. He received an 18 month sentence at Leavenworth and a $10,000 fine. Olson swore in as governor but awaited a supreme court writ while Langer declared martial law before service.
Two men suspected in the Heppard People's State Bank robbery were chased by Texas Rangers through San Jacinto and Walker Counties and captured near Huntsville. They were brought to Livingston for cashier C. O. Ford and Assistant Cashier J. W. Thompson to identify. A Polk County filling station was also robbed, with the operator bound and gagged.
A petition claims the Democratic party superseded the Negro Voter party in prescribing member qualifications. It contends that the Democratic party and state and county committees act as state arms and lack power to bar negroes from primaries. The article notes England showing record low drunkenness convictions in 1932.
In Garden City, Joe West, a plumber, is jailed after allegedly kicking Mayor H. K. Bleecker of Scott City to death during a quarrel over a sewer permit. Bleecker, about 65, was knocked down and kicked in the head by West, who refused to answer questions as an inquest and county attorney arrival were awaited.
Joe Willbanks, 44, went out after a suspected burglar in his Fort Worth home. He fired an automatic pistol in the dark, accidentally discharging it and wounding his own arm. He misidentified his target and is hospitalized.
Earl Mounce was sentenced to 35 years in the state penitentiary by a Harris County jury for the murder of his wife Bessie W. Mounce in Houston on July 3.
The text discusses facial structure as the foundation of beauty and longevity of looks. It emphasizes a well framed face with good bone structure and notes hair growth patterns around temples and forehead. It warns against middle parting for women with a pronounced nasal bridge.
The Amarillo Brown Stain Committee pursues the water problem with a careful approach. Mayor Rogers says they must identify the stain cause and employ all means to halt it. New member Dr. C A Pierle joins others including Dr Curl chairman and several doctors and professors in ongoing research on teeth stains.
The strike wave expands as policy fights over permits provoke unrest while unions vote on a general walkout in Portland and Seattle. In Oakland workers prepare to resume duties, bartenders plan to reopen, and federal mediation follows after shots fired at Senator Wagner’s car amid continued labor turmoil.
Drivers and others heard no command as a guard recounted a yell of Fire during protests. The truckers strike entered its third day with more roving pickets and plans for an employer truck movement. Violence remained scarce with no major disorders reported.
The Seafarers' Council executive committee representing about 19 000 maritime workers urged the federal government to establish an arbitration board to settle wage and hour disputes with harbor employers. President William A. Maher said he would inform Secretary Frances Perkins and warned of an imminent industrial strike if no action is taken.
Two thousand General Tire and Rubber Company employees returned after a four week strike. Workers accepted terms of a company program at a mass meeting. The plan would raise average yearly wages at the plant, reportedly the highest in the rubber industry.
Donald Richberg, recovery coordinator, arrived by special plane from New England to rejoin conciliation efforts in the San Francisco strike emergency. He conferred with Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and Marvin McIntyre early today as the administration boosts mediation.
Kansas City livestock trade shows 6,000 cattle 4,000 sheep with varied demand and prices across weights and classes. best cattle to $5.00 to $9.00 per cwt for quality steers and heifers with calves and dairies listed. New Orleans cotton opens steady then advances amid abroad firmness, October around 13.29 to 13.13 mid-session before retreat. NY stock letters depict quiet, selective action with pockets of new highs and broad declines amid holiday trading.
Weather trends forecast cooler conditions and rain, aiding profit in some sectors. Silver and rubber show modest gains while hides and international dollar rates move mixed, shaping price outlooks for traders.
Medical authorities tout Doan's Pills as safe effective kidney relief used for over four decades. The ad warns against risky quick cures and urges readers to buy from their druggist noting Foster Milburn Co in 1934.
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