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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1934
Page
2
The Panhandle town revels in unexpected rain and previews a nationwide Mother in Law Day push. Amarillo police and community donate to Shirley Ann Grounds fund as locals plan civic events and consider expanding Mother in Law Day nationwide with floral and gift campaigns.
Readers praise the twice daily broadcasts from The News-Globe editorial room and express disappointment that the service will end. The letter from a reader asks Tack to consider the paper’s good for the community as the broadcasts are halted.
Rainy weather does not dampen the Panhandle Music Festival with well over 1,000 attendees and 300 piano entrants. Contests span piano, voice, violin and band across Amarillo venues with concerts, socials, and a Northwest Texas Band and Orchestra Teachers Association meeting led by J. L. Hathway.
The strike spread as Philadelphia cleaning and dyeing plants laid off workers after wage cuts. Milwaukee's Seaman Automobile Body Plant saw about 1200 men walk out and a worker abducted near the plant. In Middleton Connecticut 300 weavers deserted thousand? The text notes 12 hundred men left plants. New York cleaners dyers and fish dealers returned to work pending settlement. Twenty thousand theater workers agreed to stay on while chains recognize the union.
Worth, a renowned Southwestern soprano, will be the guest artist. Mrs. Cahoon of Texas Christian University leads the voice department and will be joined by Beckie Reeder Arnold of Amarillo. Horace Jones of Denver, Royal Academy of Music graduate, will perform on violin. The Mendelssohn Chorus of Amarillo, 28 men, directed by Lester Aldrich, will join the Soldiers Chorus from Faust with full orchestra. The augmented symphony orchestra now includes about 60 players. Mr. Hall curates a colorful program for the Panhandle Music Festival.
A dense chronicle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first year in office notes economic policy, currency moves, codes and programs, and international actions. It highlights the push for managed money, the repeal of prohibition, New Deal agencies, and public works while detailing political reactions and social effects.
Aged Confederate veteran George W Wood 88 died at his daughter Mrs C L Garwoods home in Amarillo. Wood famed for returning a Union officer sword earned national notice 30 years ago. Funeral services were held at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home with burial planned in Lovington New Mexico. He is survived by three sons seven daughters 87 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.
Stage actress Vicky Belling recommends regular relaxation periods for eye strain from hours on stage. She suggests placing small witch hazel pads on the lids for immediate relief and notes the effect is evident right away.
The relief moratorium allows district court judges to stay executions of sales through February 1, 1935 if owners show substantial equity and realistic plans to settle debts. A special Relief Commission meeting in Austin was called for Monday following the governor's signing of the bread bonds bill authorizing $7,750,000 in relief bonds.
Nobles entered the palace in ornate dress as the new emperor prepares to authorize government disbursements and official honors for the sons and daughters and widows of Manchukuan soldiers who sacrificed in nation-building efforts.
Four members of a family died and a fifth was critically burned in a five story Carroll Street tenement fire in Brooklyn early today. The blaze spread to an adjoining building as two alarms rang. The dead are Walter Galazzi one year old Joseph six Stephen nine and Rose 31.
Dean Witter of San Francisco testified before the House Interstate Commerce Committee warning that Fletcher Rayburn style stock exchange segregation would destroy many small firms in smaller communities. He spoke for 204 Pacific Coast dealers, saying investors and brokers would both suffer.
Glenn C. Webster a 78 year old Chicago railway engineer filed a federal suit in Cleveland asking for receivership of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Insurance Association The filing was reported March 1 by United Press Also a brief note states pine trees on cultivated land grow nearly three times as fast as in the wild
Kansas City livestock totals show 9,500 cattle and 4,500 hogs with slow demand and lower calves while vealers and feeders hold steady to lower. New Orleans cotton traded quietly with modest declines and a late rally on Bank head bill news. May around 11.90 and July near 12.04. New York Stocks list widely mixed with many industrial and utility names edging up or down.
Washington reports the Morgenthau line says the administration is just beginning to see a little light on monetary policy with no fixed plan until clearer. President Roosevelt plans to address recovery efforts again after NRA criticisms and a tariff bargaining message to Congress. The AFL seeks a 30 hour work week while Bankhead cotton control bill extends to two years with possible presidential extension.
Dr. R. T. Boucher was robbed of 330 dollars and his new Ford V8 when three masked men entered his Wellington office at 11 last night. They bound and gagged him. he freed himself after an hour and alerted police. No clues were found. The doctor was known to carry large sums.
Governor Ferguson urges Texans to display the Lone Star flag tomorrow as the 98th anniversary of Texas independence is celebrated. The March 2 observance honors the men who declared Texas free and sovereign in 1836 at Washington in the general convention.
Wilbur Swenson of 3901 Tyler Street travels to Clay Center Kansas for his mother's funeral after her death on February 26. He plans to return home to Wheeling West Virginia. Route 40 is noted as the main east west highway between coasts.
D A Brandon of 734 North Houston Street Amarillo says he saw a huge dull red ball of flame about the size of a bushel basket pass east to west near the earth's surface at about 2 45 this morning The object made an airplane like noise and Brandon woke his family English Field reports no night ships over this area due to weather delays delaying Transcontinental and Western Air’s schedule for last night
Ex students of Texas University will meet in Cousins Hall at West Texas State Teachers College for the annual March the Second festival. Alumni from Amarillo and Canyon attend, with Amarillo exes hosting a banquet and tickets available from Mrs H C Pipkin or Jeff M Neely. The College Book Store takes reservations. Canyon association plans a special program.
Transcontinental and Western Air completes a personnel and salary cut after air mail abrogation. Of 750 workers, over half furloughed. 350 to 375 on staggered schedules. 56 pilots retained rotate flying two weeks on six weeks off. Also mentions peaceful picket protest at Aluminum Company plants in New Kensington and historical note on Ohio executions up to 1885.
A nineteen year old girl from St Paul testifies that keeping Nujol at hand made her life healthier and more productive. She credits her mother with teaching the simple laxative method, endorsing Nujol as a mild natural aid and urging others to try it for vitality and regularity.
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