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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1934
Page
8
Former President Herbert Hoover faces a flood of correspondence after his birthday. He dictated or directed the writing of over 4000 letters in four days and signed each one personally. Additional messages followed his Klamath River fishing trip as he resumed work.
The passage describes Mr Hoover turning author with intense output, drafting thousands of words at a time, revising meticulously with triple-spaced proofs. He relies on stenographers or pads, marking inserts and following sections, and keeps tightening verbs, adjectives, and nouns to preserve precise meaning.
Globe News staff to attend Sunday Bible class at First Christian Church 717 Taylor Street. Miss Katharyn Miller performs two vocal numbers while H A Shaw and Miss Doris Shaw lead singing. Judge W F Gee and Dr R C Snodgrass preside over the lesson at 9 40.
In a major Wisconsin dairy shipment, 67 pure bred Holstein Friesian cows were sent from WAukesha to the U. S. Naval Academy dairy at Gambrills Maryland. The herd, drawn from 27 Wisconsin herds in nine counties, was chosen for high production and excellent type to benefit midshipmen.
Fire was found in the between decks coal bunkers of the Hamburg-American freighter Cassel en route from Peru to Liverpool with sugar and cottonseed cake. The ship was in the Panama Canal transit and docked at Cristobal as a precaution.
Chrysler Airflow Imperial coupe with Goodyear Air wheels set seventy two official closed stock car records at Utah’s Lake Bonneville under Harry Hartz. The car averaged 95 mph for one mile and 90 mph for 500 miles, reaching 2026 miles in 24 hours, first to break 2000 miles in the time. Temperatures ranged 118 to 70 degrees between day and night.
District Attorney Ben Greenwood demanded to know why Texas Rangers would not assist in a Houston County slot machine crackdown. He sent letters to Gov. Miriam Ferguson and Atty. Gen. James Allred after a ranger reportedly refused raids. Deputy E. H. Baker was dismissed for taking part in slot machine raids. Greenwood cited $1,000 weekly profits.
In Mystic Connecticut Mrs John Whittle converts ruined peach orchard into squash crop Hubbard squash interplanted between trees keeps weeds down vines climb into trees now covered with squash yielding a quarter ton of harvest despite harsh winter damage to peaches.
Ruth Bryan Owen United States minister to Denmark departed Greenland aboard the coastguard cutter Champlain to return home. Eskimos at Ivigtut gave her the name Inunguak meaning dear real human being during a farewell on the Danish vessel.
Raymond L. Kerr son of Mr and Mrs A Kerr of 3602 Harrison Street is named lieutenant colonel and second in command of cadets at Texas A&M where he is a senior. He is a graduate of Amarillo High School.
Wiley Post, famed globe flier, said his Winnie Mae is too badly damaged from the stratosphere test flight to compete in the London Melbourne air derby. He will withdraw after reporting a ruptured oil line and a rebuilt supercharger will take one to six weeks.
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