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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1939
Page
10
Fragmentary OCR shows scattered numbers and names. Mentions include 1933 references, prices like 395 and 350, and partial phrases about owners, models, and locations, with no coherent event or clearly identifiable entities.
London reports aggressive Irish independence ties questioned as 10 blasts target Manchester Liverpool and other cities. One worker killed two injured in Manchester blaze as Maude Gonne McBride, 79, linked to the case, surfaces in police probe.
Classified ad lists 1937 to 1938 Chevrolet models including Delray and Town Sedans with radios and heaters. 1937 Ford Tudor is described as low mileage with dark blue finish and Mohair upholstery. Includes contact Walter Irvin Inc and Plains Chevrolet Co with prices and phone numbers.
Dr Thomson argues German Jews persecuted to fund the Nazi state as he cites historic church laws on lending and calls for international tolerance. He rejects common antisemitic excuses and urges understanding of past to guide future foreign policy.
Darrell Webb, a well known Amarillo blind man, will operate a cigar and news stand in the lobby of the city’s new federal building. The Texas State Blind Commission arranged the operation with materials supplied by Long-Bell Lumber Company. Webb is a graduate of Amarillo High School and West Texas State College and has been blind since about age three.
New York January 17 Benjamin H. Namm head of a Brooklyn department store said merchants across America are ready and willing to do their utmost to promote recovery and praised reforms in employer employee relations.
Mr. F B Jackson of 1702 5th St Lubbock Texas reports severe right arm pain and shoulder stiffness with sleepless nights and impaired use. After trying many medicines Gly-Cas reportedly cured the pain restored use of the arm and improved his wife health, sold by Fox Drug Co Oliver Eakle Building and by leading druggists in surrounding towns.
Doc's Cafe at 310 East Third Avenue was burglarized last night. Police report the loot consisted of cigarettes and the break in was discovered when the cafe opened this morning.
Mrs. D. M. McCracken of 3701 Line Avenue suffered minor injuries when her car rear ended a truck yesterday. She is recuperating at home. A Chinese importer profits from used American tires cut into sandals for farmers and workers. State highway patrol maintenance cost $24,000,000 nationwide last year.
A bomb exploded damaging a Birmingham power line tower as emergency squads were mobilized across England to safeguard public services from attacks attributed by Scotland Yard to the illegal Irish Republican Army. Roosevelt seeks revival of Florida Canal and Passamaquoddy Tide project in letter to Mansfield. Koo warns League of Nations of Japanese aim for world domination and urges an embargo on military planes and gasoline to halt aggression in China.
In Cambridge Massachusetts the 9 30 P M curfew rang as a 30 second whistle from the Boston Oven House plant and a Harvard Common fireworks display sparked a late night eruption. Police faced booing from children 14 and under as Mayor Lyons enforces the 1898 Blue Law per the Cambridge Youth Commission recommendation.
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Palmateer and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Thurston returned home after a trip to Proxton Texas. Their brother Milo Wendell Hicks, 26, died in a Paris Texas hospital. Hicks was born and reared in Amarillo and left four years ago.
Markets note hogs 3,000 head top 7.40 with 150 to 230 lb range 7.25 to 7.35, sows from 6.00 to 16.25, cattle 3,500 with steers 1243 lb at 11.00, bulk grades 8.50 to 10.50, fat cows 5.75 to 6.75, lambs 9.00 to 9.10 with others 8.85, grain quotations provided by Fenner & Beane.
New York authorities moved quickly as eight men faced grand larceny and forgery charges over a five year scheme to steal 26 million nickels from the city subway. The ring of 30 workers looted about three percent of annual fares averaging 1.3 million dollars.
Mrs. Laura Suiter renewed her faith in Amarilloans when she lost a $5 bill at Furr Food Store on East Tenth Avenue and, aided by a store checker, recovered it from the floor where it had been kicked about for an hour. The July revenue passengers rose 10 percent from 1987 and 32 percent over the first six months of 1938.
Sam Bright a negro remained in Potter County jail today unable to make a 500 bond after pleading guilty to failing to stop and render aid in a bicycle accident. George Holt a 13 year old negro boy rode home from school when struck and suffered a sprained ankle, bruises and lacerations. Bright drove a car owned by another negro and was arrested shortly after the incident. He initially denied striking Holt before pleading guilty before Judge Carder.
Patrick Henry Lynch longtime Armstrong County peace officer and former sheriff died this morning at his Claude home at age 77. Survived by wife Hettie Jane and six daughters, three sons, a brother and a sister. Funeral set for 2:30 pm tomorrow at Claude Baptist Church with Rev. Clark and Rev. Michael officiating.
Providence R I January 17 A robot eye that squints and crosses eyes is aiding science to reduce 500000 defects in vision Dr Frederick Hamilton head of Visual Research for the Distinguished Service Foundation of Optometry announced today developments in an apparatus that dramatizes the difference between normal and defective seeing A giant model of the human eye with lenses projects on a screen the different vision distortions to illustrate the problem for motorists and schoolchildren
R B Wilkins filed a damage suit in district court against the state highway department alleging permanent injuries from work with the department. He seeks more than $500 in compensation for back injuries claimed to have occurred while loading a department truck.
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