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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1931
Page
2
A local columnist argues rural Texas couples reject high flung honeymoon fantasies. He praises Niagara Falls as a honeymoon spot but recalls personal travel and notes a nearby newspaper’s humorous typographical errors.
The 1931 tax roll estimate, prepared by the city assessor and tax collector, projects about a 1.5 million dollar increase from 1930. The 1930 roll was 61,520,620, up 2,216,540 from 1929. The city aims to hold the rate at 1 dollar per hundred, down from 1.35 in 1929, while payroll cuts and new industrial properties from a December 29 election widen the tax base. The equalization board refrained from broad increases, with reappraisal approved ahead of 1932 assessments, partly due to zoning changes.
New York Sept 97 The legislative committee investigating municipal departments focused on one stock brokerage account of Russell T Sherwood Mayor Walker's personal bookkeeper. The panel sought the source of securities reportedly put up for the mayor during stock declines. The Sherwood account showed other brokerages and a bank account with limited details. Mayor Walker's accounts were obtained just before his departure for Europe.
Funeral services for Arthur M Yancy aged 57 who was found dead Monday morning in a small dugout 20 miles north of Amarillo on the Canadian River were arranged for 4 pm at Griggs Chapel with Rev E B Fincher officiating. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery. He lived alone and is survived by an aunt Mrs Dick James of Spearman and a sister in southwest Missouri.
A reader offers an apartment in Amarillo for plumbing fixtures and labor. The note mentions mornings on Ninth Avenue and Carolina Street with blue Morning Glories, and thanks Tack for possible help. The writer says they pay bills and suggests good pay for the trip if you like flowers.
Baton Rouge reports a bitter political quarrel stopped Governor Huey P. Long from crossing into Texas to address a mass meeting in Austin on the cotton crisis. Lieutenant Governor Paul Cyr refuses to promise not to act as governor, delaying Long's plans to speak by radio.
Proceedings of the seventh district civil appeals court in Amarillo with motions granted and overruled. Reversed and remanded, appeals dismissed, and cases set for submission on November 4, 1931. Included are Wright Morrow receiver v Holland and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. v Cocke among others from Lubbock Wilbarger Potter and Hall counties.
Rioting among unemployed broke out in Cleveland Ohio as several thousand men stormed two county storeyards to apply for county highway ditch work. Late arrivals tried to break through lines of workers who had stood all night. police were called to quell fighting. Windows broken, several slight injuries, warehouse doors crushed.
Ben Mason King in Amarillo declined a proposal from a Murray for President supporter to raise funds and run a Panhandle campaign office during a Kiwanis convention in Oklahoma City. King said he would remain with his chamber of commerce job and that Kiwanis members in Oklahoma City shouldn’t mix politics. He noted the supporter claimed Murray would be the next president.
Buffalo pilots rush two vials of cortin to Chicago to treat Mrs. Andrew Nelson, a mother of six, with Addison’s disease. Dr. Frederic A. Hartmann prepares the cortin at Buffalo. Air lines coordinate swift transport from Buffalo to Cleveland and then to Chicago for arrival around 6:01 P.M. Eastern.
W A Skinner of Canadian River Gas Company Booster City was injured in a two car crash at Ninth Avenue and Taylor Street Tuesday night. He was taken to a hospital for emergency treatment then released. Mrs W L Pond escaped injury. Two other Tuesday night wrecks reported with no injuries. Police recorded eleven traffic accidents in the first nine days of the month.
Jury summons issued for next week in Potter County criminal district court as Judge Henry S. Bishop notes several minor cases disposed of this week. The Potter County grand jury reassembles tomorrow morning and has returned 20 bills of indictment so far.
City Briefs note varied local movements including Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shetterly on a two week vacation through New Mexico and Colorado. Other items mention Fiesta attendance in Santa Fe by Mrs J H Neadora Edith Beth Harmon and Leo Neadora. W L Barnes improves after time in Long Beach and R C Snodgrass family return from Iowa vacation. C W East visits Hereford on business while N M H W Underhill travels for Dumas school work.
The first Panhandle of Texas exhibit of 1931 is en route to Topeka for the Kansas State Fair opening next Monday. A second exhibit ships to the Oklahoma State Fair at Muskogee October 3 to 10 and a third to the Texas State Fair in Dallas October 10 to 25. The Amarillo-based displays cover agriculture, industry, education and transport with rotogravure photos distributed at fairs. Exhibit manager H. M. Luna will coordinate setups at each site.
The body of Miss Onnie May O'Brien 24 sister of William Douglas O'Brien and niece of W O'Brien who died Sunday night in Rochester Minnesota will arrive in Amarillo tonight. It will be received by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home. Arrangements were not announced. Miss O'Brien's brother lives at 820 Mississippi Street and was vice president of the National Bank of Commerce. Her uncle at 1920 Tyler Street was the bank's president. She lived with her parents on the O'Brien ranch in Winkler County. She graduated from Paducah High School and Sul Ross College at Alpine.
Charles Davis a veteran Amarillo police officer and former chief is critically ill at St. Anthony's Hospital after a recent operation. FP M Hill another long serving officer is recovering from a serious illness after leaving Northwest Texas Hospital following ptomaine poisoning.
The City Commission will convene tonight after a Tuesday postponement. Mayor Ernest O. Thompson was in Oklahoma City for the Texas Oklahoma Kiwanis district convention. routine business including two or three petitions will be on the agenda, as stated by City Manager Bill Durham.
The Community Chest directors will meet in the Chamber of Commerce rooms at 7 30 tonight to finalize plans and set a budget for the winter welfare program. The session aims to outline fundraising and distribution for the season.
Notices list warranty deeds from W. D. Tenney and others transferring parcels in Mirror, Morningside, Holland, and Univ. Hts with various sums. Also recorded are registrations for Hazel Allen, Wilson W. Ballew, Whatley Motor Co, Texhoma Natural Gas, Walter Irvin, P. Chev. Co, and Keck-Satterfield Co with vehicle makes and distributors.
An excerpt by Edgar A. Guest from 1931 extols the baby as both joy and burden. It celebrates the baby’s constant novelty, drawing humor, wonder, and purpose from infancy while noting mothers’ labor and daily life.
Grain quotations from local houses feature wheat barley milo and dates per bushel with varied prices. Livestock in Chicago Kansas City and New Orleans show hogs and cattle trading modestly lower with sow and pig dynamics and fat lambs mixed. Cotton in New Orleans opens easier then rallies on New York and Liverpool cues. New York stock letters note mixed rallies amid short covering and sector leadership shifts.
The passage reflects on Russia's collapse risks and its wartime impact, noting Russia's capabilities in aviation, explosives, and gas, and urging calm study over hysteria. It cites Burke and Fox on Napoleon, praises freeing oppressed peoples, warns against overreacting to propaganda, and stresses steady analysis of world events.
Eugene Giles introduces oleomargarine tax and bucket shop bans while Rep. Donnell calls Hoover to aid cotton farmers. Hoover weighs export credits, with Agriculture estimating 15.685 million bales and senators Caraway and Smith backing price support.
The Mission Theater opens The Star Witness featuring Chic Sale as a Confederate veteran who witnesses a gang murder at his family home while others refuse to testify. Walter Huston portrays the district attorney. Also note Bad Girl is held over at the Fair for an extra day due to popularity. Rev Snodgrass and his sons Roy and Bradley return from a tour in Newig England states.
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