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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1932
Page
2
Tonight at 8 15 The Doughboy musicale returns to Amarillo in the auditor ium with old songs new dance numbers and sensational stunts. The note also comments on five day work weeks and politics in Washington while recounting local opinions and community figures.
Real comedy is feature of Legion show as the American Legion Auxiliary and Forty and Eight present The Return of the Doughboy a three act musical comedy by Mike Hollander at 8:15 p.m. Cast includes Dorothy Peake Lela Hunter Sidney Dell Dees Verna Jo Vaughn Peggy Fowler and more with over 20 chorus girls. Tickets on sale at Randal Drug Store Seventh Avenue and Polk Street.
Judge Wilson charges jury as five men face theft trial over a February railroad box car shipment of cigarettes and smoking tobacco. Clarence Wilson La mar Smith Rex Smith and Tom Rasmussen plead not guilty. King Burk charges dismissed.
The Amarillo city commission will receive bids Tuesday night for 6000 feet of cast iron pipe and many fittings for the water department serving South Amarillo. The meeting will include routine business and possible changes to the building code for sign erection urged by city engineer E N Stanley and building inspector Frank French after protests from three sign companies.
Treasury awards the Plainview Texas post office contract to W B Smith of Eldorado Arkansas for 89750 dollars. The contractor must finish in 390 calendar days from notice to proceed. Smith’s bid was the lowest of 24 bids.
A Glenwood Baptist Church box supper and musical program at 2400 Arthur Street begins at 8 oclock. Santa Fe Male Quartet performs with violin selections by Mrs. H P Garrett. Candidates are invited to attend and speak.
Burglars last night raided the F. Henry Rietman residence at 88 North a Firmont Street taking a quantity of clothing and several dishes. Rietman works as a salesman for the International Harvester Company.
A farmer advertises for a married couple with no children to live and work on the farm. The wife will handle housework and the husband full-time fieldwork. Pay is $20 per month plus room and board. Applicants should write Tom Stalnaker at North Amarillo Station Amarillo Texas.
Letter writer Tack denounces a recent student parade as the most disgusting he has seen anywhere in the country. The page promises more letters on Page 1% with readers reacting to campus conduct.
J M Joe Proctor aged 49 a tailor of Amf rillo dropped dead today while seated at his dinner table at 2107 Pierce Street. He operated a shop at 605 Jackson Street and is survived by his widow two children a brother and three sisters.
D. F. Red Tanner a 30 year old salesman was stabbed during an early morning affray at a dance resort near Amarillo. Paul Mauldin is held on assault with intent to murder with bond set under $1,000 after being arrested by Amarillo police. Tanner’s condition is not serious. Buddy Blanton witnessed the incident and helped move Tanner to Northwest Texas Hospital.
Plans for a wardrobe contest on June 15 and 16 were announced during the Potter County Home Demonstration Clubs council business session held Saturday. The winner earns a trip to the state contest at College Station this fall. 4-H Market reports show chicken friers as top sellers. Mrs. L. C. Scott of Soney presented the report. Mrs. O. A. Blankenship of Brady reported on last week's dramatic school. Cliffside, the newest club in Potter County, posted a 100 percent attendance, joining Soney Brady and Pleasant Valley in attendance records.
Rainfall totals included .23 inches at Browns ville and 1.61 inches in Longview with clouds in the region. Flooding washed out tracks on the Fort Worth and Denver line near Hedley delaying a passenger train by 15 hours. A Fort Worth school building suffered lightning damage and a negro church steeple was wrecked interrupting services.
Senate Democrats promote a federal bond issue to fund a vast public construction program. Economists professors and businessmen joined the effort as Senator Wagner announced broad support for a bill proposing a $1,100,000,000 bond issue to finance already authorized public works.
A government seed loan bureau report shows 837000 borrowed for Northwest Texas. Of 5497 area farmers who applied, all but a few received loans. Regions with balanced programs faced less need, while livestock breeding and poultry shortages were noted as problems.
CHICAGO May 16 Mr and Mrs R E Baldwin of East Orange NJ won the international championship for North South in the world Olympics played April 1 Lewis C Frank and Robert Mayer of Detroit Micch the East West These and other winners of the international contract bridge pair championship in the Olympics were announced today by Ely Culbertson before the Culbertson National Teachers Convention Texas winners Clarence Nordhaus Herman Roemer San Antonio North South Mrs Edith Prigden Miss Esther Brown El Paso East West
C A Frakes of Port Arthur launches governorship bid with a 60-city tour. He pledges consolidating offices and pruning bureaus to save Texas 1.5 to 2 million dollars annually. He promotes a businesslike administration and self financed campaign.
The Brooklyn Eagle cites a source close to the Lindbergh kidnapping inquiry saying Col. Charles A. Lindbergh told an intermediary a week before the infant’s body was discovered that he was broke. It reports he spent about $200,000 on the search and borrowed $25,000 of the ransom from a bank, investing his fortune in aviation securities that later deflated.
The judiciary committee did not consider today a bill to make interstate kidnapping a federal offense punishable by death due to Senate business. A earlier meeting to debate the tax bill shortened committee session to 15 minutes. the Patterson bill from Missouri was not taken up and is expected to be discussed at an early meeting.
Emperor Hirohito accepted the resignation of the cabinet following the premier's death. Eighteen men demonstrated in Tokyo before surrendering to police for military court trials. The emperor asked officials to remain until a new government is formed.
In Clovis New Mexico the Democratic state convention recessed after an opening session to review credentials from three contending county delegations. Returns indicate six delegates pledged to Roosevelt, while Seligman supporters claim 355 votes for national committeeman, with a rump convention threat hanging over the process.
Sixteen men held Earl McNamara the assistant cashier captive in his home overnight and forced him to open the Union National Bank vault after the time lock released at 8 30. Bank president W H Boyd and 15 other officials were also held at gunpoint when the men entered after eight.
A large gathering honors Henry L. Doherty, organizer and builder of companies, on his 62nd birthday. The piece also notes prominent Americans like Kent Cooper, John F. Curry, Owen D. Young, Mayor Walker, and others, plus reflections on taxation and democracy. It ends urging attention to opportunity every day.
Police Chief W. R. McDowell cites Jim Gulekie’s Sunday News Globe address urging Amarillo parents to discipline children. He warns that damage to fruit trees shrubs and flower gardens by youths leads to parental responsibility and calls for respect for others property.
The notice covers Kansas City hogs and cattle trading with prices for 180 to 220 pound hogs near 3.25, cattle and calves strong or steady, and stockers firm. Chicago hogs and cattle show mixed moves with weights up and down. New Orleans cotton opens quiet then rallies after midmorning, July and October contracts fluctuating around 5.56 to 6.61.
Advise on fast headache relief using B C from a registered pharmacist. The remedy claims quick action for muscle aches colds neuralgia and fever without opiates. Available in 10c and 25c packages at drugstores.
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