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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1938
Page
6
Chinese troops fought to recapture forts defending the Matowchen boom as Japanese forces push up the Yangtze toward Hankow. A Chinese fort fell but officials said the boom remained in place while air forces claimed a valiant Chinese pilot sank a Japanese gunboat near Anking.
The CIO alleges police interference as three organizers were escorted out of New Orleans by police. Judge Foster ordered city officials to show cause why they should not be restrained from interfering with CIO activities. Police claim to hunt six more organizers, labeling them communists.
Ten persons were killed and 20 injured in an insurgent air raid on Alicante, an important Mediterranean port of government Spain, at mid-day. Insurgent planes bombed Peñarroya south of Valencia, near the American consul’s residence, and struck the port of Valencia with no early casualty reports.
Florence Arizona June 28 James Bailey 25 year old convict who killed Deputy Sheriff Jack Hickox of Ray after escaping from the state prison was convicted of first degree murder today by a jury which decreed his execution in Arizona s lethal gas chamber
Dallas police chief R L Jones announced an investigation to determine if the Nazi Bund is being established in the city. He said reports indicate Nazi sympathizers are active locally.
Sherman resident Robert C. McCullouch, 49, an oil broker, died when a car he rode in was struck by the Frisco Black Gold fast passenger train at a crossing about three miles south of Kingston, Oklahoma.
J. L. Howard, linesman for Texas New Mexico Utilities Co., was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon when a telephone pole he climbed fell with him five miles west of Orion. His hip was crushed and his body bruised during the attempt to take an electric line over telephone wires as the company builds an extension line to Earth.
The closing service of the Vacation Church School at Central Presbyterian Church will be Friday at 10 30 AM in Fellowship Hall. Beginners, juniors, and primary divisions perform songs and a play based on Abraham. Certificates will be awarded by Dr R Thomson. Supervisors are E Paul Hovey couple.
The Council of Federated Church Women plans a three hour gathering at Fellowship Hall San Jacinto Methodist Church starting 10 30 a m Wednesday. Ministers of Amarillo are invited as guests. A luncheon follows with Dr R Thomson of Central Presbyterian delivering the address and musical numbers by Mrs Shields and Mrs Adams.
Dispatches from northern Argentina report extensive troop movements in the Gran Chaco disputed by Paraguay during its truce with Bolivia. Civilians flee across the frontier into Argentina amid fears of renewed hostilities and near breakdown of peace negotiations in Buenos Aires. Negotiators including a U S representative have not secured Paraguayan acceptance of a proposed boundary with a river port for landlocked Bolivia.
District Attorney Michael L. Igoe announced a grand jury will begin a study of alleged monopolistic practices in the milk industry in Chicago on July 8. DOJ agents have spent about a year examining milk and by products handling.
Sadre E. Rochat of St. Paul is chosen supreme matron elect of the Order of Amaranth Inc a Masonic organization at the national convention in Los Angeles on June 28.
Roy Gardner, ex convict and Alcatraz escape record holder, claims two inmates planned to kidnap Interior Secretary Harold Ickes in 1934 to force Roosevelt to free prisoners. Gardner says Al Capone refused to fund the plan, deeming it crazy, and the scheme never progressed. Gardner, age 54, has just left Leavenworth and works in San Francisco.
In Irvington New York on June 28 Mrs Hed Heusser remains at wealthy Rollo K Blanchard’s house after more than a week of a sit in she says it is a love strike to force marriage Heusser occupies a room while Blanchard and his attorney William D Cunningham refuse to evict her saying a proposal was never made and will not marry her.
George Morgan Williams aged 65, a Berkeley resident who intended to become a missionary, died of a heart attack in Shanghai. His widow, Mrs Lydia Williams, said he postponed his calling to educate their three children. A lay reader of the Episcopal church, Williams left Berkeley last January to survey missionary work and held land in Las Cruces New Mexico.
Major Vladimir Kokkinaki and navigator A. M. Bryandinsky landed at Vladivostok after a 4300 mile nonstop flight from Moscow showing long range capability of Red Army aircraft. The test covered sparse Siberian terrain and took 24 hours.
Eighteen crew members of the Danish freighter Jan, missing since May 26, arrived in Casablanca, reporting the vessel was seized by Spanish insurgents on the high seas and its coal cargo confiscated.
A violent pro-German demonstration in Kemel Lithuania left one dead and twelve injured. The event occurred during postwar tensions tied to territorial settlements involving Kaunas and the port city Kemel.
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, ill aboard the Kingsholm, dedicated a Philadelphia Swedish American historical museum from his stateroom. He laid the cornerstone in 1926 and telephoned a message opening the museum before being rushed to a New York hospital for kidney ailment. The $350,000 museum honors Swedes in America since 1438.
Mrs. Jerrol D. Rutledge, 20, drowned in the North Concho River crossing in northern San Angelo during a swim with six children. Her brother in law John Rutledge, 14, tried to save her. Firemen recovered the body an hour after she vanished. artificial respiration failed. Survivors include her husband and a 15 month old child.
The funeral for Bert Freeman, victim of a flash flood near Lelia Lake, will be held at 2 p.m. in Crosbyton. The service follows a postponement after Mrs Freeman and their child drowned when their car was swept off a bridge. the mother's body has been recovered, the child's body is still missing.
Austin reports the old Spanish Trail from Balmorhea to San Antonio ranks among safer Texas highways based on 1937 data. The route, via Highway 290 to Junction, Highway 17 to Kerrville, and Highway 87 to San Antonio, saw nine deaths over 431 miles. Highway 17 LaGrange to Waco and Highway 281 Wichita Falls to San Antonio also showed relatively lower fatality rates.
Chicago June 28 Representatives of 18 brotherhoods agreed to discuss the railroad demand for a 15 percent wage reduction with management spokesmen on July 20. George M. Harrison, chairman of the railroad labor executives association, announced the parley during a conference with class one line representatives.
The Will Rogers Memorial Highway Association of Texas in Amarilla was chartered in Austin yesterday as an educational organization with no capital stock. Incorporators are Carl Hinton, W. H. Brymer, and Edith Zelley. The charter aims to formalize the celebration as a sound business venture.
Superior Judge E D Thomas revoked today a charter granted May 20 to G Sears Aiken and three opponents of Methodist unification for The Methodist Episcopal Church South Incorporated. The ruling followed a hearing on a petition by other Methodists. Aiken said he would appeal.
The route from Beaumont to Marshall covers 209 miles with seven deaths, averaging one fatality every 29 miles. In sixth place, Highway 35 from Houston to Corpus Christi spans 220 miles with nine deaths, about one death per 24 miles.
Thomas Williams, 20, an African American, became the first inmate executed in Ohio's automatic electric chair. He sang spirituals and recited scriptures for 19 minutes before the chair delivered the fatal current. He denied killing Reuben Mirvis during the holdup and read from the Bible before a final prayer.
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