Amarillo Community Chest Faces Tight Budget Crisis
Amarillo faces a winter with about 8 000 residents under the Chest's care as only around 50 000 of a 75 000 goal is raised. Directors weigh free contributions versus taxation while fearing RFC aid delays. Unemployed registrations number in the thousands and relief needs loom amid skepticism toward the Chest's management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Evans
Community Chest
Amarillo
R. W. Burke
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Herman C. Pipkin
Potter County
Harriman Outlines Four Steps to Steady Trade Upswing
Boston banker Henry Harriman president of the United States Chamber of Commerce outlines four essential steps for a steady upturn in business including cooperation on the share-the-work plan, relaxing antitrust laws for balanced supply and demand, restoring agriculture by repealing the stabilization feature of the federal farm act, and reducing government costs. James A. Ferrell of United States Steel Corp notes tentative recovery as factories increase activity and jobs. In Houston Harriman and Mrs. Farrell plan to speak at Chamber dinner as elections for American Petroleum Institute offices proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
U.P
Henry I. Harriman
Boston
United States Chamber of Commerce
America
Harriman
American Petroleum Institute
Houston Chamber of Commerce
James A. Ferrell
New York
United States Steel Corporation
Speer Conviction Upheld In Texas Theft Case
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the three year sentence for N L Speer former Walker County sheriff and ex warden of the state penitentiary on a theft charge involving overpayment of 1009 dollars from a 1929 transaction. The case involved a 2626 95 state warrant and venue rulings on Walker or Travis Counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Court of Criminal Appeals
N. L. Speer
Walker County
State Penitentiary
Speer
Travis County
Huntsville
Walker
Amarillo Weather Forecast Mixed Clouds and Warmth
Weather outlook for Amarillo and nearby areas calls for cloudy skies and warmer temperatures tonight and Thursday. West Texas expects partly cloudy conditions with a warming trend, while New Mexico shows fair conditions in the south and unsettled skies in the north tonight, with warmer temperatures. Today's temperature extremes reach 18 to 35 degrees by 1 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Vicin
West Texas
New Mexico
Fair South
Amarillo Sets Winter Low With 18 Degree Reading
Amarillo recorded a new winter low of 18 degrees at 3 a m on Wednesday, one of several cold readings across the region. Reports from Woodward Oklahoma City Wichita Kansas City and Santa Fe note subfreezing temperatures with Dallas at 22 degrees and clouds moving in for a warmer, cloudy night and Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Mercury
Here
Santa Fe Railroad
Woodward and
Curtis
Okla
Weather Bureau
Dodge City
Kan
Oklahoma City
Wichita
Kansas City
Springfield
Pueblo
Denver
Santa Fe
Texas
Dallas
Rock Island
Dalhart
Shamrock
Liquor Causes Sorrow Billboards Precede Dry Drive
In Fort Worth three billboards show a jailed man with the caption Liquor Causes Sorrow as the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union launches a campaign ahead of a December effort to defend the 18th Amendment. Mrs. J. T. Bloodworth warns the country faces a saloon return and its evils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union
J. T. Bloodworth
Mrs. Bloodworth
The Tree and the Man We Hear From Europe First
A brief European dispatch notes a German warship sighting and Russia’s asserted capability. The report frames strategic tensions with emphasis on naval power and regional posture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Russia
Bandit Hold Up Bank Cashier Nabbed Then Released in Plains Trip
G W Newsom cashier of the First State Bank Stinnett was held by four bandits who looted $1200 and released 12 miles southeast of Panhandle after a three hour ride. He says two robbers were drinking and warned him not to identify them. A major search with armed guards around Amarillo followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Newsom
First State Bank
Stinnett
Amarillo
Panhandle
Newsom
Record low November temperatures hit Texas nationwide
