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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1939
Page
7
CHANNING Feb 13 Special It was learned this morning that officers have visited Tascosa since a mysterious flare lit the sky over the old town Friday night They refused to name sources or comment aside from saying no vandalism at Boot Hill graveyard and no confirmed reports of ghosts or disturbances amid many visitors.
The Supreme Court upholds an injunction against eight leading distributors and Interstate Circuit in Texas for Sherman Act violations. The 5 to 3 decision bans licensing restraints that bar second run theaters from screening first run films or require higher prices. Justice Stone authored the ruling. Justices Roberts McReynolds and Butler dissented. Frankfurter did not participate.
Governor W Lee O Daniel reappoints Ernest O Thompson as Texas representative on the Interstate Oil Compact Commission. He cites Thompson's experience and notes political rumors but says the extension of the commission's life requires non political service for Texas interests. The governor urges continuation of Thompson's role.
Governor W. Lee O'Daniel pledges emergency action to merge six state divisions into one department of agriculture and livestock. He proposes a 31 member board drawn from districts to set policy and name the commissioner. Ex officio members would include college presidents. A separate parimutuel betting bill faced a tight House vote.
A Solemn Pontifical Mass of Requiem for Pope Pius XI was celebrated at 8 AM by Most Rev Bishop Lucey in Sacred Heart Cathedral. The sermon praised the late pontiff as a scholar, world leader, and patron of education and social welfare.
The U S navy opens its annual maneuvers in the Caribbean with 140 ships 58 000 enlisted men 3 000 officers and 600 planes The exercise tests Fleet problem No 20 splitting into black and white fleets to defend the Panama Canal The three week war games are conducted under secrecy as President Roosevelt eyes a Caribbean cruise aboard the Houston.
Senator Connally of Texas introduced a bill to make permanent the hot oil act bearing his name. The measure would make it a federal offense to ship oil produced above state quotas in interstate commerce and extend beyond the current expiry in June. The act now applies mainly to Texas where a federal tender board aids the railroad commission in East Texas field production.
Dublin reports that Eire's government formally recognizes Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Nationalist regime. H L Kenney to assume duties as chief of Burgos. Spanish Nationalists were advised of the move.
Fair and slightly colder tonight then Tuesday. West Texas mainly fair tonight and Tuesday, colder southeast portion Tuesday. Mexico fair tonight and Tuesday, warmer east and south tonight, colder northeast Tuesday. Temperature range 54 maximum 37 minimum. Crance See Neely-Greenhill Agey.
At the Kansas City zoo Tex Clark, curator, learns the first kangaroo born there is a girl. Tom West, a attendant, suggests a new name. Clark acts quickly and says to be careful with Texanna as girl kangaroos are delicate.
Smithfield North Carolina February 13. Otis L Duncan an attorney reports a Jonah fish in his goldfish bowl. A neighbor allegedly used a minnow as bait to catch a jack fish, and when Duncan cut into the fish the minnow wriggled free.
Berlin dispatch reports Germany's first 35,000-ton battleship to be launched at Hamburg tomorrow. The vessel, 790 feet long and 118 feet wide, will mount eight 15 inch guns and twelve 6 inch guns in the official confirmation today.
The Senate Military Affairs Committee rejected 10 to 6 a bid to公开 its record on air aid to a French Air Mission planning to buy about 600 U.S. built fighters. Chairman Morris Sheppard said faith to secret witnesses justified keeping details confidential. Senator Bennett C. Clark urged disclosure.
Tom Mooney, pardoned labor prisoner, remains confined at a friend's home in Los Angeles due to a recurrent gall bladder ailment. He will soon undergo a major operation after being stricken Saturday and canceling speaking engagements for Warren Billings, a codefendant in the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing.
Mrs Ed Whitten believed it was rain as sparks flashed on the roof. The couple heard crackling and fled with only their possessions as fire erupted, narrowly escaping what could have been a tragedy. The incident occurred in St Joseph Missouri on February 13.
Senator King of Utah again blocks Roosevelt nominee James V. Allred for Texas federal district judge. King seeks a voice vote to express opposition and aims to delay the nomination beyond the current adjournment. Texas Democrats Connally and Sheppard offered no formal objection. foco centers on Allred not being a district resident.
MITCHEL FIELD New York February 13 Army officials said no statement would be released locally about the XP 38 crash. Lt Ben S Kelsey survived with minor scratches after the twin engined all metal plane faltered during a speed flight from March Field California. A board of inquiry sent its report to Washington and the wreck was dismantled and guarded in a hangar after the aircraft struck a tree and pancaked in a sand trap near Cold Stream golf course.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling, author of The Red Network, alleged at Lincoln Day exercises in Milton Massachusetts that a communistic plot seeks to separate the South into a Soviet state. She charged the Supreme Court is communist influenced and that leading government offices support a Marxist program for communizing the country.
Mr. Collman forecasts continued fair weather with temperatures in the thirties. The low last night was 36 degrees, with similar expectations for tonight. Winds shift to west northwest as early dust clears and no significant dust is expected today or tonight.
Brazil seeks U S produced light planes and machine guns for air infantry and defense forces. A license for 82 000 dollars worth of machine guns was issued, potentially 165 to 170 light 30 caliber guns. The Senate Civil Liberties Committee urged curbing industrial police power and banning labor espionage, shad ow ing and intimidation in unions.
New York FG Mrs Fanny Fisher faced a family picket line over Queenie the fox terrier. Her son Haney 12 and daughter Sally 8 carried signs while Queenie walked with a sign of her own. A petition signed by 42 bystanders urged Mrs Fisher to keep the dog.
In Calcutta on a weekend of clashes between Muslims and Hindus, twenty people were killed and about 200 injured, with around 600 arrested as rioting spread through the city.
Lone Pine California proposes a transcontinental railroad 25 feet wide to carry cars 25 feet high and 200 feet long. Miss Edith Zelley, office secretary, questions the idea and says the letter will go to the transportation committee for review.
Scotland Yard police arrested a man linked to the stiletto killing of Georgina Hoffman, also known as Heath and Donnelly, who used the alias Trish. Investigators explored links to sabotage secrets of the outlawed Irish Republican Army.
Alvin McDonald admitted taking a truck owned by W R Ford of Lindale and selling about 12 sacks of potatoes. He pleaded guilty before Justice Carder and was fined 100 dollars for driving a vehicle without the owner's permission. McDonald was arrested Saturday night in Canyon.
Tests were to be run this afternoon on several blocks of a 12 inch water main laid by Sherman Machine and Iron Works in Oklahoma City as part of Amarillo PWA work to upgrade the distribution system. The line taps a 20 inch main at Fifth Avenue and Bonham Street and runs west on Fifth to San Jacinto. Sewer extension under James Foran contract also part of the project.
Paris February 13 A heavy 24 hour guard was set around U S planes and motors bought in the United States amid sabotage suspicions. Sediment found in a Curtiss combat plane fuel tank grounded it two hours at Villa Coublay field and a Pratt White motor caught fire during a test at Chalais Meudon air tunnel station.
Chairman Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina's Senate Agricultural Committee unveiled a bill to reduce the cotton surplus and provide subsidy payments to growers.
Washington report says the agriculture department counsel explains why women buy hats and how modern styles depress sales. It cites a 1.95 dollar popular hat, machine production, and a $20 million yearly market for 100 million hats as the industry weakens.
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