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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1933
Page
2
Local column covers turkey market disputes sparked by a large buyer pulling price coverage and calls for grower group action. It also reports a $125 standing reward for deer killers, a $150 reward for park criminals, weather outlook for moisture, farm anecdotes, and football game hype with Amarillo Junior College.
Col and Mrs Lindbergh landed in Lisbon at 12 45 pm after fog bound days in Calderas de Tuy Spain. They planned several days in Lisbon before a flight to the Azores and expected to head to the United States via the Azores and Bermuda.
In Abilene Judge James C. Wilson discharged the Sam Morris jury after 36 hours of deliberation on charges of operating an unlicensed radio station heard beyond the state. The Abilene operator in a related case faced a deadlock after 20 hours of deliberation. An adjacent note reports a 92 percent rise in bag-snatching cases over five years.
Two West Texas college girls seek husbands after arriving for school. They describe themselves as brunettes, five feet two and a half inches tall, ages 19, and note they have never won any beauty contests.
Washington fixed the price of newly mined domestic gold far below world levels, triggering a dollar drop and pushing London gold to $34.68. RFC Purchases price remained at $33.56, a rare below-world move amid weak government bonds. Officials worry a continued bond slide could complicate the treasury borrowing needs for the recovery program.
UNION STATION PROBER INJURED WHEN HIS CAR WAS FORCED OFF THE ROAD BY THREE MEN IN ANOTHER CAR. J L TURREAU, 38, BI AGENT ASSIGNED TO THE KANSAS CITY UNION STATION MASSACRE, SUFFERED INJURIES AS HIS CAR overturned twice AND ENDED IN A HOSPITAL IN JONESBORO.
Cigarettes cost 18 cents a pack in Amarillo today under the retail code and include all taxes. Most tobacco traders in the city have joined the code. In Houston N E Meador 65 chief of the National Bank of Commerce and associate of Jesse H Jones RFC chairman died at 8 25 oclock in Tucson Arizona after several weeks of critical illness.
The Panhandle Livestock Association calls for immediate US financed cattle shipments to Russia to cut surplus and raise prices. They seek a two year ban on canned meat imports, reallocation of a 75 million dollar meat fund to cattle, and premiums for spaying heifers to reduce domestic supply.
Four civil service positions at Amarillo post office to be filled soon. Applications Open to ages 40 to 53, with blanks for under 30 already distributed. Posts include Senior and Junior Stenographer and Typist with annual pay from 1260 to 1620 dollars.
Kansas City market reports show cattle and sheep with demand pressured, long steers and yearlings down while stockers stay weak to steady. New Orleans cotton opened steady with slight declines then recovered as sterling surged to postwar highs. New York stock letters note dollar weakness, mixed bond and stock moves, and notable gains for several industrials amid volatility.
Relief Secretary Ickes outlined a 400 million dollar civil works fund to curb winter unemployment until large public works programs start. He spoke to governors, mayors, and officials about hiring four million men through February 1 and set wage floors by three zones with 30 hour weeks for most workers.
Mrs Boone recalls going to talk to a woman about her husband Dan Boone at the Jefferson Hotel on Oram Street. The confrontation escalated when the woman drew a coat pocket and Boone fired a single shot.
Bobby Muse and his 10 piece band open at the Amarillo Hotel Coffee Shop and the Cactus Club after moving from Blossom Heath Night Club in Oklahoma City. Muse, praised as the sweetest voice this side of heaven, will perform daily at the Coffee Shop and on Thursday Friday and Saturday nights at the Cactus Club in the Herring Hotel. Miss Jerry Lane, star of No No Nannette, serves as the group’s songbird. The Coffee Shop renovation features booths a new counter shift a front orchestra pit and heavy carpet.
Princess Barbara Mdivani marked turning 21 with a "small party" in New York, attending guests and a Hungarian orchestra while receiving a fortune estimated between 10 and 20 million dollars from the Woolworth inheritance. Prince Alexis Mdivani was presented as her groom. Also noted: annual Alaska and U S fish catch in billions of tons.
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