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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1932
Page
6
All ads must be cash except phone orders with payment due after collection. Ads for situations wanted loot and found travel column are cash with order. The Globe News reserves rights to classify and edit. Errors limited to amount paid. Rates shown per word with minimums and insertion counts across newspapers.
Brick five room house with basement and servants quarter on an east front corner lot. Features include a double garage and near new condition. Price listed as $2,850 with a balance of $35 per month. Call for details.
Rum runners armed with machine guns attacked federal agents escorting an $18,000 liquor cache from a Plum Point mansion once owned by a former Peruvian envoy. They abducted four agents, fled with the liquor truck, then abandoned it when the gun broke. Agents unharmed. Cache found in cellar. yacht spotted offshore.
Storms over the Bering Sea dimmed rescue hopes for the Japanese airplane Hochi Nichibei missing on a nonstop flight from Sabishiro Beach Japan to Nome Alaska. Pilot Eichiro Bara with a navigator and radio operator left Sabishiro at 1 27 P M Friday aiming 2600 miles in under 31 hours. If forced to land on the Kurile Islands communication could be delayed for days, veteran seamen said.
County commissioners opened a three day board of equalization session with a room full of taxpayers. A 16 2/3 percent reduction on valuations last weekend satisfied most, offsetting disputes after notices went out to about 3,500 residents. The adjustments were applied to lower valuations as auditors reviewed each invoice.
Canyon News reports two new pastors joining local churches. Rev. J. R. Hicks accepted a call to the Baptist Church after serving in Claude Dalhart Panhandle and other Northwest Texas cities. Rev. E. C. McKenzie moves to Canyon from a pastorate at Tyler Texas to lead the Church of Christ.
Classified notes list a 60 by 80 foot brick building soon central to the city for sale at less than cost, partial or total sale, with contact at Palo Duro Hotel office after 12 o'clock. Also advertised are job leads and a 1929 Oldsmobile Special Sedan for sale or trade, P O Box 80 Amarillo Texas.
F R Bob Powell 53 a ranchman farmer and abstractor of Dumas died Sunday night in a local hospital. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 pm at the Methodist Church in Dumas with Rev I E Walker and Rev H A McHenry officiating. Burial in Dumas Cemetery after Masonic rites. Powell survived by his widow Lula B Powell three sons John R Walter and Bob Powell Jr and by his parents and siblings living in Texas and California.
Wilbarger County Texas reduces its tax rate from 1.25 in 1931 to 0.80 in 1932, a cut of over one third. The reduction follows the state highway bonded debt assumption authorized by a recent Texas Legislature special session, funded partly by state gasoline tax. 1931 valuations were 22.866 million. 1932 valuations set at 20.129 million.
Funeral services for Walter Marion Aldridge of Borger were to be held Monday afternoon following a fatal automobile crash near Panhandle Saturday night. He was the 17 month old son of Mr and Mrs Duncan McFarland Aldridge.
Maryan Weclewski, 17, of Poland, tried to stow away on the Graf Zeppelin last June and received 14 days in jail. He was found aboard the Graf again yesterday in Graf Zeppelin, Germany.
The American Federation of Labor urged wage increases to raise consumer buying power and halt the fall in workers’ incomes. It warned against further income cuts, called for shorter hours without wage loss, and noted 11,400,000 unemployed while signs of improvement appeared in textiles, shoes, clothing, steel, autos, coal, car-loadings, and prices.
On August 26 1932 George H Abbott withdrew from the partnership of L E Cahill Lyle R Sproles and C H Zachry doing business as L E Cahill & Company Debts of the firm will be settled by the remaining partners L E Cahill Lyle R Sproles and C H Zachry Abbott will practice public accounting independently
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