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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1933
Page
2
A late night Amarillo column urges fair wages amid economic strain and criticizes wage-cutting practices. It defends police and public service workers, condemns ant Mexican relief card abuses, and calls for prudent government spending. The piece defends middle aged officers and notes debt and crime pressures on the city.
A stranger in town seeks a contact in Amarillo for a proposition promising good pay. The writer expresses preference for a woman with social ties and some funds to pursue the arrangement.
New York May 3 Cy Pfirman, after umpiring 1,710 consecutive games, was too ill to work the Gilants Cubs game yesterday ending baseball's longest endurance streak.
Randal Drug Stores of Amarillo announce a nationwide cut-rate merchandising policy with every item discounted and a 10 percent tax absorbtion by the stores. S&H savings stamps will continue on all items as Oscar D. Randal states the move brings Amarillo into the national trend. Locations include 500 Taylor, 518 North Fillmore, and 630 Polk Street.
Premier Mussolini's finance minister Jung reaches New York after fog delays his ship. He will meet Roosevelt at a reception and attend talks outlining the American program. France accepts the tariff truce with adjustments to offset exchange declines.
A girl from Harwich Center Grammar School was abducted by three men one described as a large black man and two whites. Fog hampered the night search as state police and coast guard scoured highways beaches and sea for clues while Mrs McMath begged for safe return and warned against revenge.
District attorney released Mr and Mrs Jack Kinman after a grand jury failed to indict Jake Yale and his wife for the robbery of George Pendleton on Monday. Pendleton was struck with a beer bottle and $22 stolen at 510 East Third Avenue. Yale pled guilty to disturbing the peace and paid $1 plus costs.
A reflective verse about rain’s two philosophies. It contrasts misery and beauty rain brings, noting cold damp days dampen the speaker yet nourish later blossoms and green growth. The poem juxtaposes personal comfort with nature’s cycle and ends with a weathering mood.
A bomb damaged the Galloway West Co on the West Side after police disclosed 500 pounds of dynamite stolen from Burton Explosive Co Lemont. Damage was slight. authorities link the theft and blast to gangsters battling for control of unions amid a wave of explosions. Over 2000 feet of fuse also disappeared.
Federal authorities from Fort Worth travel to investigate the case of two Seward couples held in the county jail on sheriff orders for car theft. Clyde Van Doren, 20, faces a $500 bond for failure to support his wife and child, with co-defendants Monroe Willis, 20, Wilma Fuchshuber, 18, and Blanche Stehlik, 16. They were arrested at 1600 Pierce Street by Constable Howard Elliott, and the automobile was seized.
The body of 74 year old J L Barringer a pioneer ranchman was found hanging from a tree limb on his Ada county ranch seven miles southwest of Ada Oklahoma. Family said he was despondent due to ill health and he is survived by daughter Mrs Britton Turner of Roswell New Mexico.
In Electra Texas on May 3 a Kilgore schoolgirl Gercinad Rowe aged 11 died by suicide, blamed on money worries. She took $11 from her foster mother to pay a music teacher and used it to settle a candy and school supplies bill. She retrieved her father Harry Rowe’s pistol while he was away and shot herself. Justice T A Long held an inquest finding death by own action. The Rowe family moved from Wichita Falls to Kilgore about two years ago.
Grand jury returned three indictments Tuesday night involving robbery charges. Jess Minatre 22 Loy Brown 15 are jailed on two felonies and one misdemeanor with arrests on one bill. George Brown father of Loy was released by district attorney after being named accessory. Mont Blanc fact note follows about its Alpine location.
Ruins of villages and farms in Louisiana and Arkansas were scoured for additional storm victims after relief workers had removed 39 bodies from wreckage. More than 300 injured were reported, with Red Cross tally listing 23 bodies at Minden, six at Arcadia, seven at Magnolia, Ark, two at Salem, Ark, and one at Camp, Ark.
In Austin on May 3 the Court of Criminal Appeals listed actions including affirmations reversals and remands. Names include A L Tudor from Lubbock parsons from Wheeler and Etta Black from Lubbock with several others submitting briefs affidavits or states briefs.
In El Segundo California on May 3 Wesley H Morgan a 70 year old real estate man is proud father after his babies won first and second in the Perfect Baby Contest. Herman seven months old took first place and Wesley Junior two years old was second. He notes a cold kept Wesley from his best. The Morgans wed in Aberdeen Mississippi in 1929.
Edouard Herriot receives 600 pipes for his pipe habit with pipes from many places. Norman Davis, U S diplomat, owns a Herriot pipe. Herriot’s chauffeur keeps one pipe ready for drives while the premier longs to smoke. Parallel note on slave-maker ants raiding nests and a new 36 inch telescope under construction in Newcastle for Greenwich Observatory.
Hogs 6000 head steady to lower top 3.65 180-250 lbs packing sows 275-550 Ibs. 32,106 3.40. Cattle 4500 calves 600 steady steers good to choice 650-1500 Ibs 4.50-7.00 cows 3.00-3.50 vealers 3.00-6.00 stocker and feeder steers 4.75-6.25. Sheep 13000 native spring lambs up to 15 cents higher fed lambs 10-15 cents lower spring lambs good to choice 6.15-6.30 90 lbs down 5.00 5.50 good to choice 90-98 lbs 4.85-5.40 ewes good to choice 90-150 lbs 1.50-2.50 Quotations on ewes and wethers. 59% 59% 10% see
New Orleans reports steady cotton opening with early gains then hedging and profit taking. July futures swing from 8.83 to 8.17 and October to 4.49 before rallying, while other grains slip. activity remains brisk but range bound amid hedges and scalping.
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