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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1929
Page
2
A meditation on delayed growth and unfulfilled potential as spring arrives late in the north. The gardener waits to plant, zinnia seeds struggle, and frost threats loom over lives that, though eager, may never bloom. Edgar A. Guest reflects on missed chances and common fates.
Attorney General Robert Lee Bobbitt approves the Panhandle and Santa Fe charter amendment for a new line from here to the north Dallam line with a Dumas to Spearman branch. An Interstate Commerce Commission filing on October 12 seeks permission to connect with Las Animas Colorado and build Amarillo Las Animas and Dumas Spearman branches totaling about 261 miles at an estimated cost of 5 million dollars.
Clemenceau weighs peace, detesting but not loving mankind. Leonid meteor swarm fails to reappear. Russia builds a vast industrial city to churn out autos and tractors. Executions follow alleged conspiracies. China funds air forces to bomb political rivals.
The article notes ongoing jury selection as of noon with 76 veniremen questioned, eight dismissed on state peremptory challenges, 19 due to capital punishment objections, 24 for opinions, and one for not being a freeholder.
In Weatherford Texas attorneys pressed to finish a murder trial jury for R H Hamilton accused of killing his son in law Tom Walton Jr 21 last May 4. The day saw multiple veniremen excused for beliefs on death penalty and influence on verdicts. by session end the eighth juror was chosen and the panel began firming with several scruples noted.
No police court session today as Judge Homer A. Callaway is in San Francisco for a federal court session. court will resume next Monday.
A reader from Flint Michigan shares relief from extreme constipation after using ALL BRAN. The letter praises high bulk from Kellogg’s cereal, noting daily use prevents future issues and surpasses pills, with the product produced by Kellogg in Battle Creek.
United Press reports at Parker County courthouse Judge R H Hamilton faces murder charges in Amarillo venue. Trial highlights include family conflicts and intense emotions among Hamilton wife Theresa and widow Grace Walton as jury selection proceeds and a Dallas Amarillo telephone operator overhears a key call.
Am erillo officials and many residents fill Weatherford courthouse as Hamilton case prep continues. Defense lawyers question witnesses while reporters swarm, Judge Hamilton refuses photos, and Mrs. Hamilton joins her husband at mid session.
Judge Hood, lively at the trial, told a girl reporter he had not yet had time to examine whether new defense attorneys had joined the case.
A mail plane piloted by Lieut. Beverly Clark of Portland crashed twelve miles south of Eugene. Captain C Mer cer and Miss Edyth Rose, both of Portland, were killed along with a young girl passenger. The craft burned in the treetops before help arrived.
A cold snap blanketed the region from Montana to New Mexico with snow up to five inches in parts of Montana Wyoming Colorado and New Mexico. Fog and heavy snow blocked the Salt Lake City to Cheyenne corridor paralyzing air mail, which was rerouted by train. Roads remained open though Wyoming saw drifting in places.
W. M. Collins national president of the Railway Mail Association and A. G. Moore division president from Oklahoma City are expected in Amarillo tomorrow afternoon. The local branch led by E. G. Holland has arranged a banquet at the Capitol Hotel Wednesday evening in honor of the visitors.
Miss Aubin Lee Quinn 31 daughter of Mr and Mrs J L Quinn Texline Texas will have a requiem mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church tomorrow at 9 am Rev H Hofer officiating Burial at Memorial Park Cemetery with Boxwell Brothers Funeral directors in charge Pallbearers named Ray Brown Radforda McKay Weldon Durney Vernon Glass Harry Bowen William Armstrong Survivors include four sisters Mrs BR Mitchell Sweetwater Mrs Isham Wright Santa Monica Cal Mrs Bull Styles Hollywood Cal Mrs Charles Bowie Denver Colo and two brothers Roy Quinn Amarillo and Jimmy Quinn Texline Catholic Church member.
Officials widen the air and ground search as crews hover over western New Mexico and Arizona. Wings pilots James E. Doles and R. L. Britton are among the crew members, while wreckage of the prior “City of San Francisco” remains at Mount Taylor as teams use low flights to scout snowbound terrain.
Donald Bartlett, general manager, announced that all Transcontinental Air Transport aircraft in the West are ready to assist in locating the missing Western Air Express liner. He said the company will place all ships in the West and all small planes in St. Louis at the disposal of the search.
Mrs Ward and her daughter awaited news of the Western Air Express plane missing en route to Albuquerque after Dr A W Ward a San Francisco dentist of 22 years and an official of Commercial Alloys and J J Huebler company left to address the Bosworth Club in Fort Worth Texas.
Colorado Springs reports Capt. C. W. France of Western Air Express and Phil Philbin of Mid-Continent Air Express departed at dawn to help locate the overdue Western Air Express liner. The plane was nearly fifteen hours overdue at Albuquerque, New Mexico, after leaving Los Angeles.
The AP reports violent 80-foot waves battering Chicago and nearby coasts. Temperature drops worsen conditions as rain or snow expected. Flooding and weakened defenses prompt emergency crews to shore up damaged shoreline and consider closing inner drives. A yacht from Waukegan was wrecked by the surf, with ten men rescued.
A freighter issued an SOS early this morning amid a Lake Michigan storm and arrived in Milwaukee at 6 20 a m. The vessel weathered the rough seas and is reported safe as it docks in port.
T. G. Kenney, assistant manager of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, visited the local organization today. He stated Houston favors the proposed Santa Fe line from Amarillo to Las Animas Colorado as it would open new territory and provide a more direct route from Houston to Colorado points.
