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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1935
Page
2
Forecast notes wind and dust today then a warm-up tomorrow. Moisture is expected next week as signs point to rain. The piece also covers local events, tree-planting fundraising at the Children's Home, dog anecdotes, and community musings on responsibility and progress.
The Amarillo Philharmonic Orchestra will perform next Tuesday night in the Municipal Auditorium with guest soloist David Macpherson and conductor Christian Thaulow. A color program and Note Man slides from a children's concert will be shown, admissions 75 and 50 cents for non members, 10 cents for children.
Dear Tack urges the public to attend a combined rummage and food sale at 502 Polk Street on May 3 and 4. The event is sponsored by the Young Men's organization and appears in Tack Letters on page 3.
The 15 year old son of Mr and Mrs 8 D Vaughan will present a 10 minute address in the Sunday School class at Polk Street Methodist Church. The topic Man Building reflects the class celebration of Mr Vaughan entering his eleventh year as teacher. May is the Vaughan class anniversary month with a spring roundup aiming for 200 members and a class social Friday night at the church.
The Potter County grand jury returned eight indictments this morning including two murder charges against Matron Baby Face Martin and Johnnie Mae Davis, both jailed with no arrests yet on four other indictments. Anderson Huff is in jail for silk theft valued over $50, while Hal McBride faces a whisky possession charge and bond was set at $750.
The federal government stepped in to avert a nationwide strike that could paralyze the industry while threats spread to independent auto parts makers. The Toledo Chevrolet plant strike led to shutdowns at Fisher Body in Cleveland with 9,000 idle and at Fisher and Chevrolet plants in Atlanta and Janesville with 4,600 idle combined.
The State Bank at Park Ridge was held up by four to five masked men who released tear gas and stole cash totaling between 8000 and 10000 dollars. Employees and customers, forced to the floor, suffered choking fumes as bandits, armed with a machine gun and two others at the cages, escaped with the money while one robber waited in a car.
Representatives from 40 Panhandle counties met in Amarillo to press for urgent improvements on 15 federal and state highways. The list, endorsed by three highway associations, targets routes including Highways 66 60 9 5 170 117 86 28 88 152 203 83 194 and 54 plus a bridge at Tascosa.
Seventeen people died and twenty are missing after a violent earthquake struck the Kars district near Soviet Armenia. At least fifty are seriously injured as heavy damage is reported across the mountainous area and relief agencies move to aid the stricken inhabitants.
In a world-weary tone the piece recalls the Washington Press Club annual grid iron event roasting presidents for decades. Oklahoma City builds interest in its dinner with an annual ball after the banquet. a governor once left early, but no casualties are noted. The management hopes for a peaceful tomorrow night.
About 60 TNT devices were fired during RAINiment as clouds cleared and wind carried heat and smoke away. The test leader said winds would have caused a nationwide blast, and next tests will use balloons to lift devices into the air with future launches planned from Dalhart today or tomorrow.
Rains continued in North East and South Texas with a western dust storm. Weather officials forecast cooler, cloudy conditions in East Texas and showers in the Southeast while West Texas remained generally fair. Tyler reported the heaviest rainfall at 2.5 inches, Corsicana 1.0 inch, and Palestine saw continued downpours. San Antonio Austin Denton Sherman Dallas and Longview recorded rains with hail at several locations, while Lubbock’s dust storm persisted.
Mrs. R. O. Custer of Elk City Oklahoma is in St Anthony's Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The incident occurred as she and her husband prepared to drive home in the 200 block of Pierce Street. Police say the gun discharged from a car pocket while she reached for a package of cigarettes. The couple's son and sister were in the rear seat. Mr Custer is a local jeweler.
A recess in federal court was taken this morning because a key witness was absent in a civil suit before Judge James C. Wilson. The criminal docket closed yesterday afternoon and twenty-one federal prisoners remained in Potter County jail after a week of prosecutions. Nine received jail terms while others awaited transport. District Attorney Clyde O Eastus and assistants left for Fort Worth. The court will stay in session two more weeks for civil case trials.
Funeral services for the infant son of Mr and Mrs Joe Morgan of Bushland were conducted at 2 pm at Boxwell Brothers chapel with Dr Roy C Snodgrass of the First Christian Church officiating. The burial followed in Palo Duro Cemetery after the child died yesterday in a local hospital.
The Sam Houston Junior High School Band of 50 students, directed by 8 M Bagwell, will depart Friday at 8 35 a m on the Santa Fe to enter the district band contest in Lubbock and return by 6 50 p m Saturday.
Amelia Earhart, American flier, was expected to take off this afternoon on a bid for a non-stop flight to New York. Dr. Frederick Owens will lecture Friday night on Customs in the Bible Lands at the Adkisson Memorial Church, 90 North McMasters Street, in native costumes with public admission.
Prime Minister J Ramsay MacDonald told the House of Commons Britain remains open to a London conference on naval matters with Germany though Berlin’s rearmament breaches the Versailles Treaty. He urged Germany to join in forging wider European cooperation with Italy France and others.
Kansas City market notes include be to mostly 10e higher cattle and calf quotes with top veal and steer prices, hogs steady, and sheep lambs varying by class. New Orleans cotton opens quiet with futures shown around unchanged to lower, May through Jan terms easing slightly as trade remains subdued.
George FE Ferrell director of grains for the AAA calls the wheat program the doctrine of plenty without waste as 135 Panhandle county agents and allotment chairs hear at the Herring Hotel. He says a May 25 referendum will decide whether the program continues and stresses farmer support and price benefits. C H Day invites wheat farmers to join a cotton special train to Washington as W H Darrow explains AAA amendments before Congress.
The seventh annual Hale County pioneers round-up will be held in Plainview on May 25. Former Hale County residents living in Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico are expected to attend. The event is sponsored annually by the Plainview Business and Professional Women's Club.
The noted basso Feodor Chalia pin, ill with grippe and bronchitis, was rushed from Le Havre to the American hospital by ambulance after a doctor found his condition worsened.
Justice of the Peace Ben H. Fly entered a death by own action verdict in the death of Elmer Whitfill aged 25 of Plainview. The death occurred yesterday.
Fragmented text lists several oil companies and prices with street address hints and percentages. The snippet lacks coherent events or named individuals, yielding only scattered business names and numbers.
Amarillo Boy Scouts will receive badges and awards at their area court of honor tonight at 7 30 in the courthouse. Four scouts will receive Eagle and Walter Thompson badges. Allen Early Jr 13 Ken Cline Troop 5 and Woodrow Henderson of the Sea Scout ship Fighting Bob are named. About 1000 merit badges will be awarded and specialization first aid certificates will go to recent graduates of the first aid school.
William Phillips 69 longtime Rock Island Railway chief train dispatcher died at 12:50 this morning in a Dalhart hospital after four days of medical treatment. The body was taken to Emporia Kansas for burial. Survivors include wife Nell, two daughters Mrs Bragg and Mrs Moffett and two sons Albert and Paul.
Final rites for Herbert Edward Meers 62 will be at 10 Friday morning from Griggs chapel with Rev J J Ness officiating. Pallbearers are A E Dawson Fred Dessy W W Chilton Tom H Rowan Bill Thompson and Grady Fox. Meers of Cedar Creek died yesterday walking toward his home 512 Jackson Street leaving Lorene Meers widow Jeff Ben and Pearl Pearson as survivors.
An advertisement touts RB C a fast acting headache remedy prepared by a registered pharmacist. It claims multiple ingredients work in minutes to relieve headaches and also eases muscular aches colds neuralgia fevers and nervous distress without opiates. Available as 10¢ and 25¢ packs.
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