The Associated Press reports a severe November cold snap across Texas with sub freezing readings in the Panhandle North Texas and East Texas. Dallas dropped to 22 degrees the coldest November reading since 1913 while Denton recorded 16 degrees a new all time November low for the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
North Texas
East Texas
Shreveport
Dallas
Denton
Rio Grande Valley
West Texas
Nearly Million More Votes Cast In U S Election
United Press tally shows at least one million more ballots than ever before with total counted near 37.5 million and an estimated 500 thousand still to be added. Roosevelt leads Hoover 21,682,858 to 15,226,604 with Norman Thomas at 524 votes and a 6,456,254 Roosevelt plurality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Norman Thomas
Roosevelt
Mr. Hoover
Alfred E. Smith
Cord Bucks Finance Giants in Air Plan
Aviation magnate E. L. Cord pursues control of the Aviation Corporation, battling management over plans to buy rival North American Aviation. Cord, head of the Cord Corporation, holds 800000 of Aviation's 3187386 outstanding shares as proxies fight ensues. See Cord Page 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cord Bucks
Air Plan
Aviation Corporation
United States
Cord Corporation
Cord
North American Aviation, Inc
Deering Estate and Riches Theme in Miami Column
Arthur Brisbane notes in The Globe on Brickell Avenue landmarks. He contrasts Deering’s vast, gated palace with the fate of wealth and the palm tree struggle, asserting money’s power hinges on wise use and that the rich often seek vanity projects rather than ready made gifts to society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Brisbane
Kepicien
Globe
Brisbane
Miami
Fla
Brickell Avenue
Deering
Capone Seeks Writ to Free Him from Atlanta Prison
Al Capone appeared bored in federal court as he petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to overturn his ten year sentence for income tax fraud. The hearing, under heavy marshal guard, began with Assistant Attorney General A G Youngquist urging dismissal for lack of legal sufficiency before Judge E Marvin Underwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foster Eaton
Atlanta
Alphonse Capone
Chicago
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Capone
U. S Marshals
Federal
United States Attorney
A. G. Youngquist
Washington
E. Marvin Underwood
John Hadley Visits City After Vote Race
The eldest son of Missouri governor and prosecutor Herbert Hadley, John Hadley, visited Amarillo on Wednesday with Hal Whitehead. They planned a stop in Muleshoe to inspect ranch land after discussing his unsuccessful bid for Congress on the Republican ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Amarillo
John Hadley
Herbert Hadley
Jackson County
Kansas City
Hadley
Hal Whitehead
Muleshoe
Congress
California wine stock ready if sale is legalized
Ten million gallons of bonded California wine languish behind prohibition, with another 10 million in the works. Officials say aging improved quality and presses have rushed the 1932 crop into juices rivaling major European vintages, ready for release once legality returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
California
Gold State
France
Italy
Germany
Roosevelt Recovered Plans Debt Talks With Hoover
President Elect Roosevelt left his room for the first time in a week to resume work on the state budget and to plan a war debts conference with President Hoover next week. Hoover returned to Washington to press international economics and tariffs and to urge unity with Roosevelt for quick action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
U.P
Roosevelt
Hoover
White House
Warm Springs
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Europe
Police hold second suspect in Reinhart State Bank robbery
Dallas police report the arrest of a second suspect connected to the November 2 attempted robbery of the Reinhart State Bank in Reinhart near Dallas. Authorities continue questioning as the investigation proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
U.P
Reinhart State Bank
Reinhart
Here
Hire Gold Miners In Oklahoma City Relief to Jobless
Oklahoma City faces relief for jobless as Green Construction Company wins a 450000 mining contract. Fifty veteran workers will gain year long employment with profit sharing. Work to start after wells provide water. operation planned in New Mexico Jicarilla Mountains gravel rich in gold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Okla
Green Construction Company
Tom Green
Jicarilla Mountains
