Amarillo youth burned by 44000 volt line near Price Memorial College
Quy Glovier 19 suffered near fatal burns after contact with a 44 000 volt power line while moving a two story house east of Amarillo. He fell through an open roof and received fatal burns to most of his body as firefighters and EMS aided him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quy Glovier
Amarillo
Price Memorial College
Glovier
W. G. Street
Amarillo House
Eighth Avenue
Taylor Street
Pampa
Inez Simpson
West
Tenth Avenue
Pete Gilkerson
Boxwell Brothers
Gilkerson
Mr. Street
Joe Fagie
Rain Falls Across East Panhandle and South Plains
A cold front brought the first spring moisture to the East Panhandle and South Plains. Hart in Castro County reported one inch of rain, with others like Plainview and Clinton Oklahoma receiving lighter totals. A twister near Lefors damaged windmills and buildings, two deaths blamed on tornadic winds in Southwest Texas, and the fishing boat of S J Roach and L B Hanson was found tied to a trotline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Panhandle
South Plains
Amarillo
Hart
Castro County
Plainview
Silverton
Petersburg
Turkey
Childress
Claude
Clarendon
Memphis
Clinton
Okla
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Gray County
Dial Ranch
Lefors
McLean
Texas
S. Jester Roach
L. B. Hanson
18 and 65 A 3 000 Mile Thread Five Women's Faces
Arthur Brisbane comments from The Globe on Roosevelt 1936 campaign opening speech to 20 000 Democrats in Baltimore and nationwide radio address. The piece argues youth should start work at 18 while 65 could mark retirement from dull wage work but not from meaningful labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Roosevelt
Baltimore
Nation
Suits to Face Delinquent Taxpayers in City Pubs
Delinquent taxpayers face legal action to liquidate more than 200000 dollars owed in back taxes. The school system board of trustees, citing five years of nonpayment, plans suits while noting 85 percent of taxpayers paid promptly. See TAX SUITS Page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trustees
Higher wages predicted for relief crews
Rep William P Connery said Hopkins assured broader wage coverage for 3,500,000 work relief workers under Roosevelts 1937 program as the administration seeks an additional 1.5 billion. He declared the $50 security wage is out while Chairman James Buchanan warned some security levels may remain. Labor members back prevailing wages amid PWA ties, with 170 signatures backing a petition to press the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Lewis Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
William P. Connery
Massachusetts
House Labor Committee
Works Progress
Harry Hopkins
Connery
Connnery
James P. Buchanan
House Appropriations Committee
Buchanan
House
PWA
Public Works Administration
Petersburg prisoner injures shoulder with cockroach swipe
W B Puckett, a Federal prisoner in Henrico jail, slashed at a cockroach in his cell but missed and was hospitalized after dislocating his shoulder. The incident occurred in Richmond on April 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
W. B. Puckett
Petersburg
Henrico
Governor White Recalls Home Ties During Honeymoon
Governor George White on honeymoon recalls his Ohio roots in the hometown of Congressman Marvin Jones. He notes six years as Ways and Means chairman and praises Jones. The couple, married in Columbus, fly to California after hotel stay near the Capitol, as White remains a Democratic delegate-at-large to the national convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. White
Jones
George White
Ohio
Marvin Jones
Ways and Means Committee
Congressman Jones
Washington
Governor White
White
Agnes Hoffman Baldwin
Columbus
San Francisco
TWA
Capitol Hotel
Dallas
California
Farley
Jim Parley
Wendel Exonerated but Faces New Lindbergh Case Action
Paul H. Wendel, exonerated in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, remains jailed in Trenton awaiting action on a Hunterdon County kidnapping warrant filed by Anna Hauptmann. Mercer County jury said no bill on the accusation. embezzlement charges in Mercer persist as Wendel may aid a Brooklyn inquiry into his alleged kidnapping tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
Charles A. Lindbergh
Mercer County
Paul H. Wendel
Hunterdon County
Flemington
Anna Hauptmann
Anthony M. Haucke, Jr
Wendel
Brooklyn
Press Session Opens in Amarillo for Panhandle Press Assn Meeting
The Panhandle Press Association convenes in Amarillo for its annual session in the Crystal Ballroom of the Herring Hotel starting Friday at 10 am. Notables include Elmo Scott Watson of Chicago and Dr. R. Thomson will welcome visitors. Speakers include John L. McCarty and others from Matador, Piñona, and Wellington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Panhandle Press Association
Panhandle
Elmo Scott Watson
Chicago
Crystal Ballroom
Herring Hotel
R. Thomson
Ross D. Rogers
John L. McCarty
Mr. Watson
Douglas Meador
Matador
John White
Piiona
Mr. McCarty
Deskins Wells
Wellington
Morris Higley
Childress
Mexican fund created to boost industry under six year plan
President Lazaro Cardenas issued a decree creating a national fund for industrial development to be managed by the government controlled bank. Appropriations will be provided as needed and a definite program for governmental aid will be outlined, signaling potential government influence over new industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Lazaro Cardenas
National Mortgage, Urban and Public Works Bank
Cardenas
