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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1939
Page
2
Preliminary weather hints a showers spell ahead with hopes of soaking grasshopper hatch to ease Spring conditions. Reports include a black widow sighting at 2003 Fillmore Street and discussion of parking meters raising funds in Amarillo. Milk Fund donations from local companies and residents support meals for hungry schoolchildren amid wartime talk and civic notes.
The column blends jokes and proverbs with local notes from Amarillo and plains country. It mentions the Milk Fund drive led by N. D. Bartlett, plus tales, quotes, and trivia from politics to pop culture, with reflections on wartime certainty and spring prospects.
Whitey Fuson reported in Amarillo that grasshoppers the size of desk tops congregate in yards and gardens at Dalbart. He brought a bottle of the small hoppers, which measure about one fourth of an inch in length.
A Hot Springs report notes the judge who officiated Clifford Martin's wedding interrupted the ceremony with a race track remark. Best man T. P. Martin, a jockey and brother of the groom, recalls the judge praising a horse named Wises Barrister after the ceremony.
Washington reports that the war department will not recruit married men under the army expansion program. New lieutenants will be limited to single men who have never married, the regulations state, arguing a wife hinders a young officer.
Rep Mansfield of Texas received a blood transfusion at Naval Hospital in Washington. Physicians reported his condition improved markedly since admission about two weeks ago and said the transfusion could speed recovery and avoid a hemorrhoid operation.
In Austin on April 4 the Texas Senate killed a bill by Rogers Kelly Edinburg 15 to 11 that would have let the railroad commission issue permits for unlimited shipments of perishable fruits vegetables livestock and feedstuff. The chamber also tabled a motion for reconsideration ending any near term revival this session.
Burgos April 4 Gen Francisco Franco ordered demobilization of the nationalist forces. He reported about 1 million men in the victorious armies and approximately 500000 Republican troops already disarmed.
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The Bellows Construction Company submitted the lowest bid of 140117 for hospital plant additions to the Veterans Hospital project. Frank Litle Construction Company offered the second lowest bid of 146590. Alternates do not affect bid status. Plans include nurses quarters pump house garage and other buildings valued at about 300000. The project aims to finish the main buildings and dining hall by mid February next year.
Walter Beech, president of Beechcraft, stopped briefly at Municipal Airport en route to March Field California from the Beechcraft factory in Wichita. He was delivering a twin engined low wing monoplane to the Army Air Corps at Burbank and refueled before a weather front. Beech predicted a strong summer sales surge with Beechcraft planes in many countries.
The Philomathian Society of Amarillo High School won the Lions Club trophy in the inter society debate against Amarillo High School Forum Society. Judges were W. W. Gibson, G. G. Ordway, John P. Mathis, and Vance Johnson. Representing Philomathians were Avery Rush Jr and Georgeanne Watkins. Forum Society was represented by Henry Seaman and Marc Jo Winn. The topic was Texas should adopt a sales tax.
KGNC annouces the weekly highway program is postponed and will serve as the discussion basis for the Open Forum of the Air tomorrow evening at 7 30. The talks focus on boosting highway travel and the tourist trade in Amarillo and the Panhandle.
James J. Hines, district leader, secured a certificate of reasonable doubt in Supreme Court enabling an appeal of his four to eight year sentence for involvement in the Dutch Schultz numbers racket. Justice Schmuch set bail at 35000 dollars. Hines, a 3-year former blacksmith, expected to post bail after DA Dewey and new counsel Martin Littleton finalize court order details.
Police report the theft of Maytag Company checks numbered 148 to 187. Three stolen checks have already been forged and passed. Businesses are warned not to accept checks with those numbers without contacting the company.
The notice warns of kidney disorders and sleep disruption. It mentions a home test involving a diuretic to assess kidney function and urges asking a druggist for a test at Coty Drug Stores and Fou Drug Co.
U S D A price summary for Hogs Cattle Calves and Sheep at Kansas City with top hogs $6.80 and 170-250 lb range $6.55 6.80 260-300 lb $6.35 6.65 sows $5.90 6.00 cattle and calf values including choice 1329 lb steers $12.25 and vealers $8.00 10.00 sheep market notes with Arizona lambs and shorn Arizonas. New York Stock Exchange list furnished by Fenner Beane Amarillo Building.
Great Britain warned Italy against copying Germany by invading Albania. Britain said any Italian action harming Albania’s independence would violate the Anglo Italian agreement, as Italy and Albania negotiate strengthening their defense alliance. 20000 plus Italian troops were reported at Bari and Brindisi, ships ready to move to Albania.
Judges Noel McDade of Moore County and R A DeFee of Hartley and Potter counties met railway executives to seek reduced emergency rates on grasshopper poison shipped to 23 upper Panhandle counties. Officials reported cooperative attitude and planned to request a railroad commission order if no opposition develops.
Nathiel Buchanan faces charges as an accomplice in a theft in a county court jury trial opening today. The case centers on alleged role in the theft and whether Buchanan aided the principal offender.
Mrs Ed N Watson age 67 longtime Amarillo resident dies after brief illness in a local hospital. Survived by husband two daughters Imogene McCully and J R Offield both of Amarillo. two granddaughters Wayne Prescott and Elmer Wardill. grandson Terry Offield. great grandson James Wardill. three brothers Robert F C Page Hollywood Calif Sam J Page Green City Mo. sister Mrs J R Webb Excelsior Springs Mo. Body in state Blackburn Shaw Funeral Chapel awaiting funeral arrangements.
Jo Ann Ivy one month old, daughter of Mr and Mrs M V Ivy, died this morning at 8 o clock at the family farm eight miles southeast of Vega. She is survived by two sisters Marian eight and Alice Lucille four. Funeral services were held this afternoon at Vega Baptist Church with Rev L E Godwin officiating. Burial in Vega Cemetery under N B Griggs and Sons.
Amarillo aviation enthusiasts visited Buffalo Lake near Umbarger and chose a tentative site for a seaplane dock with an adjacent landing field two miles from the dam. They plan to acquire second‑hand floats, store them at the lake, and convert planes to water operations. The National Youth Administration would build docks with local sponsorship while bidding for concession rights remains pending from the federal government.
Lorin H. Bunn, 25, an employee of the American Smelting and Refining Company, died this morning at 5:15 in a local hospital. He is survived by his father M. L. Bunn, five brothers, three sisters, and an uncle. Funeral services were held at N. S. Griggs and Sons Chapel this afternoon. The body will be taken to Kirkland for services tomorrow at 2 PM, with burial in Kirkland Cemetery.
The Spring term of Federal court in Amarillo will open May 8 with special arrangements for the dedication of the new post office and federal building. Judge James C. Wilson will hold court in Amarillo to permit visitors to view the courtroom during the May 17 dedication.
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