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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1939
Page
2
Potter County’s annual treasurer report shows bonded indebtedness at $1,515,000 as of June 30, a drop from $1,583,000 last year. The 1938 decrease follows state road warrant assumptions and a 1904 bond issue still outstanding with $40,000 in securities.
New York received word that the red haired showgirl Hope Dare, now 28, honeymooned with Dix ie Davis under detective chaperons. Davis, once jailed, helped expose racketeering tied to Dutch Schultz and helped convict James J. Hines. He is recently released but under federal supervision in southern New York.
In Amarillo the building inspector opened to reveal two early permits totaling over 13 000 dollars. An 8 500 dollar seven room brick house at 1500 Crockett Street and a 5 000 dollar six room brick house at 1720 Monroe Street received permits to A H Gay and A H Brown respectively. The 1939 building total reaches 1 673 007 dollars.
Mayor Ross D. Rogers helps inaugurate a new American Legion radio series from KGNC titled Legion of Safety with the slogan Courtesy on Wheels. The 8:15 PM program plans to reward courteous drivers, featuring Jim Line of the state highway patrol and Clay Thornton of Hanson Post.
Mr Collman forecasts showers tonight with a cooler spell continuing into tomorrow. Thunder showers are possible tonight as a precursor to the cooler conditions expected tomorrow.
The Nation launched a major federal assault on organized crime with a 500000 word encyclopaedia of crime presented before a special grand jury. Six cities were involved in the effort directed at underworld terrorism as Aug 7 marked the opening.
Jim Chambier about 26 in critical condition after a morning car wreck on the Canyon highway. The Cit employee from Amarillo, returning from Lubbock, was involved in a sedan overturn near Town Tavern. parents at St. Anthony Hospital.
Thieves stole large quantities of paint and several brushes from Brazelton Lumber Company at 200 North Fillmore Street. Entry was gained by sawing a hole in a wall of a shed. The stock was being closed out and the paint was to be sent to other yards.
C W Campbell found a buffalo horn last week on his farm four miles southeast of the city marking fifty years since buffaloes roamed the Panhandle. He polished the horn and confirmed it as a buffalo horn noting it matches a load given by Walter Dyer forty one years ago.
Texarkana dispatch reports 10 year old Charles Patman, son of Rep. Wright Patman, died while his father’s birthday approached. The boy asked for a remembrance for Sunday and kept a birthday gift under his pillow. he died Sunday morning.
Mrs H W Duke her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs M G McCuan and Sherry Cates left for Colorado and Wyoming for a two week trip from Fort Davis Texas. Nick Nersfelder 80 a judge noted for his eccentric Rio Grande style died yesterday in Fort Davis.
Vice President John Garner made a rare public statement in Dallas saying he would fish in reference to the political scene and declined to answer if he would run for President in 1940. He arrived with Mrs. Garner aboard a private car and spoke to local Democrats about the situation.
Recruiting restarted at the Amarillo Army Recruiting Station after weeks of closure. Eligible youths may enlist into the cavalry field artillery or medical department at Fort Bliss El Paso Texas, per Sergeant R A Jackson. The station moved from Fort Logan Colorado to Fort Bliss District.
George W. Campbell formerly sightless since birth until age 18 spoke at the Amarillo Kiwanis luncheon in the Amarillo Hotel. He praised color and noted those born blind often fail to see details, citing new perception after restoration. Aubrey Jackson led the program.
Madrid reports republican operatives plotted to murder Nationalist leaders from top to low ranks. Authorities announced 58 men and two women executed for the civil guard officer killings, his daughter, and chauffeur. Fifty three were shot, seven were strangled by garrotte, with over 40 suspects awaiting trial.
A Canyon grand jury was convened this morning as Judge F C Nelson opened a three week session. By noon no indictments had been returned amid a heavy criminal and civil docket.
The export import bank announced completion of arrangements with American cotton shippers to finance the sale of 250000 bales of raw cotton to Spanish mills at 25000 bales per month.
Listing of Dow Jones averages showing declines and percent changes plus New York curb exchange grain quotations for wheat corn oats with September December May contracts and bid offers.
Frank Jackson a long time Amarillo resident was found dead with a bullet wound to the right temple after driving away from his home at 1006 West Seventh Avenue. Coroner Justice of the Peace Charles Corder ruled the death a suicide. The body lay by the road near the Tenth Avenue Georgia Street route. an old revolver was in the car. He was 51 and survived by widow Margaret Jackson, a step daughter and several relatives. The body lay at Blackburn-Shaw chapel.
Lieut. Gen. Keen Johnson backed by the American Federation of Labor and Gov. A R Chandler leads John Young Brown by about 12 000 votes as CIO and AFL factions vie in Kentucky primaries. Counting paused at midnight. latest returns show Johnson 81 156 Brown 69 667 across 1 110 of 4 520 precincts.
Marion Finis Ball 21, of Lubbock, died from a broken neck after an auto crash driven by Ausburn G. Smith near Littlefield. Lucian Thomas 22, a Texas Tech senior, was paralyzed with a broken back, and Ausburn G. Smith, 25, of Hobbs New Mexico, was injured. Ball’s funeral will be in Hobbs Tuesday. Thomas and Smith remain hospitalized. Thomas had been living in Fluvanna Texas and working for the Soil Conservation Service in Clovis.
On the plea of the doomed man’s mother the state pardon board recommended a seven day stay of execution for Francis Marion Black Jr whose electrocution had been set for early Wednesday. Black a former student of the University of Kansas was convicted of slaying Dale Noblit by pushing him off a cliff near Alpine June 9 1938 the state alleged he killed the boy to collect 5000 in insurance.
Harvey Morris and W. M. Duncan were in Potter County jail today charged with theft and fined $50 with $13 costs in Justice of Peace H. W. Duke's court. The fine carries 30 days in jail. Harvey Furlong was fined $50 with $13 costs in Justice of Peace Charlie Carder's court on a complaint by Revera Milligan.
Kansas City August live stock prices show hogs mostly steady to 10 cents higher with 250 lb hogs up to 6.20 top. Cattle receipts total about 18,300 with beef steers slow, fed heifers and yearlings steady to strong, stockers and feeders about 45 percent. Sheep slow with bids on spring lambs slow and natives at 8.25.
The county commissioners opened more than 50 bids this morning for furnishing the audition to Northwest Texas Hospital and the nurses home. Commissioner John Winters said more bids were to be read and tabulated at noon, with additional submissions expected this afternoon.
American consular authorities in Hankow protested Japan for bombing an American Lutheran hospital at Kioshan on July 26. They said the hospital stood on an isolated hill outside the town and displayed 11 large U S flags as a warning to the Japanese air force.
Registrations for the wilderness camp of Llano Estacado Council Boy Scouts will close this Saturday field executive Chester Dunlap said. The camp near Tres Ritos New Mexico runs three days later than planned with Virgil Watson in charge of meals. Scouts are urged to register at Boy Scout headquarters this week to finalize encampment arrangements.
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