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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1932
Page
2
City and county offices will close for the holiday weekend with no mail, limited post office hours 9 to 10 a.m., and public buildings shut. Hunters may bag deer geese ducks and quail while markets report low prices for turkey and other fowls. Officials forecast milder winter and favorable highway conditions and grocery prices for the holiday.
A reflection on a father who blames his son for faults he himself exhibits. The poet urges fathers to lead by example, teaching right and restraint while acknowledging the weight of parental influence on a child.
Franklin D. Roosevelt heads to Washington for a war debts conference with Hoover as a looming policy clash over a new funding commission and debt relief actions hovers. Garner arrives in Washington for talks with Roosevelt and congressional leaders with no immediate statement.
Detroit reports a flood of new car accessories planned for the year. Fender guides, clocks, horn chimes, hatracks and vacuum cleaners are pitched as standard or dealer options. Innovations include chromium finishes and novel light and mirror combos.
A. R. Hebenstreit of Albuquerque president of the New Mexico Construction Company and Santa Rosa Rock Asphalt quarry owner visited Amarillo on his way home from Boston and New York. He noted improved general business conditions and a better mood among East merchants after the election. He said the Santa Rosa mine, opened about a year ago, is operating commercially with about $300,000 spent on improvements and products now used on highways in Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado.
In Pasadena California Pleasant F Thomas believed voters repealed state prohibition and stocked his car with beer and wine. He drove a touring car hawking drinks and offered free samples until police found him asleep in the vehicle. He faces a $100 fine or 50 days in jail.
Gordon W. Walton, 25, a federal prisoner who plotted to gain freedom, was recaptured after an escape from the city county hospital where he was being treated for injuries from a fall during a failed rope descent from a jail roof. He faces charges of transporting a stolen automobile from Ohio to Texas.
James Herrin, 16, Amarillo High School student, was released from Northwest Texas Hospital to his parents at 3712 West Fourth Avenue after a motorcycle collision at Tenth Avenue and Pierce Street. He suffered a scalp wound and was injured Sunday. he was taken home Monday.
In Abilene on November 15 Willie Fitzgerald a 15 year old Black youth with a fatal heart wound had five stitches placed in the right atrium. The operation was the first of its kind here and he is improving rapidly and may leave hospital soon. Floyd Williams 17 is charged with attempted murder in the stabbing case.
Franklin "Buster" Brunson, sixteen, of 1409 North East Fourth Avenue, was saved from death beneath a Rock Island freight train near Houston Street. He remained in fair condition at J. Anthony's Hospital while doctors expected no amputation. R. B. "Bob" Francis, a Rock Island special agent, dragged Brunson to safety after his right foot was crushed in the brake mechanism between two cars.
Chicago city council committee on unemployment told a veterans delegation it has no funds to aid 1500 marchers en route to Washington. They sought lodging and a tag day, which was refused as veterans groups had already held two. El Paso reported a wing of the hunger march overdue from Los Angeles and supplied meals from the Salvation Army.
Mrs. Lillian Holbrook, 58, wife of Herman L. Holbrook of 1009 Monroe Street, was badly burned in a fire at the Holbrook residence early Tuesday. No fire alarm was received. she was taken to St. Anthony's Hospital by Boxwell Brothers ambulance at 4:30. Doctors say her condition is not critical.
It was announced Tuesday that there will be no regular Rotary Club meeting Thursday for Thanksgiving Day. A visiting Rotarians table will be set at the Amarillo Hotel to help maintain attendance records.
U S Commissioner and deputy U S clerk Mary K Harty leaves for Dallas over the holiday. Her federal building office closed Tuesday and she expects to be gone three to four days. It is her first vacation in about two years.
A 19 month old Montana child choked on an open safety pin and was rushed by air and road to Denver for emergency surgery. Pilot Earl Hale flew the 1000 miles through dangerous mountains after dark, enabling surgeons to remove the pin.
Rev. Charles Newgent a national prison worker and evangelist will open a series of meetings at the Church of God in Christ 213 Madison Street Tuesday night at 7 30. The nightly meetings continue this week with the evangelist who has spent years in prison work providing spiritual solace to men sentenced to die.
East Texas lumbermen were cheered by news that wooden staves for European wine casks will resume from Beaumont in early December. The first consignment, 300 tons, will depart for Mediterranean ports, announced by port superintendent L. B. Batterjee. Special grades of white and red oak are used for the staves.
Washington Navy 22 reports the cotton spinning industry operated in October at 97.0 percent capacity on a single shift, up from 94.6 percent in September and 85.1 percent a year earlier, signaling renewed strength in production.
Kansas City and Chicago livestock markets show mixed results with hog and cattle lots. Prices move across weight classes and stock types, while New Orleans cotton opens slightly lower before recovering later in the session.
The New York stock market edged up in a quiet session as traders awaited Washington signals. Dec and Mar contracts rose to 6.10 and 6.27, with gains from several listed issues while most stocks advanced only fractions. War debt questions lingered as activity remained restrained.
Sterling falls to a December low amid mixed signals on the December 16 debt payment and Wall Street relief at settling the Radio consent decree. Radio's balance sheet shows strong liquidity with current assets about seven times current liabilities, while Union Pacific reports October operating income of 3,775,907, up from September. Preliminary crude oil production hint at a small weekly decline as prices for gasoline and crude oil remain out of alignment.
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