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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1936
Page
2
A long, informal column covers weather shifts with snow and warmth, robin sightings, and plans for quail purchases. It also notes sports gossip about Blair Cherry, potential coaching moves, and local club leadership, plus a string of anecdotes and general reflections on daily life.
The News-Globe appeals for Goodfellows Fund donations to feed needy schoolchildren in Amarillo today. The list names diverse donors including churches, lodges, businesses, and individuals contributing goods and cash, with notes on specific items like onions, vegetables, bread, and clothing.
A young man describes himself as a late twenties college graduate seeking employment. He lists shorthand and typewriting skills, two years dry goods store experience, farm rearing, and willingness to work in office tasks or other roles. He provides contact at 1411 North East Eighth Avenue and 604 Florida Street for a puppy surrender and other notices.
The U S Army mounted the largest mainland to overseas flight, starting from Randolph Field San Antonio with 10 bombing planes and 13 pursuit planes led by Lieut Col Junius H Houghton. The force aimed at Tampico for an overnight stop and expected a four to five day journey covering about 2000 miles to the Canal Zone.
OKMULGEE Okla Feb 21 The Negro Jess Hollins was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a Creek County white girl attack Judge J Harvey Smith imposed the sentence after a District Court jury found him guilty last Friday and recommended no pardon or parole.
Samuel C Panellf, a California mining engineer kidnapped by bandits, was released after ransom was paid. He is safe at Etzatlan and expected to travel to Guadalajara.
In Charleston on February 21 two of the quadruplets born to a Black couple died after not responding to incubator care. The newborns arrived yesterday with a midwife in attendance and were rushed to a hospital by Dr. Leon Banov, the county health officer.
Emma Willis, a farm girl, is on trial for murder in Adanarko Oklahoma after she fatally shot her father hours after he barred her from dating a neighboring boy. The Caddo County Court docket was cleared of routine matters as attorneys and witnesses were summoned.
Alfred Harred claimed in Banner that he and Williams found Redfern crippled and held by Indians in a Tunguchamac Mountains village on the British Dutch Guianas Brazil boundary. Williams denied the report saying he never met Harred and that his party included two Djukos and a Red Indian. further inland tribes were said to be at war preventing deeper exploration.
Report describes bribes of up to 1,600 on the table and as much as 15,000 circulating among prisoners. A Bulova wrist watch with a leather band missing Monday evening is sought. possible loss in the 200 block of East Fourth or nearby.
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt files a Supreme Court action to regain custody of her 12 year old daughter Gloria Laura. The child recently turned 12 and was living at the Westbury Estate with her aunt Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney after being made a ward of the court in 1934. Vanderbilt’s estate is valued at over 2.66 million dollars.
In Sault Ste Marie Michigan on February 21 a hospital mirror said to have fulfilled a dying man's prediction for 24 hours was abandoned after it was broken. Nurse Grace Fleming said she threw the pieces away as a good riddance. Investigators had hoped to repeat the experiment to see if the mirror would stick to the table, as it did when Jeffery Derosier died, but they expressed disappointment at the destruction of the glass.
A Literary Digest poll found 70.22 percent of clergymen in all states oppose New Deal policies. Only Alabama Mississippi and South Carolina favored them. In 1934 clergy favored policies by 55 percent. The magazine collected 21,606 responses from clergymen.
Three year old Sonny Boy, central to a custody dispute, was reported staying at the Wilmette home of Dr. Gordon Mordoff. Margaret Mann of Evanston contends the child was born out of wedlock to her, testifying at the resumed trial as nurses and hospital staff corroborate her version.
President Roosevelt plans a tour starting tomorrow visiting Philadelphia Temple University Cambridge Mass and Hyde Park N Y before returning to Washington next week. He will deliver two addresses one at Temple University and another at his Hyde Park home marking a break from official duties after the New York dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial.
President Roosevelt backs legislation to place postmasters of the first to third classes under civil service. The Commerce Department reports nation exports rose 13 percent in the latest seven month foreign trade summary.
The column muses on iron from Pacific sands via electric processes, notes Judge Gary and Big Steel figures, and weighs government power for projects like Wilson Dam and TVA. It warns of entomological scale, grasshopper eradication, and a mysterious plane crash with inside involvement.
U. N. Olver was reelected president of the Amarillo Country Club for an eighth term at the annual stockholders dinner in the club house. Joe B. Dooley and H. J. Farwell were reelected as officers, with Roy O. Greenhill and Frank Edwards joining the board of directors. New terms replace T. Hoehm and John C. Fain. holdover directors are Wade Holman, Fd Hardin, and Frank Butler.
Bloom and Ben F. Pitts clash as they dispute a Johnson project and claim Washington’s birthday and calendar history. Reporters note confusion over the Julian to Gregorian switch in 1752 amid the heated exchange.
A Greensburg Kentucky woman, Mrs. F. T. Foster, reports relief from tiredness, sleeplessness, nervousness, and back pain after using Cardus Cardui. She says a few bottles improved her condition and urges consultation if Cardui does not help.
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