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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1936
Page
1
Washington congressman Marion A. Zioncheck escaped the psych ward and wandered the Gallinger Hospital grounds in a bathrobe and bare feet. He kicked screens loose, jumped a window, and wandered streets while attendants and inmates cried out in amusement before being recaptured.
President Roosevelt rode through Virginia and Tennessee en route to Little Rock for his Arkansas Centennial speech. The special train paused at crowded depots as the president prepared the remarks planned for the Arkansas capital arrival late tomorrow for the first of three events.
A north wind cooled city weather with temperatures 15 to 20 degrees lower than the previous day. The high reached 85 at 4 PM, down from Monday’s 102 in the afternoon.
Paris June 9 Leon Blum pressed a labor reform package including a compulsory 40 hour week paid vacations collective bargaining and pension relief while a 33 member committee was approved to push the measures. Police arrested agitators accused of arming strikers as deputies questioned minister Salengro about troop and guard concentrations.
Weather outlook for Amarillo and surrounding west Texas regions calls for fair skies and cooler temperatures Wednesday. Western areas north and west may be somewhat cooler, while New Mexico also sees fair conditions. Yesterday temperatures in Amarillo ranged around the mid 80s with overnight readings in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
H. H. Finnell, regional conservator, announces a memo read to county judges in 14 Panhandle counties inviting them to join emergency and long term soil conservation programs. The Soil Conservation Service would lend machinery and provide technical personnel and supplies to wind erosion districts, forming a county administered partnership.
British authorities ordered women missionaries evacuated from Hengyang in Hunan amid Canton government advances. Hengyang occupied as Canton seeks joint action with Nanking against Japan. Chiang Kai-Shek urged national unity while Japan warned against inflaming tensions. Hongkong reports estimate South army strength around 600,000.
Unseasonable warmth melts northern snows driving flood surges in British Columbia and Yukon while a cold wave endangers prairie crops. The Columbia River runs full in Washington state isolating Prescott Oregon and Nome reports warn of forest hazards. Flooding leaves Dawson and Mayo areas submerged with evacuees aided by police and boats. no general food shortage noted.
The Amarillo High School Band of 75 members leaves tonight at 7 25 on the Santa Fe for the Texas Centennial in Dallas. They arrive Thursday for Amarillo Day, June 12, and will unload one half mile from the Centennial grounds.
Italian premier Mussolini appoints Count Galeazzo Ciano, his son in law, as foreign minister the youngest to hold that post in a major power. Mussolini surrenders three ministries while retaining interior war navy and aviation. Suvich resigns as undersecretary for foreign affairs.
Edgar T. Beaty, 49, formerly of Dallas, died when a boiler exploded at the Stanolind Ware B-10 base six miles northwest of Skelly town. Cause undetermined. Survived by two daughters in Dallas, a son in Pampa, three brothers in Dallas, and two sisters in Dallas and Paris. Body sent to Paris for burial.
Dallas reports on June teenth Emancipation Day events as Tex as negroes crown their beauty queen at the Centennial Exposition grounds. Cab Calloway and a negro band will select the dusky queen after a bathing beauty revue. The prize is a trip to Hollywood.
Secretary Roper told 300 Galveston officials that Roosevelt's negotiative foreign policy will forge new trade links with Latin America and Canada. He urged Commerce Department efforts to boost Galveston and other ports and argued tariffs must be settled through international talks. He emphasized the shift from debtor to creditor and the need for foreign trade to sustain American industry.
Eugene Worley, a Shamrock legislator and Democratic delegate, asks the national convention to press Rex Tugwell to pull and destroy The Plow That Broke the Plains. He calls the Dust Bowl depiction libel on Texas Panhandle, arguing the region is fertile and not a desert despite recent rains.
At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland Senator Frederick Stei ner of Oregon urged party harmony while blasting the New Deal. Platform drafters toiled through the night amid divisions between Landon supporters and anti Landon factions over currency and wage legislation. Col Frank Knox warned he would withdraw if the platform failed him, Borah favored avoiding a gold standard return, and Vandenberg showed support before Borah stayed away.
At the Kansas Governor Landon backed group gains control of the conventions resolutions committee in Cleveland. Herman Langworthy of Missouri was named chairman with Bingham of Connecticut as vice chair as witnesses argued platform proposals including a managed currency to stabilize the dollar and a return toward gold standard amid factional tensions and London talks on money policy.
Mrs. Joseph Alsop of Connecticut will second Gov. Alf Landon at the Republican National Convention. Sloganeering man J. Henry Smythe Jr. hawks lines like Let’s make it a Landon slide and The New Deal is a mis-deal. Delegates and curious Clevelanders cite unique hotel guests and wary onlookers weigh Landon’s chances.
Prominent Texans push a Knox for vice president motion during the first GOP convention session. Emissaries reach Knox offices and delegation chairs in four Eastern states and the Landon camp as sentiment is sounded. Orville Bullington and Hugh E. Exum, both from Texas, hold leadership roles in the proceedings.
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