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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1935
Page
7
Washington reports expenditures for the current fiscal year totaling over 7 billion dollars with two weeks remaining until June 30. Revenue through June 17 rises to about 3.63 billion, leaving a treasury deficit of roughly 2.37 billion versus a year ago.
G A Red Craig faces a murder charge in the death of Amarillo cafe owner George Engman. He is set for trial in August in 47th District Court in Amarillo after a Potter County grand jury indictment. Engman died May 10 after injuries from a May 8 nightclub altercation in Randall County. Engman’s death prompted the Potter County indictment and bond was set at 5000.
City ordinance imposes taxes on slot machines and marble boards, with fines from 25 to 100 dollars. A 10 dollar license tax applies to coins over five cents and 5 dollars for penny or nickel machines. Exemptions cover pay phones and cigarette machines. Five residents named to the zoning appeals board. Two paving petitions noted for Fifteenth and Thirteenth Avenues. Trotsky vanishes in Norway amid asylum bid with reports of health concerns.
Braniff Airways announced two new schedules starting Thursday and Friday to Chicago. The Great Lakes to the Gulf Line will terminate at Brownsville with three new 10 passenger twin motor Lockheed planes. Northbound flights depart Fort Worth daily in the afternoon and evening, while southbound planes leave Chicago in the early afternoon and at night with stops at Dallas Oklahoma City Ponca City Wichita Kansas City.
Miss Ruth Lampland, employed by a New York organization to develop hobbies among unemployed groups, discussed odd hobbies she found during travels. She described a man who collected ants and housed them in glass apartments with sand to observe how they engineered miniature villages.
Three robbers including a woman entered the Metropolitan Night Club in Poplar Bluff Missouri early today and shot the pianist Oscar Murphy. They peppered the building with shotgun slugs and stole about $75 from employee W. E. Brown. None of the suspects were known to staff.
Mrs H. R. McAlister of 504 Sunset Drive will entertain her parents Mr and Mrs W H Miller from Los Angeles for the summer. They arrived yesterday.
Soviet steamers will carry 204000 tons of freight this summer via the Great Northern route, moving from Murmansk to Kamchatka and Archangel to Vladivostok. Two freighters initiate west to east service with ice breakers and new Arctic bases aiding navigation. An ice-breaker Sedov expedition will study ice movement north of Spitzbergen.
Throbbing drums echo through rain soaked jungles as Abyssinia gears up for conflict with Italy. Recruiting surges lift the army from 3,000 to about 15,000 with widespread drill and mobilization across provinces.
Washington edits show Senate Finance Committee weighing higher levies to cover the $501 million nuisance tax bill. Senators Connally Long and LaFollette push estate and income taxes, while President Roosevelt's stance remains unsettled and Morgenthau planned to testify.
An old advertisement urges readers to use Carter's Little Liver Pills to restore bile flow from the liver, claiming they relieve indigestion and systemic heaviness. It warns against substitutes and directs shoppers to look for the red label in drugstores.
The Pierce Street Greenhouse at 1805 Pierce Street announced surplus plant sets including tomatoes and green peppers would be given away to unemployed workers or relief clients who call in. An employee said the offer would continue while supplies last. Owner Mrs. H. S. Atwood oversees the greenhouse.
Two members of the State Industrial Accident Board based in Austin arrived in Amarillo for hearings under state insurance law supervision. Chairman Farle P. Adams and board member A. M. Graves presided in the Potter County courtroom. Most cases under review involve oil field areas around Pampa and Borger.
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