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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1931
Page
2
A fragmentary diary style piece recalls rain washing Austins from street curbs into storm sewers and jumbled家庭 scenes. The speaker laments domestic chaos over laundry, lingerie clutter, and a family row, expressing longing for a quieter old fashioned home.
A long local column blends personal anecdotes with regional gossip and public notices. It touches on household habits, farm help inquiries, and social calls, then shifts to national church state issues and Fascist tensions near Rome. It concludes with railroad industry notes and beef price concerns.
Market report shows hog receipts of 2600 with gains up to 10 cents and top at 5.95. Cattle receipts 500 with generally steady demand. steers 600 to 1100 pounds mostly 6.00 to 6.75, heifers 550 to 260 pounds 8.78 to 7.50, cows 3.75 to 5.00, vealers 4.50 to 8.00. Sheep receipts 8500 with spring lambs around 26 cents lower, natives up to 9.60 for top spring lambs, general lambs 6.25 to 7.50, ewes 2.00 to 3.00.
A poem reflects a man who rejects wealth for painting and beauty. He finds deeper happiness in fruits and flowers, rejecting luxuries others chase. The text contrasts his small world with others' pursuit of money and social status.
The electric fountain at Oliver Eakle park on Polk Street will operate nightly, showcasing 47 color combinations and flame-like water formations. City electrician Glenn Bowen refines the mechanism ahead of a near-term launch, with viewing best from passing cars as park forester Temple Robinson urges visitors to stay on sidewalks. The feature, dedicated by the City Commission along with the park and Mrs. Oliver Eakle, is touted as unique in the region.
Slippery roads reported on routes from Amarillo to Fort Worth via Wichita Falls and U S 370 Oklahoma City via Route 66 to Roswell and Tucumcari to Vega. U S 385 to Clayton shows fair conditions while Borger's Oilfield Highway is paved. Panhandle Auto Club lists HQ at the Chamber of Commerce in Lubbock.
American speed flier Capt. Frank Hawks arrived in Bordeaux at 12 10 P M during his France round trip and took off again after three hours for Toulouse.
A reader writes to address a letter titled See Tack Letters on Page 15. The exchange signals ongoing reader correspondence and a regular feature in this newspaper.
In a high altitude record flight, Piccard described reaching 15 to 16 thousand meters, noting successful gas conductivity findings linked to Einstein theory and the need to land after oxygen exhaustion. He praised careful preparation and said the balloon landed calmly on a glacier near Gurgl before transfer to Imst.
Dumas and today marked completion as R. C. Martini assistant to the general manager of the Santa Fe J. B. Briscoe superintendent W. E. Goodloe division freight and passenger agent Earl Brame city ticket agent J. D. Tinsley general agricultural agent and other Santa Fe officials joined the Amalo party.
R A Dunn a Charlotte banker was elected moderator and presided over the Presbyterian Church in the United States general assembly in Montreat North Carolina as it began its second day. Overtures and reports were presented to committees and the assembly planned to discuss a correspondence course for ministers and a judicial commission.
Texas railroad representatives urged the railroad commission to deny the plea against a proposal to slash freight rates for casing head gasoline. The testimony continued in Dallas, a session that began in Austin on May 13 and 14.
A chauffeur used by Cerf picked up the kidnapper Roberts in Cerf's garage around 5 P M. Roberts drove toward Ferris to deliver money to note writers. Cerf said Roberts telephoned from Ferris about 8 P M and his son rode the interurban car from Dallas at 10 30 P M. Cerf confessed fear of losing his son if he did not comply.
Amarillo drivers and pedestrians must stop and look for signal changes at business district intersections. Automatic bells warning of a change in traffic signals were discontinued late Thursday after many motorists relied on the bells instead of watching for the signal change.
Johnny Miller of Poughkeepsie New York has finished the first transcontinental flight by an auto gyro plane. He landed at North Island Naval Air Station San Diego after a two hour hop from Yuma Arizona and planned to depart for Los Angeles. The trip began in Philadelphia several days ago with stops along the way.
The Denver line and Santa Fe line saw heavy rain with nearly three inches on the new Santa Fe line to Gluck. Late evening showers expanded across the region from Canadian to Gentry, with additional moisture from midafternoon storms. Some towns reported lighter or scattered showers while others measured up to an inch in western Panhandle areas. roads out of Amarillo were wet but passable.
United States District Attorney W L Vandeventer assumed active charge of an investigation into an alleged one million dollar liquor ring operating in Kansas City. He indicated that several prominent local businessmen may be arrested soon.
One man identified as Jack Davis a Fort Worth musician is dead after an incident at a Graham hotel. Mrs Fannie Anderson wife of Gus Anderson a filling station and restaurant operator 112 miles from Graham was found wounded in the same hotel. Anderson said his wife had traveled to Dallas several days earlier.
Frank Roddy was held in the city jail for investigation while Edna Fitzgerald, wife of Dick Fitzgerald jailed at Pampa, was released by police who say she plans to leave Amarillo. Roddy was injured April 28 after crashing through a Roswell New Mexico filling station door during burglary investigations and remains under bond pending appeal from a November conviction for liquor law violations.
Tulsa police held two suspects in a narcotic theft case involving four trunks of drugs valued over 500000 from a drug ring. Frank McMillen, head of the narcotics squad, said one man confessed to taking trunks from three men arriving from Juarez, Mexico. One trunk was found in a Tulsa yard. others remain missing. The robbery reportedly occurred in a Fort Worth garage.
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