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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1934
Page
2
Amarillo man Don Harrington is linked to a New York visit after an Amarillo merchant hatband appears in O O McIntyre's piece. The column notes a lone customer in a 46th Street shop getting the works, while local editors speculate on Harrington's profile and a late-1920s cultural scene.
A former house painter and son of a blacksmith met today to discuss Europe’s fate. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, joined by officials, arrived in Venice for talks on disarmament and Eastern Europe with hopes of a potential Italo German accord. Mussolini gave a Roman salute at Nicelli airfield as the meeting began.
Mrs Adolph Zukor wife of a leading film executive was robbed of 86075 worth of jewelry in Chicago. She told police she awoke at 4 AM to a flash of light then found her silk handbag missing from a vacant twin bed as she awaited her husband’s arrival to take her to California.
In Cleveland on June 14 Dr William Carpenter McCarty told the American Medical Association that cancer could be nearly eradicated in 30 to 50 years if general practitioners learned more about the disease. He blamed the medical profession for the ravages and called cancer a simple problem tied to health, cleanliness and heredity.
PAMPA June 14 Four Fred Patterson manager of a commercial telegraph company here was charged with theft of 1925 from his office in a complaint filed by Sherman White county attorney today He was charged jointly with Arthur Bell of Crowell whom Patterson implicated in a statement to officers Patterson admitted the purported kidnapping and holdup he reported yesterday was pre arranged Bell formerly a student at Lubbock has not been arrested.
Rain continued across the region with light to moderate totals from Conway to Stratford and Dumas to Spearman. Heavy rains drenched Nebraska, Northwestern Missouri, Eastern Kansas, and Western Iowa, with Phillipsburg Kansas reporting 1.41 inches and Lexington Missouri just 0.28 inch as the belt extended eastward.
Dr W E Pietsch of Los Angeles will address the Church of the Open Bible tonight at 8 o clock on Roosevelt's New Deal in light of Bible prophecy. The event is part of a series at Fifteenth Avenue and Ong Street. Tomorrow at 10 he talks on Fundamentalism in the Home.
The notice lists participating locations from Seventh Street to Polk Street and a long roster of sponsors for the Opportunity Days promotion. It details ticket exchanges for theater shows at multiple venues, horse race tickets, jumbo soda coupons, and where to redeem slips at 502 Polk Street, naming numerous businesses and service stations involved.
The Stars and Stripes became the official flag of the United States 157 years ago today marking Flag Day. Mrs. C. M. Holt of the American Legion Auxiliary notes Independence was declared nearly a year earlier and cites the June 14 1777 Continental Congress resolution for 13 stripes and 13 stars on a blue field. Flags have varied through history with Revolutionary troops using different designs as Washington led colonial forces.
The oil bill aims at complete production control within the nation and the state with a ban on shipments beyond set quotas. A House vote will determine whether a subcommittee is appointed to probe the oil legislative issue and report back. Representative Bailey of Texas urged the subcommittee during hearings. Representative Disney of Oklahoma, author of the bill, welcomed the committee action but said his next move depends on talks with Speaker Rainey and others. Proponents concede it is too late to discharge the committee by petition.
Texas Cotton Ginners Association leaders warned that enforcing the Bankhead Cotton Control Act would impose untold hardship on southern farmers by restricting ginning of all cotton. They urged abolition, sending resolutions to President Roosevelt and House Agricultural Committee Chairman Marvin Jones, arguing foreign production would rise and tenant farmers would lose land under crop restrictions.
Mason King of the News-Globe spoke on KGRS at 12 15 pm about The Sport of Kings and will return at 6 30 pm to discuss the Spring Racing Meet of the Tri-State Fair opening Friday. The item notes New York has more telephones than any other state.
Plans are made to greet Celia Villa daughter of the famed Mexican rebel chief when she arrives Sunday morning for a week visit. Miss Villa will appear at the Texas Theater next week for the showing of Viva Villa Wallace Beery stars. Jim Golding manager says largest crowds in theater history expected.
Bank officials and bankers associations met in Amarillo to discuss housing finance and depression policies. J C Anderson Jr explained HOLC programs while Baskin urged humane treatment of borrowers. Delegates toured golf and visited the Rose Bowl luncheon. Resolutions praised Farm Credit Administration and Emergency Crop Loan services for Panhandle farmers.
G E Jones Electric Company of Amarillo ties to the case as teacherlike helper rushes to assist occupants after a hill crash. Mr Rutledge drives to Channing for aid while Mr Boyles stays with Miss Cummings. Miss Cummings refuses to leave until ambulance takes the body to Dalhart morgue. Miss Maddox’s body to be sent to Henderson today. relatives expected in Dalhart as she remains hospitalized.
Washington faces adjournment tied to opposition to the capital labor conciliation bill and the Tugwell nomination. Republicans plan amendments to broaden presidential power for a strike board and to strike the mortgage agency feature. Oil control bill rejected in committee. steel strike tension grows as NRA's Johnson concedes little room for concessions.
A hitchhiker attack near a roadside left the victim bleeding and struggling from 5 PM until dusk. He crawled to the road as three cars passed. A fourth car driven by J Masterson Akins stopped and took him to Sallisaw, with Dr J A Cheek aiding at the scene.
Miss Bertha FE Wagoner died at her Groom area home early Wednesday. Last rites were held at Groom Methodist Church at 10 am with Rev. A S Sherrell and Rev. John Crowe officiating. Burial followed in Groom Cemetery under N S Griggs & Sons funeral directors.
North Bay Ont June 14 UP Olivia Dionne suffered a relapse after leaving bed to see her quintuplet daughters and do light housework. Dr A R Dafoe ordered two weeks more rest and assigned a nurse to her side as the five babies remain in incubators on a strict feeding schedule amid worries about prowlers.
Amarillo's Chamber of Commerce directors have been named directors of the Board of City Development by the city commission. The board, a Chamber of Commerce arm, has $6,000 at its disposal allocated by the city commission.
Markets in New York were nervous but near steady as traders priced in a potential steel strike, a German debt moratorium, and ongoing grain weakness. Oil and utilities showed resilience while wheat and other grains fell, cotton and rubber declined, and U S securities remained firm despite mixed signals. Several large industrials edged lower or unchanged as investors awaited Congress and a steel workers vote in Pittsburgh.
Kansas City stockyards report cattle and sheep trading with higher hogs and steady to mixed prices, top hogs at 4.30, cattle to 6.50, calves around 5.00, and lambs mixed in demand. New Orleans cotton opens softer on weak cables with July near 12.08 and October around 12.25 as early trades show prices easing.
The text notes December at 12.97 down 7 from yesterday, near a quiet morning as prices held steady. In the first half hour trading was firmer on some months while the market turned easier later due to weather signals and weak domestic consumption forecasts. July, October, and December futures slipped, with mid session seeing a short covering rally.
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