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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1930
Page
2
A collage of letters and anecdotes recounts golf prize curios, cotton field jobs across the Panhandle, domestic frictions, and social tensions in Amarillo and Borger. Notes touch on pickers’ wages, a woman’s hat purchase, a preacher’s funeral sermon, bread costs from wheat, tariff debates, and a missing purse with a generous reward for its return.
Congressman Marvin Jones denounces legislation favoring industrial over agricultural interests in a House speech. Extracts from the speech, printed on a 100000-copy card by the National Democratic Committee, call special privilege laws and monopolies harmful. The Texas Democratic convention later adopted a resolution embodying these principles.
Dr. Robert L. Evans of Los Angeles will speak at Tabernacle Baptist Church Tuesday evening at 7 30 and Wednesday at 10 and 3 30. The talks cover What Time Is it by Gods Clock, Why Was Elijs Translated and The Approaching World Crisis. Evangelist Evans, recently eastward, will be welcomed by Rev J C Sisemore and Amarillo Bible students urged to attend.
Tuesday night's meeting will be lengthy as the city commission weighs Southwestern Public Service's reduced light and power rate schedule, bids on curb and gutter work in the Country Club district, proposals for 10,000 trees for the city section park, and hydrant hiding projects.
W F Green appealed his one year penitentiary sentence for liquor law violations after bond of 2500 dollars was posted. Officers testified they found three 10 gallon kegs of whiskey in his home. Green testified he was visiting a relative and knew nothing of the whiskey.
A 61 year old pioneer writer praises Tack for city uplift and youth welfare and notes his grandson, 21, shares a love of southern literature and classic authors like Zane Grey, Hart, and Cooper. The letter emphasizes education, reading, and community improvement.
A columnist argues Americans suffer mood and fear, urging courage amid excess and cheap money. It notes sugar and oil cheap, farmers underpaid, and warns against hoarding. References Paris auto show, Ethel Barrymore Colt debut, and Guaranty Trust vp predicting higher deposits.
Weather reports indicate no rain in Santa Fe and Rock Island territories in the Panhandle with conditions similar to our area. Denver notes light mist on South Plains lines. Tonight and Western Oklahoma may see showers with Oklahoma’s Wednesday forecast unsettled and local showers.
Nominations for the Senior High School football queen election close Tuesday at 2 P M, with five leading candidates to enter a run off. Campaign managers introduced the nominees Tuesday, as Mrs J A Kirkman of the PT A led speeches and Mrs J W Collins explained the process. Principal R B Norman noted the school board’s prior recommendation to ban fraternities and sororities, a policy now applied across important high schools.
Congressman Marvin Jones delivered the principal address to a large Se curity Benefit Association gathering in Carpenter's Hall with Mayor Ernesto O. Thompson presiding. He traced U S history and urged using national traits for mankind’s benefit, eliciting lengthy applause. Dorothy Ford visited her parents in Locknge over the weekend.
Firemen at central station were awakened by alarms early Tuesday morning after a fire was spotted Monday night. A man who reported the fire appeared at fire headquarters seeking payment, asking how much he would be paid for turning in alarms. Fire Chief G B Cooper quipped Shades of Mrs OLearys cow.
Horace Wells returned to Amarillo from Lubbock and remains in Potter county jail facing two grand jury indictments for liquor law violations. He is charged in connection with two major county raids of the last year. Bonds are set at 7600 dollars and 4500 dollars.
Hankins details a $200 check forgery on Dr. Nunn cashing it for twenty dollar bills in Amarillo then traveling to Lubbock Levelland Slaton and Slaton banks. He mentions buying a Ford Coupe and wiring funds under false names while stating the incidents as true in a signed statement witnessed by L Cannon and Jim Wallace.
Levelland resident and former minister C Bailey Hankins is held by Sheriff Wade Hardy on a felony warrant issued by Sheriff Bill Thompson of Amarillo. Officials expect arrival to extradite Hankins. Hankins earlier gave attorney Jack Randall a $200 check, allegedly to cover a forged check on Dr J E Nunn of Amarillo.
The Kansas City market shows hog receipts around seven thousand with uneven trading, top $9.00, while cattle and sheep also edge lower with varying grades and prices. Chicago and other cities follow, hogs down about 10 to 15 cents, cattle mixed, sheep steady to higher, and grain futures rally on hopeful wheat price trends.
Bishop H A Boag will meet all presiding elders of the Northwest Texas Conference Thursday morning at First Methodist church of Lubbock. Elders from Abilene Amarillo Clarendon Lubbock Plainview Stamford Sweetwater Vernon and Hooker Oklahoma Panhandle districts will attend. The Panhandle district joins Northwest Texas at the Sweetwater conference November 12 closing the church year.
Announcement of the appointment of a director for Amarillo's full time health unit is expected within a few days probably Wednesday according to letters from Dr J C Anderson head of the state department of health to city officials The full time health unit for which the city county and school district have agreed to contribute $40000 annually probably will become effective as of October 1 It is understood there are several applicants for the position and the candidate now said to be considered most seriously by the state department of health is Dr Luckey who is assistant director of a unit at Fort Worth
October notices and liquidations weigh on prices in a broad market session. Southern selling remains heavy early, then buys and covering push some October and March futures higher before renewed liquidation drags values down again. In New York, heavy selling drives many stocks to new low levels while a few, like New York Central and American Can, edge up.
An advertisement extols Dr Caldwell specialized for bowel ills praising Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild laxative. The paste claims 47 years of practice, gentle action without griping, safe for babies, popular with women and older people, and effective for biliousness and bloating.
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