02 Oct 1931
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1931
Page
1
Arthur Brisbane comments on California voters backing a measure while noting Edison’s waning power. He also mentions the end of Russian matches and General Butler’s retirement, framing them as current political and military shifts.
Austin reports state railroad officials halted pipeline valuation pending hearing in Amarillo on proposed proration orders for Panhandle gas and rules for natural gas take. Bidders include Myers Noyes Forrest, Montgomery Ward, Hawley Freese Nichols, Stoner Beretta, with Deniel noting no steps to reduce East Texas per well to 150 barrels.
Consul general Walter A. Adams reports Charles A. Lindbergh and wife were lifted from the Yangtze after their airplane capsized while being lowered from the Hermes. They were unharmed. plane damaged and to be towed to Shangwai for repairs. The incident marks a second Lindbergh accident, following 1929 Mexico City mishap. The Hermes crew blamed a jammed spring hook on the lowering crane.
Chicago reports Capone has moved from bootlegging to selling ginger ale and pretzels to saloon keepers. He allegedly uses leverage to push out rivals, with agents handling linens and laundry profits, creating an apparent monopoly and squeezing profits for bootleggers.
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight. Saturday partly cloudy with probable showers. West Texas: partly cloudy tonight with showers in extreme west and warmer in the north. Saturday partly cloudy with probable showers in the west and extreme west portion. In Mexico: generally fair tonight and Saturday with little change in temperature. Temperature extremes today at 1 o'clock were 59 and 76.
An advertising note for the Ideal Mattress Company promotes mattress renovation services priced at two dollars or more. The brief suggests a local sale or service highlight without additional details. The item uses period style phrasing typical of a small business notice.
Tomorrow at 10 o'clock at the Amarillo Hotel the commission begins a hearing likely to last through Monday on vital Panhandle oil and gas field matters. The new law requires ratable taking by common purchasers and major gas pipelines out of the field will be a key issue. Landowners and dependent operators will attend, due to gas drainage by large pipelines.
Oklahoma City patrols under Lieut. Col. Cicero S. Murray enforce a stringent shutdown order for all wells and oil movements after nightfall in the city oil field. The decree, issued by Murray yesterday under Governor William H. Murray, reiterates production prohibitions after dark and aims to curb activities during wartime conditions.
Sir Thomas Lipton, famed yachtsman, died in London at age eighty after a chill worsened by illness. He had grown popular in both the United States and Britain for decades. In Valencia, Spain, a riot over upcoming elections left one dead and three wounded at Alcudia de Carlotto today.
Amarillo College and the Santa Fe guarantee a football special train to the Badger-N.M.I. game in Roswell on Saturday. Round trip tickets cost 5 dollars. The train will carry about 30 players, 10 faculty, and 30 to 40 students with the college band.
Edison remains weaker at his West Orange home as Dr. Hubert Rowe reports a restless night and morning decline. He chose not to ride or drive since last Saturday, spending most hours in a library chair after his collapse last August 1.
Pastor Rev. G. L. Yates urged every member of the First Baptist Church to attend a congregational meeting on Sunday October 4 starting at 11 oclock.
In Austin on October 2 the House sustained a point of order that the bill establishing the 127th district court in Bexar County did not come within the governor’s call, killing the measure after Senate passage last week.
Gen Smedley Butler claims fourteen multimillionaires representing five billion dollars back a government funded program to educate youths by creating over fifty thousand trade schools. No under nineteen may work while housing, jobs, and depopulation of slums are addressed, with subsidies for aviation and industry and a national bureau to back inventions.
Wild Bill Hallahan shut out the Philadelphia Athletics 2 to 0 at Sportsman's Park to knot the 1931 championship series. Martin led the Cardinals with two runs batted in, while Hafey and Williams contributed key hits as the Cardinals edge the A’s.
Newkirk Oklahoma October 2 Earl Quinn sits at the defense table as testimony from nearly 100 witnesses unfolds over nine days in the murder trial of the two Blackwell teachers killed December 28. The defense urges acquittal citing alibi witnesses while the state presses for the death penalty, detailing circumstantial evidence.
Mrs. Benjamin Collings travels to Daytona Beach with Fred Gunder to question two men held in the murder of her husband. Dr Leslie D Ritchie, 51, and his son William, 23, are the suspects.
Leon Gleckman prominent politician and head of a finance company was released after a $50,000 ransom payment. He returned home in St Paul after disappearing September 23 and said little beyond claiming he was on a weeklong fishing trip. He previously served a sentence for a liquor law violation.
In the ninth inning Foxx walked as the fourth ball was high. Hearnshaw was pinch hit for Jim Moore who reached first on an error after Wilson dropped the third strike. Capt Frisch argued a last ball decision as fans rioted and runners filled the bases. Bottomley made a spectacular foul catch. No runs, no hits, one error.
The Texas Senate refused to concur in House amendments to a bill enabling state river bed oil development, appointing a conference committee as Governor Sterling warned a special session. House conferees and Senate members named, with debate over amendments and a censure resolution against the governor's remarks. Sine die adjournment was reset for Saturday after earlier plans.
Pangborn and Herndon prepare for a 5 AM takeoff from Sabishiro Beach Japan on a nonstop attempt to reach the United States weather permitting They have spent days awaiting favorable weather along the great circle route and the monoplane is fueled and ready for the daring flight.
Gov R B Sterling warned that if the legislature fails to pass an acceptable congressional redistricting bill he will reconvene and submit the subject. In Austin the House recessed without voting on postponement, staving off an effort to kill redistricting. The House committee favored Metcalfe of San Antonio over Poage’s bill, creating two West Texas districts and one South Texas district.
Mrs. Elnora Stanley, widow of Burn Stanley, described the fatal shooting at John F. Williams’s home on August 22 in district court. She testified Williams rushed outside, retrieved a pistol from her, and claimed to fear for his life as he fired.
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