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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1940
Page
2
A breezy Am forecast promises fair warm weather with light wind for Friday afternoon on the Panhandle plains. The column urges participation in Saturday's school election and comments on local fashion, cattle talk, and cultural tidbits amid a stream of assorted notes, jokes, and observations.
In Clay Center Kansas bitter cold forced temporary manager changes for both the Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates during an eight game touring series. Jimmy Dykes left for Philadelphia due to his wife illness and Frank Frisch rushed to Wichita Kansas for throat infection care as Muddy Ruel led the Sox.
A reader responds to Roger W Babson’s piece Working Wives Are Under Fire arguing that many families with limited income need working mothers to survive. She outlines low wages, high rents, and rising costs that pressure mothers to work to feed and clothe children while noting other women face barriers to good jobs. The letter urges balanced policy and the right for mothers to work until husbands earn sufficient wages.
Police report a Los Angeles mother fatally bludgeoned her three children with a claw hammer and set fire to a flaming mattress after setting her own hair alight before dying in the blaze.
The Pittsburgh Pirates rely on only two left handed throwers among position players Elbie Fletcher and Paul Waner with three left handed pitchers Johnny Gee Ken Heintzelman and Dick Lanahan. Despite scarce southpaw tossers the club retains left handed power with Waner Fletcher Vaughan Klein Schultz Bowman Bauers Lanahan Gee and Swigart. Heintzelman bats right handed.
A humorous note follows White Sox pitcher Harry Boyles who hitchhiked to a semi pro league tryout in Oklahoma City. He left Granite City Illinois and ended up in a doughy turn of fate by working and pitching for a bakery in town.
Berlin follows Moscow in reintroducing Russian works as Michael Glinka’s My Life for the Czar is scheduled by the Berlin State Opera. The work, linked to Glinka who founded the Russian national opera in 1857, marks a cultural bridge for Russian art in Germany.
A school board election candidate argues for full year pay for teachers to match year round care. The article explains 12 month pay spreads a teacher’s $900 nine month salary over all 12 months, not increasing take home pay, and notes it began during a borrowing crisis to save interest for taxpayers.
Classified note requests employment as a house worker or waitress. Mentions age 20 and neatness, with continuation reference to page 20.
The item lists multiple games across states and cities including Statesville Cincinnati 13 Boston 7, Orlando rainout Washington 8 St Louis cancelled, San Antonio rainout St Louis vs Toledo, Rome Brooklyn 6 Atlanta 1, El Paso Chicago 6 Chicago 4, Waycross Cleveland 5 New York, Sebring Newark 10 Boston 4, Miami Beach Philadelphia 3 Rochester 0, and Oklahoma City New York 8 Oklahoma City 1.
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