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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1933
Page
2
A column recounts a traveler defending railroad pass privileges while joking about 13 paid passengers and 33 dead heads on a train near Amarillo. He apologizes for intrusion and notes railroad workers know their business. The piece ends noting stronger beer and drinkers claiming to feel its effects.
The American Legion Special trip to Chicago for the Century of Progress shows a Tuesday noon reservation deadline. Rates include all but meals and run 40.85 to 62.50 for chair car or Pullman options. Reservations contact George Broome or Floyd Sloan, with weather notes and local-interest items sprinkled throughout this Amarillo Chronicle excerpt.
A reader asks for help locating a lost brown felt hat and references Tack Letters on page 12. The note recalls the White House was painted white to cover fire damage from the 1814 British siege.
The Tri-State Fair Dairy Department displays 108 head from Jersey Holstein and Guernsey breeds. Top exhibitors include Tierra Blanca Jersey Farm Randall County and Jean Du Luth Guernsey Farm Panhandle with 25 Jersey head and 12 Holsteins from Rio Vista Dairy Farm San Antonio. Judges Joe Ridgeway Texas A. and M. and supervisor Howard Ferguson Amarillo oversee judging Tuesday and Wednesday.
Judge Wilson delayed a sentence as letters from friends were read. Plains Cooperative Inc faced a $25 fine for butter fat content violations in shipments to Chicago. W E Lemmons, 37, pled guilty to impersonating a U S customs officer, receiving a suspended year jail term. Rudolph Hane, 28, pleaded guilty to two counts of counterfeiting with $10 notes linked to Juarez Mexico.
The body of William M. Miller 88 who died Sunday morning at his daughter's home will be sent Monday night to Ardmore Oklahoma for funeral and burial services. He was a retired farmer and had lived in Amarillo at intervals for four years. Survived by daughter Mrs L F Hoarer another daughter Mrs Fannie Dodd West Columbia and son T B Miller Houston. Also a note on William Cubie and the treadmill born in 1820.
The Groom Boys band and McLean band performed at the fair with radio and ground appearances. Mayor Rogers lent the sprinkler for grounds watering as Rural School Day drew all Potter County schools and many city workers out for a holiday. A donkey baseball match between Wellington and Shamrock capped the evening with crowds staying for the intercity showdown.
The New Orleans cotton market opened easier with early losses of 9 to 18 points before brief recoveries on short covering, then eased again as hedge selling weighed with weaker Liverpool cables. In New York, stock and grain declines followed by partial recoveries amid cautious trading, currency strength against sterling, and general weakness across many issues. the market showed an erratic pattern as traders weighed the administration’s fiscal policy outlook.
The page shows races six and seven with entrants and owners including Cas Walser Hayden and DDD Stables Marie Ashton Dolan. It lists jockeys and horses such as Foreign Relation Bloas Jack G Oday and Infanta Carter, plus track selections by Gilbert and Clocker's Selections for all seven races.
An ad-style notice touts Fas teeth powder that keeps false teeth secure with no slippery taste. It claims all day comfort, no goo, and encourages purchasing at City Drug Co Fox Drug Co or local druggists. Three sizes available.
On a 10 day business trip Roy Cullum is away and Chester Bordwell may preside at Tuesday's NRA compliance board meeting. The board, formed to hear alleged code violation complaints, includes C R Jack Sears Paul Edquist W S Norman Mrs J M O'Brien Cela Clayton and Roy Townsend as secretary.
James H. Mathers asserts Bailey will testify he was not at the Urchel farm before August 2 and that the 700 dollars linked to a Kansas City gangster funded the loot. Bailey allegedly collected a machine gun from the gangster, later identified as Kathryn Kelly’s weapon. Shannon recalls Bailey visiting after the abduction and staying about eight days while Bates threatened to kill them if any heat surfaced.
On September 25 Gus Winkler a northside gangster was questioned in connection with the machine gun slaying of Policeman Miles Cunningham during the robbery of federal reserve bank mail pouches. He was linked to ownership of a car wrecked as killers attempted a smoke screen escape.
The lieutenant governor and House speaker back an anti dole measure that directs relief be provided as food shelter fuel medical supplies or essential household items. Funds are split 70 percent per capita county population and 30 percent as emergency additions with county welfare boards chaired by the county judge to supervise distribution. Each county becomes a separate relief district as the House passes its first bill apart from session expenses.
The House debated waiving state college fees for veterans of the last two wars except for board and clothing costs, then adjourned until Wy o'clock Tuesday morning.
Last week an Amarillo first class apartment house reached 100 percent occupancy. A daily ad in the Globe and News Apartments for Rent column credited the Want Ads for finding tenants, suggesting managers could improve earnings with more aggressive use of inexpensive ads. Call 6262 to learn about low 30 time rates.
The 1928 opening of Unit No 2 as a separate osteopathic division at Los Angeles General marked a milestone. Data from 1930-32 shows lower death rates and shorter stays in the osteopathic unit, with 45 osteopathic physicians, 32 residents, and 196 beds, amid ongoing fights for hospital rights and tax-supported access.
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