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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1932
Page
10
The notice notes substitutes facing loss of employment due to reduced postal business. It highlights staffing concerns linked to decreased mail volume and potential layoffs affecting temporary workers.
Amarillo police arrested two men and a boy early Thursday in connection with motor car theft and burglary. A Mae Grisham car from Herring Hotel storage at 201 Fillmore Street was stolen. a suspect was stopped at First Avenue and Van Buren. The Adkisson Gunn station cash drawer yielded 78 dollars 50 cents. The trio is held for county authorities.
Brisk sales for the 1932 Minstrels Frolics at the Amarillo Municipal Auditorium indicate a near sell out within days. G A McCullough of the Amarillo Crippled Children's Council says reservations are at Fox Drug No 3 on Polk Street. Lower floor nearly sold out within hours of opening and all seats are $1 tax exempt. Tickets available 9 AM to 7 PM.
Ivo N. John Novakovich former operator of the Public Market at 113 East Fifth Avenue posted a 1500 bond before Sheriff W N Thompson on a grand jury indictment of assault to murder. He is accused in the wounding of butcher S L Taylor at the market who later required knee amputation from a leg injury. Initial reports in spring had Taylor accidentally cutting his own leg with a meat cleaver.
President Hoover will address the nation Thursday night after 7 30 P M to share ideas on child protection. About 1 800 women from 26 states gathered in New York to hear the broadcast and aid in drafting a child protection program for next year.
The Northwest Texas Nurses Training School alumnae gathered at Northwest Texas Hospital for a business meeting. Miss Jessie Wilson was voted honorary member as Mrs. Neta Carlyle, president, led the session with attendees including Gladys Ford Faye Mediey T J Linn Ruth Owens Olive Dixon Vancille Mullinix Elsie Zeter Carlos Jones Lucille Griggs and Katherine Howell.
A suicide verdict was returned in the death of Minnie Hill 23 who fell from a fifth floor window of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Building where she worked as a switchboard operator Investigators found no motive She died minutes after arriving at a hospital and had been at work shortly before the plunge The second notice reports the body of Louise Lewis of Oklahoma City found to have killed herself with sleeping potion at a local hotel and held for further contact with relatives
Tom Brown James Gleason Maureen O Sull ivan Mickey Rooney and Andy Devine headline a Western film project showcasing a veteran cast in a brisk, action packed production that promises lively adventures.
Senator J Hamilton Lewis of Illinois has been confined to his Paris hotel for over a week with a threatened acute appendicitis. Mrs Lewis is due to arrive from the United States on September 30.
In Minneapolis on September 29 the U S government conceded The Decameron is not immoral, dropping a jury trial. Oswald A Blanchard announced the shift after federal authorities seized two sets of volumes with Married Love by Marie Stopes, shipped domestically for tariff violations, and defense counsel cited New York and Pennsylvania cases supporting the judgment.
William Summers of Brownsville Texas arrived in Hamilton after hitchhiking 2700 miles seeking admission to Colgate University. He traveled exhausted and hungry, having lost ten pounds along the way.
Rex Paul Lukas and Sidney Fox headline the cast with Lewis Stone in the revival of the courtroom drama Strictly Dishonorable. The production reunites the leads for a sharp social comedy presented with period flair.
John B. Goulding post of Veterans of Foreign Wars will elect officers October 12. Nominations announced include Harry Meyers and J W Barr for commander, C O Gibson and W A Williford for senior vice commander, J C Trigg and another nominee for junior vice, J Higgins for chaplain, I H Scarborough and B Vermillion for officers of the day, Ralph Roush for quartermaster, and E W Bradley for judge advocate.
A House Post Office sub committee urges a return to two-cent first class postage. It cites reduced mail volume since the three-cent rate and says the move would boost mail flow, revenue, and postal jobs.
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