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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1934
Page
8
Two classified style notices describe modern homes for sale. One at $8000 cash with $12.50 monthly payments, features four rooms, garage, fenced yard on Fairmont with paved lot. The other lists a well arranged five room modern house with paved street, corner lot, plaster, hardwood floors, and fireplace priced at $2106 on easy terms.
Fragmentary classified ad items listed with prices for a home and various vehicles and a phone contact, lacking full context or complete details.
Washington reports Congress limits relief agency funding at not more than 500 million dollars with potential 250 million more from RFC securities. Officials warn less than one in ten eligible projects may receive PWA support while plans proceed to fund as much as possible and create jobs.
The body of James Henry McCullough of Bassett Nebraska who died here Saturday was shipped to Nebraska. His son and daughter-in-law Mr and Mrs Guy McCullough were visiting daughter Edith L Johnson at 1416 Washington St. Mr and Mrs R F Pollock formerly of Amarillo and now in LeFors are spending two weeks in Chicago visiting the Century of Progress.
Funeral rites for Ruben Jackson Vaughn aged 58 were conducted at 2 30 p m at the Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home by Rev J T McClure pastor of the Polk Street Methodist Church. Pallbearers were W W Finch P H Coy W E Hewes M A Pedigo N G Wilson and M S Boyer Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery Vaughn died at a local hospital Saturday morning He operated the Vaughn Cafe at 609 East Fourth Avenue.
Services for Dr. O. T. Cooper former presid ing elder of the Sherman and Dallas Methodist district were scheduled today with interment at Arlington Texas He had served in Denton Denison Wichita Falls Sherman and Dallas and was president of the Dallas Methodist hospital board and pastor of Oak Cliff Methodist Church He was a trustee of Southwestern and Kidd Key schools.
Constable Howard Elliott of Precinct 1 Potter County Texas will auction at public sale on the first Tuesday in July 1934 before the courthouse door in Amarillo. The property is Lots 13 14 15 and 16 Block 15 Belmont Park Annex. This is to satisfy a judgment of Brazelton Lumber Company against F T Becker for 204.97 plus costs, with a first deed of trust on Lot 14 held by Jewell S Norman, owing 225.66. The sale is subject to lien and occurs at the courthouse door in Amarillo.
Isabel Patterson surveys Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald with a Riviera setting and troubled romance. Mencken skewers women and men in In Defense of Women. Sheila Kaye Smiths Superstition Corner follows Kate Alard in Elizabethan England. Overstreet envisions a Utopia in A Guide to Civilized loafing and leisure balanced with work.
Department of Agriculture estimates farm housing about half of 6 125 000 homes are below minimum standards after survey of 352 counties in 46 states. Making homes livable could cost up to 3 5 billion dollars or about 575 dollars per dwelling.
Mrs. Lloyd Gardner 24 of Fort Worth died yesterday afternoon after a collision on State Highway 1 west of Grand Prairie. Her husband 28 driving about 35 mph toward Dallas passed another car when the other vehicle left its turn and struck the Gardner car causing it to overturn. The woman died of a broken neck. the husband was slightly injured. A separate note reports a man in Ecuador claims to have built a portable machine translating nine languages with 2000 words per language.
Macmillan and Company promotes publications available in New York and at Russell Stationery Co. The note lists where readers can purchase the books in the city.
An advertisement urges readers to use BROWNS LOTION from Randal Drug Stores to stop itching and prevent infection after mosquito or chigger bites. The product is sold with a guarantee.
Washington reports the Seventy third Congress authorized armed federal agents and new powers to pursue and prosecute criminals crossing state lines. The measures include rewards for fugitives like John Dillinger, interstate pursuit authority, and penalties for fleeing, testifying avoidance, assault on officers, and kidnapping with possible death penalties where applicable.
Proposal strengthens the Lindbergh Kidnapping Act by treating a seven day absence as prima facie evidence of interstate transport, making it a federal offense for two or more conspirators, and outlawing ransom notes or threats across state lines. The plan aims to broaden penalties and enforcement in kidnapping cases.
Roscoe J. Duntem a 46 year old Pan American Airways Caribbean division manager shot himself at his home last night. Police reported the incident followed a return home by his wife and daughter from the World's Fair in Chicago. No motive was found and investigators noted no known reason for the suicide. In a separate item near Browning Texas a Mrs Charles Kakeldey 48 died in a highway collision and three other Holyoke Minnesota residents were injured.
Last rites for Mrs. Nellie F. Scarborough, 34, were conducted at Griges Funeral Chapel at 2 PM. Rev. Robert C. Jones of the Church of Christ officiated. Interment followed in Memorial Park Cemetery after her Friday death at a local hospital.
Registration of new automobiles is continuing at a rate of five to ten daily, as reported this morning at the office of Miss Jewell Davidson, Potter County tax collector. A total of 145 new cars and trucks have been registered already this month.
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