Infant Wade Thomason Jr son of Mr and Mrs Wade Thomason 1012 Parker Street died at 430 this morning in a local hospital. Funeral services will be held at Griggs chapel at 230 this afternoon by Rev J M Fuller of San Jacinto Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Liano cemetery.
Blair Sparks a Southern Methodist University student remained in serious condition in Dallas after a drug store hold up last night. Sparks, with his back turned to two robbers, was struck by a gun wielding assailant during the robbery in which about 150 dollars was taken from the cash register.
Local law enforcement held a man for about an hour while a $10,000 bond was arranged and he was released shortly before 1. Witnesses reported rapid gunfire in the Fuqua building. A bystander described seeing a wounded man leaning on a railing and Brown collapsing on a stair landing. No wall bullet hole was confirmed.
Eight life rafts and one of six lifeboats remained as the stern sank. Survivors were rescued by Racine and Kenosha coast guards after a long attempt to reach the Wisconsin in 30 foot waves. The vessel, 250 feet long with 43.6 foot beam, had carried merchandise between Milwaukee and Chicago and served as an army hospital ship in World War I.
Hogs receipts 5 000 market steady to strong top 9 50 on 200 225 lb pigs. Cattle receipts 12 000 calves 2 500 market steady slaughter steers good 960 1500 lbs 11 50 16 00 cows 7 65 10 28 renters 8 00 13 00. Sheep receipts 8 000 market steady lambs 11 75 13 10 owes 4 26 75 50.
Hogs receipts 800 with rail trade light. top hogs $9.50, bulk $9.00 to $9.59. Cattle and calves receipts 4,600. slaughter steers, yearlings and bulls in steady to higher range with tops around $11.50 for yearlings and $9.60 for heavies calves. Sheep receipts 1,700. ewes and wethers steady with ewes $8.50 to $9.00 and wethers $6.50.
Hogs receipts 29,000 with steady trading and top price to 9.50 per cwt. Packing sows 8.50 to 9.00, pigs 8.65 to 20.35. Cattle receipts 9,000 with slaughter steers 12.75 to 16.00 for 950 to 1500 lbs, cows 8.00 to 10.50, vealers 12.00 to 15.00. Sheep receipts 15,000 with lambs 12.25 to 13.10 and ewes 4.25 to 5.50.
Oklahoma City market data from Oct 29 shows cattle receipts 2,000 with calves 1,000 and yearlings at 12.50 to 13.00, heavy steers up to 11.50, heifers 9.00 to 11.00, dealers top 14.00. Hogs receipts 1,100 with rail top 9.10 and best truckers 8.90.
St Louis market receipts include 12,500 hogs with slow trade and top at 9.50 per cwt. Calves 6,000 with 2,000 calves slow. western steers 8.50 to 9.25, bulls 8.00 down, vealers 15.00. Sheep receipts 2,000. lambs bid 12.50 and down.
Cotton opened barely steady, down 10 to 21 points on Wall Street liquidation. December offerings at 17.82, March at 18.85, with early gains to 18.30 and 18.70 before prices sagged on renewed selling. By midday December traded around 17.60 and March near 19.29, about 17 to 19 points lower.
Nathan Shackleford eleven is hospitalized at St. Anthony's after an early morning crash at Seventh and Grand Avenues. He stood on a car driven by his mother Ruby Shackleford when another car driven by Frank Patten struck. The calf flesh was torn but his condition is not serious. police say neither driver is to blame.
City engineer urges motorists to use Thirty fourth Avenue and Crockett Street to access the new Canyon highway. The suggested path replaces the rain-stressed Thirty six Avenue, touted as far smoother and less congested for drivers this spell. Follow Hayden south to Thirty fourth, then west to Crockett and south to the paving.
The New Orleans cotton market opened unsettled with early losses of 9 to 18 points as the stock market faltered. Prices dipped for December 17.24, January 17.92, and March 18.21 before a partial rally to 17.97, 18.08, and 18.87 as coveting buoyed demand, then eased again by noon.
Cotton spot quiet and lower in Liverpool with American grade quotes ranging from strict good middling 10.70 to good ordinary 8.75. Sales total 6.0 bales, receipts 4,000 American plus 2,500 American. futures closed steady with October 9.45, December 9.59, January 9.65, March 9.73, May 9.82, July 9.86.
Wheat futures tumbled nearly seven cents early on panicky stock exchange action, with urgent selling and scarce buyers. The market then swung to two sided trading, rallying over five cents and displaying rapid fluctuations. Oats corn and provisions weakened with corn sliding around 4 to 5 cents before recovering.
Butter is weak with creamery extras around 4 1/4 to 4 1/2 cents under standards. Extras 40 cents to 40 1/2. Firsts 88 to 93 cents. Seconds 37 to 37 1/2. Eggs unchanged.
Poultry markets in Chicago show fowls selling 16c to 28c a pound, springs 22c, turkeys 20c to 80c, ducks 20c to 22c, geese 22c, roosters 19c. New York stock letter notes stock prices in New York markets.
Large blocks traded as margins weakened with 3.23 million shares changing hands in the first half hour. Declines ranged to fractions and 10 1/4 points before supporting orders steadied the drop. Major names such as U. S. Steel, Westinghouse, Union Carbide, American Telephone, Montgomery Ward and Standard New Jersey moved within wide ranges.
Muskogee Oklahoma resident Jone A Culver credits Tanlac with restored appetite sleep and weight gain after declaring nervous fatigue and poor digestion. Ad claims Tanlac free of mineral drugs made from roots and herbs and offered with money back guarantee at under two cents a dose through local druggists.
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