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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1933
Page
2
In a blunt optimistic monologue the speaker, amid drought and unemployment, argues for faith in Roosevelt's New Deal and predicts better days as wheat and cattle stabilize. He notes grim local conditions in Amarillo, contrasts them with eastern boom, and reports on weather signals and Dalhart’s expected rain, ending with a light joke about a banquet.
Secretary Frances Perkins urged steel leaders to cut the 40 hour week and raise minimum wages in the code. She cited 150000 unemployed steel mill workers and a 420000 payroll in 1929, challenging employers to use new cooperative powers for workers’ welfare.
Bids for supplying tax receipts and other assessor-collector office items were rejected and new proposals will be invited on August 15. The city previously purchased 1,000 feet of fire hose on a bid from Williams Hardware.
A late night or early Monday morning attempt to blast the M-System store at Sixteenth Avenue and Van Buren Street failed. Explosives damaged the concrete base under the safe and tore holes in a metal ceiling. The blast also ruined canned goods but nothing was stolen, police said.
Dear Tack I will pay a reward of 35 for the return of my German Police dog who strayed from my home at 415 West Tenth Avenue Friday morning He is unusually large dark gray with brown and black a light collar with brass studs and answers to the name Schotzy Phone 6812 PDR C F Wester.
Internationally famed Passion Play cast from Germany comes to Amarillo for performances Wednesday and Thursday. Heinrich Ortmann plays Christus, Dr Alfred Wolff leads as Caiaphas, Dr Bertram Willoughby is Judas, Hazel Cairns as Mary, and Dorothy Tillman as Mary Magdalene with 200 local singers and extras in the production. Final chorus rehearsal at Amarillo College of Music tonight at 8. Extras rehearse Tuesday at Municipal Auditorium.
The administration issued fresh interpretations of the voluntary agreement affecting white collar workers and stores. Barbers, beauty parlors, drivers and others face wage and hour rules while store hours must meet a 52 hour minimum practice. Overtime must be paid one third. Apprentices and part time workers face specific pay rules. Tonight a new oil industry code will be presented by Johnson after his staff redrafted a stalemated draft.
Two companies of Louisiana National Guard were ordered out and held at Jackson Barracks yesterday then dismissed today in a move that followed a visit by U S Senator Huey P Long to New Orleans and talks with Governor O K Allen and Attorney General Gaston L Porterie.
Henry Ford, at age seventy, remains in excellent health and is too busy with varied interests to consider retirement. He observes his birthday every seven years when it falls on a Sunday, but yesterday he spent a quiet day with family and close friends amid his ongoing pursuits.
A strong wind keeps General Italo Balbo's seaplane squadron from leaving Shoal Harbor Newfoundland for Valentia Island Ireland today. The 24 aircraft arrived from the United States on Wednesday. The next leg would cover about 1800 miles.
Sheriff and Mrs Bill Adams with their three children travel to Creede Colorado for a two week fishing trip.
Potter County commissioners started their laborious task of checking over the 1933 tax sheets on Monday morning. The routine involved detailed scrutiny of assessments and figures as part of the annual tax roll process.
Bob Underwood assistant district attorney will leave Tuesday for two weeks at the World's Fair in Chicago. He will go by train. Miss Ruth Smith deputy district clerk and her mother Mrs Katie Lou Smith have returned from a vacation at Ruidosa NM.
Three men rode in a coupe driven by Moore toward Llano Cemetery when both cars met. Pullbright died before ambulance arrived after being taken to Homer Coston's home. Survived by wife Mollie, daughter Mrs James Bradley, son Hershal, eight grandchildren. Body at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Chapel.
Rain fell across the area with a quarter inch total. A tornado struck the Hale County Lakeview sector late Sunday causing damage but no injuries. Wind reached 65 mph at the airport Sunday afternoon. Forecast calls for possible local thundershowers Monday night and Tuesday. Skies were clear Monday.
Report lists multiple injuries from a storm leaving scene at a hospital. Names include H. C. Searcy J. G. Searcy and Dewitt Searcy with critical or severe wounds, plus many others such as Gill Kinser Cooner Slater and Demarest suffering scalp wounds lacerations broken bones burns bruises and abrasions.
