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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1939
Page
5
Flood waters from the Hal River inundated Tientsin causing massive damage and loss of life. Refugees swarmed in as 1.5 million residents faced fires, collapsed houses, and disrupted utilities. American Marines and consulate operations shifted to higher ground with food deliveries by boat amid fears of epidemics.
Following their Joseph and His Brethren program the Mary Binney Montgomery group will begin rehearsals for a new ballet drawn from an ancient Aztec story, as reported by Werner Tosten.
Under an air raid regulation in Chungking China all dogs must pass a bark addiction test to assess likelihood of obeying night attack rules. Dogs with a barking complex will be killed immediately as the regime enforces quiet during Japanese air raids.
An advertising feature promotes Kellogg's All-Bran as preventive treatment for constipation. It argues that regular intake supplies dietary bulk to the digestive system and reduces need for emergency remedies. The ad notes the cereal is made by Kellogg in Battle Creek and sold by grocers.
Courthouse records list several warranty deeds recorded in 1939 with buyers, sellers, and amounts from Moore Subdivision to various grantees, plus transfers, mortgage, and lien references. Court action includes a divorce Myrtle Presley vs Joe Presley and marriages licenses for several couples.
Former students of Dean Folsom D. Jackson heading the Amarillo College Department of Fine Arts will perform tonight at 8 in the college auditorium. More than a dozen young artists present a program of classical standard and popular numbers with multiple solo and quartet features.
Charles S. Kannouse, while sawing wood near Townsend, finds carved initials CSR and NR dating from a 1893 huckleberry party in the Belt mountains. The tale reveals NR later became Mrs. Kanouse, confirming enduring affection across 46 years.
A youth dubbed a top meanest man robbed three 12 year old bootblacks of 80 cents in Wilkes-Barre, then forced them to shine his shoes after taking their earnings for the day.
Three convicts escaped Jefferson City’s state penitentiary when a prisoner dressed as a guard obtained leaves for the others to walk through the main gate. The trio identified themselves to the gate guard and passed with him through the gate. Names given are William Lee Bradley, George Marcus Evans, and Ralph Smith, with their ages and sentences.
In Houston on August 22, union longshoremen dock clerks and checkers in Texas ports and Lake Charles La presented wage and hour demands to steamship operators. The ILA seeks a basic rate of 1.05 dollars per hour for deep sea work with 1.74 overtime, up from 0.95 and 1.42, with coastwise rates raised from 0.85 and 1.20 to higher figures as talks begin before the contract expires September 30.
Mrs. W. P. Tucker, a farm wife in Arcadia, fought off a hawk with a rolling pin. A gust redirected the bird toward the kitchen where the strike killed the hawk instantly.
Fort Niagara New York soldiers welcomed a mechanical potato peeler in Company G barracks of the 28th Infantry believing KP duties would ease. Captain Anto P. Bragan announced that E. P.s would instead spend time polishing the peeler's chromium and brass.
Washington reports that a major European war would trigger a formal neutrality regime under the 1914 act, with an embargo on arms and a regulated export regime. Secretary Hull seeks to revive cash and carry and adjust if necessary to permit limited American ship cargo to belligerents and their outlying territories while avoiding combat zones.
In Omaha Neb Leonore Faye 19 files in district court for 2500 damages claiming a motion picture seat had no bottom. The suit arises from a theater seating incident as patrons expect a chair to support them.
In Trinidad Colorado the West and Deep South joined in the 49th annual United Confederate Veterans reunion. Gen John W Harris UCM commander opened the convention as veterans from many states arrived. The Lancaster High School band arrived and the US Marine Band will supplement today. Sessions run through Friday night.
Scottish Rite Masons in Amarillo invited to meet the thirty third degree team at a 12 15 luncheon Thursday at the Amarillo Hotel. E A Wells and El Paso colleagues Oscar Allen Wayne S Slaughter and W M Stockwell coordinate events. The team performed third degree work in Pampa last night and will tour Perryton and Borger this week.
In Middlesex Probate Court Boston report William Grant Wilson of Cambridge left his entire estate to his wife Emilie Pauline Hedwig in a nine word will. The estate value was not listed.
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