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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1934
Page
2
A town newspaper item previews a Butler Field game inviting readers to see the champion Badgers. It praises the Badgers as a top junior college team with few rivals in the state and notes the team’s strong recent form.
A. Sykes of the AAA told Panhandle cattlemen in Amarillo how Texans can buy corn fodder and stover from Midwest farmers. Prices range from 15 to 17 dollars per ton depending on feed grades, with the government simply acting as an agent. Interested buyers should write to the Federal Feed and Forage Corporation in Kansas City. Grover B. Hill and Jay Taylor organized the session, the only stop Mr. Sykes will make in Texas before heading to Kansas City.
A letter to Tack offers a refined couple seeking combined work in a home, farm, or ranch. The man seeks yard or stock management duties while the wife expects housekeeping and management roles. They are middle aged, healthy, and eager to interview, via Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home or phone 2 3234.
A 10 member scientific party and millionaire patron sail from Los Angeles aboard Valero III to Maichena Island in the South Pacific to determine if two castaways Alfred Lorenz and Nuggeruud died there. The expedition leads to Charles Island to probe European exile secrets in the Galapagos area.
The body of Tracy S Hurd 63 was found dead in a pasture south of Llano Cemetery. A coroner ruled natural causes and heart trouble. Mrs Hurd said they went to milk cows yesterday afternoon and she returned home. the body was found about 6 30 by an unnamed man who notified nearby residents. An inquest was held and Hurd was Amarillo resident for 20 years, retired from rail service in 1927.
CHICAGO, Nov. 23. A Gay wedding celebration ended with bride Vera Wittine floundering in the Chicago River. Firemen and two bridge tenders rescued the 33 year old bride who had leaped from a bridge at the celebration's end. Her twin sister Viola Carter, widow of gangster Dion O Banion, watched nearby.
The Lesson Sermon for all Churches of Christ Scientist on Sunday centers on Soul and Body. The Golden Text from Hebrews 4 12 proclaims God s Word piercing soul and spirit. John 4 24 emphasizes worship in spirit and truth. Eddy s Science and Health adds Soul and Spirit unity with God and life as immortality.
Yale The Yale Record urges Yale and Harvard to stop inspired thievery that has caused the disappearance of a sacred Ibis a fence codfish and a bulldog. The editorial argues publicity should be used more subtly in baiting criminals.
A Tashkent dispatch reports four men in Moscow were sentenced to death today for counterrevolution and sabotaging the cotton crop, raising the total condemned to twenty.
Postmaster W D DeGrassi unveiled three spanking new parcel post delivery trucks placed into service. Owned and operated under postal contracts by Ernest Denny E P Palm and T E Sanders these civil service employees won the contracts. The trio includes two Chevrolets and a Ford equipped with standard parcel post bodies and gear.
Babe Didrikson of Dallas, 1932 Olympic star and tournament medalist, was defeated 6 and 5 in the Fort Worth Women's Invitation semi final by Dean Van Landingham of Charlotte. Her wood play struggled with several three putts and a 48 on the first nine.
Yugoslavia asked the League Council to investigate terror activities troubling Central Europe and charged certain Hungarian authorities with complicity in the Marseille assassination. The matter may be taken up at the January council session.
England fell back as Fort Beatriz and Fort Canada withstood fierce Paraguayan assaults. Thousands of Paraguayan troops attacked across four forts but suffered heavy losses, halting a major push toward Villa Montes and the Bolivian oil region.
France to vote a defense budget with a reduction of nearly 300,000,000 francs from last year. The 5,974,180,000 franc total figure is noted with no emergency appropriation then, and navy and air budgets are stated as separate from the war budget. The budget report is described as exaggerated.
Heavy fires raged across southern West Virginia with about 250 blazes statewide as rain showers offered hope. Two thousand firefighters battled winds and flames threatening Beckley and other mountain communities while radio plans arose after telegraph links failed. A 19 year old firefighter, Henry Frith, was killed when a tree toppled on Zion Mountain.
Parliament heard claims Russia offered help in a potential war with Germany as France debated military strength. Officials warned of German troops across the Rhine, urged extended service and more enlistment, and stressed the army as a national pride and safeguard.
The speaker questions whether Samuel Insull’s grand business plan amounts to a scheme and defends the honesty of his record. He argues that Insull built wealth for thousands and would not risk ruin if seeking to swindle widows and orphans.
Dallas dispatch reports a House sub committee headed toward California to study oil industry needs for federal action. The party detours via Childress and travels through the Panhandle oil and gas field to inspect the giant natural gas area. Joe Sneed and Chan sler Weymouth lead the Panhandle Conservation Association observers.
Testimony in Los Angeles by Texas Oklahoma and California officials and industry leaders debated federal controls versus the interstate compact approach in crude regulation. API directors backed a permissive compact while independents favored federal authority to set production and allocate supply. critics warned of impracticality without federal power.
Tokyo reports that American organizers may miss Japan’s sprinter Takanori Yoshioka in the winter indoor meets as the runner has announced his marriage and will likely decline the invitation from the American Amateur Athletic Union.
Stay at home members of The Globe News staff heard the Pampa Lubbock football game via Amarlillo Electric Company courtesy. Albert J Arnold and Earl Potter installed a Stewart Warner set in Mason King’s office and the teletype interference did not block the report.
Kansas City markets show slow livestock trade with cattle and calves weak to 25 cents lower, hogs uneven yet mostly steady, top cattle price $8.15 per hundredweight on 1250 lb steers. New Orleans cotton opens active on December liquidation with December at 12.22 and March around 12.40.
A dense roster of major firms appears in the document, listing Du Pont Kodak Firestone Goodyear General Motors Gillette Johnson & Johnson and multiple rail and oil firms alongside retailers like J C Penney Kroger Sears Roebuck and Woolworth. The compilation strains to reflect corporate prominence across manufacturing, energy, transport, and distribution sectors with references to several historic brands and affiliates.
Lefty Gomez hurled for the American All-Stars as they beat All-Japan 6 to 2 in Tokyo. No home runs were hit in the series by either side, and Babe Ruth remained without a score for the third consecutive game.
At Dallas Texas Willard Brown from Indianapolis defeated Vincent Lopez from Monterrey Mexico by decision. Roy Stice of Gainesville Texas beat Frankie Graham. Carl Shaeffer of St. Louis won over Santos Delgado and Bob Ortega from Dallas knocked out Billy Strode. Kid Leva defeated Mike Battalino with a decision in Dallas.
Uhlan, once world champion racing horse, dies at age 31 on a Santa Barbara farm. Retired 21 years, the aged campaigner had set three world records that still stand, during his racing career. Owned by Chicago utilities magnate C. K. G. Billings.
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