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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1936
Page
2
A Texas Panhandle column mixes forecasts for more rain with health notes and local humor. It cites recent multiple rains at the Big Bull ranch, predicts continued wet weather ending the week, and mentions Dalhart and northwest counties while sharing light anecdotes and community notices.
Four thousand soldiers from forts along the Mexican border move south into the Big Bend country to test cavalry versus mechanized units. Troops from Fort Clark Brackerville and Fort Brown join Fort A Russell for Texas army maneuvers the largest since 1927 with 4 000 men.
Funeral services for L. L. Greenfield 47 who died Sunday afternoon were to be held at 2 30 this afternoon at the family home in Happy. Survived by mother Mrs Fannie Greenfield and four brothers H F A J Gordon Cecil Greenfield all of Happy. Pallbearers named Charles Speer Jess Curb Bob Simms White Currie Oscar M Fowler and C C Lollar. Interment in Happy Cemetery under Griggs-Thompson direction.
North Texas friends of Col. Ernest Thompson chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission will honor him at a Fort Worth banquet Friday Lieut Gen John A Hulen will preside Speakers will include friends from the army railroads and the oil and gas industry including State Senators Clint C Small and Frank Rawlings
Chamber of Commerce notes two tours for the coming weekend. A group from Dumas arrives Friday and 28 pupils from Glazier Hemphill County will visit Saturday en route to Canyon and Palo Duro Park.
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce headquarters is notified of the appointment of W. W. Gibson as an honorary member of the Chamber of Commerce directorate. Directors likely will meet Wednesday noon to discuss the year's budget plans.
The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce has mailed 5 000 pamphlets and has received inquiries from every section of the United States. Carl Hinton, vice president and manager, notes inquiries are rising and mentions 6 000 pamphlets mailed in recent months in response to direct questions about Amarillo.
Grand jurors convened this morning in Potter County with Judge E C Nelson Jr delivering the charge. The forty seventh district court docket planned to be founded this afternoon and trials scheduled. Nelson completed a term at Claude Saturday to avoid parting with it. A portrait hung in the Boston Museum of Art, and a second full length portrait depicted Lord Lansdowne.
A reader at 7H Jackson Street seeks a female worker for overnight duties at a second-hand store dealing in equipment and furniture. The notice asks for a girl to work nights and prints the request directly to the column.
Chester Moore assistant chief of the Amarillo fire department returned from College Station where he attended a three day instruction conference with representation from 16 cities. The meeting aimed to develop a practical method for official state instruction of drillmasters and firemen. H R Brayton directs the firemen training school to be held later at A M College Station.
Jack Hudspeth, head of the science department at Austin University High School, has written to Amarillo for information about soil conservation work. The letter, addressed to the Chamber of Commerce, explains Hudspeth is preparing a Texas Centennial edition of the textbook Tours Through the World of Science by W. T. Skilling.
An Italian three motor plane crew warned Ethiopians they would be destroyed if roads to Addis Ababa are damaged or if resistance continues. The alert followed Ethiopian forces closing in from the south, east and west on Sasa Baneh. The report is dated April 27 and attributed to U.P. London dispatches.
Dagwood Bumpstead and mother of "Baby Dumpling" set records as Blondie gains global fame. Young explains popularity by portraying the modern average girl paired with Dagwood and Baby Dumpling, attracting numerous husbands in a popular contest.
Regents approved a year leave at half salary starting next Sept with no return option. Weller, who had poor relations with the department chair, arrived on campus today and shot Dr. Kurz in the wrist before fleeing as police closed in.
George Bernard Shaw said he doubted the Italian Ethiopian clash would spark a European war and hoped it might influence the League of Nations. He argued Italy can conquer Ethiopia but warned imperial powers lecture Mussolini for following their example.
Official returns from 605 of 618 districts show 179 deputies elected with 426 run offs. Leftist groups hold 62 seats with nine Communists, center 61, and right wing 56. Nationalist right gains, extreme left grows, Socialists and Center suffer losses. Communists may reach 40 seats based on broader results.
Rain fed wheat crops still have living roots and may sprout new suckers. Expected yields depend on rainfall through the end of the growing season with reseeding possible in counties within the growth area. The Amarillo Globe’s noon rain reports show varied totals from ¼ inch to 1 inch across the Panhandles and neighboring counties.
April 27 brought heavy rains and hail to the South Plains from Canyon to Lamesa and Muleshoe to Sweetwater. Abernathy reported 2.5 inches, Shallowater Wilson Petersburg 2 inches, Lockney 1 to 2 inches, Lubbock close to 0.6 inch, while Shallowater saw rail tracks covered by water and hail taller than the rails.
Rain refreshed farm fields across Kansas, northern Missouri, western Oklahoma, and Texas Panhandle and Plains. Belated showers continued, saturating grain land and pastures while easing drought fears, with 1.5 inches measured near Belleville and scattered heavy downpours in Clarendon and nearby areas. Texas wheat areas faced losses yet hailed the rain as a life saver.
USCC vice-president J Fay told a San Francisco meeting that the group is shifting from political matters to economic and social concerns. He said the main direction has moved from proper governance to attempts to manage trade and industry. Approximately 2,000 delegates attended.
Delegates from chambers of commerce and business groups hear Fay criticize the SEC TVA and other New Deal agencies. He denounces government intrusion into private business and urges a shift to what he calls sound economic lines.
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