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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1938
Page
2
The column forecasts persistent heat followed by a cooling break mid month. It touts Rogers Memorial Pageant as a major event rivaling national attention with big crowds expected and a festive Texan heritage theme.
The piece surveys public sentiment around Governor Dan O’Daniel and opponent Mr. Gog, praising O’Daniel’s record as a man and citizen. It urges backing him for fair governance, cites radio appeals, and references community actions amid debates on taxes, quarantines, and local ordinances.
In a Kansas City area manhunt, escaped Texas prisoners Floyd Hamilton and Ted Walters, plus an unidentified accomplice, are linked to a string of robberies and a kidnapping. FBI and state officers chase them after a rash of holdups from service stations to a cafe, with victims slugged and vehicles stolen. Kalousek, held 20 hours, was later released unharmed.
John Pierpont Morgan III, 21, son of the New York banking family, was working incognito as a farm hand on a 100 acre Knightstown area farm near Omer Addison when he collapsed with appendicitis. He underwent an appendectomy at St. Vincent Hospital after being diagnosed by Dr. John T. Waller and used the alias Jack Morgan.
Floods eased in central Wharton County as the Colorado River receded but the San Bernard River continued to flood. Levees broke upstream, sending water toward Peach Creek and the Duval Sulphur Company plant, threatening equipment and wells. Rail and highway traffic were disrupted while the Red Cross opened relief stations and box cars sheltered the homeless, many of them African American. Damages to crops and homes mounted as floodwaters covered large areas of the townsite.
Chicago August 14 wholesale meat and livestock prices rose slightly in July led by higher demand. Dressed lamb prices fell about 9 percent. Pork production rose 40 percent from July last year while beef advanced about 20 percent year over year and 10 percent over June.
Wilfred J Punk reports a dictionary of 204 words understood by dogs in higher IQ brackets. He claims dogs can distinguish social categories and that former family pets differ from hoodlums by vocabulary. The list spans simple terms from again to your with most words about food or conduct.
Nebraska advocates praise the unicameral system noting no income or sales taxes and no bonded debt as a contrast to Texas. They cite reduced property taxes and streamlined lawmaking, predicting strong support in Texas’s upcoming legislature and a possible referendum.
Gov. Lloyd C. Stark announced he supplied the FBI with evidence that WPA workers were influenced to back Tom Pendergast in the Missouri state primary. Stark said he would keep providing proof of misconduct by WPA officials to FBI agents and Attorney General Homer Cummings and to Harry Hopkins.
Stones are being placed around the firewall as outside work on Amarillo's new postoffice proceeds quickly. Inside, plastering has begun and officials expect exterior work to finish in a few days. The article notes 746477 Civil War soldiers on pension rolls in 1898.
The bank explained that business improvement cannot be attributed mainly to higher security prices, noting the trend likely follows a broader recovery mood as the nation appears headed toward some measure of improvement.
James Porter Reese 51, San Jacinto grocerman, died at 5 45 this morning in a local hospital. He was World War veteran, survived by his wife, mother Mrs Minnie Reese of Clinton Kentucky, five children Gracie Edna Dorothy Louise Martha James Gordon William Aubrey, three sisters and four brothers. Bed in state at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements to be announced later.
Vince Boss, 22, of Houston, was refused clemency by the Texas board of pardons and paroles. He is scheduled to die in the electric chair for the March 21, 1936 slaying of Brenham cheese salesman R. W. Albert, whose body was found beaten and stabbed in an Houston area ice compartment.
In a heated showdown, the committee ridicules schemes and questionable devices alleged by its agents and forecasts a Senate floor battle over seating the winner, as tension rises across the chamber.
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