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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1940
Page
2
A Panhandle forecast notes a late April moisture surge while predicting a brief warm spell. It announces Dewey will speak in Amarillo April 18, broadcast on KGNC, and urges citizens to vote in the upcoming school election.
Residents urged to vote in a school election and research candidates for the benefit of local children. A promotional note mentions N S Griggs distributing 1 500 cannas free Saturday afternoon, while Old Tack offers a $50 prize for the closest Amarillo population guess and $10 for the next five.
Amarillo Safety Council recommendations reach city hall with plans to hire three additional traffic officers, install amber remove after red signals, and add automatic signals at Third Avenue Buchanan Street and three other intersections. West Sixth Avenue to become through street Georgia to Belleview. Some recommendations to be studied further. No right turn on red approved at this time.
Dr. W. D. Bradfield chairman of the Texas liquor control board and SMU theology professor emeritus was taken to Methodist Hospital in Dallas in serious condition after falling ill on a train from Austin to Dallas. His son Dr. John L. Bradfield said exams had not yet determined the illness type. The 73 year old churchman and city leader became ill during travel and was hospitalized upon arrival.
Mrs. Mary A. Merrick 68 wife of J. B. Merrick of 408 Fannin Street died at 7 30 am at home after a long illness. Survived by husband two sons Roy and Rex Merrick and daughter Mrs Una Michaels of Amarillo. Funeral 2 30 pm Saturday from Blackburn Shaw Chapel Rev Hubert Thomson officiating assisted by Revs John F. Johnson and O M Addison.
New York April 5 government opens case against 17 men charged with seditious conspiracy. United States Attorney Harold M Kennedy seeks to prove they conspired to overthrow the government by force and seize its property. Kennedy says the Christian Front is not on trial. FBI chief Hoover notes some defendants are affiliated with Christian Front.
Dr. Paul H. Wueller of Pennsylvania State College reports that Italy relied on emigrant remittances as a key export during prewar years, totaling about 20 million pounds sterling annually. Remittances have declined recently as efforts to stem the drop continue, highlighting Italy's frugal private economy versus a lavish public budget.
James Calahan slept with his nose on the third rail of an electric railway in San Rafael California Police Officer Louis Callahara rushed him to hospital where a doctor found a bruised nose and only signs of drunkenness no electric shock detected
Henry Beverley, candidate for the school board, releases a platform focused on cooperation with current members and maintaining a high quality school system. He rejects drastic changes, emphasizes tax restraint with proper school funding, and urges voters to support a candidate who will work with the existing board.
Virgil Havens, missionary with the Disciples of Christ, will speak next Sunday at regular worship at First Christian Church. He spent years in the Belgian Congo and now promotes missionary agencies full time. His talk will be broadcast on KGNC.
The curtain rises at 7 30 PM instead of 8 PM on the original Baba Yaga operetta at Margaret Wills School. The cast features 21 pupils in the production.
Louis Lepke Buchalter, famed racketeer, received a sentence of 30 years to life in state prison for extortion linked to bakery and trucking rackets in New York on April 5. The case marks a major crackdown on organized crime figures.
Scientists captured Pacific Coast salmon and preserved their eggs, hatched the ova under artificial conditions, then released the fish in the Pacific. The study found they followed the same instinct as their parents, heading up the Fraser River to spawn.
Mrs. R. C. Kay will air at 7 50 tonight on KGNC to explain her candidacy for the Amarillo School Board. She urges informed voters, cooperation with the board, and strong support for public schools as a path to economic and civic progress.
Philadelphia report describes Edgar Allan Poe’s inspiration for The Black Cat. A preserved Philadelphia home basement features the exact chimney wall Poe described. The wall’s projection is linked to the story’s buried body scene and potential drinker’s detour.
Existing data show earthquakes concentrate in years with fewer sunspots, but researchers still seek reasons for yearly and seasonal variation.
Work resumed at the Island service station located at Sixth Avenue and Georgia Street after E R Lewis owner halted due to city condemnation proceedings. Lewis ordered the work continued following a conference with corporation counsel and information from his attorney. The suit was expected to be dismissed, but dismissal had not been filed as of this afternoon.
The article states that over a lifetime an average person consumes 400000 pounds of bread 12000 eggs 300 hundredweight of meat and 600 hundredweight of potatoes.
Interstate Commerce Commission examiner announces hearings at the Capitol Hotel on permit applications by James Albert Robins son a Borger operator to haul oil field equipment between Kansas Oklahoma New Mexico and Texas. Also McKnight Transfer Livery and Sales Company to move household goods across multiple states and a Lubbock based firm to ship household goods and office furniture within a 106 mile radius. The note adds a golf reference to Scotland in 1457.
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