06 Jul 1938
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1938
Page
1
In the Globe News Want Ads several real estate bargains are listed. Agents offer five room prick for 2750, a five room home at 2950, and a four room home for 1950. The piece urges quick action as the market trends upward.
A massive feature band plans to serenade President Roosevelt on July 11 with The Eyes of Texas, The Star Spangled Banner, and a huge wig-wag signal. Musicians from Amarillo Dumas Clarendon Memphis and multiple Panhandle towns converge for rehearsals and recruitments.
Amarillo will host a gathering of state and national leaders for President Roosevelt next Monday evening. Invitations have been sent to governors Alfred and Tell er Ammons and to Senators Sheppard Johnson Adams and Chaves along with numerous congressmen from Texas New Mexico Oklahoma and Colorado.
Dan Mc Grath, former Amarillo attorney and longtime local figure, now special assistant to the US attorney general, departed yesterday after several days in Amarillo visiting friends. He is en route to Los Angeles to aid in the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company case prosecution. Appointed in 1933, Mc Grath practiced law in Amarillo with Shannon Ochsner and Pheiffer and served as assistant district attorney here.
Wheat shipments into Wichita totaled 902 cars over the weekend, down from 1,245 cars the previous year. The item notes market activity and compares current volume with last year.
A thunderstorm in Amarillo yesterday shocked one woman, Mrs. J. L. Gardner, at West Sixth Avenue after her clothesline was struck. Radios at several homes were affected or melted by lightning while rain totals reached about a quarter to half an inch across the area.
James G. Reardon state commissioner of education announced he resigned his National Education Association membership. He criticized the NEA meeting in New York for portraying the American Legion as un-American and fascist in tendencies, noting his own Legion membership.
President and advisors review a national economic survey in Washington focusing on the Deep South as the nation’s main economic problem. Central experts outline conditions in soil, water, education, and health while noting westward population shifts and aging demography through 1930.
A scanned newspaper page highlights inside stories and page references. It notes sports coverage on an all star game on Page 4 and editorials about President Roosevelt and Wall Street also on Page 4.
Jerome Cargill heads Car gill Company and Larry Doyle, leading director, are in Amarillo for the Will Rogers pageant tied to the August 15 celebration. The historical pageant committee plans a July 15 banquet for 150 members where John McCarty will outline episodes. Doyle will supervise four assistants amid the project’s ambitious scope.
Myron G. Blalock endorses Ernest Thompson for Texas governor in San Antonio while mocking Atty. Gen. William McCraw and predicting W. Lee O Daniel could topple McCraw. A Panhandle rally in shirt sleeves welcomes Thompson with bands, ice cream, and red lemonade as he tours towns en route to the July 23 primary.
In Amarillo, Ken Maynard, famed western star, stops at the Her ring Hotel after a 15 hour drive from Springfield. He views a rainbow shirt and recalls Tarzan the horse, praising bold color and noting plans to depart for Albuquerque.
Barbara Hutton Gangwits Reventlow’s second husband described as tearful and enraged, accused of demanding 5 009 000 dollars for divorce and threatening to shoot a London society man. Bossy claims include blackmail talk and threats to seize their son Lance amid a court battle at Bow Street. The count faced 10 000 dollars bail with hearings set for July 13.
Amarillo and vicinity expect slightly cooler conditions Wednesday with partly cloudy skies in the afternoon. West Texas remains fair and not quite as warm, with Panhandle areas showing similar trends. New Mexico region forecast shows generally fair hours, with high temperatures around the mid nineties era reference.
New York socialite Barbara Hutton, once dubbed the Golden Girl, faces a European divorce from Court Haugwitz-Reventlow. Friends note a lifelong quest for contentment, while her high‑profile life unfolds from debut to multiple marriages and public scrutiny.
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