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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1932
Page
2
A narrator recounts traveling with eight companions to Yucatan where a sick Mayan boy prompts a nurse to care tirelessly while a local doctor arrives to tend the child. The tale highlights devotion over ancient ruins and the doctor measuring the jungle boy’s pulse.
The Globe News faces a $600000 lawsuit from Dr. Brinkley, while the editor laments liberal press constraints and calls for unbridled expression. He recalls the 1886 blizzard, notes panhandle cold and cattle losses, and comments on finances and editorial independence.
The Nacogdoches Sentinel rails at farm boards and rakes Dr. Brinkley the goat gland pioneer once based in Milford Kansas. It recalls Kansas Medical board action and revoked radio license while noting a test of pronunciation words and a call to attend Easter services.
Judge A. L. Morgan becomes the eighth candidate for four Amarillo school board posts. He argues for minimal interference with teaching, no platform, and salary fairness based on merit, urging economy without harming education. Other contenders include Dr. Parcells Dr. Curl and W. A. Askew, with several urged candidates declining.
Descriptions of a tornado ripping through Plantersville and Northport detail six of nine Latham children killed, the Walton family killed in Columbiana, and Ella Walton dying en route to hospital. Northport suffered 80 blocks razed and a city hospital stretched to capacity as guardsmen and University of Alabama students aided relief efforts.
A national Red Cross disaster relief organization is created to aid tornado victims in Alabama Georgia Kentucky and Tennessee. Robert E Bondy directs operations from Washington with Birmingham Alabama as a main depot and Montgomery as a relief center as workers mobilize to remove and care for the injured.
In Texas winds caused scattered damage including a bakery roof blown off in Greenville and a tabernacle roof torn, four small stores damaged, garages overturned in San Angelo with $3,000 in losses. Freezing weather reached Abilene as a blizzard snarled Midwest travel with deaths from lightning and traffic crashes.
Wayne Kenyon three years old son of Mr and Mrs A S Kenyon of 606 Carolina Street survived a skull fracture after a motor vehicle collision last Friday. Attending doctors at Northwest Texas Hospital reported Monday he had regained consciousness and the wound was healing, indicating he was on the road to recovery.
A reader asks whether the soldier bonus should be paid, initiating a discussion on wartime payments. The letter outlines arguments for and against the payout and seeks clarification on policy implications.
Detectives rushed a Bronx apartment seeking Harry Fleischer the Detroit Purple gangster in the Lindbergh baby case but found only two women a boy and a man who claimed the names Walter and Izzy Cohn. Cohn was questioned and released without charges.
The Littlefield Memorial project on the University of Texas campus near University Avenue and the main building won’t be built until funds and plans proceed. J F Johnson of Austin received the bid for 118600 dollars to construct the memorial featuring six statues by Pompeo Coppini honoring Hogg Reagan Lee Johnston Davis and Wilson. The trust fund of 250000 dollars created by George W Littlefield made the project possible.
Greenville chosen as the 1933 convention site and William D. Carroll of Comanche elected grand master by delegates at the Grand Lodge of Texas Odd Fellows sessions in Waco. Routine business completed. Rebekahs continue meetings through Wednesday.
Marion E. Shepard, 18, a University of Michigan freshman from Cleveland, Ohio, disguised herself in men’s clothes to slip past the guard at the Michigan Union club where women are barred. She was caught and promised not to repeat the stunt.
The article notes that high earners pay 72 percent and can evade taxes with lawyers. In Brooklyn three men attacked five citizens for amusement, leaving two with broken legs and skull fractures. authorities link it to a drinking bout and question Prohibition’s success. Chauncey Olcott, famed for My Wild Irish Rose, dies at 72.
Reports say Chinese forces killed 150 Japanese and wounded 15 in a clash near Lake Birten while a separate engagement 20 miles northwest of Tunhua left two Japanese residents dead and one wounded. Moscow says Tokyo reassured on border threat and will curb white guards in Manchuria. Italy shows over seven percent population gain in ten years led by Genoa Rome Naples Milan.
Kansas City and Chicago livestock markets show hogs steady to higher with top at 4.40 for 170 215 lb pigs. Cattle and calves mixed with steers up to 8.75 for heavy weights and vealers firm to higher. Sheep demand uneven but strong, best fed lambs around 7 dollars plus.
Wheat prices tumbled on signals the Farm Loan Board would sell foreign wheat holdings, sparking selling by recent buyers. The New York Stock Letter notes a broad market slide with motor shares and American Telephone leading declines as investors await clearer signs of seasonal demand and earnings.
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