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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1936
Page
2
A weather note predicts a wet spell and more moisture by week’s end across the Texas Panhandle with cloudier skies and May rainfall. Citizens report tulip thefts prompting warnings while garden clubs praise local efforts and urge vigilance.
Col. EF A. Simpson will travel to Fort Worth for a Friday banquet honoring Ernest O. Thompson of the State Railroad Commission. Veterans from across Texas attend, with arrangements led by Col. Mark McGee. The event invites church members visitors and candidates and their wives to join in a companionable gathering with auctions and sales.
A fragment mentions a 25 year old in need of work and a 7 am start time for letters to TACK on page 5. The text is garbled and lacks clear events or names.
City manager H. R. Smith prepared schedules for Amarillo’s clean-up and paint-up drive to run next week. The Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsors the effort with supervision by the city manager. Street cleaning and trash collection will be assigned to city sections daily. Mayor Ross D Rogers urged citizen cooperation for the West Texas Chamber of Commerce convention and visiting tourists.
Dispatches report thirty million people in Sichuan on the Tibetan frontier starving with grass and bark their only food. Floods droughts earthquakes and Communist warfare compound the disaster as thousands attempt to migrate along inadequate roads.
Dr Francis Townsend told a congressional subcommittee he is not optimistic about passage of the old age pension bill this session or the next. The remarks were reported by the Star witness O Otto Moore of Denver who was part of the delegation sent to Washington in January 1935.
Eben B Draper announced from his Hopkdale home that his wife Mrs Draper, missing since April 19 from a New York sanitarium, was found in London England and was described as perfectly well after a cablegram arrived on the Georgic's arrival.
The District of Columbia Supreme Court indefinitely postponed trial of private utility suits led by Alabama Power Texas Utilities Iowa City Light and Power and Oklahoma Utilities. The action seeks to halt about 3 000 000 in PWA loans and grants for municipal power plants due to the illness of Chief Justice Wheat’s wife.
Roy Franklin and advance man Sam Nichols left Amherst at 9 50 this morning riding a 2 year old Jersey bull bound for the Central Centennial Exposition in about 40 days. First stop Littlefield and then Lubbock by Saturday. Amherst school children released to witness departure.
In Austin on April 29 the initial step to speed old age pension payments was taken as old age assistance funds were allocated and reported to the Federal Social Security Board for matching.
Cecil Perkerson mourns the loss of his unique fox hunting billy goat in Greenville Georgia. He says the animal, loyal to the hounds, disappeared ten days ago and may have died in a fence entanglement or been stolen for barbecue.
Judge R. F. B. Underwood will return tomorrow from Jacksboro after being summoned by the death of his sister Mrs. J. P. Worldly who died Monday night. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Perrin the family home. Mrs. Worldly belonged to a Pioneer Jack County family. Amarillo brother Porter Underwood could not attend due to illness.
The first of a weekly Friday morning series on Plains soll problems and treatments will air at 7 o clock on KGNC. B W McGinnis associate regional conservator will speak with other BAMAlion members covering various soll work topics.
Mt Vesuvius erupts today sending a large lava stream down the western slope toward Mont Somma and the village of Terrigno. The flow advances at about 128 feet every eight seconds but Terrigno is shielded by a valley and at no immediate risk. Scientists at the observatory call the eruption normal.
Globe News Want Ads offers free tickets to see Cagney and O'Brien in the four star film Selling Zero at Rialto Theater. Advertisers placing a seven day Want Ad receive tickets. three day ads entitle one admission. Dial &262 for placements.
A Northern sortie features Alice Faye in a musical role amid troops advancing toward Addis Ababa. The column notes preoccupation of strategic points by foot soldiers, signaling limited enemy resistance as operations unfold.
The United States Public Health Service survey reports data on brown tooth stain and mottled enamel from 8 000 Amarillo families. Enumerators continue interviews daily, with tests by Dr W T K Bryan in a sound proof booth at 825 Amarillo Building as part of the survey.
After a night-long engagement, Ethiopians were driven from the camp leaving 600 dead. Italians reported 10 officers killed and 23 wounded in the exchange. War correspondents faced warnings to prepare for life-threatening combat.
Denver April 29 Governor Ed C Johnson revoked his martial law declaration along the Colorado New Mexico boundary and ordered Colorado National Guard troops recalled.
Italian forces in the Gorrahel area of Ethiopia faced a critical moment when about 5,000 Ethiopians attacked at night. A battalion of native Somali troops steadied the line by engaging the Ethiopians from concealment in the surrounding bush, preventing a potential disaster.
From Dessye to Addis Ababa the Italian motor column advances in a vast convoy. Edward J. Neil reports 15,000 troops in over 1,000 trucks with artillery and supplies moving toward Emperor Haile Selassie’s capital as five months of barren terrain give way to dramatic scenery.
The report notes Gov Landon’s campaign activity and minimal opposition for Roosevelt in several states. In Pennsylvania Roosevelt faced Breckinridge and won about twenty to one while critics argued the margin should be larger due to local party support. Borah ran unopposed in the Republican primary, with his backers citing eastern strength. Delegation splits favored unpledged Republicans and Roosevelt loyalists, with Massachusetts and Pennsylvania vote tallies listed.
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