State hearing in oil proration faces Phillips claim
At a proration hearing in Austin, Panhandle operators accuse Phillips Petroleum of running a separate proration system against the Railroad Commission. Don Emory denies the charge as Ernest Thompson seeks specifics, while major oil firms press for acreage consideration in Texas field production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Panhandle
Phillips Petroleum Company
Railroad Commission
Don Emory
Amarillo
E. J. Dunnagan
Pampa
Panhandle Petroleum Operators Association
Ernest O. Thompson
Thompson
Dunnagan
R. E. Hardwicke
Fort Worth
Commission
Texas
J. O. Gulekie
State Board of Education
Roosevelt urges renewed U S conservation push at ceremony
President Roosevelt called for sustained resource conservation as he laid the cornerstone of the $12 million Department of Interior building. Secretary Ickes urged Congress to rename the department The Department of Conservation. He recalled Theodore Roosevelt’s pioneering work in national resources preservation and stressed a national policy to prevent waste and theft of natural wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick A. Storm
Washington
Roosevelt
Department of Interior
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Congress
Department of Conservation
Mr. Roosevelt
George Washington
National Capitol
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Witness Refusal Halts Senate Lobby Hearing
A witness refused to answer, stopping a Senate lobby committee hearing. Lawmakers planned to meet to consider contempt citation for Kurt Grunwald, organizer for the Farmers Independence Council, who said he did not want to cause trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Lobby Committee
Kurt Grunwald
Farmers Independence Council
Beaumont Gas Well Blows Out In Big Fire Near City
A gas well near Beaumont Texas erupted in flames at 1 30 AM sending a white hot plume into the sky and melting a 122 foot derrick. The Longe No 2 well in the Amelia area burned uncontrolled as firefighters from Houston fought the blaze and residents crowded the scene unable to sleep from the roar and heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaumont
Tex
U.P
Glenn H.mccarthy
New Amelia
H. L. Patton Company
Houston
McCarthy
M. T. Halboury
Lange No. 2
Third Hold Up Near Claude Stuns Dallas Man
G F Mancell a Dallas millinery salesman was found unconscious two miles west of Claude after a hijacking on the way to Amarillo. He said a blond bandit forced him from the car, beat him, and drove east with his money. The attack marks the third highway hold up into Amarillo in three days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. FE. Mancell
Amarillo
Claude
Mancell
Dallas
West Texas
New Mexico
George Zeiss
New York City
Zeiss
League peace talks hit snag as Ethiopia rejects Italian plan
In Geneva on April 16 Ethiopian envoys Wolde Mariam and Prof. Gaston Jeze told the League of Nations committee that Ethiopia would not accept Italy's proposal. Italy demanded direct peace talks with Marshal Badoglio's army headquarters in East Africa and suggested negotiations occur at Ouchy Switzerland with League involvement barred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
U.P
League
Italy
Ethiopia
Pietro Badoglio
East Africa
Ouchy
Switzerland
Wolde Mariam
Gaston Jeze
Salvador de
Amarillo Area Weather Outlook Tonight Through Friday
Weather forecast for Amarillo and surrounding areas calls for partly cloudy to cloudy skies with possible light showers in the southeast tonight and Friday. Warmer conditions on Friday with temperatures reaching between 48 and 62 degrees in Amarillo. New Mexico sees mostly fair conditions with unsettled spots in the southeast tonight and cooler air tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Amarillo Cooking School Demonstrates Dinty Moore Dish
Amarillo News Globe reports a cooking class session at the Amarillo women’s cooking school. Martha McDonald leads a demonstration featuring a meat based dish named Dinty Moore with onion, corn, olives, hamburger, tomato sauce, cheese and spaghetti. The event showcases an educational meat demonstration as part of the third class series.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
News-Globe Cooking School
Dinty Moore
Martha McDonald
Kidnap Plot Shocks Belgium Targets Leopold's Orphaned Children
BRUSSELS April 16 A 31 year old former convict Nicholas Elsen was arrested in Liege after confessing to writing letters threatening to kidnap the motherless children of King Leopold of the Belgians. Police traced the plot past incidents and noted the royal children, now under tighter guard, had been kept separate as authorities investigated. The king plans incognito travel to Switzerland and Italy to visit Crown Princess Marie Jose of Italy amid the crisis. Queen Astrid died in a car crash last August near Lucerne leaving Leopold with three children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Leopold
Liege
Belgium
Nicholas Elsen
Astrid
Oisen
Switzerland
Italy
Marie Jose
Red Cross
East Africa
Lucerne
Josephine Charlotte
Raudoin
An Albert
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Clifford Glovier
Potter County
Ama- Tillo
Fillmore Street
Jack Cunningham
Southwestern Public Service Company
Southwestern Bell Telephone and Electric Service
East
South Panhandle
Associated Press
GOV. Welte
Ellis H. Parker
Burlington County
Parker
Grand Jury
Lindbergh
Paul Wendel
Long-Bell Lor Co
Phillips
John Maynard Lor, Co
McMurtry Paints
U.S
Secretary Ickes
G. E. Mancell
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