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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1934
Page
3
At its annual convention in San Angelo Texas the West Texas Chamber of Commerce authorized two agencies to push industrial and agricultural development in western Texas. The executive staff is to form a regional planning bureau to speed growth.
Cadet William M. Marks Jr became the second Kelly Field student in two days to join the Caterpillar Club by parachuting from a disabled plane near Castorville. Earlier Cadet J B Holton also jumped after a mid air collision with Cadet Preston A. Kennedy killed when his plane crashed. Marks practiced acrobatics at about 5000 feet before his aircraft spun and failed.
A Texas committee was named to confer with Relief Administrator Hopkins on an eight million eight hundred ninety thousand dollar relief road program. Members include Amon G. Carter and Clifford B. Jones with state relief commissioners to join in seeking funds. Plainview edged Amarillo by a narrow margin to host the regional chamber’s 1935 convention. Artesia New Mexico also bid.
In the Paturages Au Fief mine near Brussels a fire damp explosion trapped 48 miners. Forty bodies were found, five survivors were hospitalized with King Leopold visiting them. Three men remained missing as families mourned. Miners faced a postponed 5 percent wage cut.
The local civil service board announced exams for Storekeeper ganger at 8 30 and 11 in the morning on June 2. C M Tyler said many men from several Panhandle towns applied and yesterday was the filing deadline.
The State Session of Colonial Dames met in Waco and established a $300 scholarship at the University of Texas for graduate work in colonial history.
Washington May 17 reports of continued crop damage in midwestern drouth states push swift aid plans. A nine member House panel backs wheat and corn hog contract liberalization and water conservation. Farm agencies ready to act on extension directors’ recommendations. Secretary Wallace says relief eased in Kansas and western Wisconsin but remains serious in north central states with grasshoppers and chinch bugs threatening crops.
In Cleburne Texas on May 17 John Green 56 was fatally shot while seated at his gas station a single attacker fired from a car or from a nearby creek bed. C B Green son witnessed the shooting describing a burst of bullets and headshot. Authorities say the killer may have fired as a machine drove by.
Robert R. Logan of Philadelphia, president of the American Anti Vivisection Society and chief Brother for America of the Philosophical Order of Service, will lecture at the Potter County Court House Friday night on The Occult Side of Dante's Inferno.
In Shreveport Louisiana May 17 officers and friends gathered at a funeral home chapel to honor First Lieut William H Doolittle and Second Lieut Norman Speaker killed when their planes collided and fell into the Red River. The bodies were to be sent to El Paso Texas and Arlington National Cemetery with Mrs Doolittle and Miss Mabel Doolittle accompanying Lieut Doolittle.
An appeal was made for federal troops to guard waterfronts so non-union workers could load and unload ships tied up in Elliott Bay. Thousands of seamen joined striking longshoremen in sympathy. Seattle Mayor John F Dore sought aid from the Interior Secretary. Edward F McGrady traveled to San Francisco as the government moved to resolve the dispute amid broader ship ties and potential ferry strikes.
The talk will start at 8 15 o clock and be shown with slides. Admission is free for attendees.
Texas Supreme Court dismisses ten suits challenging the first real estate moratorium act noting the act expired May 1 and dissolving prior injunctions Chief Justice Cureton partly dissented, warning the decision may rest on constitutional challenges to the contract clause A new moratorium statute was enacted at a February special session.
At Galveston on May 17 officers of the Texas Organization of Public Health Nursing were elected and by laws revised during a two year term. Miss M Elizabeth Shellabarger of El Paso was named president and Miss Celia Moore of Austin secretary treasurer. Board members include Mrs W C Walkes of Waco with Olga Buresh of Austin on the nominating committee. The event opened the organization ith annual convention with about 125 nurses in attendance. Nearby delegates joined the 27th annual Texas Graduate Nurses Association session beginning tomorrow.
In Sherman on May 17 Delisle, of Roff Oklahoma, was identified as one of four gunmen in a Whitesboro National Bank robbery. State witnesses testified at the trial with W. Estes and D. Price, vice-president, among those called.
Keeper and Min Leona Ingham, a stenographer, were cited as witnesses in the Delisle incident involving several men. The report notes actions during the era and identifies roles without sensational detail.
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