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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1939
Page
2
Propitious spring rains approach while letters, forecasts, and local debates unfold. Readers discuss City Lake trotline fishing limits, Amarillo Gold Sox booster efforts, Mayor Rogers fish debate, and upcoming Art Kassel dance at The Nat with prize contests.
Mexican hotel men from Mexico City will visit Amarillo on May 27 for the second annual gowxtwill tour of the Mexican Chapter of the Hotel Greetings International. Led by Humberto Guzman president of the Mexican chapter, the caravan will stay at the Blackstone and Texas hotels.
An estimate places the number of Friendly societies and their branches in England at roughly 20 795, highlighting extensive social networks tied to mutual aid and welfare activities across the country.
Rosary services for R. M. Nash longtime Amarillo accountant and real estate man will be held at 7 30 tonight at his daughter Mrs Wales Madden s home 1600 Bowie Street He died yesterday noon at the Madden home He was 80 years old He had been in poor health for years Mass will be said at Sacred Heart Cathedral tomorrow morning at 9 o clock with Father Drury officiating Pallbearers are Tully A Garner W D Smiley P F Sapp Ed Ryan Walter Barlow E D Mahhovee J I Lellinger M T Johnson Interment will be in Llano Cemetery under Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Nash born in Tennessee was an accountant in St Joseph Mo Oklahoma City came to Amarillo in 1920 and ran Nash s Simplified Accounting System He also worked in real estate and loans He married in St Joseph in 1888 and last year celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Family home is 801 West 14th Avenue He was member of the Catholic S S and Knights of Columbus Survivors include his widow a daughter Mrs Wales Madden a son Evans A Nash of Oklahoma City and two grandchildren Wales Madden Jr and Evans G Nash
The House approved the conference report on the $508,789,824 war department appropriation bill for 1940. The measure would fund 585 new aircraft and expand ordinance equipment. The bill now goes to the Senate before reaching the White House.
Washington April 24 Leon Henderson of New Jersey prominent New Deal economist was nominated by President Roosevelt to the Securities and Exchange Commission to fill a vacancy created by William O. Douglas promotion to the Supreme Court. A new chairman has not yet been designated with Jerome Frank and Henderson mentioned for the post.
United States Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy reportedly arranging a barter deal with Britain exchanging about 10 million bales of cotton and over 100 million bushels of wheat for rubber and tin. The plan follows the Byrnes barter exchange proposal floated two weeks earlier.
New York April 24 Attorney General Murphy decried the shrinking public esteem of courts and urged definite action to shield them from degrading and unclean influence. He called the statement a bitter but undeniable fact and urged measures to restore integrity and independence in the judiciary.
EVANSTON April 24 An anonymous caller guided G. D. Crain Jr to search under the front room rug for a missing diamond ring valued at 350 dollars. After two months the advice led to the recovery.
In San Francisco on April 24 a city disarmament program saw boys and girls surrender air guns and small rifles for cameras. The San Francisco S P C A said the one day event, part of kindness to animals week, drew more guns than the group could handle and will become an annual exchange. Charles W. Friedrichs of the S P C A urged replacing guns with cameras to study wildlife, though funds are short to buy enough cameras.
The young actress delivers a clear and penetrating performance as she judges character with frank precision. Rochester becomes intrigued by her frank nature drawing him toward her, while her timing and grace promise a strong audience reception.
The piece notes the cast for a Little Theater entry with a veteran actress in Mrs. Fairfax and a student-narrator who has prior theater work and board membership. Director Rowley conducted two dress rehearsals and plans to reveal the full cast at tonight's performance.
A survey of powers Austria Hungary Yugoslavia and possibly Bulgaria forming a bloc with Nazi Fascist states. The article traces how fear of shrinking strength pushes Germany and Italy to pull the Balkans closer, creating a tense Europe ready for conflict despite talks of peace. It notes Britain France and Washington shifting war odds since Czechoslovakia and Munich.
The article judges Britain and France unsure where to draw the line for war as Germany and Italy threaten further territorial gains. It notes France speeds British policy toward Greece and Poland while Britain weighs pledges to Poland Romania Greece Belgium and possibly Turkey. It asks if an attack on Romania by Hungary under German influence would trigger a British response, with the real answer hidden behind cautious official rhetoric.
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