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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1934
Page
2
A chaotic local column covers wild weather talk, a proposed machine gun purchase, life insurance week praise, a Borger visit invitation to Mrs Alta Ann Reeves, and a quip about horse thieves. It also notes two German communists executed for a 1933 murder in DENGSBERG.
Judge E C Nelson Jr former Potter County court at law judge announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination as District Judge of the 47th Judicial District covering Armstrong Randall and Potter Counties He cites experience in two county courts and 13 years as an attorney plus World War service and urges voters to scrutinize his record.
Amelia Earhart Putnam testified for swift passage of a permanent air mail bill to boost aviation industry growth. Roosevelt pursued indirect action on labor issues while avian and railway labor troubles lingered. Senate debates opened on birth control and cotton production controls with Roosevelt backing new banks to fund small industries.
The Khiva Shrine Patrol sponsors a spring festival at the temple tomorrow night with unusual features. Valuable gifts will be presented to several attendees. Master Masons and Eastern Stars are invited. Admission is by 1934 Shrine card or $1 per couple. Vaughn Brothers orchestra provides music as the temple is redecorated.
Evans family faced armed intruders demanding food and payment to hide suspects. Sirens drew officers after Mrs. Evans escaped and alerted help. Johnson was killed in a later confrontation as a carload of five opened fire, with Whitewater wounded and Cook fleeing.
A 15 year old youth linked to a car theft and a chase near Vega caused a police radio car to crash injuring four, including two officers. He received a six year suspended sentence to a state reformatory after leniency due to epilepsy and first offense.
The American Federation of Labor planned a walkout at Detroit's Hudson plant at 9 this morning unless wage and hours offers from the National Administration of the Auto Manufacturers are improved by tonight. The plant employs about 14,000 and could trigger strikes at Flint Lansing and Pontiac as unions rally support from 9,000 Hudson workers.
Army tests at the airport hint at a radio system but no official plan for air mail service is confirmed. Sergeant Boyles, awaiting ships that never come, remains unsure of his role. Meanwhile Missouri Kansas Texas railroad directors set April 1 as the date for semi annual 2 percent interest payment on adjustment mortgage bonds.
A concert at 7 o clock offers 40 cent front parquet and 25 cent other seats. Selections include Tausig's March Militaire and pieces by Tschaikowski and Tren sky, plus Franck's Les Djinns. Chabrier piano works are noted with humorous biographical asides. Stewart calls the program among the most brilliant for massed piano work.
Secretary Wallace today signed the code of fair competition for the grain exchanges. It establishes a seven member enforcement authority, sets uniform trade practices with wage minimum margins, fixes price fluctuation ranges per bushel, and creates a business conduct committee for each exchange. Lapis lazuli is noted as a rare azure blue stone often containing iron pyrites streaks.
An Arbor Day event by the Kiwanis Club featured six tree plantings in Ellwood Park Kiwanis Grove. One tree was dedicated to late Kiwanian Joe Bob McClure. Reverend Bob Huckabee gave the dedicatory address praising trees and city growth. Dr Phil Wolfram sang Trees with Elizabeth Glenn at the piano before the ceremony moved from the Amario Hotel to the park. Howard Williams led the March birthday committee coordinating the program.
Crutchfield's trial features jurors screened for insanity bias as defense cites a July 1926 Potter County lunacy ruling. State uses five of 15 challenges while defense uses three. Burnam, Amarillo police officer, was fatally shot during a riot call near Western Hotel. Crutchfield was later arrested in a Fast Amarillo tourist camp.
In a letter Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a commission to examine railroad labor issues across all employment classes. He notes some workers earn below NRA code minimums and urges correction in any postponement plan. Roosevelt offers federal coordinator of transportation help and stresses continued efforts toward an agreement for the country’s good.
Police traced a French British American espionage ring to secret military information including navies planes poison gas artillery and automatic weapons. The Switzes confessed after dramatic evidence but faces possible leniency as foreigners with trials likely in July.
Organization of a truck operators body to be known as the West Texas Common Carriers Association was perfected here last night. J. L. Pate of DeShong Motor Freight Lines Amarillo was elected president with D. G. Dalby and Mrs Elsie Bassett as officers. Directors include J. F. Reynolds Pete DeShong R. J. Brown L. R. Dick. The group has members in 33 truck lines across West Texas and eastern New Mexico and supports NRA.
Kansas City livestock markets show slow to uneven trade with cattle calves and sheep moving at varied currents while New Orleans cotton opened steady with gains of 2 to 8 points and New York stock list notes cautious recovery amid labor tensions in motor and railway sectors.
An old advertisement urges readers not to experiment with curable skin diseases and claims Brown's Lotion treats ITCH ECZEMA IMPETIGO ATHLETES FOOT TETTER POISON IVY BARBER'S ITCH MOSQUITO or CHIGGER BITES. It touts fast relief from the first application and warns against messy salves, noting availability at Randal Drug Stores and other druggists for 60c and $1.90 bottles.
A Clermont New York mother writes of three generations using patent medicines in her family history. She praises Najol and Cream of Nujol for regularity and mild effects, urges others to try it, and invites readers to share their Nujol stories for Stance Incorporated in New York City.
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