Lewis Walter Sullivan 53, Amarillo carpenter, died at a local hospital at 5 AM Monday. He lived at 708 East Twelfth Avenue. Survived by widow Mary Emily Sullivan and five children: B. F. Blake, Um barger, Mrs. D. F. Tucker Newlin, Mrs. J. A. Watkins Amarillo, J. B. Sullivan Turkey, R. H. Sullivan Amarillo, Mrs. J. D. Clements Oklahoma City. Lived in Amarillo 11 years. Baptist Church member. Funeral arrangements by ers Funeral Home pending relatives.
The Texas Railroad Commission postponed a pipeline hearing to August 21 to discuss charges for transporting oil and also delayed a storage of oil hearing to the same date. Dudley B. Foy of Wichita Falls requested intervention for the West Texas Chamber of Commerce as a party to the pipeline hearing.
California fugitive John Linebaugh wanted in Riverside on concealing stolen property was shot to death during an apparent escape attempt after arrest in Fort Stockton Texas Deputy Sheriff C E Miller said an inquest by Justice E C Dyche withheld a coroner s verdict pending further investigation The dead man was buried here yesterday Also included is Washington July 31 treasury data showing July 28 receipts expenditures and year to date totals with emergency outlays and a resulting deficit.
Ben Smith district clerk and Mrs Smith depart Tuesday for a weeklong visit to Fort Davis in the Davis Mountains to see Mrs Smiths sisters Mrs J W Espy and Mrs A G Prude who reside there.
Kansas City livestock market shows cattle and calf prices steady to strong with 18,000 cattle and 2,500 calves sold, while hogs and sheep see mixed shifts. New Orleans cotton opens easier with declines then modest recovery as Texas rains influence demand. New York stocks drift with some losses across key shares amid softer bond and currency activity.
Harley Sadler Company's opening bill arrives Monday night at Fourth Avenue and Jefferson Street. The domestic comedy drama Dont Rush Me stars the stock company and runs a week under the auspices of the American Legion.
District Court reporter Bill Baker and his wife are on vacation traveling from San Angelo to New Mexico. They will begin this Monday and visit Carlsbad Cavern and Elephant Butte Dam before continuing their trip.
Employers to return placards by Tuesday to Mr Kenyon at the downtown post office. A large supply of Blue Eagle insignia posters is available only to industries signing the administration's agreement. Consumers are urged to patronize businesses aiding the recovery effort.
Plans emerged after a conference with Byron Mitchell Houston director of the United States re employment service and Col Lawrence Westbrook of the state relief commission. Thirty to forty offices will be opened with county welfare boards assisting and later taking over. Westbrook said a $447 928 federal relief aid allotment to Texas may be the last unless state relief bonds pass on August 2.
A letter signed by Underhill and four others claiming blame for the Black Rock robbery is used to allege an alibi. One suspect freed on habeas corpus. another, E. J. Wyatt of Tulsa, returned to Arkansas to face charges. Federal agents view the confession as an attempt to mislead investigators regarding Kansas City events.
A film star’s Malibu Beach home was the scene of a reported kidnap. Children were guarded as authorities say a second man confessed to engineering the abduction plan, while the Texan involved is said to have admitted it was a hoax.
In Brunn, Czechoslovakia, a blast blew the hotel Europa front off the four story building. Three bodies were recovered before noon, twenty injured, thirty missing believed dead, and flames rose two hundred feet. Scores of guests were buried in the ruins.
A historical notice touts bedbugs as a health and social risk and promotes Rigo's Kill-Ko as a time tested insecticide. It claims the product contains powerful Pyrethrum Powder and will eradicate disease bearing pests from homes hotels and camps.
Funeral services for Mrs. A. P. Borger 43 of Borger will be held Thursday. She died after a stroke suffered Friday night leaving husband two sons Phil and Jack Borger a daughter Mrs. Fritz Thompson and siblings in Oklahoma City and Joplin Missouri. Mrs. Borger was born in Jasper County Missouri.
A pamphlet asserts osteopathy applies to all diseases and stresses the spine as central to nerve function. It argues osteopathy cooperates with surgery, aids recovery after injury, and advises patients to rely on osteopathic physicians for both chronic and acute illnesses, urging readers to adopt osteopathy as a family medical approach.
A reader from Amarillo requests a free copy of the new booklet on Osteopathic Health Service. The inquiry includes placeholders for name address and city and appears to seek no cost obligation. Further details are unclear due to garbled text.
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