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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1934
Page
2
A Panhandle audience at Municipal Auditorium discusses drought relief politics with criticism of Harry Hopkins and Texas matching funds. Local anecdotes describe severe conditions in Amarillo and Delhart, pleas for action, skeptical attitudes in Austin, and community voices on relief spending and hardship.
The article outlines a Roosevelt plan authorizing the Treasury to purchase silver both domestically and abroad, issue silver certificates, and maintain bullion reserves. It details price limits, legal tender status, and potential penalties for violations, with authority to regulate imports, exports, and transportation of silver and to coin silver dollars.
Austin May 22 Governor Ferguson today postponed Nathan Brooks a Houston convict sentenced to death for the May 5 1933 killing of Ollie Lee Morris. The electrocution delayed from Sunday to June 1 gives Brooks extra time to live.
Tack letters page highlights a woman seeking work and stating readiness to do any job like other workers who lack higher education. The letter expresses willingness and asks Tack for assistance in finding employment opportunities.
In San Antonio on May 22 a mob of several hundred attacked the Harlandale relief station. A woman case worker Paula H. Long was mauled outside the station by two women, another woman slapped relief officer W. K. Chaney, and the crowd threatened to tear the station down saying they might build another one.
Rainfall measured in fractions of an inch across Oklahoma Texas and surrounding towns with reports of light to heavy showers. Clarendon and Dalhart line up to an inch with several locations recording a quarter to three quarters of an inch. Midwest drought relief arrives as downpours raise hopes for crops and reduce fire risk in Illinois Wisconsin and nearby regions.
Federal agents seized warehouses and candy factories in New York Baltimore Paterson and Chicago containing diluted alcohol flavored candy. More than 100 New York storekeepers and peddlers were arrested and fined. A Paterson plant listed molds and labels but staff fled before arrival.
Four hundred followers gathered as Deputy Sheriff Joseph Betterton dragged the socialist speaker from the courthouse and shut the door. The crowd booed and the speaker moved to the steps where gas bombs were released, sending women and children fleeing. Thomas and Anderson fled to Springfield after the confrontation.
CHICAGO May 22 Six squads of police subdued two men barricaded in a West Side flat with shotguns and shouts of defi ance. Harry Stroan 45 was beaten and taken to a hospital while Anthony Mrozek an automobile mechanic and Miss Rose Szcepanik 21 nurse to Stroan's 5 year old daughter Caroline were taken to the station. Police found three rifles two shotguns and two revolvers in the flat.
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker allegedly narrowly avoided a street car collision in Houston. An informant said Barrow swerved to dodge the street car, then sped away westward with Parker, as police issued a pickup order for the fugitives.
Last night a line of storms accompanied by thunder and winds up to fifty miles per hour swept the Chicago area, dropping temperatures from a high near 90 to 67. Damaged unfinished Century of Progress buildings as rain totals reached about an inch in some parts of Wisconsin. Roils extended to Detroit Grand Rapids and Sarnia Michigan as well as St Joseph Missouri Toledo Ohio and Laporte Indiana. Crop experts say the showers are unlikely to salvage substantial crops already burning under the long sun.
BATTLE of Michigan co author says commercial motive is public enemy number one in peace equation. The committee will study government monopoly of arms and munitions. Senator Nye announces Stephen Raushenbush as prosecutor after his utilities study in Pennsylvania.
GENE HOWE solini and Lenin, and above Stalin and Hitler in having complete mastery of a nation. He seeks to travel not to the left nor the right, but straight to the hearts of the people. If he had been the war President, he likely would have out Wilsoned Wilson. Roosevelt's outstanding bid for lasting greatness is his willingness to change his mind. He has absorbed much and learned much in the year he has been President. But he must hear the roars of an ungrateful and un understanding mob, and stand hitched, to prove that he has the iron in his soul that most of the American people think he has. Howe's list of Presidential advisers, the first 25 names in order of their importance, is given in an adjoining column.
Dr. D. M. Wiggins dean at Hardin Simmons University Abilene will arrive in El Paso by September 1 to become El Paso High School principal and director of teacher training.
Edsel Luckey a 35 year old World War veteran was killed last night by a freight train in the Rock Island yards in Fort Worth No witness to the incident Luckey reportedly walked through the yards and fell under the train, authorities said.
West Texans at a mass meeting urged action to push relief funds. A three‑member Texas Relief Commission panel and three from the West Texas Chamber of Commerce were named to investigate relief. Judge W H Sewell urged a “breuth march” to Washington to meet President Roosevelt and demand relief commitment.
The Phillips Company funds a major Panhandle field test with a 136 foot Moore derrick, twin steam engines, four 150 hp boilers, heavy Emsco rotary drill, Regan traveling block, two Wilson and Snyder mud pumps, and sizable slush and reserve pits. Lee Drilling Co Tulsa holds the contract. J. B. Davis oversees field work.
A legend speaks of a deceased specialist whose stomach ulcer cure, known as the Udga Treatment, allegedly helped 54 169 readers in six years. Free samples are offered by Udga, Suite 66, Foot Schulze Building, St Paul Minnesota, with a seven day trial box sold under a satisfaction guarantee by City Drug Stores.
Hopkins cites an Agriculture Department inquiry to assess drought needs in the Panhandle and decide if the 50 million dollar relief program should cover North Texas farmers. Timmons quotes the relief administrator promising aid where needed and notes West Texas funds approved but not yet released to the Panhandle.
The May 22 dispatch reports a two year moratorium on mortgaged livestock proposed by the government. Creditors and farmers would sign agreements to halt foreclosures. if foreclosures occur the relief administration would provide necessary animals. The plan also includes a $1,000,000 forage seed fund to gamble on timely rains. A new emergency drought relief committee led by Dr. E W Sheets continues cattle buying, feed shipments, and other actions.
Semi official sources report a general ban on priests with a terse decree to go abroad immediately. Catholics crowd Sonora churches urging Father Fernandez to baptize and hear confessions before departure as they link the order to government anger over priests directing parents to keep children from public schools.
Market report combines Kansas City hogs cattle calves sheep with price ranges for weights and grades and notes steady to lower trends. It also covers New Orleans Cotton opening dull with July to December futures up several points on favorable Washington vibes and steady stocks.
Henry L. Doherty, owner of under one thirtieth of Cities Service, was described to the Federal Trade Commission as in practical control of the billion dollar corporation. Commission counsel cited studies showing Doherty personally held 29.6 percent of voting strength while only two of about 540000 stockholders held more than one percent.
Prices fluctuated all morning with expectations of a presidential metal meeting later in the day. July futures rose to 11.46, October 11.65, and December 11.77 before pulling back four to five points from the session high, remaining four to five points above yesterday's close. Bond bids showed 100.24 and asks 100.27 for 20% R214 65% 84' 10% 21% 2015 HOME LOAN BONDS.
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