New Mexico
Green
Potter County Adjusts Canvass Counts in General Election
Potter County commissioners completed a canvass and sent the report to the Secretary of State. Republican Orville Bullington led Miriam Ferguson by 729 votes for governor, 4142 to 3413, while Roosevelt had 6370 and Hoover 1233 in the presidential race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter County
Sam B. Motlow
Austin
Orville Bullington
Miriam A. Ferguson
Bullington
Ferguson
Roosevelt
Hoover
H. W. Gaither
E. Fish
Congress
Marvin Jones
Superintendent of Public Instruction
L. A. Woods
Margaret Conger
W. B. Starr
M. M. Landrum
X. Carson
Prince of Wales dedicates Northern Ireland parliament building in Belfast
The Prince of Wales arrived in Belfast under heavy guard of 12 000 men to dedicate the Northern Ireland parliament building. Ulster nationalists protested the visit amid unemployment riots, while thousands of constables and Orangemen lined the five mile route. In Stormont he praised Ulster's wartime heroism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Prince of Wales
Ulster
Irish Free State
Prince
Stormont
Youth faces long term for five robberies in Dallas
Clyde Allen, a beardless 20 year old, may serve 50 years in the state penitentiary after five robberies. The sentence length depends on the full time invoked, with personal aging noted as a contrast to a gray haired future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Clyde Allen
Baylor College chief elected president of Texas Baptists
Dr. J C Hardy head of Baylor College Belton was elected president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas at the 84th annual session in Abilene. He succeeds Dr. L R Scarborough and was chosen unanimously after rivals withdrew. Vice presidents and secretaries were also named as 1,399 messengers gathered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abilene
J. C Hardy
Baylor College
Belton
Baptist General Convention of Texas
Hardy
South
L. R. Scarborough
Fort Worth
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Texas Baptists
J B. Tidwell
Baylor University
R. W. White
Broadway Baptist Church of
B. D. South
San Antonio
J. P. Truett
Whitewright
Robert Coleman
Dallas
First Baptist Church
Scarborough
Happy
Berry Street
Orgler Arrives for Thursday Lecture in Amarillo
Sabin Orgler, world famous Jewish mystic, arrived in Amarillo Tuesday night for his talk on How I Found the Living God at 8 30 Thursday in the Municipal Auditorium. He is accompanied by Mrs. Wesley Porter Mason of Dallas who became his disciple recently and will visit friends here while staying at the Capitol Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sabin Orgler
Amarillo
God
Wesley Porter Mason
Dallas
Orgler
Mason
Capitol Hotel
Trotsky Visits Denmark Amid Wife Medical Needs
Copenhagen dispatch reports Leon Trotsky's trip to Denmark mainly to accompany his wife who must see a Danish doctor. The illness details for Mrs. Trotsky were not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Leon Trotsky
Denmark
fat deer conjured wiles to escape hunter horde guns
In South Texas wild deer and turkeys mark opening season as hunters flood the hills and towns. Merchants boost gear sales while early crews chase leases on ranches. Notables like John N. Garner Tris Sneaker Chuck Klein and Joe E. Brown join the early field in wooded routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Texas
South
Rockies
John N. Garner
Tris Sneaker
Chuck Klein
Baseball
Joe E. Brown
City Jail Crowded As Suspects Quizzed
With Dan Nethery departing to Sayre Okla officers from Sayre, the Amarillo city jail was crowded with gun-toters and suspects. Four men arrested Sunday by Ed Holloway were found in possession of a car stolen at Conway Ark. Nethery faces burgla ry charges and two inmates waiving for return to Duncan Okla. Eubanks and Bonner, both veterans of prior Texas convictions, remain in custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Nethery
Sayre
Oklo
Amarillo
Department of Justice
Conway
Ark
Ed Holloway
Nethery
Duncan
Charles Emmet Eubanks
Pay Bonner
Eubanks
Elliott
Bonner
Dodson
Texas
Haskell County
Tarrant County
Hill and
Johnson Counties
Johnson County
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C. Head Talks
DE van Watts
Solons Austin
Claude de van Watts
U. S
Aviation
E. L. Cord
Niagara
Fat
J.C. Wardy
Wales
R. W. Barry
Trotsky's
Bastile
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